Li Yun was taken aback.
He really hadn't expected Lian Zixing to have such a formidable background.
Nor had he expected something so absurdly melodramatic to happen to an Undying Ancient God.
He had slept with someone else's Dao Companion, been caught in the act, and had no choice but to flee the Origin Plane...
Unbelievable.
It was so damn ridiculous.
But Li Yun wasn't particularly interested in that kind of gossip.
How Lian Zixing had slept with someone else's Dao Companion or gotten caught had nothing to do with him.
He had helped Lian Zixing purely to annoy the Night Silence Ancient God and earn himself some Plane Source Energy along the way. It was that simple.
Now he'd saved him, and the Plane Source Energy was in hand.
That left him with just one goal: to ask Leng Yue about places where the Ominous Miasma was thicker.
"Heh—"
"This whole mess is too much for me to get mixed up in, and I never planned to... Still, thank you for the warning, Leng Yue. I'll be careful from now on."
"As long as you are. I've had little contact with anyone else these past years—just you. I don't want to see a moment of greed get you killed by a powerhouse from the Three Saints Palace."
"Don't worry... It won't. Oh, right, Leng Yue, I wanted to ask you something. Do you know where the Ominous Miasma is thickest?"
"Where the Ominous Miasma is thickest...?"
Leng Yue froze. Her distant-mountain brows drew together instinctively, plainly recoiling from the Ominous Miasma.
"Why are you asking about that?"
"What do you want it for?"
Li Yun smiled and said teasingly, "Would you believe me if I said I wanted to cultivate with it?"
Leng Yue rolled her eyes. "Do you