Chapter 236 Protagonist, Que Que?
Beneath the spiritual light formation diagram, countless earth vein spiritual energies were forcefully extricated from the soil, manifesting as streams of starlight converging towards the sky.
Above the scalding hot lake, Pei Lianxue, holding the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword, leaped nimbly from Ye Anping’s flying sword onto the lake’s surface. With each step on the water, an ice-blue spiritual light spread outwards. The previously bubbling, boiling lake water instantly froze into ice, forming a floating ice slab for Pei Lianxue to stand on.
Pei Lianxue walked to the center of the lake and then looked up at Ye Anping, who was on his flying sword, nodding to indicate, “Done!”
“Let’s begin, Junior Sister.”
“Mmm~” Ye Anping nodded and flew towards the sky on his sword. After watching her Senior Brother fly away, Pei Lianxue tilted her head slightly, closed her eyes, relaxed her body, and channeled her spiritual energy to her left fingertip.
Holding her sword before her eyebrows, her left hand formed a sword finger, swiftly tracing from the sword’s head to its tail, and then she raised the sword finger towards the sky. Ice-blue spiritual mist instantly erupted outwards, enveloping her. The entire lake was instantaneously frozen into an ice lake. Even the scorching flames around were encased within the ice, resembling ice lanterns with flames burning inside.
White mist billowed, and an ice-blue beam of light shot up to the heavens, striking the center of the massive formation imprint overhead.
Roaring—
The shockwave caused the surrounding mountain peaks to tremble, and rolling rocks fell from the mountain summits. The six Nascent Soul Stage elders forming the formation in the sky all trembled at the impact of this spiritual energy.
Grandmaster Tian Xing, serving as the main formation eye, looked at the ice-blue pillar of light that suddenly rose from somewhere within Qiong Mountain with disbelief in his eyes. “This is…”
Another elder beside him quickly inquired, “Elder Tian Xing, could it be… Sword Ancestor?”
“No.” Grandmaster Tian Xing immediately denied it. He closed his eyes and meditated for a moment. When he reopened his eyes, a golden spiritual light flashed within them. This was a high-level far-sighted technique. His gaze pierced through the blazing spiritual flames, circumvented the towering mountain peaks, and after traversing a hundred li, he reached the lake where Pei Lianxue was.
Upon seeing the spiritual sword in Pei Lianxue’s hand, which was entirely made of mysterious ice and about four and a half chi long, a hint of joy flickered across his aged face. He immediately shouted, “Everyone!! Change the formation!! Make way for a main formation eye for her.”
The other five men were astonished and looked towards Grandmaster Tian Xing. They had not used far-sighted techniques to investigate the situation, but Grandmaster Tian Xing was the oldest and most senior among them. Since he said to make way for the formation eye for an unknown individual, there must be a reason. The six Nascent Soul cultivators immediately altered their respective formation talismans. The hexagonal formation imprint that had previously obscured the sky began to change, disassembling and reassembling, with an additional empty space created in the center for Pei Lianxue.
In the center of the lake, Pei Lianxue watched the formation diagram transform. She quickly formed seven hand seals in sequence as Ye Anping had taught her, and then channeled her spiritual energy through the Snow Jade Myriad Spirit Sword into the formation imprint. However, after doing so, her spiritual sense felt as though it had transferred, arriving in a space filled with flowing light.
Now, the spirit souls of the six Nascent Soul cultivators were beside her, surrounding her. There were old and young, male and female among them, all turning their eyes towards her the moment she entered.
A woman dressed provocatively asked with a frown, “Hmm? This girl is just a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator. What are you thinking, old man Tian Xing, for the six of us to assist her in forming the array?”
“And she’s a Three Spirit Root cultivator…”
“And so young…”
“But cute, though.”
After the last statement, the other five, including Grandmaster Tian Xing, turned their gaze towards the female cultivator who had called Pei Lianxue cute.
“Why are you looking at me? She really is cute, don’t you think?”
“…”
Pei Lianxue was a little scared. She felt as though she was surrounded by a group of formidable beings, and she stood there, at a loss, shrinking her head and blinking her orange eyes.
Grandmaster Tian Xing sighed softly, then shifted his gaze to Pei Lianxue and said, “Girl, don’t just stand there. Can you form an array? Just send your spiritual energy through that sword into the formation. Leave the rest to us.”
Pei Lianxue froze for a moment and then shouted, “Okay!!!”
““… …””
The six cultivators narrowed their eyes, feeling their ears were not accustomed to it, and glared at her, but said nothing more.
“Girl! Infuse spiritual energy into the Tianshu, take it slowly, don’t rush, and don’t be nervous.”
“Okay!!!”
“…”
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Meanwhile, on the other side.
In the snow forest, Hu Tianyue, who was sitting cross-legged between Yun Yiyi, Yun Xi, and Yun Jiujiu, was quite puzzled when she saw the formation imprint in the sky suddenly change. She had known that Grandmaster Tian Xing and the others were coming to put out the fire when she saw the formation, but now the six-person formation had suddenly become a seven-person one halfway through, and an ice-blue beam of spiritual light had shot out from Qiong Mountain.
“What is old man Tian Xing up to?” Hu Tianyue muttered, then turned to look at Zhang Yihe, who was idle beside her. “Kid, go down to where that ice-blue spiritual light came from and take a look. You’ve got nothing else to do here anyway.”
Zhang Yihe was startled and quickly shook his head, his neck shrinking. “Elder Hu, this… I… I’m injured.”
“What injury do you have?”
“My leg, my leg hurts so much.” Zhang Yihe quickly clutched his ankle and rolled around.
“…”
Hu Tianyue frowned, immediately realizing that this guy was probably worried about danger and was backing out due to cowardice. She then turned to “Feng Yu,” who was holding Yun Jiujiu beside her.
“Miss Feng, go take a look. I’ll take care of them here.”
Feng Yu Die was about to agree, but just as the words were about to come out, she suddenly paused and pointed to her face, objecting, “I… I’m not a girl.”
“…”
Hu Tianyue twisted her eyebrows, glanced at the crotch of her pants, narrowed her eyes, and said, “Oh, then you really are small.”
?
Feng Yu Die didn’t understand and tilted her head in confusion. “Hmm? What’s really small?”
“Que Que.”
“? Que Que? Huh?”
“…”
Hu Tianyue rolled her eyes at her, then turned back to Zhang Yihe. “Kid Zhang, you and fellow Feng go take a look together. Come tell me if anything happens, I can’t get away.”
“Ah?” Zhang Yihe was stunned, glanced at Feng Yu Die again, and then nodded. “Alright, Brother Feng~ You go ahead…”
Feng Yu Die, wondering “What is Que Que?”, stood up, patted her butt, summoned her flying sword, and leaped onto it. Before flying away, she glanced at the snow pine where Ye Anping had been standing earlier, confirmed that Ye Anping had not signaled her, and then flew towards the lake where Pei Lianxue was.
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