The whole family went mad, but the junior sister turned the tables and her luck soared.

The emperor looked like a male demon, and the great demons present couldn't deny it when the Feathered Clan claimed him.

The chieftain of the Sanqing tribe asked, "Lady Baiwu, may I ask what race this young man belongs to?"

“After Ci Ying returned from the sacrificial ceremony, she mentioned him, this young man named Di Zhao, whose fire could even heat the water in the cold pool.”

"Could it be some kind of alien fire winged race?"

Just as human cultivators can subdue different flames, some winged races are born with their own accompanying flames.

However, the chief of the Sanqing tribe was still a bit timid and didn't dare to associate the imperial edict with the phoenix at all.

Bai Wu's eyes flickered slightly, thinking to herself that if the identity of the imperial edict were announced, the patriarchs of the Feather Clan present would probably fight tooth and nail for it.

However, she still wanted to sell the imperial edict and Li Ji for good.

Moreover, if the Emperor's identity is exposed and he remains in the demon realm, he will certainly not be able to submit to other demon cultivators.

When that happens, the fourteen cities of the demon realm will become fifteen, and the entire power structure will be reshuffled.

Bai Wu didn't want to see this happen.

She said, "I don't know much about the original body of the imperial edict, but he volunteered to participate in the post-ritual sacrifice because the treasures he offered made me think that you would all be tempted."

The demon envoy from Fuyu City eagerly pressed for an answer: "What is that? Even Lady Bai Wu is willing to make an exception for it?"

Of course it's... Phoenix Fire Feathers...

This is unique in the world.

Currently, there is only one phoenix in the Three Realms, and trying to pluck its feathers is a pipe dream.

It has already been swallowed by Bai Wu.

Bai Wu smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist, why are you in such a hurry? The rule of the post-ritual is that whoever grabs it first gets to keep it."

"Until this point, we will not disclose to the public what the younger generation of each family has in their hands."

Bai Wu was very confident that the treasures in the Emperor's hands would not be snatched away by these cubs.

Therefore, it was impossible for the emperor to make public what he held in his edict.

Bai Wu's words piqued the interest of the demons, who were all itching to look at the imperial edict reflected in the water mirror.

In the water mirror, Yun Yici and his group were following the guidance of the Mother-Child Talisman to find Muyunjian.

Li Zheng couldn't help but look over as well.

Li Zhan and Mu Yunjian disappeared at the same place. If they can find Mu Yunjian, they can probably find Li Zhan as well.

It must be said that with the imperial edict in place, Yun Yici and his companions are much bolder than before.

They hadn't gone far when the Emperor, finding the pace too slow, summoned his folding fan artifact and invited everyone to ride with him.

If it weren't for the imperial edict, Yun Yici and her two siblings would absolutely not have flown through the air to attract aggro, just to be on the safe side.

The folding fan was very large, so the emperor moved it aside and handed the soft cushion he had made earlier to Yun Yici.

Yun Yici flew onto the fan and discovered that the seemingly white folding fan was actually a skeleton as thin as paper, and the ground beneath her feet felt as hard as solid earth.

The fan surface is engraved with many strange and beautiful patterns, and it also exudes a coolness.

Just as Yun Yici was about to examine the contents of the painting closely, the Emperor decreed, "Don't look."

"I stole this fan from a... heretical cultivator. The carvings on it are unusual; looking at them for too long can easily disturb one's mind."

Yun Yici said, "So that's how it is. Thank you, Senior Emperor's Decree."

After the four people were seated, the folding fan flew at an extremely fast speed in the direction guided by the mother-child talisman.

The three of them, Yun Yici and her brother, were all worried about Mu Yunjian's safety, and no one spoke for a moment.

The folding fan flew across the red demon forest, and the group sat on the fan, seeing for the first time the terrain that Yun Yici had originally described.

At that moment, they were heading in the direction of that darkness.

The Emperor decreed: "Just now I heard you say that besides Muyunjian, there are also people from Huzheng?"

The emperor's first thought was to find a secluded place in the clouds to destroy the body and cover up the crime.

Having refined the essence of the Nine-Headed Serpent in the twilight, surely he couldn't possibly be no match for a mere Tiger Cub?

In fact, the emperor's edict was correct.

In the surging, thick, dark fog, in the place where the Qingqiu Water Mirror could not be seen.

A small tiger lay in a pool of blood, its former arrogance long gone.

His colorful fur was now stained with blood from the exposed flesh, obscuring its original pattern.

Two of its five flamboyant tails were broken off.

Despite the horrific state, Li Zhan was still alive, his eyes filled with resentment as he glared at the white-clad Rakshasa who was stepping on his head.

He was tricked by the demon and lured into the strange black mist.

Strangely, he lost all his demonic power after inhaling the mist, while the demon remained completely unaffected.

"You dare to kill me?"

