"Very strong?" Liu Xinrong looked at Liu Xinya in astonishment, trying to discern a hint of joking from her face, but after a long while, she couldn't find the emotion she was looking for.
Liu Xinrong lowered her eyes in disappointment and said defiantly, "Cultivating by the Lord's side naturally yields extraordinary results, not to mention that Liu Lanyan also has the Lord's Dustless Sword, which was the divine weapon that the Lord used to sweep across the Three Realms."
"With those things, it's impossible for her not to be amazing."
Liu Xinya moved her lips, wanting to tell Liu Xinrong that it wasn't like that at all.
When she fought her, Liu Lanyan didn't even use the Dustless Sword.
She didn't even use demonic power, but rather the power of light that demons would never touch. But she couldn't tell Liu Xinrong any of this.
If she were to reveal it, the repercussions of Qin Ming's affair would definitely affect her.
"Hmm." Liu Xinya nodded casually, without saying anything.
"Sister, let's go for a walk over there." Liu Xinrong suddenly pointed in a direction, and Liu Xinya looked in the direction Liu Xinrong pointed, her expression changing drastically.
"Xinrong, that's a forbidden area of the demon realm. How can you go there?" Liu Xinya frowned immediately. She was currently in a bit of trouble, but she hadn't thought about dying yet.
"Sister, don't worry, it's alright." Liu Xinrong said, taking out a small bottle and shaking it. "The mist inside won't hurt us."
"You had planned to go there all along?" Liu Xinya immediately realized that Liu Xinrong's decision was not a spur-of-the-moment thing at all.
"That's right, I've always planned to go there." Liu Xinrong didn't hide it from Liu Xinya and admitted it frankly.
"No, you know that's a forbidden area." Liu Xinya left no room for negotiation.
Everyone living in the demon realm knows the dangers of the forbidden area and has never been taught that they must never go there.
Some say demons live there, others say there are deadly traps. No one knows for sure what it is, but that forbidden land has long been shrouded in mystery.
There were people who wanted to go there to investigate.
It's not that there aren't powerful demons to investigate; everyone has curiosity, and those with considerable strength especially enjoy venturing into forbidden and dangerous places.
Seeking secrets is one aspect, but more importantly, they want to use this method to demonstrate their strength to the world.
Therefore, many places have been developed, and many dangerous places have been explored.
The forbidden area of the demon realm, however, yielded absolutely no results. It wasn't that no one had explored it, but rather that those who went in never came out again.
"Xinrong, why do you want to go there?" Liu Xinya asked curiously.
She didn't need to explain how dangerous the forbidden area of the demon realm was; she was simply curious why Liu Xinrong would go there knowing the danger.
"It's said there are many things there that can improve one's strength." Liu Xinrong looked around. This was deep in the mountains, where would anyone be? But Liu Xinrong still acted cautiously, which completely piqued Liu Xinya's curiosity.
"Who told you that?" Liu Xinya couldn't help but ask. Who wouldn't want to improve their strength?
Moreover, she has been feeling anxious lately. If she were stronger, wouldn't she have gained more benefits and wouldn't be in such a predicament?
He might even become a confidant of the King of Jing.
Liu Xinrong deliberately lowered her voice and whispered in Liu Xinya's ear, "I overheard the prince talking to his confidant. The prince wants to take people in to investigate."
"Since His Highness wants to investigate, what are you doing first?" Liu Xinya asked, puzzled. "If His Highness obtains it, he will give it to you if you need it."
“How can that be the same?” Liu Xinrong said with a wry smile. “Sister, my husband is a prince, and there are so many women waiting for him.”
Liu Xinrong didn't say it explicitly, but Liu Xinya understood what she meant.
"So you're really going to take this risk?" Liu Xinya still disagreed; the forbidden area of the demon realm wasn't something you could just enter casually.
She wanted to improve her strength, but she didn't want to die.
"Don't worry, I've found out everything. It's just on the outskirts. We can find it once we get through the fog. It's just that the thing isn't very conspicuous, so it'll take a while to find it." Liu Xinrong proudly shook the small bottle in her hand.
"Without this, the fog alone would kill someone instantly once inside. Even experts wouldn't be able to hold their breath for long. But with this, we can find that thing."
Liu Xinrong said with great confidence: "Spiritual fruits that can enhance demonic power are absolutely not so easy to obtain elsewhere."
After listening to Liu Xinrong's words, Liu Xinya did not speak, but weighed the pros and cons.
As Liu Xinrong said, there are other ways to increase strength, but whenever they mature, they are coveted by other experts.
It's incredibly difficult to compete with so many people for such a meager amount of goods.
If it were in the forbidden area of the demon realm, it would be completely different.
It is an extremely dangerous place, and no one has been there for a long time.
Besides the abundance of resources, the most important thing is that there is no one to disturb them.
"Are you sure what you have will work?" Liu Xinya asked hesitantly.
Upon hearing this, Liu Xinrong knew that Liu Xinya had been persuaded, and quickly nodded: "Sister, I haven't lived enough yet, would I go and die?"
What Liu Xinrong said was so reasonable that Liu Xinya had no way to refute it.
Indeed, now that Liu Xinrong is a princess, she has no reason to give up a good life and risk her own life.
"Alright then." Liu Xinya thought about it for a moment and decided to take the risk.
It wasn't that she wasn't afraid of death, but rather that the current situation was extremely unfavorable to her.
If she can find some spiritual fruits and crystals that can enhance spiritual power, then she can be saved.
