After comforting Madam Xue, Pan Xuan came before Gu Zheng.
"Give it to me."
Gu Zheng took out the black orb from before. He didn't know how to use it anyway.
"You came at the right time. I need to use the formation to expel the poison, so I won't be able to move in the meantime. Watch over me. Once this little guy recovers, we can talk in detail."
Pan Xuan fiddled with the orb in her hand and nodded in satisfaction. She didn't treat Gu Zheng as an outsider. Based on her intuition, she felt that there shouldn't be any problems, but she still needed some time. Just to be safe, she asked Gu Zheng for help. In reality, there shouldn't be any danger here.
Gu Zheng only nodded. Even if she didn't ask, he would've done it anyway.
Pan Xuan didn't waste any more words. She leapt to the side of the baby and sat down cross-legged, beginning to expel the poison.
As she waved her hand, the baby's body slowly floated up and stopped in front of her forehead.
With a flick of her wrist, the black stone-like pill also floated in front of the baby's forehead.
Under Pan Xuan's control, the entire formation began to light up. Multicolored lights flashed on the ground, following the lines that had been inscribed long ago. They gathered in the center, and under her guidance, gathered beside the baby.
In the blink of an eye, a small red ball of Qi enveloped the baby's body, making it impossible to see what was inside.
Below the ball of Qi, a red rope was connected to the formation, constantly absorbing its power. However, one could still clearly hear the baby's cries echoing through the air, making one's heart ache.
When Madam Xue heard the baby cry louder, her heart ached even more. However, she knew that this was only because the formation's protection had been removed. The immense pain once again descended upon the baby, making it even more unbearable. As long as she waited a little longer for Pan Xuan to expel the poison from the baby's body, everything would be fine.
At that moment, the small stone also released a black light. A strand of black Qi rose from its surface and pierced into the red ball of Qi.
The baby's cries eased a little, making the worried Madam Xue's brows loosen a little. However, she continued to stare intently inside.
"It actually has the same aura as the Soul River. It seems that the thing that Mister has prepared is to fight poison with poison. If it really is cured, I'm afraid that this fellow will no longer fear the Soul River when he grows up."
Gu Zheng was able to sense something from that wisp of black gas. Although it was an aura that had been weakened countless times, its essence had not changed. There was still some special aura mixed within. It should be the special herbs that grew beside it that could greatly suppress the power of the Soul River.
However, just as he was about to continue watching, two terrifying auras suddenly rose from the distance and approached them at an extremely fast speed. At the same time, a dozen rhombus darts suddenly appeared in the air and shot towards Pan Xuan.
Gu Zheng was still on guard against the two auras and did not react in time. He could only watch as the dart approached.
"Dingdang"
A huge transparent barrier suddenly appeared in the air and deflected the attacks.
Those rhombus darts were extremely fast, but unfortunately, they didn't have enough attack power. They had no effect on the barrier at all.
At the same time, two figures appeared in the air. It was Snake Woman and Lord Gai.
Snake Woman pointed at Gu Zheng and whispered something to Lord Gai. Lord Gai nodded and glanced at Gu Zheng.
"Hoh, Senior Apprentice Sister, I guessed right. You really have a lot of trump cards. Even Mister has people protecting him. Looks like I'm not too late."
Lord Gai looked down and took in the entire situation. He chuckled and said, "Hahaha.
"Gai Jin!" Madam Xue looked up and was furious from the pain. She pointed up and shouted, "You still dare to appear?!"
"Why wouldn't I appear? In fact, I've been here for a long time. However, I wanted to see you in complete despair. That's why I waited until now. Little Qi is really cute. I want you to see your son die in front of you with your own eyes." Gai Jin laughed in the air, his voice echoing endlessly in the valley.
At this time, shouts of killing could be heard from outside. At the same time, the formation outside the valley had been activated, accompanied by a huge explosion. It seemed that the guards outside the valley had already started fighting with the enemy.
"Besides, Senior Apprentice Sister, look at yourself. What qualifications do you have to lecture me? You gave up your hard-earned life and powerful cultivation just for him!"
