He'd rather run than be turned into a cannon fodder for the broken engagement.

After the fierce battle, the wandering evil spirits all hid with their tails between their legs, and the entire Soul Devouring Land was very quiet.

Just as Fu Xun was about to turn and leave, he suddenly remembered something and picked up the storage rings of the two men in black.

Those who serve Fengsheng Tower are mostly desperate criminals and rogue cultivators, all in order to earn commissions. Cultivators need spirit stones wherever they go, and rogue cultivators only have so many ways to earn them, making it very difficult. Where there is demand, there will naturally be orders.

Generally, it's a sure thing, but if someone is really cunning, like Fu Xun, then they're out of luck.

He casually erased the previous owner's mark from the storage ring, and only after probing with his divine sense did he discover that the two of them had gained quite a bit in the past six months, even including a considerable amount of spirit stones.

Fu Xun raised an eyebrow. The man in black was no pushover; he'd probably killed quite a few people who came in…

He put away the ring, took out his spirit sword, and headed straight for the Darklight Forest.

Since none of these places are available, there's only one place left: the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the northeast of the entire secret realm!

Why go to the Darklight Forest? Because after so much time, if we had only stayed in the mountains, Leng Huan would have already come out. But the Darklight Forest in the heart of the forest is a different story; we might have been trapped there!

...

Leng Huan was unaware that the outside world was frantically searching for her, and even other cultivators undergoing training knew about it, saying that they would offer a generous reward for providing information about the fairy of the Leng family.

After walking for another three months, we finally discovered that the trees were no longer blocking out the sun, and deciduous broad-leaved trees were gradually appearing. We continued walking for another day and finally stood on a rocky mountain!

"Oh, my goodness! I've finally made it out!"

Leng Huan was almost moved to tears.

Damn it!

For over a year! She finally walked out of the Darklight Forest alive and alone!

The storage bag Jiang Ruoyu gave her has been used up, and in its place are the resources she has collected. The forest is both dangerous and full of opportunities, but without enough supplies, no one can make it out safely!

No wonder so few people explore these vast forests!

Her experiences over the past year could easily fill a book titled "100 Questions on Jungle Survival".

She wasted countless talismans, several robes, a top-grade defensive magic weapon, numerous magical artifacts, and vast sums of spirit stones—it's all tears when you talk about it.

He fought a demonic beast at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage in a cave, and was trapped there for half a month before finally crawling out...

Then they were chased by a strangely shaped Golden Core demon beast.

Hum!

Leng Huan faced the wind and wiped away a handful of tears in the sunlight.

Why is she so unlucky?

-

After sighing, Leng Huan marked the location again on the map and then headed south towards the hilly terrain.

This area has returned to normal and is no longer as dangerous as the Darklight Forest, so we can travel faster now.

He could also pick some spiritual flowers and dig up some spiritual herbs along the way, and occasionally he would even see cultivators, which Leng Huan carefully avoided.

It's dangerous to be in an unfamiliar place.

Five days later, she finally arrived at the large hills marked on the map, a stretch of small mountains.

For several days, not a single cultivator had been seen. This place was a desolate, wild mountain area, already on the edge of the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

Leng Huan had reason to suspect that the cultivator he had encountered before was also an unlucky fellow.

Having left the infamous Darklight Forest, Leng Huan's tense nerves finally relaxed, giving him a feeling of emerging from the Ten Thousand Mountains.

-

The two-meter-wide scorpion beast, with its sharp venomous stinger and powerful pincers, flew backward and crashed into the puddle, splashing water everywhere.

Wiping the blood off his sword, Leng Huan was about to leap up the cliff to pick the spiritual herbs when he suddenly heard the long-lost sound of a bell.

"jingle……"

She was stunned for a moment before she realized it was Fu Xun!

As she activated it with spiritual energy, Fu Xun's slightly anxious voice came through: "Senior Sister, is that you?"

She subconsciously replied, "Yes."

"Wait for me where you are, don't wander off!"

There was silence after that sentence.

Leng Huan was inwardly amused. What was Fu Xun doing nearby?

The bell can travel up to 100 li (approximately 50 kilometers) – what a coincidence!

However, I immediately felt excited. Great, someone has finally come!

Hahaha……

She happily stepped onto the back of the dying, unseeing black scorpion in the late Foundation Establishment stage, leaped onto the cliff face, and plucked the Beast Spirit Grass.

This was intended as a gift for Sang Biao when I returned to the sect. I had already obtained the Golden Spirit Dew for Xiao Bai before.

-

Fu Xun traveled all the way from the west, taking ten days to reach the Dragon Ridge Mountains. He then spent another month exploring the area, activating the bell every hundred miles. Finally, today, he sent a message with a try-it-out mentality, and to his surprise, he received a response. He was overjoyed!

