Chapter 1218: Not good

"Have you ever secretly left home before?" Ye Liuyun asked.

"No!" Yun Mengyi shook her head decisively. "There are many bad people outside, and my cultivation level isn't high either, so I don't dare go out!"

"Um... you've never even left the Yun Clan's gate?" Ye Liuyun also didn't expect that Yun Mengyi usually doesn't dare go out.

"I've gone out with the elders at home!" Yun Mengyi replied.

"Not going out often makes it hard to find an excuse!" Ye Liuyun muttered to himself.

Afterwards, he told Yun Mengyi, just say you were kidnapped by someone, then the kidnappers were killed and you were rescued.

"Okay, then can I leave now?" Yun Mengyi was about to go.

"Why the rush? If your family asks what the kidnapper looked like, what would you say?" Ye Liuyun asked.

"... Then go on!" Yun Mengyi thought for a moment, indeed not knowing what to say, so she had Ye Liuyun continue making it up.

Ye Liuyun described the kidnapper's image and set up information like his cultivation level.

"Who saved me then?" Yun Mengyi asked.

Ye Liuyun, too lazy to keep making things up, simply said: "Just say I saved you!"

Yun Mengyi smiled: "Your kidnapper turned out to be my savior! You're quite good at assigning yourself roles!"

Ye Liuyun spread his hands. "Then either you make one up?"

Yun Mengyi waved her hands repeatedly. "No need, it's you after all—I won't lie!"

The two of them reworked the whole plot again. Ye Liuyun also fabricated a battle scene so the Yun Clan wouldn't really send people to investigate, and only then felt comfortable letting Yun Mengyi come out.

"Let's eat something first before we leave; there's still time." Ye Liuyun didn't tell her that their time inside the Xuan Kong Shi was very brief.

"But if I return late, will that earlier scenario still match?" Yun Mengyi discovered the timing mismatch.

Helpless, Ye Liuyun simply said: "The place you were just in, time there is only one-tenth of the outside world."

Although he just said it casually, intending to brush it off, Yun Mengyi exclaimed as if she'd discovered a new continent.

"Wow! What place is that? A secret realm? If you cultivated there, wouldn't you be invincible after coming out?"

"It is a secret realm. But I can't just go there either!" Ye Liuyun didn't want to continue discussing this with her.

But Yun Mengyi couldn't let it go, always asking about the Xuan Kong Shi.

To dispel her thoughts, Ye Liuyun had to say: "Only I can enter there; outsiders simply can't get in!"

Upon hearing that, Yun Mengyi finally stopped speaking, silently wondering what she was thinking.

Ye Liuyun prepared the grilled meat and handed it to Yun Mengyi.

Yun Mengyi was absent-minded, still thinking about the Xuan Kong Shi, but after taking a bite, her eyes lit up.

"So delicious!" she exclaimed loudly.

"If it's good, eat your fill!" Ye Liuyun laughed.

Yun Mengyi really listened, eating with no ladylike image at all. While eating, she asked Ye Liuyun: "Are there many ferocious beasts where you are?"

"Not bad!" Ye Liuyun realized then that ferocious beasts are rare on the Yunxia Continent.

"The ferocious beasts here have all been killed off; you have to pay a high price to buy them. We also raise some at home, but we normally can't eat them!" Yun Mengyi said, mouth full of meat.

"I see!"

Ye Liuyun secretly laughed: "No wonder a lady from a noble family eats grilled meat with no image at all!"

After Yun Mengyi finished eating, she dawdled for a while, and instead wasn't in a hurry to leave.

"Why aren't you leaving?" Ye Liuyun asked curiously.

"I want to ask, do you have a woman?" Yun Mengyi fiddled with her collar, head lowered, face flushed as she asked.

Seeing her expression, Ye Liuyun jumped in fright. "Don't get into trouble! That woman probably wants to enter the Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate, so she's aiming at me!" he thought secretly.

Thinking that, he immediately said: "Not only do I have one, I have a whole bunch!"

"Oh!" Yun Mengyi's eyes showed disappointment, then she turned and left, looking listless and dejected.

"What the heck is this! Women in this world, for cultivation, just throw themselves away like that!"

Ye Liuyun secretly thought, helplessly shaking his head.

Immediately after, he put on the Invisibility Cloak and, from afar, used his Divine Sense to follow Yun Mengyi, worried something might happen to her on the way.

Fortunately he was following Yun Mengyi, because something really did happen on the road.

Yun Mengyi walked along, head down, thinking about her worries, when she unexpectedly encountered a Martial Cultivator at the Tian Zun Yi Chong level.

She didn't pay it any mind and continued forward.

But that Martial Cultivator of the Tianzun Realm, after glancing at Yun Mengyi, harbored ill intentions.

"Miss, are you alone?" that cultivator stopped and asked Yun Mengyi, while his Divine Sense probed the surroundings, finding no one following her.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil saw that cultivator's face and knew he meant no good.

"This world isn't great either! Ferocious beasts have been over‑slaughtered to extinction, and in broad daylight they stop travelers to rob people!" Ye Liuyun's view of the world changed considerably.

Although this place is suitable for cultivation, its people are obviously more short‑sighted.

"Black Tortoise. When that cultivator makes a move, you take care of him!" Ye Liuyun summoned the Black Tortoise.

Yun Mengyi, hearing that, also stopped, saw that cultivator giving an evil grin, and realized the danger.

"What do you want? I'm the eldest daughter of the Yun Clan!" Yun Mengyi said warily.

Only then did she release her Divine Sense, beginning to scout the surroundings for an escape route.

Ye Liuyun, seeing her from afar, helplessly shook his head. He secretly sighed: "Too naive; in this world, she's no different from an idiot!"

Yun Mengyi's threat had no effect.

"The Yun Clan? Hah, what of it? No one's around here, who would know?" that cultivator laughed wildly and lunged at Yun Mengyi.

Yun Mengyi hadn't noticed; only now did she realize the distance between them was too close. Even if her cultivation were low she couldn't run, and even if they were equal she'd still find it hard to escape.

But it's too late for regret now; she could only mobilize all her True Essence and unleash a single strike.

Then, her attack was easily brushed aside by that Martial Cultivator with a wave of his hand, and it scattered.

"Haha, are you trying to tickle me?" the Martial Cultivator said with an evil smile, reaching out to grab Yun Mengyi.

"It's over, this time I'm really going to be defiled!" Yun Mengyi hesitated, wondering whether to kill herself, but she could never bring herself to do it.