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

While they were locked in a fierce battle, Yu Sheng, carrying the pot on his head, slowly moved to Bai Yushu's side. However, the cave was only so big, and his little movements only attracted the monsters' hatred.

"Yu Sheng, hide well! Be careful not to show your face or it will kill you instantly!" Luo Hanying quickly activated the array plate and threw it at Yu Sheng.

Controlled by Luo Hanying's divine sense, the array plate unfolded immediately upon landing, and Yu Sheng and Bai Yushu's figures disappeared in front of the demon beast.

After missing its target, the monster's eyes turned red, and it bared its teeth, resembling a ghost. Before Ruan Luo and her companion could even pinpoint the monster's true form, a tremendous force sent them flying. Their protective spiritual energy dissipated, and they slid off the stone wall, collapsing to the ground. The sharp pain in their chests and abdomens came late but intensified over time.

Luo Hanying's face was contorted with rage. She dared not breathe, and with trembling hands, she smeared her own blood and rushed to write in front of her before the corrosive water of the demon beast could flow onto them: "If the east wind had not favored Zhou Yu, the two Qiao beauties would have been locked away in the Copper Sparrow Terrace in the depths of spring."

The wind blew from the direction of Luo Hanying and Ruan Chayan toward the demon beast, slowing the speed at which the water rushed toward them. A huge platform-style building from the Han Dynasty appeared in the distance, and a golden phoenix phantom spread its wings to protect the two of them.

After blocking two rounds of attacks from the demonic beast, the phoenix cried out and dissipated. Ruan Chayan had already stabilized the injuries to her internal organs with pills and spirit stones. With one hand she made a hand seal and with the other she drew a talisman in mid-air: "Connecting the star streams, the sun and moon stop their rotation. Locking the Qi in the eight directions, the six directions of life and death!"

As Ruan Chayan finished speaking, a talisman drawn entirely with spiritual power was unleashed and struck the demon beast.

In an instant, countless stars fell, and the phantom images of the sun and moon hovered at the head and tail of the monster, facing each other from afar, motionless.

A silver-white barrier separated the demon beast from the outside world. The demon beast rampaged through the barrier, violently destroying the effects of the talisman.

The spiritual energy within the barrier began to spread outwards, and the demonic beasts visibly panicked.

For beings in the cultivation world, the absence of spiritual energy is no less devastating than the loss of air for mortals.

Ruan Chayan's condition wasn't much better than the demon beast's. She urged Luo Hanying to think of a solution: "Xiaoxue, hurry up, is there any array plate we can use?"

"My spiritual power isn't enough to sustain this talisman; I can't hold on much longer..."

These are high-level talismans and spells. It is already difficult for them to function without the help of external objects, let alone the fact that Ruan Chayan is injured.

Luo Hanying stuffed a mouthful of pills into her mouth, roughly refining them to heal her injuries, and continued Ruan Chayan's rhythm: "I have two high-level array plates here, but I'm not sure if I can trap it."

This monster is incredibly ferocious; not only is its saliva corrosive, but it's also incredibly strong.

She took out four mid-grade spirit stones, stacked the two array plates together to activate them, and enveloped the demon beast.

Ruan Chayan breathed a sigh of relief, took out the Spirit Gathering Array and activated it. She stood at the array's core to absorb spiritual energy to replenish the spiritual power in her dantian, as well as to heal her injuries.

Luo Hanying walked to the place where Yu Sheng and Bai Yushu had disappeared. She took a few steps in place, the formation disappeared, and the formation plate flew into Luo Hanying's hand.

Yu Sheng peered out and asked, "Did the two fairies deal with that monster?"

"No, did you dig out the White Jade Technique?" Luo Hanying asked anxiously, her brows furrowing involuntarily. "I don't know how long the array plate can last..."

She had barely finished speaking when she heard the sound of the array plate cracking.

