Three towering figures, built like iron pagodas, emerged from the shadows in a triangular formation, directly blocking the path of the two women.
They were shirtless, their bronze muscles bulging like granite, and every muscle seemed to contain explosive power. Savage beast patterns were drawn onto their skin, the lines faintly glowing with a blood-red light — clearly a secret technique used to enhance their physical bodies.
Wu Yan swept them with her Divine Sense and found that their cultivation bases were not particularly high, only at the Foundation Establishment Peak. It was highly likely that these companions from the Foundation Establishment group had happened to be teleported together.
“Hahaha! Looks like my luck is pretty good!”
The leading brute grinned, revealing a mouthful of stark white, jagged teeth. His gaze swept over Wu Yan and Yu Qingyao without restraint, looking at them as if they were two lambs waiting for the slaughter.
“I just landed and already ran into two little girls. Perfect. Hand over those 2 points, and I won’t have to cruelly destroy these flowers!”
Following his laughter, his two companions behind him also let out malicious chuckles. They slammed their fists together, producing a dull, metallic clang that made the surrounding air hum.
“Ten Thousand Beast Mountain…” Wu Yan recognized their sect at a single glance.
Ten Thousand Beast Mountain was famous for its Body Cultivators. They even strengthened themselves by fusing with the essence blood of Monster Beasts. The advantage of this was that their physical strength would become terrifying, even surpassing Monster Beasts of the same level. However, the disadvantage was also obvious; their personalities would be influenced by the fused essence blood.
‘Tsk, how disgusting. Has this group from Ten Thousand Beast Mountain not finished evolving yet? I can smell that sweaty stench from 1 mile away. Little Wu Yan, looking at this kind of trash makes my eyes hurt. I suggest you just cut them down; they’re an eyesore.’
Just as Wu Yan was about to draw her sword to face the enemy, Yu Qingyao was one step faster.
“Senior Sister, there is no need for you to deal with such crude people.”
Yu Qingyao took a step forward, shielding Wu Yan. Her longsword remained in its sheath, but her originally gentle temperament underwent an instantaneous transformation.
The young girl who had been softly calling her “Senior Sister” was gone. In her place was a Sword Cultivator, sharp and imposing.
A visible heat wave centered on her and instantly expanded in all directions. The air rippled and distorted from the high temperature, the withered grass beneath her feet instantly turned to ash, and even the surfaces of the hard rocks nearby began to glow with a faint, dark-red luster.
“Humph, a little girl playing with fire? You overestimate yourself!”
The leader of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain group was enraged. He let out a roar and slammed his feet onto the ground.
Boom!
Spiderweb-like cracks were actually stamped into the hard rock floor by his kick. Using the force of the recoil, he lunged toward Yu Qingyao like a cannonball launched from a barrel, carrying the weight of a thousand tons. This strike possessed no fancy techniques; it was pure physical suppression.
Facing this bull-like charge, Yu Qingyao’s expression remained unchanged. She did not even move her feet a single inch.
“FLOWING FIRE · COLLAPSE.”
Three words escaped the girl’s crimson lips. Her voice was not loud, but it carried an explosive surge of Spiritual Power.
Shring!
The longsword left its sheath in an instant. A streak of crimson fire exploded with absolute precision on the ground directly in front of the brute’s feet! It was no ordinary flame, but highly compressed spiritual fire.
A violent blast rang out, and the ground beneath the man’s feet instantly collapsed. A massive shockwave from the explosion surged directly toward his lower body.
The brute’s momentum was too fierce, and all his power was concentrated in his upper body, leaving him no time to adjust. Hit by this sudden shockwave, his feet instantly left the ground, and his originally perfect center of gravity completely disintegrated.
“What — !!”
The brute’s pupils shrank as he realized with horror that he had lost his balance. He pitched forward like an out-of-control wheel.
“Too slow.”
Yu Qingyao’s voice was cold and clear, forming a sharp contrast with the blazing flames swirling around her. She elegantly avoided the man’s uncontrolled collision, while simultaneously striking the man’s back with the hilt of her sword.
*Thud!*
A dull impact was accompanied by the smell of something burning.
“Ahhh!!”
The brute let out a scream as high-temperature Spiritual Power invaded his waist. The intense pain caused him to lose all ability to resist. His massive body fell flat on the ground, sliding more than 10 meters away due to inertia before finally shattering a rock ahead with a loud *boom*, sending dust flying everywhere.
The Jade Token at his waist shattered instantly, teleporting him out of the realm.
Seeing this, the expressions of the two remaining Ten Thousand Beast Mountain disciples changed drastically. “Big Brother!”
They never expected that their thick-skinned, sturdy leader would be taken down in a single exchange by this seemingly delicate young girl.
“Retreat!!”
The three-man alliance was not as solid as it appeared. Once the leader fell, the other two scattered and fled.
“Humph, trying to run?”
In just a few breaths, following two crisp sounds of shattering jade, the remaining two were also sent out of the Secret Realm.
Click.
With a crisp sound of the sword entering its sheath, the distorted heat waves and high temperatures dissipated instantly, as if they had never existed. The points on Yu Qingyao’s Jade Token also rose to 4.
‘In a corner I hadn’t noticed, has Qingyao become this powerful?’
Wu Yan was momentarily dazed. Her memory of Yu Qingyao was still stuck on their time in the Cangwu Secret Realm.
“Very impressive, Qingyao. The timing, method, and execution of your Flowing Fire · Collapse were all perfect. I can see that you really did retake that Battle Theory class after you went back.”
Just as the praised Yu Qingyao was about to say something, a highly out-of-place sound suddenly came from the nearby pile of rocks.
Click-clack —
The crisp sound of abacus beads was exceptionally piercing in the deathly silent Stone Forest. Immediately following that, a small head with double buns poked out from behind a rock, a signature smile plastered on her face.
“Wonderful! Truly wonderful!”
Bai Zhiqiu clapped her hands as she hopped out from behind the rock. “As expected of a top disciple from the Piaomiao Sect! Junior Sister Yu’s skill is simply divine! Tsk tsk, that was the bronze skin and iron bones of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, yet you beat them into submission! If I sold a recording of that lesson, it would go for at least 50 Spirit Stones!”
“Bai Zhiqiu?”
Yu Qingyao immediately gripped her sword hilt warily, her gaze turning cold. “Are you here to fight?”
People from the Tianyan Sect were best at calculations and formations. For someone like her to pop up at a time like this made it hard not to suspect a trap.
“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t get violent! We’re all civilized people here!”
Bai Zhiqiu quickly raised her hands in a gesture of surrender. “We are all good companions who went through thick and thin together in the Cangwu Secret Realm! Fighting and killing would only hurt our feelings. I just calculated that this direction held good fortune, and I ran into you as soon as I arrived!”
Ignoring Yu Qingyao’s wary look, she scurried over to Wu Yan.
“You two, meeting like this is fate. You’ve seen the current situation; with 100 people in this melee, running around like headless chickens is a major taboo.”
Bai Zhiqiu lowered her voice as if she were peddling contraband. “I have a freshly made Fat Sheep Distribution Map of the Taixu Realm right here. This is exclusive intel I deduced using the Tianyan Divine Calculation!”
Her eyes darted around, and she chuckled. “For old times’ sake, how about an alliance?”
Yu Qingyao looked at the shrewd Bai Zhiqiu, whose eyes were full of craftiness. “A fat sheep map? Then how can you guarantee that in your eyes, the two of us aren’t ‘fat sheep’?”
“How could that be? Individually, you might be a fat sheep, but with Sister Wu here, that’s not the case at all~”
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