When he heard her explanation, Biluo naturally understood what was weighing on his mind. A faint smile appeared on her face as she said, "Because the Young Mistress inherited the origin power of the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider!"
"Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider?" Yang Kai's expression shifted slightly.
"Oh? You've heard of it?" Biluo regarded him with some curiosity.
Yang Kai gave a slight nod. The Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider was one of the ancient Sacred Spirits. Strictly speaking, it belonged to the same tier as the Dragon and the Phoenix, though which among them was stronger or weaker was hard to say definitively — no one had ever witnessed a battle between ancient Sacred Spirits.
The reason Yang Kai knew of the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider was that he had come into contact with ancient Sacred Spirits rather frequently of late. Whether it was the remnant soul of the Golden Dragon he possessed or the remnant soul of the Ice Phoenix that belonged to Su Yan, both fell within the category of ancient Sacred Spirits.
"So how did Qingluo come to possess the origin power of the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider?" Yang Kai's brow furrowed tightly, and suddenly a thought struck him. "Could it be that the spider corpse you all encountered when you first arrived at the Monster Star Di Chen..."
"Exactly. That was the corpse of the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider." Biluo gave him an approving look. "The Young Mistress spent quite a bit of time before she managed to figure that out. She had no idea what that spider actually was before then. And the reason Lord Scarlet Moon took a liking to the Young Mistress and adopted her as a foster daughter was because of this very thing. Why else would Lord Scarlet Moon have given her benefits for no reason?"
"So that's how it is!" Yang Kai nodded gently. If that was the case, everything made sense.
The reason the Bewitching Queen possessed the origin power of the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider was because she had absorbed the mysterious energy within that spider's corpse, which in turn transformed her bloodline.
As for the fact that Shan Qingluo had been able to reach the Monster Star Di Chen directly through that altar, Yang Kai suspected it was also connected to the deceased Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider. One could even say that the altar had likely been created by the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider itself.
The Black Widow physique possessed by Shan Qingluo's bloodline had probably also been born from all of this.
Everything fell into place!
"So where is your Young Mistress now? Has she also entered the Imperial Garden?" Yang Kai asked urgently.
At this, Biluo's expression immediately grew somewhat somber. She nodded. "She did enter, but the Young Mistress and I were separated after we came in. I don't know where she is right now."
Hearing this, Yang Kai couldn't help but sigh.
"At least you still have some conscience." Biluo pouted slightly. Seeing that Yang Kai was worried about Shan Qingluo, she found him considerably more agreeable than before. "But don't worry. Even if the Young Mistress is on her own, she'll be fine. Her cultivation has already reached the third level of the Return to Void realm — ordinary warriors at that level are no match for her at all."
"That powerful?" Yang Kai was greatly astonished.
It would have been understandable if she had been invincible among her peers. After all, Shan Qingluo now carried the origin power of the Heavenly Moon Demonic Spider, so she couldn't be measured by common standards. But the fact that her cultivation was at the third level of the Return to Void realm truly shocked him.
His own cultivation speed was already fast enough, yet the Bewitching Queen had somehow surpassed him. But thinking about it more carefully, it wasn't all that surprising — she had absorbed all of the mysterious energy from that ancient Sacred Spirit's corpse. Going from the second level of the Saint King realm to the first level of the Return to Void realm had only taken her a few years.
"Heh heh, you good-for-nothing, you'd better start putting in more effort, or the Young Mistress is going to find someone else someday. No woman wants a man who can't protect her." Biluo wore a look of undisguised schadenfreude.
Back in the day, the Bewitching Queen's cultivation had already been slightly higher than Yang Kai's. Now that they were meeting again, the gap hadn't narrowed — it had actually widened considerably. Biluo subconsciously felt that Yang Kai was no longer worthy of her Young Mistress. Along with her gloating, there was also a touch of anxiety on his behalf, a kind of frustration that he wasn't living up to his potential.
"None of your damn business!" Yang Kai curled his lip. The mere thought of that bewitching woman Shan Qingluo made him uneasy. It wasn't that he feared her — it was just that her allure was almost inhuman. Yang Kai could resist the temptations of other women; even when someone like Yin Sudie employed her bewitching arts on him, he could remain utterly unmoved. But Shan Qingluo...
He wasn't confident at all that he could stay composed in front of her. If he accidentally let his body and mind fall under her spell, his reputation would be ruined for life.
"Forget it, let's not get into that. The Imperial Garden is vast — it's not guaranteed we'll run into each other." Yang Kai seemed to be talking to Biluo as much as reassuring himself. Although Shan Qingluo had long ago planted a secret technique in his body called the Soul-Chasing Seal, which allowed her to sense his location through the mark, so many years had passed that even without actively trying to dissolve it, the seal had nearly faded away.
If Shan Qingluo tried to use the Soul-Chasing Seal to find him, it probably wouldn't work anymore.
"Mm. Either way, after this trip through the Imperial Garden is over, I'll return to Di Chen and tell the Young Mistress about your situation." Biluo smiled softly. Her Young Mistress had been tormented by worry for so many years — learning that Yang Kai was safe and had already arrived in the Star Field would surely make her very happy. "Which Cultivation Star are you on now?"
"The Dark Star. You wouldn't be able to come there," Yang Kai said, slowly shaking his head. He gave Biluo a brief account of the Dark Star's situation, and she committed it all to memory, planning to report every detail to her Young Mistress.
"Oh right — you're looking for an ice path?" Once the business at hand was settled, something suddenly seemed to occur to Biluo, and she looked at Yang Kai as she asked.
"That's right. You've come across one?" Yang Kai's brow shot up.
"Mm, I think I might have, but I'm not sure if it's the place you're looking for." Biluo appeared thoughtful. When she had been pursued by enemies earlier, she had fled in a panic without direction and had indeed stumbled upon the entrance to an icy corridor. She had initially intended to slip inside to hide, but upon sensing the bone-piercing cold within, she had abandoned the idea and instead fled here, where she had happened upon the three Qiantian Sect disciples and dragged them into the mess.
Hearing her description, Yang Kai was overjoyed. "Do you still remember the exact location?"