Fierce Noble Immortal Venerable

Cursed by the Wine Fox Immortal for being inexplicably dead, Lu Ya was forced to explain the sequence of events to her.

To save his breath, he kept it brief, glossing over the key points as if they were as mundane as a daily meal.

Tilting her pretty, round head to the right, the Wine Fox Immortal grew more confused the more she listened.

Swallowed by a Kun, so he just went with the flow and roasted fish inside its belly?

Why is it so hard for me to believe that?

Her petite frame, wrapped in green robes, wandered aimlessly through the sea of fire, her divine sense piercing through the blue flames to reach the Kun bones.

As it turned out, she really was inside the belly of a Kun!

Her fox-like eyes, shimmering with light, stared blankly at Lu Ya, unable to snap out of her daze for a long time.

In her sharp fox eyes, Lu Ya was waving his sword to stir the seasonings, his movements so incredibly practiced that it looked as if he weren't holding a sword at all, but a royal chef's spatula.

Faking being swallowed by a Kun, only to roast it from the inside.

Why didn't I think of that move?

And...

Why are your movements so practiced?

Could it be that you had this planned all along?

The Wine Fox Immortal pondered the terrifying implications, then suddenly remembered something and asked directly:

"What about Golden Peng?"

Lu Ya sprinkled some cumin into the blue flames, as if grinding bones into dust.

"Killed by Liu Xuanye."

"Huh?"

The Wine Fox Immortal's thick, curled eyebrows twisted like spirals.

"I fought tooth and nail, and you two ended up picking up the scraps?"

Her tone sounded angry, yet inexplicably leaked a sense of grievance.

Lu Ya felt a bit ashamed, so he reached out to pat her dog... fox head, comforting her:

"It wasn't us picking up scraps; it's that you didn't seize the opportunity when you had it."

This remark didn't provide any comfort; instead, it made the Wine Fox Immortal even angrier and more aggrieved.

Her petite body trembled with rage, her pretty, round face looking fiercely adorable, before she suddenly puffed up with bravado.

"What do you know? I've only unlocked three tails. Once I enter a near-death state, I'll quickly unlock the fourth. Beating Golden Peng to a pulp wouldn't have been a problem."

"..."

Lu Ya didn't know what to say for a moment.

After finishing, the Wine Fox Immortal felt a lack of vigor and an urgent need to replenish her nutrients, so she asked Lu Ya:

"Do you have wine?"

"Do you have a story?"

"No."

Lu Ya had assumed she would talk about why she had fought so desperately this time, but she didn't.

Lu Ya glanced at her; that round little face paired with the tightly wrapped green robes revealed a hint of innocence and cuteness, a stark contrast to her usual temperament.

When she wore loose, revealing robes, she felt too bold, not like a woman at all; yet, wrapped tightly in a man's clothes without a gap, she actually displayed a feminine charm.

Lu Ya took the bamboo wine flask from his waist and tossed it to her.

"Don't drink—"

Before he could say "don't drink directly from the flask," she had already downed it, even chewing the goji berries.

"This is... goji? Even you drink goji? Sister Liu Xuanye is truly strong!"

"..."

With a flask of wine in her belly, the Wine Fox Immortal's eyes brightened, her complexion turning rosy and lustrous. She instantly recovered to full health, took off the green robe, and tossed it back to Lu Ya.

The tattered robe, stained with blood, fluttered in the void's gale like a battle flag.

With her straight, slender legs slightly apart, her left hand on her defiant waist, and her right arm reaching through the ghostly blue flames, she tore off a large chunk of Kun meat with her bare hands and began to feast as if no one else were there.

Lu Ya thought to himself that he had indeed overthought things.

This creature had no feminine reserve whatsoever!

The cuteness was just an illusion.

Halfway through the meal, the Wine Fox Immortal's fox eyes suddenly froze.

In an instant, a warm current surged from her Immortal Platform's qi sea, sending out a ripple. The ripple gradually expanded, turning into a tsunami in the blink of an eye, crashing against the foundation and inner walls of her Immortal Platform until it reached a certain critical point.

Accompanied by a silent explosion—

BOOM!

The Three-Star Immortal Sect Master rank had become Four-Star!

Wine Fox Immortal suddenly understood the feeling Muyu Feifei once had when she leveled up after a single bite of meat.

But that had been a One-Star Immortal Monarch rising to Two-Star, whereas she had just jumped from a Three-Star Immortal Sect Master to a Four-Star... the difference between the two was like a mountain stream compared to a heavenly abyss!

Just one bite of meat?

If she ate the entire Giant Kun, wouldn't she soar all the way to Immortal Emperor or Immortal Sovereign?

Wine Fox Immortal felt she could no longer look Lu Ya in the eye.

Yet, she forced herself to stare into his eyes, the expression in her fox-like pupils becoming rather intriguing.

