As the crimson snow fell upon the young man and the girl with swords in their hands, it was blocked by the straw hats above their heads.
They stood outside the blood-colored spirit monument, with an impeccable demeanor and no hint of fear in their eyes, allowing the compound eyes of the other party to scrutinize them.
Zuo Min, as the owner of those eyes, felt an extremely strange sense of discordance from the two of them.
—How could two cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage be so calm in front of her, a demonic cultivator at the Core Formation stage?
Moreover, the boy mentioned the relationship between her and Wu You, knowing that she had once studied the art of Gu poison by Wu You's side, and even said that Wu You died at his hands.
Zuo Min had heard rumors before that Wu You seemed to have died at the hands of a young cultivator with the bloodline of the Immortal Emperor.
Could this boy be the descendant of the Immortal Emperor?
If so, then the boy facing her now with such composure had some reason.
"Heh—"
Zuo Min sneered, feeling that the boy in front of her was arrogant and foolish, full of pride because of his bloodline of the Immortal Emperor, daring to challenge her, a Core Formation stage demonic cultivator. Wasn't he underestimating her too much?
Yes, the Immortal Emperor's dragon body was almost a natural enemy to her, a Gu cultivator at the Core Formation stage.
But a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage couldn't casually use that bloodline.
In other words, the bloodline of the Immortal Emperor was the boy's trump card, and he had exploded it before fighting her.
Such behavior was either arrogant or foolish.
Zuo Min didn't intend to pay attention to them. Based on their inability to approach her, the spirit monument around the square was enough to keep them out.
When the formation was completely formed, even if this boy had the bloodline of the Immortal Emperor, he would only meet a dead end.
The Red Refining Five Lotus Array was powerful enough to kill a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.
Ye Anping looked at Zuo Min, who showed no intention of removing the spirit monument to let them in, pursed his lips, and continued to ask, "Senior Zuo, are you sure you want to ignore me?"
"Kid, let me give you a piece of advice. You better find a place to enjoy your last hour of life properly. It's not bad to leave a memory behind."
"If that's the case— Then this remnant of the 'Mysterious Yin Art' in my hand might fall into someone else's hands by then, such as your senior brother, Zi Tiancheng?"
Upon hearing the three words "Mysterious Yin Art," a hint of surprise flashed in Zuo Min's eyes:
"The Mysterious Yin Art?"
"I told you, Wu You died at my hands, and I got this remnant of the Mysterious Yin Art from his storage bag."
Ye Anping raised his hand as if pointing a sword, directly took out a golden page from his storage bag with his index and middle fingers, lifted it up, and waved it. There was a mocking tone all over his body.
"Senior Zuo, don't you want this thing? How about removing this blood spirit monument and fighting us head-on? I really want to see how much weight Senior Zuo, a demonic cultivator at the Core Formation stage, carries."
And at the moment when Ye Anping's words stopped, Zuo Min, sitting in the center of the square, suddenly waved her long sleeve, and countless black bugs gushed out from her sleeve, like a mass of black mist.
At first glance, these bugs looked like mosquitoes, but their speed was surprisingly fast.
Within a breath, they pierced through the blood-colored spirit monument from the center of the square fifty feet away and arrived in front of Ye Anping.
Ye Anping widened his eyes, as if he had completely unexpected her ability, trying to dodge. However, the speed of those bugs was too fast. In almost an instant, they enveloped his right hand holding the golden page.
"Ah—!"
Ye Anping shouted, immediately pulling his right hand out of the swarm of bugs. However, while his hand was safely pulled out from among the bugs, the golden page remained trapped within them.
Ye Anping took two steps back, covering his right hand, glaring at Zuo Min with gritted teeth.
"You— How can a Core Formation cultivator be so despicable! What kind of fighter are you hiding in this spirit monument?"
"Heh— All's fair in war, kid."
The swarm of black mist-like bugs, carrying the golden page, once again passed through the blood-colored spirit monument and returned to Zuo Min's side, gradually dissipating.
Zuo Min raised her hand, pinching the golden page between her index and middle fingers as the bugs brought it back.
However, as soon as her fingers gripped the page, she felt something was off.
It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the golden page itself; it was genuine. But she felt as if her two fingers were holding not just a page but something thicker, like a book.
'This thickness is too strange'
"Hmm?"
Zuo Min immediately flipped the page and looked at the back, only to find at least thirty yellow talismans with thunder rune drawings pasted on the entire back of the page.
"What?!"
Standing outside the blood-colored spirit monument, Ye Anping smiled faintly, pointing his right index finger to his chest and replied, "Senior Zuo, all's fair in war, just as you say."
Ye Anping frowned, activating the talismans on the back of the golden page.
Boom!
In an instant, thunder roared, and a white light filled the interior of the spirit monument.
Zuo Min's screams echoed through the square.
"Ah—!!"
Ye Anping remained calm, manipulating his spiritual sense to control the thunder summoned by the talismans, striking Zuo Min's left shoulder, heart, and abdomen, targeting three vital points.
These thunder techniques couldn't harm Zuo Min physically, but they disrupted the spiritual energy within her body.
As one of the deputy eyes of the Red Refining Five Lotus Array, she needed to channel her spiritual energy through the formation to Li Feng's side. However, with her meridians disturbed, her spiritual energy instantly reversed.
The spiritual energy that was supposed to flow into the Red Refining Five Lotus Array was now being drawn back toward her dantian by the formation.
Cracks appeared on the blood-colored spirit monument standing in front of Ye Anping like glass, and then it gradually shattered and dissipated.
Ye Anping turned his hand, his spiritual sword swirling half a circle, nodding slightly to his junior sister beside him.
The two of them flickered and disappeared instantly, leaving only two circular ripples of air in their original positions.
Feeling the reversal of spiritual energy, Zuo Min was helpless. She had to sever the connection to the formation she was in, her seven orifices bleeding. If she persisted, she would be crushed by the formation's spiritual energy and perish.
"Ha... ha..."
She lifted her head and saw two sword shadows, one left and one right, like a pair of scissors about to cut off her head.
Seeing this, Zuo Min immediately formed sword fingers with both hands and waved them, causing her back clothes to twitch.
Ding!
Sparks flew.
A black-armored centipede crawled out from her clothes, using its shell on its back to directly block the two spiritual swords.
Seeing the black-armored centipede, Ye Anping couldn't help but click his tongue and commanded, "Back three feet!"
The moment the order was given, Pei Lengxue pushed back without hesitation, stopping her steps three feet away.
At the same time, the centipede entwined around Zuo Min suddenly swung its long tail with sharp teeth, drawing a black arc around her body.
However, the arc only covered a three-foot range around her, barely brushing past Ye Anping and Pei Lengxue's chests, without harming them in the slightest.
"What?"
A hint of disbelief flashed in Zuo Min's eyes. How did he know in advance that her centipede was going to swing its tail? And how did he predict the three-foot distance so accurately?
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