The Luoxian Sect actually has a Xuanyin Flower?
Yuan Shu was somewhat surprised. This kind of rare heavenly treasure generally only grew in places of extreme Yin and extreme cold, and it had to be nourished by the power of extreme Yin and extreme cold.
It took three hundred years to mature!
Its growing conditions were harsh, and its maturation time was long. Even in her previous life, Yuan Shu had only seen it once.
To think that the Luoxian Sect actually possessed such a treasure?
Yuan Shu reached out and stroked her chin, recalling the original book's plot in her mind.
She really couldn't find any segments regarding the Xuanyin Flower.
It seemed that her appearance had truly altered the direction of the plot!
However, that place should be the forbidden grounds Yin Ruobai had mentioned, right?
It didn't sound like a welcoming place. At the very least, with her current strength, she absolutely had no chance of fighting for it.
Yuan Shu could only shake her head, giving up the idea of competing for it, and turned to head toward the entrance of the demonic beast cave.
Since the beast tide had already appeared, the person who went to the demonic beast cave to destroy the confinement array must have been clearly recorded by the Shadow-recording Stone by now.
An incident had occurred at the demonic beast cave, and the Luoxian Sect had urgently summoned disciples from all peaks and inner sect disciples to participate in capturing the demonic beasts.
At this moment, there were many disciples carrying demonic beasts at the cave entrance.
Yuan Shu's arrival went unnoticed.
She found the place where she had previously placed the Shadow-recording Stone, took it down, packed it away securely, and turned to walk down the mountain.
In the quiet mountain forest, Yuan Shu walked at a brisk pace.
Suddenly, a strange sound of wind entered her ears, accompanied by a peculiar noise.
Hiss, hiss...
Yuan Shu paused slightly and turned her head to look around.
Sunlight fell through the gaps in the leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground. The surroundings were quiet, as if the strange noise just now was merely an accident.
Yuan Shu frowned. Finding nothing unusual, she didn't take it to heart and continued down the mountain.
Hiss, hiss...
This time, the sound was louder, and Yuan Shu heard it more clearly.
Yuan Shu's eyes widened slightly, and her footsteps slowed down.
In the next second, a dark blue shadow darted past her face with a whoosh!
Yuan Shu's eyes widened. An instinctive sense of crisis appeared in her mind, and her body reflexively leaped onto a nearby large tree.
Bang!
A tail as thick as a water bucket fiercely struck the spot where she had just been standing, its dark blue scales gleaming coldly in the sunlight.
With just one strike, a deep trench was torn open on the ground!
But in a mere instant, that dark blue figure vanished into the woods!
Yuan Shu's heart leaped to her throat.
What was that thing just now?
She looked tense, scanning her surroundings, but found nothing unusual.
Yet, unexpectedly, she heard the sound of a hissing tongue coming from behind her, carrying a bit of sticky dampness.
Yuan Shu subconsciously turned her head.
A section of a snake tail covered in dark blue scale patterns was slowly rising from the forest, the scales shimmering with the luster of cold jade in the afterglow!
Looking up along the snake's tail, it was a massive body capable of crushing ancient trees.
Further up was a snake head larger than a millstone. Vertical pupils interwoven with dark blue locked onto her indifferently, and a scarlet forked tongue flicked in and out, carrying a faint, sweet scent of blood!
A heavy sense of oppression struck her.
Yuan Shu's eyes widened slightly, her blood seemingly freezing in an instant.
This is...
A Xiu Snake?
The Luoxian Sect actually had such a ferocious beast?
If it were her past self, she could at least fight it to a draw, but now...
As a mere Qi Condensation stage cultivator, she was undoubtedly nothing but a snack for the Xiu Snake!
Yuan Shu's breath hitched as she watched the Xiu Snake slowly raise its head, its icy gaze sweeping over her frozen figure.
Yuan Shu snapped back to her senses and, with almost no hesitation, turned and sprinted wildly toward the depths of the forest.
Damn it, how could the Luoxian Sect have a ferocious beast like the Xiu Snake?
Moreover, looking at its size, it was not a juvenile beast at all; it was clearly in its mature stage!
