Although surprised for a moment, it didn't affect—
Zuo Min's eyes narrowed, and with a wave of her sword fingers, the centipede entwined around her instantly grew spikes all over its body. Then, it leaped from her body and charged towards Ye Anping.
She had to admit, this kid with the Immortal Emperor's bloodline was indeed quite powerful.
But how could cleverness compensate for the difference in cultivation power?
Zuo Min knew she couldn't corner Ye Anping completely. If he forcibly summoned the Immortal Emperor Dragon Body, she might really end up dying here. However, as a Gu cultivator, she had over a hundred ways to immobilize him without seriously injuring him.
Seeing the centipede with its carapace charging towards him, Ye Anping could only grip his spiritual sword horizontally, using his left hand to support the sword face and stepping back with his right foot.
Boom!
The giant centipede crashed onto the sword, even though Ye Anping used all his strength to control his stance, he was still pushed back by the carapace, sliding rapidly backward.
Seeing this, Zuo Min smirked and flicked her fingers again.
The centipede's mouthparts opened, instantly spraying out a burst of blood-red mist, enveloping Ye Anping within it.
The centipede's abdomen contained five types of poison, including a potent venom that could corrode bones, as well as a weaker poison that only paralyzed limbs and obstructed the flow of spiritual energy in meridians.
This blood-red mist was the latter.
These poisons posed no significant threat to a Core Formation cultivator, let alone a Foundation Establishment cultivator like him.
"One down!"
Zuo Min sneered. Suddenly, a streak of ice-blue sword light attacked her. She immediately turned her protruding compound eye towards Pei Lengxue, who was beside her, and waved her sleeve.
Silver mist surged out from her sleeve, instantly transforming into a wall made of insects, blocking herself and Pei Lengxue.
This Gu was called Spirit Devouring Gu.
Zuo Min had already anticipated what would happen next.
The moment the girl's sword touched the insect wall, the Spirit Devouring Gu would attach itself to her sword, then rapidly spread, devouring her whole person in an instant. In less than three breaths, the girl would be turned into a pile of bones.
However—
Swish!
The sound of the sword piercing flesh rang out, and Zuo Min couldn't control her head from tilting back and her chest from thrusting forward.
A spiritual sword pierced through her from behind, then emerged from the ample gap between her breasts.
Simultaneously, behind the wall made by the Spirit Devouring Gu, a streak of ice-blue light flashed, covering the previously silver mist-like insects with frost, turning them into a blue amber-like substance crafted by ice.
Then, several sword lights flashed, shattering the blue ice wall into pieces.
"Cough—"
Zuo Min lowered her head to look at the spiritual sword in her chest, then quickly reached out towards her centipede a little further away. But as her hand lifted, Pei Lengxue's sword passed through her right arm.
At the same time, the sword in her chest retracted.
Swish!
Standing behind Zuo Min, Ye Anping drew his spiritual sword, then twisted his body and swung towards Zuo Min's left neck. At the same time, Pei Lengxue in front of her also raised her sword and slashed towards her right neck.
The two spiritual swords, one left and one right, crossed and collided in the center of her neck.
Ding!
With a spark flying, Zuo Min's head soared into the air.
Upon seeing this, Ye Anping immediately took out a bunch of fire-type talismans from his storage bag and threw them onto her back.
"Run!!"
"Okay!"
Without saying a word, the two of them turned around and dashed towards the square's exit.
Watching their fleeing figures, the face of Zuo Min's flying head in the sky showed an expression of disbelief.
They didn't even check if she was dead or alive before running away?
How did they know she was planning to self-detonate?!
And!! Why was that boy still able to move after being poisoned by her?!
She wanted to question the boy, but her flying head currently had no vocal cords; they were still attached to her body below.
Zuo Min had originally planned to rely on detonating her physical body to severely injure the two of them, then have her soul carried by her Gu insects and hide within the body of that girl, but—
They ran?! They just ran away?!
Don't run away!!
Why are you running?! Didn't you just chop off my head?! Why run?! Don't run away!! Ahhhh!!!
...
Ye Anping and Pei Lengxue ran wildly, as if they could hear Zuo Min's powerless rage behind them, shouting for them not to run.
In the game's instance, when Zuo Min's health dropped to 5%, she would self-detonate, applying a "debuff" to all players in the scene, causing their maximum health to become "1" for ten minutes.
Originally, the Chi Dragon Mansion event had a time limit. If all the bosses weren't defeated within an hour and a half, the party would be wiped out, yet the planners insisted on extending it by ten minutes.
Who knows what the game's instance planners were thinking.
But in any case, as long as they ran faster, everything would be fine.
However, just as the two of them ran out of the square, suddenly two figures wearing straw hats jumped out from the side.
A man and a woman, the woman with a dazzling head of golden hair.
Upon seeing Yun Xi, Ye Anping immediately sucked in a breath of cold air and shouted, "Junior sister, hold onto that girl!"
Pei Lengxue hesitated for a moment, but without thinking too much, she rushed up and bent down, using her shoulder to support Yun Xi's abdomen.
"Ah—"
Then, she lifted slightly and hoisted Yun Xi onto her shoulder, continuing to run forward with her.
Ye Anping did the same, bending down and using his shoulder to knock into the abdomen of the man following Yun Xi, lifting him onto his shoulder and continuing to run wildly.
"Let me go!! What are you doing?!"
Yun Xi waved her arms and legs, struggling on Pei Lengxue's shoulder.
Ye Anpingimmediately glared at her, saying, "Don't move!!"
"Ah–"
This stern glance frightened Yun Xi into stopping her frantic movements. It was at this moment—
Boom!
The square from before erupted in a towering red light.
Accompanied by a violent tremor akin to a dragon rolling over, a surge of blood-red spiritual energy suddenly exploded.
Ye Anping glanced back and felt they wouldn't make it in time with the two of them, so he commanded, "Junior sister! Throw!!"
Without hesitation, he and Pei Lengxue tossed the two people off their shoulders onto the ground and continued running ahead.
Yun Xi, who was thrown to the ground, sat up and looked at the approaching blood-red spiritual energy, exclaiming, "Holy crap!!"
Her senior brother, with a horrified expression, shouted, "Ah! Miss, quickly protect yourself!!"
"Ah—"
Yun Xi was stunned for a moment, then quickly formed hand seals and erected a golden spiritual shield in front of her, turning to look at Ye Anping and Pei Lengxue who had already dashed a hundred feet away, her teeth clenched.
"Just you wait until I catch up to you again, I'll teach you a lesson—"
Before she could finish her sentence, the spiritual energy crashed into her spiritual shield.
Boom!
The shield barely held for less than a breath before shattering and dissipating.
Yun Xi and her senior brother were instantly sent flying by the impact, tracing two white parabolic trajectories in the sky, following the footsteps of Ye Anping and Pei Lengxue.
Ye Anping calculated that they had run about two miles from the square, so he stopped and turned around, erecting his spiritual shield.
"Junior sister, stop! Protect yourself!"
"Okay..."
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