Chapter 120: Falling Off the Cliff (Please Recommend and Bookmark!)

In a daze, Yang Fan opened his eyes.

The moment his consciousness returned, he felt as though his body were about to fall apart.

Every bone throbbed with pain, while every muscle seemed ready to tear itself open.

For a moment, Yang Fan even thought he had used something provided by the System again.

He did not have time to think about it.

Cold sweat broke out over him once more.

He remembered being carried away by a tenth-grade Azure Sky Eagle.

If he was here now, where was the eagle?

At that thought, Yang Fan looked around.

When he glanced behind himself, he resigned himself to his fate.

There it was.

A massive eagle was watching him from just behind.

The last trace of wishful thinking in his heart vanished without a trace.

Struggling to his feet, he turned to face the Azure Sky Eagle.

The eagle looked down at the tiny figure before it, making no attempt whatsoever to conceal its disdain.

Its enormous face seemed to say plainly: You are too weak. You are trash.

Yang Fan ignored its expression.

What a joke.

Compared with a monster like this, of course he was trash. If it had the nerve, it could cripple its own cultivation and reduce itself to the fourth grade. Then they could see who would be the boss.

Yang Fan grumbled inwardly.

The Azure Sky Eagle had no patience left.

It had already been waiting for Yang Fan to wake up for quite some time. It still had to find the culprit who had killed one of its kind!

What if this brat kept dawdling and the culprit escaped?

Yang Fan’s pupils contracted sharply.

Just now, he had distinctly sensed a trace of killing intent flash through the eagle’s eyes, beneath the contempt and disdain.

Gooseflesh rose all over his body.

Yang Fan’s thoughts raced.

What was he supposed to do?

How could he possibly know where the killer who had slain that Azure Sky Eagle in the forest was? At the time, he had merely been trying to save his life—to delay his death for a little while longer—and had blurted out whatever came to mind.

And now they expected him to identify the culprit...

Damn it! He did not even know the true cultivation level of the dead Azure Sky Eagle. How was he supposed to identify anyone?

Besides, would that not mean framing an innocent person?

While Yang Fan was struggling with the dilemma, the Azure Sky Eagle grew impatient.

A cry rang out.

Yang Fan instantly felt as though he were about to faint again.

Just as his eyes were about to roll back, the Azure Sky Eagle once more linked itself to him with a gentle aura.

The eagle was helplessly exasperated.

This fellow was far too weak.

It had merely cried out once to hurry him along.

What was this? He was already about to pass out?

His endurance was truly pathetic!

...

With the help of the Azure Sky Eagle’s aura, Yang Fan gradually recovered.

He looked at the eagle with utter despair.

He could barely withstand a single cry. If it let out several more, he would probably die without even knowing what had killed him.

Resigned to his fate, Yang Fan pointed randomly in one direction.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Azure Sky Eagle seized him and flew off in the direction he had indicated.

Held in the eagle’s talons, Yang Fan grumbled incessantly.

With a cultivation level this high, could it really not tell that he was talking nonsense?

Could it not tell that he had pointed at random?

...

What Yang Fan did not know was that, in the Azure Sky Eagle’s eyes, the tiny creature in its talons was so weak that it almost felt embarrassed to bully him.

It was incomparably stronger than such a little thing. Someone like this simply would not have the courage to deceive it. It was the same with those exotic beasts: if it ordered them to go east, they would never dare go west.

Full of confidence, the Azure Sky Eagle flew north, toward the direction Yang Fan had indicated.

It had completely forgotten that Yang Fan had clearly said west only moments earlier.

......

Within the ruins.

Dongfang Kui released his spiritual power and contacted the eleventh-grade guardians stationed in the three frontline cities.

“What? The War Ancestor? The Kunlun Secret Realm is a hope left behind by the War Ancestor?” Xia Qiuming exclaimed in shock from Dragon City.

