Because I had obtained the route in earlier explorations, I returned along it at an even faster pace. I wasn't the only one who knew the map, and if that old hag had made a point of remembering it, she could surely find her way here too. That was what worried me most.
The Queen Mother of the West and that group of demon cultivators were probably in grave danger. When I looked at Yun Bingxin's delicate face, I discovered that the divine aura she had originally released for the protectors had begun to fill up little by little. Clearly, the cultivators inside the Broken Sea Fang were dying one after another. If it reached the point of glowing, most likely every cultivator inside would be dead.
And Yun Bingxin would be left as a commander without an army.
I didn't dare imagine what would happen to the Broken Sea Fang next. Carrying Yun Bingxin, I rushed out of the outer perimeter at the fastest speed I could manage. When I passed through the hurricane zone, I happened to spot Tie Zhenping, the Jie Sect cultivator I had encountered at the outer perimeter before. That fellow was actually still waiting there, with seven or eight Jie Sect cultivators behind him.
"Fellow Daoist Xia! We're here!" Tie Zhenping immediately shouted. I didn't stop, continuing forward at full speed as I called out, "An old monster has entered. It'll probably kill everyone inside. Hurry and open the hurricane zone—and destroy the passage to those lightning fleas too. Anything that can slow it down, do it. Everyone, retreat!"
"An... an old monster? All right!" Tie Zhenping hesitated for a moment before immediately ordering his subordinates to get to work. These few were probably Jie Sect cultivators he had already won over. If they