Chapter 107: Purple Flower and Golden Bell
When they arrived at the fighting site, everything was as expected.
A small group of cultivators was fighting an equal number of masked people while some other masked cultivators were attacking a black box.
Both groups saw the new arrivals, and the masked cultivators cheered.
"Join in and break the guardian formation." A voice commanded.
Jiang Yue and the others looked at the black box under attack.
’Is that the guardian formation?’ He wondered.
In his mind, he thought the guardian formation was like any other formation.
He didn’t expect that the guardian formation was a box layered with many defence formations.
"What are you doing? Hurry along." The voice shouted again.
It carried some annoyance, and Jiang Yue could understand why.
Although its owner was powerful, he was fighting an equally powerful opponent.
The opponent was a petite young lady wearing a dark green robe.
Her hair was tied into two buns, and she held a purple sword in her right hand.
"She is Meng Zihua, the young lady of the BlueStar Treasure pavilion." Wang Xue’er informed.
"Rumour has it that she is a blue star."
The others were startled when they heard that.
They stared at the woman, and Jiang Yue tried to recall all the blue star phenomena in recent years.
The first he ever witnessed was the fire-covered star, but the cause of that was a young genius from the beast region.
After that was the lightning-covered star and then his own phenomenon five years ago.
’She doesn’t look like she has a lightning origin.’
As he thought that, Jiang Yue turned to look at Xuan Ke.
He had noticed the other cultivated a lightning-based technique.
Although he wasn’t sure, he suspected Xuan Ke was the lightning blue star, but he couldn’t just come out and ask.
Other than Xuan Ke, there was also Li Futian.
When he thought of Li Futian, Jiang Yue recalled an anomaly that happened around the same time as his own.
At the time, Yu Nianzhen was in a dangerous situation, and Jiang Yue was too anxious to care about the anomaly.
Since then, there was only one anomaly in the past five years.
’That should be because of her.’ Jiang Yue thought and looked at Meng Zihua.
His gaze was filled with curiosity and expectation, but he soon extricated himself.
"Let’s eliminate the enemies." Xuan Ke said.
The others nodded and rushed toward the black-robed cultivators attacking the black box.
"Meng Zihua, how long will your guardian formation last?" A muffled voice shouted.
Meng Zihua frowned at her opponent’s taunt.
The black box was created by high-ranking formation masters.
However, the formations weren’t too top-level. Otherwise, she would be unable to control it.
With those thoughts in mind, she knew it was only a matter of time before the guardian formation was broken and the contents stolen.
Before that, she hoped to defeat the opponent and rush to the box.
’Everything should turn around after I kill him.’ She thought.
Without the leader, she didn’t believe the others were her match.
With renewed determination, Meng Zihua twirled her sword in a small circle.
When the circle was complete, she stabbed forward, and a purple flower bloomed at the sword’s tip.
The flower spun around and dove toward her opponent’s chest, but the opponent took three steps back to avoid it.
At the same time, he pulled up a golden shield and placed it in front of him.
However, the shield was no match for the flower.
As soon as the purple flower landed on the shield, the shield collapsed on itself.
The energy from its collapse was sucked by the flower, and it continued to pursue its opponent.
’I didn’t expect her purple flower to have reached this level.’ The enemy frowned behind his mask.
The purple flower attack looked simple, but he knew it wasn’t.
It was made from compressed qi, and it could draw heaven and earth qi to strengthen itself.
If it was not dealt with, it would continue to strengthen itself and quickly surpass the capability of a qi transformation realm cultivator.
Luckily, this attack was not without limits.
Although it could strengthen itself, it was still under Meng Zihua’s control.
If it grew too powerful and escaped her control, she would be backlashed.
At best, she would be slightly injured, and at worst, her origin may be damaged.
That she used this attack showed her determination to end the fight quickly.
"Your fake foundation is no match for me." Meng Zihua shouted and urged the purple flower.
She then raised her sword and flew to the enemy.
With her purple flower on one side and her sword on the other, the enemy didn’t have many options for countermeasures.
"Meng Zihua, you were born better, but you are no longer better than me."
As he said that, the person erupted with a tyrannical qi presence.
The presence smelled of blood and reminded one of stepping into a bloody battlefield.
It was the kind of aggressive blood lust that could only be cultivated on a battlefield.
’Is he from the border guards?’ Meng Zihua wondered when she felt the qi presence.
Although she had yet to fight on the border battlefield, she had met powerful people from the border guards.
Most of them had a bloody qi presence that was uncomfortable to be around.
However, the qi presence in front of her was a little different.
Not only was it bloody, but it contained a maliciousness different from those of the border guards.
’Could it be someone from the evil blood sect?’
Many thoughts crossed her mind, but she couldn’t be sure about any of them.
In the end, it didn’t matter which faction or region her opponent came from.
What mattered was that the other was an enemy that needed to be eliminated.
"How did you find out about the guardian formation?" She asked as she neared the enemy.
The opponent snorted and waved his right hand in a circle.
A bell appeared above his head, and soon after, it fell and covered him.
In the next moment, the purple flower landed on the bell, but it was quickly absorbed.
The bell shook slightly, but it eventually settled.
’Spirit rank defence artefact.’ Meng Zihua observed.
At the origin forging realm, the opponent couldn’t bring out the full defence capabilities of the bell.
However, the little he could bring out was enough to block Meng Zihua’s attack.
"How long can you hide in the golden bell before your qi runs out?"
The enemy snorted again, but didn’t answer the query.
While that was happening, Meng Zihua turned her attention to the guardian formation.
"What are they doing?"
When she looked, she expected to find the new arrivals attacking the guardian formation.
However, she was surprised to see them fighting the group of death flower ascension members that were previously attacking the formation.
"I get it."
A smile curled her lips, and she refocused her attention on the bell.
’I will buy them some time to get rid of the others. Better yet...’
She waved her hand at one of her people, and a young man came running.
Without a word, she gestured some instructions, and the young man began to walk around the golden bell.
After giving the instructions, Meng Zihua wasn’t idle.
Instead, she swung her sword and attacked the bell.
The attack wasn’t overly powerful, but as long as she continued to attack, the enemy would be pinned down.
When he eventually came out from underneath the bell, the situation would have already changed.
Not only would all the enemies be dead, but the leader would be enclosed in a trapping formation.
At that time, she could take her time to question the person and find out what was going on.
She didn’t know how the enemy knew about the item in the guardian formation, and she intended to find out.
Within the bell, the leader of the death flower ascension front took the chance to recover.
It was risky to hide in the bell, but he had no other choice.
They had been fighting for a long time, and his qi consumption was not small.
If he continued in this way, he worried that Meng Zihua would find a chance to injure him.
’Since reinforcements have arrived, I will take the chance to recover while she wastes her qi attacking the bell.’ The leader thought.
Without hesitation, he sat cross-legged and swallowed a qi replenishing pill.
What he didn’t realise was that he had fallen into the enemy’s trap.
While he was taking his time to recover, members of the death flower ascension front fell.
The remaining few tried to shout for their leader, but the bell was a total defence.
Once inside, one could perceive the immediate surroundings, but everything beyond could not be perceived through the bell.
Soon after, half the masked cultivators were killed, and Meng Zihua heaved a small sigh of relief.
With the current numbers, their side was no longer outnumbered.
She was just about to thank Jiang Yue and his group when the heaven and earth qi suddenly changed.
