Cao Yue Sets Her Sights on the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, Cao Ying Nearly Stumbles into Lu Heng's Arms

"Okay!"

Qing Lin nodded firmly, her face brimming with determination.

The two young women exchanged smiles and wasted no more time.

Xiao Yi Xian walked to the jade table, selected several Seventh-Grade Poison Pills with relatively mild effects, and sat cross-legged on a flat blue stone.

Qing Lin retreated to the other side of the stone chamber and settled into a quiet corner. She closed her eyes, and a faint jade-green glow slowly lit up between her brows.

As both entered meditation, the stone chamber gradually fell silent.

Pale purple Poison Dou Qi and jade-green Snake-Attribute Energy each occupied half the room, circulating slowly without disturbing the other.

Above the stone chamber, beyond the ruins of the Main Peak, a cold wind howled.

It swept snow and broken stones across the ground.

In the shadow of a white jade palace pillar that had collapsed halfway, a faint ripple passed through space.

An elderly figure slowly appeared.

It was Yao Tianhuo, dressed in gray robes.

With his hands clasped behind his back, he looked down at the narrow fissure barely concealed beneath broken ice and frozen earth and shook his head helplessly.

"Those two girls talk about standing on their own, but they've thrown every rule they should remember when venturing out for experience to the back of their minds."

"They broke the formation without dispersing the lingering Dou Qi, and they didn't even cover their tracks properly with snow."

"If an experienced Dou Zun happened by, he could follow their scent here from dozens of miles away."

"They're still young women who haven't faced much hardship. They've left far too many traces."

As Yao Tianhuo grumbled, he raised a hand and pressed casually at the empty air a few times.

An invisible barrier, nearly impossible to discern, descended with