""Next… I, along with everyone around me, felt a tightening in our necks, and our bodies uncontrollably lifted into the air.""This feeling... it's like being bound by an invisible, unseen force. It's...But the woman still rushed towards the cage.

"Madam, please rest assured, this gentleman would never do anything to harm your son." Xiao Ling said hurriedly.

But this woman had been frightened to the point of hysteria, and now no one believed her, she just kept crying incessantly.

Within the cage, Fang Yu pointed at the boy's nose, his eyes gleaming with a cold light.

The ancient spirit inhabiting the boy seemed to be subdued by Fang Yu's aura, and remained silent for a long time without answering.

"Since you have nothing to say, then take my words back to your master." Fang Yu's eyes flashed with a light, and he said coldly, "Get out!"

"Bang!"

With a roar, divine consciousness burst forth.

The gray-black aura within the boy was instantly dispersed!

The boy jolted, his eyes clearing.

He looked at Fang Yu in front of him and burst into tears.

Fang Yu stretched out his hand, rubbed the boy's head, and took him out of the cage.

The weeping woman immediately protected the little boy, and the mother and son wept bitterly.

For them, the series of events that unfolded that day were nothing short of a nightmare.

"Mr. Fang, this little boy..." Xiao Ling's eyes were serious as she asked.

"Someone wanted to borrow his mouth to say a few words to me. We've already communicated." Fang Yu said faintly, "I'll tell you the details later."

"...Good." Xiao Ling replied.

Fang Yu looked at the crowd of people who had escaped death, his eyes flickered, and then he looked at the empty martial arts association hall in front of him.

"At critical times, the Martial Arts Association still proves useful... Huixu's original idea wasn't bad after all," Fang Yu thought.

After some thought, Fang Yu looked at Xiao Ling and said, "Let's go back to Beidu first."

"Good." Xiao Ling nodded.

This time, to save time, Fang Yu directly activated the teleportation gate and entered it with Xiao Ling.

Xiao Ling, as a master of physiognomy, reached the Nascent Soul stage after the resurgence of spiritual energy. She could barely withstand one long-distance transmission.

……

Fang Yu and Xiao Ling returned directly to No. 101 in Beidu.

Back at the manor, Fang Yu immediately called for Xiao Fengling.

"Master, do you have something for me That Jiang Dao person still won't say anything. Could you let me play... interrogate him a little longer" Xiaofengling said, tilting her head.

"I need your help with something," Fang Yu said.

"Oh What's up" Xiaofengling asked.

"Come with me, you'll see. We need to take a long trip." Fang Yu said.

"Out, going out! Going on a long journey!" Xiaofeng's little face immediately became excited. She threw the black whip she had been clutching in her hand aside and quickly walked to Fang Yu's side, looking up and saying, "Let's go, Master."

Fan Yu glanced at Xiao Ling beside him and said, "You rest for a while first, and I'll talk to you when you come back."

"Good," Xiao Ling nodded.

Fang Yu took two steps forward, raised his right hand, and prepared to open the teleportation gate.

"Whoosh!"

Just at that moment, a dark shadow flashed out from the sky and landed squarely on Fang Yu's shoulder.

"Woof!"

The Void Devourer wagged its little tail, and its blue eyes blinked at Fang Yu as if greeting him.

"Big black dog, your owner didn't bring you again, what are you doing here!" Xiaofengling's face was wrinkled in a frown as she said.

"Woof!" The Void Hound wagged its tail at Xiao Fengling, looking like it didn't care a bit.

“Master!” Xiaofengling stomped her foot in anger, looking up at Fangyu.

"It is coming, and I cannot stop it." Fangyu said.

Based on several past experiences, the tenacity of a Void Devourer is truly terrifying.

As long as it is determined to follow Fang Yu, then even if Fang Yu throws it away in any way, it will be able to return in a short time.

Therefore, Fang Yu has always believed that the Void Devourer mastered the law of space.

"No more wasting time, let's go." Fang Yu rubbed Xiao Feng Ling's head and opened the teleportation gate.

Although Xiao Fengling was reluctant to travel with the Void Devourer, as soon as the portal opened, the displeasure on her face vanished.

