"What music?"
"Nie Li, I heard it too."
Du Ze spoke up as well.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
Nie Li's expression changed drastically.
"Go! Forget the music! It still managed to super-evolve!"
"The demon beast is coming!"
Sure enough, no sooner had Nie Li finished speaking than the demon beast charged at the three of them, its face blood-red.
"Run!" The three headed straight into the depths of the forest.
Hidden in the shadows, Yun Tian watched the scene.
"Mm, as the protagonist, he should have his will tempered by suffering and his sinews tested by toil."
"As for dying, how could that happen? Do you know what a protagonist is? Even if something happened to you, the protagonist would be fine."
"All right, those three nuisances are gone. Time to find Xiao Ning'er." With that, Yun Tian vanished.
The horned sheep made quite a commotion as it chased Nie Li and the other two. Demon beasts could be heard calling throughout the forest, and Xiao Ning'er naturally heard them too.
Xiao Ning'er had been cultivating here, hoping to free herself from her engagement to that idiot Shen Fei as soon as possible. She had been close to breaking through to Bronze rank, but recently, her cultivation had noticeably slowed. Bruises had also appeared in several places on her body, accompanied by pain that made her feel as though she had fallen into an ice cellar at midnight.
"Damn it, my cultivation has barely improved, and the bruises are getting worse."
While Xiao Ning'er was lost in thought, she suddenly shouted toward a spot nearby.
"Who's there? Come out!" At the same time, she immediately took a fighting stance.
No one answered. Just as Xiao Ning'er relaxed, a pair of blood-red eyes appeared. It was a Bronze-rank wolf. Her expression grew