Chapter 300

Chapter 300: Interested in teaming up with me?
Yu Zhao said, “No need.”

Those two light words did not rise or fall much, but they carried an invisible pressure. Wei Ying nodded in reflexive obedience.

After a few breaths, she suddenly realized something was wrong. Her face changed in a rush as she blurted: “Yu Zhao, you alone…”

Before she could finish, a Daoist figure suddenly flashed in front of Tian Pu Zi and struck his dantian with one palm.

Wei Ying almost screamed from excitement.

“Yu Zhao!”

It was Yu Zhao!

She had formed her Nascent Soul!

Yu Zhao’s cultivation speed was so shocking that everyone who knew her would have the same thought the moment they saw her.

Bang!

With a dull crash, Yu Zhao’s body was knocked flying backward.

Tian Pu Zi stood firmly in place. His pale face showed a mocking look.

If Yu Zhao used soul force against him, he would still fear her a little. But she actually tried to compete with him using spirit power. That was simply seeking death.

Thinking of the hidden loss he had just suffered under Yu Zhao’s hand, the calm between Tian Pu Zi’s brows turned into a vicious gloom.

He tapped the ground with his foot. His whole body shot out like a breeze, rushing toward where Yu Zhao had fallen.

Strike while he is sick and take his life.

He would not give her a second chance to use illusion art.

As Tian Pu Zi chased after Yu Zhao, the Ancestor of the Tu Clan and the other Nascent Soul old fiend also joined in to help when they saw what was happening.

The auras of four Nascent Soul cultivators mixed together in an instant. Their combined might was so huge that even the sky seemed to dim.

“What are you still standing around for? Hurry up and save them!”

Hua Tu saw Tian Pu Zi’s helpers join the fight and worried Yu Zhao would suffer. He rushed over at top speed. His two legs moved even faster than when he was in his four-legged form.

Before he left, he did not forget to wake the stunned Wei Ying.

Wei Ying was, after all, an elite disciple that Tai Bai Academy had carefully trained for many years. Once she understood the current situation, she gave up her original plan at once and called Junior Sister Ning, Junior Brother Sha, and the others to help rescue the young children tied to the jade pillars.

Besides them, there were also the small lackeys from the Heaven’s Condemnation Organization.

They treated Tian Pu Zi like a god. Even when he was not present, they still stubbornly carried out the tasks he had arranged.

So the six people from Tai Bai Academy had to free up their hands to get rid of these lackeys first before they could save anyone.

On the other side, Yu Zhao lured Tian Pu Zi and the other two to a deserted place and stopped moving.

The three of them also came to a halt.

Taking advantage of the break, Hua Tu flew forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Yu Zhao.

The two sides faced each other from a distance. No one spoke, but a heavy killing intent spread through the air.

At this moment, Tian Pu Zi suddenly spoke in a firm tone: “So it was you again, Yu Zhao.”

Again?

Yu Zhao sharply caught that strange word and her mind spun fast.

The Ancestor of the Tu Clan and the other Nascent Soul old fiend both changed color at his words. A faint unease showed on their faces.

Clearly, they had also heard Yu Zhao’s name and knew of her identity and background.

Yu Zhao and Han Xinlan were both disciples of the same sect, but the meanings behind their names were completely different.

Yu Zhao’s identity was no longer just a simple disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect. Without exaggeration, she was the leader among the younger generation of cultivators, a rising star on whom the whole cultivation world placed great hopes.

If she suffered an accident, it would surely set off a wave that shook the entire cultivation world.

Everyone who had ever had contact with her would be investigated from all sides. They would not leave even the smallest clue unchecked.

In other words, if Yu Zhao died, the people who killed her would not have a good end either.

The Ancestor of the Tu Clan was neither very bold nor very timid.

He dared to kidnap Han Xinlan from Hundred Flowers Valley. But if he had to attack Yu Zhao and make an enemy of the Five Elements Dao Sect, he would not dare even if you gave him a thousand more guts.

