Chapter 33

"Hahahaha!"

"Footless Bird! Spread your wings and fly high!!!"

The moment he finished speaking, the Footless Bird whistled into the air, emitting a 'whoosh' sound, as if responding to his roar.

At this moment, the scorching sun emerged from behind the mountain peaks, scattering ten thousand rays of golden light.

Ye Ming rode the Footless Bird as it soared into the sky, the golden light draped over him as if he were wearing a golden cloak of clouds.

The sky was a deep blue, the clouds and mist beneath his feet were like an ocean, and everything was as beautiful as a painting.

The youth rode the bird and rose up, soaring into the sky in one go! The only thing that spoiled the scenery was the Fifth Elder chasing behind him, mouth wide open, cursing angrily.

Ye Ming steered the Footless Bird to fly high, his thoughts clear and unobstructed.

At this moment, his scene was so similar to the scene of Gu Yue Fangyuan flying out of White Bone Mountain!

A flash of inspiration struck, and the system prompt sounded in his mind once again.

【Ding, Refining Dao Venerable roleplay progress has reached 40%. Reward: one soul tempering at Danghun Shan, one Spirit Spring baptism, 50,000 Primeval Stones, one Rank 3 Precious Moon Gu, and one Rank 3 Wind Moon Wheel Gu.】

【Claim now?】

The Footless Bird was a Rank 4 Gu, and Ye Ming could only barely control it with the help of the Heaven Essence Treasure Lotus; naturally, he had no heart to receive the rewards.

He only glanced at the rewards roughly, temporarily chose 【No】, and then put his mind back into controlling the Footless Bird. In the mountain stream behind him, the Fifth Elder was still pursuing him relentlessly.

Bursts of vicious, angry curses were shouted from the Fifth Elder's mouth, but they could not make Ye Ming slow down by even half a bit.

Listening to the Fifth Elder's curses behind him, Ye Ming urged the Footless Bird to increase its speed by a few more notches and laughed loudly:

"Hahaha! Old thing, didn't you eat?"

"How come your cursing is so weak and powerless!"

"Is it because your grandson is dead, and you're in such a hurry to go down and keep him company?"

The Fifth Elder was furious, waving the Clear Sky Hammer non-stop, but he couldn't hit Ye Ming at all. Even though he had already erupted with his own soul power, he still couldn't close the distance between the two.

"Damn it!!"

"Brat, you deserve to die!!"

His eyes were bloodshot, his heart churning from being provoked by Ye Ming's words.

"What on earth is that big bird under this brat's feet!"

"How can its speed be a few notches faster than me, a Titled Douluo!"

Even when the two passed through the last mountain stream, the Fifth Elder still couldn't close the distance with Ye Ming.

By the time the other party soared into the sky, he had only just managed to rush out of the mountain stream! He was furious, but also somewhat worried; if the sect found out about this, he would be completely disgraced.

Tang Yeming had stunned everyone at the disciple competition and was already being focused on by Tang Xiao. Yet, he had secretly forced such a genius disciple to kill and defect from the sect.

The other party was in the wrong, but his own guilt was not light either! However, if he could capture Ye Ming and kill him, leaving no evidence, he could still preserve his reputation.

But once he let the other party go, it would definitely be an endless disaster!

The Fifth Elder thought to himself, his gaze becoming firm again; he had to catch up and kill him!

He had already seen that the white bone bird under Ye Ming's feet had no life aura, but was instead like a puppet or a type of soul tool.

This kind of thing must consume soul power! "I don't believe your soul power can be more than mine, a Titled Douluo!"

"When your soul power is exhausted, that will be the day you die!"

He tried his best to stabilize his speed, not seeking to catch up to Ye Ming, but only to keep him in sight until the moment Ye Ming's soul power was completely exhausted.

Meanwhile, at the boundary between the peaks of the first and second mountains of the Clear Sky Sect, two figures were hiding in the sea of clouds.

These two figures were Yue Guan and Gui Mei, sent by Bibi Dong to probe the Clear Sky Sect's background. Gui Mei's martial soul was mysterious and unpredictable, with extremely strong concealment effects.

