It turned out that the concubine’s surname was Li.

Her father was an independent Golden Core cultivator who hunted sea beasts.

The two depended on each other and understood each other very well.

Her father had a habit of drawing maps of every place he visited and marking key areas with codes.

These codes included people, objects, treasures, spiritual plants, and high-grade sea beasts.

Last year, her father told her that she would soon have hope of reaching Foundation Establishment, then he set out on a journey.

After that trip, he never returned.

The life tablet he left behind also shattered.

Concubine Li knew that her father had already fallen.

Consumed by grief and hatred, she searched everywhere for clues but found nothing.

It was not until she sorted through her father’s belongings that she discovered the sea map.

On a certain location of the map, there was a code marking a great treasure.

Next to it was also a humanoid code.

Recalling her father’s words before he left, she immediately speculated that her father had likely fallen because of that treasure and the person represented by the humanoid code.

After that, there were no further details about how the woman surnamed Li became Ying Yuan’s concubine.

It was only known that the young island lord doted on her quite a bit.

Although he did not care much about the so-called treasure, under her repeated pleas, he agreed to send his subordinates to explore that sea area to search for the treasure and that person.

Concubine Li also stated that the treasure could be abandoned, but her father’s revenge must be taken.

The young island lord of Penglai Immortal Isle agreed and sent one Nascent Soul cultivator, more than ten Golden Core cultivators, and around a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators to search that sea region.

Upon hearing this news, the Chen brothers were greatly shocked.

The hunting captain they had killed was named Li Fangqian.

Chen Zhiyi had also heard that Captain Li Fangqian had a single daughter whom he deeply cherished.

After hearing this, the two of them were so shaken that they revealed traces of themselves.

Several cultivators searching the area immediately detected them and gave chase.

Because they intended to capture them alive, they did not go for a killing blow, but still injured them severely.

They used their familiarity with the surrounding seas to escape the pursuit of the Penglai cultivators, but they were still struck by a hidden method.

A strange kind of spiritual energy needle was planted inside their bodies, preventing them from circulating spiritual energy and even restricting their physical movement.

Fortunately, Chen Zhiyi had awakened his Eye of Ishvara.

After advancing within the White Silver Secret Realm, he had learned some methods to apply them.

He could use his vision to locate the spiritual needles and force them out with divine sense.

However, his divine sense was limited, so each time he could only expel three needles.

To fully recover from it would still take a long time.

Because of this, when Chen Yufei was in danger today, they were unable to rescue her and had no choice but to seek help from City Lord Xiahou Bo by offering to use his Eye of Ishvara to open the passage and bring him into the secret realm.

After finishing, Chen Zhiyi also said that if they were unwilling to offend the cultivators from Penglai Immortal Isle, they could pretend they had never heard this matter.

If they wanted to enter the secret realm, they would first need to figure out how to avoid that group of people and enter the cave safely.

After hearing the Chen brothers’ account, Xiahou Bo fell into deep thought with a serious expression.

Xiao Shou on the other hand was completely stunned.

Had he just killed an important supporting male character and now one of the female lead’s harem had already appeared again?

The young island lord of Penglai Immortal Isle.

He remembered Ying Yuan was a fairly important supporting male character encountered in the storyline where the female lead and the Water Qilin searched for the Immortal Grass.

At that time, he was already the island lord of Penglai Immortal Isle.

Thanks to this supporting character, the female lead had obtained the Immortal Grass and healed the Water Qilin.

Thinking about Ying Yuan’s storyline and the woman surnamed Li, Xiao Shou thought for a long time before finally recalling it.

After organizing the plot together with the Chen brothers’ words, he was greatly shocked.

So that was how it was.

In the original story, the female lead Xiao Ran spent many years overseas, traveling through the other two immortal islands and countless sea regions, but she never found the Immortal Grass.

It was only after she reached Penglai Immortal Isle that she accidentally clashed with the wife of the Penglai Immortal Isle Lord, Li Peiyi, causing her to leave in humiliation.

After that, she suffered repeated covert retaliation and schemes from Li Peiyi’s people.

The female lead calmly resolved them all.

In order to completely eliminate this trouble, after gathering intelligence, she planned to attend the Penglai Assembly hosted by Ying Yuan and secretly deal with Li Peiyi there.

However, she unexpectedly had a very ambiguous encounter with Ying Yuan at the event.

At that time, she suffered a poison outbreak and no one could relieve it.

Ying Yuan became her antidote.

Afterwards, the two of them arrived at the assembly together.

Just in time, the most important item of the Penglai Assembly was being exhibited, a strange stone.

According to Ying Yuan’s rules, whoever could unravel its secret would be allowed to choose three treasures from the Penglai Immortal Isle treasury.

The female lead became interested in the treasury and used her spirit insight pearl to take a look.

She discovered a layer of light membrane and behind it was a miniature mountain forest.

At that time, her knowledge was still limited and she could not recognize what it was, so she recorded what she saw onto a jade slip and submitted it with the others’ answers.