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The caravan continued along the forest path, running non-stop for half a day, until the afterglow disappeared into the sky and the stars suddenly filled the sky. Xue Rong stopped the carriage and lifted the curtain. "Miss, are you okay?" "I'm fine." Her voice was unsteady, as if she was forcing a breath from her lungs. Xue Rong half-leaved into the carriage, her eyes red. "If we could find them... we wouldn't have let you suffer like this. It's all my fault for being incompetent." "Shut up. Those people don't have the aura of ordinary people. Don't let anyone hear it." Xue Qingtang coughed a few times, her cheeks flushed beneath her cloak. "It's all fate now. There's no need to blame anyone." "If it were me..." She looked at Xue Rong's eyes, which were about to burst into tears, and she couldn't bear to continue. Ultimately, she was too weak. If she were stronger, she wouldn't have to rely on the things in her arms to protect the Snow Country. Xu Mobai stroked the back of his hand, wondering, "Do you feel the temperature dropping a bit?" Jiang Chen narrowed her eyes, sniffing the scent carried by the distant wind—a chilly scent like snow. "Looks like we have an uninvited guest," she said, moving to sit beside Feng Jingluo. "You must protect this distinguished alchemist." Xu Mobai also moved over and sat down. With Bai Yuge around, he was of no use. Things were becoming increasingly confusing. A northern caravan could actually attract looters. The temperature dropped noticeably, and a thin layer of frost formed on the ground and tree trunks. Xue Rong stood guard in front of the carriage, her face a mixture of anger and resentment. The other cloaked girls gathered around, observing the surroundings warily. "Formation?" Jiang Chen touched the ground. As an alchemist, she didn't know much about formations, but she occasionally used them when refining elixirs, which allowed her to discern this one as a joint formation set by multiple people. They were all spiritual roots of the same nature. To break the formation, it was useless to target just one person; they had to attack all the people who had set up the formation simultaneously, otherwise the damage would be evenly distributed. Snowflakes fell from the sky, and the chill was biting. The coldness generated by the formation required several people to resist it with their spiritual power, and then they discovered that the formation was absorbing their spiritual power. "This is not an ordinary enemy." Jiang Chen caught a snowflake, and his palm immediately turned red from the cold. "Xue Qingtang, hand over the things." A vague voice came from a distance. Xue Qingtang got out of the carriage, and Xue Rong took out the fire fur coat and put it on her. "Dream on!" "With your body, how much longer can you hold on? It's better to give it to me and let me use the remaining energy than to waste it in your hands." The voice sneered, and a dark shadow appeared in the air, its gaze shifting from Xue Qingtang and the others to her...
The caravan continued along the forest path, running non-stop for half a day, until the afterglow disappeared in the sky and the sky was filled with stars.
Xue Rong stopped the carriage and lifted the curtain, "Miss, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Her voice was unsteady, as if she was trying to muster some air from her lungs.
Xue Rong leaned halfway into the carriage, her eyes reddened. "If we could find her... we wouldn't have let the young lady suffer like this. It's all my fault for being incompetent."
"Be silent. Those people don't have the same aura as ordinary people. Don't let anyone hear them." Xue Qingtang coughed a few times, his cheeks flushed under his cloak. "It's all fate now. There's no need to blame anyone."
"If I..." She looked at Xuerong's eyes that were about to cry, and couldn't bear to stop talking.
Ultimately, she was too weak. If she were stronger, she wouldn't have to rely on the things in her arms to protect the Snow Country.
Xu Mobai stroked the back of his hand and asked doubtfully, "Do you feel that the temperature around here is a little low?"
Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes and sniffed the scent carried by the wind blowing from afar. It was a cold smell like snow.
"It looks like we have an uninvited guest." She walked over to Feng Jingluo and sat down. "You must protect this honorable alchemist of mine."
Xu Mobai also walked over and sat down. With Bai Yuge around, he was of no use at all. Things were getting more and more confusing. A northern caravan could actually attract people to plunder.
The surrounding temperature dropped at a rate visible to the naked eye, and a thin layer of frost formed on the ground and tree trunks.
Xue Rong stood guard in front of the carriage, her face a mixture of anger and hatred. The other girls in cloaks also gathered around, observing their surroundings warily.
"Formation?" Jiang Chen touched the ground. She was an alchemist and didn't know much about formations. It was just that she occasionally needed to use some formations when refining pills, which allowed her to tell that this was a joint formation set up by many people.
Even if they have spiritual roots of the same attributes, if you want to break the formation, it is useless to find one person alone. You must attack all the people who set up the formation at the same time, otherwise the damage will be shared equally.