Upon hearing Liu Xinya's agreement, Liu Xinrong immediately pulled Liu Xinya away, saying, "Sister, we need to hurry. If we get there quickly, we'll find more things. Let's head back before it gets dark."
Liu Xinrong's words relieved most of Liu Xinya's worries; it seemed that what Liu Xinrong said was true.
The two of them walked quickly toward the forbidden area of the demon realm.
In fact, Liu Xinya didn't see that Liu Xinrong, who was walking in front of her, was deathly pale. She was nothing like the relaxed and carefree person she had described. She seemed to be terrified.
She absolutely did not want to go there; it was a forbidden place that everyone in the demon realm wanted to avoid, and she was a hundred times unwilling to go in.
However, Yu Jinshuo gave her a choice: whether to work for him or to live a good life in the Prince's mansion.
It's obvious that the "good life" they were living was definitely not a good life.
Yu Jinshuo's torment was relentless, and she was already terrified.
She thought that even if she really died in the forbidden area of the demon realm, it would be better than being slowly and painstakingly tortured by Yu Jinshuo in the future.
If she could actually get what Yu Jinshuo mentioned, perhaps her life would improve.
This is a risk we must take, no matter what.
Soon, the sisters Liu Xinrong and Liu Xinya arrived at the entrance to the forbidden area of the demon realm.
From the outside, there's nothing special about it; it's just an ordinary valley entrance.
It's just that it's a secluded place, so the trees and weeds look a bit more lush.
"You can go in now." Liu Xinrong drank half of the liquid in the small bottle and handed the rest to Liu Xinya.
Liu Xinya drank it down without hesitation. After taking a sip, she didn't feel anything and wondered to herself, "Does this stuff really work?"
"Let's go." Since we've come all this way, we can't just leave without going in. Liu Xinya forced herself to remain calm and followed Liu Xinrong toward the entrance of the valley.
There was no path at the entrance to the valley; weeds blocked all the way. However, these things did not pose any obstacle to Liu Xinrong.
With a casual flick of his demonic power, he cleared away the weeds, creating a path just large enough for two people to pass through.
After walking for about a kilometer, a little bit of mist appeared in front of me. It wasn't quite mist, but it had a faint, strange smell.
Liu Xinya breathed carefully, for she had heard that many people had died in this strange fog.
A little while later, Liu Xinya was pleasantly surprised to find that she was fine and had no physical abnormalities.
"It's really nothing," Liu Xinya said with delight.
“Of course, I’ll think about suicide sometimes,” Liu Xinrong said with a smile. “Let’s hurry up and get back before dark, otherwise it will be dangerous in the forbidden area.”
"Mm." Liu Xinya nodded, no longer worried about the strange fog, and confidently continued forward.
The fog wasn't very long, only a few hundred meters.
After passing through safely, Liu Xinya looked at everything in front of her in surprise, gasped, and struggled with all her might to keep from turning around and running away.
Bones, bones everywhere.
She had seen dead people before, but such a scene of bones piled upon bones was absolutely rare in her life.
This isn't a valley at all; it's a mass grave!
"Sister, should we go back?" Liu Xinrong asked timidly from the side, her voice trembling, clearly quite frightened.
Liu Xinya swallowed hard and said in a hoarse voice, "Since we're already here, let's look for it first."
After he finished speaking, he noticed that Liu Xinrong was still standing there, not moving an inch.
"Don't be afraid, Xinrong. Those people are affected by the fog outside. We're not afraid of the fog, so we'll be fine."
Liu Xinya tried her best to calm her fear and didn't forget to comfort Liu Xinrong.
"Okay, let's... let's go look for it together," Liu Xinrong said in a trembling voice. This place truly terrified her.
“This…” Liu Xinya looked up at the sky. It was already afternoon, not far from dusk. Moreover, it would get dark very quickly in the mountains. Searching together was not a good idea.
"Let's split up. If we just search the outer perimeter, there won't be any danger." As soon as Liu Xinya finished speaking, she immediately saw that all the color had drained from Liu Xinrong's face, leaving her as pale as paper.
"It's alright, Xinrong. Look at these bones, not a single one broke by accident. You could say they all died because of that poisonous fog, not because of any external force," Liu Xinya reassured Liu Xinrong, saying things to put her at ease.
"Okay, alright." Liu Xinrong tried hard to suppress her fear, looked around, and it was indeed as Liu Xinya had said, which made her a little braver.
"Be careful, call out if anything seems wrong," Liu Xinya comforted Liu Xinrong, though she herself wasn't sure herself.
After Liu Xinrong nodded, she parted ways with Liu Xinya, and the two went in different directions to find what they needed.
As for things that can enhance demonic power, there's no need for any special instructions. Anyone who cultivates will have a sense of such things.
They can just go by their gut feeling.
The white bones on the ground gleamed blindingly in the sunlight, a ghastly white color. Some of the bones had even weathered into bone dust. When Liu Xinrong walked by, the hem of her skirt inadvertently brushed against them, and with a "poof," they instantly turned into bone dust, which flew into the air.
Terrified, Liu Xinrong stared at the scattered bones on the ground for a long time before struggling to move her nearly numb legs and continue forward.
Liu Xinrong didn't look for anything that could enhance her demonic power; there simply wasn't anything there.
Because Yu Jinshuo had told her that she could just walk around here as she pleased.
She didn't understand why they chose this date and time to come here.
She was almost paralyzed when she heard Yu Jinshuo mention the forbidden area of the demon realm, but no matter how many questions Yu Jinshuo asked, it was no use.
Yu Jinshuo wouldn't explain to her; he would simply issue orders for her to carry out.