Chu Hongluan ignored his words and walked straight to his stall, where she poured out a large pile of sun crystals from her spatial bracelet.
"Replace them all with cherry bombs."
Over this period of time, Chu Hongluan received some more crystals from the sunflowers and sun mushrooms in her spatial bracelet, and they are all here now.
Yuehua's lips twitched. "You still have the sunflower?! You don't mean to take my plant with you, do you?"
"Hmm... why wouldn't I want to?"
Chu Hongluan put all the cherry bombs that Yuehua handed her into her spatial bracelet, and then walked to the light circle to check on the people inside.
She planned to inform them of her plan beforehand, lest the beast tide swarm in and frighten them.
Hello, are you still alive?
"Cough, cough. Where...where did you all go?"
Chu Hongluan raised an eyebrow in surprise, not expecting that Xu Qingqiu would be the first to speak to her.
Her face was so pale it was almost transparent, and she looked frail and delicate. She usually had a high and mighty demeanor, but now, due to her physical weakness, she appeared unusually frail.
Seeing her like this, Chu Hongluan suppressed her urge to provoke her and softened her tone as she replied, "Go outside. We've divided the last wave of beasts into three groups and lured them to different locations. In a little while, the beast tide..."
"And then you abandoned them and came back by yourself? How could you be so selfish!"
Chu Hongluan was interrupted by Xu Qingqiu's sharp questioning halfway through her sentence. Her voice suddenly became louder, and she coughed violently again due to the internal injury in her chest being torn apart by her righteous indignation.
"......"
Chu Hongluan was almost amused by her, and swallowed the well-intentioned reminder that was on the tip of her tongue, instead saying, "Yeah, I came back to see if you're dead or not, and if you're not, I'll send you off on your way."
"You! You!"
Chu Hongluan ignored Xu Qingqiu, who was trembling with anger, and turned to leave.
That's incredibly unlucky.
Thinking back to how I had just felt a little pity for her, feeling sorry for such a beautiful woman ending up in such a state...
Chu Hongluan now wished she could slap herself twice to bring herself back to her senses.
At this moment, the sounds of fighting from the north and south gradually drew closer.
After holding out for so long, all the plants Chu Hongluan had given out had ended up in the monsters' bellies, and everyone's spiritual power was almost at its limit. They could only fight and retreat, leading the remaining monsters towards the courtyard.
Chu Hongluan counted the remaining plants in the spatial bracelet, whispered a few words to Liu Jinghong, and gave him half.
Then the two of them ran out of the courtyard like a gust of wind, one heading south and the other north.
They planted a plant every so often, like catching sparrows, and scattered rice along the way. The courtyard behind them was what they had prepared: baskets propped up with wooden sticks.
Chu Hongluan diligently planted radishes all the way to the war zone, planting one large radish at a time, which immediately attracted a large number of magical beasts.
"Elder Chu?"
"Take this opportunity and retreat in the opposite direction of the courtyard!"
"yes!"
The cultivators who had gathered in this area quickly dispersed. The magical beasts wanted to give chase, but they were uncontrollably drawn to the plants.
Never mind, let's finish eating these unsightly plants first!
"Snap—Snap—"
The monsters were huge; for them, every two steps they took, a plant would snap and crackle. Two more steps, another plant would snap and crack.
Seeing that all the magical beasts had been attracted, Chu Hongluan went straight back to the courtyard and met up with Liu Jinghong at the entrance.
"How is it?"
"all the best."
The two exchanged a smile, then crouched down in the corner of the courtyard, waiting for the sparrows to burrow into the basket.
The crackling sound outside grew closer, sounding like someone gnawing at their own scalp; even through the damp, cool night wind, it still sent chills down my spine.
We're getting closer; we're already at the wall.
You should have smelled it, right? The scent of human cultivators inside.
Chu Hongluan thought they were going to enter through the main gate, but the next moment...
Boom—
It stirred up clouds of dust.
The walls of the north and south courtyards collapsed simultaneously, shattering into a pile of bricks and tiles.
A pair of scarlet eyes quickly and accurately locked onto the "food" in the aperture.
Human cultivators...
Moreover, he was a high-level human cultivator...
Xu Qingqiu was the only one still awake within the circle of light. She frantically tried to wake the others, but they were all too badly injured and in a daze; no matter how much she shook them, they showed no sign of waking up.
This is a fear that belongs only to Xu Qingqiu.
"No--"
"Help!!!"
All the influence of aloofness and detachment is rendered meaningless at this moment.
"Chu Hongluan! Save me!!"
"Save me! You can't abandon me!"
"Chu Hongluan!!! You can't do this to me!"
Liu Jinghong reached out and covered Chu Hongluan's ears, a hint of mockery on her face.
Now they know to ask for help.
Why didn't you do this sooner?
They don't appreciate kindness.
The sweet aroma of food filled their nostrils, instantly arousing the beast horde. Loud and frenzied roars echoed one after another!
Finally, they moved—
They pounced on the light with insatiable hunger!
The beast's hooves kicked up sand and dust, and the sound was deafening!
Chu Hongluan kept a close eye on his movements, her right hand clasped with Liu Jinghong's large palm, and she began to continuously pour spiritual power into him, while counting down in her mind.
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
In that instant, the demonic beasts charging at the forefront had their claws embedded in the light circle, and their foul-smelling, blood-red mouths were wide open, with their drool about to drip onto Xu Qingqiu's face!
"ah--"
"Fu—"
Xu Qingqiu's heart-wrenching scream rang out almost simultaneously with Liu Jinghong's cry.
The Demon-Subduing Formation was activated, and tens of millions of tons of pressure instantly pressed down from the sky!
The monsters that entered the formation either knelt or pounced, and in an instant, it was as if they had been shoved into the mud by a giant hand, their spines creaking and groaning as if they were about to break at any moment.
Xu Qingqiu's screams stopped abruptly. Her eyes widened, and she gasped for breath, relieved to have survived the ordeal.
However, it's not over yet.
The formation is only this big, and can only cover this many magical beasts, but the beast tide is far more than this many.
With nearly half of the monsters still charging forward, how could they possibly stop? Even if those at the very front managed to stop, those in the back, unaware of the situation, would still surge forward.
So they simply trampled on it, crushing the bodies of their fallen comrades into dust and mud. The pungent stench of blood fueled their frenzy, mingling with the sweet aroma of high-level cultivators' flesh and blood, driving them to utter madness!
Xu Qingqiu felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, wishing she could faint like the others!
She never imagined that in just a few short seconds, she would experience two life-or-death moments of extreme fear!
The problem is, last time, a formation narrowly saved her from dire straits, but what about this time? There's only one formation, so who can save her now?!
She, a dignified elder of the Jade Maiden Sect, with a lifetime of illustrious reputation, was she really going to perish so carelessly in the jaws of beasts?! To die without a complete corpse?
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