Ling Yunhe restrained his breath and hid his tracks, then walked through the rubble.
There were so many people here, and some of them wanted to use him to find Mo Tiange and the others. He had to be careful and get rid of the people following him.
The Cloud Soaring Crane weaved left and right, moving forward and backward. The terrain of the Carefree Valley was complicated. Coupled with the fact that the Cloud Soaring Crane deliberately hid its tracks, it did not take long to shake off the people who were secretly following it.
Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly felt a breath approaching and someone said, "Fellow Daoist Ling, wait."
He was familiar with this voice. Ling Yunhe turned around in surprise and saw Yang Chengji coming out of the rubble. Yang Chengji took some time to find Ling Yunhe's position and slowly walked towards him, his face still expressionless.
"Fellow Daoist Yang?" Ling Yunhe frowned slightly.
Yang Chengji nodded. "Fellow Daoist Ling, are you going to meet with Fellow Daoist Tiancan and Fellow Daoist Mo?"
Ling Yunhe didn't need to hide this, so he said, "Yes. What can I do for you, Fellow Daoist Yang?"
"Take me there," Yang Chengji said.
Ling Yunhe was stunned. Yang Chengji was with Mo Tiange and the others during the twenty years when the palace was closed in the Returning Ruins Sea. This wasn't a secret. They must've gone through trials and tribulations together, so they must be friends. However, he just took him there without saying goodbye …
"Fellow Daoist Ling, you can ask them. If they don't agree, I won't force them."
Ling Yunhe thought for a moment then took out a Summoning Talisman from his robe, said a few words, and sent it.
Before long, the Summoning Talisman came back with their reply: Bring him there.
"Let's go," he said, "They agreed."
Before long, Ling Yunhe appeared in front of the four people with Yang Chengji.
Compared to before, Yang Chengji didn't look like a devil cultivator at all. His whole body was covered with condensed but well-concealed devil aura. His youthful face was delicate and handsome, but he was pale and thin.
People who didn't know him would only think he was a young man who just entered the devil path, not a Nascent Soul devil cultivator.
They greeted each other and introduced Little Feng and Feifei. Yang Chengji didn't say any polite words and went straight to the point. "It'll be very difficult for you to go back safely."
Mo Tiange was stunned and asked, "Fellow Daoist Yang, what do you mean?"
Yang Chengji said nothing and turned to look at Ling Yunhe.
Ling Yunhe smiled bitterly and described what had happened earlier. He said, "They are hostile to me. Even the Jiuyan Sect does not believe me."
On the surface, the Jiuyan Sect had temporarily given up on questioning him. However, the person they had sent out was Senior Brother Yuan. This spoke volumes.
This Senior Brother Yuan was a clansman of Perfected Yuanmu.
Mo Tiange heaved a sigh. "Fellow Daoist Ling, I've implicated you."
Ling Yunhe shook his head and said calmly, "This is my own choice." He did not betray the Jiuyan Sect. It was just that the Jiuyan Sect could not understand him for now.
"What about you?
Fellow Daoist Yang, why are you looking for us … "Qin Xi didn't finish his sentence.
The corners of Yang Chengji's mouth curled up, and it looked like he was smiling. "Since I came to find you, I'm naturally on your side."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Although the five of them were quite strong when they teamed up, they were nothing in front of so many Nascent Soul cultivators. Yang Chengji actually wanted to join them under such circumstances?
"Compared to them, I trust you more."
Yang Chengji said, "In more than twenty years in the Sea of Returning Ruins, I was the weakest, but I was able to escape safely. I can see that you are all people who keep your word.
If not, I wouldn't have come to join in the fun. "
"Then what does Fellow Daoist Yang want?" Qin Xi asked again.
Yang Chengji's gaze fell on Nie Wushang. "I want to know where the Primordial Devil Great Technique came from."
Nie Wushang's eyes moved, but she didn't say anything.
She could see that Yang Chengji was very insistent.
The five of them simply expressed their opinions. Jing Xingzhi and Qin Xi reserved their opinions, while Mo Tiange, Nie Wushang, and Ling Yunhe agreed and accepted Yang Chengji into their group.
"Fellow Daoist Yang, there's something I have to tell you first. The Primordial Devil Stone Tablet in the Black Tortoise Temple is probably the one in Wushang's hand. If you want to use it to search for the origin of the Primordial Devil Great Technique, you might as well exchange research with Wushang. If you go to the Black Tortoise Temple, you might return empty-handed," Mo Tiange said seriously.
Yang Chengji's expression didn't change. "If that's the case, I won't ask for much."
Just like that, a new alliance was formed. Everyone laid out the situation and talked about it.
"Among these cultivators, Devil Monarch Night Frost is old friends with us, and there's nothing in the temple that interests him, so he'll probably give us face. As for Wushang, he's not the type to argue. Years ago, I killed his junior martial brother, but he can also distinguish right from wrong.
These two people basically won't become enemies.
Devil Monarch Moon Shadow and Han Shizhi, needless to say, they have a grudge against us, so they probably won't let it go easily.
As for Nan Guitian and Old Donkey Ma, they're all opportunists. It's fine if there's no conflict of interest, but if there's a conflict of interest, they probably won't hesitate to turn hostile … "Mo Tiange counted with her fingers according to the list Ling Yunhe gave her. No matter how she counted, most of them were enemies.
Yang Chengji's expression was still cold. "It's already not bad.
In the past few decades, your cultivation levels have improved greatly. With the six of us working together, unless two or more late stage Nascent Soul cultivators join hands, the others won't be a problem. "
Yang Chengji appeared very confident. He believed that with his strength and the Heavenly Devil Tower, he could suppress ordinary middle stage Nascent Soul cultivators.
