Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 49

The demon beasts Yun Mixue had caught were only at Foundation Establishment. The white ribbons had wrapped around them the whole way, and now bone-deep cold had frozen them listless. They did not even struggle anymore.
Yun Mixue pulled the ribbons, and several demon beasts fell before Yan Zhuguang.
Yan Zhuguang waved her hand and opened a cut on each demon beast, taking plenty of fresh blood. Then she began drawing on the stone gate.
She was not drawing anything else. She only filled in the missing parts of that pattern, making the mark of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain clear.
Strangely, after she finished drawing the pattern, the blood-drawn lines were suddenly absorbed by the stone gate. Click. A crack opened in the stone gate and slowly widened.
Dense demonic energy leaked from the crack and rushed straight toward the two people outside. Yun Mixue took a small step and blocked Yan Zhuguang. With a wave of her snow-white sleeve, countless tiny ice crystals burst open, blocking all the demonic energy outside.
Then Yun Mixue pushed out with her slender, white palm. The ice crystals shook, then turned into white mist. The surrounding demonic energy was struck hard by the surging ice-snow spiritual energy and scattered in every direction.
The area around the two of them became clean.
Demonic energy was strange. If someone was careless and it contaminated them, invading their body, it would cling like a maggot to bone. No matter what they did, they could not shake it off. Not only would it harm cultivation, in serious cases it could even trigger heart demons, causing cultivation to stagnate or destroying the cultivator’s path entirely.
Yun Mixue was already at Nascent Soul. Spiritual energy surrounded her body, so ordinary demonic energy did not frighten her. But Yan Zhuguang was still only at Foundation Establishment and had little resistance against demonic energy. If she were contaminated, it would be dangerous.
That was also why Yun Mixue had hesitated after sensing that this hidden realm was connected to demonic cultivators.
Even with her Nascent Soul strength, facing this kind of demonic energy that could seep through any gap, she worried she might not be able to protect Yan Zhuguang.
To avoid making Senior Sister worry even more, Yan Zhuguang did not move carelessly even though she had ways to avoid demonic energy’s invasion. She obediently stayed behind Yun Mixue and let Yun Mixue disperse all the demonic energy leaking from the stone gate.
Magically, after the demonic energy in the stone gate rushed out all at once, that unsettling demonic energy vanished completely.
A very clean and clear aura faintly spread from inside the stone gate. It refreshed the heart, as if one breath of it could make the whole body feel clear from head to toe.
“This is…”
The stone gate opened completely. A pale light poured out and lit the cave outside. The dark, frightening underground cave where Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang stood also changed greatly.
The jagged, gloomy shadows from before were now only pillars connecting the cave roof to the bottom. Many plants even grew underground, adding life to the whole cave floor.
Of course, the most eye-catching sight was still the scene inside the stone gate.
Behind the stone gate was an ice-green jade wall. The light that almost lit the whole hidden realm came from that jade wall, and the refreshing aura also came from it.
“It seems this is the true entrance to the hidden realm.”
Yan Zhuguang studied the strange jade wall.
On the jade wall, some images could be seen faintly, like a map. Every piece of scenery in the images, every plant, and even the veins of every leaf were clearly visible.
“It seems the Dripping Blood Demon Domain discovered this hidden realm and then sealed it again, either to claim it as their own or for some other purpose. That is why the stone gate outside exists.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded. “I think so too.”
The demonic energy had been deliberately filled there to create the false impression that this was a demonic cultivator hidden realm.
This alone was enough to stop many cultivators from coveting it. After all, most immortal cultivators were afraid of demonic cultivator hidden realms.
Even someone like Qiu Qiao had not rashly opened it after first discovering it. Only after noticing Su Qian’er’s drawing and thinking he had some guarantee did he decide to seize the drawing and come to the hidden realm again.
Yun Mixue looked at the drawing in Yan Zhuguang’s hand. “There is only one pattern on the drawing and nothing else. Could it simply be an ordinary piece of paper someone copied after discovering the stone gate?”
Earlier, Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue had studied the drawing. It did not seem to have anything miraculous about it. It only had one pattern. Aside from being especially tough, there was nothing strange about the paper.
The drawing did not explain how to open the hidden realm. Yan Zhuguang herself had guessed the method for opening the stone gate.
“That is possible.”
But Yan Zhuguang kept feeling it was not that simple.
She said to Yun Mixue, “Let us leave that for now, Senior Sister. Should we enter the hidden realm first and see?”
Yun Mixue nodded. “All right.”
Yan Zhuguang collected some fresh demon beast blood and stored it in the system inventory in case they needed it. Time was still inside the system inventory. Whatever state something was in when placed inside would be its state when taken out, so this blood was guaranteed to remain very fresh.
After storing it, Yan Zhuguang tossed the little green sprout onto the demon beasts right in front of Yun Mixue.
The wounds used to draw blood from the demon beasts turned black at a visible speed. In the next moment, all the demon beasts suddenly vanished, leaving only a still-green sprout swaying in the wind.
This was the first time Yun Mixue had personally seen the strange little sprout devour flesh and blood. This kind of devouring, skin, flesh, bones, and blood all together, was truly strange.
Yan Zhuguang smiled at Yun Mixue. “Senior Sister will not think I am cruel, right?”
Yun Mixue shook her head. “No wanton killing, no torture. How can that count as cruel?” There were countless spells in the cultivation world that left no corpse behind. Yan Zhuguang’s method only had a stronger visual impact.
