After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 231 Someone Wants Her Dead

As darkness fell again, Lin Yan rested her chin on her hand, waiting for the griffin to land. She waited and waited, but it continued to circle.

She couldn't help but ask, "Is the ground too hot to walk on?"

The griffin remained silent after hearing this, only shaking and trembling.

Seeing that she was about to be shaken off, she simply got up and hovered in mid-air on her sword.

"Do you have lice?"

The griffin snorted coldly, shrunk its size, and flew to perch on her head. "Hurry up and find a place to rest."

Well! It's a spirit beast with a temper after all.

She still needs its protection, and she can't afford to drive it away. If someone comes to kill her later, it will be very difficult without the griffin's help.

She simply flew down on her sword and found a cave to set up an array.

To be on the safe side, she also set up illusion arrays with spirit stones in several places outside the cave and affixed talismans.

She had previously confiscated a lot of low-grade talismans, but she didn't know how to be economical when using them, posting them up in large quantities.

She felt a little more at ease after setting up the formation.

They took out their communication jade disc, exported the map, and took a look. Their current location was on the outer layer of the Baling Lands.

There's a town about 50 miles ahead. If it weren't for the fact that the Griffin doesn't want to fly when it gets dark, you could go to the town to find the Chamber of Commerce and stay there, where your safety would be guaranteed.

She could travel there by sword, but it would be much slower, and she didn't want to spend several hours on it, so she could only stay there for the night.

Back in the cave, she cast a cleaning spell, and the cave was completely transformed, the unpleasant musty smell gone.

No matter how long she's been in this world, she'll always marvel at how convenient magic is. Simply channeling spiritual energy to cast the corresponding spell can solve problems that are tedious for mortals.

She took out a cushion from her storage bag, sat cross-legged on it, and began to cultivate.

The griffin perched on her head appeared to be resting with its eyes closed, but it was actually observing her the whole time.

It pays attention to all of that person's disciples. This newly accepted disciple is thorough in his work and has a maturity beyond his years.

Calm, vigilant, and ruthless.

It had deliberately brought those two corpses back and dumped them in front of her, intending to scare her, but to its surprise, she wasn't afraid at all.

Not only were they not afraid, but they also observed them, took their storage bags, and even collected the corpses!

They truly are disciples of Wen Ningqing; each one is more extraordinary than the last.

It pecked at its own wings and then closed its eyes.

As darkness fell completely, the tall trees blocked out the moonlight, making the area beneath the forest appear even darker.

The incessant chirping of unknown insects would surely irritate her if she were not in a stable state of mind.

It can block out sounds from outside the formation and barrier, but then you can't hear any external noises and can't make a quick judgment.

The griffin perched on her head twitched its ears, seemingly annoyed by the chirping of insects.

It flew out and released an invisible pressure, instantly silencing the sounds.

Lin Yan opened her eyes with a pounding heart, and saw it fly back, its lips twitching. "Could you please consider a weak cultivator like me when you release your pressure?"

“You’re not that weak,” the griffin said, continuing to coil around her head.

"..."

Just as she was about to continue her cultivation, an abnormal rustling sound came from behind her. Upon hearing that the explosive talisman had been triggered, she immediately stood up, led the eagle-lion out of the cave, and concealed her presence.

Inside the cave are mannequins that look exactly like him.

Eagle Lion was puzzled: "The strongest person to come is only at the late Golden Core stage. Just kill them directly. Why are you hiding?" "What if there are too many of them? How can you possibly be a match for them? Don't think I can't see that the night is your weakness."

It opened its mouth in surprise, clearly not expecting the girl it had just met to be so observant, and its weakness to be discovered so quickly.

"My strength is only reduced at night, it's not like I can't fight," it stubbornly argued.

As they whispered to each other, scorpions swarmed across the ground, invading her formation. Explosive talismans were triggered and detonated one after another, blasting scorpions away in droves.

But they keep coming in, and their numbers seem to have never decreased.

A scorpion flew to her due to the force of the explosion and was caught by her while she was wearing gloves.

Only upon closer inspection did I realize how different these scorpions were. They had the bodies of ants, the legs and tails of scorpions, and large pincers.

This was the first time she had ever seen such a novel species; it was quite a novelty for her.

"You are very knowledgeable, don't you know?" she asked the spirit beast on her head.

"I don't know, I've never seen this species before, and seeing them always makes me feel disgusted."

To be honest, hearing it say that made her feel nauseous too.

Could this be a species created through human intervention?
She really admired those who created new and unusual species. Weren't they afraid of divine punishment that would strike them down?

The black, scorpion-like creature immediately stung her with its venomous stinger after she caught it. She reacted quickly, using her spiritual power to cut off its tail, thus avoiding being stung.

What a vicious little thing! It wasn't afraid of being caught; it even tried to sting people!
After failing to obtain any useful information from it, I simply crushed it to death.

The tiny scorpion instantly turned to ashes in her hand.

Night fell as dark as ink, pressing down heavily. The pitch-black scorpion-like creatures blended perfectly with the darkness, creating a vast, eerie black expanse as far as the eye could see.

Then a strange flute melody rang out, and the scorpions began to intensify their attacks in rhythm with the flute.

At first, she thought the flute music was controlling the scorpions, but gradually she realized something was wrong.

The flute music gradually grew mournful, as if a vengeful ghost was howling, sending chills down one's spine and instilling fear.

She released her divine sense to sense them, but obtained no useful information. They concealed their presence and possessed magical artifacts that blocked divine sense detection, making it impossible to determine their numbers and location.

"Can you sense their numbers?" she asked the Griffin.

“Thirty people, including seven late-stage Golden Core cultivators. That’s all I can sense,” it answered truthfully.

Even in this situation, it couldn't resist making a sarcastic remark: "Looks like you've made quite a grudge, sending so many elite troops to kill you!"

She chuckled awkwardly, "I don't think there's much of a grudge."

Even as he spoke, he was already making plans in his mind.

We can't let them gather together; we have to separate them and defeat them one by one.

They can use the cover of night and the terrain to set up formations, and with the magical treasures, talismans, and pills they carry, they are capable of fighting.

"How many could you possibly defeat with your current strength?"

“A single one is nothing to fear!” the Griffin replied, head held high.

"Then let's separate them."

As she spoke, she grabbed a handful of spirit stones and transformed them into several mannequins that looked exactly like her to attract attention.

“You go too!” she patted the griffin.

Seeing it fly into the night, I concealed my presence and used the darkness to protect myself as I flew upwards on my sword.

She also released the Red-browed Demon and the Snow Frost Eagle from the space, sending them to distract them as well.

She summoned the array plate as the array's core, and with a series of hand seals, thousands of high-grade spirit stones were thrown into different locations guided by spiritual energy. As her hand seals ended, a massive array diagram appeared in this area.