Qingqiu.
Temple courtyard.
Jade Trees swayed; the ancient well lay silent.
Pei Ling stood motionless a few paces from the well, his long sleeves hanging to the ground. His face was expressionless, as if quietly waiting for something.
"Ling Yi," dressed in a deep robe with frosty white hair, stood close beside him. Seeing that Pei Ling neither moved nor spoke, she waited a while, then simply sat cross-legged on the ground, circulated her cultivation technique, and began to recover.
Though she was an Immortal Emperor from the Upper Realm, the body she had manifested in this Illusion Realm was too weak, and the Immortal Power within her was limited.
Just now, at the forbidden grounds of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, she had exchanged only a few words with that Nine-tailed Fox's Little Immortal from the Illusion Realm, yet her Immortal Power had already been nearly exhausted...
Since nothing was happening at the moment, she took the opportunity to recover a little.
Fortunately, she had previously strengthened the foundation of her Illusion Realm body here. Otherwise, with her earlier cultivation in the Illusion Realm at the Forty-nine Tribulations, she feared that merely speaking the first word to that Nine-tailed Fox's Little Immortal would have completely drained all her Immortal Power!
Immortal Emperor Pei, on the other hand, had a deep foundation and formidable strength in this Illusion Realm body. He had also argued with that Little Immortal just now, yet showed not the slightest sign of being affected.
As she pondered, "Ling Yi" circulated the energy around her. Her long hair and sleeves stirred and whipped about without any wind.
As her cultivation technique ran, Immortal Power quickly welled up within her.
Beneath the dim sky, the Jade Trees looked especially crystalline.
Flashes of lightning in the distance reflected countless