Chapter 121 Where is This Place?!

The smell of blood permeated the air, a dangerous aura of calamity that made Wei Yuan almost subconsciously grip the long spear in his hand. The overwhelming stench of blood made him turn his head to look around. Then, almost instinctively, his pupils contracted. The long spear in his hand hummed with power, and the Zhuxian Sword Formation faintly emerged behind him.

Corpses.

Everywhere, corpses!

And not ordinary corpses either. There were mountain beasts as tall and majestic as mountains, but all that remained were their white bones, their huge, empty eyes glaring at the sky. There were giant snakes that seemed capable of swallowing everything, but all that was left was a broken body, section by section, with sparks of lightning still crackling on the remains.

At a glance, there were countless corpses of powerful beings. Even after so long, they still emanated an extremely strong aura, enough to terrify ordinary people into silence. And the cause of death for all of these powerhouses was the same: a huge, penetrating wound between their eyebrows.

"All of them are spear wounds."

"Were they all killed by the Western Emperor?"

Wei Yuan looked around. A sweep of his divine sense told him that this place stretched for nearly three hundred *li*, a desolate expanse of white bones. He didn't know how many gods and fierce beasts' corpses were here, staring up at the sky. He could imagine the bravery of the Western Emperor in her day, relying on the Nine Dragons Sky-Swallowing Calamity Spear to cut through this place.

The killing intent was so heavy that it hadn't dissipated even after thousands of years.

Wei Yuan reached out and touched the bones. Although they were the bodies of powerful fierce beasts, these bones were now worse than those of an old man with severe osteoporosis. Touching them caused them to crumble into handfuls of bone ash, the kind of bone quality that even a soup maker would disdain.

Clearly, this was one of the characteristics of the Five Calamities of Heaven.

Although the Western Emperor was said to control the metal of execution, she did not simply wield the sharpness of metal.

However, Wei Yuan couldn't help but find the image amusing: the Western Emperor, who cut through three hundred *li* of demon-god encirclement, was a petite girl of one and a half meters, wielding the Nine Dragons Sky-Swallowing Spear, taller than herself, and oh-ya-oh-ya-ing as she gave those giant demon-god monsters with two-meter-long toes a pedicure. He couldn't help but want to smile at the strong contrast in this image, but he forcefully suppressed it because it was his mother-in-law.

The surrounding environment gave Wei Yuan a strange sense of 'familiarity.'

But theoretically, he shouldn't have arrived at this strange, desolate battlefield.

First, Wei Yuan stretched out his right hand, clenching his fingers together. Countless golden cause-and-effect threads converged, but they failed to pierce the sky. Looking up, he could see that this place was always shrouded in a thick cloud, obscuring the earth and the stars and moon.

It seemed to be a perpetually gloomy world, making one feel inexplicably oppressed.

"Cause and effect can't spread out, so I can't get Di Jun's attention."

"As expected..."

"Actually, it's normal. If this place could be observed through conventional means, then Hou Tu would have been discovered by Di Jun long ago. And with Hou Tu's popularity, second only to Nuwa, I'm afraid the Heavenly Emperor himself would have taken action to rescue her. There wouldn't have been any need for me..."

Wei Yuan tried to use cause and effect to stir the Heavenly Secrets again.

As expected, there was no response.

Wei Yuan stroked his chin and said impolitely,

"Nuwa loves me the most, followed by the other human siblings."

"You're ranked behind, understand, scum snake?"

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds passed, and nothing happened.

It seemed that even the elusive Fuxi didn't know about this place.

Wei Yuan coughed. He didn't know if it was good luck, but if the scum snake had heard what he just said, he would probably have died of embarrassment a thousand or ten thousand times over.

However, since the stars, myriad phenomena, and Heavenly Secrets couldn't enter, the peculiarity of this place was even more outrageous than he had anticipated.

In this situation, it would be very difficult for Hou Tu to save herself. Only the Nine Heavens Gate's ability to amplify cause and effect allowed him to barely find a similar location. But he hadn't expected... the Western Emperor had also arrived in this area? Could it be that the Western Emperor was also searching for Hou Tu's trail during her last battle?

Hah... they've ended up together.

Wei Yuan reached out, and cause and effect swirled and intertwined, simulating the previous Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin, and coalesced into a pure cause-and-effect coin. After thinking for a moment, he reached out again and tapped the coin, layers of cause and effect lighting up, then unfurling outwards, transforming into a transparent compass.

Layers of flowing light lit up on the compass.

Two of the light spots were flickering.

It was like the mini-map function often found in human-world games.

