CHAPTER 399: CHAPTER 100: THE STORY OF THE MANTIS AND THE ORIOLE

The car, forced to stop mid-mountain and leaking gasoline, under the moonlight, its body which should be dazzlingly silver, displayed a dreaded ashen gray at that moment.

That evening’s scene, Xu Lan Ya would be able to vividly recall for her entire life.

Standing high, Xu Lan Ya looked from her angle at the famously renowned Goddess Temple at Miaofeng Mountain, which stood according to the mountain’s contours with its temple roofs undulating.

In its fourteen halls, it housed deities from Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and the secular, having been the center of belief for populations through many dynasties. But at that moment, the Xu siblings felt that their faith had abandoned them.

Xu Bohao didn’t notice the majestic structures above; his gaze first landed on the culprit that caused his car to halt — the car’s cylinder was broken open, inexplicably; he didn’t even know what had caused it. It was as if while driving through the mountains, the air was silently corroding it.

The cylinder’s oil had completely drained, Xu Bohao opened the car door, underfoot was emptiness.

Just now, Xu Bohao had fiercely steered de, losing control, with the significant front of the car having broken past the roadside railing, hanging over a cliff.

Below was the uphill mountain wind, looking down was the Cherry Valley to the south of Miaofeng Mountain, where lay China’s finest quality rose field; even in the pitch black night, one could glimpse a wave of red below, belonging to the roses, vivid as fire and blood.

"What the hell is this?" Xu Bohao glared in terror at the cylinder. The hood was completely shaved off; if he hadn’t known that Xu Lan Ya’s Spiritual Bomb wasn’t potent enough to do this, he would’ve thought it was Xu Lan Ya causing sabotage.

Without any signs, like a phantom, something had shattered their cylinder just as they were about to break open the cylinder of the Ferrari behind them.

"I don’t know, I thought I saw a beam of light just now, coming from the top of the mountain," Xu Lan Ya pointed at the fourteen halls on the mountain, her fingertip was cold.

Everything happened too fast, accustomed to racing speeds, he, who was always regarded as the most outstanding among the Xu family’s younger generation, surprisingly couldn’t clearly make out what had attacked their vehicle just moments ago?

Like lightning, so fast that it left no room to defend. But lightning has premonitions, yet that collision force arrived without any.

The target of that recent lightning wasn’t the front hood, but their heads; if so, could they still be standing here talking comfortably?

"Anyways, let’s first pull the car up; my legs are growing weak, I’m out of Qi," Xu Bohao was feeling insecure; unlike Lan Ya, who had the protection of a Spiritual Power Bomb, the incident was surely connected to the Ferrari behind them.

Was it possible they all misjudged, that reckless young lady also being a descendant of some illustrious Cultivation family, who upon discovering their usage of Spiritual Power Bombs, had a covert family member take action?

Impossible, how could it be so coincidental, if it really was a strong person from the Cultivation World, then they ought to know how to counterattack properly.

Xu Bohao reassured himself; indeed, he was quite frightened, although he loved thrills and motorsports, it didn’t mean he enjoyed risking lives; risking others’ lives was acceptable, but when it came to his own life being at risk, that was no longer funny.

The car, hanging by a thread, would tumble down the cliff at the slightest imbalance.

"Lan Ya, keep still first, I’ll go out," the car began to shake, Xu Bohao unbuckled his seatbelt, planning to crawl out through the door on the other side.

"Xu Bohao, are you trying to kill me or not? Now with the car half suspended, if either of us moves, the other might not escape in time and will fall down the cliff with the car," Xu Lan Ya, though younger in age than Xu Bohao, was wiser than him.

"To die is to die, whether you die or I die, do you think Great Grandfather cares about whom? You are but temporarily bearing the Xu surname, once you marry someone in the future, what relation do you have with the Xu family? It’s simply water thrown away," Xu Bohao snorted, ignoring Lan Ya’s protests.

He struggled to move his legs within the car interior, crawling forward on his knees, at this moment he hardly cared for another’s life, escaping was crucial.

"Did Great Grandfather tell you those words just now? Haha, sure enough, nothing wrong, you vile men, ingrained with the rotten ideology of passing on family lineage, you simply have that thing below and since young have always bullied me. Why do you naturally get to inherit everything, while I’ve struggled and even forged fake ginseng, yet all these efforts were in vain," Xu Lan Ya spoke tremblingly, the car shook even more violently.