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At this moment, Ruan Qingyu's spiritual energy had been depleted by more than half. The spider silk had arrived stealthily. If her body hadn't been constantly enveloped by her own spiritual energy, she would have been severely injured by the venom carried by the spider silk immediately.
Ruan Qingyu looked somber, and the phoenix wings that sprouted from her back fluttered around her, carrying her towards the sky.
In an instant, the spider silk and Ruan Qingyu engaged in a tug-of-war. Several more whooshing sounds came from all around, seemingly from other spider silk that the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider had released in its spare time, trying to use it to control Ruan Qingyu.
This eight-eyed ghost spider can split itself into two and is adept at using the Golden Cicada Shedding its Shell. If she continues to fight with all her might, and the eight-eyed ghost spider escapes again, all her efforts will be in vain. Ruan Qingyu's mind was in turmoil.
A moment later, Ruan Qingyu remained expressionless, letting the spider silk completely surround her. The phoenix wings on her back gradually shrank until she plummeted straight down from the sky.
From the shadows, the Eight-Eyed Spider let out a joyful hiss. It rushed toward the spot where Ruan Qingyu had fallen, eager to enjoy its feast.
However, what greeted the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider was an explosive attack of flames. It turned out that Ruan Qingyu, who had pretended to be unable to hold on, had secretly attached her flames to the spider silk.
Once the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider entered the range of the Phoenix Divine Fire's attack, it immediately ignited its silk, and the raging flames instantly enveloped the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak—" The eight-eyed ghost spider kept howling as it crawled on the ground. The spider silk that had originally bound Ruan Qingyu had quietly melted away the moment the flames erupted.
This time, she didn't rush to approach the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider. She stared at the ball of flame for a long time until she was sure that the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider was completely still before slowly approaching.
However, the membrane of spiritual energy on its body circulated faster, as if sensing her approach, and the eight-eyed ghost spider suddenly sprayed a stream of black liquid from its abdomen.
Instantly blocked by the flames in front of her, the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider's final attack before its death was neutralized, accompanied by a wisp of green smoke.
Yun Yin's ears twitched; he had been lying still since then. However, he had been watching Ruan Qingyu's battle with the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider the whole time, but his divine sense remained focused on the other side of the forest.
On that side, a cultivator in the early Foundation Establishment stage kept observing Ruan Qingyu, accompanied by roars from afar. If Yun Yin's divine sense hadn't been exceptionally strong, he wouldn't have been able to detect the commotion on this side.
"Third brother! The demonic beast has been attracted!" Fang Cheng said to Fang Yuan, who had been hiding in the shadows. Fang He, who was faster, wrapped up the bundle in his hand and threw it in the direction of Ruan Qingyu with the help of spiritual power.
Instantly, Ruan Qingyu instinctively struck out with her palm, and amidst a shower of blood, Ruan Qingyu smelled a strong stench of blood.
Despite being burned quite a bit by the flames, some blood still dripped onto Ruan Qingyu's body.
"Your child was killed by her! It was her! She still smells of blood!" Fang Cheng's voice spread far and wide with the help of spiritual power, and was heard by the black bear that was chasing after him from afar.
The black bear was a Golden Core stage black bear that had just given birth to cubs. The black bear was still weak after giving birth, and Fang Cheng lured it away while it was out foraging for food. Fang He took the opportunity to take the cubs away from the cave.
Upon discovering that its cub had been taken away, the black bear angrily chased after the two men. That's how Fang Cheng and Fang He brought it to this nameless mountain range.
Hearing Fang Cheng's voice, and still smelling the stench of blood in his breath, Ruan Qingyu instantly realized she had fallen into a trap. Yun Yin, who had been lying beside her, stood up, his eyes fixed on the approaching black bear.
"Yunyin, let's head outside first." This place is almost completely exposed after her battle with the Eight-Eyed Demon Spider, which puts her at a great disadvantage.
In response, Yun Yin roared. Fang Cheng, wanting to trap Ruan Qingyu there, simply threw a Thunder Explosion Talisman over.
Fortunately, Yunyin had been watching them the whole time and immediately stopped the lightning explosion talisman in mid-air.
When Fang Cheng saw that the black panther was able to suppress the Thunder Explosion Talisman, he glared at it hatefully.
"Today I will make sure you die without a burial place." Fang Cheng's face was somewhat ferocious. If he had hesitated before, he was now at a point of no return with Ruan Qingyu.
Fang He glanced at the black bear that had already arrived and shouted to Fang Cheng, "Brother, the black bear is here. Let them kill it first!"
Yun Yin, abandoning his usual casual demeanor, stood somewhat tense in front of Ruan Qingyu, saying, "I'll deal with this black bear. You just watch out for those three."
Ruan Qingyu didn't recognize Fang He and Fang Yuan, but she remembered Fang Cheng's face; he was clearly one of the three from the Beast Taming Sect.
It was clearly these three who abandoned Liang Qingqing on their own initiative, and now, fearing for their own lives, they want to kill her as well, since she is the one who knows the secret.
"These three people tried to kill me to silence me because they felt guilty." Ruan Qingyu's voice deepened. At this moment, the Great Phoenix Heaven within her body was rapidly circulating, constantly absorbing the surrounding fire spiritual energy.
After the battle with the Eight-Eyed Ghost Spider, she had very little spiritual energy left. Only by quickly absorbing spiritual energy could she survive the rest of the battle.
The black bear in front of her couldn't tell who had killed its cub, and although the cub's blood on Ruan Qingyu's body had been wiped away, the stench of blood in the surrounding area couldn't be eliminated.
