Miracle?

"Yes, Wu Yi actually summoned a Bronze Bull. It's a Bronze-ranked battle beast. We're done for!" Bright-Eyed Thief's voice was full of terror. "My Life Guardian Beast is a Flower Fairy with no offensive power. It's no match for a Bronze Bull. If I'd known this would happen, I should have summoned the Shadow Leopard for a surprise attack from the start. Maybe I could have killed Wu Yi... Now, what do we do?"

Clinging to her last shred of hope, Bright-Eyed Thief looked helplessly at Yue Yang.

At that moment, Yue Yang could clearly see the despair and fear in those bright eyes. That pitiful look was so similar to the expression Empress Fei Wenli had worn when she was imprisoned in the Black Hole Space.

Roar, it was time for a hero to save a beauty!

For a moment, Yue Yang's masculine urge to protect someone exploded.

He gently put an arm around Bright-Eyed Thief's delicate, fragrant shoulders and comforted her softly. "Isn't it just a bull? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I'll slaughter it for you!"

Instead of calming down, Bright-Eyed Thief's eyes reddened. Tears shimmered in them as she choked out, "You idiot, that isn't an ordinary wild bull. It's a Bronze Bull! One glare from it and we'll both die! What do we do now? We have to think of something, or we'll both die here. I... I don't want to die... I still have a great vengeance left unavenged. I really don't want to die... Aren't you a genius? Hurry and think of a good plan!"

"Relax, I already have a way to deal with it!" Yue Yang pulled out a dagger so small it would have been embarrassing even for peeling fruit.

"You're going to rush out?" Bright-Eyed Thief thought Yue Yang was preparing to charge out and forcibly kill Wu Yi. As long as Wu Yi died, the Bronze Bull he had summoned would rapidly vanish from existence.

But was killing Wu Yi really going to be that easy now?

Setting Evil Fire aside, could Wu Yi's own combat skills be resisted by a little thief who had only changed professions to a mercenary a few days ago?

Bright-Eyed Thief felt that if Yue Yang rushed out to risk his life, he would simply be throwing it away!

Even if he avoided being gored, trampled, or glared to death by the Bronze Bull, and somehow escaped the Rock Golem's massive fists, the War Eagle, which had regained its fighting strength, would tear him to pieces.

Even if he successfully reached Wu Yi, what could a little thief who had only just changed professions to a mercenary do against a Level Three high-rank Hero with such refined combat skills, armed with a cheap little dagger worth fifty copper coins? Perhaps he would not even touch a single hair on Wu Yi's head before Wu Yi cut him down on the spot... Leaving the protection of the light barrier to rush out and fight was absolutely a suicidal act of stupidity! At this thought, Bright-Eyed Thief urgently grabbed Yue Yang's wrist and said with utmost seriousness, "I still have one final strike, though the chance of success is tiny. You must escape from here with your life! If you survive after leaving the Deathblood Realm, go to Butterfly Hundred-Flower Valley for me. Tell the Valley Master that I... that I died in battle!"

"You want to turn this around? What wishful thinking!" Evil Fire sneered, his expression dark and sinister.

He took out a black crystal, gripped it in his hand, and began chanting a strange incantation. Then, with a puff, he spat a mouthful of blood onto the black crystal.

The Demon Bee lying on the ground suddenly exploded into pieces. Dark green blood and severed limbs splattered everywhere. The Shadow Leopard, which had been hiding in the night, was immediately exposed as the blood splashed over it, breaking its invisibility.

The Rock Golem immediately raised its massive fist.

In the sky, faster than the Rock Golem, the War Eagle had already swooped down at high speed. Since the Spider Demoness had fled the battlefield, the poison and spiderwebs quickly vanished. Its combat power had weakened somewhat, but not by much. It could still fight.

The War Eagle swooped down with a violent gale, ripping several bone-deep bloody wounds across the Shadow Leopard's back.

With a thunderous rumble, the Bronze Bull pounded the ground with its four hooves and charged forward like rolling thunder.

A burst of flame shot from the Bronze Bull's nostrils and exploded against the Shadow Leopard's rear haunches with a bang.

Then the Bronze Bull pursued the wounded Shadow Leopard, lowered its head, and rammed forward with the immense force of a battering ram, its hard skull and twin horns leading the charge.

The Shadow Leopard screamed as its entire body was violently sent flying, helplessly tumbling through the air. When it crashed heavily to the ground, the Bronze Bull arrived and looked down at it with its enormous blood-red eyes. A flash of red light, faster than lightning, and the Shadow Leopard became a corpse, rolling over onto the ground... In a single instant, the Shadow Leopard had been killed on the spot by the Bronze Bull's Death Gaze.

"Heavens!"

At the windows and balconies of Happy Forest, every watching warrior broke out in a cold sweat.

Although the Bronze Bull's Death Gaze had a very low chance of triggering, this instant kill that ignored everything was simply too terrifying!

