The moment the spiritual aura vortex rushed towards them, everyone reacted differently.
Nie Wushang, who was wearing a boxing glove, threw a punch at the ice field. With a loud bang, the snowy mist on the ice field flew up and formed a barrier around her.
Yong Ruyu and Qiu Chengruo each took out a jade bracelet and intertwined them. The two jade bracelets combined into one and emitted a dazzling light from the point where they intersected, forming a powerful shield that protected the two of them tightly.
As for Mo Tiange, she fumbled in her Qiankun Bag and took out the White Silk Handkerchief. With a light wave, the White Silk Handkerchief turned into mist and surrounded her.
Of course, these were just self-protection methods. The Middle Ages trial wouldn't let them pass so easily.
After stabilizing themselves in the snowstorm, the four of them used their own methods to fight against the snowstorm that attacked them.
In the beginning, although Mo Tiange was cautious, she didn't care too much because they had just entered the land of the trial. Logically speaking, this trial shouldn't be too difficult. However, not long after, she became more and more surprised.
These snowstorms seemed to have intelligence. They could actually adjust the direction and strength of their attacks according to the changes in the spiritual aura around her!
The Middle Ages divine power was indeed unusual.
After fighting for several breaths, they blocked the snowstorm several dozen feet away again. Mo Tiange shook her sleeves and summoned the Eight Trigrams of Tai Chi. Then, she turned her wrist and summoned the Heaven and Earth Fan.
The cold wind became fiercer and fiercer. Ice chips and snowflakes hit the spiritual aura barrier around the four of them, carrying a powerful momentum.
The four of them held their breath and focused, fighting against the invisible snowstorm giant.
The snowstorm became fiercer and fiercer, as if there was a faint hand controlling them from behind. The four of them were able to handle it with ease in the beginning, but gradually, they became flustered.
Yong Ruyu and Qiu Chengruo were in the early stage of the Core Formation realm. Although they could defeat ordinary cultivators, they were only on par with a middle stage Core Formation cultivator like Mo Tiange.
As for Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang, although they weren't unable to handle it, their spiritual aura was slowly becoming chaotic …
"Calm your mind!" Upon realizing this, Mo Tiange shouted, "We have to join hands!"
In any case, if they worked together and supported each other, the situation would be better than fighting alone. They wouldn't lose sight of each other.
These past few days, Nie Wushang and Mo Tiange had developed a certain level of tacit understanding. Now, without saying a word, she immediately approached Mo Tiange.
But what surprised them was that Yong Ruyu and Qiu Chengruo also came over to them without the slightest hesitation.
Mo Tiange felt a bit strange, but she also felt very relieved.
When they traveled together, they were not afraid of being on guard against each other, but they were afraid of not being able to cooperate at the critical moment.
Although the cultivation levels of these two people were slightly low, they were both smart people. If the two of them joined hands, they would have considerable strength. In this case, at least she and Nie Wushang wouldn't be a burden.
The four of them met up, and the surrounding snowstorm immediately became more intense. However, everyone only needed to be in charge of one direction, so it was much easier than before.
Mo Tiange unfolded the Heaven and Earth Fan. Countless petals and branches flew out of the fan, entangling with the wind and snow in front of her.
As her cultivation level increased, she gradually figured out several ways to use the Heaven and Earth Fan.
Inside the Fan of Heaven and Earth, not only were there mountains and rivers, there were also flowers, birds, fishes, and insects. All of them could be materialized. As long as her skill was high enough, she could make them materialize and use them as fighting techniques.
Seeing her method, Yong Ruyu looked at her with surprise.
The four of them met up. Mo Tiange had spare energy now, so when she saw his look, she couldn't help but ask, "Fellow Daoist Yong, is there something wrong?"
Yong Ruyu shook her head. "It's nothing. It's just that Fellow Daoist Qin's magic weapon is very powerful. Its control of spiritual aura has reached a subtle level. Even though cultivators from Yunzhong are famous for being good at controlling spiritual aura, it's not easy for them to reach this level. I'm just a bit surprised."
She wasn't a cultivator from Yunzhong, which was what she said when they met in Sky Snow City. It wasn't strange for Yong Ruyu to have such an idea.
But Mo Tiange just smiled and didn't explain much.
This magic weapon came from Mo Yaoqing's idea. Mo Yaoqing was originally a cultivator from Yunzhong, and she was also a genius, so she had her own way of thinking about controlling spiritual aura.
After Mo Tiange refined this magic weapon according to her idea, she slowly fumbled along Mo Yaoqing's ideas, so she naturally made great progress in controlling spiritual aura.
With the four of them working together, the invisible hand controlling the whirlpool of wind and snow gradually weakened.
Just as the four of them breathed a sigh of relief, the snowflakes flying around them suddenly froze into ice cubes and smashed down!
"Watch out!" Nie Wushang shouted. She then leaped into the air and punched the air with her fists.
Upon seeing this, Mo Tiange's heart trembled. It wasn't only because of the ice cubes, but also because of Nie Wushang's strength.
Her fists that struck the air were almost illusory. With the strength of her fist technique alone, she managed to block these ice cubes!
Martial cultivators! So this was a martial cultivator! What formidable strength!
In the past hundred years, Mo Tiange hadn't seen many martial cultivators, and she hadn't seen any who reached the Core Formation realm.
When she followed Second Uncle and wandered about, she once saw a martial cultivator.
That martial cultivator was the same as Second Uncle — he was already more than 200 years old, but he was still in the early stage of the Foundation Building realm.
He said martial cultivators were a bit stronger than ordinary magic cultivators in fights of magical power, but it was much harder for them to make a realm-breakthrough. Those who could cultivate to the Core Formation realm were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
He cultivated painstakingly for more than 200 years. With his martial strength alone, many middle stage cultivators were no match for him, and he could even fight against late stage cultivators. However, he couldn't see any hope of making a realm-breakthrough.
