CHAPTER 24: CHAPTER 24: WORD SPIRIT RETURNS

EDITOR: DRAGON BOAT TRANSLATION

Because Zhuo Tingqiu’s voice was too loud, both Gu Qingqing and Jun Wu glanced at him, then their eyes moved to Mu Chen and the nine-headed demon beast, with expressions of some tension.

Huge waves kept rising on the lake surface, and a sea of fire surrounded the person and the beast, even the full moon in the sky was tinged red.

Seeing Mu Chen fall into a disadvantage again, everyone present felt their hearts tighten.

Gu Qingqing looked up, clasping her hands tightly to her chest, her expression unprecedentedly solemn, and just as she was staring at the nine-headed demon beast, she suddenly felt a daze.

In an instant, she felt her consciousness drawn away, and then suddenly a scene like a video appeared before her eyes.

In the sky, someone was standing in the air, facing a nine-headed demon beast even larger and more powerful than the one Gu Qingqing and the others were facing. Its nine heads were extremely enormous, and wherever its serpent tail swept, there were even temporary spatial distortions, making it look very formidable.

Compared to it, the person opposite appeared small.

But the aura on his body matched, if not exceeded, that of the nine-headed demon beast.

Just as the nine heads of the demon beast were opening their mouths to bite the person, a strange voice suddenly sounded, and the originally fierce demon beast was instantly seemingly segmented by something, with all nine heads severed simultaneously, its body torn apart, and blood rained down, creating a gruesome scene.

At that moment, the person suddenly turned around, but before Gu Qingqing could see his appearance clearly, her consciousness flickered again, and when she came to, she saw Jun Wu looking at her anxiously.

"Qingqing, are you okay? You just fainted suddenly, were you injured?" Jun Wu, usually expressionless, was now full of anxiety, his voice uncharacteristically panicked, clearly very worried about Gu Qingqing.

Gu Qingqing was taken aback, remembered something, and did not immediately answer Jun Wu’s question. Instead, she looked up at Mu Chen and the nine-headed demon beast.

Jun Wu also followed her gaze, looking at the battle in mid-air.

"The nine-headed demon beast is stronger than we imagined, Mu Chen is having a hard time handling it." Although Jun Wu was young, he had his inheritances and had seen a lot following his father, so he had a certain judgment on the battle in the air.

Hearing this, Gu Qingqing frowned slightly. She thought for a while, tugged at Jun Wu’s sleeve, and when Jun Wu looked over, indicated for him to take her to the sky.

"No way, it’s too dangerous!" Jun Wu rejected firmly, looking very sternly at Gu Qingqing, "At such a level of battle, we are already considered in danger at this distance, if we get closer, even just the aftermath of the battle could take our lives!"

Gu Qingqing, however, was a little anxious. She suddenly broke free from Jun Wu’s hand and tried to fly into the sky with her limited Spiritual Power.

Jun Wu was careless for a moment, allowing Gu Qingqing to break free. When he saw Gu Qingqing flying into the air, he became even more anxious, wanting to chase after her immediately. But like he said, that level of battle was not something they could participate in right now. He barely flew up a bit before being caught in the fray, falling to the ground, and if not for his decent battle sense, he would have been injured by now.

However, what surprised him was that Gu Qingqing actually made it safely to the sky, hovering not far from Mu Chen and the nine-headed demon beast, without getting hurt.

Upon seeing the transparent energy shield enveloping Gu Qingqing, he was relieved but still frowned, not understanding why Gu Qingqing would risk running into the sky.

Gu Qingqing hovered in mid-air, her mind still echoing the words spoken by the formidable person in the earlier vision. She glanced at the nine-headed demon beast not far away, her sharp eyes spotting the chains on the beast, blinking, pondering, and suddenly she spoke up.

"Ten Directions Demon Annihilation Formation, Seal!"

A mysterious and peculiar voice emerged from her mouth, and a faint white light disseminated, flying toward those chains on the demon beast.

When the light merged into those chains, the runes on them were suddenly activated, a strong red light emitted from the chains, enveloping the entire nine-headed demon beast.

The nine-headed demon beast was just about to overpower Mu Chen, about to swallow these humans and feast, when it heard a familiar, fear-inducing voice. It didn’t even have time to roar in anger before being engulfed by the red light. Struggling, it tried to break free from the chains’ bindings.

But it was utterly futile; the more it struggled, the tighter the chains constricted, even digging into its flesh and blood. Dragged by those chains, it unwillingly fell into the lake water, eventually disappearing.

After the nine-headed demon beast disappeared, the lake surface returned to calm, as if nothing had happened just now, except for the injuries on Mu Chen and the water splashed on Zhuo Tingqiu and the others.

Seeing the nine-headed demon beast vanish, Gu Qingqing finally breathed a sigh of relief. The previously suppressed pain rushed all at once, and she abruptly lost consciousness, her body plummeting from the sky.

"Little Qingqing!" Mu Chen had just turned his head when he saw Gu Qingqing’s body falling, quickly exclaiming in shock, swiftly moving towards her.

However, someone beat him to it, and that was Jun Wu, who had been keeping an eye on Gu Qingqing all along.

Jun Wu tapped his toes on the ground, catching Gu Qingqing in mid-air, then landed with her.

"Let me take a look." Mu Chen arrived, signaling Jun Wu to lay Gu Qingqing down.

Knowing how skilled Mu Chen was in medicine, Jun Wu hurriedly laid Gu Qingqing flat and stepped aside, letting Mu Chen treat her, while simultaneously holding back Zhuo Tingqiu, who had run over.

Mu Chen checked and found that Gu Qingqing’s Spiritual Power was depleted, and her meridians were damaged, frowning a bit. Fortunately, these were not particularly severe injuries.

Just as he was about to turn his head to tell Jun Wu not to worry, a familiar vortex suddenly appeared in mid-air, swallowing their group directly.

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In the central region of the Ten Thousand Miles Mountains, near the inner circle, due to the self-destruction of the Fiery Flame Leopard, there was a heavy bloody scent in the air, yet other demon beasts dared not approach, after all, the oppressive aura of the Fiery Flame Leopard’s self-destruction lingered there.

The sky was already dark, and the Ten Thousand Miles Mountains became extremely dangerous after nightfall.

Just as the last trace of sunset vanished, a black vortex suddenly appeared in mid-air, and following that, a group of people were spat out from within the vortex, precisely Gu Qingqing and her companions.

Mu Chen, having realized something was wrong earlier, had held Gu Qingqing tightly. Upon being spat out by the vortex, he immediately stabilized them, and upon realizing they had returned to the Ten Thousand Miles Mountains, he was finally at ease, bringing Gu Qingqing to the ground.

"Is Qingqing alright?" Jun Wu immediately landed next to Mu Chen, anxiously looking at Gu Qingqing, whose face was pale.

"Spiritual Power is exhausted, and her meridians are somewhat damaged, not too severe." Mu Chen did not conceal anything, saying directly.

Hearing this, Jun Wu’s brows remained furrowed but his expression relaxed considerably.

Just as the two were about to speak, a sound of something breaking through the air suddenly rang out.