Chapter 425: Chapter 384: Holding One’s Ground (Yue Monthly Ticket 1,500 Bonus)

Jiang Yuebai’s mind buzzed incessantly; she had no idea what had happened.

She forced herself to calm down.

This was the place where she had left her puppet avatar. She had set up the Four Symbols Eight Trigrams Array, left the Condensing Light Mirror, and had Little Green and Jixiang guarding it to make people believe she truly left her main body here.

"Little Green, Jixiang!"

Jiang Yuebai expanded her divine sense to probe the entire valley, but she couldn’t see them, and everything she left behind was gone too.

A bird’s cry came from the sky, and Jiang Yuebai turned to see a plump Three-Legged Golden Bird flying toward her, clutching the damaged Little Green in its claws.

"Little Green!"

Jiang Yuebai reached out, taking Little Green from the Three-Legged Golden Bird’s claws.

The phosphorus flames on either side of the lantern had already extinguished, with only the faintest flicker remaining inside.

Jiang Yuebai directed the Earth Evil Fire within her body into Little Green’s wick, continuously injecting it for over an hour. As her internal spiritual energy was nearly depleted, she directly invoked nature’s spiritual energy using her Divine Elixir to sustain the Earth Evil Fire.

The spiritual energy of nature wasn’t as dense and robust as the one stored in her dantian. Fortunately, the flame in Little Green’s wick had been restored to its original state, currently repairing the hole in the lantern with the Earth Evil Fire.

Once the hole was nearly repaired, before Jiang Yuebai could ask, a word appeared on the lantern.

[Look]

A green light flashed into her eyes, and Jiang Yuebai’s divine sense followed Little Green’s then-perspective, seeing from beneath the beam the figure of Xie Jingshan in the distance, the startled Three-Legged Golden Bird, and Jixiang bolting away with a chunk of ore at Xie Jingshan’s feet.

"Who? Come out!"

Xie Jingshan shouted angrily outside the valley.

For a moment, no one appeared, and Xie Jingshan scratched his head awkwardly.

The scene quickly slipped by; Xie Jingshan practiced swordsmanship daily, fed Jixiang, went out to play with the Three-Legged Golden Bird, and returned to practice swordsmanship afterward, living a very regular life.

The focus of the scene was Xie Jingshan, but Jiang Yuebai keenly noticed something unusual about the orchids in the valley. They were like hands, incrementally removing the array signs she had left behind!

These orchids were very covert. If not for Little Green speeding up the playback, Jiang Yuebai wouldn’t have noticed their strangeness.

Days passed like this, about the time when Moonlight Flowing Cup was about to start. The Four Symbols Eight Trigrams Array was dismantled from within by the orchids in the valley. Instantly, pollen spread throughout the valley, and a group of orchid demons, like walking corpses, stormed into the valley, attacking Xie Jingshan without any words.

The cultivation of these orchid demons was typically around the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment. After transformation, they looked as if poisoned, controlled, bloodthirsty, and murderous, nothing like normal grass and wood demons, but rather like... ghost clan’s evil corpses.

They came endlessly, impossible to eradicate. Xie Jingshan fought relentlessly, and though Little Green wanted to help, Xie Jingshan stopped it with gestures.

With so many ants, they could kill an elephant; Xie Jingshan was alone, constantly recovering with elixirs, but after repelling more than thirty waves, he was exhausted, out of elixirs, leaning on his sword, kneeling on the ground.

This pollen surely had some effect on him. Xie Jingshan had once tried to break through and leave, but failed.

Afterwards, the anticipated person appeared before Xie Jingshan.

Tian Nanxing!

"I knew it was you, you bastard!"

Xie Jingshan cursed breathlessly, forcing himself to stand again, driven by pride, refusing to lose face in front of others.

"If you want to pass here, you have to step over my body!"

Xie Jingshan wiped the blood from his face, holding his sword to guard the hut, not budging an inch.

