Fenghuo's Task

"Fenghuo, if I remember correctly, you're 570 years old, right?"

Fenghuo waved his fan and replied nonchalantly, "It's rare that Senior Brother still remembers my age. I'm truly flattered."

"Time really flies. I didn't even realize it, and now my time is almost up."

Ziyang chuckled softly and said, "Who told you to lose control of your spending back then? Now you regret it, don't you?"

Fenghuo Huo froze, his face flushing slightly, but he quickly recovered. "I don't regret it, but I feel sorry for my master's guidance. After all, you two have both broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, while I'm still stuck at the Golden Core. It's a bit embarrassing."

"Didn't you think about seeking revenge?" Ziyang asked casually, his tone indifferent.

Fenghuo snapped his folding fan shut, turned to Ziyang, and said with a smile, "Sect Leader, just say what's on your mind. Don't beat around the bush, I'm scared."

Ziyang smiled and said, "I knew you'd see through me."

"Fenghuo Brother Feng Huo, can you help me go to the Ice and Snow Plateau, find Shen Ge, and take him to the Luo Heaven Sea?"

"Luo Heaven Sea?" Fenghuo asked with a serious expression, "How did you find out Luo Heaven Sea's route?"

"That woman from the Purple Qi Sect told me that the teleportation array is on a small island near the South Sea. You just need to rotate the array to exit through another teleportation array."

Can you tell me why?

Ziyang shook his head. "No."

"Fenghuo, this journey is long, and you may never return. You should carefully consider whether to go or not."

"However, I heard from that woman that Luo Heaven Sea has many fortuitous opportunity, and perhaps you can find a way to break through to the Nascent Soul stage over there. We've been fellow disciples for so many years, and I really don't want to see you return to the earth."

Fenghuo chuckled, leaned back slightly, and used the swaying motion of the recliner to stand up. "Alright, since that's the case, I'll take it. I've basically explored Southern Barbarian Lands except for those few demonic sects. It wouldn't hurt to go out and see some different scenery."

"Besides, that kid's been in danger lately, so it's good to take him out to avoid trouble."

"Fenghuo Brother Feng Huo, I'm entrusting this to you. I hope to see you reach the Nascent Soul Realm someday."

Ziyang got up, patted Fenghuo on the shoulder, laughed loudly, and left.

Inside the main hall of Divine Sword Peak, Mo Qingyu stood at the door, looking in the direction where her master was in seclusion, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Master, you're getting more and more confused as you get older. Is cultivation really that important? Is death really that terrifying?"

"Master, you've changed. You've lost your true self. Immortality has made you its slave."

Qingfeng swept by, carrying with it a shower of peach blossoms. Countless petals fluttered freely, a sight both beautiful and melancholic.

Although the blooming and withering of flowers is brief, it also leads to the ripening and falling of melons, which is a kind of Samsara.

Ten days later.

Shen Ge lay inside an iceberg for ten days. His eyes were unfocused, and he lay motionless on the ice, as if he were dead.

Only his occasionally contorted eyebrows proved that he was still alive.

Why does my heart feel so empty? What is the reason?

Shen Ge thought about it for ten whole days but still couldn't figure it out. He couldn't figure out where this feeling of emptiness came from, and this feeling made him so uncomfortable that he couldn't cultivate.

Meanwhile, Bai Lili leisurely returned to the Hehuan Sect, and judging from the upturned corners of her mouth, she was in a good mood.

Not long after she returned to her residence, her mother, Bai Mei, came looking for her. She looked at Bai Lili with a resentful expression, her tone like that of a woman confined to her chambers, complaining. "What's wrong? Now that you have a man, you don't even come to pay your respects to your mother anymore?"

Bai Lili blushed and said in a coquettish voice, "Mother, what nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean you have a man? You..."

"Alright." Bai Mei walked into the room and naturally lay down on Bai Lili's bed. "Tell me, do you plan to keep this essence?"

Bai Lili thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I don't know. I feel like I shouldn't stay, but I just can't bring myself to do it."

"Can't bring yourself to do it?" Bai Mei raised an eyebrow slightly, then looked at Bai Lili with a serious expression. "You've fallen in love with him?"

"No, impossible!" Bai Lili hurriedly denied, "I controlled that illusion, how could I be affected?"

"That's hard to say." Bai Mei smiled and said, "You're still too young. It's easy for a woman to fall in love with someone; it could be a word, an event, or even just sex."

"Lili, don't rush to deny it. I can sense it; he's still on your mind. It won't disappear just because you deny it."

Bai Lili remained silent for a long time, then sighed and said, "Mother, I don't know why. Everything was fine before, but after cultivating with him once, I can't help but think of him."

"Where's Shen Ge? Didn't you bring him back?" Bai Mei shook her head and said, "Never mind, it's not important. You absorbed his original yang energy, didn't you?"

Bai Lili hesitated for a moment, then nodded in affirmation. She didn't want to admit that she hadn't absorbed anything and had even been sucked back a little. Please, that would be too embarrassing. She was a saintess, after all; if she couldn't even do that, she would be laughed to death.

"Since that's the case, then don't waste any more energy on him. He's just a useless person who can't break through to the Nascent Soul stage."

"I heard you learned the Samsara Method from him. Pass it on to me."

"Oh, okay." Bai Lili nodded, just about to use the Secret Method to transfer the message, but a moment later she realized that she had actually forgotten!

I completely forgot!

This is incredibly bizarre! You have to understand that this was a memory that Shen Ge directly transmitted into her mind using Secret Method, a memory that was directly imprinted in her mind. How could she possibly forget it!

Seeing Bai Lili suddenly freeze halfway through her spell, Bai Mei frowned slightly and asked with concern, "Lili, what's wrong?"

Hearing the call, Bai Lili snapped out of her daze and looked at Bai Mei, her face contorted with grief. "Mother, I've forgotten about the Samsara Method."

"Forgot?! That's impossible!" Bai Mei exclaimed in surprise, "Tell me in detail what happened."

"This was transmitted directly to my mind by Shen Ge. I could have looked at it whenever I wanted, but just now when I was about to send it to you, I suddenly forgot it completely. I can't remember a single word."

"That's strange. Could this Cultivation Method really affect a person's memory?"

This was the first time Bai Mei had ever seen such a situation. Although they had set up restrictions to protect the Cultivation Method, those were directly aimed at people; she had never heard of Cultivation Method having its own restrictions.

"Fine, if it really doesn't work out, you can have it anyway. You don't need to show it to me, and you certainly don't need to give it to the sect."