"Stinking bitch, you're courting death."

Huang Long's furious roar drew everyone's gaze toward Yun Hanshuang, who had caused this situation.

"Greater Fire Dragon Technique, Explosive Flame Bomb, Meteor Fire Rain."

Han Hao was even more direct. He instantly unleashed several fire-attribute spells, blasting them at Yun Hanshuang, but all were blocked by several layers of light barriers.

Faced with Huang Long's rage and Han Hao's attacks, Yun Hanshuang remained completely calm. His hands swiftly formed seals.

"Thorn Array, activate."

After finishing the hand seals, Yun Hanshuang pushed his hands forward. A green ring of light centered on him rapidly spread out in all directions.

"A formation? Everyone, quickly retreat beyond the formation's range!" Seeing the ring of light rapidly expanding outward from Yun Hanshuang, Han Hao immediately recognized it as a formation and turned to shout at the Heaven Alliance Merchant Guild cultivators.

"Too late. Since I chose to make a move, there's no way I'd let you leave. Water Prison Array, activate." With Yun Hanshuang's light shout, a layer of blue light enveloped everyone within, preventing anyone from leaving. Immediately after, countless green thorn vines grew within the blue light barrier, attacking everyone except Yun Hanshuang.

Ah~ Roar~

The guild cultivators and spirit beasts who had been more severely wounded earlier let out waves of miserable screams under the assault of the thorn vines.

"Just who are you?" A faint yellow light emerged on Huang Long's body. The surrounding thorn vines automatically dissipated the moment they touched that yellow light, unable to harm him at all. At this moment, he glared at Yun Hanshuang with a face full of fury, completely indifferent to the deaths of the spirit beasts. A faint red light likewise appeared on Han Hao's body. Any vine that approached him was burned to ashes. He too glared at Yun Hanshuang with a face full of rage. Toward the deaths of his guild cultivators, he was just as apathetic as Huang Long.

Faced with Huang Long's interrogation, Yun Hanshuang said nothing. Instead, he summoned the three spirit beasts and affixed several offensive second-tier talismans onto each of them. Seeing Yun Hanshuang summon the three spirit beasts, Han Hao immediately recognized who it was.

"It's you? Weren't you a man?"

"You want to know? I'm not telling." Yun Hanshuang smiled as he finished speaking, not bothering to look at Han Hao's murderous gaze. He waved his hand, sending the three spirit beasts flying toward Huang Long. As for Han Hao's side, Yun Hanshuang formed hand seals, and with a flash of blue light beneath his feet, a water dragon over ten zhang long appeared. With a point of his finger, the water dragon pounced at Han Hao.

"Good, good, good. Myriad Beasts Formula, White Tiger." Huang Long had clearly been enraged by Yun Hanshuang's disregard. He said "good" three times in a row, and a White Tiger phantom burst out from his body, charging at the three spirit beasts.

"A mere Late Qi Refining cultivator thinks he can kill us with just a few formations? Wishful thinking. Divine Fire Formula, Flame Bright Palm." Simultaneously, Han Hao's entire body ignited with red flames. He raised his hand and struck, and a massive flaming palm met the water dragon.

Yun Hanshuang's three spirit beasts and the ten-zhang water dragon could not even last two breaths under the attacks of Huang Long and Han Hao before being blasted to pieces.

"Stinking bitch, if you obediently withdraw the formations now, I can take you as my concubine." Huang Long looked at Yun Hanshuang arrogantly, speaking in a tone of charity.

"Huang Long, this person is of great use to me, so (s)he is mine." Han Hao was now curious about Yun Hanshuang to the extreme. He couldn't understand how a man could turn into a woman, and that after turning into a woman, she seemed unable to conceal her spiritual power fluctuations. Thus, Han Hao resolved that no matter what, he would capture Yun Hanshuang and then soul-search him to dig out all his secrets.

"Nonsense, I'm taking this stinking bitch for sure." Huang Long was not buying Han Hao's argument. He could tell from the other's behavior that Yun Hanshuang must be harboring a huge secret, so he absolutely couldn't let him go.

