"When the chief priest set up that great formation, we all felt safer than ever before. We've been living in fear these past few days and haven't had a chance to rest. After a while, we were overcome with sleepiness," Chang Tian explained. "However, since danger lurked all around, we didn't dare to all fall asleep. So we let a few girls rest first, and the rest of us men each guarded a different position."
Zuan nodded. It seemed they weren't delicate flowers in a greenhouse; they knew to be cautious even in this situation.
“Lu Bei suggested teaming up with Sun Hai so he could look after him. We figured Lu Bei was the strongest, so it would be good for him to be with Sun Hai. I’ll stay in the back.” Chang Tian gestured to indicate everyone’s positions at the time.
Mei Rou added, "Yao Fang and I were with Miss Ji. Although she was young, she was very strong. Even though we said we would sleep together, I noticed that she kept her eyes open the whole time."
"Later, I couldn't resist the drowsiness and fell asleep without realizing it."
“I hadn’t been asleep long when I heard screams. When I woke up, Brother Sun was lying in a pool of blood, and Chang Tian was also seriously injured. Miss Ji was protecting him and confronting Lu Bei,” Mei Rou said with lingering fear. “We didn’t understand what happened. Yao Fang was usually closest to Lu Bei. She went up to question him, but was seriously injured by his sword and lost her fighting ability on the spot.”
Chang Tian nodded and said, "When I was on night watch, I heard a strange sound coming from the front, so I went to ask what was going on. Little did I know that Sun Hai had already been ambushed by Lu Bei. Without my knowledge, I was also ambushed and seriously injured by the other party."
Zuan nodded secretly. Lu Bei was indeed experienced. He first quietly dealt with the old hand Sun Hai. Although the other classmates were outstanding among their peers, they lacked experience in the martial arts world. They clearly heard something strange but were not on guard at all, so Lu Bei took care of most of them in one move.
"Then how did you survive?" Ji Dengtu asked scrutinically. Since it was related to his daughter, he saw everyone as a prisoner.
Having taken down so many of their companions in a single encounter, they were no match for that monster.
"Thanks to Miss Ji, a golden light suddenly emanated from her body, like a flying sword, and she fought against Lu Bei. It was then that we learned from her that Lu Bei was being controlled by a monster," Mei Rou replied.
"A flying sword?" Ji Dengtu was taken aback, not remembering his daughter having such a thing.
"I gave it to her." Zu An thought to himself that he was glad he hadn't been careful before and had given the flying sword talisman to Xiao Xi.
Ji Dengtu's expression was complicated. He had always felt that this kid had ill intentions in getting close to Xiao Xi and wanted his daughter to stay far away from him, but now he couldn't wait for him to give him more protective treasures.
“But that Lu… no, that monster is really too powerful. Even Xiao Xi’s flying sword couldn’t withstand it.” A look of fear flashed across Chang Tian’s face. “But then the monster suddenly stiffened, as if it was listening to some kind of sound in the distance. Then it stopped fighting and directly spewed out a bunch of things that looked like spider webs, taking Yao Fang and Miss Ji away with it. It didn’t even care about us.”
Zu An thought to himself that the Heart-Eating Spider must have sensed the death of its companion; no wonder the two of them were able to survive.
"Where did they escape to?" Ji Dengtu asked anxiously.
The two shook their heads in confusion: "Its movements are too strange. It leaps through the trees at various angles and disappears in an instant. We can't even tell which way it's going."
"If you can't even see this clearly, were you running for your lives back then?!" Ji Dengtu roared in anger.
Their eyes reddened, but they couldn't refute it.
Zuan stopped him, saying, "Those Heart-Eating Spiders are indeed very fast, it's normal that they can't see them clearly. Don't worry, I've already sensed Xiao Xi's location."
"How did you know?" Ji Dengtu was both surprised and delighted. Weren't the two of them always together? Did he have a third eye?
“I placed a location talisman on Xiaoxi.” Zuan learned from his previous experience of searching for Ji Xiaoxi in the vast mountains, so he deliberately left a location talisman on her. The Baopu Zhenjing has a method of talisman making, which he made casually these days, but he didn’t expect it to be so useful.
Although I was asking questions, I was actually trying to sense the location of the locator.
He left a formation for Mei Rou and the other person, telling them to stay there and wait, and then flew towards Shadow Moon Lake with Ji Dengtu.
Shadowmoon Lake was the initial destination, but I never expected that I would end up there anyway.
“That monster is exceptionally cruel, Xiao Xi is probably…” Ji Dengtu’s eyes reddened as he spoke.
Seeing that the usually carefree and lecherous old man was now trembling with fear, Zu An comforted him, "Don't worry, I also gave Xiao Xi a few protective talismans. She should be fine for a while."
Ji Dengtu was overjoyed: "Kid, you actually have such abilities! If you can save Xiaoxi this time, I'll agree to her request..."
Seeing that he suddenly stopped talking, Zu'an was taken aback: "Agree to what?"
“I agree to let you be friends, but you can’t have any other thoughts,” Ji Dengtu warned.
Zuan: "..."
At this moment, above Shadow Moon Lake, there was a huge crack in the sky, like a vertical eye, from which wisps of purple mist spread out.
Lu Bei was kneeling on the ground, prostrating himself: "I, the humble one, have prepared the blood sacrifice. I beg Your Excellency to descend and deal with that terrifying human."
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