Underground ice prison.
Rumble—
After the stone door opened, the moist wind blew from the entrance and instantly formed a beautiful ice flower falling at Su Li’s feet.
As the stone gate closed again, Su Li’s eyes became darker. After she took a step forward, her body flashed into the depths like a phantom. Then she stopped in front of a small iceberg a moment later.
At the bottom of the iceberg, dense chains of spirits curb pierced out, entwining the pale woman sitting on the ice.
This woman was Fang Ling.
Within a few days, Fang Ling’s original ruddy face had turned pale with cold, and her lips were purple. However, she looked deathly silent. It seemed that this bit of suffering could not touch her at all.
As if sensing the change in light, Fang Ling moved. Then she slowly raised her head and opened her eyes. After seeing the person who came, her stiff face finally changed slightly. Then her frozen lips opened and closed with difficulty.
“It’s you…”
“It’s me?”
Su Li smiled lightly, and sat down directly on the cold ground in front of Fang Ling, “Do you know me?”
Fang Ling smiled faintly, “It only takes you, Grand Elder of the Ni Sect, two days to unify the Jiuzhou Region. Who in the twenty-five sects do not know Su Jiuzhou?”
“Well, I’m so famous.”
Su Li tilted her head and seemed a little distressed. Fang Ling smiled deeper when she saw this.
This woman wasn’t her, but so what?
Fang Ling saw many familiar faces, including Yan Ziye, Ling Qinglan, and many people who still missed her.
Since someone could gather these people together and avenged her, then it wasn’t a pity.
Thinking of this, she hesitated for a while and asked, “What are you doing here?”
Su Li narrowed her eyes slightly, “You seemed not to fear me at all, right?”
“Fear? Why do I fear?”
Fang Ling stared at Su Li, “I should have ended all of this a long time ago, but I was unable to do it. Since you appear, I will die without regret.”
Su Li looked at Fang Ling in silence. She couldn’t distinguish, and couldn’t believe Fang Ling anymore.
The lessons of the past were still vivid in her mind. If it were not for Mei Ruohan, she would have not broken her Life Ring. As for the blessings in disguise, it naturally couldn’t be considered as Mei Ruohan’s credit.
For example, Yan Ziye, Ling Qinglan and others were kept in the dark and sent into the Reincarnation Mirror. After they came out, their temperament changed drastically, and they were completely affected by the emotions of the world in the Reincarnation Mirror. They gave up everything and wandered outside. Therefore, she could trust them.
As for Fang Ling… After she came out, she continued to be a holy girl in Yuxu Sect, enjoying the highest level of cultivation resources. How could Su Li believe her?
Fang Ling naturally couldn’t feel Su Li’s hesitation. Seeing Su Li not say anything for a long time, she didn’t care, and continued saying, “Although you have a firm foothold now, I want to remind you of two things.
The first thing is the agents of the holy sects. I have heard from the Grand Elder of Yuxu Sect that the holy sects placed a number of agents in the Jiuzhou Region. If your existence is known by the holy sects, there will be a great war.”
“It’s not your turn to worry about this.”
Su Li smiled coldly, “However, you are the holy girl of Yuxu Sect. Logically speaking, you should regard me as an enemy. I don’t expect that you will consider your enemy.”
“Enemy?”
Fang Ling glanced at Su Li deeply, turned her head away, and said with a very soft voice, “We are not enemies.”
Su Li curled her lips, and showed a touch of sarcasm, “You said there are two things. Then, what is the second thing?”
Fang Ling’s eyes were dim. After a long silence, she finally said, “The second thing is the Grand Elder of Yuxu Sect. Although he has been missing for a long time, I heard from my master that he is still alive, and his strength is…comparable to that of the Junior Emperor in the ancient cultivation period. You have to be careful.”
“Your master?”
Su Li’s eyes flashed, “Who is your master? Ding Yan or Yao Shuangya?”
“Neither, they are in the Huashen Realm. How can they compare with my master?”
Fang Ling shook her head and said after hesitation, “Although my master is wicked and did such a wrong thing, she treated me really well…”
Su Li looked at Fang Ling calmly.
So, was this the reason why you still stayed in Yuxu Sect?
“I remember that you have a senior sister apprentice who is also in the ice prison, but I don’t see her this time. How about her?”
Su Li suddenly spoke. Fang Ling’s body trembled slightly, and the tortured face that had sunken eye sockets appeared in her mind.
However, there was still a smile on her face. She whispered softly, “Since you have gathered so many of her subordinates, I guess that you will ask this a long time ago. Unlike me, the senior sister apprentice’s consciousness in the Reincarnation Mirror is apart from her real body. The two conflicted with each other, so she became an utter lunatic after coming out!”
Su Li listened silently.
It turned out that Mei Ruohan was really crazy.
She remembered the scene of meeting with her a few years ago, and the figure resembling a human skeleton could still clearly flash back in her mind.
“However, I later discovered that Senior Sister Apprentice Mei’s consciousness in the Reincarnation Mirror gradually swallowed her original consciousness. In most cases, she returned to normal, but she still couldn’t forgive herself, so she played the fool and tortured herself until I heard that my master wanted to separate her soul and use it as the core of the tactical matrix.”
Su Li’s pupils shrank, and she said with a slightly choked voice, “Mei Ruohan is dead?!”
Was it the last time she had seen Mei Ruohan back then?
