Chapter 158: Blue-Clothed Woman

The young man sneered as soon as he saw this scene.

"Since I have already received your attack, is it my turn to attack once?" While speaking, he had already put away the shield, and then closed his hands, suddenly pulling them left and right, and a giant cyan arc-shaped light blade appeared between his hands.

"Try my Cyan Arc Slash!" The young man said gloomily, and then the light blade flew toward the two people opposite him with a whistling sound.

This person's attack made the onlookers exclaim. Everyone could see that the Brother Murong brothers were unable to cast magic techniques at all, let alone defend.

The teenagers panicked, looked around in a panic, and then simply split left and right, running into the crowd on both sides.

"Open!" The young man shouted loudly in his mouth.

That flying cyan arc actually split into two halves with the shout, and was led by the young man's hand, continuing to pursue the teenagers in two directions.

It was a coincidence that one of the teenagers saw that Han Li was one of the people with deeper magic power among the onlookers, so he ran directly toward him without hesitation, which immediately gave Han Li a big fright.

Han Li didn't have any intention of intervening in this matter at all. He knew that even if the young man was arrogant and rampant, he would never dare to hurt the Brother Murong brothers openly. At most, he would scare and tease them. Therefore, he would never be the scapegoat.

Moreover, this teenager was also extremely cunning. This was clearly trying to use him as a shield! He wouldn't let the other party get his wish, so he swayed his body lightly, and his figure disappeared from the spot, making the teenager miss, which made the teenager curse angrily, and he had to continue to flee in a panic.

With a "rumbling" sound, the ground in the direction the other teenager fled trembled, and then dust rose, and a man's curse came, obviously someone who was not as wise as Han Li and didn't get rid of the living shield.

After the dust dissipated, a thick earth wall several feet high stood on the opposite side, and a half-foot-long semi-circular groove appeared on the wall.

"You surnamed Lu, what is the meaning of this? Don't you see that there are others here? To still attack! Are you planning to cut me down along with them?" The short, stocky youth, in his anger and shock, questioned him repeatedly.

Senior Brother Lu snorted and ignored the short, stocky youth's questioning. Instead, with a gloomy face, he exerted his full strength to manipulate the remaining half of the Green Arc Blade, suddenly accelerating to pursue the youth on Han Li's side. Judging by the trajectory of the green arc, he truly intended to leave the youth with a mark.

"Stop!" A young woman's sharp, clear shout came from beyond the sky. Immediately following, a blazing firebird descended from the heavens, swallowing the green arc behind the youth in one gulp before transforming into a ball of intense flames and vanishing.

"Who? Who broke my spell?" The youth surnamed Lu was furious and looked up toward the sky.

Only to see, above everyone's heads, a blue-clad woman had appeared at some unknown time. Her skin was like congealed fat, her appearance was gorgeous and brilliant, and she looked like a celestial being. With a slender willow waist and a graceful, beautiful jade neck, she wore a blue palace dress and had her hair styled in a high, towering bun, giving people a sense of ethereal detachment that made one afraid to look up at her.

"So it is Junior Sister Nie! I was wondering who could have such high magic power!" The youth surnamed Lu, who had been furious, immediately changed his expression upon seeing the woman in red, becoming gentle and polite, appearing quite dashing.

"Senior Brother Lu, for my sake, how about ending this competition here?" The woman in the palace dress stepped on her magic tool and said coldly.

"Hehe, since it is Junior Sister Nie's wish, then of course I will comply." The youth said with a face full of smiles.

The woman in the palace dress nodded and, saying nothing more, descended directly from the sky and walked toward the Brother Murong brothers.

"Senior Sister Nie, you arrived just in time, otherwise we would have suffered a great loss!" The youth who had just escaped disaster immediately beamed with joy and ran over upon seeing the blue-clad woman. The other one also grinned and ran over, bypassing the earthen wall.

"Go back and reflect on your mistakes. You are not allowed to go out until you have mastered the ninth layer of the cultivation technique," the woman said lightly, without the slightest trace of worldly emotion, showing no fluctuation in her mood at all.

