If I had known I wouldn't have saved you!

The sky is clear and the journey is long.

Lin Shiyi and Gu Roushuang had been down the mountain for a day. During this time, they passed by a small town at the foot of the mountain and rested for a night. Nothing unexpected happened.

After the two of them put on the Three Thousand Illusion Masks, their appearance became ordinary, just like an ordinary couple. When they changed into coarse clothes, no one could recognize them.

After leaving the town, the two walked for many more days and finally arrived at Chixiao City.

This city is a border town of the Great Jin State. After entering here, you will come to the land of mortals.

Dajin is a mortal kingdom in Xuantian Continent. It is located in the center of the continent and has a very vast territory. It is connected to the blue sky and sea in the north, the wilderness in the east, the six sects of immortals in the south, and the six sects of demons in the west.

Immortal cultivators will not interfere in wars between mortals, but if the six sects of the evil way harass the mortal world, the six major immortal gates will intervene without hesitation.

For hundreds of years, dynasties have been constantly changing in the mortal world, but the evil path and the immortal sect are like a sword hanging over the head, firmly existing above the heads of mortals.

Every once in a while, the immortal sects and the demon sects would send people from this mortal kingdom to select mortals with spiritual roots and bring them back to their sects to train as successors. Therefore, although there have been countless battles between immortals and demons, few would harm the foundations of mortals. Even if there are demons that wreak havoc on the world, they are just some low-level cultivators who do not know the overall situation and come to the mortal world to seek a sense of existence.

Lin Shiyi and Gu Roushuang entered Chixiao City smoothly. It was a peaceful time, so the city gate patrols were not strict. Moreover, the areas outside the border city were mostly inhabited by immortals and demons, and there were rarely any mortal troops stationed there.

After entering the city, Lin Shiyi took Gu Roushuang to find an inn to rest, and then began to study the next route.

If you want to refine the Infant Transformation Pill, the most important things are the three medicinal ingredients.

They are the Immortal Lotus, the Soul-sharing Grass, and the Yin-Yang Wood.

These three things are extremely precious and hard to find in the world. According to the clues handed down a hundred years ago, if you want to find the Immortal Lotus, you can only go to the Great Wilderness to try your luck, and if you want to get the Yin-Yang Wood, you can only go to the Blue Sky and the Sea. As for the Soul-sharing Grass, it is said to be a magical grass unique to the Demonic Path.

The effect of this spiritual herb is the same as its name. If two people take the same spiritual herb, their souls will be connected from then on. In addition to the senses being connected, the birth, aging, sickness, death, joy, anger, sorrow and happiness of one person will directly affect the other person.

It is unknown how the Demon Sect obtained and cultivated this magical herb, but apart from refining the Infant Transformation Pill, the Demon Sect has always used it to harm the righteous monks.

In the evil sect, once they robbed any righteous monk, no matter how chaste the woman was, or how strong the man was, once they were fed the Soul-Same Grass, it would be extremely difficult for them to escape from the clutches of the evil sect.

Lin Shiyi's plan is to first go to the Great Wilderness to look for the Immortal Lotus, then go to the blue sky and sea to look for the Yin-Yang Wood, and finally venture to the Demonic Path to look for the Soul-Sharing Grass.

But no matter where you go, you need to pass through the transit station of Dajin State. Moreover, there are immortals, demons, mortals and all kinds of people here, so you need to be extremely careful in everything. Even a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage may accidentally die here.

"If we want to find the Immortal Lotus, it's best to blend in with the mortal caravan... We need to come up with a foolproof plan..."

Lin Shiyi sat in the room of the inn, holding a teacup in his hand and thinking secretly.

"Husband, you have been frowning since just now, what's wrong?"

Gu Roushuang didn't know what the purpose of going down the mountain was. Ouyang Xuan only asked her to listen to Lin Shiyi and didn't say what the mission was. Seeing that Lin Shiyi was in a daze, she couldn't help but ask.

Lin Shiyi came back to his senses and said with a smile: "It's nothing, my wife, we have a lot to do this time, and I am just worried that I can't do it well."

Gu Roushuang asked in confusion: "What exactly is this mission..."

"Miss!"

Lin Shiyi quickly interrupted her and then whispered, "We should speak softly so that no one can hear us."

Gu Roushuang nodded and said, "Okay, then I won't ask anymore. If you need me to do anything, just tell me directly. Master told me to listen to you."

After saying that, she got up and went to make the bed.

Lin Shiyi went to order some wine and food, asked about the route, and chatted with the waiter for a while about the recent rumors in the city, and got a lot of information.

"Hey, little brother, you just said something strange happened in the past few days, what is it?"

Lin Shiyi stood in the aisle, put his arm around the waiter's shoulder and asked.

The waiter looked around carefully and found that no one was paying attention to this side. He was startled and said: "Sir, you came at the wrong time! Recently, many people have disappeared in this city, all young men and women. The government sent people to look for them everywhere, but they couldn't find them. You and your wife, don't go out at night!"

"So scary?"

"That's not the case!"

The two chatted for a few more words, and the waiter went to serve the meal. Lin Shiyi walked around the inn and sensed a familiar scent.

