“What kind of bullshit world’s greatest talent? Xiang Lanxuan felt she had encountered an idiot, felt she had fallen into the hands of a group of idiots.
Yu Qing and the others decided to sneak up to the divine tree tonight to scout the situation.
The reason they dared to sneak up was not too complicated. First, the bee swarm had indeed shown unusual movements. They felt that the sudden search pattern of the bee swarm earlier indicated that something had indeed happened inside the divine tree. The queen bee had likely fallen into a trap. Because she had fallen into a trap and knew there was a problem, she had sent the bee swarm to search.
Also, the fact that only the bee swarm had been sent to search while no people emerged further suggested that the people inside might have had an accident.
But they could not be certain. They did not dare approach in broad daylight, mainly because there were too many multicoloured bees. They would definitely be discovered the moment they showed themselves, so they decided to sneak up at night to take a look.
Xiang Lanxuan naturally opposed this. They had not even figured out the situation yet, and they were going to sneak up directly. What was the difference between this and seeking death?
The problem was, if you want to seek death, do not drag me down. Release me first.
The result was predictable. How could Yu Qing and the others release her? They certainly would not let her go, and they insisted on carrying out their plan, saying that opportunities must not be missed and would not come again, saying they wanted to gamble.
This reasoning almost drove Xiang Lanxuan mad.
They had no certain confirmation of the target’s condition, and it was still a dangerous target, yet they dared to charge ahead stubbornly. Could matters be handled like this?
When encountering a situation without certainty, one should naturally postpone action. What do you mean by gambling? This was gambling with lives, was it not? Only people with no way out would play like this.
Without certain confirmation of the situation, without certain grasp of the state of affairs, they dared to go and mess with it. Which person in the Grand Affairs Office would dare to handle matters like this?
Even with her status and position in the Grand Affairs Office, if she dared to handle matters like this, she would probably be beaten to death if not scolded to death.
Today she had gained a completely subversive understanding of the so-called world’s greatest talent. She would never again blindly believe in the excellence of the world’s greatest talent.
However, there was nothing she could do. Being half-dead with anger served no purpose.
The problem was that this group of people at most only listened to her words. They remained guarded against her words, afraid of falling into her trap.
Then she could only comfort herself. Perhaps these fellows still knew some hidden situation that they had not told her, which was why they dared to make this decision.
Being able to comfort oneself was a good thing. The problem was, listening to the group’s muttering, it did not look like that at all. They were simply daring to charge and daring to act.
Just as she was on tenterhooks in helplessness, Baili Xin suddenly warned, “Careful, they’re searching again.”
The few of them looked in that direction and saw another wave of bee swarms searching along the ground. They quickly pulled the corpse fur grass down to cover themselves, then peered through the gaps.
They had thought it would be like before, that the bee swarm would smell the corpse fur grass and go around this area. Who knew that this time it did not go as they wished. This time, dozens of multicoloured bees charged straight at them, making the group’s hearts leap with fright.
The multicoloured bees that charged at them showed no mercy, drilling directly into the gaps of the corpse fur grass.
The group naturally showed no mercy in their attacks. They killed every one that drilled in, and protected their bodies with gang qi.
Soon, Xiang Lanxuan let out a muffled groan. “Mmm… I’ve been stung. It hurts so much. Help me quickly.”
Only then did the group realise that this woman’s cultivation was restricted. She was now like an ordinary person. Where would she get gang qi to protect her body? They quickly moved to help her.
But her cry immediately brought big trouble.
The bee swarm had already been suspicious of this large patch of corpse fur grass. Suddenly hearing human voices from within, several multicoloured bees that had been crawling on the corpse fur grass immediately flapped their wings and flew into the air, buzzing.
The buzzing sound seemed to be contagious. In the end, it attracted a great deal of buzzing. A swarm of bees like a dark cloud buzzed towards them.
The result was predictable. Knowing they had been discovered, who could continue staying there like wooden logs waiting to be attacked by the bee swarm?
