The girl took it, stroking the jade cong, a look of joy on her face as she said, "Thank you... thank you."

As she spoke, she put the jade cong on her hand. For some reason, streams of light flashed across the surface of the jade cong, then gradually blurred, and finally transformed into a pattern in the shape of a jade cong, which was engraved on her arm.

Zuan was amazed. During the trial, they learned from the Dongyi people that this was a sacred object of the Dongyi, but no matter how they looked at it, it was just an ordinary jade cong, at most a little more exquisite in workmanship, and they couldn't find anything special about it. But in Jiang Jiang's hands, it was obviously different.

However, they weren't about to covet her belongings. Suddenly remembering something, they handed her the bronze vessel containing her skull: "Jiang Jiang, this should be your skull..."

He had intended to offer some words of comfort, but when the girl saw the skull lying inside the bronze vessel, her eyes immediately reddened, and she gritted her teeth, saying, "Merchants, they must all die!"

Zu An felt a strong sense of alarm and hurriedly pulled Pei Mianman back. The spot where the two had just stood suddenly collapsed, clearly impacted by a tremendous force.

He shouted angrily, "Jiang Jiang, are you crazy?"

The girl floated into the air, her beautiful hair moving without wind: "Merchants must die. You two have an extremely strong merchant aura on you, you are definitely genuine merchants."

Zuan was speechless for a moment. He thought that it was hard for them not to have the aura of merchants, since one of them possessed the "Gluttonous Devouring Heaven Technique" and the other carried the Shang Dynasty's precious treasures, the Fu Hao Owl Zun and the Heavenly Wisdom Jade. In addition, the two of them had been Shang Kings and Queens for so long during the trial.

At that moment, the girl's cold voice rang out: "So...go...die!"

She reached out and beckoned, and suddenly all sorts of rustling sounds came from all around. The two of them immediately looked grim. They saw the Kuman Thong surrounding the girl, and a dense swarm of white bone warriors all walking towards them. At the same time, there were hissing sounds coming from the ground, from the strange snakes they had seen in the giant pit earlier.

Zuan still remembers the headache he had from those strange snakes, and hurriedly asked Pei Mianman beside him, "Didn't you say we could leave the secret realm? Can we leave now?"

Pei Mianman shook her head, her brows furrowed: "No, that requires a period of quiet communication, and these guys simply won't give us that time."

As soon as she finished speaking, the skeletal warriors charged forward, brandishing their swords.

Zaun drew his Tai'a sword and stabbed a nearby skeletal warrior in the head. However, more skeletal warriors immediately attacked. These were not so bad, but the main problem was that the strange snakes were slithering on the ground, constantly spitting venom and suddenly reaching out to bite.

The skeletal warriors were naturally unafraid of the venom of the strange snakes, but Zu'an and Pei Mianman dared not be bitten by them.

So the two were quickly thrown into a frenzy, when suddenly a black rose bloomed, incomparably beautiful, yet filled with an aura of destruction, turning the bones and strange snakes within a radius of several feet into ashes.

This is Pei Mianman's combat skill, "Rose Karmic Fire." She was injured when she entered the secret realm, and her condition was not good enough to support her to use it like this. In her prime, her move was indeed extraordinary.

Pei Mianman whispered, "I can't keep using this move."

As soon as she finished speaking, many more strange snakes and skeletal warriors began to gather around her, seemingly endless.

The girl in mid-air frowned slightly, as if issuing some command, and the surrounding Kuman Thong rushed towards Pei Mianman.

Pei Mianman's expression changed slightly, clearly still remembering the pain of being controlled by the Kumanthong. These Kumanthong seemed to have a strong immunity to fire, making them extremely effective against her.

Zuan hurriedly came to her side and used his sword to help force back the Kumanthong around her. He knew that this was not a solution and thought about using the "Gluttonous Devouring Heaven Technique" that he had just learned. However, the surrounding objects were either dead or disgusting snakes. Perhaps he could absorb all things when he cultivated to a higher level, but his current level was not up to that standard.

Suddenly, an idea struck him. There were many of these guys around him, but they were not very intelligent. He was struggling because he didn't have any area-of-effect skills, but someone else did.

He hurriedly summoned Daji and quickly issued commands.

Pei Mianman stared wide-eyed as a stunningly beautiful woman suddenly appeared before him, holding a jade pipa in her arms. With a gentle pluck of her delicate fingers, a melodious tune rang out, and the Kumanthong, bone warriors, and countless strange snakes that had been charging forward with such ferocity all stopped in their tracks.

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Today, the two chapters were combined.