"Something's not right. This peach grove is eerily quiet!" Ji Jiuying said uneasily, her brows furrowed.

Wen Chuyu also sensed that something was wrong.

The fourth princess felt she looked familiar at first glance, perhaps because they were incompatible by birth charts. She dismissively said, "Hmph, coward."

She didn't believe that a dilapidated peach grove could pose any danger.

Just then, as everyone was wondering, a gust of wind blew through the peach grove, causing the peach blossoms on the trees to fall one by one.

"Ah... help..."

A gasp broke the silence.

Before the woman could even cry for help, her body instantly transformed into peach blossoms and scattered in the air.

Everyone's faces were filled with terror, and they all felt a chill run down their spines at everything around them.

One cry for help followed another, and the number of people had decreased by a third.

"Don't touch those peach blossoms, defend yourself!" Ji Jiuying shouted, and everyone finally reacted.

With everyone working together, a defensive array was activated. At this moment, the seemingly harmless peach blossoms crashed into the defensive barrier like a hard stone.

The peach blossoms outside surged in densely, looking incredibly eerie.

“This won’t do; this defensive formation will be breached sooner or later,” Feng Ling from the three great families said.

These words struck like a bolt from the blue, and some of the more timid ones were so frightened they burst into tears.

"Waaaaah~ I want to get out! What will happen to my mother if I die? I haven't even gotten married yet! I don't want to die!"

"Waaaaah~ I want to go home, I'm not married yet~"

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"Shut up, all of you!" Jun Linyu was driven crazy by the noise.

Ji Jiuying looked around. If she wasn't mistaken, this peach grove was a formation. As long as she found the core of the formation, she could break it.

Just then, a smiling voice interrupted her thoughts, "Little beauty, what do you suggest we do? We can't just stay here and wait to die, can we?"

Upon hearing the man's question, everyone immediately turned their gaze to Ji Jiuying.

Ji Jiuying looked in the direction of the sound and saw a handsome man dressed in the same red clothes as her, except that his red clothes were embroidered with flamboyant flowers...

Ji Jiuying glanced at it once and then looked away, sighing that there were really handsome men everywhere in this world. "If I'm not mistaken, this peach grove should be a formation. We can find the core of the formation and break it."

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately felt relieved.

Si Yu raised an eyebrow. This little beauty, although her cultivation level wasn't high, had a good physique. Becoming a master was just around the corner. No wonder that guy had his eye on her; she had some skills. "What if she can't break the code?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's hearts, which had just settled down, jumped again!

Ji Jiuying glared at the man, who was doing this on purpose. She took a deep breath and said coldly, "Wait to die."

After saying that, she focused on finding the key to the formation and ignored the man.

Hehe~ This little wildcat is angry. Si Yu shrugged, unconcerned.

Some of the spiritual practitioners present were also array masters, and they all searched for the array's core, but none of them had any clues.

Ji Jiuying thought to herself, "This is strange. Every formation has a core, but I can't find it even after looking for a long time."

"Click~"

With a loud bang, everyone's hearts sank to the bottom as a faint crack appeared in the defensive barrier.

Everyone placed their hopes on Ji Jiuying.

Ji Jiuying calmed down and thought to herself, "Could it be that all the Qimen Dunjia she learned in her previous life was wasted?"

"Are you sure you can do it?" Jun Luoli's face was pale.

"Shut up! If you're so capable, why don't you do it yourself?" Shen Miaoqing had been annoyed with her for a long time.

"You~"

Jun Linyu's expression changed, and his eyes turned cold as he looked at Jun Luoli. Jun Luoli swallowed the words she was about to say.

Seeing that she could remain calm even in this situation, Si Yu stared intently at her, quite curious about how much she knew about Qimen Dunjia and whether she could successfully find the array's core.

After a while, her eyes lit up and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

Seeing this, Si Yu realized that she had found it.

"Each spirit general stands in one of the four cardinal directions (east, south, west, north, southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest) to attack the peach blossoms in front of them. Then, twenty spirit generals with fire-type spirit magic will simultaneously attack the array eye directly above. The rest of you will continue to support the defensive barrier."

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces lit up with joy, and they quickly stood at their posts. What a joke! This was their only chance to survive; how could they not listen?

"Initiate the attack!"

Ji Jiuying took out the Crimson Fire Phoenix Fan and launched an attack on the array's core.

When Ji Fengyan saw the Crimson Fire Phoenix Fan, her mind went blank, followed by panic. It was her, Ji Jiuying! Her eyes were filled with jealousy and hatred.

Ji Rufeng was in the southwest direction, with his back to Ji Jiuying, so he didn't recognize her.

Ji Jiuying felt a jealous and hateful gaze fixed on her; without a doubt, it was Ji Fengyan.

Given the extent of her admiration for the Third Prince, Ji Jiuying knew that she would not reveal that she was Ji Jiuying, which is why she took out the Crimson Fire Phoenix Fan in front of her.

Unbeknownst to Ji Jiuying, two pairs of eyes were watching her every move from the shadows.

"She really can control the Crimson Phoenix Fan!"

With a few cracking sounds, the cracks grew larger and larger, and everyone's hearts sank.

"Keep going, just hold on for one more breath." Ji Jiuying's face had turned even paler.

At this critical moment, the barrier shattered with a 'crack,' and the formation was broken at the same time. Some people were still affected by that nameless force and coughed up blood.

The peach grove disappeared, and what appeared before everyone was an ordinary mountain forest, with a deep green pool at the foot of the mountain.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. "We're still alive! That's great!"

"Thank you, young lady."

"Without you, we probably wouldn't survive."

"Fortunately, you found the key point of the formation at the last moment."

Jun Linyu's ambition grew even stronger; she was determined to win.

However, Ji Fengyan's heart sank when she saw Jun Linyu's gaze. No, she absolutely would not allow him to know that she was the useless Ji Jiuying that he hated.

On the way to the secret realm, he said that when he returned from the Monster Forest, he would ask his father to annul the engagement and marry her, Ji Fengyan, as his imperial concubine. She just needed to be patient.

Ji Fengyan tried her best to comfort herself.

"I would like to ask you, young lady, how did you determine the location of the array's core?" Ye Qingchen asked curiously.

Ji Jiuying looked towards the source of the voice. It was him, Ye Qingchen, and behind him was a sexy and alluring woman, Lian Qingcheng!

Could it be...?

Everyone looked at Ji Jiuying, especially the array masters, whose eyes lit up.

"Actually, it's nothing. The formation is still a regular formation, just reversed," Ji Jiuying said casually.

Everyone suddenly realized, "So that's how it is! No wonder we were only looking at the ground and ignored what was above us. Who would have thought that the formation could be reversed?"

Having just expended a lot of spiritual energy, some people collapsed onto the grass, while others meditated to recover their strength.

Ji Jiuying's brow furrowed slightly, her eyes fixed on the dense woods, the feeling of impending danger returning.