Gai Jin's smile disappeared and his voice became cold as he pointed at Little Qi.
Pan Xuan had already thrown out a red bead that was suffused with a blood-red light into the formation, forming a blood-red barrier that firmly protected her.
Now that she had begun to expel the poison from Xiao Qi's body, all her previous efforts would be wasted if she stopped and Xiao Qi would be implicated and die, so there was no way she could stop now. The only thing she could do was forcefully resist. Her own defenses were supported by her artifact, so she could hold on for a while longer, but it was impossible for her to be attacked endlessly, so she could only rely on Gu Zheng.
No matter what, she had to delay the enemy until she healed Little Qi. Only then could she free herself to deal with the enemy.
As for whether or not Gu Zheng could withstand it, Pan Xuan had never doubted that, even if the enemy's cultivation far surpassed Gu Zheng's.
"I'll take whatever grudges you have, but Little Qi is innocent. I'm willing to give up my life. I just ask that you don't hurt Little Qi!"
Madam Xue had already fallen into despair. She knew how powerful Gai Jin was. In the past, she had only used her cultivation to suppress her. If their cultivation was the same, she probably wouldn't be a match for her.
She only had one wish now, and that was to let Little Qi live on safely.
"Now you know how to beg for mercy? Back then, when you killed my husband, why didn't you show mercy? Up there, I took you down with me. Now, I've killed the person you love the most, and I'm going to kill the son you painstakingly gave birth to. I'll let you know my pain, "Gai Jin said somewhat crazily. The killing intent on her grew heavier and heavier.
"Your father killed my father back then, so I had to take revenge. Now that you've killed the person I love the most, I'll even give my life to you. But Little Qi is innocent and doesn't know anything. Why can't you let him go?" Madam Xue shouted at Gai Jin.
"Doesn't know anything? Then who told him to have a mother like you? If you hadn't given birth to him, I might not have been able to kill you for the rest of my life. But you're too stupid. This place destroyed everything you had. You didn't think that I would follow you down here. You've been hiding all this time just for this moment. Sky Snake, kill her for me. "
No longer concealing his soaring killing intent, Gai Jin barked out the order.
Snake Woman's eyes flashed. She was about to charge at Madam Xue, but Gai Jin's aura locked onto Gu Zheng, preventing him from interfering.
"Painted Heart!"
Gu Zheng suddenly shouted. He ignored Gai Jin's warning and charged at her.
A figure suddenly appeared behind Madam Xue. A hand grabbed Madam Xue's shoulder and pulled her back. Madam Xue seemed to fall into a spatial rift, disappearing from where she stood.
The moment she disappeared, Snake Woman's figure descended. She was only a step away.
"The Painted Soul Clan? Where can a mere brat run to? "
However, a purple light flashed in the corner of her eyes. She immediately discovered Painted Heart, who had fled with Madam Xue. She thought disdainfully. Just as she was about to move, she saw a flash of white light. A figure appeared in the corner of her eyes. A huge threat rang in her heart. She stepped back, just in time to avoid a spear coming from the side.
She took out her weapon again without hesitation. She swung it into the air, hitting the golden shield that was charging at her.
She originally thought that the opponent was someone who had hidden himself and didn't have a high cultivation. But as soon as they clashed, she realized that something was wrong. The opponent's charge only paused for a moment. Then, a huge force surged through the weapon. She was pushed back a few steps by the opponent's strength.
"Mid-stage Grand Heavenly Realm?"
She looked at the Hollow Spirit in front of her with some uncertainty. The aura on her body was frightening. She nimbly stepped into the air, distancing herself from the opponent. Only then did the Hollow Spirit's charge stop.
"The opponent is just a summoned doppelganger. His intelligence is limited. Be careful of him fighting force with force. Just wander. I'll deal with him first and then help you."
Gai Jin's eyes were sharp. He saw through the opponent's identity at a glance. Although there were some differences, it was actually pretty close.
"Okay!"
Snake Woman replied loudly. She felt much more at ease. After all, although she was conceited, she didn't think that she could defeat a mid-stage Grand Luo. She began to wander with Hollow Spirit.
