Yin Ming slightly opened his eyes and quietly sized up the expressionless male protagonist sitting opposite him.
When the child first started following the villain, he was actually quite cheerful. After all, being in a safe environment, his childlike nature came out. He was very mischievous, jumping around and chattering away around the villain all the time.
In the original story, the villain was able to tolerate his temper at first and put up with him, pretending to be a loving elder. But later he couldn't hold back and started to make harsh demands on him and give him all sorts of attitudes.
Having been a wanderer for so long, how could this child not understand the villain's intentions? He immediately restrained himself and obediently stayed by the villain's side, acting as a heartless little tail.
You think things will be fine if you just behave yourself? No, no, no.
The villain in the original story is like a nitpicker, finding fault with everything the male protagonist does, which makes the male protagonist feel like he is the most useless person in the world.
Even so, the male protagonist remains "devoted" to the villain, acting like a brainless fan chasing after a celebrity, completely irrational.
Even as the villains kept trying to harm him, he kept thinking—if he really didn't care about me, why would he have saved me before? He must have his reasons for doing so. Without him, I would have died long ago. How can I doubt my benefactor…
Such confusing statements.
I have to say, you know how to use self-management, bro.
When Yin Ming read the novel and saw these inner monologues, he really wanted to grab the male lead's shoulders and shake him awake.
Male lead, wake up! He really dislikes you!
However, the male protagonist's mentality is actually quite favorable to Yin Ming now.
Yes, yes, just think of me as your white moonlight and cinnabar mole. I'm not as perverted as the original owner, so I definitely won't hurt you, hehe.
In the current timeline, there is still a long time before the male protagonist sees through the villain's true colors. In the early stages, no matter what happens to the male protagonist, he cannot change his innocent and naive nature, making him a truly considerate and caring person.
Just like when Yin Ming came back, the first thing the male lead said to him was that he thought Yin Ming had left and would never come back.
But after Yin Ming gave him a Foundation Building Grass, his expression softened considerably, and he seemed to genuinely believe that Yin Ming had gone to gather herbs for him.
How incredibly naive he must be! Yin Ming felt too embarrassed to lie to him anymore.
Perhaps Yin Ming's transmigration into this point in time was a way out given to him by this novel world!
Yin Ming was immediately filled with fighting spirit, determined to save his future.
It's never too late, there's still hope!
Just then, an unsettling atmosphere seemed to fill the air. Yin Ming, whose eyes had been half-closed, suddenly opened them, his expression instantly turning serious.
Lingyao, who was opposite him, also suddenly looked up at him, clearly sensing the danger as well.
Lingyao parted his thin lips as if he wanted to say something, but Yin Ming raised his hand to interrupt him, frowned and stood up, setting up a barrier in the area where the two of them were, and instructed, "Ayao, you stay here and don't leave this barrier."
He himself stepped out of the barrier, transforming resentment into a longsword in his hand, ready for battle.
"Aww~~"
A deafening roar rang out, as if some enormous creature was rapidly approaching Yin Ming's location.
The ground trembled slightly, causing flocks of birds to scatter and flee.
Yin Ming turned his head to sense it carefully, and vaguely felt that this was a fifth-realm magical beast, while he himself was at the mid-stage of the seventh realm.
The reason he took it so seriously was that since transmigrating into the book, Yin Ming had never had a proper fight. If he underestimated his opponent and lost, he would lose face big time.
Although the beast was enormous, it was quite fast and soon appeared in front of Yin Ming, allowing Yin Ming to see its true form.
Its body was like a rhinoceros, its nose like an elephant, its eyes were bloodshot, and it stood ten zhang tall—the Elephant-Rhinoceros Beast. This name popped into Yin Ming's mind.
Ahem, this isn't something Yin Ming just randomly called out. It was actually named by the author. The author said he's terrible at naming things and can't think of any grand, luxurious, or meaningful names. The names of the monsters in the novel are all just made up.
Looking back now, it was definitely a random name, but it's actually quite good, isn't it? Whatever the name is, that's what it looks like, which allows readers to easily imagine what Warcraft looks like.
