Ji Shiyou rode his sword, pursuing the trail of pear blossom rain.
Taking the lead, he entered the depths of Sifang Mountain.
He watched as the pear blossoms fell into a mountain valley.
He hurriedly controlled his flying sword and landed in the valley.
The valley was shrouded in white mist, with very low visibility.
He sheathed his flying sword, looked around, but saw no sign of Shi Lie or Jun Shuxue.
"Wind rise!"
The dense fog before him obscured his vision.
This made searching for people even more difficult. Ji Shiyou casually formed a hurricane spell.
He intended to summon a strong wind to blow away the dense fog.
However, the wind was summoned, but the fog did not dissipate; instead, it thickened.
Previously, he could still see the sky. After the wind passed,
He was enveloped by white mist, surrounded.
Dense and layered, as if wrapped in hundreds of thin veils.
Everything around him became hazy, and he couldn't even see his feet.
Ji Shiyou immediately understood that this valley was protected by a formation.
He summoned his Yingyue Sword again and decisively ascended into the air.
If he were alone, he would have directly broken the formation without hesitation.
But now he was not alone; there were over a dozen fellow disciples from Jinwu Palace.
They were about to enter the valley behind him.
He needed to stop them and keep them outside for their safety.
Then, he would return to break the formation.
To rescue the abducted Jun Shuxue, he would have no worries.
The Yingyue Sword carried him higher and higher, but the surroundings remained shrouded in white mist.
Ji Shiyou gave up and landed back on the ground.
His brows furrowed, and he stood with his eyes closed.
The reason he chose to descend was that, with his sword-riding speed,
He could have flown out a hundred miles at least, yet he still hadn't escaped the mist.
This proved that the sky was also covered by the formation.
Calculating the time, his junior brothers had already entered the formation.
There was no time to stop them; only breaking the formation was left.
"Five Elements Maze!"
Sensing the elemental fluctuations around him, Ji Shiyou reached a conclusion.
He then opened his eyes, raised his right hand, and gently tapped the golden crown that tied his hair.
The ordinary lotus-shaped golden crown immediately emitted a golden light.
The golden light shot into the sky like a solid object, dispersing the dense white fog.
It shone like a lighthouse in the valley.
Not long after, figures flickered in the white mist, gathering towards Ji Shiyou.
"Senior Brother."
"Senior Brother."
...
They greeted Ji Shiyou, all disciples of Jinwu Palace who had mistakenly entered the valley.
They had followed Ji Shiyou into the valley and were separated by the mist.
They had shouted until their throats were sore but could not hear their companions' replies.
They were disoriented and could not leave by sword.
Just as they were at a loss, they saw the golden light emitted by Ji Shiyou.
They gathered towards the light and finally reunited with their fellow disciples.
Seeing Ji Shiyou, they all felt relieved.
With their Senior Brother present, they had a pillar of support and feared nothing.
"Senior Brother, this valley is so strange.
I got lost as soon as I entered. If I hadn't seen the light from your Lingyun Golden Crown,
I wouldn't have known what to do. Do you know what's going on?"
Nu Tao, the tallest and youngest,
Scratched the back of his head and asked naively.
"This valley has been set up with a maze formation. Tian Jian, lead the junior brothers to stay here.
Do not leave. I will go break the formation and rescue Junior Sister Jun."
Ji Shiyou removed the golden crown from his head and tapped it again.
The light beam emitted by the crown changed, forming an inverted bowl shape, covering everyone within.
He then handed the golden crown to his second senior brother, Tian Jian, and disappeared into the white mist.
With the protection of the golden crown, as long as the junior brothers stayed within the range of the light, they would be safe.
He now had to quickly break the formation and rescue Jun Shuxue.
"Mingyue, are you done yet?
The Senior Brother of Jinwu Palace is about to find the formation's core.
I told you he wasn't simple. Look at him.
In the mist, he's like he's strolling through a market.
He doesn't need to look at the path or think; he seems more familiar than I am.
I can't hold him off anymore. Hurry up."
Zhu Ji, controlling the formation disk of the Five Elements Maze, kept changing the formation.
However, for Ji Shiyou within the formation, it had no effect.
The five-element changes were like fragile pottery in front of Ji Shiyou.
He broke them all with ease and walked directly towards the formation's core.
Zhu Ji was frantic and kept urging Mingyue.
"Alright, alright. No matter how powerful he is, he can't escape the Qiantian Illusion."
Mingyue was using her cultivation to activate the jade token in her hand.
The jade token lit up, and she walked over with a look of surprise, holding the token.
She was about to place the jade token on Zhu Ji's formation disk, merging the Five Elements Maze and the Qiantian Illusion.
She believed that once merged, no one in the entire Yuehua Realm could break it.
But at this moment, Ji Shiyou in the mist also arrived at the core of the Five Elements Maze.
It was a giant rock. If it were shattered, the formation would collapse.
Mingyue's jade token was still an inch away from the formation disk.
Ji Shiyou struck the giant rock with his palm.
With a loud boom, the giant rock shattered and collapsed.
The mist in the valley vanished, revealing blue skies, white clouds, green trees, and red flowers.
Mingyue and Zhu Ji outside the valley were in a sorry state. Because Ji Shiyou broke the formation's core,
The formation disk in Zhu Ji's hand exploded, emitting a powerful shockwave.
Zhu Ji was the first to bear the brunt. Before she could even cry out,
She was sent flying like a meteor, disappearing into the horizon.
"Ah! No way? So unlucky?"
Mingyue cried out and was also blown away by the explosion's impact.
However, the direction she was blown was opposite to Zhu Ji.
She flew towards the valley, directly towards Ji Shiyou.
Ji Shiyou, having shattered the formation's core, was about to return to his fellow disciples to regroup.
Then, they would search for Jun Shuxue together. Unexpectedly, a figure in the sky was flying towards him, shouting.
Ji Shiyou reflexively opened his arms and felt a soft body pounce into his embrace.
He looked down and saw a sweet-looking girl staring at him with wide eyes.
"It's over, it's over. I've walked right into the trap. What should I do?"
Mingyue was terrified and anxious, not knowing what to do.
But then she thought, the person Ji Shiyou knew was Shi Lie.
A man in his thirties, which was her disguised form.
She was now in her true form, a girl. Ji Shiyou had never seen her before.
Mingyue thought about how to deceive him and prevent Ji Shiyou from seeing through her disguise.
For a moment, she forgot that she was still in Ji Shiyou's arms.
And her left hand was around Ji Shiyou's neck.
"Miss, perhaps you can get down now."
Looking at Mingyue's dazed expression, Ji Shiyou was momentarily stunned.
He felt that the woman who fell from the sky was somewhat familiar.
But he quickly dismissed the thought. In his memory,
He didn't know this person at all, nor had he ever seen her.
He was a neat freak and disliked physical contact.
Especially with a strange woman, he was even more repulsed.
He felt the woman in his arms tightening her grip around his neck.
Ji Shiyou was displeased and said with disdain.
"Ah, yes, yes, yes, I should go.
Farewell! No, never see you again!"
Mingyue sensed Ji Shiyou's disgust and quickly jumped to the ground, using the opportunity to leave.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
Just then, her jade token began to make cracking sounds.
Then, with a bang, it exploded.