Have You Heard of the Eternal Youth Pill?

Qin Yu carried the wolf cub and wandered aimlessly through the depths of the Land of Beast Burial. With the Wolf King close behind, there was no danger along the way.

Unlike the Wolf King, who had no choice, Ling Yao seemed determined to follow Qin Yu.

"With your cultivation, you should count as one of the favored children of heaven in the Jade Pool Sect, right? Haha, with a Jade Pool Sect prodigy escorting me all the way, I'm afraid I'm the only one who gets such treatment." Qin Yu chatted away as they walked, but inwardly he was growing anxious. He had no idea how long Ling Yao intended to follow him. If this stalemate continued, not only would he have no time to cultivate, it would also delay him.

"Getting impatient? It's already too late. I have plenty of time to waste with you." Ling Yao glanced at Qin Yu and said coldly.

How could she not want to leave sooner? But Xiong Tatian and Li Tianji were nowhere to be found. Her only option was to capture Qin Yu and force him to reveal their whereabouts. Yet Qin Yu held the wolf cub as leverage, preventing her from using force. Left with no choice, she could only follow him. Of course, every moment, she was thinking about how to torture Qin Yu to death once she had forced out Xiong Tatian and Li Tianji's whereabouts.

"I told you, I only met those two after entering the Land of Beast Burial. Do you believe me? I don't know where they would go either," Qin Yu said.

Ling Yao mocked, "What difference does it make whether I believe you or not?"

"You cultivate the Jade Pool Dao Art, don't you?" Qin Yu changed the subject again, trying to find a flaw in Ling Yao.

Ling Yao sneered. "Do you think this will make me let you go? Until I capture them, don't even think about shaking me off." If she had not promised those junior sisters face-to-face, Ling Yao would not have wanted to waste any more time.

"Do you want to know why I asked about Zou Xueqing?" Qin Yu's eyes rolled as he asked.

Ling Yao remained silent, but she was indeed curious. She too had only learned of Patriarch Zou Xueqing from ancient records, yet she did not know how Qin Yu knew of her.

"You don't want to know? Then forget it." Qin Yu glanced at Ling Yao and said indifferently.

Ling Yao coldly pretended she did not want to know.

"By the way, why do you keep wearing a veil in such hot weather? Could it be that your face is too ugly to be seen?" Qin Yu suddenly stopped and stared at Ling Yao.

Ling Yao said nothing.

"That must be it. It seems your talent truly is astonishing, otherwise the Jade Pool Sect would not have made an exception to accept you. What a pity. No matter how astonishing your talent may be, having an ugly face must be your greatest pain, right? No matter how you alter your appearance, you cannot change your heart, because you know what you truly look like..." Qin Yu tried to provoke Ling Yao.

"I heard the Jade Pool Sect has a Celestial Maiden Dance. I wonder if you've learned it. How about this? Dance the Celestial Maiden Dance for me. Perhaps I'll become entranced by it despite your appearance..." Qin Yu stared into Ling Yao's beautiful eyes with a teasing smile.

Ling Yao glared coldly at Qin Yu. She was both shocked and furious—shocked that Qin Yu knew the Jade Pool Sect possessed the Celestial Maiden Dance, and furious that, knowing this, he still asked her to dance it.

One had to know that every disciple of the Jade Pool Sect could only perform the Celestial Maiden Dance for one person in her lifetime, and that person would become her lifelong Dao companion.

"How do you know?" Ling Yao suppressed her thoughts and asked coldly.

"I know far more than that. Oh, right, I heard an ancestral ape fell here. Let's go take a look." Seeing that Ling Yao was curious, Qin Yu changed the subject again. As he spoke, he looked toward the Wolf King, only to see a flash of fear pass through its eyes as it instinctively glanced in a certain direction.

"No. That place is forbidden ground. You cannot set foot there!" the Wolf King said in a low voice.

"Forbidden ground?" Qin Yu's gaze flickered. The direction the Wolf King had looked was precisely opposite to the direction Li Tianji had pointed out. Could it be... that Xiong Tatian's big mouth had actually guessed right? The Dao Mansion was in the direction opposite the one Li Tianji had indicated?

At this thought, Qin Yu's eyes flickered. According to Li Tianji, the Dao Mansion should open in about a month. Perhaps then, he could take the opportunity to shake off the two of them.

At once, Qin Yu carried the wolf cub and headed in one direction.

Ling Yao's chest rose and fell slightly. Looking at Qin Yu's back, her beautiful eyes brimmed with fury and killing intent. Over the past few days, whenever Qin Yu stirred her curiosity, he would change the subject. It infuriated Ling Yao beyond measure. Accustomed to being surrounded and adored in the Jade Pool Sect, she felt especially miserable after encountering someone as shameless as Qin Yu. Yet her stubborn nature refused to yield.

