When Zi Yunshu returned to the small courtyard, Yu Mi had already fed the little celestial fox with spiritual fruits until it was full.
Bao Gu knew that Zi Yunshu had gone to investigate the origins of the little celestial fox, and seeing that Zi Yunshu did not mention anything, she did not ask further.
She could guess the origins of the little celestial fox herself.
The appearance of the little celestial fox at Lingyun Peak could only mean one of two things: either a celestial fox was residing in seclusion at Lingyun Peak, or a celestial fox had intruded from outside.
If there were adult ninth-tier celestial fox demon beasts on Lingyun Peak, she believed that with their strength, they would never allow their offspring to become a demon servant.
Both she and Duobao Spirit Monkey would have probably been plundered clean by the adult ninth-tier celestial fox by now, and their roles as master and servant would need to be reversed.
The only explanation was that currently, there was only this little celestial fox on Lingyun Peak without any adult celestial foxes to protect it.
Bao Gu even suspected that this little celestial fox had become an orphan, otherwise how could a ninth-tier celestial fox demon beast cub casually become a demon servant to a minor Qi Cultivation stage cultivator?
Bao Gu was not familiar with Nan Yi, so how could she easily trust him with matters concerning her own life and death?
She said to Zi Yunshu and Yu Mi, “Little Martial Aunt, Senior Sister, if it’s really necessary to let Nan Yi accompany me, then the only option is to inconvenience you two to enter my extra-large storage bag in advance. I will then take an appearance-changing pill with him alone, and after transforming our appearances, we can sneak into the ancient ruins quietly. If you do not agree, I would rather not go to the ancient ruins.”
Seeing Bao Gu insist, Yu Mi asked, “Do you really distrust Nan Yi that much? Are you that repelled by him?”
Bao Gu replied, “Senior Sister, it’s not about whether I trust him or not. This way, there’s no loss to him, but if he is untrustworthy, the loss to me could be fatal.”
Zi Yunshu agreed, “Alright, as you wish.”
Yu Mi lightly tapped Bao Gu’s forehead with her finger and said, “At such a young age, why are you so suspicious?”
Bao Gu pouted her lips and said, “It’s not called being suspicious, it’s called being cautious.”
Yu Mi looked at her sideways with annoyance and said, “You might as well say it’s being overly suspicious.”
Zi Yunshu sent a message to Nan Yi using a transmission talisman, asking him to accompany Bao Gu, while she and Yu Mi would secretly follow to protect them.
She then gave the remaining three appearance-changing pills to Bao Gu.
Bao Gu only kept a small amount of spiritual medicine, Qi Cultivation pills, Foundation Establishment pills, and spirit stones in a portable storage bag for show, while the rest were all packed into the extra-large storage bag.
Before departing, she first asked Little Martial Aunt for two teleportation platforms, then ruthlessly stuffed her Senior Sister and Little Martial Aunt along with Duobao Spirit Monkey into the storage bag.
The little celestial fox was also placed into the blood oath token and entered the extra-large storage bag with Yu Mi.
After getting everything ready, Bao Gu then rode her flying sword to the teleportation array at Xuantian Gate to meet Nan Yi, who had been waiting for a long time.
Upon seeing Nan Yi, she bowed with clasped fists and said, “I apologize for making Senior Brother Nan Yi wait so long.”
Changing out of the true disciple’s attire and into a treasure-blue long robe, Nan Yi looked even more upright and handsome.
He smiled and said, “No worries. Let’s set off then.”
Bao Gu responded, “Alright!”
She turned around and inscribed the teleportation coordinates on the teleportation array, then stepped onto the teleportation formation.
After waiting for Nan Yi to also step onto the teleportation formation and be pushed into the void by the formation’s power, she took out an appearance-changing pill and handed one to Nan Yi, saying, “Senior Brother Nan Yi, take this appearance-changing pill to alter your appearance.”
After speaking, she also swallowed one, slightly modifying her own appearance to look like an eighteen or nineteen-year-old, dignified and beautiful female cultivator.
