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The other three immediately expressed their loyalty. "Don't worry Miss, we will definitely protect her."

Shen Dia took out the small bag that Mu Xiaoling had stored away to use as a cushion, "Right now, she doesn't have much time left to live, so these things naturally belong to us."

With that, he divided the items among the crowd.

The next day, everyone carried Mu Xiaoling and rushed straight to the Divine Temple.

On the way, they would occasionally run into people from other families, however, since Shen Family was the local tyrant for a long time, no one dared to touch him. At most, they would just ask and would be sent away by Shen Bao.

However, not everyone was afraid of Shen Family, and Meng Family was this exception.

The Meng Family was originally not much worse than the Shen Family, it was just that recently, one of the Martial Spirit had passed away, and then it started to gradually fade.

Divine Temple were located at the border of the secret realm. There was only one path, and that was at the Divine Temple entrance. They met Meng Family Young Lord, Meng Yifan.

Meng Yifan was only fifteen or sixteen years old, wore a set of fiery-red clothes, had a few freckles on his face, and was currently bringing five or six people to rest on the stone outside his Divine Temple. Coincidentally, they were face to face with Shen Zhiruo.

Meng Yifan lazily lied on the rock, "Oh, I thought it was Miss Shen Family. Why are you here?"

Shen Zhiruo's face turned black the moment she saw Meng Yifan, "What are you doing here now?"

Not only Shen Zhiruo, the rest of the Shen Family s had ugly looks on their faces. Obviously, they had suffered under Meng Yifan's hands.

Meng Yifan rolled his eyes. "Naturally, whatever you do, we are prepared to do."

Shen Zhiruo did not even have a brain, upon hearing Meng Yifan's words, she thought that he had been exposed, and immediately shouted angrily: "Your Meng Family doesn't even have a talent for driving beasts, why must you compete with us, Shen Family ?"

Shen Bao was the first to understand, interrupting Shen Zhiruo: "Miss, be cautious!"

"So it turns out that your Shen Family is still targeting the Ancient Fox." Speaking till this point, how could Meng Yifan not understand. Their Meng Family had naturally received news about the Ancient Fox, but their family did not have any Inherent Skills to drive beasts, so they naturally let them go.

But even so, he could not let Shen Family get hold of this Ancient Fox, otherwise, he would not even have a way out.

Meng Yifan thought for a while, then laughed: "Although our Meng Family doesn't have the talent to drive beasts, seeing is seeing is fine right?"

Shen Xiaodie sneered, "You think you can stop us?"

"Even if I can't stop them, I can still find something for you to eat, no?" Meng Yifan swept his eyes across everyone's expression, "I, Meng Yifan, do not need anything, I am just rather curious about the ceremony of the Ancient Fox, how about this, you let us watch from the back, to guard the door for you guys, and when your Shen Family tames the Ancient Fox, we will be the first to surrender, this is a deal that we will never lose, what do you think?"

Shen Bao and the others looked at each other, not able to think of what Meng Yifan was actually planning.

If I saw with my own eyes that you two contracted an ancient spirit beast like the Ancient Fox and went back to the Meng Family to talk about surrender, wouldn't that mean that you guys have an explanation for that? Furthermore, we don't have the talent to drive beasts, so it can't be that you guys are still afraid of our Meng Family fighting with your own. Meng Yifan tried to persuade her again.

Shen Zhiruo thought for a moment, and felt that what Meng Yifan said was true, "Alright, then we'll do as you say. Since Meng Family is the first clan to rely on our Shen Family, I will definitely tell brother when we get back, and let him heavily reward you."

Meng Yifan laughed: "As expected of Miss Shen, you're the best."

With that, the two groups became a team, with a total of thirteen people, they walked into the Divine Temple first, then followed by the rest.

The Divine Temple here were extremely worn out. Other than the main body, most of the other side halls had basically collapsed.

The main Divine Temple was at least nine stories high, and the first floor was a desolate and dilapidated hall. Only the eastern side was decorated with a fox sculpture.

The second floor was a training ground. However, the praying mat on the ground was almost completely rotted.

On the third floor, as soon as everyone entered, they were cut off by a giant beast.

The huge beast had a lion's head and a long nose, which could roll a person up and throw him to the ground, and could even smash a person to death.

"Be careful!" Although Meng Yifan and the rest of the Meng Family seemed to be working hard to kill, they were mainly trying to protect themselves. Shen Zhiruo could not help it at all as she clenched her teeth and spat out a bit of blood from her fingertip. With a howl, a huge wolf appeared out of thin air in front of them.

Shen Zhiruo ordered, "Kill it."

The huge wolf roared and rushed forward to fight with the huge beast. The scene was extremely bloody.

With the giant wolf supporting it, the others would go up to harass it. Soon, the beast was strangled.

On the fourth floor, there was still another gigantic beast. This time, Shen Zhiruo summoned out a mixed fur lion.

Next was the fifth, the sixth ? Only until they reached the ninth floor did everyone stop.

At this time, only Shen Zhiruo, Shen Dia and Shen Bao remained of their Shen Family, but among the people from Meng Family, although two of them were injured under Meng Yifan's lead, there were no casualties.

Two large black stone doors were placed in front of them, and on the stone doors, a giant fox was carved.

The fox's entire body was as white as snow, with only a small red mark on its forehead. It had two tails, one for Yin and the other for Yang.

Shen Zhiruo looked at the sculpture quietly, and felt that the fox's eyes seemed to be moving, it was extremely terrifying, it could make people's hearts palpitate, but they couldn't help but want to step forward and see it more clearly, but just as she was about to move, a voice suddenly woke her up.

Meng Yifan asked: "Miss Shen, how do I open this door?"

"The blood of a person with beast driving talent." Shen Zhiruo's face turned white, summoning quite a few spirit beasts along the way to fight had consumed most of her True Essence, but since they were already here, how could she give up?

She turned her head to look at Mu Xiaoling. She raised her blade and cut Mu Xiaoling's wrist to draw blood, then smeared it on the fox's mouth and retreated.

Everyone only heard a rumbling sound as the stone door slowly opened.

The scene behind the stone door appeared before his eyes. What made him surprised was that it did not seem like a room. Instead, it was a vast and boundless grassland.

Formation!

"Don't worry, we have come prepared." Shen Zhiruo signaled Shen Bao and Dia to carry Mu Xiaoling to the grass.

Meng Yifan clenched his teeth, and turned to instruct: "All of you wait here, if I die, send a message to my father, tell him to surrender temporarily." After he finished speaking, he stepped onto the grass.

These few Meng Family users had all followed Meng Yifan since childhood, and all of them cried tears of sadness upon hearing this, but none of them went against Meng Yifan's orders.

After they entered the prairie, when they turned back, the door behind them had already disappeared. No matter where they looked, all they could see was an endless expanse of green grass, and the surrounding fog slowly floated up, becoming more and more dense. In a short while, the few people were only able to see about five meters in front of them.