Chapter 229 - The Old Man's Tricks

Rumble---

The spiritual fire soared into the sky, illuminating the thick dark clouds above, like a newly born golden sun, completely dispersing the darkness for hundreds of miles.

Hundreds of years of accumulated snow on the top of the Jade Snow Peak was also thrown into the sky by the impact. That was followed by a sudden burst of lava and flames, instantly igniting all the trees in the ten-mile snowy forest.

Boom---

Ten spiritual lights suddenly pierced the mountain. Zhuang Yan gasped as he was sent flying with all the broken rocks pressing against him. Then, he jumped out from within the mountain and summoned his flying sword, hovering in mid-air.

His originally golden-white priestly robe was full of burnt holes, and his bun was disheveled.

"Ahhhh---"

"Help..."

Several Foundation Building cultivators were severely burned, but they managed to survive. Now, they were trapped under debris, struggling and shouting for help, but Zhuang Yan showed no intention of lending a hand, his eyes cold and ruthless.

Looking at the lava gushing from the mountain at his feet, Zhuang Yan clenched his teeth so hard that his cheeks bulged. Then, he waved his long sleeves and released his spiritual sense, trying to find the person who just threw the Water Spirit Pearl, as well as Yun Jiujiu and Yun Yiyi's whereabouts.

Unfortunately for him, the roiling spirit fire made it impossible to use his spiritual sense.

"Tsk..."

Zhuang Yan raised his left hand and shook off his sleeve, revealing a left arm that had been completely disfigured by burns. He spread open his fingers, and a pitch-black pill with silver cracks slowly floated up in the palm of his hand.

This was the demonic pill that he reached into the furnace to salvage before it exploded completely.

Zhuang Yan spent several decades studying the method of reshaping the physical body and nearly twenty years gathering the necessary heavenly materials and treasures from all over the Heavenly Realm, just to create a body for his direct disciple Yun Kunwu.

However, because of a small oversight of two ant-like characters, everything was gone now.

"Elder Zhuang... save..."

"Aaarghh!"

Zhuang Yan roared angrily, waved his long sleeves, and used his spiritual energy to mobilize dozens of golden swords suspended around him, shooting them toward the Core Formation cultivator down there who was reaching out to him for help.

Swish--- swish---

Sounds of piercing flesh were heard, and the cultivator, whose right shoulder was pinned down by a giant rock, was turned into a hedgehog by Zhuang Yan's golden spirit swords. His soul scattered without delay.

"Ha... hoo..."

Zhuang Yan closed his eyes as he took a deep breath, and with a gesture, he retrieved the ten spiritual swords. After quite some time, he regained his composure and looked again at the demonic pill he held in his left hand.

He didn't have another sixty years to refine this demonic pill for Yun Kunwu again, and with such a big commotion this time, he could never show up as an Elder in the Moon Shadow Sword Sect.

Thunderbolt---

The two Nascent Soul cultivators chased each other, sparking arcs of lightning between the clouds, illuminating the fluttering snowflakes in the air, light and dark alternating.

On the Jade Snow Peak mountainside, Zhang Yihe and Pei Lianxue each held a shovel, diligently shoveling the snow beneath their feet.

Swish---

As Pei Lianxue thrust her shovel down, she suddenly felt that she hit something.

The next moment, a pathetic cry came from beneath the snow.

---"Ouch!!!"

Pei Lianxue was startled, then quickly waved to Zhang Yihe, who was shoveling on the other side, and said, "Found her."

"I'm coming--"

Zhang Yihe did not dare to delay and ran over with his shovel, carefully shoveled the snow in front of Pei Lianxue, and pulled Yun Xi out from under it.

Just now, when the furnace exploded and the spiritual fire soared into the sky, a huge boulder was lifted by the impact and directly knocked Yun Xi off her flying sword.

Hu Tianyue seemed to think that she would not die, so she asked Pei Lianxue and Zhang Yihe to dig her out while she rushed straight toward the spirit fire to check the situation.

After being rescued, Yun Xi looked at Zhang Yihe with a twisted face. "Zhang Yihe!!! What the hell..."

"Ah -- Third Miss, it's not my fault. I warned you when the rock flew over; you see, Miss Pei and I didn't get hit."

Yun Xi's eyes twitched. The rock that flew just now hit her in the face, and Zhang Yihe only shouted as an afterthought. "Third Miss, be careful of flying rocks!!"

However, there was no use scolding him now.

She stood up, took out a gauze roll from her storage bag, and bandaged the wound on her head that was bleeding from Pei Lianxue's shovel. She took a pill and looked up at the sky.

Seeing the flickering lightning above the clouds, she felt uneasy in her heart but also felt fortunate that she followed Pei Lianxue's advice and brought Hu Tianyue with them.

"Whew---" Yun Xi let out a breath, "Let's go!! Let's collect the corpses!"

"Ah?" Zhang Yihe paused, not understanding what she meant. "Third Miss... What corpses are we collecting?"

"My two stinky sisters' corpses! Damn it, they better be dead. Once they're dead, I'll be the head of the family! Hmph~" Yun Xi cursed and kicked the snow pile in front of her with force.

Bang---

Unexpectedly, inside the snow pile, there was a stone. She inhaled sharply in pain, trembled, and squatted down to hold her foot, tears streaming down her face.

Zhang Yihe asked, "Third Miss, do you really think that Eldest Miss and Second Miss are dead..."

"What do you care what I think?" Yun Xi looked at him with two big teardrops on her face and turned around. "Go!! Dig them up, whether they're alive or not. No matter what, you have to dig them up."