380: Angry Cold Moon Sunflower

"What?! Delong is seriously injured?!"

Liu Rumei's pretty face turned deathly pale in an instant, and her heart sank heavily.

She only knew that Yao Delong had gone to support Biqu City in resisting the beast tide, but she never expected that he would encounter an ambush by a Void Refining demonic cultivator!

"Let's go! To Luoxia Peak! Find Clear Snow!"

Liu Rumei made a prompt decision, leaped up, and landed lightly on Qiong Shuang's broad back.

"Roar!"

Qiong Shuang let out a low roar, its massive body taking to the air.

Amidst the fawning voices of Elder Zhao and the others saying, "Senior, travel slowly," and "Senior, do come again," it transformed into a streak of white lightning, bolting directly toward Luoxia Peak!

This time, the light curtain of the Sect's protective formation parted automatically as it approached, no longer blocking its path.

Luoxia Peak was serene and elegant.

Lin Qingxue was practicing swordsmanship on the training grounds at the peak, the sword light as cold and clear as the moon.

Suddenly, she sensed a powerful Demonic Qi approaching rapidly, accompanied by Liu Rumei's aura, and felt puzzled.

"Clear Snow!" Liu Rumei's anxious voice arrived before she did.

Qiong Shuang's massive body landed with a boom on the training grounds. Liu Rumei flew down and rushed to Lin Qingxue, her tone urgent:

"Clear Snow! It's bad! Delong was ambushed by a Void Refining Realm demonic cultivator in Biqu City and is seriously injured and unconscious. Peak Master Li has brought him back to the Sect!"

"What?!"

The longsword in Lin Qingxue's hand fell to the ground with a "clang."

Her cold, pretty face instantly drained of all color, and her beautiful eyes were filled with unbelievable horror and fear!

"A Void Refining Realm demonic cultivator… ambushed Senior Brother?! How… how is Senior Brother doing?!"

"The specific situation is not yet clear. Qiong Shuang said he was brought back to the Yin Yang Sect by Peak Master Li! Let's go find Peak Master Leng quickly!"

Liu Rumei said anxiously.

"Right! Find Revered Master!"

Lin Qingxue snapped out of her daze. Not bothering to pick up her sword, she turned and sprinted toward the Peak Revered Master's main hall.

Liu Rumei and Qiong Shuang, who had transformed into a small dragon and looked anxious, followed closely behind.

Inside the main hall of Luoxia Peak, Leng Yuekui was meditating in the quiet room, surrounded by faint moonlight.

Suddenly, she sensed Lin Qingxue's panicked aura rushing into the main hall, accompanied by Liu Rumei and Yao Delong's Yao Beast companion.

"Revered Master! Revered Master!" Lin Qingxue's voice, laced with tears, echoed in the main hall.

Leng Yuekui flashed, instantly appearing on the main seat of the hall.

Her cold, stunningly beautiful face carried a trace of annoyance and confusion at being disturbed:

"Clear Snow? Why are you so panicked?"

"Revered Master!"

Lin Qingxue dropped to her knees with a thud, her voice filled with unprecedented fear and urgency:

"Senior Brother Yao… Senior Brother Yao was… was ambushed by a Void Refining Realm demonic cultivator in Biqu City!"

"He is now seriously injured and unconscious, and has been brought back to the Sect by Peak Master Li!"

Boom—!

A terrifying aura, cold and piercing enough to freeze the Soul, instantly erupted from Leng Yuekui!

The temperature of the entire hall plummeted, and a thin layer of Qiong Shuang even formed on the ground!

Her eyes, originally cold, now shot out icy light,

like ten-thousand-year black ice, containing monstrous rage and killing intent!

"What did you say?!"

Leng Yuekui's voice was like the cold wind from the Nine Netherworlds, every word carrying shards of ice.

"Li Cen… Senior Brother Li… was guarding him in secret?! How did he guard him?!"

"As a dignified Void Refining Sword Venerable, he couldn't even fend off a demonic cultivator?! Trash!"

"Has the title of Haoyang Sword Venerable been fed to the dogs?!"

Before the words had faded, Leng Yuekui's figure had already disappeared from the main seat, leaving behind only an afterimage and a bone-chilling cold!

The target was straight toward—Pill Cloud Peak!

Pill Cloud Peak, outside the Dan Chen Hall.

Li Cen was pacing with a worried face, thinking about how to deal with the aftermath.

Suddenly, a terrifying pressure, cold, piercing, and carrying monstrous rage, swept over like a tsunami!

"Li Cen—!!!"

