Chapter 23
This scene was truly a little terrifying.
Xiao Hu said in a low voice, “You can try. Those Heavenly Thunder Talismans of yours are quite powerful. They can even blast late Golden Core cultivators.”
At a time like this, why pretend to be some big shot? Better to tell the truth and hurry up and escape.
She, a late Golden Core cultivator, indeed could not withstand the Heavenly Thunder Talismans.
Jiang Li felt slightly more at ease and boldly began looking around.
With this look, she noticed something. Aside from the leading few skeletons, whose eye sockets had eyes in them, the rest of the skeletons had empty eye sockets, as if they had not developed intelligence. Their movements were ignorant and sluggish.
“Little beauty, you can call me Madam White Bone. Why don’t we become Dao companions right now and dual cultivate as soon as possible? What do you think?”
Madam White Bone giggled delicately. With a tug of her bony fingers, she retracted the red thread. This time, a rift had appeared in the Savage Forest, and over a thousand cultivators had entered.
That person had not lied to her. Among them, there really was a natural pure-yang body that could help her rebuild her flesh and bones. It had not been in vain that she had lain low for so long before taking action.
“What do I think? I think… ghost.” Without another word, Jiang Li threw all her remaining Heavenly Thunder Talismans at Madam White Bone.
I think you want your soul scattered into nothingness.
Xiao Hu was also afraid of the Heavenly Thunder Talismans’ force. Inside the sword, she gathered all her strength and flew into the sky.
Behind them, explosions thundered, as if shaking the entire Savage Forest.
More than eighty first-level Heavenly Thunder Talismans—Jiang Li did not dare keep a single one and threw them all out.
After fleeing back to the ground, Xiao Hu still did not dare stop. She flew for a long time before finally halting.
“Jiang Li, those white bones don’t seem to have caught up.” With the power of the Heavenly Thunder Talismans, maybe they had all turned into bone ash.
Xiao Hu was panting. This had nearly cost her old life. She had almost exhausted all her spiritual power from flying.
Jiang Li was also still shaken. “As long as they didn’t catch up. Let’s hurry and find Ye Qingruo.”
Too scary!
When they returned to the place where they had been separated, they did not see Ye Qingruo or Xia Zhidi. Instead, they saw many sect disciples hurrying in one direction.
After watching for a while, Jiang Li stopped someone familiar. “Senior Brother Xinyi, where are you all going?”
Seeing that it was Jiang Li, Xinyi paused slightly. “A rare treasure has appeared in the valley ahead. Everyone is hurrying to look for it. You… had better not go.”
He spoke tactfully. Jiang Li, an early Qi Refining cultivator, would only be going to her death.
He was only going because he was leading a team of Qingxi Sect disciples. There was strength in numbers, so they could go and try their luck. If there truly was no chance to seize the treasure, they could still cooperate and retreat.
As he spoke, Xinyi left without stopping, leading his group onward.
Jiang Li laughed dryly inwardly. What rare treasure? More like a big pit.
However…
“Xiao Hu, if Ye Qingruo couldn’t find me, do you think she might have gone to that valley too?”
Xiao Hu said irritably, “Maybe she didn’t look for you at all. I’m not going. You’d better give up that thought quickly too.”
Jiang Li hesitated. What if Ye Qingruo and the male lead really had gone to that valley?
“Your Heavenly Thunder Talismans are all used up, right? Why don’t you try crushing a communication jade talisman and contacting her?” Xiao Hu tried to dispel Jiang Li’s idea. The moment she remembered those mountains and fields of White Bone Demons, her heart trembled with fear.
It had nearly scared this fox to death, all right?
Jiang Li said faintly, “Before entering the Savage Forest, Master said communication jade talismans don’t work here. As for the Heavenly Thunder Talismans, you still have ten, right?”
Xiao Hu immediately reacted as if her tail had been stepped on and cried, “You already gave them to me! Don’t even think about touching my Heavenly Thunder Talismans.”
She was not tired of living yet. She still wanted to become the young master who ruled the demon race.
Looking at the endless stream of figures, Jiang Li guessed that whether or not Ye Qingruo had searched for her, there was an eighty percent chance she would go to that valley.
