A barrier blocked their path, followed by a smiling face: "Finally here! All my preparations weren't in vain. It seems quite a few of your Medicine Peak's best disciples have made it in, hehehehe."
The smiling face continued to mock: "Hahaha, including the four people from before, a total of 22 people went, which is half of them."
"Xiao Zhao, your disciple went in too?" A voice suddenly came from behind. It was Zhou Yuhe and her two teachers.
Zhao Lei's face was grim: "Hmm."
"It's still too late," Zhou Yuhe said.
Her disciples had just gone in, and then a barrier and a smiling face appeared. She had intended to stop the other disciples from going in, but it was too late.
Actually, you can't really blame them. The forest was fine one moment, and the barrier suddenly appeared the next, which was completely unexpected.
A smiling voice suddenly rang out, licking its lips, "Sorry everyone, another disciple has gone in, hahaha, the more the better."
He could control the barrier at will to open a small opening, and just now another group of disciples went in from the west.
"There's no time to think about it anymore. Everyone, quickly disperse to the various mountain passes and stop the other disciples from going in. I'll go and inform Elder Yu to come over," Zhou Yuhe said.
The group nodded and dispersed.
A cheerful voice reached everyone's ears: "Then you'd better hurry up, I'll start eating as soon as I'm done with them, hahaha!"
......
The people in the dense forest were unaware of what had happened and wandered aimlessly.
The group formed a small fan shape and slowly approached the center of the dense forest, but after walking for a long time, they still found nothing.
"Something's not right. This forest is getting weirder and weirder. Maybe we should leave first," Sui Xin said, feeling uneasy.
Peng Fei frowned as well, the dense forest making his scalp tingle: "Okay, let's go then."
With that, the four of them started to walk back.
Suddenly a voice rang out, "Everyone else is here, how could we leave you out, hahaha!"
Then a black mist enveloped them, and they felt their vision go black and they lost consciousness.
When they woke up again, they found themselves at the entrance of a cave, where there were 20 other people. Some were sitting in meditation, while others were lying unconscious on the ground.
The cave was deep and dark, with no light emanating from it, and a thick black aura surrounded the group.
Peng Fei asked a meditation disciple with an extraordinary appearance, "Brother, where are we?"
"I don't know. A wisp of black smoke passed by, and here we are," the disciple said calmly, without any emotional fluctuation, as if everything was unrelated to him.
His name is Lu Cheng, the young master of the Lu family, a prestigious family in Xuanyu City. He is a disciple of the Medicine Peak this year, and at the age of 12, he has already reached the first level of True Spirit.
He came with Wang Kun this time simply because the Lu family and the Wang family have been on good terms for generations.
But in reality, he really disliked Wang Kun. He was only at the seventh level of cultivation, yet he always acted arrogantly and looked down on everyone.
If it weren't for the fact that they came from different families, he would definitely have refused Wang Kun's invitation.
Gradually, the others woke up as well, all looking confused.
Sui Xin sat on the ground, head down in thought, unable to understand what was going on.
Seeing that Suixin seemed a little disappointed, Xiyun smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll protect you."
She didn't seem scared or anything; she acted as usual, probably just going with the flow.
Sui Xin smiled after hearing Xi Yun's words and took out a hairpin from her bosom: "Why would I be afraid? By the way, this is for you. In a few days, it will be your seventh year in our family. Consider it a keepsake."
The hairpin is entirely red, exquisitely crafted, simple and elegant, with several small beads hanging from the end.
"Really? When did you buy it?" Xi Yun was pleasantly surprised. This was the first time in so many years that Sui Xin had given her a gift.
"Just now, when we were shopping, I saw you looking at it for a long time, so I bought it for you."
"Wow, you're so kind," Xi Yun said, deeply moved.
She just didn't notice that one of the beads at the end of the hairpin was completely different from the others.
......
Suddenly, a figure emerged from the surrounding black mist, looked at Sui Xin and Xi Yun, then glanced at the others, and said, "You kids are quite refined. However, I need your help with something next. I hope you will cooperate."
The shadowy figure's gaze sent chills down everyone's spines; no one spoke.
The figure smiled, satisfied with the situation: "See that cave behind you? I need you to go in and bring something out for me. Is that clear?"
"What do you need?" Lu Cheng asked, his voice slightly worried.
"It's a sword unlike any other; you'll know once you see it."
"So, are you willing?" the shadowy figure said slowly.
"So what if we don't want to?" a voice called out from behind, its tone arrogant.
He carries a family heirloom that can instantly kill anyone who harms him, with a maximum power level of the peak of the Heavenly Origin Realm.
Thinking of this, he instantly calmed down and even hoped that the other party would make a move, because he felt that it was unlikely that a Xuan Yuan Realm cultivator would appear in such a small place.
"Is that so? Then... only death remains," the figure said, reaching out to grab the person.
With a "bang," a beam of white light suddenly shot out from the man's chest, striking the shadowy figure between the eyebrows, and the shadowy figure vanished.
"Hahaha, you got fooled by me," the man laughed arrogantly.
Sui Xin and the others were also very surprised, and they all quickly retreated.
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