Yun Yun's Arrival (Part 1)

"Drip!"

"Drip!"

Morning dew slipped from the blades of grass into the untamed earth, as rays of sunlight slowly crept in from the east.

At that moment, Xiao Yi Xian and the others were eating breakfast—sweet mushrooms paired with a medicinal herb broth. Not only was it delicious, it was also good for the body. Truly worth having!

"One more bowl!"

Little Spirit still had broth lingering at the corner of her mouth as she held out her bowl to Xiao Yi Xian, her wine-red eyes fixed stubbornly on the fragrant mushroom soup in the pot.

Xiao Yi Xian looked at the little girl before her, pulled out a handkerchief, and wiped her face while she was still dazed.

Liu Yan chuckled from the side. Over this period of time, the little girl had become the group's darling.

Chi Han, meanwhile, sulkily gnawed on meat. After all, that pot was so small—if he tried to eat from it, it probably wouldn't even fill the gaps between his teeth.

"Sigh, why is being a snake so hard?"

"Is it just because my mouth is a little bigger?"

"Is it just because my appetite is a little bigger?"

Chi Han glanced at the mushroom soup, then bit into the wild boar in front of him. He wasn't jealous at all... not even a little...

Before long, a violent surge of energy and a furious lion's roar suddenly exploded in the sky like thunder.

Hearing the savage lion's roar, Chi Han's expression shifted slightly as he stared intently at the distant sky.

That was where the violent energy was coming from—and that place belonged to the region's overlord, the "Purple Crystal Winged Lion King!"

"That's the roar of a sixth-tier magical beast, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. Who would dare to set their sights on it?"

Chi Han looked in surprise at the violent energy in the distance. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was no easy opponent.

"Sixth-tier magical beast?"

Liu Yan walked out of the thatched hut and looked at the terrifying scene in the distance with some astonishment.

The only sixth-tier magical beast here was the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and it was even slightly stronger than a human Dou Emperor of the same level.

"Hm?"

"Has it come?"

Xiao Yi Xian muttered to herself as she watched the strange phenomenon in the sky. She had stayed here partly to cultivate, and partly to wait for Yun Yun.

She threw on a black robe, put on a worn bronze mask, and unfurled the "Purple Cloud Wings" on her back before flying off into the distance.

"Master?"

"Miss?"

Liu Yan and Chi Han stared blankly as Xiao Yi Xian rushed out. That was a Dou Emperor-level fight—if she went over there and got caught in the crossfire...

"Take care of Little Spirit. I'll be gone for a few days..."

Xiao Yi Xian left behind only those words before turning into a streak of purple light heading toward the battlefield, leaving one person and one beast standing in the breeze.

Chi Han exchanged a glance with Liu Yan and asked, "Does Master know the person fighting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King?"

Liu Yan shook his head. He didn't understand Xiao Yi Xian at all—he knew nothing about anything...

They both glanced at Little Spirit, still sound asleep in the hut, and felt that the days ahead were going to be tough.

Above the clear blue sky, violent energy fluctuations continuously produced thunder-like booms. Even though Xiao Yi Xian was quite far from the battle, her ears still rang.

At that moment, Xiao Yi Xian was weaving through the dense forest. She wasn't stupid—flying over to watch the fight would be suicide. A human flying deep in the Monster Beast Mountain Range with no visible cultivation level...

There was no need to guess—the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King would definitely attack to test her. So she had to rely on the trees and plants of the forest to conceal her figure.

The Sword Box masked her aura, but her silhouette couldn't be hidden. Fortunately, the battle between the two overlords had driven all the other magical beasts away.

Otherwise...

Xiao Yi Xian stopped beside a tree that was neither too close nor too far, her pale purple eyes fixed on the distant sky.

There, cyan and red colors nearly filled half the sky, even dyeing the lazy clouds in two shades of light.

Another thunderous roar rang in her ears, and the energy pressure descending from the sky made the ground beneath her tremble slightly.

"So this is what true strength looks like?" she murmured, having now witnessed the terrifying power of a battle at this level for the first time.

Xiao Yi Xian had never known what true strength really was. Now she finally understood—the tales in books about one man defeating ten thousand weren't just legends.

This kind of power was truly terrifying. Without certain abilities, defying the heavens and slaying immortals was far too difficult.

The further one went, even a single minor realm could decide life and death. It was hard to imagine just how powerful Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames would become later, where fighting above one's level was commonplace.

Skimming just above the forest canopy, Xiao Yi Xian flew at great speed. After more than ten minutes, she finally neared the battlefield.

The pressure from the violent energy fluctuations in the sky still made her heart tremble, even with the Sword Box protecting her.

Dozens of meters away from the aerial battle zone, Xiao Yi Xian stopped. Using the cover of the massive forest, she climbed to the top of a towering ancient tree. From there, she could clearly see both sides of the fight in the sky.

If not for the Sword Box, she might not have dared to approach this place. If any stray attack did spread here, she trusted the Sword Box could withstand it.

Watching from up close, Xiao Yi Xian once again witnessed the ferocity of a Dou Emperor. In the azure sky, cyan and red hues dominated a full half of the horizon, presenting an exceedingly spectacular sight.

Her gaze first swept toward the massive magical beast in the air. This creature was enormous, its body seven or eight meters long, covered in a layer of purple crystals that gleamed and shimmered under the sunlight, quite dazzling.

The beast's head was a ferocious lion's visage, with blood-red eyes tinged with a strange purple light, a massive maw lined with fangs, and atop the lion's head sat a fiery red spiral horn, with clusters of purple flames coiling and dancing around its tip. On the lion's massive side grew a pair of purple wings, even larger than Chi Han's.

As the purple wings flapped, clusters of pale purple flames erupted like flamethrowers, sweeping out in all directions. Its four thick paws were also wrapped in a layer of purple crystals, and each step made the void tremble, making it hard to imagine the sheer force behind them.

The massive beast stood in the void, an invisible pressure descending from the sky, causing Xiao Yi Xian's heart to quiver.

"Is this the legendary Purple Crystal Winged Lion King?" she murmured softly as she gazed at the lion.

Regardless, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had played a significant role in the story as a magical beast.

But she could never forget the last time the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had faced Xiao Yan.

The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had thought it would teach Xiao Yan a proper lesson, but the auras of Xiao Yan and the Seven-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python had nearly scared it to death.

Xiao Yi Xian then turned her gaze to the person confronting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.

Her eyes first swept over the curvaceous, slender figure, and she felt a jolt of surprise. That figure...

The woman in the sky was clad in a simple dress that hugged her full figure, holding a somewhat peculiar long sword that emitted a cyan glow.

Her black hair was styled into an elegant phoenix coiffure, and her beautiful, serene face was calm and composed. Truly worthy of being the current naive and sweet sect master of the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Yun.

Behind Yun Yun was a pair of cyan wings, slightly ethereal, very different from her own Purple Cloud Wings—at least these were real feathers.

Though the purple was a bit ugly, she was determined to get her hands on that pair of red wings from the Heavenly Demon Phoenix. Not only were they beautiful, but they would surely let her fly faster.