Chapter 212: Xiao Yan's Crisis! Yao Lao's Shock! Xiao Yi Xian's Gift!
In the Demo Mountain Range, a chase that had sted for over half a month was still ongoing.
"Xiao Yan, you 't escape. Surrender now, and I might let you keep your whole corpse," roared Mu She, the leader of the Wolf Head Merary Group, furiously at the fleeing young man.
For half a month, since disc Xiao Yan's whereabouts, he had been leading his meraries iless pursuit. Despite his efforts, Xiao Yan, with his ing Dou Teiques and ruthless methods, had repeatedly escaped their encirclement and even inflicted heavy losses on his men. This only intensified Mu She's hatred and desire to tear Xiao Yan apart.
"This kid must have araordinary background with such skills!" thought Mu Snake. "But no matter his in, he must die for killing my son!"
Realizing Xiao Yan's potential threat, Mu Snake's killing i deepehis was a feud that could only be settled by death.
As Mu She watched Xiao Yan disappear into the dense forest, his eyes bzed with murderous i. He quickly followed, plunging into the dark woods.
Just as Mu She ehe forest, a shadow reeking of blood attacked him. Without hesitation, Mu Snake drew his long sword and viciously struck the shadow.
The sound of the bde cutting flesh echoed through the forest, followed by a pierg screech. Mu She had struck a Bloodthirsty Rat, a first-tier demo.
Mu She, expressionless, flicked the rat off his bde and quied his pace, but soon, a group of Bloodthirsty Rats, each half the size of a man, blocked his path. Though they couldn't harm him, they signifitly slowed his pursuit.
As Mu She grew frustrated, his meraries finally caught up. Seeing their leader blocked by the rats, they drew their ons and began to fight off the creatures.
"Chase him!" anded Mu She, kig a rat away.
The relentless chase resumed.
...
The usually peaceful mountaiurned upside down by the pursuit and ensuing chaos. Xiao Yan, the instigator, had unwittingly provoked the local wildlife, causing the meraries to suffer casualties without even toug him.
Xiao Yan, feeling the ache in his legs, looked up at the crest moon and couldn't help but bitterly smile. The meraries' persistence was beyond his expectations.
"Am I nearing the heart of the Demo Mountain Range? Are these fools not afraid of entering high-tier Demos?" Xiao Yan cursed under his breath, then tinued deeper into the forest.
Mu She, seeing Xiao Yan stop near a cliff, was overjoyed. The cliff was over teers wide, and crossing it meaering the heart of the mountain range, a pce even he dared not venture.
As Xiao Yan stood at the cliff's edge, Mu She approached, his face twisted in a triumphant grin. The meraries surrounded Xiao Yan, sealing off any escape.
Xiao Yan, fag the cliff, darkened. He had iently been ered while fleeing aimlessly. "Damn my luck," he cursed inwardly.
"Xiao Yan, surrender now, and I'll grant you a quick death," Mu She said coldly, approag Xiao Yan with his sword drawn.
As Xiao Yan stood ered, Mu She relished the moment. He would finally avenge his son and the losses his men had suffered.
Xiao Yan sighed, lifting the Profound Heavy Ruler in his hand. Suddenly, he closed his eyes, a smile pying on his lips.
Mu She frowned, uain of Xiao Yan's iions. The meraries watched, amused, believing Xiao Yan's situation was hopeless.
Mu She's unease grew as he sehe energy in the air intensifying. As he approached Xiao Yan, the atmosphere seemed charged with immi danger.
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With his hands tightly gripping his rge sword, Mu She, feeling uneasy, cautiously approached Xiao Yan, no longer ed about the differen their strength and status.
Notig Mu She's solemn demeanor, the surrounding meraries sensed something was amiss. They gripped their ons tighter, preparing for the ued.
"Stop pying tricks, die!" Mu She, entering his attack range, dispyed a ferocious look and, without hesitation, swung his rge sword fiercely towards Xiao Yan's neck.
"It's too te…" Xiao Yan, with his eyes suddenly wide open, uttered coldly. The Profound Heavy Ruler in his hand surged with intense heat, the first time it was trolled by Xiao Yan.
"Fme Splitting Wave!"
As Xiao Yan shouted internally, the energy of the heavens ah above the abyss surged violently. tless visible energies, as if attracted, crazily infused into the Profound Heavy Ruler in Xiao Yan's hand. The ruler grew hotter and its bizarre patterns began to glow with a fiery red light.
