With just a single punch, Du Mei Zhenren, who had been arrogant and overbearing, didn’t even have the right to resist.
She didn’t feel the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy and was hammered into a huge rock by pure force.
The moment her whole body was sent flying, gravel and dust scattered everywhere.
Du Mei Zhenren was imprinted in the boulder with wide eyes, clearly not having reacted.
It took several seconds before the intense pain on her face jolted her awake.
“Who… who is it?!!”
Seeing the rubble in front of her, not waiting for the smoke to clear, Du Mei Zhenren immediately reacted.
Gritting her teeth, she instantly summoned her twelve life-bound artifacts around her and quickly retreated several steps to a safe distance.
Lin Xinyi had already closed her eyes in despair.
But after a long while, she only heard the sound of something breaking through the air, followed by jade shattering.
Startled, she opened her eyes and saw a familiar figure protecting her.
“Yun… Yun Yiyi?!”
Lin Xinyi’s surprise was hard to conceal.
She never expected Yun Yiyi to appear here.
Her fiery red hair was tied into twin ponytails like flames, hanging behind her.
But her usually petite body now radiated a sense of security.
At that moment, Du Mei Zhenren was extremely disheveled.
Just moments ago, she had looked down on everyone, but now she had been punched into a boulder.
She hadn’t even seen when her opponent appeared.
“What strong power…”
When the smoke and dust slowly cleared, Yun Yiyi stood there, slightly turned.
Her petite body exuded an incomparable pressure.
Du Mei Zhenren saw this sudden enemy and dared not be careless.
While keeping the twelve life-bound artifacts around her, she also began to activate a secret technique.
‘That woman, a Nascent Soul expert? No, very little spiritual energy, not Nascent Soul stage…’
At this moment, Du Mei Zhenren kept scrutinizing Yun Yiyi.
She had been undercover in the Hidden Immortal Sect for many years, and she knew everyone from the sect leader’s main peak to the elders in important positions.
But this suddenly appearing young girl, Du Mei Zhenren knew very little about.
She didn’t even have any intelligence on her.
She completely didn’t understand when the Hidden Immortal Sect had produced such a person.
‘Is she also an elder? Why have I never seen her interact with other elders?’
Yun Yiyi just coldly glanced at Du Mei Zhenren in the distance, then turned and looked at Lin Xinyi sitting on the ground panting, especially when she saw the blood flowing from the corner of Lin Xinyi’s mouth.
At this moment, Yun Yiyi’s brows showed a hint of displeasure.
It was like something she treasured had not been respected and had been maliciously damaged.
“Little Xinyi, are you okay?!”
Yun Yiyi walked over with concern, slowly crouched down, and helped the limp Lin Xinyi up.
Her eyes were full of care.
She even reached out and gently brushed the dust off Lin Xinyi.
“It’s okay now, Little Xinyi. Leave the rest to me…”
Faced with Yun Yiyi’s comforting words, Lin Xinyi, despite her weak body, still stood up and showed a gentle smile, which made Yun Yiyi momentarily distracted.
“You came just in time. Yiyi, you really are my lucky star~”
Lin Xinyi reached out and gently held Yun Yiyi’s hand.
Her eyes were full of a fragile look that made one’s heart ache, but anyone with sharp eyes could tell it was an act.
However, Yun Yiyi was completely frozen on the spot.
Even a strange blush appeared on her cheeks.
Lin Xinyi, who was usually cold to her and didn’t let her get close, when had she ever shown such an expression?
She was completely treating her as a friend she could rely on.
“Li… Little Xinyi, wh… what are you doing..”
Yun Yiyi, whose hands were tightly held, stammered as she spoke.
Her eyes darted around, not daring to look directly at the smiling Lin Xinyi, afraid that the other party would withdraw this enthusiasm out of shyness.
“The moment you appeared just now, I felt so safe. My heart can’t leave you, my good~ friend~”
Lin Xinyi, while generously praising, leaned her body forward, making Yun Yiyi’s originally concerned expression turn panicked.
Lin Xinyi caught her current state, narrowed her eyes slightly, and slowly leaned close to her ear.
“You see, Yiyi, because of this, I’ve become your best friend. Can you help me with one more thing~”
“Best best friends, best friends should help each other!”
“Help me kill that person, and I’ll promise you one thing, anything I can do.”
After saying this in her ear, Lin Xinyi slowly stepped back two paces.
Yun Yiyi stood frozen, still not fully recovered.
‘Best friend…’
After finishing her last words, Lin Xinyi quickly backed away, pushing Yun Yiyi forward.
She then picked up Qin Huaiyin, who was lying comfortably, and hid far away, afraid of being caught in the battle’s aftermath.
At this moment, Yun Yiyi stood like a stone statue, not moving.
In that instant, the feeling of being relied on by a friend gave her a wonderful sensation.
She felt as if she had fallen into warm water, wrapped in warmth.
Not only was she acknowledged as a best friend, but she was also relied upon by a friend and even entrusted with a task.
All of this was a first for Yun Yiyi.
“Entrusted by a friend…”
As soon as Yun Yiyi said this, her originally fair face turned red.
Stimulated so greatly, Yun Yiyi, who rarely got hurt, started to have a nosebleed.
Lin Xinyi, hiding in the distance, saw this and her eye twitched slightly.
She thought to herself that she might have stimulated her a bit too much.
‘Entrusted by a good friend, entrusted by a good friend…’
Yun Yiyi repeated it like she was possessed.
However, Du Mei Zhenren, on guard in the distance, was puzzled, not understanding what she was doing.
‘What is that woman muttering? Could it be some incantation?!’
Du Mei Zhenren became even more worried at this thought.
After all, she knew too little about her opponent; she didn’t even know the name of that cultivator.
‘Forget it, why am I worried? In the face of my poison, even if she is also a Nascent Soul cultivator, so what…’
Du Mei Zhenren’s greatest reliance was her pervasive poison.
Even if this suddenly appearing woman was a late Nascent Soul cultivator, she still had a chance to fight.
‘It’s fine, just like usual. Create a small wound, then use the poison to destroy her body…’
Du Mei Zhenren kept encouraging herself in her heart.
She had even planned her next battle strategy: use her life-bound artifacts to create wounds, and within just a few seconds, the poison would enter the opponent’s body.
‘That woman, I don’t see any defensive artifacts…’
Just as Du Mei Zhenren finished her last words, Yun Yiyi, who was still dazed not far away, suddenly jerked her head up, and then her entire figure vanished.
“Wait! Wait, that woman disappeared!!”
The moment Du Mei Zhenren saw her opponent disappear, her hairs stood on end.
In an instant, she mobilized her spiritual energy rapidly, retreating dozens of meters in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, the twelve artifacts circled around her body, constantly guarding every direction.
She even extended all her divine sense around, waiting for the opponent to suddenly reappear.
‘How did she disappear? I can’t see her movements at all… Wrong!’
Cold sweat trickled down Du Mei Zhenren’s forehead.
But just when she was on full alert, her entire abdomen suddenly caved in, followed by an intense impact.
In that 0.01-second moment, Du Mei Zhenren felt as if a mountain weighing a thousand jin had come to life in front of her, and that mountain moved on its own and crashed into her.
“Sorry, you were standing in my attack path…”
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