In the next moment, Bao Gu, Lu Wenda, and Hong Chen appeared at the entrance of the ancient ruins.
At this moment, there were continuous foundation-building cultivators entering from the entrance.
Bao Gu looked around but didn’t see Yu Mi, so she hurriedly asked, “Where is Senior Sister?”
Lu Wenda thought for a moment and said, “The ancient token can only be used once. Once you step through the gate with the token, it disappears. If they leave now, it would be a waste of a great opportunity. We can’t wait for the next opening of the ancient ruins to come in again. For us, forcibly suppressing our cultivation at a certain realm for five years would be a huge loss. Although Immortal Yu Mi is only in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, we are just one step away from breaking through to the Golden Core realm, and some are only half a step away. With the help of the spiritual energy here and the Golden Core pills we brought, we can break through to the Golden Core realm at any time. With the strength of the early Golden Core realm, carrying treasures from the Nascent Soul realm, and a large number of people, even if Immortal Yu Mi had three heads and six arms, it would be impossible for her to kill all the cultivators who enter this place. As long as one person escapes, there will be no place for her in the world. Even the Xuantian Sect would suffer.”
Yu Mi’s voice suddenly sounded behind Lu Wenda, “Do you think I want to kill them all and leave no witnesses?”
Lu Wenda frowned and said, “You killed Ning Cong, the third-ranked Ning family master in the Xuan Yue Ancient City and the only son of Ning Xiao, the head of the Ning family. How could the Ning family let it go?”
Yu Mi snorted and said, “Ning Cong is the young master of the Ning family, and I am just the acting peak master of the Lingyun Peak of the Xuantian Sect! My junior sister is the chosen successor of the Xuantian Patriarch, and we have no grudges with him. He chose to attack us with a group of people, but failed. He can only blame himself for seeking death. Why blame me?”
Lu Wenda thought to himself, “The power of the Xuantian Sect is no match for the Ning family!”
He said, “If Ning Xiao disregards right and wrong and only seeks revenge for his son, how will Immortal Yu Mi and the Xuantian Sect deal with it?”
Suddenly, there was a cry from the direction of the entrance of the ancient ruins: “Immortal Yu Mi?”
“Fiery Dragon?”
“Hey, isn’t this Immortal Yu Mi, who split the Nascent Soul realm ancestor with the strength of the early Golden Core realm?”
“Isn’t she in the Golden Core realm? How come she’s here?”
“She’s actually in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm!”
“How can a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm be here?”
The discussions at the entrance of the ancient ruins continued, but no one dared to linger and quickly left like avoiding a plague.
Everyone knew that if cultivators above the foundation-building stage wanted to enter this place without being detected by various forces, they would have to pay a great price.
Those who were willing to pay such a price must have significant intentions.
These people were the most difficult to provoke.
Firstly, their strength was too strong, and if provoked, they could easily be killed with a single blow; secondly, if they were willing to pay such a high price to enter, there was nothing they wouldn’t dare to do.
Even the most arrogant person would fear those who were reckless, and this Fiery Dragon Yu Mi was notorious for being reckless!
Yu Mi said to Lu Wenda, “What are you afraid of? I heard that there is a killer organization in the Xuan Yue Ancient City called the Soul Chasing Pavilion, which is known for taking on any job and killing anyone, depending on whether the employer can afford the price! If he wants to bully others and ignore reason, I will put all the important figures of the Ning family on the Soul Chasing Pavilion’s hit list!”
Yu Mi’s voice was not low, causing Lu Wenda and Hongchen to gasp in shock, and even the cultivators who had just entered the ancient ruins were startled when they heard her words.
Upon closer inspection, they realized that they were not mistaken and quickly left in fear.
Bao Gu said lightly, “If he wants to kill me, we naturally have to kill him too. It’s a matter of not being at a disadvantage.”
Lu Wenda was speechless for a while after being choked by Bao Gu.
He asked, “Since we’re not killing them all and not afraid of retaliation from the Ning family, what are we doing here?”
Yu Mi said, “It’s still early for us to enter the city. The disciples of the Taiyin Sect should not have entered the ancient ruins yet, right?”
After saying this, she ignored Lu Wenda and sat cross-legged on a flying sword suspended in the air, facing the entrance of the ancient ruins.
Lu Wenda suddenly felt that provoking Yu Mi was simply inviting disaster.
Bao Gu also summoned her flying sword and sat beside Yu Mi.