Upon hearing this, the Brother Murong brothers immediately became dejected, all of them hanging their heads in agreement.

After the blue-clad woman finished dealing with the brothers, she turned her head to look at the short, stocky youth and suddenly blossomed into a smile, causing everything nearby to instantly lose its luster. Her apricot lips parted slightly as she said: "Many thanks for your help, Senior Brother. Otherwise, if Junior Brother Brother Murong had met with an accident, I would have been ashamed to face the sect!"

"No, it's nothing..."

The short, stocky youth was so stunned by the other party's peerlessly gorgeous smile that he could only giggle "hehe" foolishly, his speech becoming stuttered.

The men around them, seeing the special treatment he received, could not help but envy his romantic encounter and greatly regretted that they were not the ones who had intervened. Consequently, their jealous gazes almost pierced him full of holes.

Seeing this, the youth surnamed Lu's eyes flashed with an even more venomous look, but he concealed it extremely quickly, still maintaining his gentle and refined appearance. Except for the female companion beside him and Han Li, who was watching coldly from the side, no one else had noticed his abnormality.

Although that Senior Sister Chen was also beautiful and charming, compared to the woman surnamed Nie, she appeared far inferior. Therefore, the moment the blue-clad woman appeared, Senior Sister Chen, fearing that Senior Brother Lu would be captivated by her, immediately ran to his side, grabbed one of his arms, and stared at the other party with hostile eyes.

The blue-clad woman naturally sensed the other party's hostility but did not care at all. Instead, as she left with the Brother Murong brothers, she cast a light, almost imperceptible glance at Han Li, and immediately, her melodious voice reached Han Li's ears.

"Although your magic power is not weak, I truly cannot agree with this conduct of only looking out for yourself! I hope that the next time we meet, Junior Brother will have changed."

After hearing the blue-clad woman's words, Han Li frowned slightly. It seemed his evasive actions had been completely seen through by her, and he had not left a good impression on her, perhaps even leaving a rather bad one.

However, he was no saint. If he knew he was being used and didn't stay far away, wouldn't he be an idiot? The short, stocky youth hadn't looked out for himself, but now he was being targeted by that guy surnamed Lu, and he might just drop dead at any moment. When that time came, could this great beauty of yours avenge him? Han Li thought with a sneer.

For some reason, Han Li was not very fond of such peerless beauties, finding the demure, girl-next-door types much more pleasing to the eye. Therefore, he didn't care in the slightest about the impression he left in this Senior Sister Nie's mind; he only hoped she would pay less attention to him.

At this time, the blue-clad beauty and the others had already vanished without a trace, and after Senior Brother Lu glared fiercely at the stocky youth, he also left the mountaintop with his female companion. Thus, the remaining people, seeing there was no more excitement to watch, dispersed in a flurry.

Han Li also drove his magic tool away from this place and flew all the way back to the Hundred Medicine Garden.

After entering the house where he lived, Han Li couldn't wait to take out the two jade slips, picked out the copy containing the refining method for Foundation Establishment Pills, and began to read it word for word.

Although Han Li's mind was active, his expression remained completely motionless until several hours later, when he let out a long breath and put down the jade slip. But immediately after, he fell into deep thought, concentrating intently.

After a long while, he stood up with a "hula" sound, walked into the medicine garden with his brows tightly furrowed, and began to scan the flowers and plants in the garden, muttering to himself:

"The thirty-one auxiliary medicinal ingredients like Thousand-Knot Flower, Black Peony Grass, and Golden Essence Ginseng are nothing; this garden has them all. It's just that they require a long age, needing several hundred years of maturity. But the main ingredients—Jade Marrow Ganoderma, Purple Monkey Flower, and Heavenly Spirit Fruit—are a bit troublesome! There isn't a single one here, and I've never even heard of them."

Han Li hesitated for a long time before deciding to find someone to ask. This person naturally had to be the little old man who was well-versed in pharmacology!

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