"We're here."
Ye Lin looked back at Ye Lingxi behind him and slowly brought the flying sword down.
"What is this place?"
Ye Lingxi stared blankly at the overlapping mountain peaks around them. Ye Lin had not taken her to Medicine King Valley, nor had he brought her into some city to seek medicine. Why had he brought her here?
Could it be that he was going to... kill her and seize her treasures?
At that thought, Ye Lingxi could not help hugging herself and squatting on the ground, her eyes darting about as she watched him.
"If you want to kill me, I have no objections. But before you do, could you let me write a last letter?"
Ye Lingxi spoke softly. This was her final request. She wanted to properly bid farewell to her master. After all, she and her younger sister had been orphans since childhood, and it was only thanks to their master that they had survived.
Their master had raised the two of them, taught them cultivation; that grace outweighed everything.
"Idiot."
Ye Lin rolled his eyes at Ye Lingxi and said flatly, then walked into the cave on his own.
"Don't say anything or do anything in a moment."
At that moment, Ye Lin's voice came from within the cave. Ye Lingxi gradually relaxed her guard. He was not going to kill her? Then why had he brought her to this desolate, uninhabited place?
Yet driven by curiosity, she still patiently got to her feet and followed Ye Lin inside step by step.
After passing through a long, pitch-black passage, the two finally arrived inside the cave.
The cave was enormous, but it was utterly empty. Up ahead stood only a stone table, upon which lay a woman.
She wore a red dress, her