Chapter 477: Looks or Performance (1/5, Autumn Subscription)

Ningguang Changdao.

A Qingsi Horse galloped along the long road, like a streak of green light.

Fang Yue, riding on its back, discovered that the Qingsi Horse truly ran fast—faster than any horse he had ever ridden.

It was just too green, way too green!

Especially when running, the Qingsi Horse's green stripes stretched into a single line—simply impossibly green!

"No good, too ugly. From now on, unless I'm really in a rush to travel, I'll obediently ride an ordinary horse—at least that looks impressive!"

If the Qingsi Horse could display normal stats, it would be…

"Name: Qingsi Horse."

"Looks: -100."

"Performance: +100."

"Note: You're so green~"

And a normal grey-dun horse would be…

"Name: Grey-Dun Horse."

"Looks: +10."

"Performance: +10."

"Note: You're so ordinary~"

If Fang Yue were an extreme pragmatist, then any amount of green would be a small problem.

The issue was that he wasn't—he still wanted his horse to have some looks.

Otherwise, in the future, when he charged into the Gui Yi horde, slaughtered them until not a single one remained, then returned triumphant, only to be mounted on something like this—what an image problem that would be.

While Fang Yue was thinking of a way to both improve the Qingsi Horse's looks and preserve its performance, Ningguang Mountain up ahead had already faintly come into view.

Throughout this journey, Fang Yue's mindset was still fairly relaxed.

After all, he was only going to Ningguang Mountain to ask Ning Laotou and see who had asked him to refine the Fluorescent Bracelet.

As long as he could pry out some information, Fang Yue could use it as a lead to track down Lord Han and Lin Ling's whereabouts.

To be honest, Fang Yue was still a little worried.

Worried that Lord Han and Lin Ling… might have already been silenced.

A cold glint flashed through his eyes.

"If that's the case… then I must investigate all of this even more thoroughly, avenge them, and give them an answer!"

Just as Fang Yue was thinking, his brow suddenly furrowed slightly…

"Giddyap!"

The Qingsi Horse beneath him abruptly picked up another notch of speed.

At the same time, a few hundred meters ahead of him, a giant egg stood quietly in the middle of Ningguang Changdao.

The Qingsi Horse's stripes, in its rapid galloping, almost turned into green threads.

Just as he was about to approach the giant egg, Fang Yue immediately twisted the reins, changed the Qingsi Horse's direction, ran past the side of the giant egg, and plunged into the forest on the right side of Ningguang Changdao.

And shortly after, he darted out from the forest behind the giant egg, returned to Ningguang Changdao, and sprinted forward at an even faster speed.

Crack…

Crack…

As Fang Yue and his Qingsi Horse rapidly sped away, the giant egg stuck on the road slowly began to crack down the middle.

In no time at all, the crack widened to over ten centimeters, as if it would split the giant egg in two from the middle.

Yet inside the opened crack, it was pitch black.

The entire giant egg looked as if it had a black scarf wrapped around its middle.

Accompanied by even more violent crack-crack shell-breaking sounds, dozens of long white legs suddenly burst out from the black crack.

These pale-white long legs were all smooth and delicate like a woman's long legs, but… much thicker, and much longer.

They landed directly, propping up the giant egg. Dozens of legs, each seemingly with its own consciousness, took steps in various directions, yet working against one another, causing the giant egg to tumble to the ground and roll.

And when Fang Yue stole a glance back, this was exactly the scene he saw.

The next instant, the giant egg Gui Yi suddenly stopped. All the long legs stomped onto the ground, dragging the sideways giant egg, and broke into a frenzied run in perfect unison.

Rumble rumble!

Still when motionless, but astonishing once it moved.

Carrying the giant egg, these dozens of long legs were actually not a bit slower than the Qingsi Horse—in fact, faintly even faster by a margin—charging straight toward Fang Yue!

His pupils contracted, and Fang Yue's expression darkened slightly.

Setting out from Qingsi County, along the way here, Fang Yue had actually encountered several groups of Gui Yi.

Some were solitary ones, wandering aimlessly on the road.

Some were groups of Gui Yi, acting together in numbers from a few to over a dozen.

Upon spotting Fang Yue, they immediately entered hunter mode and chased him for quite a long stretch.

But without exception, none of them caught up.

They were left far behind by Fang Yue, who relied on the Qingsi Horse's speed.

Although those were all relatively low-level Black Grade Initial Stage Gui Yi, and only occasionally did he run into Black Grade Mid Stage Gui Yi that weren't Fang Yue's match.

But Fang Yue didn't stop and waste time on them either.

First, killing these low-level Gui Yi yielded almost no benefit anymore.

Second, the Qingsi Horse was very fragile.

It was merely a horse of a special breed—simply fast—its defensive ability no different from an ordinary horse.

Any single eerie creature, if it so much as landed one hit on it, the Qingsi Horse would be done for.

Under such circumstances, how could Fang Yue possibly dismount to fight the eerie creature.

If he wasn't careful and the horse got killed, then he'd have no horse.

Then his situation would fall into an extremely dangerous predicament — alone, by himself in the wilderness, having to travel the distance that took the Qingsi Horse half a day of hard riding to cover, just to get back to Qingsi County.

Along the way, god knows what kind of eerie creatures he'd run into.

Fang Yue's strength was indeed formidable, but at most he could take on a Blood Grade eerie creature, and even then only with a bunch of buffs maxed out.

For example, the time had to be nighttime, not now when the sun hadn't even set yet.

Then, the parchment had to be awake, otherwise there'd be no way to use 【Time Reversal】, and the immensely powerful 【Blazing Fire Burst】 would really just self-destruct.

Even so, he'd still have to throw in a large chunk of his lifespan, and might even have to pop a 【Horn of the Sea Pill】 in desperation.

Even then, after fighting to the death to defeat one Blood Grade eerie creature, he'd be half-crippled himself. If a second one came, he'd absolutely be done for.

So Fang Yue absolutely could not let anything happen to the Qingsi Horse and leave himself stranded in the wilderness.

Therefore, along the way, whenever Fang Yue encountered eerie creatures, he avoided them if he could, and avoided engaging if he could.

But in the end, he still ran into an eerie creature whose speed could rival the Qingsi Horse's!

Fang Yue couldn't tell what grade this eerie creature was, but its absurd movement speed forced him to take it seriously.

Watching the 【Giant Egg Eerie】 behind him kick up a huge cloud of dust as it galloped toward him through the swirling dirt, Fang Yue yanked the reins hard.

"Whoa!"

The Qingsi Horse, trained professionally by Qingsi and enjoying the top-tier treatment afforded to horses, immediately understood what Fang Yue meant and came to a stop.

Releasing the reins, Fang Yue leaped up from the horse's back.

"Blazing Fire Heart Method!!"

Boom!!

Flames engulfed his entire body.

+200 Control Value!

Ningtai Ring — Fire Blade Form!

Hum!

Internal force poured in, frequency maintained, the Fire Blade took shape on its own!

Internal force charged to peak, the floating sharpness value immediately skyrocketed to 15 points.

Its grade also rose from Mortal Grade to Good Grade.

"Name: Ningtai Ring 【Fire Blade】."

"Grade: Good Grade Lower 【Floating】."

"Sharpness Value: 15 points 【Floating】."

(End of Chapter)