Within the Mirage Realm.
Xu Zhiming had been heading deeper into the Mirage Realm, occasionally encountering some Level 20 Demon Beasts that did not know their place.
A bolt of Thunderbolt let them die without pain.
Nangong Ya stood beside him, occasionally enjoying the tempering of the thunderbolt.
She looked at those Demon Beasts with some disdain. Demon Beasts in their twenties offered no challenge at all.
Without strong Demon Beasts, and without running into a little danger herself, how could she stir Xu Zhiming's protective instincts and give him a chance to play the hero saving the beauty?
Though heroes saving beauties was an old trope, what man did not have such a dream in his heart?
Her brother had told her that.
Do not be fooled by how many men nowadays mocked hero-saving-beauty scenes as too clichéd when reading novels.
That was because they had never encountered the good fortune of saving a beauty, only for that beauty to willingly offer herself to them afterward.
If such a good thing really happened, no normal man would refuse.
Nangong Ya thought so too.
She could not make it look too deliberate. She had to genuinely suffer a little injury for it to seem real.
A few Demon Beasts above Level 30 would be perfect.
Nangong Ya thought to herself.
Just then.
Nangong Ya's beautiful eyes narrowed as she looked into the distance.
Several Demon Beasts above Level 30 were charging toward the two of them at tremendous speed.
Several auras above Level 30 were also rushing over from farther away, seemingly chasing those Demon Beasts.
Xu Zhiming's Mental Power was not as strong as Nangong Ya's, so he did not sense the people behind the Demon Beasts.
All he saw were three gigantic pythons twisting their bodies wildly through