Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

The thought of the overwhelming blood-red light that had previously blotted out the sky sent chills down Fang Yan's spine. He immediately bowed to Yun Ping and then hurriedly left Yuntian Academy to report the matter to the Lantian Empire.

This matter must be taken very seriously. According to Yunping, if he and Ye Xuanqiu really start fighting later, as the saying goes, when gods fight, mortals suffer. Although the Lantian Empire is not considered a mortal, in reality, if they really start fighting, they are not much different from mortals. At most, they would just be relatively strong mortals.

Watching Fang Yan's departing figure, Yun Ping let out a long sigh, then looked at the silly Ye Yuchan: "Yuchan, what do you think?"

"What else can we think?" Ye Yuchan rolled her eyes at Yunping, feeling that he was talking nonsense: "Let's go, Ruoxue and the others are still in that woman's hands, can we not go?"

"I mean the Thousand Ghost Forest."

"Oh..." Ye Yuchan looked understanding, a hint of indifference flashing across her face: "That place, although it has some shadows in my life, is not a big problem."

Ye Yuchan was brought back by Yunping from that Thousand Ghost Forest. Even after so many years, the lingering shadows are hard to dispel, so Ye Yuchan still feels a bit apprehensive about the Thousand Ghost Forest.

However, Yunping added, "Aside from that incident, Thousand Ghost Forest is a rather special place."

"Where?" Ye Yuchan asked.

"Before that place was called the Thousand Ghost Forest, there was a mountain there. Later, when I fought with the Origin Ancestor, the mountain was flattened."

"and then?"

There is a grave on this mountain.

Yunping paused, then said:

"Ye Xuanqiu's grave."

Ye Yuchan: "..."

Her eyes gradually dimmed; with her intelligence, she should have understood the meaning behind Yunping's words.

Ye Xuanqiu's target is most likely Su Sheng.

Based on previous clues, it is now confirmed that Ye Yuchan is half of Ye Xuanqiu's remnant soul. In other words, Ye Xuanqiu's decision to send Ye Yuchan to the Thousand Ghost Forest this time is very likely to be to devour her completely and return her to her original form.

Ye Xuanqiu was sending Ye Yuchan to her death.

The reason for choosing Thousand Ghost Forest was because that place was where Ye Xuanqiu herself was buried.

After the silence.

Ye Yuchan gave a helpless smirk, then spread her hands and walked towards the gate of Yuntian Academy.

"There's no other way." Her face showed a hint of reluctance and dissatisfaction, but her body obediently chose to leave: "No matter what, you still have to go, right, you old rogue?"

Yunping glanced at Ye Yuchan with a smile: "You're not so silly when it comes to matters of principle."

"I've always been normal, I was just corrupted by Ruoxue."

"I really need to have a serious talk with Ruoxue about this."

Ye Yuchan's lips twitched twice, recalling the fear of being dominated by Zhang Ruoxue during the Full Moon Festival: "Snitching is a younger brother's behavior..."

The two exchanged a glance and smiled openly.

With the creaking of the academy gate, the academy, nestled atop the green leaves of the Seven Dream Tree, became completely deserted.

……

……

at the same time.

In the wilderness area.

Her snow-white clothes danced wildly in the strong wind, her black hair fluttered in the wind, and a look of reassurance and anticipation appeared on her stunning face.

The Thousand Ghost Forest was now a desolate wasteland, with the scorched soil emanating a stench of death.

Right in the very center of that desolate land, in front of the woman in white, stood several enormous tombs nearly ten meters high. The inscriptions on the tombs were ancient runes that did not belong to this era at all.

Each massive tombstone was bound by two diagonally intersecting black chains, and those bound by those chains were the students of Yuntian Academy who were tied to the tombstones.

Lin Yuan, Jiang Yuetian, Fan Luokui...

Apart from Ye Yuchan, the others were all asleep at this moment. Some of the chains binding their bodies had seeped into their bodies, as if they were trying to merge with them.

Directly in front of the woman in white stood a tomb of ordinary size and shape, with particularly neat characters carved on it...

【Ye Xuanqiu】

She stroked her tombstone with immense relief and anticipation, a contented smile playing on her lips.

She silently turned her right hand over, and a bolt of divine lightning suddenly appeared in her palm. The lightning was exceptionally swift and violent, as if it wanted to angrily destroy everything around it—yet she easily grasped it in her palm.

Not far away, there was a small demonic dog lying on the ground, barely breathing and making whimpering noises.

"In this way, the ultimate goal is achieved."

She raised her head, looked at the increasingly gloomy and dark sky, and chuckled softly.

It was as if he was speaking to someone—

"Once my husband arrives, all twenty-one perfections will be complete."

"Don't worry, I'll be able to fulfill my promise soon, Kunxuan."

66. The Primordial Ancestor at the Beginning of Creation

The Thousand Ghost Forest has been turned into a graveyard.

