After Wei Yan finished eating the dried sweet potatoes, he felt a little less hungry.
While moving the stone blocking the cave entrance, he said, "When we jump out of the water, I will use my true fire to clear the way and drive away the immortal insects. But if the disciples of Jiuhua and Kongshan schools didn't come down the mountain in time, they should have raised more immortal insects. It takes a lot of energy to ignite the true fire. When my true energy is exhausted, you can hold my back with your palm and help me to continue the true energy!"
Ran Ran nodded to show that he understood, and then they followed the secret passage back to the bottom of the pool and swam upwards.
Before I even reached the surface, the buzzing sound became louder and louder. When I jumped out of the water, I saw that the insects that were originally the size of soybeans had become as big as lentils.
It seems that just as Wei Yan said, the people who had not had time to go down the mountain used their spiritual power to nourish these red worms, and Tianmai Mountain is a place rich in spiritual energy, where all things grow and flourish, and their attacks became more fierce.
Wei Yan, who had recovered his true energy, jumped out of the water and created a raging fire that burned the insects.
The true energy he leaked made the insects even more crazy, and they rushed towards him like moths to a flame, one after another.
Fortunately, it was already dark, and the speed and strength of the insects had obviously weakened. Ran Ran swung the stick like a paddle, beating the insects to pieces.
Wei Yan ran along with the fire, and Ran Ran and Bai Hu followed behind him. Finally, they simply jumped onto Bai Hu and let Bai Hu carry them forward, while Ran Ran placed his palm on Wei Yan's back to continue his internal energy so as to prevent the fire from being extinguished.
In this way, the two men and the tiger leaped all the way and finally ran to the middle of the mountain. Just as Su Yishui said, the attacks of those insects in the night were not so fierce.
But after smelling the spiritual energy, the surrounding insects still swarmed over, and some of them landed on Ranran's neck with flaming wings and started biting him. Perhaps it was because of the pain that he was distracted, and Wei Yan's anger suddenly weakened.
This made Wei Zunshang grit his teeth and say, "Don't be discouraged!"
However, Ran Ran was not distracted by the pain. She patted Wei Yan's shoulder and said, "Did you see that there were no fairy insects gathering on that tree?"
Wei Yan looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, there was no trace of the fairy insects around a tall tree.
And on that tree was a large fiery red bird, emitting an orange-red light in the night. It was clearly the Vermilion Bird that Wei Fang and his men wanted to catch.
At this moment, it was standing leisurely on the tree, tilting its head and watching two people and a tiger being chased by a group of insects in the night.
The white tiger under them was pushing them all the way towards the tree.
Ran Ran recalled that when she was flipping through some interesting books about the immortal world in her master's library, she had seen a description of the Vermilion Bird, which only said that it was a holy bird and that rotten insects would avoid it.
Wei Yan also said that these bugs grew out of the rotting corpses of the Demon Realm, so they are naturally afraid of Suzaku...
Thinking of this, Ran Ran was overjoyed and whispered, "We are saved!"
When they arrived under the tree, the red insects were really afraid of the Vermilion Bird and did not approach it any more. Instead, they formed a red cloud and buzzed around it five feet away from the tree. Now the two men and the tiger could finally breathe a sigh of relief and take a good breath.
The Vermilion Bird stood under a tall tree and glanced down at them with a look of disdain, and fluttered its wings, as if it was about to fly away the next moment.
Wei Yan also realized that Suzaku was a magic weapon to restrain the fairy-eating insects.
He whispered, "This spirit beast is not easy to tame. Why not break its neck and smear the blood of the Vermillion Bird on your body? Maybe you can drive these damn insects away!"
As he said this, Wei Moxiu had already gathered his murderous intentions, ready to suddenly leap up and capture Zhuque.
This was exactly the same scene that Ranran had seen before, when he was killing the black dragon.
And just as Wei Yan was planning to kill, the Vermilion Bird's body suddenly doubled in size as if it had been blown up. When it opened its mouth to cry, its mouth was full of sharp teeth, which was very scary.
Ran Ran grabbed Wei Yan's sleeve and said, "Don't use the killing intent. If it flies away, we will have to fight the insect again."
