After sending off the carrier pigeon, Jingzhao Ning watched Sui Yi leave.

This parting, he had a feeling that it would be difficult to meet again...

Not a native of the Central Plains... could she be leaving in the future?

Jingzhao Ning felt inexplicably melancholic and drained his cup of wine.

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Ten days later.

Outskirts of Chengdu.

Sui Yi looked at the serene and shady forest before her... a small path led upward, deep and cool, but as Sui Yi released her Magnetic Sensation forward, she could sense the jagged cliffs and treacherous paths within this Spiritual Mountain... not easy to enter.

At least an ordinary person would absolutely be unable to venture deep into the mountain, but martial artists...

Sui Yi quickly entered the mountain. Midway up, she stood on the branch of a towering tree, watching a group of people trapped below.

"Damn it, why is this place so eerie!"

"We’ve been trapped for three days now."

"Even though there are wild fruits and animals in the mountain to eat, staying trapped here isn’t a solution."

"Who told you not to listen to advice and insist on coming in..."

"I just thought this mountain was full of Spiritual Energy and mysteries, maybe there’s hidden treasure..."

A chorus of complaints arose from the group, left with no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of their greed.

Sui Yi glanced over and noticed these people were already at the Maze’s Core. A few more tries and they would find their way out.

It didn’t matter,

Sui Yi lightly kicked off, shooting into the forest.

"Such a complex Mountain and River Dragon Formation... With the Triple Formation Method, if an ordinary person entered, they would find themselves back at the exit no matter where they walked. If someone knew a bit about formations... they would likely still get lost midway."

Innocent people were sent out, while those with ulterior motives were trapped within, a slight punishment.

The character of the mountain’s owner was evident.

However, Sui Yi quickly sensed something amiss.

The formation was broken.

Someone had entered the heart of the mountain.

Sui Yi stood at the edge of a mountain ridge, looking at the towering suspension bridge connecting two cliffs ahead. On a few planks of wood, Sui Yi saw sword marks, indicating a fight had occurred, and the marks were fresh.

Sui Yi compared the depth of the marks with her fingers.

"Minor Grandmaster."

Sui Yi’s eyes slightly narrowed.

With a slight kick, she crossed the seventy to eighty-meter-long bridge in two steps, and the bridge did not sway in the slightest.

On the other side of the suspension bridge was a cave within the cliff; the cave was quite narrow and long.

Once inside, Sui Yi smelled the scent of blood, carried by the wind from the other side...

Very fresh.

It seemed she’d arrived just in time.

Meanwhile, inside the mountain corridor, two figures sped quickly through the many entangled corridors.

But behind them, several auras pursued, growing fainter at the moment....

Had they shaken them off?

Yue Shan and Shi Qingxuan suddenly halted their steps...

A cold wind rushed in.

Two attacking gusts came!

Xi Ying! Bian Bufu!

"Careful!" Yue Shan sidestepped, blocking in front of Shi Qingxuan... slicing at the Purple Qi Sky Net...

However...

Boom!

A loud explosion.

Yue Shan’s chest caved in, his whole body slammed against the mountain wall, crashing into a large pit.

He was covered in blood, while on the other side, Shi Qingxuan sidestepped to avoid Bian Bufu’s sudden assault. Her Green Flute deflected the long sword with a clang, as her fingertips joined, releasing a green Sword Flow along the Green Flute. Like the melodious echo of a valley, it resounded once, making Bian Bufu’s face change as he retreated decisively.

Shi Qingxuan drove Bian Bufu back and quickly flashed to Yue Shan’s side. Seeing Yue Shan’s sunken chest wound, her expression changed dramatically.

If not for Yue Shan single-handedly blocking Xi Ying’s Purple Qi Sky Net just now, she would not have been able to withstand the ambush of Xi Ying and Bian Bufu. If the distance was greater, she might have stood a chance.

But now that disaster had struck, Yue Shan’s severe injury was extremely dangerous, and Shi Qingxuan immediately frowned, looking at Xi Ying, who appeared noble and refined yet cold and sinister.

"Yue Shan, you probably didn’t expect that I had concealed my martial arts..."

"If I hadn’t deliberately hidden it before, how could you have been arrogant enough to escort Shi Qingxuan back alone... Jie Jie, you’re still as foolish as you were back then.. did you still think I was the same as before, not your opponent?"

Xi Ying sneered coldly, no longer the man who barely managed to fight Yue Shan to a standstill for hundreds of rounds in Luoyang before.

Defeating Yue Shan in a single move was the true power of Heavenly Lord Xi Ying.

Beside him, Bian Bufu glanced at Xi Ying, saying, "Stop wasting time, finish this person quickly, then take Shi Qingxuan away... lest things drag on and complicate."

Although Xi Ying wanted to humiliate Yue Shan further to avenge his bitterness of being in the Barbarian Wilderness for so many years, what Bian Bufu said was indeed true, this matter could not delay.,

So Xi Ying and Bian Bufu were about to strike deadly...

Shi Qingxuan’s fingers grasped the Green Flute, suddenly!

A shadow instantly approached.

A sword flashed brilliance.

Puchi~~

A bloodstain appeared on Xi Ying’s neck... he widened his eyes, looking at Shi Qingxuan and Yue Shan in disbelief.

Yue Shan, struggling to hold onto life, unwilling to see Shi Qingxuan taken by the two, saw Xi Ying — who had just been arrogant — now dead within the blink of an eye.

Shi Qingxuan was also surprised, but she quickly pursed her lips, her eyes flickering slightly.

She had arrived?

Great Grandmaster! Who else could it be!

Bian Bufu took a quick step and escaped into a cave.

As he fled, Sui Yi appeared.

She looked at Shi Qingxuan, "I came late."

Shi Qingxuan had no mood for joy at being rescued, her fingers pressed on Yue Shan’s meridians, her face changed repeatedly, finally settling into calmness, unable to say a word more, and not asking Sui Yi to save him.

Because....

Instead, Yue Shan smiled.

"Meridians severed, heart meridian difficult to mend, there’s no strength to turn things around, but to see that bastard perish before my death, the heavens have not abandoned me in this life..." Yue Shan was valiant, yet sorrowful, but he wouldn’t show the sorrowful side, at death’s door, he grasped Shi Qingxuan’s wrist.

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