Xu Yuan looked at her slightly immature face and smiled:
"At least you look younger than me now. If you become an older sister, how about I call you ’sister’?"
Tianyan let out a light snort from her delicate nose:
"Can you really change?" Xu Yuan was surprised.
Physically alterable.
In this vast world, truly nothing is impossible.
Tianyan, upon hearing this, didn’t seem to refuse answering. She thought for a moment and then suddenly smiled, showing her teeth, and crawled in front of Xu Yuan:
"Are you, very curious?"
"Mhm." Maintaining eye contact at close range, Xu Yuan nodded.
With a smile suggesting mischief, Tianyan suggested like a devil tempting someone:
"I’ll ask you a question, then you ask me one, and we can ask about anything. How about it?"
Hearing this, Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow but didn’t immediately refuse, saying:
"Not a bad proposal."
The girl Tianyan’s eyes once again had a golden gleam in them:
"Good, I’ll go first. Why do you want to go outside?"
Xu Yuan, having got the information he wanted to know, sighed and said:
"What was your previous question?"
Tianyan voiced her slight doubt: "Isn’t this only the first question?"
"Indeed, it’s the first." Xu Yuan nodded. "So what was your previous question?"
The girl Tianyan furrowed her brows and said in a low voice, "I’ll ask you a question, then you ask me one, how about... that one?""
"Right, that’s the one."
Xu Yuan nodded and replied, "I don’t think so much of it."
Having said that, Xu Yuan continued gnawing on the wolf’s leg.
After pausing for several seconds, Tianyan puffed up her cheeks and said discontentedly:
"Xu Changtian, aren’t you curious about why I came to find you?"
Xu Yuan turned to look back, nodding earnestly:
"Then why don’t you agree?" Tianyan asked.
Xu Yuan gave her a look one might give to a fool:
"Although it’s quite enjoyable spending time together, I think it’s highly likely that we are enemies right now. Whatever an enemy wants to do, naturally I want to disrupt it.
"Asking such a question, are you stupid or what?"
Standing in place, Tianyan froze for several seconds, clenched her fists, and asked:
"Xu Changtian, are you not afraid of dying?"
Xu Yuan shrugged, spread his hands, and stared back at her, counter-asking:
"If I say I’m not scared, would you believe me?"
After a moment of thought, Tianyan shook her head: "No."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan laughed, a bright smile on his face: "I am indeed very afraid of death. Terrified."
Tianyan stood up and, standing on tiptoe, raised her hand to a very high position:
"My cultivation is so much higher than yours, you’re not afraid I’ll kill you?"
Xu Yuan glanced at her tiptoeing bare feet, looked up, and shook his head with a laugh:
"Have said that I’m scared, haven’t I?"
"Why do I feel like you are fearless? Is it because of that remnant soul inside you?"
Xu Yuan thought about it:
"No, it’s more about my personality, I suppose. Plus, didn’t you say you won’t kill me for now?
"Look, how much I trust you~"
Tianyan panted for a few breaths, but unfortunately, her chest didn’t rise and fall much. She looked down at Xu Yuan from a height:
"I’m thinking of changing my mind."
The gentle breeze swirled around her three thousand strands of hair, backlighting her figure and making those golden eyes particularly bright.
Xu Yuan replied very seriously:
"You won’t change your mind."
At that, Tianyan let out a laugh, her bright golden eyes turning eerie and dark:
"You, are that sure? Maybe...."
Xu Yuan slowly got up, preparing to place his hand on the little head of Tianyan: "We’ve been together for so many days, I’m completely certain."
Tianyan subtly dodged out of the way.
Xu Yuan smiled slightly:
"How cold. But I know why you came to find me."
Tianyan stared at Xu Yuan, smiling as well, neither confirming nor denying:
"You... can’t see the future clearly anymore, right?"
This secret realm space could truly be considered a place where birds sang and flowers fragranced, as the warm yet cool breeze of spring meeting summer, carrying a trace of earthiness, made people feel very comfortable.
In the distance, across the boundless grasslands, two figures walked leisurely, one clad in white, the other in a light red palace dress, one after the other, looking not so much like seekers exploring the secret realm, but rather like a brother and sister on a picnic.
Ever since Xu Yuan uttered those words, the girl Tianyan fell into silence, as if reverting to the self-isolated stance of Loli Tianyan.
She followed behind, not uttering a single word.