Seeing that Wei Yan was still looking at the bird with his eyes squinting, she knew that his evil thoughts had not yet been eliminated, so she could only quickly divert his attention and asked, "Does that bird look familiar to you?"
After hearing what she said, Wei Yan looked at the Vermilion Bird and suddenly saw a crescent-shaped white velvet on its neck. He suddenly remembered the little red bird that was lying by the window and acting coquettishly in the illusion...
But the cute plush chick back then has grown so big now that we can’t keep in touch with it for a while.
At this time, Ran Ran raised her voice and said to the Vermillion Bird, "Lord God, we are in trouble here and need your help. Do you like to listen to songs? Can I sing for you?"
After saying that, Ran Ran closed her eyes and recalled the song she heard in the illusion, then she slowly opened her mouth and sang softly. The tune was exactly the same as the one she heard in the dark cave in the water.
She has a melodious voice and a good memory, so her imitation is very lifelike.
Wei Yan stared at the girl who was humming with her eyes closed. As the night wind blew and the moonlight fell on her, he inexplicably found her so beautiful that he couldn't take his eyes off her...
The bird that had already taken off circled in the air, then slowly landed again, stretched its neck and looked at Ranran in surprise. In the beautiful singing, it seemed to recall its old master. It spun and jumped on the branch just to the singing, looking very happy.
Amidst the melodious singing, it suddenly flapped its wings again and circled above the tree, flying faster and faster, and finally with a sudden loud cry it flew high into the sky.
This time, its body changed from red to dazzling gold, and it shot straight into the sky like a sharp arrow. When it hit the clouds, the night turned into day, and finally the clouds turned into a golden rain that hit the ground.
When the red worms that filled the mountains and valleys were hit by the golden rain, their bodies exploded one after another and turned into pools of blurry blood that fell to the ground.
When Ran Ran stopped singing, the golden rain also stopped. After a night of fierce fighting, the faint light of dawn shone down, and all the rampant red worms turned into blood mud all over the ground, without a single one left.
When the red blood slowly seeped into the surface, the ground of Tianmai Mountain began to shake slightly.
Wei Yan shouted, "Oh no! These insect bloods have polluted the holy land's spiritual veins. Tianmai Mountain is going to collapse!"
Ranran turned over and was about to climb onto the tiger's back, but at this time the Gengjin White Tiger had used up all its spiritual power because it had just fought off too many fairy-eating insects for Ranran, and it turned into the size of a cat again.
When the earth was shaking, it lost its balance and fell into the abyss nearby.
Wei Yan turned around and wanted to pull Ran Ran to go with him, but Ran Ran rushed to save the white tiger that was about to fall off the mountain.
Even though she was strong, the ground was shaking so badly that she lost her balance and fell down.
Without thinking, Wei Yan reached out to grab her, but he missed by a step.
Wei Yan himself was also stunned, wondering why he reached out to save the dead girl. But when he saw her falling, his heart skipped a beat, and he did it without thinking.
Thinking that the girl might die like this... he actually felt a little... reluctant?
But at this moment, countless huge rocks and fragments fell down. Wei Yan quickly put away his unnecessary sympathy and quickly jumped down the mountain...
Ranran hugged Baihu in time when she fell, but when she pulled out the stick and wanted to stick it into the cliff to stabilize her body, it was too late.
Just as the two were about to fall off the high cliff and be smashed into pieces, the golden Vermilion Bird appeared again with a sharp cry, dodged and steadily caught Ranran and Baihu, then shouted all the way to avoid flying rocks and went down the mountain.
When the great master Duntian passed away, the Suzaku was trapped in the mountain. Now, the poisonous insects have destroyed the spiritual energy of Tianmai Mountain, so the Suzaku can finally break out of Tianmai Mountain and feel the vast world.
Ranran sat steadily on the bird's back, holding the white tiger in his arms lovingly, and couldn't help shedding tears.
The white tiger half-raised its head weakly, licked the tears on the girl's delicate cheeks with its tongue, then tilted its neck, seemingly unconscious...
