I am a mage and a wet nurse, so using seven swords is not too much, right?

Above the canyon.

Several figures arrived at once.

They all hovered in mid-air, looking down at the sword energy below the canyon.

And... those few humans they didn't want to see.

"Li Mu, what are you doing here?"

The Xuan Shui Clan's Grand Master, beneath his usually aloof demeanor, frowned slightly. "Where is Ning Ruan?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her gaze was fixed on Honglian, who was being protected by Li Mu with his sword.

Immortal artifact.

Even before she got close, she could already sense the aura unique to celestial artifacts.

At this time and in this place, who else but that annoying guy could use a magical artifact?

"Is Ning Ruan inside the immortal artifact?"

She realized something in an instant.

The cultivators from the other races also kept their eyes on the immortal artifact.

His eyes betrayed his undisguised drooling.

Li Mu sneered, lightly brandishing his longsword, his tone icy, "You all failed to seize it outside, so you want to continue fighting here?"

The chilling sword energy soared straight into the sky.

Even without using its full strength, it still caused the sword energy in the canyon, which had been barely suppressed, to suddenly show signs of erupting again.

Just like before, the sword energy erupted in a violent and terrifying manner.

The eight cultivators from the eight major races who had arrived were so shocked that their expressions instantly changed.

But in an instant, the sword energy in the canyon returned to calm.

It was as if there had never been any fluctuation.

Da Zongzheng: "..."

He took a deep breath and asked calmly, "Why... is there such a dense sword aura here?"

"And those skeletons outside... do you know what happened?"

Li Mu remained expressionless.

They neither answered nor backed down.

After the previous battle, everyone was already familiar with Li Mu's personality.

That's just a stubborn person.

The Grand Master of Ceremonies didn't want to waste words with him.

It flew straight up to the top of the canyon.

Judging from his appearance, he was preparing to go down there.

But before she even went down, her icy gaze was already fixed on the direction of the rift in the sky.

Previously, all my attention was drawn to the magical artifact.

I really hadn't noticed what was happening over there.

“…Void.” The Grand Master’s words had barely finished when…

The other powerful figures also only then realized what was happening.

Their faces all looked grim.

"With such a large rift, if the sword energy gets out of control, this small remnant world will probably be hard to save."

"What exactly is down there? Even our divine senses cannot penetrate it."

"..."

The powerful figures were filled with doubt and surprise.

The powerful members of the Illusionary Conjunction Clan have also arrived.

He had his eyes injured by a powerful human, and afterwards he hurriedly sought treatment from a light-elemental expert.

After resting and taking medicine, he has now barely recovered.

Fighting against those in the same realm might not be an option.

But his spiritual power is far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.

So he didn't hesitate and brought the cultivators of the Illusionary Phantom Clan in.

However at this moment...

Even the Illusionary Phantom Clan, renowned for their spiritual power, was completely unable to perceive the situation below.

He shook his head. "The sword energy is too dense, there's nothing I can do about it, but I'm certain there's something below suppressing it."

"and……"

He paused, then continued, "Moreover, it seems that this thing is about to become uncontrollable."

The Thunder Turtle Clan expert looked at Li Mu and the others with suspicion, "So you also want to go down and investigate the thing that suppresses the sword energy?"

Li Mu: "..." That's not quite it.

They were after the arm of the 'immortal' who was also being suppressed.

He remained silent.

The Phoenix Clan elder coughed lightly, his attitude softening. "Well, Li Mu, you should have noticed it too. This small remnant world does indeed have some problems, perhaps it really is related to immortals."

"Don't you want to know the traces of immortals?"

Li Mu remained silent.

In the eyes of the Phoenix Clan's powerful members, this was tantamount to tacit approval.

His tone softened, even becoming somewhat persuasive: "General Li, matters concerning immortals are related to the future of the spirit world, not to the private interests of any one clan or family."

"How about we join forces to investigate and share the information we obtain?"

He just finished speaking.

The girl's clear voice suddenly rang out:

"No way."

As the three words rang out, Ning Ruan, carrying her red sword, flew out from the red lotus.

A half-smile played at the corners of her lips, her eyes clear yet carrying a hint of nonchalant mockery.

He casually twirled the red sword in his hand, the tip pointing diagonally at the ground. His posture was relaxed, yet he exuded an aura that could not be ignored.

It's almost easy to forget that she's only a cultivator at the mid-stage of the ninth realm.

Ning Ruan... she didn't come out earlier or later, but she had to come out at this exact moment.

It was practically destined to cause them trouble.

The Phoenix Clan elder's carefully crafted conciliatory expression froze on his face, and he nearly choked on his breath. He took a deep breath, barely managing to maintain his composure: "It's Fellow Daoist Ning. We did have some misunderstandings before, but haven't we already cleared everything up?"

"The matter of immortals is of great importance and cannot be taken lightly. I think you must be curious about what's going on next, right?"

"Our cooperation is the safest option."

Following him, the Thunder Turtle Clan expert also spoke with a stern face and an unnatural tone:

“Ning Ruan, what he said makes sense. It would be difficult for you two to enter the canyon without triggering a sword aura explosion, but if we join forces…”

He didn't finish his sentence.

Ning Ruan interrupted her, "Who said we wanted to go down?"

"No."

"right?"

She turned to look at Mu Yiqiu, "You mean we want to continue?"

Mu Yiqiu immediately replied, "Of course not, I didn't say a word."

Ning Ruan then looked at Li Chuan.

The latter's face paled slightly, but the thought of the god of death he admired most standing behind him gave him a lot more confidence.

He cleared his throat, trying to keep his voice from trembling:

"Yes, yes, we...we were just passing by, we never said we were going down. It's so dangerous down there, why would we go down?"

Indeed, it didn't go down; after all, it was Fellow Daoist Ning's sword that went down.

His words sounded a bit weak, but combined with Ning Ruan's confident attitude, they did carry a certain air of authority.

Li Mu remained silent.

Ning Ruan didn't expect him to help her lie, so she ignored him, satisfied, and turned her gaze back to the grim-faced experts from various races, shrugging:

"See? We didn't mean it that way."

"It's your own decision to go down and take a look, seniors. Please don't drag us into it."

"We have other things to do, so we'll be leaving now. Please make yourselves at home."

When she said she was leaving, she really meant it.

He turned and retrieved his four swords.

He then retrieved the red lotus that was hard to miss in mid-air back into his storage belt.

"..."

The cultivators of the ten races simply watched helplessly as the red lotus disappeared.

He didn't utter another word about immortal artifacts.

I did consider taking advantage of the human race's absence to attack Ning Ruan and seize the immortal artifact.

But the thought was nipped in the bud as soon as it came to mind.

Ning Ruan is too shrewd.

She wasn't so arrogant because of that powerful human.

Who knows when she'll pull out another painting?

"Young Fellow Daoist Ning, are you really not going to get involved?" The Phoenix Sparrow Clan expert couldn't help but ask again.

It's fine if you don't get involved.

The scary thing is that after they finally come up with a plan and successfully get down there, Ning Ruan starts causing trouble for them again...

It's not that he's making unfounded assumptions about others.

If this other person is Ning Ruan, then he has a very good motive to do such a thing.