The Great white-fronted Worm of Dao Jianmen

In the end, they flew back.

If they were to walk back to Dao Sword Sect from deep within the Hengduan Mountains, it would take months.

Qin Ran endured the dizziness and flew back to Dao Sword Sect with Long Qiqi. This terrified Long Qiqi throughout the journey... A few days ago, when they were riding Qin Ran's cloud from Dan Peak to Master Peak, she was scared half to death.

This time, it felt like taking a long-distance bus only to realize that the driver gets car sick.

With two miles left to Dao Sword Sect, Qin Ran put down Long Qiqi and without saying a word, he knelt by the roadside and started vomiting uncontrollably, expelling everything he had eaten in the past month. He looked extremely disheveled.

There was no trace of his former "distinguished" demeanor, nor could one see the calculations and schemes he had employed to kill Jian Yuanjie.

Long Qiqi, who had been numb with fear, suddenly felt like it was nothing compared to seeing Qin Ran in this state.

She stood there, hugging her arms, smiling as she watched Qin Ran, no longer afraid, and teasingly said, "You're supposed to be the number one alchemist of Dao Sword Sect, the chief of Dan Peak. It's one thing to be afraid of heights, but why don't you refine a pill to cure your acrophobia?"

After vomiting for a while, Qin Ran rinsed his mouth with water and washed his face. He tidied himself up a bit and then sighed to Long Qiqi, still panting, "It's a heart condition, something you wouldn't understand."

"Heart condition?" Long Qiqi murmured to herself, her serpent-like eyes glancing sidelong at Qin Ran. She thought to herself that his delicate face was indeed a facade. This old monster must have many hidden pasts. She sneered and said, "What kind of heart condition causes someone to be afraid of heights? It's really strange."

What kind of heart condition?

Qin Ran looked up at Dao Sword Sect, which was shrouded in clouds and mist in the distance, and let out a sigh.

Perhaps it was a transcendence!

His whole body was lifted up by an invisible force, getting farther and farther away from his original world, becoming more and more distant, so distant that it gradually blurred, causing dizziness. And then, in the blink of an eye, he arrived in another world.

So height, blurriness, and dizziness became the measure of his distance from that other world.

He shook his head and didn't say anything to Long Qiqi. He simply said, "Let's go, maybe Shi Yin has already come out of seclusion."

A tall figure and a small one, walking along the road, one in front and one behind, like a father and daughter, like siblings.

It was early summer, with sunshine, gentle breeze, mountains, rivers, and lush vegetation.

Dao Sword Sect seemed livelier than usual in front of the mountain gate, probably because they were holding the Pre-Door Ceremony these past few days. There were more cultivators selling cultivation techniques, magical tools, and pills.

These cultivators included those from Dao Sword Sect, as well as wandering cultivators and cultivators from other sects.

Qin Ran was afraid that Long Qiqi would get separated in the crowd, so he held her hand and led her through the crowd towards the mountain gate.

He did see Long Qiqi as a little girl. Although this little girl was scheming, malicious, gloomy, and petty, her body was indeed that of a six or seven-year-old girl. At most, in his eyes, she was a little sister with a relatively mature personality.

However, Long Qiqi's frequent appearance in human form made him forget that she was a snake that had lived for thousands of years, a snake demon whose mind was filled with yellow trash. After all, a snake's nature is inherently lustful.

Long Qiqi looked at her hand, which was being held by Qin Ran, not knowing what she was thinking. Slowly, her face turned red, and she shyly lowered her head. They hadn't walked for long when her legs and feet went weak, and she was practically being dragged along by Qin Ran.

"Hey, did you forget to stretch your legs when you transformed?" Qin Ran noticed that Long Qiqi was already hanging from his hand and looked down to see what was going on with this little girl. He then saw the blushing face of this dark little girl.

Hmm, it was a bit strange for a girl of six or seven years old to have the bashfulness of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old.

Qin Ran furrowed his brow and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Huh?" The crowd passing by was too noisy, and Long Qiqi didn't hear what Qin Ran was saying.

She looked up at Qin Ran and saw his surprised expression, which made her realize her own state.

"Ha!" She immediately freed her hand from Qin Ran's grip and scolded him indignantly, "You're such a pervert, not even sparing a child like me!!"

"What?" Qin Ran was puzzled, he looked at his own hand, then at Long Qiqi, shook his head, and couldn't be bothered to talk to her. He continued walking alone.

"You see, your silence proves that you're guilty!" Long Qiqi caught up with him and kept pestering him from behind, "You're like this, can you face Shiyin...?"

As she continued berating him, she didn't notice that Qin Ran suddenly stopped and bumped into him, hitting his lower back.

"Ah, you pervert, do you dare say you didn't do it on purpose?!"

She quickly moved her face away from Qin Ran's waist and cursed.

But as she cursed, she suddenly noticed that the people nearby seemed to have also stopped.

Everyone stood in place, looking ahead. Some wore expressions of shock, some of fear, some of curiosity, some of excitement, and some were happy...

It varied.

After a few breaths of silence, some people turned and fled, some took out their magical tools and walked forward, some had indecisive gazes, and the crowd erupted into a clamor...

"Demon... a demonic beast!!"

"Run, a demonic beast is invading Dao Sword Sect!!"

"What a huge tiger..."

