124: You... all got lucky?

"Who would learn this sort of thing for no reason? It's not as practical as cultivating a Martial Skill..." Wang Ying explained. "Most missions don't offer an opportunity like this.

You might not even be able to beat the enemy, so how would you have the time to set up a Formation to refine them?

As for those weaker clans where the conditions allow for it, they've long since aligned themselves with Great Qin, so naturally, we can't do this to them..."

"What a coincidence, I happen to have learned this sort of thing for no reason..."

"..."

With the experience from the first two times, doing it subsequently was easy and familiar.

The blood pills and spirit nurturing pills in Chu Yuan's spatial ring had already piled up into a small mountain, too many to count!

If they were taken out and sold, who knew how massive a fortune it would be!

At the very least, he had once used just a single blood pill and a spirit nurturing pill to trade for a decent Cultivation Technique from Xiang Ning...

"There shouldn't be any more settlements ahead. We need to change direction," Wang Ying said, looking down at the very small city beneath them.

Today was already the third day. She had followed Chu Yuan all the way, searching and refining, without encountering any decent resistance.

Chu Yuan looked into the distance. The area covered by his Divine Sense was even more desolate, with no aura of living beings.

It was as if it were a land of death...

"What is at the edge of the Secret Realm?" he asked.

The so-called Secret Realm naturally couldn't be infinitely large...

"Nothing. It's nothingness," Wang Ying answered him.

"Then what about deep within the nothingness?"

"I don't know, I haven't explored it either." Wang Ying found it a bit hard to understand; at times, Chu Yuan always had a particularly strange and strong curiosity.

It was as if he had to get to the bottom of everything, exploring things that had no meaning...

"Alright then..." Getting no answer, Chu Yuan said with some regret, "Let's go."

Just then, a vibration came from both of them at the same time!

"It's Feng Hou! He's asking for help!" Wang Ying took out an iron token she kept close to her body and said solemnly.

This was an item Li Mengru had specially purchased for communicating with each other in special environments.

After all, the Outer Heaven Battlefield was too vast; the communication terminals only had signals near the legion... everywhere else, they were just useless decorations.

In fact, looking at it from another perspective, wherever the terminals had a signal was pretty much Great Qin's territory...

As a member of the squad, Chu Yuan naturally had one as well.

The iron token could only transmit brief signals and could not send text. Wang Ying glanced at it twice and said, "This direction!"

...

Feng Hou was currently encased in a heavy suit of armor, looking like a solid block of iron.

Four afterimages circled around the iron block, sparks flying amidst roaring sounds...

He only had his own arrogance to blame; after discovering a Fifth Realm Three-Tailed Lizard, he had pursued it relentlessly, only to be lured into an ambush.

If he fought for his life to escape, he might not necessarily fail to do so.

But there was no need. He wasn't alone; he had teammates!

"Human Race... cowardly! Dare not, fight!" a Three-Tailed Lizard insulted him in halting Great Qin speech.

Feng Hou acted as if he didn't hear, feeling utterly disdainful in his heart, thinking, *Wasn't I just chasing you down and hacking at you earlier?*

His direct combat ability was slightly stronger than Wang Ying's, but it was still not enough to face this kind of siege...

The Three-Tailed Lizards attacked frantically for a while, only to find it very difficult to break through the armor on this human.

Even after fighting for so long, it was only slightly deformed...

So, they began to gibber and communicate in their own language.

Then, they moved into position, surrounding Feng Hou in the center.

The dark green scales on their bodies seemed to flow with color, converging toward the three sharp tail spikes behind them!

Streams of energy flowed, forming a mist-like substance that dissolved into the air...

Feng Hou immediately sensed that something was wrong! The next moment, his head felt heavy and dizzy, and his hands and feet felt as if they were bound, making it extremely difficult to move!

Poison?!

No, he couldn't afford to waste time here...

He brandished the door-sized war blade in his hand and charged forcefully at one of the Three-Tailed Lizards!

The opponent also seemed to be in a slightly poor state due to their previous actions, and actually dodged of their own accord.

"You... cannot escape!" the Three-Tailed Lizard who could speak Great Qin language spoke. Watching Feng Hou's movements grow slower and slower, cruelty gleamed in its vertical pupils.

Poison was the most powerful talent of the Three-Tailed Lizard Clan!

Especially when several of their kind joined forces to release the toxin, the lethality would directly increase geometrically!

Fuck... Feng Hou cursed inwardly, preparing to cast a Forbidden Technique.

But right at that moment, an incredibly familiar sword light lit up!

Like a swimming Dragon, it shuttled between the Three-Tailed Lizards!

Instantly, flesh and blood flew everywhere!

He saw Wang Ying, dressed in a white dress, stepping through the air, a teasing look on her face. "Yo, isn't this Old Feng? How did you end up in such a pathetic state?"

Feng Hou's eyes widened. He didn't even care that he was heavily poisoned, and cried out, "Holy crap! You broke through?!"

"Ha, just lucky, just lucky..." Though she was joking, Wang Ying still quickly landed, preparing to heal Feng Hou.

Under Feng Hou's control, the armor opened, revealing a green face...

Wang Ying stuffed a Medicinal Pill into his mouth, and a glow lit up on her hand as she pressed it against the top of Feng Hou's head.

"Chu Yuan... why do I feel like you've also gotten stronger?"

"Uh... I just got lucky too." Chu Yuan flicked Feng Hou's war blade, which made a dull thud. "Is the material really this solid..."

"You all... just got that lucky?" Feng Hou didn't bother to care about Chu Yuan complaining about his precious war blade, and said sourly.

How come he didn't get lucky?

Could it be because the feng shui of the direction he chose was bad...

Wang Ying asked, "How is the cleanup going on your end?"

"It's almost done." Although Feng Hou's offensive power wasn't great, he was good at refining strange, explosive little gadgets... using them to clear out those ordinary Three-Tailed Lizards was still highly efficient.

Similarly, if Wang Ying were to act alone, although her direct frontal assault capability was also weak, she could refine poisons...

Against experts or those of the same rank, there was simply nothing she could do;

But if it was massacring the weak, she had plenty of means...

Wang Ying said with some joy, "Then it seems this mission is going quite smoothly. We didn't encounter any obstacles either!

Li Qi and Mengru haven't called for help either, so they're probably almost done too..."

Chu Yuan poured cold water on her. "So, where did the original Fifth Realm members of the Three-Tailed Lizard Clan go?

They wouldn't just be obediently staying at home waiting to die, would they?"

Wang Ying thought for a moment and said as if it were only natural, "Maybe they are besieging the captain?"

"..." Chu Yuan felt a deep sense of respect. "Do you have a grudge against the captain?"

"Not really..."

"Then why can't you wish him well?"

"Don't worry, the captain can take a beating..."