The two figures that drifted into the entrance were Liu Yunqing and Feng Piaopiao.
Relying on her speed from her wind spirit root, Feng Piaopiao confronted the second brother and the others. While the onlookers watched the show, she cunningly pulled Liu Yunqing aside and quietly crept to the entrance to guard it.
The moment the entrance opened, he dashed inside at top speed and shouted at the person about to make a move.
By the time those people realized what was happening, the two had already disappeared into the white mist passage.
When faced with an opportunity, being one step ahead means being one step ahead.
This is Feng Piaopiao's idea, and it's perfectly fine.
However, in secret realms, opportunities are always intertwined with dangers. Being one step ahead may lead to victory or it may mean an early demise.
Clearly, Feng Piaopiao's luck wasn't very good in this secret realm.
The mist in the passage looked the same as the mist at the edge of the hemisphere, but as soon as the two stepped in, they felt their hair stand on end and their throats tighten.
Fortunately, the two had developed a tacit understanding and reacted in an instant, quickly turning around and standing back to back to be alert of their surroundings.
In close combat, it was difficult for Liu Yunqing to use a bow and arrow; he could only use one hand to perform a hand seal and the other to hold a spirit dagger.
Feng Piaopiao, on the other hand, took out her weapon of choice for the first time—a folding fan shimmering with spiritual light.
"roar--!!!"
Just as the two got into position, a monstrous beast, poised to pounce from within the mist, roared and charged at them.
Thinking of the eeriness in the mist earlier, Liu Yunqing pushed the fireball in her hand in the opposite direction from the beast's roar.
Feng Piaopiao raised an eyebrow, and after realizing what was happening, she lightly waved her folding fan, and a hurricane followed closely behind the fireball.
"roar--!!!"
Sure enough, the next instant came a painful roar from the seemingly normal mist, and a giant tiger with piercing eyes and a white forehead emerged from the mist.
Just as the giant tiger leaped up, raising its massive paws to stomp on the fireball, Liu Yunqing quickly formed hand seals, continuously throwing out fireballs, layering them on top of the fireballs he had thrown before.
Until it became so large that even a giant tiger could not step on it.
Feng Piaopiao never imagined that the fireball spell could be used in this way, and she was even more amazed by Liu Yunqing's intelligence.
At the same time, a thought struck him, and he quickly waved his folding fan, layering gusts of wind to help the fireball released by Liu Yunqing burn even more fiercely.
The small fireballs that could only scald the giant tiger and slow him down before, under the combined effect of Liu Yunqing's fireball spell and the amplification of Feng Piaopiao's hurricane, finally became a raging inferno.
"roar--!!!"
After letting out a final scream, the giant tiger was finally engulfed by the raging flames.
"Hmm? I thought that demonic tiger was really something, but it's nothing special!"
Feng Piaopiao closed her folding fan, her serious expression replaced by a casual smile, and turned to Liu Yunqing, saying:
"It must be because your fire was too powerful, and that demon tiger wasn't fast enough for me, so it was inevitable that it would be burned to death."
Liu Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief.
The spiritual power of the Qi Refining stage is still not enough, but after using the Fireball Technique several times in a row, most of the spiritual power in my body was depleted.
Putting away the spirit dagger, Liu Yunqing tried to circulate her internal meridians to replenish her spiritual energy, but her expression changed as soon as she did so.
"Fellow Daoist Feng, you cannot recover spiritual power inside the passage!"
Feng Piaopiao, who was grinning broadly, instantly stopped laughing upon hearing this, then pointed seriously behind Liu Yunqing and said:
"That's truly a double whammy."
A bad feeling welled up in Liu Yunqing's heart. When she turned around, she was met with a sea of green eyes.
The beast bodies to which those eyes belonged were hidden behind the mist, so Liu Yunqing and the other person couldn't see them clearly, but it was obvious that those gazes could penetrate the mist and see the two of them clearly.
"Plop—"
Feng Piaopiao swallowed hard, staring at the green eyes, and lowered her voice:
"Fight, fight or not?"
