Unsheathed

Chen Ping'an didn't perform walking meditation anymore after showing it to Zeng Ye three times. He would occasionally retrieve some geomancy maps to pore over.

Night fell, and the two of them planned to set up camp in the wilderness. In any case, this wouldn't matter as long as it didn't snow.

Chen Ping'an retrieved a Fox Skin Beauty Talisman inside of which was a female yin entity called Su Xinzhai.

She was an Abode Tier cultivator when alive, and she came from a clan in the Stone Brush Nation where her father favored males over females. A cultivator from an immortal force took a fancy to her aptitude when she was young, and she was thus taken to Yellow Barrier Mountain to officially set foot on the path of cultivation. Su Xinzhai cultivated for a dozen or so years without ever returning home, and she had already severed all emotional attachments with her clan.

Her father once traveled to the foot of Yellow Barrier Mountain to ask for an audience with his daughter, yet Su Xinzhai remained in the mountain and refused to fulfill his request. Her father had hoped that she could help her brother in the imperial examination, yet his hopes were dashed and he could only swear and curse as he made his way back, speaking in the vilest way possible. It was very difficult to imagine that a father could say such disgusting things about his own daughter.

Tailing her father in secret, Su Xinzhai had heard everything loud and clear, leading her to feel utterly aggrieved and heartbroken. She had initially planned to help her clan this one time, yet she ultimately decided to sever all ties with the mortal world once and for all, returning to the mountain to cultivate.

The final time Su Xinzhai left the mountain to train, she and two other sect sisters were kidnapped by a Dragon Gate Tier elder from Bamboo Scroll Lake's White Fish Island. In the end, Su Xinzhai died a wretched death as she was eaten by that flood dragon. As for her two sect sisters, they had died long ago at the hands of that elder from White Fish Island.

There was always an enchanting smile on Su Xinzhai's expressive face whenever she appeared from the Fox Skin Beauty Talisman.

She was the most open-minded and adventurous person out of the twelve female yin entities staying inside the talismans, and she was the mastermind behind many tricks that were used to tease Zeng Ye.

Chen Ping'an truly wouldn’t have dared to let her out of the talisman if it weren't for the fact that they were about to enter the jurisdiction of Yellow Barrier Mountain.

Regarding the current situation of Yellow Barrier Mountain, Chen Ping'an had already told Su Xinzhai everything that he knew.