I'm invincible once I descend the mountain; the beautiful CEO is forcing me to get our marriage

Ye An stepped through the giant bronze gate, behind which lay an extremely spacious underground cavern.

The moment you step inside, an extremely domineering and chilling aura sweeps over you.

The chill was extremely intense, penetrating every crevice and seeping into the very bones, even causing thick frost to condense on the surrounding rock walls.

Ye An remained calm and composed, leisurely circulating the "Myriad Phenomena Limitless Skill".

In an instant, Yin-attribute true essence circulated throughout his body, and the surrounding Yin evil energy no longer posed any threat. Instead, it transformed into nourishment, continuously replenishing his true essence.

If it were any martial artist from the outside world who had just reached the threshold of the Transformation Realm, even with true qi protecting their body, they would probably not last more than three seconds if they dared to enter this place.

Looking ahead along the slippery stone path, there were more than a dozen corpses lying haphazardly on both sides of the road.

The bodies were covered with a thick layer of white frost, and even the strands of hair were frozen stiff.

Their faces were frozen in the moment before they died, their features contorted with extreme terror.

Clearly, although these people seized the initiative and ran ahead, they were too weak and were frozen to death by the evil energy in the cave, without even having time to let out a scream.

Ye An ignored this and continued walking.

Deep within the passage, not only were faint lights flickering, but also a cacophony of voices and suppressed gasps could be heard.

As he walked through the narrow, dark passageway, the view suddenly opened up before him.

This is an underground cavern that is more magnificent than one can imagine, with a dome that hangs high, dozens of meters high, like a palace buried deep underground.

In the center of the cave, a strangely shaped ancient tree is rooted in the rocky ground. Its trunk is black and withered, covered with cracks, while in the center of its gnarled crown hangs a strange fruit the size of a fist.

The faint purple light emanated from this fruit, providing the only source of light in this dark space.

Ye An's pupils contracted slightly, a thought flashing through his mind: "Another rank-up demonic beast?"

He thought to himself, "As expected of the relics of ancient cultivators, it's full of surprises!"

"Moreover... the aura of this demonic hound is even stronger than that of the mountain demon before. It may have already condensed a demon core. If that's the case, its value will be worlds apart."

At this moment, the demonic beast was half-closing its scarlet eyes, indifferently watching the crowd a hundred meters away.

Beside its claws lay several torn and mangled corpses, their tattered clothes and broken weapons scattered on the ground, silently testifying to the perilous nature of the place.

Meanwhile, the hundred or so independent martial artists were all crowding near the cave entrance, confronting the demonic beasts from afar.

Despite their intense desire for the purple-glowing fruit, the more than one hundred rogue martial artists crowded outside the safety line, none of them daring to move forward even half a step.

"That purple fruit is absolutely a rare and precious treasure! Just standing here at this distance and taking a whiff of it, I feel the internal energy in my dantian rising!"

"The treasure is good, but you have to be alive to get it! Those grandmasters at the late stage of the Transformation Realm who rushed up just now didn't even last one move before being chewed up by that monster!"

"What exactly is this thing? How come I've never seen it in ancient books before?"

"Who cares what it is? This beast is guarding some rare and precious treasure; it must be a real gem itself!"

The crowd chattered amongst themselves, greed and fear pulling at each other.

Everyone wants the benefits, but no one wants to risk their life for them.

At the very front of the crowd stood a bald, burly man.

This burly man, a cultivator at the peak of the Transformation Realm, wielded a pair of eight-sided purple-gold hammers made of fine steel, and was considered a notable figure in the rogue cultivator circle.

He stared intently at the purple fruit, his eyes turning red.

"Shut up, all of you!" the burly man roared, the sound echoing through the cavern.

He turned to look at the group of people behind him.

"This beast is a treasure trove! Its fur can be used to make armor, and its claws and teeth can be forged into divine weapons!"

"We have over a hundred people here. Let's all gang up on it and overwhelm it! Then we'll divide the treasure equally, so nobody loses out. What do you say?"

The burly man had a very clever plan.

But no one in the room responded.

We're all seasoned veterans; nobody's stupid.

The treasures will be divided equally?

If we really kill this monster, then whoever has the bigger fist gets to keep it.

If we rush in now, we'll just be cannon fodder.

The burly man waited for a long time, but when no one moved, he became so angry that he started cursing.

"Pah! A bunch of cowardly wimps!" He spat fiercely on the ground. "You deserve to be lowly parasites your whole lives, never even getting a sip of soup!"

He circulated his inner energy wildly, causing his muscles to bulge and tear his clothes apart.

"Since you dare not, then I'll gladly accept this treasure!"

The burly man stomped his feet hard on the ground, creating two deep craters.

