For some reason, Song Yan was a little afraid to look into her eyes, and shifted his gaze to the vast underground space.
After looking around for a while, he asked, "Miss Ruan, roughly where is this place within the ancient city ruins?"
"How can it keep out the corrosive Yin-Sha Qi?"
He could naturally tell that this underground space did not keep Yin Qi out simply by being completely sealed. There had to be something else special about it.
Moreover, Ruan Zhi had stayed here for so many years without anyone discovering the place. Surely that was not just luck.
At his question, obvious confusion appeared on Ruan Zhi's face.
"This place is roughly southwest of the ruins. But-"
She hesitated for a moment before saying, "As for why it can keep out Sha Qi, I'm not too sure."
Song Yan nodded.
Xiao Zhi had the body of a Mechanism Puppet, and the materials Ruan Tongchen had used to make her were themselves impervious to the corrosion of Yin Qi.
She hid here not to avoid Yin Qi, but to avoid those human cultivators who rummaged through every chest and cabinet.
Naturally, she would not get to the bottom of it.
She looked around and said, "But this place has been here for a very long time. When I found it, it was already empty like this."
"I just thought it was too big and too empty, so I used earth and stone to partition it myself into stone rooms, a place to practice, and places to store things."
"Little by little, it became what it is now."
"Over the years, I've changed hiding places countless times, but I could never find peace. Only here can I remain undisturbed."
Song Yan pointed toward the seemingly endless area piled with