Thinking that Xiao Hu was Xia Zhidi’s destined female lead, she hesitated and said, “Xia Zhidi should be with Ye Qingruo. If they went to that valley, they may be in danger.”
Although she said that, Jiang Li did not feel very confident.
She truly could not see how Xiao Hu cared about the male lead at all. What love at first sight? What risking her life to save him? What heavenly thunder igniting earthly fire? Could it be that the author had written those things just to deceive people?
Hm? Xiao Hu froze. What did that mean?
Could Jiang Li be worried that Ye Qingruo and Xia Zhidi’s old feelings would rekindle? That was indeed quite dangerous.
After hesitating between protecting herself wisely and letting her little companion’s wife be taken away, Xiao Hu sighed as if resigning herself to fate. “Fine, we’ll go. But let’s agree on this first: we stay far away. If the situation looks wrong, we run immediately.”
Seeing Xiao Hu agree, Jiang Li instead felt a little stifled. Feeling sorry for the male lead would bring a lifetime of bad luck.
Although she had not finished reading the whole text, the author had mentioned that the female lead risked her life to save the male lead several times.
Several times! Risking her life! As expected, the moment the female lead heard that the male lead was in danger, she stopped fearing death.
“Valuing romance over friendship,” Jiang Li could not help muttering.
Xiao Hu: “??”
Valuing romance over friendship?
Who was the romance? Who was the friend? Had her little companion’s brain broken again?
By this time, the sky had already darkened. When Jiang Li arrived on her sword, the area above the valley was already surrounded by people.
It felt as though everyone in the entire Savage Forest had arrived, forming a dark, dense crowd.
Everyone tacitly refrained from fighting. Their eyes were all fixed on the bottom of the valley.
With such an earth-shaking commotion, what kind of rare treasure must have appeared? Last time, they had gone late and gotten nothing. This time, they had to join the excitement no matter what.
Everyone made up their minds inwardly. The various groups guarded against one another, and no one dared to be the first to go down into the valley.
Jiang Li stood behind the crowd, waiting for Xiao Hu to release her divine sense and find Ye Qingruo.
A moment later, Xiao Hu’s voice sounded in her mind. “Northeast. Ye Qingruo and Xia Zhidi are with the Qingxi Sect disciples. It looks like they just arrived. But I advise you to run quickly.”
Jiang Li was alarmed. “Those White Bone Demons…”
“Mm. At least half of them haven’t turned into ash. Over a thousand skeletons are gathering and heading upward.”
“Then why isn’t everyone leaving?” Jiang Li swept her gaze over the unmoving crowd, extremely puzzled.
Although half of the people who had come to the Savage Forest were Foundation Establishment disciples and still could not release divine sense, the other half were Golden Core disciples. They should have discovered the White Bone Demons at the bottom of the valley like Xiao Hu had.
Xiao Hu clicked her tongue repeatedly. “They’re waiting for others to act as cannon fodder, so they can go down and pick up the rare treasure afterward.”
“Those White Bone Demons are all Golden Core. They’re way too bold.” Jiang Li communicated with Xiao Hu while quickly moving through the crowd toward the northeast.
She had to hurry and pull Ye Qingruo away. What rare treasure? It was all a trap.
Xiao Hu sighed with the air of an old soul. “Wealth stirs people’s hearts.”
To cultivators, rare treasures and opportunities were like the wealth mortals chased after for their entire lives, or grains of rice that birds risked death to eat.
Everyone wanted to be the lucky one. Everyone thought they could escape once the situation turned bad.
But if everything went as people wished, then the phrase “things go against one’s wishes” would not exist.
What the world could not see through was merely this saying: a greedy heart is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.
Jiang Li looked toward the Qingxi Sect disciples and finally saw Ye Qingruo. Her heart filled with joy, and she quickened her steps.
Over a thousand disciples were gathered here, so it was extremely crowded.
“Jiang Li, where are you going? I was just worried about you…” Seeing Jiang Li forcing her way forward with her head down, Ji Da greeted her in a low voice.
Actually, his father had told him to protect Jiang Li and preferably move together with her.
At the time, the inner disciples had automatically grouped together. He had hesitated for a moment and had not stepped forward.
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