“Old Ghost Kui, are you serious? A weapon wielded by a War Ancestor who had transcended the twelfth grade has developed intelligence? That giant ape is guarding the Kunlun Secret Realm? When the time is right, it will release the experts within the secret realm to help us?” Li Tian was equally astonished.

There was no helping it. This information was simply too shocking for Earth in its current state.

The war on the front lines had begun.

Humanity was at a disadvantage.

And now, a Kunlun Secret Realm had suddenly appeared in the rear. Its guardian was actually a monkey. That alone would have been astonishing enough, but the monkey claimed that the secret realm contained numerous tenth-grade experts, some of whom could break through to the eleventh grade as soon as they arrived on Earth.

Moreover, these people would help Earth attack the Dark Realm?

In Dawn City, Han Daohong fell into deep thought.

He was considering how feasible the monkey’s claims really were.

Tenth-grade experts were not frightening. No matter how many there were, they would still be no match for an eleventh-grade expert.

According to what the monkey had told Dongfang Kui, the strongest beings in the Kunlun Secret Realm were currently only tenth-grade. There was not a single eleventh-grade expert among them.

If that strength remained unchanged, then for Earth, it would amount to a useful force.

After all, the four eleventh-grade experts above them were keeping watch. Under the pressure of absolute strength, those tenth-grade experts from the Kunlun Secret Realm could not cause any trouble.

But if those tenth-grade experts broke through to the eleventh grade after emerging, the situation would change entirely.

According to the monkey, quite a few tenth-grade experts within the Kunlun Secret Realm were on the verge of breaking through—more than ten of them.

If so many reached the eleventh grade, it would be difficult to say who would take command.

Human hearts were difficult to fathom. They had to guard against every possibility.

The four eleventh-grade experts began their discussion across half the ruins.

In the end, they decided that Dongfang Kui would go to the Kunlun Secret Realm and take charge there.

He was to prevent anyone from the secret realm from forcing their way out.

One Zhang Daoyi was no longer enough to hold the Kunlun Secret Realm.

The potential power within it was simply too great!

...

A day later, Yang Fan stared at the Azure Sky Eagle before him in terror.

This powerful tenth-grade exotic beast had grown exceedingly impatient.

“Honored Lord of the Azure Sky, you cannot blame me. You flew far too quickly along the way. I truly did not find any trace of the person who harmed your kin!”

Yang Fan spoke with lowered brows and an obsequious manner.

The Azure Sky Eagle wore an arrogant, disdainful expression.

It seemed to be saying: Of course you could not find him. I only told you to lead the way, but you kept changing directions along the journey. Now we have even left the Azure Plains. We have not seen a single person—or even an exotic beast—the entire way. You are truly gifted at finding paths, managing to avoid every living creature with perfect accuracy.

Yang Fan was on the verge of tears.

All along the way, he had circulated his aura into his eyes.

Though it had been difficult, he had still managed to see the path they had taken.

They had not encountered a single living thing.

He did not know whether his luck was good or bad.

If it was good, then why had he been captured by the Azure Sky Eagle?

If it was bad, then how had it happened that none of the paths he pointed toward contained a single person?

As he watched the Azure Sky Eagle’s overwhelming aura continue to rise, the fear in his heart grew with it.

...

The Azure Sky Eagle’s gaze became increasingly impatient as it stared at Yang Fan.

After watching him for a while, it lifted its keen eyes toward the sky.

Then it spread its wings and soared upward.

Yang Fan watched the eagle shoot into the heavens, too slow to react.

A tremendous force swept him off the cliff.

...

In midair, Yang Fan looked up at the sky.

The tenth-grade Azure Sky Eagle had already vanished.

When he looked down, he saw a bottomless gorge.

Yang Fan gave a bitter smile.

The eagle had not even been willing to kill him itself.

It had actually used the wind from a flap of its wings to blow him off the cliff.

It would not even grant him the dignity of a decent death!

Staring into the abyss below, Yang Fan closed his eyes in despair.