System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

wow——

Before Chen Xuan could respond, the girl instantly transformed into a streak of black light and joined the corpse brother trapped in the Gu poison. The girl then attached herself directly to the corpse brother's back.

"You actually awakened your divine sense at the mid-stage of the Myriad Manifestations Realm?" The girl in black asked, her voice tinged with doubt as she stared intently at Chen Xuan.

"I'm just asking you if you have any other skills?" Chen Xuan asked the two girls, sword in hand, who were hiding behind the poisonous mist.

"court death!"

Clearly, Chen Xuan's words had thoroughly enraged Gu Yingying. In her four hundred years of cultivation, only the holy sons and daughters of sacred lands, through their methods of restraint, had managed to slightly surpass her among those of the same cultivation level. Entering the Ancient Immortal Path Secret Realm, with her strength and trump cards, she should have been able to sweep through everything in her path. Yet, unexpectedly, she encountered a mere youth who had completely outmaneuvered her. How could she not be furious?

"kill!"

The girl let out a shrill scream, and suddenly a large amount of black liquid gushed out from her body. No, it wasn't black water, but rather countless writhing black Gu worms, which flew out of the girl's body wave after wave, and then disappeared into the endless Gu poison around her.

"Ten Thousand Gu Devour the Heart!"

At this moment, the strange runes between Gu Yingying's eyebrows were flashing with light, and the mother insect in the jade disc in her hand was oozing a green, viscous liquid.

"Squeak squeak squeak—rustle rustle—"

As the girl unleashed her secret technique once more, a disturbing sound suddenly filled the surroundings, as if countless insects were frantically gnawing at leaves.

"Brother, kill him!"

"Kill!" Upon hearing the girl's command, the corpse brother, which had been as still as a statue, transformed into a wisp of black mist once more, attacking Chen Xuan from a tricky angle.

"The speed is 30% faster than before?" Chen Xuan was finally intrigued and took the initiative to meet the attack with his sword.

He clashed with the girl's Gu puppet time and time again. Whenever Chen Xuan deliberately revealed a flaw, a head would pop out from the shoulder of the Corpse Brother and spray a breath full of Gu worms directly at Chen Xuan at close range.

Fortunately, Chen Xuan was extremely fast and managed to turn his head to avoid it in time; otherwise, it would have been troublesome.

"Good, good, not bad. You two are really something, to be able to push me to this point in close combat."

After the two separated, Chen Xuan looked at the girl's head peeking out from the man's shoulder with some disgust.

"How is that possible!" The girl's slender neck stretched out like a venomous snake, her emerald green eyes wide as she exclaimed, "At such close range, how could you possibly dodge my natal Gu poison?"

If Gu Yingying was 80% confident of defeating the white-haired youth in the previous battle, after the failure of this secret ambush, her eyes were filled with disbelief when she looked at Chen Xuan again, and she even had the idea of ​​retreating.

"Which holy land in the Flame Dragon Star Region are you the Holy Son of? Dao Yi, Yao Guang, Tian Xuan, or Jiu You?" Gu Yingying asked, staring intently at Chen Xuan.

"The Flame Dragon Starfield?" After learning the names of the forces outside the Xuanxiao Great World, Chen Xuan became interested and looked at the girl, saying, "Can you tell me who the powerful figures are in these holy lands?"

Seeing that Chen Xuan truly didn't know about the nine holy lands of the Flame Dragon Starfield, Gu Yingying's face appeared gloomy, but inwardly she was in turmoil. How could someone who wasn't a disciple of a holy land be so powerful at the Myriad Manifestations Realm?

"Don't even think about getting these secrets out of me."

Gu Yingying stared at Chen Xuan warily, then shrank back, and with a flick of her wrist, a strange talisman appeared in her hand, about to be crushed.

"Young man, what's your name?"

Chen Xuan naturally recognized the immense power contained within the talisman, but he did not rush to stop it. Instead, he smiled and said, "His Daoist name is Beiming."

"Bei Ming... very good. Remember this, I will definitely seek revenge on you in the future."

As soon as Gu Yingying finished speaking, a sinister smile appeared on her face. Then, she squeezed the talisman in her hand with two fingers and crushed it instantly.

wow——

As the talisman shattered, a vast and powerful force carrying the Dao of Heaven and Earth surged down, enveloping her completely.