Several medicine boys, holding swords in their hands, formed a circle and guarded the second elder inside.

The second elder was seizing the time to collect herbs.

The giant insects surged in like a tide, approaching rapidly, and the protective circle kept shrinking. Finally, the medicine boys could not hold on any longer.

"Second Elder, let's go, the bugs are coming!"

"Yes, Second Elder, it will be too late if we don't leave now!"

The medicine boys are only in the Qi Refining stage and cannot control the Qi to fly. They can only hope that the second elder who is in the Foundation Establishment stage can take them away.

However, at the critical moment of life and death, the second elder couldn't let go of her medicinal herbs.

Seeing that he would be killed by insects if he didn't leave, the second elder took out his flying magic weapon - a medicine pestle.

"Come up quickly!" The second elder stood in front of the medicine pestle and said to the medicine boy below.

When the last medicine boy narrowly avoided an insect that was rushing over and jumped onto the pestle, the second elder raised the pestle, scattered a handful of seeds, and used his spiritual power to make them grow.

These are the seeds of the ironthorn. In the blink of an eye, they grew wildly and became entangled with each other, protecting the medicinal field.

The second elder took one last look at the familiar mountaintop and piloted the medicine pestle toward the main peak.

Each elder occupied a mountain and was the master of the peak. When the insect swarm swept in, the head of the sect, Yu Xiu, sent them a communication talisman, telling them not to stay and to quickly move the disciples and important items on the peak to the main peak.

After all, the Shuiyue Sect has been passed down for thousands of years. Although it has declined, its foundation is still there, and things like the mountain protection formation are still there.

Originally, the mountain protection formation could protect the entire Shuiyue Sect, but later the spirit stone mines were mined out, and the spirit stone reserves in the sect became less and less every year. The mountain protection formation was a waste of spirit stones, so its consumption was very high.

How could Shuiyue Sect afford to spend so much? In addition, in the secret realm, except for the occasional small beast tide, the mountain protection formation was not used at other times, so it was not usually activated.

Now that the insect swarm is coming, Yuxiu has a very bad premonition. She doesn't know how long the insect swarm will last. Looking at the limited reserves of spirit stones in the warehouse, she decides to concentrate the protection range of the mountain protection formation on the main peak. In this way, the consumption will be much smaller, and the spirit stones in the warehouse can last longer.

The situation on the other peaks was fine, but on the peak of the Great Elder, the only two Foundation Establishment Stage disciples were not there. The disciples were trapped on the mountain and could only retreat into the hall to resist the attack of the insect tide.

At this time, Yuxiu didn't bother to find out where the great elder had gone, and hurriedly asked several elders who had already arrived at the main peak to help pick him up.

Several elders agreed and hurriedly rode their flying magic instruments to Yiluan Peak, which was the peak where the great elder was.

Although they usually couldn't stand the Great Elder's tyranny, at this moment, they couldn't care less about it. The safety of their disciples was more important.

When Shen Yizhi arrived, the other five peaks of Shuiyue Sect were all occupied by insects. The entire mountain was filled with huge insects, which made people's scalps numb.

Only the highest main peak was spared.

The peak was covered with a hemispherical protective shield. Three supreme elders in the Jindan stage stood in mid-air, forming a three-legged tripod, constantly killing the insects that tried to climb onto the protective shield.

The strength of the Jindan period should not be underestimated. With one move, he took the lives of a large number of insects.

Yu Xiu Ze and the five elders each occupied a position and led the disciples to kill the insects outside the protective shield.

Those bugs were of all shapes and sizes and colors, but they had one thing in common: they were big and crazy, and they kept rushing towards the protective shield as if they had no fear of death at all.

Once the protective shield is breached by them, the people inside the shield will probably die.

However, the spirit stones were spent like flowing water, the spiritual energy in everyone's bodies was constantly consumed, but the number of insects did not decrease at all.

Those younger disciples couldn't help but feel a sense of despair in their hearts.

The secret realm was fine before, so where did these bugs come from? Everyone had this question in their mind.

However, there is no point in doubting now, the most important thing is to kill the insects.

Shen Yizhi lowered the invisible and breath-hiding Tianzhou, gave some instructions to everyone on the boat, and got off the boat with Yichang, and rushed towards the insects.

Yichang led the way in front and crushed the insects with his huge body, while she followed behind with the Guangyu Sword in her hand and killed the insects that had escaped.

The three little frog guards were on her left and right, preventing the insects from having a chance to attack her.

Yichang's devouring skills were really powerful. He could clear out a large area with just one open mouth. Finally, Shen Yizi arrived in front of the protective shield.

The three Jindan Supreme Elders in the air had already noticed the combination of her and Yichang, a man and a snake. At first they thought she was on the side of the insects, but when they saw their ferocious posture in killing the insects, they couldn't help but become suspicious.

Could this be a disciple from another peak who didn't have time to get to the main peak? Shen Yizhi was still wearing Kong Shuning's face at this moment, and the three supreme elders were in seclusion all year round. The last time they saw Kong Shuning was when she was a child, and they didn't recognize her.

Yuxiu and others below recognized him at a glance, but were full of disbelief.

When did Kong Shuning become so powerful?

How come she had never seen the giant python following her? Shen Yizhi did not intend to enter the protective shield. After all, there were too many suspicious points about her, and it would be easy for the headmaster and others to recognize her. The reason she came here was to send the people on the boat into the shield.

Although she saved these people, they were members of the Shuiyue Sect after all, so she should let them stay with the people of the Shuiyue Sect.

"Master, please open the protective shield and let them in."

She summoned the flying boat to her front, making it visible, and the people standing on the deck were also exposed to the people of Shuiyue Sect.

Yuxiu looked at Shen Yizhi and said hesitantly: "Shu Ning, you——"

The only female among the three supreme elders was Kong Lingshan, the mother of the great elder Kong Shishi. When she heard the word "Shu Ning", her eyes flashed, but after sensing it, her face suddenly changed, because she did not feel any blood connection with that woman.

People who practice Taoism will have a sense of their own blood. The stronger their cultivation, the stronger this sense will be.

So she knew very well that the woman in front of her was not her granddaughter Shu Ning, but an imposter! Was she pretending to be Shu Ning in order to trick them into opening the protective shield so that she could sneak in and catch them all in one fell swoop?

"You are not Shu Ning! Tell me, how did you get in? What do you want to do?" Kong Lingshan's Jindan stage pressure was pressed towards Shen Yizhi without reservation.