He slammed heavily into the thatched hut's wall, his eyes rolled back, and he passed out on the spot.
Outside the Sky Screen.
Inside the Pope's Hall in Spirit City, silence fell at once.
Bibi Dong gripped her armrests tightly with both hands, trembling all over.
He had lost.
A distinguished elder of Spirit Hall, a rank ninety-five Titled Douluo.
Against an Outer Sect disciple of the Great Thousand World, he had not even lasted a single move before being swatted unconscious like a fly.
The double impact, both visual and psychological, sent a deep chill through every Red-Clothed Cardinal present.
On Shrek Academy's training grounds, Yu Xiaogang's mouth hung wide open, unable to close for a long time.
He had always thought the people of the Great Thousand World merely started from a higher baseline. He had never expected the overwhelming difference in spiritual energy quality to be so outrageous in a clash between people of the same level.
"Down already?"
Within the Sky Screen, Senior Brother Zhang put away his long saber and curled his lip, looking rather bored.
"What a worthless weakling."
Without sparing the unconscious Yue Guan another glance, he swaggered over the wooden fence with his lackeys, ready to pick the Seven-Star Begonia.
But just as they took two steps forward.
The girl in the little black dress leisurely stepped into the path they had to take to reach the flower field.
Senior Brother Zhang frowned, looking at the little girl half a head shorter than him.
"Little brat, get lost. Or I'll cripple you too."
The little girl in the black dress did not move aside.
She raised her head, her previously sleepy little face now utterly calm.
Those dark golden eyes in particular, illuminated by the moonlight, sent chills through their entire bodies as she looked at them!
"You're so noisy."
The girl's voice was very soft, so soft it seemed a breeze could scatter it.
She extended a fair, tender finger and pointed lightly at Senior Brother Zhang and his companions from several meters away.
The next instant, the expressions on Senior Brother Zhang's face and those of the lackeys behind him froze.
They felt as though the vast starry sky above had suddenly fallen, pressing squarely down on their shoulders.
It was a terrifying pressure they could neither comprehend nor resist.
There was no need for earth-shaking displays of spiritual energy.
Just that tiny trace of aura leaking out made every bone in their bodies crack under the unbearable weight, the sound setting teeth on edge.
Thud!
They dropped to their knees almost simultaneously, their knees striking the dirt hard enough to leave deep pits.
Senior Brother Zhang turned deathly pale. He opened his mouth to call for help, only to find that the space around him seemed to have become a congealed mire. He could not make a single sound, and blood spilled from the corners of his mouth in great mouthfuls.
His eyes filled with unprecedented terror.
What kind of monster was this seemingly harmless little girl?!
The little girl looked at them kneeling on the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices, but did not kill them.
She merely withdrew her finger, looking somewhat bored, and yawned.
"Get out of my yard before I get angry."
The moment she finished speaking, the terrifying pressure hanging over them vanished without a trace.
As though granted a pardon, Senior Brother Zhang and his companions no longer cared about any medicinal herbs. They scrambled out of the Medicine Garden, looking every bit like dogs driven from their homes.
The little girl curled her lip as she watched them flee, then turned and went back inside to continue sleeping.
Senior Brother Zhang and his companions ran wildly for over a dozen li. Only after confirming that the she-devil had not followed did they dare stop, collapsing to the ground and gasping for breath.
"S-Senior Brother Zhang, what the hell was that thing?"
The sharp-faced disciple was so frightened that a large patch of his crotch was soaked, and he stammered as he spoke.
Senior Brother Zhang wiped the blood from his face, a venomous look flashing in his eyes.
He had failed to get the herb and suffered such severe internal injuries. If word got out, how could he keep his footing in the Outer Sect?
"That damned brat must be wearing some protective artifact given to her by an elder!"
Senior Brother Zhang spoke through gritted teeth. He absolutely refused to believe that a little girl in her teens could possess such strength.
"Come on, we're going back to Blood Eagle Hall right now!"
"We serve Lord Blood Eagle King! Here in the Great Luo Heavenly Domain, apart from the other lords, who would dare show Blood Eagle Hall no respect?"
A vicious gleam filled Senior Brother Zhang's eyes as he began planning how to embellish the story.
An hour later.
Inside a branch office of Blood Eagle Hall's Outer Sect.
Senior Brother Zhang knelt on the ground, weeping with tears and snot streaming down his face.
"Steward Chen, you must stand up for us!"
