Yang Che quickly used Wind Riding Art to dodge, while all the Flying Fire Needles around him turned into dark light and rushed towards the small mirror.
As soon as the Flying Fire Needles entered the rosy glow, they immediately slowed down.
This startled Yang Che.
The Flying Fire Needles' pride was their speed; if their speed was restricted, their power would be greatly reduced.
With his thoughts racing, Yang Che simply took out the fiery red hammer he had obtained from the male cultivator he killed, ignored the Flying Fire Needles, and swung the hammer fiercely at Xing Yao.
"Senior Brother Chen's 'Fire Cloud Hammer'?"
Xing Yao immediately recognized the Magical Artifact in Yang Che's hand, her eyes losing all hesitation and filling with cold killing intent: "It seems Chen Shidi most likely died by your hand."
The mirror's rosy glow shifted and enveloped the Fire Cloud Hammer.
The Fire Cloud Hammer's momentum slowed, a cold glint flashed in Xing Yao's eyes, and she raised her jade hand, revealing a green Talisman.
Just as she was about to activate the Talisman, she suddenly felt her magical power stagnate, and she was horrified to realize that the poison she had been afflicted with had deepened.
She judged that even if she could kill the young man in front of her, she would most likely fall into an extremely dire situation.
At this moment, Wang Yue suddenly urged anxiously: "Senior Sister Xing Yao, hurry! The Spirit Stone charging is about to end, quickly kill him!"
Hearing this, Yang Che also instinctively looked at the stone door and found that the flowing radiance and colors were indeed slowly dimming.
He had already figured out some of the mechanism, and since he didn't have so many Spirit Stones himself, he also felt a bit anxious.
At this moment, he saw Xing Yao suddenly put away her small mirror Magical Artifact and spoke urgently: "Fellow Daoist, how about we temporarily cease hostilities and work together to open this stone door first?"
Yang Che was startled and quickly began to weigh the pros and cons.
"Fellow Daoist, you must also know that there are rare Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Plant here. If we open the stone door, we can each collect them based on our own abilities," Xing Yao immediately added when Yang Che didn't agree right away.
Yang Che didn't have enough Spirit Stones to open the stone door, and if they really fought, he might not be able to kill Xing Yao, who possessed that strange mirror.
Moreover, time was pressing, so he nodded in temporary agreement, put away the Flying Fire Needles and Fire Cloud Hammer, and immediately took out the metal disc and went to the stone door.
Xing Yao urged: "Try injecting your magical power."
Yang Che immediately injected his magical power into it, and a strange beam of light instantly shot out from the metal disc, directly into the center of the dilapidated stone door in front of them.
With a 'buzz', the sound vibrated their eardrums, making them ache and hum.
Then, a rumbling sound began, and the stone door finally slowly opened.
"Senior Sister Xing Yao, the stone door is open! Quickly kill him, kill him to avenge Senior Brother Chen!"
Wang Yue's face was filled with excitement, and she actually started urging Senior Sister Xing Yao to kill Yang Che again.
However, Yang Che put away the metal disc and flashed, stepping into the stone door first.
"Go, get in quickly."
Xing Yao pulled Wang Yue and also stepped into the stone door.
Soon after the three entered the stone door, the stone door made a rumbling sound again and quickly closed.
Wang Yue was so frightened that her face turned pale and she couldn't even stand steadily. Xing Yao immediately comforted her: "Junior Sister Yue, don't be afraid. As long as the metal disc is still here, we should be able to get out."
As soon as Yang Che entered this place, he found that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here was indeed incredibly dense.
At the same time, he also found that flying Magical Artifacts were ineffective, but he could use Wind Riding Art.
Yang Che rushed ahead, quickly pondering in his mind.
He wanted to gather more Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Plant, but he didn't know where the Yao Beast was or how powerful it was.
He ran all the way, passing through layers of rocks.
This place was shrouded in clouds and mist, with various towering ancient trees reaching into the clouds, and the ground was covered with lush grass and leaves.
"Oh, Half-Maple Grass?"
Not long after entering, Yang Che discovered a 'Half-Maple Grass', one of the main ingredients for refining the Eight Treasures Pill.
