Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 71 Traveling Together
Yun Yi and Song Xinci did not stay in Fuyao Sect for long. After a short rest, Yun Yi found that he could walk normally, so the two decided to leave.

Yun Yi felt a little sad when he was leaving. After all, he had lovely senior brothers and sisters here, as well as a fairly reliable master.

But Song Xinci's words dispelled his thoughts, "I am a demon girl from the Demon Sect. If the Fuyao Sect doesn't attack me now, will they do the same in the future?"

That was true. Song Xinci's identity had been exposed, and she had murdered Piaomiaozi and Meng Fan in public. The reason no one from the Fuyao Sect was looking for her was mainly due to her own severe damage, and also because she had been ordered by the Sect Master not to embarrass herself.

So the two of them disguised themselves simply, and without saying goodbye to anyone, they walked directly out of the Qingluo Peak gate.

When they were stopped by the gatekeeper disciples, they said that their master had arranged an urgent task for them, so they had a smooth journey.

There was just one thing that concerned Yun Yi. It would be fine for him to be disguised as Xun Ziyu, but Song Xinci chose not to disguise himself as Qi Ling'er, but Su Qing.

The owner of this face is a prominent figure in the Fuyao Sect, and has attracted countless attention along the way.

It was not until they left Fuyao Sect and Yun Yi removed his disguise that he could not help but ask, "Do you really have to dress up as Su Qing?"

Song Xinci imitated Su Qing's gentle smile and said, "I was worried that Junior Brother Yun didn't have time to say goodbye to Senior Sister Su, and that he felt regretful, so I tried every possible way to make up for it."

"Then thank you very much."

"You're welcome. If you ever miss Senior Sister, just tell me and I'll disguise myself as her to talk to you."

Yun Yi knew that if he continued to argue, he would get nothing out of it, so he changed the subject and asked, "Where are we going next?"

Song Xinci removed her disguise, returning to her original appearance, her eyes piercing with sternness. "Don't rush back to the Demon Sect."

"Are you worried that there are spies in Sword Burial Valley?"

"That's right, the news that I went to the nameless town to cultivate my mind was leaked to Piaomiaozi by Futian Pavilion. This means that there must be people in the Burial Sword Valley who are secretly colluding with Futian Pavilion."

"Furthermore, this person is of a very high status, otherwise he wouldn't know such a secret as you going out to cultivate your mind."

In fact, Yun Yi really wanted to tell Song Xinci at this moment,

I know who the traitor is!

In our previous life, we had to go through a lot of trouble to find each other in the Sword Burial Valley!
But he couldn't reveal the information to Song Xinci. If he said it rashly, it would only arouse suspicion and even bring trouble to himself.

Song Xinci was very perceptive and noticed Yun Yi's strange expression: "What are you thinking about?"

Yun Yi said, "I'm lucky the Tongxin Gu can't let us hear each other's thoughts, otherwise we would have no privacy at all."

"Hmph, the Concentric Gu is indeed a problem. I've looked up records about it in both the Buried Sword Valley and the Fuyao Sect, but unfortunately, there are too few. They only say that there's no cure for it once you're below the Ascension Realm."

"Then I can only hope that you can advance to the Ascension Realm sooner."

Song Xinci said with a cold face: "That's easy for you to say. I'm not even at the Hedao realm now."

Yun Yi nodded and said, "So we won't return to the Demon Sect for the time being. We must not let the spies in the Buried Sword Valley know about this, otherwise I'm afraid many people will come to surround and kill you again."

"Ah."

"Have you ever thought that, in the final analysis, it's because you are unpopular?"

Song Xinci frowned slightly, "Yun Yi, I'm already starting to regret it."

Yun Yi knew what she was regretting, so he smiled and said, "It's too late."