Yin Ming silently gave the author a thumbs up in his heart; this was a very professional move!
Getting back to the main point, this elephant-rhinoceros beast is a resentful magical beast with a very strong sense of territory. It's likely that Yin Ming and Ling Yao invaded its territory without permission, so it came to drive them away.
As for why this fifth-realm magical beast was so fearless as to deliver its beast head to Yin Ming, who was at the seventh realm, it wasn't that the magical beast was stupid, but rather that Yin Ming subconsciously concealed his cultivation aura.
If a cultivator doesn't project their aura outwards, only those with a higher cultivation level can accurately know their cultivation level.
Of course, this excludes the male protagonist, who is an oddball. As mentioned earlier, the male protagonist is born with a mental barrier, making it impossible for others to detect his cultivation level.
This magical beast clearly thought Yin Ming and his companion were easy to bully, so it swaggered over.
Speaking of these vengeful beasts—in the world of gods and demons, not only are cultivators divided into gods and demons, but so are magical beasts. If a cultivator wants to sign a contract with a magical beast, he or she can only do so with a magical beast of the same attribute.
Beasts that cultivate using spiritual energy are called spiritual power beasts, while those that cultivate using resentment are called resentment power beasts.
The vengeful spirit beasts naturally live on the Demon Continent, while the spiritual spirit beasts are only widely distributed on the God Continent.
However, we can't be too absolute in our statements; for example, the Forbidden Forest is an exception.
The Forbidden Forest is located in the center of the Wandering Sea in the center of the God and Demon Continent, adjacent to the continents of the Gods and Demons, so it contains both types of magical beasts.
The rhinoceros seemed to look down on Yin Ming's small frame. As soon as they met, it casually swung its long trunk at Yin Ming, clearly thinking that this move would be enough to deal with the uninvited guest who had invaded its territory.
Unfortunately, it oversimplified the issue.
Yin Ming reached out and braced himself against the elephant's trunk. The force coming from it was as weak as that of an infant. While marveling at the power of the seventh realm cultivation, Yin Ming grabbed the elephant's trunk and easily tossed the elephant-rhinoceros beast aside.
The rhinoceros's massive body slammed into the nearby rocks, shattering the several-meter-high boulder into pieces.
The elephant-rhinoceros, half-buried in rubble, struggled several times but failed to stand up. Its gaze toward Yin Ming had changed—although the fifth-realm magical beast had not yet awakened its intelligence, its will to survive was still strong.
Yin Ming secretly rejoiced at the terrified look in the rhinoceros's eyes, but maintained a serious demeanor, befitting a superior being:
“We’re only staying here for one night and will be leaving tomorrow. If you want to live, you’d better go back and stay there quietly and don’t bother us again.”
The elephant-rhinoceros nodded very intelligently, struggled a few times to shake off all the pebbles, stood up and ran away in a flash, more than twice as fast as it had come.
Yin Ming suppressed a laugh, but walked back to his original spot to rest with a calm expression on his face.
"Alright, let's get some rest tonight."
Yin Ming had no intention of removing the barrier he had placed, as he needed to rest for the night.
This barrier can withstand a full-force attack from a cultivator at the initial stage of the sixth realm. If someone were to launch a sneak attack on Yin Ming, he could sense it in time. It is truly an essential tool for home and travel.
This barrier is great in every way, except it consumes a lot of resentment energy. It needs to be reinforced from time to time, otherwise the resentment energy in the barrier will dissipate over time, and the protective effect will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, the villains in the original work would never do such a thankless task. They would always make Ling Yao keep watch at night so that they could rest comfortably. The next day, Ling Yao would have to fetch water for them to wash up.
So, the next day, Yin Ming, who had just woken up, looked at the basin of water that Ling Yao brought over, completely bewildered.
Lingyao said, "You're awake. Come and wash up."
"You...didn't rest yesterday?" Seeing the undisguised fatigue on Ling Yao's cold and handsome face, the barrier he had set up with so much resentment suddenly seemed meaningless.
Yin Ming's face fell, feeling like he was the one who had been wronged.
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