Chapter 458

The two women collided, causing the mountain peak to shake violently, nearly completely destroying the various defensive prohibitions set up on the peak.

Their bodies pressed against the mountain peak for a while, then the two women simultaneously took deep breaths, dispelling the domineering force they had endured, and then let out a shout together.

Right in front of Wu Tie, above the circular peak, two beautiful figures that took one's breath away left countless afterimages.

The afterimages faced each other in pairs, exchanging punches and kicks, the sound like thunder.

The circular peak below trembled; the surrounding lake water surged up without wind, forming countless water columns that rose tens of li high, like white jade pillars planted on the lake surface. Then the water columns collapsed with a boom, and tens of thousands of tons of lake water slammed heavily onto the lake surface, emitting a terrifying roar.

The antlion lying on the stone beam let out a low growl; on its ferocious, ugly head, its eyes glowed with bloody light, like huge blood-red suns fixedly staring this way.

The two women fought fiercely in the air, shaking the void, and from time to time a strange tearing sound could be heard.

Suddenly, with a 'hahaha', the girl who had come riding the antlion flickered a few times to break free from the battle group, laughing as she planted one knee on the ground and knelt on a protruding rock at the waist of a distant large mountain.

"Ha, red lass, your clothes are ruined!" the girl exclaimed triumphantly, slapping the stone beneath her feet.

The red-dressed girl's body swayed, then she heavily landed before Wu Tie, shaking the mountain peak slightly; the ensuing gale blew against the wooden building behind, tearing many vines and such attached to it, which flew backward in a chaotic 'hualala'.

Her red dress was completely shattered, turning into palm-sized red fragments that fluttered down in the wind.

Soon the red-dressed girl, like the savage girl, had only a close-fitting leather inner armor left; the armor gleamed like beautiful jade, extremely thin and light, outlining her lovely figure to perfection.

"Wild lass! You've destroyed my clothes again!" the red-dressed girl shouted, jumping with rage, her voice shaking the earth and mountains: "This garment is made of ten-thousand-year black-gold silkworm silk; it took me half a year to make one!"

The savage girl laughed 'haha', pointing at the red-dressed girl and chuckling endlessly: "Anyway, I've hated your skirt-wearing style since childhood… so I said, every time I see you, I'll ruin one of your outfits, hehe… wouldn't it be better to wear animal skins like me? Mighty and imposing, how great!"

The red-dressed girl was so angry smoke seemed to rise from her seven orifices; she clenched her fists tightly, continuously making crisp 'pa-pa' sounds.

"Mighty and imposing? Who wants to be as mighty and imposing as you? You, you, you savage wretch!"

The red-dressed girl's body trembled slightly; Wu Tie thought she was about to rush out and brawl with the savage girl, but she instead took a deep breath, flipped her palm, and produced another beautiful long skirt, which she put on.

The savage girl's laughter stopped abruptly; she widened her eyes at the red-dressed girl and snapped: "Red lass, I just destroyed one of your skirts last month—how, how…"

She counted on her fingers: "The ten-thousand-year black-gold silkworm silk produces only this much per year; the silk you've hoarded for half a year is enough for just one skirt. Last month I destroyed one of your skirts, and you managed to remake a conceited one—surely you've exhausted the stock? How do you still have another?"

The red-dressed girl leisurely tidied the long skirt, smoothing the lapels and sleeves, then said coolly: "The ten-thousand-year black-gold silkworm always lays eggs and hatches baby silkworms… heh, half a year ago they hatched many baby silkworms; though their silk isn't as fine as that of the ten-thousand-year black-gold silkworm, the quantity is enormous, more than enough for making clothes."

She lifted her head arrogantly, looked at the savage girl and snorted coldly: "From now on, even if you destroy one of my skirts each month, I'll always be able to have a new long skirt, hehe."

The savage girl furrowed her brows, her thick brows knitting, a flash of wild ferocity in her eyes: "Then I'll just beat you once every half month, hehe."

The red-dressed girl's face turned extremely gloomy; she gritted her teeth, stomped her foot hard, and snapped: "Then if you come again, there will be no tea or snacks—beware, I'll trap you with the Myriad Dragon Suppresses the Eight Wastelands Grand Formation and starve you for ten days to half a month!"

The savage girl blinked her eyes, then suddenly pointed at the red-dressed girl and laughed.

