Dao Companion Crippled, Coveters Move

Chapter 333 330: The Outside World, the Crisis of Qing and Ji

"Qing Yueqiu! When you killed the Mirage Dragon, couldn't you have controlled how much it bled?! This much Dragon Blood will attract a huge number of Demon Beasts!"

Ji Xichan's brows were knitted tightly, her voice laced with anxiety and helplessness. Her gaze was fixed on the silver-haired girl ahead, who was covered in golden bloodstains.

Qing Yueqiu's figure looked exceptionally lonely in the afterglow of the setting sun. Her silver hair, long since stained gold by the Mirage Dragon's blood, was plastered messily to her cheeks, accentuating her paper-white complexion.

She had been hacking away for a full day before she finally managed to sever the Mirage Dragon's head.

Even if the Mirage Dragon had ten lives, it had to be dead by now...

But.

Qing Yueqiu's eyes were locked on the golden crystal that sealed her master.

The crystal remained cold and silent, showing no signs of activity.

Seeing this, Qing Yueqiu felt as if an invisible hand had ruthlessly gripped her heart. Her breathing grew rapid, and her chest heaved violently.

The Luminous Shadow Sword in her hand trembled slightly. The blood on its blade had not yet dried before it once again erupted with a piercing, cold light.

"Master… Why… Why is there no reaction! I clearly killed the Mirage Dragon!"

"Impossible! Impossible!!"

Qing Yueqiu muttered in a low voice, her words hoarse and broken, as if squeezed from the depths of her throat.

Suddenly, she snapped her head up, a vicious glint flashing in her blood-red eyes. She raised her Luminous Shadow Sword again and plunged it into the Dragon Corpse without hesitation.

The blade tore through the Dragon Scales, producing a grating, ripping sound.

"It must be because of the Mirage Dragon Core! I have to dig it out!"

The silver-haired girl's actions were rough and frantic. She continuously unleashed one crimson slash of Slaughter Sword Qi after another, as if trying to vent all her anger and helplessness on the lifeless dragon's body.

Gushing golden Dragon Blood sprayed out once more, drenching Qing Yueqiu completely.

The heat of the blood was enough to warp the very air, but the girl seemed to feel no searing pain as she continued to hack away.

The Mirage Dragon was hundreds of meters long and as wide as countless giant trees bundled together.

The golden blood beneath the Dragon Corpse had already pooled into a lake. Far from being foul, it exuded a strange, fragrant aroma.

This scent of Dragon Blood was incredibly pervasive. Even though Ji Xichan did her best to contain it with a Barrier, she couldn't lock it down completely.

The Demon Spirits she had dispatched within a ten-kilometer radius had already detected numerous Demon Beasts following the scent of the Mirage Dragon's blood.

Fortunately, the approaching Demon Beasts had not yet formed a horde, and there were no individuals with powerful Cultivation among them, so the Demon Spirits dealt with them easily.

But if this dragged on, Ji Xichan couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't attract the attention of powerful Demon Race factions in the Northern Desert.

'I must… I have to get Pei Yuhang and Lin Qianyan back to the Dao Sect first. Once they're safe, we can figure out the rest!'

The sound of a blade tearing through flesh and blood still echoed across the Great Desert.

Ji Xichan raised her head and shouted:

"Qing Yueqiu! Calm down!"

"We've been waiting here for nearly three days. Nothing will change if we keep waiting."

"The best thing to do now is to quickly take Pei Yuhang and the others back to the Dao Sect and ask a Great Power within the Sect for help. See if they can rescue Pei Yuhang and Lin Qianyan."

However, incited by the Dragon Blood and completely consumed by her killing intent, Qing Yueqiu was lost in her own world, unable to hear any advice.

Her fingers gripped the hilt so tightly that her knuckles turned white. The blade churned inside the Mirage Dragon's body, making a heart-stopping sound.

Finally, she dug out an Inner Core that was shimmering with a faint light.

Qing Yueqiu's palm was stained gold with Dragon Blood. The Inner Core trembled slightly in her palm, emitting a dense Spiritual Qi.

A glimmer of hope flashed in her eyes, and even her killing intent faded considerably, as if she were grasping at the last straw.

"Master… I will save you!"

Just as Qing Yueqiu took the Mirage Dragon Core and was about to approach the golden crystal sealing Pei Yuhang to see if she could rescue her master,

Ji Xichan, who had walked up beside her, suddenly felt her pupils constrict, her pretty face turning pale.

"What's wrong with you?"

Qing Yueqiu disliked this bad woman who had bullied her master.

But right now, they only had each other to rely on. To get her master back to the Sect safely, the magnanimous Yueqiu was willing to temporarily set aside their past grievances.

"One of my Great Demon Spirits was destroyed by something nine kilometers away… A powerful enemy is heading for the Mirage Dragon!

"Besides that, a massive number of Demon Beasts are approaching… We've been targeted by a large Demon Race tribe!"

Ji Xichan's expression was tense and grave.

Her greatest trump card, the strange Goddess Statue, was temporarily unusable after sealing both Pei Yuhang and Lin Qianyan in the "Pure Love Illusion."

Although she now had many Magic Array Barriers left by Chen Tiansheng that she could use to turtle up, they wouldn't last long against a beast horde and an attack from a High Tier Demon Cultivator.

'At a time like this, even if I send a distress signal to the Dao Sect, there's no way help can arrive in time in a remote place like the Northern Desert…'

Ji Xichan rarely showed such a dejected expression. Qing Yueqiu recognized the gravity of the situation, but her first thought wasn't for her own safety—it was about what to do with her master!

"I'll dig into the earth's veins and hide Master inside!"

"Master is so handsome! Even if I die, I will never let him fall into the hands of those savage, ugly Demon Race members!"

Qing Yueqiu said, clenching her small fists.

Ji Xichan: "..."

'Heh, Pei Yuhang is much safer inside the sealing Barrier created by the Goddess Statue than you or I am.'

In the end, Ji Xichan gave up on the idea of reasoning with Qing Yueqiu, this yandere fool who had nothing but Pei Yuhang on her mind.

She quickly unfurled an Array Scroll named "Divine Flame Domain."

This was the highest-grade Array Ji Xichan currently possessed.

With the Spirit Stone reserves she and Qing Yueqiu had… it could probably run for three days.

"All we can do is our best and leave the rest to fate."

Ji Xichan took a deep breath. The Scroll in her hand instantly bloomed with a fiery red halo, enveloping the two of them and the area within a two-hundred-meter radius of the Mirage Dragon's head.

A moment later, a stream of cyan light slammed into the barrier in front of the two women.

As the air vibrated, the cyan light exploded, turning into countless spores that scattered across the crimson Divine Flame shield.

Unfortunately for them, on the surface of this dense flame shield, the spores were completely suppressed and unable to take root, ultimately being annihilated.

Seeing this, Ji Xichan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's the Cyan Demon race… Looks like its Cultivation is at the Divinity Transformation Peak, much higher than both of ours.

"Good thing I used a Fire Attribute Barrier. If it were any other attribute, the Cyan Demon's parasitic Divine Abilities would have likely broken through it!"

"Then, Ji Xichan, how long can your Barrier hold?"

"Three days…"

As Ji Xichan said this, she glanced back at Pei Yuhang and Lin Qianyan inside the golden crystal, unable to hide the worry and unease in her eyes.

'Three days… Is that enough time for them to get out?'