With the naked eye.

The sand mountain before them appeared very peaceful, with no traces of any living creatures having been there.

But Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Thought detected something unusual.

The aura of these "Filthy Spirits" was unique, like... shadows under the bright daylight.

Buzz!

The returning sword thought spiraled in Xie Xuanyi’s palm, like a small snake, bowing its head and wagging its tail, pointing the way.

"Go."

Before Ao Ying could react.

Xie Xuanyi extended his palm, grabbing the demoness’s shoulder.

"Wa... wait!!!"

Ao Ying’s pupils contracted, speaking up again.

At this moment, all words seemed futile.

Sword Qi burst forth.

The Life and Death Dao Intent formed a great circle, enveloping the two like a long rainbow, piercing through the void, instantly shooting miles away!

The vast, fierce astral wind swept by, all blocked by the Life and Death Dao Domain!

The Sword Qi rainbow was like a straight line, shattering countless grains of sand and dust.

Clearly.

Xie Xuanyi’s sword thought had already locked onto the location of the "Filthy Spirits."

Although knowing well that pleading wouldn’t help, Ao Ying couldn’t understand what grudge or enmity Xie Xuanyi had with the filth in this [Ruins] to insist on killing them?

A few breaths later.

The two arrived inside the [Ruins], hovering over a large sand mountain.

"..."

Ao Ying’s face was pale.

The wind and sand raged, the inside of the [Ruins] was dark, without sun or moon, shrouded by endless dark clouds. The Sword Qi they rode was the only ray of light in the world.

She had been practicing in the [Ruins] for three whole years.

Throughout, Ao Ying had been forming arrays and cultivating in seclusion at the outermost territory.

On one hand, out of caution.

On the other, learning from past mistakes.

Many said the [Ruins] was the ancient battlefield from a thousand years ago, where Heavenly People had fallen, and many Great Divine Ability Users were buried, with more weirdness the deeper one goes. If it was in the past, without having experienced the Great Yue Kingdom disaster, Ao Ying wouldn’t have believed such absurd rumors... To her, these rumors were unfounded.

If there was truly anything strange.

Figures like the Great Palace Master, Holy Emperor, would have checked it out long ago.

More anomalies, more secrets!

The Great Tribulation from a thousand years ago had already eradicated all fated opportunities.

So...

This ancient battlefield should have nothing left.

That was Ao Ying’s thought before, which led her into the ruins of the Human Race’s Northern Hunt to witness the Great Yue Kingdom miracle of [Emperor Qi] with her own eyes.

Now Ao Ying’s "understanding" was once again challenged.

Only to see.

In the center of the dark world, countless quicksands rolled, and the extremely bizarre scene appeared again.

Silhouettes rose and fell, like mountains and seas.

Compared to what she had seen earlier, the strange figures standing in the center of the [Ruins] were tens to hundreds of times more.

"Hey..."

Ao Ying’s voice was hoarse: "What exactly are these things?"

"I don’t know."

Xie Xuanyi squinted his eyes, replying neatly.

Regarding the information on these filthy things.

He didn’t know any more than anyone else at the moment.

"Are you sure..."

"You can kill all these things on your own?"

Ao Ying felt her scalp tingling, merely glancing caused her Heart Lake to chill, and even her fingers trembled.

She knew.

Yin God and Yang God were separated by a Heavenly Barrier.

But there were too many of these undying "filthy things," and even for a Great Divine Ability User, it was no easy task to kill them all!

"Hoo."

Xie Xuanyi didn’t respond further.

He merely raised two fingers slightly, and the Sword Qi beneath them split off, a small strand carrying Ao Ying slowly floated back. Ao Ying clutched her sleeves tightly, her expression complex, seemingly caught in some tangled thought.

Hiss hiss hiss.

A wisp of pitch-black line between her brows trembled slightly.

Ao Ying contemplated whether now, with Xie Xuanyi focused entirely on preparing for the incoming battle, was her rare chance to escape, should she "make a final stand," and attempt to activate the [Feng Mou] again to escape Xie Xuanyi’s grasp.

[Feng Mou] could cross the void, and with sufficient cost, its crossing speed could reach incredible levels.

But...

Ao Ying thought for a moment and abandoned the idea.

On one hand.

She had the intuition that even if she expended all her Essence Blood to activate [Feng Mou], she might not outrun Xie Xuanyi.

On another.

She felt.

That if she truly attempted it, she would only do more harm than good.

Upon reaching the center of the [Ruins], countless eerie figures had already fixed their gaze on her, Ao Ying’s Heart Lake felt intense discomfort... these filthy things likely had already locked onto her, once she left, they might pursue without any cost!

At this moment, staying by Xie Xuanyi’s side was the safest.

"..."

Xie Xuanyi silently gazed downwards.

Indeed, his mind was on those Filthy Spirits, but he was also well aware of the thoughts of the demoness behind him, should she make any move, that strand of Sword Qi would counter, and Ao Ying didn’t know, she simply had no chance to activate [Feng Mou].

Gazing at those shadow-like figures.

Xie Xuanyi couldn’t help but recall the scene from the Ancient Tree Cave Heaven’s starry sky.

The Filthy Spirits of the [Ruins] bore sixty percent resemblance to those shadow waves that blotted out the sky, but also differed by forty percent...

Emitting the same filthy aura, and possessing similarly hard-to-extinguish life characteristics.

But the Filthy Spirits of the [Ruins], their life level, seemed much lower.

Furthermore.

These Filthy Spirits were different from those he encountered near the Great Ape Mountain.