Night Ling was running in circles with several monsters.
Honestly, she had thought about leaving and never coming back. Ever since she understood things, she had been trapped in a deadly monster-refining formation. After enduring extreme pain, she managed to escape and swore an oath to become someone else's servant. Every day she had to face a gloomy master and was ordered to kill people.
Just when she finally met someone nice to her, Qin Yi, who freed her from her blood oath and let her enjoy stories, her good days were cut short. She was almost killed by a formation set up by Ming He. Her injuries weren't even healed yet, and she was forced to fight for her life against eagle and wolf monsters, getting torn and bleeding all over.
Qin Yi said she was very strong, but she never felt that way because she was always being tormented. So, her first instinct in a tough situation was to cover her head and run away.
These monsters couldn’t catch up to her at all. She could easily dash away to the other side of the ocean, find a cave, and hide. But Qin Yi was in a bloody battle…
The only one who treated her well, Qin Yi… standing in front of the terrifying Ming He, protecting her…
She didn’t even understand why Qin Yi, who clearly wasn’t a match for that three-eyed wolf monster, dared to face it alone. But no matter what, since Qin Yi was fighting, she wouldn’t hide.
Not only could she not hide, but she also couldn’t run too fast, or else these monsters might give up chasing her and return. She had to keep them thinking they could catch up… then she couldn’t run away, she had to circle back so she wouldn’t get too far from Qin Yi.
Night Ling felt she understood Qin Yi’s intentions completely; she was quite clever, not a foolish snake. At most, she was a timid snake.
“Whoosh!” Just before an ice spike shot at her from behind, Night Ling quickly dodged in an arc and hid behind a rock.
Several monsters surrounded her from both sides.
“A bunch of stupid pigs.” Night Ling spread her wings and flew over them, turning back on her original path.
Suddenly, a mosquito the size of a basketball flew towards her, its proboscis as thick and long as chopsticks…
Night Ling felt disgusted and instinctively spat out a ball of black fire, wanting to burn this disgusting thing to ashes.
What she didn’t know was that whenever she wanted to fight, her eyes would instantly turn fierce. The mosquito flapped its wings to deflect the black fire. When it met Night Ling’s gaze, it suddenly felt a bit scared and instinctively moved aside, allowing Night Ling to pass right by it.
The mosquito was momentarily stunned, not understanding why it had suddenly felt fear, and continued to chase after her.
A snake, a fierce general, instilling terror and fear.
Night Ling couldn’t bring out her true talents and didn’t have very good combat awareness. If someone experienced had been in her place, that quick pass would have been enough to take the mosquito down.
A little girl running with a group of strange monsters across the hills. In the depths of the mist, an old, skinny man held a mirror, watching this scene, muttering to himself, “The snake… truly heaven helps me.”
The old man thought for a moment and shifted the view to the blood lotus, which had already grown four petals, with the fifth petal halfway done.
“Almost there.” He suddenly smiled, chanting something.
Peaches on the giant tree inexplicably flew up amidst the battle of the monsters, heading towards Night Ling. A group of bloodthirsty monsters paused for a moment, then charged after the peaches like an army.
The old man watched this scene with satisfaction, his eyes filled with anticipation: “The blood of the snake, and the monster core… I wonder how much surprise they will bring me.”
Just as he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed: “Who?”
A loud bang erupted in front of the cave, his protective formation shattered, and through the dust, a graceful figure slowly walked into the cave: “The dragon guards the blood lotus, the monsters chase the snake, but have you never thought that you are actually quite fragile?”
“Bold!” The old man made a hand sign, and in an instant, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.
That figure suddenly closed in, a whirlwind arose, and the cave was plunged into darkness.
In the midst of the fierce clash, the mirror was knocked to the corner, still showing Night Ling fleeing wildly, just passing by a dead tree, with a leopard closely following her. Suddenly, a wolf fang club grew out from beside the dead tree and “bang” smashed down on the leopard’s head.
Night Ling shouted, “Brother, watch out from above!”
It was Qin Yi, who had been lying in ambush for a long time. He struck out and immediately spotted a giant mosquito diving towards him. Without hesitation, Qin Yi threw the wolf fang club at the mosquito.
The mosquito quickly dodged, and the club flew up into the sky. It showed a sinister smile, thinking this human was out of his mind. This human’s meager magical power was nowhere near enough to control a sword; once he threw that club, it wouldn’t come back. Did he really think he could hit the great mosquito with just that?
It continued to swoop down, ready to stab and drain the life out of this clueless human.
Suddenly, a strong wind came from behind. It instinctively dodged but didn’t get away in time, half of its body crushed by the wolf fang club, turning into dust.
It died without ever understanding how that club came back.
Night Ling turned back, overjoyed, “Brother, you’re amazing! We don’t have to be afraid of those few left!”
Qin Yi also relaxed a bit, glancing at the two or three monsters that were still chasing them, thinking that with Night Ling’s strength, they could actually win this fight.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed a cloud of dust rolling in from the side, as if countless monsters were charging at them, and a peach was rapidly falling towards Night Ling’s head.
“What the heck is going on?!” Qin Yi flew up with his club, making a perfect home run, sending the peach flying into the sky, not knowing where it went.
The scene suddenly fell silent for a moment.
The monsters moved away from the peach, their minds seeming to clear a bit, and they looked confused for a moment.
Qin Yi was also confused; he had only swung his club instinctively, not expecting that this peach, clearly controlled to harm Night Ling, could be so easily knocked away. Was the other side just joking?
In the next moment, all the monsters turned their greedy eyes towards Qin Yi.
“Human…”
“Delicate, tender human…”
“I haven’t had human flesh in a long time; it smells so good…”
Countless monsters drooled as they approached: “Mine, don’t fight…”
Qin Yi felt powerless to complain. Were they really not seeing the peach they had just fought over? Couldn’t they go after that instead?
Just a moment ago, Night Ling was the one attracting trouble, and now he had turned into the meat bun. He hadn’t even adjusted his mindset from being a protective brother, and now it was like this?
“Boom!”
Countless spells and monster techniques came from all directions. Night Ling quickly transformed into her original form, carrying Qin Yi and flying away.
Qin Yi held onto Night Ling’s snake body, turning to look at the vast army of monsters behind them, feeling extremely frustrated: “Even Ming He wouldn’t know what to do here!”
Liu Su’s voice came: “There’s only one way, lead them back to the monster-refining formation.”
Qin Yi was taken aback: “The monster-refining formation? Night Ling can’t go in there.”
Liu Su said coldly: “The peaches are gone, at least it won’t harm her mind. As for the effects of the monster-refining formation, she has to endure, she must endure.”
Qin Yi shook his head and said to Night Ling: “Go towards the monster-refining formation, but don’t go inside. Find a place to hide, and I’ll go in and think of a way.”
Night Ling’s body trembled slightly but didn’t say anything, silently turning into light and disappearing.
Her speed was extremely fast, and before long, she saw the giant tree with the peaches again. This time, there were no monsters surrounding it, and she could clearly see another stone tablet standing beneath it, which was definitely related to various monster-refining techniques.
She gritted her teeth and charged straight towards the obvious monster-refining formation on the ground.
(End of Chapter)