novelraw Chapter 26 : . Encountering Yun Yun
Chapter 26 : . Encountering Yun Yun
[Report to host! The male lead is still in the outer areas of the Magic Beast Mountain Range! Due to the host's intervention, the male lead didn't participate in the cave treasure hunt, so he didn't clash with the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. He didn't leave the herb-gathering team halfway to enter the Magic Beast Mountain Range, so he has been following the herb-gathering team all along. Only after returning to Qingshan Town and receiving his payment did he enter the mountains.]
Is that so?
Xiao Han pondered for a moment, but before she could come to any conclusion, Gu Xun'er returned from her bath.
Having washed away the dust of travel, Gu Xun'er sat down across from Xiao Han, refreshed. Her gaze immediately fell on the roasted meat before her.
These three months of interaction had deepened Gu Xun'er's understanding of her teacher, and what surprised her most was the other's skill at roasting meat. As the young miss of the Gu family, what delicacies hadn't Gu Xun'er tasted? But she had to admit, none of those compared to her teacher's roasted meat.
Perhaps only her teacher could turn roasted meat into such a heavenly delicacy.
Xiao Han, who had only ever eaten meat she roasted herself, didn't think her roasted meat was anything special. In her mind, all roasted meat was the same.
Glancing at the nearly done roasted meat, Xiao Han was about to call Gu Xun'er to eat when she sensed an unusual energy fluctuation.
Immediately after, a violent energy fluctuation and a fierce lion's roar suddenly exploded in the sky like muffled thunder.
The energy fluctuation was so intense that with a sweeping force, many trees were snapped in half. Xiao Han raised an eyebrow slightly, waved her hand, and cast a lightning screen over Gu Xun'er to ensure her safety.
"Teacher, what is...?" Gu Xun'er looked towards the source of the sound with some surprise, seemingly catching a glimpse of a female figure.
"That's the roar of the sixth-rank magical beast, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King," Xiao Han said calmly. It seemed Yun Yun's storyline had begun.
"A sixth-rank magical beast?" Gu Xun'er was somewhat astonished. Wasn't this equivalent to a human Dou Huang level expert? Moreover, she had heard of the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's reputation. This magical beast species had excellent innate talents, and even ordinary Dou Huang wouldn't dare to provoke it lightly.
She stood up, elegantly brushing off the grass on her clothes, and said to Gu Xun'er: "Come, let's go watch a battle between strong ones."
Although Gu Xun'er was the young miss of the Gu family, she had been well-protected. While the Gu family had many Dou Zong and Dou Sheng level experts, she had never seen a real battle between strong ones. What she had seen before were merely sparring matches between family elders.
There was a fundamental difference between sparring and battle.
Gu Xun'er nodded, indeed very eager to see the gap between herself and the strong ones.
Although Xiao Han was a woman, she was currently in Han Xiao's identity. Given the propriety between men and women, even as master and disciple, they should maintain a relative distance. Therefore, Xiao Han merely enveloped Gu Xun'er with Dou Qi without touching her.
Xiao Han's speed was extremely fast. Almost in the blink of an eye, they arrived at a position about twenty meters from the battle. Xiao Han concealed their auras and calmly settled on the top of a giant tree. From here, Gu Xun'er could clearly see the battle in the sky.
In the azure sky, violent energy fluctuations continuously produced sounds like muffled thunder. Nearly half the sky in the distance was covered in blue and red colors.
What first attracted Gu Xun'er's gaze was that huge magical beast.
The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
"Do you see that spiral horn on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's head?" Xiao Han said calmly.
Hearing Xiao Han's question, Gu Xun'er's gaze fell on that horn.
Then, Xiao Han calmly dropped a bombshell: "The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's horn is an excellent medicinal material."
Gu Xun'er, who had seen various sides of her teacher after being by her side for so long, couldn't help but be startled: "Uh... Does Teacher want the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's horn?"
Why was her teacher's focus always on a different wavelength from hers?
Moreover, given the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's pride, it would rather be killed than have its horn cut off.
Xiao Han glanced at her: "No."
Although the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's horn was indeed an excellent alchemical material, she didn't lack materials with similar medicinal properties. Why kill the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King for its horn? This magical beast hadn't provoked her. Xiao Han might be cold-blooded, but she wasn't bloodthirsty. She suddenly mentioned this just to expand Gu Xun'er's knowledge.
Gu Xun'er realized she had misunderstood Xiao Han. She blinked mischievously, looking innocent.
Xiao Han couldn't help but sigh inwardly. This female lead, really... Should she say she was insidious and difficult to deal with, or cute and playful?
"Watch carefully," Xiao Han said, no longer looking at her.
Gu Xun'er nodded obediently and turned her gaze to the woman confronting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
The woman in the sky wore a plain dress and held a somewhat strange-looking long sword that emitted a blue light. Her black hair was styled into a noble phoenix hairdo. The woman's appearance was exquisite, her expression calm, as if what she faced wasn't some infamous magical beast of the continent, but a small cat.
Behind the mysterious woman was a pair of blue wings, slightly ethereal, presumably formed by her own Dou Qi. Dou Qi wings were a sign of strength above the Dou Wang level.
In the sky, the mysterious woman stood calmly, her beautiful face serene, yet exuding an unmistakable air of dignity and nobility that her plain clothes couldn't conceal.
