This woman rode it like a horse! The wolf demon was furious with hatred, but with its vital point firmly in her grasp, it could only follow her directions and move swiftly.

Its speed was indeed extremely fast, and after just two leaps, it jumped into the forest.

The Wei army’s supply team was originally positioned at the rear of the main force, close to the forest. After the two armies clashed in close combat, the Kingdom of Yao relied on their superior numbers to gradually surround the Wei army.

Feng Miaojun’s little scheme was to break through before the encirclement closed completely!

This wasn’t her war, and she had no intention of living or dying with either side. Thanks to the giant wolf’s speed, she managed to accomplish this, though it was a close call.

Feng Miaojun left in such a hurry, not looking back, that she failed to notice a pair of beautiful eyes watching her with a complex expression.

General Xu Guangxiang of the Mei Ji army was just thirty zhang to her north.

Xu Guangxiang had spotted Feng Miaojun early on and watched as she rode the giant wolf away from the battlefield, evading many enemies along the way.

Her expression was complicated as if she had initially planned to follow but ultimately gave up, watching the silhouettes of woman and wolf disappear into the forest.

Let her go, she thought.

When they rushed into the forest, the giant wolf was covered in wounds, and she had dodged several sneak attacks. On the battlefield, blades and swords were blind—no one would deliberately avoid her to strike at the wolf.

She had already surveyed the surroundings. This forest at the bottom of the slope is connected to deep valleys and ravines, with extremely complex terrain. No matter who it was, tracking someone here would not be easy.

She drove the giant wolf to jump to a mountaintop several li away before saying to it, “You and I have no grudges. I’ll spare your life, but don’t come to bother me again.”

The wolf panted with its tongue hanging out, and after a long while, it nodded.

Feng Miaojun jumped off its back and retrieved her chain. The giant wolf glared at her fiercely, but knowing it couldn’t defeat her, it turned and plunged into the forest, disappearing.

Hearing the sounds of battle in the distance, she knew her time was precious, and there were things she had to do.

Feng Miaojun took out medicine from her bosom and applied it to the tails of three acupuncture needles. She lit them on fire and then inserted the needles into three acupoints: Shanzhong, Qihai, and Guanyuan.

As the silver needles grew increasingly hot, she felt something stirring in her abdomen.

The sensation was quite uncomfortable, but she endured it, not using her spiritual power to interfere.

After about ten breaths, her throat began to itch. She opened her mouth, and a small gu worm fell out. It looked like a transparent jellyfish, round and uniform with no distinguishable head or tail, still wriggling.

This was the Heart-Fixing Gu that Yun Ya had force-fed her in the magma sea beneath Cliff Mountain. Besides inflicting intense pain on its victim, it also had tracking abilities—the master could sense its approximate location from thousands of li away.

With this creature, Yun Ya could roughly know her whereabouts.

Once Feng Miaojun had made up her mind, she was determined to remove the Heart-Fixing Gu. What Yun Ya didn’t know was that she had spent a long time studying every type of gu worm he kept in his small bottle. Combined with what she had learned at Yanhai Tower, she was confident she could expel it.

Previously, she had simply been biding her time, waiting for the right opportunity.

Escaping from under Yun Ya’s nose was a high-risk operation; the slightest misstep could result in being captured and brought back.

Just then, the turtle seal mark in her dantian suddenly emitted a small suction force, drawing away a tiny bit of her spiritual power.

Though the disturbance was minor, Feng Miaojun immediately became alert:

This was Yun Ya using their spiritual connection to confirm whether she was alive!

He had recovered from the series of unexpected events and was now focusing on her.

She grabbed the Gu worm, initially intending to crush it to death, but after examining it for less than half a second, she changed her mind and specifically cast a hibernation spell on it.

The Gu worm trembled slightly and soon stopped moving.

This didn’t mean it was dead, but rather that it had been forced into hibernation, with all bodily functions temporarily sealed. When master gu cultivators didn’t need to use their gu worms for a short period, they would temporarily put them into hibernation, saving on feed and freezing their lifespan. Special types of gu like the Mountain-Shaking Gu and Explosive Gu especially needed to be hibernated before transport, otherwise an accidental self-detonation would be disastrous.

A hibernating gu worm appeared lifeless and broke the mental connection with its master.

Feng Miaojun casually placed it in a jade bottle and put it away, then used her lightness skill to quickly flee the area. She knew that Yun Ya would soon discover that she had hibernated the Heart-Fixing Gu, so she needed to escape as quickly as possible while he was busy with the battle.

Yun Ya stood beside the Wei King. The moment the Yao King’s palace appeared, the golden light also flashed before his eyes.

“Not good!” His expression changed. “Have them retreat and defend!”

The Kingdom of Yao bringing the Golden City onto the battlefield meant that the Wei army had lost all advantages in this battle. Timing, terrain, and morale—they had none of these.

The Wei King quickly understood the key issue and turned to the messenger, saying, “Have them pull back, don’t advance rashly…”

Before he could finish speaking, explosions suddenly bloomed throughout the Wei army!

The dust clouds raised by the explosions were like flowers of death, claiming countless lives as they bloomed. Yun Ya’s face turned cold as water. He waved his hand, and a faint white light spread over a hundred people nearby.

Thanks to his quick reaction, this barrier was barely established when an explosion occurred less than six zhang away!

Standing within the barrier, everyone could still feel the earth shaking violently.

Nearby, it was a scene of bloody carnage.

The Wei King was shocked and furious, issuing one command after another:

“Retreat and form a shield defense!”

“Where are the cultivators? Deploy the military formations!”

“Send signals to the other two units, have them return to the pass for reinforcements!”

Deploying troops wasn’t Yun Ya’s responsibility. While the Wei King was issuing orders, he lightly jumped onto a carriage and gazed into the distance.

Dense smoke rolled in all directions, obstructing his view. But from what he could roughly see, at least ten or more Explosive Gu were scattered throughout the Wei army, detonating at opportune moments.

Wait, that direction with the thick smoke—was that the supply team?

Yun Ya frowned deeply and was about to dash there when commanders who had just experienced the explosions reacted, directing their troops to firmly protect the Wei King’s carriage in the center.

This was bad.

He had no choice but to jump down and say in a deep voice, “Disperse, quickly disperse!”

The Wei King was also red-faced with anger: “Get away, all of you get away! Are you afraid the Miao clan doesn’t know where I am?”

While the battlefield was in chaos with everyone fighting for themselves, here they were surrounded, practically announcing to the enemy the location of their leader. The soldiers below realized this and quickly dispersed.

But it was too late.

Someone in the Yao army was specifically watching for this. At that moment, with a wave of their military flag, more than half of their forces immediately turned and charged in this direction!

The dense explosions had torn the Wei army to pieces, preventing them from regrouping in time. With this forceful charge, the Yao army advanced smoothly for a hundred zhang, now less than two hundred zhang from the Wei King’s royal carriage!