He scanned with a glance and was pleasantly surprised to find there was more than one.
In his joy, he was about to reach out to pick it when a small emerald green snake suddenly poked its head out of the grass and bit at his wrist.
However, before the snake's head even touched Yang Che's skin, two Flying Fire Needles had already shot out crosswise, directly piercing the small green snake's head.
Yang Che collected more than a dozen Half-Maple Grasses and continued to leap forward.
Not long after, Xing Yao and Wang Yue arrived at the location.
"He collected Spiritual Plant! Senior Sister, you really shouldn't have been soft-hearted, you should have just killed him directly."
Wang Yue's voice now subtly revealed a hint of dissatisfaction.
She had repeatedly urged her Senior Sister to kill this person, but her Senior Sister chose to cooperate with him, which made her very dissatisfied inwardly, yet she dared not show it openly.
She was scared in her heart. She was afraid that if that young man really revealed the truth of that night, her, Wang Yue's, reputation would be completely ruined.
Thinking of this, she also secretly resented the deceased Senior Brother Chen.
If Senior Brother Chen hadn't insisted on dragging her along, saying that robbing Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters with lower cultivation would allow them to accumulate enough Spirit Stones to open this stone door faster, and she had foolishly agreed, then how would all these subsequent events have occurred?
Xing Yao frowned slightly, she vaguely sensed that ever since that young man appeared, Junior Sister Wang Yue seemed a little off?
However, on second thought, perhaps it was because of Senior Brother Chen's death that Junior Sister Wang Yue was like this, which was understandable.
It's just that Junior Sister Wang Yue didn't know that after she was poisoned, if she used all her strength to kill that young man, she wouldn't have an easy time either.
With their own thoughts, both worried that more precious Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Plant would be collected by that young man, so they immediately rushed deeper.
...
Two days later.
Yang Che found that this place was truly too vast.
And the abundance of medicinal herbs far exceeded his imagination.
In these two days, he not only collected several 'Sky-Gazing Grasses' that were not even available in the Sect market, but also unexpectedly gathered all the ingredients for refining multiple batches of Nourishing Yuan Pill.
Thus, with the other medicinal herbs he collected, he only lacked one ingredient, 'Earth Cloud Peony', for refining the Eight Treasures Pill.
However, what puzzled Yang Che was that the 'Guardian Yao Beast' mentioned in the Jade Slip had not appeared yet.
Moreover, he hadn't found even a single 'Immortal Plant' like the 'nine-leaf dark yang fruit'.
The deeper he went, the more uneasy Yang Che felt.
But since he hadn't collected the 'Earth Cloud Peony', he could only reluctantly continue deeper.
Another two days passed.
Yang Che suddenly found a tall, dilapidated stone hall appearing in front of him.
The top of this stone hall had largely collapsed, and two of its stone walls were also almost only half-standing, on the verge of falling.
The unease in Yang Che's heart grew stronger. He didn't intend to go over, but then he suddenly heard a woman's scream from inside the hall.
It was Wang Yue's voice.
Yang Che dared not approach even more. Just as he was about to run away, he suddenly heard Xing Yao's voice: "Fellow Daoist, is that you? Come quickly and save us."
Yang Che completely ignored the plea for help, without any pause, he applied Wind Riding Art and leaped fiercely towards the distance.
"Fellow Daoist, if I don't help you, you won't be able to leave this place at all."
Xing Yao seemed to sense that Yang Che was completely unmoved and immediately said anxiously.
Yang Che still didn't stop, and in a blink of an eye, he had already darted several feet away.
"Fellow Daoist, if you save my Senior Sister and me, all the Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Plant we collected, and even a 'Pseudo Immortal Plant' inside here, will be yours."
A hint of pleading came through Xing Yao's voice.
Yang Che's figure suddenly paused.
He thought that he had no Spirit Stones, only the metal disc, and he couldn't open that stone door either.
Now that these two women were in danger, wouldn't it be a good opportunity to kill them and get Spirit Stones?
Thinking of this, Yang Che steeled his heart, gritted his teeth, and turned to run towards the dilapidated stone hall.