In a short while, eight people dressed in the attire of the Taiyin Sect disciples entered in a line from the entrance of the ancient ruins.
Yu Mi opened her eyes abruptly as soon as they entered and rushed towards the Taiyin Sect disciples who had just stepped into the ancient ruins.
Lu Wenda had already rushed forward before Yu Mi made a move and beheaded one of the Taiyin Sect disciples who had just entered the gate with a single sword strike!
The other Taiyin Sect disciples behind were shocked and screamed, “It’s an ambush—” Before they could finish speaking, they were pierced through the heart by a sword, and their bodies were instantly engulfed in flames by the Lihuo Sword.
The Taiyin Sect disciples who had just entered the ancient ruins reacted and shouted, “Kill them!”
They activated the treasures bestowed by their ancestors and rushed towards those who were attacking them.
Bao Gu naturally did not want to fall behind when she saw her senior sister and the Taiyin Sect disciples fighting, so she also joined the battle, fighting against the Taiyin Sect disciples.
“It’s the Fiery Dragon!”
“It’s Yu Mi!”
“How is it possible that it’s the Fiery Dragon? She clearly…”
“Ah—” A foundation-building seventh-level direct disciple shouted, “Quick, go back and report…”
He turned around and rushed towards the entrance of the ancient ruins, wanting to go out to report, but he ran into an invisible barrier.
If he hadn’t cultivated to this realm and had true energy protecting him, he would have been seriously injured from the impact.
Yu Mi coldly snorted, “Can you escape?” and swung her Lihuo Sword towards the Taiyin Sect disciples.
In terms of cultivation strength, she was in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm facing foundation-building stage cultivators; in terms of treasures, her sword was a spiritual weapon made from a fire seed and numerous precious materials, surpassing ordinary Nascent Soul realm treasures by a large margin.
Even though the Taiyin Sect disciples had treasures bestowed by their Nascent Soul ancestors, due to their weaker cultivation strength, they could only use them a few times before exhausting their spiritual energy and losing their ability to fight back.
Yu Mi, Bao Gu, Hong Chen, and Lu Wenda, four against eight, took only half an hour to eliminate the eight Taiyin Sect disciples who had been sent in at the entrance of the ancient ruins.
They also frightened the later arrivals.
The other cultivators who followed the Taiyin Sect disciples into the ancient ruins sensed the battle fluctuations as soon as they entered, and even felt the battle fluctuations sweeping over them.
After protecting themselves and creating distance, they saw Yu Mi leading the fight against the Taiyin Sect disciples with the middle stage of the Golden Core realm.
Almost all of them turned around and left.
The conflict between the Taiyin Sect and the Xuantian Sect was well known in the Xuan Yue Ancient City.
Although they didn’t know how Yu Mi managed to enter the ancient ruins, the situation was clearly a dispute between the Taiyin Sect and the Xuantian Sect.
Only those with a muddled mind would get involved.
Outside, drawing a sword might be fine, but here, with Yu Mi’s strength in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, who would dare to provoke her easily?
Yu Mi collected all the storage bags and treasures carried by the eight Taiyin Sect disciples who were killed and gave all the Nascent Soul realm treasures bestowed by the Taiyin Sect ancestors to Lu Wenda.
Lu Wenda had originally wanted to be polite.
As the young master of the Qingfeng Pavilion, he could easily take out a Nascent Soul realm treasure, but Yu Mi gave him eight Nascent Soul realm treasures at once.
Although three of them were damaged in the previous battle, they could be repaired.
With his generous spending habits and tight finances, having these eight Nascent Soul realm treasures would be a significant income.
He accepted them with a smile and said, “Thank you!”
He thanked Yu Mi and put the eight Nascent Soul realm treasures into his storage bag.
Yu Mi said, “The Taiyin Sect really went all out this time, a total of eight ancient tokens! The Qingfeng Pavilion only had three! The Taiyin Sect managed to get eight at once, which must have cost them a lot of spirit stones to buy or a lot of effort to rob cultivators who possessed ancient tokens. Unfortunately, they have lost everything this time!”
Suddenly, Yu Mi felt someone spying on them.
She released her divine sense and found that more than a dozen foundation-building cultivators were lurking nearby, seemingly ready to take action.
These people were the ones who had escaped when she killed Ning Cong earlier.
“Let’s go!”
A young man among them shouted, and they quickly activated their hidden escape talismans and fled.
The rest also retreated.
