Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 76

The method for opening Qinggong Tower was very complicated. Of course, the most important part was supplying a large amount of spiritual energy.
Yun Mixue led twenty titled disciples to guard the area around Qinggong Tower. Each person was responsible for one section and had to replace exhausted spirit stones in time, ensuring that the large spirit-gathering formation could run properly and maintain Qinggong Tower’s spiritual energy supply.
Eldest Senior Sister, serious as she worked and arranged everything, seemed to be glowing. Anyone who saw her could hardly move their eyes away. Yan Zhuguang stared without blinking until Qinggong Tower opened.
After the complicated steps of setting formations, activating formations, opening the gate, and other rituals, Qinggong Tower’s main gate finally opened. The disciples qualified to enter Qinggong Tower had long been eager to try. The moment the tower gate opened, they rushed in all at once.
Su Qian’er was among them. Although she was only at the first level of Qi Refining, her speed was not slow. Almost at the instant the gate opened, her whole figure moved. Even though her limited strength let some later people overtake her, that forward-driving will was something others did not have.
Yan Zhuguang had said she would go with Su Qian’er. Now she could only nod from afar toward Eldest Senior Sister, regretfully withdraw her gaze, and arrive beside Su Qian’er in a few steps.
“Junior Sister Su, there are too many people. Follow me. I will bring you through.” Although Yan Zhuguang did not know what benefit there was to entering Qinggong Tower first, since everyone was fighting to be first, she was not afraid.
Su Qian’er did not refuse. She silently followed half a step behind Yan Zhuguang. Yan Zhuguang led Su Qian’er and squeezed out a path, rushing into Qinggong Tower.
Because of this, some of the emptiness in Su Qian’er’s eyes lessened. The way she looked at Yan Zhuguang held some gratitude.
Only, that gratitude turned into faint surprise the moment she entered the tower gate, because Yan Zhuguang in front of her had suddenly disappeared.
Inside the tower gate was a dark space. It was not dark enough that one could see nothing, but there was no one inside. There was not the slightest trace of Yan Zhuguang. People kept rushing in behind her, but they flashed beside her and disappeared too.
Su Qian’er reached forward and felt around. After discovering nothing unusual, she thought for a moment, then closed her eyes and rushed in.
Very soon, Su Qian’er’s figure disappeared too, vanishing into this black space.
At this moment, a faint aura fluctuation suddenly sent a tiny tremor through the space. This was Yan Zhuguang, hidden in a corner of the space. She had not entered the tower first.
From the beginning, she had not truly planned to challenge the tower together with Su Qian’er. Su Qian’er was at Qi Refining, while she was at Foundation Establishment. Even if they ran into the tower hand in hand, the final places where they landed would be different.
She had only said she would go with Su Qian’er because she wanted to test her.
“She has not challenged Qinggong Tower before.”
After that series of tests, Yan Zhuguang reached this conclusion.
If Su Qian’er had entered Qinggong Tower before, she would not be unaware of the situation inside. Even if Su Qian’er had agreed to challenge the tower with Yan Zhuguang to deliberately hide her tracks, after discovering that Yan Zhuguang had “entered the tower first,” she would not have shown that surprised expression.
“I told you,” the system said. “Su Qian’er definitely cannot be the female lead. The female lead clearly entered Qinggong Tower before. How could she act like this?”
Yan Zhuguang neither agreed nor disagreed. She said, “Now there is a question.”
“What kind of person would be familiar with Fenghua Immortal Sect’s inner sect layout, yet have never challenged Qinggong Tower?”
“Uh…”
The system got stuck.
It was indeed a little strange. Fenghua Immortal Sect’s inner sect was not a place just anyone could enter. For outsiders to know the inner sect’s layout was almost impossible. As for Qinggong Tower’s entry chance, every inner disciple could receive one. Almost every inner disciple had gone there.
In that case, there was a contradiction.
“Could it be a registered disciple?” the system guessed. “Although registered disciples have limited areas where they can move around the inner sect and cannot go everywhere, they do know something about the inner sect.”
Yan Zhuguang shook her head. Her intuition told her it would not be a registered disciple. “What connection would a registered disciple have with Gu Chen and Eldest Senior Sister?”
Su Qian’er hated Gu Chen, feared Eldest Senior Sister, and was extremely afraid of one among Yun Mixue, Chu Ningyan, and Yun Changyue. Among registered disciples, who fit these conditions?
“Could it be He Sheng?” the system said as inspiration flashed. “He Sheng was killed by Yun Changyue and hated Eldest Senior Sister for expelling her from the sect. Although I do not know what connection she had with Gu Chen, the first two match.”
“Would He Sheng fail to recognize me?” Yan Zhuguang had considered this too, but when she thought of how Su Qian’er looked at her, Yan Zhuguang rejected this answer.
If it were He Sheng, when she woke up in Su Qian’er’s body, she would not have looked so lost. “This Su Qian’er has not seen me. She should be from that parallel space without me.”
For Host to actually know the term parallel space, that was hard-won. The system thought about it. Maybe it had mentioned the term before and Host had learned it, or maybe Host had come into contact with such ideas before.
