"Yueling, be careful!" Rong Jiaojiao's heart tightened.
However, Yue Ling had already flashed into the small secret realm, and when she came out again, she was already next to Rong Jiaojiao.
"Bang!"
The snake's tail missed its target below, unable to stop its momentum, and crashed heavily into the mountainside beside it.
Qing Xuanzi withdrew his attack, flicked his sleeves, and quickly retreated from the valley with Rong Jiaojiao and Yue Ling. Behind them came the angry roars of two demonic beasts and the sounds of fierce fighting.
"Master, won't they come after us?" Rong Jiaojiao looked back, somewhat worried.
"Don't worry." Qing Xuanzi smiled calmly. "These two demonic beasts are already wary of each other. Now that the spiritual herb has been stolen, they will only suspect that the other side is cheating. It won't be clear who wins for a while."
Yue Ling proudly waved the Frost Jade Dew Grass in her hand and said with a grin, "Master, we've really struck gold this time! This spiritual herb can not only improve aptitude, but also be used to refine high-grade pills!"
Rong Jiaojiao took the spiritual herb and gently touched the dew on the leaves with her fingertips. She immediately felt a cool and pure spiritual energy seep into her meridians, which invigorated her.
"Truly extraordinary," she exclaimed, then asked, "Moon Spirit, can they be planted in the small secret realm?"
“Yes, Master,” Yue Ling replied, then secretly transmitted her voice to Rong Jiaojiao, “I’ll speed it up again, and Master will have plenty of Jade Dew in the future.”
Rong Jiaojiao nodded and used her spiritual power to guide two-thirds of the jade dew to Qing Xuanzi's mouth, saying, "Master, open your mouth."
Qing Xuanzi quickly refused: "Master's aptitude is already determined. Taking such good things won't have much effect. Don't waste it. You can take it all."
Rong Jiaojiao protested, "Master, it is precisely because your aptitude is already determined that we must strive to improve, even if it is just a little bit."
"Open your mouth quickly! I was hoping you could break through to the Celestial Master realm to protect me. Hurry up, or some demonic beasts will smell your scent soon."
Qing Xuanzi reluctantly opened his mouth, and a few drops of crystal-clear jade dew floated into it.
In an instant, a clear and pure spiritual energy flowed through his body, as if cleansing his meridians, and even his soul was invigorated. He closed his eyes to regulate his breathing for a moment, and when he opened them again, his eyes flashed with a sharp light: "This jade dew is indeed extraordinary."
Rong Jiaojiao smiled with satisfaction and then drank the rest of the Jade Dew.
As the dew entered her throat, she immediately felt her limbs and bones become lighter, and the spiritual energy circulation speed in her dantian increased by more than 30%.
"Master!" Zi Ling suddenly perked up her ears alertly, "Something is approaching!"
Little Gold raised its head and stared in the direction of the sound.
Qing Xuanzi's expression hardened, and his flying sword was already drawn three-tenths of the way out of its sheath: "Are those two demonic beasts chasing after us?"
Yue Ling shook her head: "It's something more dangerous."
The ground began to tremble slightly, and the surrounding trees moved erratically without wind.
In their consciousness, a pack of giant wolves with bone spurs on their backs were running towards them.
"The leader is a demon wolf at the Great Perfection of the Earth Master Realm," Qing Xuanzi's pupils shrank. "How did this thing get here?"
Rong Jiaojiao said, "These demon wolves are probably nearby, so they were attracted by the scent of Jade Dew." She instructed Yue Ling, "Yueling, conceal our presence. Ziling, track where these demon wolves came from. We're going to raid their lair."
Upon hearing this, the two beasts and the spirit immediately became excited. The purple spirit transformed into a streak of light and darted into the treetop, its fluffy purple tail appearing and disappearing among the branches and leaves.
Yue Ling drew a circle with her fingertips, and a semi-transparent barrier spread out like ripples, completely enveloping the auras of the three people and the beast.
