Chapter 1554: Tomorrow, Separated by Mountains

In the markets, Tang Feng had also bought quite a few jade slips introducing the various realms, as well as some map jade slips.

In his spare time on the road, he would take them out to look at, to quickly broaden his knowledge.

Tang Feng already knew that a map jade slip was an essential and important item for any cultivator traveling in the Immortal Spirit Realm.

There were many unknown perilous lands here. It wasn’t like the “Earth-True Domain,” where, apart from the areas controlled by the Soul-Suppression Palace, the locations of most dangerous lands were already known.

Here, if one was not careful, one might just stumble into one, and then you might not even know how you died.

Moreover, the forces in the outside world were more complex. He also needed to know which regions had what kind of top-tier forces, so as not to offend them unintentionally.

This was no longer the “Earth-True Domain,” where the Soul-Suppression Palace could be the sole dominant power. He was just a small Spirit Transformation cultivator.

It also wasn’t like in the “Earth-True Domain,” where you could reach almost any place you wanted to go without needing a map soul slip.

Just a corner of the Heavenly Demon Prairie was countless times larger than the “Earth-True Domain.” To view the sky from the bottom of a well was exactly what it was like.

After Tang Feng took the jade slip, a sweep of his Divine Sense revealed that its contents were indeed much more detailed than the few map jade slips he had bought.

After giving the item, Li Yan smiled at Tang Feng.

“Then let us part here! If Brother Tang encounters any difficulties outside, you can look for an informant in the markets to send a message to me, or come directly to the Broken Army Sect to find me.”

As Li Yan spoke, he cupped his hands at Tang Feng, no longer trying to keep him.

For a short time, he probably wouldn’t be leaving the Broken Army Sect. He had just advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm. At this level of cultivation in the Immortal Spirit Realm, he was still just a minor cultivator.

Moreover, after he returned, he still had to ask Jia Fugui and Donglin Tingyue if there was any further news on the matters he had entrusted to them over the years.

At the same time, he also needed to prepare more fully before he could attempt to cross the Heavenly Demon Prairie and finally reach the grand teleportation formation that spanned the great realms.

A light flashed in Tang Feng’s hand, and the jade slip was stored in his storage ring.

Tang Feng was extremely fond of storage rings and spirit-storing rings. The space in these two items was astonishingly large, simply incomparable to the Void Shadow.

And using Divine Sense was so much more convenient and fast, incredibly flexible and easy to use.

But he wouldn’t discard the Void Shadow storage magical treasure either. Compared to Divine Sense, that item could not be opened by cultivators other than Soul Cultivators.

Placing important treasures inside was actually safer when traveling in the Immortal Spirit Realm.

After putting away the jade slip, Tang Feng suddenly bowed deeply to Li Yan.

“Then many thanks to Senior Li for the generous gift and guidance, hahaha…”

While Li Yan was stunned, Tang Feng’s hearty laughter echoed. With a flick of his large sleeve, he transformed into a long rainbow and flew rapidly to the south.

Watching the distant figure, a smile also appeared on Li Yan’s lips.

According to the legacy he had claimed, he was a disciple of the First Ancestor. Tang Feng couldn’t even be considered a grand-disciple.

The two Supreme Elders had also suggested that after they had explored the Hellsoul Clan, perhaps Li Yan could stay, or even take over the Soul-Suppression Palace and carry on the Hellsoul lineage.

Li Yan had no intention of seizing the Soul-Suppression Palace. His path of immortal cultivation was the path of supreme emotion. He had already entered many sects, but all of this was just a part of his journey on the immortal path.

Even the Gui Water Immortal Sect he would have to find in the future could not become his shackles.

He could fulfill his duties as a disciple, but Li Yan was very reluctant to take charge of a sect.

He hoped that after all his loved ones had ascended to the Immortal Spirit Realm, he would have more time to spend with them and live a carefree life. Otherwise, what was the point of talking about eternal life and the immortal path!

After Tang Feng’s figure had completely disappeared, Li Yan stood where he was and scanned the surroundings with his Divine Sense.

Then, he chose a direction and flew directly into the distance…

On the peak of a great mountain, surrounded by clouds and mist like swirling silk ribbons, the mountains moved and the wind blew. Li Yan stood on the peak, feeling the changes of the heavens and earth.

This place was very remote, with no cultivators coming and going. At this moment, only a touch of golden light was slowly appearing above the sea of clouds at the end of the horizon!

After standing for a long time, Li Yan took a deep breath. With a thought, a graceful and slender figure suddenly flashed and appeared beside him.

Mu Guyue was in the midst of cultivating. Although she and Ting Lan were in the same spirit-storing space, the two women had separated after their initial communication and cultivated on their own.

After Li Yan had taken them into this space, he had completely disappeared. Ting Lan was a little nervous at first, not knowing what mission she had to carry out.

But gradually, she found that Mu Guyue was cultivating on her own, without any worry or anxiety.

After some more time, Ting Lan also gradually relaxed. She felt that just waiting like this was not a solution.

She didn’t want to die from worry and anxiety before she died on a mission.

