Yu Mi slowly rose into the air, a powerful energy wave emanating from her, firmly enveloping an area of about ten meters around her feet.
The forest covered by the energy wave appeared out of nowhere in mid-air, resembling a floating island, while a giant pit about ten meters in diameter and two meters deep appeared on the ground.
The Little Celestial Fox was frightened by this sudden change, transforming into a white lightning bolt and rushing to Bao Gu’s back.
Its white claws tightly gripped Bao Gu’s arm.
Even Yu Mi herself was taken aback.
Bao Gu turned to look at the Little Celestial Fox and praised Yu Mi, “Senior Sister is indeed amazing!”
Without hesitation, she rushed to the forest suspended in the air and stored it in a large storage bag.
Yu Mi ignored Bao Gu and sat cross-legged again, focusing her mind and closing her eyes to enter a state of cultivation.
After about half an hour, Yu Mi suddenly stood up and disappeared from the spot in an instant.
When she reappeared, she was already behind Bao Gu, her sword unexpectedly placed at Bao Gu’s neck, startling her.
Bao Gu turned her head to look at the Lihuo Sword that was almost touching her neck!
Fortunately, the flames on the Lihuo Sword were completely retracted; otherwise, before the sword touched her, she would have been burned to ashes by the flames on the Lihuo Sword!
Trembling, she exclaimed, “Senior Sister, the sword… please keep it away.”
Yu Mi disdainfully pursed her lips lightly.
She sheathed the sword and asked, “Did you notice that the ‘Mountain Moving’ technique passed down by the Duobao Spirit Monkey contains very exquisite spatial principles? It does not forcibly lift something with brute force but operates based on spatial rules.”
Bao Gu knew that Yu Mi was testing her and immediately replied, “The closest distance in the world is not the straight line distance between two points, but the distance between two points overlapping, which is also the basic principle of teleportation arrays. When you just lifted that mountain forest into the air, it seemed like you instantly brought the mountain to you, but in reality, you exchanged the positions of two different places. Because you swapped the air with the physical objects on the ground, it appeared as if you had moved that forest into the air. If you were to move that forest into the water, the area beneath your feet that was dug out would have become a small lake by now, which would be very obvious. The brilliance of the ‘Mountain Moving’ technique passed down by the little monkey lies in its mastery and utilization of spatial rules, reducing the resistance and chaotic fluctuations of spatial barriers to a minimum, bridging the distance between two ‘points’ with minimal force, achieving instant movement and displacement. Also, there is the mustard seed principle, which you did not utilize just now, Senior Sister.”
Yu Mi raised an eyebrow and elongated her voice with a long “Oh?” expression, looking at Bao Gu with a smile that was not a smile.
Bao Gu asked, “Why can a palm-sized storage bag hold so many things?”
She looked around and found a large stone about six or seven feet high and four or five feet long and wide.
She landed next to the stone, circulated the spiritual energy in her body, released an energy that enveloped the stone, then raised her hand, and the stone disappeared.
Bao Gu opened her palm, indicating for Yu Mi to look at the stone the size of a pigeon egg that she had shrunk.
Yu Mi looked at Bao Gu’s palm in astonishment, her eyes filled with surprise.
Bao Gu looked proudly at Yu Mi, once again using her supernatural powers to shrink the stone, which had already been reduced to the size of a pigeon egg, to the size of gravel.
Unexpectedly, her current cultivation level was weak, and the smaller she shrank the stone, the more qi it consumed.
In less than two breaths, her dantian was depleted and difficult to maintain.
She watched as the stone was about to return to its original size, fearing that she would embarrass herself in front of her Senior Sister by lifting the stone and hitting herself.
She quickly let go and threw the stone, shrunk to the size of gravel, as if it were a hot potato.
Bao Gu had intended to show off, but she had overestimated herself and the energy consumption of using this supernatural power, leading to embarrassment.
She wiped her forehead in embarrassment, looked at her Senior Sister with guilt, only to see her Senior Sister looking at her in shock, her face filled with disbelief.
She weakly called out, “Senior Sister,” and said, “Um, I will work hard to cultivate.”
