Invincible Dad-Chapter 707 Help me, senior!_1

Xu Lai sighed lightly. There was no point in trying to probe this young girl’s intentions any longer.

He then spoke up. "You’re going the wrong way."

"Oh, oh, oh, thank you," Shen Qing replied subconsciously.

Her expression suddenly stiffened. "Who—who’s speaking!"

In the vast, hundred-thousand-mile expanse of the Snowflower Forbidden Grounds, there shouldn’t be any living beings. Is the speaker an Immortal Venerable from the outside world, or an entity from within the Forbidden Grounds? If it were an Immortal Venerable, why wouldn’t he show himself to a helpless little Divine Bridge Realm cultivator like me? He already spoke up to warn me, after all. Therefore, the one in the shadows... is probably not human!

Goosebumps rose all over Shen Qing’s body, and she didn’t dare to dwell on the thought. She lowered her head and quickened her pace, continuing in the direction she was convinced was correct.

She didn’t choose the other direction because she firmly believed her intuition was right. The person hiding in the shadows probably wants to lure me down a dead end. Heh. Clever me. I’ve already seen through your little tricks!

"Demons and devils, be gone, demons and devils, be gone..." Shen Qing muttered this phrase over and over.

"..."

Xu Lai was speechless and didn’t try to persuade her further. Everyone’s fate is different. Seeing as she’s unafraid of the Demonic Wind in the Snowflower Forbidden Grounds, it’s probably related to the Shen Family’s skill in wind manipulation. Or is it something else? Perhaps she might even have a fateful encounter here.

He decided to just let her be.

...

Shen Qing was restless. She kept glancing back, always feeling as if something was following her, so she walked faster and faster.

Eventually, she was practically flying across the ice field.

Run, run, run. I have to escape the Forbidden Grounds now.

The Pearl of the Shen Family was genuinely terrified by the man’s inexplicable voice, but her cultivation realm was simply too low. Her Divine Sense and vision were in a near-’blind’ state, leaving her unable to see a thing. It was like a normal person driving headfirst into the darkness.

And just like that, disaster finally struck.

THUD!

With a loud bang, Shen Qing screamed as she crashed into an ice pillar formed from a dead cultivator. Her head instantly swelled up. Tears welled in Shen Qing’s eyes from the pain, but she didn’t dare to linger. Steeling herself, she continued flying forward, only to collide with another ice pillar a moment later.

"Ah!"

"Aah!"

"AAAH!"

Her screams grew louder with each impact.

Strolling leisurely across the ice field, Xu Lai’s expression grew increasingly odd.

This little girl from the Shen Family... her head is really made of iron. She’s crashed into ice pillars four times now, and not only has she not slowed down, she’s still accelerating...

An hour later, Shen Qing was less than thirty thousand miles from the Snowflower. Of course, she was completely unaware of this fact.

Although her head was covered in bloody bumps and her eyes were brimming with tears, her spirits were soaring. Shen Qing felt she was finally going in the right direction!

Look! That gloomy, eerie man’s voice was gone. Didn’t that prove she had escaped the hundred-thousand-mile Forbidden Grounds?

Just you wait, Lei Wanjun. Once I get out, I’ll settle the score with you.

Though Shen Qing was still injured and looked rather comical with the dense collection of bumps on her head, she was full of vigor.

Xu Lai shook his head. He couldn’t bear to tell the Pearl of the Shen Family the cruel truth. Of course, Xu Lai was also curious to see just how far this little Divine Bridge Realm cultivator could go.

WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH...

The Demonic Wind came in waves, blowing almost every ten minutes. Aside from feeling a bit cold, Shen Qing felt no discomfort whatsoever.

"Hm?"

Shen Qing’s expression suddenly lit up with excitement. She thought she could faintly see a light ahead. Could it be the supply point at the four-hundred-thousand-mile mark?

She quickened her pace and walked toward it. But as she drew closer, her limbs stiffened, and a chill ran through her entire body.

The glowing object was a corpse.

It was the body of a man dressed in an opulent, purplish-red robe. Unfortunately, all of his life essence had been drained away. If his body hadn’t been frozen solid, his skin-and-bones frame would never have been able to hold up the clothes.

On her journey, Shen Qing had crashed into dozens of ice pillars containing the bodies of dead cultivators, but she had never felt fear.

Now, she was terrified.