On this day, Mu Guyue was still immersed in her cultivation. In order to exert greater combat power in the “Earth-True Domain,” she had been cultivating the soul cultivation method all these years.

But she did not refine any soul arts, to avoid letting Ting Lan discover anything was amiss. While in meditation, Mu Guyue’s mind suddenly heard Li Yan’s voice.

“I have something to tell you!”

Then, Mu Guyue was startled awake. But before she could react, a force enveloped her body.

The next moment, she was swept up directly. Then, with a blur of her vision, she was already standing in a certain place.

Mu Guyue looked around and found that this was a mountain peak in a sea of clouds. She had never seen this place before and did not know where she was.

But before she could get a clear look at her surroundings, her body, which was like an immortal or a demon, suddenly trembled violently. On her peerless face, which was usually as cold as eternal ice, a look of extreme shock appeared.

“This… Where is this?”

As she saw the surrounding scenery, out of long-standing habit, she subconsciously had a thought. Then she suddenly discovered that her Divine Sense could easily leave her body.

It was a feeling of being unrestrained, completely smooth, like a bird spreading its wings and flying into the blue sky!

This kind of unexpected feeling, she had not experienced it for a long, long time. It had become somewhat unfamiliar, but it was also familiar from the very depths of her bones.

“We’re out. This is the Immortal Spirit Realm. It’s not too far from the edge of the Heavenly Demon Prairie, actually!”

Mu Guyue’s exclamation was subconscious. In her heart, she hadn’t even reacted to the fact that she was actually speaking.

But a voice immediately came from the side as her words fell.

Li Yan did not turn his head. He just quietly looked ahead, at the churning white sea of clouds!

The white clouds were like cotton, gently drifting past the two of them, like a gently brushing white silk ribbon. With a single brush, as if with reluctance, it was pulled into the distance by the wind!

Being in the midst of it, for a moment, one could not tell whether it was the mountains moving, or the clouds, or if they were eternal statues, watching the ever-changing world…

Mu Guyue clearly heard Li Yan’s voice, and her Divine Sense was freely released, but at this moment, she just stood there, stunned!

In the mountain wind, her jet-black hair fluttered and danced. Amidst the disarray, it brushed past her dazed, smooth-as-a-mirror cheeks. The hem of her black dress billowed, but she did not know if she was really standing here…

More than once, she had returned to the Immortal Spirit Realm in her dreams, back to that place where she could cultivate properly, without having to hide and be hunted down miserably all day long.

Especially after being captured by the Soul-Suppression Palace, she longed for her former freedom even more, but she knew that even just wanting to stay alive might be an extravagant hope.

It wasn’t until she met Li Yan that she temporarily found peace. But as for what Li Yan later said about “getting out,” she didn’t hold much hope at all.

Even though Li Yan’s appearance and actions had already surprised her, and Li Yan himself was doing well in the Soul-Suppression Palace.

But as for leaving the “Earth-True Domain,” although Mu Guyue didn’t feel it was just a wish, she also knew that it would be a long, long wait.

She had even prepared for the possibility that thousands of years later, she and Li Yan would still be as they were now, still stubbornly searching for a way out.

But when that time came, the so-called returning to the outside world would really just be a belief, or perhaps a dream-like obsession.

“The Immortal Spirit Realm, the Heavenly Demon Prairie…”

On Mu Guyue’s peerless face, there was only a long, dazed expression.

Li Yan only said one sentence and then fell silent, quietly waiting for her to wake up.

This matter was too unbelievable. For any cultivator from the “Earth-True Domain,” especially those from the outside, it would make one lose the ability to think.

After dozens of breaths, Mu Guyue carefully released her Divine Sense, repeatedly scanning the surroundings, until she retracted her Divine Sense back into her Sea of Consciousness, and then sent it out again and again…

Looking at the Spirit Stones from her storage ring in her jade hand, then with a thought from her Divine Sense, the Spirit Stones in her hand instantly disappeared…

Mu Guyue slowly realized that this might be real.

Then, she turned her head to look around, and finally fixed her pair of phoenix eyes on Li Yan.

Her own body was still trembling, and her voice had become unreal. It was as if her voice was traveling through a long, empty corridor, and it echoed in her own ears!

“You… How did you do it?”

“The Soul-Suppression Palace was looking for an exit to begin with. I was just fortunate enough to participate, and in the end, we were lucky enough to succeed. So we came out!”

Li Yan also withdrew his gaze and looked at Mu Guyue, his voice as calm as water.

For a moment, Mu Guyue fell silent again. She was as intelligent as ice and snow. She knew that things were definitely not as simple as Li Yan had made them out to be.

He had said it too easily. But she had lived in the “Earth-True Domain” for longer than Li Yan.

Although she couldn’t access truly confidential information, the desire to get out was stronger in all the outside cultivators than in the natives of the “Earth-True Domain.” They paid more attention to news about this.

Whether it was them searching for a way out themselves, or the news they could gather, the final result was always the same: the “Earth-True Domain” was a place of no return. No one had ever been able to get out.

