Just as Ming Yun was at a loss for how to answer, the arrival of a Message Talisman saved her.
"Is it done?"
Ming Yun's expression abruptly tightened. The moment she saw those words, she knew who had sent the Message Talisman.
She also knew she had little time left to maneuver.
A hint of mockery appeared on Li Yishi's face. "If you don't tell me now, you won't get another chance."
Embarrassment swept over Ming Yun's face. In the past, whatever she wanted to do, Li Yishi would have helped her unconditionally. But Qian Xin had exposed everything! She had never loathed Qian Xin so much. Had they not belonged to the same sect, she would have fallen out with him long ago.
Now, however, she still had to face the problem at hand. After all, her time was running out.
"I need you to help me retrieve an egg from the dense forest at the exit."
Li Yishi narrowed his eyes. "Why does it have to be me?"
"Only your birth horoscope can suppress the yin qi that egg produces."
"The forest at the exit? An egg?"
Ming Yun gritted her teeth and laid her cards on the table. "I assume you heard what that bastard Qian Xin said earlier. Just as he said, this place is no longer ostensibly under the Water Moon School's jurisdiction. Multiple Teleportation Arrays connect to it. Your sect established it specifically as a cultivation ground for Nascent Soul disciples.
"To keep those Nascent Soul disciples trapped here, they set up only two exits. Both exits lead to the same place-the Southern Woods of Xi He City, which you already know.
"One is on the fifth level of the Library Pavilion beside the place where we met Qian Xin. The other is in