"Senior Bai, don’t."
Chen Ye stepped forward and held Bai Li’s wrist, preventing him from drawing his sword,
"We’re getting involved in this mess to break destiny... Besides, there might be another way? Didn’t that Divine Son also break through this beast tide?"
"In times like this, you shouldn’t act impulsively."
Bai Li’s tone deepened. For his daughter’s future, he had already put life and death aside, not allowing Chen Ye to stop him.
"Oh dear... Big brother is right, going to be bait is indeed a foolish, nearly certain-death plan."
Just as the three of them were locked in a stalemate, a girl’s breathless voice suddenly came from behind,
"Besides, why didn’t you wait for me? How annoying... Actually abandoning Jiaming, I was just wandering in the city, and you disappeared."
The three’s hearts trembled, and they all looked toward the voice.
They saw Qin Jiaming leaning on a dark remnant boulder, gasping for air, her face resentful.
"It’s you, girl?!"
Bai Susu became immediately alert upon seeing Qin Jiaming,
"Who are you, really?"
"Oh?"
Qin Jiaming caught her breath, raised her head, and her gaze swept over Bai Susu’s dazzling blonde hair and figure. She pretended to cover her mouth in surprise,
"Who is this beautiful sister? These brows and eyes... why do they more and more resemble that Susu sister who’s always calling ’big brother?’ Tut tut, it’s only been a few days, and you’ve grown so pretty?"
"You—shut up!"
Bai Susu’s face flushed, the Gold Palace Soul Sword in her sleeve emitted a sword ring,
"How did a loose cultivator who hasn’t even reached Foundation Establishment follow us here unscathed?!"
Bai Li also furrowed his brows.
Since arriving at the fractured realm, without the law’s cover, his suspicions about Qin Jiaming finally surfaced.
This woman is definitely not an ordinary person,
Upon thinking about it, when he rescued these two from the demon cultivators, there were many suspicious points.
For instance, demon cultivators are heartless, yet these two were unharmed when they were captured in Qi Kingdom, and they even supplied top-quality pills for Brother Chen to take...
"Miss Qin, are you really from the Yan Kingdom? Were you really captured?"
Bai Li asked coldly, suspecting that Qin Jiaming was never captured or that she was a member of the Demon Sect.
And Chen Ye was brought by her people!
It’s just,
My interference was beyond Qin Jiaming’s expectations, and to escape, she deliberately lied about being a captured loose cultivator!
Faced with their hostility,
Qin Jiaming didn’t even furrow her eyebrows. She playfully spread her hands and sighed in pretend grievance:
"Brother Bai, your imagination is rich. If I were a big shot from the Demon Sect, would I be scrounging food and drink from Brother Chen every day? Actually, I’m also from the future, my strength isn’t just Qi Cultivation."
Bai Susu sneered, the Gold Palace Soul Sword twirled around her fingertip:
"Keep spinning tales! Do you think I’m a three-year-old child?"
Qin Jiaming looked innocent:
"Eh? I thought you were a six-year-old child..."
"!!!"
Bai Susu’s face turned crimson on the spot.
Chen Ye quickly held her back, soothing,
"Peace, we might still need her help. Jiaming, you just said Brother Bai being bait is a stupid plan... Could it be, you know a way to get around those two Golden Core beasts?"
In fact, since hearing Bai Li’s unveiling of "Emperor" reincarnation truth on the first level, Chen Ye had a bold speculation about Qin Jiaming’s identity.
This girl is definitely intricately connected to the Lord of Luoxiao!
She may even be a hidden piece set up by the Divine Son, assisting in triggering the Celestial Abyss.
Otherwise, how could she know so many secrets of the Celestial Abyss?
"Still clever Big Brother, you understand Jiaming the best!"
Qin Jiaming proudly raised her chin, even winking at Bai Susu, irking the blonde lady greatly.
