Huo Ling'er curled up beneath the Hidden Spirit Veil. Perhaps out of fear, she subconsciously hugged Zhu Chen in her arms, holding him tightly.
Zhu Chen could clearly feel the firm pressure.
Though small, it was remarkably elastic!
She hadn't expected this girl, despite her thin appearance, to possess such a powerful presence.
"Zhu Chen, what should we do now? This Zhu Yan's cultivation has already reached the Venerable Realm..."
Huo Ling'er whispered softly, her grip on Zhu Chen inadvertently increasing.
She had always been protected by her father. Even when she went out to play, she was accompanied by a group of Fire Nation warriors, or protected secretly. She had never been isolated and helpless like today.
Now, her only support was Zhu Chen, who was by her side.
"Don't be afraid. Look closely at this Zhu Yan. It's been severely injured. I'm afraid its strength is only one-hundredth of what it was,"
Zhu Chen said.
Huo Ling'er finally gathered her composure upon hearing this, and began to carefully examine the Zhu Yan through the Hidden Spirit Veil.
She saw that the Zhu Yan's body was now covered in a dense mass of cracks. Although the blood clinging to the wounds had already solidified, it still looked shocking.
This Zhu Yan was truly injured.
And it was serious.
Furthermore, Huo Ling'er noticed that the Zhu Yan's aura was intermittent, as if it could dissipate at any moment—a sign of its impending Dao body collapse.
Seeing this, Huo Ling'er breathed a sigh of relief.
However, she didn't dare attack the Zhu Yan.
Even a supreme being of such power, even severely injured, was still not someone they could provoke.
"This place is too dangerous! We should get out of here as soon as possible, before the Zhu Yan discovers us,"
Huo Ling'er muttered softly, carefully moving her petite frame backward.
Zhu Chen quickly stopped her, saying, "Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Look closely at what the Zhu Yan is doing right now."
With Zhu Chen's reminder, Huo Ling'er suddenly realized that the Zhu Yan had been crouching at the bottom of the lake since arriving, waving its arms and stirring the mud, seemingly burying something.
"Could this fellow be hiding that rare treasure?"
Huo Ling'er pondered, a glint of insight in her eyes.
A rare treasure had just appeared in the Cangmang Mountains a few days ago, attracting a large number of ancient beasts. Now Zhu Yan, who had reached the Venerable Realm, had fled here, wounded and in a hurry to bury a treasure in the mud at the bottom of the lake. Perhaps this fellow had snatched that mountain treasure.
"Huh?"
At that moment, the Zhu Yan seemed to sense something, its eyes, like copper bells, suddenly glaring at him.
"Where did you come from, you rat? You
're hiding your head and showing your tail! Get out here..." The moment the words left his mouth, he kicked his legs hard, and his massive body suddenly rose from the ground. Divine light emerged from his right arm, and he punched Zhu Chen and Huo Ling'er's hiding place.
"Oh no! It's discovered us!"
Huo Ling'er said nothing, rising up and running.
Facing such a foe, she couldn't even think of fighting back.
However, the moment Huo Ling'er turned around
, Zhu Chen unleashed his transformation without hesitation, returning to his original form.
Then, two divine rings and caves materialized behind him, and a soul, shrouded in blood, stepped out from one of them and instantly merged with his main body.
Then, with a flap of his wings, his body transformed into a stream of light, charging towards Zhu Yan.
"Vermillion Bird's Magical Art, Third Strike: Splitting the Sky!"
"—Boom!"
Man and ape collided fiercely in mid-air, unleashing a powerful surge of impact.
Zhu Chen's figure dwarfed like an ant before Zhu Yan's dharma form, but at the moment of collision, a massive Primordial Vermillion Bird appeared behind him, opening its mouth and unleashing a thunderous, earth-shattering phoenix cry towards Zhu Yan.
"The Ancient Vermillion Bird Magic?"
Zhu Yan's face suddenly changed.
Though the Vermillion Bird before him was merely a phantom formed from concentrated spiritual energy, the pressure it evoked was even greater than the one he had previously fought.
