Would You Believe Me If I Said I Only Wanted to Apply Medicine?

Xiao Yan immediately manifested his Dou Qi Armor. The glowing masses in the sky were more than twenty li away, yet he could still feel waves of terrifying pressure.

Every collision between the two glowing masses unleashed an earth-shaking crash, sending every magical beast within a hundred li of the Magical Beast Mountain Range fleeing at full speed.

Some low-tier magical beasts that were too close were even killed on the spot by the shock waves.

"Fluctuations like these... could this be a battle between Dou Emperors?!"

Dou Emperors stood at the very pinnacle of the Jia Ma Empire. It was said that the top five among the Ten Great Experts of the Jia Ma Empire all possessed the strength of a Dou Emperor.

Reaching the Dou Emperor level brought a true qualitative transformation. Such an expert could rightly be called a one-person army!

There had once been a Dou Huang expert whose home was destroyed. In his fury, he single-handedly slaughtered ten thousand elite cavalrymen from a powerful empire.

And these imperial soldiers were no ordinary people. Every soldier possessed at least the strength of a Dou Zhe, while a legion commander had to reach the Dou Ling level.

Even so, when facing a Dou Huang expert, they had almost no power to fight back. At most, they could leave a few wounds on their opponent.

Xiao Yan wanted no part in a battle of this level. Dying from the splash damage of some unknown Dou Technique would be far too bitter a loss.

What he had not expected, however, was that the two combatants in the sky kept shifting their battlefield, gradually drawing closer to him.

Wherever they went, the storms and flames spilling out of their battle instantly scoured the forest below into bare yellow earth!

Magical beasts that were too slow to escape were buried beneath shattered rocks and broken trees in an instant, never to get away again.

"Are you two sick in the head? Of all the places you could go, why come straight toward me?!"

Xiao Yan frowned and cursed, but his feet kept moving as he fled with all his strength.

Only when the two combatants shifted their battlefield again did Xiao Yan seize the chance to return to the cave where he had been hiding.

The battle between those two mighty experts had thrown the entire Magical Beast Mountain Range into chaos. Running about blindly could easily bring him face-to-face with a large number of other magical beasts.

Xiao Yan planned to hide for now and wait until the two Dou Emperors settled their battle before finding an opportunity to leave.

But a battle at the Dou Emperor level lasted even longer than Xiao Yan had imagined. The two combatants' Dou Qi clashed without pause, colliding dozens of times in the blink of an eye.

Even at such ferocious intensity, the battle lasted all the way from daytime until dusk!

Just as the sun was about to set, the two glowing masses stopped, seemingly preparing for a final strike.

The purple mass suddenly shone with such overwhelming brilliance that it eclipsed the cyan mass.

Then an enormous Purple Triangular Light Beam shot out of the purple mass, striking the cyan mass in an instant.

The light surrounding the cyan mass began to dim visibly.

The purple mass gave chase at tremendous speed and slammed straight into the cyan mass. At that very moment, an intensely concentrated green light flashed from the cyan mass, instantly piercing through the purple one.

Before long, however, the cyan mass lost its light completely and finally fell into the forest.

The being within the purple mass remained in the sky. Clearly, that final strike had failed to hit a vital spot.

After a brief pause, the purple mass moved to resume its pursuit, but it had barely advanced.

A tremendous bird cry rang out, and the purple mass stopped moving.

Leaving behind an earth-shaking lion's roar, it withdrew.

"Whew, it's finally over. Looks like whoever was inside that cyan light lost."

Xiao Yan's heart was pounding. He had actually been fortunate enough to witness a battle between two Dou Huang experts.

The price, however, had been the risk of dying at any moment. Once those two mighty experts got carried away with their battle, everything around them suffered.

"I thought this place wasn't all that dangerous, but it looks like I underestimated the Magical Beast Mountain Range. I'd better wait until the magical beasts settle down before finding a way out."

Xiao Yan returned to the cave and began lighting a fire to cook, only to discover that he was running short of fresh water.

Even a Da Dou Shi still needed food and water. Xiao Yan shook his head helplessly and could only go out to find some fresh water.

Fortunately, he had already familiarized himself with the surroundings while searching for traces of a Third-Tier Poison-Type Magical Beast over the past few days.

There was a waterfall a little over a thousand meters from the cave. First- and second-tier magical beasts occasionally appeared nearby, but they posed little threat to him.

Taking his water flask, Xiao Yan soon reached the waterfall. He checked the surroundings and confirmed that there were no other magical beasts.

He crouched down to fill his flask. Just then, something white floated toward him across the water, and Xiao Yan instinctively formed his Dou Qi Armor, preparing to fight.

But when he looked closely, he realized that what was floating on the surface was a beautiful woman dressed in plain robes.

Her eyes were tightly closed, and blood had stained her chest red. Clearly, she had suffered a serious injury.

"Could she be the one who was fighting that lion just now?"

Xiao Yan's eyes widened as he looked at the woman floating on the water. Her face was deathly pale, but that did nothing to hide her beauty.

She was unconscious. If he left her here, other magical beasts would probably find and devour her before long.

"For a Dou Huang expert to end up like this... getting eaten by magical beasts would be such a humiliating death. Consider yourself lucky you ran into me."

Without hesitation, Xiao Yan entered the water and pulled the woman in plain robes out, then carried her back toward his shelter.

To keep her blood from attracting other magical beasts, Xiao Yan deliberately scattered some high-tier magical beast dung outside the cave.

Looking at the beautiful woman lying on the pile of dry grass, Xiao Yan could not quite stop his imagination from wandering.

He had always pictured Dou Emperors as old fossils, yet the woman before him looked only twenty or thirty years old. It gave Xiao Yan a rather curious feeling.

Her injuries were severe, however. A great deal of blood was seeping from her chest, and her brows were tightly knitted. She was in terrible condition.

Fortunately, he had just spent about a week learning medicine from Xiao Yi Xian, and he also had quite a few first-grade Healing Pills on him.

If all he needed to do was treat and bandage her wound, there should not be much of a problem.

Xiao Yan took more than a dozen small jade bottles out of his Storage Ring in one go.

But just as he was about to apply the medicine, he hesitated again.

Would this count as taking advantage of her vulnerability? And she's a Dou Emperor. Even if she slapped me in her sleep, I'd have to start my second life all over again-oh, wait, my third.

"Forget it. Treating illness and saving lives is a healer's

duty. Since I've already brought her back, I can't just watch her die in front of me."

A moment later, Xiao Yan made his decision. He took a deep breath and slowly reached toward the woman's clothes.

But just as Xiao Yan was about to touch her clothes, the woman suddenly snapped her eyes open. "What are you doing?!"

"Um... would you believe me if I said I only wanted to apply medicine to your wound?"