Green Robe Ancestor did not know that Li Jingxu's cousin lived in the valley below. He had truly become famous and roamed the world for only a little over three hundred years, while Ni Fangxian had already retired to the valley and seldom left before that.

He followed the scent of the millennial meat ganoderma right to this spot, intending to dive directly into the valley to capture the Spiritual Medicine when he discovered a highly formidable Immortal Array hidden among the myriad flowers below, subtly syncing with the heavenly climate and earthly timing.

Green Robe Ancestor, who roamed the world alone and unchecked, was also keenly aware of risks. Sensing something amiss here, he hovered in the air and bellowed down, "If you do not show yourselves soon, I will move that bald mountain to the south and fill up your valley!"

Indeed, his method was formidable; no Immortal Array in the valley could withstand a mountain crashing down on it—unless it were the Emei Sect's Liangyi Six Harmonies Microdust Formation.

Shi Feiyang and Ni Fangxian predicted that he would first release the Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu, so Ni Fangxian went out to face him first.

Green Robe Ancestor saw a beam of white light amidst the drifting flowers below, cradling a five- or six-year-old girl in white, her body surrounded by colorful light and flower petals, her left hand holding a flower basket. She rose into the air and said to Green Robe Ancestor, "Green Robe boy, do you know who I am to dare act so recklessly in my Xianxia Ridge?"

Green Robe Ancestor recognized she was a Cultivator's fully-formed Nascent Soul and was already very advanced, not far from reaching the Heavenly Immortal level. Yet, he was not afraid and his eyes flickered with Green Light, "I, an old man, have roamed the world for more than three hundred years, acting recklessly wherever I go. No one has been able to do anything to me, and it does not matter who you are. To speak to an old man like me this way, you only court death!"

He had no prior grievances with Ni Fangxian, but upon seeing her now, he harbored the malevolent intent of seizing her Nascent Soul to refine the Hundred Poison Immortal Slaying Sword.

He held a White Paper Banner in his left hand, its front painted with seven nude witches and its back with seven skeletons. With a light flick, seven blood-lusted energies surged directly toward Ni Fangxian.

This was his Hundred Poison Asura Banner containing seven bound demons. Since he could not cultivate Lifebound Divine Demons or hold the nominal position of Southern Demon Sect Hierarch without resentment, he sought by every available means to amalgamate various Evil Demon techniques, synthesizing and inventing this Magical Treasure.

The seven demon heads on the banner, because he had not mastered the secret techniques of the Demon Path, lacked the vast Divine Skills of true Divine Demons. Instead, he used poisonous secret techniques for Sacrificial Refinement. While seemingly a method of the Demon Path, they were actually lethal.

The seven blood energies were not purely red; they mixed with green fire and black smoke, with a human head at the forefront, resembling monsters with human heads and serpent bodies, roaring as they lunged at Ni Fangxian. Still a hundred yards away, they opened their mouths simultaneously and spewed out a stream of deadly Blood Transformation Demon Light, converging on Ni Fangxian.

From her flower basket, Ni Fangxian released six beams of colored light to block the Demon Light, then released her own Flying Sword, turning it into a twenty-foot-long white rainbow that soared slantingly into the sky, curling towards Green Robe Ancestor.

Recognizing the power of the Flying Sword, Green Robe Ancestor did not hesitate to release his trump card, the Mysterious Yin Pearl. He slapped the back of his head, releasing a burst of Green Light transforming into a giant hand that covered the sky, fiercely grabbing Ni Fangxian's Flying Sword.

The old demon chuckled sinisterly, his ugly face becoming even more terrifying. The hand holding the Asura Banner trembled, and the seven demon heads transformed into seven handsome young men, unclothed and muscular, with Demon Light blazing in their eyes, staring straight at Ni Fangxian before lunging toward her.

Ni Fangxian, nearly a Heavenly Immortal with a millennium of cultivation, felt her spirit shaken by the demons' gaze. Admitting their power, she quickly used the six colored light spheres to defend herself. The seven demon heads advanced, flipping and flying around the light spheres, trying to breach them with howls and moans, expressing various emotions and sounds, continuously attempting to break through.

Though Ni Fangxian could hold back the demon heads with her six light spheres, she couldn't destroy them. She reached for another artifact shaped like a shuttle and was about to launch it when suddenly, three of the demon heads burst forth bright blue threads from their mouths, breaking through the light sphere defenses and shooting straight toward her!

"Not good!" Ni Fangxian quickly used her flower basket to catch them while simultaneously flipping down from the heights, plummeting rapidly. Despite her swift action, her right arm was pierced!

Green Robe Ancestor laughed arrogantly from above, "Little wench! Where can you flee to!" He shook the Asura Banner, urging the seven blood energies to chase after her rapidly from behind.

Ni Fangxian had underestimated Green Robe Ancestor and paid a severe price, feeling immense embarrassment before others. Her Nascent Soul body being injured was a grave concern, harming both her Nascent Soul and Primordial Spirit. Furious, she didn't wait to reach the ground; her right hand formed a spell gesture and pressed downwards, causing the myriad colored petals below to immediately swirl up as if steamed by a heat wave.

Limitless petals ascended into the air and instantly arranged themselves into a formation by direction.

Xianxia Ridge was originally Li Jingxu's place of quiet cultivation until she took it over. Naturally fond of flowers, she had transplanted a vast array of flowers from all over, changing the climate with spells to keep it perennially warm like spring, neither hot nor cold, suitable for various flowers to thrive. Plants that typically live a year could grow for many more, with thick branches and abundant blooms.

