"I am Xiangyao," the bald figure said.
"Xiangyao?" Zhu Yanyi felt a slight shock in her heart, but she pretended not to know. "What are you blocking our way for?"
"I do not wish to make things difficult for you. Go back where you came from. You cannot enter the Lucky Forest," Xiangyao said coldly.
"Heh~" Zhu Yanyi gave her a look. "You say your name is Xiangyao. Are you the human Xiangyao, or the monster Xiangyao?"
"Does it matter? I am Xiangyao, that is enough." Xiangyao frowned slightly. His black-blue face seemed even more ferocious.
"No difference. It is you either way. But you do not know, the Venerable Yanluo is looking for you," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile. "I heard you had one head cut off. I wonder if it has grown back."
Hearing this, Xiangyao’s expression changed. If there was anyone in this world she hated, it was the Venerable Yanluo for attacking her. She narrowed her eyes at Zhu Yanyi. "Who are you?"
"A student of the Sage Academy. I am the leader of this mission team. Do you want to kill me?" Zhu Yanyi acted as if she was not afraid at all.
In truth, Zhu Yanyi was not as calm on the inside as she appeared on the outside.
Xiangyao was a fierce beast, an ancient fierce beast. Fierce beasts had only ferocity, no humanity. Fortunately, Xiangyao now had a human body and was missing a head, so his power could not return to its peak. Even so, he could not be underestimated.
Zhu Yanyi was currently at the mid-stage of the Void Movement Realm. Her cultivation was good, but against Xiangyao, the outcome was uncertain. Therefore, she could only use wisdom, not force.
In fact, fighting with force was possible for others, but for Zhu Yanyi, it was truly impossible. Her nature was set; she did not need to fight those people. As she said, it was tiring. Since that was the case, what she could do was use wisdom. What did using wisdom require?
Zhu Yanyi’s eyes kept turning. She slowly weighed everything around her in her mind, and a plan gradually formed.
"You do not know what is good for you," Xiangyao frowned. No one had dared to defy his will.
Zhu Yanyi snorted. "Xiangyao is a fierce beast. For a fierce beast, reason does not exist. You did not attack us directly, which means you are injured."
Zhu Yanyi looked at Xiangyao with a smile. "You are injured, so you want to use your name to scare us away. But who is the person who injured you? Let me guess."
Zhu Yanyi tilted her head and said seriously, "You look like a human, but only roughly. Your face is not like a human's. We humans have a saying: 'looking like a human.' You have the shape, but not the look. Humans are not like you. At least a human face should be clean. A face like yours, black and blue, shows at a glance that you are not a normal person."
The more Zhu Yanyi spoke, the more excited she seemed. Yi Yunfei and Sikong Xuran exchanged glances. When they learned she was Xiangyao, they had been estimating their strength against her. But in this situation, they could not step in. Seeing that Zhu Yanyi seemed to have a plan, they stayed silent and let her perform alone.
Zhu Yanyi smiled at Xiangyao. "You must be badly injured. Your injury only allows you to maintain this appearance. You cannot attack us at all. So, the person who injured you must be the Venerable Yanluo."
As soon as the four words "Venerable Yanluo" were spoken, Zhu Yanyi suddenly made several hand seals. An array mark suddenly appeared around Xiangyao.
"An array," Sikong Xuran said from the side.
Zhu Yanyi nodded. "But honestly, Xiangyao, you are too cunning. Your cunning harmed you. Your cunning makes you suspicious. Your suspicion makes you afraid to attack randomly. Of course, the most important reason is that you are injured."
"Because you are injured, you want to protect yourself first. To protect yourself, you can only use your fierce reputation to scare us."
"But you do not know, I love making this suspicion real. So while talking to you, I used the air flow to set up this array around you. Most importantly, I put a lot of poison in this array."
Zhu Yanyi smiled very kindly. "Don't worry. My poison is very kind. It will only erode your power, making your abilities disappear slowly. Then you will not even be able to maintain your human form. Of course, I do not know the final result. Xiangyao, good luck. I will wait outside for you to come kill me."
Xiangyao panicked. Zhu Yanyi had not been wrong. She had originally wanted to scare Zhu Yanyi because she was injured by the Venerable Yanluo. The Venerable Yanluo was a True God. Being injured by a True God was not easy to recover from. She only wanted to use human fear to accumulate her energy, but she had met the freak Zhu Yanyi.
"You humans are too cunning. It is too much," Xiangyao struggled. He clearly felt his energy disappearing. No, if he did not find a way to escape, he might die here.
No, he absolutely could not die here. Xiangyao would not allow such a result. He had escaped before, and he had escaped the Venerable Yanluo's pursuit. He believed he could escape this time too. So he had to run.
The surrounding poison seemed to be sucking away his power. He could no longer maintain his human form. He let out a loud cry, and Xiangyao's ferocious original form appeared. However, of the nine heads, only eight remained.
She found that the poison in one direction was slightly weaker. She could only rely on instinct and rushed out in that direction, fleeing quickly without looking back.
Watching Xiangyao disappear, Zhu Yanyi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What a pity. Xiangyao escaped like that," Yi Yunfei said with a regretful expression. Then she looked at Zhu Yanyi and was slightly stunned. "Fifteen, what is wrong with you?"
"Senior Brother, help me up. My legs are weak," Zhu Yanyi said.
Yi Yunfei and Sikong Xuran exchanged glances and hurried over. They supported her on both sides and returned to the flying boat. Only after Zhu Yanyi sat down did she breathe a sigh of relief. "Oh my, I finally scared Xiangyao away."
(⊙o⊙)… Everyone silently looked at Zhu Yanyi. So all those confident words just now were just to scare her.
"Junior Sister, you spoke so loudly and confidently just now. Were you scaring Xiangyao?" Sikong Xuran asked.
Zhu Yanyi nodded. "Xiangyao is an ancient fierce beast. She naturally has resistance to various poisons. Although my alchemy level is high now, my cultivation is not enough. I cannot yet refine medicine that can harm ancient beasts." Zhu Yanyi took a breath and continued,