Master Jingxuan could only glare at Li Yunjing and threaten him fiercely.

"Master, rest assured! I am sincere towards Lv Ruoxi! No need for you to say it, whoever dares to make Ruoxi unhappy, I’ll never let them go, including myself!"

At this moment, Li Yunjing naturally knew what he should say.

"That’s good!"

Master Jingxuan nodded, her expression calmed considerably. She continued, "Since you and Ruoxi have become Dao companions, you must treat her well. If you encounter any trouble outside, you can tell me!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Li Yunjing was delighted and quickly responded.

He didn’t expect that Master Jingxuan, due to Lv Ruoxi, would look at him differently and even be willing to nurture him!

Given this rare opportunity, with Lv Ruoxi’s help, Li Yunjing’s relationship with Master Jingxuan grew somewhat closer. He took the chance to ask several questions about cultivation.

With Lv Ruoxi assisting from the side, Master Jingxuan actually poured out some valuable insights, guiding Li Yunjing on several cultivation issues. Especially her guidance on the "Shenxiao Divine Forging Celestial Secret Technique" made Li Yunjing suddenly understand many issues, greatly benefiting him.

An hour later, after bidding farewell to Master Jingxuan, Li Yunjing left, satisfied.

As for Lv Ruoxi, she was left at the "Fragrant Pavilion" by Master Jingxuan. Ever since seeing Li Yunjing’s talent, Master Jingxuan had decided to give her disciple some special attention.

She had always been competitive all her life, and her disciple mustn’t become Li Yunjing’s vassal due to weakness.

Not mentioning how Master Jingxuan taught her disciple, after leaving "Jade Maiden Peak", Li Yunjing set out on the "Cyan Cloud Ship".

Yingtian Prefecture was on the southeast coast of the Great Ming Dynasty, the imperial capital of the Great Ming Dynasty.

After "Cyan Cloud Ship" left the "Shenxiao Mountain Range", it crossed the Great Ming Dynasty from east to west.

When "Cyan Cloud Ship" flew over the Central Plains, Li Yunjing suddenly sensed a trace of death qi on the ship.

"Huh? Death qi?"

Li Yunjing was startled. He immediately swept his divine sense downward and saw a small town in the center of a plain below, faintly shrouded in death qi.

"Could it be that people from the ’Netherworld Ghost Sect’ have infiltrated?"

Li Yunjing instantly became alert. "Cyan Cloud Ship" slowly lowered its altitude, descending from ten thousand feet to one thousand feet.

Li Yunjing continued to observe downward. As his divine sense scanned, he discovered that there was no sign of life in this small town—all the people had died, including livestock, cleanly.

This was somewhat strange!

Could it be crazy demon cultivators slaughtering these people?

But what would be the point?

The life and death of some mortals are insignificant. Demon cultivators doing this would only expose their identity and let the people of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" hunt them down!

Only a fool would choose such a method!

"Better go down and take a look!"

Li Yunjing, a courageous person, sensed something wrong and immediately decided to investigate the truth.

He put away the "Cyan Cloud Ship" and cautiously flew down, landing outside the town.

Li Yunjing concealed his own aura and entered the town, discovering that the dense death qi was mixed with the stench of corpses.

He opened one door after another and saw numerous corpses, all drained of blood. Based on the corpse spots, they had been dead for at least three days.

"Damn it!"

Li Yunjing’s face became extremely ugly; the thing he hated most was slaughtering mortals!

It’s cultivators fighting against cultivators—what kind of skill is it to target mortals?

Li Yunjing quickly moved through the town, checking each house and finally confirming that not a single survivor was left.

"No clues left here either! Cultivators slaughtering mortals is too easy, no traces are left at all!"

Just as Li Yunjing felt troubled, suddenly he clearly felt the ground slightly shaking, as if there was an earthquake.

At the ancestral shrine of the town, a golden light shot up to the sky, straight to the clouds.

That golden light pierced through the clouds, lasting for a quarter of an hour before slowly dissipating and disappearing.

"Could it be some treasure surfacing in this town? These people slaughtered the town to get the treasure here?"

Li Yunjing frowned, hesitating, unsure if he should go to the ancestral shrine to take a look.

These people’s origins and cultivation levels were unclear to him!

"There shouldn’t be any Golden Core Realm cultivators, right?"

Li Yunjing muttered to himself, finding a reason and then said, "Golden Core Realm cultivators can enter without alerting anyone, no need to do the killing and silencing!"

"People who can do this must be those with little skills!"

Thinking of this, Li Yunjing grew bolder.

Li Yunjing’s body flashed, transforming into a stream of light, arriving at the entrance of the ancestral shrine.

Standing at the entrance, Li Yunjing’s divine sense immediately sensed several waves of aura faintly spreading from within the ancestral shrine.

"Seems like there are some familiar auras?"

Faintly sensing something, Li Yunjing raised an eyebrow, stood at the entrance, and paused.

After a while, those auras seemed to disappear, as if these people had left.

"Have they entered the underground treasure vault?"

Li Yunjing’s eyes lit up, his figure moved, chasing after them to the ancestral shrine.

Entering the main hall, what came into view was a hole in the ground!

All around were scattered floor tiles and some excavated soil, letting Li Yunjing understand that this was as he thought!

These people really went through the hole, into the underground!

"Goodness! These people didn’t use divine magic power, but rather the original digging method. What is down there?"

Li Yunjing leaned in to look below, a bit lost in thought.