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

Xie Qianjue himself was completely bewildered; he waited anxiously for a year.

However, there was no sign that the horrific massacre he foresaw would happen.

Nevertheless, he remained vigilant and continued to persuade the Xie family patriarch and his wife to move away from their ancestral home.

His bizarre behavior left Xie Shiqing and his family completely baffled.

The ancestral land was passed down from our ancestors; it's not something you can just move on a whim.

Apart from that, most of Xie Qianjue's small requests were met.

Even this trip to Yinxian City was at Xie Qianjue's insistence, as he brought Xie Shiqing with him.

Xie Shiqing never harbored any suspicion towards those he trusted, and followed Xie Qianjue without even asking any questions.

Meeting Yun Yici was an unexpected surprise.

Xie Shiqing was very worried about Xie Qianjue, always feeling that his elder brother was hiding something.

After all, he had witnessed Xie Qianjue's abilities during the incident at the Buddha-Demon Tower.

The more Xie Qianjue tried to hide it, the more panicked he became, to the point that he had no one to confide in and nowhere to vent his frustrations.

It was only after seeing Yun Yici that Xie Shiqing reluctantly uttered a few words from his heart.

"I think my brother still treats me like a child, and I keep everything to myself."

Yun Yici knew that Xie Qianjue's strange behavior was mostly because of the tragic massacre of the Xie family in the plot.

Now that Wen Fuyue is alive and Mu Yunjian hasn't turned evil, the Xie family is unlikely to follow the same path as in the original story.

However, she didn't know how to explain it to Xie Shiqing.

Yun Yici could only comfort him, saying, "Your brother has his own reasons, and he will probably tell you in a while."

After venting his feelings, Xie Shiqing felt much better. He thanked Yun Yici before getting up to leave.

Yun Yici never expected that her words would come true.

It didn't take long; Xie Qianjue came to find her that very night.

Not long after nightfall, Yun Yici was preparing to meditate when she suddenly heard a soft knocking sound coming from the window.

Yun Yici took Huai Chuan and went to open the window. Xie Qianjue was leaning against the window with a mournful face.

Li Ji stood behind him and said coldly, "You only have half an incense stick's time."

Yun Yici was stunned for a moment, and Li Ji disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.

Li Ji was speaking to Xie Qianjue, and from her words, it seemed she would come back in about half an incense stick's time.

Xie Qianjue hurriedly asked, "Junior Sister Yun, just who is that senior living next door?"

"I was just passing through her area when I got arrested."

Li Ji almost killed Xie Qianjue, mistaking him for a petty thief, but Xie Qianjue said he would only let him go if he could see Yun Yici.

However, in the middle of the night, a man sneaking into a woman's boudoir was something even Li Ji, a demon cultivator, couldn't stand, and ordered him to finish speaking after half an incense stick's time.

Xie Qianjue originally thought that he was a genius after he formed his core.

Who knew there were always people more capable than oneself, and that seemingly delicate woman moved silently, making it as easy as if she were playing with him.

Xie Qianjue originally wanted to exchange a few moves with the female cultivator, but he was afraid that the fight would wake up Wen Fuyue and the others.

He couldn't explain why he came to see Yun Yici in the middle of the night.

Yun Yici didn't want to reveal that her neighbor was the former Demon King of Jiuqi City, so she coughed lightly and changed the subject: "Senior Brother Xie, is there something you need from me so late?"

Xie Qianjue, remembering something important, had a glint in his eyes. After beckoning her closer, he slyly said, "Do you want to advance to the Nascent Soul stage? I have a way."

Yun Yici raised an eyebrow: "What did you see?"

Xie Qianjue smiled and said, "In ten days, a small secret realm will open near Yinxian City, where you will find the opportunity you desire."

Having already developed a knack for being tricked by the system, Yun Yici immediately closed Xie Qianjue's window: "Good night!"

If there were truly an opportunity to instantly advance from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, she certainly wouldn't have so readily shared it with Xie Qianjue.

Furthermore, if Xie Qianjue wanted to be a great philanthropist and spread the word, he should have spoken to Wen Fuyue, who was his elder.

Xie Qianjue was taken aback and quickly knocked on the window: "Junior Sister Yun, please listen to me. I'm not lying to you."

"I need your spiritual root..."

Before Xie Qianjue could finish speaking, a soft, boneless hand pressed down on his shoulder from behind.

Li Ji happened to hear his last sentence, and immediately said in a sinister tone, "The time has come."

Xie Qianjue was thrown out of the women's quarters by Li Ji with resentment, and could only wait until daylight to slowly find an opportunity to speak privately with Yun Yici.

Xie Qianjue hesitated, for he had foreseen something good this time.

The small secret realm that will appear in Immortal City ten days later is the first of its kind and has not yet been explored.

However, in his prediction, without the opening of the outer palace, very few people entered the small secret realm when it appeared.

He entered the city by chance while he was near Yinxian City and gained many benefits from it.

The key point is that this little secret realm is extremely unique, as it is full of wind eddies.

If they had a cultivator with a wind spirit root accompanying them, their journey would certainly be much safer.

Xie Qianjue's purpose in coming here was twofold: first, to help Xie Shiqing form his core; and second, just as Yun Yici had said, this little secret realm truly held the opportunity to form a Nascent Soul.

Out of personal motives, Xie Qianjue did not report it to the Nanhua Sect, and even his senior brothers Yun Yici did not intend to tell them.