Li Yan had gone to fetch his wife and children. That truly was a major undertaking for him: he had more people to protect, and Bai Rou had not waited for him...
As Bai Rou recounted what had happened after they parted, Shuang Qingqing was even more startled to discover that the time Bai Rou had nearly lost her life while saving Li Zhaoyan in the lower realm was far from the only time.
Bai Rou had later entered the Netherworld. Though she had not set foot in Asura Prison or Fengdu City, she had fallen into a trap and ended up in Yellow Springs City. There, she had truly come within a hair's breadth of death!
Among the cultivators who fell into the same trap were members of the Life Extinction Sect. Its Spirit Transformation cultivators all died there, and even its Void Refinement cultivator did not escape. Li Yan and his Dao companion fell into it as well.
Compared with Li Yan, Bai Rou and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators had been somewhat safer. Li Yan fought with all his strength to get them outside Yellow Springs City, but he himself entered Asura Prison alone.
There, he even lost his cultivation. In the end, his extraordinary ingenuity allowed him not only to escape, but also to find Bai Rou and the others and lead them all the way back from the Netherworld to the Yang Realm.
When Shuang Qingqing had last met Li Yan, he had not said a word about any of this. She had never imagined he had been to Asura Prison in the Underworld, much less that he could still lead others through it and back to the Yang Realm.
Shuang Qingqing admired him deeply. It was rare for her to admire anyone from the