Chu Xuan flew for half a day, and still couldn’t find any trace of Jiang Yiyi and her group ahead, hesitating whether he should search around.

He didn’t think his junior brothers and sisters would be so heartless as to leave them behind and head back to the sect by themselves.

Just then, a flare suddenly rose in the distant sky, its mark of a cyan lotus blooming clearly even in daylight.

Chu Xuan was startled and looked back, "This is the sect’s signal flare, someone is asking for help."

Qin Mengyao frowned, looking toward the source of the flare, on the other side of the Broken Tooth Mountain Range.

Although not as deep as where the Poison Blood Profound Crocodile was hunted, it was still quite dangerous, with a terrifying number of low-level monsters, where getting entangled could easily lead to the situation of an elephant being bitten to death by many ants.

She murmured to herself, "Could it be the ancestors? But why would they go there? It doesn’t make sense."

Chu Xuan was also puzzled; this route was completely deviating from the return path to the sect, even bypassing a giant mountain that soared into the clouds, which would be cumbersome to circle around.

Originally, they were about to fly out of the Broken Tooth Mountain Range, but seeing this, they had to change their course to investigate.

...

After painstakingly circling around the ridge, nearing the location of the flare’s rise, Chu Xuan and Qin Mengyao were shocked when they looked from afar!

Snakes, innumerable in different colors and sizes, so many it was terrifying, forming a mountain and sea of snakes, completely surrounding a small mountain.

The three people trapped on the mountain top, were none other than Jiang Yiyi’s group!

The only reassuring fact was that the three seemed generally unharmed.

Although Xiao Yue was trembling with fear and Ye Xingming’s face was pale, Jiang Yiyi was gesturing and discussing with a gigantic white snake with a unicorn on its head, as if negotiating.

At this moment, Jiang Yiyi accidentally spotted Chu Xuan and Qin Mengyao, her eyes lit up, she quickly waved and shouted, "Here, we’re right here!"

With her shout, countless snakes immediately turned and looked towards Chu Xuan, their numerous cold vertical pupils causing his scalp to tingle.

As Chu Xuan secretly lamented his misfortune, Qin Mengyao was desperately thinking of a way to resolve the crisis, Jiang Yiyi, apparently communicating with the white snake, then slowly rose on a cloud, bringing the two juniors to reunite.

Like a small flash of lightning, this was one of the few "immortal arts" Jiang Yiyi could use, and the speed was quite fast, not resembling the level of the Qi Cultivation Stage at all.

Throughout this process, though the snake monsters were closely watching the three, they strangely didn’t initiate an attack.

Once they reunited, Jiang Yiyi urged, "Let’s go, quickly."

Away from the region and back in the high sky, everyone finally sighed in relief, Xiao Yue looked like he barely escaped with his life and almost burst into tears, "I said the masters weren’t reliable, but you insisted on listening to her."

Ye Xingming looked dissatisfied, "But the senior brother said, on the journey, listen to the masters."

Jiang Yiyi coughed awkwardly, "It’s all over now, why talk about it? Let’s not mention it, let’s go home~"

Chu Xuan looked displeased at Jiang Yiyi, "Don’t think you can make this matter go away, I told you to go first, how did it end up like this?"

Jiang Yiyi turned her head, pretending not to hear.

Fortunately, Xiao Yue explained everything that happened separately after the groups split up, clearly.

Initially, the group led by Jiang Yiyi was flying along the safe route established by their elder sister returning to the sect.

But as they flew, Xiao Yue was the first to notice something was wrong and asked the master if the route was slightly off?

Jiang Yiyi waved grandly, saying "Absolutely not," "Kids shouldn’t point fingers."

As they flew further, the surroundings became more unfamiliar, and they even encountered monster attacks multiple times, likely ending up swallowed had they not fled quickly.

At this point, Xiao Yue questioned again, but Jiang Yiyi stubbornly insisted, "Chu Xuan said to follow my lead, do you want to defy the senior brother’s orders?"

Thus, Xiao Yue looked towards Ye Xingming, who secretly agreed with Xiao Yue despite feeling something was wrong, but felt they should follow the senior brother’s words, leaving Xiao Yue reluctantly to compromise.

And so, Jiang Yiyi led the two further astray, and eventually, they... got lost.

Chu Xuan listened and slapped his forehead, never imagining a departing warning would come back to bite him like a boomerang.

The reality proved he shouldn’t have confidence in this ancestor.

Qin Mengyao joked, "Master, turns out you’re directionally challenged, you should’ve mentioned earlier." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Jiang Yiyi’s face flushed red, "How can you falsely accuse me? This is a rare slip-up, an occasional blunder, occurring once every several hundred to thousand years."

"Besides, the ancient wisdom states: ’Rivers and seas do not scorn small streams, hence their depth,’ minor mistakes are inevitable, embracing them leads to greatness..."

During the ancestor’s rational discourse, Xiao Yue weakly remarked, "That’s not all, earlier we settled on that small mountain for a temporary rest, didn’t we?"

"The master suddenly took out the signal flare, saying you’d surely come once you saw it."

"But I advised her that the flare makes a noticeable noise, maybe wait until we’re out of the mountains."

"The master wouldn’t listen, insisted on releasing it, and indeed, the flare’s roar directly lured countless snakes over, we nearly got eaten clean."

Jiang Yiyi’s face turned redder, "That too was within my plan, you see, we successfully reunited, didn’t we?"

Chu Xuan was somewhat curious, "What did you say to those snakes? They genuinely didn’t attack you."

Jiang Yiyi finally regained some face, proudly responded, "I told them, I was just passing by, definitely wouldn’t harm them."

"Perhaps it was sensing the pure and ethereal immortal aura from me, these little creatures were intimidated, bowing and submitting, daring not to offend."

To this, Chu Xuan could only interpret it as Jiang Yiyi indeed possessing a special quality, but that didn’t contradict her being somewhat absent-minded.

Just as Chu Xuan was about to speak again, he noticed Jiang Yiyi using an ambiguous gaze, sweeping between him and Qin Mengyao.

"Tsk tsk, it’s been just a day, and you two juniors have become so close?"

Xiao Yue, jolted from the shock, realized that the senior brother was actually carrying the senior sister?

What happened, before the groups parted, wasn’t the senior sister perfectly fine?

In short, the little junior sister’s heart for gossip burned fiercely!

Embarrassed by Jiang Yiyi’s words, Qin Mengyao instinctively blushed, "Don’t say ridiculous things, I was injured and unable to fly, that’s why I asked my junior brother to take care of me."