"There's no one else here. You're the first person to enter here." And this person was falling through a black hole. The white ball watched over Murong Xue because it was curious about what exactly she was.

"The first? Why? Is this a restricted area?" Murong Xue asked, puzzled.

The white ball looked at her like she was an idiot, "Didn't I tell you? This is the Death Forest, and anyone from the outside who tries to enter is a narrow escape. In the middle area, there is a poisonous miasma that only those who have reached blue-level can barely resist. Behind the poisonous miasma, there is a high-level evil beast area. Even those who have reached purple-level won't be able to return from there."

Murong Xue stopped walking forward, and her face suddenly turned pale. "Purple-level? Then how can you be here?" It didn't look very powerful. Could it be lying to her? She gave it a suspicious look.

"What's that look in your eyes? I'm very powerful. This is my territory. Otherwise, how could it be so peaceful? You can try walking out for some distance and see if you'll be torn to pieces." In fact, it was mainly because the area where it was located had long been set up with a powerful formation barrier. Otherwise, in its current condition, there would be no way to deter those ferocious beasts outside.

"Is there any other way out?" She couldn't stay here. She had to find her parents.

The white ball raised its eyebrows, although she didn't see where its eyebrows were. "Don't even think about it. This is the deepest part of the Death Forest, which is surrounded by a poisonous miasma. With your current poor cultivation level, if you step out with one foot, you'll be torn apart in the next second."

Murong Xue's face suddenly turned pale. Was she going to be trapped here for the rest of her life?

"But it's not like there's no way out." After a long time, the white ball said.

Murong Xue's eyes instantly lit up, and she excitedly grabbed the white ball and asked, "How? Tell me!"

"As long as you can cultivate above purple-level." That tone sounded like cultivating to purple-level was as easy as drinking water.

Murong Xue put down the white ball feebly and asked undauntedly, "Is that the only way?"

"This is the only way. Even if there are other ways, with your current cultivation level, going out is a dead end. The outside world is not peaceful. They only respect the strong. If you go out now, you'll only be overwhelmed by others." It was telling the truth. It used to go out a lot in the past when it was strong.

Murong Xue's face became even paler. She seemed to have come into an incredible world, which was worse than she had expected. There was no law or fairness here.

What worried her most was the safety of her parents. If even her orange-level cultivation was poor, what would happen to her parents if they had no cultivation at all? She couldn't even imagine it.

Undeterred, she made her way outside until she came across the edge of the barrier, from which she could clearly see the spirit beasts outside, some of which were as tall as a whole building. A spirit beast seemed to have seen her, and it suddenly rushed over, and its roar almost ruptured her eardrums.

Murong Xue took a few steps back with a start, and the spirit beast stopped when it hit the barrier, reluctantly hitting it hard. She even felt the whole space inside shake a little. What kind of monster was this?

"This is a Level 6 giant tiger beast, which is equivalent to a human's purple-level cultivation. It's not the strongest one in this inner circle, but the Level 9 spirit beast." The white ball explained, seeming to see her question.

Was that not the strongest? Then how could she get out? She would probably be crushed by a foot as soon as she went out, without even having time to struggle.

"You'd better get on with your cultivation. I reckon you might be able to reach purple-level in a hundred years." The white ball said with some gloating.

Murong Xue clenched her fists. It couldn't be a hundred years. That was too long. What about her grandparents or Huangfu Yi?

She put the white ball down and looked at the mark on her hand. With a mental movement, she made the bracelet visible. She was slightly relieved that at least the bracelet had followed her over. Then, with another mental movement, the bracelet immediately became invisible again.

"How did the Tongtian Bracelet end up in your hands?" Although it only flashed for a second, the white ball still saw it.

Murong Xue panicked a little and then asked calmly, "What Tongtian Bracelet?"

"It's the bracelet that just appeared on your hand. Why is it in your possession? The Tongtian Bracelet is not something a little girl like you can possess." The Tongtian Bracelet had been missing for thousands of years. Over the years, countless cultivators had searched for it, but no one had ever been able to find it.