"I have a blood connection with my father. If I die, you won't live either!"

Seeing Li Zhan's gaze, Mu Yunjian pressed down with his toes, instantly crushing the head beneath his feet into the ground.

He said softly, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. It's because you have a good father."

Mu Yunjian understood Wen Fuyue and the others' good intentions.

But he didn't want to involve them.

His master, fellow disciples, and junior disciples were all good people; their hands should not be tainted with any hatred.

If Li Zhan hadn't relentlessly pressured him, Mu Yunjian would never have planned to take action after the ceremony.

What we have now is far from enough, it's simply not enough.

One Li Zhan could not possibly repay the blood debt owed by the Hu Zheng clan.

When he introduced himself, Li Zheng didn't even realize that his name was from the E'yao clan, which he had once slaughtered.

Li Zhan was the first.

Li Zheng died, along with his Daoist partner and his daughter.

Mu Yunjian's eyes darkened. He couldn't kill Li Zhan yet, but he could skin him alive, tear him apart, and keep him alive forever.

At this moment, the black mist transformed into countless streams of black gas that rushed into Li Zhan's mouth and nose, sucking the tiger away until only its skin remained.

The moment Mu Yunjian noticed the anomaly, he abandoned his fierce attack and quickly retreated, but it was too late...

On the other side, the Emperor deliberately avoided the other demon cultivators in the area, and the folding fan quickly led everyone into the range of the black mist.

At the same time, Li Zheng, who was looking at the image in the water mirror, shouted out.

"A-Zhan!!! My son!!!"

Li Zheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he had completely lost control.

All the demons in the hall were drawn to Li Zheng.

The chieftain of the Sanqing tribe exclaimed in astonishment, "Chieftain Li Zheng? What's going on? Could it be...?"

The demons looked at Li Zheng with surprise and uncertainty, and then at Bai Wu.

It's not that demons haven't died during the post-ritual sacrifice, but Qingqiu has been responsible for holding the sacrifice many times, and there haven't been any problems for many years.

Bai Wu glanced at the distrustful looks in the eyes of the demons, took a deep breath, and said to Bai Ruo, who was standing silently to the side, "Go into that black mist and see what's going on."

"If necessary, bring those few people out as well."

As soon as Bai Wu finished speaking, Yun Yici and the others in the water mirror disappeared without a trace.

Now Wen Fuyue and the Chilong clan chief could no longer sit still.

Wen Fuyue rose and bowed to Bai Wu: "Demon King, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, a murderous aura came from behind him.

Wen Fuyue didn't care about anything else; she drew her spirit sword from behind and immediately blocked the killing move from behind.

He turned back and saw Li Zheng's crazed and resentful face: "If it weren't for that demon! My son wouldn't have died such a tragic death!"

This was purely misplaced anger. It was Li Ji who truly recommended Mu Yunjian, and it was Bai Wu who repeatedly said there was no danger.

However, Li Zheng couldn't afford to offend anyone, so he picked on Wen Fuyue, whom he considered an easy target.

Wen Fuyue wouldn't indulge him.

He knocked back the enraged Li Zheng with a single sword strike, knowing there was no point in arguing, and simply said, "My disciple's fate is still unknown, so if Clan Chief Li Zheng wants to fight, then come out and fight!"

Li Ji was also enraged; she had promised to ensure the safety of Wen Fuyue and her group.

Li Ji also stood up and said to Bai Wu, "Today's events are destined to end badly."

“It’s not that I’m disrespecting Qingqiu, but I can’t just stand by and watch the people I brought be killed in front of me.”

The chieftain of the Chilong clan was still worried about his foolish son, and was taken into the black mist by Renxiu.

The more Li Zheng hinders the Qingqiu fox clan from going in to rescue them, the more dangerous it becomes for Hua Yi.

So, to the surprise of all the demons, the chief of the Chilong clan also sided with Wen Fuyue and asked Bai Wu to let Bai Ruo in to rescue people as soon as possible.

The demon envoy from Fuyu City said, "It was supposed to be a later sacrifice, but who knew it would turn out like this."

“If your son is gone, it means that the black fog is extremely dangerous, and that evil spirit will definitely not survive either.”

"The best course of action now is to quickly take remedial measures and prevent other cubs from wandering into that strange fog!"

The other powerful demons shared the same sentiment: those who died were dead, but their own offspring were still alive!

Bai Wu's face was grim as she said, "My clan's priest will go in to rescue people, and I will also notify the elders here to persuade the cubs that are near the black mist to leave."

Bai Ruo quietly disappeared, so quickly that Wen Fuyue didn't even have time to say a word.

Li Zheng was forcibly persuaded to leave by other powerful demons, and Wen Fuyue was too anxious to care.

Li Ji comforted him, "With that person here, your disciple will be fine."

Shen Huaichuan also pulled him back and said softly, "Don't worry, Xiao Ci will have a way."

