Apocalypse: Why did you provoke her? She's a cultivator.

Chapter 156 Canyon
Everyone was stunned and looked in the direction of the sound.

Not far away, on the roadbed, a figure was standing.

The woman was dressed in a simple light apricot-colored Hanfu, with her long, smooth hair draped behind her ears and her face expressionless.

It was Ye Qiumian who had just fallen.

She toyed with a spirit stone in her hand, her gaze sweeping over everyone present with indifference, yet it sent a chill down their spines.

"Who the hell dares to ruin my plans?" Tian Zhishang was both shocked and furious.

Turning his head, he saw Ye Qiu Mian, who was all alone, and didn't take her seriously. "Kill them all!"

The two henchmen immediately turned their guns on Ye Qiu Mian and pulled the triggers.

At the same time, three superhumans launched an attack on Ye Qiu Mian.

"Boom!"

The bullets and supernatural attacks hurtled through the air, but crashed into an invisible barrier half a meter away from Ye Qiu Mian.

All attacks froze instantly, and then the bullets fell to the ground with a "thud," their warheads crushed.

Tian Zhishang and his men's expressions changed instantly, realizing that the newcomer was not someone to be trifled with.

Fang Jun and Yi Yan were also shocked, especially Fang Jun, who was incredibly excited when he saw Ye Qiu Mian, exclaiming, "Sister Ye!"

Ye Qiu Mian nodded slightly, her figure swaying slightly, leaving an afterimage in place. The next second, screams rang out one after another.

"Ah! My hand!"

"I can't move my legs!"

In the blink of an eye, all the men with guns were lying on the ground.

Either their wrists were crippled or their knees were dislocated, and weapons were scattered all over the ground, but no one died.

Tian Zhishang was terrified, almost dropping the crystal core in his hand. He pointed at Ye Qiumian, his voice trembling, "You...who are you? I'm General Tian's nephew, how dare you touch me?"

Ye Qiumian walked towards him step by step, her pace slow but carrying an invisible pressure that made Tian Zhishang involuntarily retreat.

"The Tian family?" She raised an eyebrow, having no recollection of the Tian family he mentioned. "I don't care whose nephew you are. If you want to kill and steal treasure, you should be prepared to die."

Before she finished speaking, she flicked her finger, and a faint stream of spiritual energy shot out, striking Tian Zhishang's hand holding the crystal core precisely.

"Ah!" Tian Zhishang cried out in pain, his hand loosened, and the seventh-order crystal core fell down, which was caught by Ye Qiumian.

She weighed the crystal core in her hand, then glanced at Tian Zhishang, whose face was deathly pale, her eyes icy.

Fang Jun saw the murderous intent in Ye Qiu Mian's eyes and quickly spoke up to stop her: "Sister Ye, spare his life."

The power behind Tian Zhishang should not be underestimated. Killing him would likely cause Brother Chu a great deal of trouble.

Ye Qiu Mian gave him a cryptic look, her figure flashing like a ghost.

With a sharp "crack," accompanied by Tian Zhishang's heart-wrenching scream, his left arm drooped down at an eerie angle.

Even if we don't kill him, we must at least give him a warning.

Ye Qiumian didn't look at him again, turned around and threw the crystal core to Fang Jun: "It's your own stuff, take good care of it."

Fang Jun instinctively caught the crystal core, his face beaming with joy, and said, "Sister Ye, where have you been for the past year or so? We've all been very worried about you."

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine," Ye Qiumian said.

Despite the pain, Yi Yan looked at Ye Qiu Mian gratefully: "So you are Sister Ye. Thank you for saving us. I will remember this kindness."

Ye Qiumian waved her hand and looked to the north, where the aura of thunder seemed clearer.

"It was no trouble at all. I have other things to do, so I'll be going now." With that, she didn't linger. With a light touch of her toes, her figure transformed into a streak of light and vanished into the horizon in an instant.

Before leaving, she used her spiritual energy to bind Tian Zhishang's people, giving Fang Jun and the other two time to leave.

Fang Jun gazed in the direction she had left, gripped the crystal core in his hand tightly, and sighed, "I didn't expect that she would leave again after we had only just met."

Yi Yan gazed in the direction Ye Qiu Mian had left, her eyes brimming with fighting spirit.

She hopes that she can be as amazing as Sister Ye in the future.

While Tian Zhishang and the others were being held hostage, the two picked out a nice car from them and drove away.

……

Ye Qiumian trekked along the route based on the locations provided in the short video.

The closer you get to that canyon, the clearer the violent aura permeating the air becomes.

At first, it was just an occasional, slight tingling or itching sensation on the skin.

Later on, it seemed as if one could taste the scorching sensation of lightning striking everything with every breath.

She pushed aside the last patch of bushes blocking her way, and the view before her finally came into view.

The canyon is indeed not large, with cliffs on both sides as if carved by a knife and axe. The highest point is only a hundred feet or so, and the cliff walls are covered with charred marks, obviously from being bombarded by lightning over the years.

Right there in this narrow valley, pale purple arcs of electricity moved and collided between the rock walls like living things, crackling and popping from time to time.

Occasionally, thicker bolts of lightning would strike down from mid-air, hitting the rocks at the bottom of the valley and sending up a scorching shockwave.

Any ordinary superhuman would have been deterred by such a sight.

With such a concentration of lightning power, one could be torn to shreds with the slightest carelessness.

But as Ye Qiumian gazed at the leaping arcs of electricity, a clear excitement flickered in her eyes.

Her physique was naturally compatible with lightning; the power of lightning, which ordinary cultivators would avoid at all costs, was the best tool for tempering her body.

She looked down at the large tree that was still wrapped around her wrist.

At this moment, it was so frightened by the thunderous aura at the valley entrance that its branches and leaves trembled, but it did not run away. Instead, it nervously wrapped its arms around Ye Qiumian's wrist.

Ye Qiumian reached out to comfort it, then turned around and went back to a relatively flat mountain hollow outside the Great Tree Canyon.

He then took out a mid-grade spirit stone from his storage bag and gave it to it, saying, "It's too dangerous over there. You stay here and absorb the spiritual energy from the spirit stone until I come out."

The tree branches swayed gently, as if nodding in agreement.

After settling the big tree, Ye Qiumian took a deep breath, turned around, and walked towards the valley entrance where lightning crisscrossed.

As soon as she stepped into that invisible force field, a bolt of lightning as thick as a wrist struck her shoulder with a "crack".

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be charred and lying on the ground by now, but Ye Qiu Mian only felt a slight slump on her shoulders and walked to the center of the valley entrance as if nothing had happened, and sat down cross-legged.

She closed her eyes, and her internal energy circulated on its own, actively guiding the lightning strikes aimed at her.

"Crackling—Sizzling—"

More and more lightning bolts were drawn to her, some coiling around her arms like silver snakes, others covering her body like spider webs. Dense currents coursed and exploded across her body, and you could even see her clothes trembling slightly under the impact of the currents.

But once these violent forces entered her body, they were guided by that special body-tempering technique and slowly washed over her limbs and bones.

Each wash brings a subtle pain as the muscles and bones are tempered, but more importantly, it brings a sense of fullness as strength increases.

She could clearly feel that her flesh, bones, and meridians were becoming increasingly resilient and powerful under the repeated tempering of the lightning power.

Time slipped away quietly amidst the monotonous rumble of thunder and the hum of electricity.