"Yang Yu, stay closer. You're hanging back there alone—it's too dangerous." Jiang Yushan suddenly turned and said to Song Wen.
Song Wen had been planning to find an opportunity to use the 'Heaven-and-Earth Avatar Puppet' to replace himself. That would ensure his safety while allowing him to continue following Jiang Yushan and the others.
Upon hearing Jiang Yushan's words, he was momentarily stunned.
Jiang Yushan was actually concerned for his safety!
"Thank you for your concern, Second Young Master. I will surely remember your kindness." Song Wen wore a grateful expression as he hurriedly flashed over to Jiang Yushan's side.
"Yang Yu, since you have chosen to follow me, I will naturally keep you safe."
As he spoke, intense spiritual energy fluctuations suddenly erupted ahead.
Song Wen, Jiang Yushan, and Jiang He were all startled. Looking up, they discovered it was Ye Bing. Suspended in midair, she wielded the plum blossom fan and condensed dozens of ice spikes, each thirty zhang long, which shot toward a depression below.
The depression spanned several li and was filled with extraordinarily dense miasma, impenetrable even to divine sense.
Ye Bing clearly intended to use the ice spikes to test whether some powerful demonic beast lurked within the depression.
With piercing whistles that tore through the air, the ice spikes plunged into various parts of the depression.
The dense miasma within immediately churned, like a boiling lake.
An enormous wolf head suddenly burst through the poisonous miasma.
Yet beneath the wolf head was not a wolf's body, but a serpentine form like that of a flood dragon or python.
The serpentine body was also covered in fur.
The giant wolf head opened its blood-filled maw, baring sharp fangs as it bit toward Ye Bing in the air.
Ye Bing formed a hand seal, and