Seated in the hall was a middle-aged deacon with a brutish face. Holding a teacup, he frowned at Senior Brother Zhang's tearful complaint.
"What kind of behavior is this, bawling in the middle of the night? What exactly happened?"
At those words, Senior Brother Zhang immediately began his performance.
"Steward, we were patrolling the rear mountain today when we discovered that the new old man at the Medicine Garden had actually joined forces with a demoness of unknown origins to steal our Great Luo Heavenly Domain's medicinal herbs!"
"We stepped forward to stop them, but that demoness relied on a powerful artifact she had. Not only did she severely injure us, she even spoke disrespectfully!"
Steward Chen set his teacup down heavily, his expression souring.
"Disrespectfully? What did she say?"
Senior Brother Zhang quietly raised his head and spoke viciously:
"That demoness said... said everyone in Blood Eagle Hall was a bunch of barnyard chickens fit only to crawl on the ground."
"She also said that even if Lord Blood Eagle King came himself, she still wouldn't take him seriously, and she'd pluck out every one of his feathers..."
Bang!
Hearing this, Steward Chen smashed the tea table beside him with an enraged slap and sprang to his feet.
Here in the Great Luo Heavenly Domain, the Nine Kings already fought both openly and in secret.
Blood Eagle Hall's people were accustomed to swaggering about, and nothing infuriated them more than insults to their Hall Master.
"Such audacity!"
Steward Chen's eyes widened with fury, and powerful Heaven Transformation Realm fluctuations erupted from his body.
"A lowly wretch guarding a Medicine Garden dares dig up the earth over a god's head!"
"Go get the brothers from the Law Enforcement Team and follow me to the rear mountain!"
"I want to see which demoness has such a death wish that she dares hold Blood Eagle Hall in contempt!"
The next morning.
Sunlight pierced the thin mist and spilled over the bluestone paving in the Spirit Medicine Garden.
Clutching his aching chest, Yue Guan struggled to get up from the ground.
He felt as though all his internal organs had nearly been knocked out of place.
Recalling the scene from last night, his heart filled with bitterness.
The Great Thousand World really was no place for a person to live.
Just as he was about to return inside to see whether the little girl had been taken away.
A piercing rush of wind suddenly came from the sky outside the Medicine Garden.
Yue Guan looked up and saw more than a dozen enormous eagles, their bodies wreathed in blood-colored flames, hurtling over from a distant peak.
Cold-faced Law Enforcement Disciples stood on the blood eagles' backs, weapons in hand.
Steward Chen stood on the leading giant eagle, his face full of anger.
Senior Brother Zhang, who had fled last night, stood beside Steward Chen, pointing at the Medicine Garden below and loudly saying something.
"Right here! Steward, that demoness and the old man are inside!"
As Senior Brother Zhang shouted.
More than a dozen blood eagles circled above the Medicine Garden, and a murderous aura carrying a heavy stench of blood instantly enveloped the entire thatched hut.
"Listen, you down there!"
Standing on the eagle's back, Steward Chen looked down on the deathly pale Yue Guan, his voice like rolling thunder.
"You injured disciples of Blood Eagle Hall and insulted Lord Blood Eagle King."
"Your crimes are unforgivable!"
"You have ten breaths! Bring that demoness out here to die immediately!"
Looking at the dark mass of men and mounts in midair, Yue Guan felt his hands and feet turn icy.
It was over. This time, it was truly over.
He knew the Blood Eagle King was one of the Great Luo Heavenly Domain's Nine Kings. For someone of that stature, killing him would be easier than crushing an ant.
Just as Yue Guan closed his eyes in despair, ready to meet death.
The battered wooden door was pushed open again.
The little girl in the black dress strolled out, holding a half-eaten spiritual fruit.
She tilted her head back and looked at the menacing Blood Eagle Hall disciples in midair.
An intriguing hint of a smile slowly emerged in her dark golden eyes.
Outside the Sky Screen, on the Douluo Continent.
When the viewers saw the girl in the little black dress slowly emerge with half a spiritual fruit in hand, all their hearts sank.
Inside the Pope's Hall in Spirit City, several Red-Clothed Cardinals shook their heads and sighed.
In their eyes, although this little girl had previously broken the Spirit Testing Stone with a touch and possessed astonishing talent, she was at most a promising scion of a great family who had yet to mature.
Facing this vicious sect Law Enforcement Team riding enormous blood eagles, what use could a girl of ten or so possibly be?
