100: The sword crushes the strong of an era

Mo Fan carried Lin Yiyi on his shoulder, heading west toward the complex terrain and dense vegetation.

Going down the mountain in this direction would require a large detour and waste a lot of time.

But now Mo Fan couldn't care less about that.

If they couldn't shake off the pursuers behind them...

Forget about going down the mountain.

It would be hard enough just to leave an intact corpse on the mountain.

Yao Beasts weren't picky eaters.

Even though he hadn't showered for three or four days, the Yao Beasts wouldn't mind in the slightest.

As for missing the return time?

Mo Fan wasn't worried about that.

With Lin Yiyi here, he wasn't afraid of not being able to return to the base.

Furthermore, through this operation, Mo Fan had gained a clear understanding of his own strength.

Under the circumstances of a full-power outburst plus a sneak attack, he could threaten High-level Foundation Establishment beings.

That black cat was a Foundation Establishment Seventh Level Yao Beast.

Caught off guard, it was crushed by Mo Fan's punch, its life or death unknown.

Of course, if it were a head-on battle, Mo Fan felt he likely wouldn't be its match.

Besides that, if he circulated the Golden Body Art, Mo Fan's defense could reach a terrifying level; an ordinary Middle-stage Foundation Establishment could not break his defense at all.

As for whether he could withstand an attack from high-stage Foundation Establishment?

Mo Fan wasn't sure either.

After all, that Green Snake only had a Foundation Establishment Sixth Level cultivation, still a bit short of the High-stage Foundation Establishment.

"This operation was still too risky. If Lin Yiyi hadn't suddenly appeared, I'm afraid I would have been the one ambushed by the black cat."

"Even though I had the Golden Body Art active then, I might not have escaped unscathed."

"The gap in realms is just too large—"

Mo Fan summarized and analyzed in his heart, accumulating experience.

Of course, no matter what, the fire spirit fruit was in his hands.

Once he exchanged it for Spirit Stones, Mo Fan's strength would receive a qualitative leap!

"This is pure pay-to-win fate-changing!"

"It's just that selling this thing is a bit of a hassle."

"Forget it, at worst I'll just sell it at a lower price on the black market!"

Mo Fan grumbled a bit. While concealing his aura, he also erased some of the traces they left behind.

Half an hour later, Mo Fan sensed the Yao Beasts behind them getting further and further away, and he couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

"Go... go toward the southwest..." Lin Yiyi's weak voice suddenly rang out.

"Southwest?" Mo Fan was puzzled.

"In our... current state, we... we might be sur-surrounded by Yao Beasts from all sides—" Lin Yiyi said feebly.

Hearing this, Mo Fan nodded thoughtfully.

Lin Yiyi's concern was not without reason.

With those three Great Yao present, the other Yao Beasts would all follow their commands.

As long as they knew a bit of strategy, conducted a carpet search, and slowly narrowed the range, it would be very easy to corner the two of them.

After all, concealing one's aura wasn't the same as vanishing into thin air.

And clearly, the intelligence of Yao Beasts at or above the Foundation Establishment Realm was not low; they could still master simple strategies.

After thinking for a moment, Mo Fan asked, "What's in the southwest?"

"There... there is a secret path that... can bypass the Yao Beasts—" Lin Yiyi said weakly.

"Alright, you point the way, and we'll head over quickly."

...Two hours later, under Lin Yiyi's guidance, Mo Fan carried her and evaded the tracking of the Yao Beasts, successfully entering a natural tunnel.

The tunnel was deep and narrow, pitch black without light, as if leading to another world.

"Passing through this tunnel, we will arrive at the other side of Huilong Mountain; we'll be safe then."

As the Medicinal Pill's effects kicked in, Lin Yiyi's injuries had recovered quite a bit. Her chest was no longer bleeding, and her speech had become smoother.

"That's good then." Mo Fan breathed a sigh of relief.

He held a huge sum worth two thousand Spirit Stones in his hand.

It would be too much of a loss if he didn't have his life to spend it.

"Th-thank you, this is the second time you've saved me—" Lin Yiyi said in a low voice.

"It's fine, I'm already in so much debt that I don't worry anymore," Mo Fan said with a smile.

"I will pay you back..." Lin Yiyi felt a headache.

She truly owed this guy a lot.

"Alright then, I'll come find you when I have a need," Mo Fan said.

