
Mu Lian observed the two battles that were going on in front of her. Mu Lian clucked in awe at the dirty tricks issued by the man who was Ling Zizhou's opponent. Somehow Mu Lian felt insecure being near their fight.
When Mu Lian turned her head towards the fight between Meimei and the short man, Mu Lian saw Meimei being herded into the forest. Mu Lian was worried about Meimei so ran after Meimei and the short man.
Mu Lian knew that Meimei was strong, though, but Mu Lian felt uneasy leaving Meimei and the short man alone especially after seeing the short man's friend fighting with a dirty trick that made anyone who fought him feel irritated.
Mu Lian ran with all her might, approaching the sound of clanking metal clashing. Mu Lian stopped behind a tree peeking at Meimei who was playing his jian to match the short man's attack.
Meimei moved so fast that the shadow of himself became two. The two Meimei each issued the same style.
The move makes Meimei's jian look squeaky when attacking a short man. The smell of wood enveloped the air around Meimei to where Mu Lian was standing.
The short man is no less fast than Meimei, which distinguishes only on the shape of the manager.
The attacks attempted to slash Meimei but were avoided, slashing the ground and trees a few hundred meters behind Meimei.
Mu Lian observed the fight while trying to feel the chi around her. When Mu Lian sensed that there was an extremely intense chi change nearby Mu Lian immediately left from where she was hiding.
Mu Lian moved from one tree to another following wherever Meimei went while dodging the incoming attacks.
The short man was aware of Mu Lian's whereabouts. A cynical smile adorned his face.
"Hehe, it looks like there's a rat all around us" said the short man.
"Bad!" reply Meimei.
Meimei and the short man exchanged deadly moves. The thumping was heard along the path they passed.
Dust and earth debris flew everywhere but Mu Lian could feel their movements clearly.
Mu Lian sensed something strange about the short man's chi so Mu Lian did not dare to take her eyes off since Mu Lian had followed Meimei and the short man to this place.
Mu Lian's ears became accustomed to hearing the chaos that was happening on the battlefield so that when there was a loud bang from behind him, as Mu Lian recalled from that direction was the cave resting place of Mu Lian and the others, as she recalled, the direction of Mu Lian's gaze could not be separated from Meimei and the short man.
Meimei who split his concentration with the bang turned towards Mu Lian. The short man smiled broadly.
Black-colored veins appeared all over his face and his clenched hands. Seeing that Mu Lian sensed something was amiss.
"Jiejie, lookout!" exclaim Mu Lian.
But too late, Meimei managed to avoid an attack that could take his life but not yet completely out of the range of the attack so that Meimei was hit by a shock wave generated by the short man's attack.
The trees were destroyed in every lane that Meimei passed. His body airs three meters above the ground. Mu Lian immediately ran towards the short man blocking him when the short man was about to chase after Meimei.
The short smiling man was amused at the sight of a girl who had not reached the level of foundation formation trying to attack him.
The short man then did not go after Meimei because he wanted to see what Mu Lian was going to do.
The short man faced Mu Lian, his hands were beside her body and his face was like saying 'we see what you can do'.
Mu Lian who had been observing the course of the fight had managed to analyze where the short man's weakness lay. Something that made Mu Lian feel that something was amiss as well.
Taking advantage of the opportunity given by the short man, Mu Lian launched the wind of the rainy season.
Mu Lian did not launch an overly complicated form like the kombonya, consisting only of three movements but directed right near the location of the short man's heart.
The short man widened his eyes when he felt Mu Lian's punch hit his 'core. With the sound of blood crat gushing right through his back.
"You!" said the short man with an unclear articulation because his mouth was full of blood.
"Oh," Mu Lian said as she avoided the sword aura that the short man was emitting.
Mu Lian felt pain and heat in her right arm. Mu Lian also felt a warm liquid make the cloth stick to her right arm.
"Ugh," Mu Lian said but did not dare to stop to look at his right arm because if he saw, he would definitely stop running and roll around in pain on the ground.
