Purple tribulation lightning cleaved through the night and tore apart the wind and snow before the two of them.
Caught off guard as they hurriedly defended themselves, the Daoist couple exposed another opening for Xiao Yize. With a sweep of its tail, the Black Wood Swimming Dragon sent them flying back more than ten zhang.
With no one nearby left capable of threatening Guhui Town's formation, Qiu Ran was finally able to leave the town and meet the enemy.
After more than an hour of peaceful meditation and recovery, he finally forced all the excess pill poison from his body. His combat strength had also recovered to seventy or eighty percent.
He landed beside Xiao Yize and said, "Thank you for this."
"Ah, you're still being so polite. Given the relationship between our two families, we should naturally watch out for each other."
Rarely hearing Qiu Ran utter the word "thanks," Xiao Yize hurriedly seized the chance to go downhill with the donkey, hoping to ease Qiu Ran's hostility toward him.
But clearly, this good Senior Brother had overthought things again.
The moment he finished speaking, Qiu Ran abruptly changed the subject. "I gained much from this journey. Once I return to the mountain, I will enter seclusion. Our battle can wait until we reach the Condensed Origin Realm."
"Wait, do we really have to fight? Can't I just admit defeat?"
"No."
Xiao Yize's face immediately fell. He looked around, yet could not find his good Junior Brother. The bitter cry in his heart had no one to whom it could be spoken.
With Qiu Ran joining the battle, the situation here instantly reversed. Under the relentless bombardment of tribulation lightning, the Daoist couple from Tingxue Tower could only retreat again and again, utterly unable to fight back.
Seeing that