Hammer in her left hand, sword in her right, the eldest sister is connected to both worlds.

The Su Jun Sword is, after all, a divine artifact, and its consumption of spiritual energy is far too great.

The girl knelt on the ground, watching the two-headed snake before her frantically swing its neck. A streak of light flew in from not far away.

"Didn't your grandmaster abandon you?" Xue Tong asked anxiously, the little girl sounding like she was about to cry.

Everything Xue Lan sees is red now. She watched as Yin Yue landed in front of her and put the frenzied Yin He into the bamboo cage at her waist.

The woman turned to look at her, but made no further move.

The girl slowly shook her head: "Don't worry, you won't die."

Xue Lan's true form wasn't in this body, but in the demon soul within it. The girl looked up at Yin Yue in front of her, without getting up.

After the first strike, the Su Jun Sword was immediately covered with a new layer of rust. In Xue Lan's hands, it became dull and lifeless.

The voice of Master Xuanji came from beside him: "You just cut down someone's sacred Gu, and now you can't stand up on the ground. Isn't that a bit embarrassing?"

Xue Lan thought to herself, "Is it that I don't want to stand up and be more assertive? It's that I can't stand up right now!"

Xue Lan coughed up a mouthful of blood, and her body gave way, causing her to collapse to the ground.

With her collar grabbed, Xue Lan was no longer forced to lie face down on the ground. The girl turned her head slightly and saw Xuanji Zhenren behind her.

Her mouth was full of blood as she looked at her master, who was dressed in a blue robe and had a handsome appearance, and she completely forgot all the etiquette she had learned before.

The girl's voice was somewhat muffled: "Why didn't you wait until I was beaten to death before you came?"

Upon hearing this, Master Xuanji loosened his grip, and Xue Lan landed face-first on the ground.

Xue Tong spoke hesitantly: "Are you alright? Take my advice, start pretending to faint now, and speak as little as possible."

Xue Lan landed face down, holding the divine weapon in her hand, but she didn't even have the strength to turn over. She simply took Xue Tong's advice and lay motionless on the ground.

Master Xuanji threw the girl to the ground, smiled at Yin Yue in front of him, and said, "The child is ignorant, young friend, please don't be angry."

Yin Yue sneered, thinking to herself that this Xuanji Zhenren really changed his tune quickly; he was a fellow Daoist before, and now he's a young friend.

However, she couldn't directly confront Xuanji, a true elder, here, so she could only smile obsequiously and act subservient.

The woman's gaze swept over the girl on the ground, then she bowed to Master Xuanji: "Senior is right, Yin Yue overstepped her bounds before. Now that I see that Senior has other important matters to attend to, then I will take my leave."

With a flick of her wrist, a small snake appeared in her palm: "This is the antidote for the poison of Yinhe. I am willing to accept defeat."

Master Xuanji accepted it. Yin Yue breathed a sigh of relief and left.

Watching Yin Yue transform into a beam of light and disappear into the horizon, Master Xuanji took a small step to the side and made a hand seal.

Xue Lan felt herself slowly floating up, and a ball of green light flew out from the girl's chest and landed in Xuanji Zhenren's hand.

"Stop pretending." Master Xuanji patted Xue Lan's shoulder. The girl reluctantly opened her eyes.

"You should thank her." Master Xuanji pointed a finger at Xue Lan's brow. His expression changed slightly.

Then Xue Lan heard Xuanji Zhenren's voice, tinged with laughter: "As expected of a genius in weapon crafting, his soul is incredibly resilient."

Although Xue Lan had always considered herself a genius at weapon crafting, she was extremely embarrassed when her elders praised her with that title for the first time.

Xue Lan regained some strength and stood up on her own, looking at Xuanji Zhenren in front of her.

Then she watched as the green light in Xuanji Zhenren's hand transformed into a jade-green mantis.

The girl looked surprised and stammered, "No...it wasn't you, Grandmaster..."

