"Woo..." A demon-eyed wind wolf howled loudly, turned around and flew away into the distance.
If I'm not mistaken, this Demon Eye Wind Wolf's strength is roughly equivalent to that of a fifth-rank Divine Heart Priest. Before the previous Wind Wolf appeared, it was the leader of this group of Demon Eye Wind Wolves. With it leading the way, the other Demon Eye Wind Wolves and Iron Thorn Porcupines turned and fled without hesitation.
The strange beasts were quite intelligent. After seeing that even the powerful wind wolf, which was comparable to a seventh-level divine heart priest, died tragically on the spot and had its five-colored soul beads dug out, how could they dare to stay and die?
Zhao Xinghu finally let go of his last bit of worry, his legs giving way as he slumped to the ground. Having been severely wounded twice by the Demon Eye Wind Wolf, his injuries were truly severe, his chest and back covered in blood.
"Second Uncle." Zhao Zhiyuan finally woke up from his dream and hurried forward to stop the bleeding and heal his wounds.
"Sister Mu, are you hurt?" Su Baobao also hurried to Mu Hanyan's side, his eyes full of stars, looking at her with admiration and worry.
Although she hadn't seen Mu Hanyan's swordsmanship clearly, nor had she discerned the hidden meaning within, the final result undoubtedly proved once again how formidable Mu Hanyan was. Her admiration for her was simply unparalleled. However, her opponent was no weaker, so she was still a little worried about her.
"I'm fine, you don't have to worry. Go get some relic soul beads. It doesn't want all the hard work to be in vain." After Mu Hanyan finished speaking, she sat down cross-legged.
Seeing this, Su Baoer's eyes grew even more worried. Clearly, the battle hadn't been as easy as it appeared. Even if Mu Hanyan hadn't been injured, she must have been severely weakened. The only reason she hadn't collapsed immediately was that she was trying not to show weakness in front of the strange beasts and was trying to force them to retreat.
But why didn't she admit it? Su Baoer looked at Zhao Xinghu and others not far away, and she easily found the reason in her mind: Don't look at Zhao Xinghu's nice words, their previous actions show their despicable character. How could they really reconcile with Mu Hanyan? If they knew that Mu Hanyan was seriously injured at this time, they might have some bad ideas again.
After looking at Zhao Xinghu and the others calmly, Su Baoer quietly took out a few bottles of pills and stuffed them into Mu Hanyan's hands.
Since Mu Hanyan was unwilling to reveal the secret in front of Zhao Xinghu and others, she certainly could not reveal any flaws.
Mu Hanyan took the pill and looked at Su Baoer in surprise, not knowing what she meant.
When Su Baoer saw her questioning eyes, she made a cute hushing gesture, then with an understanding look as if to say, "You don't need to say more, I understand everything," she pulled Gao Weihu and walked quickly towards the corpses of the strange beasts.
Mu Hanyan understood everything now. This girl had sat down cross-legged as soon as the strange beast retreated, thinking she was seriously injured and afraid that Zhao Xinghu and the others would become disloyal and harm her, so she was keeping it a secret.
She is kind-hearted and a bit clever, but this time, she guessed everything wrong.
Although the previous sword strike of the Eight Desolate Divine Meteorites had indeed consumed a lot of her energy, and her sword skills had indeed not recovered to their peak, but with her current understanding of the Eight Desolate Divine Meteorites, she was still not unable to withstand even one sword strike. The reason why she sat cross-legged was that she suddenly had an important discovery. This discovery might completely change her previous understanding of swordsmanship and divine arts, and let her embark on a completely different path of cultivation.
Just when she swung the sword just now, she once again combined her energy and spiritual power into one, just like she had done before. The difference was that before, she focused on spiritual power and used energy as a supplement, but this time, she focused on energy and used spiritual power as a supplement.
According to Mu Hanyan's expectation, with the energy of a sixth-level swordsman and the spiritual power of a third-level divine heart priest merging into one, her combat power should be able to reach the level of a tenth-level great swordsman, or even the level of a beginner swordsman. After all, the previous priest's cultivation level was only at this level, and her swordsmanship was suppressed to the weak level of a fifth-level swordsman. Yet, she could burst out with such combat power. Now her swordsmanship has greatly recovered, it is impossible that she is even worse than before.
But after that sword strike, Mu Hanyan realized that she was completely wrong. The power of this sword not only failed to reach the level of a tenth-rank great swordsman, it did not even have the power of a sixth-rank swordsman.
After a brief moment of surprise, Mu Hanyan quickly discovered the reason. Originally, her vital energy and spiritual power hadn't conflicted. With the Ancient Tree of Life as a medium, they blended perfectly. Initially, even she herself had difficulty discerning the mystery. But now, the two forces had become incompatible, mutually restricting each other. As a result, the sword's might, which should have been greater than two or even three times the sum of one, was now reduced to less than two.
Could it be because of the Ancient Tree of Life? But before the Ancient Tree of Life, this situation had never occurred.
Or was it because of the Blackwood Prison's unique laws of nature? After all, these laws were unique. Since they could suppress her divine arts while simultaneously restoring her swordsmanship, there might be other drawbacks.
Or perhaps, was it because the disparity between spiritual power and energy was too great before? One was too strong, the other too weak, suppressing rather than integrating. But now, the energy of a sixth-rank swordsman and a third-rank divine heart priest is considered to be at the same level, the gap is not as huge as before, so neither can suppress the other?
Or maybe a combination of several?
For a moment, Mu Hanyan couldn't think of the outcome, and the crisis before her didn't allow her to think too much.
At that moment, the blade storm was drawing ever closer. With her current strength, which was less than two, she could not possibly withstand it. Furthermore, behind the storm, a ferocious Demon Eye Wind Wolf was pouncing down. If she couldn't immediately increase her combat power, even if she wasn't cut into a bloody foam by the blade storm, she would be torn to pieces by the Demon Eye Wind Wolf.
But it is not so easy to improve combat power. Mu Hanyan could not think of any other way. She could only push her energy and spiritual power to the extreme and try to force them to merge together.
The divine consciousness was elevated to the extreme at this moment, and even bursts of pain were felt in the mind.
However, the two forces still showed no signs of merging. Instead, they became even more incompatible, entwining and repelling each other, violently raging through her meridians. This time, not only did her mind ache, but Mu Hanyan even felt a tearing pain in her meridians.
The pain was so heart-wrenching. If Mu Hanyan's cultivation had not been full of ups and downs and she had not experienced this kind of pain more than once, she might have fainted on the spot.
Although she remained conscious with her strong will, her fighting ability declined again. The power of her sword was not even at the fourth level of swordsman, and it was still declining.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
