At the same time, a thunderous "boom" echoed, shaking the entire mountaintop. A dozen spirit stone cannons had simultaneously fired upon them. A student from the Hongfu Academy, who couldn't react in time, was instantly blasted into pieces and vanished. Everyone's eyes were filled with terror. The Divine Hall's people were indeed cunning; they had set an ambush in the back mountains, waiting for them. Once they emerged from the secret realm and appeared here, they immediately fell within the spirit stone cannons' firing range.
Humans, of course, were no match for cannons... No one wanted to be the first one to be hit, to experience the power of the spirit stone cannons with their own flesh and blood.
Saint Child Mi Yan's face was grim and exceedingly ugly. He hadn't expected the Divine Hall to completely drop their pretense like this, intending to wipe out their entire group here.
The middle-aged priest, Taishan, stepped out from the crowd and said with a faint smile, "Saint Child, you don't need to hide anymore; I've already seen you. Please come out!"
Saint Child Mi Yan's face turned very unpleasant. He then turned to Qiao Mu, Mo Lian, and the others behind him and said, "I'll go out and deal with them in a moment; you all escape into the mountains as quickly as possible." Once they entered the dense forest, the spirit stone cannons would naturally be much less accurate. Although everyone's cultivation was outstanding, they didn't particularly want to endure the might of a dozen spirit stone cannons.
When they had just emerged, amidst the chaos, Qiao Mu had already discreetly put the little monk and the little monkey into a storage talisman. It was crowded and dangerous now, so it wasn't suitable to have the two little ones out playing around.
Hearing Mi Yan's words, Qiao Mu couldn't help but frown slightly and retorted unhappily, "You're not a saint; you don't need to sacrifice yourself to save everyone."
Saint Child Mi Yan opened his mouth, then said speechlessly, "Do you think I'm stupid? I naturally have the confidence to escape from these people."
"Stop showing off," Qiao Mu rolled her eyes unhappily. "They've set up heavy crossbows all around the perimeter of this back mountain. We can open our defensive shields to resist for a while. But with spirit stone cannons plus heavy crossbow volleys, only an idiot would stay here." It would, of course, be better to enter the dense forest in the back mountains and then find ways to defeat them one by one.
Saint Child Mi Yan was left somewhat speechless by the little stoic. However, at this moment, Chen Baojia suddenly stood up from the crowd. Taishan narrowed his eyes and, with a wave of his hand, all the cannon muzzles aimed at Chen Baojia, who had stood up.
Those crouching near Chen Baojia couldn't help but secretly curse their bad luck. This idiotic woman! The cannon muzzles didn't know where to aim accurately before, but now that she suddenly stood up, she exposed their position to everyone. Wasn't she just making herself a target?
"You people from the Divine Hall, aren't you just after Qiao Mu?"
Although Chen Baojia was very afraid, in her fear, she bit her lip and said tremblingly, "We agree to hand Qiao Mu over to you, but you must also promise not to harm anyone else here."
Saint Child Mi Yan turned his head in disbelief, staring intently at Chen Baojia with a look of utter amazement. Is this woman insane? Who agreed to hand over the little stoic? Can she represent everyone here? What a joke!
Chen Baojia hurriedly turned to the crowd and said, "Can't you all see? Both times, the Divine Hall wanted to capture Qiao Mu; this has nothing to do with us! We're just suffering collateral damage!"
Author's Note: Little stoic: "Before sleeping, hand over all your monthly votes!"
Saint Child Mi Yan: "Holy light envelops the earth~ Dawn is approaching..."
Author: "Go to sleep now!"