Chapter 127: Trapped in the Demon Sect’s Lair

As Xia Baiqian walked past, she glanced at Bai Li, who was still playing and about to jump again.

She casually tossed a Gu insect, which landed precisely at the spot where Bai Li was about to land.

Bai Li’s divine sense was sharp; the reason she couldn’t catch the sword aura was simply that she wasn’t trying.

Sensing the Gu insect at the landing point, she activated the back-dragon mode midair.

Performing a flawless double jump, she leaped toward Chu Huaizhou.

Xia Baiqian raised her hand to her mouth, feigning surprise.

“Oh, little Bai Li, I’m sorry! My Gu insects suddenly went out of control—so many are about to escape!”

Before she could land, Bai Li executed a smooth triple jump.

Like a white cannonball, she burst through the door and fled.

“Meow! Human, I suddenly want to bask in the sun. I’m off, meow!”

Having dealt with Bai Li, Xia Baiqian sat beside her master with a worried expression, then nestled into his arms.

Of course, she still avoided Leng Qingqiu’s necklace.

Chu Huaizhou, noticing this, silently moved the necklace behind his back.

“What’s wrong, Baiqian? Did you suddenly want something? Can you wait until…”

“No, Master, I have something to tell you.”

Xia Baiqian’s jade-like fingers traced circles around Chu Huaizhou’s lower abdomen.

“Ye Feng… she seems to be in danger.”

Chu Huaizhou was stunned.

“What do you mean? Baiqian, how do you know Ye Feng is in danger?”

Xia Baiqian, throwing caution to the wind, said directly:

“I was worried that my newly admitted junior sister might encounter danger, so before she left, I hid a Gu insect on her.”

“I could roughly track her location, but just now, I discovered the Gu insect lost contact… several days ago.”

Having said that, she braced herself, expecting her master to question her about her dao partner.

She planned to simply kiss him directly, disregarding the earlier talk of a slow descent.

Fall.

Turn the fake dao partner into a real one!

However, Chu Huaizhou hadn’t even thought about that. His mind was full of:

What? My disciple is in trouble? Where is my disciple! Di Xiaoyao, I ask you, where is my disciple!

Chu Huaizhou immediately stood up and said solemnly:

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go find Ye Feng!”

****

Meanwhile, at Ye Feng’s location.

In a cold and damp cave, pinkish mist wafted everywhere.

Ye Feng was tied up together with Gu Changtian and Su Ling’er.

Around them were many young boys and girls, seemingly unaffected by the environment.

Each was doing their own thing.

Only two newly arrived children were crying pitifully.

“Dad! Mom! Where are you? It’s so dark and scary here!”

“Mom, I was wrong. I won’t stay up late anymore. Mom, where are you!”

In the distance, a group of cultivators in black robes and hoods surrounded the children.

They absorbed the pure power of fear to cultivate.

This was recorded in the Tianyuan Demon Beast Catalog.

A local sect known as the Terrifying Demon Sect, with its strongest member being a Golden Core cultivator.

This matched the information in the commission.

But Ye Feng was in no position to save them.

If it were merely an early Golden Core cultivator, with her current late Foundation Establishment cultivation,

She might have a chance if she went all out.

Yet… it was too strange.

Just as she was about to fight to the death, a flash appeared before her eyes.

Before she could react, she was pulled into a special space—this very cave.

Her body suddenly felt weak, as if something was constantly draining her spiritual energy.

The more she used it, the more it absorbed.

To avoid running out of spiritual energy and damaging her foundation before even fighting,

Ye Feng had no choice but to surrender and let herself be tied up along with the other two.

This captivity lasted several days.

During that time, children were continuously brought in. The demon sect cultivators even fed them three meals a day,

As if afraid they might starve. They only absorbed the fear power when children were first brought in.

It seemed that wasn’t their main purpose.

Even later, when the children had meals and nothing to do, they always had happy smiles on their faces.

They no longer called out for their parents.

There was an inexplicable strangeness that made Ye Feng’s skin crawl.

It was as if these children had been bewitched.

Su Ling’er trembled, and even now, she leaned close to Ye Feng, playing pitiful.

“Senior Brother Ye Feng~ are we… going to die here?”

Ye Feng said, “No, we won’t. We reported our mission before we left.”

“If we don’t return within the stipulated time, the sect will raise the commission’s level and send someone.”

“By my calculation, someone should be coming to rescue us soon.”

Su Ling’er: “Mm, that’s true. Senior Brother Ye Feng is so calm. I almost thought it was over.”

[Girl Ye Feng, are you sure you don’t need my help?]

[Are you so certain that your Sword Fairy master will come to save you?]

[Not entirely certain, but I have my own ways!]

During the days she was trapped, Ye Feng wasn’t idle.

From her observations, every time these demon sect cultivators came and went, they passed through a narrow, deep tunnel beside them.

That place also had the strongest indescribably strange aura.

Ye Feng guessed that was likely the entrance to this secret realm.

To be sure, she asked Elder Di if there were spatial fluctuations there.

But Elder Di was lost in thought, as if pondering something.

He didn’t answer.

Regardless, she was determined to go there.

After several days, the obstacles here had been completely neutralized for her.

The Yin-Yang Reversal Death Art given by Elder Di could turn decay into magic, with a powerful capacity for inclusion.

The spiritual energy that the space suppressed and absorbed could now be fully converted by her into usable spiritual power.

In other words, her strength had returned to its peak.

She didn’t need to wait for her master’s rescue.

Of course, another major reason Ye Feng was so eager to find a way out was,

That she didn’t have any treasure that could summon her master in a critical moment or resolve the crisis.

Not counting Elder Di.

If Elder Di acted, he would inevitably fall into slumber again.

She didn’t want to go back and see her master’s disappointed face.

She couldn’t bear to hurt her master.

Ye Feng: “You two, do you still have any strength left?”

“I plan to take a risk and check that small tunnel. If we can get out directly, that’s best.”

“If not, I’ll create some commotion so that the senior brothers and deacons coming to rescue us can find this place.”

Gu Changtian rejoiced at this, thinking, ‘I’ve been waiting for you to say that.’

If he didn’t stir up trouble soon, by the time the sect sent people, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.

All his efforts to arrange the surroundings would be wasted.

If he couldn’t give Ye Feng a good beating, it would be a huge loss.

And… perhaps due to the environment’s influence,

Gu Changtian’s head was hot, his rationality greatly diminished.

From time to time, he would become sluggish, only able to think simple thoughts.

Thus, he found that the crazy, bold idea he had at the beginning,

Because Ye Feng had caused his Gu family to decline, now seemed possible.

If he killed Ye Feng in this isolated demon sect secret realm,

No one would ever suspect him!

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