Daniu Village.
On the village road, children chased and played, and villagers chatted in groups of three or five. On the surface, it looked like a picture of peaceful times.
However, deep underground beneath the giant locust tree, it was an entirely different scene.
Layers upon layers of concealment formations crisscrossed here, cutting off all karmic calculations.
Inside a dark, damp pit.
A white wolf, which would normally look exceptionally majestic, was currently covered in yellow mud. It was sticking its butt in the air, using its sharp claws to frantically... dig a hole in the mud.
It looked exactly like a Samoyed running wild in a muddy field on a rainy day.
At this moment, the White Wolf was in a pathetic state, precisely because it didn't dare to use any magic treasures or activate spells, fearing that any fluctuation of spiritual energy would be detected by the outside world.
It could only rely on the most primitive physical brute force to dig frantically.
As it dug, it cursed Zhao Zonghan's ancestors down eighteen generations in its heart:
“Damn watchdog! Those useless trash from Beast-Taming Peak must have leaked the news!”
“To slaughter our main camp on the mountain in just half a ke—this must have been done by a Nascent Soul old monster of the human race themselves!”
Thinking of this, its digging claws moved so fast they practically left afterimages.
Hum.
Floating slowly above its head were two treasures, their spiritual light restrained.
One was a white ring named 【Muzhi Ring】;
the other was a pitch-black, long nail named 【Zhenzhi Nail】.
Its current plan was very simple and crude: to forcibly suppress the immature Taisui and immediately flee with it!
The only thing that gave it a slight sense of security was that the Taisui was buried thousands of zhang deep in the earth veins, and only it knew the exact coordinates.
Even if a Nascent Soul powerhouse arrived, if they wanted to search for it in this village, they would have to dig three feet into the ground and spend days and nights.
“Once this seat returns to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, I will definitely make you humans...”
Boom!!!
A deafening roar, like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting, suddenly exploded right above its head!
Dirt collapsed, and soil and rocks splattered everywhere!
Dazzling sunlight poured down from above without warning, completely illuminating the underground.
The White Wolf's digging froze instantly.
It only felt that... day had broken.
Terrified, it raised its wolf head.
Directly above the deep pit, at the edge of the collapsed hole, stood a girl in white carrying a black greatsword.
She looked down from above, her lips slowly curling into an arrogant smirk:
“Yo, isn't this Lord White Wolf? We haven't met for a bit, so how did you end up looking so pathetic?”
“Anyone who didn't know better would think you're some family's mutt!”
The White Wolf's fur bristled instantly!
“Impossible!!”
This underground grand array could clearly block even the karmic calculations of Soul Transformation old monsters. In this backwater place, how did these few juniors locate these exact coordinates so precisely?!
Even if it racked its brain, it would never guess that this was because... Jiang Ye had seen it with his own eyes.
“Die!”
Without any nonsense, the Grand Achievement 【Killing Sword Intent】 around Jiang Ye's body erupted. The crimson domain instantly enveloped the cave completely, and his entire being transformed into a bloody afterimage on the spot!
The White Wolf was extremely cautious.
The moment it detected something amiss, it had activated its defensive formation plate.
At the critical juncture of life and death, it triggered it with a single thought.
Hum!
A heavy, solid, earthy-yellow light barrier rose from the ground, instantly sealing it and the Taisui meat mountain behind it inside.
Bang!!
The bloody greatsword slammed heavily onto the light barrier, erupting in a metallic clang.
The light barrier rippled violently, but it managed to block the strike after all.
The White Wolf no longer suppressed its demon power either. It overturned the dirt in front of it with a claw and rushed straight toward the core of the Taisui, attempting to forcibly retrieve it!
However, it underestimated the home-demolishing speed of these maniacs from Sword Peak.
Gu Qingxue and Ye Jinghong quickly joined in, blasting the formation with all their might.
“Break!”
The two unleashed their full power, as freezing sword qi and sharp sword shadows, alternating between false and real, blasted the same node on the light barrier simultaneously!
Crack!
The grand array's light barrier shattered, leaving a large hole.
A blood-red figure had already shot through the gap like a cannonball!
Gripping the sword with both hands, Jiang Ye unleashed a bloody crescent moon slash right in its face!
The White Wolf's pupils shrank to the size of pinpricks. Under the threat of death, a gold medallion hanging on its chest shattered instantly, transforming into a solid, golden shield.
Boom!!
The violent sword qi blasted both the shield and the wolf dozens of meters away, heavily smashing them through the stone wall behind!
Deprived of spiritual energy support, the 【Muzhi Ring】 and 【Zhenzhi Nail】 floating in midair fell into the mud with two clangs, their luster completely fading.