You raise gu poison too?

Master Xuanji was amused by her reaction. The emerald mantis in his hand transformed into a streak of emerald light and flew to Xue Lan's wrist. It lay on the two-headed snake mark, raised a large knife in its hand, and plunged it directly into Xue Lan's flesh.

The bruises inside the flesh began to be absorbed by the mantis, and Master Xuanji continued the topic that had been left unfinished.

"If she hadn't forced you to fight Yinhe and made you forcibly activate this divine artifact, I guess I would have had to find a way to mobilize your soul."

Xue Lan, with a slightly sarcastic tone and a hint of curiosity, asked, "How exactly will this be transferred?"

Master Guangfeng Jiyue Xuanji smiled, and a jet-black whip appeared in his hand.

Xue Lan shuddered and took several steps back.

That whip was clearly the Soul Refining Whip from Jiyue Mountain.

Master Xuanji looked at Xue Lan, who seemed to be on high alert, and said, "Why are you hiding? You don't need to hide anymore."

Xue Lan still didn't dare to step forward.

The emerald mantis slowly eroded the bruise on Xue Lan's wrist. Xue Lan heard the gentle voice of Master Xuanji.

"Don't you think that your grandmaster was a bit cruel to you?"

Xue Lan didn't know why he suddenly asked that question. The girl tilted her head and looked at him, her face dirty.

“Grandmaster can simply hand Shishi over; after all, she’s going home once she returns to Chonggu Village.” Master Xuanji raised his hand, and the mantis that had completed its task jumped into his palm.

Xue Lan thought to herself, "I've already been poisoned and beaten, and now I have to listen to your grievances?"

The girl looked at Master Xuanji, a single tear rolling down her dark eyes, and then she couldn't stop crying.

Xue Lan wiped her eyes with her sleeve, her face covered in blood mixed with tears.

The girl sobbed, "Lan'er always thought... it was because Lan'er wasn't obedient enough... I never imagined that Grandmaster didn't love Lan'er at all..."

"I'd rather die... ugh!"

Before Xue Lan could finish speaking, a gush of water hit her in front of her and shut her up.

Master Xuanji held a ball of water in his hand and rubbed it on Xue Lan's face while scolding her.

"Your mouth will be sewn shut by a fellow Daoist from the Jiangyun Sect one day. Who doesn't love you? If they didn't love you, would they let you blow up mountains time and time again?"

"He's getting anxious, he's getting anxious!" Xue Tong said with a smile.

"This is the bond between me and Grandmaster Xuanji. My face hurts so much!"

The grime on Xue Lan's face was washed away by the splash of water. The girl looked up at Xuanji Zhenren and said, "I know, I know that my master loves me, and I know that my sect values ​​me. My fellow disciples care for me."

The girl's eyes shone like stars in the sky: "Since Xue Lan has received so many benefits, she can't keep blasting mountains in the sect all the time, can she?"

"Grandmaster, please let me go to Luoxia Mountain."

Master Xuanji's heart had melted at the girl's words. But then he heard Xue Lan's next words.

His heart hardened again.

The grandmaster placed the small snake that Yin Yue had given him into Xue Lan's hand: "No."

Xue Lan wrapped the small snake around her wrist and heard Xue Tong scream.

【Ugh! From now on, you're not allowed to pinch my face with your filthy hands again!】

Xue Lan coaxed her, "Isn't there another one? Why aren't you giving it a cheek pincher anymore?"

[You're always flipping through those two spiders with your other hand!]

Xue Lan was speechless.

Master Xuanji instructed her, "Go back and stew this stuff, then add it to the medicine. Do you need me to teach you?"

Xue Lan was somewhat surprised: "You just stew it directly? That's so unrefined?"

"You didn't even care about crafting weapons, but now you're following the rules. Just stew it."

"Okay, thank you, Grandmaster!"

The dirty-looking girl happily went back to Jiyuan Peak to stew snakes.