Seeing Bao Gu change her appearance, Nan Yi smiled, tossed the appearance-changing pill into his mouth, and also changed his appearance.
He still appeared to be in his twenties, only slightly adjusting his features to look like a different person who resembled him, not as drastically different as Bao Gu’s transformation.
Soon, the two emerged from the void, appearing in a land of icy mountains and snow.
Beneath their feet were snow-covered peaks, and ahead, obscured by clouds and snow, was a massive city.
Nan Yi asked, “Bao Gu Junior Sister, is that Xuan Yue Ancient City ahead?”
Bao Gu replied, “Senior Brother Nan, you can just call me Gu Junior Sister.”
Nan Yi smiled lightly and said, “Alright!”
He turned his head to look around and asked, “Are the two of them following?”
Bao Gu replied, “Probably!”
After speaking, she rode her flying sword towards the direction of Xuan Yue Ancient City.
She set the coordinates about two hundred li away from Xuan Yue Ancient City.
The divine sense of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator can detect up to two hundred li, so this place was outside the detection range of any Nascent Soul stage cultivators within Xuan Yue Ancient City.
It was also on the edge of Xuan Yue Ancient City, where many cultivators come and go, and few demon beasts appear, making it relatively safe.
Although Bao Gu’s cultivation was not high, the flying sword under her feet was of excellent quality, and its speed was not slow.
She was now at the peak of the Qi Cultivation stage and had a body protected by Nascent Soul stage magical treasures, so she did not feel the cold of Xuan Yue Ancient City at all.
She noticed that the quality of the flying sword under Nan Yi’s feet was also very good, following her at a leisurely pace about two zhang behind her, and she did not know whether Nan Yi was intentionally or unintentionally keeping the distance just outside her divine sense detection range.
After flying about forty or fifty li, Bao Gu suddenly heard Nan Yi call out.
Nan Yi called, “Gu Junior Sister, why haven’t we seen Little Martial Aunt and Yu Mi Junior Sister yet?”
Bao Gu frowned, turned her head to look at Nan Yi, and said, “Senior Brother Nan, I think it’s better if we go our separate ways.”
This place has many eyes and ears, are you afraid that others won’t know I am Yu Mi’s junior sister?
How many junior sisters can be so close to Yu Mi?
It’s obvious who she is just by thinking with your knees!
Nan Yi smiled and said, “What are you talking about? I am ordered by Master to take good care of you, how can I leave you to walk alone?”
Bao Gu said, “Then don’t talk.”
Nan Yi sped up to walk side by side with Bao Gu and said, “Junior Sister Gu seems to have some dissatisfaction with me? If I have unintentionally offended you, tell me, and I will apologize to you.”
Bao Gu really wanted to say, “Let’s split up!”
But it was too late to split up now!
She pouted her lips and silently continued walking forward.
Bao Gu soon arrived about a hundred li away from Xuan Yue Ancient City, where she noticed that there were particularly many people coming and going outside the city today, as if they were searching for something.
She looked ahead towards Xuan Yue Ancient City and saw a large number of cultivators rushing out, their flying swords twinkling like stars in the sky, and the cultivators moving like flocks of birds.
Was something big happening?
Curious, Bao Gu caught up with a cultivator flying past her and asked, “Fellow Daoist, may I ask what happened? Why are so many Daoists rushing out of Xuan Yue Ancient City?”
The cultivator looked Bao Gu up and down, then suspiciously glanced at Nan Yi beside her and said, “You don’t know? News just came out from Xuantian Gate that Bao Gu has arrived at Xuan Yue Ancient City, and she is accompanied by a Foundation Establishment peak true disciple!”
Bao Gu was shocked and thought to herself, “What’s going on? I just left, and the news has already spread? There must be a mole in Xuantian Gate!”
Nan Yi asked, “Is there anything else?”
The cultivator said, “Bao Gu’s cultivation is at the ninth level of Qi Cultivation.”
He looked at Bao Gu and Nan Yi again and asked, “It couldn’t be you two, could it?”
