Invincible Dad-Chapter 706 Directionally Challenged_1

The fragrance of the flower was faint. If it weren’t for Xu Lai’s astonishingly acute senses, he probably wouldn’t have been able to smell it at all.

It’s the Snowflower.

Xu Lai squinted. In this world of ice and snow spanning a million-li radius, there was only this single flower. No wonder the scent of the Snowflower, mingled with the wind, posed such a great threat to cultivators.

Those three flowers had survived for nearly an entire cycle of samsara, which was one hundred epochs, witnessing one hundred cultivators of the Emperor Realm. Therefore, Xu Lai could accept any peculiarity from the Snowflower; after all, the Immortal Domain knew nothing about them.

Xu Lai took a step.

From four hundred thousand li away from the Snowflower, the distance shortened to three hundred thousand.

Two hundred thousand.

One hundred thousand.

In just three short steps, Xu Lai saw countless cultivators who had lost their vitality, frozen solid upon the ice field. These were all cultivators who hadn’t managed to escape the Demonic Wind in time. After death, their bodies were frozen, becoming a hopeless sight on the ice field. Among them were a fair number of Celestial Venerable Realm experts.

This was, after all, one of the forbidden territories of the Southern Immortal Domain. The closer one got to the Snowflower, the greater the risk of death.

Xu Lai’s expression remained calm as he entered the hundred-thousand-li forbidden zone.

It was as if he had entered another world. The landscape was still one of ice and snow, but beneath the icy surface he trod on, clear water flowed—and it was not from melted snow or ice.

This is... the Boundless Sea!

The entire Southern Immortal Domain was built upon the Boundless Sea, with innumerable star systems sprinkled across its surface like sesame seeds.

Xu Lai withdrew his gaze and continued forward. This time, he didn’t rush, covering one hundred li with each step. The number of ice sculptures formed from dead cultivators had clearly diminished; he could travel hundreds of li without encountering a single one.

After traveling thirty thousand li, he had encountered seven hundred ice sculptures. Only a mere three of them were of the Immortal Venerable Realm. The rest were all Celestial Venerable Realm cultivators, many of whom were at their peak.

Xu Lai wasn’t surprised. The Immortal Domain lacked nothing, especially madmen who, even knowing they would likely die, would still chase after a sliver of opportunity. Xu Lai had once been one of them. The only difference was that he had succeeded, while these people had failed.

He ventured another thirty thousand li into the depths of the forbidden territory, bringing him to less than forty thousand li from the Snowflower. He could clearly feel that the intensity of the Demonic Wind was now on a whole other level compared to when he had first encountered it.

Hm?

Xu Lai paused. He suddenly sensed something and retrieved a jade pendant from his Storage Space.

The jade pendant was cyan and stained with flecks of blood.

The Second Domain... the jade pendant of Shen Qing, the Pearl of the Yufeng Shen Family...

Xu Lai’s gaze sharpened as the pendant began to emit a faint glow. He tossed it into the air, and the jade pendant transformed into a streak of light, speeding off in a certain direction. Xu Lai followed it.

Before long, the jade pendant came to a halt in mid-air.

Xu Lai saw a young woman lying on the ground. She wore a tattered cyan dress, and her exposed skin was covered in wounds. She lay upon the ice, her heartbeat faint. Her injuries were so severe that she had one foot in the Samsara Sea, on the brink of perishing at any moment.

Xu Lai didn’t approach. His eyes watched as the jade pendant floated before Shen Qing, turning into a beam of cyan light that merged into her body. Her fatal injuries began to heal rapidly, and her consciousness gradually cleared. She had barely managed to cling to life.

"Cough."

A pained cough drifted on the wind. She struggled to her feet and looked down at her tattered dress. She simply tore it away, then retrieved a new one from her Storage Space and put it on.

...

Xu Lai’s gaze narrowed slightly. It wasn’t because he had seen something he shouldn’t have. It was because she, a mere Divine Bridge Realm cultivator, was somehow unharmed by the Demonic Wind despite being so grievously injured.

