Don't Call Me Big Brother!

Jimo Qing truly never expected that his long journey to find his sister would lead to such a distressing situation.

After he asked who the stranger was, Sang Ying, unusually, hesitated, clearly embarrassed to reveal the man's identity.

Upon seeing this, Jimo Qing was even more alarmed.

Jiang Zhuoxue, seemingly oblivious to the awkward atmosphere, stepped closer and said to Jimo Qing, "So it's you, elder brother. I'm so sorry for not welcoming you sooner."

His demeanor was polite, but the words he uttered made Jimo Qing's head explode.

"Who's your older brother?!" Jimo Qing's face darkened instantly. "I don't know you at all, so don't call me that!"

Jiang Zhuoxue couldn't see Jimo Qing's dark face, but she could still imagine how angry he was.

He continued unhurriedly, "Brother, what are you saying? Since you are Sang Ying's elder brother, you should also be my elder brother."

At the end, Jiang Zhuoxue even had a slightly shy expression!

"How can you be so shameless? A man, lingering here with a female cultivator?!" Jimo Qing almost couldn't hold back and was about to burst into a tirade.

Jiang Zhuoxue lowered her eyes, looking obedient. "Although I'm clinging to her, it's because she wants to."

The implication is that Sang Ying doesn't mind, so why are you meddling?

Sang Ying found the scene distressing. Seeing that Jimo Qing was about to lose control and attack Jiang Zhuoxue, Sang Ying quickly spoke up, "Let's talk about this later. This is the Gong Household after all; walls have ears. Let's go inside first."

Jimo Qing's anger was swallowed back down his throat because Sang Ying interrupted him.

He was pushed into the main hall by Sang Ying with a stern face, no longer looking at Jiang Zhuoxue's smiling face.

Before entering the house, Sang Ying didn't forget to secretly glare at Jiang Zhuoxue. Although he couldn't see it himself, Gu Shu, whom he was holding, hurriedly told him, "Sang Ying just glared at you, hehe, I think you're in big trouble."

"Oh no?" Jiang Zhuoxue raised an eyebrow slightly. "That's not necessarily true."

Ignoring Gu Shu's gloating, he followed the others.

Inside the room, Hai Tingzhou's isolation formation took effect, trapping everyone's words within the small room, preventing a single word from leaking out.

"So, the reason this Delusion-Breaking City is where it is today is entirely due to those few Vitality Formation of unknown origin?"

At this moment, Jimo Qing could no longer care about Jiang Zhuoxue; his entire mind was occupied by Sang Ying's words.

Seeing his younger sister nod solemnly in affirmation, Jimo Qing's expression grew even colder. "I've always wondered why, even though other places in the Immortal Spirit Realm are teeming with Devil Beast Demon Beast, there's never been a precedent for demonic beasts invading. Although the Northern Snowfield are harsh and cold, the Spiritual Qi here isn't much worse than elsewhere. So why is it that this place has been conquered by Devil Beast and is constantly plagued by Demonic Qi? It turns out, this was all the work of our own people!"

Long ago, the Immortal Spirit Realm was attacked by Demonic Qi. The barriers of the small worlds were weak, and the Devil Creature easily broke through them. Soon, the entire Immortal Spirit Realm became a place where Devil Race ravaged.

Fortunately, these small worlds were interconnected at the time, and when something happened in the Immortal Spirit Realm, the powerful beings in other places did not stand idly by.

With everyone's combined efforts, the Devil Race was finally wiped out. One cultivator even ascended to Merit because of his merit in slaying the Devil Creature.

Later, the Teleportation Array of several small worlds were destroyed, making communication increasingly difficult. Fortunately, thanks to the Merit of their past demon-slaying deeds, the barrier of the Immortal Spirit Realm was thickened, thus securing a sense of security for the cultivators there.

Now, the Gong Household is so short-sighted, using the Vitality Formation to steal the life force around Delusion-Breaking City, and even attracting Devil Creature as a result!

Fortunately, these Devil Creature were merely the result of Demon Beast being corrupted by Demonic Qi, not actual extraterrestrial Devil Creature. If Devil Creature had truly invaded the snowfield, the Gong Household would have kept it a secret.

Jimo Qing would probably draw his sword and chop that family of three up right now!

Taking a few deep breaths, Jimo Qing barely suppressed his anger. He turned to Sang Ying and asked, "Since you discovered this and rushed to call me over, it seems you have a solution?"

"Yes!" Sang Ying nodded. "The Gong Household father and son are only interested in profit and have no regard for family ties. I plan to use you, eldest brother, to instigate infighting among them, and then find a way to locate those Vitality Formation and break them."

Things became much easier after that.

Previously, Sang Ying didn't understand why Cang Lian chose to go to the Gong Household's underground chamber for seclusion instead of elsewhere. Now she finally understood: the Gong Household's secret chamber was full of vitality and Spiritual Qi, which was exactly what Cang Lian needed.

He did this partly to use the vitality accumulated by the Gong Household to condense the Dragon Pearl, and partly to use it to draw Sang Ying's attention to the Gong Household.

"The matter of survival cannot be delayed any longer. The snowfield is already so dangerous. If we delay any longer, and the Gong Household drains all the life force from the outside world, we can't guarantee that the barrier of the small world won't actually break down."

At that time, the Immortal Spirit Realm will likely repeat the nightmare of yesteryear.

Jimo Qing frowned, his heart filled with worry.

Although Fang Chi and Hai Tingzhou were unaware of the past of the Immortal Spirit Realm, they were well aware of the dangers posed by Devil Creature.

Almost as soon as Sang Ying began to speak, the two of them volunteered, "We must be counted in on this. We've also received care from Zhang Niang before, and we don't want to see her home destroyed by Devil Creature!"

For powerful cultivators, this snowfield is merely a temporary training ground. But for people like Zhang Niang, it is a place of survival passed down from generation to generation.

Although they didn't understand why this land was becoming increasingly hostile, their deep attachment to their homeland, coupled with the difficulty of escaping, left them with no choice but to stay here, waiting for divine mercy to grant them a glimmer of hope.

Sang Ying and the others were that glimmer of hope!

In a village outside Delusion-Breaking City, a young man wrapped in a thick fur coat braved the cold wind and dug through the snow in his backyard.

Beneath the thick snow lay the spirit soil he had collected over several years from Snow Crystal, which he had bought from merchants in Delusion-Breaking City.

It is said that as long as you have this, you can grow food!

The man was filled with anticipation.

He rubbed his hands together to warm them and carefully scraped the snowflakes away from the black soil. He hoped to find a patch of green in the earth, but his hopes were quickly dashed.

Forget about sprouting; the man crushed the soil, and the seeds inside had long since become shriveled and hard, covered with a layer of white frost.

"Dad, have the vegetables been planted yet?" A childish voice rang out from behind him. The man turned around and saw his daughter, who had recently escaped death, carefully walking towards him through the wind and snow.

He quickly composed himself, picked up his daughter, and said, "It'll be ready soon, soon! Our little girl will have vegetables to eat soon!"

The man didn't dare let his daughter see the terrible state of the vegetable garden, so he carried her home.

He didn't know how to tell his wife this devastating news, after all, he had been so certain that he could grow food.

The daughter, unaware of his grief, sensed that her father seemed to be sad. With difficulty, she pulled a small wooden figure from beneath her thickly wrapped clothes and held it up to the man.

"Dad, look! This is Devil Beast hunter. She'll protect us. We'll definitely have enough to eat from now on!"

Hearing his daughter's words, the man swallowed back his tears and softly murmured, "Mmm."

If only such a Devil Beast hunter truly existed. He sincerely hoped so in his heart.