"You two didn't think my methods were limited to this, did you? The earlier actions were just to buy time. Now, take a good look at the spiritual power inside your bodies." The ignored Yun Hanshuang spoke up softly.

Huang Long and Han Hao, upon hearing this, immediately checked the spiritual power within them. They discovered that at this moment, their spiritual power was rapidly dissipating at a terrifying speed.

"What did you do?"

"Five Elements Spirit-Sealing Array, composed of five Five Elements attack formations and a Spirit Gathering Array." Yun Hanshuang answered Huang Long's question with a smile, then continued, "I know that relying solely on these formations won't kill you two, who are equipped with high-grade defensive spirit artifacts, especially you, Huang Long, with your companion spirit beast. But all I need is to seal you for five breaths."

After speaking, Yun Hanshuang formed hand seals. A five-colored ring of light sealed both Huang Long and Han Hao. Then he summoned two spirit beasts and had them strip all the storage spirit artifacts off their bodies. After taking the storage spirit artifacts the two spirit beasts had looted, Yun Hanshuang activated five formation plates. All five were illusion arrays.

‘These five illusion arrays can trap them for at most 15 minutes, so I must break the soul mark on Han Hao's spatial ring as quickly as possible.’ The goal Yun Hanshuang was willing to take such risks for was none other than that Teleportation Scroll. For this, he had used up all the Explosive Flame Bombs on him, and only four defensive-type formation plates remained.

No longer heading toward the outer zone of the Ten Thousand Mile Snow Forest, Yun Hanshuang summoned the Profound Spirit Ice Sparrow and had it carry him flying back deep into the middle zone of the forest. Under normal circumstances, Yun Hanshuang would absolutely never dare do this, because it would easily draw attacks from other flying spirit beasts. But now, all the spirit beasts of the Ten Thousand Mile Snow Forest seemed to have headed toward the outer zone, which was why Yun Hanshuang dared to have the Profound Spirit Ice Sparrow fly him. Plus, since this was a desperate escape, he could no longer worry about that.

Fortunately, it was the full-moon night, so Yun Hanshuang didn't need to worry about spiritual power consumption, because in his female body, whenever his spiritual power ran low, he could take pills to rapidly recover. In this way, the Profound Spirit Ice Sparrow flew Yun Hanshuang for nearly an hour. During this time, they were very lucky not to encounter any spirit beasts. Yun Hanshuang spent the entire hour continuously grinding away at the soul mark Han Hao had left inside the spatial ring.

‘Just about another 15 minutes and I can wear down the soul mark. Damn, they've caught up.’

Because he had been constantly grinding at Han Hao's soul mark, Yun Hanshuang could clearly sense the other party; they were already not far away. Yun Hanshuang took out his last four defensive formation plates, filled their energy slots with spirit stones, and directly hung them on his body.

15 minutes later, Yun Hanshuang was forced to stop. Before him, Huang Long was looking at him with a face full of surprise.

"I didn't notice before, but to think the one you summoned was actually the Profound Spirit Ice Sparrow. Those two spirit beasts from before were also existences with divine beast bloodlines. So, if you just tell me the method for summoning them, I, Huang Long, guarantee no one will harm you." Huang Long glanced with a half-smile at Han Hao, who was blocking Yun Hanshuang's rear.

"Cut the nonsense. My soul mark is about to be worn away by him." Han Hao finished speaking, took out a fourth-tier long sword, and hacked at the light barrier encasing Yun Hanshuang.

"Your Teleportation Scroll... don't tell me you really put it in there?" Hearing Han Hao's words, Huang Long was somewhat incredulous. How could he dare to carry something so important on his person? Such utter arrogance.

Han Hao said nothing and continued slashing his sword at Yun Hanshuang. At this moment, Han Hao deeply regretted it all. Why had he been so arrogant? And why had he provoked this fiend, Yun Hanshuang? If he couldn't retrieve his belongings this time and kill Yun Hanshuang, then this person might very well become the heart demon of his entire life.