Chapter 176: Plans Already Made (Please Subscribe)

"Moo!"

"Moo!"

The One-Horned Purple Ox was feeling very anxious and uneasy at this moment; it had never imagined that one day it would be toyed with like this and end up in such a predicament.

It had been perfectly fine, wandering in its own territory, eating tree bark and drinking miasma, living a blissful life, lacking only some tender human flesh as a garnish.

Then, very suddenly, without paying attention, it first stepped into empty air, and then its tens of thousands of pounds of flesh inexplicably fell into these ruins, immediately encountering this even more inexplicable enemy.

Naturally, it refused to accept its fate, so it continued to struggle.

Facts proved that its alertness had not been wrong; it had indeed just left the wolf's den only to enter the tiger's mouth.

"Reuniting with the Lord is the most important thing now."

At this moment, several people had already gathered around him, and they were about to assemble the other guards to rush over and reunite at the location Meng Changqing had just sent out.

Turning his gaze back to the One-Horned Purple Ox, Du En nodded to himself.

He then quickly butchered the meat, cutting away and destroying the parts contaminated by the evil entities, while storing the rest in whole chunks without further processing, his movements appearing hurried.

It was indeed hurried, because if he were slow or late, those spirit beasts swept into the fray would be eaten by the evil entities first!

He immediately launched an operation to snatch food from the evil mouths, not using methods like divine sense that might be detected, but instead combining spirit-seeking techniques with naked-eye observation to quickly locate and capture the spirit beasts, then relying on the Breath Concealment Art to get close, attacking the evil entities first, then killing the spirit beasts.

The One-Horned Purple Ox was instantly terrified, only having time to let out a cry of alarm before Du En followed up with another punch, ending its life of roaming the mountains and forests.

Struggling to survive, destroying one after another.

Thinking this way, he quickly took action.

Even for Fu Yong, it was actually a case of anxiety causing disorder; it was because he revered Meng Changqing too much that he felt resentful of Du En's performance of treating everyone equally and maintaining a calm, professional distance.

Du En muttered to himself.

The already panting One-Horned Purple Ox first looked with surprise at the evil entity that had set itself on fire, then quickly, with the alertness it had developed from often slipping through the cracks to snatch food under the noses of several beast kings in the mountains, realized that the situation was very wrong.

One could only see that in this lightless place, within that vast, continuous complex of buildings, similar movements were appearing everywhere, and occasionally one could see the familiar spiritual light of magical artifacts, driven by their own guards.

Or perhaps they wanted to use this to test his strength; in any case, it was ill-intentioned and deliberately targeted!

Facing the people around him, Fu Yong couldn't help but curse again: "That man surnamed Du, I saw from the beginning that he wasn't a good person. Now it's just as I thought; he must be in collusion with that evil cultivator..."

"A Second-Stage Perfection White Rhino King; it seems the range of the impact is quite large, even other beast kings have fallen in. Hmm... could it be that the Emissary's side has also been wiped out?"

A massive white-skinned rhinoceros was lying here, weighing nearly two hundred thousand pounds, with traces of its final outburst before death everywhere.

Du En quietly climbed to a high point and looked around.

It was very clear that the place he had just fallen into was a nest of evil entities, a special place.

The guard hadn't finished speaking when he was met with a pair of bloodshot eyes and immediately shut his mouth in dismay, though he was muttering in his heart whether it was the lingering influence of evil arts that made the captain's emotions go to such extremes.

"Captain, please don't say that anymore."

After the few of them rushed past, Du En emerged from the shadows, walking in the opposite direction while lost in thought, arriving at the place where they had just killed the spirit beast.

Fu Yong's voice came through, "First it was evil cultivators and evil entities, then we ran into spirit beasts, and the most critical thing is that we got separated from Lord Ming..."

Seeing the small to understand the large, Meng Changqing's temperament as a master was evident.

It was very clear that Li Jian was quite crazy this time, having wiped out both sides and dumped them all into this ruin.

Du En was harboring such an intention.

Pitted and bumpy, the ground covered in fragments and rubble.

"Indiscriminate treatment—well, not exactly indiscriminate; the intention to target me is quite obvious, and it's quite a case of returning kindness with enmity, but after all, they are evil cultivators, so it's completely understandable."

Li Jian wanted him to die there.

It was the spiritual light from the silver armor of those armored soldiers.

"That's enough!"

He was very anxious at the moment, hurriedly killing the spirit beast without cleaning up, and left without looking back.

While Du En was skillfully butchering meat and collecting materials, he crossed the pile of rubble and watched the four directions in the distance.

"Moo?!"

"Besides, I don't think the Lord will necessarily blame Patrol Guard Du..."

"Moo?"

On the way, he passed the guards' activity points.

After all, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked; if the upper beam is straight, the lower beam won't be too crooked.

"Directly ending the first half and officially starting the second half is somewhat unexpected, but even so, a full-scale war shouldn't break out immediately. So, as expected, I should first grind my cultivation techniques or cultivation level up before participating."

"Just right, the stored beast meat is not enough; I'll use you all to make up the numbers, and then..."

If by any chance Daoqing misunderstands later and clears up the past grievances, but you are currently whispering and grumbling about people like this, it will be very awkward when you face them again!

Overall, except for Fu Yong, who had always had many opinions about Du En, the other guards' attitudes toward him were actually quite mild.

"Chi chi chi!"

"Just a master of all trades, it really isn't enough; to think I couldn't kill it with one punch..."

I cannot let these evil entities contaminate the high-quality, fresh beast meat!

Thus, he first hovered to the edge of the evil entity, and after confirming that his Breath Concealment Art was fine, he acted decisively, using a Fire-Igniting Art to burn the evil entity like a torch.

Compared to the Forest Shadow Leopard King, which had an exceptionally slender and small physique relative to other beast kings of the same rank, this One-Horned Purple Ox was a very normal case, with a tonnage far exceeding the other, to the point where he had to follow up with punches to kill it, otherwise he couldn't break through or crush it.

Du En looked back at the place he had come from; the passage was still the same passage, but overall, behind it was not a sheer cliff, but the same vast expanse of broken buildings.

Du En had already reached its side, and with one punch, he directly exploded its skull and even plucked off its horn.

With the intention of continuous surveillance, he did indeed catch a glimpse of a fleeting flash of silver-white spiritual light.

Because from Meng Changqing's performance, from the guards' collective defense, from the armored soldiers' fearlessness in the face of death, and from Li Jian's abrupt madness, these aspects were all telling him that his current strength was still lacking, and it was not advisable to get directly involved; he should first bury his head in hard cultivation for a while.

Only in this way could he become a heavier weight on the scale!

Moreover, at this time, his strongest trump card, the divine ability Burial Death, Glory Life, was in its cooldown period and could not be used for a hundred days, so it was really not suitable to get involved now.

(End of chapter)