CHAPTER 1014: CHAPTER 21: ALLIANCE AND RIVALRY, DRAGON AND PHOENIX MEET

Nangong Wumeng squatted down, looking at the giant Divine Deer in the midst of the massive sandstorm. The woman’s beautiful brows knitted together. She didn’t quite know what to do with this colossal Divine Deer, which she had also seen upon her arrival.

They had been thrown down by the enormous Ancient Divine Dragon because the Divine Deer was blocking their path.

Today, she had suddenly felt bored and went out for a stroll. Somehow, she encountered a heavy rain, hastily spurred her horse forward, got caught in a storm, lost her way, and was swept into the sandstorm. Only then did she discover that there was such a gigantic Divine Deer at the center of the storm.

"Hey, hey, hey, are you alright?"

"Can you hear me?!"

Nangong Wumeng shouted loudly.

The Nine-colored Divine Deer, however, could not respond, only struggling against the Fei Poison on that arrow. Fei was the king of toxins from ancient exotic beasts—everything had its nemesis. While the Divine Deer could control the sandstorm, it found it difficult to counter this poison and was in terrible pain.

Nangong Wumeng could only take out a water bag to provide it with water, saying: "Please don’t die here. What on earth is going on...?" She busied herself for a while taking care of it, propping her chin in her hands: "What a big deer."

"This fellow doesn’t seem to be worth any money, though."

Nangong Wumeng sat on a rock and sighed:

"If it can’t be sold for money, that little money grubber is going to think it’s a hassle, I suppose."

Her thoughts paused for a moment, then her mind slightly focused:

"No, no, no, that’s not right, why should I care whether this thing can be exchanged for money, whether that little money grubber would be pleased, I—I—I—"

"What does it have to do with me!"

Nangong Wumeng’s ears turned red, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and muttered to herself: "It’s because the current Aqini City lacks gold and silver; it’s because the current Heavenly Strategy Mansion is in a difficult situation; it’s because now we are extremely poor..."

"There are so many reasons like that that suddenly, I thought about this matter."

"Yes, that’s it, that’s it."

She mumbled for a while, then suddenly heard the roar of a Qilin. She looked up to see a burst of fire descend from the sky, dispersing and transforming into a Qilin. Then, she saw Li Guanyi striding over, wearing a brown felt robe. Under the clothes was fine scale armor, with a short blade at his waist, a long sword on one side, and he approached in large strides.

"Nangong, are you alright?"

Li Guanyi steadied himself, looked over Nangong Wumeng to confirm she was unharmed:

"Still okay..."

Nangong Wumeng said to herself: "You, ahem, I, this girl, have martial arts skills and a Divine Weapon on me, so there’s certainly no problem. But you, you should check out what’s wrong with this Divine Deer first?!"

"Moreover, why do you care about me?"

Li Guanyi said suspiciously: "We’re comrades, obviously I care."

After a slight pause, he said seriously: "You exchanged my thirty years of fortune for the wind."

"You mustn’t get into trouble."

Nangong Wumeng widened her phoenix eyes, kicked Li Guanyi’s knee bend, and gritted her teeth, saying: "You penniless wretch, you deserve a lifetime of poverty."

Even as she spoke, she began to laugh first.

Li Guanyi looked at the Divine Deer, his eyes held a hidden godly aura, and with just a glance, he saw the problem. This Divine Deer was enormous, like a mountain peak. Li Guanyi said a quick apology and leaped into the air, seeing an arrow deeply embedded in the Divine Deer’s body.

A terrifying aura of evil enveloped it.

Li Guanyi simply touched it and felt even his fingers sting.

"Eighth Layer Heaven? No..."

"Ninth Layer Heaven, the evil aura of a famous general?"

Li Guanyi looked at his palm, where the aura had already made a cut bleed on his physique, and at the same time, he felt an extremely familiar sting.

"...Fei Poison?"

"No, but it seems not very pure yet."

"It’s not at the blood-grade level that tormented me for so many years."

Li Guanyi clenched his hand.

The Immortal Body of the Qingpao Changsheng naturally operated, forcibly driving the residual Fei Poison from Li Guanyi’s body, dripping onto the wound of the Nine-colored Divine Deer, making the deer’s body tremble again.

"Ah, sorry, sorry..."

Li Guanyi apologized, leaning closer on the Divine Deer’s back to observe. The arrow had deeply penetrated its flesh, with a terrifying residual aura of Military Evil Qi that would not dissipate. The Ancient Red Dragon once said that eight hundred years ago, the Fire Qilin, at its extreme, could only reach the Ninth Layer Heaven Realm.

The Academy’s Old Qilin had also merely reached the peak of the Eighth Layer Heaven, and was beheaded by the Sword Madman before breaking through the legend.

The Fire Qilin swallowed a Water System Precious Orb to harmonize Yin and Yang, water and fire, tried to breach the divine gate, but failed and died.

The Nine-colored Divine Deer was not one for combat.

Unlike the Ancient Red Dragon and the Fire Qilin.

Just as Wen Lingjun, Breaking Army, Wen He compared to Li Guanyi, Ling Pingyang.

After contemplating for a while, Li Guanyi grabbed the arrow and pulled it outward. The barbed tip’s aura remained, making the Nine-colored Divine Deer suffer. Under this intense pain, it awoke from its stupor and opened its eyes.

"Little one, why are you here?"

Li Guanyi asked: "It’s more like I should ask you, how did you end up here?"

"Divine Deer, who shot you?"

The Nine-colored Divine Deer, with a hoarse voice, replied: "Western Regions, Wolf King..."

Li Guanyi’s expression became serious.

The Wolf King had a great army under him, and during the annihilation war before his martial skills were stripped, he was the era’s Fourth Divine General in the world, whose means and skills surpassed Yuwen Lie. Now returning, who knows how many tricks he has.

A Ninth Layer Heaven’s Fourth Great General of the world?

Li Guanyi suddenly thought of one year ago, in the Central Plains, when the Fifth Divine General in the world, Yuwen Lie, led eight thousand Tiger Barbarian Cavalry to compete and restrain the Qingpao Changsheng, Yuwen Lie was able to confront the Qingpao Changsheng head-on.

The Wolf King’s peak was even above Yuwen Lie.

If leading an army of annihilation, even the Martial Arts Legend must avoid the edge, and even the Ancient Red Dragon cannot contend head-on with such a famous general. Acting alone would lead to being surrounded and killed, and the Nine-colored Divine Deer was naturally not a match.