Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lu Fuyue took out a top-grade jade spirit-replenishing fruit from her spatial storage and ate it. In no time, she quickly recovered her spiritual power.

She has plenty of things that can quickly restore spiritual energy. As long as someone's cultivation level doesn't exceed hers by a major realm, she can use these things in her space to wear them down to death!

Lu Fuyue's eyes darkened, and she activated the Life and Death Melody technique, playing the zither in reverse.

The only drawback of this technique is that it consumes a lot of spiritual energy and may leave one feeling weak for a period of time.

The former is not a problem for her, but the latter is a bit troublesome.

But that's all we can do.

When these demonic cultivators saw that Lu Fuyue had dodged their attacks, they instinctively stopped and looked at her in shock, asking, "She's not human?"

"Humans can't be that strong!"

"Could it be... a demon?"

...

Lu Fuyue ignored their shock and stood in mid-air, raising her hand to continue playing the zither.

In no time, the two black dead strings and the white living strings on the zither detached from the body of the zither and flew into the air above these demonic cultivators. Under the influence of the zither music, the two strings suddenly grew larger and emitted a strong white light and a black light.

At the same time, Lu Fuyue's dantian heated up, and a black and white yin-yang tai chi diagram emerged from her abdomen out of thin air, splitting into two, one black and one white, and disappearing into the black death string and the white life string.

However, these demonic cultivators remained completely unfazed, having just experienced the water mist turning into white gauze.

They had already concluded that Lu Fuyue's moves were nothing but a showy facade, beautiful but useless.

Lu Fuyue smiled faintly. Sure enough... she had fallen for the trap.

She lowered her head and continued playing the zither. The next second, a bright black light shone, completely covering all the demonic cultivators below. In an instant, the wind and clouds changed, and pairs of withered hands emerged from the ground, suddenly grabbing their feet.

Instantly, all the demonic cultivators' expressions changed drastically. Just as they were about to make a move, they discovered that the demonic energy within their bodies was being continuously absorbed by those withered hands.

Gradually, their cultivation levels continued to decline, from the peak of the Golden Core stage to the early stage of the Golden Core stage, and so on down to the Foundation Establishment stage.

They stared at Lu Fuyue in terror, their bodies paralyzed, only able to watch helplessly as their cultivation, accumulated over a thousand years, vanished from their bodies.

"What...what are you doing?"

Lu Fuyue glanced at them, her hands still moving, and said calmly, "I didn't do anything, I just made your cultivation disappear."

A chill suddenly rose from their backs, and their cultivation vanished?

Their cultivation levels have vanished?

Just then, Lu Fuyue pressed her fingers hard on the strings of the zither. Instantly, the withered hands on the ground pulled hard, dragging all fifty or sixty demonic cultivators into the ground and into the soil before they could even scream.

A moment later, wisps of black smoke rose from the ground and flew into the black Death String in the sky. At the same time, dark fluorescence faintly flowed on the surface of the Death String, like ancient runes.

After a thorough examination, confirming that the demonic cultivators had completely lost their remnants of souls, Lu Fuyue gently landed with her zither in her arms. The two strings in mid-air immediately returned to their positions.

The Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagram, originating from within the strings of the zither, traveled along her wrist and returned to Lu Fuyue's dantian.

But the next second, her face turned pale, she broke out in a cold sweat, and collapsed to her knees in agony.

Within the dantian, the Tai Chi diagram, with its black and white, large and small, became extremely unbalanced, with the black death energy and white life energy being significantly larger than the white.

All of this is because the death energy had just absorbed the power of these demonic cultivators.

Lu Fuyue fell to the ground, her hair damp with sweat, and her thick eyelashes trembled slightly with pain.

As if her flesh and blood were being torn apart bit by bit, Lu Fuyue couldn't help but bite her lower lip tightly. Gradually, her white dress turned red with blood, and warm blood flowed beneath her.

The sun peeked out from behind the clouds, its blinding light striking her face, and a drowsy feeling washed over her.

Lu Fuyue's eyelids began to swell. She longed to fall asleep, to just... quietly drift off to sleep.

But at that moment, the image of countless cultivators rushing desperately towards those demonic cultivators appeared in her mind.

There's also the scene where Meng Qingyan pushes her away and fights those powerful demons alone...

So how could she possibly fall asleep!

Lu Fuyue slowly opened her eyes, then struggled to pinch her palms hard until her bloodied palms regained a sliver of clarity, before she stopped.

Then, he slowly got up from the ground, sat cross-legged, placed his hands naturally on his knees, closed his eyes, and began practicing the exercises.

The Yin-Yang Life and Death Diagram emphasizes the balance between Yin and Yang. Once the balance is disrupted, the cultivation technique will reverse, causing excruciating pain that is worse than death.

Lu Fuyue originally did not intend to use this move, but the opponent had fifty or sixty peak Golden Core cultivators, and each of them was several minor realms higher than her in cultivation.

Under siege, she had no choice but to use this tactic. The price was that after successfully killing those people, she also suffered numerous injuries. Fortunately, she survived.

It was all worth it.

After resting for a while, Lu Fuyue felt better and was at least able to use her footwork to make her way to the Sword Sect.

So, despite her injuries, she played "The Song of Rejuvenation" for herself, and her health improved by half. The remaining half would have to wait until she returned home to recuperate properly.

...

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Fuyue walked and walked but still couldn't reach the Sword Sect. There wasn't a single person or even a living creature along the way.

A guess that she herself did not want to believe gradually emerged in her mind.

After traveling eastward for some time, Lu Fuyue suddenly stopped. She looked up at the thick gray fog in front of her, one layer after another, like a city wall, separating her from the place outside the fog.

Lu Fuyue fell silent.

After a long while, she slowly walked over and reached out to touch the gray mist, but just a second before she touched it, Lu Fuyue's fingertips suddenly curled up and withdrew.

How could she forget that this was a simulation space of the Trial Tower, and everything she saw here was a void illusion constructed by the tower spirit using its spiritual power.

Because her spiritual power was limited, how could she possibly hope to find the Sword Sect here?

Lu Fuyue looked up at the gray mist, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes. She felt that everything she had experienced here was too real.

A moment later, Lu Fuyue walked into the gray fog without hesitation. The fat and thin elders had said that she could only stay here for ten days, but she had already been here for five days.

After disappearing into the gray fog, Lu Fuyue could see nothing but grayness and could only rely on her intuition to move forward.