Yu Yixiang's gliding speed was not fast, which indicated she wasn't reckless.
The dangers Qian Duoduo could detect, she could most likely detect as well.
Shen Yezhen was about three meters behind her, subtly protecting her safety.
Qian Duoduo sighed inwardly, a woman's beauty was indeed the greatest Magic Treasure.
The moon emerged, hanging over the mountaintop.
Beyond the forest was a swamp.
Just as the three of them, including Qian Duoduo, rushed past, a black shadow shot into the sky, letting out a roar at them.
Anything that dared to express its anger like this was at least a battle beast.
After crossing a flat area, a canyon appeared ahead, with steep rocks on both sides.
"Should we rest for a bit?" Qian Duoduo felt an abnormal stillness in the canyon, and unease crept into his heart.
It was fine when Qian Duoduo didn't speak, but as soon as he did, Yu Yixiang pushed off with her feet, and her speed surprisingly quickened, as she plunged straight in.
Her temper was truly good, docile to the extreme!
Nearing the center of the canyon, a fierce wind rose from nowhere, and a massive snow wolf appeared directly in front, its size a full circle larger than Palace Lord Dajiu's Golden Ox.
On the red rocks on both sides, dozens of snow wolves emerged.
Qian Duoduo's scalp tingled.
The alpha wolf directly in front had a Foundation Establishment aura.
Those on the rocks seemed to be at Qi Condensation level seven or eight.
"Charge through!" Shen Yezhen roared, his speed exploding, his figure becoming several times faster as he rushed to the right of the giant wolf.
Yu Yixiang slapped her leg, and a Talisman appeared, transforming into two white lights that wrapped around her legs.
Instantly, her speed was even greater than Shen Yezhen's, and she swept to the left of the giant wolf.
Oh my!
Their sudden move, one to the left and one to the right, actually caused the giant wolf to hesitate for a moment.
It was this momentary hesitation that allowed them to escape the snow wolf encirclement, leaving Qian Duoduo behind.
"They want to use the snow wolves to get rid of me!" Qian Duoduo's heart turned cold.
The giant wolf's red eyes locked onto him.
"I can't fight, I can't win!" Turning around, Qian Duoduo unhesitatingly slapped the Talisman given by Zhu Anshun onto his leg and fled out of the canyon.
He didn't dare to look back; behind him, it sounded like a mountain collapsing.
In his Spiritual Awareness, the giant wolf, along with about twenty other snow wolves, was in hot pursuit.
Ahead was the swamp.
The pitch-black swamp had returned to calm, with no snow on its surface, like a black hole.
Forcefully throwing a Wolf Fang Black Iron Hammer into the hole, Qian Duoduo used the momentum to dive into the snow nearby, and upon hitting the muddy ground, he immediately pulled out his tortoise shell tent.
The tortoise shell tent made his aura disappear in the blink of an eye.
Qian Duoduo peeled off the divine speed Talisman, and to his dismay, found that there wasn't much spiritual power left on it.
"Boom!" Just as Qian Duoduo wished, the hammer fell, and the battle beast leaped out.
In the swamp, a giant claw as thick as an elephant's leg, without a moment's hesitation, swatted towards the pack of wolves.
This was a giant Mystic Sky Crocodile, tens of meters long.
Qian Duoduo quietly sprinkled snow onto the tent while observing the battle.
The level of this battle was the highest he had ever witnessed.
The giant crocodile's claw was blocked by the giant wolf.
However, the other snow wolves were not so lucky.
Two snow wolves charging at the front failed to dodge in time and were squashed into a ball of flesh, staining the snow red.
The giant wolf howled skyward, and the snow wolves formed a crescent shape, pressing towards the giant crocodile.
The Mystic Sky Crocodile swung its long tail, and instantly, sand and stones flew around the swamp's edge.
The snow wolves tightened their formation, becoming a single entity, using their spiritual power to block the giant crocodile's attack.
The wolf pack retreated a few steps but did not withdraw.
From the canyon, another twenty or thirty snow wolves rushed out.
This reinforcement, along the edge of the swamp, stealthily moved towards the giant crocodile's rear.
In terms of strength, the giant crocodile was superior to the wolf pack.
But in terms of tactics, the wolf pack was more cunning.
The giant crocodile extended two claws from the swamp, its front half climbing ashore, opening its huge mouth, and fiercely biting towards the alpha wolf.