Legend had it that the Tongtian Bracelet was made from a phoenix and later turned into a divine weapon, as it was once possessed by a mighty man who eventually refined his divine soul. It was also said that it contained countless treasures. As long as someone could obtain it, it could definitely enhance the person's cultivation.

Only the first person who got the Tongtian Bracelet successfully ascended. After that, although it was left on this continent, everyone who obtained it was invariably besieged by a bunch of masters and eventually died.

The white ball wondered how this woman could hide it. The reason those people who possessed it were killed was that the Tongtian Bracelet couldn't be hidden and had to be worn on the wrist, which could easily be discovered.

Someone once tried to find a secret place to hide but was still found by others. It was because when a cultivator was upgrading, it would create something weird in the surrounding area. If the cultivator didn't have enough time to hide, he or she would be found.

"Is this Tongtian Bracelet? What else do you know?" Murong Xue continued.

"You show me the bracelet first." The white ball's eyes darted around, and then it said.

Did it take her for a fool? "You tell me first."

"You show me first." It wasn't stupid, either.

"Forget it!" Murong Xue didn't bother to argue with it and flashed into the Space. She still had quite a few wounds on her body and had to be medicated.

After she had cleaned and medicated her wounds, she walked to the previous waterfall place, but she didn't see the colorful black hole. She thought that since the bracelet had followed her over, perhaps she would be able to travel back, but she didn't expect the black hole to disappear.

Anyway, she had to find a way first. There was always another way to travel back.

She took out the Cultivation Methods of Phoenix Soaring Ascension her master gave her and read it carefully.

Day after day, year after year, apart from eating, Murong Xue had spent almost all her time on cultivation, and she had no idea how much time had passed.

In fact, Phoenix Soaring was a god-level cultivation method that could be upgraded indefinitely, which was different from the upper, middle, and lower levels in the world of

ascension. Those cultivation methods could only be cultivated to a certain level, and then cultivators had to look for a more profound cultivation method to upgrade. Otherwise, their cultivation level would stagnate.

While Phoenix Soaring was an upgrade type of cultivation method, which would change according to the cultivator's cultivation level. So, Phoenix Soaring was one of the world's greatest treasures, just like the Tongtian Bracelet. Either one was enough to cause a bunch of people to rob it like crazy. Murong Xue just had no idea what kind of treasures she possessed.

Murong Xue didn't have the slightest slackness, not only for her safety but also for finding her parents as soon as possible and then returning to the original world, where there were still people she loved so much.

At the moment, Murong Xue was so absorbed in her cultivation that she didn't notice anything strange outside her body. She only felt that the pubic region in her body was unusually hot as if her whole body had been soaking in a hot spring, which was very warm and comfortable.

Suddenly, a burst of light emanated from her body, enveloping her whole body in light and making her figure hazy and very pretty.

A few moments later, the light converged back, and the spiritual qi in her body soared, more than hundreds of times stronger than before.

"Ha-ha, I've finally upgraded to blue-level!"

Murong Xue opened her eyes, and her beautiful black eyes shone brightly like stars in the night as she laughed happily. She leaped up from the ground and instantly blasted at the hill in the distance. The sharp wind caused by her palm swept away, and the hill began to shatter with a loud bang, which gradually turned into stones and slid down.

She looked at the shattered stones in the distance and then at her palm. Her eyes were bent with delight as she took one step closer to her goal.

"How long will it take to reach purple-level?" She muttered to herself. Thanks to Phoenix Soaring that her master had given her, otherwise, she probably wouldn't have been able to cultivate to this point within such a short time, relying on her groping and those images on the stone wall.

Originally, she had only cultivated according to Phoenix Soaring and always felt something was wrong. Then she combined Phoenix Soaring with the images on the stone wall and unexpectedly found that she could cultivate it with half the effort.

Murong Xue had no idea how many years she had been in the Space, and she found that her cultivation had hit a bottleneck. No matter how she cultivated, she still couldn't upgrade. Then she decided to go out and check the situation, wondering if that white ball was still there.