Yuan Shu's heart pounded like a drum. Her legs ran so fast they left afterimages, squeezing out almost all of her potential.
Her skirt was torn by branches, and the soles of her feet ached from the crushed stones, but she didn't dare to pause for even a moment.
She could only hear the low hissing of the tongue behind her, as well as the rustling sound of the Xiu Snake's scales brushing against dead leaves.
However, before she could run very far.
A slender tail pierced through the woods, easily catching up to her, wrapping around her waist, and dragging her right back to the forest she had just left!
Their eyes met.
Yuan Shu looked up at the triangular head of the Xiu Snake, which was close at hand, her heart in her throat.
Even though she had memories of two lifetimes, ordinary methods were completely useless in a battle with such a massive gap in strength.
In the next second, the Xiu Snake opened its jaws wide, about to swallow her alive...
Yuan Shu's expression changed drastically. In an instant, she grasped all the magical treasures in her Divine Tree Space that she could currently use.
Adhering to the principle of never making things easy for the enemy, she prepared to fight to the bitter end.
Suddenly, the Xiu Snake's wide-open mouth seemed to sense something and slowly closed in front of Yuan Shu.
Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss...
The long, slender tongue flicked in front of Yuan Shu's eyes, constantly capturing the aura around her.
Yuan Shu was tense to the extreme, not noticing that the Hehuan Divine Tree within her body was emitting a faint fluorescence at this moment.
And it was then that the Xiu Snake seemed to confirm something. It retracted its tongue, its tail fiercely rolling up Yuan Shu, and darted into the woods.
A question mark slowly popped up in Yuan Shu's mind.
This snake wasn't planning to eat her?
At this moment, Yuan Shu finally noticed the faint fluorescence emitted by the Hehuan Divine Tree inside her.
Is this the source power resonating?
Wait, the source power of the Hehuan Divine Tree, isn't that the Yin-Yang Harmony power?
Who is it resonating with?
While Yuan Shu was looking completely bewildered, she was already rolled up by the snake's tail and dropped into an underground cave.
And it was exactly at this moment that Yuan Shu was startled to realize that the thing resonating with the Hehuan Divine Tree was nothing else but this Xiu Snake!
It couldn't be seen in the woods because the sunlight was too bright.
But once inside the underground cave, the fluorescence of the Yin-Yang Harmony power radiating from the Xiu Snake became very obvious.
It was as bright as a sun in the dark night!
Yuan Shu's face showed some surprise.
A snake and a tree actually shared the same source power?
Could this be the reason why the Xiu Snake didn't eat her?
As soon as the thought crossed her mind, Yuan Shu had already been released by the Xiu Snake.
She tumbled twice in the soft water-weed snake nest before steadying herself.
Yuan Shu instinctively jumped out of the snake nest, backing up against the stone wall behind her.
A bright, special light appeared in her line of sight.
Yuan Shu then saw that a Xuanyin Flower was actually growing right in the middle of this snake nest!
Could it be that the aura of the Xuanyin Flower she had sensed at the bottom of the mountain just now was this very one?
Is this the forbidden grounds of the Luoxian Sect?
Yuan Shu was surprised, but the Xiu Snake had already coiled around the Xuanyin Flower.
Wisps of Yin evil energy emanated from the Xiu Snake and poured into the Xuanyin Flower, which immediately emitted a faint, gloomy glow!
Yuan Shu raised an eyebrow.
Is this the Xiu Snake using its source energy to nourish the Xuanyin Flower?
Although Yuan Shu coveted such heavenly treasures, she also knew that no matter how good a treasure was, it was worthless compared to her life.
Right now, the most important thing was to get out of here!
She carefully held her breath, saw that the Xiu Snake wasn't paying attention to her, and slowly stepped backward.
It was not until her figure was completely concealed behind the adjacent rock wall that Yuan Shu turned around, making a desperate dash toward the nearby cave!
Only then did the Xiu Snake seem to sense something amiss. It lifted its massive head, looking first in the direction of Yuan Shu's escape, and then at the Profound Yin Flower beside it, which was on the verge of reaching full maturity.
After a brief moment of hesitation, the giant beast slowly lowered its head once more.
