Outside Panshe Valley.
The night was dark, the air was hot and humid, and a red mist filled the swamp. Everywhere you looked you could see black snakes with red lines on their backs, hissing as they crawled about.
Ge Yuchan staggered forward, but eventually she could not hold on and fell to the edge of the humid swamp, her body covered with marks of being torn by sharp claws.
The fire evil attacked her heart, and with new injuries added to old ones, Ge Yuchan's face turned pale and she curled up in pain.
The hissing sound was getting closer and closer. Ge Yuchan struggled to get up, but her body could not move.
Give up!
"here we go again… "
Ge Yuchan had half of her body immersed in the boiling swamp water. She had heard this sound countless times along the way.
Give up, it's all useless persistence!
It's all your wishful thinking. Everyone is running away and no one needs your persistence.
If you give up, you won’t feel pain anymore.
"I don't… "
Hiss!
A red dragon was circling down from the tree and crawling towards Ge Yuchan.
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Behind the outpost camp, at the foot of the cliff.
boom!
The two forces that had been in a stalemate for a long time suddenly exploded, and the powerful shock wave knocked the three people at the back away and slammed them against the cliff.
Yun Shang fell heavily to the ground, and the bald giant ape that had just protected her whimpered and turned back into a little monkey.
Phew!
The sound of a sharp blade entering flesh was heard, accompanied by a shrill scream, and the mutant two-headed wolf king, who almost took all their lives, had his last head chopped off by Yu Qiuchi.
Gu Liu and Zheng Chong struggled to get up and saw Yu Qiuchi with tattered clothes, scars all over his body, half of his face stained with blood, walking towards the crowd with difficulty among the wolf corpses.
Before he reached him, Yu Qiuchi suddenly fell down.
"Senior Sister Yu!"
Gu Liu crawled over to check. Yu Qiuchi was badly injured and his breath was gradually weakening.
She hurriedly searched for healing pills on her body, but found only an empty bottle.
"Pills, who still has pills?"
Zheng Chong shook his head, and Yun Shang searched her whole body but found no extra pills.
Along the way, monsters, evil corpses, and swarms of insects almost took their lives several times. Every time, Yu Qiuchi saved the situation. It has been their limit to hold on until now.
Yun Shang stood blankly at the foot of the cliff, watching Gu Liu at a loss, watching Zheng Chong's eyes turn red, watching Yu Qiuchi's face lose color bit by bit.
The sounds of the entire world slowly disappeared, leaving only the sharp tinnitus and her increasingly rapid heartbeat.
Yu Qiuchi is about to die, and the person who killed my parents is about to die!
But…
Her last relative, her little aunt, is also going to die!
Yun Shang suddenly came back to her senses, strode to Yu Qiuchi, and shouted with red eyes.
"Yu Qiuchi, your life belongs to me. You can't die without my consent!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Qiuchi's hand moved, but that was all.
Zheng Chong, who was standing by, looked up at the cliff and spoke coldly.
"We can't delay any longer. We will miss the second teleportation array opening in four hours. We must climb up now."
Gu Liu struggled a lot, "But what about Senior Sister Yu? We can't just abandon her?"
"We will all die if we take her with us!" Zheng Chong shouted.
Yun Chang clenched her fists, lowered her head, her face obscured by shadows, "If you want to leave, go by yourself!"
Zheng Chong gritted his teeth, bowed to Yun Shang, and without hesitation grabbed the vines at the bottom of the cliff and climbed up.
Gu Liu hesitated for several times, but finally stood up.
"Junior Sister Yun, please hold on for a while. Once we get out, we will definitely find someone to rescue you."
After saying that, Gu Liu also ran to the foot of the cliff and climbed up with all his strength.
roar!
The ground was shaking, the roars of the evil corpses were approaching quickly, and the bloody smell of wolf corpses all over the ground was attracting more and more bloodthirsty beasts to approach.
Yun Shang drew out the flying blade and stayed by Yu Qiuchi's side, not leaving his side for a moment.
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Deep in the abandoned mine.
This is the deepest part of the mine, and a large amount of fire crystal veins make the mine tunnel glow red.
Ordinary fire crystal is a main material for making fire-attribute magical instruments. It is bright red in color. The darker the color, the rarer it is, and the higher the quality of the magical instrument refined from it.
What Jiang Yuebai dug up were all top-quality, deep purple fire crystals, which could be used to refine magical weapons that surpass magical instruments.
During her rest days, she would release the mining puppets to dig as much as possible.
Zhao Fuyi awoke after regulating her breathing. Except for her Dantian which was sealed, the state of her soul, sea of consciousness and meridians had all recovered.