When she went outside, she didn't find the white ball. Then she went for a stroll around and found out there were really no creatures inside the barrier, just towering trees.

"You've finally come out!"

In the distance, the white ball was running as slowly as a turtle with its short legs.

Murong Xue was thinking about what to do with it after seeing it because it had known that she had the Tongtian Bracelet.

The white ball ran to her feet and tried to grab her pant leg and climb up. However, after a few attempts, it kept falling down, which made her feel amused.

Eventually, she crouched down and held it up.

"Are you looking for me?" Murong Xue asked.

The white ball asked seriously, "Did you get inside the Tongtian Bracelet?" This was unbelievable. No one had ever heard that the living people were able to enter the Tongtian Bracelet. Otherwise, its possessors wouldn't have been hunted all the time. They could just hide inside the Tongtian Bracelet.

And after only a month, Murong Xue had already reached blue-level. What an unbelievable feat! The Tongtian Bracelet truly lived up to its reputation.

Murong Xue nodded. Anyway, even if she didn't admit it, the white ball wouldn't believe her.

"Take me inside." The white ball said with its eyes shining. Maybe when it went in, it would be restored to its original body, and it wouldn't have to be stuck in this hellhole. Staying here was boring it to death.

"No."

"Why? I'll take the Heavenly Spirit Fruit in exchange for it." The white ball took out a fruit.

Murong Xue lifted it up, wondering where it had taken the fruit out from. She rummaged through its whole body but found no place to hide things.

The white ball squirmed and covered its chubby body with its two short hands, "What are you doing? Pervert!"

Murong Xue's body shook a little bit, and she almost threw it down. The corners of her mouth twitched, and she picked her ear and said incredulously, "What did you just say?"

The white ball's two little fat hands immediately covered its face, and its shoulders trembled if that round body had shoulders. "You've seen my body! I don't want to live!"

Murong Xue looked at the ball in front of her speechlessly, "You are just a ball without a body."

"Boohoo!" It burst out with a loud cry.

Half an hour later, Murong Xue put it aside, and then she took out a packet of snacks from the Space and ate it with relish.

"Crack!" The sound of potato chips breaking sounded.

The white ball stopped crying and asked curiously, "What are you eating?"

"Why are you stopping crying? I haven't seen enough yet!" Murong Xue ate another piece of the potato chip.

The white ball swallowed, held out its little fat hand, and said, "I want some."

A smile flashed in Murong Xue's eyes, but she made a dilemmatic expression and said, "But I don't have much of this stuff, and there's no such thing in this world. I won't be able to eat it if I want to in the future."

"Crack!" She ate another piece.

"I'll tell you about the Tongtian Bracelet. Give this to me."

"Deal!"

After learning about the Tongtian Bracelet in this continent, Murong Xue felt even more that she must never divulge that she had this bracelet unless she was forced to in the future.

"What's inside the bracelet? How did you cultivate so fast? Take me inside and have a look." The white ball said.

Murong Xue squinted at it and said, "Don't even think about it. I won't take you inside."

"Why? I'm so cute!" It held its face in both hands and blinked its big eyes.

"Who knows if you have any bad intentions? If I take you in and you take my things for yourself, then I'm going to cry my eyes out."

"You…" If it hadn't been that its cultivation wasn't enough now, it would have snatched the bracelet over. "Then what do you want?"

"It's not about what I want. It's just that I can't bring you in without any guarantee." Murong Xue said.

After a long silence, the white ball finally said with its teeth gritted, "Then let's sign a deed!"

"What? What do you mean to sign a deed?" Murong Xue asked, puzzled.

The white ball didn't bother to explain anything to her any further but grabbed her finger and bit through it, and then it bit through its own paw as well. After their blood was mixed, a huge pentagram pattern instantly lit up beneath their feet. A moment later, the light disappeared, and the deed was done.

At once, Murong Xue felt a deed in her soul, and she could read the mind of the white ball.

