Xue Fuyao looked at the barrier that had kept all the Wind-Thunder Beetles outside from the very beginning. She knew perfectly well that it could not hold out much longer under their suicidal attacks. And besides...
Her gaze shifted farther into the distance behind them, where quite a few people were hurrying over.
Earlier, these people had used the barrier to block the Wind-Thunder Beetles outside while also concealing the Eternal Evergreen Vine's presence. Now that the barrier was failing, only a blind person could miss such an enormous Eternal Evergreen Vine.
With so many cultivators here, probably every cultivator nearby had come.
But their arrival was just as well. She had been wondering how to get away next.
The three people locked in a standoff clearly noticed something amiss as well and exchanged glances.
"If you two don't want to die here, our only chance is to work together," one of them said between gasps.
Although the other two still wore ugly expressions, neither objected.
The three went over to the Eternal Evergreen Vine and sat down, regulating their breathing to restore their spiritual power and heal their injuries in preparation for the battle ahead.
Behind them lay the husk the Eternal Evergreen Vine had left behind. It was not that they did not want to take it and leave immediately, but that they simply could not.
First of all, none of them had a storage space large enough. The Eternal Evergreen Vine's size far exceeded their expectations. Even supposing they could take it away, they could not guarantee their own safety, because unless something unexpected had happened, they had already been marked.
Once they left, they would be fine if they took nothing; if they tried to take the Eternal Evergreen Vine, however, they would face pursuit that