Since he was a Dao Fruit Realm existence, he could naturally change things at will. Moreover, since the cause and effect here was different from the outside, analyzing the cause-and-effect connections of all things in this place would become even simpler. Wei Yuan could directly create this thing with a mere thought.

So, according to this real-world version of the [mini-map] function, he walked step by step towards the two flashing points.

The Western Emperor's location was closer to him than Hou Tu's.

After all, the two of them had entered almost one after the other.

It was just that this seemed to be the battlefield before the Western Emperor completely disappeared a thousand years ago. And at this moment, the Western Emperor seemed to be searching for something, moving around at high speed. Fortunately, Wei Yuan's own movement speed was also worth mentioning; otherwise, it would have been really difficult to find her.

As the distance closed, the frequency of the light spots flashing on the compass map increased.

Wei Yuan finally saw the Vodka Maiden who had entered earlier.

Or rather, the Western Emperor.

This once-famous Mountain Lord of Kunlun was standing on this rocky battlefield, her black hair hanging down. One hand gripped a long spear, and around her lay terrifying monsters, all killed in almost the same way as the beasts in that three-hundred-*li* sea of white bones.

All of them had been killed by a single spear piercing through their foreheads.

Blood flowed across the cyan-colored rocks, and the girl stood barefoot on the iron-cold ground, treading on the blood of gods. Her fingers were round and fair, like Kunlun jade stained with blood, creating a shocking beauty.

Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, inexplicably, he subconsciously began to think about whether he should call her the Western Emperor, the Queen Mother of the West from Kunlun, or directly display the roguishness of the Tang Dynasty and shamelessly call her mother-in-law. In any case, he had to establish their relationship first.

While thinking, he walked closer.

The Kunlun Western Emperor, who had been pondering with her eyes lowered, seemed to sense someone approaching. She slightly raised her eyes, her pupils clear and peaceful, without the slightest ripple. Then, when she saw Wei Yuan, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she actually released the long spear in her hand. The spear, originally condensed from pure metal-attribute Yuan Qi, shattered at that moment.

She began to run towards Wei Yuan!

The corner of Wei Yuan's eye twitched slightly.

This, this, was she still remembering the grudge from that forehead flick so many years ago?

He decided to strike first.

He cupped his fist in greeting, about to call out "Western Emperor."

The girl had already directly grabbed his arm.

The petite girl of one and a half meters was almost bursting into tears:

"Waaah, Museum Head, Museum Head, where is this?! How did I suddenly get here?!"

"And there are so many monsters around!"

"Waaaah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I have a bit of procrastination. I deliberately don't draw because I'm a pigeon, but but, at most, I'll just be locked in the small black room, right? I've never heard of being tied up and thrown into Siberia to plant potatoes because I pigeon-ed a manuscript, ahhh!"

"Waaahhhhh—"

The girl artist seemed to finally be unable to hold back and burst into tears. Wei Yuan's movements froze for a moment.

That's not right. She was clearly the dignified Kunlun Western Emperor just now.

Condensing Qi into weapons, single-handedly slaughtering three hundred *li* of demon-gods and fierce beasts?

How did she suddenly turn into the Vodka Maiden?

Wei Yuan comforted the artist for a while, then asked, "Do you remember how you got here?"

The artist sobbed and said, "I, I don't remember. I only remember that I was, I was staying up late to chase... cough cough, I mean, I was staying up late drawing, and finally couldn't take it anymore. Suddenly, I got sleepy, so I lay down to sleep, thinking of sleeping for a little while."

"Then I heard some noise outside and wanted to tell that idiot Shui Gui not to make so much noise."

"Then when I came back to my senses, I was here."

"Museum Head, do you know what happened?!"

Wei Yuan used cause-and-effect perception to observe the Vodka Maiden in front of him. He didn't see or feel the Qi of the Kunlun Western Emperor again. This meant that either the latter had fallen back into slumber, or the Kunlun Western Emperor had left this place and arrived somewhere else.

If it was the former, then it meant that this area had a powerful force that even the resurrected Western Emperor would be partially affected by, and then fall back into slumber after killing those monsters. Or, this world, whose laws were not in sync with the outside world, actually had a powerful force that allowed the Western Emperor to act on her own.

No matter which it was, the area trapping Hou Tu was extremely peculiar.

Wei Yuan looked at the somewhat bewildered Vodka Maiden and pondered for a moment, then said, "This is just a special place for inspiration, prepared for you by Shui Gui. I didn't expect you to walk in yourself."

"???"

The Vodka Maiden's face stiffened, and then she seemed to want to burst out and curse, but she forcefully held it back because the Museum Head was here. "Ah, ah, is this, did Shui Gui do this?"

You idiot who only knows how to drink soda!

When I get back, I'm going to pour a barrel of ninety-six-degree Spiritus Vini on you! A whole barrel!!!

