After her senior sister was reborn, she actually became a powerful and arrogant protagonist?!

"Not as long as half a day, about three hours."

As Xun Nan spoke, his questioning gaze lingered on Chu Luobai for a long time.

"Gu Lin only stayed in the Divine Willow for less than half an hour before coming out. Why did you stay in there for so long?"

Chu Luobai lowered her eyes, recalling what she had seen after entering the Divine Willow.

According to her own perception, she only felt that she had been in the Divine Willow for a few minutes.

Unexpectedly, three or four hours had already passed outside...

“I don’t know either, I just remember seeing a river of light flowing.”

"The River of Light?!"

Xun Nan suddenly leaned closer, his eyes wide.

"Did you really see it?"

Chu Luobai hadn't expected Xun Nan to be so excited, so he could only nod silently.

"That river of light, could it be the earth veins you mentioned?"

"That's right, I didn't expect you to be able to see the ley lines... Could it be that there's really no way to stop it..."

Xun Nan nodded, but Chu Luobai couldn't understand the mutterings he was making.

"Can't stop it? What are you trying to stop?"

Before Xun Nan could answer, Gu Lin's voice came from afar.

"Fellow Daoist Chu has finally arrived?"

Chu Luobai looked in the direction of the sound and saw Gu Lin holding a bright red animal.

"You... went hunting?"

"You mean this?"

Gu Lin looked down at the thing in his hand, a smile playing on his lips, clearly in a very good mood.

He raised his hand and waved the object in his right hand at Chu Luobai.

Chu Luobai then saw clearly what was in his hand; it was actually a rabbit.

However, this rabbit is quite different from ordinary rabbits. Not only is its fur a bright red, but it also has a horn on its forehead.

The rabbit's belly was heaving, indicating that it was either playing dead or had fainted, and was not actually dead.

"This is... a rabbit?"

Chu Luobai couldn't identify what breed of rabbit it was, but since it was in Gu Lin's hands, it must be something special.

"Red-haired rhinoceros rabbit, a unique monster in the southern border region, lives only in some forests on the southern border."

"Because it has few uses and is very good at escaping, it is rarely found on the market."

“I have a pill formula and I have all the other ingredients, but I am missing this one. I thought I would never be able to refine that pill, but I never expected to find it here.”

"It was worth spending two hours waiting for it."

Gu Lin explained with a smile, it was rare for him to say so much at once, it seemed he was really happy.

"Is this a good start? It seems our trip to southern Xinjiang will go very smoothly."

Chu Luobai raised an eyebrow and echoed Gu Lin's words.

His gaze, however, fell on the red-haired rhinoceros-horned rabbit, and a thought began to form in his mind.

This rare and magical beast is perfect for being kept in a blessed land.

If we could get two of them and put them in the Seven Returns Spring area, I'm sure both Cloud Village and Gourd would like them.

It just so happens that the child of the Hidden Cloud Village is about to hatch, so raising some demonic beasts in the blessed land to serve as hunting prey for him wouldn't be a bad idea.

"Fellow Daoist Chu is right."

Gu Lin nodded slightly, and the red-haired rhinoceros-horned rabbit in his hand disappeared, its whereabouts unknown.

"However, the terrain in the southern border is indeed complex. If I get lost in this dense forest and am attacked by monsters, I really have no confidence that I can escape unscathed."

Chu Luobai looked at Gu Lin's empty right hand, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.

Storage rings cannot store living beings, yet Gu Lin actually has space to store them...

Could it be that he also has a blessed land?

The idea flashed through Chu Luobai's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

In his previous life, when Gu Lin was driven to the brink of despair, he never sought refuge in the blessed land, suggesting he had other means at his disposal...

Xun Nan, standing to one side, watched Chu Luobai chatting and laughing with Gu Lin, his eyes growing increasingly deep.

"Now that everyone's here, let's set off."

"Based on the distance between us and the Tie family, we can reach their location on foot by the middle of the night."

"walk?"

Chu Luobai looked at the pitch-black interior of the forest and subconsciously felt a sense of resistance.

There was always an ominous premonition in my mind.

Some powerful beings dwell in these mountains and forests.

Normally, Chu Luobai would definitely test her, but now she has important things to do.

She didn't want any unnecessary complications.

"If you want to fly there on your sword, I won't stop you, but..."

Xun Nan said, seemingly finding the explanation too complicated.

"It's still far from the Tie family's place. Why don't you try circulating your spiritual energy now?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Luobai, though not understanding the other party's intention, still complied.

The moment the spiritual energy circulated within her body, she felt a sharp pain.

The surrounding spiritual energy, as if it were sentient, began to 'invade' Chu Luobai's body.

"Exclusion?"

Chu Luobai frowned and did not continue to forcefully circulate her spiritual power.

“That’s right. Although they are both spiritual energy, the spiritual energy in the Southern Frontier is ultimately different from that in the Qingzhou Realm.”

“Your cultivation and Gu Lin’s cultivation are both quite high. You are like two behemoths who suddenly appear on someone else’s territory. You will definitely be rejected by the laws of heaven and earth.”

Xun Nan explained, taking out a map from somewhere and drawing a path on it with his fingertip.

"This road always stays on the edge of the dense forest and doesn't go deep into it."

"By the latter half of the night, after traveling for so long, your bodies will have gradually merged with the Southern Frontier, and this world will no longer reject you."

Chu Luobai looked at the path on the map, and it was indeed all on the edge of the dense forest.

"Then I'll do as you say and walk there."

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On the other side, in the Autumn Kingdom.

After Chu Luobai and the others set off, Qiu Lin and Qiu Yue each led a team of men toward the hideouts of the Tie family's spies in Qiu Kingdom.

Qiu Lin was in charge of leading the temporarily hired retainers to clear out the Tie family's cultivators.

Qiuyue, meanwhile, led the palace guards to the homes of ministers in the court who had secret connections with the Tie family.

Some corner of the capital.

Due to the previous Blood God Tree incident, many parts of the capital of Qiu Kingdom have been reduced to ruins.

Amidst these ruins, the mansion, whose wealth was evident even from its outer walls, stands out starkly.

At this moment, inside the mansion, a middle-aged man with a large belly, dressed in a luxurious silk robe, was pacing anxiously back and forth in the main hall.

"Prime Minister Pei and Envoy Tie have already been taken away by Qiu Yue. If you don't let me leave Qiu Kingdom, are you just going to sit here and wait to die?"

He was speaking to a man dressed in southern Xinjiang attire. Although his clothing was understated, the iron character embroidered on his collar was enough to prove his identity.

"Brother Xu, don't worry. My elders have already sent people to rescue the envoy. How could a small Qiu Kingdom possibly cause trouble for my Tie family?"

"Moreover, you have always been at odds with the Southern Frontier, so no matter how much Qiu Yue investigates, she won't be able to find your fault."

"How dare she, an empress with no legitimate title, punish a trusted minister like yourself?"