Broken rock lay heaped everywhere, and huge trees sprawled in every direction. Together they made a wet, gloomy hiding place.

Black cloud rolled across the sky and hid the two of them.

Yue Tiance frowned and looked down, then glanced sideways at her. "Are you sure about this? This is the cave estate of a great demon that could hurt you?"

Any demon with some cultivation to its name would never stoop to living somewhere this crude.

The Immortal Maiden Zilan thought for a moment, then closed her eyes and felt it out.

When she opened them again, there was a trace of worry in them.

Judging by how thick the aura was, the bear demon had not ended up here by accident. This was no short stay while it hid from some pursuer.

It had been living here for many years.

A great demon this strong, with no power under it to do its bidding — what did it eat and drink? How did it keep its demon power at full strength? By sitting in meditation and breathing?

"I'll go in and look. You stay out here and cover me."

The Immortal Maiden Zilan stepped forward first.

Yue Tiance's black cloud divine ability could slip past even the senses of Dao-merging strong ones. Otherwise his clan would never have let him leave Beihong alone to look for his elder brother.

"……" Yue Tiance put out a hand. He had wanted to go in himself. Then he remembered how the purple-whiskered white dragons were, and his hand quietly dropped back to his side.

That was actually why he was so taken with Zilan.

Heaven and earth had given the purple-whiskered white dragons unusually sharp senses. They could easily read every shift in another person's feelings. In dealing with people, that made them close to unbeatable.

Few could resist someone who understood them completely.

Never mind him. Even Xuanqing had gone the same way, long ago, and he was a cold, ruthless killer who felt nothing for anyone. Another purple-whiskered white dragon had held him in her hands.

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