My Wife Might Be a Saintess

Chapter 378: Chapter 377: Their Ordinary Family

Seeing the two of them arrive, Daoist Crazy Python immediately explained, "These are the fellow Daoists who are traveling with us, Fairy Wu Xi and Fellow Daoist Hu Xing."

Daoist Crazy Python then introduced Jiang Zuo. "This is Fellow Daoist Po Xiao, the one I invited. He will be leading our actions, and I hope you will both cooperate."

Fairy Wu Xi smiled. "Daoist Crazy Python said that everything we get here belongs to Fellow Daoist Po Xiao. What if I refuse to hand it over?"

At that, Daoist Crazy Python erupted with the power of a cultivator nearing the peak of Tier Three. "Fairy Wu Xi, we must honor our word. This is what we agreed on.

If you break your word, Fairy, then don’t blame me for resorting to force."

Daoist Crazy Python was not joking in the slightest.

The smile on Fairy Wu Xi’s face turned sour, but she didn’t dare say another word. With Daoist Crazy Python’s cultivation level of 3.5, she and Hu Xing were truly no match for him.

Just then, Jiang Zuo spoke up. "If you want something, just try and take it. Anything you manage to get is yours."

Hu Xing asked, "Are you serious, Fellow Daoist?"

Jiang Zuo didn’t answer. He had already said his piece; whether they believed him or not was their problem.

Then, Jiang Zuo turned and walked toward the riverbank.

Seeing Jiang Zuo simply walk away, Hu Xing’s expression soured again. ’This man is unbelievably arrogant!’

Daoist Crazy Python said bluntly, "That’s just how Fellow Daoist Po Xiao is. But since he said it, I naturally won’t interfere."

Hearing this, the expressions on Fairy Wu Xi and Hu Xing’s faces brightened considerably.

They had heard of Po Xiao before. His cultivation was at most 2.1, and while he wouldn’t give up treasures easily, they were confident they could snatch them from him.

In any case, as long as not everything ended up in Po Xiao’s pockets, it was good enough for them.

With that, they followed Jiang Zuo. Daoist Crazy Python asked curiously, "Fellow Daoist, are you taking this path? Is there something special about it?"

Jiang Zuo had just picked a random path. He simply thought this way was shorter.

So, Jiang Zuo said bluntly, "It’s shorter."

Daoist Crazy Python: "..."

Wu Xi: "..."

Hu Xing: "..."

’Isn’t he being a little too casual about this?’

Daoist Crazy Python was about to try and persuade Jiang Zuo otherwise, but just as Jiang Zuo stepped onto the riverbank, he suddenly let out a small gasp of surprise.

Just a moment ago, they had been in a pastoral field, and the river seemed to extend from beneath the soil.

But when Jiang Zuo descended to its edge, he discovered that wasn’t the case at all. This was the end of the river, yet the water was still flowing.

’A spatial partition?’

Jiang Zuo was already standing there. He turned to the people behind him and asked, "Have any of you been down here before?"

Daoist Crazy Python nodded. "I have."

"Is that so? Well, don’t think about turning back now that you’re down here. This place must have fully opened. There’s only moving forward; there’s no turning back," Jiang Zuo said as he started walking ahead.

’This is more like it,’ he thought. ’Just like last time. Either move forward or wait for death.’

The only path here was forward.

’Turn back?’

’There’s no way out by turning back.’

Daoist Crazy Python and the others exchanged a look, but ultimately, they followed Jiang Zuo.

The moment they stepped onto the path by the river, they felt it too. There was no way to go back.

They could only keep moving forward.

Jiang Zuo walked along the riverbank for a long time. The surrounding scenery didn’t seem to change at all, giving the path a sense of endlessness.

Daoist Crazy Python frowned. "This is taking too long. I’ve been in here before, and we didn’t walk for nearly this long. The path was long, but something feels very wrong now."

Jiang Zuo said calmly, "Don’t worry about it. Just keep moving forward. There’s no rush."

