Chapter 616: Chapter 616: Can Kill Them
Ye Xiu received a text message from Leng Yue, pondered for a moment, and was then overjoyed!
No one knew he had other reasons for coaxing Qin Qing to go to the Eternal Kingdom.
If it were merely to covet the spiritual energy of the Eternal Islands, there would have been no need. He could have continuously hunted down the people sent from the Eternal Kingdom to Nanjing, absorbed their Martial Prowess, refined it into pure spiritual energy, and then infused it into Qin Qing.
The reason he let Qin Qing take such a significant risk was that he sensed an opportunity was waiting for her in the Eternal Islands. With his level of strength and realm, his sixth sense was sometimes incredibly accurate.
And indeed, Qin Qing had encountered her opportunity!
Ye Xiu replied, "You and Qin Qing stay in the Abandoned City. Tell her that the word ’sword’ is her opportunity, so she should focus on comprehending it. Also, the issue on my end is resolved. Not only will the three Arbiter Families stop pursuing you, but they will also venerate you as if you were their ancestors."
Leng Yue replied, "Understood!"
After reading the text message from Ye Xiu, Qin Qing was completely perplexed.
An opportunity? My opportunity is a single word?
"Since the Young Master said so, he must have his reasons," Leng Yue said. "Besides, it’s safer for us to stay in the Abandoned City."
"Mm!" Qin Qing nodded.
Just then, the sound of fierce fighting and beastly roars echoed from the distance, followed by a red flare shooting into the sky.
"Those must be the people who were sent to capture us, now coming to our rescue," Qin Qing said with a playful smile, a sly glint flashing in her beautiful eyes. She turned to Pipi Pig and said, "Bring all the beasts here."
"SNORT, SNORT..." Pipi Pig nodded, tilted its head back, and let out a thundering call, "ROAR..."
Instantly, Qin Qing and Leng Yue watched as the nearby beasts scurried behind Pipi Pig and formed a phalanx, while beasts from the surrounding area swarmed toward them.
Qin Qing leaped onto Pipi Pig’s back and waved to Leng Yue.
"Come on, let’s go have a look."
Seeing the curve of Qin Qing’s lips, Leng Yue suddenly sensed that she was up to no good.
And so, the two of them rode Pipi Pig, trotting toward the flare. Everywhere they passed, the swarming beasts consciously fell into line behind them. The scene looked as if multiple armies were converging, about to launch an all-out assault.
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After Xue Man and An Bai crossed the mountain and entered the Abandoned City, they were immediately ambushed by a group of wild beasts.
They had heard that the Mutated Beasts in the Abandoned City were strong, but only after experiencing it firsthand did they realize how preposterously strong they were. The beasts lacked combat skills and had never undergone Cultivation, but they were enormously powerful with thick, incredibly tough hides. A monkey standing over three meters tall and a bull the size of a two-story building were so powerful they could fight one-on-one against Xue Man and An Bai. When their weapons struck the monkey and the bull, they only managed to cut off some fur, causing no substantial harm. Their only option was to fire a flare and call for help.
"They’re too strong! If this keeps up, we’ll die of exhaustion here!" An Bai shouted.
"We have to hold on until the main force arrives!" Xue Man said through gritted teeth.
As soon as she finished speaking, a sky-shattering roar sounded, and the beasts besieging them suddenly scattered in a panic.
What’s going on? Xue Man and An Bai were dumbfounded. The beasts clearly had the upper hand. If they had just kept at it, they could have worn us down. Why did they run?
"Should we chase them?" An Bai asked.
"The beasts on the mere outskirts of the Abandoned City are already this terrifying; who knows how much stronger the ones deeper inside are. We should wait for the main force to assemble before we go in together," Xue Man said grimly.
An Bai nodded; she was thinking the same thing.
Gradually, figures began to pour over the mountain and into the Abandoned City, while helicopters flew into the airspace above. In less than an hour, all 5,000 Martial Artists had arrived. The 200,000-strong army from Biluo Island had not; being ordinary people, they were much slower, and it was another question entirely whether they could even cross the mountain.
