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Hui Yue had no idea what kinds of creatures lived in the forest they had entered, nor did she know if there were people nearby who might turn into enemies. If there were humans in these regions, Yan Xiaobao and his friends might have robbed them of their most prized possessions by soaking in the Spiritual Spring. No one would treat them kindly for doing so.
Looking at the path Lan Feng had ntioned leading to the village, Hui Yue shook her head and chose another direction. She discovered a stream carrying water to a pond and decided to follow it.
Hui Yue had learned one thing from Lan Feng that he emphasized the most: vigilance. Hui Yue had friends she could trust, but the four of them were rely Master-level cultivators, and their survival skills were at best diocre.
Now that they had acquired greater power, if it wasn’t properly integrated into their spiritual energy sea, it might backfire and harm them instead of supporting them.
Following the stream, Hui Yue saw a clearing ahead. This prompted her to stop in her tracks and signal the others to halt as well.
Smoke spiraled from the clearing, and as Hui Yue glanced around, the hairs on her body stood on end. Although there was no visible movent, she felt as though they were being watched.
Clearing her throat, Hui Yue raised her hands above her head and cautiously kept her gaze fixed on the forest.
"Co out," Hui Yue said softly, "we don’t an any harm."
Though rustling could be heard, it wasn’t what Hui Yue had anticipated—it wasn’t a group of fierce warriors, nor was it a dangerous and wild magic beast. Instead, it was a little boy who couldn’t have been older than seven, yet his gaze held the essence of ti itself. His eyes were entirely black, filled with thousands of sparkling stars. Noticing his extraordinary eyes sent a chill down Hui Yue’s spine.
"What are you doing in the forest?" the boy asked. His voice sounded mature, devoid of any underlying threat or hostility, carrying only pure curiosity.
Looking at this child, though he seed innocent, Hui Yue struggled to shake the latent sense of danger in her heart. When she replied, she did so with extre respect. "We are travelers from the outside. We’re searching for a quiet place where we can stabilize our cultivation."
With a puzzled look on his face, the boy asked, "What is outside? Is it a new village? I don’t know of a village nad Outside. Is it new? Are you four the only humans from there? That girl looks peculiar—why does she have a tail? Is she a human like you?"
Hearing so many questions, Xu Yue couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Squatting down, he lowered himself to align with the boy who looked human but wasn’t quite yet.
"Outside is an expansive place, with no ceiling to block the sun and no walls to enclose you. It’s a realm where you can wander day after day without reaching its end."
With every word Hui Yue spoke, the boy’s star-filled eyes grew larger, his excitent manifesting in his quickened breaths.
"Co with to my ho," he said cheerfully, "I want to learn more about this Outside."
Following the child, Hui Yue and the group were guided in the opposite direction of the village Lan Feng had spoken of. It was as if this world beneath the surface had remained unchanged for countless years.
Following the boy, the four friends were led through the forest. The trees, though resembling those on the surface, felt entirely different from the ones they were accustod to. So even seed to possess a will of their own, their branches moving aside to make way for the boy and his guests.
Hui Yue was shocked to discover that the clearing she had seen earlier was no longer ahead of them—it had turned into a phantom, confusing anyone who looked at it. Despite this, without asking any questions, she followed the boy.
The journey through the pathway opened by the trees continued. Soon, Hui Yue arrived at a clearing built with a wooden cabin.
The quality of the cabin was exceedingly high, incomparable to the shabby houses Hui Yue had lived in for decades. Even the hos of village elders would seem rundown beside this magnificent cabin.
This house was constructed with timber from the forest, complete with a chimney visible on its roof. Smoke billowed from it, causing Hui Yue to furrow her brows and wonder who might live with this starry-eyed child.
As they approached, the door swung open, and a little girl stepped out of the house. The girl was roughly the sa age as the boy, her eyes radiating brilliance, dazzling gold light filling her gaze.
"Xingye!" the girl exclaid joyfully, her face lighting up with an even bigger smile when she saw the boy arrive with friends. Her tiny fra bounced up and down from excitent.
"Xia Ji!" the boy called back. As his voice rang out, three more children erged—two boys and one girl.
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The boy who had invited Hui Yue and the others seed surprised when he saw the children, but he also felt relieved because no adults were present nearby.
Once they reached the cabin, the children gathered excitedly around the boy, patting his head while introducing themselves.
Qiuji was the young girl. Her eyes shimred with a bronze glow, and both her hair and skin were shades of warm brown.
Dongji was a young boy who appeared even paler than Yan Xiaobao, his hair as white as the elder boy’s, and his eyes a piercing ice blue. Looking at him, one might think Hui Yue and Dongji were siblings.
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