Rong Jiaojiao carefully stored the Xuan Shuang Yu Lu Grass into the secret realm, and the Ling Yuan Sword hummed as it hovered in her palm, the spatial runes on the sword's body emitting a faint light.
"Follow me." Qing Xuanzi lightly touched the ground with his toes and flew off on his sword in the opposite direction from the pack of demon wolves.
Zi Ling's voice transmission came at just the right time. It had discovered a natural cave hidden in the stone forest ahead. The entrance of the cave was piled with animal bones, and the air was filled with a stench of decay and blood.
From the depths of the cave came the whimper of a young wolf. Yue Ling's little face turned serious: "Master, besides the wolf den, there is a familiar spiritual energy fluctuation in the cave—it's the scent of the Ghost Mist Flower near the Spirit-Eating Spider's den."
Its eyes gleamed with intelligence. "It seems these demon wolves also know how to collect medicinal herbs. There might be even more treasures hidden in the cave."
Rong Jiaojiao and Qing Xuanzi exchanged a glance, and the master and disciple made their moves simultaneously in perfect unison.
Qing Xuanzi made a hand seal and summoned twelve sword energies, which darted into the cave like swimming dragons, exploding with a series of booming sounds on the cave walls.
As expected, the pack of wolves was alerted and howled as they swarmed out.
Meanwhile, Rong Jiaojiao had quietly set up her spatial rune array at the cave entrance, creating another space.
Rong Jiaojiao flipped her wrist, creating an opening in the formation. One after another, the demon wolves rushed out, only to end up inside Rong Jiaojiao's spatial formation.
Qing Xuanzi immediately cast the Twelve Yuan Chen Array on the outer layer of the spatial array, and the core of the Twelve Yuan Chen Array emitted a faint white light.
Inside the spatial array, the demon wolves kept running, but no matter how hard they ran, they couldn't escape their den.
"Moon Spirit, go search the wolf den now!"
The Moon Spirit transformed into a stream of light and rushed into the cave. A moment later, she rushed out carrying a wicker basket a hundred times larger than herself. The basket was filled with spirit herbs covered in mud, including the Mist Flower, and half a basket of demon cores gleaming with various colors of light.
Zi Ling let out a rapid cry, and the pack of demon wolves, having sensed the abnormality, began to turn back.
Rong Jiaojiao immediately put away the basket, used spatial teleportation to teleport everyone several times, and arrived at a cliff a few miles away.
Rong Jiaojiao took out a basket, and everyone gathered around. In the pile of spiritual herbs in the basket, there were three dark blue mist flowers, their petals covered with fine spiritual energy crystals, as dazzling as sapphires.
Excitedly, Yue Ling parted the pile of spirit herbs, revealing more than twenty demon cores of various colors underneath. One of them, with a dark golden luster, was particularly eye-catching, as if it contained endless power.
"This is... a lightning-type demon core at the peak of the Earth Master realm?" Qing Xuanzi lightly touched one of them with his fingertip, and fine lightning patterns immediately appeared on the surface of the demon core, shimmering with a mysterious light.
Zi Ling suddenly perked up her ears and looked warily down the cliff. "Master, the wolf pack is coming."
Rong Jiaojiao packed up the basket and instructed Ziling, "Let's go!"
He then said to Yue Ling, "Conceal your presence!"
While Rong Jiaojiao was speaking, Qing Xuanzi affixed invisibility talismans to everyone and then flew onto Zi Ling's back.
Zi Ling spread her wings, her body crackling with lightning, and used Lightning Escape to instantly transform into a purple lightning bolt that ripped through the sky.
Not long after they left, the pack of wolves chased them to the cliff. When they couldn't find any trace of the thieves, they roared angrily at the sky behind them.
Yue Ling chuckled and said, "Master, isn't this feeling exciting?"
Rong Jiaojiao also looked excited and nodded: "Exciting, but next time we need to think of a safer way."
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