Seeking a Rank-Seven Great Demon!

Having done all this, Ye Feng gave Cao Yan a knowing look, then walked over to Meng Wanshu's side and sent a deep-voiced mental transmission: "Sister-in-law, if there's anything that needs doing, let me go instead." Hearing this, Meng Wanshu shook her head. This task was likely something only she could handle; no one else would do! For Li Guanqi to forge his Void Returning void avatar, he was still missing something! The heart's essence-blood of a great demon, and a sufficiently powerful beast core! Ye Feng's eyes flickered, but he said nothing more, merely urging, "If there is anything you need from us, just say the word." Meng Wanshu replied softly, "Watch over him for me. Before I return, be sure to tell him he must suppress it." Lu Kangnian and the others also wore deeply worried expressions. *Buzz—!* A boundless torrent of ice primal energy surged from Meng Wanshu's body, leveling the ground two feet beneath the ice lotus in an instant. As her power continuously poured in and mingled with the spiritual energy of the spirit stones beneath, the ice primal energy transformed into water-like spiritual liquid that rippled through the cave abode. Xiao Chen and the others all noticed that Meng Wanshu's aura was plummeting violently! They could hardly imagine that someone as powerful as Meng Wanshu could see her aura drop so rapidly—just how immense was the primal energy contained within the spiritual liquid beneath that ice lotus! Meng Wanshu raised her hand, took out three medicinal pills, and swallowed them, only then stabilizing her aura slightly. Sensing the fluctuations of primal energy around Li Guanqi gradually settle, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. She drew her hands back from Li Guanqi's back. Both hands had long since been reduced to a mangled mess of blood and flesh, with stark white bone exposed to the air. Yet a look of relief appeared in her eyes. The lightning energy leaking from Li Guanqi was entirely beyond control; she did not blame him. The sight of her shocking injuries was hard even for Ye Feng to bear. Those once jade-white, delicate hands were now reduced to ghastly white bones clinging to scraps of torn flesh. Even so, the young woman merely knitted her brows slightly without making a sound, though her face was rather pale. As Meng Wanshu rose to her feet, a sudden wave of dizziness hit her head, and she stumbled, nearly toppling off the ice lotus. Quick-witted and deft-handed, Lu Kangnian swiftly raised a hand to support her with an invisible force. Outside the cave abode, Sun Miao stood with a grave look on his face, holding more than a dozen jade vials of varying sizes, every single one filled with the highest-grade pills he could produce. Lu Kangnian opened the cave door. Sun Miao hurried inside, just about to hand over the jade vials— —only to look up and see Meng Wanshu take out an amethyst-jade casket and retrieve a pill the size of a pigeon egg. The moment the jade casket opened, the entire cave abode was flooded with medicinal fragrance. Across the milky-white pill ran countless intricate and profound pill markings, faintly shimmering with luminescence... Sun Miao stared blankly, his mouth twitching slightly as he tossed all the jade vials straight out the door. "Hey? Old Sun, what are you doing?! Why did you throw away all the pills!" Sun Miao huffed in frustration, "They have to actually be useful! Any pill Miss Meng pulls out is at least sixth-rank—what am I even bringing mine out for? Rich... damn bloody rich..." Having done all this, the injuries on Meng Wanshu's hands were also rapidly mending. Her chest rose and fell slightly as she turned toward the others and nodded. She then looked toward Lu Kangnian, bowing with clasped hands. "Senior Lu, I must leave the rest in your hands!" Hearing this, Lu Kangnian nodded heavily and said in a deep voice, "Rest assured, Miss Meng. I will take good care of him!" Ye Feng and the others nodded as well. Outside the door, only the old man was still waiting. One had to know that while he might look down on everyone else in this room, Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu were people he could not afford to provoke under any circumstances. The old man outside remained bowed with his head lowered, not daring to straighten up. Just as Meng Wanshu turned to leave, Li Guanqi's eyelids trembled slightly. Blue veins bulged on his neck, yet his eyes remained shut. Immediately afterward, Jiuxiao, who was coiled around Li Guanqi's wrist, shot forward and wrapped around the young woman's wrist. Then Pengluo's figure slowly emerged from the void, stepping beside the woman with a grave expression. Seeing this, Meng Wanshu couldn't help but frown. "You should stay here." Yet Pengluo shook his head and said with utmost solemnity, "Staying here serves no purpose. I will accompany the Mistress." Meng Wanshu looked up, her eyelashes trembling slightly as she gazed at Li Guanqi. She could feel his concern. Letting Pengluo sit upon her shoulder, she stepped forward, sweeping the old man outside along as they vanished from within the territory of the Great Xia Sword Sect! Once outside the Great Xia Sword Sect, Meng Wanshu's expression returned to her usual cold detachment and pride. "Does the Great Xia Domain have any rank-seven lightning-attribute great demons?" Hearing this, the old man's pupils shrank abruptly! In a grave voice, he said, "Please wait a moment, I will have someone investigate immediately!" Meng Wanshu nodded silently, thoughts churning in her mind. *The Oblivion Thunder Spirit forms the core foundation of the body, accompanied by the Purple Dragon Thunder Flame... Without the essence-blood of a rank-seven great demon, it will be very difficult to forge an exceptionally strong void avatar!* *And with the power of a beast core to assist, the process will go far more smoothly.* Meng Wanshu bit her lip lightly. Even she felt Li Guanqi was playing with fire this time. Before long, the old man returned to her side with an uneasy expression. Meng Wanshu frowned slightly. "Speak plainly." Gritting his teeth, the old man urged, "There is one! But it's far too dangerous. Perhaps Miss Meng should wait for your clan elders, or for the Tianji Pavilion to send a pavilion master to assist you..." Hearing this, Meng Wanshu refused outright. "No! There is no time to delay. Tell me where it is directly!" The old man's expression shifted repeatedly. Unable to dissuade her, he reached out, held out a jade slip, and said in a low voice, "According to Tianji Pavilion intelligence, a Scarlet Thunder Suanni has reportedly just broken through to rank seven!" "Where is it located?" "Xuanming Continent. The forbidden zone... the Heaven-Slaughtering Sea!" Meng Wanshu expressionlessly took the jade slip. Immediately after, a terrifying spatial fluctuation erupted from the storage ring on her finger! In an instant, an icy-blue array radiance ten zhang across blazed to life in midair. *Riiip—!* Powerful spatial force instantly rippled through the void, tearing open a long rift across the sky. Beneath the surging light of the array, a cross-province teleportation array materialized in an instant! Meng Wanshu's calm voice rang out softly: "Give me the teleportation coordinates for the Heaven-Slaughtering Sea." *Buzz—!* Spatial brilliance flared, and the woman's figure vanished within the array light in an instant. And the teleportation passage that would normally need to be maintained vanished right along with her. Standing to the side, the old man stared with mouth slightly agape, utter shock filling his eyes. "*Gulp...* A portable cross-province teleportation array... This... As expected of the Shenbao Domain Lord's daughter. The treasures on her probably rival the treasury of the Tianji Pavilion itself..." Yet on second thought, something occurred to the old man, and he murmured under his breath, "Why didn't Meng Jiangchu come himself when something this massive happened?" *Buzz—!* A rift opened silently beside the old man, and a man in a white robe wearing a bamboo conical hat stepped slowly out from within. His icy voice sent a shiver straight down the old man's spine: "Things you shouldn't know are best left unknown." Cold sweat broke out across the old man's forehead in an instant. Turning hurriedly, he said in a hushed tone, "Understood! My Lord!"