"Lian!" exciting Meimei. Mu Lian breathed a sigh of relief at Meimei's voice. It seems Meimei is back in the fight.
Not yet able to celebrate Meimei's return, Mu Lian felt an extremely strong killing appetite being directed towards him. The chi in the air around also started to churn uncontrollably.
Mu Lian took five bags hanging from her belt and then drained chi on all five of them.
The thick fog quickly spread out in all directions. Mu Lian then immediately left the short man's reach.
Feeling the distance between himself and the short man was already quite far away, Mu Lian felt the chi belonging to Meimei and the short man.
Mu Lian patted her forehead. Now how is Meimei going to attack that short guy?
But it seemed that Meimei knew of Mu Lian's movements thanks to their training session. Meimei learned that Mu Lian must have stayed away from the short man's expectations.
Mu Lian felt Meimei attacking the short man as well as the short man. They attacked each other after knowing their respective positions from the direction of the attack.
Mu Lian widened her eyes when she sensed Meimei and the short man had already started their second round battle inside this thick fog of his making.
But it seemed like the injuries Mu Lian had inflicted weakened the short man so that his attacks were not as sharp as when they started fighting.
Meimei felt the short man getting weaker and continued to launch his best attack.
While the short man began to survive Meimei's attack and launched a half-hearted attack. Mu Lian who was watching from afar began to suspect that the short man was intending to run away.
Mu Lian patted her dimensional pouch to pick up the cloth to wrap her right arm. Feeling the warm liquid stop flowing Mu Lian then moved towards the location of the short man.
Mu Lian stood blocking the short man's escape and then started attacking him in turns with Meimei.
Mu Lian predicted very carefully when Meimei's attack arrived near the short man by feeling the surrounding chi turmoil.
With the joining of Mu Lian, the short man was at the end of his death. While cursing towards Mu Lian, the short man tried to attack Mu Lian but Meimei was already standing near the short man and blocking the short man.
Mu Lian retreated quite a distance to make sure she was not hit by Meimei's attack. Mu Lian only acted as a guard when the short man tried to escape.
Moments later a moan was heard and the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. His voice was like several coconuts falling to the ground at the same time. That loud his voice.
"Lian'er, are you still around here?" Meimei.
"I'm here jiejie. Is that man dead?" said Mu Lian. Mu Lian only smelled a very pungent fishy smell.
"Yes. We'd better check on Zizhou," Meimei said.
Mu Lian ran over to Meimei, accidentally kicking something. Mu Lian was stunned for a moment but soon found Meimei without any problems and carried him out of the fog.
"Lian'er, just slow down" Meimei said, afraid of hitting a tree.
"It's okay, jiejie, just trust me" said Mu Lian. Before long, Mu Lian brought Meimei out of the fog and approached the storm that was going on around the cave.
Meimei clutched Mu Lian's hand to hold her back. Instead Meimei advanced to lead Mu Lian towards the storm.
"Oh my goodness Zhouzhou," Meimei said as he stopped not far from the cave.
Mu Lian covered her mouth with both hands. In the eyes of the storm was seen Ling Zizhou with his red eyes and pieces of body lying under his feet.
"Ughhh!" Mu Lian spat out what she had eaten this morning.
Meimei felt sorry for Mu Lian but did not have much time to take care of the girl. Meimei walked very slowly towards Ling Zizhou.
"Wait, jiejie, what's jiejie going to do?" exclaim Mu Lian.
"Stay silent there! I can't explain it in detail, but now Zhouzhou is destroying his cultivation. So I have to stop him at any cost!" Meimei.
"What?!" said Mu Lian. Mu Lian did not understand why Ling Zizhou was trying to destroy his own cultivation.
Meimei walked up to Ling Zizhou with jian in his right hand. Mu Lian realized that Meimei had not had time to treat her injuries.
