Night fell quickly.
The trio stayed put for the night, waiting.
By the next afternoon, there was still no response. Then, Ming Ye suddenly felt the Contract Seal within him tremble faintly, as if it were weeping.
He frowned imdiately, asking in confusion, "Strange. The Contract Seal is crying out in grief. Jiang Yunnuan is undergoing a Contract Termination with soone!"
At his words, Jiang Tang and Jiang Wang’s eyes widened, a wave of anxiety and worry washing over them.
’How could this be?’
’What in the world happened?’
"Brother-in-law, please, find a way to reach my sister! She must be in trouble. We need to go help her."
Ming Ye pursed his lips and slowly shook his head. "I can’t find her. My only choice is to wait for her to contact . We’ll just have to wait."
It wasn’t just Jiang Yunnuan he couldn’t find; he couldn’t sense Jun Yao, Si Xie, or Fu Yuan, either. The feeling was bizarre.
Helpless, the siblings could only continue to wait with him.
Ti ticked by. A little over half an hour after the Contract Seal’s cry of grief, Ming Ye suddenly felt as if he were suffocating. His heart ached with a heavy, oppressive feeling.
He frowned and said, "Jiang Yunnuan is in danger."
"What?"
The already anxious siblings beca even more frantic, and tears instantly welled up in Jiang Tang’s eyes.
"My sister’s in danger! What do we do? What do we do? And what about her other three husbands? What are they all doing? Brother-in-law, you have to think of sothing! We can’t just sit here and wait to die!"
Bound by the contract, Ming Ye’s life was intertwined with Jiang Yunnuan’s. With her in danger, he was even more frantic than her two siblings.
But the situation was unclear, and panicking would be useless.
"I’m going down. You two find a place to hide and stay safe. Be careful, wait for to co back, and don’t wander off."
With that, Ming Ye strode toward the cliff’s edge.
He could sense that Jiang Yunnuan and the others were here, yet he couldn’t find them. That left only one possibility: they were below.
"Brother-in-law, that’s the Nine Nether Abyss! Legend calls it a forbidden land of death from which no one returns. You need to calm down!"
He had barely taken a step when Jiang Wang frantically grabbed his arm.
Jiang Tang quickly nodded, trying to persuade him as well.
"That’s right, brother-in-law! If you go down there and don’t co back, how are we supposed to explain it to our sister when we find her?"
Ming Ye: "..."
He pulled his arm free. "Jiang Yunnuan might be down there. I’m going to find her."
The siblings were in turmoil. They wanted him to save Jiang Yunnuan, but they didn’t want him to go to such a dangerous, frightening place. They were torn and didn’t know what to do.
Before they could make a decision, Ming Ye’s figure blurred and vanished over the cliff face.
"Brother-in-law..."
The two siblings rushed to the cliff’s edge, calling out his na in panic.
However, they could see nothing but a thick, black mist.
"Brother, what do we do? Our sister is in danger, and now our brother-in-law has gone to that dangerous place, too. Should we go down after them?"
Jiang Tang looked at Jiang Wang, tears streaming down her face.
Jiang Wang pursed his lips, deep in conflicted thought. A mont later, he made a decision.
"We’re too weak. If we act rashly, we’ll just cause more trouble. Let’s wait. If they aren’t back by this ti tomorrow, I’ll ssage our eldest brother to co pick you up. You go back ho with him. I’ll go down and take a look myself."
"*Sob*... What on earth happened to our sister? I don’t want to lose her, and I don’t want to lose you, too..."
Jiang Tang threw herself into Jiang Wang’s arms and began to sob quietly.
*
A long, long ti passed.
So long that by the ti Fu Yuan was completely exhausted, barely able to lift a finger, the light suddenly grew bright. The next mont, he felt his body plumting downward.
Driven by instinct, a pair of wings instantly unfurled from his back.
With a slight beat of his black-and-blue feathered wings, his descent imdiately stabilized, coming to a halt.
Fu Yuan was stunned to discover an unfamiliar valley below. They were back outside.
’So, that chaotic, violent magnetic field... was it actually a damaged and highly unstable Teleportation Gate?’
’As long as you could withstand the vortex’s violent power without being torn to shreds, you could be teleported out?’
’In that case, Si Xie might actually be alive!’
Fu Yuan looked down at the woman in his arms, only then realizing that both of them were completely naked, without a single scrap of fabric on their bodies.
Gazing at the woman’s skin, as smooth and flawless as polished jade, his face instantly flushed crimson, and a flicker of mortified anger flashed through his deep, black-and-blue eyes.
The next mont, he found a secluded patch of tall grass and descended.
’Thank goodness this is a deserted wilderness with no one around,’ he thought. ’Otherwise, I don’t know how I would face such a mortifyingly awkward situation.’
"Jiang Yunnuan, wake up..."
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