Chapter 187 - 141: Weren’t You Looking for Me? I’m Here
Chapter 187: Chapter 141: Weren’t You Looking for Me? I’m Here
In the scorching forest.
Traces of fire and burning were everywhere.
Many trees were still engulfed in roaring flames.
Chen Xuan and Chu Qingyin walked one after another, their only focus on pressing forward.
The deeper they went, the more intense the scorching heat became.
Fortunately, neither of them was an ordinary person.
Heat of this degree could hardly affect them.
This was especially true for Chen Xuan. He practiced a Fire Attribute Cultivation Technique, so being in this searing forest was like a fish in water for him.
After walking a while longer, a chaotic roar suddenly erupted from up ahead—a booming, rumbling noise interspersed with deafening hisses, like the roars of some ferocious beast.
"It’s the Eight-headed Fire Python. It really is still there."
Chu Qingyin, beside him, was startled and exclaimed in alarm.
"Excellent!"
Chen Xuan nodded.
Just as he was about to charge forward, he suddenly frowned and came to an abrupt halt.
"Hahaha..."
"Hahaha..."
"Hahaha..."
Waves of wild, deafening laughter suddenly echoed from all directions. The sound was saturated with True Qi fluctuations, kicking up sand and stones as a fierce wind HOWLED.
Six figures were rapidly approaching his position from six different directions. Each one of them erupted with the terrifying aura of the True Qi Ninth Layer.
The immense pressure, the dreadful aura, the vast fluctuations—it all made Chu Qingyin’s face turn deathly pale. Her heart pounded with terror, her scalp went numb, and she instinctively stumbled backward, almost turning to flee.
Half-Step True Essence!
Six of them!
’We’re screwed!’
’We’re totally screwed!’
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!
In the blink of an eye, the six powerful figures landed, surrounding Chen Xuan and Chu Qingyin. They wore smirks on their faces as they unleashed their auras.
There were men and women, old and middle-aged.
Each one wore an insolent expression, arms crossed, staring at the encircled pair as if they were prey.
They were none other than the Four Great Protectors of the Evil Cult!
And the Yin-Yang Elders!
"Heh, Chen Xuan? Number one on the Human List? What a grand title!"
One of them, a woman in a long pink dress, sneered as she stared at Chen Xuan. "A pity. You shouldn’t have been so conceited as to come here alone. Did you really think you were invincible?"
"Young Friend Chen Xuan, have you decided how you’d like to die?"
The old man next to her, dressed in a white robe with a long, snow-white beard, also smiled as he watched Chen Xuan with a gentle gaze.
"I’ve thought about your mother."
Chen Xuan gave them a baffled look.
’Are they tired of living?’
’A few True Qi Ninth Layer cultivators daring to attack me, someone at the True Essence Second Layer?’
’Could anything be more ridiculous?’
At that moment, Chen Xuan was struck by a sense of absurdity. It felt as if he were a max-level character with a full set of top-tier gear who had wandered into the starter village, only for a few low-level mobs to pop out and threaten to kill him.
It was utterly laughable.
"Arrogant and ignorant!"
The woman in the pink dress sneered. "Don’t think you’re so great just because you reached number one on the Human List. There are six of us at the Half-Step True Essence realm, the same as you. On top of that, we have demon blood in our veins. Any one of us is invincible within our realm. You don’t stand a chance!"
"The Saintess said to capture him safely. Don’t hurt him. She wants to use him as a cultivation cauldron, and it would be bad if he’s damaged. Try to capture him intact."
The old man beside him, clad in a black robe with a jet-black beard and hair, said flatly.
He and the white-robed old man were the Yin-Yang Elders.
"Saintess?"
Chen Xuan frowned. "You have a Saintess? Where is she? You’re all from the Evil Cult, aren’t you?"
’Evil must be eradicated completely.’
’Find out where she is, and I’ll go kill her later.’
"Don’t be hasty. You’ll find out soon enough."
The woman in the pink dress gave a light laugh and fiddled with her hair. "We will personally take you to see the Saintess shortly," she said airily. "You’d best not resist. It would be a shame if you got bruised or broken."
"Everyone, let’s not waste any more words on him. The Saintess is waiting for our report."
The old man with the snow-white beard and hair smiled. "Let’s move together. Capture him first, and we can talk later!"
The other five all grinned and stomped forward. Their auras erupted in unison with a BOOM, crashing toward the center like a landslide and a tsunami, intending to give Chen Xuan no chance whatsoever.
At the side, Chu Qingyin’s face was a mask of terror. Her body trembled, and she was on the verge of collapsing.
’Can someone please tell me how I’m supposed to escape?’
BOOM!
BANG!
SPLAT!
A terrifying flash of fire swept out in an instant. The energy wave was like a volcanic eruption combined with an exploding cannonball—a surge of power so extreme it was impossible to fathom, making the very ground seem to tremble.
The air temperature instantly shot up by more than ten degrees.
Of the six True Qi Ninth Layer masters who had just been charging forward, five exploded on the spot.
Limbs and chunks of flesh flew everywhere.
Only the woman in the pink dress remained. Her face was slack with utter terror as she slammed to a halt, trembling uncontrollably. A chill ran through her from head to toe; she was more terrified than she had ever been in her life.
She even leaked a few drops of urine...
’This is...’
Her gaze trembled, and she found it hard to breathe.
It felt as though an invisible, fiery hand had clamped firmly around her neck...
’What just happened?’
All she had seen was Chen Xuan wave his hand, and in that same instant, her five companions who had been charging forward exploded, dying a gruesome death...
Their Yin bodies had mostly been destroyed once before; this time, it was their physical bodies that had died...
"You... you..."
The woman in the pink dress was overwhelmed by fear, her lips trembling. She nearly collapsed to the ground.
"What about me?"