Zhu Yi was only fifteen and a half years old, and she looked rather thin and small, especially with the tall and strong Jin Bao standing next to her, which made her look even smaller in comparison...
"Utterly foolish, you are no match for me at all." Qing Shang's cold tone was completely devoid of any emotion.
He raised his hand, loosening the illusory chains of the five ferocious beasts between his fingers. The five fierce and ugly beasts took a big step forward, coming from five directions, and the safe zone in the middle of the formation became smaller and smaller.
Jinbao and Zhuyi stood back to back, surrounded by a thick black mist. Whenever they had the chance, the frenzied vengeful spirits would fly up and devour their flesh and blood.
Zhu Yi set up a protective array for the old woman. He cast a spell on the royal-level array plate, and the golden protective array covered the old woman's hunched body, protecting her firmly.
"Since you are able to manipulate the lingering afterimages of the five ferocious beasts, you must be someone of considerable importance," Zhu Yi affirmed.
The flame of the Buddhist lamp was growing weaker and weaker, so Zhu Yi had to continuously supply it with fire spirit energy as fuel.
"Heh, quite a knowledgeable little girl. Can I keep her to warm my bed?" Chi Su glanced at Qing Shang with a smile.
Qing Shang's eyes were lifeless, as if he had heard Chi Su's words, or as if he hadn't. He finally looked directly at the glass palace lantern in Zhu Yi's hand.
The sacred and magnificent magical artifacts are clearly incomparable to the broken copper and scrap iron of the cultivation world.
"Little girl, these ferocious beasts are drooling over your flesh and blood. Aren't you afraid?" Qing Shang made a hand gesture, and the Taotie opposite Zhu Yi opened its blood-red maw and came straight at her.
The creature Zhao Cai in Zhu Yi's arms was sleeping restlessly. It twitched slightly and instinctively reached out its claws to grab and poke left and right. The shallow spiritual energy it released was useless against the huge and ferocious Taotie phantom.
"Zhao Cai, go to sleep first. We'll grill fish for you when we get home!" Zhu Yi felt a pang of sadness. In her subconscious, Zhao Cai was still fighting against these ferocious beasts and trying her best to protect her with her last bit of spiritual power.
Tears welled up again uncontrollably, and Zhu Yi couldn't help but sob.
The phantom of the Taotie didn't understand what heartache was. Zhu Yi cried her eyes out, and the vengeful spirits were very happy. They surrounded the area, not daring to approach, and made way for the Taotie.
Zhu Yi tiptoed and put the wealth into the magic-locking bag, entrusting it to the old vine tree to take good care of.
The little demonic flowers gathered around Zhao Cai, looking at it intently, no longer grinding their sharp teeth as before. "Lord Demon Vine, do you think this cat is tasty?"
The old vine felt a tingling, throbbing pain all over its body when it thought of the divine lightning spell Zhu Yi had used to punish it last time. With a flick of its newly grown vines, it separated the drooling demonic blood flowers and said sternly, "Children, behave yourselves, or the boss won't let us off the hook!"
"Oh, oh..." The Demon Blood Flowers returned dejectedly, their attention no longer on Zhao Cai, but instead peeking and peering into the opening of the Demon Locking Bag to watch Zhu Yi wreak havoc.
With a sweeping motion, Zhu Yi fearlessly met the Taotie's gaping maw with the blazing light of the sword, which carried intense fire energy. He used all his strength to slash, chop, and kick.
Perhaps it was Zhu Yi's imposing aura that was too overwhelming.
Perhaps it was the exorcising inscription that Zhu Yi had written earlier on the shiny black blade of the horse-slaying sword that was effective.
Perhaps at this moment, Zhu Yi had no room to retreat except to move forward.
Zhu Yi's three moves forced the illusory Taotie to stop advancing, leaving it stuck in place. The meat that was right in front of its mouth could be seen but could not be eaten. Taotie roared in frustration, and the other four ferocious beasts also rubbed their fists, ready to attack Zhu Yi at any moment.
