371: Chapter 371

Yaochi Holy Land, Holy Master's Palace.

Spiritual light flowed here, and dao rhyme was naturally formed.

A white sword light, imbued with monstrous chill, fiercely pierced through!

"Boom!"

Ling Qingzhu's figure heavily crashed in front of the palace, and the powerful Qi force instantly covered the white jade floor tiles with spiderweb-like cracks.

Her chest heaved violently, her beautiful eyes were crimson, like a protective female beast whose reverse scale had been touched, exuding desperate madness.

"Disciple Ling Qingzhu, requests an audience with Revered Master!"

Her voice was no longer cold and clear, but hoarse and resolute, echoing throughout the entire palace.

Inside the palace, there was dead silence.

After a long while, a calm voice, seemingly seeing through the ways of the world, faintly sounded, filled with unconcealed helplessness and sighing.

"Your heart is troubled again."

"Come in."

A gate of light unfolded out of thin air before Ling Qingzhu.

Ling Qingzhu sheathed her sword, tidied her disheveled robes, and stepped inside.

On the lotus platform in the center of the Void Realm, the Yaochi Holy Master opened her eyes.

She quietly gazed at this Disciple, her proudest, who was now like a madwoman, and her brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

"Qingzhu, your cultivation..."

A hint of surprise was in the Yaochi Holy Master's voice.

"Peak Saint King?"

How long had it been since she entered seclusion?

She had actually directly advanced to Peak Saint King in one go?

Such speed, even throughout the entire history of Yaochi, could be called world-shattering!

However, Ling Qingzhu ignored her Revered Master's praise.

She walked to the foot of the lotus platform, her knees softened, and with a "thump," she heavily knelt down.

"Disciple humbly requests Revered Master to open the Yaochi Heart Sea again!"

The Yaochi Holy Master's expression slightly froze upon hearing this.

"Didn't I just open the Heart Sea for you? The Origin power within your body has not been fully refined yet; going again would be useless."

"No!"

Ling Qingzhu suddenly looked up, her crimson eyes fixed on her Revered Master, enunciating each word.

"The Disciple requests to open not the surface layer of the Heart Sea!"

"But the Forbidden Domain at the deepest part of the Heart Sea—"

"The Forbidden Zone of Time!"

"What?!"

The moment these words fell, the Yaochi Holy Master's unperturbed state of mind was completely shattered!

Her face changed drastically, and she suddenly stood up from the lotus platform!

A terrifying and unparalleled pressure descended with a rumble, enveloping the entire palace!

"Nonsense!"

For the first time, her voice was tinged with stern rebuke!

"Qingzhu, do you know what you're saying?!"

"The Forbidden Zone of Time is the number one death forbidden zone of my Yaochi Holy Land! It is a Jedi that even I, your Revered Master, dare not easily venture into! The flow of time there is completely chaotic; one step forward could be a hundred years later, while one step back might return you to eons ago! One wrong step means the destruction of your Divine Soul, never to recover! Are you crazy?!"

The Yaochi Holy Master was truly frightened.

She couldn't imagine that her Disciple, who had always been cold, clear, and rational, would make such a crazy request.

"Disciple is not crazy."

Facing her Revered Master's pressure, which was enough to make even a Great Saint tremble, Ling Qingzhu knelt upright, her body not wavering in the slightest.

Her gaze was as resolute as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.

"Disciple knows that going there is a near-certain death, but Disciple... must go!"

"Why?!" the Yaochi Holy Master demanded sharply, "Give your Revered Master a reason! Is it again because of That kid from the Su family?!"

She was so angry she almost laughed.

Last time, it was for that kid that she opened the Yaochi Heart Sea.

How long had it been, and now she wanted to venture into the Forbidden Zone of Time for him again?

What kind of bewildering potion did that little scoundrel from the Su Family give her precious Disciple?!

"Yes!"

Ling Qingzhu did not hide anything, nodding stubbornly.

She took out a blank Jade Slip from her Huai, imprinted the information she had just received into it, and then respectfully presented it with both hands.

"Please take a look, Revered Master."

The Yaochi Holy Master suppressed her anger, took the Jade Slip with a puzzled expression, and probed it with her Divine Thought.

A moment later, her face also showed the same... shock as Ling Qingzhu's.

"That kid from the Su family... suppressed the Upper Realm Immortal Envoy and a Great Emperor? And even angered him to death?"

The Yaochi Holy Master's beautiful eyes widened, feeling her understanding being violently challenged.

How... how was this possible?!

In her impression, wasn't that kid just a talented but idle and troublesome Divine Son?

When did he become so fierce?

"Revered Master, do you understand now?" Ling Qingzhu's voice was tearful, "Darling Su... he is silently bearing all the pressure alone! For the Su Family, for us, he doesn't hesitate to become an enemy of the entire Upper Realm Immortal Sect!"

"And I can only watch helplessly, unable to do anything!"

"My level of cultivation is simply a joke in front of him!"

After listening, the Yaochi Holy Master's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

She opened her mouth, wanting to remind her Disciple that the intelligence clearly stated "easily suppressed."

This did not seem to be related to "silently bearing pressure" at all.

This was clearly a one-sided crushing!

Moreover, That kid from the Su family had the entire Everlasting Su Family behind him; which of those old monsters in his family wasn't an existence that could make the Profound Origin Continent tremble with a stomp of their foot?

He needed to bear the pressure alone?

What a joke!

He was probably just bored with life and proactively went to the Great Xia Divine Dynasty to seek some fun!

"Qingzhu..." The Yaochi Holy Master earnestly advised, "Do you... misunderstand something about this matter? In my opinion, That kid from the Su family seems... not as miserable as you imagine."

"Revered Master!"

Ling Qingzhu abruptly interrupted her, her emotions agitated.

"You don't understand!"

"What's written in the intelligence are just superficial words to maintain peace! The real battle process must have been incredibly tragic! Darling Su must have suffered very serious injuries! He just didn't want us to worry, so he deliberately acted nonchalant!"

"He's just that kind of person! Always swallowing all the bitterness by himself!"

Yaochi Holy Master: "..."

She looked at her precious Disciple, who was completely lost in her own self-delusion, imagining things to the ends of the earth, and was speechless for a moment.

Alright.

This child was beyond saving.

Being infatuated was truly the most incurable disease in this world.

"Revered Master!"

Ling Qingzhu heavily kowtowed again, her forehead colliding with the cold ground, emitting a dull thud.

"Disciple's mind is made up!"

"If I cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with him at the Peak, I would rather... die on the path of seeking the Dao!"

"I beg Revered Master to grant my wish!"

Looking at her Disciple's resolute, almost obsessive expression, and her eyes burning with fierce flames.

The Yaochi Holy Master understood that if she didn't agree today, this child would likely do something extreme.

Blocking her was no longer an option.

"Alas..."

A long sigh echoed through the palace, as if taking away hundreds of years of time.

So be it, so be it.

A Disciple has her own trials.

As her Revered Master, she could only... accompany her to the death.

"Get up."

The Yaochi Holy Master's voice was filled with endless weariness and helplessness.

"Your Revered Master... grants it."

"Follow me."