Currently, in a densely forested area of this world, deafening ripples of energy exploded one after another.
Jie Baobao stood in the sky, channeling the power of a powerful formation, battling countless formation creatures that towered a hundred meters tall.
At the same time, several barrier gates, each reaching ten thousand meters in height, loomed in the sky above.
Those octopus-like formation creatures were flying out from within those barrier gates.
However, their true target was not Jie Baobao — it was a location in the distance.
There, a colossal formation stood, and Chu Feng was in the process of dismantling it.
These formation creatures were trying to stop him.
As Chu Feng's progress on breaking the formation drew ever closer to completion…
The formation creatures — both in number and in strength — increased dramatically.
Even though Jie Baobao was a Revered Dragon God Robe Spirit World Master, and her combat power was comparable to that of a Ninth Grade Half God, she was gradually struggling to hold the line.
Yet even in these circumstances, she continued to exert her full power, maintaining the formation she had set up to shield Chu Feng.
It was a formation of her own making.
Whoosh— But suddenly, a pillar of barrier light shot toward her from behind. Unable to dodge in time, her right arm was struck and wounded.
She had only failed to evade that single attack, but in the next instant, countless barrier light pillars erupted from the mouths of the formation creatures, hurtling toward her all at once.
Seeing this, Jie Baobao simply closed her eyes.
In the preceding battle, she had expended a tremendous amount of barrier power and had already reached her limit.
She knew she couldn't dodge this blow.
"What are you doing, meditating with your eyes closed?"
But instead of the pain of her body being torn apart, she heard Chu Feng's voice.
She opened her eyes, and there he stood before her.
All of the formation creatures that had filled the sky moments ago had already dissipated, transforming into barrier power that scattered across the heavens.
Jie Baobao quickly turned her head and discovered that where the formation had previously existed, it had already been dismantled.
"You… succeeded?"
Jie Baobao looked at Chu Feng, her gaze unusually complex.
In truth, she already knew he had succeeded — otherwise those formation creatures would not have vanished — but it still felt incredible.
After all, just moments ago, she had nearly died.
"I've confirmed it. You truly intend to cooperate with me, and you're genuinely sincere. You could have fled, but you insisted on holding your ground to the very end."
"Just a single cooperation — was it worth risking your life?" Chu Feng asked.
"You were deliberately testing me?" Jie Baobao's expression shifted.
She had figured it out.
How could it possibly be such a coincidence?
Right at the moment she was about to die, Chu Feng broke through the formation.
The most likely explanation was that Chu Feng had done it on purpose.
He could have broken the formation much earlier, but he deliberately delayed, all to test whether Jie Baobao was truly sincere about cooperating with her.
"Yes." Chu Feng did not deny it.
"If you don't trust me, why bother cooperating in the first place?" Jie Baobao said, somewhat annoyed.
"I'm cooperating with you because we're both Spirit World Masters, and we share the same goal. Cooperation allows us to achieve our common objective more efficiently."
"But we're not familiar with each other, and on top of that, you're from the Seven Worlds Holy Mansion."
"Can you give me one reason to trust you?" Chu Feng countered.
Jie Baobao fell silent.