Chapter 43 Thunderous Might
Watching the two people fly away, Feng Yu Die was so angry that her teeth were grinding, completely forgetting the bleeding hole in her left shoulder.
It was Xiao Tian who flew out and reminded her, and only then did she take a deep breath and swallow her anger back into her stomach.
“Yu Die, you still have a hole in your shoulder.”
Feng Yu Die was stunned when she heard this, looked down at her left shoulder, and saw that the blood had stained half of her skirt red. Only then did she feel the piercing pain.
She looked over at Pei Lianxue’s side, thought for a moment, and suddenly sat on the ground, crying out “Wuwuwuwu”.
“Ouch! It hurts so much, it hurts so much…”
“Ah?!”
Hearing Feng Yu Die’s scream, Pei Lianxue hurried over, squatted down, tore open Feng Yu Die’s sleeve, and examined her wound.
Seeing this, Feng Yu Die quickly said in a weak voice, “Junior Sister Pei, I feel like I’m dying. Can you grant me one wish? I’ve always wanted…”
Pei Lianxue didn’t listen to what she was saying, but seeing the large hole in her shoulder, she quickly recalled the emergency treatment for external injuries that Senior Brother had taught her before.
Under normal circumstances, the effect of pills would definitely be the best.
However, she didn’t have any medicine in her storage bag that could treat stab wounds. According to what her Senior Brother taught her, she should first “disinfect” and then bandage the wound to stop the bleeding.
So, Pei Lianxue flicked her finger, quickly took out a can of salt that was left over from roasting the deer, twisted it open, and poured it onto the wound on Feng Yu Die’s shoulder.
“Bear with it, it might hurt a bit.”
“Ah?”
Feng Yu Die looked at the can she took out, thinking it was medicine, so she didn’t say anything.
However, as the first white-yellow granules sprinkled onto her shoulder, a pig-slaughtering shriek erupted from the marsh.
It sounded like a promiscuous pig was being slaughtered.
“Ahhhhhhh—!!”
A short while later, Feng Yu Die’s eyes rolled upwards, and she fainted on the ground.
“Tch~”
Pei Lianxue nodded with satisfaction, then tore off a piece of cloth from her skirt, bandaged her, and left her there, ignoring her.
Afterward, she glanced at Xiao Yunluo.
Xiao Yunluo was squatting in front of the corpses of “Second Brother” and “Third Brother,” doing something unknown, mumbling “Come on!” and “Don’t be afraid” to herself, her small hands moving back and forth over their storage bags.
Seeing this, Pei Lianxue walked over with a puzzled expression and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Ah?!” Xiao Yunluo was startled, quickly stood up, and said, “I just… want to find my sword. Those people just now snatched my sword.”
“Oh…” Pei Lianxue nodded and asked, “Did you find it?”
“Ah… I…”
Xiao Yunluo pursed her lips awkwardly, her gaze shifting uncertainly.
In fact, this was the first time she had seen such “fresh” corpses – she was scared!
But she felt that it would be too embarrassing if she admitted that she was afraid to touch their storage bags.
She was the young miss of the Xuan Xing Sect! How could she be afraid of such a small matter?!
After hesitating for a moment, she said unconfidently, “I’m worried there might be traps in these people’s storage bags, so I’m a bit hesitant to touch them.”
“Oh.”
Pei Lianxue nodded in understanding.
Fearing that Pei Lianxue would think she was timid, Xiao Yunluo quickly added, “I’m really not scared, I’m just worried about traps… Um… My Elder told me not to touch other people’s storage bags randomly, as there might be poisonous insects or something…”
“You can scan them with your Spiritual Sense first?”
“Ah… that’s true…”
Xiao Yunluo chuckled awkwardly, then clenched her fists and summoned up the courage to send her Spiritual Sense into “Second Brother’s” storage bag to search. Meanwhile, Pei Lianxue began to explore “Third Brother’s” storage bag.
Unfortunately, besides some pills and spirit stones, there was nothing else inside.
Seeing that she didn’t find anything, Xiao Yunluo looked disappointed. After thinking for a moment, she asked, “Besides the two who escaped, aren’t there two more people? Could they be with them?”
“We’ll look for them when we go back later,” Pei Lianxue nodded, pointing at Feng Yu Die lying on the ground, and said, “You stay with her first. If anything happens, call me. I’m going to wander around the forest.”
“Ah… okay.”
After speaking, Pei Lianxue hurried into the nearby woods.
Earlier, Senior Brother had used the iron whistle to tell her the location of the formation core, so Senior Brother must be here.
Feng Yu Die was knocked unconscious by her, which was fine, but what if Xiao Yunluo saw her Senior Brother and developed feelings for him? Then she would have another enemy to deal with.
So, walking into the depths of the forest and confirming that Xiao Yunluo hadn’t followed her, she pinched her voice and imitated bird calls to summon her Senior Brother.
Chirp~~ Chirp chirp chirp~ Chirp~
Chirp~~ Chirp chirp chirp~ Chirp~
Unfortunately, she called more than ten times without a response, and for a moment, she pouted in complaint.
“Where is Senior Brother? He was clearly here just now…”
After waiting for a while and seeing that Senior Brother had not appeared, Pei Lianxue returned to the same spot.
