These are very boring.
The four types of "Fixed Palace Blood," which are exceedingly precious to ordinary cultivators, endowed Song Yan with a terrifying perception, allowing him to vaguely sense someone on the distant cliff and roughly hear their conversation without needing to extend his divine sense.
The notion of "birds of a feather flock together" once again corroborated his beliefs.
Junior Sister An Li was indeed a very good hiding place, and a place where he could take a brief breath amidst the treacherous and perilous situation.
He didn’t pay much attention to the rest.
After all, Junior Sister An Li really lacked that kind of seductive feminine charm, which even "Old Master Li’s two beautiful concubines" couldn’t compare to.
...
...
Song Yan returned to the room, extinguished the lamp but didn’t immediately go to sleep, as he was still pondering the few words Yu Xuanwei had just let slip.
Phrases like "coming back this time," "Lucky Commerce Association," and "Soul Gold Stone" suddenly reminded him of many things.
After sorting his thoughts a bit, he realized... maybe some old fox had set its sights on him.
Though he had been targeted, it was like dancing in front of a blind person, completely ineffective.
He had his own rhythm, and he’d never let anyone lead him by the nose.
His rhythm was to keep a low profile while becoming stronger, then seize opportunities to reverse the roles.
The simplest ideas, in the most complex situations, appear to be the most profound.
But...
’If the Fox and Wolf Races repeatedly target me and still cannot find me, what will happen if they head north in search and fail again?’ Song Yan contemplated deeply.
Soon, he muttered to himself: ’If it were me, since I couldn’t find it, I wouldn’t look for it anymore. I’d tighten my pockets, quietly awaiting the arrival of strong cultivators from the Purple Mansion, and then catch them in the jar.’
’To catch them in the jar, I’ll need to completely destroy the ancient teleportation array. Since they’ve thrown out the lure of the Soul Gold Stone, there’s no reason they wouldn’t know the location of the ancient teleportation array.’
’But regardless of any faction, the ancient teleportation array is not a cheap little thing; it represents the entrance to a new world, a new map, and also signifies the unknown and opportunity.’
’Thus, I won’t destroy the ancient teleportation array.’
’But to catch them in the jar, I would kill the person here who can repair the ancient teleportation array.’
’Yu Xuanwei.’
’When the time comes, it’ll truly sever the way back.
Not taking the way back and having no way back are two different things.’
Song Yan snorted coldly, then stood up, went out, and came to the lakeside, catching a bodiless phantom crow in the dark. After sensing no one around, he slightly raised his arm and sent the bodiless phantom crow into the wind.
...
The bodiless phantom crow flew and flew, quietly landing on a rock on the lake outside Luoxia Bamboo Island, blending into the night until the early morning when it saw a figure wrapped in a face-covering cloak approach by sword control, then flapped its wings to fly.
The figure paused upon seeing the bodiless phantom crow, slightly pulled open the face covering, revealing Yu Xuanwei’s face.
"Senior?"
The bodiless phantom crow spoke hoarsely: "Young girl, the Fox Wolf intends to kill you.
If you don’t want to die, stop repairing the ancient teleportation array, hide in the array on Luoxia Bamboo Island, and continue to let people disguise you.
Actually, your clumsy disguise techniques have long been seen through!
Yet amidst the real and the fake, as long as a fake version of you remains on Luoxia Bamboo Island, people will subconsciously believe the real version isn’t here."
Yu Xuanwei’s delicate body trembled, speechless with astonishment, seeing the bodiless phantom crow about to fly away, hurriedly said: "Senior, do you have the Soul Gold Stone?"
The bodiless phantom crow slightly moved its wings, revealing a small bean-sized piece of pale gold stone, and asked: "This?"
Yu Xuanwei said joyfully: "You have it!"
Having confirmed, the bodiless phantom crow spoke no further, spread its wings, and flew far, merging into the darkness.
Yu Xuanwei paused, but did not chase after it; instead, she began to carefully consider Song Yan’s words. The more she contemplated them, the more outrageous they seemed, and she felt this Song demon was terrifying.
In fact, Song Yan himself didn’t know whether the Fox Wolf had already begun "preparing to kill Yu Xuanwei," but he knew... if he were them, he would do it. Since he would do it, he had to close that gap beforehand.
As for the array inheritance...
Asking directly won’t work.
There will be ample time ahead.