After some discussion, the two decided to head to Crescent City first to search for Suzaku and Nangong Zhuozhuo. They had been out of contact for some time, and Yun Yi was genuinely worried. Song Xinci disagreed, believing Suzaku's Three Flames Escape ability would allow him to escape even if he encountered a Return to Void Realm cultivator, so he wouldn't be in danger. Perhaps another opportunity or some trouble had prevented him from replying.

Hearing her say this, Yun Yi felt much more relieved, thinking that as a person in the late Qi Refining Realm, he had no right to worry about a master in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

That's right, under the effect of the Tongxin Gu, Yun Yi has broken through the middle stage of the Qi Refining Realm and successfully advanced to the late stage. Now he is only one step away from the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Refining essence into Qi is actually a process of accumulating spiritual energy. Although the Fuyao Dao Fruit is of no help in this regard, no one expected that Song Xinci would feed the Tongxin Gu to Yun Yi, which allowed him to get a great bargain.

The only problem at the moment is that Yun Yi did gain some benefits, but Song Xinci not only declined in realm, but also his foundation in the avenue was unstable, and he couldn't even display his cultivation to the Return to Void Realm in a short period of time.

In addition, the Xisheng Sword was destroyed, and her current situation was even worse than when she was in the nameless town.

Yun Yi could see that Song Xinci was in a bad mood and was obviously affected, so he made jokes along the way to try to cheer her up.

It was really meant to be funny, not to make her angry.

Logically speaking, given their current situation, they should have found a place to hide and recover secretly. Yun Yi's Xumi Ring happened to contain a lot of elixirs that could be of great help.

But Song Xinci is definitely not a person who would resort to cowardice. She believes that time is running out and that the people in Futian Pavilion will definitely do something secretly. Now that she is already one step behind, she must not fall behind others in everything.

Yun Yi thought it made sense. If they followed the trajectory of their previous life and returned to the Demon Sect, they would follow the routine of catching traitors, practicing, and going out to fight...

Who knows, he might end up falling off a cliff.

Now that we have finally caught the Futian Pavilion's tail in the Fuyao Sect, we should indeed conduct a secret investigation. Only by knowing ourselves and the enemy can we win every battle.

In this way, the two of them came to "Ruijiang Prefecture" located northwest of Fuyao Sect, a medium-sized town where the Shi family operated.

Since Song Xinci intended to conceal her identity, she did not pretend to be Shi Yucheng or contact the Shi family on her own initiative. Instead, she took Yun Yi to stay in the inn for one night and then find a way to go to Crescent City tomorrow.

I just didn't expect there would be any unexpected situations.

A group of people happened to be staying at the inn today, so there was only one room left.

What is also quite concerning is that although this group of people are wearing ordinary clothes, they are obviously people who practice cultivation.

Yun Yi secretly observed them and concluded that this group of people must be from the Great Xia Dynasty. Most of them were martial artists who had not yet mastered the art of refining essence into qi. A few were at the qi refining stage, and the leader, the beardless, white-faced man, was at the spirit transformation stage.

In addition, there is a big monk with his hands and feet chained. The reason why he is called a monk is because the man has a bald head. The iron chains are engraved with complicated talismans, which are definitely not ordinary items.

Yun Yi knew very little about the affairs of the secular dynasty and had rarely dealt with these forces in his previous life, so he did not recognize this person.

Instead, the big monk seemed to notice Yun Yi's gaze and actually glanced over here.

At this time, Yun Yi and Song Xinci both made simple disguises, making slight adjustments based on their original appearance, mainly to prevent Song Xinci from attracting too much attention.

But the big monk's eyes seemed to be able to see through disguises. This did not mean that he had a very high level of cultivation, but that he had experienced many vicissitudes of life and seen all kinds of people in the world, so he had such a pair of eyes.

Song Xinci, who had never cared about worldly affairs, didn't care about this. She just urged from the side, "What are you standing there for?"

Yun Yi said, "The store owner said there's only one room left."

Song Xinci: “?”

Yun Yi: "Really, I didn't lie to you."

(End of this chapter)