Ling Yao had not noticed that in these few days, she had lost her temper more times than she had in the entirety of her more than twenty years.

"Don't give me an opportunity, or I'll show you how I deal with you," Ling Yao said through gritted teeth.

Three days later.

Qin Yu stood beneath a great tree in the depths of the Land of Beast Burial, staring suspiciously at the endless stretch of hills ahead.

Judging from the Wolf King's expression, this should be the forbidden ground it had mentioned, the place where the ancestral ape had fallen. Yet what alarmed Qin Yu was the thick dark clouds drifting above the hills, casting the world ahead into deep gloom. Though he stood at the outskirts, he could smell a stench wafting from within.

More importantly, Qin Yu felt especially uncomfortable standing here. Every pore on his body involuntarily stood on end, as though an unparalleled fierce beast lurked deep within those hills!

"Do not enter! This is forbidden ground!" the Wolf King said gravely.

"What do you mean? What is inside?" Qin Yu took a deep breath and asked.

"I do not know the specifics. This has been passed down by word of mouth among my Azure Wolf clan. I heard this was originally the Dao Mansion of a peerless devil, and that ancestral ape likely died inside," the Wolf King said in a low voice. Fear flashed through its dark green eyes.

"There really is a Dao Mansion?" Qin Yu was overjoyed. Taking advantage of the Wolf King's inattention, he immediately entered the hills.

"Awooo! If you're going in, give me back my cub!" the Wolf King roared lowly. Whether Qin Yu lived or died was none of its concern, but if Qin Yu took the cub inside, he would doom it as well!

"Wolf King, do you think I'm going in there to die? I only want to take a look. I won't go deep inside, and I'll come out soon," Qin Yu said as he sprinted at full speed. If he put down the wolf cub, the Wolf King would certainly hunt him down. Besides, he still needed the cub to restrain Ling Yao.

"Awooo!" The Wolf King howled furiously, but it did not chase Qin Yu. Instead, it paced back and forth, its eyes fixed on him with both anger and struggle, as though it deeply feared these hills.

The Wolf King's howl caused the wolf pack behind it to raise their heads and howl as well. For a time, wolf howls echoed endlessly through the depths of the Land of Beast Burial.

Seeing Qin Yu enter, a sharp glint flashed through Ling Yao's beautiful eyes. Her lips curled beneath the veil as she stepped through the air and chased after him.

"Run. I'd like to see where you can run to." Ling Yao walked through the air, looking down at Qin Yu with a cold smile.

After rushing for a while, Qin Yu slowed down. He glanced at Ling Yao above him and said, "I never planned to run. I just wanted to come in and take a look."

"Die." The resentment and fury that had been building for so long erupted in an instant. Ling Yao immediately drew a spirit sword and slashed it toward Qin Yu.

"Do you still want to know why I asked about your patriarch, Zou Xueqing?" Qin Yu suddenly said.

The slender sword that was descending through the air abruptly halted. Ling Yao stared at Qin Yu, her chest heaving violently.

"Fine, if you don't want to know, forget it. Oh, right, have you heard of the Eternal Youth Pill? It's a pill that can keep you forever young... Fine, you don't want that either. And if you kill me now, I'll definitely crush the wolf cub to death... The Wolf King is still watching over there. Although it is wary of your status, if you force its cub to death, it will likely fight you to the death... Then the favored child of heaven of the Jade Pool Sect will perish in the Land of Beast Burial... If I were you, even if I wanted to make a move, now would not be the time. Besides... don't you want to find my two friends?" Qin Yu rattled off a great deal. He was sweating inwardly as well. If Ling Yao threw caution to the wind, he truly would meet his end here.

Being followed at every moment by Ling Yao and the Wolf King left Qin Yu unable to move freely. He had come to the Land of Beast Burial to cultivate. He could not wait until time ran out only to find that he had not even reached the Ninth Level of the Martial Realm. That was why he had resorted to this move.

And the reason he had deliberately stirred Ling Yao's curiosity before was to reduce the chance of her attacking now.

Ling Yao felt as though the fury in her heart was about to burst from her chest. Seeing Qin Yu's calm expression, she wished she could immediately cut him down.

But everything Qin Yu had said tempted Ling Yao, especially that pill that could preserve one's youth forever...

After taking several deep breaths, Ling Yao suppressed the killing intent in her heart. She stared fixedly at Qin Yu and said coldly, "I'll give you a hundred breaths of time!"

Qin Yu let out a breath of relief. The corners of his mouth lifted as he said, "Why don't we walk and talk?"