Each type of flower with its unique traits was organized according to their characteristics and positioning to form an array—like osmanthus for Metal, lotus for Water, peony for Wood, peony for Fire… The array of flowers she formed was not only exceedingly beautiful but also immensely powerful. Many enemies who had forcefully entered this formation in the past were trapped and killed, earning her the nickname, Fairy of Hundred Flowers.

Ni Fangxian activated the Hundred Flowers Immortal Array and entered the formation herself, swiftly flickering somewhere else to first deal with the object on her arm.

Green Robe Ancestor had ambushed a Magical Treasure known as the Green Blood Divine Needle inside the Demon's mouth of the Asura Banner. When other needles were fired, they shot out as straight beams, piercing straight through their targets.

Yet, this Green Blood Needle was like a flexible, curved filament, resembling some type of parasitic worm within the human body, carrying potent poison. After it had pierced through Ni Fangxian's arm, the front end unexpectedly turned back and punctured into her flesh again. The tail also wrapped around, tightly coiling several times around her arm, continuously tightening, with its fierce poison swiftly dispersing!

With this Green Blood Needle in her body, the seven demons persistently pursued her from behind, undeterred by any changes in the Hundred Flowers Array.

Ni Fangxian, both anxious and furious, fled while casting a spell. She summoned a White Jade Dust Brush that originally belonged to her Dharma Body from within the cave, caught it in her hand, swung it around, and brushed it against a demon. It immediately scattered the demon into several beams of Demon Light. With vigorous swings, she dispersed all seven demons.

The demons kept shooting Green Blood Needles from their mouths, but she brushed it away with the Dust Brush. The threads of the brush, entwined with blue silk, gently swept over her right arm, bearing the extreme pain, she tore off the blue filament sticking to her arm!

This Dust Brush was left to her by a side-door master from her early years. Although the master wasn't from the orthodox Mysterious Sect and had not achieved Ascension, his Mana was immensely high. Ni Fangxian had carried this Dust Brush with her and nurtured it for over a thousand years, making its power extraordinary.

Having dispersed the demons and retrieved the flying needles, she was now able to cast spells with her right hand again. She retreated into the midst of the flower bushes, preparing to break Green Robe Ancestor's Magical Treasure, the Mysterious Yin Pearl.

Green Robe Ancestor, unable to penetrate the Hundred Flowers Array, dared not rashly descend. He manipulated the demons with the Asura Banner to capture Ni Fangxian. Later, when the demons were scattered by the Dust Brush, he shook the Demon Banner and retracted several strands of blood energy.

After all, he was not a legitimate practitioner of the Demon Path. These demons were not comparable to true Divine Demons, and Ni Fangxian's Dust Brush was indeed formidable. If he wanted the demons to regenerate and come back to life, he had to take them back for Sacrificial Refinement.

The demons were dispersed, and the Green Blood Needle was taken away. In an instant, Green Robe Ancestor lost two Magical Treasures and dared not directly pursue further, grinding his teeth in rage within the green clouds, "You despicable wench! Let's see if you can handle what I've got in store!" He threw his Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu.

As soon as the poisonous insect left his hand, it turned into thousands of golden stars, buzzing as they vibrated their wings, resembling a locust plague, forming a golden flood that surged into the flower bushes searching for Ni Fangxian.

It turns out, this Golden Silkworm Gu was the perfect counter to Ni Fangxian's Hundred Flowers Immortal Array. Where the Silkworm passed, flowers withered, reds, purples, whites, greens, petals of all sizes were eaten away and left in tatters.

The Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu, capable of consuming even a cultivator's Immortal Sword Magical Treasure, left these fresh flowers unable to withstand. Even the energies of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha on the petal surfaces were instantly torn through by the Silkworm.

The sky filled with broken petals fell downwards, as though the climate had shifted from mid-spring to deep autumn in an instant.

At that moment, Shi Feiyang took action!

Beforehand, he and Ni Fangxian had divided their tasks, one to handle the Mysterious Yin Pearl, the other the Golden Silkworm Gu. Although Ni Fangxian had been unsuccessful earlier, he had not aided her, because with Ni Fangxian's thousand years of cultivation, she was not likely to be defeated just like that. Rashly helping could appear to be showing off, and her cousin and also husband, Jile Perfected Li Jingxu, had seen all kinds of Immortal Law techniques.

Thus, only now did he act, sacrificing the Cave Spirit Zither in mid-air during the rain of flowers, plucking its strings.

This treasure specialized in subduing peculiar entities; although the Golden Silkworm Gu had been refined by Green Robe Ancestor using his own spiritual energy and blood, making it attuned to his intents and under his control, it was still susceptible to the influence of the Cave Spirit Zither.

As the music began, ripples immediately appeared among the thousands of golden stars, like wind over wheat, shaking the Divine Souls of every Silkworm.

Shi Feiyang plucked with his fingers, using the strings of his heart to play the zither, suspended in mid-air and enveloped in a cluster of Five-Colored Radiant Light. As the zither's strings trembled and notes danced.

This time, his performance was titled "White Suzhen beneath Qingcheng Mountain". Moving away from his previous fast-paced, stern style, this melody was slow, carrying an ethereal tranquility.

The nature of the Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu was ferociously wild, eating anything it encountered, able to chew even iron enemies into shreds. The sound of its vibrating wings was more intense than horseflies, instilling fear in any creature that heard it.

The brilliance lay in Shi Feiyang using this soothing melody to influence the frequency of the Silkworm's wing vibrations.

The frequency of the Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu vibrating its wings was extremely fast. For anyone else, to play an instrument intending to slow it down would be a fool's errand. Yet, solely because the Cave Spirit Zither had the power to affect the Divine Souls and minds of odd entities, after playing just a dozen phrases, the frequency of the Golden Silkworm's wing vibrations indeed slowed down, as did their flying speed, while the fearsome and stern air about them significantly diminished.

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