Something Happened

"Mother, are you going back to the clan?" Seeing that the surroundings looked somewhat familiar, Ivy asked in confusion.

"Not me. Us."

"Going back so soon?" Ivy sighed inwardly. She had thought that since her mother had come out this time, she would relax a little longer...

Once they returned to the clan, it would be back to refining pills all day long...

The Elf Queen smiled. "Weren't you curious about Chu Yuan's Immortal Path? If we return now, perhaps you can still make it in time to hear some of it."

Naturally, she would not tell her daughter that she had sensed a faint, barely perceptible threat...

Saying such things would do nothing but add to her worries.

Ivy thought it over. "All right. In any case, this trial mission has become meaningless..."

"Oh? Are you blaming me for that?"

"How could I..."

The Elf Queen suddenly stopped, cutting off the rest of Ivy's words.

Just as Ivy was about to ask why, she saw a familiar figure ahead. "Bai Yu? Why are you here?"

It was not that he could not be here, but they had only just parted... How had Bai Yu moved faster than them?

Bai Yu ignored Ivy. His gaze remained fixed on the Elf Queen.

Eyeballs squeezed out one after another across his pallid cheeks, rolling, opening, and closing.

Savage bone spurs burst from his back like spider legs... Ivy discovered that the void behind Bai Yu had grown even deeper and darker.

Only when she looked more closely did she realize that it was not the void that had darkened...

It was clearly an enormous phantom!

A spider's phantom hovered behind Bai Yu...

The Elf Queen took out the little spider's body she had put away and sighed. "I misjudged it..."

That body