“We can’t hide anymore. We’ll alert the people in the divine tree. Run quickly.”
Yu Qing shouted and was the first to throw off the corpse fur grass covering him and flee. The others were not slow either.
Xiang Lanxuan’s reaction was also very fast. Seeing the situation was not right, she immediately screamed urgently, “A Shiheng, without me, let’s see how you escape from under Kunling Mountain’s nose once we get out of here.”
The people around her had all run away. Even the people holding her captive ignored her. Yu Qing and the others threw her aside and ran directly.
She wanted nothing else now. She only wanted Yu Qing and the others to continue holding her captive.
In just this short while, with her hands covering her head, she had already been stung several times by numerous multicoloured bees.
She was both in pain and filled with grief and indignation. She had never expected that she, a dignified Grand Walker of the Grand Affairs Office, could fall to this step today.
Fortunately, a figure quickly flashed over, scooped her up, and without caring about any image, directly threw her over his shoulder and ran while carrying her.
The one who came was Yu Qing, who had urgently turned back upon hearing the sound. He already had his sword drawn. Sword light danced like scattered stars, picking off the multicoloured bees that chased after them one by one.
The group of several people could not attend to any plan. In this situation, did they still want to sneak into the divine tree to scout the situation?
Could they still sneak? They would have to be crazy. Naturally, they ran first and talked later.
They ran desperately across this field of blooming flowers. Fearing the bee swarm behind them was one thing, but they feared even more that the people in the divine tree would chase out. They fled urgently.
This time, Yu Qing truly felt what a burden was. Carrying a person while flying at full speed really consumed cultivation. His mind wavered slightly, wanting to throw the person away, yet feeling that it might provide an extra escape route.
On the divine tree, several people who had walked out from the tree fork stood on a huge branch, watching the direction in which the bee swarm surged.
After several multicoloured bees flew to A Wei’s side and buzzed around for a while, A Chi turned around and reported, “Once the method changed, several targets were immediately found. They are fleeing. It turns out they were hiding several li away before, and they indeed used corpse fur grass as cover.”
The man in the flowery robe frowned. “They were right under our noses, yet instead of coming here, they ran. Then why did they administer the drug? Could it be that they were not the ones who administered the drug?”
What he did not know was that if Huan Yushan had not been coming and going here as if nothing was wrong, Yu Qing and the others would have already charged up directly according to the vine demon’s instructed plan.
A Chi said, “Regardless of whether it was them or not, their running away is actually a good thing now. Hopefully, they can hold out until Qing and Lan recover.”
Previously, they had not expected the group to be hiding nearby. They had thought the people were hiding far away, and that there was enough time.
At first, they had also suspected the culprit was nearby. Later, the bee swarm had searched everywhere, and moreover, it was already this hour, yet the culprit had still not reacted, causing a misjudgment on this side.
The man in the flowery robe nodded slightly. “Let’s hope so.”
At this moment, although Yu Qing and the others were still fleeing, they were already suffering unbearably.
Their fleeing speed could not match the flying speed of the multicoloured bees. They were already being swarmed and beaten by countless multicoloured bees.
The key was that these multicoloured bees had very strong attack power. It would not be an exaggeration to call them spiritual creatures. Their high-speed impact was enough to smash small pits into stones, and their wings sliced past like blades.
No matter how fast Yu Qing’s sword speed was, he could not block so many bee swarms charging from all directions at high speed.
Nan Zhu and Mu Aotie were even more so, sending swathes flying with palm strikes.
Although batches of multicoloured bees constantly perished at their hands and fell at their feet, the gang qi protecting their bodies was also being hit to the point of struggling to endure.
Hindered by the bee swarm, they could not run fast anymore. They all knew that if this continued nonstop, the protective gang qi would not last much longer, and their cultivation could not afford the consumption.
As misfortune would have it, the commotion of the bee swarm’s flight alerted the Kunling Mountain disciples who were scattered about on search duty.