Crack, crack...
A large web of cracks appeared on the surface of the golden shield, but it had actually managed to withstand the attack!
The moment it hit the ground, a blinding silver-white light erupted from the White Wolf's body, and space itself twisted violently, visible to the naked eye.
A second bloody crescent moon was already hurtling toward its face!
Glaring back at the Taisui with eyes full of resentment, the White Wolf roared furiously at Jiang Ye:
“Despicable human! Do you dare to leave your name?!”
Jiang Ye charged forward at high speed on his flying sword, spouting off without hesitation:
“Remember it well!”
“I don't change my name when traveling, nor my surname when resting! I am the Holy Daughter of the Yin-Yang Sect, Liu Ruyan!!”
Whoosh!
The silver light soared into the sky, tearing open the void, and the White Wolf's figure completely vanished into the twisted spatial rift.
Boom!!
The violent bloody crescent moon was a beat too slow. It shattered the remaining shield fragments, sliced through the air, and landed squarely on the massive Taisui meat mountain behind!
Before it left, the White Wolf's final, teeth-gritting sneer faintly drifted out of the spatial rift:
“Liu Ruyan... this seat will remember you! I've left something fun for you, so take your time enjoying it! Humph!!”
Swish! Swish!
Gu Qingxue and Ye Jinghong broke through the remnants of the formation and landed beside Jiang Ye.
From the moment Jiang Ye smashed the formation to the White Wolf crushing its life-saving trump card and fleeing, the entire process took no more than five breaths.
Gu Qingxue inspected the residual spatial fluctuations, her expression grave:
“This should be a Tier Four Medium-Grade 【Thousand-Li Evasion Talisman】.”
Jiang Ye cursed under his breath, “Dammit, that white wolf is definitely not a wolf—it's a turtle. Who the hell goes out with a whole body of life-saving magic treasures?”
Gu Qingxue and Ye Jinghong nodded in agreement.
Jiang Ye looked left and right, then made a grabbing motion through the air, precisely drawing the ring and nail that had fallen into the mud into his hand.
The moment his fingertips touched the magic treasures, the game panel displayed the corresponding information:
【Low-Grade Spirit Treasure: Muzhi Ring (Damaged)】
【Low-Grade Spirit Treasure: Zhenzhi Nail】
“Was this Muzhi Ring dropped by that white wolf?”
Before Jiang Ye could study them in detail, however—
Squelch!
A hair-raising sound of tearing flesh suddenly came from behind them!
The massive Taisui meat mountain, which had originally been curled up quietly, had first lost the suppression of the 【Muzhi Ring】, and then taken a solid, heavy hit from Jiang Ye. At this moment, it was completely enraged by the intense pain!
Countless patches of flesh on the surface of the meat mountain writhed frantically. Hundreds and thousands of crimson roots, like iron spears, burst from the ground, madly stabbing toward the three in a dense swarm!
The narrow, damp underground was instantly filled with a dense mass of tentacles.
Jiang Ye yelled, “Run! The King of Guanzhong is here!”
There was no room to dodge underground; taking this kind of AOE head-on was pure suicide.
Stepping onto their flying swords, the three transformed into three streaks of light, soaring into the sky through the large hole in the ceiling they had just smashed open!
Just as they rushed out of the ground—
Rumble!!!
The earth collapsed, and soil and rocks splattered into the sky like a volcanic eruption!
That massive, hill-sized clump of 【Scarlet Marrow Taisui】, its surface covered in a sticky white membrane and rough, fleshy texture,
burst from the ground once more, making its grand appearance before everyone!
Eight massive mouths split open simultaneously on the meat mountain, dripping with greedy, foul-smelling drool.
It instinctively wanted to feed. Its crimson neural tentacles spread out, trying to control the puppets of the entire village.
However...
Its divine sense swept out, but the entire Daniu Village was dead silent.
The fresh blood food it had been raising had actually all fucking run far away!
Toward the end of the village.
Fully loaded Dharma Boats were desperately climbing in altitude.
Standing at the edge of the deck, Chu Qianfeng was sweating profusely with anxiety:
“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Stuff those red-furred monsters into the bottom of the hold! Don't leave any behind!”
From behind, "Niulaiwa" Zhao Ran came running over, panting heavily. He was dragging three knocked-out mutts and two unconscious yellow cows with a long rope, looking just like a farmer stocking up on goods.
Chu Qianfeng's mouth twitched at the sight. “You didn't even spare the beasts?!”
Zhao Ran wiped away his sweat. “Senior Sister Bai ordered that not a single breathing living thing must be left behind. I'm strictly executing military orders!”
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