"How is that possible? How could they have come out alive from a deathtrap like Darkstone Valley?!"
"Could it have been Xu Taiping? Did Xu Taiping, who hasn't appeared in the image, secretly rescue them?!"
"..."
Listening to the discussions around them, Qu Ningshuang and the others were utterly bewildered.
Just then, the martial cultivator Zhou Xie suddenly exclaimed in shock:
"Isn't the place shown in this image Peach Garden Ridge in Darkstone Valley?"
Shi Yuan also looked astonished as he said:
"There are others in Darkstone Valley besides Daoist Taiping right now?"
While the two were looking puzzled, Qu Ningshuang suddenly frowned beside them.
"It's her?"
Hearing this, the martial cultivator Zhou Xie froze for a moment before his eyes suddenly lit up.
"It really is Fairy Buyu!"
He, too, had now recognized Lin Buyu in the image.
Just then, a cultivator who looked like a young woman suddenly approached them and asked Qu Ningshuang curiously:
"Fairy Ning Shuang, how did you all escape?"
As she spoke, an old man with a sword on his back also stepped up behind her.
The young woman and the old man were none other than Jiang Shuoxue and Sword Venerable Yun Jiuyi.
Qu Ningshuang glanced at the young woman, then at the old man, before saying expressionlessly:
"We escaped entirely because Daoist Taiping drew away the demonic beasts in the valley for us."
Hearing this, Jiang Shuoxue immediately said in astonishment:
"He actually did it."
After hearing Qu Ningshuang's confirmation, the surrounding cultivators immediately burst into startled exclamations and discussion:
"It really was Daoist Taiping!"
"It probably hasn't even been an incense stick's worth of time since they went in, has it? He actually rescued them so quickly."
Listening to the discussions around her, Qu Ningshuang asked Jiang Shuoxue with great curiosity: