Picking Them Up in the Demon Domain

In the Immortal Ruins, before a great hall.

Xu Yunyi, dressed in a cyan skirt, flew down and landed before the hall.

When she entered, a handsome teenage boy sat cross-legged in the middle of the hall. Under the guidance of a breathtakingly beautiful woman behind him, whose whole body shone with white light, his cultivation was soaring.

A moment later, he broke through three minor realms.

Lu Zhengran opened his eyes and looked at his hands, overjoyed. "Mother! Did I just break through three levels of cultivation at once?!"

"That's right. That's all I can do to help you. From here on, you'll have to stabilize your foundation yourself and keep breaking through," Xu Qingying said.

"All right! Thank you, Mother!" Lu Zhengran carefully felt the changes in his cultivation.

In less than half a day, his cultivation had risen so much. He wouldn't even have dared to imagine it before!

By now, his cultivation was a level higher than his elder sister's, wasn't it?

"Sister, do you have a moment?" Just then, Xu Yunyi's voice sounded behind them.

Xu Qingying had noticed Xu Yunyi's arrival long ago. She nodded and asked, "Did you come to see me about something?"

"Auntie!" Lu Zhengran turned to look at Xu Yunyi, then grinned. "Auntie, look at my cultivation. I just broke through three levels!"

He carried the peerless saber on his back. Although he could have put it straight into his storage ring, he had chosen to carry it instead, showing just how much he loved it.

Xu Yunyi smiled and nodded, then paid Lu Zhengran no further attention. She looked at Xu Qingying. "Sister, I'm planning to go to the Demon Domain with Elder He."

"What are you going there for?! Do you have any idea how dangerous it is?" Xu Qingying immediately frowned.

"Elder He is going to see Brother-in-law... no, Elder He is going to see my former brother-in-law. I don't have anything to do lately, so I want to go along and see whether Zixuan and Miaomiao are settling in over there."

Xu Yunyi spoke.

Xu Qingying frowned deeply. "The Demon Domain is very dangerous. You haven't broken through to the Great Emperor Realm yet; it's far too dangerous for you to go! I won't allow it!"

"Sister, Elder He is going with me, and my former brother-in-law is coming to pick us up. As long as we conceal our cultivation well, nothing else will happen. Once I've seen Miaomiao and the others and made sure they're doing all right, I'll come back."

Xu Yunyi spoke.

Xu Qingying's expression was strained, and she fell into thought for a long while.

"Mother, let Auntie go. Father is a Great Emperor Realm cultivator too, so nothing else should happen. Auntie, when you see my sister, remember to tell her I broke through three levels of cultivation!" Lu Zhengran said with a grin.

He could already imagine how surprised his sister would be when she learned how quickly he had broken through!

"All right. Sister, is there anything you want me to tell the children?" Xu Yunyi hadn't come to ask for her sister's permission. With the two children in mind, she had come to see whether her sister had anything she wanted to say to them.

The two children might be missing their mother too.

Xu Qingying closed her eyes and said nothing for a long time. In the end, she couldn't hold back. "Tell them their mother has a life of her own, and ask them not to resent me. Also, be careful and come back early. The longer you stay there, the more dangerous it'll be. Your skills with formations are good, so when you come back, if the two children have anything they want to tell me, record them saying it."

She knew her younger sister had devised a recording formation.

"All right, but is there really nothing you want to say to the two children? I'll give you these recording formations. I'm not leaving until tomorrow morning, so if there's anything you want to say tonight, just record it in a formation. All right, I'm going back to pack."

With that, Xu Yunyi left the formations and departed.

Xu Qingying looked at the formations and waved one hand, drawing them closer.

"Zhengran, go back and consolidate your cultivation. If there's anything you don't understand about cultivating, come and ask me."

"All right."

After everyone had left, Xu Qingying looked at the formations in her hand and, in the end, recorded a message.

Early the next morning.

He Hong first found Xu Yunyi, then went to say goodbye one by one to the people here with whom he was on reasonably good terms.

He found Xu Qingying, and his feelings were complicated as he looked at her.

He was the one who had introduced Xu Qingying to Lu Qing'an back then.

He had all but brought this ill-fated relationship about with his own hands.

"Qingying, I don't know when I'll be back once I leave, so let this old man give you a proper farewell," He Hong said.

"Elder He, are you sure you want to settle down there? It's still far too dangerous," Xu Qingying said.

"I've made up my mind. Don't try to persuade me otherwise. Is there anything you need me to pass on?" He Hong looked at Xu Qingying, a faint hope in his heart.

He wanted to hear Xu Qingying ask him to pass a few words on to Lu Qing'an.

Instead, he saw Xu Qingying shake her head.

"All right, then..."

He Hong shook his head helplessly.

It seemed the two of them really couldn't go back to how things had been.

"Grandpa He, am I really never going to see you again?" Lu Zhengran asked with a frown.

"If fate wills it, we'll meet again. Cultivate diligently. We'll see which of you and your sister breaks through to the Emperor Realm first," He Hong said.

Lu Zhengran nodded.

"All right, I'm off!" He Hong said.

"Second Sister, are you really going with him?" Xu Xuanyu looked at Xu Yunyi, feeling utterly helpless.

It was so dangerous over there!

"Enough. We'll keep in touch by voice transmission! Sister! We're leaving!"

After saying their goodbyes, the two of them rose into the air together and flew toward the Demon Domain.

Xu Xuanyu looked at the horizon and said gravely, "I don't know if that fellow can keep Second Sister safe! And the two children have both cultivated techniques from the Immortal Ruins. Sigh! If we'd known he was from the Demon Domain, we should never have let him take the children away, no matter what!"

"Sister, is there any way to snatch the children back?" Xu Xuanyu turned to look at Xu Qingying.

Xu Qingying merely glanced at her younger brother, then acted as though she hadn't heard a thing and turned to fly back to the hall.

"Come on, Sister! Say something!"

He Hong was a veteran Great Emperor expert, and his flying speed was no slow thing. After an hour, they finally reached the boundary between the Immortal Ruins and the Demon Domain.

Looking at the Demon Domain beyond the Realm Wall ahead, both of them felt a little nervous.

"Qing'an, I've reached the Realm Wall. Where are you?" He Hong took out a voice transmission jade slip and sent a message to Lu Qing'an.

Not long after sending the message, he saw a figure flying toward them at tremendous speed.

The figure came to a stop on the other side of the Realm Wall.

It was Lu Qing'an, who had come to pick them up.

Seeing him, He Hong and Xu Yunyi smiled and flew across the Realm Wall into the Demon Domain, stopping before Lu Qing'an.

"Brother-in-law," Xu Yunyi said with a smile when she saw Lu Qing'an.

Lu Qing'an smiled and nodded, then turned to He Hong. "Elder He, is this your first time in the Demon Domain?"

"Of course it is. I'm a little nervous, so you'd better keep us safe, you brat," He Hong said with a laugh.

"Don't worry. Here in the Demon Domain, no one can hurt you. All right, follow me. The children are already waiting for you."

Lu Qing'an motioned for them not to resist, then unleashed his cultivation power, punched through the void, and took them into it, flying at full speed toward Demon Descent City.

His cultivation power was now more than twice what it had been before. He traveled so quickly that, in less than two breaths, he had taken the two of them hundreds of thousands of li to Demon Descent City.

Xu Yunyi and He Hong, whom Lu Qing'an had carried along, stared wide-eyed.

"Qing'an! How far did you just take us?!" As soon as Lu Qing'an stopped, He Hong couldn't help asking.

"Hundreds of thousands of li," Lu Qing'an said calmly.

Hearing that, He Hong and Xu Yunyi's jaws dropped once more.

What kind of cultivation power did it take to travel at such speed?!!

Even the experts at the Peak Great Emperor Realm they knew of couldn't do anything like that!!!