"What!" Yu Yanluo's face turned pale. This mine was the foundation of the Yu family. If it really collapsed, it would be a devastating blow to the Yu family.

Clearing these ruins again will require an unknown amount of manpower and resources, and more importantly, it will take time.

It will probably take at least ten years to get production back up and running.

Now that the Yu family is in dire straits, can it hold on until then?

Zuan quickly said, "Let's find a safe place as soon as possible, or we'll get buried alive here."

Rocks were falling everywhere, and it was clear that this place wouldn't last much longer.

"This way!" Yu Yanluo quickly composed herself, as she was the most familiar with this underground mine.

Zuan followed her for a while and suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned around and found that Yan Xuehen hadn't moved. Instead, she swayed and then fell to the ground.

Zuan was startled and immediately summoned a strong wind to teleport to her side and catch her: "What's wrong with you?"

Yan Xuehen slightly opened her eyes, and after seeing that it was him, she pushed him away with some embarrassment and annoyance: "I'm fine, let go of me!"

"You can barely stand, and you're still alright?" Zu An naturally wouldn't let go at this moment. He carried her and hurriedly ran towards Yu Yanluo's location, dodging all kinds of falling dirt and rocks along the way. Several times, they narrowly missed each other by the corners of their clothes. If they had been a little off, they would probably have been buried underground.

Yan Xuehen looked up at the man who was holding her, and seeing how he was awkwardly trying to avoid her, she suddenly became lost in thought.

She has always been exceptionally skilled and has always protected others; she has never needed others to protect her.

Being protected by someone for the first time now, especially by a man, feels really strange.

As she thought about it, her face flushed slightly, and she awkwardly turned her face away, no longer looking at him.

The group fled for dozens of miles before the shaking in the mine gradually subsided.

Seeing that the tunnel behind them had been buried by earth and rocks, everyone was still shaken. If they had been any slower, they might have been buried alive.

If it were at their peak, Yun Jianyue and the other woman might have survived, but in their current situation, being buried would mean certain death.

"Ice Stone Maiden, how did you become so delicate?" Yun Jianyue noticed that the retreat route was completely blocked, and she didn't know if she could ever return to the ground, so she was naturally in a bad mood.

Just as Yan Xuehen was about to answer, she opened her mouth and felt a sweet taste in her throat, then coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Yun Jianyue was feeling somewhat gloating, but then she noticed the blackness in the blood and her expression changed: "You've been poisoned?"

“A little bit of poison, it’s nothing to worry about…” Before Yan Xuehen could finish speaking, Yun Jianyue had already grabbed her wrist.

Normally, Yan Xuehen would never allow her nemesis to grasp her pulse point, but now she was weak and powerless, and had no way to resist.

After examining him, Yun Jianyue's expression immediately darkened: "It's nothing serious, you're already more than halfway to the gates of hell!"

Zu'an and Yu Yanluo were startled: "What exactly happened?"

At this moment, Zu An felt that his hands were a little wet. He hurriedly helped Yan Xuehen up and looked at his hands. His hands were covered in blood, and they reflected a strange, dark light.

Yan Xuehen's once snow-white vest was now soaked with blood.

Zaun suddenly recalled the scene where she had saved herself from the Death Worm: "Were you hit by the dark light shot from the Death Worm's mouth?"

Yan Xuehen's lips had turned pale as she said calmly, "I was just injured at the time. Normally, no matter how fast that worm attacked, it wouldn't have been able to hit me."

Yun Jianyue sneered, "You're almost dead and you're still pretending. Are all people from Baiyujing so obsessed with saving face that they'd rather suffer than admit it?"

Yan Xuehen wanted to refute, but she no longer had the strength.

"Sigh, it's my fault, you've been behaving strangely several times just now, and I didn't notice in time." Yun Jianyue's tone suddenly softened, and she stopped arguing with her.

Yan Xuehen was somewhat surprised: "Shouldn't you be happy that I'm going to die?"

"Hmph, I would be happy if I killed you fair and square, but what's there to be happy about in this kind of death?" Yun Jianyue took out a pill and put it in her mouth. "This is an antidote pill, but the poison of that death worm has already invaded your meridians and internal organs. This pill can only delay your death for a little while."

Yan Xuehen shook her head: "What joy is there in living, what fear is there in dying? I have long since taken life and death lightly, why should I owe you a favor before I die?"

"Ice Stone Girl, why are you so stubborn?" Yun Jianyue was a little annoyed, and now had an urge to shove her head to the ground.

Just then, a weak voice came from the side: "Actually... I can cure it."

Upon hearing this, Yan Xuehen, with a sudden surge of strength, instantly refused: "No way!"

Yun Jianyue was taken aback at first, then clapped her hands and laughed: "Not bad, very good, very good!"

This Ice Stone Woman usually pretends to be an aloof and indifferent person towards men, but the key is that all the men in the world fall for her act.

If they knew that their ice queen had been defiled by another man, and that it was even a case of master and disciple sharing a husband!

If word gets out, she will be utterly disgraced, and Bai Yujing's thousand-year-old reputation will be ruined.

Just imagining that scene made Yun Jianyue almost laugh out loud.

I've been fighting this ice stone woman for so many years, and I've finally won!

Hmm, but why am I not so happy all of a sudden?

Seeing her strange expression, Yan Xuehen immediately guessed what she was thinking. She felt ashamed and indignant, thinking that if Zu An had really saved her using that method, she would have been worse off than dead.

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