"Let me guess, you're actually an Imperial Chef from the Immortal Court, aren't you? Because you had an affair with the Immortal Sovereign's consort, your bones were ground to dust and you were executed, so your avatar fled to the remote Colored Cloud Immortal Domain—you're here to hide, right?"

"No."

The corner of Lu Ya's eye twitched; he was starting to regret saving this woman.

But upon closer reflection, the guess actually had a certain logic to it.

Wine Fox Immortal remained utterly baffled.

"Since you have this ability, why did you need me to form a city guard? If you just fed the Immortal Commoners a bit of meat, wouldn't they have ascended to immortality long ago? Why did you need me to go through the trouble of finding people for you?"

Lu Ya shook his head.

"Your sea of qi was congested due to old injuries. Clearing those injuries, combined with the stimulation from the Nine-Star Immortal Sect Master Giant Kun meat, naturally triggered a sudden breakthrough. But to reach the next stage, you might need to eat over ten thousand catties of Giant Kun meat."

Wine Fox Immortal was suddenly excited.

"Oh? Are you being this good to me?"

"Drink less wine."

"Are you planning to eat it all yourself?"

"Eating too much is exhausting. My plan is to cook this Giant Kun and have people sample it, creating a sensation in the East Floating District to establish the reputation of our Azure Phoenix City and attract higher-tier customers and merchants."

"I haven't seen you leave the mountain in ten days, so I thought you came to Little Bamboo Spring Mountain to retire, and that the city-building plan was just something you said to trick Ning Zhongzi. I didn't expect you to be so serious about it. Aren't you afraid of the noise with so many people?"

"That's where you're wrong. If you want to retire early, the more 'tools' you have, the better."

"Tools?"

"Ahem, let's not talk about that. Come help me slice this fish meat, will you?"

"Can't you slice it yourself?"

"I have guests to entertain."

"Guests?"

On the martial arts field.

The gathered Beast Immortal crowd was immersed in shock, confusion, and the joy of newfound freedom.

Ning Zhongzi and Black Sheep Matron were carefully tending to Snake Baby.

High above.

Muyu Feifei hovered near the Giant Kun's mouth, unable to move forward, cursing Lu Ya and Wine Fox Immortal.

"You shameless pair!"

"Have you no shame!"

Just then—

A divine sense at the Immortal Sovereign level enveloped the entire Floating Mountain.

This divine sense was extremely sharp and incredibly stealthy, sweeping through every flower, blade of grass, person, and object on the Floating Mountain.

It specifically avoided Liu Xuanye, eventually coming to a halt within the belly of the Giant Kun, where it was blocked by the faint blue flames, unable to see the scene within.

On Little Bamboo Spring Mountain, inside the palace sword formation.

Liu Xuanye slightly raised her head, sensing a trace of an extremely subtle anomaly.

She then closed her picturesque eyes once more, continuing to channel her power for seclusion.

She understood that the power of this divine sense exceeded her limits.

And it had not come for her.

Somewhere in the firmament.

A half-step Immortal Sovereign, who had concealed his body and spiritual pressure, slowly drew a massive blade over a zhang long, capable of severing the head of a Giant Kun or the neck of a Peng with a single strike.

His divine sense had scrutinized the Giant Kun for a long time, but other than confirming that the beast was dead, he had no idea how it had died or who had killed it.

After hesitating for a very long time, he silently sheathed his long blade.

A moment later.

A mile west of the Giant Kun, high in the sky, white clouds drifted leisurely.

A figure in white robes manifested within the clouds.

The collar of the white robes was embroidered with a white lotus pattern.

Yet, this white attire did not quite suit the man's temperament.

His physique was overly muscular; while his features were not ugly and his demeanor could be considered refined, his brows betrayed a rugged, hyper-masculine aura, and his entire being reeked of beast-like hormones.

With a single step through the void, he suddenly appeared atop the Giant Kun.

He saw two Tiger Immortal.

Why would two Immortal Monarch level Tiger Immortal appear before a Giant Kun that had died only a short while ago?

In the entire Floating Mountain, aside from Liu Xuanye who possessed the cultivation of an Immortal Sect Master, the rest were not worth mentioning.

Who exactly killed the Void Kun, and where was Golden Peng?

Where had the Wine Fox Immortal, whom he had seen during the beast tide earlier, gone?

The man in white was utterly perplexed.

With a flash, he quietly appeared beside Muyu Feifei and asked kindly:

"Little one, do you know who killed this Giant Kun? And where did the other Peng Immortal go?"

His tone was gentle, but his bulging physique and the wildness etched into his brows made one shudder.

Muyu Feifei recoiled in fear, but after a moment of thought, she summoned her courage and pointed toward the Kun's mouth:

"Come inside with us and you'll know."

"But you have to walk in front."

"Hmm?"

The man in white was taken aback.

"Does the order really matter that much?"