’The Ancient Battlefield is a strange place. It’s a land where countless powerful experts fought, but it’s also a place of trials.’

Jiang Zuo didn’t know the full history of the Ancient Battlefield, but the one he had been to was certainly a place that tested a person to their limits.

Danger lurked around every corner; one careless mistake could mean death.

But the Ancient Battlefield was also incredibly rewarding. You could find treasures just about anywhere you went.

He had no idea where they all came from.

After walking for a long while longer, Wu Xi spoke up. "Are we just going to keep walking like this? Shouldn’t we be trying to figure something out? I feel like we might be trapped in some kind of array. We could just be walking in endless circles."

Hu Xing nodded. "Fairy Wu Xi has a point."

Without turning his head, Jiang Zuo replied, "If you want to die, then go ahead and stop. Take a look behind you."

At his words, Daoist Crazy Python and the others subconsciously glanced behind them, and their pupils contracted in shock.

Behind them was not just any place—it was the very spot where they had first descended.

Daoist Crazy Python stammered in shock, "Are—are we just walking in place?"

Fairy Wu Xi took out a magical treasure of some kind and said, "Impossible. We’ve been moving forward this whole time."

Just then, they all looked at Jiang Zuo. It seemed he had known from the very beginning, as he had never once looked back.

Daoist Crazy Python asked, "Fellow Daoist Po Xiao, what’s going on?"

Jiang Zuo said, "It’s just a spatial partition. The path behind us has been cut off. What you’re seeing is naturally the initial space of the Secret Realm."

Fairy Wu Xi immediately asked, "Then what do we do now? Just keep walking endlessly like this?"

Because if they stopped, they would likely be torn apart by the spatial distortion.

Daoist Crazy Python added, "Fellow Daoist, is there a solution? Can you tell us? At least that way we won’t just be standing here worrying."

Just then, Jiang Zuo stopped. "Alright, we’re here."

Daoist Crazy Python and the others looked ahead in surprise. They saw that a clearing had appeared before them, and there were other people in it.

The river also came to an end here.

But what surprised them even more was that at the end of the river, there was a pile of items, each one neatly placed.

Everyone glanced at Jiang Zuo. They didn’t dare take anything until he did.

This place was so bizarre; who knew what would happen if they took something?

They would wait for him to make the first move.

Jiang Zuo walked over and saw that most of the items were ordinary Tier Two and Tier Three Magical Treasures, surrounded by quite a few Restrictions.

In the end, Jiang Zuo only took a few pieces of Spiritual Jade. This material naturally gathers Spiritual Qi and has the innate ability to block auras. ’These should be good for the balcony,’ he thought.

’They’ll increase the Spiritual Qi there while also blocking others from prying.’

His family lived an ordinary life, and Jiang Zuo didn’t want some cultivator showing up at his door one day.

After that, Jiang Zuo didn’t take anything else. The people behind him wanted the treasures so badly; he might as well let them have them.

’In any case, since no one has beaten us here, there should be better things ahead.’

Seeing that Jiang Zuo was done, Fairy Wu Xi and Hu Xing made their move.

But the moment they touched a Magical Treasure, they were instantly repelled.

They looked a little surprised.

Jiang Zuo said, "There are Restrictions. You can try to break them by force, but let me give you a warning: you have only one minute. If you don’t make it to the clearing in time, you’ll never be coming out."

’As for where they would go? To the Ancient Battlefield, of course.’

’Even someone like me doesn’t dare go to that place. I still need to get stronger.’

Besides, it was easy to get held up in there for a long time, and he wasn’t willing to do that.

Su Qi was at home; he couldn’t be away for too long.

When he did go to the Ancient Battlefield, it wouldn’t be to improve his cultivation or find treasures. As for gaining experience, that was even more unnecessary.

He just wanted to see if there were any places inside that he hadn’t encountered in his previous life.

Theoretically, there should be.