19: Rescuing Nangong Xue'er

Ji Mo calculated, intending to return to the Sect first to deliver this mission's objective. He thought about giving some Medicinal Pills to Sister Xi.

After all, these low-level Medicinal Pills had limited effect on his own Cultivation improvement.

By comparison, hunting Yao Beasts was more practical.

But for Sister Xi, these Medicinal Pills could exert greater efficacy.

Additionally, Ji Mo planned to head to the Mission Hall to accept more missions, thereby quickly improving his own strength.

Recalling the experience of being ambushed this time, that Song Dong did not appear.

He knew clearly in his heart that if Song Dong had also been present at the time, he would likely have only been able to flee in panic.

After all, with his current strength, facing an enemy at the Peak of the Acquired Realm, there was still a not-insignificant risk of failure, which was something he absolutely could not tolerate.

Ji Mo returned to the city and went straight to the small courtyard where Ji Ruoxi was located.

At this moment, Ji Ruoxi was concentrating on practicing her Cultivation Technique.

Ji Mo left the Medicinal Pills and urged Ji Ruoxi to practice the new Cultivation Technique.

Seeing this, Ji Ruoxi couldn't help but ask about the origin of the Medicinal Pills, and Ji Mo vaguely brushed it off.

Subsequently, he hurried to the Mission Hall without stopping, accepted several missions to find Spiritual Plants in the Wushuang Mountain Range, and immediately returned to the Wushuang Mountain Range to devote himself to cultivation.

According to the mission prompts, Ji Mo specifically chose missions where the guardian Yao Beast's strength was in the range of Peak Level 2 to Low-tier Level 3.

Because only when facing Yao Beasts at this strength level could he quickly kill them and effectively improve his own strength.

In his view, there was really no need to challenge Yao Beasts above his level.

On the way, Ji Mo used his Lightness Skill without restraint, not at all worried about the consumption of Spiritual Qi.

Thanks to his secondary Dantian hiding within his body, which was constantly refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, the Spiritual Qi he consumed with every breath could be rapidly replenished.

Not only that, whenever he encountered Yao Beasts with weak Auras, he would casually kill them and refine them to nourish his own body.

"Beast!"

An extremely angry scream suddenly cut through the sky, breaking the tranquility of the mountain forest.

"Roar!"

Immediately following that was another brutal and ferocious roar. The sound of the roar was like muffled thunder exploding in his ears, making the ground tremble slightly.

Ji Mo's eyes lit up, and he subconsciously looked in the direction the sound came from.

At the same time, the force of the shockwave was clearly transmitted along the ground.

"It should be someone fighting a powerful Yao Beast. Let's go take a look first!"

Ji Mo thought to himself.

He knew deeply that in this mountain range, places where powerful Yao Beasts appeared were often accompanied by Heaven and Earth Spiritual Materials.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, activated his movement technique, and his whole body instantly turned into a white shadow, speeding towards the source of the sound.

A moment later, a towering and dense forest of trees appeared in front of him.

In the forest, several people wearing the attire of the Peerless Sect were fiercely fighting with an extremely tall and sturdy figure.

"It's a Great Strength Stone Ape!"

Ji Mo recognized it at a glance; this was a Peak Level 3 Yao Beast, and its strength was equivalent to a human Cultivator at the Half-step Xiantian Realm.

The few figures fighting it were also not to be underestimated; they were all experts at the Peak of the Acquired Realm.

The Great Strength Stone Ape was a purely Body Refining Yao Beast; it did not contain Spiritual Qi in its body, but its Physical Body was terrifyingly strong.

Its fur was incredibly tough, and its skin was even tougher and harder; ordinary Spiritual Artifacts could hardly cause it any damage.

Moreover, its strength was terrifying; its arms possessed a strength of tens of thousands of jin. If an ordinary Cultivator did not have powerful defensive means, they would be dead or injured once touched by it.

As he gradually approached the battlefield, Ji Mo saw the faces of those people, and among them were people he knew.

It was that Referee surnamed Zhang and The beautiful matron Nangong; the other two were presumably their Senior Brothers.

Outside the battlefield, there was another person lying on the ground, dead or alive unknown, who should have just been injured by the Great Strength Stone Ape.

Ji Mo couldn't help but feel puzzled; why would they be fighting the Great Strength Stone Ape here?

One must know that this kind of Body Refining Yao Beast was usually something no one wanted to provoke.

For ordinary Cultivators, this Great Strength Stone Ape was simply a tasteless existence.

Apart from its fur, which had some use, there was almost nothing valuable on it, after all, it did not have a Yao core.

Moreover, this kind of Yao Beast was simple-minded and ferocious by nature, and the danger of fighting it was extremely high, which was really not worth the loss.

At this moment, because one person was missing, the cooperation among the four had clearly encountered some problems.

The two people Ji Mo didn't recognize, one was holding a long halberd, constantly attacking the lower part of the Great Strength Stone Ape, trying to disturb its center of gravity.

The other was casting Spells, constructing layers of Spiritual Qi shields to block the Stone Ape's attacks.

But the defense was clearly insufficient; every attack from the Great Strength Stone Ape would smash the Spiritual Qi shield, and this person also had blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, clearly unable to hold on much longer.

