The Arch-Enemy Must Not Become a Wife

Qingqing nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

Ji Mingyu frowned, "Don’t ask questions left and right, and don’t act as if the two of you are completely innocent."

With her answer, the two girls immediately understood that this woman must be at fault! For a moment, they were even more united against a common enemy.

Only Little Snow, who knew a bit more, sighed helplessly. Unfortunately, earlier it was merely considered a pet, and its relationship with its owner wasn’t as good as now. Otherwise, there might have been a chance to mend things, at least not make her act so drastically.

...

Upon leaving, Chu Xuan carefully closed the stone cave residence.

Hopefully, the Huagang Immortal Monarch can truly meet his beloved again after thousands of cycles of reincarnation.

The return journey to the course was relatively smooth, except for the senior sister constantly wanting to hug Chu Xuan.

In fact, this course is only relatively safe, navigating through the gaps between various factions and excluding dangerous areas, following the flow of Spiritual Qi, and adjusting according to the times.

Finally, to reach the "Blood Lake" where the sinister creature and celestial corpse were located, they had to traverse two or three dangerous regions to finally arrive.

Though it was called a blood lake, Chu Xuan and his companion looked out and the waters were crystal clear, with not a trace of living things inside.

According to Old Fish, this was because the blood aura within had long been absorbed completely by the creature. The blood of both immortals and demons is a great nourishment, so this beast should not be underestimated.

In the lake is an island of strange shape, as if sliced by some person and broken in two. No idea how many years have passed, yet the blood-soaked soil still exudes a bloody odor.

Qin Mengyao looked at the island, muttering, "Could this originally have been a corpse?"

Upon hearing, Chu Xuan looked again, indeed faintly seeing the outline of a human form, which caused him some hidden alarm. Whether this person’s original body was a celestial or demon, it seems they died under a single blade.

After death, their blood surged forth, filling the ground and forming a pool of blood, while the body became a dark red island in the lake.

Surely the sinister creature derived from the celestial corpse remains here to soak up the "nutrients" left from this body.

At this moment, Ji Mingyu and four others were close to Chu Xuan, but they all stood quietly in place without speaking, just watching.

Ming Yu calculated that after Chu Xuan discovered the situation was not favorable, he would likely give up. Then on the return journey, Qingqing and another would pretend to have just caught up and would collide with them.

"What do we do next?" Qin Mengyao looked at Chu Xuan, "Shall I go out and lure it out?"

Chu Xuan shook his head, "At least a seventh-stage existence, cannot be underestimated, not to mention it has a damaged Immortal Artifact. Even if used only a few times, it’s enough to cause us serious trouble."

"If the damage isn’t that severe, then it’s even more dangerous."

Chu Xuan pondered a bit, then said, "I’ll attempt to probe the situation inside the island, and if anything seems wrong, we’ll run."

His strategy was simple, wrapping himself in the Six Souls Banner, earth-traveling underground, and once close to the island, activating "Know the Terrain" to peer through the earth and stones to gauge the creature’s current state, and where the Jade Pure Bottle resides.

Before starting, Chu Xuan, caution-bound, first activated the Long-armed Ape’s "Discern Fortune Misfortune". This Divine Technique could distinguish good and bad luck; directly observing the island proved to be a great danger, but it also carried the ability of "Premonition".

After secretly using it, Chu Xuan felt no impending catastrophe, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief. He felt that if they were careful, they shouldn’t encounter a life-threatening crisis.

He had just taken out the Six Souls Banner when he suddenly remembered something; as a "mystic" he did have genuine skills, not divining the situation would be wasteful?

So Chu Xuan extended five fingers and carefully calculated the situation of the creature.

But once he did so, the outcome turned dire!

Chu Xuan’s aura undulated, colorful light erupted from his hand, blood dripped from his fingertips, and his face turned extremely pale.

Meanwhile, a fierce aura surged from the island in the lake, accompanied by a sharp howl, as vast white clouds billowed forth, rushing directly towards Chu Xuan and his companion!

This was backlash! Chu Xuan nearly wanted to slap himself; as a fortune teller, he had acted so recklessly.

It was known that recklessly probing heavenly secrets was itself a dangerous act. This creature was formed from a celestial corpse, surely inheriting some traits of the Upper Realm True Immortal. Divining about an Immortal immediately led to backlash.

If not for this Immortal already being thoroughly dead and now merely a monster transformed from a celestial corpse, the backlash alone would have gravely injured him.

Seeing his junior suddenly frozen with desperation in their eyes, Qin Mengyao quickly reacted. She both embraced Chu Xuan, transformed into a blood-red escape light, and released the Yuan Tu and Abi swords, conjuring a black and a red sword light to slice through the elongated cloud mist!

"Clang~!"

"Clang~!"

Two slashing sounds echoed through the mist, resonating with bright and incessant sword chirps.

Meanwhile, in the eyes of Chu Xuan and his companion, the world transformed into a scene of blood red, red above and below. No matter how Qin Mengyao flew, it seemed she was stationary, with surrounding views showing no changes.

She gave a grim look, "Domain..."

The two initially thought this sinister object may not necessarily perform celestial cultivation’s wondrous methods; however, this thing before them, though differing from high-level cultivators’ domains, was very similar, possessing powerful confinement effects.

Qin Mengyao ceased the escape light and turned around to see; the veil of white cloud mist concealing the form was gradually dissipating under the fierce attack of the two Immortal Swords, revealing the body of the sinister celestial corpse creature.

It turned out to be a female head, with stunningly beautiful features, black hair styled in a phoenix bun, skin white as jade, wearing a bizarrely shallow smile, closed eyes with two streams of blood tears.

Moreover, beneath this head protruded a long, blood-soaked spine, flexibly swaying like a snake, making it dreadfully unsettling to behold.

The beauty head clamped a cold white long sword, emanating frigid chilling energy in its mouth.

This sword, narrow bodied, long-bladed, straight-backed, measures three feet six inches, exudes a radiant white glow from the sword body, and carries an awe-inspiring killing aura; it’s at least a celestial-tier flying sword.

Beside this head hovered a small Jade Pure Bottle, adorned with fissures, bottle mouth rugged and uneven, upon its surface inscribed with two ancient characters "Cheng Tian". Despite its ruined appearance, it emitted a halo of Immortal light, looking quite extraordinary.

A black and a red sword light, while detaining the beauty head slightly, posed no real threat to it.

It snapped at the ice attribute flying sword a few times, each slash sending the ungoverned sword light flying far away. Were it not for the notable grades of the Yuan Tu and Abi swords, they’d likely have been knocked down long ago.

Seeing the head nearing them, Qin Mengyao bit her lip, throwing her full spirit into controlling the Immortal Swords, desperately resisting.

Facing such an utterly terrifying opponent, she dared not fuse with the sword casually and move close, only attempting long-range attacks with Sword Control Technique.

Fortunately, Chu Xuan finally broke free from the backlash. His complexion was poor, gripping a glittering Relic in one hand and the Six Souls Banner in the other, even awakening the Master of the Ghost Market within the banner, ready at any moment to act.

One could say fortune tellers meet their fates too; not employing this divine calculation method in a while, using it once leads to a significant backlash.

The old ghost awoken by Chu Xuan’s divine sense was not only not annoyed but asked in an excited tone:

"Calling so urgently, is there some great crisis?"

"Look for yourself."

Chu Xuan released the ghost’s divine sense, but it was somewhat baffled; where had they come to this odd place, and what was that thing flying above?!

Certainly neither corpse nor ghost; yet, it possessed a sort of sinister eeriness...