The alpha wolf retreated further back with the momentum.
The giant crocodile was falling for it!
Qian Duoduo thought to himself.
When it was fully ashore, the wolf pack would launch a full-scale attack, flanking it from front and back.
Indeed, that group of snow wolf reinforcements had already reached a spot about twenty meters to the giant crocodile's side and rear.
They lay prone in the snow, moving slowly; if one didn't look closely, they would be completely undetectable.
The giant crocodile pounced forward, its two rows of massive teeth biting into a snow wolf.
However, its body was now out of the swamp!
Before the giant crocodile could swallow the unfortunate snow wolf, both groups of wolves launched their attacks simultaneously, one snow wolf after another desperately biting at the giant crocodile.
Suddenly, more than ten snow wolves were clinging to the giant crocodile's body.
The snow-white fangs of the snow wolves deeply pierced the crocodile's hide.
"Wooo—" The giant crocodile let out a cry of pain, rolled on the spot, and fell into the swamp, with the more than ten snow wolves that refused to let go also plunging in.
The swamp's mud and sludge shot into the sky, turning the area around the swamp into a muddy mess.
The tortoise shell tent was no exception, making Qian Duoduo even safer as he observed the battle outside through his Spiritual Awareness.
When the giant crocodile resurfaced from the swamp, the snow wolves on its body were gone, but the giant crocodile's scales were torn and its skin ripped, its flesh a bloody mess, a truly tragic sight.
Cold light shot from the crocodile's eyes, locking onto the alpha wolf.
"Fight, fight to the death!" Hiding inside the tent, Qian Duoduo urged inwardly.
However, the alpha wolf calmed down and did not lead the pack in a fierce assault.
If the giant crocodile didn't come out of the swamp, they had no way to deal with it.
After a standoff of about fifteen minutes, the giant crocodile arrogantly snorted two plumes of white mist from its nostrils, then slowly sank and disappeared.
The alpha wolf climbed onto a large rock, surveyed its surroundings, and after a few leaps, led the pack of wolves away as well.
After a long while, Qian Duoduo slowly moved with his tent.
By the swamp, those dead snow wolves were excellent materials.
Their fangs, claws, and pelts were all quite valuable, much more expensive than those of Spiritual Wolves.
Especially the snow wolf pelt, which was pure white with no stray hairs.
If one wore it, walking in the snow, it would be the best camouflage.
...
"Let's go," Shen Yezhen said to Yu Yixiang outside the canyon.
"Wait a little longer," Yu Yixiang, who was sitting cross-legged, looked into the valley, "Junior Brother Jin might..."
After a quarter of an hour, Shen Yezhen stood up, "It's already bright, if Junior Brother Bu Huan could come out, he would have by now."
"Senior Brother Shen, should we go back and check again?"
"Junior Sister, we can't afford to provoke that pack of snow wolves in the valley.
And Junior Brother Bu Huan, instead of rushing forward, insisted on retreating.
That one in the swamp behind is also not to be trifled with.
He's probably... sigh."
"It's my fault, I shouldn't have been so impulsive, walked too fast, and insisted on entering this canyon." Yu Yixiang's expression was a bit downcast.
"Blame me, Senior Brother, for being too weak to protect you all." Shen Yezhen turned around and lowered his head, but his face was filled with joy, his eyes sparkling, showing no sign of regret whatsoever.
"Regardless, we are disciples of the same sect, let's wait a little longer, then we must go back and find Junior Brother Jin.
We need to see him alive, or his corpse." Yu Yixiang stood up and brushed the snow from her robes.
Qian Duoduo was hidden behind a rock inside the valley, using his tortoise shell tent to conceal his aura, silently observing the movements outside the valley with his Spiritual Awareness, clearly hearing and seeing the conversation and expressions of Shen Yezhen and Yu Yixiang.
Shen Yezhen kept wanting to leave, urging Yu Yixiang three times.
Yu Yixiang refused three times.
It seemed they were indeed not working together.
Although Yu Yixiang didn't like Qian Duoduo, she didn't have the heart to harm him.
Her four words, "disciples of the same sect," ignited a fire in Qian Duoduo's cold heart.
Qian Duoduo put away his tent, gently draped the snow wolf pelt over himself, and slowly walked out.
Once out of the canyon, he threw off the wolf pelt, "Senior Brother, Senior Sister, good morning!"