Jinbao wielded the folding fan with agility and strength, flicking it left and dodging right. When it happened to glance back at Zhu Yi's situation, it was extremely surprised!
"Junior Sister! You're amazing! That's a Taotie! An ancient ferocious beast! Woof!" Jinbao started barking again in his excitement.
Zhu Yiming's bright red spiritual light clashed with Taotie's dark and gloomy dampness.
From afar, the girl appeared as pure and holy as a night-blooming cereus in the darkness. She was upright and fearless, like the first rays of sunlight breaking through the layers of darkness, shining on the Black Fiend Mountain, a place shrouded in darkness year-round.
She was like a celestial maiden descending to earth, and within the fiery spiritual energy battling the Taotie, a bright lotus bud was about to bloom.
Zhu Yi had never circulated her spiritual energy at such a high intensity and speed before. In her dantian, the inner lotus seed, which had been dormant since her second breakthrough to the Golden Core stage, was slowly sprouting.
At this moment, a thick layer of fire spiritual energy gathered around the inner core lotus seed, and the inner core lotus seed was also constantly heating up. The itchy feeling was like something was about to break through the soil.
"I really underestimated you, little girl. I didn't expect you to be able to fight against Taotie for so long." Qing Shang's eyes were filled with amusement. If such a pure spiritual body could be refined into a puppet, what an excellent killing weapon it would be!
The hand seals loosened again, and in the second round, Qing Shang released Qiongqi to attack Zhu Yi from the left side once more.
"Watch out!" Jinbao couldn't sit still this time and rushed to Zhu Yi's side without saying a word...
For four or five days in a row, there was no news of Zhu Yi from Tianlan Sect and Peach Mountain, which Wei Weiwei found a little strange.
Previously, Zhu Yi gave her several Xuan Tian talismans to study. However, she encountered some problems that she did not understand. No matter how much she copied and studied them, Wei Weiwei could not draw the high-level Xuan Tian Burning Fire Talisman.
She sent a message to Zhu Yi via her mobile phone, but received no response for two days.
Wei Weiwei found it strange that she went to visit Zhu Yi at Peach Blossom Cottage early in the morning, when the morning light was still faint and the dew on the leaves had not yet dried.
There was no one there; the only creature in the yard was a group of squirrels fast asleep.
Eagle One and Eagle Two emerged from the breeding pouch, their eyes gleaming. They flapped their wings and opened their claws, ready to grab the squirrel and eat it.
"Squeak!" Song Xiaohua, a light sleeper, opened her mouth without thinking upon hearing the noise, "The weasel is coming! Run!"
Feeling guilty, Wei Weiwei quickly grabbed Eagle Da and Eagle Er and put them back into the animal breeding bag. She also grabbed a few spirit fruits to apologize to the little squirrels.
"I'm sorry, my spirit beast is being naughty and scared you." This morning, Weiwei was dressed in a simple women's outfit with tight sleeves in spruce green, her hair neatly tied in a high ponytail, and a high-grade sword at her waist. She looked like she was about to go to the training ground to practice her sword skills.
Song Xiaohong rubbed her sleepy eyes, looked at Wei Weiwei with bleary eyes, took a few fruits, and said with a grin, "We are the Squirrel Guard Team of Peach Blossom Lodge. Our leader went to rescue Zhaocai!"
"Huh? What? Go to rescue Zhao Cai? What happened to Zhao Cai?" Wei Weiwei felt something was off. Thinking about how Zhu Yi had lost contact for no reason, she was a little worried.
Song Xiaohong recounted the story of Zhao Cai's disappearance and Zhu Yi's hasty departure with Jin Bao, while also drawing pictures. Wei Weiwei became increasingly alarmed as she listened, her slender hand gripping the sword at her waist tighter and tighter until her knuckles turned white.
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