This Way
“Let’s stick together so that we can help each other out,” suggested Qiao Xue.
Tian Ran nodded. “By the way, Qiao Xue, have you sensed anything off about this place? Have you felt as though there’s something guiding you somewhere?”
“No, have you noticing something?”
“I’m not sure. Ever since arriving here, I’ve had this feeling that somebody has been telling me to go somewhere; I can’t explain the feeling. I’ve avoided following it since I assumed it could be a fiend beast luring me in.”
“If only you can hear it, then it is odd.”
“Let’s see if we can locate Mu Yu or his seniors. It’ll be safer for us to stick with them.”
“I agree.”
“Wait. Yue Hansha is back!”
“You two aren’t so good at fighting, but you’re decent at running,” mocked Yue Hansha, bristling.
Qiao Xue wrapped herself and Tian Ran in Water Spirit to flee via the river.
“You thought!” Yue Hansha blasted his soul energy into the water, smothering every inch of the river to prevent the two escaping.
Qiao Xue managed to run fifty metres before noticing the incoming soul energy, forcing her to vault out of the water.
“He’s almost caught up again,” notified Tian Ran.
Qiao Xue summoned a bone belonging to Archfiend Yujiang and deployed “My Lord, Undulate”, forcibly stopping Yue Hansha inside the undulating domain. Yue Hansha used his soul bead to manifest a spider web capable of spawning claws, tearing through the domain to give chase.
“I’m sorry for implicating you,” conveyed Tian Ran, seeing Yue Hansha rapidly close in.
“Don’t say that. We can get through this.”
“This way,” Tian Ran suddenly heard in her head. She asked, “Did you hear that?”
“Hear what?”
“The voice. Someone in the east is calling me over.”
“Let’s head that way, then.”
“What if it’s a monster luring us over?”
Qiao Xue dove down into the river between the mountains. “He’s coming with us. If we’re lucky, the monster or whatever it is will stop him.”
The girls burst into a monster’s space and zipped through, going straight toward the underground chasm that the water poured into. An Apotheosis Realm black tiger standing at a hundred metres tall, left with only its bones on its head, threatened the girls into stopping.
“You plan to have the primordial fiend beasts stop me? Their favourite delicacy happens to be blood and flesh, which I happen to have more than copious amounts of!” Yue Hansha wore on a coat of blood that his race collected in preparation for getting through Ancient Battleground.
The girls got out of the tiger’s tail’s way, though they would have merely been collateral damage if they were caught. Yue Hansha triggered a domain ability to block off the tiger and proposed, “Capture them, and this blood is yours.”
Fearing Yue Hansha’s powers, the black tiger turned its attention to the girls who did not waste a second speeding into the chasm. As the tiger closed in, Tian Ran whipped out golden qi from her sword, borrowing Qiao Xue’s Water Spirit to accelerate it. The turbulent water splashed onto the black tiger, shoving it off track and affording the girls a window to turn to the east.
“This way,” Tian Ran heard.
“How much further?” Qiao Xue questioned.
“Just past this black tiger’s turf. The voice is clearer and clearer to me, so we should be close,” answered Tian Ran.
The black tiger quickly caught up, while Yue Hansha activated another domain, putting a wall in front of the girls. Yue Hansha sent a ghost claw at the girls, giving Qiao Xue no option but to deploy Archfiend Baiyuan’s domain stored in a strand of his fur. Water Spirit transformed into a titanic fist and hammered the ghost claw into the hand.
“Can you hold up, Qiao Xue?” asked Tian Ran. She took over, propelling herself off a golden lotus when Qiao Xue smashed the ghost claw away as she could tell that Qiao Xue did not possess enough spirit energy for a second punch.
Yue Hansha cut the girls off again. “Out of tricks?”
Tian Ran tugged Qiao Xue to her rear, then executed an Ascension Realm slash. Unfortunately, Yue Hansha had the strength advantage, smashing through her slash with his ghost claw. Tian Ran gasped up blood as the force blitzed her.
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