The white-robed old man, Su Ke, had a gloomy look in his eyes.

He chose not to directly clash with the two giant green swords.

Instead, he cunningly controlled the ‘Profound Ghost Twin Hooks’ to skillfully evade the green giant swords, and then the two ferocious Profound Ghost Kings once again viciously lunged at Yang Che and Shentu Yun, aiming to devour them.

This Su Ke was indeed ruthless enough to take the twin green swords head-on with his Physical Body, just to control his Magic Treasure to kill Yang Che and the other person.

The vengeful ghosts shrieked, howling as they approached.

The madness within Yang Che completely began to spiral out of control.

With bloodshot eyes, he suddenly opened his purple gold gourd without a care and took another large gulp of heaven soul wine.

Putting away the purple gold gourd, Yang Che roared.

All his magical power was restored.

He flashed to stand in front of his Senior Sister, a wild smile on his face as he faced the two ferocious ghost heads.

The moment the ghost heads lunged to devour them, a ‘boom’ sounded, a thunderclap exploding.

Countless lightning bolts poured out from around Yang Che without any warning.

The two Profound Ghost Kings were suddenly enveloped by the lightning, immediately letting out shrill, strange cries, their original ferocity instantly turning into terror.

Countless ‘Lightning Chain Thunder Spears’ coiled around Yang Che.

Yang Che casually grabbed one, holding a Thunder Spear in each hand, and fiercely thrust them towards the heads of the two Profound Ghost Kings.

The Thunder Spears shattered.

One of the two Profound Ghost Kings disappeared, while the remaining one actually endured it.

However, it also became critically ill and extremely weak.

Su Ke, from a distance, saw Yang Che unleash lightning, and his pupils suddenly constricted, revealing an expression of extreme shock.

Even Shentu Yun, behind Yang Che, fell into a brief daze, seemingly unable to believe what she was seeing.

Just then, Su Ke suddenly retracted the only remaining, weakened Profound Ghost King, and then controlled his twin hook Magic Treasure to emit a great black light, rapidly hooking towards Yang Che’s neck.

Yang Che let out a wild laugh, reaching out to grab, and two more ‘Thunder Spears’ appeared in his hands.

He did not dodge, fiercely thrusting them towards the black twin hooks.

With two ‘bangs’, the Thunder Spears shattered.

One of the black hooks was knocked away, but the other black hook spun around and hooked onto Yang Che’s shoulder.

‘Chila!’ Sparks flew.

Su Ke’s expression changed instantly.

His black hook failed to pierce Yang Che’s body!

“The Physical Body strength of this ‘Zhang Gu’ is actually so astonishing?”

Su Ke gasped.

However, very quickly, he revealed a sinister smile and instantly teleported to Yang Che’s side.

At this moment, Yang Che was almost ‘devoured’ by the side effects of the heaven soul wine; after the frenzy, he slowly closed his eyes and his body fell with a thud.

“Junior Brother!”

Shentu Yun cried out, struggling to embrace Yang Che, and found that his eyes and eye sockets had all turned blood-red, which was very frightening.

“Hmph, overestimating yourself.”

Su Ke moved his palm, and with black light swirling, he fiercely struck at Yang Che and Shentu Yun.

Shentu Yun had already clutched a Supreme Talisman in her hand, which she immediately activated, and as a yellow light burst forth, it crashed into the black light with a roar.

The dazzling light quickly disappeared.

Su Ke’s pupils suddenly constricted sharply, staring intently at the empty space before him, his face a look of incredible shock.

The space before him was empty; there was no sign of anyone at all.

His Divine Sense was powerful, and he immediately spread it out to search the surroundings, but even after sensing the strong practitioners of his Su Family ambushing in the distance and the Restriction formation they had set up, he still found no trace or aura of the two.

“How is this possible?”

Su Ke’s face showed great confusion.

With the Su Family’s strong practitioners having set up a confinement formation in the distant surroundings, and the inherent Restriction of Dark Demon Valley itself, he was very certain that Shentu Yun and the other person had not escaped the valley.

But the people had vanished!

“Could it be…”

A terrifying thought suddenly surged into Su Ke’s mind.

His body became somewhat stiff, and then he very laboriously turned his head to look at the Nether Valley where the soul nourishing wood was located.

However, the presence of that mysterious Restriction made it impossible for his Divine Sense to penetrate even a tiny bit.

…

“Junior Brother… Junior Brother…”

A distant call seemed to echo in his ears.

Yang Che suddenly opened his eyes, startled, and abruptly sat up.

When he clearly saw what was before him, he couldn’t help but be astonished.

Before him was a large, ordinary-looking old tree, its main trunk, which was clearly somewhat withered, bore many slender, green, withered branches.

At the top of the old tree’s trunk, there was a very simple treehouse.