"It's done. Now we are companions. With the bond of the deed, you don't have to worry about me betraying you. Can you take me inside now?" The white ball still seemed a little reluctant, but it was better than staying here all the time.

Murong Xue understood the relationship of the deed almost as soon as it was done. It was just like a bond that united the two, which made them inseparable.

She picked up the white ball and instantly entered the Space.

As soon as the white ball entered the Space, it began to go crazy.

"My God, this is the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, so many…"

"This is the Divine Soul Herb…"

"There's actually a magical spring…"

"…"

The white ball was in a state of frenzy and couldn't be stopped.

Murong Xue shook her head, laughed, then took out Phoenix Soaring, and studied it carefully. She couldn't understand why she couldn't go any further when she had clearly reached the ninth stage of blue-level.

After a long time, the white ball came back with several fruits in its hands. As it was nibbling at the fruits, it asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Murong Xue smiled bitterly and said, "I'm thinking about cultivation. I want to improve my cultivation and go out as soon as possible."

"It's useless for you to cultivate like this. You only have a large amount of spiritual power. If you fight against a mercenary of the same level as you, you'd probably be killed in seconds." At a glance, it could see that Murong Xue lacked the training for bloody battles.

"Do you have any good suggestions?" Murong Xue asked eagerly.

"You can only get stronger in actual combat."

Actual combat? Murong Xue bowed her head and pondered. After a while, a firm look appeared in her eyes. She said to the white ball beside her, "I'm going out to fight. Are you staying here or going out?"

The white ball waved its hand and said, "I'm staying here." Just as Murong Xue stepped out, it added, "Don't die."

Murong Xue said with a smile, "Don't worry!" Then she disappeared on the spot.

She walked firmly out towards the outside of the barrier.

She was fearless as long as she had strong faith.

She looked at the huge Level 7 Thunder Beast standing in front of her, which was even more terrifying than the last one she had seen. Strong currents could be seen running around the two sharp horns on the Thunder Beast's head.

Murong Xue's eyes flashed, and she once again gave herself a pep talk. She couldn't back down. If she did so here, she would never be able to get stronger.

"Ha-ha, a kid comes out, just in time for me to have a rare sumptuous meal." The Thunder Beast laughed arrogantly.

Murong Xue's pretty face turned cold as her whole body began to gather spiritual qi. "Let's see if you have that ability!"

"Phoenix Roar!"

Murong Xue used the first move of Phoenix Soaring to attack the Thunder Beast, and a fiery red phoenix swooped down in a thunderous manner as it raised its voice.

"Humph, you're out of your depth!" The Thunder Beast coldly snorted in disdain as it instantly brought its palms together, and a huge Thunder Ball appeared in its hands. "Taste the power of my Thunder Ball!"

Two tremendous streams of spiritual power collided together.

In just a second, the Thunder Ball engulfed the phoenix, and it seemed that the phoenix's wail could be heard. In just an instant, Murong Xue was hit before she could dodge. The tremendous impact sent her flying backwards hundreds of meters. She spurted out a mouthful of blood, and her internal organs were in a lot of pain.

The gap between their cultivation levels was so great that in just one second, Murong Xue was completely defeated. Only then did she realize how weak she was.

The Thunder Beast didn't give her time to rest and lunged at her in an instant. Just as its fist was only a little distance away from her, she instantly disappeared from the spot.

It was almost as soon as she entered the Space that she passed out.

When Murong Xue woke up, she found that she was still lying on the ground, but the pain in her chest seemed to have eased a lot, and there was a taste of herbs in her mouth.

"You're such a waste of space. You can't even take a move from the Thunder Beast." The white ball said with contempt without the slightest concern for Murong Xue's badly injured body.

"Poof!" Murong Xue spat another mouthful of blood. She wasn't yet healed from her injury, and there was still some blood pooling in her chest, which was instantly spurted out when she was agitated by the white ball.

She didn't need it to tell her that her actual combat ability was so poor, and she had never expected the use of spiritual power to be so terrifying.