White mist hung like a curtain, blinding them. Everywhere they looked, all was a vast expanse of white.
A ring of Blood Skulls circled Li Lieyue, bobbing up and down. Their eye sockets were hollow and black as they constantly drew in the Yin Qi from the mist, their color growing ever more crystalline.
At her side, so close she was almost invisible, Yan Minghua held an umbrella in her slender hand. The branches painted on its canopy swayed gently, and pink and white petals drifted down without cease.
The petals swirled and danced across the entire canopy.
The dense Yin Qi had frosted their brows and lashes white.
They walked for a while, and were lucky enough not to encounter a single Ghostly Being.
Just then, Yan Minghua suddenly sent a voice transmission. "Vicious Demoness, what... exactly happened to Fellow Daoist Pei?"
Seeing Yan Minghua call her a demoness to her face, Li Lieyue returned the transmission just as bluntly. "I don't know, Yan Cauldron."
At that, the Heavenly Maiden's expression stiffened. In the past, if this Vicious Demoness had dared give her such an insulting name, she would have made her pay!
But now...
Their business came first. There was no need to quarrel with her.
So Yan Minghua continued her transmission. "Vicious Demoness, when the fake Senior Brother Fu and fake Fellow Daoist Pei returned to the teahouse earlier, we were all very worried about Senior Brother Fu. You, on the other hand, didn't care in the slightest and kept cultivating. Yet just now, you suddenly took the initiative to ask the Fallen Immortal Will about Fellow Daoist Pei's situation. You must have noticed something. How could you really not know?"
Li Lieyue's expression did not change in the slightest. She did know a little about Junior