Fortunately, the young creature's cultivation level was only at the Cave Heaven Realm, unable to unleash the magic's full power.
Otherwise, already severely injured, it would have surely been defeated.
"Little creature, if your cultivation level were a bit higher, I might have actually crashed into a ditch today, but alas..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhu Yan's expression froze.
The moment he flung his fist to dislodge the Vermillion Bird's phantom, a terrifying force suddenly emanated from the boy across from him.
How could this boy's physical strength be so terrifying?
Wasn't he a human?
Without a second thought, Zhu Yan's body was flung away in mid-air by a tremendous force, slamming heavily onto a barren mountain thousands of meters away, creating a massive crater in the mountain.
"Damn it..."
Zhu Yan pushed away the boulder pressing down on him, attempting to stand up again. However, his shattered body had reached its limit.
With a roar of unwillingness, his mountainous form suddenly disintegrated into tiny specks of crystalline light.
"Oh my god!"
"Zhu Chen, you actually defeated Zhu Yan with your Cave Heaven Realm cultivation?"
Huo Ling'er stood there, stunned.
Although Zhu Yan had been severely injured, his Dao body on the verge of collapse, and his cultivation severely reduced, even a cultivator at the Inscription Realm would have been unable to resist him.
And yet, Zhu Chen, with his current cultivation at the Cave Heaven Realm, had managed to send him flying with a single blow.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed it.
"Don't just stand there like an idiot. Go check out that muddy pool..."
Zhu Chen called out to Huo Ling'er upon landing, then immediately rushed to the lakebed.
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Huo Ling'er quickly followed.
After searching the muddy pool for a while, the two soon found the object Zhu Yan had hastily buried.
It was a box crafted from a piece of celestial bone.
The bone box was shrouded in precious light, emitting a breath of immortality. It was obvious at a glance that it was no ordinary item.
"Is this the rare treasure that my father mentioned?"
Huo Ling'er examined the bone box curiously, her eyes filled with excitement and anticipation.
"This bone box is made of extraordinary materials. It must contain some powerful inheritance. With our current strength, we are unable to open it."
Zhu Chen calmly put away the bone box and looked at Huo Ling'er.
Back then, Shi Hao, with his supreme cultivation, had to perform six magic techniques in succession to open this thing, which shows how difficult it was.
If they wanted to open this inheritance, there were only two ways.
Either they had to find an extremely powerful person to help, or they had to wait until their own cultivation level was higher before opening it.
However, Zhu Chen preferred the former.
As the saying goes, "Good things should not be kept overnight." Of course, when you get good things, you should open them while they're hot. There's no reason
to keep them overnight. It's like falling in love:
if you can have sex, do it as soon as possible. Otherwise, if someone else gets there first, you 're
doomed. Unless you enjoy drinking other people's leftovers.
"Then let's hurry back to find our father. He's at the peak of the Venerable Realm and can definitely open this bone box,"
Huo Ling'er suggested with anticipation.
Zhu Chen smiled and shook his head. "Although my father-in-law has a high level of cultivation, he can't open this thing."
"Huh? Even my father can't do it?"
Huo Ling'er murmured in surprise. Only then did she realize Zhu Chen had just said 'father-in-law', and her delicate face instantly turned red.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Who is your father-in-law?"
"Haha, you eloped with me? Isn't she my wife?"
"Don't talk nonsense, I, I just came out to play with you, if you continue like this I will ignore you..."
Huo Ling'er's face turned red because of Zhu Chen's teasing, and she simply turned her back to him.
At this moment, she suddenly noticed that under the barren mountain in the distance that had been knocked down by Zhu Yan, there seemed to be a golden ball of light flickering faintly.
"It's Zhu Yan, that guy actually achieved Nirvana!"
Huo Ling'er was stunned, and hurriedly ran over excitedly.
"Isn't it just a monkey with a collapsed body? What's the fuss about?"
Zhu Chen spread his hands and was about to follow to see.
But at this moment.
A loud bird song suddenly came from the distant valley.
He looked up. He
saw a big green bird rushing towards this side at a fast speed.
And on the back of the big bird, there was a furry child wearing animal skin!
...
(End of this chapter)