"You... you... how could you..."
Looking at the white-robed figure before him, Ye Feng's eyes were filled with astonishment.
Just moments ago, when Ye Feng thought his hundred-plus pounds were about to meet their end, the white-robed woman had flashed forward, instantly appearing before Ye Feng and taking Su Jianying's fierce, swift palm strike for him.
The white-robed woman was strong. Ye Feng wasn't sure how strong, but during the battle that had triggered the landslide, she had only gotten a little dusty and showed no signs of injury.
However, in her haste, she had taken Su Jianying's blood palm attack directly to her back and let out a pained groan.
Even through the white veil, Ye Feng could see blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.
"Palace Mistress Yue, how could you? You and him..."
The old man named Zhao Gongzi was equally shocked. He looked at the white-robed woman, then at Ye Feng, wanting to say more but holding back.
"Heh, an unexpected bonus!"
It wasn't just Ye Feng and Zhao Gongzi; even Su Jianying, who had launched the blood palm attack, was greatly surprised.
He had simply disliked this unknown fellow Ye Feng and decided on impulse to kill him and absorb his flesh and blood to strengthen himself.
But he never expected that the white-robed woman, whom he had always found troublesome, would injure herself to block this strike for Ye Feng...
"You... why did you save me?"
After a pause, Ye Feng, bewildered, asked.
After all, including the time he met Keller Ji in the Frozen City, this was the second time she had saved him. This time, she seemed to have sustained a serious injury, even spitting blood...
This question not only puzzled and intrigued Ye Feng, but Zhao Gongzi and even Su Jianying cast surprised glances. Of course, Su Jianying's gaze held more malice and a hint of glee...
"Su Jianying has his sights on you. You can flee, or you can choose to stay and face him with us!"
The white-robed woman didn't answer Ye Feng. Instead, she gave him a deep look, then turned and regarded Su Jianying, who was bathed in a blood-red light, with a cautious gaze.
"I... I... I'll be going now. Take care!"
The words Ye Feng had intended to say shifted mid-sentence.
After speaking, he retreated, and soon, pulling Xiao Xiao along, he quickly ran away.
"You!"
Seeing this, the white-robed woman's face turned ashen with anger. Hadn't she made her intentions clear enough?
She glared fiercely at Ye Feng, her beautiful eyes filled with a sense of disappointment.
"Hahaha~... Look at you, injuring yourself, and for what!"
"Hahaha~"
Upon witnessing this, Su Jianying erupted into wild laughter. Then, his expression turned cold, and he said with a sneer, "You want to leave? It's not that easy. Everyone here dies today!"
As Su Jianying's words fell, a large group of Yin soldiers flew towards Ye Feng, while other Yin soldiers pounced on Jiang Sishan, Xue Yuli, and others who were also attempting to escape.
"Big Brother, that white-robed sister just saved you... and now she's blocking quite a few Yin soldiers for us~"
"Is it really okay for us to just run away like this? That white-robed sister seems to be injured!"
Xiao Xiao, running alongside Ye Feng, looked back with a worried frown and spoke to Ye Feng.
"We'll run to that place first. In a battle of that level... if we confront them head-on, not only will we be unable to help, but we'll become a burden!"
"Besides... there's a trouble we need to deal with first!"
Ye Feng lowered his voice and replied.
"Oh, okay!"
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Xiao Xiao seemed rather pleased, and the frown on her brow eased.
While the white-robed woman, Zhao Gongzi, and Su Jianying, along with the Yin soldiers, were locked in combat, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao ran into a forested area with many tall trees.
"About time!"
Ye Feng glanced back, noticing that the dense trees obscured his vision, preventing him from seeing Su Jianying and the others. Only a dozen or so reddish, semi-transparent Yin soldiers were chasing them, shrieking.
"Xiao Xiao!"
Ye Feng gave Xiao Xiao a look, and she immediately understood. They both slowed their pace.
As they passed a large moss-covered boulder, Xiao Xiao suddenly leaped aside. Simultaneously, she extended her hands, and a massive flame erupted towards the spot where she and Ye Feng had just been.
The Yin soldiers were close behind and were directly hit by the flame, imbued with fire attribute arcane energy, hindering their advance.
After the Yin soldiers reacted, a cold white light shot towards the group.
The cold white light was not the Angelic Blade, but a Tang dao imbued with Ye Feng's primal arcane energy.
"Whoosh! ~ Sizzle~!"
As Ye Feng's Tang dao cut through the semi-transparent bodies of the Yin soldiers, it emitted a crisp cutting sound, as if slicing through solid matter.
"Gak gak~"
"Ugh! Ah...!"
Upon being struck by the Tang dao, the Yin soldiers let out pathetic cries, like humans, then fell to the ground and began to dissipate rapidly...
Seeing this, Ye Feng was not overly surprised!
Earlier, inside the mountain, when he was fighting the Yin soldiers, the Skeleton Gang, and the Baldy Gang, he had secretly experimented. The Tang dao, as Ye Feng had suspected, could indeed harm the Yin soldiers.
Moreover, Ye Feng had also discovered that his primal arcane energy had a damaging effect on those peculiar Yin soldiers.
However, at the time, the first weapon Ye Feng had used that could harm the Yin soldiers was the Angelic Blade. The Angelic Blade glowed white, and the situation was chaotic, so no one noticed Ye Feng's experiment...
And to eliminate these Yin soldiers as quickly as possible, Ye Feng naturally imbued his primal arcane energy onto the Tang dao...
"Whoosh~ Whoosh! Sizzle~ Sizzle~ Hiss..."
"Ah! ~ Ah ah! Ugh... Ah..."
Following this, the whistling of the Tang dao at high speed, the sounds of cutting, and the screams of the Yin soldiers echoed incessantly in the dense forest.
Ye Feng moved swiftly, constantly leaping and running, his Tang dao either slashing, cleaving, or slicing...
In a short while, all the Yin soldiers lay on the ground, beginning to dissipate.
"Huff huff~!"
Scanning his surroundings to confirm that there were no more blood-red Yin soldiers left, Ye Feng sheathed the Tang dao into his spatial storage and began to breathe heavily.
Sweat poured from his forehead, his body trembled slightly, and he was hunched over, appearing utterly exhausted.
Just then, the giant rock behind Ye Feng suddenly softened and rippled, protruding something like a millstone and smashing fiercely into Ye Feng's back.
"Thump~!"
A muffled impact sound instantly rang out. Ye Feng was sent flying forward, tumbling several times before lying still on the ground.
Then, a dirt-yellow figure slowly emerged from the softened giant rock that had ambushed Ye Feng.
"Hey, Meiyou, come out!"
"This Black Iron intermediate brat has gone through successive fierce battles. He narrowly escaped the landslide just now and then fought so many Yin soldiers. He's already at his limit. After taking that blow, he's either dead or barely alive!"
The dirt-yellow figure gradually solidified and called out towards a large tree. It was Bi Mao, who had disappeared earlier.
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