The two hurried along, eager to leave quickly.

Cece's complexion was a bit frosty, and a hint of murderous intent was now woven between her brows.

The main reason for bringing Er Han was that, although his progress in body refinement was slightly slower than the village chief's, he had the thickest foundation. If it really came down to a fight, that outrageous village chief might not necessarily be his match.

Moreover, Er Han, having learned nothing else and not knowing how to hide, was easily recognized by anyone with sight as a cultivator of Qi-Blood with an exceptionally robust body refinement. Generally, those with such a foundation were at least at the Blood Sea Realm of body cultivation.

In the Three-way Land, where there were no real powerhouses, only a messy bunch of monstrous gods and ghosts, he was already quite strong.

Though body cultivators' status wasn't high, when reaching the Blood Sea Realm or even the higher Rebirth Realm, many cultivators of other paths liked to have one of these body cultivators by their side. As a flesh shield, they proved to be extremely useful, not to mention that such body cultivators had extremely sensitive physical sensibilities. They could often sense danger from things completely unknown to others in advance.

As for those who reached the Divine Power Realm, people would no longer call body cultivators trash. On the contrary, these difficult-to-kill individuals would become even more dreaded.

It was simply because high-tier body cultivators were so rare, and low-tier body cultivators were as common as hairs on a bull, that the latter were often disparagingly mentioned.

If there were a Seventh Tier body cultivator Great Tao Cultivator standing in front of you, see who would dare to call them out.

Er Han was now at Third-tier Returning to the Orifices, with nearly six hundred orifices opened, and with robust Qi-Blood, he was stronger than an average Blood Sea Realm body cultivator. Moreover, Er Han looked like a guard, so most people would definitely not dare to provoke him as it wasn't worth it.

If you didn't kill someone today and let them escape, they might come back with reinforcements tomorrow and hack you to death with random slashes.

Even so, Cece maintained the necessary vigilance. Sensing something amiss, she would immediately run away. The main mission for their excursion this time was not to fight anyway.

After running all day, and from the Three-way Junction where the Three Kingdoms met, they had arrived at the border where Dali, Daqian, and the Wilderness intersected. Another thick layer of snow covered the ground before Cece finally slowed down a bit.

Looking around to ensure there were no dangers, she then took out a vial of pills and handed it to Er Han, asking him to replenish the consumed energy and stay prepared just in case.

She closed her eyes and stood in place while the shadow of the Despair Abyss within her body flew out. After becoming ethereal, it rapidly expanded and, in a blink of an eye, vanished.

But in the region invisible to the naked eye and even undetectable by senses, the Despair Abyss had already extended to several miles around. After becoming ethereal, its power was gone, but it had turned into a Detection Domain with no blind spots.

Within dozens of miles, there was only one living person, but that person was heading south, likely just a passing cultivator with no great strength.

Once Er Han had taken the pill and restored his Qi-Blood, Cece was about to retract her Despair Abyss when a cultivator clad in a white robe, hood over his head, floating three feet above ground, hastened towards their direction.

The moment he stepped into the Detection Domain, it seemed as though he sensed something. His white robe billowed without wind, and instantly, several white-robed people scattered around him.

Another one of the white-robed individuals was holding the shopkeeper from before.

The shopkeeper said something, and in the next moment, his head was severed from his body, and he died tragically in the snow.

Cece withdrew her Detection Domain and glanced at the jade vial she had just taken out before casually tossing it to Er Han.

"Crush it."

Er Han's large hands, like fans, took the jade vial, and with a rub of his palms, it turned to dust, rendering whatever had been tampered with inside useless now.

"Let's go, northward to Dali."

She recognized the clothes of the white-robed individuals and the Secret Technique they used for movement. She originally thought the shopkeeper might have had a double-crossing plan, but it turned out she was wrong. That guy had sold Er Han's information to the Joy Lamp Priest of the White Sun Evil Cult.

It made sense, after all. Probably no Joy Lamp Priest would be indifferent upon encountering a human-shaped beast like Er Han.

These yin souls that wouldn't disperse, causing trouble everywhere, appearing in a place like the Three-way Junction, wasn't really surprising.

Cece stretched out her hand and a chain flew out from her sleeve, wrapping around Er Han's waist. With a twist of her body, she swung him into the air, tossing him high toward the north.

Then, her figure blurred, and the likeness of a hungry ghost emerged as she floated into the air. With the wind and snow surrounding her, she flew three feet above the ground, heading north.

After flying for a while, the chain flew out again to catch Er Han before he fell, continuing to hurl him forward.

Half a day later, five hundred miles to the north, neither of them had touched the ground again. Er Han, tossed about, held his noises in despite being disoriented, as he could tell Cece was struggling greatly, with the hungry ghost form completely revealed.

Finally, they encountered a stone cave, where they were able to rest.

Cece took out a wooden bowl filled with sweet rain, specially prepared for her by Yu Ziqing before their departure.

She took out some pills for the ghost to consume, soaked them in sweet rain, and after taking them, the hungry ghost form that was emerging on her body slowly disappeared, the yin qi on her body also receded, and she began to emit a trace of a living person's breath.

As hungry ghosts, there were many things they couldn't eat directly, and the effectiveness of what they could eat was severely reduced. There was no helping it, as no one had yet to develop these substances specifically for hungry ghosts.