As Xiao Yan eled the st of his Dou Qi into the Bck Heavy Ruler, the tip of the ruler fshed brightly. A crest-shaped red glow, half a meter long, shot out, carrying intense heat and violently striking towards Mu She.
A red light flickered in the distance, and as the crest-shaped glow left the ruler, Mu She's pupils shrank, shocked. densing Dou Qi externally was a skill only a Dou Grandmaster
could master. How could this mere Dou Practitioner release such a perfect densed Qi attack?
Before Mu She could pohis bewildering question, he surged with Dou Qi, coating his rge sword with a light blue aura, resembling a thin energy film.
"Wind Bde Dance!"
Exhaling deeply, Mu She waved his sword furiously. Numerous blue sword afterimages appeared before him, f a de of bdes.
This was Mu She's highest level Dou Teique, a low-level Xuan Teique. He had once earhe title of the stro man in Qing Shan Town with this teique. Now, fag Xiao Yan's mysterious and powerful attack, the cautious Mu She used his stro move.
The red crest arrived in a fsh. Before the meraries could prehend what it was, a thunderous explosion sounded over the abyss.
"Boom!"
With the explosion, Mu She was hurled from the ground, his feet digging into the earth as he retreated over teers before crashing heavily inte tree, causing it to burst apart. Only then did he e to a stop. The onlasped in shock – the disheveled figure was Mu She, a Two-Star Dou Master!
As they stared at the frightened and pale Mu She, the meraries swallowed hard, then turheir eyes to the ter of the explosion. A deep, wide crater appeared shogly before them.
Seeing the blinding pit and the pale Mu Shere was a deafening silence. All were dizzy with the realization that a-star Dou Practitioner had left a Two-Star Dou Master in such a sorry state.
The dirt finally settled, revealing Xiao Yan holding the heavy ruler. His face was also pale, but his bck eyes burned with a chilling fervor. Despite the backsh from using the Earth Level Dou Teique, its power filled Xiao Yan with joy. The gap between a Dou Practitioner and a Dou Masteri had been bridged by this terrifyingly powerful teique.
Coughing violently, Xiao Yan took out another Qi Returning Pill and quickly swallowed it. His cold gaze swept over the meraries, who now avoided his eyes in fear.
"Kill him! Attack!" Mu She, shaking off the meraries supp him, had his palms split open, his sleeves soaked with blood. His crazed and twisted face revealed the fear Xiao Yan's strength had instilled in him.
At this moment, Mu She even fot about the treasures Xiao Yan might possess. His fear had turned into a wild desire to kill. Without an antidote tret, his fear naturally transformed into a frenzied killing i. Only by killing Xiao Yan could he find peace.
"Everyotack! He's at his limit!" Mu She shouted.
Hearing the order, the hesitant meraries, gripping their ons, cautiously surrounded Xiao Yan.
"Today, you must die!" Mu She gred fiercely at Xiao Yan standing at the cliff's edge.
"Teacher, aren't you going to help?" Xiao Yan called out to Yao Lao in his mind, seeing no way out.
"Heh, I've said before, I won't intervene unless you're truly about to die," Yao Lao's teasing old voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind.
"Crap!" Xiao Yan cursed, the the approag Wolf Head Merary Group, his handsome face twisting ferociously.
"Just try to take me down!"
As Xiao Yan braced for a st stand, his expression suddenly ged.
He sensed an overwhelming pressure approag.
"Eh! A fourth-ical beast!"
Yao Lao's old voice followed in Xiao Yan's mind.
"What, a fourth-ical beast?" Xiao Yan was startled and armed.
They were deep in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, but still ier area. How could a fourth-ical beast, equivalent to a human Dou Spirit, appear here?
The moment, a pierg eagle cry resounded above the forest, causing Xiao Yan to cover his ears.
Mu She and the Wolf Head Merary Group also sehe anomaly above.
"This is... a Demo!"
Mu She's gaze fixed on the sky, sensing aremely fierce aura approag.
"A third-order Demo?"
"No, it might be a fourth-order!"
The presence of a powerful magical beast made Mu She break into a cold sweat.
"Why would a fourth-ical beast appear here? Did our otion attract it?"
This thought brought a wave of fear over Mu She.
"Everyone, hide! It's a fourth-ical beast!"
As the fearsome presence drew nearer, Mu She couldn't stand it anymore. He called out to his meraries and fled into the distance.