At this moment, spiritual light from several flying swords appeared in the distance.
Elder Wang Shouren arrived with seven or eight Inner disciples flying on their swords.
Looking at the three people below and the two decapitated corpses, he frowned and quickly ordered the seven or eight Inner disciples around him to guard and search the surroundings, while he himself flew down.
Originally, Elder Wang Shouren thought that they had gotten into a fight with another group of disciples participating in the sect selection. However, after asking Xiao Yunluo and the others about the situation and examining the two corpses, he was dumbfounded.
The sect’s grand formation consumed millions of spirit stones for the Xuan Xing Sect every year. Even for powerful cultivators, it was impossible to break through the formation in a short time. Yet, a group of rogue cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage had somehow sneaked in without anyone noticing?
As Elder Wang Shouren ordered his disciples to search for the two fugitives, a flash of lightning suddenly streaked across the sky.
A white-bearded old man with angry eyebrows descended.
Upon seeing him, Wang Shouren immediately cupped his fists and bowed, saying, “Great Elder.”
—This person was Lei Wanjun, one of the five Great Elders of the Xuan Xing Sect, with a cultivation of Deity Transformation.
He glanced at the two corpses on the ground and asked angrily, “What happened?”
“A group of people sneaked into the back mountain and attacked the Young Miss and two disciples participating in the sect selection. Two of them are still at large, and the disciples are sending people to pursue them.”
Lei Wanjun glanced at Pei Lianxue and Feng Yu Die beside him and nodded. “I recognize these two. They were the disciples who broke through the moves in the sword trial, right?”
“Yes, they are.”
Wang Shouren quickly gestured for the three of them to come forward and pay their respects.
Upon sensing that it was a Deity Transformation stage expert, Feng Yu Die also immediately bowed respectfully.
“Greetings, Senior…”
Xiao Yunluo did the same, cupping her fists and saying, “Greetings, Elder Lei.”
However, Pei Lianxue’s style was a bit different. She shouted at the top of her lungs, straightening her body, and yelled, “Greetings, Senior!!!!”
This shout startled Lei Wanjun, but he did not feel offended. Instead, he chuckled and replied, “You girl, you’re so full of energy.”
“Ah… my Senior Brother said to salute loudly, hehe…”
Lei Wanjun patted Pei Lianxue on the shoulder, then moved a step to the side, narrowed his eyes, made a sword finger gesture, and flicked his hand.
Instantly, dark clouds that were not there before appeared out of nowhere in the sky.
The rumbling sound of thunder lasted for quite a while, and then Lei Wanjun waved his hand again.
The thunderclouds in the sky vanished completely, as if they were an illusion.
“This group of Foundation Establishment cultivators snuck into the Xuan Xing Sect without anyone noticing, and then two of them escaped?”
Hearing this, Wang Shouren finally understood that Lei Wanjun had already scanned the entire back mountain of the Xuan Xing Sect with his Spiritual Sense, but he still couldn’t believe it and asked, “Escaped?”
“If they haven’t escaped, then they were able to hide from my Spiritual Sense. Elder Wang, do you think that’s possible?”
“This… naturally impossible.”
Then, Lei Wanjun walked to the two corpses and examined them carefully.
“Two rogue cultivators… they should be from the Seven Kill Gate,” he said, looking at Feng Yu Die and Pei Lianxue beside him. “It seems like one of you has been heavily rewarded.”
Feng Yu Die looked bewildered. “Huh?”
“Did you provoke anyone?”
Feng Yu Die replied uncertainly, “I don’t think so… right?”
Lei Wanjun sighed and waved his hand.
“Forget it, this matter should not be spread. As for the Seven Kill Gate…”
He pondered for a moment, thinking that it would be best to smooth things over. He planned to send an elder to the Seven Kill Gate in a few days to have the sect leader apologize to Feng Yu Die and Pei Lianxue, and compensate them with some things and spirit stones.
However, before he could finish speaking, an Inner disciple frantically rushed back from a distance.
“Elder!”
“So clumsy, what kind of deportment is this?” Lei Wanjun glanced at the disciple.
“No… it’s this!! This disciple found this map in the storage bag of one of the deceased…”
As he spoke, the Inner disciple knelt on one knee and presented the “Xuan Xing Sect Grand Formation Map” that Ye Anping had left in “Fourth Brother’s” storage bag to Lei Wanjun.
Lei Wanjun took it and looked at it. Instantly, his previously somewhat amiable face became “fierce.”
Thunder rumbled in the sky—
“How dare the Seven Kill Gate do this!!!”
Wang Shouren was startled and quickly walked over to glance at the map in Lei Wanjun’s hand. Upon seeing the map, his eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart:
—The Seven Kill Gate would really do anything for money?!
They dared to inquire about the locations of the formation cores of the five great immortal sects’ grand formations, and most importantly, they had actually managed to find them out.
The nine marked locations on the map were precisely the nine formation cores of the sect’s grand formation.
If this map were to leak out, the Xuan Xing Sect’s grand formation would be as good as useless, and anyone could enter or leave the Xuan Xing Sect at will.
Doing such a thing was no different from declaring war on the Xuan Xing Sect.
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