Watch out! Something's wrong with this guard.

"Little Lu, look at you. I asked you to do a set of punches, and you're already exhausted. When you start training formally, I'm afraid your body will be too weak."

"Come on, do you think I'm like you? My little fists can crack a rock." (﹁ ﹁ ) ~→

"Hmph, is it okay to be as skinny as a monkey like you? How are you going to protect me in the future?" <(｀^′)>

"Of course I can't protect you. If something really happens, the worst I can do is die with you."

"You...who wants to live and die with you, to share life and death? Don't you dare talk nonsense, or I'll beat you to death. If anyone's going to die, it'll be you alone. I'm not going to die." (??v?v?)

"???"

"...Fine, although you're weak, you're still quite loyal. It would be a shame if you died. I'll reluctantly protect you from now on."

"I'm a guard! I'm a guard, right?" (；′?`)＞

"Nonsense, if you're not, then am I?"

"Then why do you..." (；′?`)＞

"Shut up, I'm the young lady, listen to me. I'll protect you if I say I will, otherwise with your meager strength, you'd be crushed with a single punch."

"Well... there's no need for such a gruesome death, and you do know who we are, don't you?" (￣▽￣“)

"Say it again?" (╬￣皿￣)

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. You'll have to protect me from now on. Anyway, my life is already in your hands."

"Don't worry, I will definitely keep my promise." Feeling the increasingly cold and dangerous aura ahead, Lu Yunxi's mind was filled with images from the past, but she felt no fear.

"That's it, just you wait."

"Hey, Lin Min, what's going on with those two?" Li Hu, who was silently following behind, looked at Lu Yunxi's back and noticed that her emotions were obviously off. He quietly pulled Lin Min and the other two to slow down, and only after they were more than ten meters away from Lu Yunxi did he whisper to Lin Min.

"At this critical moment of life and death, you still have the mind to think about these gossips?" Lin Min glared at Li Hu, not understanding what was in this guy's brain.

Li Hu scratched his head, exchanged a glance with Tang Busan and Zhao Han, and the three of them chuckled.

"It's precisely because it's a matter of life and death that I'm even more eager to gossip. If I really die, I won't have the chance to do so again."

"You guys are really..." Lin Min shook her head, indicating that she was really helpless, but then she blinked and said something.

"But I'm also very curious about the relationship between these two. Could it be that Junior Brother Lu has already won the heart of his beauty, but he doesn't seem to be doing so."

Now that things have come to this, they have realized that Lu Yunxi and Lu Yunshi are not at all what they initially thought.

This is not simple, not simple at all. They clearly knew each other long ago and have an inexplicable connection, but they were just pretending at the academy.

Good grief, everyone was laughing at Lu Yunshi, but he just stood there having fun, and ended up making a fool of himself?

boom!

At this moment, a loud bang suddenly came from the sky, interrupting Li Hu and the other three's gossip. They looked up at the source of the sound and saw that the runes were very close. The cracks on the runes were increasing, and they seemed to be unable to hold on for much longer.

Below the rune is the tallest and most majestic mountain in the Iron Mountain Sect.

"The suppressed evil spirit seems to be in the main hall of the Iron Mountain Sect." Lin Min roughly judged after looking at the location of the runes.

Upon hearing this, everyone realized that a battle was about to begin, but this battle would be even more dangerous than when they were besieged by those high-level alien spirits.

But the worst outcome is the same: just a few more lives.

“Come on, at least we’re lucky this time. We didn’t encounter any high-level alien spirits blocking our way, and we can still maintain a good condition.” Li Hu cracked his neck.

The crowd remained silent upon hearing this, only nodding slightly. Their mental fortitude was quite good; they became even calmer in the face of danger. The sense of urgency that had been lingering on them on the way here had vanished.

"go!"

Seeing that Lu Yunxi hadn't stopped walking, Lin Min said something and quickened her pace with Li Hu and the others.

Ten minutes later, the group finally arrived at the very bottom of the rune, which was also the summit of the Iron Mountain Sect's main peak. The surrounding area was filled with the ruins of buildings, and the entire edge of the summit was blocked by a golden barrier.

Lu Yunxi looked towards the center of the mountaintop, but she did not see any human-like figures. Instead, she saw an irregular blood-red sphere tens of meters in size, from which terrifying power was constantly surging and impacting the formation.

But if you look at it for a couple more seconds, you'll notice that the sphere seems to be breathing, with its surface undulating slightly.

Suddenly, the sphere moved; it turned around, and then a humanoid creature began to materialize and emerged from the surface of the sphere.

It was a man dressed in the attire of the Iron Mountain Sect, but his eyes were blood red and filled with evil intent. This was the former chief disciple of the Iron Mountain Sect, now a calamity-level alien spirit.

Li Qing!

"Oh, you've arrived. What brings you here?" Li Qing took a few steps forward, his gaze fixed on Lu Yunxi. "Judging from this young lady's eyes, you're here to kill me? You've met that old man, haven't you? You knew he wasn't dead, but you didn't expect him to hide for so long."

“That’s right!” Lu Yunxi replied, gripping her long sword and stepping directly into the formation. Lin Min and the other three sighed inwardly and hurriedly followed.

Seeing Lu Yunxi and the others enter, Li Qing remained calm and composed.

"How interesting. He had the only chance to kill me back then but didn't cherish it. Now he's sending you guys to your deaths. Let me guess, is he saying that I'm being suppressed by the formation and can't unleash my full power?"

Lin Min and the others' expressions changed slightly, but they did not speak.

"Heh." Li Qing laughed twice, and instantly a gust of wind swept through, his aura suddenly turning cold and sinister, his eyes revealing madness. "He's right, I'm suppressed by the formation, this damned formation sucks my blood and gnaws at my flesh every day, feeding the culprit that suppresses me. If it weren't for the gradual increase of the strange spiritual energy outside over the years, coupled with the weakening of the formation, I would still be trapped here. But so what?"

Li Qing reached out to Lu Yunxi and the others, his eyes flashing with bloodlust. A thunderous sound rang out from his palm, and strange spiritual energy surged forth as he unleashed a fierce palm strike.

Sensing a great danger from Li Qing, Lin Min and the others activated their spiritual energy to dodge, but Lu Yunxi went against the current, raised her sword and killed the Blood Palm.

Lu Yunxi's eyes were cold, and in half a breath, she unleashed a cold sword light, instantly arriving in front of Li Qing, who smiled contemptuously.

"To be honest, I have never felt so wonderful before. All the evil spirits should die. This is the real power. With such power, how can there be pain? Master is wrong, always has been."