Yu Qing had always thought the supplies they had brought in would be enough.
She had never expected so many unforeseen complications.
Now, worse still, her mistake had caused Su Jiu to disappear and damaged the seal.
Yu Qing pressed her lips together. Though she had plenty of ways to shirk responsibility, in truth, she only dared play the rogue in front of Yi Yun.
If Hong Ming really found out...
This would probably not be so easy to get past.
At that thought, Yu Qing viciously crunched another pill between her teeth. Su Jiu had to die. Only her death would complete the mission. Even if Hong Ming later learned of all the mistakes along the way, Yu Qing believed he would no longer pursue the matter.
For all the thousand schemes in Yu Qing's mind, she still had no choice but to keep repairing the barrier before her.
The barrier flickered with a pale golden glow. Compared with the barrier wall beside it, the section where Yu Qing stood was clearly much thinner.
Her task was to thicken this frail layer of the barrier wall until it became unbreakable.
Streaks of golden light spilled from her fingers and flew onto the barrier, swiftly merging into its wall.
The process was almost impossible to discern with the naked eye. Otherwise, it would not have taken five years to barely repair such a thin layer.
Five years was neither a long time nor a short one.
While Su Jiu and Chu Luohen were inscribing formations, many things in the outside world were changing.
The biggest event was probably Sect Leader Li of the Heavenly Dawn Sect and Shui Rao'er of the Water Moon School reaching the out-of-body stage.
Sect Leader Li's advancement had gone well enough, but rumor had