Chapter 119

Chapter 119: I’m Outta Here First~

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“Muyu, run quickly, I’ll deal with it!”

Su Wanqing suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Muyu beside her, her voice urgent.

But just as the words left her mouth, her movements suddenly froze, a flash of bewilderment crossing her eyes.

She saw that Lin Muyu’s figure had already run over 100 meters away, her skirt hem lifted by the wind, her footsteps light and swift without a trace of hesitation.

Instantly, Su Wanqing’s cold and beautiful face took on a dumbfounded expression that didn’t match her beauty.

“Uh… this little girl seems to have become much cleverer…”

Lin Muyu naturally heard Su Wanqing’s words clearly, but she had no intention of stopping at all.

After all, the female lead told her to run, so why wouldn’t she run?

Just kidding, she couldn’t even see through that monster’s cultivation level. From the oppressive aura alone, she could tell it was not to be trifled with.

Besides, when the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. Su Wanqing was at Golden Core stage, dealing with this kind of situation was just right for her.

She was just a small cultivator at Qi Refining stage; staying would only mean being cannon fodder.

Moreover, she had a previous lesson to learn from.

Last time she got hot-headed and joined Su Wanqing in a head-on confrontation, but in the end, only she suffered misfortune.

A little mouse at Qi Refining stage like her should just run.

“Senior Sister, good luck~ I’m outta here first~”

After running for a distance and confirming she had run far enough, Lin Muyu finally stopped and turned back to shout toward Su Wanqing, whose figure was barely visible in the distance.

She wasn’t worried at all about the other party not hearing her. After all, Su Wanqing was at Golden Core stage, and a Golden Core stage cultivator’s hearing far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Never mind this distance, even if they were separated by dozens of miles, as long as Su Wanqing wanted to, she could hear everything crystal clear.

“Mm, I’ll do my best!”

It had been a long time since she heard Lin Muyu’s encouragement. Su Wanqing’s mood was exceptionally good at this moment.

Even though a fierce and menacing monster was standing right in front of her, she inexplicably felt a surge of excitement.

As for Lin Muyu’s action of abandoning her and fleeing, she didn’t mind at all.

This was the most clever choice. A Qi Refining stage cultivator staying here wouldn’t help at all and would only make her worry.

“Want to run?”

Just then, the skeleton giant that had been piecing together its body finally completed its assembly. Green light flashed in its hollow eye sockets, and its hoarse voice sounded like rusted metal scraping together.

“Did this old man agree to it?”

Before the words finished, its massive bone palm suddenly clenched. A mass of black mist condensed in its palm, instantly transforming into a skull larger than a person. Carrying fierce ghostly winds, it hurled violently toward the direction Lin Muyu had fled.

The momentum was quite terrifying.

“Want to hurt her? Have you asked me first?”

A clear, cold female voice suddenly rang out. Su Wanqing lightly tapped her toes against the ground, her figure shooting out like an arrow. The long sword in her hand emanated bone-chilling coldness as a silver-white sword light cut through the air, precisely slashing at the flying skull.

With a crisp crack, the skull was instantly frozen into ice and shattered to pieces when it hit the ground.

“Interesting.”

The skeleton giant’s hollow eye sockets turned toward Su Wanqing, its tone carrying several notes of mockery.

“Just an early Golden Core stage, and you dare challenge this old man?”

It gave up on the idea of attacking Lin Muyu. After all, that was just a little mouse at Qi Refining stage.

No matter how fast a Qi Refining stage cultivator ran, how far could she escape?

As long as it first captured the woman in front of it, catching that little one later would be as easy as reaching out.

“Don’t forget, this is Qinglan Sect’s territory.”

Su Wanqing tightened her grip on the sword hilt, staring at the skeleton giant with a grave expression, her voice carrying several notes of warning.

“The sect’s reinforcements are probably already on their way, right?”

The skeleton giant’s casual strike just now had already reached the power level of middle Golden Core stage. She didn’t dare to be careless in the slightest.

“Reinforcements?”

The skeleton giant let out a series of harsh laughter.