“Luckily, I have the Qi-retaining treasure that Master gave me, otherwise I would have been discovered by them… I didn’t expect to run into a cultivator here so soon, but I don’t know which sect he is from…”

Lin Shiyi went downstairs and walked around the hall. Although he appeared calm on the surface, he was already worried in his heart, because the surroundings were full of fluctuations of spiritual energy, and it was obvious that there were many cultivators hiding in this inn.

After a rough investigation, he didn't dare to interfere and slowly returned to his room and told Gu Roushuang about it.

"Who do you think they are, my husband?"

Gu Roushuang stood at the window, looking outside and frowning as she thought.

She was wearing the Three Thousand Illusion Masks, and at the moment she looked like an ordinary woman, but her cold and aloof temperament was hard to hide, and when she spoke she sounded as sweet as a yellow oriole singing out of a valley.

Lin Shiyi was stunned for a moment, then took a sip of tea and said, "No matter who they are, we are just a couple selling medicine, so we should not provoke them. But my lady, you should speak less in front of outsiders. You have such a nice voice, it's easy to attract people's attention."

"You're so talkative." Gu Roushuang said as she closed the window.

The two chatted for a while about the next journey and then prepared to rest. Lin Shiyi listened to the advice and would definitely stay with his wife at night so that she would not run around. The missing people might have been caused by those monks who were in hiding.

The night was cool and the moon shone through the gauze window. The entire inn was very quiet. Lin Shiyi locked the door and set up a formation in the room to isolate the breath and sound. In this way, mortals could not get in and monks could not notice it. It was extremely safe.

"My husband is really meticulous. In the past, when my fellow apprentice sisters and I went out, we would directly set up restrictions on the door. Although that could block the monks from prying, it would inevitably be discovered. But my husband set up a formation inside the house, so the monks outside the door could not detect it, but they could not find out the situation inside the room. It was really a good plan."

Gu Roushuang sat on the bed, watching Lin Shiyi fiddling with the formation, and praised him sincerely.

Lin Shiyi arranged everything, stood up, clapped his hands and said with a smile: "My cultivation progress is not as good as my wife's, I can only use my brain to do some good things, it's really not worth mentioning."

Gu Roushuang shook her head and said, "Husband, don't underestimate yourself. You still have many strengths."

"I have only one strength, you know..."

Having said that, Lin Shiyi sat down next to her and couldn't wait to hug her.

"Husband... stop making trouble..."

Gu Roushuang struggled quickly.

Lin Shiyi hugged her tightly and said, "Don't worry, my lady... No one outside can hear anything. It has been several days, and your husband has endured it very hard..."

Gu Roushuang said with shame and anger: "So you prepared this formation for this matter? I praised you for nothing..."

Lin Shiyi said shamelessly: "It's okay... Hehe, but my lady, can you take off the Three Thousand Illusions first?"

"Why? Do you think I don't look good now?" Gu Roushuang pouted.

Lin Shiyi quickly shook his head and said, "No... Madam, with your temperament, how can you not look good? It's just that your face is different, which will inevitably give me an illusion. I'm afraid I will feel guilty about cheating..."

"Shh... don't talk, there's someone outside."

Gu Roushuang suddenly said vigilantly.

Then she stood up and slowly walked to the door.

Lin Shiyi was stunned, and immediately stopped playing and followed her to the door.

The two of them put their ears against the door, listening quietly to the noise outside.

"Didn't I tell you not to attack civilians? Do you want to die?"

A very pleasant female voice sounded outside the door, but her words were extremely vicious.

"It's unfair, Saint! Except for the incident three days ago, none of the others were done by us... In my opinion, it was done by people from other branches."

A man answered cautiously.

Lin Shiyi felt that the female voice was unusually familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before. He couldn't help but look through the crack in the door and was so shocked that he almost shouted out loud.

"Ji Hanxi?! Oh my god, why is she here?"

Not only did Lin Shiyi recognize her, but Gu Roushuang knew Ji Hanxi was outside the door when she heard the voice. She was very familiar with everything about this old rival of many years, and at this moment, a sense of fighting spirit rose in her heart.

"With the help of my husband, I have already reached the late stage of foundation building. I wonder what realm this enchantress Ji Hanxi is in now...why don't I go out and compete with her now!"

Thinking of this, Gu Roushuang was about to open the door and go out to fight.

Before she could take the sword out of the storage bag, she felt someone hugging her waist.

"Hey? Husband...let me go...what are you doing?"

Of course Lin Shiyi saw through Gu Roushuang's plan, and immediately picked her up from behind. Regardless of her struggle, Lin Shiyi gently placed her on the bed.

"My lady... there are so many demonic cultivators outside. We are outnumbered... just be patient for now."

Lin Shiyi whispered.

Gu Roushuang said anxiously: "How can this be possible? We are upright and righteous, how can we hide from the evil ways?"

As she said this, she even wanted to go find Ji Hanxi to fight.

Seeing this, Lin Shiyi hurriedly hugged her and comforted her, "My wife! Don't worry, there are plenty of opportunities to fight. Let's get things straight first, didn't you hear? The people who disappeared in the past few days were not caused by these demonic monks, which means there is a third party force! We must first find out who the enemy is, otherwise you will both lose in the fight, and it will be bad if someone else takes advantage of you!"