Lan Zhao froze, his hand still gripping the teleportation bead, his eyes fixed on the crimson bird on his shoulder.
This is... that divine beast! It actually landed on his shoulder! He was so close to the divine beast that Lan Zhao was so excited that he seemed to forget the pain in his body. Did this mean that she was nearby too?
Thinking of this, Lan Zhao kept looking behind him. Little Huang'er noticed his thoughts and proudly said with her head held high, "Don't look. I'm lost from my mother. She's not here."
When Lan Zhao heard Xiao Huang'er speak for the first time, he was stunned, but then he realized that she was a divine beast and it wasn't so surprising.
"How could she have gotten lost from you..." Lan Zhao asked weakly, a hint of worry flashing in his eyes, which Xiao Huang'er caught. He did have some conscience, but he still couldn't know about his mother's disappearance behind the white wall, so she quickly interrupted him.
Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask.
Lan Zhao immediately shut her mouth, thinking to herself: As expected of her divine beast, even their tempers are the same. At this moment, a wave of dizziness came over her and Lan Zhao fell to the ground. A pill instantly appeared on Xiao Huang'er's wing and was quickly stuffed into her mouth. Fortunately, she had the pills that her mother had made, otherwise her mother, this slave, would probably have died here.
Lan Zhao was in a daze when he saw Xiao Huang'er stuff a pill into his mouth. Although he didn't know what kind of pill it was, he figured it wouldn't harm him, so he swallowed it without hesitation. Sure enough, a foul, bloody taste came from his throat, and he vomited several mouthfuls of black blood. The pain slowly subsided, and his mouth and nails returned to their normal skin color at a visible speed.
A look of surprise flashed in Lan Zhao's eyes. He used his spiritual energy to check and found that everything was fine. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at the little phoenix on his shoulder: "Thank you for saving my life, Lord Vermilion Bird."
Upon hearing Lan Zhao's address, Xiao Huang'er's face immediately darkened: "My name is Xiao Huang'er, not Lord Zhuque!"
Lan Zhao smiled and said, "Alright, I thank you very much for saving my life, Little Phoenix."
Little Phoenix glanced at him, her voice both childish and feignedly cold as she said, "If it weren't for the fact that your mother is a slave, I wouldn't want to bother with you."
"Then Lan Zhao thanks my dear sister and Xiao Huang'er."
"The sharp-beaked lizard's weak points are its eyes and throat. If you don't go help them, they might not be able to defeat it," Little Phoenix reminded her.
Lan Zhao then emerged from the bushes, but seeing that Xiao Huang'er was still standing on his shoulder, Lan Zhao was stunned for a moment. Did she want to follow him?
When Feng Yu and the others saw Lan Zhao emerge from the bushes unharmed, a look of surprise flashed in their eyes. What had happened? But clearly, now was not the time to ask him.
All of them were seriously injured. They hadn't expected the wounded lizard to be so strong. Just then, Lan Zhao's voice came: "Let's attack its eyes and throat together."
"good."
Feng Yu also sensed something and responded.
Little Phoenix, perched on Lan Zhao's shoulder, said, "Once they've distracted the lizard, you can ambush it from above."
Lan Zhao glanced at Xiao Huang'er upon hearing this, "Aren't you afraid they'll find out your identity if you speak like this?"
"Don't worry, they can't hear me except you." Xiao Huang'er snorted, and Lan Zhao nodded in relief.
After a dozen or so rounds, Lan Zhao quietly circled behind the level nine lizard, took the opportunity to leap into the air, and jumped down, stabbing the level nine lizard's right eye with his sword. The level nine lizard cried out in pain, and Lan Zhao's body was thrown aside. Seeing this, Feng Yu did not give the level nine lizard any chance to react, and stabbed at its left eye with a leap.
The blind, level-nine lizard thrashed about, making a loud noise. Jiang Ling and Jiang Xin exchanged a glance and seized the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow. However, at that moment, an unexpected event occurred.
A sharp streak of light blasted the two swords away, and then five people appeared from a short distance away, rushing over: "Stop!"
A hint of surprise flashed in Feng Yu and the others' eyes as they saw the newcomers. They were actually from the Beast Taming Sect. Coincidentally, the people opposite them were all their mortal enemies: Shangguan Qing, He Donglin, and Zhao Shi, all of whom were outstanding members of the Beast Taming Sect. They had formed their enmity during last year's Heavenly Ladder Tournament.
The girl leading the group on the other side is Yao Guanglin, a senior sister from the Beast Taming Sect, who is engaged to Lan Zhao.
When she saw Lan Zhao and Jiang Xin together, a hint of anger flashed across her face. Su Lianyi, the girl beside her, couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward, saying in a deep voice, "This level nine lizard is our prey."
Jiang Xin sneered: "Miss Su, are you joking? We just defeated the level nine lizard, so how did we become your prey?"
“If we hadn’t injured the level nine lizard, would you have been able to defeat it so easily?” one of the men stepped forward to argue.
They had expended a great deal of energy to injure this level-nine lizard, but it managed to escape. Now, Feng Yu and his group had gotten away with it. How could they let this go?
Feng Yu and the others' faces immediately darkened. The minor injury that the level nine lizard had just sustained was practically negligible compared to its current condition. Moreover, the injuries they had suffered to defeat the level nine lizard were no less than what they had endured.
Jiang Ling said, "I don't know anything else, I only know that we killed this level nine lizard."
Yao Guanglin, who hadn't spoken until now, stepped forward and said, "Stop arguing, let's go."
"Senior sister... how can we let them get away with this? And Lan...?"
"Lianyi, stop talking."
Su Lianyi then shut her mouth, looking at Lan Zhao with resentment. She really couldn't understand why Lan Zhao would give up such a good senior sister and insist on currying favor with that hypocritical Jiang Xin.
Lan Zhao's eyes flickered slightly, and a hint of apology appeared in his gaze as he looked at Yao Guanglin.
Despite her words, Jiang Xin persisted: "What a joke! What do you mean by 'cheap'? Defeating a level nine spirit beast depends on one's own ability. Since you don't have the ability to defeat it, shut your mouths."
After saying that, he flashed in front of the level nine lizard, pierced its throat with his sword, and ended its life.
The Beast Taming Sect members' faces darkened, and Su Lianyi's face flushed red with suppressed anger. "You!"
"What do you mean, 'you'?!"
"You're shameless! You try to steal everything, even our senior sister's man! Everyone knows you like Feng Yu, yet you're monopolizing our senior sister's fiancé..."
"Shut up!" Yao Guanglin shouted sharply.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Xin was instantly enraged and angrily said, "You bitch, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll kill you!"
Having said that, he drew his sword and charged forward, but Jiang Ling and Feng Yu quickly stepped forward to stop him, "Xin'er!"
Lan Zhao stepped forward and glanced at Yao Guanglin: "Junior Sister Su, please don't say such things anymore, and don't slander Xin'er. Even without Xin'er, Yao Guanglin and I would never be together. I have already told my elders that the engagement will be canceled."
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