I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life

Chapter 278: Chapter 170: Preparing to Leave

The situation in the Central Hall was unknown to Li Jizhou, nor did he care, as he quickly pondered how to break the current stalemate.

At that moment, a thought passed through Li Jizhou’s mind, and the mouth of the puppet’s storage bag trembled slightly. A golden worm quietly poked out its head.

Its pair of black eyes rolled around.

“Roar~” The ice kylin instantaneously sensed something, turned its head abruptly, and stared warily at the puppet’s storage bag.

The fat worm hurriedly sank back down.

The ice kylin scrutinized for a moment, then looked again towards An Ruoxi in the distance.

“Swish~” Just as it turned its head, the fat worm once again transformed into a streak of golden light, shooting directly at the Qilin Immortality Pill growing on the Nine Heavens Profound Earth.

At this moment, after millennia of time, the small sapling had grown to half the height of a person. Although it had not yet blossomed or borne fruit, the entire small tree now exuded a complex Dao Charm.

The fat worm’s speed was astonishing. By the time the ice kylin reacted again and turned its head, it had already burrowed into the Nine Heavens Profound Earth, disappearing without a trace.

This fleeting change caught both Li Jizhou and An Ruoxi by surprise.

Li Jizhou instinctively struck out, but missed, creating a large pit near the Nine Heavens Profound Earth.

The ice kylin also swiped at the air but failed to stop the fat worm.

“Howl~” The next moment, the originally enraged ice kylin suddenly let out a roar.

Immediately after, its mountain-like body began to flicker between reality and illusion, constantly shifting between solid and ethereal.

Then it continuously shrank.

In the blink of an eye, the majestic ice kylin transformed into a brilliant blue Qilin Fruit, perched on a tree branch.

“Swish!” A cold beam of light shot out.

An Ruoxi was already rushing in.

Li Jizhou, still uncertain, hesitated no longer, using his Magical Power to uproot the entire patch of Nine Heavens Profound Earth along with the Qilin Immortality Pill sapling undergoing this bizarre transformation.

“Put it down for me!” An Ruoxi, her teeth clenched in anger, shot out several more beams of cold light.

However, to avoid damaging the Potion of Immortality, she carefully avoided it.

The puppet simply shielded itself with the uprooted Potion of Immortality.

In a flash, Li Jizhou had no time to see what the fat worm had actually done or what it was doing to the Potion of Immortality. He quickly took out the Jade Purification Bottle, storing the entire section of Nine Heavens Profound Earth along with the Potion of Immortality inside.

“Courting death!” An Ruoxi witnessed this scene, unleashing an unparalleled aura.

With just one glance, Li Jizhou felt his heart tighten.

At this moment, it seemed as if a personal realm opened up behind An Ruoxi.

In that realm, snowflakes danced, and it was covered in silvery white—a snow and ice domain.

“Is this her Golden Core Dharma Aspect?”

“A domain dharma aspect after all!”

This instantly reminded Li Jizhou of the domain dharma aspect he first saw in his life—the Sea Domain of the Five Elders Association, Jiang Li’s azure ocean sky.

Jiang Li, with his innate Water Spirit Body, was the king of all waters. Forming a Golden Core and triggering a dharma aspect was unexpected yet reasonable.

However, at that time, Li Jizhou saw Jiang Li’s dharma aspect domain only encompass a few zhang behind him.

But the realm An Ruoxi displayed now seemed truly like an entire world.

“To witness my dharma aspect domain before dying, you should feel proud!” An Ruoxi snorted coldly, standing in the dharma aspect domain, sweeping away her previous decline.

She appeared divine, overlooking all beings!

With a sense of crisis, Li Jizhou immediately released a Ghost Shadow to stay behind while the puppet turned and left.

“Humph, trapped within the array and within my Ice and Snow Domain, where do you think you can escape to?

Hand over the Spirit Medicine, and I’ll leave you a whole corpse!” An Ruoxi spoke unhurriedly, pacing within the icy land.

The gap in the array she opened was behind her, convinced the puppet couldn’t escape from it.

After all, the array here was originally an over Tier Six protective array. After millennia of wear and a lack of worldly support, it’s now at least Tier Four, definitely not something a mid to late-stage Core Formation cultivator like this one could break through.

Li Jizhou turned a deaf ear, directing the puppet rapidly toward the edge of the array.

“Humph, if you won’t drink a toast, you’ll drink a forfeit!” An Ruoxi’s face held a hint of a cold smile, yet she made no movement.

The scattered snowflakes moved as if under command, sweeping towards the puppet.

In an instant, the seemingly fragile, powerless snowflakes became life-taking talismans filled with deadly menace.

“Pfft~ pfft~ pfft!” The overwhelming snowflakes flew, about to engulf the puppet in this ocean of snow.

“Boom!” Suddenly, a black light flashed behind An Ruoxi.

However, An Ruoxi seemed to anticipate this, as an ice wall rose behind her, blocking the Ghost Shadow five zhang away.

The Ghost Shadow, capable of silently eliminating late-stage Core Formation cultivators with its stealth divine ability and top-grade Soul-annihilating Blade, seemed futile within An Ruoxi’s dharma aspect domain.

“Humph!” An Ruoxi glanced coldly at the Ghost Shadow Puppet: “Overestimating yourself!”

With these words, a mere glance from her prompted a fierce wind to rise in the sky, cold winds howling.

The Ghost Shadow immediately turned ethereal, losing its presence within An Ruoxi’s divine sense perception.

However, in this domain, she was all-seeing and all-knowing. The next moment, a gust of cold wind swept by.

The Ghost Shadow’s figure appeared, its evasion speed halved, covered in a layer of cold frost, losing its concealment effect.

Meanwhile, as Li Jizhou directed the puppet to narrowly avoid the overwhelming snowflakes while An Ruoxi was momentarily distracted, they reached the edge of the array.

An Ruoxi’s phoenix-like eyes narrowed, casting a cold glance, a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth.

“Boom~”

As the puppet approached the edge of the array, it suddenly took out a Breaking Charm and hurled it at the array.

An Ruoxi’s complexion changed dramatically. That attack by the puppet apparently wielded the power of a Tier Three advanced-level Breaking Charm.