"You..." You Rui stared at Yu Ci, stunned for a moment. She could not tell whether Yu Ci had helped as instructed or secretly sabotaged things. She could not be blamed for being suspicious; the scene was simply too bizarre. When Master Miao Xiang had cultivated before, she had never ended up in such a state.
Yu Ci did not let her imagination run wild and simply glared at her. "Why aren't you helping the master up?"
You Rui snapped awake as if from a dream. She gave Yu Ci another look, then leaped down into the Ghost Pool.
Yu Ci felt that the venomous woman's glance carried complicated meaning. Just as he was savoring it, he heard her cry out. She shot back up at even greater speed. Behind her, the long-unseen four-winged Two-headed Snake pursued without letup. As it beat its wings, the ghost eyes upon them shifted and flowed, while its four serpent pupils shone with eerie blue light, grim and terrifying.
What was going on here?
You Rui's face went pale as she cried, "Save me!"
Was this a joke? You were a Core Formation cultivator! Though, now that he thought about it, that monstrous snake seemed to possess greater combat power.
Seeing Yu Ci stand there without moving, You Rui nearly fainted from fury. Yet she could not truly lose her temper, and could only explain at top speed, "That is the Ghost Winged Snake raised by the Dharma Eye to guard the Ghost Pool. After she falls unconscious, the snake attacks anyone who approaches her..."
Even as she spoke, danger came one after another. The Two-headed Snake advanced and retreated like lightning, and seemed able to spread poisonous, baleful vapors. If You Rui had not known something about it, she would have been struck