"Bai Liluo, you... you're not supposed to be..."
The moment Qingyu Ruize saw Bai Liluo appear out of nowhere, his face twisted with terror.
Because as far as he knew, Bai Liluo had been in closed-door cultivation, and anyone who disturbed her during that period would suffer grievous injuries.
Yet looking at Bai Liluo now, she showed not a single sign of harm.
Bai Liluo paid no attention to Qingyu Ruize. While the members of the Qingyu Monster Clan stood frozen in horror, trembling where they stood, Bai Liluo calmly set up a formation that enveloped Chu Feng.
The formation quickly merged into Chu Feng's body and began battling the Soul-Devouring Venomous Centipedes that had burrowed inside him. In that moment, the agony etched across Chu Feng's face eased considerably.
"I didn't want to start killing, but you forced my hand."
Finally, Bai Liluo turned her gaze toward Qingyu Ruize and the others.
In the next instant, with a mere flicker of her will, sounds like firecrackers erupting rang out one after another.
Even Chu Feng, who was still writhing in the grip of those Soul-Devouring Venomous Centipedes, stared in wide-eyed disbelief.
Every single member of the Qingyu Monster Clan who had been present—every last one of them—had their souls shattered. They were dead.
In the Ancestral Martial Cultivation World, a place where people were not supposed to be killed, Bai Liluo had annihilated Qingyu Ruize and the entire Qingyu Monster Clan with nothing more than a thought.
After dispatching all the clan members, Bai Liluo's expression remained completely unruffled as she approached Chu Feng. Upon seeing him, she rolled her eyes and said: "Are you stupid? Why didn't you just call me instead of trying to tough it out on your own? Do you have any idea that if those venomous creatures had fully merged with your body and fused with your soul, even I wouldn't have been able to save you?"
"You're the one who told me to protect you. How is this suddenly my fault?" Chu Feng replied.
"I told you to protect me, yes—but that means protecting yourself first. And when you ran into something you couldn't handle, you still had to play the hero?" Bai Liluo's tone carried a note of reproach.
"But—" Chu Feng tried to argue, but before he could finish, Bai Liluo cut him off: "That's enough. Shut up."
As she spoke, she shot Chu Feng another sharp glare and then activated the formation.
Under Bai Liluo's command, the venomous centipedes that had invaded Chu Feng's body were forcibly expelled.
Perhaps because the attempted fusion with Chu Feng had failed, the Soul-Devouring Venomous Centipedes died shortly after being driven out.
"Those were poisons crafted by a Spirit World Master, weren't they?" Chu Feng asked.
"Mm." Bai Liluo nodded.
But suddenly, her expression shifted, and a large mouthful of fresh blood sprayed from her lips.
In that moment, Bai Liluo's body grew desperately weak, and a strange, eerie glow began emanating from her form.
Generally speaking, when a martial cultivator's body emitted light, it was a sign of great power.
But the glow now radiating from Bai Liluo was unmistakably a sign of weakness.
"Girl, you... you're suffering a backlash?"
Chu Feng was, after all, a Snake-patterned Robe-rank Spirit World Master. One glance was all it took for him to realize that Bai Liluo had suffered a severe backlash.