Senior Brother, do you still remember that I have half a drop of my life essence blood attached to you

There was no hesitation at all.

Su Jiu followed silently behind him, the two of them passing through the sect one after the other.

"Take me to the rift," Su Ji said without looking back.

Su Jiu's footsteps paused slightly. She didn't ask any questions, just gave a soft "Mm" and walked ahead to lead the way.

She led Su Ji past the halls of the front mountain, heading straight for the back mountain of the Acacia Sect.

This place was filled with overlapping peaks and rarely visited by people. Only a single winding path led deep into the mountains.

Eventually, the two stopped in front of a cliff.

This was the place where successive sect masters went into life-and-death seclusion.

A waterfall dozens of feet high cascaded down from the top of the cliff. The water roared, and the splashing mist refracted faint rainbows in the sunlight.

"It's right behind there."

Su Jiu pointed at the massive curtain of water.

Su Ji nodded, took the lead, and walked straight through.

The freezing water was instantly isolated by spiritual energy, unable to soak his robes.

But the moment he passed through the water curtain, the roaring sound of the water around him abruptly vanished.

Behind the waterfall lay a hidden world.

It was a massive naturally formed cave. The light was dim, and the damp rock walls were covered with moss that emitted a faint fluorescence.

In the deepest part of the cave, the air exhibited a bizarre distortion.

There was no light there, nor any physical entity. It was just an area about the height of a person where all approaching light and sound were silently swallowed, as if space itself had caved in there.

This was the rift leading outside of Great Xia.

Su Ji walked up to that distorted void, feeling the aura emanating from it, an aura completely out of place in this world.

He turned around and looked at Su Jiu, who had followed him in.

Su Jiu was also looking at him. Her moon-white palace dress stood out strikingly in the dim cave.

Su Ji took a deep breath and squeezed out what he thought was a very dashing smile.

"Junior Sister, let us part ways here."

Hearing this, a trace of confusion appeared in Su Jiu's clear fox-like eyes.

"Part ways here?"

"Yes," Su Ji nodded, beginning the speech he had prepared long ago. "I'll go scout the way first. This journey is perilous, you..."

Before he could finish, Su Jiu interrupted him.

"Does Senior Brother think I will be a burden?"

Her voice was cold and clear, betraying neither joy nor anger.

Su Ji's expression remained unchanged: "No, that's not what I meant..."

"Although my strength is indeed somewhat lacking compared to Soul Formation cultivators."

Su Jiu continued on her own, raising her eyes and looking seriously at Su Ji.

"I also have some special methods that can amplify Senior Brother's strength. I won't hold you back."

Su Ji looked at her pretty face, which was full of earnestness.

He knew that Su Jiu was not lying.

The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox clan might indeed have secret techniques that could elevate his combat prowess to another level.

But the problem was...

Su Ji sighed, the expression on his face collapsing.

He found that a heroic farewell didn't seem to suit him.

"No."

He gave up explaining, his tone carrying a bit of helplessness.

"It's that if you go, I won't have any chance at all."

Su Jiu furrowed her brows, the confusion in her eyes deepening.

"Why?"

"Because..." Su Ji scratched his head, feeling it was a bit hard to say, but he bit the bullet and continued, "Because the cause of the conflict was that the two guys responsible for registration at the ascension point took a fancy to you and planned to capture you to present to some big shot above them."

"And then, I fought them."

The cave fell into an eerie silence.

There was only the muffled sound of the waterfall passing through the water curtain in the distance.

Su Jiu just stood there, motionless.

Her beautiful fox-like eyes slowly, little by little, widened.

The expression on her face went from confusion, to astonishment, and finally to pure bewilderment.

Seeing her dumbfounded appearance, Su Ji added another sentence to increase his persuasiveness.

"So, you see, as long as you don't show up, they shouldn't have any reason to attack me directly."

"At least there will be some time to maneuver."

"I might even be able to sneak in."

Su Jiu did not answer.

Her mind was currently echoing with the words Su Ji had just spoken.

Just this?

The future she had imagined.

That future battle should have been magnificent and tragic.

When she and Su Ji stepped hand in hand out of Great Xia and appeared in that unfamiliar world.

The Soul Formation cultivators guarding the passage would immediately notice the anomaly about them.

"This boy comes from the land of Great Xia, and actually attempts to use tricks to deceive the heavens and cross the sea?"

One of the old men would have a solemn expression, his eyes shooting out sharp glints.

The other would stroke his beard and ponder, his voice old but powerful.

"He carries the aura of 'them'..."

"Have the people of Great Xia made a comeback with the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox clan?"

"The plot behind this is massive, we cannot let him live!"

"The two of us must join forces and strangle him in the cradle!"

"Otherwise, there will be endless trouble!"

"If he does not die! A great terror will descend, just like a hundred thousand years ago, and we will never have peace!"

Then, a great battle would erupt.

Su Ji would unreservedly unleash his full combat power.

She would also activate the bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and fight side by side with him.

The four of them, in pairs, bearing different ideals, fighting for different worlds.

For Great Xia and their own future, they would engage in a supremely elevated battle of destiny with those two Soul Formation old monsters who had lived for a thousand years!

Magnificent and profoundly moving!

However...

The future in reality.

"Yo, this chick is not bad, let's take her back and present her to the lord."

"Present your mom! You're courting death!"

"Hey, still dare to resist? Watch me beat you to death!"

...

The huge contrast made Su Jiu feel her brain buzz and go completely blank.

She felt that her wild and tragic imaginations were, at this moment, smashed to pieces by Su Ji's most plain and unadorned language.

An indescribable sense of shame rushed straight from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.

Seeing her like this, Su Ji thought she was blaming herself because of this absurd truth.

He stepped forward, patted her shoulder, and comforted her earnestly with the tone of someone who had been there.

"Junior Sister, you don't need to be too sad."

"That's just how the world is; being good-looking really does easily attract trouble."

"Look at your Senior Brother me, I've never had this kind of trouble."

"If some big shot really took a fancy to me, I wouldn't resist. If their cultivation is high enough, how ugly could they be?"

"I'd let her raise it high..."

Su Jiu suddenly raised her head.

The murderous intent in her watery eyes converged into a sentence spoken through gritted teeth.

"Su Ji!"

"Shut up!"

Su Ji was stunned by her sudden outburst.

Why was she getting angry?

However, after Su Jiu roared this sentence, there was nothing else.

She just stood there, her head lowered, unconsciously drawing circles on the ground with her toe.

The atmosphere in the cave instantly became awkward to the extreme.

Su Ji coughed dryly twice, trying to break the eerie silence.

"So, Junior Sister, you see..."

Su Jiu abruptly interrupted him, her voice hurried and fast, carrying a bit of panic that even she hadn't noticed.

"It is fine, I can still go with you, Senior Brother."

"I have a method to evade their detection."

Su Ji was puzzled. "Evade the detection of Soul Formation cultivators? Are you sure?"

In the Glimpse of Destiny, Su Jiu also had a disguise. She had obviously considered this kind of situation, but her disguise had been easily seen through.

"I am sure."

"What method?"

"Senior Brother, do you remember that half a drop of my natal blood essence is attached to you?"

Su Ji dug around in his pants. "You mean..."

Su Jiu hastily interrupted him. "Do not take it out!"

Su Ji had no choice but to stop, muttering, "It is not like you have not seen it before..."

"So what are you planning to do?"

"I can hide within that half drop of natal blood essence."

Su Ji's hand froze slightly as he pulled up his pants.

Su Ji: ???