"This is Yun Yun, the Sect Master of the Cloud Mist Sect," Xiao Han explained, tilting her head slightly as she saw Gu Xun'er focus on the woman.
Gu Xun'er understood: "Is she Teacher's friend?"
Xiao Han replied: "More or less."
As they conversed, the battle on the other side was about to begin. After facing off for about the time it takes an incense stick to burn, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King finally couldn't resist and spoke: "Human, what exactly do you want?"
"I would like to borrow the Lion King's Purple Spirit Crystal," Yun Yun said calmly, her beautiful eyes fixed on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
"Purple Spirit Crystal? My Purple Crystal Winged Lion clan can only shed a small piece from our bodies every twenty years. How can you just ask for it?" the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King mocked.
"I can exchange it for something you need," Yun Yun was still somewhat wary of this notorious sixth-rank magical beast, so her words weren't forceful.
"Exchange? Hah, alright. I happen to be in the stage of transformation. If you can get me a Transformation Pill, I'll give you the Purple Spirit Crystal. How about that?" Hearing this, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King burst into laughter.
Hearing this, Yun Yun couldn't help but frown. She certainly knew the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was mocking her. After all, the Transformation Pill was a seventh-grade pill, and even ordinary seventh-grade alchemists might not be able to successfully refine it in one attempt. Its rarity far exceeded that of the Purple Spirit Crystal.
The Transformation Pill could allow magical beasts to completely transform into human form. After transforming into human form, their cultivation speed could truly compare with humans.
"If you can't produce it, then get lost. This King doesn't have so much free time to waste with you humans," the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King sneered, speaking without courtesy.
"I apologize, but something like a Transformation Pill, I'm afraid there aren't many in the entire Gamma Empire who could produce it. However, if you're willing, I can offer three fifth-rank magic cores and a high-grade Xuan-rank cultivation method and battle skill for exchange," Yun Yun said.
"Not interested," the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King flatly refused.
Sighing lightly, Yun Yun slowly raised her strange long sword, saying somewhat helplessly: "If that's the case, then I'll have to take it by force!"
"Hahaha! Humans are always like this," seeing Yun Yun's action, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King let out a laugh that shook the earth. "If you want to fight, then fight! Why so much useless talk!"
"In that case, please advise me, Lion King," Yun Yun raised her delicate hand, and a small blue tornado suddenly appeared. Initially only two meters in size, the tornado grew rapidly with the wind, becoming a huge tornado dozens of zhang tall in the blink of an eye.
Between heaven and earth, the blue tornado howled and rotated. Huge trees on the ground were continuously uprooted, then shredded into a sky full of wood chips by the violent whirlwind.
"Hmph! The Magic Beast Mountain Range is not your human territory. It's not your turn to run wild here!" Looking at the increasingly massive tornado, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King shouted. A deep, low roar echoed throughout the entire mountain range.
As the lion's roar sounded, the purple crystals on its body instantly blazed with light. In the blink of an eye, surging purple flames erupted from its body, gradually billowing and churning, finally converging into a huge pillar of purple fire that shot straight into the sky.
Seeing this display that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth, Gu Xun'er, witnessing a true battle between strong ones for the first time, was indeed shocked. Compared to this battle, the sparring matches she had seen before truly seemed like children's play.
"Has Teacher participated in battles like this?" Gu Xun'er asked.
Gu Xun'er's question reminded Xiao Han of the forbidden spell of the Nine Heavens Thunder Technique she had cast with all her cultivation before dying in her previous life. That forbidden spell had killed over twenty Transformation realm experts and one Formless realm expert in an instant. In her previous world, which was in the end times of cultivation and a society governed by law, cultivators were few, and even those cultivators consciously abided by the law. So even if there were conflicts, they wouldn't affect too large an area. So, shouldn't the grandeur of that endless thunder domain count as a large-scale battle scene?
Although in that battle, she was the only one fighting.
So Xiao Han answered: "Yes."
In the short few seconds they were distracted, the battle on the other side had already entered a white-hot stage.
Faced with the tornado released by Yun Yun, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King chose to confront it head-on. It flapped its wings, and the huge pillar of purple fire on its body, two or three zhang tall, instantly left its body and crashed towards the wind storm.
The storm and the fire pillar collided fiercely, both releasing terrifying energy frantically. At the point where they met, space seemed to ripple slightly.
"Boom—"
After opposing each other for a few minutes, the storm and fire pillar annihilated each other in a thunderous boom that echoed throughout the mountain range.
As the storm and fire pillar dissipated, Yun Yun, standing still in the sky, flapped her blue wings, her body turning into a bolt of lightning, instantly crossing the area of energy disturbance to appear behind the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, her strange long sword thrusting out rapidly.
"Ding ding......" The long sword, carrying wind blades, chopped at the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's body surface. A series of crisp sounds rang out in mid-air. However, the lightning-fast thrusts of the long sword only left white marks on the layer of purple crystal, and these marks completely disappeared after just a moment.
The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King roared in anger, purple flames boiling all over its body once again.
In the space of a few breaths, both sides had completed dozens of collisions. The speed was so fast that Gu Xun'er felt dazzled, unable to see clearly.
However, this speed was nothing in Xiao Han's eyes. Although Yun Yun was wind-attributed, also excelling in speed, compared to Xiao Han at the Dou Zong level, she was still far behind.