We've struck it rich! This is a huge profit!

Lin Yuan and Yue Qingyao's eyes met.

A bone-chilling killing intent, like a tide, emanated from her perfect, delicate body, and the temperature of the entire space seemed to plummet to freezing point.

In those beautiful eyes, capable of eclipsing the heavens and earth, surged uncontrollable indignation, along with self-reproach and hatred.

Yue Qingyao's gaze slowly shifted, finally landing on her daughter, Su Qinghan.

In Su Qinghan's eyes, there was unspeakable shock, bewilderment, and a trace of undisguised panic.

This matter was too absurd, too outrageous.

Su Qinghan knew very well that Lin Yuan could not be blamed.

From beginning to end, he was like a puppet caught in the eye of a storm, unable to control himself.

Yue Qingyao took a deep breath, her breathtaking curves rising and falling sharply with it; she seemed to be desperately suppressing some emotion on the verge of losing control.

"There is only one way to resolve this matter."

Lin Yuan's heart sank. What way? It must be to kill him.

Only dead men can keep secrets forever.

Only by his complete disappearance from this world could this chaotic and twisted relationship be severed.

If Yue Qingyao had been alone, there might have been room for negotiation.

But unfortunately, Su Qinghan witnessed everything from beginning to end.

For the Sect's reputation, for her Nascent Soul Old Ancestor's prestige, and even more so to prevent a rift between mother and daughter... killing him was the only choice, and the simplest choice.

"Senior, this matter..."

Lin Yuan spoke, his voice somewhat hoarse.

"Could you... give me a chance to explain?"

"Mother!"

Su Qinghan finally let out a choked sob, pleading.

"Don't kill him! This matter... let's just pretend it never happened, okay?"

"Never happened?"

Yue Qingyao snorted coldly, her voice filled with self-mockery and suppressed rage.

"This concerns my relationship with you! And I've just entered the Nascent Soul stage; if even a hint of this matter leaks out..."

Lin Yuan understood very well that Yue Qingyao, this Nascent Soul Cultivator, was not a soft-hearted person; more words would be useless.

He could only seek another path to survival, and that path was not far behind him.

Although he didn't know where the other end of that Teleportation Array led.

Staying here was a certain death trap!

Between two evils, he could only gamble on that slim chance of survival!

"Mother, no! He definitely won't tell anyone, I promise you!"

Su Qinghan's tears finally broke free, streaming down her smooth cheeks.

She anxiously pleaded for Lin Yuan, trying to sway Yue Qingyao's murderous intent.

Now!

The Spiritual Qi that had just reached Perfection within Lin Yuan's body was, in this instant, ruthlessly squeezed and ignited without reservation!

His body, like a bow pulled to its extreme, suddenly shot forth!

Instead of retreating, he transformed into a decisive afterimage, rushing straight towards the Teleportation Array!

Almost the instant he landed, he slammed a pure Spiritual Qi into the core of the Formation!

Buzz—!

The Teleportation Array glowed brightly, and spatial power began to violently twist and boil.

"You dare!"

The moment she detected that Spiritual Qi fluctuation, Yue Qingyao flew into a rage.

Her delicate eyebrows shot up, murderous intent flashed in her eyes, and she formed a claw with her fingers, making a grasping motion in Lin Yuan's direction from dozens of feet away.

Rip!

Space seemed to be torn directly! A gigantic claw, completely constructed of Spiritual Qi and obscuring the sky, materialized out of thin air. Dao flowed on the giant claw, and its might was vast, as if it could crush this entire world in its palm!

In that instant, Lin Yuan felt his Divine Soul tremble, and his thoughts almost froze.

A Nascent Soul Cultivator's enraged strike; he couldn't even conjure the slightest thought of resistance.

The shadow of death, more pervasive than ever before, enveloped him.

Just as the giant claw was about to descend, intending to crush him and the Teleportation Array into dust.

Around Lin Yuan's body, space suddenly contracted inwards.

His figure blurred for a moment, and then, he completely vanished.

Boom!!!

A deafening roar.

Where Lin Yuan had just stood, that ancient Teleportation Array, along with the surrounding ground, was violently blasted by the giant claw, leaving a bottomless crater. A terrifying energy storm swept in all directions, and shattered rocks and dust shot into the sky.

