Xiao Lan, after dealing with the remaining forces left by Ji Zhuo, was about to withdraw when she saw the Xing family cultivators who had been reinforced from Tiantong City arrive.
Her body once again dispersed, transforming into a mist of black smoke and blood threads, all drilling underground.
"Demonic creature! Where do you think you're escaping!"
A cultivator in the Void Refining stage shouted, casting a large net.
This net was a spirit treasure. Once summoned, it merged into the void, disappearing, but it transformed into a law, sealing this area of heaven and earth.
Xiao Lan, who had just turned into ghost mist and blood threads drilling into the ground, was forced out by this net, re-condensing into human form.
"Bold demoness, how dare you injure our young master!"
"Kill her! Avenge the young master!"
By now, dozens of powerful cultivators had surrounded Xiao Lan, three layers inside and three layers outside.
Those who arrived later, unable to get a chance to attack, were squeezed to the back, barely able to see what was happening inside.
In the very center, several cultivators surrounded a black-robed woman and the young master, but they dared not act rashly, fearing to harm the latter.
"Young master! Young master, you died so tragically!"
At this moment, a short, stout man pushed through the crowd, rushed forward, scooped up the young master Xing on the ground, shook him, and wailed.
Xiao Lan did not stop him, but continued to maintain a state of vigilance.
When the young master Xing was shaken by the stout cultivator, he coughed up a large amount of bloody foam, and much of his damaged internal organs and meridians rotted further.
"Wang Lao Han, you idiot, let go! The young master is not dead yet, but you're about to shake him to death!"
A cultivator walked over, kicked the stout man, snatched the young master Xing from him, held him in his arms, and fed him a healing pill.
Now that the young master Xing had been successfully rescued from Xiao Lan's side, the remaining cultivators of Tiantong City no longer held back. They simultaneously summoned their magical treasures and attacked Xiao Lan.
"Boom boom boom..."
After a series of loud explosions, Xiao Lan's figure collapsed, once again transforming into a mist of black smoke and blood threads, causing most of the attacks to miss.
Xiao Lan even had enough energy to control the blood threads to drill into the bodies of two Nascent Soul stage cultivators, absorbing their vital blood.
"Demonic creature! Still daring to act presumptuously!"
A cultivator in the Void Refining stage shouted, and a large net appeared in the void.
The black mist and blood threads, which had been all-pervasive, now seemed to have met their nemesis, forced back by this net, which was both real and illusory.
As the net tightened, the black mist and blood threads re-condensed into Xiao Lan's appearance, trapped within the net.
"Demonic creature! Let's see where you can escape now!"
Just then, the young master Xing, who had just taken a healing pill, recovered slightly.
"Let go! Don't hurt her!"
The few people who were about to attack stopped when they heard the young master Xing call out. They had to listen to their leader.
The young master Xing struggled to sit up, coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, and then said.
"The culprit is someone else, and it was this fellow daoist who saved my life!"
Upon hearing this, the Void Refining stage cultivator quickly retracted the spirit treasure net and invited Xiao Lan out of it.
"A misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!"
"Please forgive us, fairy!"
Xiao Lan emerged from the net, feeling somewhat displeased, but also a little fortunate.
At that time, besides not wanting to cause trouble, she had also thought of leaving one more love rival for her brother, to increase Xiao Fei's sense of urgency.
She never expected it to save her life indirectly.
"If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave."
Xiao Lan cupped her hands towards the young master Xing, and without waiting for a reply, turned and left.
"What's going on, young master? Who exactly dared to injure you?"
"I will tear him to shreds!"
After taking the healing pill, the young master Xing had recovered somewhat. The dozens of powerful subordinates all pledged their loyalty before him.
"Why did you all come?"
The young master Xing coughed out another large pool of blood. Seeing the dozens of people before him, almost all of his top experts had come.
"We learned that the young master was in danger and were anxious, so we rushed here, but we still arrived a step late. Please forgive us, young master."
"We have left our posts without permission. Please forgive us, young master!"
With these people pledging loyalty and then begging for forgiveness, what else could the young master Xing say?
Could he blame them for coming to save him?
"This is bad, you've all come out. What if the city is attacked?"
The young master Xing's expression changed drastically, and he struggled to stand up.
"This is bad, we might have fallen into the enemy's trap of luring the tiger away from its mountain!"
"Return quickly!"
Among the dozens of subordinates of the young master Xing, there were many intelligent individuals.
Earlier, everyone was too eager to pledge loyalty to the young master and had overlooked this issue.
Now that the young master Xing had raised it, they all slapped their thighs and realized it.
"Go! Return to the city quickly!"
Several people lifted the young master Xing and flew towards the city.
"You few go first, protecting that place is important."
After the young master Xing realized, he immediately ordered four Void Refining stage cultivators to lead the group, while he followed behind, flying slowly under the escort of several Nascent Soul cultivators.
...
After Xiao Fei had plundered a warehouse of Jianmu ore from Tiantong City, he had not been gone long when he sensed a strong spiritual energy fluctuation rising from another location within the city.
As a qualified cultivator, one must always remain curious about the outside world, otherwise, one might miss a great opportunity by accident.
Clearly, Xiao Fei was such a qualified cultivator.
He concealed his aura, left the warehouse, and stealthily moved towards the direction of the spiritual energy fluctuation.
At the same time, other cultivators in the city who sensed this spiritual energy fluctuation were also heading towards the source of the fluctuation.
If there was any benefit to be gained from such an event, it would be best. Even if there was no benefit, they could watch the excitement and gain more bragging rights.
The incident occurred in a deserted courtyard within the city.
This courtyard belonged to an idle asset of the City Lord's Mansion. Its gates were usually tightly shut, and the courtyard was overgrown with weeds and thorns.
However, it was only today that everyone discovered that this desolate courtyard was protected by a great formation, and there was another world within.
At this moment, two cultivators in the Void Refining stage were attacking the protective formation with all their might.
The spiritual energy fluctuations were transmitted from their attacks.
After Xiao Fei arrived, he quietly used the Earth Evasion technique and burrowed towards the courtyard.
When he burrowed to a certain position, he was blocked by a layer of formation light screen.
Generally, such great formations would not leave any loopholes. The underground parts were also covered by the great formation.
Xiao Fei's choice to burrow from underground was not to exploit a loophole in the formation, but to conceal his tracks.
At this moment, the laws around him circulated, and his law domain spread forward, quickly creating a large hole in the formation that allowed passage.
Without hesitation, he immediately drilled through this hole.
After he drilled in, the hole in the formation began to repair itself automatically, quickly disappearing without a trace.
On the other side, the two Void Refining stage cultivators, after continuous attacks, could only open a hole of one to two inches in the formation.
As the formation operated, the hole would quickly revert to its original state.
"Hurry up, put in more effort, we don't have much time!"
"Yes! Watch this!"
One Void Refining stage cultivator said, and then summoned a sharp cone, which grew larger in the air and suddenly pierced towards the great formation.
"This is actually a spirit treasure!"
Some of the cultivators watching from a distance recognized this treasure. Spirit treasures were not common, and they were even rarer than Void Refining stage cultivators.
The sharp cone pierced the protective formation and immediately created a hole three feet wide.
Seeing this, the two were overjoyed and quickly drilled through the hole.
As the two entered, the hole was quickly repaired by the formation and returned to its original state.
This made the many cultivators watching the excitement from afar feel restless.
Even a fool could guess that with such a powerful formation guarding it by the Xing family, the contents within must be extraordinary.