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Two days later, Gu Yan returned.

He was a little surprised to see Ye Zhixin still there; he thought she would leave on her own. Since she hadn't left, Gu Yan had no choice but to go all the way and safely take her out.

"Let's go!" Gu Yan said to Ye Zhixin, then turned and walked out.

Ye Zhixin watched his retreating figure, her expression complex as she followed him.

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Two figures flew swiftly through the deep mountains.

The two figures stood one in front of the other; the one in front was a man dressed in snow-white robes, and the one behind was a woman dressed in red palace attire.

Ye Zhixin followed behind Gu Yan, her mind racing. She didn't understand what this lecherous demon meant, and she was also curious about what he meant by "doing something".

Suddenly, several red beams shot out from afar. Ye Zhixin's expression changed; these red beams were actually red throwing knives, each coated with potent poison. Most of these knives were heading towards Gu Yan, while a few were aimed at Ye Zhixin.

Ye Zhixin was about to parry with her sword when she saw golden sword energy burst forth from Gu Yan's body. Streams of golden sword energy transformed into flying swords, smashing away all the red throwing knives. The knocked-away knives stuck in the ground or into nearby tree trunks.

Gu Yan stood in mid-air, with Ye Zhixin standing behind him. Both of them looked at a figure that suddenly appeared from the dense forest opposite.

This was an old man with a gloomy face, wearing a gray robe. The old man had a huge head with a head of messy hair. He looked very old, with drooping skin on his face. His withered hand held a strange cane, and his eyes glowed with an eerie green light.

The old man looked as if he had crawled out of a coffin. Ye Zhixin felt a tremor in her heart when she met his gaze; his aura...

Peak late-stage Spirit King Realm!!

There were only a handful of late-stage Spirit King realm experts within the Ruohe Empire, but none of them could match this old man, who clearly had ill intentions.

The old man didn't even glance at the nervous Ye Zhixin; his eyes, glowing with a ghostly green light, were fixed on Gu Yan, staring intently at her.

Gu Yan asked very politely, "Grandpa, is there anything I can help you with?"

"You brat, you killed my pet, and you dare to question me?" The gray-robed old man's voice was hoarse, sounding like some kind of poisonous insect crawling, sending chills down one's spine.

Gu Yan asked him in confusion, "What pet?"

"My Red Serpent Scorpion!! I raised that little guy for a hundred years, and you killed him. What do you say we should do?" The gray-robed old man's voice was filled with suppressed anger.

Gu Yan recalled the red scorpion he had just killed; it actually had an owner? He looked at the gray-robed old man and said, "Was that your pet? Well, I'm so sorry, but I've already killed it. How about you name your price?"

"I'll take your life!" The gray-robed old man's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and the gems inlaid on his cane also emitted a light. The red daggers that had just been knocked away by Gu Yan's sword energy all trembled and then all rushed towards Gu Yan and Ye Zhixin again.

This time, the red throwing knives split in mid-air, each one splitting into hundreds of blade shadows, instantly filling the sky with red light.

Gu Yan's white robes fluttered as thousands of golden sword energies burst forth. The sword energies collided with the red flying knives, shattering them or sending them flying.

The gray-robed old man snorted coldly, and the cane in his hand emitted a dazzling red light. The roars of demonic beasts echoed throughout the entire mountain forest. He muttered incantations, and the demonic beasts in the vicinity rushed towards him as if they had gone mad.

"Oh no, he's a beast tamer!" Ye Zhixin looked at Gu Yan with a pale face.

Fighting a beast tamer at the late stage of the Spirit King Realm in a place like Xuan Yin Ridge would likely be difficult even for someone at the early stage of the Spirit Emperor Realm. They have a huge advantage in a place teeming with magical beasts.

boom!

The ground cracked open, and hundreds of shadow rats, each larger than a calf, emerged from the ground and pounced on Ye Zhixin and Gu Yan. Then, the mountains collapsed, and long, serpentine earth pythons emerged from the peaks. The earth rumbled as earth bears, swift wolves, and other magical beasts rushed in.

Countless flying magical beasts attacked from all directions of the mountains, their numbers were terrifying. Ye Zhixin scanned them with her divine sense and found at least tens of thousands of them, all of which were at least level four.

Am I going to die here today?

Beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down Ye Zhixin's forehead.

Gu Yan remained motionless, but a vast sword aura erupted from his body. The golden sword aura transformed into hundreds of thousands of flying swords, which swept across the sky and earth like a golden storm, shaking the heavens with immense power.

In an instant, the sky and the ground were filled with a bloody storm. Golden flying swords pierced through the bodies of countless demonic beasts. These beasts screamed and were all buried in the storm of sword energy. Corpses, severed limbs, and blood splattered everywhere, creating a scene resembling hell.

Ye Zhixin stared at Gu Yan in shock. His sword energy was incredibly powerful; in just a few breaths, all the attacking demonic beasts had been killed by Gu Yan. However, the gray-robed old man kept sneering. Ye Zhixin suddenly cried out, "Not good!"

Sure enough, a large amount of poisonous gas was seen gushing out of the slain monster's corpse.

The demonic beasts of Xuan Yin Ridge are all poisonous; when they die, their bodies release large amounts of toxic gas that takes several days to dissipate. How can we possibly resist the toxic gas emitted by so many demonic beast corpses at once?

Gu Yan raised his hand, and a red light appeared in his palm. The red light was a red gourd. After the red gourd flew out, it expanded as soon as it saw the wind, instantly growing to a size of several tens of feet. The red gourd turned upside down in the sky, and with a single breath, it absorbed all the poisonous gas.

What?

The gray-robed elder's expression finally changed. He hadn't expected Gu Yan to possess such a magical treasure, capable of instantly absorbing the poisonous gas released by the corpses of hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts.

What level of treasure is this? A spirit weapon?

The gray-robed old man was surprised, and Ye Zhixin also stared in surprise at Gu Yan's red gourd.

The gray-robed old man's face was ashen. After he snorted coldly, a blood-red light burst forth from his body, and a red magic circle appeared behind him.

A gigantic snake head emerged from the magic array. It was a black serpent with red eyes and blood-red markings on its forehead. Its entire body, once it emerged from the array, was two hundred feet long. Two black wings sprouted from its back, the feathers of which resembled sword blades.

As soon as the magical beast appeared, it released an aura of a peak level six magical beast. It roared, causing the sky and earth to rumble incessantly.

"Black Feathered Serpent!"

Ye Zhixin looked pale as she gazed at the level six peak magical beast, then at the gray-robed old man.

She knew who this person was. Five hundred years ago, he had committed many major crimes in the Ruohe Empire and was a Class A criminal wanted by the empire. He was Shi Kui, the Beast Heart Old Man. He had disappeared for five hundred years, and many people thought he was dead. They never expected that this old guy was still alive.