Seeing that Lin Yuan had ultimately escaped, Su Qinghan's taut body softened, but she let out a long sigh of relief in her heart... The world spun.

A violent sense of dizziness assailed him.

When he regained his footing, what met his eyes was a dead silent, desolate land.

Around him was a thick, impenetrable yellowish-green poisonous miasma, with visibility so low it was almost impossible to see one's own hand.

Here, Divine Sense could only barely extend ten feet from his body; beyond that was pure Chaos.

Lin Yuan dared not delay in the slightest. He immediately pulled out a supreme grade miasma-avoiding pill from his Storage Pouch and swallowed it.

The Medicinal Pill melted upon entry, and a cool sensation circulated through his limbs and bones, resisting the erosion of the toxins.

Yet, even so, he could still clearly feel threads of cold, bone-chilling poisonous miasma relentlessly penetrating his protective Spiritual Qi and drilling into his flesh.

The poison here was too potent!

"One day."

If he couldn't leave this poisonous miasma within a day, the toxins in his body would continuously accumulate, eventually overcoming the Medicinal Pill's suppression, and then he would die from the poison.

Even worse, he was completely lost here. With his Divine Sense restricted, blundering about like a headless fly would only lead to a faster death.

Rumble... Just then, a dull rumbling sound, like thunder, came from the thick fog not far away.

This sound was very strange.

It didn't sound like heavenly thunder, but rather as if it came from deep within the earth, dull yet possessing a peculiar rhythm.

Lin Yuan's heart stirred.

An anomaly meant a change.

A change could mean a glimmer of hope!

He concealed all his aura and cautiously made his way in the direction of the thunderous sound.

After an unknown period of walking, the poisonous miasma ahead seemed to thin out slightly.

A strange bamboo forest gradually became clear in his vision.

The bamboo growing in this forest was not verdant green, but rather an unusual silver-white, as if cast from molten silver, shimmering with a cold metallic luster.

Even more astonishing was that on the surface of these silver bamboo stalks, tiny electric arcs would occasionally leap out, emitting soft "crackling" sounds.

Wherever the lightning arcs passed, the dense poisonous miasma around them would be cleansed away, turning into nothingness.

This bamboo forest was not large, with about a hundred stalks, but there was no poisonous miasma within it.

Lin Yuan was ecstatic.

He tentatively stepped into the bamboo forest and, finding that the lightning arcs did not attack him, finally relaxed completely.

"Could this be... the legendary silver thunder bamboo?"

Lin Yuan's breathing became somewhat rapid.

His gaze was involuntarily drawn to the center of the bamboo forest.

There, one or two bamboo stalks were no longer silver-white, but had transformed entirely into a golden color.

On the golden bamboo stalks, it was no longer silver electric arcs that flickered, but dazzling golden lightning snakes.

Ten-thousand-year silver thunder bamboo can transform into gold thunder bamboo!

Struck it rich!

Legend has it that a small section of silver thunder bamboo, palm-sized, could sell for a sky-high price of several million Spirit Stones.

And gold thunder bamboo was even more priceless, an unrivaled divine material for refining top-tier lightning magic Treasures!

It was one of the three divine woods of the Cultivation world.

This large patch of silver thunder bamboo, along with two gold thunder bamboos, its value was already immeasurable!

Lin Yuan suppressed the excitement in his heart, flipped his palm, and the frost sword appeared.

"Slash!"

Lin Yuan let out a low shout, and a sharp Sword Qi fiercely struck the nearest silver thunder bamboo.

However, as soon as the Sword Qi touched the bamboo body, a flash of lightning appeared on the surface of the bamboo.

With a "crackling" sound, the Sword Qi was directly dissolved into nothingness by the power of the lightning.

Lin Yuan's heart tightened, and he unhesitatingly summoned his trump card.

Earth Core Nether Fire!

"Go!"

With a whoosh, deep blue flames wrapped around the base of the silver thunder bamboo, burning fiercely.

However, more than ten breaths passed, and the silver thunder bamboo remained cold throughout, with silver light flowing, completely unharmed.