At Yi He's words, the Great Serpent trembled slightly and sent out a frigid divine-sense message. "Don't do this. We're all Cultivators!"
"Now we're all Cultivators?" Qu Jianlei sneered.
He did feel a certain affinity toward Cultivators, but he was thoroughly disgusted by this fellow before him.
Then Qu Jianlei looked at Jiaotan. "Senior, help check where its true body is. We need to pull out the weeds by the roots."
"That's hard to determine," Yi He replied casually. "Looks like you'll have to divine it."
"But this thing can't be kept alive. My restraining spell won't last much longer."
"You don't have to go this far, do you?" the Great Serpent hastily defended itself. "I wasn't planning to kill you just now."
"The spiritual energy of this world has been cut off. As fellow Cultivators, we should join hands to survive."
"Join hands?" Qu Jianlei sneered. "You didn't look like you wanted to join hands at all just now."
Just then, a figure flashed in. Jing Yuexin's avatar entered, carrying Frederick.
That gaunt body seemed weightless in her hand. "My true body is keeping watch outside. Shall we go?"
Qu Jianlei opened his mouth, and a flash of Gray Radiance shot toward the Great Serpent's eyes.
"Don't!" the Great Serpent cried miserably. "I truly didn't intend to kill you!"
At the same time, it opened its mouth, and an azure bead the size of a ping-pong ball moved before it, actually blocking the Sword Pill!
However, when the two collided, the azure bead shuddered and gradually began to crack.
Ruler twisted in midair, releasing an invisible ripple that enveloped the entire Stone Chamber.
Then Sunset Glow complained unhappily, "A Demon Core against a flying sword? Are you trying to blow down the whole mountain?"
Fortunately, it had isolated the