At the top of the bamboo fortress, a girl in green suddenly leaped out, her eyes blazing as she stared at the man opposite her.

"Damn beast! How dare this traitor who betrayed his master and ancestors still have the nerve to live in this world?"

"Yo yo yo! Isn't this my junior sister Green Bamboo?" The man grinned wickedly. "What? It hasn't been long and you don't recognize your senior brother?"

"Senior brother? You dare to challenge me?"

The girl in green smiled coldly, and with a wave of her hand, a green spear made of bamboo joints was already in her grasp!

With a flick of his wrist, the spear danced in a series of dazzling patterns, and a blue light overflowed from the tip, forming a bamboo leaf-shaped spiritual energy blade that shot towards the man!

"Leaf Blade!"

"Swish swish!"

Dozens of flying blades were aimed directly at the white-robed man on the wooden platform, but the man remained completely calm.

"White bamboo spear, green leaf blade! As expected of Junior Sister Green Bamboo, but..."

The man simply raised his hand and waved it, and countless branches immediately sprouted from the trees below, crisscrossing and forming a dense wall of branches!

"Whoosh!"

The blades struck the wooden wall, producing a clanging sound like metal clashing, but they never managed to break it.

The wooden wall slowly dissipated as the blades were exhausted.

The man's lips curled into a slight sneer, "However, it's still a bit too weak to deal with my senior brother!"

"Hmph! Trash!"

Green Bamboo slung his bamboo spear behind his back, and the anger in his eyes subsided considerably.

As fellow disciples, she knew very well that Bai Yang's strength was no less than hers, and perhaps even greater.

"Where's Junior Sister Qing Teng? Let her come out too!" Bai Yang, on the other hand, sat leisurely on a wooden chair and teased, "As long as you two are willing to marry me, I promise to forgive and forget, and you will still be the mistresses of this Lingyou Valley!"

"Pfft... Hahahaha!"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Green Bamboo couldn't help but burst out laughing!

Bai Yang's expression turned cold: "What are you laughing at?"

"You're just after the wood spirit essence within Qing Teng, aren't you? Too bad, I've already sent Qing Teng out of the valley... You'll never get her again!"

"..."

"And let me tell you, even if you married any dog, they would never give a second glance to an ungrateful beast like you. So what if you seized Lingyou Valley? So what if you became the Valley Master? You will be despised by the demon realm for the rest of your life, and you will only be like a bedbug in a sewer, hated by the world!"

On the other side, the man finally recovered from his casual sitting posture.

After a moment of silence, the man suddenly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot: "You're asking for death!"

Then, the giant tree platform beneath the man seemed to come alive and began to shake!

Immediately afterwards, the tree continued to grow taller and thicker, eventually transforming into a giant wooden python in mid-air, which then crashed fiercely into the woman on Green Bamboo Fortress!

"This is... the late stage of the Soul Condensation Realm..."

Although the wooden snake in the air is not entirely formed from spiritual energy, the ability to manipulate such a huge wooden python using spiritual energy indicates that one's cultivation level is at least at the late stage of the Soul Condensation Realm, and may even have reached the Soul Control Realm!

The woman gritted her teeth and made a hand seal!

A bright blue light shone from the woman's eyes, and countless bamboo spears materialized in the air!

"go!"

The bamboo spears shot out like a rain of arrows, bombarding the giant wooden python relentlessly.

However, the bamboo spears were much more powerful than the leaf blades, but even with all of them attacking, they failed to hinder the giant wooden python, which continued to smash into Green Bamboo Fortress with unstoppable force!

In terms of cultivation, Bai Yang has already surpassed Qing Zhu!

"well--"

However, just as the giant wooden python was about to crash into the bamboo fortress, a faint sigh came from inside the fortress.

At the same time, the giant python seemed to be suddenly bound by something, and began to twist and turn in the air, struggling frantically.

But all these resistances were in vain. In the blink of an eye, the giant python was squeezed into countless fragments by an invisible force, which then fluttered down.

"puff!"

On the other side, the giant python was destroyed, and the man was affected, spitting out a mouthful of blood and falling to the ground.

However, the man still wore a sinister smile.

"Old man! Finally showing yourself?"

At this moment, an elderly figure, leaning on a cane, slowly appeared on the top of the bamboo fort.

The old man had white hair and beard, dull eyes, and skin as black and brown as a withered tree, as if he were about to die.

"Hahahaha! You old geezer, I thought you had already abandoned this bunch of useless trash and run away by yourself?"

"Your injuries seem to be healing quite quickly. With just that weak Azure Vein power, I'm afraid you couldn't have done that, could you?"

"Heh! In my opinion, Qing Teng wasn't sent out of the valley, but rather eaten by you, you old geezer! Hahahaha! What a load of bull, Master! Hypocritical and sanctimonious! Hahahaha!"

However, the old man remained expressionless in the face of his remarks, and even the hint of disappointment vanished without a trace.

...

At this moment, just a few hundred meters away from Qingzhubao, two small heads were peeking out from a small crevice in the mountains, watching the confrontation scene not far away.

Upon hearing Bai Yang's words, Shen Yunhao turned to look at the girl beside him.

"This shameless traitor only knows how to sow discord! My master treats me like his own son, how could he possibly harm me!"

The little girl was so angry that her face turned red. Looking at Bai Yang over there, she wished she could go up and tear him to pieces right now!

"He not only poisoned the people in the valley, but also colluded with the people of the Demonic Sect to ambush Master, causing Master to be seriously injured and lose one-tenth of his strength. Otherwise, why would he be afraid of those people from the Demonic Sect!"

“As expected, there are all kinds of demons…” Shen Yunhao stroked his chin: “But it seems that your senior brother cares about you a lot? He keeps mentioning your name.”

"Pah!" Qing Teng's face showed undisguised disgust and disdain: "He doesn't deserve to be my senior brother at all! Saying those shameless things is just because he wants to... wants to..."

"Hmm? What are you thinking about?" Shen Yunhao blinked, somewhat curious.

Qing Teng lowered her head, her voice barely audible: "You want to use me as a furnace to steal the spiritual energy within me..."

"Cough cough cough! Cough cough..."

Shen Yunhao coughed twice and awkwardly looked away.

However, Qing Teng inexplicably recalled the somewhat ambiguous scene from earlier that day.

Although she grew up in Lingyou Valley, she still had some understanding of the worldly customs and etiquette.

Shen Yunhao not only risked his life to save him, but the two of them also... also did that kind of shameful thing.

Am I already...?

As she thought about it, the girl's delicate face became even more flushed.

"Hey? Why is your face so red? Did you catch a cold?"

"No...no, no!"

Qing Teng turned her head in a panic, trying to banish the jumbled thoughts from her mind while silently reminding herself...

With a formidable enemy at hand, whether we can survive tonight is uncertain, so there's no time for idle thoughts!

"Speaking of which, we won't be discovered hiding here, will we?"