This time, they used a one-time teleportation platform for long-distance teleportation, which was far less stable than when they left the Treasure Pavilion. The corner of space supported by the teleportation formation’s power shook violently. Bao Gu felt extremely dizzy and unstable, forcing her to grab onto Yu Mi’s arm.
Yu Mi’s face was pale as she tightly clutched Bao Gu’s arm.
The biggest advantage of using a teleportation formation to break through the void and traverse it is speed, but there are great dangers lurking during the teleportation process. If the power of the teleportation formation is insufficient, or it encounters external forces that cause various reasons for the collapse of the formation’s power supporting this corner of space, they would immediately fall into the chaos of powerful spatial forces, where even Nascent Soul ancestors could be in danger of falling.
Normally, such long-distance teleportations are done through large teleportation formations, and using this small platform is extremely risky.
If Yu Mi had a choice, she would never choose to use the small teleportation platform given by Elder Feng, but she had no other options.
The Jubao Pavilion pays great attention to protecting the privacy of its guests and does not reveal their identities. As long as one leaves the range of the Jubao Pavilion’s auction, they are considered safe, so its formation does not need to teleport far, with a maximum range of only a thousand miles. Guests can teleport to any location within a thousand miles, which is neither too large nor too small. But to find a treasure seller of unknown identity and origin is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Yu Mi and Bao Gu’s situation was different. They were suspected by the Xuantian Sect while selling wine, so the entrance and exit of the Treasure Pavilion and the teleportation range of its formation would definitely be closely monitored. The Nascent Soul ancestors and elders of the Xuantian Sect would act separately, each searching for them. They had a hidden jade bracelet on them, and if they hadn’t fought that battle, they might have been able to slip away from under the noses of the Xuantian Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators. The noise from that battle was so loud that it even attracted Elder Feng, and it might also attract other sect elders. However, because Elder Feng was close and also a wind-attribute spirit root cultivator, who could travel extremely fast on the wind, he arrived in an instant and took them away beforehand.
If Elder Feng took them back to the Xuantian Sect, they would become targets and would eventually be ambushed and robbed of their treasures.
If Elder Feng did not take them back to the Xuantian Sect and let them leave on their own, with their speed, they would not be able to outrun Nascent Soul cultivators and would be caught soon.
The only way out was to use the teleportation platform given by Elder Feng.
Carrying them over long distances and overloading the small platform for such a long-distance teleportation made Yu Mi sweat coldly, her heart trembling to her throat.
The corner of space constructed by the teleportation formation was on the verge of collapse, with the possibility of being torn apart at any moment.
Bao Gu felt so dizzy she wanted to vomit.
Sitting on Bao Gu’s shoulder, the Duobao Spirit Monkey vigilantly watched its surroundings, seemingly aware of the dire situation. It suddenly jumped up, chattering non-stop at Yu Mi!
Yu Mi heard the monkey’s mental transmission constantly shouting at her, “Spirit stones, give me spirit stones!” She thought, “Aren’t you the Duobao Spirit Monkey? Don’t you have a universe in your belly? And you still need spirit stones?” Seeing the monkey’s urgent cries, she immediately took out a bunch of mid-grade spirit stones from her storage bracelet and gave them to the Duobao Spirit Monkey.
With a point of its little paw, the mid-grade spirit stones thrown by Yu Mi landed in different positions within this corner of space according to a certain pattern. The spirit stones transformed into spiritual energy at a visible speed and infused into the light barrier covering this space, making the light screen that was about to dim and collapse at any moment a bit thicker and more stable!
The Duobao Spirit Monkey magically took out a palm-sized, dark piece of wood that looked like gold and iron. Its little paws quickly carved on the wood block, and soon a wooden talisman was drawn and placed on top of a pile of spirit stones.
The wooden talisman drew spiritual energy from the spirit stones, and the light from the talismanic patterns shone from the talisman into the teleportation formation, immediately stabilizing that area.
The Duobao Spirit Monkey then took out more wood blocks and carved more than a dozen talismans in one go, firmly stabilizing various parts of this corner of space, making the previously fragile teleportation formation much more stable. It pointed at Yu Mi, chattering non-stop, and even stomped its hind paws on Bao Gu’s shoulder.
Bao Gu asked in confusion, “Senior sister, what is the little monkey saying?”
Yu Mi pursed her lips, unwillingly said, “Ignore it, it’s cursing!” She glared at the Duobao Spirit Monkey and scolded, “Shut up! You think you’re amazing because you learned formations from the ancestor? Didn’t you see what happened to the original site of Lingyun Peak? Don’t you know many secret techniques have been lost? Don’t you know that Lingyun Peak no longer has any profound formation scriptures? I can’t carve formations, so come and bite me!”
Bao Gu silently looked at Yu Mi for a while before softly saying, “Senior sister, are you arguing with a monkey?”
Yu Mi almost spat out blood! She was actually arguing with a palm-sized monkey! How embarrassing! What’s more embarrassing was that she was actually scolded by a monkey!
Bao Gu reached out a finger to touch the Duobao Spirit Monkey’s head, saying, “Little monkey, cursing is very uncultured!”
The Duobao Spirit Monkey “chi”ed, indicating it understood, and obediently sat back on Bao Gu’s shoulder, then turned its head and “chi”ed at Yu Mi again.
