At some point, the white ice-attribute sword qi slashed through the water, but the seawater around it no longer froze in the slightest.
Not until the sword qi struck the swarm of small spiders.
The frigid air spread from the first small spider it touched, freezing all the way to the one hundred and thirty-second.
He had finally managed to restrain the cold air on the surface of the ice-attribute sword qi. Only when the sword qi encountered resistance during its flight would the cold air dissipate, exploding along with the sword qi at the point of impact.
The ice-attribute sword qi no longer wasted ice spirit energy, and its power was several times stronger than before.
Two quarters of an hour remained of the hour Huo Chaoyu had estimated the sea spiders could hold out.
The first rank two middle stage sea spider had its back split open from its four simple eyes.
Two Yuebai Sect cultivators pinned down its struggling long legs. The beauty mark cultivator grabbed the sea spider's eye sockets, flipped onto its back, plunged a dagger into the crack, and gave it a twist.
A light blue pearl the size of a longan was pried out.
The rank two sea spider beneath him instantly lost most of its power.
A low-grade demon beast that lost its demon core was doomed to die.
The two cultivators who had been controlling the legs struck together, and the defenseless rank two sea spider drew its final breath.
After taking the first rank two sea spider's demon core, the three of them swallowed a mysterious-rank Spirit-Replenishing Pill and turned toward the other two rank two sea spiders.
Of the eight of them, Huo Chaoyu and an early Foundation Establishment stage cultivator were originally supposed to deal with one rank two middle stage sea spider, while the other two were divided among the remaining six.
Now that one had been dealt with, another cultivator came to support Huo Chaoyu.
With an extra person to distract it, Huo Chaoyu was finally able to bypass the five hard legs (three had been crippled) and swim to the sea spider's back.
The four simple eyes were the sea spider's weakness.
The other two cultivators went to support the fight against the last rank two sea spider.
Almost simultaneously, Huo Chaoyu and the goatee cultivator struck, pulling out the last two rank two demon cores.
The Yuebai Sect cultivators had been keeping an eye on Gu Ningyun's side, and the five of them had likewise kept a thread of divine sense on the Yuebai Sect group.
Seeing that Huo Chaoyu and the others had taken all three demon cores and stored the corpses, Gu Ningyun's group also swept their divine sense out, collecting all the small spider corpses scattered in the sea.
Huo Chaoyu and her group approached.
At the same time, a gentle but firm current arrived, carrying them upward until they returned to the small reef island.
The moment they returned to the island, Gu Ningyun felt a mysterious restriction in her dantian loosen and then vanish without a trace.
This meant the cooperative contract was complete, and the binding of the laws of heaven and earth had faded.
Huo Chaoyu walked across the water. When she returned to the island, her expression was unusually dazed.
She possessed high-grade water and earth spirit roots and was an inner disciple of the Yuebai Sect.
She had cultivated for nearly a century and had experienced countless trials and battles.
But in all those trials, except for those where her side's strength far exceeded the enemy's and they could simply crush them...
In other cases where the strength was evenly matched or even slightly inferior...
She had never experienced a trial as easy as this one.
Cultivators were at a disadvantage when fighting sea beasts on the seabed.
Even though she had a water spirit root, her other earth spirit root couldn't produce the same effects it did on land.
This was why, despite being at the middle Foundation Establishment stage and the sea spider being rank two middle stage—making them technically equal in strength—she couldn't take it on alone.
Moreover, the sea spider had eight long legs, two chelifores, and four independently rotating simple eyes.
When Gu Ningyun had come to talk about cooperation, she actually hadn't had high expectations.
The seven fellow disciples behind her hadn't had much confidence in these five children either.
Simply because, while their cultivation levels were decent, they were too young.
To reach Qi Refining level seven or eight in just three years was impossible without a massive amount of meditation.
Unless they possessed high-grade or even top-grade single spirit roots and spent at least four hours a day meditating without rest, play, or sleep.
At the same time, they would need an understanding of cultivation that far exceeded ordinary people to reach this level in such a short time.
Could these five children, so young, really do it?
How could they be so self-disciplined and diligent?
Being playful was the nature of children.
She had gone through cultivation from that age as well.
Based on her experience and her observations of the younger generation in her sect...
There was a high probability that these five children had reached their current cultivation level within three years by spending almost all their time meditating.
Daily cultivation consisting of nothing but meditation.
Only that made sense; only that was reasonable.
Not just in the Yuebai Sect, but in the other three familiar sects in Cangzhou, the juniors who cultivated quickly were mostly like this.
With their low cultivation levels during the Qi Refining stage, it was almost impossible for them to win if they encountered danger while out on trials.
It wasn't appropriate to go out on trials at that time; focusing on meditation within the sect to increase their cultivation was actually a good choice.
As for trials, it was safer to go after reaching Foundation Establishment.
But this choice had a very obvious disadvantage.
Because they spent most of their time meditating, they had very little time to practice other things or spar.
Their combat methods and experience were inferior to those Qi Refining disciples who went on trials frequently.
These high-level Qi Refining cultivators could even be easily defeated by cultivators one or two levels lower than them.
If they stayed within the sect, this disadvantage was actually negligible.
They cultivated faster and were much more likely to reach Foundation Establishment earlier.
Once they reached Foundation Establishment, even if those peers at the Qi Refining stage had more combat experience, they would be no match for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Then they could go out, accumulate combat experience, go through various adventures, and temper their state of mind for core formation.
The experiences they missed out on while meditating during the Qi Refining stage would soon be overtaken by those peers who had started earlier.
But these five children were outside their sect, and they were here to cooperate with them in hunting sea spiders.
Though their cultivation was good, was their combat ability truly enough to deal with those sea spiders?
Could it be that they couldn't even defeat a rank one peak sea spider?
She hadn't said anything.
The fellow disciples behind her had questioned them repeatedly.
She had observed the five children's expressions, waiting for them to back down in the face of difficulty.
Out of concern for her juniors, she didn't want to say anything too harsh to crush their enthusiasm.
To her surprise, these five children were neither humble nor arrogant, looking completely confident.
The girl at Qi Refining level eight was actually a music cultivator.
There was a ranking on the World Forum, voted on by the users—the most popular professions for adventuring parties in the cultivation world.
In the number one spot was the music cultivator.
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