Yu Mi looked at Bao Gu, then at the stone on the ground, and did not come back to her senses for a while.
Seeing Bao Gu’s poor performance, she did not dare to disturb Yu Mi who was lost in thought, and took the initiative to lead the Little Celestial Fox to search for spiritual treasures.
The Little Celestial Fox worked hard to obtain the Monkey Wine brewed by the Duobao Spirit Monkey from Bao Gu.
Bao Gu intended to cultivate a medicinal field in her large storage bag, not even letting go of the newly sprouted medicinal seedlings, digging them up with roots intact and transplanting them all into her large storage bag.
The enormous storage bag had no top, no bottom, and no boundaries, resembling a void.
Even the soil for planting herbs had to be manually transferred by Bao Gu from the ancient ruins into the bag, rolling up her sleeves and moving it bit by bit.
Fortunately, she had mastered the supernatural ability of “moving mountains and seas,” which saved her a lot of effort when digging the soil.
Otherwise, it would have taken her several months just to dig out the soil needed for this three to four-acre herb field.
After organizing the herb field, she planted all the surviving spirit herbs previously stored in the enormous storage bag into the field.
She also buried the fruit cores she had saved in a corner of the herb field to cultivate fruit tree seedlings.
Bao Gu believed that neither spirit herbs nor spirit fruits could be lacking.
Since she had a herb field, it was necessary to create an orchard to plant spirit fruit trees.
She entrusted the task of finding spirit herbs and planting them to the Little Celestial Fox, while she continued to dig soil and build the orchard in the enormous storage bag.
After receiving a gourd and a jar of monkey wine as a reward from Bao Gu, the Little Celestial Fox was full of energy.
It searched everywhere in the ancient ruins for spirit herbs and treasures.
Once found, it carefully dug them out and brought them back to Bao Gu, holding the spirit herbs and treasures delicately in its snow-white front paws for Bao Gu to store in the enormous storage bag and plant in the herb field.
Every time the Little Celestial Fox planted a herb in the field, it would take out a jade slip from the storage necklace hanging around its neck and record it in a ledger.
When it collected enough spirit herbs and treasures to exchange for a gourd of monkey wine, it would hand the ledger to Bao Gu for settlement.
While Bao Gu was busy with the herb field and orchard, Yu Mi was busy comprehending the “moving mountains and seas” supernatural ability of the Duobao Spirit Monkey.
In Yu Mi’s view, “moving mountains and seas” was just a minor skill.
The true essence of this ability lay in the spatial laws it implied, with its real power not in “moving mountains and seas,” but in spatial teleportation and concealment.
This was why the Duobao Spirit Monkey could repeatedly escape danger by disappearing without a trace.
Yu Mi discovered that this ability was not only a life-saving skill but also an excellent assassination method.
By using spatial concealment to approach the enemy instantly and launch a sudden attack, catching the opponent off guard, it could definitely inflict severe damage.
When Bao Gu took a break from digging and saw her senior apprentice sister constantly appearing and disappearing in various postures in the air, moving from east to west, north to south, and scattering around, with one figure not yet dissipating before the next one appeared, and even several residual images coexisting in the air simultaneously, she couldn’t even determine her sister’s position.
As Bao Gu finished laying the soil for the orchard, she had also mastered the “moving mountains and seas” ability at will.
She called out to Yu Mi, who was flashing around in the air, “Senior Sister, how long have we been in the ancient ruins?”
She turned her head to look in the direction of the entrance to the ancient ruins, where she could still see the spiritual light from the entrance, just beyond a mountain.
Yu Mi’s figure disappeared from the air and instantly reappeared in front of Bao Gu.
She asked, “Have you finished digging the soil?”
Bao Gu snorted lightly and said, “I asked you to be my laborer, but ended up doing all the labor myself!”
A snow-white figure dashed over like lightning and landed in front of Bao Gu.
Yu Mi raised her chin and smiled, “Look, isn’t there still a laborer here?”
As soon as she finished speaking, a hint of a bloody smell reached her nose, and her smile froze on her face.