This scene initially startled the Kunling Mountain disciples as well. Seeing that the bee swarm’s attack power was not weak, they also prepared to avoid it. Who knew that bizarrely, the bee swarm did not attack them at all, only attacking Yu Qing and the others.
Thus, the one who went to report quickly left, while the two Kunling Mountain disciples who remained followed leisurely at the side, watching the spectacle completely, pointing and gesturing from time to time.
Before long, several more Kunling Mountain disciples who had received the report arrived one after another, among them Qin Fujun, who had come upon hearing the news.
Seeing this scene, Qin Fujun also had a face full of astonishment, not knowing how Yu Qing and the others had provoked these bee swarms.
Seeing Qin Fujun appear, Yu Qing, who was resisting in the chaos, suddenly spoke out. “If we fall into Kunling Mountain’s hands, we will have absolutely no way to survive. That closed-door disciple of the enforcement elder might be a lifeline!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Nan Zhu and Mu Aotie knew what he meant.
The three of them worked with perfect understanding. Yu Qing threw the Xiang Lanxuan he was carrying on his shoulder, and Mu Aotie immediately caught her in his hands to protect her.
Yu Qing leapt out, directly waving his sword as he flew towards the group of Kunling Mountain disciples who were watching the spectacle nearby.
Baili Xin, who was waving her long bow as a weapon to randomly hack at the bee swarms around her, suddenly made a diving motion, diving into the flowers and grass. With one roll, three arrows were already nocked on her bow.
Clang! A thunderous string sound rang out from the grass.
Six Kunling Mountain disciples were looking up at Yu Qing, who was leaping into the air towards them, when they suddenly noticed movement in the flowers and grass before them. By the time they wanted to react, it was already too late.
Three arrows suddenly drilled out diagonally from the grass before them, like venomous snakes that had long been lying in ambush here, suddenly baring their fangs to attack.
Blood flowers first splashed from the backs of three people. After the three arrows flew out from the backs of the three people, the chests of the three people only then began to spurt blood. The three people lowered their heads to look at their chests, their eyes full of disbelief.
The fellow disciples at the side turned their heads sharply, all horrified, realising that a master archer had struck.
Yu Qing, who was still in the air and had not yet reached his target, also noticed that before he, who had moved first, could even touch the target, Baili Xin had already helped him eliminate three people.
Baili Xin, who had drawn her bow using the cover of the flowers and grass, sprang out from the grass again, leaping into the air. She had already drawn her bowstring once more. While in the air, another thunderous string sound rang out, and two arrows had disappeared without a trace from the bow.
A multicoloured bee that flew to attack collided with the bowstring and was directly cut in half by the bowstring’s elasticity.
The powerful shock force from the bow also briefly dispersed the protective gang qi on Baili Xin’s body. A multicoloured bee took the opportunity to enter and stung her body.
Nan Zhu was greatly alarmed upon seeing this and shouted, “Baili, be careful!”
Baili Xin, descending from the sky, paid no attention to any of that. She casually grabbed two more arrows and nocked them. Amidst thunderous vibrations, she shot them out.
The two people who had urgently rolled to dodge an arrow had just waved their swords desperately to resist two moves from Yu Qing descending from the sky, when they fell amidst the bowstring sound that exploded again. Blood flowers splashed open on both of their heads. Both were pierced through by arrows, killed instantly with one arrow!
Qin Fujun, who had urgently glanced over, was shocked and terrified. With just seven arrows, five fellow Xuan-level cultivators were gone just like that.
Today she had truly experienced the terror of a master archer.
Most crucially, she saw Baili Xin, who had landed, draw her bowstring and aim at her. She did not even know which direction to run, because Yu Qing’s sword light was already flashing towards her again. With no other choice, she could only desperately wave her sword to resist on one side.
She was originally unlikely to be Yu Qing’s match. Furthermore, with her attention divided, how could she block Yu Qing’s attacks? In less than two moves, she was kicked by Yu Qing until she spat blood and flew out. She crashed to the ground, and when she raised her head again, the sword tip was already pressed against her neck.”