At this time, Xu Ling was not controlled by Gu Zheng. He was just following his orders. Although his spiritual intelligence had improved a lot after this period of cultivation, he was still a little dull, which greatly reduced the pressure on Lamia. At least, if Xu Ling wanted to defeat her, unless she was stupid and insisted on fighting him head-on, her safety was not a problem.
On the other side, Gai Jin waved his hand. A chestnut dart instantly flew out of his hand. It turned nimbly in the air and just happened to avoid Gu Zheng's interception. It flew rapidly to a corner in the distance.
Gu Zheng looked in the direction of the chestnut dart and found that Hua Xin had already brought Madam Xue there. They wanted to leave from the side exit first.
She couldn't block the chestnut dart at all. In the end, she and Madam Xue were smashed to pieces. Gai Jin didn't want to show mercy.
Gu Zheng quickly chased after the chestnut dart. He wanted to block the attack for them before the opponent arrived.
"Unfortunately, you forgot about me!"
A cold laugh rang out beside Gu Zheng's ear. Then, he felt a sharp pain in his back. His body, which had been speeding up, flew to the side like a plane that had lost control. He was embedded into the side of the mountain, creating a huge crater.
Without interference, the chestnut dart continued to fly toward Hua Xin according to its previous trajectory.
The moment the dart flew out, Hua Xin felt the pressure of death instantly descend upon her. Faced with the opponent's ordinary attack, she had the illusion that she could not dodge. Even if she used all her strength, she was afraid that she would die under the opponent's attack.
Therefore, she didn't hesitate to take out a silver-white scroll. It was emitting bursts of white gas. Without looking at it, she tore it open. A terrifying power exploded from within. At this moment, Gu Zheng was sent flying by Gai Jin.
The power didn't attack the chestnut dart. Instead, it gathered around Hua Xin. In the blink of an eye, it condensed into a transparent ice crystal the size of a small mountain. With Hua Xin as the center, it froze her. Madam Xue was still panicking. She couldn't react at all and was also sealed in ice.
From the beginning to the end, with her current cultivation, she couldn't react at all.
The chestnut dart hit the outside of the frozen Hua Xin, but only left a white spot. It was obvious how strong the defense was. Even a casual attack from Gai Jin, which had great power, couldn't hurt the ice mountain, let alone Madam Xue and Hua Xin.
Gai Jin stopped on the ice mountain and slapped it with a little more strength. As the ice mountain trembled, some ice shards fell from the outside. The body was not damaged at all. The strength of the defense was beyond her expectations.
If she wanted to break it open by force, it would take a lot of time.
The only regret was that Hua Xin and the others were also trapped inside. Their lives weren't in danger for now, but once the spell ended, if the enemy was still there, they would only be able to delay their struggle.
But no matter what, they were safe for now. There was no need to distract others to protect them.
At this moment, Gu Zheng's figure flew out of the hole like a cannonball, rapidly rushing towards Gai Jin. The green longsword in his hand was once again gripped in his hand, drawing dozens of sword shadows in the air, smashing towards Gai Jin's head.
Seeing this, Gai Jin could only give up on killing Madam Xue. She had to get rid of this troublesome fellow first.
Facing Gu Zheng's attack, Gai Jin's fingers clamped together, and a pitch-black diamond dart suddenly appeared between his index and middle fingers. It had an abnormally sharp edge, and it happened to have six protruding points, emitting a shocking chill.
In the next moment, the chestnut dart bounced from her hand and turned into a huge black shield. It blocked above her head. Sounds of collision came from above.
By the time Gu Zheng cut open the large chestnut dart in front of him, he found that Gai Jin had disappeared. He raised his guard. The longsword in his hand followed his body and drew a circle. It was like a bright green halo protecting his surroundings.
"Ding ding dang dang!"
A dozen or so darts were knocked away from his body, but after those darts drew a beautiful arc in the air, they circled around from the side again, and just happened to be evenly distributed in the air. Then, a black light flashed on his body, and black arcs of electricity emerged from his body, spreading in all directions.
It looked like a black lightning net was falling from the sky toward Gu Zheng. It wanted to bind him in the air and force Gu Zheng to quickly fall down.
