Seeing Ye Lingyue had healed Bo Qing, Elder Huo Yan also felt somewhat embarrassed.

"Xiao Liu, go and bandage Thirteenth Young Master's wounds."

Among Elder Huo Yan's six disciples, one was lost in the attack of the Green-eyed Stone Beast, while the others sustained only minor injuries. Only the one called "Xiao Liu" was unscathed.

He took out the Healing Medicine and stepped forward to bandage Ye Lingyue.

Wu Zhong, in his disguise, strode forward, his lips pursed.

"No need, I have my own..." Just as Ye Lingyue was about to bandage herself, her hand was suddenly pulled away.

Him again?

Ye Lingyue's wound throbbed with pain as she grimaced. Looking up, it was the Fire Control Sect's Sixth Disciple who had looked at her with a strange gaze earlier.

Was she seeing things wrong?

Why did he seem to be filled with resentful energy, as if she owed him a debt of hundreds of thousands?

Come on, she was the one who was injured, what was there for him to be angry about.

Little did Ye Lingyue know, Wu Zhong was irritated by her reckless actions.

This foolish woman, lacking in strength and yet fancying herself a paragon of loyalty—capable of even "self-harm"; was her brain squashed by a door?

Feeling a sourness in his heart, Wu Zhong's initially rough movements unintentionally hurt Ye Lingyue's wound.

Realizing his actions were too harsh, Wu Zhong softened his grip and carefully bandaged her wound.

Heaven knows that when he saw her not even frowning as she brandished a dagger at herself, Wu Zhong's heart stopped for a second.

As the medicinal powder unavoidably came into contact with the wound, Ye Lingyue couldn't help but hiss in a low tone. The hands holding her arm paused.

"Blow on it, and it won't hurt anymore." Unexpectedly, instead of ridiculing her, he lowered his voice and said just that.

He bent his head and gently blew a few breaths on the wound as if what he held was a fragile piece of porcelain.

"Thank... thank you," Ye Lingyue was stunned.

In her mind, a blurred memory surfaced.

"Yue'er isn't in pain, mother will blow on it, and it won't hurt anymore."

Who was it that had spoken to her with the same tender tone?

Her temples throbbed, and a wave of dizziness swept over her, causing Ye Lingyue to clench her teeth.

"Are you really a woman, using yourself to test poison, that's outrageous." Seeing her tense expression, the man thought she was afraid of the pain and cursed her impatiently.

"You!" As soon as Ye Lingyue heard this, the dizziness vanished, and she looked at the man in amazement.

How could he know she was a female?

Neither Bo Qing nor Elder Huo Yan knew yet.

"What 'you'! If you're left with scars, be careful you won't be able to get married." By then, he would have to begrudgingly take her as his bride, Wu Zhong swallowed the latter half of the sentence and his lips twitched.

He used a sound transmission technique that only he and Ye Lingyue could hear, and no one else could pick up.

"Thirteen, do you know this woman?" Boss He and others were examining An Minxia's body.

She was previously blasted to pieces by Bo Qing's Thunder God Pearl and had partially regained human form.

At this moment, the upper body resembled a human, while the lower half took on the appearance of a Green-eyed Stone Beast.

Everyone still remembered that An Minxia was part of Duke An's group.

Regrettably, her companions had abandoned her, each fleeing for their own lives.

She had previously been captured by a Green-eyed Stone Beast, and everyone thought she was as good as dead. Who would have thought that she would become like this, even joining forces with the Green-eyed Stone Beast.

"She is Duke An's daughter, An Minxia," Ye Lingyue bandaged her wounds and stepped forward.

She was the only one present who had any sort of acquaintance with An Minxia.

This woman was full of bad intentions; her death was indeed a cause for celebration.

However, Ye Lingyue couldn't understand how An Minxia had turned into this half-human half-ghoul creature in just one night.

Earlier, when fighting Bo Qing, she had used skills that were clearly those of a Green-eyed Stone Beast.

Inside An Minxia's body, Ye Lingyue found a spirit core, which appeared to be that of a Green-eyed Stone Beast.

After a search with her spiritual power, Ye Lingyue pieced together the general sequence of events from the residual memories within the spirit core.

"These Green-eyed Stone Beasts were actually transformed from disciples of the Ancient Taiyi Sect," Ye Lingyue came to know that An Minxia turned out this way because she was blinded by hatred, rashly adopting the Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique from a sect elder.

After devouring the spirit core, An Minxia, unable to control the raging power of the Green-eyed Stone Beast, morphed into a beastly form.

"What a sinister cultivation technique, to actually cause one to lose their mind and degenerate into a Spiritual Beast. So the true reason for the Taiyi Sect's downfall was due to a betrayal by its own elder, who used the Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique to massacre the Sect Leader and transform all the disciples into Green-eyed Stone Beasts," Boss He and Elder Huo Yan sighed after hearing this.

The true story of the Taiyi Sect's extermination, long forgotten by the world, finally surfaced.

"And according to the memories left in the spirit core by that elder, the Taiyi Sect indeed possessed a so-called sect's divine artifact. After it had slain most of the Green-eyed Stone Beasts, it went into dormancy. Its exact location is underneath the Sacrificial Sword Platform, the site of the Nirvana Cauldron, as indicated earlier on the map," Ye Lingyue became even more certain of this.

Having confirmed the location of the sect's divine artifact, Ye Lingyue and the others took a brief rest before setting off to find the site of the Sacrificial Sword Platform.

As they left, someone emerged from the side of the casting platform.

Duke An, his eyes bloodshot, hand severed.

He looked at his daughter An Minxia, who lay dead with the form of half-human half-beast.

Earlier, after Duke An had whisked Crown Prince Hong away, perhaps moved by familial affection, he secretly returned.

Originally planning to take advantage of the moment when Thirteen and the others were unguarded to snatch the map, he instead witnessed his own daughter An Minxia being killed by the Thunder God Pearl.

"Xia'er."

Gazing upon An Minxia, who died with eyes wide open, Duke An began to weep bitterly.

This time, he had intended to bring his daughter in search of a Spiritual Artifact, but before finding the artifact, his daughter died, and he lost a hand.

All of this was because of the treacherous and sly Thirteen, as well as the witch Bo Qing.

The divine artifact of the Taiyi Sect... Looking towards the highest Sacrificial Sword Platform of the Taiyi Sect, Duke An's eyes, filled with hatred, surged like the endless river tides...

Having learned the location of the sect's divine artifact, Ye Lingyue and the others continued on their journey.

Since entering the Taiyi Secret Realm, they hadn't had a proper rest, feeling physically and mentally exhausted after the recent fight.

Although the entire secret realm seemed peaceful and isolated from the world, filled with birdsong and floral fragrances.

Yet, the sight of the Green-eyed Stone Beasts' corpses and the appearance of the inhumane Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique made everyone feel an eerie presence, as if something was secretly observing them.

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