"I would not dare!" Zhang Chen said, his face stricken with panic. "I spoke rashly for a moment. I beg Supreme Elder to forgive me."
Hmph!
Mi He let out a cold snort and turned to fly toward the mountain.
Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not dare speak up to stop her again.
Mi He flew directly to the mountain's summit.
At the summit lay a small Lake, several hundred zhang across.
The Lake water had long since frozen solid, covered by a thick sheet of ice.
Mi He hovered above the frozen Lake and spoke.
"Ice Soul, under Senior Brother Yang Yu's orders, I have come to inspect your condition. Will you show yourself?"
Long after her words fell, the ice remained utterly still.
Seeing this, Mi He lightly moved the finger bearing her storage ring. A second-tier demon beast corpse, a zhang long, appeared out of thin air and landed atop the ice.
Yet several dozen breaths later, the ice surface remained without the slightest ripple.
With a flick of her hand, Mi He produced a jade box.
When the box opened, it revealed a thumb-sized leaf.
A faint silvery-white mist curled around the leaf. It was a leaf from the Rainbow Garment Grass that Mi He had once stolen from the Silver Wolf Clan.
Mi He circulated her spiritual power and shattered the leaf, scattering it over the demon beast corpse.
Suddenly.
The placid ice surface shattered in an instant.
An enormous white spider head burst through the thick ice, swallowing the demon beast corpse whole in a single bite.
Yet it was not satisfied. Its pair of ghastly pale eyes fixed fiercely upon Mi He.
"Little girl Mi He, do you have any more of those leaves?"
Mi He shook her head.