"I don't know."
Chu Lingwei shook her head and asked the Daoist friend to tell her the truth.
Hearing this, the man in black suddenly looked up, his sharp eyes piercing into Chu Lingwei's. Sadness, anger, and despair filled his gaze.
Who on earth was she?
"Who exactly are you?" Chu Lingwei's expression turned cold.
"Hmph." The man in black turned to leave, but as he took a step, a formation appeared beneath his feet. He was now trapped.
"You think you can leave that easily?"
Today, she was determined to find out why these people had come.
Her spiritual sword, like a spirit snake, darted towards the man in black.
Seeing this, the man in black quickly dodged. Spiritual energy collided with spiritual energy, causing the surrounding snow mountains to tremble precariously.
Leng Xingzhi felt his spiritual sword vibrate slightly and gently pressed it with his right hand.
Weiwei really was a restless soul.
"Senior brother, has little junior sister encountered trouble?" Su Yan sensed his senior brother's anomaly. Only his little junior sister could cause such a noticeable change in their senior brother.
"It's nothing. She can handle it." Leng Xingzhi stood up and looked at the various sects that had already set up camp. "These sects won't leave without that item."
"Yes, I wonder which sect will obtain this item," Su Yan sighed. The emergence of this item would surely cause conflict. Their master had instructed him to destroy it if necessary.
Leng Xingzhi's gaze fell upon Liu Yao of Zhaoyang Mountain.
"Liu Yao is the most outstanding disciple of Zhaoyang Mountain. In the future, Zhaoyang Mountain will be entrusted to him," Su Yan explained, noticing his senior brother's gaze. "However, he rarely ventures out of the mountain. I don't know why he's here."
"Zhaoyang Mountain, truly a good place," Leng Xingzhi said indifferently.
Liu Yao sensed two pairs of eyes scrutinizing him. He turned his head and met their gazes. Seeing that it was Leng Xingzhi and Su Yan, he nodded slightly.
Su Yan returned the greeting, his eyes still filled with concern. "Senior brother, are we really going to let little junior sister go to such a dangerous place alone?"
"It's her own choice. We have no right to object." When Weiwei decided to do something, none of them could stop her.
On the other side.
"So, your cultivation isn't all that impressive either?" Chu Lingwei's spiritual sword rested against the man in black's neck, her tone laced with feigned pity. "Do you know that the last person who followed me, I did the same thing, slit his throat."
"He didn't harm you." The man in black's eyes held a complex light.
"Who says he didn't?" Chu Lingwei exchanged a look with Huan Mao, a cruel smile appearing in her eyes. "If you tell me your identity, I might spare you."
The man in black raised his head, stared directly into Chu Lingwei's eyes, and closed them. "Kill me!"
"That day, the person who followed me also told me the same thing," Chu Lingwei sighed softly. "Tell me, what should I do?"
"Chu Lingwei, kill me." The man in black did not open his eyes. "If you don't kill me, I will kill you."
"Since you've said so, I don't see any reason to refuse." Chu Lingwei's voice turned cold. The spiritual sword in her hand emitted a chilling aura, and spiritual energy flowed through the blade, becoming increasingly clear.
The spiritual sword in Leng Xingzhi's hand flew up and swayed its blade.
"Senior brother, this is..."
"It's fine." Leng Xingzhi retracted his spiritual sword.
Su Yan wanted to say more, but seeing that his senior brother was unwilling to answer, he could only swallow his concerns.
Liu Yao's ancestral teachings had always kept him aware of the movements of Leng Xingzhi and Su Yan. Seeing a flicker of worry in their expressions, his eyes shifted slightly.
"Chu Lingwei, why haven't you made your move yet?" The man in black, seeing that Chu Lingwei hadn't acted, opened his eyes. "If you don't kill me today, I will surely take your head another day. https:/"
Chu Lingwei was so amused by his words that she burst into laughter. She had truly never seen someone urge their own death so vehemently.
"I was just wondering, why did your master send you to follow me?" Chu Lingwei's smile widened as she sensed a voice from Huan Mao, her eyes now filled with killing intent. "Since you're so eager not to live, I'll grant your wish."
"Weiwei, something is approaching us."
Just as Chu Lingwei was about to slit the cultivator's throat, three powerful auras surged towards them. Chu Lingwei's expression became grave; they were high-level spirit beasts.
"Do you want to know what the last person who followed me said to me?" Chu Lingwei's heart stirred, and a new idea formed.
The man in black's expression remained unchanged, appearing resigned to his fate.
"He told me a secret, a secret about pain and imprisonment." Chu Lingwei watched the man in black's face grow increasingly stiff, a smile playing on her lips. It seemed they were indeed working together.
"Impossible." The man in black vehemently refuted.
"Why is it impossible? When one is on the verge of death, they always want to survive." Chu Lingwei sighed softly, her grip slowly tightening. Blood began to trickle down the man in black's neck. "Do you want to live?"
"If that's the case, why did you still kill him?" The man in black couldn't decipher the expression in Chu Lingwei's eyes, unable to ascertain the truth of her words.
"Why don't you go and ask him?"
At that moment, the three powerful auras rushed towards them. Even the man in black could sense them.
"If you don't leave now, you will die."
"Even if I die, you will die first." Chu Lingwei's killing intent flared. As the man in black sensed the murderous intent, pain surged through his neck into his mind, and a large amount of blood obscured his vision.
After collecting him into her ring, Chu Lingwei, along with Feng Ming and Huan Mao, quickly leaped onto a flying artifact and fled.
"Weiwei, the last thought of this person is very similar to the previous one," Huan Mao spoke rapidly.
"Is there anything new?" Chu Lingwei was trying to scare him, hoping to extract new information from him.
"No, they seemed to have made preparations in advance. I didn't see anything." Few people knew of Huan Mao's abilities, and these individuals had taken precautions beforehand.
Or perhaps, they had entered this with a resolve to die.
"In a moment, we'll enter the space and interrogate them again." The last person who had followed her was collected by Chu Lingwei into her ring space, and she hadn't had a chance to interrogate him yet.
Now there was another one, and Chu Lingwei was worried her ring space would be filled with these men in black.
"Roar!"
A powerful aura blocked Chu Lingwei's path, killing intent erupting from its eyes.
With enemies blocking the front and pursuers behind, it seemed this battle was unavoidable.
"Fight."
Blocking Chu Lingwei's path was a seventh-tier Purple Gold Tiger, its eyes blazing with killing intent as it lunged at her.
Chu Lingwei summoned her Ice Jade Frost Sword and flew to meet it. A seventh-tier spirit beast, she was confident she could handle it. "You all retreat, I'll handle this."