Lu Wenda also sensed the movement and said, “They probably won’t let it go easily! There are several cultivators from different sects among this group. Immortal Yu Mi, you can’t kill them all, can you?”
Yu Mi asked, “What’s the difference between killing one and killing ten? If they don’t provoke me, it’s fine. If they do, I will kill a thousand of them.”
She suddenly felt that Bao Gu was unusually silent, turned her head to look at Bao Gu, and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Bao Gu hesitated, glanced at Yu Mi, then at Lu Wenda and Hongchen beside her, and then looked into the distance.
After thinking for a moment, she pulled Yu Mi aside and whispered, “I felt some movement in my super large storage bag just now, and then… I…”
Yu Mi asked, “What? What’s going on inside? Is Ling’er causing trouble?”
Bao Gu gritted her teeth, raised her hand, and released the three guys who were causing trouble in her super large storage bag.
Yu Mi was shocked to see the three guys who looked like they had been through a famine.
They were so thin that there was no flesh on their bodies, their eyes were sunken, their lips were cracked, and they looked like skeletons wrapped in skin.
Yu Mi was speechless for a while.
Lu Wenda, who was standing at a distance, was initially avoiding the conversation between the senior sisters, but was suddenly shocked to see three “skeletons” appear.
Even Hong Chen beside him was startled and covered her mouth with a gasp.
The three “skeletons” knelt down in front of Bao Gu and Yu Mi, knocking their heads as if pounding garlic.
As they bowed, the bones of their spines were clearly visible.
Bao Gu, who had experienced famine, felt that it was too cruel.
She and Little Martial Aunt and Senior Sister snuck into the Taiyin Sect’s mining area to steal spirit stones.
When they came out, they caught these three Taiyin Sect outer disciples who were miners, disguised them as themselves, and brought them out of the mine.
She absentmindedly put them in her super large storage bag and threw them into a far corner, but forgot to release them.
She didn’t even know how they survived.
If it weren’t for the commotion caused by the Little Celestial Fox just now, she might have forgotten about them in her super large storage bag…
She took a deep breath and said, “It’s not easy to be alive now. Don’t be Taiyin Sect disciples in the future!”
She took out a few spirit fruits and three jars of first-grade Monkey Wine and handed them to them, saying, “Today is the opening day of the ancient ruins. This is the ancient ruins. Go and seek your own fortunes!”
After that, she grabbed Yu Mi’s wrist, who was still staring blankly at the three men, and returned to Lu Wenda, saying, “Let’s go!”
Although Lu Wenda was amazed, he also knew that some things should not be heard or inquired about.
He followed behind Bao Gu as if he hadn’t seen anything, and turned to Hong Chen, saying, “Hong Chen, Senior Brother made a small fortune today. Tell me, what do you want? Senior Brother will get it for you when we leave!”
Yu Mi was dragged by Bao Gu for a long distance before she said, “Those three are the three outer disciples of the Taiyin Sect, right?”
Bao Gu said, “Yes, I was originally planning to find a quiet place outside the Taiyin Sect to release them. I was thinking of releasing them when we left the city, but I forgot as soon as we left the city. Um, it was caused by the water.”
Yu Mi suddenly thought of Bao Gu grabbing her chest when she was drowning, and her chest inexplicably hurt.
She angrily said, “Don’t mention drowning!”
Then she remembered Bao Gu kissing her without permission and grabbed Bao Gu, saying, “You’re so young, full of…”
Bao Gu quickly said, “Senior… Senior Sister, we’re here to seek our fortunes, not to settle old scores.”
Lu Wenda also quickly stepped forward to mediate, saying that the ancient ruins were full of dangers, and it was better to be cautious.
If Yu Mi had any grievances with Bao Gu, they could settle them after leaving.
Yu Mi tapped Bao Gu’s forehead and let go of her.
Hong Chen said, “Let’s land and walk. There are no spiritual fruits, herbs, or grasses in the sky, only flying birds and beasts, and becoming a target for those lurking in the shadows.”
Yu Mi nodded and descended to the ground.
She turned back and smiled at Hong Chen, asking, “Little sister, how old are you this year?”
Hong Chen replied expressionlessly, “Twelve!”
Yu Mi looked at Hong Chen, then at Bao Gu, and thought to herself, “Are kids nowadays so mature and promising?”
When she was twelve years old… she was still naive and ran away from home alone to seek enlightenment—well, it wasn’t too bad.