He shot out like a cannonball, and using the momentum of his charge, he swung his eight-sided purple-gold hammer in a wide arc, unleashing an extremely fierce Tiger Form True Meaning wrapped in the hammer's wind, heading straight for the demon beast's face.

The impact was so powerful that it compressed the air, causing it to explode with a sharp, loud sound.

The monster didn't even fully lift its eyelids.

An extremely human-like contempt appeared on that dog's face.

It lay still in place, then casually raised its right front paw and gently swished it forward.

"Whoosh—"

A semi-transparent black wind blade appeared out of thin air.

The strong man's protective inner energy, which he was so proud of, shattered in less than half a second.

The pair of purple-gold hammers, crafted from fine steel, were sliced ​​in two by the wind blades, leaving perfectly smooth cuts.

The wind blade sliced ​​through his body without any resistance.

The burly man's momentum came to an abrupt halt.

His upper body slid directly to the ground, while his lower body continued forward two steps due to inertia before finally collapsing.

Fresh blood gushed out, intestines and internal organs spilled onto the ground, and the stench of blood instantly filled the air.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a scream like a pig being slaughtered erupted.

"Holy crap! Run!"

"This is no match for us! It's at least a powerful demon at the Celestial Realm!"

"Don't push me! Let me go first!"

The more than one hundred people instantly went wild, forgetting all about the treasure hunt and the chance encounter.

Everyone frantically rushed towards the passage at the back.

The passage was too narrow to allow so many people to evacuate at the same time.

In the struggle for escape routes, some people resorted to violence against those around them.

"Get out of here!"

A tall, thin man slapped the person in front of him on the back, pushing him towards the monster, and then used the momentum to dart to the side.

The person who was pushed out cursed loudly, and before he could even stand up, he was trampled underfoot by the people who surged up behind him.

Screams and curses filled the air.

The entire cave was in complete chaos, and the ugliness of human nature was on full display at that moment.

"Stop running!"

A clear female voice suddenly rang out amidst the chaos, her voice filled with anxiety.

"It's much faster than you! Exposing your backs to it and running separately will only result in you being picked off one by one!"

"Everyone, form a united front and fight back! If we work together, there's still a glimmer of hope!"

The one who shouted was a young woman.

She was dressed in a black special operations uniform and was very agile. With a few leaps, she landed on a towering rock.

It was Anya who had sneaked in behind Director Ding's back.

Anya looked at the crowd pushing and trampling below, and was so angry that her teeth itched.

This group of people usually boast like the best, but when real danger comes, they're nothing but a mob.

It's unrealistic to expect these people to work together; we can only rely on ourselves to step up first.

Anya's shouts didn't calm the crowd, but they did attract the attention of the monsters.

The monster turned its vicious dog head and stared intently at Anya on the rock.

It gave up chasing the fleeing rogue cultivators and let out a deep, muffled roar.

Its massive body suddenly leaped into the air, moving so fast that it left a trail of afterimages as it hurtled towards Anya.

Anya felt a chill run down her spine.

But she did not back down.

She lowered her center of gravity and charged towards the monster.

Just as the two were about to collide, Anya exerted force from her waist, sliding to the side at an extremely tricky angle, displaying the utmost agility.

She had somehow acquired a specially made police dagger that glowed with blue light.

"Sizzle—"

The dagger's blade sliced ​​fiercely across the beast's side fur.

A long string of sparks shot out, producing a piercing screeching sound.

This specially made dagger, which can even cut through steel plates, couldn't even cut through the hide of a monster!

The monster was enraged by this.

After landing, it suddenly turned around and flapped its fleshy wings on its back.

A violent gust of wind suddenly rose from the ground.

Anya had barely regained her footing when she was struck head-on by the gale.

"puff!"

She spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backward.

The demonic beast suddenly exerted force with its hind legs, its massive body transforming into a black lightning bolt. It opened its blood-red maw, unleashing a foul-smelling gust of wind that rushed towards the beautiful figure!

Those jagged fangs were right in front of me.

Anya's pupils contracted sharply, and she instinctively tried to dodge, but the demon hound was too fast, so fast that her nerves couldn't react in time.

"It's over!"

Anya's mind went blank; she was utterly desperate.

Just when she thought she was going to die there.

A tall, imposing figure appeared unexpectedly between her and the demon beast.

Immediately.

A pale blue-gold light appeared out of nowhere without warning, like a sharp sword slicing through the darkness, silently imprinting itself on the demon dog's brow.

There was no earth-shattering roar, no aftershocks from the energy collision.

Time seemed to have been paused at that moment.

The ferocious movements of the demonic dog suddenly froze, and a fleeting glimmer of cyan-gold light was reflected in its scarlet beast eyes.

Then, its massive body, comparable to refined steel, began from between its eyebrows.

It cracked inch by inch, turned into ashes, and scattered with the wind.

From appearance to disappearance, the entire process takes less than a second.

