My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

Ruan Chayan followed behind the speeding Huajiao on her sword, cheering it on: "Don't worry, don't be afraid, I'm with you!"

You can keep this handful of elixirs in your mouth!

She lowered her body and stuffed the prepared elixir into the leaping peppercorn's mouth.

Seeing that they were far away from Luo Hanying and Le Shu, she and Hua Jiao stopped.

Ruan Chayan took out the array plate, filled it with spirit stones, and activated it by performing a hand seal. She placed it around Huajiao, who obediently squatted in the middle of the array, staring fearfully at the tribulation clouds gathering in the sky.

Spirit beasts always face greater difficulties in their tribulations than humans. However, it now has a master who can transfer spiritual energy to it and even help it withstand heavenly lightning. It shouldn't be too difficult, right?

The first bolt of blue-green lightning, after brewing for a long time, struck down with tremendous force, faintly tinged with red.

Le Shu narrowed her eyes, staring at the commotion on Ruan Chayan's side, and asked, "Senior Han Xue, shouldn't we go and help Senior Yan Ming?"

Luo Hanying glanced at Le Shu, not understanding what nonsense she was spouting: "Help with what? What can you do? Can you help Huajiao overcome his tribulation?"

Le Shu thought to herself, "Neither of you can say anything nice."

"Of course not," she said embarrassedly. "I was just being presumptuous."

"I wonder what kind of spirit beast this is, and why there's a red light within the tribulation lightning?"

Luo Hanying said in a serious tone, "I don't know either. All I know is that Sichuan pepper is a Jingyao shrew."

Seeing that she hadn't gotten the information she wanted after asking for so long, Le Shu stopped talking in boredom and waited for Ruan Chayan and Huajiao to return from their tribulation.

Human cultivators undergoing tribulation are struck by purple-gold heavenly lightning, while demons and demon cultivators undergo tribulation by silver-white heavenly lightning.

Demon cultivators and spirit beasts generate blue-green heavenly lightning, while demonic beasts and magical beasts generate black heavenly lightning;

The divine beast is crimson lightning.

Luo Hanying had only asked 1127 because she was worried that something might have happened to Huajiao, but she never expected to get such a shocking conclusion.

When Xiange was around, he said that Sichuan pepper was a hybrid variety. Could it be that one of its parents was a mythical beast?

1127's words were true; the types of spiritual herbs it provided did indeed make the tribulation of pepper much easier for it. If it was injured, it could recover a lot by chewing on the spiritual herbs.

With its master, Ruan Chayan, holding up a defensive magic weapon to shield it from the heavenly lightning, Huajiao managed to survive this tribulation relatively easily.

Ruan Chayan counted the number of heavenly lightning bolts, calculating that there was only one more to go. Looking at Huajiao, whose fur was charred and who was lying on the ground bleeding, she encouraged it: "Huajiao! Hang in there! It's the last one!"

"Once we get across, I'll make you spicy rabbit! I've bought some wine to celebrate!"

She quickly threw out a few more array plates, which were better than nothing.

Upon hearing this, Sichuan pepper immediately scrambled to its feet, stood upright, and excitedly opened its little claws to welcome the thunder.

The twenty-seventh bolt of heavenly lightning failed to strike for a long time, leaving everyone and the spirit beasts puzzled. Just as they were feeling lost, a crimson bolt of heavenly lightning meandered down, shattering the magical artifacts and array plates.

Ruan Chayan was hit squarely by the shockwave of the explosion, flying backward and crashing to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

She quickly circulated the spiritual energy in her dantian, transferring it to the peppercorn through the illusory image and contract in her sea of ​​consciousness, praying for its safety.

The peppercorns squeaked in alarm and fear, opening their mouths to cry out in defense against the heavenly thunder.

Luo Hanying's consciousness was disturbed by the indiscriminate sonic attack from Huajiao. She couldn't even stand up straight and dragged the unconscious Le Shu away in a scramble to create some distance.