Jiang Yuebai wanted to curse him to death upon seeing this. He knew well it was just a puppet avatar inside, a trap for the enemy. At such a time, he should use every means to escape and run first!

Tian Nanxing looked at Xie Jingshan and said, "Today I want both you and her body!"

Xie Jingshan warily took half a step back, scanning the surroundings. The pollen had sealed off the entire valley.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuebai sighed in despair; Tian Nanxing’s target was not only her but also Xie Jingshan.

"Aren’t you afraid of contract backlash with her?" Xie Jingshan questioned.

Tian Nanxing dismissed him disdainfully, "Do you know, my demon clan has a beast called the Deceitful Beast? Speaking of which, its bloodline is actually the first I’ve successfully grafted apart from grass and wood. A contract, even a Heart Demon Blood Oath, can do nothing to me. You’d better surrender and get out of the way to avoid suffering."

Xie Jingshan gave a defiant smile, "Even if I die, Xie Jingshan will not yield!"

A fierce battle erupted, Little Green rushed to assist, the scene becoming extremely chaotic with blazing flames, continuous explosions, Little Green seemed to be struck flying, the screen filled with raging flames.

Jiang Yuebai thought the scene ended, but Little Green conveyed to her the intention to keep watching.

Waiting for a while, Jiang Yuebai suddenly heard the sound of a dragon roar, a gigantic crash, the sound of something piercing a body, immediately followed by Tian Nanxing’s furious, gritted call of her name.

It must be the Condensing Light Mirror and the puppet avatar in the hut wounding Tian Nanxing. How unfortunate, the life force of grass and wood demons is robust, not easy to kill.

"I’m taking the person. If you want to rescue him, bring the Divine Tree Branch to the Netherworld Sea Ashura Domain!"

"Don’t... come, please don’t... come."

Xie Jingshan’s weak voice kept calling, Jiang Yuebai clenched her fist, feeling restless.

The scene stopped here, and more words flashed over Little Green’s body.

The gist conveyed was that Jixiang was hidden on Xie Jingshan, following him, and everything in the valley was taken by Tian Nanxing, leaving it purposely to convey messages to Jiang Yuebai.

Jiang Yuebai took a deep breath, turning to thank the Three-Legged Golden Bird, "Thank you for taking care of Little Green during this time."

The Three-Legged Golden Bird hung its head shyly, but in fact, it struggled quite a bit. Little Green needed Yin Fire, yet it only had Golden Crow Yang Fire, several times nearly burning Little Green to death.

Jiang Yuebai produced a Phoenix Feather to give to the Three-Legged Golden Bird, "Take this, I will rescue Xie Jingshan, so you needn’t worry."

Hearing Jiang Yuebai was going to rescue Xie Jingshan, the Three-Legged Golden Bird refused the Phoenix Feather, hopping onto Jiang Yuebai’s arm chirping, indicating it wanted to go as well.

Jiang Yuebai frowned, "I can bring you along, but first, I need to meet the Divine Tree."

Since Tian Nanxing wanted her to bring the Divine Tree Branch to find him, he surely wouldn’t harm Xie Jingshan, at least leaving him alive.

Considering the Mountain and Sea Building behind Xie Jingshan, Tian Nanxing must proceed cautiously with Xie Jingshan. Back in the North Sea, the old servant of the Xie Family, Luoo Tingzong, had once told her that anyone aware of the Mountain and Sea Building in the Earth Spiritual Realm dared not harm Xie Jingshan, because the Xie Family’s old ancestor fiercely protected him.

Such an event in the demon clan, coupled with Tian Nanxing once being a servant of the Divine Tree, she couldn’t believe the Divine Tree hadn’t sensed Tian Nanxing’s ambition.

The Three-Legged Golden Bird landed on Jiang Yuebai’s shoulder, Jiang Yuebai picked up Little Green, heading straight towards where the Divine Tree was located.