As his words fell,
he suddenly reached out, his five fingers curled into claws, and viciously plunged them into Wang Teng's chest!
"Aah—!"
Wang Teng let out a shriek so miserable it scarcely sounded human!
He could clearly feel the Essence Blood and spiritual power throughout his body being wildly, ceaselessly siphoned away through Ye Xuan's arm!
His body rapidly shriveled!
Meanwhile, Ye Xuan wore an intoxicated expression!
He could feel an unprecedentedly powerful force wildly burgeoning within him!
"Such... such powerful strength!"
"Lin Yuan! Just wait! Very soon... very soon, I'll trample you beneath my feet! Everything you did to me, I'll return it to you a thousandfold, a hundredfold!"
A few seconds later,
Wang Teng had become a dried corpse.
Ye Xuan, meanwhile, contentedly withdrew his hand. Feeling the surging power in his body, he was secretly thrilled!
"Teacher, look, I've grown stronger again!"
He proudly boasted to the Extreme Dao Ancestor in his mind.
Yet there was only dead silence in his mind.
The Extreme Dao Ancestor did not respond.
Ever since Ye Xuan had begun associating with that mysterious and powerful father of his, the old ancestor had become increasingly silent.
For one thing, Ye Xuan's Father possessed unfathomable strength. Even his wisp of a remnant soul felt deeply wary of him, afraid of exposing himself.
For another... watching Ye Xuan travel farther and farther down this dark road filled him with complicated emotions.
Naturally, he hoped Ye Xuan would grow stronger.
Only if Ye Xuan was strong enough would he have a chance to escape that damned ring and be reborn!
But... he did not want the price to be Ye Xuan completely falling into the demonic path and becoming a monster who knew only slaughter and devouring!
With age came cunning; when it was time to lie low, one had to keep one's head down!
This brat was beyond saving!
Back then, he truly must have been blind!
How had he chosen such a twisted fellow?
He had seen Ye Xuan's honest, simple exterior and thought he was a promising prospect, only to discover that he had long since rotted to the core!
Had he known this would happen, he might as well have...
Another figure uncontrollably surfaced in the Extreme Dao Ancestor's mind.
That youth who lounged lazily in a chair, yet with a single thought suppressed the entire audience and regarded all the heroes under heaven as nothing.
Lin Yuan!
That boy might have acted eccentric and appeared to be a salted fish, but his temperament and bearing were the true bearing of an emperor!
What a pity... what a pity!
For the first time, the Extreme Dao Ancestor entertained the thought of sacrificing his tail to save himself.
Seeing that the Extreme Dao Ancestor remained silent, Ye Xuan gave a disdainful snort.
He no longer needed guidance from that old fellow!
At that moment, a tall middle-aged figure and a graceful, slender figure emerged from the darkness as well.
They were Ye Xuan's Father and Li Xuan'er.
"Very good, Xuan'er. This is how it should be."
Looking at the dried corpse on the ground, Ye Xuan's Father revealed a satisfied smile.
"If you want to rise above others, you must climb upward by stepping on their bones!"
Beside him, Li Xuan'er stood quietly without uttering a word.
Yet the strange, icy aura around her had become even denser than before!
As time passed,
the number of Wilderness Hunt contestants was rapidly dwindling.
The lights released when contestants were eliminated flickered up one after another throughout every corner of the Wasteland.
Those who had survived until now were all true elites.
Within a tranquil bamboo grove,
Gu Ningxue swept aside her opponent's attack with one stroke of her sword, closed in, and lightly tapped her fair, jade-like finger against the other's forehead.
Bzz—!
That young man from an aristocratic family stiffened, then was directly blasted away by an irresistible force.
On the Points leaderboard,
her name sat firmly in third place, behind only Liu Mingxuan and Chen Yu.
She sheathed her sword and stood there, her expression cool and aloof, ready to leave.
Suddenly!
Several fierce gusts of force struck at her from different directions!
Gu Ningxue's beautiful eyes narrowed. With a light tap of her toes, she drifted backward like a soaring swan, narrowly evading the ambush.
"Who is it?!"
she shouted coldly.
"Hehe, as expected of the Gu Family's eldest daughter and Capital Martial Arts Academy's number one genius. You truly have some skill."
Accompanied by a frivolous laugh,
Liu Mingxuan and Chen Yu slowly emerged from the depths of the bamboo grove with more than a dozen elite descendants from various families.
Their gazes toward Gu Ningxue brimmed with ill-intentioned Avarice.
"Liu Mingxuan? Chen Yu? What are you trying to do?"
Gu Ningxue frowned deeply.
"What are we trying to do?"
Chen Yu licked his lips, his face twisted into a savage smile.
"Of course... we're inviting Miss Gu to come with us."
Liu Mingxuan added from the side, "That turtle Lin Yuan is hiding in Black Wind Valley and refuses to come out. So we'll have to use some extraordinary methods to force him out!"
"If we have you in our hands, do you think that Lin Yuan won't obediently come out to his death?!"
"Despicable!"
Gu Ningxue's pretty face instantly turned frosty.
"Hahaha! Despicable? The victor becomes king and the loser a bandit! Once we kill Lin Yuan, who would dare say a word against us?"
Chen Yu laughed wildly and waved his hand.
"Brothers, attack! Take her down! Remember, we want her alive!"
"Yes!"
Those dozen or so Prodigies instantly turned into ravenous wolves and pounced fiercely at Gu Ningxue!
Faced with Chen Yu's undisguised ferocious expression and Liu Mingxuan's arrogant bearing, not a trace of fear appeared on Gu Ningxue's cool, beautiful face.
What she had instead was only a chill like the Ten Thousand Year Ice Mountain.
She could not even be bothered to waste another word on them.
Clang—!
A clear sword cry rang through the bamboo grove!
The longsword in her hand was like a stream of autumn water drawn down from the Nine Heavens. Sword light flowed around it, instantly transforming into a skyful of sword shadows that swept toward those dozen or so Prodigies!
"Overestimating yourself!"
"Attack together! Cripple her!"
Seeing that Gu Ningxue actually dared to strike first, those so-called elite descendants all sneered viciously. They drew their weapons, erupted with spiritual power, and closed in from every direction!
Blade light, sword shadows, fist winds, palm force!
Dozens of terrifying attacks carrying the cultivation of the Marrow Cleansing Realm instantly intertwined into an impenetrable net of death, seeking to completely devour Gu Ningxue!
Yet Gu Ningxue's figure transformed into an ice butterfly dancing gracefully amid that fatal web of attacks.
Her steps followed an incomparably profound rhythm.
Every turn and shift was perfectly timed to avoid the deadliest edges.
The longsword in her hand became the fangs of the Grim Reaper.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The crisp ringing of metal striking metal sounded as densely as raindrops!
Whenever the sword light Flashed, one aristocratic descendant would inevitably let out a muffled groan and stumble backward in disarray!
Their attacks looked ferocious, yet they could not even touch the corner of Gu Ningxue's clothes!
Instead, her elusive swordsmanship drove them into a frantic scramble, and their formation instantly fell into Chaos!
In barely a dozen breaths, four or five of them had been wounded by her sharp Sword Qi, leaving bloody gashes so deep that bone showed through on their arms and shoulders!
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