The longing for the outside world overwhelmed everything.

She quickly grabbed Fang Yu's sleeve and walked into the teleportation portal.

Thus, a man, a dog, and a little girl just vanished from Xiao Ling's sight.

……

In order to provide Xiaofengling with a good environment and enough thinking time, Fangyu chose a place that had not yet shown any abnormalities and which he had visited before.

Northwest region, Tianshan Mountains.

Heishi Village, several kilometers away from the observatory, once had a large number of corpse zombies.

Then Fang Yu destroyed all the nests of the Corpse Clan.

Since then, Heishi Village should be considered a relatively safe place.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still quite intense.

Before Fangyu and Xiao Fengling stood the observatory.

Although the observatory was built not long ago, it has been severely eroded by wind and sand due to its lack of maintenance.

"Master, where are we" Xiaofengling asked curiously.

"Northwest desert," Fang Yu replied.

Little Windbell walked a few steps forward, gazing at the observatory before her. Her brow furrowed, and she then looked around, her small hand resting on her chin, lost in thought.

"Woof."

The Void Devourer barked at Xiao Fengling, as if mocking her for putting on a show.

"Big Black Dog, shut your mouth!" Xiaofengling turned angrily and retorted.

The Void Eater stood on Fang Yu's shoulder, wagging its tail.

"You..." Xiaofengling stomped her foot in anger.

Whoosh!

The next second, the Void Devourer was grabbed by Fang Yu and thrown far away. In an instant, it turned into a black dot and disappeared from sight.

"Ignore it, just tell me what you found," Fang Yu looked at Xiao Fengling and asked.

“Master, there’s a formation under our feet…” Xiaofengling said.

"Well, I brought you here to ask for your help in figuring out what this formation does." Fang Yu said.

"Then I'd better take a closer look."

Little Windbell spoke, then crouched down.

She first looked with her eyes, and then perhaps finding that inconvenient, she directly extended both of her small hands, pressing her palms directly onto the ground.

"Whoosh!"

The small wind chime's twin palms made contact with the ground, immediately causing a surge of blue light.

And then, Xiaofengling's whole body turned into a wisp of blue aura and directly entered the ground.

Fang Yu, who had been observing from the side, was surprised by this scene.

Such a technique is something human cultivators truly can't master. Only spirit beings like Xiao Fengling could possibly achieve it.

Then, there was a silence.

The observatory is located on high ground. Looking forward, one can see an endless desert and the Tiannan Mountains, which seem to connect with the sky.

The wind on the desert was strong, whipping up swirls of sand.

Fang Yu knew that Xiaofengling should need quite a lot of time, so he was not in a hurry. He walked directly into the observatory, sat down on a wooden stool with his legs crossed, and looked at the scenery in the distance.

When the environment is quiet and your mind is at peace, time seems to pass very slowly.

And for most of Fang Yu's past, this was how he spent his time.

Until recently, he had been surprisingly laid-back.

Now, looking back, what was it that drove him to this frantic pace of life, so different from the leisurely days of his past

I can't really say for sure after thinking about it carefully.

Was it from the moment I saw Ji Ruimei in the vegetable garden, or when I met Tang Xiaorou at school

Since then, things began to happen one after another...

Even years-gone Lin Batian could be encountered again... though only as a wisp of will.

This is incredibly coincidental in itself.

But this past year, there have been way too many coincidences.

If one were to shift their gaze from themselves and look at things from a third-person perspective… they would feel that everything is arranged just so, waiting for Fang Yu to push forward step by step.

However, strangely enough, Fang Yu himself didn't have that feeling.

Every step he took, every choice he made, was his own free will. No one could control him.

The most obvious example is the process of obtaining the Ghost King's Secret Method.

The Devourer of Void was teleported away, Fang Yu went to search for it, and followed the footprints forward... He climbed another snow-capped peak and discovered the tombstone.

The entire process was Fang Yu's own choice.es came from the Zilinzong clan, whose skin was a pale purple.Of course, which faction within the clan they belonged to is unknown.Apart from these six major forces, the identities of two other forces...