However, for rogue cultivators who managed to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, caution was the most basic requirement.
Even at a time like this, with priceless spirit herbs right before their eyes, they would not abandon their most basic precautions.
Thus, although Cao Yuanwu and his companions had the advantage of surprise when they suddenly attacked, they failed to finish their targets in a single strike.
Clang, clang! Bang!
The Trident spirit artifact was blocked by a red shield. Although it held an overwhelming advantage, it could not finish its target immediately.
The Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator Cao Yuanwu had ambushed was a skeletal old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties and went by Qingxi Rogue Person.
If one disregarded how he had slaughtered the White Cloud Temple cultivators just now, he could certainly have passed for an immortal sage.
As though he had anticipated this, he brought out a defensive magical artifact almost at the very moment the Trident spirit artifact changed direction.
The other target, however, was not nearly as experienced. Although he did not die on the spot, he suffered serious injuries.
His strength was inevitably affected; he could probably muster no more than seventy percent of it.
The ambusher did not greedily pursue further gains. When his first strike failed, he immediately retreated to avoid being surrounded and took up a position beside Cao Yuanwu.
At the same time, the magical artifacts and spirit artifacts attacking the Spirit Herb Garden's formation immediately stopped, recalled by the rogue cultivators.
Clang!
Seeing that he could not break through the red shield's defenses in a short time, Cao Yuanwu delivered another vicious slash before recalling the Trident spirit artifact and temporarily halting his attacks.
Beside the green barrier protecting the spirit fields, the two groups