Nan Yi smiled and said, “Do you think I look like it?”
The cultivator said, “I think you do!”
He then looked at Bao Gu and said, “This fairy doesn’t quite match Bao Gu in age…”
He stopped abruptly, his expression suddenly showing shock.
Bao Gu saw several cultivators in their fifties and sixties suddenly appear around her, and she was so startled that her eyes widened.
Although she could not discern their strength, their aura made her feel very powerful, seemingly above the Nascent Soul stage.
A series of questions popped into her mind: “How did they find her so easily? Was it because of what Nan Yi just said? Nan Yi is the chief disciple of the acting sect leader, so why would he carelessly mention Yu Mi Senior Sister’s name knowing the danger of her journey…”
She turned her head to look back at Nan Yi and called out, “It’s you…”
Before she could finish, she saw that Nan Yi, who had just been standing behind her, was now being restrained by an old man.
Bao Gu sighed deeply, feeling very complicated.
She stood silently on the spot, scanning the group of cultivators surrounding her.
A man in his thirties wearing a flowing Daoist robe looked at Bao Gu with a faint cold smile, then raised his hand and reached towards her.
Bao Gu only saw a giant palm shadow suddenly appear in the man’s hand and cover her.
She instinctively swung her sword at it.
The sword struck the palm shadow as if hitting a solid diamond wall, not only failing to break through the palm shadow but also causing her wrist and the base of her thumb to throb painfully, almost unable to hold the sword.
In the next instant, the palm shadow enveloped her like a giant palm from the sky.
Bao Gu had no escape, and she instinctively tried to activate the Nascent Soul stage magical treasures on her body for defense, only to find that the defenses of the Nascent Soul stage magical treasures on her body had already begun.
As the palm shadow closed in, the flowing fairy skirt she was wearing, which was made into a magical treasure, was the first to shatter, followed by the hairpin on her head, the earrings on her ears, the necklace around her neck…
One by one, the Nascent Soul stage magical treasures on her body shattered like fragile porcelain upon contact!
Bao Gu also guessed the identity of this person—one of the three Nascent Soul stage elders from Taiyin Gate!
She had become a rabbit, waiting to be caught by someone guarding a stump!
When the last piece of magical treasure on her body shattered, she was left only in her undergarments and silk pants, along with a pair of panties inside the silk pants.
She had not expected that her extra caution in wearing two more layers of clothing inside would actually come in handy at this moment.
As a ninth-level Qi Cultivation cultivator facing a Nascent Soul stage elder, she could only be meat on the chopping board.
Bao Gu felt a force firmly binding her, flying towards the Nascent Soul stage cultivator.
The Nascent Soul stage cultivator snorted coldly and said, “A few small shrimps still dream of stirring up a huge wave?”
Without even looking at Bao Gu, he collected her into a magical treasure inside his sleeve.
Bao Gu only saw a blur before her, then felt the restraints on her body disappear, and found herself in a magical treasure that looked somewhat like a jade cup, only she was as tiny as a grain of rice compared to the cup.
She sat cross-legged on the ground, feeling suffocated.
She couldn’t understand how she had just left home and ended up in the hands of Taiyin Gate.
Was Nan Yi really a traitorous spy?
Bao Gu immediately noticed that as a fellow disciple of Xuantian Gate, both she and Nan Yi had been captured, but only she was confined here, while Nan Yi was not.
Bao Gu’s face turned pale with anger, and she cursed, “I said not to bring Nan Yi, but you insisted on bringing him!”
She was so angry that tears swirled in her eyes!
She had been guarding against Nan Yi’s greed for treasures, but she had not guarded against Nan Yi being a traitorous spy colluding with Taiyin Gate to capture her here!
Yu Mi Senior Sister still trusted him, Little Martial Aunt still said he was fine, he was fine, so how could her whereabouts be leaked?
Leading a pig would be better than leading him!
With so many cultivators coming and going here, in the tide of cultivators rushing to the ancient ruins event, they precisely plucked her out!
