Chapter 40 Senior Brother is Here!
The Spiritual Energy within the Mi Mu Tan was extremely chaotic.
Feng Yu Die and the other two were not only visually impaired but also unable to match Liang Zhu and his group in terms of Spiritual Sense. They were now at a complete disadvantage.
Being surrounded in such an environment, if they could not find a way to break out or fly into the sky, they would eventually be exhausted to death by those people.
Within the Mi Mu Tan, the sound of hammering was continuous.
Feng Yu Die and Pei Lian Xue were both looking anxious, their foreheads covered in sweat.
They had no idea from which direction the attackers would strike next.
While continuously blocking the attacks of Foundation Establishment cultivators, they also had to protect Xiao Yunluo, which greatly increased their physical strength consumption.
Not far away, on a small highland, Ye Anping, who was meditating with his eyes closed, watched them with his Spiritual Sense. However, he was sweating nervously for himself.
Why was he sweating for himself?
He had never expected Xiao Yunluo to be with Feng Yu Die and Junior Sister Pei.
After all, Xiao Yunluo was the only daughter of Immortal Dan Yue. She had a protective spell personally set by Immortal Dan Yue on her.
Once the protective spell was activated, Immortal Dan Yue would immediately sense it and rush over.
At that time, that Loli Old Woman would likely slap him and his “Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Brothers” without a word, blowing their heads off.
Ye Anping swallowed and quickly took out a tubular iron whistle from his storage bag, biting it in his mouth.
—He was ready to help.
However, before he could blow the iron whistle, something seemed to have happened on Feng Yu Die’s side.
*Swish—*
The sound of swords piercing flesh rang out, and blood splattered.
When “Fifth Brother” thrust his long sword towards Xiao Yunluo, Feng Yu Die, who had been blocking with her sword, suddenly changed her tactic and actively used her own body to block the blow.
Her flesh met the sharp weapon, and her left shoulder was directly pierced by the sword.
The attacker, caught off guard, was stunned for a moment.
But this momentary lapse was seized by Feng Yu Die.
Gritting her teeth and enduring the intense pain in her left shoulder, she reached out, grabbed his sword blade with one hand, and his wrist with the other, while reminding Pei Lian Xue beside her:
“Junior Sister Pei!”
With just one call, Pei Lian Xue reacted and moved to “Fifth Brother’s” side.
*Scrape—*
With a flash of cold light, “Fifth Brother” was separated from his body and perished.
The next moment, “Fourth Brother” from another direction noticed this and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Fifth Brother!!”
However, this uncontrolled shout revealed his position.
Upon hearing it, Feng Yu Die immediately released her sword with her right hand, formed a sword finger, and lightly flicked it, using her spiritual energy to control the sword. The sword transformed into an arrow and flew in the direction of the sound.
*Swish—*
“Fifth Brother” also did not expect that a single shout would expose his position. He didn’t even have time to use his spiritual energy to protect himself before being pierced in the abdomen by the sword thrown by Feng Yu Die.
“Cough—”
Sensing the impact, Feng Yu Die immediately flipped her hand and flicked her finger upwards.
Her spirit sword spun instantly, and with a upward slash, the other person was cut in half.
“Now’s our chance! Go!”
Feng Yu Die gritted her teeth, pulled the sword out of her shoulder, then grabbed Xiao Yunluo’s hand and dragged her towards the direction where the attacker had spoken.
“Junior Sister Pei, keep up! There’s no one here anymore!”
During the previous battle, Feng Yu Die had figured out that there were a total of four attackers, hidden in the east, south, west, and north directions.
Now that two of them were dead, the encirclement was half broken.
Feng Yu Die’s only regret was that the two killed were the two early Foundation Establishment cultivators.
If they could have killed even one mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, they might have been able to break out directly.
“Tsk…”
Feng Yu Die tutted lightly. As she carried the two forward twenty Chi, a red light suddenly shot from the ground towards the sky from her front right, piercing through the thick fog of the Mi Mu Tan.
