Yun Yun vs. the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, Ji Changqing Follows in Secret, the Original Plot Repears

After depositing the three of them at the outskirts of the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the giant eagle circled overhead.

Xiao Yi Xian looked at Ji Changqing and asked with a smile, "Where are you going?"

"Do you want to come back to Qingshan Town with me?"

Ji Changqing replied, "I'm going elsewhere to train. Are you still going back to Qingshan Town?"

"Yes. The Wolf Head Mercenary Group isn't the only mercenary group in Qingshan Town. Many mercenary groups owe me favors, so the Wolf Head Mercenary Group won't dare do anything to me."

"All right."

The atmosphere between the two was harmonious.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yan kept his head lowered and nudged a stone with his foot, feeling somewhat awkward standing there.

So, he clasped his fists and said, "Farewell, you two. If fate allows it, we'll meet again someday."

Xiao Yi Xian's lovely face remained indifferent.

Ji Changqing clasped his fists and smiled. "Brother Xiao, take care."

With the black ruler on his back, Xiao Yan leaped away in just a few bounds.

With no outsiders around, Xiao Yi Xian looked even more relaxed.

She sat on a bluestone, her white dress as pure as a little white flower untouched by dust beneath the faint morning light.

"Oh, right, I still haven't asked your name!"

Ji Changqing thought for a moment and said, "Ji Changqing."

"Mm, I'll remember you."

Xiao Yi Xian lifted her bamboo basket and stood up. Looking at Ji Changqing with her pure little face, she said, "Ji Changqing, we've been through life and death together. Are you really not coming back to Qingshan Town with me?"

"I'll pass."

"All right, then."

Xiao Yi Xian blew her bamboo flute and called the giant eagle back.

Sitting on the eagle's back, she looked at Ji Changqing with curved brows and smiling eyes, waving as she said, "Ji Changqing, we'll meet again!"

"Goodbye."

Ji Changqing looked up as the giant eagle flew farther and farther away, until it became a tiny sesame-sized dot and vanished completely from sight.

He really could not stay in Qingshan Town.

He had to return to the Misty Cloud Sect. There were still many matters waiting for him to handle.

If he had time in the future, he could return to Qingshan Town to visit Xiao Yi Xian.

He just did not know...

With his interference, what changes would Xiao Yi Xian's future undergo?

Well, he had already tucked the supplementary volume of the Calamity Poison Scripture beneath the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture. Xiao Yi Xian would find it.

After standing there for a while,

Ji Changqing turned and darted toward the depths of the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

He knew Yun Yun was following him.

She had said she wanted him to train, but she was actually worried.

After he left the cliff, Yun Yun's aura had disappeared. Presumably, after wiping out the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, she had gone to seek the Purple Spirit Crystal according to the original plot.

In the original plot, Yun Yun had encountered tremendous danger while seeking the Purple Spirit Crystal.

And this time, she had even given the Sea Heart Inner Armor to him, making it even more dangerous.

"After my training... cough, cough, my instruction, Yun Yun is much stronger than she was in the original plot. There shouldn't be much of a problem."

Deep within the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

Beneath a waterfall, Xiao Yan was practicing the Earth Tier Fighting Skill—Flame Splitting Wave Palm.

"Teacher, if I get the hang of this Earth Tier Fighting Skill, will I be able to defeat that youth in green?"

Xiao Yan lay exhausted on a rock as he asked.

Only when he had left did he realize that he had not even asked the other party's name.

Yao Lao floated out of the ring, a trace of contemplation flashing across his somewhat illusory aged face.

"That day in the cave, I did not act because I wanted to temper you."

"And for that youth in green to kill a Six-star Fighter in such a short time, his strength cannot be underestimated."

Xiao Yan immediately felt unconvinced upon hearing that.

"But he was seriously injured as well."

"If I used the hidden force of Eight Extremes Collapse, I might not be unable to kill Mu Li in an instant."

"Seriously injured..."

