Seeing this, the Wind-Thunder Cloud Leopard was slightly stunned. With its naturally sharp intuition, the beast had already roughly gauged the strength of Mu Hanyan and Gao Weihu. It had originally planned to kill Gao Weihu with a thundering strike first, then slowly deal with Mu Hanyan. However, it hadn't anticipated the formidable power of Gao Weihu's Earth Shield, and the profound fire laws contained within it, even filling it with an instinctive fear.
Just as it was stunned, a sword light came straight at it.
The Wind Thunder Cloud Leopard woke up instantly, but it was too late to dodge in such a hurry. It roared loudly, its muscles and bones tensed, and its hair stood up like steel needles, trying to block Mu Hanyan's sword.
The defenses of exotic beasts were inherently formidable. As a powerhouse comparable to an eighth-rank Divine Heart Priest, the Wind Thunder Cloud Leopard was even more dominant, commanding a region. Its defense was comparable to that of a slightly lower-ranked Earth Armored Dragon Rhino. It possessed absolute confidence in its own defenses. Even if it were injured by the priestess while distracted, it would be in no danger of death. The next moment, it would tear her to shreds.
Thinking of this, Fenglei Yunbao's eyes showed a cruel blood red.
Unfortunately, it thought too much and completely underestimated Mu Hanyan's combat power.
The moment the icy sword tip touched its body, a flash of fire suddenly appeared on the tip of the sword, and the slender sword blade burned like a flame, piercing its heart without any hindrance. Its proud and powerful defense was as vulnerable as cloth in front of Mu Hanyan's Hanxiao Sword.
Fenglei Yunbao widened his eyes, looked at Mu Hanyan in disbelief, then looked at the flaming sword in his heart and the blood gushing out, and fell to the ground with endless confusion.
This wasn't its first encounter with a priestess, and it had a good understanding of their magic, hence its confidence in blocking Mu Hanyan's sword. However, the power contained in the sword of this priestess before it was clearly different from that of other priests. The instantaneous burst of extreme force was simply beyond its ability to withstand.
What kind of magic is this? Of course, it will never find the answer to this question.
Mu Hanyan easily retracted her sword. This outcome was not unexpected at all. Her current combat skills were originally a combination of divine arts and swordsmanship, but in front of outsiders, she still needed the fire spear to conceal the secret. When there were no outsiders, she naturally used the full power of her sword skills.
In fact, the difference in power itself is not too big, but there is no need to conceal it. In addition, she has been a human in two lives and has practiced swordsmanship for decades. She is more adept at using sword skills, so this sword is even more powerful.
Of course, this was also thanks to Gao Weihu's frontal obstruction. If it weren't for his earth shield that was as endless as a tide, Mu Hanyan would not have been able to attack with all her strength without distraction, and would have had to keep some spare energy to deal with possible accidents.
"Ten five-colored soul beads, this is quite a harvest along the way." Gao Weihu was accustomed to such results of battle. There was no surprise on his face, and he took out the five-colored soul beads casually.
Although they did not deliberately hunt for relic soul beads, there were indeed many blind strange beasts along the way, and their strength was getting stronger and stronger. Their harvest was not small. Roughly speaking, they had obtained hundreds of colorful soul beads.
As he spoke, Gao Weihu handed the five-colored soul bead to Mu Hanyan.
"You keep it for now. These five-colored soul beads will be more useful in improving your strength." Mu Hanyan said generously.
There are thousands of colorful soul beads in her star chart space, and she doesn't care about just a few hundred of them. Miss Mu is as generous as ever to her own people.
Moreover, she could feel that although the Five-Colored Soul Orb was helpful to her cultivation, the most important thing was the power transformed from the Xuanhuang Stone, the Ancient Tree of Life, and the dragon blood. That was the key to her future breakthrough in cultivation. However, the Ancient Tree of Life was withered and only had a last ray of life left, which would have an extremely adverse effect on her future breakthrough. Therefore, the most urgent task at hand was not the Five-Colored Soul Orb, but to find a way to restore its vitality.
She only has Gao Weihu as her helper now, so of course she hopes that he will be as strong as possible.
"Alright." Gao Weihu didn't hesitate. After a moment's thought, he generously put away the five-colored soul beads and said to Mu Hanyan, "Sir, let's go."
"Wait." Mu Hanyan suddenly squatted down and started searching on the Wind Thunder Cloud Leopard.
Gao Weihu gave Mu Hanyan a strange look. The fur of a wind-thunder cloud leopard might be valuable to ordinary people or priests of lower-level temples, but it wouldn't be of much value to High Priest Mu. Could she be planning to collect its body? How could that be possible? He didn't believe Mu Hanyan had such a kind heart.
Soon, Gao Weihu knew what Mu Hanyan was looking for.
After turning over the fur, there were several claw marks on the body of the Wind Thunder Cloud Leopard. Although the injuries were not serious and had already healed, it was obvious that the injury had not been for long. It was only thanks to the powerful vitality of the beast that it recovered in a short period of time.
The scar was familiar, inflicted by Tyrant Wind. Clearly, this Wind-Thunder Cloud Leopard had already fought Tyrant Wind before, and only survived thanks to its natural agility.
"It seems that Zhan Yuan and Ba Feng are just ahead, not too far from us." This time, Mu Hanyan was completely certain of her earlier guess.
Zhan Yuan and Ba Feng had the same goal as himself, otherwise it would have been impossible for him to run around here and there under the guidance of the Tianji Mirror, making him almost dizzy, and he actually got ahead of him.
"Let's go." Mu Hanyan took a deep breath and said.
Although she really didn't want to fight with Zhan Yuan, it seemed that she had no better choice.
The only thing worth being thankful for is that after entering the Black Wood Prison, her apparent strength has not improved much, but her combat power has increased greatly, and she has more confidence to face Zhan Yuan again.
After avoiding the group of strange beasts, Mu Hanyan and the others continued to head in the direction indicated by the Tianji Mirror.
Along the way, the corpses of exotic beasts gradually appeared, and their number increased. If the exotic beasts were powerful, they naturally could not have died at the hands of human priests. In fact, after Mu Hanyan separated from Su Baoer and the others, apart from the priests from several other upper-level temples who appeared in the first few days, no human figures were seen.
Having witnessed the power and ferocity of the strange beasts in the Black Wood Prison, ordinary priests dared not go deep into the heart of the Black Wood Prison. Although those children from top priest families had the desire to hunt for treasure, they had never practiced swordsmanship, let alone integrating energy and spiritual power into one. How could they possibly find the right direction?
This is actually their luck. If they really found the direction, even if they were not killed by the strange beasts, they would die at the hands of Zhan Yuan and Ba Feng.
Although time was tight, Mu Hanyan still checked the corpses of the strange beasts. Except for a few that were killed on the spot by having their heart meridians shattered, the vast majority of the strange beasts had marks of Ba Feng's dragon claws on their bodies. Some had their sternums and heart meridians torn apart by the sharp claws, while others were torn into several pieces by the dragon claws. Their deaths were horrific.
Looking at the increasing number of corpses of strange beasts, Mu Hanyan knew that she was getting closer and closer to Zhan Yuan.
Finally, a few days later, Mu Hanyan saw Zhan Yuan again.
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