"Lei Shiyuan, your Lei Family actually dared to be so brazen, colluding with traitors from the Blood Demon Sect! Aren't you afraid of being hunted down by the righteous path?!"
A clear voice filled with disbelief rang out through the mountain forest, its tone at once carrying barely suppressed fury.
Immediately after, within the forest, two thunderous muffled booms erupted. Lightning tore through the void and shot skyward, while ferocious, unmatched qi energy nearly split the entire hill apart.
In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains swayed.
Trees within several hundred zhang toppled and shattered one after another. Air currents and smoke and dust surged into the sky, dyeing half the heavens earth yellow.
Amid the powerful ripples of battle, a graceful figure was blasted backward like a cannonball. Her feet dragged across the ground, easily ripping through the soil as though it were soft tofu, carving a deep trench several zhang long into the earth.
At this moment, behind that figure, a group of cultivators clad in uniform attire and carrying banners bearing the two words "Murong" could not help but tighten their grips around their magic tools and weapons, their faces turning tense.
"Heh, Murong Lan, stop entertaining those little schemes of yours. To ambush you, I set up a Sound Isolation Array across this entire region long ago. No matter how loudly you scream, no one will hear you."
"Besides, with the array here, even if someone passes through, they won't dare come over. And if some ants who don't know the meaning of death do come close, we'll simply crush them along with you."
High in the air, a narrow-faced man in a blue robe, his features naturally carrying an arrogant air, looked down upon the woman below who had been forced back and