She extended a slender finger, pointing towards the two Golden Core beasts lurking deep in the wasteland, like sleeping meat mountains:
"Those two big guys are certainly not to be provoked, but they are after all beasts, less intelligent than ordinary demon beasts, and definitely do not understand the mysteries of this world’s array."
"Beneath them in the earth veins lies a hidden fissure left by the Emperor back then. Follow this fissure, and you can bypass the Golden Core beasts’ senses perfectly, reaching the third-layer fractured realm directly!"
"Hidden fissure?"
Bai Li’s divine sense quietly probed but felt only dead silence, noticing no traces at all.
"Brother Bai, don’t bother. It’s an ancient space secret technique from the Songyang Sect, so-called hidden fissure is essentially a spatial tunnel. A tunnel... is naturally hard to find."
Qin Jiaming beckoned with a hand and started walking towards the left side of the wasteland,
"Time is short. The main forces of the Emotion Crossing Sect should have already entered the third layer, and the Divine Son is also inside. The beasts of this second layer might go berserk at any moment due to changes below. If you want to survive, follow me!"
"Remember, conceal your aura, hold your breath, step in my footprints, don’t make a single mistake!"
The group exchanged glances.
Despite remaining doubts, looking at the overwhelming beast tide ahead, there was no other choice.
"Let’s go."
Chen Ye carried the unconscious Tuoba You with one arm, following Qin Jiaming’s pace.
For some reason...
Though wary of this girl, he held a strange sense of trust towards her.
Qin Jiaming looked back with a smile at Chen Ye:
"Hmm! Jiaming knew big brother would follow..."
Bai Susu quickly glared at her: "Stop talking, lead the way!"
"Alright, alright, I’ll shut up."
Qin Jiaming regrettably sighed, turned around, humming an unknown light tune, as if on a picnic, heading towards a gigantic beast skeleton.
Reaching the depths of the giant ribcage, though solid bones lay ahead, Qin Jiaming didn’t pause and walked straight into them.
Ripples of transparent waves emerged as she vanished into the rock wall.
"What are you waiting for, hurry up. The hidden fissure entrance shifts at any time, once it closes, you’ll end up as snacks for those two big guys."
Qin Jiaming’s slightly muffled urging came from within the rock.
Chen Ye, carrying Tuoba You with one hand, closely followed.
With one step, the sky spun and the earth turned.
The roaring of beasts vanished without a trace.
This was a narrow, twisted gray-white passage.
The edges of the passage were irregular, curved, with spatial blade edges wandering along.
A single misstep from the path and it would turn someone into mince by these spatial blades.
"What a profound space secret technique..."
At the rear, Bai Li couldn’t help but marvel in his heart.
Such methods could only have been possible by the Lord of Luoxiao back then.
"This hidden fissure leads straight to the third-layer fractured realm, about half an incense stick’s time away."
Qin Jiaming casually spoke as she walked,
"However, the third layer is much more lively than here. The guys from the Emotion Crossing Sect are probably scrambling now."
"Do you know what’s happening on the third layer?" Bai Susu couldn’t help but ask coldly.
"Of course, I know."
Qin Jiaming turned back with a smile,
"The deeper the layers, the more the two worlds blend. Deeper levels... naturally involve the seven veins cultivators of Emotions Crossing. Oh, I suspect only a few late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators and a Fake Pill lunatic can reach here, others probably can’t."
"Aside from this... and your Lingyin’s Bai Liuyue. This Bai Liuyue is Susu’s Guardian, right?"
Bai Susu snorted but said nothing.
After the battle,
The reclusive Patriarch Liuyue personally came to Qi Kingdom for her protection,
Unfortunately, she got him trapped within the Celestial Abyss...
"Patriarch Liuyue?"
Bai Li sighed,
"Even involving him to watch over Susu... In my youth, it was also Patriarch Liuyue who guarded me."
"Oh, whether it’s a patriarch or guardian."
Qin Jiaming pursed her lips,
"I only know that old man is fiercely protective. In the third layer where two worlds intersect, he’s wielding a sword, full of killing intent, looking everywhere for someone."