Chapter 152: The Mysterious Island

Although You Xiyue was not particularly on guard against Ye Sheng, dealing with him was effortless.

In fact, she didn't even need to deal with him herself.

Yun Xiling directly coiled around the hand Ye Sheng had thrown forward, bound it together with his other hand, and wrapped him up tightly.

"Hey!!" Ye Sheng shouted continuously with an expression of utter disbelief, "You're cheating! Untie me right now!"

He struggled as he yelled.

Yet Yun Xiling remained completely unaffected, maintaining its tight bind.

Despite trying every possible method and working himself into a sweaty mess, Ye Sheng failed to break free, so he just kept on shouting and clamoring.

"So noisy!" You Xiyue turned her head impatiently.

Yun Xiling stiffened slightly before reacting promptly.

Extending itself significantly, the spiritual ribbon wrapped tightly around Ye Sheng's mouth as well.

"Mmph mmph!!"

Ye Sheng glared angrily at You Xiyue.

Turning her head back without giving him a single glance, You Xiyue continued walking forward, trying to figure out a way to leave this place.

Since they had arrived via a teleportation array, there had to be a way out through one as well.

Seeing that You Xiyue wasn't going to pay attention to him no matter what, Ye Sheng finally quieted down.

He obediently followed behind You Xiyue.

It was just that he clearly lacked any spirit.

The scenery here was simply too similar to Xingruo Island.

It easily gave You Xiyue the illusion that she was still right there on Xingruo Island.

Moreover, the density of spiritual energy here was remarkably similar.

You Xiyue walked on in a single direction.

Until she finally reached the edge of the island.

The edge gave way to endless darkness.

Recalling the edge of Xingruo Island, You Xiyue remembered it seeming to consist of a sheet of golden light.

She had once jumped right into that golden light.

And had quickly fallen back to the center of the island.

You Xiyue looked back at Ye Sheng.

"You seem to really enjoy challenging the unknown and terrifying places?"

Looking at You Xiyue's expressionless face, and then glancing back at the darkness at the edge of the island,

Ye Sheng shook his head in terror and stepped backward.

"Mmph mmph mmph..."

"It looks quite fun. Let's give it a try."

"!!!" Ye Sheng immediately turned around and tried to run backward.

Unfortunately, he was still tethered by Yun Xiling.

And Yun Xiling obeyed its master's commands above all else.

How could it possibly let Ye Sheng run off like that dragging it along?

It hauled Ye Sheng straight toward the darkness at the edge of the island and jumped.

Ye Sheng felt like crying without tears.

Clearly, he had thought this "older sister" before him was much weaker than him; how could her natal magical artifact be so formidable?

Yun Xiling dragged Ye Sheng deep into the darkness.

"Ah..."

Ye Sheng's screams faded into the distance, then drew close once more.

Just as You Xiyue had anticipated.

Ye Sheng and Yun Xiling plummeted from the sky together, landing right in the very center of the island.

With a loud thud,

Ye Sheng suddenly felt grounded.

Since it was solid ground after all, he had truly thought he was going to die.

You Xiyue soon walked over to Ye Sheng, looking down at him from above.

"Didn't I say it would be quite interesting?"

Ye Sheng glared viciously at You Xiyue, let out a huff, and turned his head away.

You Xiyue walked over to the edge of the island once again.

She walked in a circle around the perimeter.

Until she spotted a small mountain.

The height of this mountain seemed identical to the one at the edge of Xingruo Island.

Furthermore, both mountains looked as though they had been sliced open by some sharp blade.

Their rear sides were unnaturally neat.

"Is this a part of Xingruo?"

Not entirely certain yet, You Xiyue continued walking forward.

Even the spots where the Dream-Seeking Mushrooms grew were identical.

It was just that the ones here were slightly smaller.

You Xiyue confirmed her hypothesis once more.

Yet if this island was part of Xingruo Island, why could Ye Sheng come here?

Ye Sheng had no master-servant relationship with her.

