My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

Elders and disciples followed behind Li Shuhe, and they stepped forward to congratulate Ruan Chayan on safely surviving the Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

Qi Huixian stopped the rain from falling and looked at the old Ze Palace, half of which had been destroyed by the rain. He had a slightly helpless expression but said nothing.

The perceptive elders had already gathered around Qi Huixian, offering their concern and inquiring about the repairs to the Old Ze Palace.

Ruan Chayan, having survived the ordeal, had barely had time to feel fortunate before she felt like a monkey being watched by a crowd, yet she couldn't show any impatience.

She clasped her hands together, rubbed her thumbs, and stood awkwardly in front of everyone, repeatedly expressing her gratitude.

"You must be the Fiery-Eyed Golden Lion?" Li Shuhe looked at the man standing behind Ruan Chayan.

The man was arrogant and fearless: "That's right, I am the ferocious beast Fire-Eyed Golden Lion who started the war between the two worlds a thousand years ago, Jin Si."

When he appeared in the world, he directly caused the Canglan Realm and the Canghai Realm to go to war, resulting in the deaths of people in both realms. When asked about the reason for such a heinous act, he simply found it amusing.

Li Shuhe looked at Qi Huixian, feeling she deserved an explanation—

The ferocious beast had been sealed in the dungeon formation beneath the Unmelting Mountain. Why is it now swaggering out and even becoming Ruan Chayan's contracted beast?

Qi Huixian remained calm and composed: "Second Senior Sister, don't look at me. I don't know how he escaped either. Let's ask him later; maybe he'll tell us."

Hua Shiqing and Li Shuhe are disciples of Shen Xusi, Qi Huixian's senior master.

When Li Shuhe heard Qi Huixian call her Second Senior Sister, she knew that the child was really panicked and was probably in a state of mental collapse.

She sighed and didn't ask any more questions.

Jin Si unabashedly extended his divine sense, taking in the entire Shi Ren Sect: "Where is Gu Liuzhi?"

"I finally escaped from that lousy formation he and Shen Xusi used to create, why doesn't he come and catch up with me?"

Qi Huixian calmly said, "My master has already ascended to immortality."

Upon hearing this, Jin Si was momentarily at a loss for what to focus on. He was shocked and filled with despair: "Gu Liuzhi actually ascended?! Damn it!"

"I should never have signed the contract with you! Why didn't you get struck by lightning? If you were dead, I'd be free!"

Ruan Chayan's eyelids twitched twice. She was still pondering the true value of "stirring up a war between two realms and possessing the ferocious beast, the Fiery-Eyed Golden Lion," and was speechless at Jin Si's reaction: "We've already formed a pact, we share the same fate, you don't have to go to such lengths..."

"Who shares your glory and disgrace?!" Jin Si was very displeased. He leaned closer to Qi Huixian and looked him up and down: "You're Gu Liuzhi's disciple? When did he take you as his disciple? The way you look clearly shows..."

“Yu Chen Dao Zun only became Ci An Dao Zun’s disciple after you were sealed.” Li Shuhe quickly interrupted Jin Si, afraid that he would reveal Qi Hui Xian’s identity.

Jin Si understood what Li Shuhe meant. He opened his mouth, but ultimately gave up the idea of ​​pointing it out.

Although he once hated Gu Liuzhi and the others for sealing him away, nearly a thousand years have passed, and those people have either perished or ascended to immortality. No one understands his love and hatred, and he doesn't even know how to face these younger generations.

"You little rascal, you're already a Dao Venerable?"

Jin Si looked around at the elders and disciples with a complicated expression. "Your Shi Ren Sect is no good either. How come you've become so weak after not seeing you for nearly a thousand years?"

His words aroused dissatisfaction among the elders and disciples who were unaware of his identity and fearsome nature. Li Shuhe raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet and calmly instructed them on whether to stay or leave.

The unrelated elders and disciples left at the foot of Mount Burong, while another young disciple went to invite Wang Jingming, the third elder of Luanjin Pavilion, to bring his disciples to repair the Jiuze Hall.

Fortunately, Ruan Chayan was some distance from the array in front of the hall. If the array related to the Lanxi Secret Realm were damaged by the heavenly tribulation, at best the disciples in the Lanxi Secret Realm would be forced to leave the secret realm, and at worst they would be unable to leave the Lanxi Secret Realm until the array was repaired.

Qi Huixian led Li Shuhe and the others to his New Snow Palace. The snow outside the palace, which had been falling year-round, melted after Jin Si escaped the constraints of the formation. Perhaps the wonder of the Unmelting Mountain was about to come to an end.

When Li Shuhe asked Jin Si how he escaped the formation of the Unmelting Mountain, Jin Si chuckled and said, "Why should I tell you? It's ridiculous."

Ruan Chayan looked at Jin Si's unruly appearance with a headache: "If I had known you had this kind of personality, I shouldn't have formed a contract with you."

Jin Si: "Yo yo yo! Is forming a pact with me a disservice to you? What's wrong with my personality?"

Ruan Chayan: "You were being affectionate with me in the secret realm..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking!"

Jin Si felt a little ashamed that he was thousands of years old but was pretending to be cute and deceiving people in the secret realm. He boasted, "A few months ago, the formation on Mount Bu Rong loosened and a flaw appeared. I have been studying it for thousands of years, so I had to seize the opportunity to break it in one fell swoop."

"Did you form a bond in the secret realm?"

Li Shuhe grasped the key point in their conversation and asked, "By the way, Xiao Ruan, I was just wondering, how did your cultivation level increase so quickly? Is it because of the Fiery Eye Golden Lion?"

They had already assumed that the fact that the two were able to form a bond despite their vastly different strengths was all because of Jin Si.

Ruan Chayan said she only had a vague understanding: "It must be because of him."

His cultivation level is too high; the reason why beast tamers and spirit beasts can transfer spiritual energy is probably because of this.

That's not the main reason. The main reason is probably that unknown formation, but she can't say.

After pondering for a while, Qi Huixian roughly understood: "It was my dereliction of duty."

Above the dungeon formation of Unmelting Mountain is another formation related to the Lanxi Secret Realm. When I tested Luo Hanying earlier, I was too confident in the formation, which allowed him to exploit a weakness.

"That's right, you little bird are quite clever."

Hundreds of years ago, I discovered that the formation of the Unmelting Mountain connected to your Lanxi Secret Realm, and thus found a way to enter and exit the secret realm. However, I never dared to leave for too long, for fear of being discovered by Gu Liuzhi.

Jin Si sat there like a big shot, bothering everyone, "Ruan Chayan, you don't know, if I were discovered by Gu Liuzhi's little apprentice, and the formation were perfected, you wouldn't be able to get such a powerful beast as my companion."

Ruan Chayan wiped non-existent sweat from her forehead, thinking to herself, "This guy is still showing off."

She could now tell that he was a ferocious beast that had been imprisoned in a formation for thousands of years and was not to be trifled with. It was only because they formed a pact that the beast was able to escape. She now felt like an accomplice who was about to be arrested.

Ruan Chayan tactfully inquired about the Daoist Master and the Vice Sect Leader's arrangements: "Since Jin Si has such a status, what are your plans for dealing with me and him?"

Ruan Chayan asked herself if she could control a thousand-year-old ferocious beast. She thought it best to lock Jin Si up; she didn't want trouble to come knocking on her door.