Chapter 56: Startled Retreat

Wang Yu hurriedly looked back. With the help of his Super Vision, he saw the Bone Python in the black mist in great detail. His mind raced, and he immediately made a decision.

His body suddenly felt heavy, and he plummeted from the tree as if he were a stone.

"Bang!"

Wang Yu landed steadily on the ground. After a quick scan of his surroundings, he flickered and arrived before a tree as thick as a person's embrace, then raised his leg and kicked it.

"Crack!"

The tree snapped in half at the waist. As the upper section collapsed, he flickered again and caught it with one hand.

"This kid has great strength. What is he doing?"

The two people on the Bone Python behind him had already caught up. Seeing Wang Yu's actions below, the bald man was first surprised, then completely bewildered.

"Why care so much? Go down and eat him." The thin man didn't care at all. Instead, he gave a sinister laugh and urged the bone token in his hand. The giant Bone Python beneath them carried the two of them and lunged straight down.

The bald man frowned. He didn't stop his companion, but he held up the bone fork in his hand and began to chant.

Seeing this, Wang Yu let out a low shout. His five fingers sank deep into the tree trunk, and with a forceful swing of his arm, he threw the half-tree straight into the air.

"Careful!"

The bald man was startled. The bone fork in his hand transformed into a white ray and shot out, striking the incoming tree first.

"Puff!" A muffled sound.

It was unknown what power this bone fork possessed, but it shattered the half-tree into pieces with a single strike, sending countless leaves and wood fragments flying.

But under the cover of the flying debris, a cold light flashed and vanished, seizing the opportunity to smash into the head of the lunging giant Bone Python. It was actually a small iron shield.

"Clang!"

The iron shield flew back, but the giant Bone Python rolled its body as if in pain, throwing both people off its back, and its massive body plummeted straight down.

"Whoosh!"

A giant figure two meters tall shot into the sky like a cannonball. In the low air, he raised a leg and, with a sharp whistling sound, kicked the Bone Python, which had not yet fully landed.

"Boom!"

The Bone Python, several zhang long, flew sideways, crashing into more than ten large trees before it barely came to a stop amidst the continuous movement.

But at this moment, the black mist on its body was so faint it was almost invisible, and a large section of its midsection was shattered. Even though it struggled desperately, shaking its head and wagging its tail, and let out hissing cries of agony, it could not stand up for a time.

At the same time, the giant figure also landed heavily on the ground.

It was Wang Yu, whose body had grown a size larger, with a tiger-head pattern emerging on his back, having already utilized the Black Tiger Breathing Method.

"Sonic Boom Fist!"

"Dharma-Protecting Warrior!"

The bald man and the thin man exclaimed at the same time, and only then did they drift slowly down to the ground not far away amidst the swirling black mist.

The two seemed to recognize what Wang Yu's current form represented, and their previous relaxed expressions vanished.

The thin man's expression was gloomy. One hand gripped the black banner in his hand tightly, while the surface of the token in his other hand had clearly cracked.

The bald man pressed both hands against the blood-colored leather bags on his waist, staring fiercely at Wang Yu, looking like he was facing a formidable enemy.

Seeing the reaction of the two Black Soul Sect opponents, Wang Yu was actually stunned for a moment. But after a quick analysis in his mind, he suddenly flickered, picked up the iron shield from the nearby ground, turned, jumped onto a tree, and after a few leaps, disappeared into the forest again.

This scene left the bald man and the thin man stunned once more.

But this time, the two looked at each other and had no intention of getting up to pursue him.

"Sigh, what bad luck. Just finding a place to lie in wait, and we actually run into a tough nut like a Dharma-Protecting Warrior." The bald man let out a long sigh, touched his smooth bald head, and said with a face full of bad luck.

"Who's to say? These guys have powerful physical bodies and are always ready to risk their lives. Once you get close to them, everyone gets a headache. The key is that they are all poor ghosts. Even if you spend a lot of effort to finish them off, there's usually no harvest." The thin man looked at the damage on the token in his hand and also gave a bitter smile.

"But this kid is so young and can already become a Dharma-Protecting Warrior. He must be a secret agent specifically arranged by the Four Symbols Gate in the Guangyuan Market. Should we really not stop him?" The bald man hesitated again.

"If you want to go, Shixiong, I won't keep you company. Instead of wasting time on that kid, we'd be better off finding some easier targets. After all, once the Four Symbols Gate and the other sects of the Great Ming Prefecture react, such a good opportunity will be gone." The thin man shook his head repeatedly.

"Shidi's words make sense. Let's go. I still have a Soul-Seeking Talisman here; let's go find other fish that slipped through the net." The bald man pondered for a moment and nodded, somewhat unwillingly.

"Splash!"

As soon as Wang Yu walked out of the forest and saw a river not far away, he calculated the flow of the river, found a thick, dead tree, threw it into the water, and jumped in.

He hid his body under the dead tree, held onto it with both hands, and drifted downstream silently.

He had seen this trick on a famous outdoor tracking show on Blue Star. Although he didn't know if it was really useful, he could only follow the example and give it a try.

It was already late, and the sky had turned dark, which was more suitable for hiding his figure.

Just like that, with the cover of night, he drifted in the water holding the dead tree for an entire night. But because the current wasn't very fast, he only drifted more than thirty miles.

When the sky brightened again, Wang Yu calculated the distance in his heart and felt that he was already about a hundred miles away from the Guangyuan Market. Only then did he cautiously let go of the dead tree and return to the shore from the water.

He followed a small path and started running wildly again.

Now, no matter where he went, the further away from the market, the better.

But he hadn't run for even the time it takes to burn a stick of incense when suddenly, a harsh whistling sound came from the sky. A large expanse of cyan escape light shot over from the opposite horizon, and it was actually a dense group of cyan flying boats.

Wang Yu was startled. He immediately rolled and hid in the bushes by the side of the road, preparing to see the situation first.

But just at this moment, a ball of golden light suddenly flew out from one of the cyan flying boats. It circled in the high sky, and a golden toad phantom the size of a mu emerged, letting out a "croak" at the ground below.

Wang Yu only felt his head "buzz," and his soul felt as if it had been fixed, unable to think about anything else.

The next moment, a golden light-thread phantom appeared on his body. After pulling into the void, his person soared into the sky, heading straight for the giant mouth of the toad phantom.

It wasn't just Wang Yu; more than a dozen other figures were pulled by the same golden light-thread phantom, rushing into the sky from various mountains, forests, rocks, and even soil below, all disappearing into the giant mouth of the golden toad phantom.

After the golden toad phantom let out another cry, it silently collapsed and vanished, turning back into a ball of golden light and flying back to the cyan flying boat, landing in the hands of an old man in a golden robe with an extraordinary appearance, turning into a miniature golden toad no more than four or five inches long.