One had to understand, they were now less than forty thousand li from the Snowflower, extremely close to the core of the forbidden territory. Within a few hundred li of this very spot, several peak Celestial Venerable Demon Race cultivators were frozen solid, their life essence devoured by the Demonic Wind.

So why was the precious daughter of the Shen Family, a Divine Bridge Realm cultivator, fine?

...

...

How did my Jade Pendant get here?

Shen Qing looked around, her expression momentarily blank. She clearly remembered giving her identity Jade Pendant to a Human Race cultivator. Did he come in here too?

"Xu Yanyang!"

"Old Xu, are you there? It’s Shen Qing."

"Yanzi, come out!"

"Yang! Yang! Yang! Yang!"

Shen Qing called out for a while, but there was no response. She stopped shouting and said helplessly to herself, "The Jade Pendant probably flew back on its own. Oh, well... at least it saved my life and healed my injuries."

But when she thought about what had happened recently, her charming face flashed with undisguised fury.

"Lei Wanjun, you damned, backstabbing dog!"

"We agreed to oppose the arranged marriage together! You agreed we wouldn’t be Dao companions, just friends!"

"You encouraged me to run away from home to protest to the Shen Family, but the moment I reached the Third Domain, you sent your Venerables to hunt me down!"

"When I become a Quasi-Emperor, the first thing I’ll do is wipe out your Divine Thunder Pavilion."

Shen Qing gritted her teeth, spitting out the words with hatred, "And then I’ll make you kneel and apologize to me!"

The fact that the precious daughter of the Shen Family repeatedly referred to herself with such arrogance showed just how furious she was. She pointed at the heavens and cursed Lei Wanjun relentlessly until she was tired out.

Then, Shen Qing fell silent, slumping to the ground and breathing heavily. Her injuries were severe. Unfortunately, her Storage Space was long out of elixirs; she and Xu Yanyang had consumed them all during their escape.

But how did I get here?

Shen Qing felt the wind scouring her skin, and her delicate body shivered as uncontrollable fear crept into her heart. When she was being chased by the Venerable from the Divine Thunder Pavilion, she had fled in a panic without paying any attention to her surroundings. Now that she was awake, she had a terrible feeling she might have ventured too deep.

This might no longer be the Million Miles of Absolute Territory, but the Hundred-Thousand-Li Forbidden Area! Even Quasi-Emperors had perished here. For a tiny Divine Bridge Realm cultivator like her, being here was simply courting death.

"Ancestors, please protect me! The Supreme Emperor, please protect me! Heavens, please let me get out of here alive! I’m only two thousand years old! I’m still young! I want to live a few more years..."

"Sob... sob, sob..."

...

Xu Lai’s brows furrowed deeply. The fear on the face of the Shen Family’s Pearl didn’t seem like an act; she genuinely appeared to have no idea how she had managed to get so deep into the forbidden territory.

Was the fallout between her and Lei Fengyun, the Saint Heir of the Thunder Sect, truly just a simple falling out between Dao companions? Perhaps... that Saint Heir’s schemes ran so deep that Shen Qing could only see the surface layer.

Xu Lai couldn’t help but release his Divine Sense to observe the surroundings. At this distance, his Divine Sense could only cover a radius of three thousand li. There were no living creatures nearby, only the ice sculptures of dead cultivators.

The Demonic Wind howled, and Xu Lai felt it beginning to erode his Divine Sense bit by bit, so he withdrew it.

I have to escape!

The Shen Family’s daughter gritted her teeth and stood up, preparing to leave. She had no desire to die in this forbidden place.

Only, her direction of escape was not quite right...

It was the opposite direction.

She was actually walking toward the Snowflower.

...

At first, Xu Lai had no idea what the young woman was doing. But after watching her stumble along for several hundred li, her face lit with the triumphant excitement of someone walking toward light and hope, he suddenly understood.

Shen Qing had no sense of direction whatsoever. She was completely hopeless with directions.