Although no one knows how this jungle turned into a desolate wasteland, what is certain is that both the soil underfoot and the air permeated by it have been tainted with the smell of death.

Perhaps to isolate those who have no reason to come here, or perhaps to avoid being disturbed, this dead land is shrouded in a thick black fog within a radius of ten miles. Anyone who tries to step into this fog will eventually get lost here.

The result of getting lost is obvious; you don't even need to think about it to guess: it's likely to end in a gruesome death.

However, Ye Yuchan and Yun Ping were exceptions—

Because they were both invited.

After passing through the black mist, what appeared before the two was the conspicuously dark graveyard.

Graves stand there, one after another, with no one's name engraved on the tombstones; they simply stand there.

Yunping glanced lightly at the tombstone; buried beneath it were some things that were very memorable.

There is Ye Sheng's zither... Ye Sheng, who disguised herself as a man and followed him back then, was the zither used by Emperor Wu Gu Tianren, the love of his life. The words Ye Sheng had carved in her heart are still on the zither.

There was also the sword that Ye Xuanqiu used. It was a treasure that Xuan Lei found for her. She used the sword until she died, and the sword still had sword patterns on it... those were sword patterns carved by Ye Xuanqiu.

Not only that, the tomb also contained some things left behind by Yunping in the past, including the killing poems he wrote, the weapons he used, and the blood-stained Taoist robe he once wore...

Everything that belongs to the past is buried here, deeply hidden underground, and commemorated with tombstones.

Clearly, this was all Ye Xuanqiu's doing.

But Yunping didn't understand why she buried these things.

Ye Yuchan could naturally see these things through the grave. Although she didn't know their origin, she could tell that Ye Xuanqiu had put them there.

She looked ahead and saw a dark sky and a bright moon. The wind blowing on her face was the eerie wind of the graveyard. She felt a nameless sadness settle down and flow endlessly along with the dead homeland.

"If someone sees these things, it'll probably be in big trouble, right?"

Standing on dead soil, Ye Yuchan looked at the seemingly endless road ahead and couldn't help but ask.

Yun Ping shrugged, still looking relaxed: "Probably, but most forces are busy dealing with the affairs of the Immortal Capital and the Demon Dynasty right now. The end of these two forces has both good and bad effects on them."

"But one thing is certain: they will be very busy in the next few decades."

"So this place is safe," Ye Yuchan muttered. "No one would come here to join the fun at a time like this."

"Even if there were, it would be blocked by that layer of fog outside," Yunping added. "That girl isn't stupid."

These words came from the bottom of his heart. At least the old rogue felt that Ye Xuanqiu's ability to manipulate him proved that this girl was indeed quite cunning.

Although this has little to do with intelligence, it mainly involves using Yunping's personality to force him to make a choice between two options... If you really want to talk about it, it's a suppression of emotional intelligence.

After all, she is the woman who knows her best in the whole world.

Seeing Yun Ping's seemingly relaxed and carefree appearance, Ye Yuchan asked with some curiosity, "So, you old rogue, do you know what she's up to?"

"I've made a rough guess." Yun Ping didn't dare say he was completely certain: "If I'm not mistaken, it's still somewhat related to immortality."

"Didn't you say you were wrong about this last time?"

"Yes, I was completely rejected and embarrassed, but I later figured out another possibility."

"What?"

"There are other ways to achieve immortality besides becoming the Origin Ancestor. Besides, I now think that even the Origin Ancestor may not be immortal."

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan narrowed her eyes and began to rack her brains.

The only way to achieve immortality... besides becoming the progenitor...

The wind in the cemetery was very uncomfortable, as if it were being touched by hundreds of cold hands. Even walking felt like your ankles were bound by ghosts, making it quite inconvenient to move around.

If I had to describe it, it was more like walking underwater, with a feeling of suffocation gradually creeping into my chest, and that heaviness and tightness was the most painful.

The only comforting thing was the bright, full moon that became clearer as you walked. Its pure and white light poured down, adding a layer of mystery to the cemetery and giving those who went forward a little hope.

Ye Yuchan pondered for a moment, and finally a bold idea came to her mind.

She stared at Yunping in surprise, then suddenly blurted out, "I mean, could it be something like reincarnation..."

indeed.

reincarnation.

If it's reincarnation, then life is constantly starting over, constantly repeating itself. As long as the memories and a certain level of abilities are retained, just like the old rogue who has been reborn so many times, one can perfect their reincarnation constitution...

That way, one can achieve a certain degree of immortality.

Faced with Ye Yuchan's guess, the old rogue smiled slightly.

"Pretty much, although I feel it's roughly the same path, but my guess is probably a little different from yours."

"what?"

Ye Yuchan was somewhat bewildered.

So what if we're going to reincarnate? What's the difference?

Could it be that what that old rogue was talking about... is time travel?