Time passed.
Outside Dragon-Locking Pass, before the first ray of dawn fell.
An illusory streak of escape light pierced the clouds at tremendous speed, fleeing in panic into the void and vanishing.
Meanwhile, at the fortress encampment.
Inside a training room shrouded in restrictions.
Gu Chenfeng stared blankly at the precious bronze cauldron floating in midair.
Even now, everything that had just happened still felt too unreal.
But when he picked up a white silk ribbon left on the floor of the room, and a trace of a beauty's fragrance reached his nose.
Gu Chenfeng became certain again that this was no illusion.
Just like his first encounter with Leng Xingye after transmigrating to the Seven Star Continent, he had been subjected to dual cultivation.
But compared with the Female Demon Venerable's domineering frenzy, this female alliance leader had clearly been far gentler.
Moreover, their cultivation had remained solely on the level of their primordial spirits.
At this moment, Gu Chenfeng finally understood.
That wondrous, intoxicating pleasure he experienced whenever he slept inside the cauldron.
And the reason his primordial spirit was nourished after he awoke.
"But Alliance Leader Yuqing... why would she do this, and why make me lose consciousness every time?"
Yet he had had no time to ask. Once Yuqing finished, she disregarded her dignity as alliance leader and the bearing of a Saint-Level Expert.
She had actually fled in a panic, leaving behind only a silk ribbon in her haste.
Gu Chenfeng's feelings were complicated, his heart full of questions, but he knew this was not the time to dwell on them.
He put away the white silk ribbon, steadied his thoughts, and looked north, toward the territory occupied by the Four Races Soul Devouring Beasts.
"A formidable enemy is coming. I need to make