Sunset at dusk!!
Qin Jishi lay in the courtyard, gazing at the twinkling stars as his thoughts grew complicated.
"Shiqing, did you truly lose your memories?"
"..."
"Or did someone seal them away?"
"..."
"Has the Ice Phoenix Realm Venerate's residence truly fallen under that person's control?"
"..."
All these matters tangled together, leaving Qin Jishi with no clear thread of thought.
In fact!!
The more he thought, the more tangled his thoughts became.
That mountaintop?
That forbidden ground?
Qin Jishi narrowed his eyes, recalling the scene from earlier that day.
He could be completely certain that someone had been watching him from atop that mountain.
That feeling could not have been wrong.
This inevitably left Qin Jishi puzzled. There was someone on the mountaintop?
From Xing Hao, Qin Jishi had learned that aside from the Ice Phoenix Realm Venerate, no one else could enter that mountaintop.
If someone was there, who could it be?
The more Qin Jishi thought about it, the stronger his curiosity became.
For some reason, a sudden premonition arose within him.
There was some secret hidden within the forbidden ground.
Thinking this!
Qin Jishi stared blankly at the starry sky.
A short while later!!
His eyes narrowed. He withdrew his gaze and looked instead toward the distant mountaintop.
"Is there truly no way to break the barrier outside?"
"..."
In the end, Qin Jishi could not suppress his curiosity. With a flicker, he left the courtyard.
Not long after he departed, a figure appeared there.
Her gaze was somewhat cold, and then she vanished from where she stood.
The forbidden ground of the Ice Phoenix Realm Venerate's residence!
Perhaps because of the barrier, no one guarded this place at all.
If things were as Xing Hao had said, it made no difference whether this place