This area is mostly hilly, and further ahead lies the heartland. He thought she shouldn't have been teleported to the forest until he met Leng Huan and realized just how outrageous she was.

"Senior Sister! Are you alright?" When Fu Xun saw her, she was stabbing a scorpion the size of a bucket with her sword. Leng Huan turned her head upon hearing the voice, her eyes suddenly lighting up:

"Fu Xun! You've finally arrived. What are you doing here?"

She jumped off the rock, as if she had a lot to say, when suddenly she noticed something and circled around Fu Xun. "Wow, you've reached the Golden Core stage?"

Leng Huan was shocked. Had so many changes occurred in the world while she was trapped for a year?

"..." This looks familiar. Fu Xun controlled his excitement. "Yes. Senior sister, what are you doing here? We've been looking for you for a long time."

Leng Huan's expression changed, becoming bitter and resentful. "I'm so unlucky..."

Hearing her say that, Fu Xun immediately had a bad feeling.

really,

"It's a long story. I was teleported deep into the Darklight Forest, wandered for a year, got lost countless times, and was chased by monsters countless times. I also...￥@….@￥?!…"

After recounting his harrowing jungle survival experience, Leng Huan took a bite of a spiritual fruit to quench his thirst, then shrugged: "So, I've only been here for about ten days..."

Fu Xun looked at her intently for a long time, his expression complex, and sighed, "You've suffered. I should have thought of the Dragon Ridge Mountains sooner..."

It's not surprising that he was thrown into the Darklight Forest. There aren't many people in history who have been thrown into the Darklight Forest, and Leng Huan is one of the very few unlucky ones.

There had just been a fight here, so it wasn't a good time to linger. The two walked and talked about what had happened over the past year.

Leng Huan knew that the Leng family had been searching for him frantically. He was deeply moved when Fu Xun told him that he had even gone to dangerous places to look for him.

When Leng Huan heard that he had met Shen Hanyan and others, he remembered that he had originally arranged to meet Wang Chen, but now he was afraid that he would not be able to meet him for a while.

As for being besieged by members of the royal family, Fu Xun didn't mention it, and Leng Huan had no way of knowing either, but she casually asked, "What about you? You didn't encounter any bad people, did you?"

Fu Xun paused slightly, then shook his head nonchalantly: "No. I've been looking for you, and I haven't stayed in one place for long."

"So nothing weird happened, right?" Leng Huan breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly stopped, and Fu Xun had no choice but to stop as well.

That's not right. If he hadn't met her, how could he have suddenly undergone a tribulation of lightning?

Leng Huan glanced at Fu Xun and asked, "When you advanced to the Golden Core stage, did you encounter anything strange?"

He was supposed to be attacked by a Golden Core cultivator, but by a twist of fate, the seal was broken, and the seal blocked the fatal blow for him, because the restriction placed by his mother required the power of a Golden Core cultivator or above to break.

Fu Xun felt even more uneasy upon hearing this. This wasn't the first time he'd felt this way; she seemed to know a lot. A few thoughts raced through his mind as he looked at her and slowly nodded.

"Well, actually, it was because my mother sealed her cultivation within me that I was able to break through to the Golden Core stage and transcend the tribulation by chance."

Leng Huan understood. He must have encountered something, but he was unwilling to say. Leng Huan didn't want to pry. Now the result was good. Long Aotian finally obtained his mother's power!

"Ah, is that so?" She widened her eyes, looking at Fu Xun with surprise. "Then, then your cultivation has reached a new level..."

The second half of the sentence was sincere. Leng Huan felt that he should find a good place to go into seclusion and try to break through the Golden Core barrier.

Long Aotian's cultivation was progressing rapidly, and she didn't want to fall too far behind.

Thinking of this, she heard Fu Xun ask, "Senior Sister, your brother is looking for you. Should you go and meet him?"

Leng Huan looked up at the sky: "No, I don't even know where they are. I want to go into seclusion to cultivate."

This suited Fu Xun perfectly, as seclusion would be safer: "Alright, I'll accompany you."

With that agreed, the two immediately went to find a place with abundant spiritual energy, dug a cave, and went into seclusion to cultivate.

Meanwhile, Leng Feng and his family successfully reunited. They trained and searched for people at the same time. Four months later, Leng Feng realized that he hadn't seen Fu Xun for a long time. He frowned, fearing that Fu Xun had already found Leng Huan.

As for where to go, looking towards the Dragon Ridge Mountains, Leng Feng ordered, "Let's go to the Darklight Forest."

……