Split Up and Act 2

Zhang Lingrui and Lin Keyang, who had been ready to depart for the Cultivation Realm, both halted and turned to Cao Yi, waiting for him to continue.

A frosty glint flashed across Cao Yi's fair face. He closed his eyes to sense the surroundings, then sneered.

"Hmph! They've got some nerve. Let's go meet them."

In the next instant, the three vanished from the room.

When they appeared above the formation, they discovered clusters of evil spirits wrapped in baleful resentment battering the barrier around its outer ring.

After watching coldly for a moment, Zhang Lingrui frowned.

"How could so many evil spirits appear in the Mortal Realm? Where did they come from?"

Lin Keyang also frowned.

"This is no good omen. Those evil cultivators had set their sights on the Mortal Realm before, but Ranxi accidentally ruined their scheme. During the great battle in the Central Domain, some of the cultivators stationed in the Mortal Realm were recalled. Perhaps the evil cultivators seized that opening and started stirring up trouble in the Mortal Realm again."

Cao Yi raised a hand and formed a spell seal, activating the defensive formation around the outer ring. The evil spirits attacking the formation were directly dispersed. Amid shrieks of agony, they turned to nothingness.

Once the screams faded, the three saw a woman lying unconscious not far from the formation.

Their divine sense swept over her, and all three frowned. The woman was a cultivator, though only at the early Golden Core stage.

"Which sect is she a disciple of? Why is she lingering alone in the Mortal Realm?"

They asked because they saw no mission token for stationed disciples on the female cultivator.

Zhang Lingrui was far more straightforward. He flicked a ball of spiritual light into the Golden Core female cultivator's