Snowflakes were falling from the sky, and the cold was biting. The coldness brought about by the formation had to be resisted by several people using their spiritual power, and then they found that the formation was absorbing their spiritual power.
"Not an ordinary enemy." Jiang Chen caught a snowflake, and his palm immediately turned red from the cold.
"Xue Qingtang, hand over the things." A vague voice came from a distance.
Xue Qingtang got out of the carriage, and Xue Rong took out the fire fur coat and put it on her. "Dream on!"
"With your body, how long can it last? It's better to give it to me and let me make use of the remaining energy than to waste it in your hands." The voice sneered, and a black shadow appeared in the air, and his gaze moved from Xue Qingtang and others to them.
"If you're smart, step aside. I can still give you a chance to survive."
Jiang Chen squeezed his delicate nose and muttered dissatisfiedly, "There are always some old people who think young people are easy to bully."
She waved and smiled, "Excuse me, this era is ours."
There are no useless people among those who emerged from Lianjue Mountain.
Bai Yuge raised his head, he was in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, he could be killed!
Silver Moon was unsheathed, and without much hesitation, he rushed towards the black shadow in the air with his sword. However, the man did not fight back, but left through the open hole in the magic circle, with Bai Yuge following closely behind him.
None of them were worried about Bai Yuge's safety. Only someone like the Blood Ancestor of Mingling, who was in the Out-of-Body Realm and whose realm was too far behind theirs and who was far superior to them, could pose a threat.
Otherwise, even if you are in the Nascent Soul stage, don't even think about hurting them.
The cold air inhaled into Jiang Chen's lungs made him sneeze and his nose felt a little itchy.
She took out a few pills and threw them into the magic circle in the air. The pills suddenly exploded and turned into blazing fireballs, like small suns.
The intense heat instantly dispelled the coldness brought by the magic circle.
"What's going on? Are you going to leave us alone after leading Bai Yuge away?"
"What kind of weird elixir have you developed?" Xu Mobai stared at the fireballs in the sky, holding his stomach and feeling uncomfortable.
I really don’t know which unlucky person will eat this kind of pill in the future and be burned into charcoal from the inside.
"I bought the sun core fragments at a high price, added a very concentrated spiritual fire, condensed it into liquid, sealed it into the sun core, and used seven kinds of cold spiritual medicine to wrap it. Each pill looks like a pill of excellent grade to replenish spiritual power."
Xu Mobai felt a toothache. "If you separate them, how many pills can you make? You insist on mixing them together. No wonder you always have no spirit stones!"
The guy who spends money lavishly actually wastes it here.
Jiang Chen was also helpless and sighed, "I wanted to try to cultivate a miniature version of the sun, but I don't know what went wrong. The sun's core is about to explode. In order to avoid being killed by the explosion, I can only use other spiritual medicines to seal it."
Xu Mobai's eyes widened, and he slowly turned his head to look at her dully. "You failed three times?"
Jiang Chen nodded, smiling with his white teeth showing.
Xu Mobai lowered his head and pounded his forehead, "If we meet again in the future, please stay away from me!"
It would be too frustrating if he didn't even know that he would be killed by a bomb one day.
The scorching temperature of the fireball continued to burn the magic circle. Although the damage would be evenly distributed, the person who set up the formation could not bear it if it continued.
Several more people appeared outside the magic circle, but did not enter it. They just held bows and locked onto Xu Mobai from a distance.
He sneered, "It seems that the target this time is me." Is he trying to defeat them one by one by separating them?
Idiot, didn’t you check beforehand if Feng Jingluo is here too?
"I'll be back soon." Although Xu Mobai was not worried about Jiang Chen, she was an alchemist after all, and she had many strange and exotic elixirs. However, she was only in the early stage of Golden Elixir, so she was somewhat worried.
"Try not to leave Feng Jingluo's side."
"I'm not stupid."
I wanted to relax for some time before heading to the forbidden area, but some blind guy came over.
A sword appeared in front of him, and Xu Mobai held it, just as the people outside the formation wanted. He opened the hole that allowed him to escape and chased after them.
Yun Ruchen gathered his spiritual power in his eyes, and crisscrossing patterns appeared in his field of vision. He followed the complex patterns, looking for flaws at every node where they intersected and changed paths.
"Next, they will probably try to lure you away." Jiang Chen stood up and patted his chest, "Don't worry, I will take good care of your little husband."
"Just go ahead." Otherwise, how could they be drawn out and captured in one fell swoop? Those who practice cultivation are most afraid of leaving any fish slipping through the net.