Accompanying a sharp shout filled with endless rage and killing intent, Leng Yuekui's figure appeared in front of Li Cen as if teleporting!

She overflowed with cold air, and her moon-white dress fluttered without wind.

Her stunningly beautiful face was as cold as Qiong Shuang, and her eyes, looking at Li Cen,

were filled with undisguised worry, anger, and… disdain!

"Leng… Junior Sister Leng…"

Li Cen's scalp tingled, and he instinctively shrank his neck,

squeezing out a smile that was uglier than crying, looking just like a child caught doing something wrong by their parent.

"Shut up!"

Leng Yuekui didn't give him a chance to speak at all, her voice like ice knives scraping against bone:

"Li Cen! How did you act as a Senior Martial Uncle?! It's a pity you are still called the Haoyang Sword Venerable, famous throughout the Eastern Region! And yet?"

"You couldn't even fend off a skulking demonic cultivator?!"

"You let a Nascent Soul Stage junior be ambushed and seriously injured by a Void Refining Realm cultivator right under your nose?!"

"Where is your sword? Where is your Divine Thought? Have they all been fed to the dogs?!"

"If anything happens to one of the only two Personal Disciples of my Luoxia Peak, Li Cen, I, Leng Yuekui, will not let you off!"

Leng Yuekui's angry rebuke was like a rapid-fire cannon, every sentence piercing the heart, every word thorny, showing no mercy.

The powerful Void Refining Realm pressure, mixed with the cold power of moonlight,

pressed down so hard that even Li Cen, a Void Refining Realm expert, felt his breath stagnate, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

He opened his mouth, wanting to explain how tricky and insidious the demonic cultivator's attack was,

wanting to say how remorseful he was, but under Leng Yuekui's murderous gaze,

all his words were stuck in his throat,

and he could only stand there and take the scolding with an awkward, helpless, and deeply guilty expression.

Just then, the doors of the Dan Chen Hall opened with a creak.

Dan Chenzi walked out with an exhausted face; apparently, setting up the Seal for Yao Delong just now had consumed a lot of energy.

Seeing the tense, frosty scene outside the hall,

especially seeing Li Cen's quail-like appearance, he immediately understood seven or eight tenths of the situation.

"Junior Sister Leng! Junior Sister Leng! Calm down! Calm down!"

Dan Chenzi hurriedly stepped forward to mediate, blocking the space between the two,

"Delong's condition has stabilized! His life is not in danger!"

Leng Yuekui's rage was slightly interrupted by Dan Chenzi's words, but her gaze remained coldly locked on Li Cen, clearly not forgiving him.

Dan Chenzi quickly continued: "Although Delong's situation this time was dangerous, fortune and misfortune are interdependent!"

"His Foundation is far more robust than we imagined! He even has two types of Pill Fire protecting his body!"

"Although the Demonic Source is poisonous, it has been temporarily suppressed and sealed by his Pill Fire and my Pill Fire in coordination with the 'Nine Turns Demon-Sealing Seal'!"

"This tribulation, for him, may not necessarily be a bad thing; it could be a tempering!"

"If he can take this Opportunity to refine the Demonic Source and temper his Dao Heart, his cultivation and Foundation,"

"will surely undergo a qualitative leap! Breaking and then establishing, it will be even better than before!"

Dan Chenzi's words were like ice water poured onto a raging fire, making Leng Yuekui's monstrous rage subside slightly.

She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing her anger, and looked at Dan Chenzi:

"Senior Brother Dan, is Delong… really not in danger of losing his life? Can that Demonic Source… truly be turned into an Opportunity?"

"I swear by the Pill Dao!" Dan Chenzi said solemnly,

"Delong is a child with great fortune! He will definitely survive this tribulation safely, and perhaps… turn misfortune into a blessing!"

Upon hearing this, Leng Yuekui's tense heartstrings finally loosened a little,

but her gaze toward Li Cen remained as cold as a knife, and she snorted coldly:

"Hmph! If it weren't for Delong's own deep Foundation, and Senior Brother Dan stepping in… Li Cen, you just wait! This matter is not over!"

Having said that, she stopped looking at Li Cen's awkward expression and turned to walk into the Dan Chen Hall.

"I am going to see Delong!"

Li Cen watched Leng Yuekui's back, let out a long sigh of relief, and cast a grateful look at Dan Chenzi.

Dan Chenzi shook his head helplessly and followed her inside.

Outside the hall, only Li Cen remained, feeling the chill of surviving a disaster in the early autumn breeze,

as well as… the anxiety of potentially being "settled" by Junior Sister Leng and Senior Brother Dan in the future.