He believed in her; wherever she was, she would reach the place she wanted to go.

Yun Yici on the folding fan was unaware that they had "lost contact" again.

As the fog in front of her grew thicker, she simply lit up the silver light in her palm.

Then the light shone brightly, transforming into a gleaming glass lamp.

Yun Yici held it in her hand and infused it with spiritual power. The glass lamp lit up, but the light was not a flame. The tiny, firefly-sized core flickered, as if it had abundant life force.

Yun Yici said, "This is a hundred-fold lamp given to me by my master, which can ward off all evil spirits."

The lantern in her hand emitted a warm glow, dispelling the thick fog.

The folding fan, illuminated by the lantern light, enveloped the four people.

Ning Tinglan looked around and asked in confusion, "Is this place really safe? Did Senior Brother Mu land here?"

“This black fog is really strange. He didn’t say he was in the fog before.”

Yun Yici said, "When I was in the Demon Forest, I could only see a patch of black when I looked here from afar. I thought this was a piece of black soil."

The emperor decreed, "There is no need to worry. Although the fog here is strange, we are not entirely helpless."

In the emperor's opinion, this was no big deal; he simply burned everything down.

He mainly didn't want to reveal his identity, and he strongly suspected that Mu Yunjian was deliberately using the black fog to cause trouble.

Rong Xuan said, "It would be great if we could find Junior Brother Mu sooner."

Yun Yici flashed the mother-child talisman in her hand and said, "We're almost there."

"Huh? What's going on? The mother and child talismans were clearly very close, could it be that Senior Brother Mu accidentally lost the mother talisman?"

Yun Yici looked at the empty space in front of her, where Mu Yunjian should have been.

The emperor decreed, "Go down and take a look."

Yun Yici only had one lantern, and everyone agreed with the Emperor's decree.

Yun Yici didn't notice anything amiss while sitting on the bone fan, but as soon as she jumped off and landed, she realized that the ground on her left side felt different.

She instinctively raised the lantern to shine the light on her feet, then looked down and saw that she was stepping on...

"Senior Brother Mu!!"

Yun Yici cried out in surprise and jumped away immediately.

Under the lantern's light, a rabbit with a paw print on its head lay face down, looking very peaceful.

Yun Yici quickly turned him over and picked him up: "Thank goodness, he's still breathing."

"and many more......"

Yun Yici was immediately taken aback.

Mu Yunjian's original fur was as white as silk, but the rabbit in her hand was completely black!

Blacker than coal, it blends perfectly into the fog.

That's why they didn't see him when they were on the folding fan.

At this moment, Black Rabbit was unconscious, and the grayish footprints on his head were quite obvious.

This also proves that the rabbit's black fur was definitely not caused by Yun Yici stepping on it.

Ning Tinglan said worriedly, "Junior sister, something seems wrong. Is this really Senior Brother Mu?"

Yun Yici said, "The aura emanating from him is definitely that of Senior Brother Mu, and the Mother-Child Talisman also senses him."

Ning Tinglan: "But why did it turn black?"

He had seen the yellow rabbit that Mu Yun had transformed into, but he had never seen it turn into a black rabbit.

The emperor's lips twitched, and he made an unreliable guess: "Perhaps it's because he inhaled too much of this black mist."

He thought Mu Yunjian was secretly working as a scavenger, but he never expected that Yun Yici would stomp him into a rabbit pancake.

Emperor Zhao suddenly realized that he had overestimated Mu Yunjian by previously regarding him as a competitor.

No woman likes a man she can easily crush with one kick.

Absolutely not.

In this emergency, Yun Yici took out a Qingxin Pill to dispel miasma from her storage bag and fed it to the black rabbit.

The rabbit's mouth moved, but it showed no sign of waking up.

Yun Yici listened to Ning Tinglan's words.

She subtly grabbed the black rabbit's front paw, only relaxing when she saw a silver spot on the palm of the rabbit's right paw.

The mark left by Qingqiu during the post-ritual ceremony, and the magical artifacts given by Wen Fuyue, can never be faked.

Yun Yici said, "Now that we've found Senior Brother Mu, let's leave this place first."

"If he doesn't wake up, send him back to Qingqiu and have a healer take a look."

Rong Xuan said, "That's the only way."

The four of them tacitly avoided mentioning Li Zhan, who had disappeared along with Mu Yunjian.

The group retraced their steps and boarded the imperial edict's folding fan. Yun Yici, carrying a lantern and holding the task from Mu Yunjian, handed it over to Rong Xuan.

Emperor Zhao, holding the folding fan beneath him, frowned slightly and said, "Speaking of which, I feel that the fog here is somewhat similar to the resentful energy I have encountered before."

"If, according to legend, this is the place where Zhulong fell, could this be a realm formed by Zhulong's resentment before his death?"