Enraged, the black bear raised its paw and swung it at Ruan Qingyu, but the lightning ball that Yun Yin spat out deflected the attack, instantly tearing the flesh from its paw.
"Awooo—!" The black bear stood up straight and roared, startling the birds flying away from the surrounding mountains.
This time, however, it ignored Yunyin and rushed towards Ruan Qingyu again. Seeing that the other was running towards her, the phoenix wings on Ruan Qingyu's back reignited, carrying her upwards.
With a deafening rumble of the ground collapsing, the black bear, having missed its target, looked up at Ruan Qingyu high in the sky, its roar growing increasingly furious.
This time, the black bear was too busy to take care of itself, because Yunyin swiftly jumped onto its back, his four paws crackling with purple lightning, enveloping the entire black bear.
"What!" Fang Cheng was so angry that he punched a tree when he saw that the black bear was being blocked by the black leopard.
Fang He stepped forward: "Brother, let's kill that woman while the chaos is at hand. No matter how powerful a leopard is, it can't speak."
"That's right, brother. Let's kill her together first, then we can escape faster. Right now, the black bear is still fighting the black leopard to the death, so it definitely won't have time to help." Fang Yuan said, drawing his long sword and rushing towards Ruan Qingyu.
Avoiding the black bear's tracks, Ruan Qingyu turned around and saw a long sword thrusting towards her. Her eyes narrowed, and a burst of fire erupted from her palms.
With her spiritual energy in her dantian restored to 50%, Ruan Qingyu summoned the Wutong Qin (a type of zither). The blazing flames on the phoenix tongue added a unique touch to the Wutong Qin.
Ruan Qingyu used her spiritual power to levitate the Wutong Qin (a type of zither), and with a flick of her right hand across the strings, sound waves instantly spread out. The sound of the zither seemed to carry the cry of a phoenix, and the sound waves blocked the longswords in the surrounding area.
Seeing that his first attack failed, Fang Yuan was surprised, but he reached out with his left hand and struck Ruan Qingyu with a palm that carried yellow sand.
"You sneak attacker, you shameless scoundrel!" Ruan Qingyu cursed at Fang Yuan, her left hand striking back with a palm strike. Instantly, sand and stones flew, accompanied by scorching sparks that flew between the two.
Fang Yuan immediately stumbled back dozens of steps before Fang Cheng grabbed him and stopped him. Ruan Qingyu, on the other hand, took a step back and stopped, coldly glancing at the three people who had huddled together.
"If the three of you hadn't come, I wouldn't have remembered the Beast Taming Sect at all. Now you can only pray that I'm really dead." Ruan Qingyu looked at the three of them, her eyes seemingly filled with ten thousand years of ice. She regarded those who wanted her dead as her enemies.
Fang Cheng sneered: "Cultivators fight against the heavens, but fighting against people is nothing more than a life-or-death struggle. You only have yourself to blame for running into us and learning our secret."
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding vegetation suddenly began to grow wildly. This was because the wood-elemental spiritual energy within Fang Cheng's body dispersed, stimulating the growth of the surrounding vegetation.
The already dense forest suddenly blocked out all sunlight.
In this dark and gloomy world, yellow sand appeared, accompanied by a chilling aura and suddenly enlarged vines, rushing towards Ruan Qingyu.
With a somersault, Ruan Qingyu dodged the sandstorm sweeping in from behind, letting out a cold snort. With a single palm strike, she extinguished the flames that were insignificant to her, and the Phoenix Divine Fire in her palm burned fiercely in the darkness, illuminating a patch of sky and earth.
Soon, the ground beneath her feet suddenly cracked open, and she would have fallen into the wide crevice if she hadn't jumped up in time.
Fang Yuan had used his technique to turn the ground beneath Ruan Qingyu's feet into sand, intending to engulf her in the blink of an eye. However, she dodged it again, and seeing her suspended in mid-air, the faces of the others darkened.
On the other side, after Yunyin struck the black bear with lightning several times, the bear finally seized an opening and knocked it down with a single blow.
Yun Yin flipped in mid-air and landed steadily on the ground, before he could make another move. The black bear didn't even look at him and continued to claw at Ruan Qingyu high in the sky.
Ruan Qingyu, within her consciousness, received a warning and quickly rolled away to avoid the black bear's large paw. However, Fang Cheng, seizing the opportunity, launched a sneak attack and stabbed her in the calf with his sword.
In an instant, most of the phoenix wings supporting Ruan Qingyu vanished, causing her to fall from the sky. Yun Yin roared, summoning Lei Di to stop the black bear with its gaping maw.
He then leaped rapidly into the air, allowing Ruan Qingyu, whose spiritual energy could no longer support her as she levitated, to land on his back.
"I'm fine. I just lost my balance because my spiritual energy was stagnant." Ruan Qingyu reassured Yun Yin in her mind, while becoming increasingly annoyed with the three of them.
Yun Yin said, "This black bear is at the Golden Core stage. Although I can restrain it, I cannot kill it completely. I will use some of the power of my Soul Core to kill the black bear later. Just keep an eye on those three."
The black bear is now locked in a life-or-death struggle with Ruan Qingyu. If the black bear cannot be completely killed, even if the three people are killed, Ruan Qingyu will still have to face the black bear's attacks.
The exchange between the two was completed in the blink of an eye, and they safely placed Ruan Qingyu on the ground. Yun Yin pounced on the black bear again, his roar even louder than the bear's.
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