"Ha, haha, still the Myriad Dragon Suppresses the Eight Wastelands Formation? The formation you use to guard your father's grave—isn't its eye that Nine Dragon Furnace? I watched it crumble with my own eyes, hehe—this formation is finished!"

The savage girl laughed so hard she leaned forward and backward, nearly toppling off the stone.

The red-dressed girl's body suddenly stiffened, her face turning deathly black; she glanced at the unconscious youths on the ground and suddenly snapped: "What just happened?"

Wu Tie tightly closed his eyes, pretending he too had fainted—basically playing dead and staying silent.

The red-dressed girl, fuming mad, soared into the air, formed hand seals, and murmured incantations; torrents of majestic, vast magical power like divine dragons poured from her palms, heavily striking the mountain heads surrounding the circular peak.

One mountain after another erupted with blinding light; on their summits, archways, gateways, altars, and ornamental columns continuously emerged, along with dazzling banners and great flags flying in the air, faintly revealing ascending dragons, and countless scaled divine beasts flickering in the light and shadow.

What a grand, massive, and complex formation.

Yet this formation was like a dead thing—though its momentum was astonishing, the spell showed no sign of operation; all its manifestations were frozen in midair, simply hanging there motionless.

"Where is the Nine Dragon Furnace?" the red-dressed girl asked, at a loss, glancing around.

"It's shattered, haha!" the savage girl laughed, sitting on the stone, swinging her legs over the cliff, looking delighted: "I saw it break with my own eyes; otherwise, why would I come to a graveyard to pick a fight with you at the start of each month if I had nothing better to do?"

"Shattered?" the red-dressed girl's eyes twitched violently, her little face contorted, suddenly giving off a feeling of dark clouds gathering, as if thunder and lightning could strike at any moment.

"That is the innate spirit treasure embryo born of heaven and earth, harvested by my Great Jin ancestors, then nurtured for a hundred thousand years by twenty-four divine-ancestor experts using countless heavenly and earthly rarities—a national treasure!"

"Such a treasure, indestructible through myriad calamities—tell me how it shattered?" The space beside the red-dressed girl warped, and a suffocating, urgent pressure welled up.

Over a hundred giant-dragon-like waterfalls, plunging from hundreds of li above, suddenly froze in the void, each droplet suspended motionless. Above the red-dressed girl's head, a vast solar-wheel light gradually emerged, and the surrounding heaven and earth instantly heated up.

"What? Are you angry?" the savage girl laughed ever more brightly: "I don't know why, but seeing you get angry makes me so happy—especially since I was little, seeing you suffer misfortune and beatings made me ecstatic."

"Hehe, I feel this is again your doing… your bunch of idiots just took that furnace to deal with that guy on the Escape Dragon Pillar… but it seems that guy's physique is very solid, and the furnace couldn't do anything to him!"

"After that, I also don't know what happened… ah, your broken furnace just went 'boom'—it exploded, shattered, and then vanished." The savage girl spread her hands, helplessly laughing at the furious red-dressed girl: "You know, I'm too lazy to cultivate magic or soul power; I've always just relied on my fists to beat you."

"How that furnace broke, and where the shards went—I really can't figure it out. Anyway, it looked really solid!"

The savage girl pointed at the giant antlion lying on the distant stone beam and chuckled: "Xiao Ya says she's quite happy… because when she was little, you used that broken furnace to roast her butt… so this time that broken furnace totally collapsed, she's delighted… and of course, I'm even happier!"

The savage girl laughed until her brows rose and her eyes nearly closed into slits, her beautiful large eyes almost squinting to a line.

"Especially, since you were little, whenever you caused trouble you'd get a brutal beating from your sister… this time you've stirred up an even bigger mess… oh dear, I can't help but want to see how you get beaten. It'll surely be wonderful." The savage girl grew excited, her face flushing red, her body trembling slightly.

"Ah, the last time your sister beat you, she couldn't find a suitable implement, so I passed her a ten-thousand-year-old bramble vine."

"This time, I guess she'll strike even harder… I need to prepare in advance—do you prefer a spiked whip or a non-spiked one?"

The savage girl laughed extraordinarily brightly; even as the red-dressed girl seethed with rage, a hint of fear appeared on her little face.

She stared blankly for a moment, then suddenly threw her head back and let out a long whistle: "You bunch of idiots, wake up—what have you done?"

The red-dressed girl's hand trembled; a thread of fire shot out, instantly turning into a wholly crimson whip, sparks flying, its surface densely covered with sharp barbs, and she lashed it heavily at the youths lying unconscious on the ground.