It was as if it had never existed.

Inside the cave, a deathly silence fell.

"Huh? Everything's alright?"

Those martial artists who were only concerned with escaping for their lives, after running for a while, realized that the deadly threat behind them had disappeared, and only then did they muster up the courage to turn around.

Then, everyone witnessed a scene they would never forget.

The monster was killed.

Only a tall, upright young man stood there, his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent, as if he had only done a trivial thing.

Opposite him, the woman who had just escaped death was panting heavily, her chest heaving, her face still showing the shock of surviving a near-death experience.

She stared blankly at Ye An, his handsome face gradually merging with a vague memory in her mind.

That same person, at the Tongxian Hotel, effortlessly saved her life in front of the assassins from Yanyu Tower.

"Is...it you?"

Anya's voice trembled slightly, a mixture of lingering fear and relief.

Ye An's appearance was a huge shock to her.

"Thank goodness, it was Master Ye who saved us!" Someone realized what was happening and stopped running away.

"You are... Ye An, Master Ye?" Anya revealed a complex expression.

Ye An did not respond to her, but simply scanned the entire room and spoke calmly, his voice clearly reaching everyone's ears:

"Everyone, since I killed this monster, the spoils here naturally belong to me."

His tone was calm, as if he were stating a fact.

"You guys don't have any objections, right?"

After he finished speaking, the crowd fell silent.

Opinion?

Are you kidding me!

Who dares to object?

"No objection! No objection! It's only right that Master Ye takes action!"

"Yes, yes, yes! If it weren't for Master Ye, we would all be dead here today! This monster should have been your spoils!"

"No, no, we're already incredibly grateful to have been spared. We wouldn't dare ask for anything more..."

Most martial artists are intelligent people. After witnessing those godlike skills with their own eyes, how could they dare to have even the slightest greed?

One by one, they rushed to express their opinions, afraid that speaking too slowly would displease the man.

However, there are always some people who are blinded by greed.

At the back of the crowd, several martial artists who had previously gathered together to discuss waiting for the monsters to finish eating before making their move exchanged glances.

One of the middle-aged men with triangular eyes squeezed out of the crowd, cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Ye An, and spoke with a forced smile:

"My friend, you can't say that. Everything is about first come, first served. We came in before you, so naturally we should have discovered the monster and the treasure first."

"You came from behind and managed to claim all the benefits with just one sentence. Isn't that... a bit unfair?"

As soon as he said that, the surroundings fell silent, and many people looked at him as if he were a fool.

However, a few people with similar ulterior motives immediately chimed in.

"Exactly! We've been confronting this beast here for ages, expending so much of its energy! You're just reaping what we've sowed!"

"You can't be too domineering! Even if you're powerful, you still have to be reasonable, right?"

The voices of these people were not loud, but they sounded particularly jarring in the quiet cave.

Anya was furious when she heard this.

She whirled around, pointed at the man with the triangular eyes, and shouted angrily:

"Bullshit! How dare you say that?"

"Who was hiding in the back, plotting to wait for others to go up and die so they could reap the benefits?"

"I told everyone to attack together, and not a single one of you moved? Now that Master Ye has saved everyone, you're jumping out to talk about rules? Do you even deserve to!"

Anya, who has a fiery temper and hates evil, was already furious at being ignored by this group of people. Now, she showed no mercy and exposed their despicable intentions in public.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across the face of the man with triangular eyes after being exposed to his true colors.

But he quickly regained his composure, instead letting out a cold laugh as he looked Anya up and down.

"Oh, who do we have here? Isn't this Officer An from our Shanghai Police Department?"

"What? You're taking taxpayers' money, and instead of thinking about how to protect us good citizens, you're acting recklessly here, almost killing everyone?"

He continued to fan the flames with a sarcastic tone: "It's only because Master Ye is so powerful that if it were anyone else, all of us, hundreds of us, would have been buried with you, you big-breasted, brainless woman!"

"You!" Anya trembled with anger, her pretty face turning bright red.

She hadn't expected the monster to be so terrifying, but her initial intention was to unite everyone and find a glimmer of hope.

But now, this good intention has been misinterpreted by these shameless people as recklessness and stupidity.

"I shouldn't have cared about the lives of you ungrateful wretches!" she gritted her teeth, her heart filled with grievance and anger.

With her skills, although she couldn't kill this demonic beast with the strength of a Celestial Realm cultivator, she was still quite confident in protecting herself and escaping.

If it weren't for her identity as a police officer, she wouldn't have had to step forward, and she wouldn't have ended up being publicly humiliated like this.

Just as Anya was too angry to speak, Ye An, who had been silent all along, finally turned his head slowly and calmly looked at the man with triangular eyes.

A faint smile played at the corners of his lips as he spoke softly.

"Oh?"

"Are you saying that what I did wasn't ethical?"