Gai Jin, who had disappeared, appeared on the other side. A black pillar of light had condensed in her hand. She glanced at Gu Zheng's position and aimed at his side. She pushed, and a black pillar of light shot out from her palm.
Gu Zheng was shocked. He unconsciously twisted his body to the side, but he found that the pillar of light was still some distance away. It even brushed past half of the black lightning net in the air, causing half of it to disappear and lose its power.
"She wants to …?" Gu Zheng turned his head to look in the direction of the pillar of light. That was one of the cores of the formation. Only then did he understand what she meant.
She wanted to destroy the formation in the valley. But why would she do something so useless?
"Boom!"
A piece of the mountain in the distance was suddenly cut off. The formation that originally shrouded the valley also disappeared in the air after a few flashes. The sound of fighting outside could be heard more clearly without any interference.
"What is she doing?"
Gu Zheng didn't understand what she meant at all. After completely shattering the remaining chestnut dart in front of him, he floated in the air and looked around.
The iceberg on Painted Heart's side was still standing. Judging from the magic waves attached to it, there would be no problem in a short time. Pan Xuan was still healing Xiao Qi's baby. The baby's crying had lessened a lot. It seemed that it would take some time to finish.
And with the support of the red ball above her head, the defensive strength was extremely strong. Gai Jin didn't even look at it. Otherwise, she would definitely cause trouble.
As for Xu Ling, he had already deviated from here at this moment. Under the intentional seduction of the Snake Woman, Xu Ling, whose intelligence was not online, had been lured to the side. She was afraid that Xu Ling would sneak attack Gai Jin. She believed that Lord Gai would soon deal with that guy. Although he wasn't weak, under Lord Gai's attack, he wouldn't be able to last long.
Gu Zheng did not understand why Gai Jin would do such a thing. If Gai Jin had launched a sneak attack on him just now, it would have put him in a difficult position and given him an advantage. What was the point of doing so just to destroy the array formation outside the valley?
Gu Zheng soon found out. With Gai Jin's howl, there were also various roars outside in response.
In just a few breaths, more than a dozen Monster Souls at the peak of Jin Xian flew in from outside. These Monster Souls had fierce eyes and all of them transformed into their original forms. They were all Monster Beasts.
Some of the flying Demonic Souls directly flew towards Gu Zheng, ignoring the huge gap between the two of them. As for the Demonic Beasts on the ground, they looked like heavily armored wild boars, directly attacking the iceberg.
Gu Zheng was immediately surrounded by the other party, blocking his view. He could vaguely see that countless diamond-shaped darts rose from Gai Jin's side again, forming a black mass.
No matter what the other party wanted to do, he couldn't let them do it so smoothly.
Looking at the bird that was hovering around him without attacking, it looked like a strange bird with a pair of huge wings and a sharp beak, ready to poke a few holes in his body.
Gu Zheng suddenly moved and went straight to the strange bird in front of him. Without saying a word, he stretched out the long sword in his hand and slashed it.
Even if the strange bird was always paying attention and wanted to resist at the first moment, the huge gap in strength could not be made up by just fierceness. At the same time, the weapon in its hand had already slashed the body of the other party, cutting it in two.
And the moment Gu Zheng moved, the few strange birds beside him also launched attacks at the same time. However, whether it was the black balls or the sharp claws of the other party, when they landed on Gu Zheng's body, they were all blocked by a thin layer of golden light. They didn't hurt him at all. Instead, he took advantage of the situation to turn around and attack a few times, cutting the other party into clouds of black fog.
The few strange birds couldn't stop him at all and were completely killed by him in a few rounds. It could be said that every time he raised his weapon, one of the other party was bound to fall.
And just after he killed the last strange bird, on the ground, a Monster Soul with a ball-like body bent its body and exerted strength in its legs. Its whole body flew up quickly and at the same time, it opened its mouth, which took up more than half of its body, as if its whole body was a huge mouth. It directly swallowed Gu Zheng.
Its whole body took the opportunity to rush forward. It knew that even if it used its life, it wouldn't be able to buy much time. Its whole body was rapidly expanding.
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