Secretly Setting Them Up

Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan figured out why they had been surrounded and attacked by the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack, and quickly made arrangements.

Wei Yunting first had everyone put out the fire. Then, with some reluctance, she took a Gale Talisman from her Storage Pouch and completely blew away the scent produced by the burning Spirit Jade Wood. The Green-Eyed Wolves attacking the Isolation Formation gradually became less restless.

Then Wei Zonghan raised his hand and threw the half-section of Spirit Jade Wood out of the formation, hoping to lure the entire Green-Eyed Wolf Pack away.

Since he wanted to draw the wolves farther away, Wei Zonghan infused his hand with spiritual power when he threw it. The piece flew nearly eight hundred meters—probably Wei Zonghan's limit.

By an unfortunate stroke of luck, that piece of Spirit Jade Wood struck little fatty Wei Zonghao right on the head. He covered his forehead with one hand and his mouth with the other, not daring to cry out.

But even his faint intake of breath woke Wei Yunxi. When she saw the charred wood that had fallen beneath the tree, she turned to look at the little fatty.

Only then did Wei Zonghao lower the little paw covering his mouth and say in a hushed voice:

"I don't know what happened. It just fell from above and hit me on the head."

Wei Yunxi instinctively released her divine sense and saw that the Green-Eyed Wolves, which had been attacking the Wei Family's Isolation Formation, had already turned and were running in their direction.

She swiftly climbed down the tree, put the charred piece of wood into her Storage Pouch, then used a Dust Removal Talisman to erase the traces before climbing back up.

"Brother Zonghao, do you have any Breath Concealment Talismans?"

Yunxi asked quickly.

Wei Zonghao nodded to show that he did, then pulled out two first-rank Breath Concealment Talismans from his Storage Pouch.

Wei Yunxi unceremoniously took one and slapped it onto herself, then gestured for Wei Zonghao to do the same and made a shushing motion at him.

Wei Zonghao had already heard the commotion approaching from afar. He immediately followed suit, then clung tightly to the tree trunk beside him, even softening his breathing.

A short while later, the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack arrived at the place where Wei Yunxi had just been. Two Green-Eyed Wolves sniffed around there for a long time, but thanks to the Dust Removal Talisman, they found nothing.

At last, the two Green-Eyed Wolves threw back their heads and howled, then led the pack back the way they had come to continue attacking the formation.

Wei Yunxi secretly reveled at the sight. From the piece of wood she had just collected, she had already figured out why Wei Yunting's group had been surrounded.

The charred wood was called Spirit Jade Wood. It could soothe spirit beasts that were giving birth, and it was a type of spiritwood male spirit beasts loved to stockpile. Clearly, one of the six had picked it up as ordinary Withered Branches and even burned it for warmth, which was why they had drawn the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack here.

Wei Yunxi blindly guessed that Wei Yunqing was probably the one who had done it. The other girl had only cultivated for three months, and reaching the first layer of Qi Refining was already quite impressive. Her knowledge of spirit plants and spirit beasts surely could not compare to Yunxi's.

After all, the Feng Family had given her special tutoring, and the first step in learning Alchemy was recognizing every spirit plant in the Weiyu Realm. If one could not even distinguish spirit plants, how could one speak of refining pills?

Furthermore, because the Feng Family had a dedicated Pill Refining Room, she had been able to see actual specimens in the spirit plant sorting room while learning to identify them, making it easier to deepen her memories.

The reason she had decisively climbed down to retrieve the item earlier was because she had caught that familiar faintly sweet, fruity scent. She had immediately understood what it was, then collected the Spirit Jade Wood to set those people up.

Of course, she would not tell Wei Zonghao any of this. In truth, she had wanted even more to store it in the Wooden Token Space, where it would be safer.

But considering the Haoran Sect cultivators watching in secret, she abandoned that thought. Better safe than sorry—after all, it had fallen from the sky, and she had merely picked it up.

The Green-Eyed Wolf Pack had failed to find what it wanted and grew somewhat enraged, feeling that these two-legged beasts had played them for fools. They continued attacking the Isolation Formation.

Wei Yunting and Wei Zonghan did not know that their plan had failed, nor that the item had ended up in Wei Yunxi's Storage Pouch. Now that they were once again surrounded by the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack, they could only continue placing low-grade spirit stones into the formation disk and hold on until dawn.

This time, however, Wei Yunting did not use up any more of her own spirit stones. Instead, she was the first to ask Wei Yunqing for spirit stones.

Wei Yunqing knew that this calamity out of nowhere had been caused by her. Not wanting to be driven out of the formation, she could only take out spirit stones. After dawdling for a long time, she finally produced one low-grade spirit stone and agonized over it for quite a while before silently sitting cross-legged in a corner of the formation to meditate.

Wei Yunting did not say much. She placed the low-grade spirit stone into the slot of the formation disk, then continued watching the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack outside.

All six of them had an agonizing night. Even if they wanted to settle their minds and cultivate, they could not. With a pack of Green-Eyed Wolves glaring at them like tigers watching their prey, who could meditate and cultivate without distraction? At most, they could only close their eyes and rest.

After the sun rose the next day, the Green-Eyed Wolf Pack saw that they truly could not break the formation and left with their tails swaying. Their kind slept by day and emerged at night, so once daylight came, they returned to their territory to rest and recover.

Once every Green-Eyed Wolf had left, the six finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that everyone was in poor spirits and that traveling now was unrealistic, Wei Yunting said:

"Everyone, sleep for an hour first. Then we'll continue on. To avoid delaying our itinerary, we'll travel an extra hour today."

No one objected. They had only just crossed the threshold of cultivation and, like ordinary people, still needed to eat and sleep. Otherwise, their little bodies would not be able to endure it.

Wei Yunxi and Wei Zonghao had no such concern. Both had already slept for three hours. After dawn, they had a simple breakfast—Bigu pills with red fruit—then slipped down the tree and continued on their way.

"Sister Yunxi, do you think we can catch up to Sister Yunting and the others?"

"I don't know either. As long as we pick up the pace, we should be able to catch up."

Wei Yunxi said, blinking her almond-shaped eyes.

She had no desire to get close to troublemaker Wei Yunqing, so she deliberately led the little fatty on a detour, avoiding the place where Wei Yunting's group was resting.

After leaving Accident Magnet Wei Yunqing behind, both of them traveled faster. Wei Yunxi did not want Wei Yunting's group to catch up, while Wei Zonghao feared that the two of them traveling together would easily draw the attention of spirit beasts hidden in the mountains, so he unconsciously quickened his pace.

In this way, the two little ones traveled for most of the morning. When they reached a small stream, Wei Zonghao could not walk another step. He plopped down and said:

"Sister Yunxi, let's rest for a while!"

Wei Yunxi could not walk any farther either. Mentally, she believed she could keep going, but her body was already exhausted. After all, she was still just a child.

So she also sat down on the ground. After resting for nearly a quarter of an hour, she got up and fetched water from the stream. After taking two sips herself, she handed it to the little fatty. Once he had drunk his fill, she began picking some inconspicuous little grass by the stream.

After drinking water and eating two pieces of dried meat, Wei Zonghao finally looked at the busy Wei Yunxi and asked:

"Sister Yunxi, what are you doing?"

"I'm picking Weiwei grass."

"What are you picking that for?"

"If Weiwei grass is crushed and smeared over our bodies, it can cover our scent and make the animals in the mountains mistake us for plants, replacing the effect of Breath Concealment Talismans."