Chapter 76 : Chapter 76

Chapter 76: Killing at Full Gallop

Every time Li Mu saw her like this, he honestly found it rather adorable.

Wang Yinhuan stood there in hesitation.

She felt that what Li Mu said made perfect sense.

But she was a girl. How could she possibly sit in...

“Hurry up!”

Li Mu suddenly spoke, making Wang Yinhuan jump.

Left with no choice, Wang Yinhuan pressed her lips together hard and walked over to Li Mu’s horse.

She placed her hand in Li Mu’s.

Li Mu gave a sharp tug and pulled her up onto the horse, seating her in front of him.

He then sheltered her within his arms.

Wang Yinhuan remained red-faced the entire time. After getting on, she sat as stiff as a statue, not daring to move at all.

She could feel Li Mu’s hot body heat behind her.

His arms curved around her body, pressed close against her back.

Although he was not actually hugging her, there was hardly any difference.

Even so, her sense of security instantly soared to the fullest...

On the surface, Li Mu looked perfectly calm.

In reality, his heart was already racing wildly.

This was his first time holding such a sweet-smelling girl at such close range, all right?

And she was such a beautiful, soft, delicate girl at that.

Pretending to be composed, Li Mu pulled out his cloak and shook it open with a rustle before draping it over himself.

As the back of the cloak drifted over, the silver ring embroidered on it immediately made him laugh.

Yinhuan—“Silver Ring.” Was that not exactly what was on his cloak as well?

But after one glance, Li Mu let out a soft sound of surprise.

There seemed to be something inside that silver ring.

Li Mu grabbed it and looked more closely.

Within the silver ring, a blood-red eye had faintly appeared.

If one did not look carefully, it was hard to notice.

Li Mu was absolutely certain that this had not been there before.

Previously, the cloak had only possessed a black-and-red base pattern. The silver ring had been empty.

And Li Mu could clearly feel that the energy within the cloak was no longer remotely comparable to what it had been before.

Ever since returning from the Bone Ghoul Domain, he had not had time to inspect it.

It seemed that the energy it had absorbed from the dead monsters last time

had finally allowed this growth-type Spirit Treasure to evolve.

After touching the cloak for a moment, a strand of spiritual intent entered Li Mu’s mind.

His thoughts stirred. It was as though the cloak itself was conveying to him how to use the ability it had developed.

“Close!”

Li Mu called out softly.

The red eye within the silver ring slowly closed.

Immediately afterward, Li Mu felt his aura contract sharply, shrinking back within the cloak.

Although it still leaked out little by little, compared to before, it had been reduced by well over half.

Li Mu was overjoyed.

The ability this cloak had developed was actually Breath Concealment!?

Concealing one’s aura did not seem especially dazzling at first glance.

But within the Abyss, it was incredibly useful.

He could not say it would make him completely invisible on a monster’s radar.

But it would at least greatly reduce the range at which he could be detected.

What a treasure.

Li Mu could not help shouting inwardly.

Come to think of it, the system’s Triumph Points seemed capable of modifying Spirit Treasures.

His Triumph Points had been far too meager before, and all of them had been concentrated on strengthening and unlocking Great Sage divine abilities.

From here on, he could also consider investing some into Spirit Treasures.

With that thought, Li Mu spread the cloak and covered Wang Yinhuan in front of him as well.

Wang Yinhuan was immediately wrapped beneath the cloak.

She froze for a moment.

She could sense that the cloak could conceal aura.

But— right now, she had the intense illusion that she was sharing the same blanket with Li Mu.

It was simply mortifying.

“Could you stop steaming up so much over there? I can’t see the road.”

Just as she was dying of embarrassment, Li Mu’s exaggerated complaint came from behind her head.

Wang Yinhuan felt as though the world were spinning.

Heavens above, earth below, please open a crack and let her fall straight into hell.

This planet was no longer fit for her to remain on.

After teasing her enough, Li Mu urged Yaogu forward.

Once the warhorse started moving, the jolting only became worse...

Wang Yinhuan almost had the absurd illusion that she was already someone’s wife...

At that moment, inside the Command Center, two command platforms stood there, one belonging to Liao Feng, the other to Wang Longcheng.

Wang Longcheng opened the live feed of Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan while sitting down.

But no sooner had he touched the chair than, upon seeing the scene on the screen, he shot to his feet again.

His eyelids twitched wildly.

The people around him could even clearly hear Wang Longcheng cursing under his breath.

“That little bastard.”

But after swearing, he took a deep breath and gradually let it go.

Then he sat back down.

Although he had the distinct feeling that a little wild boar was happily rooting away at the fine cabbage he had raised himself, after thinking it over, it was at least a wild boar he had personally raised.