"You'd better be careful." If the person behind the scenes doesn't show up, she won't show up either.
Feng Jingluo looked at Yun Ruchen. He had the handkerchief and earth-level spiritual treasure she gave him, which were enough to protect him.
"I'll be back soon."
Just as they were talking, several people appeared outside the magic circle, who were even stronger than the black shadow that led Bai Yuge away.
Feng Jingluo followed in the air, and Yun Ruchen watched her departing figure. Jiang Chen joked, "You can't bear to part with me after just parting?"
Yun Ruchen smiled bitterly. He really couldn't stand this person's teasing, "The loophole in the formation is in the Gen position." The foundation of the entire formation is stable. As long as the formation pattern in the Gen position is broken, the formation will become unstable and then unbalanced.
Jiang Chen stared at the sky, "No hurry, wait a little longer."
The person behind the scenes didn't let her wait too long. He seemed to be sure that Feng Jingluo and others had gone far away before he slowly appeared.
The figure was tall, wearing a pure black ghost face mask, with his hands behind his back, looking down at Xue Qingtang.
"I didn't expect you to hire some people to die with you at this time. Xue Qingtang, you are even more stubborn than I thought."
She took off her hood, revealing her snow-white, smooth hair and crystal-clear blue eyes.
"Your dog mouth is really good at biting people." Xue Qingtang raised her hand, but was stopped by Xue Rong. She shook her head and said in a trembling voice, "Girl, no!"
Her physical condition is no longer suitable for using spiritual power.
The ghost-faced man snorted coldly, "You are so sharp-tongued. Treasures belong to those with virtue. The lives of Xue Qingtang and others depend on your thoughts."
Judging from his size, he was from the north. Jiang Chen thought for a few seconds and then waved his hand. "What? After you lead those people away, you're going to pretend I don't exist?"
"That's too disrespectful to alchemists!"
She really doesn't like fighting. After all, it's more interesting to hide in the dark and trap others.
Jiang Chen spread her fingers, and a small tripod appeared in her palm. The body of the tripod was beautifully decorated with intricate patterns. As she threw it upwards, the tripod grew bigger in the wind and crashed towards the ghost-faced man.
A blue flame ignited on her fingers and she threw it towards the cauldron. The flame wrapped around the giant cauldron and burned fiercely.
"I will turn you into a human pill right now!"
With a wave of his arm, several kinds of spiritual medicine appeared in front of him. He used his palm as a furnace to roast them, and in a flash, he refined the spiritual medicine into liquid medicine.
"What the hell!" The ghost-faced man was displeased. He slapped the cauldron with his palm, causing it to hum non-stop. His eyes lit up, "Another treasure."
He stretched out his hand to grab the giant cauldron. The blue flame looked strange but had no temperature. Even when his fingers touched it, he did not feel any burning or pain. However, in just a few seconds, the bones in his palm were exposed.
"Idiot!" Jiang Chen, who was always joking, rarely turned cold. His eyes seemed to be given a layer of deep blue by the color of the flames. "Swallow!"
The tripod grew bigger again and covered the ghost-faced man.
"Looking for death!" The ghost-faced man was furious and dodged repeatedly. He didn't care that his palm had turned into bones. He carried frost all over the sky and blocked the giant tripod. At the same time, he slapped Xue Qingtang with his palm that had turned into bones.
"In that case, none of you will survive today!"
Xue Rong stood in front of Xue Qingtang, put his hands together and then opened them, and a translucent blue lotus bloomed in front of him, trying to block the giant palm formed by the ice and frost.
Jiang Chen hesitated for a moment, and the giant cauldron gave up swallowing the ghost-faced man, moved in front of the two of them, and swallowed the giant palm.
The ghost-faced man waved his sleeves and a black mist spread. Upon closer inspection, they found that it was a dense swarm of insects that tried to devour them.
Corpse-eating bug?
How could anyone keep such a disgusting thing?
Jiang Chen was disgusted. Not only did she not want to swallow these bugs, she now even didn't want to swallow this ghost-faced man. It was so dirty!
"You have no moral sense at all. If someone sends you materials, you should at least clean yourself up first."
Jiang Chen beckoned the cauldron back, took it into his body, and shouted, "You guys are too slow! Do you really want me, an alchemist, to fight you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yuge was already standing on the branch, with blood dripping from the tip of his sword.
Xu Mobai flew back lazily, dressed neatly. "Isn't this because I'm afraid of disturbing your fun?"
Feng Jingluo ignored the magic circle, returned to his original position, and slashed with his sword. The flying insects in the sky were strangled to death by the sword light.
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