Still being unable to lock down Su Qian’er’s true identity was rather troublesome. Yan Zhuguang pressed down her thoughts, released her concealment, and ran into the tower.
When she came out again, Yan Zhuguang had already arrived in an unfamiliar space.
This place was full of fiery red and very hot. In the whole space, she was the only one there. The moment Yan Zhuguang appeared, the entire space shook. Countless fireballs suddenly emerged and attacked Yan Zhuguang in the blink of an eye.
How unlucky. Yan Zhuguang, whose main cultivation was still wood-element spells and whose natal spiritual object was also a poison object mainly of the wood element, had been thrown into the area that countered her the most.
Yan Zhuguang’s figure flashed. She quickly dodged the fireballs flying from every direction and reached another area, but she was still slightly burned by the dense flames.
Yan Zhuguang did not frown. At this moment, the effects of the body technique she had practiced in her spare time, called Cold Thorn, showed themselves.
Although being burned by the flames left a wound, Yan Zhuguang did not feel pain. She did not need to endure it on purpose, and it did not affect her movements at all.
After she flashed to the side, new flames aimed at her and flew over with a roar in the blink of an eye.
The flames in this space seemed endless. No matter how Yan Zhuguang dodged, they came in a steady stream without stopping, as if determined to burn Yan Zhuguang to ash.
Most cultivators who practiced fire-element spells had fiery tempers. In Yan Zhuguang’s view, the person who left this fire-element Dao intent not only had a fiery temper, but was also extremely stubborn.
The true meaning of these flames was very condensed. It could not be easily broken. In the end, this was something left by an inner disciple of Fenghua Immortal Sect, so its strength was naturally not weak. Yan Zhuguang’s attribute was countered, so she did not rashly use her spells against it, nor did she release the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine.
Her current spells were countered by these flames. Taking them out would only feed the fire and make it easier for her to draw the flames onto herself. As for the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine, with its current quality, it would not fear this kind of flame. But if it shattered the flame intent in one strike, what would be the point of training? She might as well leave Qinggong Tower early.
So unless something unexpected happened, Yan Zhuguang did not plan to use the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Vine inside Qinggong Tower.
For the moment, she did not counterattack. She only kept dodging. At first, she could not avoid being burned by those flames. The later it became, the faster she dodged, until she could even move calmly through the flames without being harmed.
In this life, she had not experienced many battles. Her movements had inevitably become a little rusty. Now, with a chance like Qinggong Tower, she could temper her body and recover the agility she had in her previous life.
Yan Zhuguang stayed in the flame intent for a long time. When these flames could no longer keep up with her movement technique, Yan Zhuguang lost interest in the flame intent.
She stretched out her hand and lightly rubbed her thumb across her index finger. A drop of black blood flew from her fingertip. Yan Zhuguang gently blew, and that drop of poisonous blood suddenly passed through the layers of flying flames, heading toward the sea of fire hidden in deep red. It landed exactly on that small golden flame.
Hiss…
The black poisonous blood was instantly burned by the golden flame into pitch-black smoke. Yet that curling black smoke did not scatter. Instead, it slowly drifted back, wrapping around the golden flame again and tightening bit by bit.
The golden flame gradually lost its vitality under the smoke’s binding. Its earlier liveliness also vanished.
Just as the golden flame was about to be extinguished by the poisonous smoke, the fiery red space rapidly lost its color, and Yan Zhuguang was thrown out.
After the world spun around her, Yan Zhuguang was given no time to prepare before she landed in a pitch-black world, stepping on a patch of hard earth.
This was a space filled with strange, jagged rocks. Under the dim light, the strangely shaped rock space looked eerie and frightening.
A sense of danger rose in Yan Zhuguang’s heart. Before she could react, she felt the ground soften beneath her feet. The originally hard earth had turned into a swamp, firmly sticking her feet in place.
After this change, the entire space transformed. Those strangely shaped black rocks all turned into mud walls. They softened bit by bit until they could no longer keep their original shapes. Soon, they collapsed downward, smashing into the swamp and splashing up countless bits of black mud.
Everything around her was collapsing. Yan Zhuguang was now between several mud mountains. Once these mud mountains collapsed and smashed onto her, she might have to become a puddle of mud in the black swamp.
Yan Zhuguang’s thoughts moved, and she casually scattered several handfuls of grass seeds. Bright green light wrapped around the seeds. The moment they landed and touched the black mud, they rooted in the swamp and grew upward wildly, weaving into a grass net that held up the mud and tied it firmly in place.
Under Yan Zhuguang’s feet, a grass net grown from countless grass seeds also lifted her up.
“This stone-swamp intent is a little interesting.”
Yan Zhuguang stepped forward, and a green grass net grew beneath her feet, supporting her whole body so she would not fall. She used the grass net as a boat and stood on the black swamp land, looking around with interest in her eyes.
If her spells were not flexible and varied, a careless person might truly fail here.
As Yan Zhuguang walked, the grass net under her feet connected into one line. The next moment, she retreated far back.
Not long after, a large mass of mud fell where she had just stopped and smashed the entire grass net under it.
Yan Zhuguang did not feel it was a pity. She turned and chose another direction.
The system asked, “Host, how do you break through this place?”