Seeing this red light, Feng Yu Die immediately understood that they had fallen into a formation set up by the attackers.
The four people earlier were just here to stall for time. There should be a fifth person secretly setting up the formation.
“Hiss— A formation?!” Feng Yu Die couldn’t help but curse, “You guys in the Foundation Establishment stage are making such a fuss to deal with three Qi Refining cultivators like us! Do you have money to spend with nowhere to put it?!”
“Heh heh, little friend. If you weren’t so valuable, I wouldn’t have prepared such a formation…”
A man’s voice came from all directions, making Feng Yu Die’s eyebrows twitch.
At this moment, Xiao Tian also emerged from her mind. It looked at the towering red light pillar in the center of the formation and immediately took out the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao, flipping it open.
“Feather Butterfly, that is the Seven Star Suffocating Spirit Array. It can trap enemies and also deplete the spiritual energy of those within the array. For a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s single-eye formation, breaking the main eye will break the entire formation.”
“…Where is the formation eye?!”
“This formation has four possible locations for the formation eye, which can be set at ‘Tian Xuan’, ‘Tian Shu’, ‘Kai Yang’, or ‘Yao Guang’.”
Xiao Tian read the contents of the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao. At the same time, Xiao Yunluo also recognized the name of the formation and echoed Xiao Tian, saying, “The formation eye can be set at Tian Xuan, Tian Shu, Kai Yang, and Yao Guang! I’ve seen this formation before!”
“Four locations?!”
Feng Yu Die gritted her teeth. These four locations were respectively in the southeast, northwest, and the four directions within the array. They didn’t have time to go through them one by one to find the formation eye. Even if they tried their luck, a one-in-four chance wasn’t high.
“Let’s split up. I’ll go to the east and south, and you and Senior Sister Xiao will be responsible for the other two eyes to the west and north,” Pei Lian Xue quickly said. “After breaking the formation, continue north, and I’ll catch up with you.”
Feng Yu Die quickly refuted, “If we split up, we’ll just be surrounded and picked off one by one. Besides, my left hand is incapacitated, and I can’t protect Junior Sister Xiao alone.”
“…”
Hearing this, Xiao Yunluo couldn’t help but lower her head.
She felt a bit guilty. Not only was her sword taken away at the beginning, but now she was also burdening these two.
She paused and quickly said, “You don’t need to worry about me! I’ll stay here and hide.”
“If you stay here, you’ll only die! Those people are here for our lives.”
Xiao Yunluo was startled and immediately lowered her head, saying nothing more.
Afterward, Feng Yu Die gritted her teeth and thought for a while before saying:
“Let’s go together and search in the order of southwest and northeast. If we’re lucky, we can break the formation directly.”
Saying this, she picked up Xiao Yunluo on her shoulder and ran west.
However, just as the three were about to move, several bird chirps echoed through the forest.
*Jiji~~ Jiji~~*
It sounded like the call of a mockingbird.
Upon hearing it, Pei Lian Xue hesitated for a moment and quickly stopped, calling out to the two in front and listening intently.
“Wait a moment!!”
“Huh?!” Feng Yu Die turned her head in confusion, “What’s wrong?”
“Quiet!”
The next moment, the repeated bird calls echoed through the forest.
*Jiji~~ Jiji~~*
Being in the forest, the bird calls sounded very natural. Feng Yu Die hadn’t noticed anything, but Pei Lian Xue, after hearing the second call, immediately reacted.
—Senior Brother is here!
This wasn’t bird calls, but the sound of her Senior Brother imitating bird calls with his iron whistle.
“One short, one long; two short, one long,” Pei Lian Xue murmured, “The formation eye is at ‘Kai Yang’, to the north! Let’s go!”
“Huh?!”
Feng Yu Die looked bewildered, but seeing Pei Lian Xue running in the direction of ‘Kai Yang’, she didn’t hesitate and quickly followed, carrying Xiao Yunluo.