Even though Ye Ming and the Fifth Elder had just passed through this mountain stream, they hadn't sensed the two figures.

Seeing the two walk far away, Yue Guan whispered to Gui Mei: "Old Ghost, what do we do now? Go straight back to the Spirit Hall?"

Gui Mei controlled a mass of darkness to cover their figures again and replied: "If we go out now, won't we run straight into that hot-tempered Titled Douluo?"

"Now that we are caught in the middle, in my opinion, we should wait for that Titled Douluo to come back and ambush him!"

"If we can kill this Titled Douluo, it will naturally be a great merit. Even if we can't kill him, just wounding him will weaken the Clear Sky Sect's strength."

"In this way, the Clear Sky Sect will naturally have no time to affect the Pope's plan!"

Yue Guan pondered for a while and felt that what Gui Mei said made a lot of sense! Last night, the two of them had snuck into the Clear Sky Sect, intending to leave after finding out the details; who would have thought they would run into the Clear Sky Sect's internal strife.

If they didn't seize this opportunity to deal a heavy blow to the Clear Sky Sect, he felt it was a loss just thinking about it.

He pinched his orchid fingers, tapped his chin lightly, and said in his sharp, thin voice: "Old Ghost, I think you're right."

"But I think we should take the initiative and chase after that lone Titled Douluo!"

"The two of us against one, the odds of winning are on our side!"

"This way, we don't have to worry about the remaining Titled Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect surrounding us, and secondly, we can let that interesting brat escape."

"The enemy of an enemy is a friend; maybe in the future, we might still have a use for him!"

Gui Mei felt that Yue Guan's words made a lot of sense, and the two hit it off immediately, taking advantage of the Clear Sky Sect's internal strife to rush out of the mountain stream and chase after the Fifth Elder in the distance.

At this time, after Ye Ming controlled the Footless Bird to fly out of the mountain stream, he flew all the way towards the Star Dou Great Forest in the southwest.

As for the Fifth Elder, he had already been left far behind, becoming a small black dot on the horizon.

Standing on the Footless Bird, he began to calculate in his heart.

Not long after, the Spirit Hall would launch the Spirit Hunting Operation, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei would take Hu Liena to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt down Xiao Wu.

Now that he had left the Clear Sky Sect, he might as well go and take a look. If there was an opportunity, he would naturally have to reap some benefits.

But for now, he had to find a safe place to completely convert this harvest into strength! Just then, a terrifying soul power fluctuation suddenly erupted behind him, followed by the Fifth Elder's shocked and angry voice.

"People from the Spirit Hall!!"

"How dare you!!"

Ye Ming was a little surprised, turned his head to look, and just happened to see a brilliant chrysanthemum blooming in the sky with a sky full of stamens, killing towards the black dot that was the Fifth Elder! At the same time, he vaguely heard a sentence, "Ninth Soul Skill, Chrysanthemum Remnant, Wounds Everywhere, Flowers Fall and Hearts Break!"

"Chrysanthemum Douluo?" Ye Ming's eyes lit up.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were so close they were practically inseparable; since Chrysanthemum Douluo dared to attack the Fifth Elder, Ghost Douluo must be nearby.

With the two of them joining forces and possessing a domain-type martial soul fusion skill, ordinary Titled Douluo were no match for them.

If these two attacked the Fifth Elder, the other party would definitely not get away with it!

He knew clearly that if the other elders didn't provide support in time, the Fifth Elder might really be ambushed to death by Chrysanthemum and Ghost today.

However, the battle between Titled Douluo was not something he could participate in right now.

Even just the aftermath would be enough for him to suffer.

Although he wanted to observe the Fifth Elder's miserable state, once the Clear Sky Sect discovered it and the elders arrived, he would never be able to leave.

After a little thought, Ye Ming didn't hesitate and rushed straight towards the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Old thing, I actually quite hope you can survive."

"At least survive until the moment I kill you with my own hands, that way your blood won't be wasted..."

(End of chapter)