Seeing the Little Celestial Fox Ling’er return, Bao Gu habitually opened the enormous storage bag to put the fox inside.
However, she noticed that the fur on the fox’s front paws was stained red with blood, and blood droplets were trickling down its claws.
It held a fully formed ginseng in its mouth.
Bao Gu quickly crouched down to examine the fox’s injury.
Yu Mi quickly glanced at the wounds on the front paws of the Little Celestial Fox and determined that they were caused by sharp blades, with the lingering aura indicating that it was likely done by cultivators.
To prevent any pursuers, she immediately summoned the Lihuo Sword, cautiously scanning the surroundings and sensing someone nearby.
Yu Mi asked, “Ling’er, who hurt you?”
Upon seeing the deep wound on the left leg that almost reached the bone of the Little Celestial Fox, Bao Gu felt heartache.
She gently touched the fox’s head and said, “Ling’er, take this ginseng.”
She then applied hemostatic and healing medicine on the fox’s wound.
The Little Celestial Fox looked at Bao Gu with its bright eyes and swallowed the centuries-old ginseng in one gulp.
Bao Gu then took out some healing and nourishing pills from her storage bag to feed the fox.
Without hesitation, the Little Celestial Fox swallowed all the pills given by Bao Gu and then dashed towards the depths of the ancient ruins.
Bao Gu quickly summoned her flying sword to follow the fox closely.
Yu Mi held the Lihuo Sword in hand and followed closely behind Bao Gu as they flew towards the depths of the ancient ruins.
She was extremely cautious, fearing that someone might recognize the Little Celestial Fox as the demonic beast they were accompanying and intentionally harm it.
They were wary of any ambush set up while the fox led them to find the culprit.
Bao Gu followed the Little Celestial Fox at a fast pace and realized that the fox was running far in search of rare herbs and treasures!
It had already crossed three mountain peaks in a row, and the fox was still sprinting.
It was truly determined for the Monkey Wine brewed by Duobao Spirit Monkey!
Suddenly, the speed of the Little Celestial Fox slowed down.
It no longer ran swiftly but carefully concealed its aura and quietly sneaked forward.
Seeing this, Bao Gu immediately suppressed her own aura to the lowest level and retracted her flying sword onto Yu Mi’s sword.
Using her peripheral vision, Yu Mi glanced at Bao Gu and secretly transmitted, “Control your flying sword yourself!”
With a burst of force, she knocked Bao Gu off her flying sword.
Bao Gu quickly summoned her flying sword to stabilize herself.
She muttered to herself, “Stingy!”
Then she transmitted to Yu Mi, “I’m just afraid that the fluctuations of my flying sword will alert the enemy!”
While speaking, she skillfully controlled her flying sword and minimized the energy fluctuations.
By reducing the moving energy fluctuations to the minimum and with the help of the hidden treasure, she managed not to reveal any trace of her presence.
Bao Gu, Yu Mi, and the Little Celestial Fox stealthily traveled about two to three miles.
Suddenly, Bao Gu felt energy fluctuations ahead and faintly heard voices conversing, seeming to be approaching her direction.
She was considering whether to hide in the trees to investigate when Yu Mi suddenly tugged at her sleeve and pointed to the bushes below the tree.
Following Yu Mi’s direction, Bao Gu saw a few drops of fresh blood on the bushes.
Just then, a voice sounded from the front, “Over there!”
Another person responded, “Brother Yu, the direction the Snow Fox demon fled is clearly towards the entrance of the ancient ruins. Be careful not to run into the Fire Dragon!”
“What’s there to fear? We have all stepped into the Golden Core stage now. With four early Golden Core experts and three late Foundation Establishment cultivators, we can handle that Fire Dragon! Hmph, capturing the Fire Dragon and Bao Gu will be the biggest gain of this trip.”
“Brother Yu is right. Even if Yu Mi is formidable, she is no match for the seven of us working together. What do you think, Brother Nan?”
“Let’s not underestimate the enemy and be careless!”