No matter how it rooted around, it was still in his own vegetable garden, so he could rest at ease.

If it had been some other wild boar, he would have stormed into the garden, snapped off its tusks, torn its snout apart, and crushed its balls.

This was a Third Grade monster zone. Yaogu ran as fast as the wind, but no monsters appeared.

Afraid that Wang Yinhuan might burn herself to death from embarrassment, Li Mu decided to distract her.

“What was your talent again?” Li Mu asked casually.

“A-Grade. Destiny Ascension.”

Wang Yinhuan answered softly.

Li Mu was directly behind her head. When he spoke, even his breath slipped through her long hair and brushed against the back of her ear.

It gave Wang Yinhuan an extremely strange feeling.

Her hair was glossy black and long. The hair at both temples met behind her head and was tied together, gathering the abundant hair at the back.

Although the hairstyle was very simple, it somehow gave her an ethereal air.

“What kind of ascension?” Li Mu asked in puzzlement.

“Dogs. I suppose I count as a summoner.”

Wang Yinhuan pressed her lips together as she answered.

“Ascended dogs? They become your summoned beasts?”

“More or less... but I only like taking in stray dogs, so I’m not very strong.”

Wang Yinhuan explained.

Li Mu immediately understood.

This world also had pet cats and dogs. There were many low-grade but beautiful creatures in the Abyss, and after crossbreeding with ordinary pet cats and dogs, all sorts of beautiful pet breeds had appeared.

But abandonment was everywhere, and there were many stray cats and dogs in the cities as well.

In any case, all humans possessed the basic foundations of martial training. Any pet that dared injure people would be beaten to death on the spot.

Even many that harmed no one were still often beaten to death for no reason, or crippled.

Most summoning-type talents were used to strengthen summoned beasts.

So the summoners themselves were generally rather fragile.

At that moment, a pitch-black monster rushed toward them from ahead.

It resembled an ape, stood about two meters tall, and its entire body was wrapped in hard rock armor as black as charred coal.

As it ran, fragments were still falling from it in a rattling shower.

The pair of scarlet eyes on its head looked especially sinister.

Wang Yinhuan thought Li Mu was about to dismount.

Instead, she heard him instruct her, “Don’t move.”

Then, with a soft pop, Li Mu vanished just like that.

Wang Yinhuan was horrified.

Because the monster was already charging at her.

And Li Mu had disappeared.

Was he planning to throw her to the monster as bait, then kill it while it was distracted?

Brother, that combat style is a little too costly where Yinhuan is concerned.

And this horse too. It was actually still charging straight toward the monster.

Stupid horse.

Dead horse. Run somewhere else!

She was frantic inside, and her hands had already clenched tightly around Yaogu’s mane.

But at that moment, Li Mu suddenly appeared more than ten meters in front of the horse.

And he appeared in midair.

The cudgel in his hand swept sideways, tearing through the air.

Accompanied by a chilling ghostly shriek, the cudgel carved out a silver blur

and smashed heavily into the monster’s chest.

Just as Wang Yinhuan was wondering why Li Mu had not struck its head—

how much damage could hitting the body do to a monster?— she saw the monster cave in like a lump of dough struck by a rolling pin.

The spot hit by the weapon collapsed instantly, and the whole body folded around that point.

Without the slightest exaggeration, the monster was sent flying.

The shattered black rock armor blasted off its body and even hung suspended in place for a brief instant, still preserving the monster’s outline.

The visual impact was overwhelming.

Before those black fragments of rock armor had even hit the ground, Li Mu vanished again with another soft pop.

In the next instant, he had returned to the saddle behind Wang Yinhuan.

His sudden arms around her startled her into crying out, “Ah!”

“Quiet.”

Li Mu spoke irritably.

At that moment, Wang Yinhuan completely forgot that Li Mu was holding her in his arms.

She was still profoundly shocked by the method he had just used.

What had that been?

Teleportation?

Killing a monster of the same grade in half a second, then teleporting right back?

What kind of heaven-defying method was that?

In truth, Li Mu had already been holding back.

Transformation Technique also consumed True Qi.

If he had not been fully determined to ensure Wang Yinhuan’s safety, he really would have just swung his cudgel from horseback and beaten the monster to death. That would have been much simpler.

Ordinary warhorses might not have managed that.

When facing monsters, they might have panicked.

But Yaogu would not.

Yaogu was a Special-Grade Warhorse, and Li Mu had gradually discovered one of its traits.

It was absurdly bold.

The thing simply was not afraid of monsters. In fact, it practically wanted to charge up and fight them itself.

Its strength was not even equal to a Second Grade monster.

And yet it just was not afraid.

Why was it not afraid?

Because it was stupid.