Lin Yitang took out a mid-grade spirit sword from her storage bag, which was a reward she had obtained during a previous sect mission.

She silently recited the incantation, her spiritual power surged, and she poured all the spiritual energy in her body into the sword. Then, she used the "Severing Void Blade" to strike out.

A flash of light, like a thunderbolt, ripped through the sky and struck the horde of beasts. Dozens of monsters fell instantly, their blood splattering everywhere.

Everyone was stunned by Lin Yitang's sudden display of strength, momentarily forgetting to attack. However, Lin Yitang paid no heed to their reactions. This single strike had almost exhausted all her spiritual energy, leaving her face deathly pale.

She immediately swallowed several Five-Cauldron Begonias; the spiritual medicine entered her stomach, and her spiritual energy surged. Lin Yitang raised her spiritual blade again and struck through the air.

This time, the blade flashed even brighter and was even more powerful. Twenty or thirty demonic beasts were killed with a single strike, including several second-tier demonic beasts!

However, Lin Yitang did not stop. She swallowed a few more Five-Cauldron Tang pills, and her spiritual energy was restored to normal.

With a flash of light, another white light streaked across the sky, and another thirty demonic beasts fell!

At this moment, the way everyone looked at Lin Yitang had changed from initial surprise to horror. They looked at Lin Yitang as if she were a monster, their minds blank, unable to accept the reality before them.

How could someone kill twenty or thirty demonic beasts with a single strike? And this was a Qi Refining Stage 7 cultivator!

Moreover, her spiritual power seemed inexhaustible; she unleashed one strike after another, each imbued with the full power of a late-stage Qi Refining attack. Lin Yitang, however, remained unfazed, treating it as if she had merely delivered a simple, effortless slash.

Even Fan Niannian, who was fighting with the tiger demon, was stunned. Both of them stared intently at this side.

She immediately turned and launched an attack, aiming straight for the tiger demon's face. She was excited, inwardly praising her junior sister Lin for her excellent work!

The tiger was ambushed and immediately found itself at a disadvantage.

It let out a long howl, its voice filled with exasperation, urging the demons to quickly deal with the humans and come to its rescue.

However, at this moment, all the demonic beasts were terrified, and their eyes looked at Lin Yitang with even more fear than when they saw a tiger in a rage.

Several monsters were frightened and fled in panic from the scene.

With one demon leading the way, the other demons screamed and fled. In no time, all the demons had escaped, leaving only a pile of demon corpses on the ground.

Before long, the tiger was also killed by Fan Niannian, its chest pierced by the long ribbon.

The four of them were panting heavily, knowing they had won the battle. But everyone except Lin Yitang looked at her with unspoken understanding.

Lin Yitang realized something was wrong; her strength had been exposed. But there was no other way; if she didn't do this, everyone would be devoured by beasts.

Just as she was thinking of an excuse, Senior Brother Wei asked, "Junior Sister Lin, actually, you haven't stopped cultivating in the past five years. You've been cultivating secretly all along, haven't you? You just didn't want your enemies to know your true strength?"

Lin Yitang thought the explanation was good and wanted to agree, but the follow-up problems were difficult to resolve. What if everyone really thought she was some kind of Foundation Establishment cultivator, putting her in danger?

She used up too much of the Five Tripods Potion this time, and her heart is bleeding. If she uses it again, she will go bankrupt.

So he shook his head and said, "No, I am indeed at the seventh level of Qi Refining, but I used a trump card. And this trump card can only be used once. It was an opportunity I obtained before."

Seeing that she wouldn't reveal her trump card, no one pressed her for details. Cultivators are most averse to others inquiring about their opportunities; insisting might offend this powerful figure.

At this point, Lin Yitang was already considered a big shot by everyone. Even Song Hang regretted offending Lin Yitang in the past and was thinking about severing ties with Ye Qiuli and apologizing to Lin Yitang properly.

After cleaning up the scene, the four returned to the fruit tree. There were no more demonic beasts guarding it, and Senior Brother Liu had also set up an array.

This time it's a combination of a defensive formation and an illusion formation. Senior Brother Liu said that this formation uses a mid-grade spirit stone for power, so it's definitely stronger than the last one. Moreover, with the illusion formation, no one or beasts outside can see this place; from the outside, it will only appear as a forest, completely blending into the environment.

He then activated the formation and taught everyone how to enter it.

Lin Yitang was also learning how to pass through the formation for the first time. Following Senior Brother Liu's instructions, she first took seven steps toward the Qian position, then nine steps diagonally toward the Dui position, then circled around to the Xun position, and finally took three steps toward the Kun position.

The scene before her suddenly changed, and she found herself inside a formation.

From the outside, it looks like an ordinary forest, but once you come inside, the trees are laden with golden spirit fruits that gleam in the sunlight.

Everyone's faces lit up with joy when they saw the spiritual fruits, knowing that they were about to ripen.

While waiting for the spiritual fruit to ripen, the four of them divided up the spoils from their battle against the monster.

Fan Niannian happily announced, "This mission has been successfully completed! Everyone did a great job!"

The others cheered. Fan Niannian checked the dozens of storage bags containing the corpses of demonic beasts and said, "This time we killed the tiger demon and obtained a total of one peak third-tier demonic beast corpse, forty second-tier demonic beast corpses, more than three hundred first-tier demonic beast corpses, and hundreds of low-level beast corpses."

Upon hearing this number, everyone's eyes widened in elation. But they couldn't help but gasp in shock, because seven or eight out of ten of them were killed by Lin Yitang, the team's weakest member.

The four couldn't help but glance at Lin Yitang, which aroused the curiosity of Senior Brother Liu, who asked, "What's wrong?"

Some people said it was nothing.

When dismembering the body, ten of the more than twenty storage bags were given to Lin Yitang, which made Senior Brother Liu glance at her again, but he didn't say anything.

The other four people each received three or four storage bags.

Senior Brother Liu's formation was successful, yielding over a dozen first-tier monster corpses and several second-tier corpses.

Besides the first and second-tier corpses, Fan Niannian also obtained the tiger demon's corpse, which made her very happy. She took out the demon core of the third-tier demon beast as proof of completing the mission.

Song Hang and Senior Brother Wei each obtained fifty first-tier monster corpses and several second-tier corpses.

Lin Yitang was even more outrageous; she obtained two hundred first-tier corpses and more than twenty second-tier corpses because she had killed them all.

She suppressed her overwhelming joy and the urge to burst into laughter, and accepted it calmly without changing her expression.

Several hours later, the Golden Spirit Fruit ripened, but its fragrance and rich spiritual energy were blocked by the formation and lingered within it.

Everyone took a deep breath and felt refreshed. The spiritual energy penetrated every part of their bodies, and their cultivation bottlenecks loosened.

Nearly a hundred golden spirit fruits hung on the huge ancient tree, each one like a lantern, emitting a golden light, and were very pleasing to the eye.

The spirit fruits were distributed equally to everyone, and everyone received more than twenty golden spirit fruits, making them extremely happy.

However, Lin Yitang always felt like she had forgotten something, but she couldn't remember it.

What did you forget?

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