Luo Hanying's breath hitched, and she turned to look at the demon beast. The demon beast's body was tormented by the formation, leaving it a bloody mess, but the formation had already broken through one layer.

Yu Sheng quickly said, "Alright, alright, that's enough for us."

The Sichuan pepper's hearing is far superior to that of humans; it uses its calls to warn others. Ruan Chayan's divine sense spread out, and what she saw was the stone wall with cracks rapidly widening.

She said anxiously, "Hurry up and leave, the cave is about to collapse!"

Yu Sheng charged ahead, while Luo Hanying gestured for Ruan Chayan to go first: "I'll cover the rear; I still have an array plate here that can hold it off for a while."

Luo Hanying didn't hesitate to use the array plates in her hands. They were both injured, and this monster was so ferocious that if it escaped, the two of them might not be able to fight it.

The three retreated hastily, amidst the sounds of collapses both in front and behind them.

Yu Sheng looked at the blocked passage as if it were commonplace, and took out his magic tool to dig at the stones and soil one by one.

Luo Hanying and Ruan Chayan felt a chill run down their spines, fearing the scene before them. However, they were no longer the helpless mortals they once were. Ruan Chayan patted Yu Sheng's arm, signaling him to step aside.

She made hand gestures and chanted incantations, and the stone slowly rose up, while the soil automatically parted to both sides.

Yu Sheng and Luo Hanying quickly sidestepped past, with Ruan Chayan following closely behind.

However, after taking a few steps, the road ahead was blocked again.

Luo Hanying said, "We don't know how many more collapses there are ahead. Teach us this technique, and we'll work together to fix them."

As the three of them moved outwards at a snail's pace, Luo Hanying kept saying, "To be honest, I'm a little nervous, really just a little."

Okay, it seems like there are quite a few points.

Fortunately, we are cultivators now and can manipulate the five elements. Otherwise, if we were mortals, wouldn't we just be waiting to die here?

I think there's no other way but to wait to die. These rocks are so big, there's so much mud, we can't dig them out, and there's definitely not enough oxygen. We might suffocate before we even starve."

Ruan Chayan was used to Luo Hanying's rambling; she simply responded with a few words to show she was listening, without offering any opinion.

Luo Hanying doesn't need her opinion right now; she'll calm down after talking to herself for a while.

But Yu Sheng didn't know that he had to comfort Luo Hanying with every word she said, until his throat was dry. Not only did Luo Hanying not respond to him, but she also couldn't understand what he was saying: "What yang qi? What kind of qi is that?"

Luo Hanying was silent for two seconds before explaining with difficulty: "It's a kind of air, something I read in a book. Without this kind of air, we can't breathe, we'll suffocate."

Yu Sheng exclaimed in amazement, "Fairy Xue Ci is truly well-read. Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what book that is. I would like to borrow it to take a look."

Ruan Chayan glanced at Luo Hanying silently. Luo Hanying gave an awkward but polite smile: "I really can't remember. It was many years ago."

Being old is a great excuse; if you can't say it outright, you can just say you're too old to remember.

Huajiao chirped a few times on Ruan Chayan's shoulder. Ruan Chayan said, "We'd better speed up. Huajiao said he heard the sound of rushing water and the panting of a monster. It's probably that monster escaped the formation and has been following us."

Upon hearing this, Luo Hanying's scalp tingled: "Huh? No way, how can it be so tenacious? Its saliva is corrosive, it won't really catch up with us, will it?"

Yu Sheng cast a divination on the side and said confidently, "Don't worry, it's auspicious. We'll be fine. This trip was really worth it."

Ruan Chayan blocked their way with rocks and dirt, saying, "Stop being so superstitious. Why don't you use that time to help?"

The cave isn't deep, and we're moving quite fast, so we should be close to the exit, right?

The three of them suddenly heard faint voices coming from outside.

A woman's voice asked, "Are you sure there's someone in here?"

A male voice answered, "There are voices."

Such a commotion must mean it's no ordinary rare treasure.