Inside the nameless valley, it was a complete mess.
Under the power of the magic talismans, the Transporting Formation on the ground was destroyed. None of the cultivators from Descending Star City were spared; all of them were seriously injured.
As for the other cultivators who escaped from the Disorienting Cave, Jin Shi and the other two didn't have enough medicinal pills. Yu Gui was already dead, and Yong and Qiu weren't much better off — their lives were hanging by a thread.
The only one who was still in good condition was the sword cultivator Jianxin.
Although he took the initiative to attack Mei City, City Lord Mei's target was Nie Wushang and Mo Tiange, so she ignored him. Therefore, he was only injured by City Lord Mei's devil aura.
Right at this moment, a person flew out of the broken restriction node.
This person was dressed in black. He was tall, had a gloomy expression, and his hands were hidden in his sleeves.
The spiritual aura around him surged. When he lifted his sleeves, a silver light could be vaguely seen.
He looked coldly in the direction City Lord Mei disappeared, then lowered his head to look at the scene. He snorted coldly and waved his right hand. A gust of devil aura gushed out and hit the bodies of the seriously injured cultivators.
"You …" Elder Liang, who was seriously injured but hadn't died, was indescribably shocked. "You didn't die?!"
The person sneered and said gloomily, "Do you think I'm a bunch of idiots?"
He lifted his silver fake hand and smashed a mass of devil aura on Elder Liang's body. Elder Liang, who was already seriously injured, instantly stopped breathing.
The person didn't stop moving. With a mass of devil aura in his hand, he instantly killed almost all the people present, including the cultivators from Descending Star City and the cultivators who were deceived like him.
Although these people were seriously injured, judging from this person's effortless performance, his strength was obviously extraordinary.
Seeing this, Jianxin shook his sleeves. His flying sword emitted a clear cry and stared at the person with extreme vigilance.
The person just glanced at him and didn't intend to attack. He raised his hand and put the Qiankun Bags of the devil cultivators into his bag. He said expressionlessly, "You can have the rest." Right after he said that, he shook his sleeves and flew in the opposite direction of City Lord Mei.
Jianxin heaved a sigh of relief. He covered his chest and coughed.
Before he entered the secret place, he had already noticed this person. He was also at the peak of the middle stage of Core Formation. With just a glance, he could tell that this person's fake hands were extraordinarily powerful and definitely not someone easy to deal with.
Sure enough, this person had been hiding in the cave while they had been battling with City Lord Mei. He hadn't revealed a single trace of himself. So, he had easily escaped after they had lured City Lord Mei away.
Now that both of them were injured, this person actually didn't forget to seize the opportunity to kill them and seize their treasures after coming out of the cave. He was truly meticulous, ruthless, and greedy!
Fortunately, this person did not intend to be his enemy.
Although he was injured, he wasn't as badly injured as the others. If they were to fight, they might not necessarily lose to him. Since he was so smart, he would naturally take advantage of the situation and leave. If he stayed here any longer, who knew what would happen.
Thinking up to this point, Jianxin raised his head to look in the direction Mo Tiange and the others fled. A hint of worry flashed in his eyes.
He remembered that the Bewildering Trace Fog was in that direction. If the two of them were lucky and could enter the Bewildering Trace Fog, they would still have a chance to escape.
However, under the pursuit of a Nascent Soul cultivator, would they be able to hold on until then?
Jianxin thought for a while then shook his head. He picked up the remaining Qiankun Bags on the ground, summoned his flying sword, and also fled in the opposite direction.
He treasured his own life more. Now that things had come to this, he could only pray for good luck for them.
At this moment, Mo Tiange was running frantically.
She didn't know why City Lord Mei was blocked by the Heaven and Earth Fan, but now wasn't the time to investigate this.
Fortunately, this time, City Lord Mei's breath was getting farther and farther away. He didn't chase after her even after she safely entered the Bewildering Trace Fog.
Mo Tiange breathed a sigh of relief. At this distance, she didn't even need the Land Shrinking Ruler to have enough time to enter the Virtual Sky World.
She looked down at the still unconscious Nie Wushang and noticed that her Primordial Devil Aura had spread to her hand. A trace of hesitation flashed in her eyes, but in the end, she still pressed the space between her eyebrows and activated the Virtual Sky World.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths … City Lord Mei's breath was still so far away. Finally, the pearl between her eyebrows shone brightly, engulfing both her and Nie Wushang.
Seeing the familiar small house and flowing water again, Mo Tiange sat paralyzed in the small house, almost unable to move, as if all the strength in her body had been sucked out.
It wasn't only because she was attacked by City Lord Mei, causing the spiritual breath in her body to surge and seriously injured, but also because she was so nervous that she was almost on the verge of collapse.
Strictly speaking, the crisis this time wasn't as dangerous as the one on Demonic Mountain. However, at that time, she had Qin Xi by her side. He was very experienced, so he often avoided danger in advance.
This time, however, she was almost single-handedly facing the pursuit of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
After closing her eyes to rest for a while, she suddenly heard Nie Wushang groan.
Mo Tiange opened her eyes and was shocked to see Nie Wushang, who was thrown aside by her.
Ever since she absorbed that monster, Nie Wushang's whole body had been enveloped by Primordial Devil Aura. She was like a silkworm spinning a cocoon, completely motionless.
At this very moment, the Primordial Devil Aura around her body began to surge incessantly, as if it was very restless.
Mo Tiange carefully observed for a while and discovered that the Primordial Devil Aura and the spiritual aura in the Virtual Sky World seemed to be fighting.