Ran Ran took off his coat, wrapped up the little tiger, chewed up a pill of nourishing energy and stuffed it into its mouth: The forbidden technique of the time beast used by the master is similar to the water demon in the Wangxiang River. However, he possessed the white tiger more thoroughly, and was in a state of life and death with the white tiger. This also meant that if the tiger was damaged, the master would definitely be affected. I hope that the master and the tiger can hold on, and there must be no mistakes.
At this moment, Ran Ran looked down inadvertently and suddenly found that there seemed to be something in the stream at the foot of the mountain...
Not to mention the insect disaster on the mountain, at this time, the people below the mountain have formed a battle array, ready to resist the fairy-eating insects invading from the mountain. Mu Ranwu stood at the front of the line.
The elders who came with their disciples to participate in the marrow washing pool meeting also came one after another.
Mu Ranwu had been waiting for such an opportunity. It was a perfect chance for her to consolidate her prestige and wash away the curse of being a demon in her previous life.
When these famous and upright sects are defeated by the fairy-eating insects, she will take action in time, which will allow her to become famous and do a favor for these righteous people.
The implementation of this plan was flawless!
Yesterday, when she was speeding down the mountain, she intercepted the two sisters Wei Fang and Bing Qing Yu Jie and knocked them to the ground in a flash. She didn't see the boy named Gao Cang, and she didn't know if he fell into the cliff due to clumsiness, but he definitely didn't get out of the mountain.
She didn't kill the guards and release them, she just knocked them out. When the celestial insects come out, these people will be the best nourishment.
When those insects have sucked enough spiritual blood and grown to the size of a palm, they will kill each other, and in the end only the strongest one will be left. As long as she, as an insect controller, can control this king insect to enter her alchemy furnace and refine it into pills bit by bit, she can use the spiritual energy to offset the control of the resentful water in her body.
Mu Ranwu felt extremely relieved when she thought about how this plan had eliminated the two thorns in Wei Yan's and Xue Ranran's eyes in one move, and at the same time released the grip of her resentment.
Even if Xue Ranran and Wei Yan won the chance to enter the marrow-washing pool, what good would it do? When they were sucked dry by the insects and died, they would definitely regret coming to Tianmai Mountain...
Of course, the surface work still needs to be done. When the fairy-eating insects swept across the entire Tianmai Mountain, the people at the foot of the mountain also felt it.
Fortunately, those fairy-eating insects seemed to have triggered the spiritual shield of Tianmai Mountain. These evil insects were not ordinary creatures in the human world, and the spiritual shield automatically trapped them in the mountain.
Otherwise, once these fairy-eating insects spread all over the place, the people living at the foot of the mountain would also suffer.
Tianmai Mountain is located in the middle area maintained by three major sects. People from all the major sects gave warnings last night. Overnight, masters from all the major sects had gathered at the foot of the mountain.
Wen Hongshan was actually a little bit guilty watching the scene, but when she stole a glance at Mu Ranwu, she found that she was quite calm and composed.
Why didn't I realize in my previous life that Mu Qingge's sister is such a thoughtful person? No wonder Mu Qingge was no match for her and was completely defeated by her in the end...
For a whole night, everyone watched the "red cloud" on the mountain grow larger and larger. They also witnessed the tragic scene of Wei Fang and his men being beaten to death by red worms when they had just climbed halfway up the mountain, and they were powerless to do anything.
This kind of infestation was beyond people's expectations. It seemed that all those who went up the mountain would not come down alive.
It was late at night, and Mu Ranwu's half-hanging heart was finally able to let go. After a while, when it was dawn, the insects on the mountain began to fight for the throne.
She can finally rest easy...
Just when Mu Ranwu was feeling proud, something golden suddenly shot up into the sky from Tianmai Mountain. Then, a golden rain fell, and earthquakes followed.
These unexpected events are overwhelming.
Qiu Xier looked at the collapsed Tianmai Mountain and cried out miserably, "Ranran! Come down quickly!"
Second Uncle Master took advantage of the loosening of the spiritual shield and rushed up the mountain to see if he could pick up Ran Ran.
Unfortunately, when they rushed up, they encountered a dark shadow rapidly descending the mountain.
