Free Web NovelMingxi and the other three also noticed that the steps below were rapidly disappearing.
More precisely, they were disintegrating.
Crack, crack.
Step by step, they detached, fell downwards, and then vanished into the lake.
Meanwhile, the vines retracted like a shrinking red carpet, rustling as they curled back.
Soon, all the stone steps Mingxi and the others had walked on disappeared.
It stopped only at the stone step Lin Chen's Di Gou Mole was standing on.
The miniature Di Gou Mole remained calm on the surface.
But its little heart was trembling violently.
It stealthily poked its Beast Tamers's back with its claw.
"Di Gou?"
What were you thinking, making me bring up the rear? Don't you know I have a fear of heights?
Lin Chen: "..."
When did it develop a fear of heights?
A Venerable-level pet beast with a fear of heights—does that even sound right?
"Pfft."
Because of the simultaneous translation, Mingxi and the other two, who understood Little Mole's complaint, couldn't help but chuckle softly.
They weren't nervous or flustered at all by the appearance of the two people and two pet beasts below.
They were already here.
Even if they were enemies, if they wanted to attack them, what good would being nervous do?
Moreover, the current situation was that the Nine Gods Temple was clearly on their side.
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
The emerald vines beside the stone steps seemed to sense their current mood, swaying even more vigorously and gracefully.
Mingxi even felt the surrounding air become fresher and more elegant, with a rich, serene fragrance.
It smelled exceptionally good.
It made one feel refreshed and clear-headed.
Even chronic cold legs were cured.
Quite good.
"Hey, hey, is that the Blue Star prodigy, Mingxi Mimi'er, up there?"
Seeing that the Nine Gods Temple's stone steps were creating a clear distinction, and after confirming that Flight pet beasts were grounded and Transcendent skills were blocked, Aethelbert finally grew anxious.
The Nine Gods Temple!
The legendary sacred land of Green Field Star.
He didn't know if Hadoro was interested, but he was extremely interested.
So, no matter what, he had to stall the group on the stone steps first; he couldn't let them complete the steps before he found a way to ascend.
"I am Aethelbert, and this is Hadoro. Have you seen Ji Yue Lin Hua?"
Mingxi didn't stop walking, but she still looked back at the two people below.
Aethelbert, Hadoro—besides Ji Yue Lin Hua, the other two Wanmo Territory guardians.
As expected, they came for Ji Yue Lin Hua. Could these two also be fish raised by a simp?
Others kill the young to bring the old; for Ji Yue Lin Hua, it became killing the female to bring the male, and two came at once.
And both were SSS-level Beast Master!
One might think SSS-level Beast Master were everywhere on Green Field Star.
Mingxi's dark eyes held a hint of mockery.
"Are you two also like that Ji Yue Lin Hua, coming thousands of miles to kill me?" freēwēbnovel.com
Mingxi asked directly and candidly. frёeωebɳovel.com
She didn't hide the fact that she had killed Ji Yue Lin Hua; they had pursued her all the way here, so what was the point of lying?
Hearing Mingxi's counter-question, Aethelbert and Hadoro were secretly alarmed.
Ji Yue Lin Hua had indeed died by the hand of this young girl!
Recalling the vast forest that had been almost razed to the ground, they couldn't help but feel a chill.
"If this child cannot be befriended, she might become Green Field Star's greatest threat in the future."
The two exchanged glances.
Neither missed the similar killing intent in the other's eyes.
They cared about Ji Yue Lin Hua's death only out of duty to their clan and colleagues, and anger over the damage to the overall interests of the Kabu Clan.
As for avenging her personally, they had absolutely no such thought.
At most, they just wanted to ascertain the cause, find the culprit, and then, based on the culprit's situation, maximize the Kabu Clan's interests as much as possible.
But if Ji Yue Lin Hua truly died by Mingxi's hand, then some matters would have to be considered differently.
Ultimately, it was because the girl was simply too much of a genius.
At 16, she could already kill a Beast Tamers of Ji Yue Lin Hua's ceiling-level strength, so what about in another hundred years?
What kind of person would she grow into?
And precisely because of Ji Yue Lin Hua, they seemed to have completely offended her.
So, when she grew up, would she seek revenge? Would she become a disaster for the Kabu Clan, and even the entire Green Field Star?
"Killing intent!"
Perhaps it was due to being in the Nine Gods Temple, or perhaps her mental strength had improved further through «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» the tempering and refinement of the past few days, but Mingxi keenly sensed the sudden surge of killing intent from the two below.
She lowered her gaze.
It seemed that to return to Blue Star smoothly, she would have to take an unconventional path.
"Mimi'er, you've misunderstood. We only came to investigate the cause of Ji Yue Lin Hua's death. We absolutely had no intention of troubling you, nor did we know that she had attacked you on her own.
There must be a misunderstanding in this matter, so could you please stop for a moment and chat?"
"No time, no chat."
They didn't even know each other, so what was there to chat about?
Moreover, these two old geezers wanted to kill her!
Was she some kind of cheap person? To calmly chat about a non-existent past with people who harbored killing intent towards her?
Mingxi refused without hesitation, her short legs moving even more nimbly, after all, her chronic cold legs had been cured.
She could easily run a full marathon.
The group of four and their pet beasts ascended step by step, moving quickly and steadily.
They weren't foolish; how could they not see that the two below had ulterior motives?
Besides wanting to clarify the entanglement between them and Ji Yue Lin Hua, they also wanted to stall them and find a way to enter the Nine Gods Temple!
Hmph.
Dream on.
They just wanted to make them see but not touch, to make them die of envy!
Seeing that the group's speed up the steps was not slowing but increasing, as if a wolf were chasing them, Aethelbert broke out in a sweat.
"Sirs, it's best not to refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!
Even if you are currently protected by the Nine Gods Temple's rules, can you stay inside forever?"
This was a blatant threat.
Mingxi and the other three seemed to have been possessed by Helen Keller, all turning deaf.
Threaten all you want, we lose if we hear you.
Aethelbert: "..."
His eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a hint of ruthlessness.
Since soft tactics didn't work, he could only resort to force! He refused to believe he couldn't handle a rookie little girl!
"Poison King! Get them down here for me!"
His Venerable-level pet beast, Poison Hell Fiend, let out a low growl. Its black, grotesque membranous wings unfurled with a whoosh, rapidly soaring into the sky and disappearing into the clouds.
As long as it didn't enter Wangyue Lake, it wouldn't be subject to the Flight restriction.
Poison Hell Fiend, a Transcendent creature of both Poison and Flight attributes. In its initial stage, it was just a relatively common Poison attribute Transcendent creature, the Poison Ink Tadpole. Only upon evolving to Shi-level could it awaken the Flight attribute, taking on a bat form, which is the Poison Toad Bat.
Poison Hell Fiend can reside in high-altitude clouds and quickly contaminate them into poisonous clouds. A flap of its wings can stir up a poisonous storm.
What's special is that this kind of poisonous storm, having no or very minimal energy fluctuations, is not considered a Transcendent skill.
Instead, it's a severe weather phenomenon artificially created by a Transcendent creature.
Therefore, Poison Hell Fiend is also regarded as the 'embodiment of natural disaster'.
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