Looking through the huge doorway of the treehouse, a rather large fox was actually lying inside.

This fox was clearly ancient, its white fur almost completely devoid of luster.

Its many long white tails gathered in a ball, almost filling the treehouse with no gaps.

Only its pair of emerald green eyes remained bright, occasionally flashing with an intimidating cold light.

Upon seeing Yang Che awaken, the coldness in the white fox’s eyes gradually faded, replaced by a strange, almost ‘benevolent’ expression.

“You’re awake.”

The white fox looked at Yang Che, speaking in the same voice as the ‘old woman’ from before.

And there was no trace of the previous coldness in its voice.

“Junior Brother, it was this Nine-tailed Sky Fox Senior who saved us.”

Shentu Yun, who was nearby, helped Yang Che stand up.

Upon hearing this, Yang Che quickly cupped his hands in thanks, but his heart was filled with immense confusion.

This Nine-tailed Sky Fox had previously severely injured him with a withered green branch, believing he coveted the soul nourishing wood, so why had she suddenly saved him and Senior Sister Shentu Yun?

Yang Che was utterly puzzled.

As if sensing Yang Che’s confusion, the Nine-tailed Sky Fox slowly raised her head and said to Yang Che, “Come up, come closer to me.”

Yang Che paused slightly, but still jumped onto the tree trunk and came to the treehouse doorway.

“Crouch down a bit.”

The Nine-tailed Sky Fox slightly raised a front paw.

Yang Che immediately understood the Sky Fox’s intention, and so he immediately crouched down.

The Sky Fox’s front paw then slowly touched Yang Che’s glabella.

In an instant, a piece of memory information flooded into Yang Che’s mind.

Soon, his face showed immense surprise, and he understood everything.

It turned out that the injured green-eyed fox he encountered in the Stone Cave after leaving Xingshan Mine and returning to Wanglong Mountain, who had asked him for a Nourishing Yuan Pill, was actually one of the Incarnations of this Nine-tailed Sky Fox before him.

It was truly unbelievable.

This Nine-tailed Sky Fox could perceive the memories of her Incarnations, but those Incarnations, before their memories Awoke, had no knowledge of this Nine-tailed Sky Fox’s existence.

Therefore, when Yang Che took out and consumed the Nourishing Yuan Pill, it attracted the attention of this Nine-tailed Sky Fox.

At first, Yang Che was constantly enveloped by the Death Qi, and the Nine-tailed Sky Fox couldn’t immediately confirm that he was the young man from the Wanglong Mountain Stone Cave back then.

After Yang Che condensed lightning to dispel the Death Qi, although the Nine-tailed Sky Fox still found it somewhat hard to believe, she eventually confirmed that Yang Che was indeed the young Qi Refining Cultivator from the Wanglong Mountain Stone Cave all those years ago.

Therefore, at the last moment, she intervened and saved him and Shentu Yun.

While deeply grateful to this Nine-tailed Sky Fox and marveling at this mysterious and unpredictable fate, Yang Che also felt immense sympathy for the fate of the Tian Hu Clan.

The Tian Hu Clan was also a deeply cursed race.

Due to the Tian Hu Clan’s ancestor offending a certain ancient powerful Cultivator, a cruel Bloodline curse was placed upon them.

This curse meant that the Tian Hu Clan, even if they could Cultivate to Soul Transformation, would never be able to transform into human form, and Soul Transformation was the end of the Tian Hu Clan’s cultivation path.

The Nine-tailed Sky Fox before him had strived her entire life but had not found a way to break the curse.

She was naturally extremely unwilling.

Thus, with her Lifespan dwindling, she performed a Yao Race secret technique she knew, cultivating nine Incarnations that were almost like Rebirth, scattering them across the world.

This way, not only could she have a chance to extend her life after her Lifespan was completely exhausted, but she could also continue to search for a way to break the curse.

And the reason she appeared here was to break the curse, having journeyed all the way to the Ancient Remnant Sand Sea.

And when her Lifespan was nearing its end, she entered the Dark Abyss, found the soul nourishing wood in this Dark Demon Valley, and used this soul nourishing wood to nourish and extend the Lifespan of her Soul.

Even when the limit of her Physical Body’s Lifespan arrived, her Soul could reside in the soul nourishing wood, maintaining her consciousness.

Yang Che sighed with endless emotion.

This Nine-tailed Sky Fox had indeed poured her heart and Soul into the Tian Hu Clan for almost her entire life.

Yang Che jumped down from the big tree, his gaze fixed on the thick old tree, sighing with emotion once again.

Clearly, this seemingly ordinary withered green old tree before him was the soul nourishing wood.

It was just that this tree, in this Nether Valley, for some unknown reason, was already declining.

And after being continuously drained by the Nine-tailed Sky Fox for many years, it was now like an old person in their twilight years, already emitting a faint Death Qi.