Lin Yiyi: "?"

Why did those words sound so strange?

"By... by the way, how did you evade that black cat?"

At that time, she was almost slapped to death by the black cat's claw and was in a dazed state, so she naturally didn't know what happened afterward.

When she woke up, she found herself on Mo Fan's shoulder.

"My aura concealment is good, so I didn't have a head-on conflict with it. I sneakily took the fruit and ran. When I passed by and saw you lying on the ground, I just picked you up along the way," Mo Fan fabricated.

"But I remember it ambushed me and immediately went toward the spirit fruit..." Lin Yiyi was full of doubt, always feeling that something was not quite right.

"Then you probably saw wrong, or maybe something else happened, and it went to guard against other Yao Beasts or other people," Mo Fan said without blinking or his heart skipping a beat.

"You wouldn't think that a Body Tempering Realm scrub like me could repel a cat demon, would you?"

"Al-alright then..." Lin Yiyi nodded, only able to accept this explanation.

In fact, she wasn't stupid; she knew Mo Fan was hiding his strength.

At the very least, it wasn't as simple as the Body Tempering Eighth Level he appeared to be on the surface.

"He cultivated a type of Breath Concealment Art similar to our Shadow Legacy."

"His true cultivation is probably already at the Foundation Establishment—"

Lin Yiyi made her judgment.

Regarding this, she didn't care.

Everyone had their own secrets.

As long as he wasn't an enemy, everything else was irrelevant.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet. Weren't you going to Demon Severing Valley? Why did you run back to Huilong Mountain?"

While quickly traversing the dark tunnel, Mo Fan asked curiously.

"That canyon is actually part of Demon Severing Valley. My mission was to investigate abnormal Yao Beast activity near Demon Severing Valley—"

Hearing this, Mo Fan was momentarily stunned.

He took a breath and asked, "Is Demon Severing Valley a canyon?"

"Yes, Demon Severing Valley is a canyon," Lin Yiyi said.

Mo Fan took another breath and said again, "It connects to Huilong Mountain?"

"Yes, it connects to Huilong Mountain," Lin Yiyi said with a sweet smile, continuing.

"I know what you want to ask. Your guess is correct; Demon Severing Valley was carved out by a Human Race powerhouse with a single sword strike."

"So it was a sword—" Mo Fan's expression condensed slightly.

"Yes, it was a sword. One sword strike cleared a zone eight hundred kilometers in a straight line starting from Huilong Mountain."

"Before Demon Severing Valley appeared, that place was a range of towering mountains," Lin Yiyi said with a smile.

"One sword strike cleared eight hundred kilometers? Causing it to form a massive canyon?" Mo Fan's head was buzzing.

Originally, he thought that canyon was at most a few kilometers long.

But he hadn't expected it to be a full eight hundred kilometers!

Was this still human?

Lin Yiyi smiled and continued, "This sword strike was left behind over 600 years ago, during the battle where Yao Beasts besieged Jiangcheng Base."

At this point, Lin Yiyi glanced at Mo Fan and continued:

"Speaking of which, this sword strike was left by a Sword Immortal from your Yuxu Academy."

"He repelled a million Yao Beasts with one sword strike, directly ending that battle."

"Because of this, the canyon was named Demon Severing Valley."

"A Sword Immortal?" Mo Fan was startled.

Truly powerful, but that was exchanged for one's life... He thought of the Sword Pavilion.

He thought of Xu Jing.

He also thought of Liu Xiyan and Chu Qian.

The Sword Pavilion hadn't produced a Sword Immortal in a long time.

"Yes, a Sword Immortal. Every generation of Sword Immortals from Yuxu Academy were peerless figures, existences whose swords suppressed an era." A look of yearning flashed in Lin Yiyi's eyes.

"Mhm." Mo Fan nodded.

Lin Yiyi snapped out of it, as if suddenly remembering something, and took a deep breath, saying:

"By the way, Mo Fan, did you successfully pick the fire spirit fruit?"

As if afraid Mo Fan would misunderstand, as soon as she said this, she quickly explained:

"The fire spirit fruit is of great use to me. If you don't need it temporarily, could you sell it to me? I'm willing to pay a reward higher than the market price—"

(PS: Terrifying, I've written a hundred chapters in the blink of an eye—! Continuing to ask for recommendation votes (●''●))