Including the native cultivators of the “Earth-True Domain,” they were also thinking about how to get out. But they were also trapped inside, generation after generation, ultimately only being able to grow old and die within.

In the end, this idea of the outside cultivators had actually turned into despair. It was just that the obsession was still there, and they were unwilling to give up.

“Where are the cultivators of the Soul-Suppression Palace?”

Mu Guyue forcibly suppressed her excitement and calmed her turbulent heart. She did not find anyone else in the vicinity, especially the cultivators of the Soul-Suppression Palace whom she hated most.

Logically speaking, even if a passage to the outside was opened, Li Yan would not have come out alone. There should have been other cultivators from the Soul-Suppression Palace nearby.

So after she sobered up, she still seemed very cautious.

She was afraid that what she said or did next would bring huge trouble to Li Yan.

“There’s no one else here, you don’t have to worry. You don’t have to worry about the Soul-Suppression Palace’s affairs either. We are already far away from them. In the future, they are them, and you are you. In the vast Immortal Spirit Realm, it will be very difficult for you to even encounter them. Now that I have brought you here, I will also fulfill my original promise and will not restrict your freedom. You can leave as you please afterward. I brought you out first to explain the current situation to you. I will also release Ting Lan in a moment and then remove the soul imprint on her. I plan to modify her memories of the ‘Earth-True Domain.’ I hope that in the future, you will not let her know about what happened. This might be a better outcome for her. After that is done, you can just take her and leave…”

Li Yan didn’t want to say much about the Soul-Suppression Palace, so he directly changed the subject.

Mu Guyue immediately understood the meaning in Li Yan’s words. With her intelligence, she could see that Li Yan was avoiding the matter of the Soul-Suppression Palace.

It was clear that for her and Li Yan to have come here alone, Li Yan had either quietly distanced himself from the Soul-Suppression Palace for some reason or excuse, or he had reached some kind of agreement with them.

Although Mu Guyue really wanted to know how Li Yan had managed to get out, after hearing his words, she knew he didn’t want to talk about it.

With Mu Guyue’s personality, she naturally wouldn’t press the issue.

She nodded. She knew that Li Yan had brought her out alone first to tell her these things, and these were things that Ting Lan could not know.

Just then, Li Yan continued.

“By the way, you once said that after your ascension, you owed a lot of Spirit Stones to others for the Immortalization Liquid. Since you have been missing for so many years, if the other party inquired about you, they would also know that your entire team disappeared in the Heavenly Demon Prairie. They would naturally guess that you all had an accident. If it’s not necessary, you shouldn’t appear in your former places. You can find another place to go. Otherwise, you will still have to take risks. Before you reach Spirit Transformation, you should try to go to places like the Heavenly Demon Prairie as little as possible. It’s still too dangerous for us…”

Mu Guyue looked at the calm-faced Li Yan, listening to his somewhat rambling instructions. For her, who had a cold and arrogant disposition, that inexplicable warmth once again lingered in her heart…

She had grown up in a military camp since she was a child. Her parents were a vague memory. When she was a few years old, they were away from home all year round, fighting everywhere. Later, they all died on the battlefield.

Afterward, her growth was only filled with cultivation and slaughter. The so-called blood ties, in the warlike Black Clan, were not very strong to begin with.

For her, the memories of family affection from her childhood were long gone. Instead, she had the life-and-death bonds of comrades on the battlefield. That kind of emotion, in Mu Guyue’s heart, even surpassed family affection.

Because her subordinates and comrades could even block fatal attacks for her, and die for her!

It wasn’t until later, after giving birth to Mu Sha, that she once again had so-called family affection. However, in Mu Sha’s growth, she almost never disciplined him, but acted purely based on her own preferences.

She felt that as long as he could survive, it was fine. What she wanted to teach him was to be strong and self-reliant. Most of the time, she gave Mu Sha more punishments than anything else.

It wasn’t until just before her ascension that she felt that this departure might be forever!

At that moment, bits and pieces of the past also appeared in her heart. The infant who could only babble had already become an elite soldier in the army. A sense of reluctance seemed to sprout from the bottom of her heart…

“You’re right. A Nascent Soul in the Immortal Spirit Realm… doesn’t even count as an ant. I must work hard, I must improve my cultivation!”

After Li Yan finished speaking, Mu Guyue’s gaze shifted to the distance, and she said softly.

Li Yan nodded. He didn’t want to tell Mu Guyue where he was going. The matter between them was considered settled.

He had saved her. Moreover, what happened back then was not his fault. He had a clear conscience.

And after a while, he would also be leaving this place. He would probably never see her again in this life. So, the mountains are high and the road is long, they should each take care of themselves!

And just at that moment, Mu Guyue’s incomparably cold voice sounded again.

“His name is Mu Sha!”

“Oh, ah?”

Li Yan first responded, but then he was stunned!

Because he didn’t understand what Mu Guyue was saying. To be precise, he didn’t understand the content of what she said.

Then, with a look of astonishment, Li Yan looked at Mu Guyue!

But Mu Guyue did not look at him. Her pair of phoenix eyes were still staring into the distance, dazedly watching the white clouds gently roll and dance before the mountain…