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

Upon seeing Xun Nan, Chu Luobai was momentarily shocked.

She had thought Xun Nan would take advantage of the chaos to leave, but she never expected to run into him here.

"Seeking the South?"

Suddenly, Chu Luobai remembered the poison pill he had given Xun Nan earlier, and that he hadn't given him the antidote yet. He figured Xun Nan must have stayed behind to ask for the antidote.

"Is that all? Your combat strength is truly beyond my imagination."

Xun Nan's gaze was deep, but his tone was very light.

"The Tie family has been wiped out. Our deal is now over."

As Chu Luobai spoke, he tossed Xun Nan a brown pill that emitted a medicinal fragrance.

"This is the antidote. After taking it, the toxins in your body will be completely eliminated within a day."

Xun Nan took the pill, weighed it in his hand, and seemed to be thinking about something.

Then, he tilted his head back and swallowed the pill directly into his stomach.

"Then thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Chu."

Gu Lin watched from the side, marveling inwardly. He hadn't expected that Xun Nan had actually been controlled by Chu Luobai's drugs.

Feeding someone a poison pill is something that ordinary sword cultivators wouldn't do.

"Oh right, this is what I found on Tie Ao."

Xun Nan handed over the Blood God Tree branch that he had previously obtained from Tie Ao to Chu Luobai.

"Branches of the Blood God Tree are rare even in the Southern Frontier."

"You recognize this?"

Xun Nan's knowledge of the various aspects of the Southern Frontier was indeed beyond Chu Luobai's imagination.

"It's hard for people in the Southern Frontier not to recognize items from the Wu tribe."

Xun Nan laughed, his tone tinged with self-deprecation.

"I saw some rare Gu worms at the Tie family's headquarters. Do you need me to show you the way?"

"Well, consider it a complimentary service."

Chu Luobai couldn't see through Xun Nan's thoughts, but still nodded slightly.

Who can refuse a guide offered for free?

"By the way, is this Blood God Tree branch all that Tie Ao has on him?"

According to the previous statement of the Frost Sect Master, the Blood God Tree should be twins with the Gu Mother.

Since Tie Ao has this branch of the Blood God Tree on him, he should also have the Gu Mother.

"Hmm, that's all I see."

Xun Nan turned and led the way, his tone calm and showing no sign of guilt.

Could it be that the Gu Mother is already dead?

If the Gu Mother is parasitizing Tie Ao and is connected to Tie Ao's life, then it's possible...

After making up his mind to go back and search Tie Ao's body again, Chu Luobai silently followed behind Xun Nan.

After walking around the Tie family's house for a while, Xun Nan led them to an inconspicuous little courtyard.

Behind the courtyard is a charming little garden filled with ordinary trees.

"There is the scent of Gu worms in here."

Xun Nan stopped in front of a rockery that was only one person tall, surrounded by trees.

After saying that, he stepped aside and gestured for Chu Luobai to come forward.

"this..."

Chu Luobai placed her hand on the artificial hill and released her divine sense to investigate.

Beneath this artificial hill lies a sizable space, where subtle spiritual energy flows.

Clearly, the Tie family had set up arrays to isolate detection and provide other protection in this space.

"This Tie Ao is clever; he knows to hide the most important things in the least conspicuous place."

"No wonder he was able to bring the Tie family to its current size."

Those formations seemed to be set up using Gu worms as their core, and Chu Luobai couldn't come up with a good way to break them for the time being, so he couldn't help but sigh.

"Fellow Daoist Gu, this underground space is blocked by an array and cannot be broken open by force. I'll have to trouble you to take a look."

Chu Luobai stepped aside to make room for Gu Lin.

Although it wasn't the 'Returning Soul' Chu Yi wanted, directly breaking the formation with force would most likely destroy that small space.

We should wait for Gu Lin to see if there's a better way to handle this.

"This is the first time I've encountered a formation from the Southern Frontier."

Gu Lin examined the artificial hill, his eyes clearly showing interest.

"It is said that the formations in the Southern Frontier mostly use Gu worms as the core of the formation, which is very different from those in the Qingzhou Realm."

"It's rare to run into you today, so I'll take this opportunity to study it."

"Then Fellow Daoist Gu, please continue your research. I have some matters to attend to."

Chu Luobai knew that Gu Lin was interested and that it would take some time.

He simply said hello and flew towards the location of Tie Ao's corpse.

Inside the deep pit, Tie Ao's body had clearly been disturbed, and his clothes were torn to shreds.

Everything, including magical artifacts, has been completely looted.

I don't know if Xun Nan took it, or if someone else with the guts came by.

"It seems the Gu Mother is indeed not here."

Chu Luobai sighed. If he hadn't been in such a hurry to find that Crimson Feathered Beast, he probably would have found more on Tie Ao.

However, compared to the essence of the phoenix, nothing else matters.

Chu Luobai jumped out of the deep pit and looked around.

The entire back mountain of the Tie family could be described as a field strewn with corpses, with countless bodies lying haphazardly, and the stench of blood filling the air. For the Tie family, this was a living hell.

"If you said this scene was done by a demonic cultivator, people would believe it."

Having reconfirmed the location of Tie Tian's previous death, Chu Luobai lifted her leg and walked towards that spot.

As Chu Luobai passed by a corner she hadn't noticed before, a casual glance made her stop in her tracks.

In a dimly lit corner where the moonlight couldn't reach, several corpses were piled up into a small mountain, almost taller than the wall next to them.

It's obvious that someone with a twisted sense of humor piled them up here.

Moreover, the deaths of these corpses were extremely gruesome; their bodies were deathly pale, and their blood seemed to have been drained from their bodies by something.

The three of them raided the Tie family at night; Gu Lin definitely didn't have that kind of perverse sense of humor, so the remaining people could only be...

"This Xun Nan is truly a little venomous snake, preferring to lurk in the shadows and bite people."

Chu Luobai couldn't help but sigh.

"Luckily I didn't give him the real antidote just now, otherwise it would be troublesome if we encountered it again in the future."

Chu Luobai was never at ease with someone like Xun Nan.

A cluster of flames ignited in Chu Luobai's hand, falling into the pile of corpses, and a scorching wave of heat instantly swept over them.

"It would be best to burn the entire Tie family's house down later, just in case something is left behind and gets traced."

Chu Luobai murmured to himself as he walked toward the other direction where Tie Tian had fallen.

Tie Tian's body wasn't much better off than Tie Ao's; it was obvious at a glance that it had been searched.

A rustling sound came from not far away, and Chu Luobai subconsciously looked up.

A boy was carrying a lot of things in his arms, walking away with his back bent.

Chu Luobai focused her mind and found no magical treasures in the boy's hands, but there were some valuables that were tainted with Tie Tian's aura.

The boy stared at Chu Luobai from afar, his clear black and white eyes showing little fear.

Seeing that Chu Luobai showed no sign of making a move, he turned around decisively and ran into the darkness.

"They have some guts to come and search the corpses of cultivators."

Chu Luobai never disliked this kind of person, and let the young man go.

Just as I turned around to go back to the courtyard, the ground suddenly shook violently.