Fang Ling’s voice became deeper and hoarser. She shook her head and said, “Senior Sister Apprentice…has killed the awareness that killed Sister Li… Holy Girl Su. There is nothing wrong with her, so she shouldn’t be killed by Master in this way. Therefore, Luo Yichen and I devised a plan to send the senior sister apprentice out of the Jiuzhou Region.”
“I see.”
Su Li looked much gentler, “While you can’t forget your teacher, you are against the wishes of your master. You are a strangely contradictive person.”
Fang Ling bit her lip, showing the distress. But she smiled on the surface, “Thanks for your praise.”
Su Li smiled slightly, “Since you revealed so many facts to me, I will give you a better environment. At least, you won’t freeze to death like your lord and others.”
When Su Li said this, Fang Ling was disappointed, “If I knew this before, I wouldn’t tell you these.”
Su Li chuckled and turned around to leave, but she heard Fang Ling’s voice again behind her. This time, the voice was unusually heavy.
“Be careful of my master.”
What?
Su Li turned her head and saw Fang Ling lower her head. She was unable to see Fang Ling’s face. Fang Ling continued, “She is harder to deal with than the Grand Elder of Yuxu Sect. Even joining the Yuxu Sect was a part of her plan. You must…be careful!”
Su Li raised her eyebrows, “What is your master’s name?”
Fang Ling didn’t reply.
The air stagnated for a moment. Then Su Li turned and disappeared at the end of the ice road.
She didn’t ask, which didn’t make sense. Since Yuxu Sect was easily obtained by her, it was enough to prove that Fang Ling’s master was not in the sect.
Rumble—
The sound of stone door closing came from a distance. After the light dimmed, Fang Ling suddenly grabbed her chest, and the blood-red mark on her brows flickered constantly.
The imprint flickered faster and faster, and finally collapsed suddenly. Fang Ling only felt that the blood surged in her throat, and then she spat blood.
After exhaling heavily, Fang Ling leaned limply on the cold stone wall and gasped for breath.
She just vaguely reminded Su Jiuzhou, but it touched the curb set by the master in her mind.
“Master…”
In the ice and snow, the long sighs lasted for a long time.
…
“Hua Yan, I’m leaving.”
Su Li stood in front of the door and looked back at the extremely simple and quiet room, “I will keep Hei in the sect. Since it activated the dream for dozens of times continuously, it really needs a rest.”
As if hearing the owner’s concern, the little black cat lying on the cat bed meowed softly.
Hua Yan nodded and said with clear and firm voice, “Don’t worry. I am at home.”
Su Li smiled and didn’t say anything. Then she turned into a beam of streamer and disappeared into the sky.
…
In the desolate desert, the scorching sun hung high, and two figures could be seen from afar, one in front and one behind, moving forward in the wind and smoke.
Suddenly, a gust of wind came, and the wind and sand blew past their faces. Su Buwang didn’t notice it and was stuffed with sand immediately.
“Bah!”
Su Buwang spat sands for a long time. Then he straightened up and touched his dry throat. He helplessly asked, “Uncle Fang, are we not there yet?”
Fang Yuan tightened the cloth on his face, looking at the desert with ups and downs and without borders, “Come on, if the map is correct, we will be able to meet the crack in two days.”
“Two more days?!”
Su Buwang was upset. Then he tilted his head up and fell on the soft sand. He squinted at the fiery red sun exuding the heat at the sky, “We have been walking for a whole month. This Yin and Yang Region is so special. It is vast, but a protective spiritual shield can’t stop the sand.”
Fang Yuan sat aside and grabbed a handful of extremely hot sand, “If you are not negligent in cultivation and reach the late phase of Yuanying Realm, these sands will not stop you.”
“Uncle Fang, are you still a human!”
Su Buwang sat up angrily and pointed to Fang Yuan’s nose to accuse him.
“In just ten years, I grow from the early stage of the Jindan Realm to the middle stage of the Yuanying Realm. I am rigorously treated by you and dead tired! Then you still think I practice slowly?!!!”
Fang Yuan’s expression became slightly serious, “It’s different from the past. No one cares about you before. Now since you are with me, you can’t fall behind in cultivation. Don’t you want to be ashamed in front of your mother?!”
Su Buwang scratched his head. His eyes were a little confused, “My mother… It has been so many years. Is my mother…really alive?”
“She must be alive!”
Fang Yuan’s stern eyes darkened slightly, but his voice was deep and firm.
“Ok!”
Su Buwang nodded. He fell silent for a while, and then asked, “Uncle Fang, how do you know that my mother may be in the Yin and Yang Region? I saw that your expression changed when you heard ‘Linli Building’. Is it related to my mother?”
He wanted to ask more specifically. Having walked with Fang Yuan these years, he probably guessed that Uncle Fang had a relationship with his mother, but every time he asked about his mother’s origin, he couldn’t get an answer.
What kind of person was his mother?
Was she born noble or humble?
Since she had a relationship with such a mysterious and powerful uncle, she wouldn’t be the maid in the mouth of the “Lord of Evil”.
Then was she beautiful or ugly, fat or thin? Was her personality gentle or strong…
Su Buwang always thought it so often, and even often dreamed of a woman, but…he couldn’t see her face clearly.
Fang Yuan’s eyelids twitched when he heard the words “Linli Building”. Then he turned his head.
How should he answer?
Could it be that the woman had passed away for more than a thousand years, and the enemies were the holy sects in the whole world? The murderers of your mother included not only your father, but also me.
This answer was too heavy. If Su Buwang knew the truth, there wouldn’t be any advantages.
Since Ling Li was not cruel enough to tell him the truth, how could he…
“Look, Uncle Fang! What is that?”