"How could this be?" she muttered to herself.
While she was pondering, she suddenly felt a pain in her left hand. She looked down and saw that it was eroded by Primordial Devil Aura when she pulled Nie Wushang to escape.
Primordial Devil Aura was very similar to the dead aura she encountered before; they both had corrosive power. Therefore, before she entered the Virtual Sky World, she was worried that Primordial Devil Aura would also prevent her from entering the Virtual Sky World. In that case, she could only hide in the Mystifying Trace Fog and play hide-and-seek with City Lord Mei.
Fortunately, that didn't happen. Compared to dead aura, this Primordial Devil Aura was a bit less violent and a bit purer.
But when she was certain that Primordial Devil Aura and the Virtual Sky World didn't conflict, she discovered that the situation wasn't that simple.
If this Primordial Devil Aura was the purest devil aura from the Distant Past era, then the spiritual aura in the Virtual Sky World was also the purest spiritual aura in the world today. In that case, it wasn't impossible for the two to conflict.
Seeing that the confrontation between the devil aura and the spirit aura was becoming more and more violent, Mo Tiange hesitated for a moment and laid a formation around Nie Wushang to block the spiritual aura outside.
After a while, Nie Wushang slowly calmed down and continued to fall into a deep sleep, which made Mo Tiange heave a sigh of relief.
From the looks of it, Nie Wushang probably wouldn't wake up in a short time. The monster from before was so powerful that it could be said it surpassed Nie Wushang's realm. Under such circumstances, Nie Wushang's behavior was basically absorbing the monster's Primordial Devil Aura by force.
If she wanted to wake up, she would have to turn all the Primordial Devil Aura into her own. In that case, it would take at least a year for her to wake up.
This made Mo Tiange happy on one hand and worried on the other.
She was happy because she could leave the Virtual Sky World before Nie Wushang woke up, so she wouldn't have to explain anything to her.
But she was worried because she would have to take care of Nie Wushang for some time.
In any case, the situation was already like this, so she could only let nature take its course.
After thinking up to this point, Mo Tiange took a short rest and ordered the two stone sculpture puppets to clean up a wooden house. She then carefully laid a formation inside the wooden house to isolate the spiritual aura. Afterward, she moved Nie Wushang into that house and left her to fend for herself.
She couldn't help Nie Wushang digest the Primordial Devil Aura at all. Now, she could only rely on Nie Wushang herself. If she could absorb all the Primordial Devil Aura, she might even be able to profit from the disaster and her cultivation level would rise greatly.
But if she couldn't absorb it completely, she might have to suffer a backlash. As for what the consequences would be, Mo Tiange couldn't guess.
After dealing with Nie Wushang, she released the three spiritual beasts and sent them to cultivate on their own. As for herself, she regulated her breathing for several days. After temporarily controlling her injuries, she began to think about this matter.
There were a lot of things left in City Lord Mei's matter.
First of all, her injuries weren't light. Nie Wushang needed several years to digest the Primordial Devil Aura, so she might also need several years to completely recover from her remaining injuries.
Second, she was eroded by the Primordial Devil Aura. Although it wasn't serious, it would take some time to force it out of her body.
Finally, she couldn't figure out why City Lord Mei was injured.
While she was healing her injuries, Mo Tiange recalled the situation at that time over and over again.
The White Silk Handkerchief, the Diamond Talisman, and the Heaven and Earth Fan — these three treasures allowed her to survive City Lord Mei's attack, but she only suffered serious injuries.
The White Silk Handkerchief and the Diamond Talisman didn't have any problems. Only the Heaven and Earth Fan emitted a strong and vast sacred aura at that time.
But when she took out the Heaven and Earth Fan afterward, it was still the same as before — she couldn't find that kind of aura at all.
If she remembered correctly, this aura should be the divine dragon's aura she once felt in the Divine Dragon Sacrificial Temple.
The Land of Hiding Dragon collapsed, the Divine Dragon Sacrificial Temple disappeared, and the dragon bones were also scattered all over the ground. At that time, the divine dragon's aura was a lot weaker. After she picked it up and made it into the Heaven and Earth Fan, the divine dragon's aura became even harder to detect.
This made her wonder whether the method of refining the magic weapon was wrong. After all, even Mo Yaoqing couldn't refine the Heaven and Earth Fan.
However, Qin Xi told her that the method of refining the magic weapon should be correct. It was just that even when Mo Yaoqing conceived this magic weapon, she didn't expect that someone would actually use dragon bones to refine it, right?
After all, the bones of ordinary demonic beasts above the eighth rank were just hard to break, but they wouldn't have such a powerful aura.
Mo Tiange accepted this explanation. In any case, after the experiment, this Heaven and Earth Fan was refined with dragon bones and was extremely tough — this was an obvious benefit.
However, she never expected that this thing would actually emit such a strong divine dragon's aura one day.
Could it be that after these dragon bones were refined, the dragon's aura didn't actually disperse but was hidden deep inside?
Thinking of this possibility, Mo Tiange became excited.
If that was the case, the power of her Heaven and Earth Fan wouldn't just be what it was now. If she could stimulate that vast and sacred divine dragon's aura, her Heaven and Earth Fan would definitely be comparable to those ancient spiritual treasures!
But how could she stimulate this divine dragon's aura?
She carefully recalled the scene at that time. City Lord Mei's devil aura attack … Right!
Primordial Devil aura! Although City Lord Mei couldn't absorb that monster, she cultivated that mysterious technique, so she also had Primordial Devil aura in her body!