The bones of this corpse were golden. In the Immortal Domain, only cultivators at the Quasi-Emperor Realm and above could cultivate Golden Holy Bones. This deceased man had undoubtedly been a Quasi-Emperor in life!

"So I never left the Forbidden Grounds? In fact, I’ve been getting closer and closer to the Snowflower?" she muttered in disbelief. "I... I really went the wrong way!"

Shen Qing felt as if the sky was falling, and she nearly fainted. Besides the despair of her situation, she was heartbroken by her own terrible sense of direction.

"I was wrong, I was so wrong! I should never have run away from home! If I hadn’t run away, I wouldn’t have come to the Forbidden Grounds, and I wouldn’t have ended up in this mess..."

Shen Qing cried, her tears streaming down her face like pear blossoms in the rain.

Xu Lai couldn’t help but let the corner of his mouth curl into a smile. The little girl from the Shen Family was quite interesting, a bit like his quirky sister-in-law, Ruan Lan. She was silly, naive, and a bit of a chatterbox.

For a moment, Xu Lai was moved by compassion.

TAP, TAP, TAP...

Through her blurry, tear-filled eyes, Shen Qing heard footsteps. Her sobbing stopped, and when she opened her eyes, she saw a pair of shoes. The shoes were a bit odd. They weren’t the traditional long boots of the Immortal Domain. They didn’t look like specially crafted Magic Artifact boots, either. It was an entirely new style she had never seen before.

Shen Qing asked subconsciously, "Is this a new style that’s become popular in the Immortal Domain recently?"

"..."

The words Xu Lai had been about to say caught in his throat. Lady, your focus is a bit... off. Can you please act like a normal person?

Just as Xu Lai was about to say something, Shen Qing suddenly threw herself at him, overwhelmed with joy. She hugged his thigh and sobbed, "Senior, please save me!"

"..."

Feeling a bit weary, Xu Lai turned to leave.

"Senior, don’t go!" Shen Qing cried out, clinging to his thigh and refusing to let go. She was dragged for several meters. "I’m a member of the Shen Family from the Southern Immortal Domain! If you’re willing to lead me out of the Forbidden Grounds, the Shen Family will definitely offer a hundred Spirit Stones!"

"A hundred stones???" Xu Lai’s expression was complex. "As expected of the Shen Family. So wealthy and generous."

"A hundred Immortal-grade Spirit Stones! It’s hard to say how many colors, but they’ll definitely be four-colored or higher," Shen Qing said anxiously. "A hundred is the limit. Any more Immortal-grade Spirit Stones, and I... I’m not sure the old ancestor would be willing to part with them."

Xu Lai stopped in his tracks.

Immortal-grade Spirit Stones were classified into ten colors; the more colors, the more valuable they were. Immortal Venerables typically used one- or two-colored stones, while Quasi-Emperors used three- to four-colored ones. Only those at the Emperor Realm could use stones with up to eight colors. Nine- and ten-colored Immortal-grade Spirit Stones were exceedingly rare, treasures that could be sought but never found, comparable to supreme spiritual artifacts.

Xu Lai was a little surprised. Shen Qing’s status in the Shen Family was clearly very high. After all, one hundred four-colored Immortal-grade Spirit Stones could be used to brute-force a cultivator’s way to the Quasi-Celestial Venerable realm.

"Stand up," Xu Lai said, looking at her. "I don’t need your Spirit Stones."

Shen Qing had just stood up and breathed a sigh of relief, but the joyous look on her face froze, especially when she felt the mysterious Immortal Venerable’s gaze on her.

She cautiously took half a step back. Then it hit her: this man’s voice was the same one who had told her she was going the wrong way.

He doesn’t want Spirit Stones... He’s been following me this whole time... And that lecherous look in his eyes... He’s after my body!

"Senior, I already have a fiancé," she blurted out. "You must have heard of the Divine Thunder Pavilion from the Third Domain, right? I am deeply in love with their Saint Heir, Lei Wanjun."

Right. So deeply in love that he’s been hunting you for months. Whether you believe that yourself, I sure do.

"Say any more nonsense, and you can walk on your own," Xu Lai stated calmly.

Shen Qing didn’t dare utter another word. She silently followed behind Xu Lai, always maintaining a half-step distance.

However, she soon discovered that Xu Lai wasn’t escorting her out of the hundred-thousand-mile Forbidden Grounds. He was heading toward the core area.

"Senior," she said, starting to panic, "we’re going the wrong way!"