Saving Yun Yun, Slaying the Lion King

At that earth-shaking roar, Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin's faces turned pale with a swish, and their bodies trembled as well.

Seeing how frightened they were, Tang Chen said calmly, "It's fine. Don't worry, it won't reach here."

His voice seemed to carry a soothing power. Upon hearing it, the pounding in their hearts gradually subsided.

Tang Chen had already roughly guessed what was happening outside. He casually told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, "I'll go take a look."

With that, he took a step forward and vanished from the small valley.

In the blink of an eye, Tang Chen had arrived at the battlefield.

The moment he steadied himself, his powerful soul force surged out like an overwhelming tide, directly enveloping the entire area.

He swept the area back and forth several times, trying to find Xiao Yan, but found nothing.

"Forget it. If I can't find him, I won't bother looking." Tang Chen did not dwell on it and turned his gaze toward the sky.

At that moment, a human and a magical beast faced each other in the sky, locked in a terrifyingly tense standoff.

The magical beast was an enormous lion covered in purple crystals like armor, with a pair of massive wings stretching across the sky on its back.

Most eye-catching of all was the horn atop its head, its tip burning with a cluster of purple flames.

The enormous creature hovered in the air, blocking out the sunlight and exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression.

Facing it off was a woman with an exceptionally voluptuous figure.

She floated in the air, her pale dress tightly outlining her full curves. In her hand was a strangely shaped sword, its blade glowing with cyan light.

Her dark hair was arranged into a phoenix-shaped coiffure, lending her an air of nobility. Her face was breathtakingly beautiful, calm and serene, carrying a gentle elegance.

The magical beast was the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and the woman could only be Yun Yun.

He had arrived a little late. The two had clearly been fighting for quite some time and were already nearing the point of deciding the victor.

Just then, the Amethyst Winged Lion King let out an enraged roar from its huge maw. "Since you refuse to appreciate my kindness, don't blame me for showing no mercy!"

As soon as it spoke, purple light buzzed to life across its body, growing increasingly dazzling. Before long, it spread outward and dyed half the sky purple.

"Amethyst Seal!"

After gathering power for a moment, a purple beam as thick as half a zhang suddenly blasted from its mouth, shooting straight toward Yun Yun.

The beam's power was terrifying. Yun Yun's expression changed, and she immediately unleashed the Dou Technique she had prepared.

"Wind-Splitting Whirlwind Dance!"

With Yun Yun's soft cry, countless enormous cyan wind blades appeared out of thin air before her. Accompanied by piercing whistling sounds, they smashed fiercely into the purple beam.

"Boom!"

The instant the two attacks collided, the difference in strength became apparent.

Yun Yun's wind blades were like paper before the purple beam, shattering one after another with crackling pops.

The purple beam, on the other hand, only dimmed slightly. Its speed did not decrease in the slightest as it continued hurtling forward.

Yun Yun frowned tightly, not daring to hesitate at all. She hurriedly mobilized her Dou Qi and formed more than a dozen green barriers before herself in one breath, layer upon layer.

But it was completely useless.

The green barriers were instantly destroyed upon touching the purple beam, unable to stop it even for a moment.

In the blink of an eye, the purple beam was right before her. Before it could truly strike Yun Yun, the Lion King's next attack had already followed, giving her no chance to catch her breath or retaliate.

A huge claw mercilessly slashed down at Yun Yun's chest, swift and vicious.

The Lion King had calculated everything perfectly, ensuring she had no way to evade.

Yun Yun knew that she could not avoid this attack no matter what.

She gritted her teeth, a ruthless glint flashing through her eyes as she decided to trade injury for injury.

Ignoring the incoming attack entirely, she abruptly held her strange longsword horizontally. The cyan light on its blade gathered madly as it charged up, prepared to endure this blow just to strike her opponent hard in return.

Just as the purple beam was about to hit Yun Yun, a hand suddenly extended out of thin air and blocked it.

With a casual squeeze of that hand, there was a muffled bang, and the terrifying purple beam burst like a bubble, effortlessly crushed apart.

The violent energy released by the shattered beam exploded outward, interrupting both the Lion King's and Yun Yun's follow-up attacks and sending them both flying back.

Yun Yun hurriedly stabilized herself and quickly looked ahead.

The sight left her stunned.

A tall, upright man stood firmly before her, showing her only his back.

What she found most unbelievable was that the man's back was completely bare, with no wings formed from Dou Qi. Yet both his feet stood directly upon empty space as though he were standing on solid ground.

Yun Yun was deeply shocked and could not help murmuring, "Walking through the void... a Dou Zong expert!"

She could not help being astonished. The Jia Ma Empire had not produced a Dou Zong-level expert in who knew how many years. She had never expected to encounter one in the Monster Mountain Range.

Across from them, the Amethyst Winged Lion King was also burning with rage, but it was not some mindless fool.

Tang Chen's move just now had been far too frightening. It could not gauge Tang Chen's strength at all, so it suppressed its anger and tested him. "Human, this matter has nothing to do with you. You'd better leave at once!"

Tang Chen did not even glance at it. He merely raised a hand toward the Lion King and clenched his palm in the air.

Before the Lion King could react, it felt the space around it suddenly tremble. Then, without warning, the space surrounding its body shattered, turning into countless transparent blades.

Those spatial blades made no sound, yet they carried a sharpness that inspired utter despair.

"No—"

The Lion King only had time to let out a scream of extreme terror before the countless spatial blades twisted together in a savage slaughter.

With a wet slash, its enormous body was instantly sliced into countless pieces.

Blood mist erupted, and chunks of flesh flew everywhere.

The once-arrogant sixth-tier magical beast, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, was reduced to this in the blink of an eye. Not even an intact corpse remained, and it could not have been any deader.

The former overlord of the Monster Mountain Range had now become nothing more than a pile of minced flesh.

Watching Tang Chen act, Yun Yun covered her small mouth in shock.

After a moment, Yun Yun finally recovered her senses. She hurriedly went behind Tang Chen, bowed slightly, and said, "I am Yun Yun. Thank you, sir, for saving my life."