By now, the sky had grown dark.
"Lady Xue Man, Lady An Bai, all Martial Artists have arrived. When should we launch the attack on the beasts of the Abandoned City?" someone asked.
Without another word, Xue Man and An Bai waved a hand and shouted, "Kill!"
With that, they charged forward, leading the way with the army of 5,000 Martial Artists right behind them.
However, before they had run far, they suddenly saw an enormous creature in the distance under the dark night sky, followed by the sound of countless heavy footsteps.
"Stop!" Xue Man yelled.
The army of 5,000 immediately came to a halt.
Squinting, they stared intently at the approaching behemoth. Gradually, they made out that the creature was actually a gigantic, yet surprisingly adorable, wild boar. Following behind it was an endless sea of beasts.
"Is that... Qin Qing and Leng Yue?"
Xue Man and An Bai were astounded when they saw Qin Qing and Leng Yue sitting on Pipi Pig’s back.
Have Qin Qing and Leng Yue been kidnapped by the wild boar?
"Qin Qing! Leng Yue! Don’t be afraid, we’re coming to rescue you!" Xue Man shouted.
In an instant, all 5,000 people drew their weapons, preparing for a fight to the death with the beast army to save the two women.
"Stop!" Qin Qing commanded, raising her hand.
SNAP!
Pipi Pig and the beast army behind it came to an abrupt stop.
Xue Man, An Bai, and the 5,000 soldiers behind them were completely dumbstruck by the scene.
Qin Qing had shouted, "Stop," and the entire beast army actually stopped! This wasn’t a kidnapping. Qin Qing and Leng Yue had tamed every beast in the Abandoned City and taken the throne as the queens of the beasts.
"How... how did you do it?" Xue Man asked, her scalp tingling.
An Bai and the 5,000-strong army of Martial Artists also wore expressions of utter disbelief.
The Mutated Beasts in the Abandoned City hadn’t mutated naturally just from growing up in a spiritual energy-rich environment. They were products of the Eternal Kingdom’s Genetic Laboratory, which had used drugs and high-tech means in an attempt to create a formidable beast army. The experiments were a success, but the Genetic Laboratory discovered the resulting beasts were impossible to control. They had no choice but to confine them to the various islands of the Eternal Islands, with plans to unleash them upon the world once the ’Struggle for the World’ plan began.
Yet in the end, Qin Qing and Leng Yue had accomplished what the Genetic Laboratory, the Eternal Kingdom, and the three Arbiter Families could not.
"How did you manage to tame these beasts in just a few hours?" An Bai asked.
Qin Qing and Leng Yue paused, stunned for a moment. Hearing Xue Man and An Bai, it sounded as if taming the beasts was supposed to be difficult.
But it wasn’t hard at all! All we did was beat Pipi Pig into submission, and we gained control of every beast in the Abandoned City!
At that moment, Qin Qing and Leng Yue still hadn’t realized just how special they were.
"Enough talk. We can discuss it after we fight," Qin Qing said, patting Pipi Pig. "Destroy them!"
"ROAR!" Pipi Pig let out a mighty cry.
Instantly, the beast army charged gleefully toward Xue Man, An Bai, and the 5,000 Martial Artists.
The expressions on the faces of Xue Man and her people changed at once. There were only 5,002 of them. Aside from Xue Man and An Bai, who were Fourth Realm War Gods, the other 5,000 were Fourth Rank individuals—people who possessed a talent for Cultivation but hadn’t inherited Totems or Special Abilities. The strongest among them were merely Third Realm War Gods.
The beast army, however, likely numbered over 300,000.
If a fight broke out, a single charge from the beast army would wipe out half of their forces.
"Wait! Stop! We’re here to save you, not capture you!" Xue Man shouted desperately. freёwebnoѵel.com
"I don’t believe you!" Qin Qing scoffed coldly.