Besides, the prerequisite for arriving here seemed to be activating the teleportation array with blood.

In other words, this place wasn't actually a part of Xingruo.

Rather, this place and Xingruo should be considered two parts capable of merging together.

"Is anyone here?"

You Xiyue called out into the surroundings.

"Is there anyone here?"

After calling several times, there was no response.

Finding it boring to just lie there, Ye Sheng simply sat up again and scampered over to You Xiyue's side to watch the excitement.

"Mmph mmph mmph!!"

You Xiyue cast a faint glance at Ye Sheng.

Yun Xiling finally released Ye Sheng's mouth.

Overjoyed with relief, Ye Sheng gasped, "Phew, your wretched magical artifact was almost choking me to death! There's nobody here, shouting is useless."

"Oh." Yet You Xiyue refused to give up.

She would walk a certain distance forward and call out again.

When she approached the vicinity of a hot spring pool, You Xiyue came to a halt.

This pool of water was an exact carbon copy of the Xingruo Pool.

"This..." Twisting his body, Ye Sheng knelt and squatted beside the hot spring pool, leaned in close to sense it, and exclaimed in wonder, "Isn't the spiritual energy in this pool a bit excessively rich?"

"It's alright." Although the expression on You Xiyue's face didn't change much,

Ye Sheng somehow felt that the tone of her words sounded inexplicably like she was treating him as someone who had never seen the world.

Talk about ridiculous—he was the seventh-generation direct-line grandson of the Ye family, his father was an old ancestor of the Ye family, and he himself was destined to become an old ancestor of the Ye family one day, yet she was acting as if he was ignorant of the world.

"Hey, what do you mean by that? Have you ever seen a place with spiritual energy this rich before?"

"Saw it every day in the past."

You Xiyue replied indifferently.

However, Ye Sheng let out a cold snort, completely disbelieving her.

You Xiyue leaped into the air above the center of the hot spring pool and looked down.

Right at the very center of the pool water, just like the Xingruo Pool in its earliest days, there was a multicolored spiritual stone.

"Is there something down there?"

Ye Sheng asked out of curiosity. ရှင်
"A spiritual stone."

You Xiyue answered truthfully.

Ye Sheng scoffed. "What's so interesting about a spiritual stone? My family has piles of those that could form several mountains."

"Oh."

You Xiyue responded casually.

Then she swooped downward at a rapid speed.

She lightly grazed her thumb across her index finger, instantly opening a small cut.

Blood began to seep out along the wound.

"Hey! What are you doing? You can't just let the blood of people from the Profound Void Realm flow out like that."

A sudden look of seriousness appeared on Ye Sheng's face.

As soon as You Xiyue cut her index finger, the water in the hot spring pool began to ripple outward toward the edges.

The Ye Sheng who had been crouching by the pool hastily stood up and retreated backward.

The colorful spiritual stone was exposed.

You Xiyue touched her bleeding index finger to the spiritual stone.

In an instant, the entire island was encircled by a rainbow.

The immortal aura grew even denser.

Spiritual energy continuously seeped upward from the ground.

"Good heavens!" Ye Sheng gasped in astonishment,

gazing at everything around him.

The ground began to shake.

You Xiyue hopped out of the hot spring pool's perimeter and stood upon the grass.

The multicolored spiritual stone rose bit by bit from the center of the pool.

Rising right along with the multicolored spiritual stone were other spiritual stones piled together.

They looked identical to the mountain of spiritual stones on Xingruo Island.

Until they had all risen completely,

they actually hopped right out of the pool and onto the grass.

"!!!"

Ye Sheng raised his hands, which were bound by Yun Xiling, and rubbed his eyes.

He thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.

"They're alive???"

"Greetings, Master."

The voice came from an unknown source, sounding like a deep, low female voice.

"Who's that??" Ye Sheng spun around to look in all directions, completely baffled, "Whose master??"

"You and Xingruo are..." Compared to Ye Sheng, You Xiyue was much calmer as she asked curiously.