For those who practice immortality, being male or female doesn't make much difference, but immortals do care about face.

Take Wu Yingzi, for example. She is a woman, and her cultivation is close to or even at the level of a great power, but like ordinary immortals, she cultivates the Nascent Soul. It seems something went wrong during her practice, injuring her Nascent Soul, causing her to cough incessantly. If she appeared in her female form, constantly coughing would be unseemly.

Ye Fan understood; perhaps because of this, Wu Yingzi appeared in male attire, and she was also avoiding her enemies.

"Anyone who enters again will die for sure!" Wu Yingzi, along with Ye Fan and the others, left the villa and set up a powerful spiritual energy net around it. Ye Fan could feel the immense pressure of the spiritual energy; with his cultivation level, hitting this spiritual energy net would at least result in injury if not death.

Ye Fan said, "Senior Wu Yingzi, setting up a prison on someone else's territory might not be appropriate, right?"

Wu Yingzi laughed and said, "Young man, this doesn't seem to be your territory either. You're just an ordinary person on Earth; even if you were Earth's ruler... haha, prioritizing my interests, I set up a prison wherever I like, I could even imprison you. Isn't that so?"

Power determines everything, Ye Fan understood the truth of this saying, Wu Yingzi indeed had such overbearing capital.

"Then I bid farewell to senior, wishing you success on your endeavor." Ye Fan said.

Wu Yingzi coldly surveyed Ye Fan and said, "Do you know what I'm going to do?"

"What senior intends to do is none of the junior's business, I won't investigate nor am I interested in investigating, it's just a word of blessing! As for senior's earlier assistance in driving away the demons, I am deeply grateful." Whether Ye Fan liked or disliked someone as self-righteous as Wu Yingzi, he still had to express gratitude for her previous help.

"Hmm." Wu Yingzi nodded and said, "If I am not around and that demon comes again, just stay inside the room, keep the doors and windows closed, that demon cannot invade."

Ye Fan curiously observed Wu Yingzi, Wu Yingzi seemed to underestimate that demon a bit.

Before leaving, Wu Yingzi left a word: "Because you have a few crystals around you, I can feel it, the demonic crystal is on you, if the demon approaches the demonic crystal, it cannot penetrate!"

With that, Wu Yingzi rose into the air and quickly disappeared into the horizon.

Li Zhaojun looked at Ye Fan with concern and said, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Ye Fan looked at Sang Yuan, who had previously fought against the demon, "And you?"

"Replying to my lord, this servant is fine, but this servant does not understand, what is the 'demonic crystal' she referred to as being on my lord?" Sang Yuan asked.

Ye Fan took out a black crystal formed from the Specter Fan from his storage bracelet and said, "She might be referring to this, but I don't know what connection this has with that demon. Xiao Xuan, do you know?"

From the previous dialogue with Wu Yingzi, Ye Fan already knew that the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman had hidden many things from him, or that Wu Yingzi thought that since the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman was with them, Ye Fan already knew about some matters. Therefore, Wu Yingzi did not conceal anything, but she did not know that Ye Fan was unaware of many things.

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman shook her head indifferently, indicating she knew nothing. She didn't even explain why Li Zhaojun could place the ancient immortal artifact Taiping into her portable space while Ye Fan could not.

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Li Zhaojun and Min Shang continued their cultivation; the two of them progressed quickly after cultivating together, but the gap in cultivation level between them and Ye Fan continued to widen.

Ye Fan didn't stay in the villa but went to an underwater cave near Hua Hai City, which was another secret prison he'd set up. Only two people were imprisoned there, one was Ling, the Sect Master of the Earth Yuan Sect, who was defeated by him and Sang Yuan, and the other was his senior brother from the same sect, Luo Jianxiong, who betrayed their master.

Ling was guarded by female disciples, and it was difficult for her to cultivate and heal on Earth; her injuries could take years, even decades, to recover. As for Luo Jianxiong, he was easier to handle, as he was only at the initial stage of the Golden Core. A chain of low-grade magic artifacts would suffice to prevent his escape.

Ye Fan and Sang Yuan entered the cave. It was illuminated by Luminous Pearls, making it bright. Several guards greeted Ye Fan and Sang Yuan; these cultivators were believers of Sang Yuan and had now become Ye Fan's reliable subordinates.

"My lord, the people are imprisoned inside, please follow this servant." A female disciple led the way, and Ye Fan followed, observing the disciple's figure and noting her graceful stature.

Sang Yuan communicated via sound transmission: "My lord, she's one of my maids, now at the late stage of the Integration. If my lord likes her, I will arrange for her to serve you later."

Ye Fan smiled and shook his head, and only then did Sang Yuan lower her head, sensing that she had offered her service in the wrong way.

Finally, they arrived at the cave room where Luo Jianxiong was imprisoned. At this time, Luo Jianxiong was curled up in a corner. Fortunately, being at the Golden Core stage, he did not need food, otherwise, being in such a confined space would have been unbearably foul. Nevertheless, the cave carried a damp seaweed smell, causing Ye Fan to hold his breath.

"Don't kill me, ask whatever you wish, I will tell you, just let me go!" Luo Jianxiong, injured by people of the Earth Yuan Sect, was like a stray dog now, begging for mercy at the sight of someone approaching.

Ye Fan said, "Second senior brother."

"Ah? It's Ye Fan... Ah, fourth junior brother, you've finally come. You have no idea how bitterly I've waited for you." Luo Jianxiong was knocked unconscious by the spiritual energy shockwave during Ye Fan and Sang Yuan's fight with Ling, not knowing Ye Fan was the one who arranged his imprisonment, and now assumed Ye Fan came to rescue him, overjoyed.

Ye Fan said, "It's not easy for senior brother to be alive."

Luo Jianxiong instantly detected Ye Fan's unfriendly tone. Pondering, he asked, "Junior brother, you're not here to rescue me, are you also being... Oh, it's all my fault for not protecting you well. Whatever you want, take it out on me, my junior brother is uninvolved!"

This time Luo Jianxiong tried to play the emotional card; he also noticed Ye Fan walked in calmly, not escorted, guessing Ye Fan might have been the one who imprisoned him.

Ye Fan said, "Second senior brother, this is the last time I refer to you as such. You betrayed the sect, caused senior brother's death, and brought master to be imprisoned by the Earth Yuan Sect, now already... sigh! Is this responsibility for you to bear?"

"What happened to master..." Luo Jianxiong looked at Ye Fan nervously.

Ye Fan said, "Master passed away previously due to torture."

He deliberately did not mention that Zhuo Junwu was still alive, not wanting to reveal the truth to Luo Jianxiong. Luo Jianxiong cried out loudly, "Master, it's all because of me, if only I had protected you back then, if only you hadn't insisted on going to Xuanyue Palace, how could you end up in today's predicament..."

"From second senior brother's words, you seem to imply it was not you who betrayed the sect, but master?" Ye Fan frowned.

"Of course, it's not master, but he was too stubborn. I was captured by mistake and had no choice but to work for the Earth Yuan Sect!" Luo Jianxiong argued strongly.

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