Fairy, help me cultivate.

Yu Ling frowned: "So, the person I met in my dream was really her?"

"What?" Chen Yao didn't hear what she mumbled.

Yu Ling gave him a cold look: "It's nothing. But don't blame me for not warning you. If you do anything else that goes against your will, I'll stop you even if it costs me my life."

Chen Yao didn't know what she was talking about, but this girl had always had a strange and extreme temper, so he didn't take it to heart.

"The most urgent task now is to rescue our senior brother and find Ling Hong."

When he said he was looking for Ling Hong, Yu Ling snorted coldly. If you knew she was related to this formation, you would probably turn on me immediately.

Chen Yao added, "Oh, the most important thing is to leave this place."

He thought of that extremely slovenly man; if he could capture him, perhaps he could get the answer to how to get out.

Chapter 208 Your senior uncle is rewarding you; let's get closer.

Chen Yao and Yu Ling left the formation and landed on the red, fleshy ground.

"what is this?"

Yu Ling was seeing this strange thing for the first time. She stomped on it with her toes, feeling very uncomfortable.

"I do not know either."

Chen Yao told Yu Ling in detail how he got in.

Do you know this person?

Yu Ling thought for a long time and shook her head: "I don't remember having such a person by my mother's side when I was a child. Sigh."

She sighed deeply, thinking that if this person hadn't left, her father wouldn't have succeeded.

Chen Yao stared at the halos of light reflecting like water ripples in the void for a long time before finally finding the one where Xu Junyu was.

"I don't know how she got in, or how she got trapped."

Yu Ling sighed.

In her heart, Xu Junyu was an admirable senior sword cultivator, and that was why she wanted to compete with him.

"We'll find out if we rescue her and ask her."

Now that Chen Yao has a way to break the mixed gold chains and has gained an accomplice, he is quite confident that he can save Xu Junyu.

The two flew into the shimmering halo of light.

The landscape reappeared before my eyes, and sword energy rained down upon it.

Chen Yao and Yu Ling quickly leaped up to dodge.

This time, the sword energy was much more violent and reacted much faster than last time. Last time, it took quite a while for Chen Yao to activate the sword energy after landing.

Chen Yao sensed something was wrong, but the raging sword energy forced him to keep his eyes open.

"How to do?"

Yu Ling, who had been forced far away from him by the sword energy, sounded anxious.

"Yeah, what do we do?" Chen Yao asked the two people on top of him, barely touching the ground as he dodged the rain of swords.

Jiu Luo and Yun Jiang seemed to be at a loss as well.

Chen Yao, quick-witted as ever, leaped toward Yu Ling, following the sound: "Come closer to me!"

"why?"

Despite her doubts, Yu Ling did as he said.

The two flew towards each other, brushing past each other, and the two bursts of sword rain collided and bombarded each other in mid-air, destroying each other.

Seeing that this method was effective, Chen Yao dodged another round of sword energy rain while reminding Yu Ling: "Fly towards the core of the formation!"

And so they flew towards each other, getting closer to Xu Junyu.

They haven't even had a chance to see Xu Junyu's location yet.

After luring in countless sword strikes, Chen Yao and Yu Ling finally heard the clanging of chains.

Just then, the rain of swords suddenly stopped.

Chen Yao and Yu Ling dared not move again, clinging tightly together, floating in the air on guard.

"look!"

Yu Ling spoke, pointing to Xu Junyu's location.

Chen Yao looked in the direction Chen Yao was pointing and was taken aback.

The place was empty except for the horizontal chains that swayed in the mountain wind, making a "whooshing" sound.

Where did she go?

Without the core, can the formation still be activated?

A chilling thought crept into Chen Yao's mind, and he shook his head violently, trying to shake it off.

"Impossible. Her strength is far greater than yours or mine. It's impossible for her to be completely exhausted by the formation."

Upon hearing his words, Yu Ling recalled the exhaustion she couldn't recover from in the illusion, and her lips paled: "You have no idea how unbearable it was in the illusion."

Anger surged on Chen Yao's face. He drew his sword, which transformed into a thick, long sword light, and pierced straight at the point where the two chains interlocked, the place where Xu Junyu was originally bound.

All that remained there at that moment was a hazy, transparent sword intent.

Chen Yao's sword light pierced into that sword intent, and in a flash, the entire formation was engulfed by a sudden burst of intense light.

The world seemed to have disappeared.

Chen Yao was panting, and her vision slowly returned.

The surrounding landscape was no longer the mountains and rivers within the formation, but rather red flesh filling the field of vision.

In the center of the field of vision, a beautiful woman with long, flowing hair sat with her legs stretched out, draped in a large, snow-white veil. Her plump, snowy breasts were wrapped around a sword with her underwear as a scabbard.

Xu Junyu.

However, Chen Yao could not discern any trace of Xu Junyu from her gentle and sentimental expression.

Yu Ling also noticed her: "Something's not right with her."

Chen Yao nodded, gripping his sword, but unsure what to do.

Suddenly, an excited scream erupted behind them.

"Xiao You!"

A disheveled figure rushed over at lightning speed and fell three feet behind Yu Ling.

It was the person who brought Chen Yao here.

His body was now covered in gruesome sword wounds, and he was clearly on his last legs.

Once he realized that Yu Ling was not her mother, the last glimmer of light in that person's eyes dimmed.

"You...are her daughter?"

"I am Qin You's daughter."

Seeing the man's miserable state, Yu Ling couldn't help but feel compassion.

The man cowered, whether from grief or something else, his lips trembling several times before he finally managed to ask, "She...she's really gone?"

Yu Ling's eyes reddened. She glanced at the immortal sword in Chen Yao's hand, closed her eyes, and tears slid down her delicate cheeks. She nodded.

The person burst into tears instantly, their sobs echoing throughout the vast space.

Chen Yao and Yu Ling both felt extremely sad.

With his legs crossed and his sword in hand, Xu Junyu sat sideways like a jade sculpture, motionless and oblivious to everything around him.

"The reason I'm not dead is because I can still sense your presence, Yu!"

The man took out a piece of yellow jade talisman covered in oil stains from his pocket; it was only half there.

The half of the talisman flew out of his hand, circled around Chen Yao's immortal sword, and was instantly destroyed by the sword energy.

"It turns out, it was a dream from which I could never wake up."

The man gave a bitter laugh, his wailing gradually subsided, and he fell silent.

Yu Ling stared blankly, unsure of how to react to the situation.

"Look, not all men in the world are ungrateful beasts; there are also those who are truly devoted to love."

Chen Yao said.

He gently patted Yu Ling's shoulder: "Your mother... left with a smile."

Yu Ling stood there, stunned.

Chen Yao walked straight toward Xu Junyu.

Xu Junyu raised her head and looked at him with a charming smile.

"You've arrived."

Her voice was soft and alluring, sending chills down Chen Yao's spine.

Xu Junyu would never speak in such a tone, never.

"who are you?"

He stopped three feet in front of Xu Junyu.

Xu Junyu stared at him for a while, then covered her mouth with the back of her slender hand and laughed.

"I am your Uncle Xu! How come this child doesn't even recognize his Uncle Xu?"

"No, you are not."

Xu Junyu looked puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"You're so effeminate, where is there even a trace of Master Xu's swift and decisive style?"

Xu Junyu's brow twitched, and her gaze turned cold: "Is being a tomboy like her a good thing? She'll never be able to find a boyfriend in her entire life!"