After walking for a while, Xu Yuan suddenly stopped in his tracks, waved his hand in front of her eyes:
"Are you still there?"
Tianyan glared at him fiercely.
Considering the other’s cultivation, Xu Yuan felt he should be scared. After holding back a laugh for several seconds, he coughed lightly and pointed to the Soul Ring on the index finger of his right hand:
"Don’t look at me like that, you should know that inside this is a Saint’s Remnant Soul, right?"
Tianyan’s expression didn’t change much as she waited for Xu Yuan’s next words.
Xu Yuan casually remarked:
"Back in that shabby house, you heard the conversation we had before, didn’t you? Don’t tell me you lost your memory as you grew up."
"...." Tianyan continued glaring at Xu Yuan without speaking.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan continued:
"This Saint’s Remnant Soul knows the Yantian Art and also knows about Jiatiange. And from the way he talks, you should be able to guess that he knows quite a lot about the Yantian Art."
"What are you trying to imply?" Finally, Tianyan spoke.
"It’s simple. He told me your purpose," Xu Yuan responded.
"Naive," Tianyan sighed, her eyes showing a hint of pity.
Xu Yuan shook his head, his voice low:
"Tianyan, it’s blind confidence that’s truly naive.
"The Yantian Art may be powerful, but the world is vast, not to mention the methods of a Saint who lived for tens of thousands of years."
"....." This time, Tianyan didn’t respond.
Xu Yuan sighed softly, and continued in a low voice:
"He used a special technique of the Saint to tell me all about your purpose."
Seeing that the Saint didn’t argue, Xu Yuan knew he was on the right track.
The thought stamp branded by Guiqi with his own life prevented the Saint’s Remnant Soul from doing anything that would harm his interests.
During the earlier conversation, revealing the heart demon oath was both a warning to him, Xu Yuan, and to Tianyan.
With the heart demon oath, if Xu Yuan faced danger, he would have to risk his life.
Thinking to this point, Xu Yuan said softly:
"How about it, Old Man Luo, why not come out and say a few words?"
After a moment of silence,
"Xu kid, why are you talking to her about this?"
See, peeking as expected.
And claiming to study the heart demon oath, a hypocritical old man.
Xu Yuan smiled when he heard this booming voice in the depths of his heart.
Their will-spirit link activated, he suddenly transmitted through will-spirit:
"Old Man Luo, take me to the boundary!"
Big Ice Lump’s probing of Tianyan’s strength at the bottom of the lake was valuable, as it at least let Xu Yuan know that this Tianyan wasn’t a Saint nor First Grade.
Otherwise, even if Tianyan hadn’t exerted her full strength, Ran Qingmo would not have had any chance to resist.
Of course, there was another more important piece of corroborating evidence.
The Saint’s Remnant Soul was too calm.
Due to the thought stamp, if Xu Yuan were to be in trouble, the Saint was bound to die before him.
As Xu Yuan’s words ended, Old Man Luo didn’t ask why. A massive surge of Soul Power rushed out and, with its empowerment, Xu Yuan turned and ran.
This place was known as Dome Palace, a standard two-tier map.
The outer prairies were accessible to players even in their novice stages, where they could level up by killing wolves and slaughtering rats, but the Cloud Top Immortal Palace ensconced in the mists at the very core was meant for the much later phases of the game.
you could also enter in the early stages, if you weren’t afraid of dying.
And the condition to enter was quite simple, to cross the boundary of the secret realm.
The boundary of a typical secret realm was bordered by the likes of spatial turbulence, a kind of death zone. One wrong step could wipe out your health bar instantly, but the boundary of this realm could directly transport you into the Cloud Top Immortal Palace you had seen initially.
It was a random teleportation.
A hundred meters away, crossed in an instant.
The girl’s voice came from behind, and an overwhelming sense of oppression instantly converged from all directions, causing Xu Yuan’s body, which he was controlling to flee, to suddenly hang suspended in midair.
And at the same moment,
Old Man Luo cursed out loud:
"Xu kid, I’ve really jinxed myself by crossing paths with you!"
All the while cursing, the Saint’s Remnant Soul controlled Xu Yuan’s body and made a hand gesture:
As the word was uttered, the tidal wave-like pressure vanished instantly.
Watching the scene, Xu Yuan’s pupils shrank sharply.
could it also perform the Yantian Art?!!
But as the thought crossed his mind, the Saint’s Remnant Soul had already controlled his body to cross the boundary of the secret realm....