His clothes were torn around the abdomen with blood soaking the front of Meimei's clothes. The hand holding jian trembled slightly but Meimei gripped the handle so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
Meimei launched several moves to destroy the storm. But the storm was like raking for a while and then getting louder.
Mu Lian held the tree trunk nearby trying to keep her body from crashing.
When Ling Zizhou was about to chase after Meimei, Mu Lian took her hand off the tree trunk and walked over to Ling Zizhou.
"Zizhou! Stopit! You hurt jiejie!"
Ling Zizhou stopped stepping, then turned his head towards Mu Lian. His eyes were red and saliva dripped from his mouth.
Mu Lian sadly looked at Ling Zizhou and remembered Ling Zizhou who always cooked good food for him.
"Azhou! Stopit! the bad guys are gone! Azhou let's go home!"
Ling Zizhou frowned, the jian in his grasp fell to the ground Seeing that there was an advance Mu Lian continued to advance towards Ling Zizhou.
"Azhou let's go home! I'm hungry!" exclaim Mu Lian.
Mu Lian was about to advance even further but felt the wind become very strong and almost slammed into her body, Mu Lian did not come forward and shouted her ultimate words.
"Armgh!" raung Ling Zizhou holding his head. The surrounding storm subsided and Ling Zizhou was perched on the ground.
Mu Lian took advantage of the opportunity to approach Ling Zizhou. Before Mu Lian joined the fray and persuaded Ling Zizhou, Mu Lian kicked Ling Zizhou's jian away.
"Azhou, come back to me. Azhou, you hear me?" mu Lian said as she rubbed Ling Zizhou's back. Mu Lian's tone was like a mother persuading her sulking child.
"Azhou, come on you make me hungry half to death" Mu Lian said. Ling Zizhou's body trembled violently then his short breath returned to normal.
"Why.." said Ling Zizhou raucously.
"Why?" said Mu Lian.
"Why don't you finish the food I prepared for you!" shouted Ling Zizhou while shaking Mu Lian's body violently.
Mu Lian saw in her shaking gaze that Ling Zizhou's eyes were back to normal. His face is also handsome.
"Ouch! my neck!" mu Lian exclaimed trying to stop Ling Zizhou before his head completely separated from his body. After all, the shock made the wound on his right arm even more painful.
"You hurt? Why's neck?" ask Ling Zizhou.
"..." - ".(Mu Lian)
"Zhouzhou! thank goodness!" meimei said as he swept his arms around Mu Lian and Ling Zizhou.
"Oh," said Mu Lian and Ling Zizhou simultaneously. They felt their bodies being crushed from within.
"Oh," said Meimei. It seemed that Meimei also only realized that his wound was getting open after hugging Mu Lian and Ling Zizhou so tightly.
"Senior! you're hurt!" exclaim Ling Zizhou.
"Pacify yourself Zhouzhou, you've just returned to normal. Your cultivation is not stable yet so try to keep your emotions in check" Meimei said.
"Alright, Senior," Ling Zizhou said. His head was bowed like a dog being scolded by his master.
"We'd better clean up all the mess here and go to the rest to recover. My heart hurts so much to see you two get hurt" Mu Lian said with teary eyes.
"Stupid girl! You're hurt yourself!" ling Zizhou exclaimed as he looked at Mu Lian's right arm.
"Oh," said Mu Lian. He forgot that his right arm was injured. Instantly Mu Lian's body lost its strength and collapsed forwards. Ling Zizhou and Meimei restrained Mu Lian's body.
...
"So that's what happened?" said Meng Zhi. The aura around Meng Zhi became extremely sinister. His eyes stared intently at Ling Zizhou.
Since Meimei was involved in the fight, only part of the information Meimei could tell so Mu Lian shared the story of the incident earlier in the day in her perspective.
Mu Lian and Meimei took turns recounting the incident earlier in the afternoon in their respective viewpoints and Meng Zhi responded to it as she was now, she was irritated that Ling Zizhou was careless in handling her cultivation.