Death Gaze was ineffective only against lifeless combat constructs like the Rock Golem. Aside from that, only the Life Guardian Beasts unique to Codex contractors could resist it. Ordinary warriors and battle beasts had absolutely no chance of survival if struck by the Bronze Bull's Death Gaze.

Bright-Eyed Thief, who was summoning her strongest battle beast for one desperate final struggle, had not even completed the summoning before the Shadow Leopard was instantly killed by the Bronze Bull.

Her mind was immediately struck as though by lightning.

The death of a battle beast had a tremendous impact on its spiritually linked master.

Bright-Eyed Thief would have found it hard to bear even under normal circumstances, but she was currently in the middle of a focused summoning, so the injury to her mind was even worse.

She spat out a mouthful of blood, soaking the black cloth over her face. Her body swayed, and before collapsing unconscious, she reached out toward Yue Yang. "Go... quickly..."

Yue Yang hurriedly reached out and caught that soft body as it fell. If he had acted earlier, Bright-Eyed Thief naturally would not have suffered a mental injury and collapsed unconscious. But Yue Yang did not want to expose his true strength before this "brother," at least not yet, so he waited until the last moment to act. As for the spectators in Happy Forest, or Wu Yi and Evil Fire across from him, they were already dead in Yue Yang's eyes!

As Bright-Eyed Thief lost consciousness, the light barrier immediately disappeared!

The Silver Codex also transformed into a streak of golden light and drifted into Bright-Eyed Thief's body.

The Rock Golem, War Eagle, and Bronze Bull all charged at Yue Yang the instant they discovered that the light barrier had vanished.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" Wu Yi and Evil Fire laughed gleefully. They had teamed up to defeat enemies like this more than a hundred times already, and their coordination was practiced and seamless. If the pressure of facing a Level Four elite with a Silver Codex had not been so great, Wu Yi would never have risked backlash to forcibly summon the Bronze Bull.

"You're too noisy!"

Yue Yang hated it most when people laughed like that.

Because he felt that arrogant laughter had always been his trademark. Seeing Wu Yi and Evil Fire laughing so smugly made him very uncomfortable. He felt that those two detestable fellows had stolen his signature act.

With a point of his finger, Yue Yang summoned his Bronze Codex.

A faint red glow rapidly emerged, forming a pale red light barrier that enveloped him and Bright-Eyed Thief.

The Bronze Bull crashed into the red light barrier, but its immense force produced only a slight ripple across the barrier's surface before vanishing without a trace. The Rock Golem's heavy fist, capable of shattering the earth, was equally useless against the red light barrier.

The War Eagle, swooping down from the sky and being the weakest of the three, was directly bounced away by the red light barrier.

"Huh, another Codex contractor? But he's just a low-rank novice apprentice? Ha ha, idiot, you're only a low-rank novice apprentice and you still want to struggle on the verge of death? How ridiculous... Thorn Flower? Ah ha ha ha ha, I can't take it, I'm going to die laughing! He actually summoned a Thorn Flower. My heavens, I really want to see how he plans to use a Thorn Flower to kill my Rock Golem and Bronze Bull!" Wu Yi clutched his belly and laughed until tears sprayed from his eyes.

"I'd rather fight an expert. Killing little rookies is no fun!" Evil Fire directly disregarded Yue Yang for being a low-rank novice apprentice.

"Ha ha, I'm the opposite. I love tormenting little rookies, especially listening to their screams before they die. It's simply unforgettable!" Wu Yi licked his lips like a starving ghost preparing to feast upon a banquet. In his eyes, Yue Yang, this low-rank novice apprentice, was merely a rookie for him to torture and kill at will.

Even though Yue Yang was a Codex contractor, Wu Yi did not take him seriously at all.

A novice apprentice could only summon one battle beast per day.

The little thief before them had already summoned a Thorn Flower. In the battle to come, not even a fool would think he could use one Thorn Flower to defeat the invincible Rock Golem and the Bronze Bull that possessed Death Gaze.

The warriors on Happy Forest's balconies all shook their heads and sighed. Even if a god descended from the divine realm, it would be impossible to help this little thief turn defeat into victory now!

This little thief could never defeat Wu Yi.

Not to mention that an even stronger Evil Fire stood behind Wu Yi!

Once the light barrier's time limit expired, the Rock Golem and Bronze Bull would easily crush the two little thieves into pulp...

"Isn't it just a lousy bull? What are you acting so cocky for?" Yue Yang did not remain inside the light barrier. He swaggered out, leaving Bright-Eyed Thief and the Thorn Flower within the pale red barrier.

"Huh?"

His action left every watching warrior utterly dumbfounded.

The owner of a Summoning Codex could not leave the glowing protective barrier, or it would immediately disappear. How had this little thief walked out from inside it?

Had everyone seen wrong?

Or was this a real miracle?