At this point, he had fotten about Xiao Yan. Survival was his priority.
"What! A fourth-ical beast! Everyone, run!"
Hearing Mu She's warning, the meraries panicked.
Seeing the Wolf Head Merary Group fleeing, Xiao Yan quickly hid under a rge rock, cealing his presence.
Anle cry echoed as a huge shadow arrived over the forest. The light dimmed, and Xiao Yan, cautiously hiding, couldn't help but look up at the sky.
Chapter 212: Xiao Yan's Crisis! Yao Lao's Shock! Xiao Yi Xian's Gift!
Xiao Yan's eyes widened in terror the moment. Above the forest, a gigantic bird of prey, about thirty meters long, appeared, its ferocious aura sweeping over the area. Feeling this overwhelming presence, Xiao Yan dared not linger any longer and cealed himself entirely under a rge root letting out a single breath.
While Xiao Yan hid in fear, the enormous bird in the sky didn't stay but headed deeper into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, as if it was just passing through.
"Eh! It's her!"
"A Dou Masteri level practitioner!"
"How is this possible?"
Following the bird's flight over the forest, Yao Lao's surprised voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind.
Hearing Yao Lao's unusual tone, Xiao Yan, although curious, dared not make any movements. The magical beast had not yet gone far, and any sign of his presence might attract its attention.
Once he sehat the giant bird had left, Xiao Yan emerged from uhe rock, only to sense several people approag his location.
"It's the Wolf Head Merary Group!"
Realizing that Mu Snake had likely noticed the fourth-ical beast was just passing by and had returned with his men, Xiao Yan quickly left the area before they could surround him again.
When Mu Snake and his meraries arrived and found no trace of Xiao Yan, they roared in frustration.
"Teacher, did you notiething just now?"
Once he was safe, Xiao Yan, remembering Yao Lao's excmation, asked curiously. It was the first time he had heard Yao Lao so surprised.
Yao Lao's spectral body emerged from Xiao Yan's ring, still wearing a look of astonishment. "That fourth-ical beast had two people on it," he said, frowning.
"What!"
Shocked, Xiao Yan couldn't believe what he was hearing. People riding a fourth-ical beast? How strong must they be? Dou Wang? Dou Huang?
Thankfully, Xiao Yan had hidden well and did not reveal his presence.
Yao Lao, however, had reized the faces of the two people on the magical beast. It was the shock nizing them that had surprised him.
Nan Yanran?
The image of the girl who had e to the Xiao family to break off the e crossed Yao Lao's mind. How could it be her? Her aura had reached the Dou Masteri realm, a drastic ge from her previous Three-Star Dou Practitioner level.
Yao Lao's thoughts were in turmoil. He wondered if he had misjudged Xiao Yan's potential. Could Xiao Yan really defeat Nan Yanran?
"Xiao Yan, do you know if Nan Yanran has a sister?" Yao Lao asked after a moment of silence.
Thinking it might be Nan Yanran's sister who resembled her, Xiao Yan shook his head. "No, Nan Yanran is the only daughter in the Nan family."
Yao Lao psed into silence again.
Theuro Xiao Yan, his face serious. "From today, you must increase your efforts. Kill a sed-ical beast every day!"
"Ah!"
Xiao Yan was dumbfounded. A sed-ical beast was a challenge for a Dou Master level practitioner!
"Teacher, are y to kill me!"
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Deep in the Magical Beast Mountain Rahe giant bird nded, and two figures in white slowly desded.
"Sister, I'll leave you here."
These were Nan Yanran and Xiao Yi Xian, who had traveled from the Yuo the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
"Thank you, sister," Nan Yanran nodded, looking at the surrounding wilderness.
Xiao Yi Xian warned her about the dangers of the mountain range, emphasizing caution against not just beasts but also humans.
Nan Yanran agreed, advising Xiao Yi Xian to be careful in Chu Yun Empire, a dangerous pce full of poison masters.
Xiao Yi Xialy amused by her innate immunity to poison, assured her sister of her safety.
Nan Yanran then urged Xiao Yi Xian to leave, ed about her mission.
Xiao Yi Xian agreed but theed Nan Yanran with gifts to protect herself - various powerful poisons she had crafted, each more deadly tha, capable of killing up to fourth-ical beasts.
Stunned by the potency of these "i repellents," Nan Yanran realized that Xiao Yi Xian might be the bane of the poison masters in Chu Yun Empire.
(End of chapter)
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