"You are people of the Luoyun Sect..." Chen Zilan said with a frosty expression and a pale face.
The breeze ruffled her beautiful hair, half-veiling her delicate face, and her graceful, curvaceous figure was clad in sect robes that were already somewhat tattered!
She never imagined that while she was injured, Li Cheng would launch a sneak attack!
Li Cheng did not deny it. His eyes filled with lascivious desire as he smiled and said, "Little beauty, I had pent-up anger with nowhere to release it, and now this is perfect—you're the best target!"
He licked his lips as if drooling, strolled over, and unscrupulously scanned Chen Zilan, who was as exquisitely gorgeous as a rose.
Her enchanting and moving body made his heart ripple, and her straight, snow-white legs were incomparably alluring!
"You beast, go to hell!" Chen Zilan cried out softly with anger in her beautiful eyes, her slender body trembling.
Hearing his words and seeing the eyes of a pack of wolves, she brandished her jade sword with her slender, lotus-root-like arms, and a cyan beam of light shattered the void!
Li Cheng sneered, circulating his vital Qi throughout his body to condense a crimson giant serpent whose piercing gaze was soul-shattering.
With a single-handed press, it abruptly opened its scarlet, fanged jaws—which seemed capable of swallowing Chen Zilan whole—and surged toward her!
With a loud bang, Chen Zilan's cyan sword qi was shattered, and she was sent flying by the crimson serpent!
"Cough, cough...!"
Chen Zilan spat a mouthful of blood and struggled to rise, her face ashen!
"Hehe, Senior Brother, we'll help you capture her. When you're done, please let us have a taste too!" Seeing that she was struggling to get up, several of the others rubbed their hands together and approached like a pack of excited wolves!
"Haha, well said, well said!" Li Cheng's greedy gaze burned fiercely, and he immediately urged them to capture her at once!
Chen Zilan's pretty face turned pale with panic. She knew very well what would happen if she were captured.
Her jade hand urged her long sword, but the moment she raised it, pain wracked her entire body, and she coughed up blood again!
"Little beauty, stop struggling. Soon you'll experience our touch, and then you'll be complete!" The five men exclaimed in excitement, spreading their fingers!
"Shattering Stone Palm!"
Ye Tian's cold voice rang out. An aura of murderous intent enveloped the five men, unleashing power capable of splitting mountains!
One of them widened his eyes as that immensely heavy strike, laden with formidable killing intent, crashed down upon the crown of his head!
Plop!
A headless corpse toppled to the ground before it even registered what had happened!
Without pausing, Ye Tian employed the Shadow-Flitting Movement and instantly appeared before Chen Zilan, decisively sweeping her up into his arms!
"You..." Chen Zilan let out a startled cry, taken aback. But upon seeing it was Ye Tian, she relaxed.
A rush of masculine scent assailed her senses, dyeing her cheeks slightly red and causing her heartbeat to quicken!
"Ye Tian, truly, 'success comes to those who search high and low, only to find it effortlessly when all hope is lost.' Are you ready to die?" Li Cheng was momentarily stunned by this sudden arrival, and the other four men were equally shocked.
Furious, Li Cheng's eyes filled with endless killing intent, and his shock only deepened.
Ye Tian had recovered his 8th Layer cultivation, which only made Li Cheng more determined to kill him!
"Li Cheng, you and I aren't finished!" Ye Tian said coldly.
"Ye Tian, you piece of trash, watch how I kill you!" With wide, angry eyes, Li Cheng pounced forward.
A thick, murderous intent bloomed across his body, making him as fiercely malevolent as a demon newly awakened to hunt its prey!
The others also lunged forward like fierce tigers. Having been caught off guard and losing one of their number already, their killing intent was now unstoppable!
"Hmph, I'll let you live a little longer!" Ye Tian's gaze was ice-cold as he suppressed the fury and murderous intent in his heart.
With the wounded person in his arms, he executed his movement technique, vanishing from right before them like a ghost!
"What movement technique is this?"
"Damn it, chase him! I'm going to strip his tendons and break his bones!"
Li Cheng and the others stood frozen, their fury soaring to the heavens. Right under their noses, a Body Tempering Realm cultivator had escaped while carrying an injured person!
Like a shadow, Ye Tian sped through the dark forest, carrying the wounded girl with extreme haste.
"Ye... Tian... how did your cultivation drop?" Chen Zilan's eyes flickered, her pretty face flushed as she felt the body heat and rich masculine scent radiating from his arms, leaving her somewhat dazed.
She could even hear his hurried breathing as he sprinted through the dark night.
"Where is Chu Mengyao? From what I understand, the two of you are practically inseparable!" Chen Zilan muttered softly to herself!
"That's a long story. Let's shake off Li Cheng and the others first—there's no guarantee they won't track us by sound." After saying this, Ye Tian moved like a glowing fox, leaving only a blur of afterimages in his wake.
Meanwhile, Li Cheng and his group raged in frustration behind them, searching everywhere.
When they reached a safe spot, Ye Tian set the injured Chen Zilan down and frowned, saying, "With your 9th Layer strength, even if you couldn't beat them, you should have been able to escape!"
At that moment, Chen Zilan's body was covered in wounds, revealing parts of her cleavage.
Her skin was snow-white and crystal-clear, and her jade legs were half-exposed, causing him to swallow hard in spite of himself.
"It's like this..." Chen Zilan's cheeks burned bright red with shyness. Naturally aware of Ye Tian's gaze, she slowly explained the reason.
It turned out that after reaching the 9th Layer of the Martial Disciple realm, she had come out both to train, just like him, and to search for Spirit-Refining Grass.
Many people used this herb to bathe in before breaking through to the Martial Master realm in order to solidify their foundation and grant their physical bodies peerless perfection.
She had encountered a Tier 2 fierce beast—and naturally, she couldn't beat it—which led directly to her running into Li Cheng and his cohorts, whose animalistic desires had been unleashed.
Ye Tian nodded. Her purpose was the same as his this time, though he had already refined his body long ago. Coupled with the fact that he had awakened the Pure Yang Dao Physique, his physical body was stronger than an ordinary person's. He then said, "Given our low strength, if your wounds aren't treated, they might leave scars."
"Ah... I don't want to leave scars...!" Chen Zilan cried out weakly, instantly panicking. Women cared most about their appearance, after all.
She had split wounds in many places, some even looking gruesome, with congealed blood staining her attire.
Her storage pouch had also fallen off somewhere during the ordeal.
Ye Tian pondered for a moment. "Wait here, I'll be right back," he said.
Without waiting for her to reply, Ye Tian carefully left the cave.
"He's not going to abandon me, is he?" Chen Zilan felt a twinge of fear. She managed to sit cross-legged with difficulty and began to heal herself, though her expression remained taut to the extreme.
Rustle!
Before long, a faint sound rang out, and she snapped her beautiful eyes open.
She saw Ye Tian returning with a handful of herbs that were tender, crystal-clear, and faintly exuded a bitter scent.
"These will help heal your wounds," Ye Tian said, expertly shoving them into his mouth and chewing. For a moment, his face contorted from the bitterness and numbness.
A brilliant light flashed in Chen Zilan's beautiful eyes, and a warm current flooded her heart. She thought to herself, *Watching him do this so skillfully, he must have helped that Chu Mengyao plenty of times before.*
Within a moment, Ye Tian mashed the herbs onto a leaf, adding them bit by bit, and said, "It's ready. Since the injuries are still fresh, apply this and you'll be healed in two days."