Soon, the convoy continued forward on the rocky road.
Walking alongside the carriage, Su Yueli repeatedly pondered the Mountain-Shaking Heaven-Shattering Force she had comprehended the night before.
She still didn't know how to use those two dark forces dormant within the marrow of her right arm in actual combat.
It was a very strange feeling; her mind understood it, but her hands had never actually struck with it yet.
Suddenly, the mortal horses pulling the carriages in front let out a chorus of terrified, wild neighs, and the entire convoy ground to a sudden halt.
“Roar—!”
A muffled beastly roar erupted from the nearby bushes.
A long-haired black panther the size of a water buffalo, its entire body covered in barbs, suddenly pounced out. Its eyes were blood-red, and saliva dripped from its fangs.
“A demon beast! It's a demon beast!”
“Damn it, why is there such a thing on the main road?!”
Manager Lin's face turned pale with fright, and he panicked completely, shouting at the top of his lungs, “Quick! Protect the young master's carriage! Stop it, quickly!”
The nine surrounding martial artists were all terrified.
When they accepted this outsourced escort mission, they had thought they would only have to stop some secular bandits on the road. Who could have expected they would run into a demon beast?
In the eyes of ordinary martial artists, demon beasts were terrifying existences as powerful as cultivators, not something mortal flesh and blood could easily deal with.
Old Zhang and the other two Fifth Realm martial artists exchanged glances, gritted their teeth, and stepped up to the very front.
“Form a formation! Fight it to the death!”
The long-haired black panther was incredibly fast, bringing a piercing wind as its claw swiped down.
A Fourth Realm martial artist failed to dodge in time. The long saber in his hand was snapped right in half, and he was sent flying while coughing up blood, his chest a bloody mess.
“You beast, die!” Old Zhang roared, unleashing his full Fifth Realm blood qi as he slammed a fist hard into the panther's flank.
With a loud bang, the force of the Fifth Realm martial artist struck the panther's iron-hard fur, yet it only shattered a few barbs.
Stung by the pain, the panther swept its tail like a whip, instantly sending the other two Fourth Realm martial artists crashing to the ground with the crisp sound of fracturing bones.
This was a peak First Realm demon beast.
The nine martial artists fought with all their might on the road, but soon three Fourth Realm fighters were injured, two of whom were severely wounded and knocked unconscious.
Old Zhang was also covered in blood. Relying entirely on his desperate, life-risking momentum, he managed to stab out one of the panther's eyes with a broken saber, finally forcing the beast back with great difficulty. The panther whimpered and limped back into the woods.
“Phew...”
Before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief—
“Roar!”
From behind a nearby dirt slope, a second, even larger barbed black panther suddenly pounced out without any warning!
This panther was incredibly cunning. It completely ignored the heavily injured martial artists on the periphery. Its hind legs kicked off the ground, its massive body blurring into an afterimage as it opened its bloody maw, lunging straight for the young master inside the middle carriage!
“Young Master!” Manager Lin slumped to the ground in terror, completely despondent.
Old Zhang and the others glared with eyes nearly splitting, but they were all injured and too far away to help.
Seeing the carriage about to be torn to shreds by the panther, Su Yueli, who was standing slightly behind the convoy, watched the scene, closed her eyes to sense her surroundings, and shook her head with some helplessness.
“Trouble had to find me after all.”
She had wanted to slip by quietly, but it seemed that was no longer an option.
Su Yueli's gaze sharpened. Pushing off the ground with explosive force, she vanished from the spot instantly.
At the critical moment of life and death, when the panther's fangs were a mere inch from the carriage curtain, Su Yueli's figure suddenly blocked the carriage door.
Sinking her waist and locking her hips, she assumed a pure punch stance, like a fully drawn bow.
The Mountain-Shaking Heaven-Shattering Force she had spent the entire night contemplating flashed through her mind.
Her mind said she knew it, and her hands said: let's test it out!
“Die!”
In this critical moment, Su Yueli threw a powerful punch, her right hand tightly gripping Xiaohei's fist blades, striking straight toward the panther's wide-open, bloody maw.
At this moment, the Delusion Breaker Rank blood qi inside her body surged frantically into her right arm. The two vibrating forces that had just condensed deep within her bone marrow last night erupted violently along her knuckles!
Bang—!
A muffled boom exploded in midair.
As this punch landed, the two layers of hidden force continuously generated high-frequency resonance.
Under the stunned gazes of Old Zhang, Manager Lin, and the others, the head of that peak First Realm, iron-skulled barbed black panther directly exploded into a thick cloud of blood mist in midair!
Its headless corpse fell to the ground with a thud, twitched twice, and died instantly.
Once again, a dead silence fell over the main road.
The surviving martial artists stared so hard their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, unable to speak for a long time. When Manager Lin finally snapped out of it, he scrambled over on all fours, his voice trembling as he opened his mouth to try and butter her up.
But Su Yueli's expression was grave, her eyes fixed intently on the sky.
Old Zhang wiped the blood from his face in confusion and asked in a rough voice, “Miss Su, what's wrong? The other one-eyed beast has already run off. Don't worry, nothing will happen...”
However, before he could finish his sentence—
In the next instant, a blinding blue light whistled down from the sky above.
Boom!
A powerful wave of spiritual energy and mana swept outward, causing the surrounding trees to rustle violently.
His familiar black robe with blue clouds fluttered in the wind. The young Cangyun Sect cultivator who had been lured away by the loose cultivator in the distance landed in front of the convoy, his face so dark it looked as if it could drip water.
Everyone was utterly bewildered.
Manager Lin and Old Zhang's faces were pale. They couldn't understand why this immortal master had chased after them.
Su Yueli narrowed her eyes at him, her fingers slowly tightening over her fist blades.
“It seems... you found me after all.”
Before she struck, she had felt a cultivator's spiritual energy rapidly flying toward this location. She had assumed it was another Cangyun Sect cultivator.
Seeing him now, it was indeed the case.
A day and a night had already passed. Had this guy realized something was off and chased her down on purpose?
Su Yueli didn't know, but she didn't dare lower her guard.
Meanwhile, the cultivator gritted his teeth, several new wounds visible on his body.
The cultivator he had chased down yesterday turned out not to be the person from VIP Room Eight of the auction. It was just an ordinary loose cultivator who happened to be fleeing from pursuers.
In the end, he had fought a pointless battle due to a misunderstanding and even sustained some injuries, which left him extremely displeased.
The more he thought about it afterward, the more suspicious things seemed, so he had rushed back here. As a result, he had just witnessed Su Yueli blow the head off a late First Realm demon beast with a single punch.
His mouth twitched, and he gritted his teeth. “You certainly disguised yourself well, to have actually fooled me.”
“But I truly did not expect that a mere martial artist... would dare oppose my Cangyun Sect!”
He spat out the last few words through clenched teeth.
Upon hearing his words, everyone turned their eyes toward Su Yueli, their gazes filled with absolute disbelief.
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