"Oh? Fellow Daoist Jingting, could it be... you know this female cultivator?" Xiao Hua withdrew his gaze from the spell formation below and turned to True Person Jingting, asking in a low voice.
True Person Jingting hurriedly replied, "Reporting to True Person, I do indeed know this female cultivator. Didn't I mention before that I had come here many times over the past four hundred years? On two of those occasions, I encountered her. Her name is Li Jing, and her Daoist title is Fairy Jing."
"Oh?" Xiao Hua looked at True Person Jingting with a half-smile. "It seems Fairy Jing has the same thoughts as Fellow Daoist Jingting!"
"Yes, it seems so!" True Person Jingting watched Fairy Jing struggle bitterly to hold on and sighed. "Though we did not speak deeply during those two meetings, I could already sense it from her evasive words. Before entering Yaotai Mountain this time, I specifically searched for her, but found no trace of her. I never expected her luck to be a little better than mine."
True Person Yuanqing beside him said softly, "True Person Xiao, those seven cultivators are all at the mid-Nascent Soul stage, yet that Fairy Jing can stand against them. Her cultivation is no small matter. The two sides are currently deadlocked. If True Person... wishes to help, then we shall act at once. Otherwise, we should proceed into the spell formation to search."
True Person Jingting said with a bitter smile, "That human essence can only be taken by one person. If Fairy Jing obtains it, I fear we shall return empty-handed this time."
Hearing this, Xiao Hua smiled faintly and said meaningfully, "Indeed. Since we have arrived too late, it is better to watch quietly and see how events unfold."
Though Xiao Hua's calculations had been