Mingmei subconsciously suspected that the Zerg had pretended to surrender earlier, just to wait for this moment to suddenly erupt and catch everyone off guard.

Even if Xie Chen wasn't a good person in the game, and might even be in cahoots with the Zerg, he was still young. With his cultivation, even if he came over, how could he cause such a big commotion?

Therefore, Mingmei immediately dismissed Xie Chen. Besides, she remembered that Mu Chen was in control of the body this morning.

"Careful!"

Suddenly, Lu Xiaoyao, who had been standing not far from Mingmei, saw a bright light in the distance. A silvery, sharp beam of light slashed towards their small courtyard.

Lu Xiaoyao instinctively hugged Mingmei and Mei Jiu, who were closest to her, and threw them to the side.

Mingmei only felt a flash of white light before her eyes, followed by darkness. At the same time, she heard the sound of something shattering, and then she was knocked down by Lu Xiaoyao.

After that, she heard a series of loud "rumbling" sounds behind her!

The formation was suddenly shattered by a shocking sword qi. Whether it was people or objects, everything in the path of the sword qi was destroyed. Lu Xiaoyao almost died of fright when she came back to her senses. She was lying on the edge of a gully, and could fall down if she wasn't careful.

She looked up and saw that the house they had been living in was now split in half, with a large section in the middle collapsed!

"Holy crap!"

The survivors who saw this scene were scared out of their minds!

They usually thought that fighting at their level was terrifying enough, but who knew that cultivators at a higher level could do this with a single sword?

When everyone came back to their senses, the Fifth Elder, who had been as gentle as the breeze and the bright moon, now had red eyes and a strange expression. He stood outside their courtyard with a cold, gleaming long sword in his hand, staring straight at everyone in the courtyard.

"Don't go over there!"

Mingmei, who had just gotten up, suddenly grabbed Mei Jiu and Lu Xiaoyao, who were standing next to her, and looked warily at the Fifth Elder in the distance. She could already sense that something was wrong with him.

She turned to look at Shiqing's avatar. The young man had a trace of blood on the corner of his lips, obviously a result of the backlash from the broken formation.

Shiqing was also protecting a group of juniors behind him. Shiqing, who didn't have many expressions to begin with, looked even more serious now.

This further confirmed that the Fifth Elder was very dangerous at the moment.

"Come here."

The Fifth Elder held his sword, not even glancing at Shiqing, and said coldly to Mingmei, "It's not safe here. Leave with me."

"Have my father and mother arrived?" Mingmei, who didn't move an inch, first asked about her parents. Immediately afterwards, Mei Jiu secretly took off the red silk ribbon tied to her hair in response to Mingmei's actions.

They were prepared for the worst. The Fifth Elder's current state made them uneasy.

Not to mention listening to his words and going forward.

As if sensing its owner's unease, the red silk ribbon immediately took action on its own. The fiery red silk, which was less than a meter long, now stretched infinitely and surrounded Mei Jiu and Mingmei.

"They are fighting evil cultivators. You leave with me first."

He said "you," not "you all." Plus, his gaze was always fixed on Mingmei, as if he didn't care about anyone else. This made Mingmei's heart sink.

"Don't go over there." Lu Xiaoyao suddenly grabbed Mingmei's collar, not knowing where she got the courage.

Who would dare to respond to the Fifth Elder in this state?

Lu Xiaoyao had already realized that it was obvious that something was wrong with the Elder right now, wasn't it?

The tone, the words, the expression… the people around them also looked grim.

Their Fifth Elder went out and came back as if he had become the enemy. What should they do?

The Fifth Elder, who was at the Half-Nascent Soul stage, was not someone they, a group of Qi training and Foundation Establishment trash, could defeat.

The disciples of Jingyun Mountain lit up the weapons in their hands in unison. Although they couldn't resist their opponent's level, they still revealed their weapons.

"Jin Wu…"

"Shut up!"

Shiqing stepped forward and had just called out the Fifth Elder's name when he was pointed at by the other party's long sword.

For some reason, the Fifth Elder seemed to have a headache at the moment. He supported his forehead with his remaining hand and looked at Shiqing through his fingers. The words he spoke were surprisingly unexpected: "Don't think I don't know about your problem… It's not your turn to deal with the people of Jingyun Mountain."

Mingmei: ???

Deal with what?

"What do you mean?"

The people who were originally thinking of asking for help from the Lotus Temple were now in a mess.

Their own Elder seemed to have a problem, but the Lotus Temple didn't sound like good people either?

A group of Qi training and Foundation Establishment disciples trembled, completely confused by the scene before them.

"Your inner demons have arisen…" Shiqing sighed, but was met with a chuckle and mockery from the Fifth Elder: "Whose inner demons have arisen? Who caused me to be like this? How could you not know?!"

After saying that, the Fifth Elder, who had just said he wanted to take Mingmei away, suddenly raised his sword and attacked Shiqing's avatar. To prevent the disciples behind him from being affected, Shiqing had no choice but to engage and move the battlefield.

In an instant, all that was left was a group of weak chickens with insufficient cultivation and a pile of rubble.

"Where do we go next?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Because there was no defensive formation, the light and sound of the battle in the sky were amplified infinitely, and the occasional gusts of wind brought by the aftermath of the battle made it difficult for them to stand.

The scene made everyone realize that they couldn't stay here for long.

Staying meant being caught in the crossfire!

"Let's retreat towards the outside of the City Lord's Mansion…"

Someone made a suggestion. No one else had any better ideas, so they all agreed and began to retreat.

However, whether it was because of what the Fifth Elder had said earlier, even though everyone who retreated was still a bunch of weaklings, Mingmei and the others clearly felt the separation between the Jingyun Mountain and Lotus Temple disciples when they retreated.

Although they were retreating in the same direction, they were clearly separated.

However, even the Lotus Temple disciples themselves were confused.

What exactly was their abbot here to do?

Were they really that hated?

"Chan Guang, you are the abbot's personal disciple. Do you know what happened?"

Madison was a person who couldn't hold things in, especially when he met Lu Xiaoyao's suspicious gaze from afar. He was dumbfounded when asked what was going on, so he could only ask Chan Guang, who was closest to the abbot.

"I don't know."

As Chan Guang spoke, Charlie also said, "A monk doesn't lie. Chan Guang, are you sure you don't know?"

"Unsure."

Charlie: "…"

So, does that mean you really know something, kid?

"What exactly happened?" Madison couldn't help but ask. During this time, he met a pair of light golden, glazed eyes and instantly lost consciousness…

[Player has died and will exit the game immediately.]