An Zhengzheng quickened her pace.

An Yirou glanced at her cautiously; the words those female cultivators had just said had all touched a nerve with her sister.

But An Zhengzheng wasn't angry.

She was no longer the little girl who could only try to improve women's status through verbal arguments in the ancestral hall.

An Zhengzheng knew perfectly well that some things couldn't be rushed.

She took a blanket out of her magic bag and asked the girls behind her, "If you're casting a spell, can you use this to catch them?"

An Yirou instantly understood what An Zhengzheng meant.

"If the three of us work together, we should be able to catch one."

If you're outside the magic circle, catching it would be easy, but the trial magic circle, being a training magic circle, has spatial suppression.

In other words, all spells that float in the air are dozens of times more difficult to cast than those that are cast outside.

An Zhengzheng said, "I can cut the vines with my sword. You can catch one of them and let the female cultivator who was rescued catch the next one with you."

Su Ying asked with some concern, "But the female cultivators are tied up very tightly, and there's poisonous gas all around, making it difficult to see clearly. What if they're not careful..."

"Several will fall at the same time!" Song Juan panicked; they couldn't catch them all.

An Zhengzheng said, "I'm confident I won't cut down even one more than necessary."

Since she had no other martial arts techniques to learn, she also found a sword manual and trained her sword-wielding accuracy.

The price is not high because it only teaches how to cut objects from a distance.

An Zhengzheng cherished it and naturally practiced it very precisely.

"I believe in my sister!" An Yirou made a hand seal and cast a spell, and the blanket rose up shakily.

Seeing this, Song Juan and Su Ying quickly joined in to help.

The blanket was indeed much more stable, and it floated down under the group of female cultivators, landing at the feet of the leading female cultivator.

An Zhengzheng, poised to strike, asked, "Are you ready?"

"Alright!" the three answered in unison.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Xuan Tian Han Shi Sword flew towards the head of the leading female cultivator.

"Oh no! They're not planning to dump us all in this swamp, are they...?" The female cultivator was terrified.

"It would be great if a male cultivator came; they would be more precise in cutting the vines."

With that thought in mind, the female cultivator had already closed her eyes.

She's really doomed! They're all girls, and everyone knows how well she practices.

Why did a female Daoist have to come to their aid? Could it be that things will backfire...?

She can no longer learn advanced martial arts techniques!

With a "snap," the wooden vine broke, and the female cultivator felt herself falling.

It's over.

These female cultivators were trying to help her out of kindness, and although she felt helpless, she had no choice but to accept her fate.

However, the imagined feeling of being swallowed by a swamp did not come.

The female cultivator felt the soft blanket beneath her feet.

We're saved! We're truly saved!

The female cultivator opened her eyes and wept with joy.

The blanket carried her out steadily, and An Yirou used her magic to break the wooden vines that were still binding her.

"What should I call you?" An Zhengzheng asked.

The female cultivator quickly replied, "Liu Cui... Zhu Liu Cui."

"Liu Cui, can you still cast spells?" An Zhengzheng was already aiming at the next target.

"Yes," Zhu Liucui replied quickly.

"Alright, let's prepare to receive the next female cultivator together."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sword hilt flew out, and another female cultivator landed on the blanket.

Zhu Liucui quickly cast a spell to help An Yirou and the others relieve their stress.

They then worked together to rescue the next female cultivator.

An Zhengzheng raised her hand and broke the wooden vines binding her: "Help me catch the next female cultivator!"

He didn't even glance at her the whole time, because she was intently focused on the next vine, searching for the best angle to cut it.

In total, twelve female cultivators were rescued.

"We were so scared! We thought we wouldn't pass this trial, waaaaah..."

"Me too, I was really scared to death. I thought I would have to slowly endure until I was over twenty years old, like those mortal cultivators, before I could learn advanced cultivation techniques."

"Thank goodness you saved us, otherwise that monster would have returned..."

The female cultivators thanked An Zhengzheng and the others one by one, but because An Zhengzheng seemed a bit aloof, most of them didn't dare to face her directly.

Instead, he thanked An Yirou and the others who seemed easy to get along with.

An Yirou, Song Juan, and Su Ying were also playing the role of heroines for the first time, and they stammered in response.

"Thank you so much." Zhu Liucui was exhausted, but she didn't forget to thank them.

She then said earnestly to An Zhengzheng, "We shouldn't stay here any longer. We need to leave quickly, as that monster will be back soon."

An Zhengzheng looked around and asked, "What kind of monster did you encounter?"

“They were wolves.” Zhu Liucui’s face turned pale at the thought. “To be precise, they were a pack of wolves.”

“There are at least thirty or so.” Another female cultivator came over to speak, with a few traces of blood at the corner of her mouth.

An Zhengzheng looked her over closely: "Are you injured?"

The injury didn't look serious; it could be treated with a few doses of medicine. However, the female cultivator didn't drink the medicine in time.

They probably weren't born into a privileged family and were cultivators. Their parents were likely independent cultivators with no one to rely on, which is why they couldn't afford the medicine.

"Yes, just a minor injury," the female cultivator said. "My name is Gu Jin. You were very impressive just now."

Gu Jin was very surprised; she had never seen such a powerful female cultivator before.

"Thank you." An Zhengzheng took out two pots of medicinal soup from her bag and handed them to her. "Drink this and heal yourself first."

Seeing that Gu Jin was hesitant to return it, she preemptively said, "If you're embarrassed, you can return it to me after you leave the magic circle. If you're injured, your team will be weaker."

"Okay, I'll return it to you later." Gu Jin didn't stand on ceremony and took it, after all, she really didn't want to drag her teammates down.

Gu Jin took her medicine.

An Zhengzheng asked Zhu Liucui, "You just mentioned a wolf pack, and we also encountered a wolf spirit before... Hmm, so it seems that what we killed were wolves that came out to scout. If they were wolves, why were you tied to the tree?"

“It was that tree,” Zhu Liucui said helplessly. “We were being chased by a pack of wolves and ran here, and that tree hung us up.”

An Zhengzheng understood, but she asked in confusion, "So the wolf pack just watched you get tied up?"

Letting go of prey that's already in your grasp? That's not like a wolf.

Gu Jin had already finished her medicine and felt much better. She replied, "Yes, we also found it strange. The wolf pack ran away all of a sudden. We were afraid they would come back, so we just told you to leave quickly."

An Zhengzheng pondered.

“There are only two possibilities.” She frowned. “Either this tree is more terrifying than the wolf pack, or there is an even more terrifying monster here that could make the wolf pack abandon their prey that they have been chasing so hard.”

"However, given that the trees did not retaliate after the vines were cut, the first possibility is unlikely."

That's the second one!

Upon hearing this, Zhu Liucui trembled with fear.

What kind of monster is it that even more than thirty wolves are afraid of?