The shadow flashed quickly and rushed straight towards Mu Ranwu.
The black shadow was none other than Wei Yan. He had a murderous look on his face and was ready to capture Mu Qingge and ask her why she was so vicious to plot against him.
Anyway, the key has been returned to Su Yishui, and the soul contract has been automatically cancelled. This damn woman has become so vicious now, why should he be gentle with her? Mu Ranwu can't let him catch her. She dodged nimbly and shouted loudly: "Those fairy-eating insects were released by this devil! In order to get the opportunity to enter the pool, he actually came up with such a vicious plan! Ah..."
She was unable to dodge and was slapped hard in the face by Wei Yan.
There was no mercy in this palm strike, and Wei Yan's long black nails even left five bloody marks on Mu Qingge's delicate face!
Mu Ranwu was beaten so hard that she was dazed. Rather than feeling any pain, she was more shocked by the humiliation that was coming at her.
In her two lifetimes combined, she had never suffered the humiliation of being slapped. In her previous life, although she was incapable, she was a good person and had a sister to protect her, so she had always been pampered.
And now, Wei Yan, who had always coveted her, actually acted so ruthlessly, which was really annoying!
Wen Hongshan, who was standing by, became anxious when she saw Wei Yan coming down the mountain. When she and Mu Ranwu were conspiring, they had made it clear that Wei Yan and all the people who went up the mountain would never come down again.
Otherwise, if someone revealed that the younger generation Gui Baqian, who she had secretly opened a backdoor with, was actually the demon cultivator Wei Yuan, then her reputation would be ruined, and the position of the head sect leader that was about to be obtained would no longer exist.
Now that Wen Hongshan is no longer young, she has spent most of her first half of life trapped in fearless love entanglements.
Now, Wen Hongshan has finally realized and is ready to make progress in his cultivation. Only by taking the position of the head of the sect can he fully enjoy the advantages of the magical instruments in Kongshan Cave and become a great man as soon as possible.
But if Wei Yan were to talk nonsense and reveal the secret of her conspiracy with Mu Ranwu, then there would be no place for her, a person who betrayed her teacher and ancestors and framed her fellow practitioners, in the entire world of immortal cultivation!
So when Mu Ranwu turned the tables and splashed dirty water on Wei Yan, Wen Hongshan was the first to respond and led his disciples to rush forward to fight Wei Yan.
At this time, the remaining elders were angry and upset as they saw the marrow washing pool that had been passed down from generation to generation in Tianmai Mountain destroyed. This demon should have been killed in the first place, and now that he had entered the marrow washing pool, he was even more powerful. He must not be allowed to leave alive!
Thinking of this, everyone took turns to go into battle to fight Wei Yan.
Wei Yan was already furious.
The cultivation in his Dantian was like a poor family's rice jar. Any surplus grain would be gone in an instant. He was a cultivator of magic, but his life was miserable.
At first, his dantian was robbed by Su Yishui. After he had finally recovered it, he entered Tianmai Mountain. After passing all the levels and killing all the generals, he entered the Black Pool. However, most of the spiritual power he obtained was sucked away by those insects.
Now that he had just escaped death and was about to settle the score with that bitch Mu Qingge, he now had to accept a fight with those old dogs of the righteous path. The hatred in Wei Zun Shang's heart was about to burst his skull.
Now the only thing I can do is to fight to the death and kill him first...
From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Mu Qingge, whose face he had scratched. After she had incited everyone to fight him, she hid away with her wounded face covered. It looked like she was about to strike back again and take credit for it...
The woman who was so unique in her previous life turned out to be even worse than him after her rebirth! It was really a ghost!
Wen Hongshan also noticed that Wei Yan's spiritual energy was not flowing smoothly, and was immediately surprised. He turned around and glared at Mu Ranwu: "Hurry up and kill him!"
Mu Ranwu never fights a battle without confidence. Seeing that Wei Yan was indeed at the end of his strength, she drew her sword and prepared to fight, ready to kill the demon cultivator in one battle and become famous.
But at this moment, suddenly a loud bird cry came from the sky. The sound broke through the sky and attracted people to look over involuntarily.