He believed that if a martial cultivator advanced to the Core Formation realm, he would be even stronger. However, he didn't have the chance.
Mo Tiange didn't know what happened to that martial cultivator. He was just a person she and Second Uncle came into contact with during their wanderings.
She understood this martial cultivator's desolate and helpless feeling, but she didn't have the chance to verify his words.
It wasn't until today, when she saw Nie Wushang attacking with all her strength, that she realized what that martial cultivator said was right.
A martial cultivator who cultivated to the Core Formation realm was a terrifying existence.
If she didn't have so many spiritual treasures, if she was just an ordinary Core Formation cultivator, she definitely wouldn't be Nie Wushang's opponent.
Thinking up to this point, Mo Tiange glanced at Nie Wushang with a complicated expression. After a while, she couldn't help but laugh.
She didn't want to enjoy the pleasure of giving pointers to Nie Wushang when she befriended him. On the contrary, she hoped to have a like-minded person with whom she could discuss and advance together.
She was confident that she wasn't an ordinary Core Formation cultivator, and she also had lofty ideals and firm confidence. That being the case, the stronger Nie Wushang was, wouldn't it be more motivating for her?
The strength of a friend shouldn't be a pressure to hold her back, but a motivation to speed up.
"Why are you in a daze?
If you don't help me, I'm going to die of exhaustion! "Nie Wushang's grumbling voice reached her ears.
Mo Tiange regained her train of thought and showed a faint smile. The momentum on her body suddenly became stronger, and she continuously waved the Heaven and Earth Fan. Countless flowers and trees knocked away the falling ice cubes.
An hour later, the ice cubes gradually disappeared, and the spiritual aura in their surroundings finally returned to normal.
The four of them heaved sighs of relief. Each of them found a place to sit down and began to recover their spiritual aura.
According to their current situation, they should've passed this test.
An Ancient Divine Ability was an Ancient Divine Ability after all. In this trial, every one of them was almost exhausted before they could pass.
However, Mo Tiange also felt a bit strange. She always felt that although this Illusory Formation was brilliant, it wasn't powerful enough. Logically speaking, an Ancient Divine Ability shouldn't only have this kind of power.
However, it wasn't entirely true to say that this wasn't an Ancient Divine Ability. She indeed sensed an Ancient Divine Ability's aura from it, and she also sensed its profoundness and subtlety … This was too strange.
Unable to think of a reason, she shook her head, sat cross-legged, and closed her eyes, concentrating on recovering her spiritual aura.
In any case, they were still in the middle of the trial. If they couldn't recover their spiritual aura in time, it would have a huge impact on the later trials.
Just as this thought crossed her mind, she immediately realized something was wrong —
"Oh?
How could this be?! "Qiu Chengruo's surprised voice reached her ears.
Mo Tiange opened her eyes and stared at her.
Qiu Chengruo's complexion was deathly pale. He stared at her then turned to look at Yong Ruyu. "Senior Martial Brother, I … I seem to be unable to recover my spiritual aura. I tried for a while, but the spiritual aura in my body didn't increase even a bit."
Yong Ruyu's expression changed. He turned to look at Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang. "Fellow Daoists, what about you?"
Nie Wushang frowned and said, "You're right. I've been adjusting my breathing for a while, but the spiritual aura in my body didn't increase."
Upon hearing Nie Wushang's affirmation, Yong Ruyu's expression became somewhat complicated. He seemed to feel a bit relieved, but he also seemed more nervous.
He said with a heavy voice, "Me too." Right after he said that, he and the other two people looked at Mo Tiange.
Being stared at by the three of them, Mo Tiange also nodded.
In fact, when she was meditating just now, the spiritual aura in her body increased slightly, but it didn't mean she wasn't affected.
Now that she had Yang spiritual aura, she had a Chaotic Body, and her body formed a world of its own. Even if there was no external supplement, her spiritual aura could still circulate endlessly.
Because of this, the spiritual aura in her body recovered a bit faster than others, and she also had a slight advantage in fights of magical power.
But just now, she only felt some spiritual aura recovered because of the circulation in her body; she didn't absorb any spiritual aura from the outside at all.
As everyone knew, when cultivators meditated to recover spiritual aura, they could either absorb spiritual aura from the outside to replenish it or circulate spiritual aura in their meridians during the Great Circulatory Cycle, which could produce weak spiritual aura.
However, the spiritual aura produced by the latter was extremely weak, so in most cases, cultivators absorbed spiritual aura from the outside. It was also for this reason that spirit veins played a vital role in cultivators' cultivation.
But now, when they were meditating and adjusting their breathing, they couldn't absorb spiritual aura from the outside at all. It was as if the spiritual aura in their surroundings had been silently stolen.
If they were in the secular world, a place without spirit veins, this kind of situation would be very normal. However, they could clearly feel the surging spiritual aura in their surroundings!
Strange! This was too strange!
There was endless spiritual aura in their surroundings, but they couldn't absorb it. It was as if this spiritual aura was isolated from them.
Even though they were Core Formation cultivators, this kind of situation still surpassed their understanding.
According to common sense, this kind of situation shouldn't have happened!
What went wrong in the end?
Could it be that this spiritual aura couldn't be absorbed?
Silence spread among the four of them. Everyone was contemplating, but none of them could figure out the reason.
After a long time, Mo Tiange took a deep breath and said, "We'll talk about this later. Right now, we have to recover our spiritual aura. We can't delay any longer."
With her reminder, the other three people seemed to wake up from a dream. They each took out medicinal pills and spirit stones.
Since they couldn't absorb spiritual aura from the outside world, they could only rely on external objects.