"Drip!"
"Drip!"
Morning dew quietly sank from the blades of grass into the wild earth, while strands of sunlight slowly crept in from the east.
At this moment, Xiao Yi Xian and the others were eating breakfast. Sweet mushrooms paired with soup brewed from medicinal herbs—it was not only delicious, but also great for the body. Truly worth having!
"Another bowl!"
Soup still clung to the corners of Little Spirit's mouth as she held out her bowl toward Xiao Yi Xian with both hands, her wine-red eyes fixed intently on the fragrant mushroom soup in the pot.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Little Spirit before her, took out a handkerchief, and wiped her face while she was still dazed.
Liu Yan smiled from the side. Over this period of time, the little girl before him seemed to have become everyone's darling.
Chi Han ate meat beside them in frustration. The pot was so small that if he took even a bite, it probably would not be enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.
"Ah, why is being a snake so hard?"
"Is my mouth really only a tiny bit too big?"
"Is my appetite really only a tiny bit too large?"
Chi Han glanced at the mushroom soup while eating the wild boar before him. He was not jealous in the slightest...
After an unknown amount of time had passed, an intense energy fluctuation and a violent lion's roar suddenly exploded through the sky like muffled thunder.
Hearing the lion's roar filled with savage fury, Chi Han's expression changed slightly as he stared intently at the distant sky.
That was where the violent energy was coming from, and it was also the territory of this region's ruler—the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King!
"That is the roar of the sixth-tier magical beast, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. Who would actually dare set their sights on it?"
Chi Han looked at the violent energy in the distance in surprise. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was not someone easily provoked.
"A sixth-tier magical beast?"
Liu Yan stepped out of the grass hut and was also somewhat shocked by the terrifying scene in the distance.
The only sixth-tier magical beast here was the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, a powerful beast even stronger than human Dou Emperors of the same realm.
"Hm?"
"Has she come?"
Xiao Yi Xian muttered as she watched the strange phenomenon in the sky. Part of the reason she had remained here was for cultivation; the other part was Yun Yun.
Xiao Yi Xian donned a black robe and put on her battered Bronze Mask. The Purple Cloud Wings spread from her back as she headed toward the distance.
"Master?"
"Miss?"
Liu Yan and Chi Han were both baffled as they watched Xiao Yi Xian rush out. That was a Dou Emperor-level expert. If she went over now and got caught in the aftermath by accident...
"You two take care of Little Spirit. I'll be gone for a few days..."
Leaving those words behind, Xiao Yi Xian turned into a streak of purple light and flew toward the battlefield, leaving one man and one beast standing in the breeze.
Chi Han exchanged a glance with Liu Yan beside him and asked, "Does Master know the person fighting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King?"
Liu Yan shook his head. He did not understand Xiao Yi Xian at all. He had no idea what was going on...
The two glanced at Little Spirit, who was still sleeping soundly in the hut, and felt that their days ahead might become rather difficult.
Above the azure sky, violent energy fluctuations continuously produced sounds like muffled thunder. Even though Xiao Yi Xian was still quite far from the battle, her ears could not help ringing.
Xiao Yi Xian was currently weaving through the forest. She was not stupid—flying over to watch the show would be courting death. A human flying through the depths of the Monster Beast Mountain Range without revealing her cultivation...
There was no need to guess. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King would definitely attack to test her, so she still had to rely on the flowers, grass, and trees within the forest to conceal herself.
The Sword Box concealed her aura, but it could not erase her figure. Fortunately, because two great rulers were fighting, all the magical beasts in the area had fled.
Otherwise...
Xiao Yi Xian watched from beside a tree that was neither too near nor too far away, her pale violet eyes fixed tightly on the distant horizon.
There, azure and crimson colors filled nearly half the sky. Even the lazy white clouds had been dyed with a two-colored radiance.
Another thunderous boom rang out beside her ears. The energy pressure that occasionally descended from the sky even made the ground beneath her feet tremble.
"So this is what a true expert is like?" she murmured. Having gained a preliminary glimpse of the terrifying might produced by a battle of this level...
Xiao Yi Xian had never known what true experts were like, but now she finally understood that the one-versus-ten-thousand feats recorded in books did not exist only in legends.
Such strength was truly terrifying. Without abilities that defied the heavens, overcoming opponents beyond one's realm was simply far too difficult.
The farther one advanced, the more even a minor realm could determine life and death. It was hard to imagine just how powerful Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames would become later on, when fighting above his level would be commonplace.
Skimming along the tops of the forest, Xiao Yi Xian flew at high speed. More than ten minutes later, she finally approached the site of the battle.
The pressure transmitted by the violent energy fluctuations in the sky made her heart tremble despite the Sword Box's protection.
Several dozen meters outside the aerial battlefield, Xiao Yi Xian stopped. Using the cover of the vast forest, she leaped to the crown of an enormous ancient tree. From there, she could clearly see both sides fighting in the sky.
If not for the Sword Box, she might not even have dared come close. If an attack accidentally spread this far, she believed the Sword Box would be able to block it.
Watching at close range, Xiao Yi Xian once again witnessed the ferocity of Dou Emperor-level experts. Azure and crimson colors filled half the sky, an extremely magnificent sight.
Her gaze first swept toward the enormous magical beast in the air. Its body was massive, its seven- or eight-meter-long form covered in a layer of purple crystal. Under the sunlight, it shone brilliantly and dazzlingly.
The magical beast had a savage-looking lion's head. Its beastly eyes were blood-red with an unusual purple gleam, and its huge mouth was filled with fangs.
A fiery red spiraling horn rose from atop the lion's head, with clusters of purple flames coiling around its tip. A pair of purple wings grew from the sides of its massive lion body, even larger than Chi Han's wings.
As the purple wings flapped, clusters of pale purple flames surged out like flamethrowers, sweeping across the sky. Its four thick claws were also wrapped in purple crystal, and every step it took made the void tremble. It was difficult to imagine how great its strength truly was.
The enormous magical beast stood upon the void, an invisible pressure descending from the sky and making Xiao Yi Xian's soul tremble.
"So this is the legendary Purple Crystal Winged Lion King?" Xiao Yi Xian murmured softly as she watched the lion king.
No matter what, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had played quite a significant role earlier on as a magical beast.
Yet she could never forget the last time the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King saw Xiao Yan.
The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had thought it could properly teach Xiao Yan a lesson that time, only for the auras of Xiao Yan and the Seven-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python to nearly frighten it to death.
Xiao Yi Xian immediately turned her gaze toward the person confronting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
Her eyes first fell upon that exquisite, curvaceous figure, and Xiao Yi Xian was greatly stunned. That figure...
The woman in the sky wore a plain dress that wrapped around her voluptuous body. She held an unusually shaped longsword that emitted an azure glow.
Her black hair was arranged into a noble phoenix-style ornament. Her beautiful, captivating face was calm and serene. As expected of Yun Yun, the Misty Cloud Sect's current naïve sweetheart of a sect leader.
Behind Yun Yun was a pair of azure feathered wings. The wings were somewhat illusory and entirely different from Xiao Yi Xian's Purple Cloud Wings—at the very least, these were actual feathers.
Although purple was a little ugly, she definitely had to get her hands on the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's pair of red wings. They would not only look good, but would surely let her fly even faster.
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