It takes about two months to travel to the State Capital, not because the distance is incredibly far, but because finding the way is quite troublesome. There’s no navigation or the charming reminders of Sister Zhiling to drift left at the next intersection, so Yuchi had to feel his way from one waypoint to the next, and it’s still easy to go the wrong way.

Then, seven days after leaving the Ascension Gate, Yuchi landed on the ground, buried a piece of immortal jade in an unpopulated area, and then returned to the Ascension Gate once again.

It wasn’t purely to help Yinghan with her training; it was because the situation at Ascension Gate was becoming increasingly uncontrollable.

Seven days ago, the Ascension Gate was just experiencing a hailstorm. Hail is usually a minor issue, and Yuchi initially thought it would dissipate in a day. However, it turned out not to be the case; the hail didn’t disappear, and the weather became increasingly severe.

They didn’t know when the blizzard arrived. The intense blizzard, accompanied by fist-sized hailstones, fiercely attacked the entire Ascension Gate. By the time Yuchi returned to the Ascension Gate, the hailstones had grown to the size of soccer balls.

Oh well.

Is this a disaster movie? Like "The Day After Tomorrow" or "2012"?

Yuchi had entrusted the activation rights of the Mountain Protection Array to Song the Great Beauty, but after he left for seven days, the array had been activated continuously. If only seven thousand taels of silver had been spent, it wouldn’t be a big deal. The key issue is that this thing targeted Yinghan.

Yes, it seemed to have a conscious existence.

While traveling, Yuchi pondered whether this guy was intentionally targeting him, specifically causing trouble for Yinghan. It turned out he was right.

Yinghan is currently unable to train. You must know that at night, the dark shadow woman came to find Song the Great Beauty. This guy had become paler than he had been three days after his honest death—a dead woman’s head, becoming bolder, directly disturbing Yinghan’s training, and even whispering in Yinghan’s ear.

As a result, Yinghan is now somewhat exhausted, and she can’t show it in front of the other disciples, especially when they are curious as to why the weather at our Ascension Gate has become so terrible. She still has to smile and casually help Yuchi come up with some reasons.

She also needs to take care of Xuexiang’s mindset.

After all, Xuexiang seemed to have sensed something. It’s like she knows that all of this was caused by herself. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Xuexiang began to say she actively wanted to find Yuchi, telling Yinghan that she missed Yuchi and wanted to walk outside with her Sect Leader Senior Brother.

She didn’t want to continue training.

In fact, Yinghan certainly understood what Xuexiang meant.

This was a clear sign of not wanting to trap the Ascension Gate anymore, but Yinghan was surely unwilling to push Xuexiang out at this moment, as aside from her, other disciples just casually complained about the weather without it affecting their training.

The three mischievous disciples of the Ascension Gate, after recovering, soaked in Yuncao Tower every day and didn’t come out.

So at this time, what’s the point of pushing Xuexiang away? She is not that fragile. Since the dark shadow is unable to harm her, there’s no need to fear it.

Just wait for the solution from Yuchi.

As Yuchi had just arrived at the Ascension Gate, Yinghan was in Xuexiang’s room, the two of them having tea together.

The tea leaves were given by Yuchi, the tea box from Cuncha City.

"Yes, Junior Sister Xuexiang, as I said, at this time, we still need to trust our Sect Leader Senior Brother. He is definitely in the process of resolving this matter, and if you leave the Ascension Gate now, claiming it’s to protect the entire sect, what about him?"

"Wouldn’t he have been meddling for nothing?"

"Maybe the Ascension Gate would be fine, but he would regret it for a lifetime. You know that our Sect Leader Senior Brother is a deeply emotional person, and since he chose you, you must choose to trust him."

Xiahou Xuexiang listened, her heart filled with endless bitterness, followed by a lot of self-blame. Although the other disciples didn’t know the situation, she had known about her bad luck for a long time. This wasn’t just her having bad luck; it dragged down those around her.

Even though she couldn’t understand the situation clearly, couldn’t figure out how everything inexplicably reached this point, just the thought of dragging the other sisters of the Ascension Gate into this made her sink into deep despair. She’d rather die alone than drag others down.

But Song Yinghan laughed and said, "Don’t worry. Don’t let things like this bother you. Now, inside the sect, only I know about this situation, and if you didn’t want to find Sect Leader Senior Brother directly and leave here, I would help you in secret."

"Since that’s the case, let’s just stay calmly at the Ascension Gate and train. There’s definitely a solution to all this. We just need to wait for that man to handle it. Having someone trustworthy in this crazy world is such a beautiful feeling, don’t you think?"