A golden red bird with a long tail spread its wings and flew over from the direction of the collapsed Tianmai Mountain. Everyone shouted in surprise: "Suzaku!"
When the bird flew closer, they could see clearly that there was a person sitting on the bird's back.
Qiu Xier was the first to recognize that the person on the bird's back was her junior sister Xue Ranran, and she immediately shouted in great surprise: "Ranran!"
At this moment, everyone saw clearly that the girl holding the cat on the bird's back was actually the female disciple of Xishan School who had sneaked through the test.
Wen Hongshan looked at Mu Ranwu in panic.
If only Wei Yan was alive, it would be easy to deal with. They could just put all the blame on him. Anyway, he was an evil man, so even if they told the truth, they would just say he was framed.
But now Xue Ranran has appeared, so it's hard to cover up the lie. She can only look at Mu Ranwu, hoping that she can come up with a solution as soon as possible.
At this moment, the Suzaku flew down, and Ran Ran jumped off its back. Her clothes were a little tattered and covered with mud after her adventure on Tianmai Mountain. Her hairband had come undone, and her long hair flowed down like a waterfall, spreading around her waist.
But when she jumped down from the bird's back holding the little white tiger, she still exuded the wild spirit of the daughter of a mountain god.
When she landed on her toes, Second Master and Yu Tong rushed over and asked with concern: "Ran Ran, are you okay?"
Ran Ran shook his head, turned to look at Mu Ranwu, and asked with wide eyes: "Master Mu, why did you drop the immortal insects on Tianmai Mountain? Don't you know that there are still fellow Taoists on this mountain who have not retreated? You are putting them to death by doing this!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was shocked and stared at Mu Ranwu.
Mu Ranwu did not expect that Xue Ranran had such sharp eyes that she actually saw her secretly throwing out the mud-sealed ball.
But she had already thought of a countermeasure, and she said with trembling lips, at a loss: "Xue Ranran, I have no grudge against you, why are you spitting blood on me and saying that I did such a thing? Everyone knows that it takes at least fifteen years to breed that poisonous insect, but I was beaten to death by your master twenty years ago, and I have been parasitic on the tree ever since. How can I breed this poisonous creature?"
Wei Yan laughed strangely after hearing this: "Mu Qingge, why don't you have the courage and spirit to take responsibility for what you did before? Since you dare to do it, what does it matter if you admit it?"
Mu Qingge glanced at him, ruffling her long hair, and said coldly, "You've already said it. I've always been brave enough to take responsibility for my actions. Although I've always been at odds with you, I certainly wasn't the one who released the fairy-eating insect. You didn't believe the slanderous words of this girl and insisted on pouring dirty water on my head, did you?"
"Mu Qingge! You still don't admit it. It was you who intercepted Wei Fang and us sisters on the mountain, and deliberately knocked us down and fed us to the bugs?"
The golden light of the Vermilion Bird was so dazzling that people did not realize that there were two people holding on to the Vermilion Bird's two claws until a weak woman spoke.
One was Gao Cang, and the other was a haggard woman. People struggled to identify them and finally realized that the old woman should be Yujie among the two sisters Bingqing and Yujie.
It turned out that when Ranran was going down the mountain just now, he suddenly found that there seemed to be two people lying in the river at the foot of the mountain.
She asked Suzaku to fly lower, and then she found out that it was her senior brother Gao Cang, and one of the twin sisters.
However, most of Yu Jie's spiritual energy had been sucked away by the insects, and she looked listless.
It turned out that after Gao Cang turned back, he couldn't cross the bridge, so he walked to the side, trying to see if he could walk back along the valley bottom to save his little sister.
When he left, he missed Mu Ranwu who came down the mountain later. Later, seeing that he couldn't get through, he could only go down the mountain in regret. He happened to see the three people who were knocked down.
At this time, red worms flew towards his face. In panic, Gao Cang just carried his sister Yujie, who was closest to him, on his back and started running into the tree hole.
Gao Cang's cultivation was very shallow, and it was a blessing in disguise. When he was bitten by the insect, he did not feel too much pain from having his spiritual power stripped away.