[Husband Aura]! A Woman Who Loved Men, a Man Who Was Neither Here Nor There!

End of the World City lay within a mountain range ten thousand li away from the Black Corner Region.

For Ye Yan, traveling from End of the World City to the Black Corner Region with his cultivation was truly inconvenient.

Thus, they could only rent a flying magical beast. That would be simpler.

Ye Lin would not be overly exhausted from bringing Ye Yan along either.

Sky-Reaching Mountains, north of End of the World City!

This was where numerous merchants rented out magical beasts for travel.

There were not only Griffins here, but also many strange-looking flying magical beasts of all kinds.

However, most of those magical beasts were ordinary second- and third-tier beasts. Very few exceeded the third tier.

"Look, that young man is so handsome. He looks even better than the most handsome man in our city."

"The attendant beside him is far too ordinary. How could he be worthy of standing next to him?"

"..."

Everyone turned their heads to look at the two approaching figures, their eyes gleaming with interest.

Quite a few mature women even felt their legs go weak and their mouths grow dry at the sight.

Ye Yan turned to look at Ye Lin without saying anything, yet Ye Lin understood everything.

"Then should I leave?"

"But how could you bear to show this face of yours?"

"Having left the Pill Region, where those wolves were constantly circling, and come to a place like this—if I still had to hide myself, wouldn't that be far too stifling?"

"That would go against my state of mind."

When it was time to be cautious, one had to be cautious. When it was time to relax, one had to relax!

Ye Yan looked around and noticed a pale-faced woman of above-average beauty among the crowd. Her gaze seemed as though she wanted to devour him whole.

"What is it?" Ye Lin followed Ye Yan's gaze and was about to look over.

Ye Yan reached out to stop him and lowered his voice.

"This person is suspicious. Conceal your cultivation and keep it at the Dou Ling level!"

Ye Lin frowned but did not ask further.

As the head of the Ye Family's hidden guards, concealing his cultivation was effortless for him!

After giving the warning, Ye Yan's expression remained natural. His gaze casually swept that spot again, only to find that the person had already vanished.

"Are the two of you looking to rent a flying magical beast?"

The commotion here had naturally drawn everyone's attention long ago. The person in charge of rentals immediately stepped forward to ask.

"What flying magical beasts do you have here?"

Ye Lin nodded and asked directly.

"Our End of the World City is the most prosperous city within a thousand li. We have Iron-Feather Eagles, Wind-Pattern Sparrows, Griffins, and more."

The middle-aged man led them onward as he introduced the beasts.

"May I ask where the two of you are headed?"

"The Black Corner Region!"

"Oh, that is quite far away. Without a better flying magical beast, the journey will be rather miserable."

"I recommend either a Griffin or an Iron-Feather Eagle."

"Those two flying magical beasts fly steadily and are fairly fast. The two of you will also be quite comfortable riding them."

"Either one will do. Give us a fourth-tier—no, a third-tier one."

Ye Lin swept his gaze over the surrounding magical beasts and found that they were all second- or third-tier beasts, with only a few fourth-tier ones!

He had originally intended to choose a third-tier magical beast, but after recalling Ye Yan's earlier warning, he changed his mind.

One could be a thief for a thousand days, but one could not guard against thieves for a thousand days.

He intended to set a trap and find out which faction was behind this, as well as what reason they had.

Still... he looked at Ye Yan's completely unhidden face and the astonished expressions of the women around them. The reason seemed to be right before his eyes.

Ye Lin shook his head and said nothing.

After all, Ye Yan acted this way because the Ye Family lacked strength. They needed to do this, and they still had to hand the scroll over to the family.

Strictly speaking, it was their problem.

Insufficient strength was the original sin. In a place where the strongest only reached the Dou Zong realm, if they still acted so timidly, what was the point of him coming along?

To watch Ye Yan suffer?

Ye Lin could even feel that Ye Yan had been in much better spirits ever since arriving on the Northwest Continent.

Since that was the case, then let him show himself!

With a smile at the corner of his mouth, Ye Lin had already committed every suspicious person to memory as they walked and stopped.

A quarter of an hour later.

The person in charge brought over a third-tier Griffin with an eagle's head, a strong body covered in thick grayish-brown fur, and a pair of broad eagle wings on its back.

The Griffin's beastly eyes swept over the two small humans before it flapped its wings.

"Gentlemen, this is the Griffin you have rented. Once you reach your destination, it will return on its own."

The person in charge introduced it, his eyes fixed tightly on Ye Lin.

Ye Yan understood. He took out another Storage Ring containing more than a hundred thousand gold coins.

He did not possess the gold card commonly used on the Northwest Continent, so he could only conduct the transaction with physical gold coins.

"Ah, please wait a moment!"

The person in charge called over an attendant and handed the Storage Ring to him.

After waiting a few breaths, he returned the now-empty Storage Ring to Ye Yan.

"Safe travels, gentlemen. May the wind be at your backs."

The person in charge offered a farewell and watched Ye Yan and Ye Lin climb onto the Griffin's back.

The Griffin flapped its wings, stirring the ground into a raging gale. Then Ye Lin flicked his sleeve, and a fierce wind carried the Griffin rapidly into the sky.

High in the air, the enormous Griffin beat its wings, and a faint barrier spread from within its body, blocking all the oncoming wind!

Ye Yan stood steadily on the Griffin's back. His gaze moved away from the vast End of the World City, anticipation glimmering in his eyes.

"Brother Lin, do you think they'll dare to come after us?"

"What? Are you looking forward to it?"

Ye Lin's expression remained unchanged. He did not even glance at End of the World City.

To him, anyone below the Dou Zong realm was not worth mentioning.

And in End of the World City, the only Dou Zong was Luo Cheng of the Luo Family. If a Dou Zong had appeared, Luo Cheng would not have been so relaxed, nor would he have failed to mention it!

In other words, the ones targeting Ye Yan were merely a pack of insignificant trash!

He could destroy them with a wave of his hand!

Meanwhile.

Just after the Griffin carrying Ye Yan and Ye Lin became a tiny black dot in the sky and swiftly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Two more third-tier Griffins rose into the air.

Above End of the World City.

Luo Cheng watched those two Griffins depart.

"Ancestor, why didn't we tell Lin Ye and Lin Yan that several elders of the Blood Sect had set their sights on them?"

"And the one watching them is Xue Mei, the Blood Sect's most man-crazy woman. Her man, Yin Yu, is neither here nor there!"

"Judging by Lin Yan's appearance, if those two really catch him, I'm afraid he'll be attacked from both sides."

The Luo Family elder seemed to imagine something, and a chill ran through him as goosebumps rose all over his body.

"Humph!"

Luo Cheng sneered as he watched the two distant Griffins.

"They are merely two three-star Dou Wangs. They failed to recognize a great figure and are ruled by their lower halves. They pose no threat to them."

"What I'm curious about is what Lin Yan will suffer before he dies if he learns of Xue Mei and Yin Yu's preferences."

"And what expression that sickly wretch from the Blood Sect will have once he finds out."

"Ancestor, how wise!"

The Luo Family elder's eyes also lit up. "We can use this opportunity to see just how strong those two are."