Liu Yunqing rolled her clear eyes upwards in an extremely ungraceful manner, gritted her teeth, and whispered:
“Fellow Daoist Feng, if I remember correctly, you are currently at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, your cultivation is two or three minor levels higher than mine!”
Feng Piaopiao wasn't embarrassed at all, and said matter-of-factly:
"So what? Our Shangqing Sect doesn't rely on superior combat strength to establish itself."
Liu Yunqing, feeling helpless and not wanting to engage in banter with him, turned her hand to hold the longbow and said:
"Fight or die!"
“We need to conserve our spiritual energy. I’ll use the bow, and you, being fast, will draw their attention.”
Feng Piaopiao may be timid, but she's obedient.
Liu Yunqing told him to attract attention, and without saying a word, he rushed towards the green eyes like a gust of wind.
"Awooo—!"
Liu Yunqing had no idea what Feng Piaopiao had done by rushing into the mist, but in no time, a pack of demon wolves was chasing after him.
"Jinru, save me! Ahhhhh!"
Without needing the wind to howl and whistle, Liu Yunqing, who was always on the lookout, decisively drew his bow and released his arrow the moment the first wolf's head peeked out of the mist.
"Awooo—!"
With a single arrow to the throat, the demon wolf let out a miserable howl, staggered to the ground, and then vanished into the mist.
"bite--"
As the mist dissipated, the crisp sound of a small crystal falling to the ground rang out.
Surprise flashed in Liu Yunqing's eyes. Without thinking much, he raised his hand and absorbed the crystal into his palm, then continued to draw his bow and shoot arrows to capture the second demon wolf.
These demonic wolves were all formed from the mist, and each of them was basically at the Qi Refining Perfection stage.
Because they weren't very intelligent, it wasn't difficult for Liu Yunqing and Feng Piaopiao to kill them when they worked together, but they couldn't withstand the sheer number of them.
Even though the two of them were careful with their spiritual energy, they couldn't overcome the fact that they didn't have much spiritual energy to begin with, and no matter how much they tried to conserve it, it slowly ran out.
As Liu Yunqing drew his bow and fired the last arrow, his spiritual energy waned, causing his hands to tremble uncontrollably. Feng Piaopiao was also exhausted and could only gasp for breath.
Fortunately, after two battles, the two men only suffered minor scratches and bruises, and were otherwise unharmed. Compared to those who were seriously injured, lost their lives, and gained nothing, they were already quite lucky.
However, their greatest gain was not that they hadn't lost their lives, but the green crystal fragments that Liu Yunqing had collected—which were the eyes of the Mist Demon Wolf.
When Liu Yunqing placed the last fragment into the previously collected fragments, all the crystal fragments suddenly moved without wind, floating and flipping in mid-air as if automatically searching for their own place.
Until all the fragments found their place, they eventually formed two clusters of green light.
As the green light faded, the two emerald jade tablets fell automatically into their hands.
"So, this passage was a test!"
Feng Piaopiao picked up the jade pendant and, imitating Liu Yunqing, tied it around her waist. The next moment, she exclaimed in delight:
"Hey! I can see now! I can see through the fog!"
"Fellow Daoist Zhenru, how do you know this is a universal jade token?"
"I don't know, I'm just guessing."
As Liu Yunqing spoke, she quickly walked forward.
Once the fog was gone, she realized that the exit of the passage was just a hundred meters away.
At the other exit of this passage, Liu Yunqing saw Liu Yunzhao, who was covered in injuries.
She really is here!
Watching Liu Yunzhao cough up blood, all alone, looking like he was about to faint at any moment, Liu Yunqing felt a sense of satisfaction.
Liu Yunzhao has finally met his end?
It was really hard for Liu Yunqing not to be tempted by this opportunity to take advantage of her illness and kill her.
What if?
What if we could kill her?
She can't always be so lucky, can she?
Look at this time, didn't Liu Yunzhao fail to get his heart's blood?
"Fellow Daoist Zhenru! Fellow Daoist Zhenru! Wake up!"
A voice filled with spiritual energy rushed into Liu Yunqing's brain, jolting her awake.
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