The other Nascent Soul old fiend thought almost the same.

After just one meeting with Yu Zhao, more than half of their fighting spirit had already vanished.

Tian Pu Zi did not know that his believers, whom he thought were devout, had already started to waver and were ready to betray him at any time.

He was still loudly cursing Yu Zhao.

He questioned her for not staying quietly in the Five Elements Dao Sect and instead running out to meddle in other people’s business. He ranted that today would be the day of her death and so on.

He spoke with great passion, but Yu Zhao and Hua Tu standing opposite him had no reaction at all.

Yu Zhao was still thinking about what connection she might have with Tian Pu Zi. As for Hua Tu, he could not stand long, empty speeches and only treated Tian Pu Zi’s words as farts.

So Tian Pu Zi’s voice grew lower and lower. His face turned redder and redder and was even starting to turn purple.

Luckily, Yu Zhao did not let him stay embarrassed for long.

She asked calmly: “What is your relationship with Gui Lao?”

Gui Lao was the heretic cultivator who had died by Yu Zhao’s hand not long ago.

To refine Blood Pills, she had crazily captured demon beast cubs and even set her sights on the demon beasts’ lair in the Dragon Pool Mountains. In the end, she brought ruin upon herself.

Yu Zhao linked Gui Lao and Tian Pu Zi together for two reasons. First, both of them had attacked younglings using something like a blood sacrifice method. Second, the only people who had clashed with her recently were Gui Lao and her group.

Other than that, Yu Zhao could not think of any other possibility.

“Ha! Gui Lao? What kind of thing is that? I don’t know her!” Tian Pu Zi denied it at once.

Yu Zhao let out a cold laugh.

It did not matter if he would not admit it. She preferred to dig the answers she wanted straight from her enemy’s mind.

With a wave of her slim hand, the Mirror of Fleeting Lives appeared in front of her chest.

Tian Pu Zi and the other two tensed up at once. They gathered their focus and wrapped themselves in dozens of layers of spirit power barriers.

Yu Zhao was just about to pour spirit power into the realm inside the Mirror of Fleeting Lives when she suddenly had a thought. She turned her head toward Hua Tu, and the corner of her lips lifted in a faint smile.

Hua Tu shivered for no reason and looked confused.

“Interested in teaming up with me for a fight?” she asked.

“Yes!!”

Hua Tu howled the answer. His two faint canine teeth showed in full.

Hadn’t he been waiting for this moment all along?

“What do I need to do?” he asked.

Excited as he was, Hua Tu also felt a little nervous.

He was afraid he would not be able to show his full strength, and also afraid he would hold Yu Zhao back.

Yu Zhao used voice transmission to whisper a few words in his ear, then patted the Mirror of Fleeting Lives in front of her.

Hua Tu’s eyes lit up and he nodded again and again.

“Good, good, let’s do it like this!”

Tian Pu Zi did not know what Yu Zhao and Hua Tu were plotting. His heart felt as if a cat were scratching it, and a vague fear rose within him.

He realized he could not wait any longer. He ordered the Ancestor of the Tu Clan and the other Nascent Soul old fiend to come forward with him to slay the “evil demon.”

Of course, the so-called evil demon meant Yu Zhao.

The Ancestor of the Tu Clan and his partner were extremely unwilling, but they could only obey Tian Pu Zi’s long-built authority.

This moment showed clearly the difference between acting of one’s own will and acting under pressure.

Tian Pu Zi charged ahead, rushing at the front. The two believers pulled angry and anxious faces but followed behind him at a slow pace. No matter how they tried, they just could not seem to speed up.

Seeing them come over, Yu Zhao slowly took the Lotus Incense Burner from her waist and threw it out.

As someone well versed in soul arts, Tian Pu Zi naturally knew how dangerous it was to combine illusion art with incense blends. He quickly held his breath and dodged to the right.

The other two copied him.

In an instant, their attacks fell into chaos.