Murong Ruyan! Killing in Desperation

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Deep within the dense forest, several miles away from Su Changge.

Several figures were sprinting at high speed. Leading them was a young girl of about fifteen or sixteen, followed by four soul masters in their twenties or thirties.

The five of them wore expressions of terror, glancing back at the rear from time to time.

Hiss!!!

As the trees behind them collapsed one after another, a massive Red Gold Fire Python thrust its enormous body forward, its scarlet snake eyes locked firmly onto the five.

"Damn it, this beast has its sights set on us; it's determined to kill us."

The young soul master trailing at the back trembled uncontrollably. Even from two or three hundred meters away, he could clearly smell the bloody, violent stench.

Facing a python over thirty meters long, he knew that if he were caught, his cultivation as a Great Soul Master would offer him no chance of survival.

The girl in the lead had a pale face, but she managed to maintain a shred of rationality amidst the panic.

"Don't stop! Those with sensory soul skills, use them at full power to scan for soul beasts in the area."

"If we want to live, our only hope is that there is a soul beast in this forest with strength comparable to the python behind us."

As they fled, they inadvertently charged into the territory of a Titan Giant Ape.

Su Changge, perched atop a tree, felt a surge of joy upon seeing the five of them. Finally, some cannon fodder.

But before he could dwell on it, he saw the thirty-meter-long Red Gold Fire Python.

Su Changge's face turned green, and he couldn't help but curse aloud, "A Red Gold Fire Python! Damn it, why don't you idiots just go die?"

A three-thousand-year-old Titan Giant Ape was already enough to make his heart stop; now a multi-thousand-year-old Red Gold Fire Python had joined the fray.

The shockwaves from these two soul beasts alone were enough to kill him.

"Young Miss, ahead... that's a Titan Giant Ape! We're saved! We're saved!"

Beside the girl, a young soul master saw the Titan Giant Ape's massive frame and, overcome with joy, roared out, venting the emotions he had been bottling up.

However, before he could even process his relief, the Titan Giant Ape leaped a hundred meters into the air and landed heavily, crushing the young soul master into a pulp and sending the girl and the other three soul masters flying.

ROAR!!!

The Titan Giant Ape didn't seem to notice the ant it had just turned into meat paste beneath its feet; it let out a heaven-shaking roar at the approaching Red Gold Fire Python.

The massive sound wave cleared the trees for dozens of meters around, creating a vacuum zone.

Powerful soul beasts usually marked out their own territories.

Soul beasts of the same level rarely fought to the death unless they were competing for territory.

However, this Red Gold Fire Python did not seem to fall under that rule.

These idiots, they didn't kill the offspring of the Red Gold Fire Python, did they?

In the distance, Su Changge calmed his agitated blood flow and looked toward the direction of the girl and her group, inwardly gasping.

Snakes and pythons were the most vengeful of creatures.

If these fools had truly killed the python's offspring and happened to run into it, it would be a fight to the death.

While Su Changge's thoughts raced, the Red Gold Fire Python had already clashed with the Titan Giant Ape.

One thought the other was deliberately provoking it, while the other thought the opponent was shielding the murderer of its offspring.

Since they weren't on the same page, the result could only be a fight to the death!

Whether it was the Titan Giant Ape or the Red Gold Fire Python, both were symbols of power and violence; every collision between them kicked up terrifying shockwaves.

Even from hundreds of meters away, Su Changge could clearly feel the stinging pain of the wind, which cut like knives against his cheeks.

The battle between the Titan Giant Ape and the Red Gold Fire Python was filled with primitive savagery.

The Titan Giant Ape had just slammed the python's hideous head into the ground when it was coiled by the massive, muscular body.

As the python's body tightened, one could even hear the mournful cracking of bones.

ROAR!! The Titan Giant Ape let out a heaven-shaking roar, its massive fangs biting through the scales of the Red Gold Fire Python and tearing away large chunks of flesh.

In pain, the Red Gold Fire Python was forced to release the Titan Giant Ape, coiling itself into a small hill to cover its wounds.

"Young Miss, don't look anymore! We have to retreat quickly, or once these two soul beasts stop fighting, we won't have a chance to escape even if we want to."

Beside the girl, the three young soul masters looked at the frenzied battle ahead, their legs trembling with fear.

In front of these high-level soul beasts, whose soul ages were clearly over a thousand or two years, they—mere Great Soul Masters and Soul Elders—didn't even have the right to get involved.

"You... you carry me. My legs have gone soft; I can't walk."

Hiss!!!

The Red Gold Fire Python seemed to notice the small movements of the four. It shoved the Titan Giant Ape back, lunged forward a hundred meters, and raised its massive tail to slam down heavily upon the four people below.

"Young Miss, dodge!"

"Third Soul Skill: Earth Derived Mountain Barrier."

The defensive soul skill released by the only Soul Elder among the four shattered instantly.

Amidst a thunderous roar, the other two young Great Spirit Masters were blasted into mists of blood.

Fortunately, the moment the tail of the Red Gold Fire Python descended, the young Spirit Venerable had violently flung the young girl away.

Otherwise, what awaited them would have been a literal total annihilation.

Seeing the girl arc through the air for hundreds of meters, only to crash into the canopy where he was hiding and tumble onto his very branch, Su Changge was left completely stunned.

What the hell, man? Is my luck really that rotten? Why did you have to throw her right at me?!

"Hm?"

The girl looked at the Su Changge who had suddenly appeared before her, equally bewildered.

Before she could react, Su Changge, recovering his senses first, used his hand as a blade and struck directly at the back of her neck.

"Huh? I'll chop, let me chop again."

However, Su Changge had thought too highly of himself.

He couldn't even handle low-level spirit masters from Notting Academy, yet he thought he could ambush a Spirit Venerable who had just obtained her third spirit ring?

"What are you doing?"

"Why are you hiding here?"

"Oh right, my name is Murong Ruyan, what's yours?"

The girl's rapid-fire questions made Su Changge face reality.

He had almost forgotten that he was still a useless weakling with no strength to truss a chicken.

"Su Changge!"

"If you don't want to be treated like a crunchy snack by those two guys, you'd better shut that cherry mouth of yours right now and stop making any sound."

Su Changge clutched his head, his expression dejected.

He was now tainted with Murong Ruyan's scent; in the eyes of the Red Gold Fire Python, he was her accomplice.

He couldn't hide—there was simply no escaping it.

Unless he killed the Red Gold Fire Python, he would be marked by the beast for the rest of his life.

Amidst Su Changge's complicated emotions, the battle between the Titan Giant Ape and the Red Gold Fire Python, which had lasted for several hours, was about to draw to a close.

The Red Gold Fire Python had crushed and severed both of the Titan Giant Ape's arms, but at the final moment, the Titan Giant Ape's fangs tore through the Red Gold Fire Python's vital spot.

A desperate counter-kill!