The girl artist's heart was almost roaring, but she still forced herself not to say it. With this, the worry and fear in her heart dissipated imperceptibly, replaced by a burning 'fire of revenge' towards Shui Gui, and she was almost rubbing her fists in anticipation.

"So it was him..."

"No wonder, no wonder!"

Wei Yuan, wearing the smile of a passing Yuan Shi Tian Zun who had nothing to do with it and was just here to save her, added, "Yes, you can ask him when you go out. Is this door his?"

The fire in the girl artist's heart burned fiercely, burning away all her fear:/

"Okay! Okay!"

Having tricked Kai Ming and also stabilized the Vodka Maiden's mood, Wei Yuan calmly looked away. In any case, he had helped her big sister eliminate her fear. Surely Kai Ming wouldn't be angry about such a trivial 'sacrifice,' right?

If he didn't have to maintain the imposing manner and composure of the Yuan Shi Tian Zun, Wei Yuan would have directly dumped the blame on Kai Ming. Well, if Kai Ming was watching this scene right now, he would probably say, 'Your Majesty, you might as well make yourself clearer'...

Wei Yuan muttered to himself a few times, then manipulated the compass mini-map in his hand.

He searched for the direction of the other flashing light spot.

The Vodka Maiden closely followed behind Wei Yuan. "Museum Head, are you looking for someone?"

"Yes..."

Wei Yuan glanced at the Vodka Maiden. He had calculated the cause and effect earlier, and it was the Western Emperor who had actively entered this place, so he couldn't directly send her back. He had no choice but to let her stay by his side and replied, "It should be considered an old friend of yours."

"Hmm?? An old friend of mine?"

The Vodka Maiden was stunned, and then subconsciously said, "Does she also like the comics I draw!!!"

"Is she my fan?!"

"Does she like 'The Dream of a Wife,' or 'The Class Reunion...?'"

Wei Yuan almost staggered.

Thinking of Hou Tu's gentle smile and the Vodka Maiden's drawing style, he tried to throw the image of Hou Tu picking up the Vodka Maiden's classic works and reading them out of his mind, and said expressionlessly,

"That should be impossible."

"Absolutely impossible."

The Vodka Maiden said, "If she's not my fan, who else could she be? My friends from when I was alive? So many years have passed. Even if they're still alive, they've all become old men and women. Could it be that some of them have embarked on the path of cultivation?"

"Ah, I'm so looking forward to it!"

...Your friends from the past, well, most of them are the kind that cultivators need to worship.

Including yourself.

Wei Yuan didn't explain, but just followed the mini-map made up of cause and effect forward.

And the Western Emperor, who was just now boiling with 'hatred' for Shui Gui and had temporarily forgotten her fear, hurriedly followed, reaching out to grab Wei Yuan's sleeve. Her fingers were trembling a little.

Hmm, how could the Vodka Maiden, the manifestation of the Western Emperor, have such a personality? Could it be that she was originally like this?

However, if she remembers this scene later, it will probably be a 'grudge' no less than the forehead flick incident. Wei Yuan couldn't help but feel a headache. He vaguely guessed that the Vodka Maiden's chance to recover her memories and original foundation should be in this experience.

But now, he didn't know if he wanted her to remember or not.

After she remembers her memories, will she die of embarrassment on the spot?

Or will she eliminate everyone who has read her comics and all the clients?

For example, Yao Ji, Yao Ji, and Yao Ji.

The frequency of the light spots flashing on the cause-and-effect mini-map in Wei Yuan's hand became higher and faster, until they finally completely overlapped. But the surroundings were still just a desolate environment. Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, and the cause-and-effect compass in his hand flew up and then slowly rotated in the void, scattering layers of flowing light.

Layers of ripples appeared before his eyes.

Immediately appearing was a village, or rather, a small town.

The Vodka Maiden peeked out her head and exclaimed softly, then quickly said, "This, there are actually people here. Could it really be a place for sketching? Eh, eh, how can there be such a beautiful older sister?!"

"Hmm??? Is that a proposal?!"

Wei Yuan followed her gaze and saw a woman wearing a light-colored dress, her expression gentle to the extreme.

Hou Tu?!!

And in front of her, a tall and handsome young man was bowing slightly, holding a bouquet of flowers in his hands.

His face was flushed red.

"Wow, a proposal, is Head Wei going to learn from him?"

The Vodka Maiden's eyes lit up, and she opened her mouth jokingly.

Then she saw Wei Yuan actually taking a step forward, stunned for a moment, and then quickly shouted,

"Hey, hey, Museum Head, are you really going? I was just joking!"

"Wait for me!"

ps: First update today...