By then, I can forcibly break through the Dantian seal and hold on for a while longer.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Jiang Yuebai sitting among piles of purple fire crystals, practicing magic with two jade slips.
One is the "Blade Flowing Wind Kill" seized by Jiang Yuebai, and the other is the "Five Thunders Orthodoxy" exchanged from the Tianyan Sect's library.
Zhao Fuyi discovered that since they set out on the journey together, Jiang Yuebai had been studying during every break, and apart from causing her trouble, he never slacked off for a moment.
This perseverance is three times stronger than when she was practicing formations in Wanfa Hall. At least during the Qi training period, she still needed to sleep for an hour every day to restore her energy, but Jiang Yuebai never sleeps.
"It takes a lot of time to move your mining puppet back and forth. With two small teleportation arrays, you don't have to travel back and forth."
Jiang Yuebai's ears pricked up, "What small teleportation array? I've only heard of large teleportation arrays, which are simpler than teleportation arrays and cannot teleport living things."
Zhao Fuyi looked at Jiang Yuebai expressionlessly, "Do you want to learn?"
Jiang Yuebai was about to nod, but suddenly froze.
Wait! This routine is so familiar!
It was just like the last time when Mo Baichun hid silk cloth inside the puppet to lure her into the trap.
Jiang Yuebai moved his body with a rebellious heart, "I don't want to learn."
The corners of Zhao Fuyi's lips curled up slightly and then immediately lowered, looking deep into the mine with a worried look on his face.
"According to the route marked by Weimian, we are very close to the exit under the Shenjiling volcano. We don't know whether we will face the evil cultivators of the Sanyuan Sect or those immortal monsters of the ghost clan."
"Um."
"Are you afraid?"
Jiang Yuebai moved his ten fingers attentively, feeling the rhythm of the wind, and said without raising his head: "We are already here, is it useful to say that we are afraid?"
Zhao Fuyi said seriously: "Just send me to the center of the formation, then you can take the Earthly Evil Fire and escape as soon as possible."
"I didn't intend to care about you."
Zhao Fuyi: … …
Jiang Yuebai paused, then explained with an awkward smile, "What I meant is that I won't interfere with your formation. I'll just hide and watch from the side, and help you shoot hidden arrows or something."
Zhao Fuyi took out the Four Symbols and Eight Diagrams formation diagram, confirmed the formation process again, and asked casually, "Are you still resentful that I rejected you in public?"
Jiang Yuebai shook his head, "You just made your choice. No one in this world has the responsibility to put me first, to put me first, or to like me or take care of my feelings. No matter what I want, I can't force it. I can pursue it boldly, but I also have to accept failure boldly."
"My grandfather once told me to follow my heart and accept the result calmly. Regrets are not important. What is important is to be trapped in regrets and miss out on better things."
Zhao Fuyi chuckled, "You said it so nicely, but who was the one who mocked me all along the way? You are the one who said one thing and did another."
Jiang Yuebai turned around angrily, "So I accept failure, but I can't be angry, right? I mocked you, you didn't kill me, but you were angry. Just like quarreling with my parents, I was really angry, but they never thought about getting a divorce, these are two different things."
Zhao Fuyi was stunned, and suddenly felt that it made sense. Jiang Yuebai understood the truth, but he would not use it to hold himself hostage or embarrass himself.
It seems contradictory, but it is actually very clear, which makes Zhao Fuyi feel enlightened.
After looking at the formation diagram for a while, Zhao Fuyi suddenly thought of something, "Jiang Yuebai, can you lend me your formation plate to take a look?"
Boom!
The earth shook and large pieces of rubble fell from overhead. The mountain wall suddenly cracked, and the hideous cracks quickly extended in all directions.
Streams of black evil energy spread out from the cracks like thick smoke.
Jiang Yuebai took the ore from the ground and rushed to Zhao Fuyi. She felt the deep chill of the Nine Nether Hell from the evil spirit, which made her shudder.
Even Xiaolu in the sea of consciousness trembled and hid under the two leaf hands.
Uh uh!
The eternal groaning sound echoed in the narrow mine tunnel. Groups of blood-colored mist rushed out of the cracks and merged with the evil spirit, emitting the breath of death.
In an instant, it condensed into a human-shaped ghost, revealing bloodthirsty eyes, staring at Jiang Yuebai and Zhao Fuyi viciously.
"This is the Netherworld Blood Demon that has long been extinct in the ghost clan!"
Zhao Fuyi was horrified and turned around to look. They had been blocked in the mine by the Netherworld Blood Evil and had no way to retreat.
(End of this chapter)