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"This guy keeps cooing. It's surprisingly intelligent," Jiang Lin said with a smile, sheathing his greatsword.

Xiao Yi Xian carefully stroked Blue Eagle's head. It obediently rubbed against her hand, like a big dog wearing eagle skin.

"Leave the rest to me." Jiang Lin nodded at Xiao Yi Xian, then gestured for the injured Blue Eagle to follow him. Under everyone's watchful eyes, they disappeared into the forest.

Blue Eagle looked back and forth between Jiang Lin and Xiao Yi Xian. Xiao Yi Xian smiled. "Go with him. If you make him unhappy, he might roast you."

Blue Eagle grew even more anxious upon hearing that. It flapped its wings a few more times, then hopped around on the ground like a chicken, cooing nonstop. It was hard to imagine that a first-tier Magical Beast could be so intelligent.

A trace of surprise flashed through Xiao Yi Xian's eyes, but she still smiled and reassured it. "Go on, go on. You'll be safe with him."

Blue Eagle looked back every few steps, but eventually hopped into the dense forest to chase after Jiang Lin.

"Such an intelligent Magical Beast would be a pity to lose so casually." Deep in the woods, Jiang Lin, clad in black armor and robes, turned back and saw Blue Eagle running toward him on two legs. He smiled, led it in circles through the Monster Mountain Range, then brought it through a tunnel into Peach Blossom Valley within the mountain range.

As he grew older, Jiang Lin increasingly felt that Peach Blossom Valley was covered by something like a formation. During all the years he had lived in this valley, Flying Magical Beasts had passed overhead, yet they had always flown straight on as though they had never noticed the valley below.

Jiang Lin felt that once he became strong enough, he would definitely tear this valley apart and see what was inside.

"It's safe here. You can't touch the things in that clearing over there, understand? Find somewhere to heal on your own. If you get hungry, there are fruits and jerky over there. Rest here for two days and don't run around. I'll take you out in two days." Whether Blue Eagle understood or not, Jiang Lin said it all anyway. Seeing that the sky had grown somewhat dim, he went to fetch some jerky and fruit.

After tossing some to Blue Eagle, Jiang Lin casually found a rock and sat down, chewing on jerky as he watched the sky gradually darken.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Lin stood up and, under Blue Eagle's puzzled gaze, walked toward the clearing piled with miscellaneous items. He found a hemp rope over ten meters long, went back to Blue Eagle, looped it around its neck, and tied the other end to a tree.

Blue Eagle:.

"Don't run around. The sky above the valley might not be safe. Don't break this rope either, or I won't look after you anymore." Like feeding a puppy, Jiang Lin prepared enough food and water for Blue Eagle, patted its head, put on his helmet, and left the valley through the tunnel, disguising the entrance with decorations.

Blue Eagle was only a minor interlude. It was highly intelligent, and Jiang Lin would not refuse if he could tame it. If not, he would not force the matter. As for whether it would expose the valley, there was nothing valuable in it anyway. Jiang Lin simply needed a quiet environment here. Besides, if he wanted to refine Mystic Armor Puppets and learn the Great and Glorious Corpse Makeup Technique, this valley would also be an excellent setting.

After all, Myriad Medicine Hall was crowded and full of prying eyes. Jiang Lin needed a quiet, private place for a short while.

You wouldn't want to see your captain enter Myriad Medicine Hall lying down, then leave standing up, would you? How presumptuous.

Peach Blossom Valley only needed to provide quiet and concealment for a short time. Whether it was exposed afterward did not matter.

Whoosh!

On a hill at the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range beneath the night sky, Jiang Lin, clad in black armor and robes, suddenly looked up. A flaming arrow streaked through the night, plunged into the forest, and ignited a patch of dry grass.

"So it still came. Of all people, why did they have to come for me?" Jiang Lin looked at the distant blaze, silently lowered his visor, and vanished into the forest as his black armor blended into the night.

Elsewhere, in the forest where flames soared into the sky, a group of men dressed in black robes and black headscarves wiped out the Mercenary Group led by Li Miao almost at first contact. In the dark forest lit by fire, Li Miao and the others fell one after another. Xiao Yi Xian looked somewhat panicked as she watched the black-clad men approach her step by step from the darkness. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end said nothing.

"Run! Run!" Mercenary captain Li Miao staggered out from the burning forest nearby and shielded Xiao Yi Xian. He drew the broken sword that had been sliced in half during the earlier clash and charged at the men in black.

Splat!

Xiao Yi Xian watched helplessly as one of the black-clad men kicked Li Miao to the ground, then drove a sword straight down. Blood instantly burst through his body!

Xiao Yi Xian's face went pale. Gritting her teeth, she turned and rushed straight into the blazing forest. The men in black immediately followed, pressing closer step by step.

Not long after Xiao Yi Xian and the black-clad men left, Li Miao, who had fallen to the ground, suddenly climbed back up. He clutched the wound at his side as the flickering flames around him cast his face in an extremely pale light.

"Captain Li." At that moment, the mercenaries around him, who should have died after being unable to endure the heat of the wildfire, also rose from the ground and gathered around Li Miao.

"They're all... mercenaries from Qingshan Town." Someone beside Li Miao rubbed his aching neck, his expression complicated.

"It's normal for wealth to move people's hearts." Li Miao nodded with a pale face, then looked at the spreading wildfire around them with concern. "Which motherfucker started this fire?!"

Water and fire showed no mercy. Once a wildfire broke out, a single misstep could easily cause heavy casualties.

"Captain Li, you're injured."

"How could I put on an act if I wasn't injured? Miss Xiao Yi Xian can't know too much. Knowing too much would be dangerous for her!" Li Miao could no longer care who had started the fire. He simply treated his wound, then headed down the mountain toward Qingshan Town.

"Forget it! Get down the mountain quickly! If the second-tier and Third-tier Magical Beasts inside come out, we won't be able to escape! They won't hold back like those people did!"

The other mercenaries supported Li Miao as they hurried down the mountain.

Along the way, another group of men in black stopped them. Their short, sturdy leader stared coldly at Li Miao and asked in a deep voice, "Who started the fire?"

Li Miao was drenched in sweat as he frantically shook his head. "I don't know! I don't know!"

The leader frowned, left behind a curt "Get lost," then led his men toward the place where the flames soared into the sky.

Fuck! What terrible luck! I got dragged into this meaningless conflict for no reason at all! Li Miao cursed inwardly, then led his teammates swiftly down the mountain.