That Referee surnamed Zhang and The beautiful matron Nangong were responsible for the main attacks.

However, because they lacked effective defensive means, they could only keep dodging in the face of the Great Strength Stone Ape's fierce attacks.

This made them inevitably constrained when launching attacks.

Under the siege of several people, the Great Strength Stone Ape became increasingly irritable and unbearable.

It kept roaring and howling, the sound like rolling thunder, resounding through the mountain forest.

Its huge palms swung wildly like palm-leaf fans.

Every swing brought with it a whistling wind; wherever the palm wind reached, the surrounding trees were cut in half.

Each of its attacks contained terrifying power capable of destroying heaven and earth, forcing everyone to flee in a panic and dodge in a sorry state.

Suddenly, the Great Strength Stone Ape raised its head, let out a heaven-shaking roar, raised its arms high, and all the hair on its body stood up, like steel needles.

A strange and unique power permeated from it as the center, instantly covering the surrounding space, and its figure even grew slightly.

Immediately following, a more violent and surging force surged towards the four people like a landslide and tsunami.

The Great Strength Stone Ape raised its huge fist, which was like a giant hammer, and smashed it fiercely towards the shield formed by one person's full defense.

With a loud "Boom", that person was like a kite with a broken string, instantly sent flying several zhang away, blood spraying from his mouth like a fountain, scattering into mid-air.

"Run, run quickly! If we don't run, we will all die here!"

That person sprayed blood from his mouth, and with a look of despair, shouted hoarsely to the other three.

"No! I absolutely cannot abandon my brothers and run away alone!"

Referee surnamed Zhang's eyes were red, and he roared like a bell, his tone full of determination.

"That's right, we have walked through wind and rain together for so many years; we have long been no different from a family! If we die, we die together!"

Although The beautiful matron Nangong's heart had been shrouded in the shadow of despair, her eyes still revealed firmness as she said resolutely.

"Kill!"

The person holding the long halberd didn't say another word, a determined light flashing in his eyes, and without hesitation, he rushed towards the Great Strength Stone Ape again.

At this moment, these three had already risked their lives, and all kinds of sharp killing moves poured towards the Great Strength Stone Ape like a rainstorm.

However, the actual effect was unsatisfactory; these attacks could only cause some skin injuries to the Great Strength Stone Ape and could not cause it serious injury at all.

For this kind of Yao Beast with extremely strong Physical Body, this little injury was almost negligible.

The only place they could cause fatal damage to the Great Strength Stone Ape was its eyes.

But this Great Strength Stone Ape was, after all, a humanoid Yao Beast, moving extremely flexibly, and it cleverly dodged the attacks several times.

When it really couldn't dodge, it would lift its thick arms to block.

They were helpless about this; it was not that their strength was not strong, but that they were firmly suppressed by the Great Strength Stone Ape in terms of attributes.

As mage-type Cultivators, and without any divine Sharp Weapons in their hands, they simply could not break through the Great Strength Stone Ape's tough defense.

After a desperate attack, the three's Spiritual Qi consumption was huge, and everyone was panting, breathing heavily, as if they were bellows.

Looking at the Great Strength Stone Ape, it didn't seem to have suffered any substantial damage, but instead became even more irritable because of these continuous attacks.

"Roar!"

The Great Strength Stone Ape roared to the sky again, and its feet slammed into the ground.

The violent and incomparable giant force instantly slammed into the ground, and with the place where it stomped as the center, the ground within a radius of ten meters seemed to boil, shaking violently, and then it quickly cracked and shattered like a spider web.

The earth trembled violently, strong winds whistled past, flying sand and rocks filled the surroundings, and the three were caught off guard, all sent flying several zhang away by this powerful force, falling heavily to the ground.

Borrowing this counter-shock force, the Great Strength Stone Ape was like a cannonball leaving the chamber, rushing fiercely towards The beautiful matron Nangong.

The beautiful matron Nangong was already unable to control her body due to the previous attack, and at this moment, she could only watch the terrifying figure that was constantly enlarging, her thoughts flashing like lightning.

"I have been in the Sect for more than ten years, devoted myself to cultivation, thinking about stepping into that Xiantian Realm, and haven't even tasted the taste of a man. I finally saw a glimmer of hope for promotion, but I didn't expect to lose my life here today..."

Thinking of this, she slowly closed her eyes, full of despair, having already given up resisting.

Just at this critical moment of life and death, Ji Mo could no longer sit idly by and had to make a move.

In fact, deep in Ji Mo's heart, he didn't really want to get involved in this battle.

In his view, rather than wasting time fighting with such a powerful Yao Beast, it would be better to go hunt a few more low-level Yao Beasts; the efficiency of improving strength might be higher.

However, The beautiful matron Nangong and Referee surnamed Zhang had once shown him some kindness, and Ji Mo was definitely not someone who was ungrateful and did not repay kindness.

"Beast! Stop hurting my benefactors!"

An angry shout sounded like a thunderclap from behind everyone, and at the same time, an imposing Aura that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth suddenly rose.

I saw a huge ancient bell, carrying the power of ten thousand jun, like a falling star, smashing fiercely towards the giant ape figure in mid-air.