He knew the strength of Mo Tiange, Qin Xi, and Jing Xingzhi. Back then, when Qin Xi and Jing Xingzhi joined hands, they could fight against late stage Nascent Soul cultivators, let alone now that Jing Xingzhi and Mo Tiange had advanced to the middle stage.
As for Nie Wushang, although this was the first time they met after she formed her Nascent Soul, he knew how powerful the Primordial Devil Great Technique was.
There was also Ling Yunhe. He was a genius disciple of Jiuyan Sect, and he also had the Soul-Restricting Bead. If he went all out, he wouldn't be much weaker than Mo Tiange.
If they couldn't take the initiative among these Nascent Soul cultivators with such a lineup, how could they have the face to say they were better than ordinary cultivators?
"There's still us!" Feifei said lazily on the side.
"…" Yang Chengji automatically ignored him.
Xiaofeng was an eighth rank demonic beast cultivator with a noble bloodline, so she could be of help. Feifei hadn't even passed the Transformation Tribulation. When the time came, Mo Tiange had to put him into his spiritual beast bag.
The few of them thought about it a few more times before they set out again.
As before, Feifei transformed into his original form. While leading the way, he told them what he saw back then.
"… There's nothing much to say about that sacrificial temple. However, the surrounding terrain is a bit special, so we might need to spend some effort."
"What terrain?" Jing Xingzhi asked.
Feifei didn't feel like explaining, so he said in a very bad tone, "You'll know when we get there. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
That tone made Jing Xingzhi's hands itch. "You really don't know what a spiritual beast's duty is!
As a spiritual beast, you have to talk to humans in a respectful and courteous tone, understand? "
Feifei paused for a moment then directly lifted one of his hind legs and made a puppy shushing gesture to show his disdain.
Upon seeing that, Jing Xingzhi shouted, "You're acting like a hooligan?
As a spiritual beast, you're actually acting like a hooligan towards humans?
Not to mention that there's a woman here, there's even a mother beast here. Don't you feel embarrassed? "
"Ahem!" Xiaofeng cupped her hands and stood far away to show that it had nothing to do with her.
Please, even if she was a female, she was a bird and Feifei was a beast — they were different races, alright?
Besides, she could even be Feifei's grandmother …
After walking for a while, Feifei suddenly stopped and sniffed with his nose. Then, he whimpered as if he was calling for something.
"Roar! Roar!" As soon as his voice fell, other sounds rang out in the surroundings.
Feifei whimpered again, and this sound also followed suit.
The two beasts sang the same tune. Before long, the other side finally let down their guard. A huge figure drilled out of the stone forest step by step.
This figure was terrifyingly huge. In front of it, the six of them were like little ants that could only raise their heads to look up.
A three-headed ape!
Among the people present, four of them had seen this three-headed ape with their own eyes in the past. Three energies intertwined on its body, making it impervious to swords and spears and difficult to use magic to invade.
"Shitou!" Feifei raised his head and shouted.
The three-headed ape stopped in front of them and stared at Feifei with his huge eyes for a while. Then, he stretched out his palm and placed it in front of Feifei.
Feifei leaped up and was lifted onto the shoulder by the three-headed ape.
"Oh …" The three-headed ape blinked its eyes and tilted its head to look at Feifei on its shoulder.
Feifei had this kind of magical ability. No matter what kind of ferocious beast it was, it wouldn't be hostile to it.
The two beasts rubbed each other's heads affectionately and conversed in the beast's language for a while before Feifei finally turned around.
He said, "Let's go. Shitou, take us there."
The first time they came to Carefree Valley, it was Shitou who took Feifei there. Otherwise, they wouldn't have discovered that a sacrificial temple was hidden here.
As if it understood, Shitou raised its head and shouted a few times, then led the group through the rubble.
Only those who had been inside knew how chaotic the terrain of Carefree Valley was. Sometimes it was spiritual aura, sometimes it was devil aura, and sometimes it was filthy aura.
Shitou didn't care in the slightest. It was a monster born from the mixture of three auras, so no matter which aura it was, it wouldn't affect it. Moreover, these auras were nothing to a Nascent Soul cultivator. For a while, they moved forward very fast. Before long, they drilled into a certain cave.
The group of people walked through the pitch-black cave. Mo Tiange took out the Heaven and Earth Fan and used the Mother Moonstone on the fan pendant to illuminate the cave.
Soon, the scene in the cave began to change. Chunks of ice emerged from the soil. At first, they were only small fragments, but as they went deeper and deeper, more and more of them appeared until their surroundings were covered by ice walls. It was as if they had walked into a world of ice and snow.
"So beautiful." Little Feng couldn't help but praise as she looked at the sparkling icicles around them and the jade-like ice walls.
After passing through one ice cave after another, they gradually heard the sound of running water and a meandering stream slowly appeared under their feet.
The stream grew bigger and bigger. In the end, they stood in front of a huge underground river.
Listening to the sound of running water and watching the turbulent waves, the six people were a bit dumbfounded.
"There's … a river here?"
In fact, there was nothing wrong with having a river. What was strange was that this river gathered three auras, among which the dead aura was the strongest.
"How do we go?" Mo Tiange asked.
With their cultivation levels, they could walk directly, but this would consume a lot of spiritual aura. Moreover, if they were careless and got entangled by the dead aura, it would be very troublesome.
"Roar! Roar!" The three-headed ape raised its head and roared.
Feifei said, "Shitou, carry us there."
The three-headed ape casually knocked a huge piece of floating ice from the ice wall and threw it into the river.
The six people and one beast watched for a while. Feifei, who was crouching on the three-headed ape's shoulder, said impatiently, "Let's go!"
After hesitating for a moment, everyone clenched their teeth and jumped onto the floating ice.
The three-headed ape pushed the floating ice and stepped into the river.