With a 'si-si' sound, the whip struck the youths' unarmored cheeks and palms, leaving deep black lash marks.

This whip obviously hurts terribly; the youths who had been knocked unconscious by the Five Elements Divine Light each screamed shrilly, jumped up, their bodies twitching as they frantically bounced in place.

"Your Highness!" several somewhat mature youths cried out in pain while bouncing, panicked looks at the red-dressed girl: "The Nine Dragon Furnace—he, he, he…"

The red-dressed girl stared grimly at those youths: "Take off your armor, take off your battle robes, expose your flesh… hurry up, I swear by my father buried in the mountain that I won't beat you to death."

A group of youths timidly gazed at the red-dressed girl, each with a funereal expression, like a flock of quail standing at the edge of a chopping block, having already seen the gleaming blade of the knife.

"What did you do with the Nine Dragon Furnace? How could you cause it to collapse? You, you…" Behind the red-dressed girl, the solar-wheel light grew ever brighter, a terrifying, overbearing aura bursting forth, as if a true sun were about to leap from behind her.

"You've caused trouble… in the end, it's me who gets beaten!" The red-dressed girl's face twitched with anger as she gritted her teeth and snarled: "Normally stirring up a little trouble is fine, but this time you, you, you destroyed the Nine Dragon Furnace… just wait until Elder Sister emerges from seclusion…"

All the youths simultaneously knelt on the ground, each lowering their heads, not daring to speak.

Wu Tie's ears twitched, "Elder Sister?"

That savage girl, this red-dressed girl, and those youths—all seem to be quite fearful of that "Elder Sister"?

The wild girl shook her two little legs, looked over this way for a while, then suddenly sighed: "Red-haired girl, you ate the nine-headed glazed salamander I wanted you to give last time as a snack for the little girl; I'll find you a way to avoid getting beaten."

The red-dressed girl suddenly turned to look at the wild girl: "You're going to find me a solution? When has it not been your bad idea, ending with me getting beaten?"

The wild girl spread her hands, bluntly asking her: "So, will you listen or not?"

The red-dressed girl remained silent for a moment, then she flung her hand, and a palm-sized jade box flew out of her sleeve, instantly transforming into a huge jade chest several dozen feet long that flew toward the wild girl.

The wild girl gleefully caught the huge jade chest with one palm, carefully placed it beside her, then laughed and said: "Here's what I saw: the Nine Dragon Furnace was wildly bombarding the guy on that Escaping Dragon Pile, but I don't know how it happened; I seemed to see black-and-white light spouting from his eyes, and then the Nine Dragon Furnace exploded not long after."

The wild girl pointed at Wu Tie, laughing and saying: "The Nine Dragon Furnace must have been broken by him……even if it wasn't him, you can still say it was him. Well, I also don't know how you caught him, but……you're usually quite sharp, how did you become stupid today?"

The wild girl shook her head and swayed, saying: "Besides you two, there's only me here; I couldn't possibly have broken the treasure you gave your father to guard the tomb, you certainly wouldn't either, so besides us, only this hard-headed guy remains."

The wild girl laughed 'hahaha', her eyebrows dancing as she looked at Wu Tie.

The red-dressed girl gripped her long whip, step by step approaching Wu Tie, she stared at him fiercely and said in a low voice: "Is it you?"

Wu Tie slowly opened his eyes, looking half-asleep: "What? What is me? Hey, don't go too far, a bunch of people have been beating me for so long, and now you want to switch someone else to hit me?"

"Did you destroy the Nine Dragon Furnace?" the red-dressed girl glared at Wu Tie fiercely.

"Not me, how could it be me?" Wu Tie blinked 'with difficulty': "I've been locked up by you, how could it be me?"

The red-dressed girl kept a straight face, examined Wu Tie up and down for a while, then she firmly nodded: "Regardless of whether it's you, since the wild girl is testifying, it must be you. Right, wild girl?"

The wild girl hurriedly nodded: "Yeah, yeah, I'll testify for you……ah, but after I testify for you, you have to buy me a drink of Drunken Dragon Brew."

Licking the corner of her mouth, the wild girl muttered: "The wine brewed in our clan is all sour, none as good as yours……you have to buy me a drink of Drunken Dragon Brew, otherwise I'll say I saw you smash the Nine Dragon Furnace with my own eyes."

The red-dressed girl's face twitched, she exhaled heavily.