After Zeng Shuchang finished speaking, Daoxuan smiled at the four people below the hall and added:
"This matter is important, but the demons of the Demon Sect are sinister and venomous, so you should also be careful in your actions and prioritize your own safety if necessary."
The four replied in unison: "Yes"
"In addition, besides my Qing Yun Sect, both Fen Xiang Valley and Tian Yin Pavilion have sent disciples to accompany you to investigate. You must not be impolite in front of others, but also must not tarnish the reputation of my Qing Yun."
"Furthermore, my disciple, Xiao Yicai, has already gone ahead to Kongsang Mountain to investigate this matter. If you find him, you can ask him about the situation and consult with him on everything."
Then Daoxuan carefully looked at these four young disciples, finally his gaze landed on Lu Xueqi, and his eyes froze for a moment before he gestured.
"Lu Xueqi, come here."
Lu Xueqi walked forward and Daoxuan turned to exclaim to Shui Yue: "Junior Sister, your Xiaozhu Peak has a successor now."
Shui Yue didn't say anything, she nodded slightly, still with a cold expression, but the happiness in her eyes couldn't be hidden.
Daoxuan smiled and took out something from his arms and gave it to Lu Xueqi, saying, "Take it.'
It was a small mirror, with a ancient and rough shape, blue bronze edge, and dragon and tiger engravings. The mirror also had the eight trigrams and directions engraved on it, and the middle mirror surface was not like a normal bronze mirror, it was yellow and cloudy, and it couldn't be used to reflect things at all.
"Thank you, Sect Leader."
Lu Xueqi knew that this should be the sect's treasure, the ''Liuhe Mirror''.
Daoxuan nodded and turned to the others, saying, "You can all leave now. I am going to teach Lu Xueqi how to use the Liuhe Mirror."
Everyone left the Crystal Hall, and the Heads of each Peak went back to their respective peaks. Only Li Xiu and the two others were left waiting for Lu Xueqi to come out and set off together.
Zeng Shushu sighed and said: "With the Tianya Magical Sword and the Liuhe Mirror, I'm afraid that there is no one in Qing Yun who can be her opponent except for the Heads of each Peak."
Li Xiu made an ambiguous sigh and said: "Yes, it's enviable..."
Qi Hao didn't say anything, but his face looked bad, obviously he was unhappy about the defeat in Lu Xueqi's hand.
A moment later, Lu Xueqi pushed open the door and came out, with a cold expression and eyes like frost.
Despite being curious, no one among the three spoke up to inquire about the Liuhe Mirror.
"This is the top of Tongtian Peak. Except for the Heads of the Seven-Peaks, other disciples cannot fly on swords. Let's go down to the Yunhai Square and fly to the Kongsang Mountain from there."
After a moment of silence, Qi Hao, who was the oldest among them, was the first to suggest.
The other three people, including Lu Xueqi, had no objections, so the four of them walked to the Yunhai Square and took off on their swords.
It took two days for the four of them to cross three thousand miles and reach the Kongsang Mountain, with rest breaks in between to regain their energy.
The Kongsang Mountain is steep and towering, with rocky peaks and scarce vegetation, giving it the appearance of a wilderness with no signs of life.
It was now the end of dusk, the sun was setting in the west, the gray and yellow daylight shining on the Kongsang Mountain, giving a sense of desolate decay, but more so making people feel gloomy and frightening.
The four of them landed on a platform at the mountain waist, and Lu Xueqi summoned the Liuhe Mirror without saying a word and muttered a few spells. The originally dim and dark Liuhe Mirror seemed to have responded, gradually brightening up. As it floated from Lu Xueqi's hands and stayed three feet above her head.
The Liuhe Mirror floated up, exuding auspicious air and a hazy yellow light, which enveloped the surrounding area of ten feet around the four of them.
Lu Xueqi's face was expressionless, and her voice was cold as she said: "There are demon cult demons lurking in the Kongsang Mountain. This mountain is desolate and strange, and we are unfamiliar with it. In case we are suddenly attacked by the demons, this Liuhe Mirror can automatically protect us and ensure our safety."
And so, with the Liuhe Mirrors' light protecting them, the four people continued forward. Soon, they suddenly heard a loud noise from a distance, followed by the sound of "crackling."
The sounds became more and more intense and close, with a deafening and chaotic noise echoing through the desolate mountains and hills.
The four of them were all cultivators and could see in the dark, so they clearly saw a black cloud suddenly rise from behind the mountain, which was strange and frightening!
Zeng Shushu's face changed, and he suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Liuhe Mirror! Quickly..."
Zeng Shushu was mid-sentence when he noticed that the dark clouds, as if sensing something, rapidly approached them. The piercing whistling sound was so loud that it was deafening. The only source of light in the dark night rushed towards the four people.
Everyone only felt a pungent smell rushing towards them, making people nauseous and sick. Lu Xueqi's face turned pale and she shouted: "Don't move, as long as we are in the Liuhe Mirror light, nothing will happen!"
The black clouds approached closer and closer, and everyone could see that the black clouds were actually composed of countless big bats, densely packed and each with a big mouth, looking fierce and terrible.
Fortunately, the mirror light emitted from the Liuhe Mirror showed its effect. All the bats were separated from the light circle, and no matter how they squeezed and collided, the light circle remained unchanged, and any bat that was too close to the light circle was injured and fell to the ground, losing its life in an instant.
However, there were too many bats. Looking around, even the stars in the sky were covered, and there must be millions or tens of millions of them.
Moments later, the bats had already fallen one by one, and the corpses piled up higher and higher, forming a small hill of bodies. But compared to the bats still flying in the sky, it was nothing.
Finally, the bats' impact on the light circle slowed down, and they seemed to realize that the Liuhe Mirror light could not be broken through, so they turned and flew into the sky, and the bat group formed a black torrent to attack.
Of course, it was still reflected back by the Liuhe Mirror light, creating pieces of bloody mist. The broken bat bodies fell to the ground, blood flowed wildly and dyed the ground a deep red for several zhang.
But later, the bats were still indifferent to the death of their kind, as if their eyes were only filled with the delicious blood and flesh of Li Xiu and the other three people.
Gradually, this terrifying scene lasted for an unknown period of time, the Liuhe Mirror light faded slightly, but the bat group seemed to have reached the point where they were injured, and a dense pile of bat corpses had accumulated around Li Xiu and the others.
Lu Xueqi's face turned even paler, no longer solely due to surprise and disgust, but also a sign of exhaustion.
Zeng Shushu and Qi Hao were filled with worry, unsure if they could activate the Liuhe Mirror, or they would soon be overwhelmed by the millions of bats.
A while later, Lu Xueqi was feeling unsteady, but still showed no intention of giving up the Liuhe Mirror. It was unclear if she did not want to or if it would be of no use.
Zeng Shushu suddenly turned to Li Xiu with a questioning look in his eyes. Qi Hao felt strange after seeing this, could it be that Li Xiu had a more powerful defensive treasure than the Liuhe Mirror?
Li Xiu knew that Zeng Shushu did not know that Daoxuan had given him the Hun-Tian Plaque, and he wanted to see if he could release the Qilin's suppression to scare off the millions of bats.
After all, despite the daunting number of millions of bats, individually they are only slightly larger than a common bat.