After her senior sister was reborn, she actually became a powerful and arrogant protagonist?!

Southern border region

Tie Ao looked at the message sent by his subordinates and felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He spent so much effort, spirit stones, and money to cultivate a group of cultivators who could serve him in the Qingzhou Realm.

But now, they can't even deal with Qiu Guo, who is already at his last gasp!

Even more so, a group of people lost contact with them.

"If I had known these people were so useless, I would have just snatched Qiuyue and Qiuxue away."

"If the Blood God Tree and the Gu Mother wait any longer, they will starve to death."

Tie Ao's eyes were sharp and fierce. When he looked up at Qiu Guo in the distance, a murderous aura surged from his body.

"Looks like we still have to find that old man?"

"He's not that greedy, and we could cooperate, it's just a pity he's too greedy..."

Tie Ao couldn't help but frown at the thought of Qian Shu's greedy face.

"A mere rogue cultivator from Qingzhou dares to negotiate with me..."

"Alright, let's cooperate with him for now, and deal with other things later."

While pondering, Tie Ao couldn't help but look towards the back mountain.

He had clearly sensed a strange fluctuation of spiritual energy in the back mountain, but the Gu worms he had placed there to investigate did not detect anything unusual.

"Is it my own illusion?"

These past few days, Tie Ao has been using his own spiritual power to nourish the Blood God Tree and the Gu Mother, and he is almost at his breaking point.

According to his original plan, after Qiu Xue was brought to Southern Xinjiang, she would use her blood to nourish the tree roots there.

If Qiu Yue stays in Qiu Kingdom as her puppet, the bloodline of the Qiu family can be passed down from generation to generation.

But then, out of nowhere, a Cheng Yaojin appeared.

"Chu Luobai..."

The thought of this female swordsman who had disrupted his plans made Tie Ao grit his teeth in hatred.

He wished he could tear her to pieces and bury her underground to nourish his Blood God Tree.

"No, how could Qiu Guo..."

As if he had just thought of something, Tie Ao suddenly stood up and looked towards the back of the mountain.

At the same time, a loud noise came from the direction of the back mountain.

Then, the once quiet back mountain under the moonlight was filled with dust and smoke.

A surge of violent spiritual energy, accompanied by a strong wind, swept in.

After a moment of deathly silence, the Gu worms and guards on the back mountain were thrown into chaos.

The bells rang out continuously.

"There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"

The previously peaceful atmosphere vanished, and the entire Tie family descended into chaos.

Tie Ao carefully retrieved the Blood God Tree branch and Gu worms from one side, then got up and flew towards the back mountain.

Upon seeing the devastation on the back mountain, even though Tie Ao had prepared himself mentally, he was still so enraged that his vision blurred.

The land on the back mountain that had been cultivated to grow spiritual herbs and various spiritual plants was now completely empty, not even a single leaf remained for him.

The two spirit fruit trees on one side of the land, which had been carefully tended for many years, are now just two dark, deep pits.

The once heavily guarded treasure pavilion is now riddled with holes, and all the windows have been smashed.

The guards collapsed to the ground, their fates unclear.

Thick black smoke billowed continuously from the dilapidated windows of the treasure pavilion.

"damn it...."

As Tie Ao looked at the scene before him, he felt his blood surging in his chest.

Suddenly, he saw several unusual dark figures running through the ruins.

"You scoundrel! You destroyed my Tie family's property and you think you can get away with it?!"

Tie Ao raised his hand, and spiritual energy condensed into a giant palm in the air, which he slapped towards the location where the dark figure was running.

boom!

A deep crater was instantly created in the ground, but the dark figure had already vanished without a trace.

"Damn it, who is it?!"

Tie Ao closed his eyes and used his divine sense to connect with the Gu worms hidden in various corners of the Tie family, trying to find the intruders.

In an instant, countless images flooded into Tie Ao's mind.

This is a unique defense mechanism of the Tie family, a comprehensive and inescapable network that Tie Ao has painstakingly built over many years.

Even if an intruder possesses special abilities, he can lock onto them immediately.

Unfortunately, most of the Gu worms in this inescapable net are single-use.

Once activated, it will perish after use and must be re-refined.

"Two men and one woman, and there's even one person without cultivation?"

Tie Ao frowned, a hint of displeasure rising in his heart.

"A person with no cultivation dares to cause trouble in my Tie family. It seems that my Tie family is being looked down upon by others."

..............

Meanwhile, they were hidden within the formation.

"Are you really sure this small formation can evade Tie Ao's detection?"

Chu Luobai looked at Gu Lin with some suspicion.

It's not that I don't trust the other party's formation, it's just that I don't know why.

Gu Lin seems to lack talent in formations for concealing his aura, or perhaps he's just unlucky?

In short, in the previous life, whenever Gu Lin smugly pulled out the array that concealed his aura...

They are always discovered for various reasons, without exception.

Even so, Gu Lin still occasionally took out and used the concealment formation he had just researched.

It seems that a person's personality is very difficult to change...

"Of course I can. I found this in an ancient book and then specially restored it."

Gu Lin raised his head slightly, a smug look on his face.

As Chu Luobai watched, the image of Gu Lin before her kept overlapping with that of her previous life, and an ominous premonition inexplicably rose in her heart.

She subconsciously looked up at Tie Ao, who was suspended in mid-air, and their eyes met unintentionally.

The other person's lips moved slightly, and Chu Luobai stared intently. The other person's mouth shape was clearly speaking.

"Three bugs, I've found you."

It’s over.

Chu Luobai felt her heart skip a beat; just as she had expected.

"I think the ancient book you found might not be very reliable."

As he spoke, Chu Luobai circulated his spiritual energy and raised the Lingxiao Sword, causing its energy to surge.

boom!

The moon-white sword energy collided with the giant hand descending from the sky.

Click.

Gu Lin's proud concealment formation shattered instantly.

"Ugh...."

Looking at Gu Lin's wide eyes, Chu Luobai felt that this scene was extremely familiar.

Whether in her past life or this one, Chu Luobai couldn't understand why Gu Lin was so enthusiastic about concealment formations.

Even after failing so many times, I still enjoy it immensely.

Could it be that this prodigy has finally discovered something he's not good at in what he's good at?

So you're particularly interested?

Chu Luobai couldn't understand the thoughts of these geniuses at all; Gu Lin was one, and so was that other person.

"Fellow Daoist Gu, let's just get straight to the point."

According to Gu Lin's original plan, they were to hide in the back mountain using this concealment formation.

They would make the Tie family think they had escaped and send troops out to search for them, then they would come out again, catching the Tie family off guard.

If this concealment formation really works, it would be a good way to save energy.

only....

Gu Lin was born with bad luck in this regard.

"This shouldn't be happening. This formation is powerful enough to withstand the detection of a Mahayana cultivator, so why would Tie Ao..."

Gu Lin looked at the formation with a pained expression, still muttering to himself.