After reaching the peak of the Spirit Sea realm, Ye Ningshuang stopped making breakthroughs.
She could feel that the path she was walking would not allow her to advance any further at this point.
If she forced a breakthrough, the resulting realm would also be very poor.
It seemed that this world could not yet accommodate the path she had forged.
Something was wrong with the world.
Ye Ningshuang took one last look at the gray world, then launched another purge.
She slaughtered every monster there and sealed all their souls within her Spirit Sea.
After slaughtering the monsters, Ye Ningshuang left that world.
When Ye Ningshuang returned to the Hongmeng World, that uncomfortable feeling grew intense again.
Ye Ningshuang looked up at the sky, vaguely sensing that something seemed to be suppressing this world.
It made Ye Ningshuang feel that this world should not have been so barren.
But it was like a newly sprouted seedling whose growth someone had stifled.
Someone did not want this world to grow.
No, more precisely, someone did not want this world to grow so quickly.
Ye Ningshuang fell silent for a long time. In the end, she found a small river and began drawing on its waters to wash the blood from her body.
Black Cat looked at Black Shadow.
Black Shadow: "???"
Black Cat smiled and said, "Now that's how a cultivator should do it. If they can control the water directly to wash themselves, why do some fairies insist on bathing in rivers, only to get spied on?"
Black Shadow: "..."
Now clean and refreshed, Ye Ningshuang was in no hurry to leave.
Instead, she sat cross-legged by the river and began sorting through the thoughts in her mind.
She had absorbed far too many memories of swordsmanship and combat.