Compared with the good fortune of Su Jiu and the others, Gu Ningyun had been far less fortunate. She had been transported not to a beautiful woodland, but to a demon forest wreathed in demonic qi.
The moment she landed, she encountered a sixth-tier giant python. Its body was as thick as a grown woman and immensely long. Its ambush came so swiftly that Gu Ningyun almost failed to react.
Though she evaded most of its attack, its tail still caught her. It was a sixth-tier demon beast, after all. The blow instantly fractured and displaced the bones in her right forearm, while the python's venom seeped into her body through the wound.
Gu Ningyun felt her luck could not have been worse.
With a light push of her feet, she turned and retreated from the spot. Once she recovered her bearings, she sent a row of seemingly gentle Wind Blades back at it.
The python was fast, but now that Gu Ningyun was prepared, she was no slower. Before long, she had left it covered in wounds.
A gust swept past, sending the approaching python tumbling backward again. Behind it, dead trees already corrupted by demonic qi snapped one after another under the impact.
A gifted disciple was a gifted disciple, after all. How could she truly have no tricks unique to herself?
Only after seeing the python knocked senseless did she leisurely take out her konghou.
As the harp's notes rose, a flock of demon crows spying from the shadows took flight in alarm.
The konghou's sound was ethereal, yet anyone else who heard it now would surely have felt their hair stand on end.
Under the control of Gu Ningyun's divine sense, the music became sharp and rhythmic. First it startled the demon crows into flight, then