Le Shu frowned, and blood flowed from her ear.

Luo Hanying: Damn it, why am I so unlucky every day?! It's like seeing a ghost!

The peppercorns, tempered by heavenly lightning, had their skin split open, their flesh and bones regenerated, and a faint, illusory tail appeared.

Ruan Chayan was too close, so she covered her eyes and dared not extend her divine sense. When the time came, she saw the newborn peppercorn hopping and skipping towards her.

Sichuan peppercorns: {Spicy! Spicy! Spicy! Let's drink! Here it comes!}

Ruan Chayan lay on her back on the ground, reached out and lifted the heavy piglet, and said with a weak smile, "Okay, okay, I'll go find a place to cook."

She put down the peppercorns, turned over and got up. While taking out healing pills from her storage bag and putting them in her mouth, she took off on her sword.

Sichuan peppercorns obediently squatted on the spirit sword.

After Huajiao survived the heavenly tribulation, its injuries were completely healed by the sweet rain that descended from the tribulation clouds, so Ruan Chayan didn't need to worry about it.

Just as Luo Hanying inquired about Ruan Chayan and Huajiao's situation, 1127 spoke up: "Please, both hosts, leave this place immediately. Huajiao's tribulation has attracted a crowd of cultivators, which could endanger your lives."

Ruan Chayan cursed and gritted her teeth, saying, "What's going on?! Why are you always so shameful?!"

Luo Hanying took out the Bagua gourd and said, "Let's talk as we walk. I'm really scared."

"One of your parents must be a divine beast. I just asked 1127, and it said that the red heavenly tribulation only occurs when a divine beast undergoes tribulation."

Ruan Chayan was somewhat surprised: "Can even divine beasts, born and raised in nature, undergo tribulations?"

Luo Hanying said she didn't know, but that's what the system said.

That Bagua gourd is a common flying magic weapon in the cultivation world, and can be considered a low-end version of the magic weapon that Sheng Meixu used before.

The two carried the unconscious Yue Shu onto the flying artifact. They had just settled down and taken a few steps when a cultivator appeared before their eyes, whose face they couldn't see clearly. Judging from his figure, he seemed to be a man.

The cultivator stood on a huge bluish-white bamboo leaf, wearing a red upper garment and white lower garment, blocking their path.

Ruan Chayan couldn't see through his cultivation level.

[“1127, what is this person’s cultivation level?”] Luo Hanying couldn’t see through him and asked directly. Her cultivation level was too low to see through anyone.

Ruan Chayan asked warily, "Fellow Daoist, please be kind. May I ask who you are and why you are blocking our way?"

1127: [“Late stage of the Void Refinement Realm.”]

The two men turned pale and gasped.

The man's consciousness circled the group once, then he uttered a questioning "Hmm?" and muttered, "Never mind..."

Then he changed his question again, asking, "Do you have a sect?"

Luo Hanying immediately replied, "We are disciples of the Shiren Sect. May I ask what brings you here, senior?"

Qi Huixian chuckled lightly: "Oh? Is that so?"

"If you are a disciple of the Blade-Slaying Sect, then come back to the sect with me."

Luo Hanying was stunned upon hearing this: What do you mean by saying that if someone is a disciple of the Shiren Sect, they will go back to the sect with you? Is this person from the Shiren Sect?

Ruan Chayan hissed; she felt this person's outfit looked familiar!

I just glanced at the information Xian Ge gave me and I knew what was going on: ["Oh no, Xiao Xue, we've run into the real deal! It's Yu Chen!"]

Luo Hanying's mind went blank, and she blurted out, "Yu Chen Dao Zun?!"

Luo Hanying: Holy crap? Holy crap!

Qi Huixian responded calmly and said, "Since you know who I am, why don't you tell me what's going on with you guys?"

Why would you pretend to be a disciple of my Blade-Slaying Sect?

Ruan Chayan & Luo Hanying: Oh no, they're going to come after us. What are we going to say?