The white silk binding the demon beasts in Yun Mixue’s hand turned into snowflakes and scattered. “Let us go.”
The two carefully stepped through the stone gate. As soon as they entered, the stone gate behind them closed with a boom.
Yan Zhuguang turned to look. As expected, the inside of the stone gate also had a mark identical to the outside. It seemed that after leaving the hidden realm, if they wanted to go out through the inner side of the gate, they would need to draw the pattern again.
Collecting that blood had indeed been the right choice.
There was still some space between the stone gate and the jade wall. The two looked around this small area but found nothing unusual.
“It seems we can only start with the jade wall.”
Yun Mixue tried probing the jade wall with her spiritual sense. Unsurprisingly, she was blocked outside the jade wall.
She stretched out her hand and, under Yan Zhuguang’s gaze, carefully touched the jade wall. The moment her fingertip touched it, the seemingly solid jade wall seemed to turn into water, rippling outward in circles. The images on the jade wall also became twisted and blurry.
Yun Mixue quickly withdrew her hand, and the jade wall immediately returned to normal.
Yun Mixue said, “The hidden realm is inside the jade wall.”
When she had put her finger into the jade wall just now, it felt as if she had reached into another space. Perhaps another world existed inside the jade wall.
Yan Zhuguang thought for a moment, then placed the drawing in her hand against the jade wall to see whether it would react. Unexpectedly, the moment the drawing touched the jade wall, it seemed to stick tightly. It could not be pulled away.
The jade wall slowly swallowed the drawing.
Yan Zhuguang frowned but no longer tried to retrieve it.
The “water” formed by the melting jade wall slowly covered the drawing. The instant it submerged the paper, the drawing changed. The plain bronze color gradually faded, and the whole drawing turned the same ice-green color as the jade wall.
The pattern on the drawing also vanished. In its place were blurry scenes that slowly became solid and clear. Yan Zhuguang looked carefully and found that they were a smaller version of the jade wall’s images. All the pictures had shrunk and printed onto that drawing.
No, perhaps these images had been on the drawing from the start and were only now showing their true face.
Yun Mixue said, “It seems this is the drawing’s true form.”
Yan Zhuguang reached out. The drawing, now changed into a piece of silk cloth the same color as the jade wall, was “spat out” by the jade wall and landed neatly in Yan Zhuguang’s hand.
Yan Zhuguang said, “I wonder what was done to this drawing that it even hid from Senior Sister.”
Yan Zhuguang opened the silk cloth to check. The things on it were clearer than on the jade wall. It looked like a map, and there were some red marks on it. She did not know what they meant.
Yun Mixue considered it. “If this drawing came from the hand of a Spirit Division cultivator, it would be normal that I could not identify it.”
“Senior Sister means this drawing might have passed through the former sect master’s hands?”
“It is only my guess.”
Yan Zhuguang thought about it. It was indeed possible. The former sect master had been at Spirit Division. If a Spirit Division cultivator had placed a disguise on it, it was normal that Senior Sister could not see through it.
“If so, then this drawing, which passed through the former sect master’s hands, not only fell into the hands of the cultivator surnamed Su, but was also given to Su Qian’er. Could the former sect master have some connection to Miss Su?”
Yun Mixue thought for a moment but did not answer.
Yan Zhuguang also did not speak.
To Yan Zhuguang, Su Qian’er was a dangerous person. If the former sect master was involved with her, then perhaps she would have dealings with Fenghua Immortal Sect in the future.
If so, Yun Mixue, as Fenghua Immortal Sect’s senior sister, would still have to interact with her. That was not something Yan Zhuguang wanted to see.
After the drawing became a silk map, the two no longer delayed in the small space. To avoid accidentally separating, they held hands tightly, looked at each other, and stepped into the jade wall at the same time.
The moment they entered the jade wall, it felt like a layer of soft gauze covering the face, brushing gently over the body. In the next moment, a feeling of weightlessness arrived, and the whole person fell downward.
Their hands were still tightly clasped. A force gently pulled her, and Yan Zhuguang felt herself being held close in a cool embrace.
The wind from falling made it almost impossible to open her eyes, but after being held in those arms, all discomfort was blocked outside. Yan Zhuguang opened her eyes and could only see white, along with a few strands of black hair flying wildly.
She wrapped her arms around a slender waist and used all her senses to determine the nearby situation and judge how far they were falling.
However, perhaps the place where they fell from was too high. Yan Zhuguang could not sense any aura at all. She wanted to stretch out her spiritual sense, only to find it was restricted in this hidden realm and could not be released at all.
This hidden realm had too many restrictions.
“Host!” the system’s voice suddenly jumped out. “There is a teleportation formation below. If you fall into it, Host and Senior Sister will be separated!”
Yan Zhuguang frowned. But while falling at high speed, she could not speak. Her spiritual sense was also sealed, so she could not send a voice transmission to Senior Sister. She could not tell Yun Mixue. It seemed separation could not be avoided.
At this moment, Yan Zhuguang’s ear suddenly warmed. Yun Mixue pressed close to her ear and said, “There is a teleportation formation ahead. I cannot avoid it. If you and I are separated, do not be afraid. Wait for Senior Sister to come find you.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded in Yun Mixue’s arms. She knew Senior Sister could feel it.
In the next moment, the two seemed to crash into something mysterious. Yan Zhuguang only had time to stuff the silk cloth into Yun Mixue’s lapel before her arms were empty.
After that came another whirl of heaven and earth.