In the Forgotten River Small World.
Beside the crackling campfire, a woman wrapped in a black robe gently wiped the long sword in her hand.
A strand of her long hair fell down, winding around her side, and was held tightly in the hand of the girl lying next to her, who was covered with animal skin.
The girl gently closed her eyes, serene and peaceful. Her pink lips were pursed like a blooming flower, but the slight furrow in her brows made her seem pitiful.
She was already asleep.
She finally fell asleep.
Even the surrounding wind seemed to calm down.
No.
It's not just "seems".
After the girl fell asleep, the surrounding wind did indeed gradually calm down, no longer howling or roaring, and even the ever-present Sword Qi in the air became peaceful.
This made the woman in black robes, Ji Zhenyi, breathe a sigh of relief.
She looked at the beautifully sculpted girl she had just lulled to sleep and shook her head slightly.
She has been trapped in the Forgotten River Small World for five hundred years. As the head of the Supreme Institute, she possesses the realm of Half-Saint, yet she still cannot escape from here.
It's not just because the Forgotten River Small World has a special opening method, but also because the snow here never melts all year round. Once a cultivator enters, they become more and more like a mortal, their Spiritual Power is compressed to the extreme, and they also have to face the extremely terrifying Sword Qi.
Before entering, Ji Zhenyi had no idea that such a powerful Sword Intent existed within this small world.
It permeated the entire small world, omnipresent, covering all areas with Sword Intent, like a howling north wind. The only advantage was that the Sword Qi was always sometimes weak and sometimes strong, so it wasn't particularly unbearable.
Even so, such a large-scale Sword Qi was beyond Ji Zhenyi's comprehension.
She searched for the reason in the Forgotten River Small World.
I've never heard of Sword Qi here before, so it must be the source of the Sword Qi. If we can eliminate the source, we might be able to leave this small world and return to the academy.
but...
Ji Zhenyi suddenly sighed, looked at the girl beside her, and gave an even more helpless smile.
She had actually found the source of her inability to return home.
However, the initial determination to solve the root cause weakened immediately after it was actually found.
Who could have imagined that the source of the Sword Qi would be a single person?
Moreover, she was a delicate young girl, as beautiful as a flower.
She never imagined that the girl before her could be the source of the Sword Qi. As she slowly approached her, softened her heart, and learned to get along with and care for her, she discovered that the Sword Qi was still full of killing intent for those who had just entered the small world, but it was very gentle on her, as if a breeze had passed by, which made her life much easier over the past five hundred years.
What made Ji Zhenyi take even better care of the girl was not only that the girl was so adorable, but also that she discovered that the Sword Intent of the entire small world seemed to change with the girl's emotional fluctuations.
She was in pain.
The Sword Qi was fierce and intense.
She was sad.
The Sword Qi was deadly and difficult to deal with.
She was sad.
The Sword Qi was fine and continuous.
Only when the girl is in a gentle and happy mood will the Sword Qi subside, making things much easier for Ji Zhenyi in the small world.
This made Ji Zhenyi keenly realize that this girl's strength must be very strong, extremely strong; otherwise, how could she possibly cause fluctuations in an entire world with just her emotions?
Therefore, Ji Zhenyi considered whether she could find a way to get out of the Forgotten River Small World through the other party!
but...
It's a pity.
This approach won't work.
It wasn't that the girl didn't want to, but rather that this girl of unknown origin had lost her memory.
She couldn't control the Sword Intent here, nor did she understand the so-called cultivation. She was naive and ignorant, even lacking common sense, just like an ordinary mortal girl.
During these hundred years, he had spent a hundred years with her, and he could indeed see that apart from his surname being Lin, the girl remembered almost nothing else.
Ji Zhenyi then called her A Lin.
A Lin is simple-minded and obedient, yet he possesses an almost beast-like intuition for good and evil.
This is also why, over the past century, only Ji Zhenyi has been able to get close to her.
Tonight, A Lin went to sleep again.
Ji Zhenyi couldn't help but feel much lighter.
She gazed at the girl's peaceful sleeping face, gently stroking the hair by her ear, her eyes softening.
A Lin has nightmares every night.
Once awakened, his Sword Intent would be overwhelming.
Ji Zhenyi inevitably suffered a lot because of this.
Fortunately, after A Lin gradually accepted herself and had her own company, she was able to sleep a little longer each night and didn't wake up so often anymore.
Ji Zhenyi once tried to ask A Lin what she had dreamed about that made her react so strongly.
But when the other person wakes up, they will just sit there blankly, tilting their head obediently, and softly uttering each word. " A Lin doesn't remember, Zhenzhen."
What can Ji Zhenyi do?
At first, she felt anxious and helpless.
Later, seeing A Lin frequently suffer from the pain brought on by nightmares, all I felt was heartache.
It pains me, but I'm powerless to do anything about it.
Today they chose to camp in this valley, where the wind was gradually subsiding.
Ji Zhenyi also felt a bit sleepy.
But before she could close her eyes, she saw a large, shadowy crowd gathered at the entrance to the valley.
This caused her eyes to change instantly. Almost without thinking, she immediately set down several array plates, then raised her hand to cut off the strand of hair that A Lin was holding, and hurried towards the entrance of the valley.
As Ji Zhenyi approached the entrance to the valley, she noticed that almost everyone surrounding them exuded a murderous aura and had a solemn expression. Against the backdrop of the night, they looked almost like wild beasts, which made Ji Zhenyi's heart leap into her throat.
She gripped her longsword tightly and coldly demanded, "What do you want to do!"
The leader, like her, was Half-Saint.
At this moment, the seemingly frail and aged Half-Saint's face was filled with gloom, and his voice was icy cold. "What are you doing?"
" Ji Zhenyi, you know very well in your heart, of course you should kill her!"
"It's been hundreds of years!"
"We've been trapped in this hellish place for centuries! We've tried everything, but to no avail. Don't tell me you don't know? The strangeness of this little world is related to her. Now, we've tried everything. Is there any other choice but to kill her?"
"Don't tell me you didn't have this thought when you approached her!"
Everyone outside looked like a demon.
They've been driven almost insane.
Within this small world, there was no way to cultivate, nor any way to escape. No one knew when this small world would reopen, nor whether they would be able to seize the opportunity to leave. After all, the changes in this small world were too bizarre!
All they're thinking about now is finding a way to survive.
Therefore, whether or not A Lin is truly a way out is not important.
The important thing is to find it!
It's about killing the other person so that at least you can hold on with your breath!
Ji Zhenyi's heart sank.
Many other cultivators were also drawn to this small world along with her.
For the past hundred years, they have been trapped here, filled with a mixture of awe, fear, and hatred towards the mysterious Lin Household girl.
Now, the aged wine has finally fermented.
Murderous intent was brewing.
The leading Half-Saint turned his stiff eyes toward Ji Zhenyi and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"How?"
"She's fast asleep now, this is the perfect opportunity. Don't tell me... you don't want to go out?"