"Whose spiritual pet is this?!"

Hearing these words, Long Qiqi thought that a high-level demonic beast from Hengduan Mountains had come to Dao Sword Sect.

But then...

"It seems to be Li Shiyin's mount in white robes?" One of the Dao Sword Sect disciples nearby spoke up.

"Isn't that the White Tiger from Dan Peak?"

"Why is the Xuanming Spirit Tiger going crazy?!"

Upon hearing this, Long Qiqi snapped back to reality and realized that it seemed to be Chasing the Wind up ahead.

"Chasing the Wind? What is Chasing the Wind doing?"

She quickly pushed Qin Ran aside, stood by his side, and looked ahead...

In front of the majestic mountain gate of Dao Sword Sect, a dignified white beast stood proudly. Its entire body was as white as snow, nearly a dozen zhang tall, emanating a fierce and evil aura.

Its pair of sharp black and golden vertical pupils gazed in this direction, as if the king of all beasts was patrolling its territory, and its gaze made people feel a newly born subservience.

"Roar..."

Suddenly, it opened its blood-filled mouth, revealing four ferocious fangs, and let out a loud roar in this direction.

A tiger's roar that captivated souls!

Long Qiqi was startled by the roaring sound, realizing for the first time how terrifying and intimidating Chasing the Wind could be.

That silly and clumsy tiger, the one who could only roll around and act lazy, the soft and gentle tiger lying on him, turned out to be so fierce, like a wild beast...

It was only then that she remembered that Chasing the Wind was a seventh-level demon beast, and Qin Ran had said he would advance to the eighth level.

After a while, she finally remembered that it was Chasing the Wind and quickly regained her composure. With a trembling heart, she asked Qin Ran, "What's wrong with Chasing the Wind?"

Qin Ran had a serious expression and hadn't answered yet.

At that moment, Chasing the Wind provided her with an answer. The fierce white tiger spoke, asking, "Dad... has anyone seen my dad?"

"...," Long Qiqi was speechless. "Oh, so he's putting on this fierce appearance to find his dad!"

He's still a little daddy's boy!

Well, that's settled...

"Dad?" The people here had no idea what a dad was and asked each other, "Do you know what a dad is?"

"I don't know, do you?"

"Probably some powerful treasure!" This person thought of it being a big cat and added, "Or maybe it's a toy..."

"Can I ask, is there a possibility that a dad is a person?"

"A person?" someone pondered, "Who would have such a strange name?"

"But to be honest, it's quite fitting for that big bug's current state."

Chasing the Wind waited for a while, but no one got up to give him an answer. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed and disdainfully scanned the people. He snorted and turned around to travel elsewhere to find his dad.

"Why can't Chasing the Wind smell us?" Long Qiqi looked at the foolish tiger about to take off and couldn't help asking Qin Ran.

Qin Ran didn't respond. He rose into the air and shouted, "Chasing the Wind?!"

"Hey!" Chasing the Wind heard the familiar voice and instinctively responded, then realized it, stopped in his tracks, and looked towards the sound, seeing Qin Ran rising from the crowd.

"Dad!" He excitedly opened his eyes wide and shouted as he was about to rush towards Qin Ran.

But he was different now. He had become smarter and noticed Qin Ran's serious face while running. He hurriedly stopped.

"What are you doing?" Qin Ran asked, one word at a time. He really didn't know what to say.

Chasing the Wind probably didn't know how his mother died. Three years ago, on a rainy night, his mother chased after a Thundering Horned Ox and died in front of the Dao Sword Sect's gate.

As a demon beast in a human sect, how dare you be so arrogant?! Don't you even know how to write the word "death"? I've taught you!

Chasing the Wind hadn't died yet because Li Shiyin took him around the Dao Sword Sect every day. The people of the Dao Sword Sect knew him as Dan Peak's Female Sword Immortal's mount and as Dan Peak's spirit beast.

But what if those people pretended not to know?

Especially the people from Qi Peak. If they killed Chasing the Wind, they could play dumb and say it was an invading demon beast at the Dao Sword Sect... Where could Qin Ran reason with them?

"I was looking for you!" Chasing the Wind didn't realize the seriousness of the problem. He blinked his big eyes and replied.

Qin Ran took a deep breath, suppressing his anger, and asked, "What do you want from me?"

"Dad, you suddenly disappeared... and haven't come home for several days..." Chasing the Wind said weakly.

Qin Ran felt deeply moved in his heart, but also afraid. He flew towards Chasing the Wind and slapped his cat-like head. If he wasn't worried about his image being damaged, he would have given him a flying kick.

"Go back!" he said coldly.

"Oh..." Chasing the Wind didn't know why Qin Ran was angry, but he nodded obediently and turned to walk towards the entrance of Dao Sword Sect.

"Wow! Who is that person?" someone asked, "Daring to be so fierce and treat the Xuanming Spirit Tiger like that."

"Probably the owner of that tiger..."

"I also want to raise a fat tiger."

"Big and soft, so adorable. I can slide right into his belly, it's so warm. How nice!"

"Hey, hey, hey!! You two, did you forget about me again?!" At this moment, a girl's voice shouted loudly from the crowd, "You really aren't a family, not entering through the same door."

Someone was left behind at the mountain gate by Li Shiyin last time, and this time, Qin Ran left them behind at the mountain gate.

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