A voice echoed in Yu Mi’s mind, “I won’t stoop to your level.” Her face turned green with anger! What do you mean you won’t stoop to my level? Am I, a person, stooping to the level of a monkey? How infuriating!
About half an incense stick of time later, the two of them and the monkey finally stepped on solid ground after passing through the void.
Seeing light and stepping on solid ground, Yu Mi couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of relief. Although the monkey was hateful and annoying, without it, she and Bao Gu would have been stranded halfway. Just as she was catching her breath, she was shocked by the scene before her.
Bao Gu was also stunned by the scene before her! The entire area within sight was scorched earth, with green smoke still rising from the ground. Ancient trees thick enough to be embraced lay on the ground, broken into several pieces and burned to charcoal. Not far in front of her, there was a charred corpse still emitting smoke. She exclaimed in shock, “Senior sister, did someone fail their tribulation here?”
Yu Mi exclaimed, “Would failing a tribulation leave dozens of corpses here?” She pulled Bao Gu onto a flying sword and quickly flew away at low altitude. The extent of destruction and the range of fluctuations indicated that this was not something she, an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, could handle! She couldn’t help but sigh in her heart: What kind of luck is this! Truly extraordinarily unlucky!
Yu Mi’s flying sword flew close to the ground at high speed.
The Duobao Spirit Monkey, with its eyes wide open, vigilantly watched its surroundings, ready to flee at the first sign of trouble.
Along the way, Bao Gu saw many more ruined corpses lying on the ground.
Yu Mi quickly flew out of the scorched area and saw ahead that many ancient trees that had stood for hundreds of years were split apart, clearly indicating that someone had fled in that direction and someone else was pursuing them. Such a large-scale battle occurring in the wilderness, and at least involving Nascent Soul cultivators, must be over a precious treasure. For her, an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, to compete with Nascent Soul cultivators for treasures with Bao Gu, a third-stage Qi Refining cultivator, was purely seeking death. Nascent Soul cultivators have powerful divine senses, and they would detect her before she even got close, able to eliminate her with a wave of their hand. Without hesitation, she decisively turned and fled in another direction that seemed relatively calm.
Faint sounds of intense fighting came from afar.
Above her, late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators occasionally rushed past. Even though both she and Bao Gu had activated their hidden jade bracelets, Bao Gu’s “thump thump” rapid heartbeat and the fluctuations caused by her controlling the flying sword still couldn’t hide their tracks, and every late-stage Nascent Soul powerhouse that swept past overhead scanned them with their divine sense. Perhaps because Bao Gu’s heartbeat was too loud, clearly indicating her extremely low cultivation level, the Nascent Soul powerhouses didn’t even bother to take a second look, their divine senses quickly glancing over and moving on.
Yu Mi also saw a late-stage Golden Core cultivator running through the woods towards the direction of the fighting, probably hoping to take advantage of the situation. Just as she noticed him, she saw a Nascent Soul powerhouse in the sky unleash a thunderbolt! The late-stage Golden Core cultivator didn’t even have time to scream before he was turned into a charred corpse by the explosion of the thunderbolt. Yu Mi was terrified, her courage freezing over. This was clearly a cleanup operation!
Bao Gu’s cultivation was no different from that of a mortal, naturally not attracting attention. Yu Mi, an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, had already undergone a transformation and stepped into the path of cultivation. Since there were Nascent Soul powerhouses cleaning up the area, if they discovered her existence, they would definitely not let her go.
Yu Mi dared not fly anymore. She quickly scanned the surroundings and saw a small cave behind a bush not far ahead, with three wolf cubs and a mother wolf inside. She landed in the cave, parted the bushes, and said to Bao Gu, “Go in!”
Bao Gu didn’t see the cave behind the bushes and thought Yu Mi was asking her to hide in the grass. She bent down and crawled into the bushes, suddenly seeing a cave half a person tall and two feet wide in front of her, and softly called out, “Senior sister, there’s a cave here.”
Yu Mi said, “Crawl in!”
How to crawl into such a low cave? Crawl in like a dog? Bao Gu felt that was too embarrassing. Following that, she heard the “awoo” of young wild beasts from inside the cave and felt something staring at her. Hesitating to back out, she had just moved a bit when Yu Mi kicked her butt, pushing her into the cave!
Bao Gu couldn’t back out, so she had no choice but to bravely crawl in. Seeing so many dead people and cultivators flying around without flying swords, her senior sister must be hiding because the outside was extremely dangerous, hence the disregard for dignity in crawling through a “dog hole”. Bao Gu knew the importance of the situation and immediately disregarded her image, using her hands and feet to crawl into the cave. She had just crawled in less than a foot when she saw a wolf half-crouching in an attacking posture staring at her.
Bao Gu, who had killed more wolves than she could count on her fingers during the days she was lost in the mountains of Lingyun Peak, was not afraid of this mother wolf! She took an axe out of her storage bag and faced the mother wolf, hesitating whether to scare it away or chop it down with one blow. When she saw the wolf cubs behind the mother wolf, thinking that the cubs wouldn’t survive without their mother, she just waved the axe.
Outside, Yu Mi anxiously pushed Bao Gu’s butt, squeezing her into the cave.
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