“This place has long been this old man’s domain. The aura of this area has already been blocked by this old man, hehe…”

Before the laughter ended, its massive bone arm suddenly swung out, carrying whistling sounds as it cut through the air, smashing viciously toward Su Wanqing.

“Domain?!!”

Su Wanqing hurriedly raised her sword to block. The tremendous force transmitted through the sword body, causing her arms to go numb and her body to involuntarily retreat two steps.

Massive waves of shock also surged in her heart, her face full of disbelief.

A cultivator capable of condensing a domain had to be at least Nascent Soul stage!

There was actually a Nascent Soul stage demonic creature hidden in Qinglan Sect’s territory, why was this happening?

Su Wanqing found it somewhat difficult to understand.

“You are… Nascent Soul stage?!!”

She gritted her teeth, her voice squeezing out from between her teeth.

“Heh, since you know, then surrender obediently.”

The skeleton giant’s tone was full of arrogance, but its attacks didn’t pause for a moment. Its bone palm continuously condensed skulls, hurling them one after another toward Su Wanqing.

It knew well that villains die from talking too much, so even while talking, it didn’t forget to attack.

Su Wanqing dodged while quickly analyzing the current situation.

This skeleton giant’s attack power, while stronger than early Golden Core stage, was at most at late Golden Core stage level, far from reaching the might that Nascent Soul stage should possess.

“Something’s wrong!”

She suddenly realized, gritting her teeth as she blocked a skull, her eyes suddenly brightening.

“This attack level is only Golden Core stage standard. Could you be… injured??”

She could sense that the demonic creature before her indeed had domain fluctuations, but its attacks were at Golden Core level.

Then there was only one possibility, the unknown Nascent Soul stage demonic creature before her must be severely injured.

So it not only couldn’t display Nascent Soul stage power, but could only use its domain to block aura and couldn’t launch more powerful attacks, only relying on Golden Core stage force to exhaust her spiritual energy.

Su Wanqing felt somewhat fortunate that this was Qinglan Sect’s territory. This demonic creature didn’t dare expose its aura and had to use its domain to conceal it.

Otherwise, even if it was injured, as long as it used 30% of its domain power, it could easily capture her.

This was the suppressive power of a Nascent Soul stage domain.

“So what?”

The skeleton giant’s tone remained disdainful, but its bone palm attacks became increasingly swift.

“As long as this old man exhausts your spiritual energy, can you still jump around here?”

It had plenty of patience.

In its view, whether it was Su Wanqing or the escaped Lin Muyu, both were already in its pocket.

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On the other side, Lin Muyu had run far away, but she hadn’t truly left completely.

She was hiding behind a low slope, poking her head out to look toward the distant battlefield. Watching the black mist enveloping the sky and the silver-white sword light continuously colliding, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

“Holy crap, this situation doesn’t look right.”

The demonic energy emanating from that black mist was clearly suppressing Su Wanqing’s spiritual energy.

Su Wanqing was the Golden Core stage female lead. Based on past situations, even if she was at early Golden Core stage, she should be able to contend with late Golden Core stage cultivators.

But now she was being overwhelmed by that skeleton giant. Just how strong was this skeleton giant?

Who still remembered that the mission she took this time was only an E-rank demon extermination task?

Logically speaking, this kind of task should correspond to Qi Refining stage difficulty…

“Su Wanqing’s ability to attract trouble really hasn’t diminished at all.”

Lin Muyu muttered quietly to herself, but she wasn’t panicked at all.

Not to mention that Su Wanqing still had trump cards like Blood Burning that she hadn’t used yet.

Just the fact that she was the female lead meant she came with a lucky buff. She’d better not go up and cause trouble.

“Let’s deal with that village matter first!”

Having made up her mind, Lin Muyu took one last look at the distant battlefield, confirmed that Su Wanqing wasn’t in immediate danger, then turned and headed toward the village at the foot of the mountain.

Incidentally, it was time to deal with the village chief’s matter too.

Thinking of the village chief, a cold smile curved at the corner of her mouth.

She wondered how big the psychological shadow would be for that village chief who trafficked villagers when he saw that everything in his little treasury had turned into skeleton bones?