Bao Gu found the voice of the person called “Brother Nan” very familiar and couldn’t help but look at Yu Mi beside her, who also furrowed her brows, her eyes cold and filled with killing intent!
Bao Gu instantly remembered who this person was, Nan Yi!
Just as she was about to look for him, he came to her door!
Bao Gu was about to draw her treasure sword, but was grabbed and lifted by Yu Mi, hiding in the heart of an ancient tree.
“Hey, normal snow foxes can’t run this fast, right?”
“A snow fox about to form its core naturally runs fast!”
“This beast, the old ginseng I saw first, was actually taken by it! It’s getting bolder!”
“I bet it’s a pet raised by Bao Gu and the fiery dragon.”
“It can’t be raised by them, I’ve never heard of them raising a snow fox monster.”
Bao Gu cursed in her heart, “Traitor!”
She added in her mind, “Senior Chen is blind!”
The group of people chatted along the trail of the little celestial fox’s blood until they reached the tree where Bao Gu and Yu Mi were hiding.
Bao Gu saw seven young people traveling together, the oldest looking no more than twenty, and the youngest appearing to be around sixteen or seventeen.
She did not see Nan Yi among them.
Bao Gu wondered, “Could Nan Yi have changed her appearance?”
She carefully looked back and forth among the seven people, but still did not see Nan Yi.
The group suddenly stopped, alertly looking towards the tree where Bao Gu and Yu Mi were hiding.
Yu Mi’s voice suddenly echoed in Bao Gu’s mind, “Idiot! Don’t stare at people! Don’t move!”
The seven individuals exchanged glances, then turned to surround the large tree where Bao Gu and Yu Mi were hiding.
Bao Gu thought, “Senior Sister, when should we make a move? If we don’t act soon, they will attack! Could it be true what they say, that they outnumber us and we are no match for them?”
Suddenly, Yu Mi, who had been by her side all along, disappeared.
Beside the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy at the back of the group surrounding the tree, a figure suddenly flashed and disappeared!
They were on high alert, even the slightest energy fluctuation would startle them, immediately turning towards the spot where the figure vanished.
A man in his early twenties at the Golden Core stage asked the motionless boy, “Sima, where is the person?”
The boy blinked, but his head suddenly fell from his neck and onto the ground, a stream of blood gushing out from the clean cut in his neck like a fountain!
His body swayed a few times before falling to the ground.
Someone shouted, “Quick, help him!” rushing forward to hold the head and desperately trying to apply medicine to the gushing neck wound.
He cried, “Sima, hold on! Hold on!”
The boy’s severed head opened its mouth, silently uttering two words: “There’s a ghost,” before his eyes lost all their luster.
The young man who wanted to put the boy’s head back shouted, “Sima—” with fear and disbelief in his eyes.
A man in the early Golden Core stage, wearing a light green robe, shouted, “Who dares to play tricks, come out and face me—” Before he could finish his sentence, he felt something strange behind him.
Without hesitation, he rolled away, throwing a cluster of needle-sized hidden weapons from his folding fan!
As he released the hidden weapons, he saw a blurry figure disappear in an instant.
The others nearby felt the disturbance and immediately drew their swords towards the location where the energy disturbance had occurred, but they found nothing.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Could it really be a ghost?”
An eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man in the early Golden Core stage suddenly shouted, “Split up and run, now!”
He turned and fled first!
The remaining people heard the shout and reacted immediately, fleeing in different directions.
A white light suddenly flew out from the bushes, heading straight for a ninth-level Foundation Building young cultivator.
Just as the white light was about to hit the cultivator, the young man in the early Golden Core stage who had turned to run first turned back and rushed towards the white light.
In that split second when he turned around, a sword and a figure flashed by and took the boy’s head.
Seeing this, the young man in the early Golden Core stage quickly stopped his attack on the little celestial fox, cast two mist charms to shield himself, and then activated a teleportation array to escape instantly!
Bao Gu, who was lying on the tree, blinked in astonishment, unable to come back to her senses for a while.
Everything happened so suddenly and quickly!
She couldn’t even distinguish who among this group was Nan Yi before… two died, and the rest all fled in an instant!
