Evenly Matched

Yuan Zhen saw Chen Mobai unleash five sword strikes in succession and behead those two immensely powerful Mountain Giant Apes, and her eyes flew wide, her face full of disbelief.

She had personally experienced the strength of those two yao beasts. If it had been just one alone, then at her peak, she would have been confident she could take it down.

But if the two joined forces, her best choice would have been to avoid them.

If there truly had been no other way and she had to face them head-on, then by using the trump card at the bottom of her chest, she could just barely have slain both.

But to slaughter the yao beasts cleanly and completely with such careless ease, the way Chen Mobai had—she definitely could not do that.

This Sect Master Chen from the backwater Eastern Wasteland had not reached Core Formation Late Stage yet, had he?

This person's talent may be above mine!

That thought flashed through Yuan Zhen's mind, and as the inheritor of the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect, she found it somewhat hard to accept.

Because the last time she had felt this way, it had been when facing Ye Qing!

In other words, in the entire Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect, perhaps only Ye Qing could steadily press this Five Elements Sect master down by a head.

He couldn't be someone the Primordial Unity Dao Palace is raising in the Eastern Wasteland, could he? This thought suddenly surfaced in Yuan Zhen's mind.

And at that moment, flames flickered. Chen Mobai, who had put away the yao cores, had already returned before Yuan Zhen with sword in hand.

"True Person Yuan, the nearby Third Tier Yao Beasts should only have been these. They've all been dealt with."

Chen Mobai spoke