Chapter 88: Tricking Senior Brother Qin Into Labor
Shen Liqian heard this and immediately transformed the bow and arrow in her hand into a konghou, sitting down halfway, her brows cold.
The melody she played this time was extremely **slaughterous**, and wave after wave of sound emerged from the konghou, rushing towards the infants chasing Ming Zhaoshuang.
No sharp blades were seen, yet there was blood.
It was seen that under Shen Liqian’s sound kill, these infants’ greenish skin burst open with layers of dark green blood plasma, splashing onto the graceful lotus leaves and onto the five poisonous creatures wandering in the dark lake water.
Such a scene was extremely disgusting.
It was just that Ming Zhaoshuang had no time to care about whether it was disgusting or not; she was only thinking about one question:
Why did Shen Liqian’s spiritual power suddenly return?
Without a doubt, the key lay in this lake water, within this lotus platform.
There were a total of eighteen lotus platforms, six of which had withered, and when they entered the second trial, there were exactly eighteen people.
Zhao Congbai and his group, who had died by their hands, numbered exactly six people.
These lotus platforms corresponded precisely to their spiritual power!
Ming Zhaoshuang turned back and shouted at Ming Chenxing, who was heading into the lake water: “Chenxing! Retreat! Wait for me to slay the lotus platform!”
Saying this, Ming Zhaoshuang raised her sword and cut down the fifth lotus platform.
There was no reaction within her body; Fei Changxiu and Ming Chenxing were similarly unaffected!
This lotus platform did not belong to them! After Ming Zhaoshuang understood, she swiftly rushed towards the sixth lotus platform.
With Shen Liqian’s sound kill, although these lotus seed infants were still clinging to Ming Zhaoshuang and biting her bit by bit, it had become much easier for Ming Zhaoshuang.
The seventh! The eighth! The ninth!
Finally, as Ming Zhaoshuang’s thigh was bitten by these infants until flesh and blood were blurred, Fei Changxiu’s green spiritual power surged out and, in an instant, arrived at the center of the lotus platform.
Fei Changxiu looked at these extremely disgusting infants and five poisons, and slashed his sword towards the remaining three lotus platforms!
Green light shone brightly, and the three lotus platforms were cut in half.
At the same time, Ming Zhaoshuang also felt her spiritual power surge within her. She had long had enough of these infants, these stinking insects, and directly slashed down with her sword, releasing all her spiritual power towards the entire lake water!
Sword waves a thousand feet, inch by inch frozen.
Centered on the lotus platform, the river and lake for several miles were instantly enveloped by powerful ice elemental spiritual power, freezing snakes, scorpions, toads, geckos, centipedes, as well as lotus leaves and lotus stems.
Even the three lotus platforms that rolled into the lake water did not shed their lotus seeds.
With this sword strike, frost chilled ten miles.
Ming Zhaoshuang fell to the ground, only then belatedly feeling how much her legs hurt, so much so that she could not stand up.
The pain caused cold sweat to bead on her forehead.
Shen Liqian stopped the music and fell in front of Ming Zhaoshuang. After feeding her two spirit pills, she grabbed her hand and sent wood elemental spiritual power into it to heal her body.
There was not a single piece of good flesh on Ming Zhaoshuang’s legs; especially her calves, where white bones were exposed, looking particularly terrifying.
He [Xiao Bai] twisted her wrist, very tightly.
Ming Zhaoshuang reached into her sleeve with one hand and gently stroked him [Xiao Bai] as a form of reassurance.
It already hurt, and him doing this made it hurt even more, seriously.
Shen Liqian looked at Ming Zhaoshuang, her hand continuing to channel spiritual power, but her gaze deepened.
She could clearly feel that there was a strong aura of wood elemental spiritual power within Ming Zhaoshuang’s body.
Moreover, this wood elemental spiritual power was much more powerful than her own wood elemental spiritual power.
Yes, powerful.
Wood elemental spiritual power is mostly gentle, and wood spirit roots are also called the “least suitable spirit roots for combat.” Yet, she found an extremely powerful wood element spiritual flow within Ming Zhaoshuang’s body. It not only exuded a sharp killing intent but also firmly suppressed her supreme wood spirit root, forcing her spiritual flow to follow this spiritual flow.
