The leader of the cultivation alliance has a crush on me.

The noise subsided, and he walked up to Song Ke, scrutinizing her face again by the moonlight, a strange smile on his face.

"Where is the goddess?"

“You are the goddess he appointed. Why is it that you are the goddess worshipped by everyone because he taught you, while I am hated and killed by him?”

"To be honest, you didn't die unjustly. You were incredibly foolish. How many people did you think your blood could save?"

"Look at this Heavenly Pool water, it's all stained red with your blood. How could he be so cold-blooded? Even so, he still refuses to give me that thing. It turns out that in his eyes, you are no match for that thing."

Do you think he'll show up to save you this time?

As he spoke, he flipped his hand, and a black seal appeared in his palm. He chuckled sinisterly, and the seal slowly entered Song Ke's forehead. Just as he was about to gloat, thinking he had succeeded, the seal that had just entered was immediately bounced back. The Four Ghost Kings' expression changed. He tried again, but the second time was the same.

He stared at the hand seal on his palm, muttering in disbelief, "Impossible, impossible."

"Who exactly are you?" He stared at Song Ke with a venomous gaze, as if he couldn't believe that Song Ke could deflect his hand seals.

These are the memories of the goddess, which he has kept for many years and are slowly fading away.

His goal was to implant the goddess's memories into Song Ke's mind, driving her to retrieve that item.

But now it's not working, and he's somewhat unwilling to accept it.

Song Ke felt like she had slept for a long time. When she woke up, she found herself still in that illusion. She got up with a helpless expression and decided not to leave, since walking around would only keep her in the same place.

Suddenly, she sensed something different. A black vortex appeared above her, flashing and leaking out a few rays of sunlight. But after a few seconds, the black vortex disappeared again.

She had just looked away when the black vortex reappeared. At that moment, the red line on her palm reappeared, forming a red barrier that directly forced back the black vortex that was trying to rush in.

Song Ke found it strange. She looked at her own palm and touched it, thinking that this wasn't Feng Xun's love potion, so why did it have an offensive power?

The Love Root flew out but did not return. Instead, it tore open a gap in space as if guiding something. Song Ke walked over and took a look, but was pulled into it. Before she could even feel panic, she fainted.

"Song Ke".

Song Chen woke up from a nightmare with a start. She dreamt that Song Ke was killed by the Ghost King and was soaking in a pool covered in blood, which dyed the pool bright red.

She realized that she had been here for several days. The spiritual energy here was not only abundant but also pure, making cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.

She remembered Zhu Heng, who had appeared once that day and then disappeared without a trace. She got up and glanced around the house. The house was not big, and through a small window, she could even see the white snow outside.

She pushed open the door and went outside, only to find that the small house was on the edge of a cliff, with a bottomless abyss just a few meters ahead.

The area was bare, with hardly any vegetation. Looking down from here, she could vaguely see a winding path emerging from the snow-white landscape. It didn't seem to be man-made; rather, it looked like a path that had naturally formed as many people walked on it, stretching all the way to the bottomless foot of the mountain.

Further out, one should have encountered the ancient tree deep in the mountains where the Ghost King was, but at this moment, it looked as if it were covered by a veil, or as if it were shrouded in thick fog, and could not be seen at all.

She looked at the little house standing there all alone, as if there were no other buildings around. She went around to one side and found a very beautiful deer lying there on the right side of the house, its head facing the back of the house.

When Song Chen walked over, she discovered that the area behind the hut was also covered in white snow. If she hadn't been able to automatically keep warm, she would probably have frozen solid by now at this temperature.

The cabin seemed to be built on the top of the mountain, with a winding path leading down to a frozen lake not far away. Song Chen exclaimed in amazement that the lake was a deep blue color and had a halo under the sun, as if it had its own filter.

She was about to go over and see what was going on when she heard Zhu Heng's voice: "What are you doing?"

Song Chen stopped in her tracks. She looked left and right but couldn't see Zhu Heng anywhere. She asked with a puzzled expression, "Where are you?"

Just as she finished asking, the deer lying there suddenly moved and stood up. Song Chen asked in surprise, "So you're a deer."

"Are you the Deer God they speak of?"

Zhu Heng spoke calmly, his tone somewhat speechless: "I am not a god."

"Don't wander off, you're not allowed to go near that lake."

Song Chen listened but didn't ask anything. When you're on someone else's turf, you naturally have to follow their rules. She nodded and said, "Oh."

"Didn't you want to go find your sister?" Zhu Heng asked.

Song Chen nodded: "Do you know where they are?"

After saying that, he added, "Could you turn into a human and talk to me? This is so strange."

Zhu Heng sighed: "Do you think I don't want to? I'm badly injured and not fully recovered yet. Becoming a human again is too much trouble."

"How are you feeling? We might get into a fight," Zhu Heng asked.

Song Chen was somewhat wary: "With that Ghost King?"

"Is he alone or with several people?"

Zhu Heng said, "One. His situation is a bit special. He devoured the primordial spirits of several other people but was unable to refine them, so you could say it's one, or you could say it's four."

"However, they are prone to infighting."

Song Chen asked with curiosity, "You know so much about this, what exactly is your relationship with him?"

Upon hearing this question, Zhu Heng replied irritably, "I'm not familiar with him."

Song Chen realized that they had a grudge.

The space that Song Ke was drawn into by Feng Xun's affections was not a space in the real world, but more like a dream.

Looking at the scene before her, Song Ke felt a strange sense of familiarity. On both sides were small, scattered peaks, which looked steep and towering. Song Ke craned her neck to look around and realized that the top of these peaks probably reached straight into the clouds. Thick fog swirled around the mountainside, giving the whole mountain a mysterious and otherworldly air.

The mountain peak looked as if it had been split in two, with a two-meter-wide bluestone staircase leading up to it. Song Ke felt there were at least a hundred steps.

She stood there motionless, staring for a long time, and then seemed to suddenly realize where she was.

This scene is very similar to the Xuanshang Palace that Song Tu mentioned.

Where does Feng Xun live?

Song Ke looked at her somewhat transparent figure. She didn't know why Feng Xun had brought her here.

She walked uphill, and before she had gone far, she encountered several men who were packing their belongings to go down the mountain. They wore long robes with their waists tied up, jade crowns to bind their hair, and long swords in their hands. Their steps were light, and each of them exuded an ethereal air.

Just as Song Ke was about to wave and greet them, she heard them talking.

"You said the Alliance Leader is so badly injured this time, yet he won't let anyone take care of him. Is it because he's afraid of being assassinated by spies from the Fallen Nether Alliance?"

"The leader of the Luoyou Alliance doesn't have that kind of brain. Apart from having a higher cultivation level, he doesn't have even a fraction of our leader's wisdom. Judging from his behavior of coming up the mountain to challenge people to fights at the drop of a hat, he certainly couldn't have come up with these convoluted schemes."

"Alright, you're being so tactful. You might as well just say the leader of the Luoyou Alliance is stupid."

Song Ke: “…”