"Elder Ju really has been dragged into a terrible mess by this little demoness."
Gui Mei looked away, somewhat unable to bear it.
He knew how cruel the rules of the Great Thousand World were. Even if Yue Guan knelt and begged for mercy now, that lofty steward would never spare him.
On Shrek Academy's training grounds.
Watching the black-dressed girl who seemed not yet to understand the situation, Tang San could not help laughing mockingly.
She really was an idiot spoiled rotten by her family.
Even at a time like this, she was still gnawing on a fruit.
Once those Law Enforcement Team members charged down and put a blade to her throat, he would see whether she could still smile.
A brainless hothouse flower like her wouldn't survive three days in the Great Thousand World, no matter how talented she was.
Within the Sky Screen.
On the back of a blood eagle in midair, Steward Chen looked down at the girl in the black dress who had emerged.
He had initially been somewhat wary, thinking his opponent might have three heads and six arms.
But once he saw that she was merely a somewhat pretty little girl without the slightest spiritual energy fluctuations, the sneer on his face immediately grew even more brazen.
"Junior Brother Zhang, this is the demoness you said injured you?"
Steward Chen glanced back at Senior Brother Zhang, a trace of mockery in his tone.
Senior Brother Zhang's face flushed crimson.
He knew it was humiliating to admit, but now he could only grit his teeth and stick to his story.
"Steward, don't be fooled by her age. She must be carrying a powerful protective treasure bestowed by an elder! That pressure last night was definitely released by an artifact."
At the words "powerful treasure," a flicker of greed immediately crossed Steward Chen's eyes.
If he could seize a treasure capable of instantly suppressing several Outer Sect disciples and offer it to Lord Blood Eagle King, it would certainly count as a great achievement.
"Hmph, I don't care what treasure she has."
"Here in our Great Luo Heavenly Domain, even a dragon has to coil up for me!"
With that, Steward Chen waved his hand and shouted.
"Law Enforcement Team, hear my command!"
"Seize this demoness and that flower-growing old man! If they resist, kill them on the spot!"
At his command, the dozen or so enormous blood eagles let out long cries that could pierce metal and split stone.
Beating their huge wings wreathed in blood-colored flames, they plunged toward the Medicine Garden below like falling meteors, carrying a nauseatingly thick stench of blood.
Fierce winds howled, making the thatched hut's roof tremble and rustle.
Watching the blood-colored shadows bearing down from the sky, Yue Guan's legs went weak with fright.
He instinctively tried to pull the little girl behind him, only to discover he no longer even had the strength to move his feet.
Yet facing this terrifying assault that blotted out the sky, the little girl in the black dress merely sighed softly.
She looked somewhat reluctantly at the half-eaten spiritual fruit in her hand, seemingly feeling that these people had spoiled her pleasant breakfast.
"So annoying."
The girl's soft, sweet voice sounded rather faint in the raging wind.
Then she raised her head.
Those dark golden eyes, which had looked so innocent, suddenly became unfathomably deep.
She formed no hand seals and summoned no artifact.
She merely extended a fair little hand toward the blood eagles diving from the sky and casually pressed downward.
Buzzz-
In an instant, an invisible dark golden ripple spread outward from the little girl.
The next instant, the dozen or so Blood Eagles in the sky, which had looked so ferocious just a moment before, seemed to slam into an invisible wall of copper and iron, and were all crushed to the ground.
In a flash, the bluestone slabs throughout the Spirit Medicine Garden were smashed to pieces, sending dust flying.
The Law Enforcement Disciples, who had been so high and mighty just moments before, all spat blood and lay sprawled in the dirt like toads, unable to move so much as a finger.
Steward Chen slammed face-first into a muddy pit, half his face caving in.
He desperately tried to lift his head, only to find that it felt as though several mountains were pressing down on his back. He could not raise it at all.
At that moment, the Medicine Garden, which had been so noisy just moments before, fell silent, without even a stray birdcall.
Yue Guan stood behind the little girl, his jaw nearly dropping to the ground.
He rubbed his eyes, then pinched his thigh, confirming that he was not dreaming.
A single raise of her hand.
Without any visible fluctuation of Spiritual Energy, more than a dozen powerful disciples from the Law Enforcement Team had all been flattened?
What kind of divine feat was this?!
Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent.
Shrek Academy.
Tang San, too, froze on the spot, unable to say another word.
How was this possible?
No hidden weapons, no poisons, and no Soul Skills.
How the fuck had that girl done it???
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