What exactly is this spiritual flow?
Is it perhaps the innate wood spirit root that the cultivation world is vying for?
There must be something within Ming Zhaoshuang that she doesn’t know.
Shen Liqian’s gaze fell upon Ming Zhaoshuang’s wrist again, where a faint aura of living beings still attached.
Shen Liqian sighed, neither asking nor saying anything.
When interacting with people, it’s best to know where to stop; she only needed to like spending time with Ming Zhaoshuang, and that was enough.
Everyone waited for a long time, only to find that the formation had not been broken, and although the poison mist had disappeared, the words for breaking the formation had not yet sounded before their eyes.
Could it be that the lotus platform was not the formation core?
The gazes of several people unconsciously shifted to Ming Zhaoshuang, awaiting her words.
Perhaps they didn’t realize it themselves, but since the trip to Shuangyu Mountain, Ming Zhaoshuang had unknowingly become their backbone. Now that the formation had not been broken, they unconsciously placed their hopes on Ming Zhaoshuang.
Ming Zhaoshuang sat on the ice surface, closed her eyes, and said, “The formation core is not the lotus, but the root under the lotus.”
If it were the lotus, the lotus seeds would not be such malevolent things.
From the moment Ming Zhaoshuang saw the lotus seed infants, she understood that the lotus was meant to counterbalance the lotus seeds and the entire Five Poisons Formation; it should be the root.
However, retrieving the root from the lake water was extremely difficult. There were the five poisons, the lotus seed infants, and even the dark lake water itself did not seem like a good thing.
That’s why Ming Zhaoshuang went all out to ice seal this lake.
This way, it would be much easier for them to retrieve the root; they only needed to break through the ice surface, which would be enough to destroy this root bed.
Ming Zhaoshuang reached out and said, “Qianqian, help me to the shore. Senior Brother Xiu’er and Senior Brother Ming, go dig for the root.”
Now that their cultivation had been restored, digging for the root was naturally not difficult. Fei Changxiu and Ming Chenxing immediately agreed and went to the center of the ice layer with their swords.
Upon reaching the shore, Ming Zhaoshuang burned a communication talisman.
Seeing Qin Feilong’s familiar face, Ming Zhaoshuang asked, “Senior Brother Qin, has your spiritual power recovered?”
Qin Feilong was overjoyed to hear this and said, “Naturally. Even Ji Qi and the others have their spiritual power back. Have you found the formation core?”
Ming Zhaoshuang replied, “We have, but there was a slight problem. Rush over here; you’ll need to break the formation core.”
Qin Feilong rubbed his head, seeming a little embarrassed:
“Only I can break the formation core? Don’t you have extensive research in array arts?”
Ming Zhaoshuang nodded: “Hurry over, Senior Brother Qin, and Senior Brother Ji, everyone is needed.”
After she finished speaking, she ended the communication talisman, leaving Shen Liqian, who was sitting beside her, chuckling.
Shen Liqian’s brows softened, and she said, “Senior Brother Qin would probably be furious if he knew you pulled him over just to dig for roots.”
Ming Zhaoshuang lay lazily on the ground and replied to her, “I didn’t say anything wrong; he does need to break the formation core. In our current situation, one more laborer means one more hope.”
Although Ming Chenxing and Fei Changxiu were strong, they couldn’t handle the vastness of this lake.
At their current speed, it would probably take three days and three nights to finish digging.
It had already taken them three to four days to find the formation core. If they couldn’t break the formation within seven days, they would be forced to move to the next trial, and all their efforts would be in vain.
However, it had to be said that this second formation was far more dangerous and ruthless than the first.
If Xiao Bai hadn’t been on her wrist just now, deterring these poisonous creatures, she probably wouldn’t have been able to cut down the first lotus platform so quickly, nor would she have been able to see through this formation so easily.
She just didn’t know what the third trial would be like.
As Ming Zhaoshuang thought about it, under the comfort of Shen Liqian and the System, she slowly closed her eyes.
