After he left, Qiqi took a deep breath like a little adult and then activated the guiding jade.
The jade pendant emitted a soft light, pointing in a direction deep within the secret realm.
"Little tiger, little snake, let's go." Qiqi took the lead, skipping and hopping along in the direction she was being shown, showing no sign of nervousness or fear.
Hu Ying and Bai Xuan exchanged a glance, both seeing a bittersweet look in each other's eyes.
He's still just a child; he probably has no idea what danger is.
Although I had carefully instructed and inquired with them beforehand, I guess they didn't really take it to heart.
Bai Xuan shook his head secretly.
However, he always felt that this little girl was hiding a big secret.
The things she said to Tiger Eagle before might not have been just childish jokes.
She knew Shen Ling and could recognize at a glance that the Qingxuan Sect disciple was not from this time and space. Could it be that she also did not belong to this time and space?
The deeper you go into the secret realm, the more bizarre the surrounding scenery becomes.
The once vibrant vegetation was gradually replaced by twisted, demonic plants, a faint black mist filled the air, and even the light became dim.
Along the way, they encountered numerous attacks from mutated creatures.
There were demonic wolves with bloodshot eyes, strange birds with jet-black wings, and various insects corrupted by demonic energy.
Fortunately, with Qiqi's talismans and special skills, they were always able to find the weaknesses of these demonized creatures and pass through safely.
During this time, the paper cranes that Qiqi had sent out to search for Huo Yuwei also flew back, but they didn't bring good news.
Huo Yuwei seemed to have vanished from this secret realm in an instant.
Qiqi frowned. Could it be that there are spacetime rifts in this secret realm, and Brother Huo and the others entered secret realms in different time and space, which is why they couldn't find it?
"These mutated creatures are getting stronger and stronger." After Bai Xuanzhan killed another mutated bear, he frowned and panted, "It seems we are getting closer and closer to the core area."
Tiger Eagle was also exhausted, its claws trembling. "If this continues, we'll die of exhaustion before we even reach the sealed land!"
Qiqi suddenly stopped and gestured for them to be quiet.
She listened intently, her expression changing slightly. "There's the sound of fighting ahead. Little Tiger and Little Snake. Let's go check it out."
The three of them crept forward quietly and hid behind a boulder to observe.
A fierce battle is taking place in the valley ahead.
On one side were several cultivators dressed in the robes of various sects, seemingly a temporary team of disciples from different sects.
On the other side were countless demonic creatures, including several humanoid monsters that had been completely corrupted.
"They look like disciples from another sect!" Bai Xuan whispered. "They're trapped."
The group of cultivators were clearly exhausted, their defensive perimeter was shrinking, and they were about to be swallowed up by the demons.
"Should we save them?" Tiger Eagle asked.
Of the three of them, it seems that two of them have grudges against these sects.
There's probably no need to save them!
Qiqi carefully observed the battlefield, then suddenly her pupils contracted, "Wait... those humanoid demons... they seem to be wearing Qingxuan Sect's attire!"
Bai Xuan and Hu Ying looked closely and indeed found that the humanoid demons had the same clothing fragments as Pu Yi on their bodies.
“They are Qingyun Sect disciples who have been completely corrupted by demonic energy. They have now become puppets of the demon race…” Qi Qi’s voice was heavy. “They can’t be saved.”
Just then, a sudden change occurred on the battlefield.
A girl dressed in white was accidentally struck by demonic energy during the battle and collapsed to the ground.
The surrounding monsters immediately pounced on her.
"Junior Sister!" a young man exclaimed, trying to rescue her but getting entangled by even more demons.
Seeing that the girl was about to die, Qiqi couldn't bear to leave her to die. She took out a talisman from her bag and threw it at her, shouting, "Help!"
Bai Xuan and Hu Ying reacted immediately upon hearing the sound. The two of them descended the mountain like tigers, and with the added blessing of Qi Qi's talisman, they instantly broke through the encirclement of the demons.
Qiqi ran over quickly, helped the girl up, and checked her injuries.
The girl's arm was being corrupted by demonic energy, and her skin had begun to turn black.
"Big sister, take your medicine!" Qiqi took out a black pill from her bag and handed it to the girl. At the same time, she took out several spirit energy talismans and threw them onto Hu Ying and Bai Xuan to help them replenish their spiritual energy.
The exhausted Tiger Eagle and Bai Xuan instantly perked up, and Tiger Eagle took a moment to turn around and complain.
"Little girl, why didn't you bring out such a good thing sooner!"
Qiqi stuck out her tongue, "Oh dear, I forgot!"
She really forgot.
Because the spiritual energy talisman doesn't actually provide a person with insufficient spiritual energy directly, but rather it draws in the spiritual energy in the surrounding air, which is then absorbed at an extremely fast speed.
In the world she was reborn into, spiritual energy was scarce, so the spiritual energy talisman became a useless item, something that could be added or removed.
I don't use Qiqi often, so I forgot about it.
I only remembered it when I ran into her while getting medicine for that girl.
"To compensate you, these talismans are free for you to use!" Qiqi said, tossing over a few more talisman papers.
Tiger Eagle and Bai Xuan caught it, glanced at it, and found it to be a jumble of indistinguishable symbols. "What are these?" they asked.
"Yellow increases strength, blue increases speed, red increases attack, and black increases defense!" Qiqi explained in a rapid-fire voice.
Upon hearing this, Hu Ying and Bai Xuan immediately stuck all the talismans on themselves.
The two's attack power immediately surged, and together with the besieged sect disciples, they forced the demonized Qingxuan Sect disciples into a series of defeats.
Seeing that they were out of danger, Qiqi turned to look at the girl who had almost been in danger, only to find her staring blankly at the pill in her hand, looking somewhat sad.
"Miss, why aren't you eating?" Qiqi asked in a childish voice. "If you don't eat, the demonic energy will invade your heart, and you'll become like them."
The girl's face was pale, and upon hearing this, she gave a sorrowful smile, "Becoming them isn't so bad, anyway... humans aren't necessarily much better than demons!"
Qiqi blinked. There's a story behind this.
Coincidentally, she loves listening to stories.
Qiqi snatched the pill from the girl's hand, stood on tiptoe, and poured it into her mouth.
"Hmm..." The girl was suddenly fed a mouthful and looked at her in shock.
Qiqi smiled with her eyes crinkled, looking completely harmless.
Fortunately, the young lady wasn't very tall, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to feed her.
Once the pill entered her mouth, she couldn't spit it out and had no choice but to swallow it.
Feeling that the raging demonic energy within her body seemed to be under control, she relaxed and looked at the little girl in front of her. "Little sister, which sect are you from? This place is very dangerous. How could your sect let a child like you come in? And those two, those are... demons, right? Why are you with two demons?"
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