Yao Lao neither confirmed nor denied it, but a hint of puzzlement flashed deep within his eyes.

Strange.

Truly strange.

Why did the Bone Spirit Cold Flame react abnormally every time he focused his attention on that youth in green?

The other party's aura was clearly only at the Dou Zhe level.

To deceive a Heavenly Realm Soul, it would be absolutely impossible unless his strength had reached a certain level or he cultivated a high-grade fighting skill that concealed one's aura.

Just as Yao Chen was puzzling over this, he suddenly raised his head.

Almost at the same time, a violent energy fluctuation, accompanied by a savage lion's roar, erupted in the distant sky like muffled thunder.

Xiao Yan's face went pale, and he nearly fell off the rock.

"What was that?!"

Yao Lao gazed into the distance and slowly said, "That is the roar of the sixth-rank beast, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. Who would dare set their sights on it?"

"A sixth-rank beast?"

Xiao Yan said in shock, "Wouldn't that be equivalent to a human Dou Huang powerhouse?!"

Yao Lao's body turned into a streak of light and surged into Xiao Yan's body.

At once, a mass of pale white energy enveloped Xiao Yan.

"Let's go. Today, I'll let you witness a battle at the Dou Huang level."

Xiao Yan sped toward the center of the battle.

More than ten minutes later, he finally approached the core of the battlefield.

The pressure carried by the violent energy fluctuations in the sky made Xiao Yan feel alarmed even under Yao Lao's protection.

He sprang to the top of a towering tree and watched the blue and red energies occupying half the azure sky, his eyes filled with intense shock.

"So... so powerful!"

At the same time,

on another towering tree in the distance,

Ji Changqing watched Yun Yun and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King face off with utter boredom, shaking his head with a sigh.

"I really don't understand it. They're all so weak, yet they don't know how to lie low like I do."

"The energy fluctuations are spreading so far. Are they afraid others won't notice them?"

With that thought in mind, Ji Changqing's gaze shifted toward Xiao Yan's direction.

He had noticed him.

Of course, that did not mean his soul power was stronger than that old Yao Chen.

It could only be said that he had the advantage of preparation. Yao Chen simply never expected another schemer to be hiding nearby.

In the sky,

after a round of negotiations,

Yun Yun and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King began fighting in earnest.

"Sorry, since you refuse to give me the Purple Spirit Crystal, I can only take it myself!"

Yun Yun raised her delicate hand, and a tiny green tornado suddenly appeared in the sky.

The tornado was initially only two meters wide, yet in just a moment, it swelled against the wind and became a massive tornado dozens of meters tall in the blink of an eye.

The green tornado howled and spun through the heavens and earth, uprooting the giant trees below one after another before the violent gale shredded them into splinters that filled the sky.

"Roar! Give it a try!"

The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King roared angrily.

As its roar rang out, the purple crystals on its body abruptly shone brilliantly.

Surging purple flames burst from its body and ultimately gathered into an enormous pillar of purple fire.

The purple fire pillar collided head-on with the green tornado, and a storm of wind and fire swept through the forest. Countless trees were severed at their waists, leaving behind a scorched, cracked wasteland.

"Roar! Damn it!"

At the first clash, Yun Yun, already a Six-star Dou Huang, gained a slight upper hand.

The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was swept up by the green tornado and forced back several hundred meters, looking rather disheveled.

"As long as the Lion King gives me the Purple Spirit Crystal, I promise not to trouble you again."

"Roar! Even if I throw the Purple Spirit Crystal away, I won't give it to you."

The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King realized the strength of the human woman before it.

It let out a savage roar as the purple light on its body grew increasingly brilliant. Once it covered the heavens and earth, the light suddenly contracted.

In the blink of an eye, the purple radiance filling the sky compressed into a dark purple beam no more than half a foot wide.

"Not good!"

Ji Changqing's expression changed slightly.

"The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King is using its seal so early!"

In the original plot, Yun Yun had suffered greatly under this move...