The moment Liu Yunqing uttered those words, the gracefully swaying water plants instantly stopped moving.

The moment it froze, its hair snapped straight up like an exploded bomb, and then, like an arrow released from a bow, it pierced towards the surrounding cultivators.

The wary cultivators dodged quickly, but some who reacted a fraction of a second slower were not so lucky.

Some were bitten on the neck by snakes that charged straight at them and could not be saved on the spot.

Some who were bitten on the arms and legs bravely severed their own limbs, temporarily saving their lives.

Those who hesitate slightly or are a little slower to act will only experience another kind of pain before death; it won't do them any good.

In an instant, the scene of laughter and amusement that had been playing not long ago was gone, leaving only a vast expanse of panic and wailing, and severed limbs and carcasses flying everywhere.

Liu Yunqing pulled Qiu Zhengping aside and hid in a relatively safe corner, not readily attempting to kill the water snakes.

Are we just going to watch like this?

Qiu Zhengping asked Liu Yunqing in a low voice, but Liu Yunqing, with her eyes fixed on the scene, didn't even lift her eyelids and replied:

“I always felt that there was something strange about this snake, and randomly cutting and killing it like this is not a solution.”

Sure enough, not long after Liu Yunqing finished speaking, a new wave of screams came from the field.

Some cultivators who were not directly bitten by the water snakes also began to have their skin turn green and collapsed to the ground screaming in agony.

"I estimate that these people either had their skin stained with dismembered parts or got splattered with snake blood when they killed the snake."

"Clap clap clap—"

As soon as Liu Yunqing finished speaking, a round of applause came from the side.

A cultivator dressed like a refined young gentleman looked at Liu Yunqing with great admiration and said:

"This fairy is so thoughtful and knowledgeable, but since you knew this was the case, why didn't you tell everyone?"

Liu Yunqing gave him a sick look and said coldly:

"As a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, my words carry little weight. Such matters of great importance should be handled by seniors like myself."

The man was speechless after being silenced by Liu Yunqing's words.

At this moment, a pretty and sweet female cultivator strode over and said to the male cultivator with a gloating expression:

"Haha! You've been pretending to be a pure and innocent girl all day long, now you can't keep up with the conversation, can you?"

The female cultivator, dressed in a lively and delicate pale yellow dress, finished speaking and then skipped happily to Liu Yunqing, saying:

"My name is Ying Xuejiao. May I ask how this fellow Daoist is addressed?"

Liu Yunqing glanced at the other person and saw that she was also at the Foundation Establishment stage. Her age was hard to tell, but she was so bright and charming that her bone age was obviously not much different from his own.

"The true nature of a wandering cultivator."

Liu Yunqing gave her home address in a daze, but felt a mix of emotions.

Even if it's just a spirit, it's still someone who has lived for over a hundred years. That genuine, inner joy and happiness is something that can never be relived.

Fortunately, her goal wasn't to seek these fleeting pleasures, so they weren't really important.

"So, what brings you two here?"

Liu Yunqing didn't believe that these two people had suddenly come to her door just to chat.

Ying Xuejiao didn't mind Liu Yunqing's distant attitude. Hearing her question, she leaned closer and asked directly:

"After we enter the ruins, my brother and I would like to team up with you two."

Liu Yunqing glanced at the "elegant young man" and then turned her gaze to Ying Xuejiao's face.

Ying Xuejiao smiled, her eyes crinkling, and cupped her face, saying:

"Don't we look nothing like siblings? But unfortunately, we are indeed siblings. His name is Ying Yuelang."

Okay, after hearing their names, Liu Yunqing felt that the two were like siblings.

Why did you choose to team up with us?

Ying Xuejiao also spoke frankly, pointing among the four of them and saying:

“You have one Golden Core cultivator and one Foundation Establishment cultivator, and so do we. Everyone else is a Golden Core cultivator, so they definitely won’t agree to this.”

Upon hearing this, Qiu Zhengping frowned and said:

"That's different. How can someone like you, at the Foundation Establishment stage, compare to..."

"Watch out for snakes!"

Qiu Zhengping was interrupted by Liu Yunqing before he could finish speaking.

The three then realized that snakes were approaching them, and other cultivators who had spotted them were drawing the battle towards them.

However, after observing for a while, Liu Yunqing and the others had discovered a good way to deal with water snakes without getting them contaminated, so they did not plan to hide any longer.

Liu Yunqing discovered that whether it was burned or frozen, as long as no blood splattered before the snake died, there would be basically no danger.

Watching the other three gradually convert their spiritual energy to throw fireballs, Liu Yunqing made a hand seal and raised her wrist, creating a fire net that firmly protected her.

Although Liu Yunqing hasn't used the Fire Tree Spirit's core yet, the sticky fire he temporarily digested earlier is enough.

While everyone else was struggling to throw fireballs, they paused for a moment when they saw Liu Yunqing's move and continued throwing fireballs.

Then Liu Yunqing strode confidently into the snake horde, and the snakes that rushed towards him, barely touched by the fire net, began to hiss and scream in agony.

Only then did the snakes realize that this person's spiritual fire seemed to be different from that of other humans.

They turned to run, but the fires were impossible to extinguish, and they were burned to death.

The snakes that had surrounded Liu Yunqing from behind, intending to attack her, were too afraid to move at the sight of this scene.

But Liu Yunqing dared to make a move.

With a gentle push of both hands, fireballs the size of an infant's fist floated out continuously, like bubbles being blown from a soap pod, landing precisely on the swollen, emerald-green snakes.

This time, the people around were not only stunned, but they also lost interest in throwing fireballs.

Compared to Liu Yunqing's achievements, they always felt that as Golden Core cultivators, they were just playing house in comparison.

The observant person's eyes lit up, and he simply stopped moving, waiting for a snake to get close before using his spiritual power to push it towards Liu Yunqing.

Qiu Zhengping and Ying Xuejiao glared angrily at the scene, but Liu Yunqing seemed unconcerned and even made his fire net denser and thicker.

Simultaneously transmitting his voice to the three people:

"Kill more snakes, I suspect this is a trial level."

The three were taken aback, but they tacitly refrained from asking any further questions and silently followed Liu Yunqing in killing the snakes.

Actually, Liu Yunqing suddenly thought of this possibility.

She discovered that the people who came to this ruined mansion were all quite young and had good aptitude.

The fact that so many people were chosen here suggests that this place doesn't seem like a place left behind by evil cultivators to harm people, so I guessed it might be a trial level.

This is also why she was willing to expose her strength and slaughter the water snakes on a large scale.

At the same time, Ying Xuejiao and her brother suddenly realized what Qiu Zhengping meant by the sentence he hadn't finished saying.

Liu Yunqing, this Foundation Establishment cultivator, is indeed different from ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

They've encountered someone who's supposed to challenge those above their level today, and not even a sword cultivator.

Although the four have not yet officially formed a team, they are already seen as a unified entity by other cultivators.

There's just one thing that many people don't understand: if those snakes would have been slowly burned to death if they had just touched the red-clad female cultivator's fire, why did she instruct the remaining three people to finish them off?

Then, amidst their puzzled expressions, Liu Yunqing gave them the answer.

The cave entrance, which had previously been difficult to locate, suddenly opened with a "rumble" after everyone had killed the last snake.

But not everyone can get in.