Chapter 12

"Zhou Shixiong, are you alright?" Lu Yaoyao whispered.

Zhou Qing shook his head, but looking at the 【So Amazing】 note above her head, faced with such a fan, he gritted his teeth and took off the Yang Fire Talisman on his body.

"Your cultivation is the weakest, you receive the least pressure, and you walk faster. You take this!" After Zhou Qing finished speaking, he threw it over.

Lu Yaoyao was stunned and was about to say something, but Zhou Qing made a "shh" gesture.

No choice, if you walk faster, I can hide in the back and slowly farm Ignore Points. Otherwise, if you keep looking at me, I'll have presence.

To put her at ease, Zhou Qing simply sat down on the ground: "I have no interest in being first. It's better to stay here and use this gravity to stabilize my cultivation. You must work hard; I used to be the weakest among the core disciples, but now it's you."

Looking at Zhou Qing's serious appearance, Lu Yaoyao bit her lip lightly, suddenly smiled sweetly, her eyes sparkling, and then nodded heavily.

And the 【So Amazing】 note above her head that had just transformed changed in the blink of an eye to 【So Kind】.

And Zhou Qing, seeing this scene, almost couldn't catch his breath.

What do you mean by "So Kind"?

I'm not your dad!

You don't even know how to use adjectives. Is this how I am in your heart at this very moment?

【Heart-Mirror Point +7】

After hearing the notification sound, his unhappy mood improved slightly.

Seeing that the seven people in front had already left, Zhou Qing hurriedly waved his hand to signal.

"I will definitely not let you down!"

Lu Yaoyao was full of emotion and promised Zhou Qing, then took heavy steps and walked forward.

It must be said that the pressure here has a good consolidation effect on those who have advanced too quickly.

Having advanced one after another during this period, if it weren't for that Ice Soul Ghost Scale Fish, this place would have to be said to be an excellent place for cultivation.

Seeing that the backs of the crowd were about to disappear, he hurriedly stood up and moved forward under the pressure.

The prerequisite for farming Ignore Points is a tense and exciting multi-person place. If the people are gone, who is going to ignore you?

This is the same principle as fishing in the back mountain of Shenyue Peak. Even if you find a remote place, you must ensure that other Senior Brothers can see you.

Just like that, Zhou Qing followed the crowd and moved forward bit by bit.

【Ignore Point +1, +1, +1...】

But just as he walked halfway, a cold whistling sound came from the front again, followed by wandering souls three times more numerous than before rushing out.

Leading them were even a dozen groups of terrifying wandering souls emitting Foundation Establishment aura.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing immediately bent down, full of disbelief.

"How can there be so many?"

These Supreme Elders are too unreliable; they are simply treating them as cannon fodder.

Boom, boom, boom!

The roaring in front was constant. Soon, someone couldn't hold on, and while they still had strength and the dim light on their body, they turned around and ran in terror.

Zhou Qing suddenly regretted his momentary impulse to give the Yang Fire Talisman to Lu Yaoyao. Although his innate skill 【Lower Presence】 was at the first level of perfection, it only had a 90% chance of causing Qi Condensation cultivators to ignore him, and there was still a 10% chance of being noticed.

What if it just happened to be that coincidental?

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Qi Condensation cultivators couldn't discover him, there were still Foundation Establishment wandering souls, and he was currently only at 【LV2: (44/100)】.

Foundation Establishment cultivators had a 60% chance of locking onto him.

Without a word, he immediately turned his retreat into an advance and turned around to run.

But he had underestimated those who had stimulated their potential in a crisis. Under such gravity that was like a mud ox entering the sea, a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Shijie ran past him like the wind.

She let out a pig-like scream while running, which made Zhou Qing's eardrums ache.

As if a chain reaction had started, the others also turned around and ran. The number was simply too large; they couldn't fight them at all.

Watching one after another run past him, Zhou Qing became even more anxious.

Perhaps it was because their lives were at stake, or perhaps they were in a hurry, but not a single person looked at Zhou Qing, not even to pull him along.

