Chapter 103 Female-Dominated Cultivation World (Twenty-Four) Dissolving the Contract

Liu Changning woke up, lying flat on the vast yellow sand. Her long robe had long since disappeared, with only a few pieces of tattered cloth barely covering important areas.

Yellow sand particles floated in the air. She lay on the fine yellow sand, turning her head to see an endless desert connecting with the sky.

Looking up, two red suns hung high overhead, burning like a furnace scorching the earth. The heat seemed capable of evaporating all moisture from one’s body.

As far as the eye could see, there was hardly any living thing. Yellow sand and red suns enveloped the entire world.

Liu Changning reflexively raised her hand to touch her chest. Without the expected fuzzy sensation, she looked down to find her chest empty, that ugly black bird nowhere to be found.

She was stunned for a moment, quickly surveying her surroundings, still finding nothing.

The deathly silent and vast desert was so quiet that even her faint breathing could be clearly heard.

Liu Changning’s thin lips slightly pursed. The scene upon waking was indeed strange, but she was relieved that the bird was gone. Otherwise… the future would be uncertain.

Withdrawing her gaze, she instinctively extended her divine sense to probe, only to discover a greater difficulty.

Her dantian was completely dry, and her divine sense could barely reach beyond a zhang.

The Cangming celestial sword hung in her mind, motionless and silent.

Above her dantian was a patch of gray. The Nascent Soul, which had been continuously absorbing external spiritual energy on its own, was now wilted into a ball.

Liu Changning tried to circulate her heart method and absorb surrounding spiritual energy. After closing her eyes for just a moment, she began to vomit mouthfuls of fresh blood.

She suddenly opened her eyes, not bothering to wipe the blood stains from the corner of her mouth.

Shocked, she extended her divine sense again, which could still probe within a zhang.

It should be noted that in her previous battle, she had already shown signs of spiritual energy depletion. Now in this realm without spiritual energy, her true essence was almost non-existent.

However, her divine sense could still be projected outward, albeit only for a zhang’s distance, which was already remarkable.

With no spiritual energy to maintain her body, coupled with the desert realm she was in that lacked spiritual energy in the air, Liu Changning’s forced circulation of her heart method caused her blood to surge upward again. She vomited blood continuously, the bright red blood on her pale lips a shocking sight.

Fortunately, the situation was not the worst. Although her divine sense could not enter Cangming or probe her surroundings, it could enter the white jade ring.

Liu Changning focused her mind and quickly found a bottle of qi-replenishing pills in the ring. She swallowed more than ten black pills with a fresh fragrance, finally stopping the endless surge of blood.

There weren’t many good spiritual energy replenishing pills in the white jade ring.

A bottle of qi-replenishing pills was almost like a drop in the bucket for Liu Changning’s dry dantian.

But now in an unknown situation, with strange surroundings and almost defenseless, if she left her body unattended, with depleted spiritual energy and no replenishment, she would likely die from blood loss.

The yellow sand beneath her was like a dormant beast. Without wind, the surface of the sand grains radiated scorching heat. The fresh blood Liu Changning spat out quickly baked into a dark red color on the sand.

She struggled to stand up, her forehead already beaded with fine sweat. The temperature here was extremely high, especially on the yellow sand. Even the slightest movement caused her to sweat profusely. She needed to find a water source quickly.

Liu Changning looked up at the two suns hanging high in the sky, her face showing a grave expression.

She was trying to determine direction based on the position of the sun’s rise. But after observing for a long time, she found that these two suns remained motionless.

With the heat undiminished around her, Liu Changning had the worst guess in her mind.

This place was likely not a spiritual realm, and might not even have day and night. Staying here for long would certainly lead to death.

As she was deep in thought, footsteps suddenly came from afar.

Liu Changning quickly turned her head. Upon seeing the newcomer’s face clearly, her thin lips pressed into a straight line. After coming to the worst conclusion, the person she least wanted to see was Pei Yuanshao.

Her physical condition was not good at the moment, with a depleted dantian and only one bottle of qi-replenishing pills in the white jade ring, which she had already consumed.

Without spiritual energy replenishment, she feared she wouldn’t last a day. How could she help him find a way out?

Liu Changning closed her eyes briefly, concealing all the self-blame in her eyes.

She smiled casually at Pei Yuanshao and said, “The ancestor’s clothes… hmm, have an exotic flair.”

The approaching man’s figure swayed, nearly falling onto the sand.

Almost his entire red skin was exposed to the air, swaying with his large movements. White tattered strips fluttered in the wind, half-concealing and half-revealing all the scenery.

Liu Changning chuckled softly, her almond eyes containing a hint of teasing laughter.

With her chest heaving, the fresh blood that had been suppressed surged up to her throat again. She bent over and started vomiting blood once more.

A flash of shame and anger crossed Pei Yuanshao’s face. He was about to step forward in anger, striding towards her with large steps.

Looking down, he saw the scene of her frantically vomiting blood.

By now, the sand at her feet had turned dark red. The pool of blood quickly dried in the wind, its dark red color both shocking and inexplicably anxiety-inducing.

Pei Yuanshao’s expression was not good: “Do you know where this place is?”

After a thorough investigation earlier, he was now covered in sweat. Sweat droplets ran down his well-defined profile and fell onto the sand, mixing with Liu Changning’s dark red blood and drying together.

Seeing the person opposite shake her head, he didn’t waste words and quickly explained: “Have you heard of the Chaos Space? It’s devoid of spiritual energy, all visible objects are static, but it’s fraught with hidden dangers. Before you fainted, a black stone shot out from the white jade ring, swallowed the remnant soul of Old Taoist Qiu’s self-destruction, and then absorbed us both, bringing us here.”

“You mean…”