If Qiao Ranran had known what Yu Mingxuan was thinking, she would definitely have complained. She wanted to walk properly too—wasn't Pei Ling the one insisting on dragging her along?
This sea of Red Spider Lilies seemed to be the gateway to the Secret Realm. Apart from the initial floral fragrance and the Spirit-Devouring Insects hidden among the flowers, the Red Spider Lilies growing in this separate space actually posed no threat.
If they had turned back at the start because of the Spirit-Devouring Insects, they really would have made fools of themselves.
Yan Qingsui said with a laugh, "But even if we'd left back then, we would only have realized we'd missed the Secret Realm. We wouldn't have known what kind of fools we'd made of ourselves. Hahahahaha."
Everyone: not laughing.
The instant they stepped out of the sea of flowers, the black soil beneath their feet vanished. When they looked back, the fiery red sea of flowers was gone too. Everything seemed like an illusion, as though they had walked through a realm of phantoms.
Qiao Ranran sighed softly.
Pei Ling squeezed Qiao Ranran's fingers, applying a little pressure.
Startled by the squeeze, Qiao Ranran tilted her head to look at Pei Ling. "Speaking of which, Junior Brother Pei, what did you see in that sea-of-flowers illusion?"
Pei Ling narrowed his eyes slightly, an icy gleam flashing through his pupils. "Nothing pleasant." To be precise, he had seen scenes from his previous life. Although he had excised the memories of certain scenes and no longer remembered them, he knew upon seeing them that they belonged to the fate of his past life.
Yan Qingsui sighed too. "Nothing pleasant indeed." In his case, for instance, although he had only briefly fallen into the illusion, he had seen a few