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From afar, Tan Shuo seemed to sense his father's spiritual pressure and turned to look in this direction.

She called out softly, "Father..."

Gu Yan raised one hand in response to Tan Yue's strongest attack.

Thirty-six Heavenly Gang Swords formed a sword formation, each longsword linked end to end, then circling and rotating. Amidst the surging sword energy, a giant silver-white dragon appeared between heaven and earth. Every scale of this dragon burned with scorching sword energy, its power immense, causing the entire sky to shake violently.

The terrifying fluctuations at Broken Dragon Mountain sent shivers down the spines of countless powerful individuals.

The Qilin and the dragon clashed, thunderous roar—

The terrifying sound shook the heavens.

The entire Duanlong Mountain range was destroyed; the purple Qilin was ultimately no match for the silver-white dragon.

Duanlong Mountain is not a place where dragons never cease to exist.

boom!

The Qilin was torn apart and turned into countless points of light.

Tan Yue coughed up blood again, but still wanted to self-destruct.

Gu Yan appeared in front of him in an instant and struck him. Taking the blow head-on, Tan Yue plummeted from the sky and crashed heavily to the ground. The impact created a large crater, and Tan Yue, inside the crater, had almost all his bones shattered, but he was still alive.

He fell into a coma.

The Broken Dragon Mountain Range is no more; the exaggerated spatial rifts in the sky look as if they were torn open by the claws of a demon god. In the giant crater on the ground, a dying man lies in a pool of blood. Ten feet above him, a figure dressed in snow-white robes floats.

Gu Yan stared at Tan Yue, who was critically injured and on the verge of death.

His injuries were healing at a visible speed, even faster than before. Gu Yan was very curious; this guy's high-speed self-healing physique seemed to heal faster the closer he was to death. Ordinary injuries were like those of ordinary people; only serious injuries would trigger high-speed self-healing.

To verify his hypothesis, Gu Yan waited until Tan Yue's bones had fully healed and his flesh was completely restored, until he was out of serious injury. He reached out towards Tan Yue in the giant pit, and beams of golden light burst forth from his palm, boom boom boom—

He blew Tan Yue, who was in the pit, to pieces, blowing off his hands and feet.

Then he waited quietly.

Sure enough, Tan Yue, covered in blood and gore, began to heal herself at a rapid pace.

Gu Yan thought for a moment, then reached out and a blue light flashed in his palm, revealing a wooden pagoda. The pagoda was exquisitely carved, with a blue dragon coiled around it.

This is the Panlong Pagoda. The Panlong Pagoda emitted a beam of azure light, which swept up the unconscious Tan Yue and pulled him into the pagoda, locking him inside.

After completing all this, Gu Yan used her divine sense to cover the entire Broken Dragon Mountain, searching for the relics of the Beast Heart Elder and others, such as storage rings and storage bracelets. Several beams of light flew towards Gu Yan; these were all storage rings, which had survived the terrifying battle.

Gu Yan didn't covet other people's magical treasures, but he did covet other things, such as spirit stones, spirit crystals, and spirit jade. He wouldn't bother collecting anything below the Spirit King realm, since a Spirit King realm expert's storage ring would surely contain some good stuff.

After collecting the spoils, Gu Yan flew towards the direction where Mu Qinghe was.

Mu Qinghe stood on a flying boat, with the unconscious Mo Fanqi at his feet. Seeing Gu Yan approach, he suppressed his shock and called out, "Brother Taibai…"

He was a little embarrassed to call him "brother," as strength was the most respected rank in the Yunlan Realm. He only called him "brother" because Gu Yan had been modest, saying he still had much to learn from him in alchemy and that those who were skilled were his teachers.

At first, it was discovered that Gu Yan's basic alchemy skills were not very solid (after all, he came from Earth and didn't know many common sense things, and some of the herbs in Yunlan Realm didn't grow on Earth). He was quite proud of calling Gu Yan "brother". Later, it was discovered that Gu Yan's talent for alchemy was terrifying. He learned by analogy from Gu Yan's teachings and learned very quickly.

Moreover, many of his alchemy methods were completely new to him, making him feel uneasy calling him "brother." Later, when Gu Yan fought seven opponents single-handedly in the Ronggong Mountains, he felt even more uneasy. Seeing Gu Yan's extraordinary prowess today, his apprehension about calling him "brother" only intensified.

He only felt that Gu Yan was becoming more and more mysterious, more and more powerful, and more and more unpredictable.

Those thirty-six Heavenly Gang Swords dazzled Mu Qinghe's eyes.

Thirty-six spirit weapons are easy to find, but a complete set of thirty-six spirit weapons is something he has never even heard of, let alone seen.

Who exactly is Brother Taibai?

Could he really be the Holy Son of the Mystic Desire Sect?

"Let's go!" Gu Yan said.

"Oh, okay," Mu Qinghe replied meekly.

After Gu Yan and Mu Qinghe left Broken Dragon Mountain, streaks of rainbows shot in from all directions. These rainbows stopped above Broken Dragon Mountain and transformed into powerful figures.

Most of these powerful individuals were at the Heavenly Spirit Realm, with some at the Spirit King Realm. They stared in disbelief at the terrifying spatial rift in the sky that was healing, and then at the Broken Dragon Mountain that had been almost completely leveled. They felt a chill run down their spines.

"Who...who is fighting here?" A blond youth looked down at the huge chasm that had been torn open by sword energy, and the powerful sword intent still lingered there.

"This...this lingering sword intent..."

An elderly man with white hair and a gray robe flew lower, feeling the sword intent and breaking out in a cold sweat.

"It's Li Bai, I just saw him, it's him, he's with the Medicine King Mu Qinghe," someone said.

"Li Bai?"

Everyone remembered that the lecherous and demonic Li Bai used a sword.

Looking at the completely destroyed Broken Dragon Mountain, the crowd's fear of Li Bai intensified. They then began to speculate: who was Li Bai fighting? Opinions varied, but no one truly knew the details, so it remained all guesswork.

However, Tan Yue's name appears very frequently, and whenever Tan Yue is mentioned, everyone's gossip instincts are ignited.

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After Gu Yan and Mu Qinghe brought Mo Fanqi back to the Mu residence, Liu Feiyan and Xu Ruolan, who had been anxiously waiting, finally breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't care about their senior brother Mo Fanqi, but they couldn't let anything happen to Mr. Li Bai.

"Senior Li Bai, are you alright?" Xu Ruolan looked at Gu Yan carefully and saw that his white clothes were clean and spotless. He didn't look injured at all, so she felt relieved.

"It's nothing," Gu Yan said.

Mu Qinghe cleared his throat beside him: "Ruolan, why don't you ask your master if I'm alright?"

Xu Ruolan blushed and lowered her head, saying shyly in a low voice, "Master's complexion is rosy, of course he's fine."

Mu Qinghe looked at the embarrassed Xu Ruolan and then at Liu Feiyan, who hadn't said anything but was keeping an eye on Gu Yan. He sighed inwardly, "Girls really are hard to keep once they grow up!"

"Master, Senior Li Bai, who exactly kidnapped Senior Brother Mo?" Xu Ruolan asked.

Mu Qinghe did not answer the question, but looked at Gu Yan.

Gu Yan said, "The Beast Heart Elder and Tan Yue." Liu Feiyan and Xu Ruolan showed expressions of shock.

"Lord Tan?" Xu Ruolan was surprised.