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“Cloud… Hacking Mountain?” Mr. Fang looked at the messages on QQ. Jiang Xiaoyue posted pictures in the group chat while she was collecting the rare plants on Cloud-Hacking Mountain and putting them into her storage bag.

Despite the large number of precious plants in the spiritual mountains, it wasn’t safe to collect all of them since some places were guarded by restriction arrays. If the participants were not careful, they would be disqualified while they tried to collect the plants.

Most of the spiritual treasures and plants in the mountains varied from level 3 to level 6, and there were a few rare level 7 spiritual plants.

The level 7 treasures were guarded by powerful demon beasts or had their own self-protective mechanisms besides potential restriction arrays. It was extremely difficult to get them.

All the level 6 spiritual items were guarded by restriction arrays, and some of them were also guarded by demon beasts. If one were lucky, they might find a level 6 item object guarded by a weak restriction array.

Jiang Xiaoyue’s eyes brightened when she saw a level 6 spiritual flower surrounded by somelevel 5 spiritual grass in the swamp before them. Obviously, she was quite lucky today.

Then, she glanced around. “Restriction arrays?”

( NovelFull ) “These restriction arrays are too obvious!” Li Lanruo clicked her tongue; these restriction arrays were concealed but not as advanced as those in other places.

Were they really this lucky?

When Jiang Xiaoyue walked closer to the swamp, several cold gazes flashed in the darkness.

“Someone’s here!”

“Good! They’re going to take the bait!”

They saw a harmless loli in a white dress and a beauty wearing a long blue dress.

“Isn’t she the woman of the Li Family?!” a voice whispered, “For some reason, the Nangong Family is trying to hunt and capture her… I’m surprised that she’s here. Young Master Nangong is around. If we catch her and hand her to the Nangong Family…”

They were excited at this prospect since it was a rare opportunity to gain favors from and establish a relationship with the Nangong Family!

“Be careful. The other seems to be a member of the Jiang Family!”

“She’s just a little girl. No one can run from the poison of my Thousand-Spider Valley! To help me with this exam, the elders have given me all the top-level poisonous creatures treasured in the valley!”

“Then, we’ll rely on you, Daoist Brother Du Zhuzi!”

“No problem! All good!”

While they spoke, Jiang Xiaoyue broke the restriction array and waved her small hand. Then, a small skeleton appeared before her.

The small skeleton walked up with an ax.

The small skeleton stopped before the spiritual flower and bent to pick it.

Suddenly, a big colorful spider sensed danger, and it jumped up and bit the skeleton.

The small skeleton continued to collect the flower as if nothing had happened…

The people hidden in the darkness exchanged a look. “Daoist Brother Du Zhuzi, what poison did you use?”

“It’s a Ghost Spider. Its poison will travel all over the body through the meridians and blood veins…”

“!!?? Do you think that thing has meridians?!”

They fell silent.

Where did this skeleton come from?!

The small skeleton collected the spiritual flower and all the spiritual plants in the area as if nothing had happened.

“Okay!” Jiang Xiaoyue waved her small hand, and the skeleton collapsed on the ground. “Here. The level 5 plants are for you.”

Then, they walked away boldly.

“No!” The people hiding in the darkness were not pleased, and their faces darkened.

“That’s our level 6 spiritual flower!”

“Stop!”

– One minute later –

They all dropped to the ground with multiple gun wounds on their bodies. With their storage bags emptied out, they screamed while lying on the ground. “Wait… That’s our spiritual flower…”

“Don’t hit us anymore!” In their pathetic howls, the useless items from their storage bags were tossed onto their faces. Feeling powerless, they released their Heavenly Insight Tokens.

( NovelFull ) – Meanwhile, on White Cloud Hill –

A bright-eyed young man wearing a purple robe and a golden belt emitted purple aura which surged up and condensed into a furious purple dragon around him. Beside the purple dragon, there was a demon snake covered in gold-iron scales that had a pair of wings.

The ugly and vicious head of the demon snake was as big as a person, but now it lay on the ground and couldn’t be deader!

In Fufang Valley, a white-robed young man with long hair stood with a scroll in his hand. Before him lay a huge golden-furred tiger; it lay on the ground and didn’t dare to move a muscle as if the harmless-looking young man was a prehistoric demon beast.

The white-robed man ambled into the depths of the valley and stopped in front of a huge tree that reached the sky. On the tree was a golden fruit, and the fruit’s presence showed that it had probably reached level 7!

– On the Ethereal Summit –

An astonishing sword energy slashed down as if it descended from the sky. On the high cliff surrounded by white clouds, sword energies with sharp and crystal-clear essence knocked down more than half of the boulders on the mountain, startling many birds into flying away. A woman wearing a pure white Daoist robe and a bamboo hat wiped blood off her cheek, and the cultivators who had tried to besiege the mountain and attack her lay on the ground.

From the looks of it, more than half of the cultivators on the Ethereal Summit were packed here.

“Senior Sister, here are the spiritual items that they collected.” A green-clothed girl spat and said, “They are as blind as bats, daring to rob us when we found good items. Now, their stuff belongs to us.”

“That’s it.” The woman nodded slightly and wiped blood from the tip of her sword with a white silk handkerchief.

…

Fierce battles were happening everywhere all the time. However, in one place, things were very quiet.

“Young Master Nangong!” A tall young man wearing a robe with clouds, dragons, and sword patterns on it stood with his hands clasped behind his back.

Behind him stood almost 100 cultivators. “We are willing to follow Young Master Nangong!”

Nangong Zhuo’s eyes turned sharp. “I saw that the woman of the Li Family had gone in the direction of Cloud-Hacking Mountain.”

“Send someone to keep an eye on her.”

“Yes!”

…

– In the group chat –

“@Mr. Fang. Where’s the despicable boss?!” Jiang Xiaoyue stomped her foot; she was showing off her loot but couldn’t find her despicable boss.

– In the sky above the Cloud Sea Square outside Yuanyang City –

Under the gloomy clouds, a figure stood on the blade of a sword.

The people on the ground pointed at him. “What’s that?!”

In the high sky, surrounded by lightning flashes, two black shadows hovered in the gloomy clouds like ghosts.

The person standing on the sword was closer to the ground, and people could roughly see that he was a young man wearing a blue-and-white robe.

In the sky, the two shadows suddenly moved closer at a horrifying high speed. Covered in black cloaks, their hands and feet were coiled by chains, and clouds of creepy pitch-black mists were emanating out from their cloaks, making them look neither like humans nor ghosts.

One of the shadows pointed its finger.

Fang Qi slightly frowned, finding this sword technique resembled the one used by Nangong Jiuwen.

He slightly moved to the side at a speed undetectable by the naked eye.

Boom! With an earth-shaking noise, a spiritual boat behind him and the cliff behind the spiritual boat were hacked open like tofu!

“The same sword technique, but the power is unbelievably greater? How come it feels like this guy cultivated the Evil-Avoiding Sword Technique?” Mr. Fang muttered.

TL Note: The Evil-Avoiding Sword Technique is a technique in a classic wuxia novel written by Jin Yong, and the practitioners have to be male and cut off their own genitals.

“Hurry! Retreat into the city!” The cultivators outside the city scrambled to run.

“That…” Suddenly, a cultivator yelled in shock, “Those are sword slaves of the Nangong Family!”

“Who is he?! He dares to face the Nangong Family’s sword slaves and not run?!”

“Run?!” another cultivator said in a snicker, “How can he run?!”

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