"Yes, Senior. Forgive me for losing control," Ling Zizhou said with great regret. Head bowed.
"HUH! If you think it's gonna be like what, why do you do it!" yell Meng Zhi.
Meng Zhi also lectured Ling Zizhou for nearly two hours. Meimei invited Mu Lian to prepare dinner and let Ling Zizhou get 'quality time' with Meng Zhi.
When Ling Zizhou finished lecturing, everyone sat down together for dinner. Meng Zhi and Meimei ate to speed up their recovery.
Two days later Mu Lian and the others descended the mountain. Ling Zizhou, Meimei and Meng Zhi had already fully recovered from being helped by taking the pill.
It was different with Mu Lian who had not been able to take the pill. Meimei helped Mu Lian to apply the medicine on her right arm so that in these two days her wound had finally improved even though it had not healed completely.
Meimei told Mu Lian not to use her right arm too much, fearing that the wound would reopen.
Moreover, since two days ago, Mu Lian felt Ling Zizhou's attitude growing more and more similar to Mu Haocun who kept clinging to him.
Aside from sticking to him, Ling Zizhou also continued to worry about Mu Lian even in the smallest matter.
Mu Lian felt happy and helpless at the same time. He now has four people who care about him.
The four men were Mu Haocun, Meimei, Ling Zizhou and Meng Zhi. But their bad habit of worrying excessively made Mu Lian feel helpless.
"Senior, I think Lian'er needs a break. We walked a few miles today. I was afraid that the wound would open again," Ling Zizhou said in a serious tone.
"You're right, if the wound opens again, Lian'er will lose a lot of blood," Meng Zhi replied approvingly to Ling Zizhou.
"Let's cook food to add blood" Meimei said.
"..." - ".(Mu Lian)
This way Mu Lian felt that they would not have time to return to the Eastern Ufuk Valley. At this slow pace, they had to wait until winter was over.
"I'm fine. Really am. If we rest often I fear winter is coming and we should sleep in this forest in winter" Mu Lian said.
"yes too. We've wasted a lot of time and winter is getting closer" said Meng Zhi. Meimei and Ling Zizhou nodded.
Eventually Mu Lian's group continued their journey down the mountain on the condition that Mu Lian had to tell if Mu Lian was not strong enough to walk anymore.
The sun was directly overhead but Mu Lian urged that they rest at the next resting place.
Meng Zhi and Meimei agreed to Mu Lian's request after Mu Lian asked to continue the journey carried on Ling Zizhou's back.
"Stop," said Meng Zhi.
On the way down the mountain, Mu Lian's group met several times with a trapper type and a tier 3 greedy one who was dealt with without any problems by Meng Zhi and Meimei.
But it seemed like this time Meng Zhi's attitude was more vigilant. So did Meimei and Ling Zizhou. Meng Zhi looked towards Meimei to signal.
"Zhouzhou, wait here and protect Lian'er. Meimei and I will check things out ahead" said Meng Zhi. Since two days ago Meng Zhi had been calling Ling Zizhou with Zhouzhou's call.
"You guys be careful, we go first" Meimei said.
"Ens. Be careful, jiejie, Senior," Mu Lian said. Ling Zizhou simply nodded.
Meng Zhi and Meimei ran towards the sound of the fight in front of them. Two roars of spirit beasts sounded breaking the peace of the forest.
When he arrived, a dead man walked away from a spirit beast that was chasing him while avoiding the traps around his feet.
The man looked very tired and was quite badly injured. His clothes were torn everywhere with dried blood and fresh blood coming together.
A black lump on his left arm. And the blob pulsed every spirit beast that was chasing itself too close to him.
Looking at the object on the man's left arm, Meng Zhi and Meimei were able to deduce the spirit beast that was chasing after the man; a type of tracker.
Suddenly the ground under the man's feet slid into the ground, the man was shocked to fail to detect the trap.
"Revelation!" yelled Meimei and Meng Zhi together.