Chapter Five: Suppressing My Enemies

"Wang Senior Brother, there's something I'd like to entrust to you. Do you have a moment?"

"This mission will require your assistance, Senior Brother."

"Is this the legendary 'A Promise Worth a Thousand Gold Coins'? Wang Senior Brother, you're well-connected and quite charming."

After flying for a day, they met four people waiting at the peak of a mountain.

They quickly paid their respects to Wang Xuan.

These were all early Foundation Establishment cultivators, thrilled to undertake a mission with Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan nodded to each of them.

The combination of two women and two men wasn't bad at all.

Three Foundation Establishment peak cultivators leading four early Foundation Establishment disciples. With this lineup, it would be a breeze to annihilate a small nation with a population of a million.

"The mission is to exterminate the Grade 8 Colliding Mountain Earthworms in the Earth Dragon Gorge."

"These monsters like to strike the earth's veins, causing earthquakes and significant damage to nearby cities."

"You should learn well during this mission to be able to share the sect's burden in the future."

Feng Xiaoxi explained the details of the mission and took the opportunity to instruct the sect's juniors, passing on her experience.

It was a tradition of the Xuanti Sect for Foundation Establishment peak disciples to guide the younger ones.

Wang Xuan had also been a Senior Brother and had taught the sect's juniors before. But this time, he was invited as an external helper.

Feng Xiaoxi and Liu Yuanyuan gave the junior disciples some guidance.

"Senior Brother, for this mission, we'll need to descend into the cracks. We've prepared some things; please take a look to see if they're suitable."

Feng Xiaoxi presented a storage pouch and asked for Wang Xuan's opinion.

"Come over and take a look, everyone. Senior Brother Wang is a talisman craftsman, and how much you learn depends on your comprehension."

Liu Yuanyuan called the junior disciples over to observe.

Wang Xuan felt a little overwhelmed by the crowd. Why was Senior Sister Feng paying so much attention to his opinion?

Looking at the earth spirit talismans, attraction talismans, and illumination talismans she had prepared, they were pretty much sufficient.

The Colliding Mountain Earthworms were only Grade 8 monsters, roughly equivalent to the Foundation Establishment peak level. Although they lived in groups, the sect sent out new disciples for training every year to clear the faults in the earth veins, so their numbers weren't too high.

"Senior Sister, you've got everything ready, and there's no deficiency."

"For this mission, Senior Sisters Feng and Liu will lead, and you all should learn from them."

Wang Xuan gave his input and looked at the four junior disciples. Although his relationship with the two women was good, the mission's priorities needed to be clear.

Liu Yuanyuan had an expression that seemed to say, "I told you so." "That's right, Senior Brother Wang takes good care of his younger brothers. You should take him as an example."

"Senior Brother is wise, and his character is worthy of our learning."

"Being sincere and trustworthy, I've read Senior Brother's works and today I've heard it; it's indeed true."

"The female disciples all say that Senior Brother Wang is charming and has a wide social circle. A Senior Brother as excellent as him makes me want to compete with the two Senior Sisters."

The four junior disciples chatted animatedly, their eyes filled with stars. Senior Brother was really just as rumored.

Wang Xuan rubbed his nose. Five years ago, he had full confidence when he attempted Foundation Establishment. Indeed, he had written an autobiography.

Raising his hand to stop their chatter, he said, "Cultivation is the most fundamental. I failed in building the foundation because I cared too much about fame and gain."

"Senior Brother is being modest."

"What Senior Brother wants us to learn is that even if we become famous, we should remain humble."

"Stop arguing, and quickly enter the cracks."

Feng Xiaoxi stopped the discussion among the junior disciples. "Senior Brother, we're counting on you."

The seven of them, riding their flying swords, entered the underground through the cracks.

Wang Xuan and the others activated their illumination talismans, revealing the underground caves.

After descending more than 200 meters, they reached the bottom. The underground caves here were intertwined. To find the Colliding Mountain Earthworms, they would need to use earth spirit talismans.

The seven of them spread out.

Wang Xuan held low-level spirit talismans, tasked with ensuring everyone's safety and preventing ambushes.

"Is everyone ready? I'll activate the earth spirit talismans together."

"We're ready."

"Go!"

As Feng Xiaoxi activated the low-level spirit talismans, the four junior disciples followed suit. A circle of yellow spiritual energy penetrated underground, creating ripples like a water surface.

Bang!

The ground in the cave cracked open, and a several-meter-long earthworm, its entire body the color of dirt, emerged.

It was the Colliding Mountain Earthworm, a Grade 8 monster with flesh and bones as tough as iron that could knock down mountains.

Following closely behind were three seven- to eight-meter-long Colliding Mountain Earthworms.

Clearly, they were all part of the same family of Colliding Mountain Earthworms.

"Spread out and attack their mouths!"

Liu Yuanyuan gave the command, and they summoned their flying swords to slash at the Colliding Mountain Earthworms, killing the one that was more than ten meters long.

The four of them used low-level spirit talismans to attack the seven- to eight-meter-long earthworms.

Feng Xiaoxi held the sword art in her hand, dividing her flying sword into three, attacking in unison.

The four were somewhat unprepared, but after around ten rounds of combat, they managed to kill one of the seven- to eight-meter-long Colliding Mountain Earthworms.

The larger Colliding Mountain Earthworm, seeing its offspring killed, roared repeatedly, its whole body shrouded in monstrous power, and rammed into Liu Yuanyuan.

It turned its head and charged at the four junior disciples.

Seeing the monstrous power of the twenty-meter-long Colliding Mountain Earthworm, the juniors were initially frightened and stood still.

Feng Xiaoxi, witnessing this, used her three flying swords to continuously attack, finally stopping the Colliding Mountain Earthworm's onslaught.

Liu Yuanyuan was seriously injured and struggled to maintain her flying swords to keep her balance. "Don't just stand there, quickly summon your flying swords to attack."

The four of them, upon hearing her shout, raised their crooked flying swords and attacked the young Colliding Mountain Earthworms.

Their swordsmanship was far from mature.

Bang!

The cave wall split open, and a twenty-meter-long Colliding Mountain Earthworm rushed out, covered in monstrous power, charging at Feng Xiaoxi.

The entire Colliding Mountain Earthworm family had arrived.

"Senior Sister, be careful."

Wang Xuan moved at a lightning speed, embracing Feng Xiaoxi and avoiding a sneak attack by the ten-meter-long Colliding Mountain Earthworm.

Turning around, he manipulated his spiritual energy to form a spirit talisman in the air: "Beast-Slaying