Until Lu Yaoyao also flew past him with a flushed face, Zhou Qing knew that his innate skill had taken effect.

As long as he didn't shout, no one would discover him.

He had just opened his mouth, preparing to ask for the Yang Fire Talisman back, when a large group of wandering souls came flying quickly from behind.

"It's over!" Zhou Qing's face turned pale, and he prepared for a final struggle.

But those wandering souls, including the dozen or so Foundation Establishment wandering souls, didn't even look at him, just whistled past him and went to chase the others.

Zhou Qing's heart was pounding. It was very clear that in such a tense environment of chasing and fleeing, everyone was in that 40% ignore zone.

Zhou Qing, who was still hoping for luck, didn't dare to delay. He stretched his sore legs and hurried out.

Fierce fighting came from the front again, making Zhou Qing not dare to relax in the slightest.

Not long after, when he arrived panting at a distance of three hundred meters from the exit, his expression changed instantly, and he hurriedly stood against the wall.

The countless wandering souls from before were blocking the entrance, constantly roaring outward.

"Not good!"

Zhou Qing instantly recalled something. At the beginning, when those wandering souls chased to the entrance, they vented for a while and then returned to the depths.

Now, not to mention blocking the door, what if...

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing's face became even paler.

He could be luckily ignored just now, but what if he happened to be in that 60% zone while walking back?

With so many Foundation Establishment wandering souls, plus hundreds of Qi Condensation wandering souls, they could tear him apart alive.

Even if the Supreme Elders were close at hand, they probably wouldn't be able to rescue him in time, not to mention that they didn't dare to enter at all, for fear of waking some terrible existence.

"Taking advantage of the fact that they haven't returned the same way, there is only one last path left!"

Zhou Qing gritted his teeth, looked toward the depths of the passage, didn't dare to delay any longer, carefully used all his strength, and turned to leave...

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"What's going on?"

The several Supreme Elders who were waiting outside, when they saw someone rushing out in a sorry state, hurriedly stepped forward to ask anxiously.

But before they could say a few words, the others also followed and escaped.

Looking at their sweat-drenched, panting appearance, the elders frowned.

"How could there be so many wandering souls? This shouldn't be!"

For a moment, they didn't understand what had happened inside.

"Zhou Shixiong, where is Zhou Shixiong?"

Just as the few were discussing calling over a few Golden Core core disciples, Lu Yaoyao suddenly screamed and hurriedly looked around.

The crowd, who were still having lingering fears, also hurriedly looked left and right. Sure enough, they didn't see Zhou Qing.

"Wasn't he at the very back?"

"Yes, logically speaking, he should have rushed out before us?"

"Didn't you see him when you came out?"

"I was too busy running and didn't see him."

Everyone said one thing after another, full of strangeness. A living person that big, and yet when they came out, no one noticed him.

Lu Yaoyao even knelt down in front of the old women with a thud, her face full of anxiety.

"Supreme Elder, please, you must save Zhou Shixiong. He gave all his Yang Fire Talismans to me; he can't resist those wandering souls alone."

The old women frowned and all looked in unison at the huge bronze gate in the mountains.

"How about I go in and take a look?" The old woman who had just had a breakthrough in her cultivation method spoke up.

But she was quickly stopped by the others.

"Too risky. Once that thing wakes up, it won't distinguish between friend and foe. If things go wrong, it will cause irreversible damage inside. Wait a moment, I will notify the Sect Master to bring people over!"

One of the old women instantly turned into a stream of light and left.

Lu Yaoyao, with red eyes, looked anxiously at the bronze gate.

Not long after, Sect Master Cao Zhengyang arrived in a hurry with his two direct disciples.

"You two hurry in and ensure that Zhou Qing is rescued as soon as possible. Remember, suppress your cultivation as much as you can!" Cao Zhengyang instructed with a solemn face.

The two bowed to indicate they understood, and then flew in quickly...

(End of chapter)