Chapter 297: Black Forest

After Lou Mu Yan withstood the last move, the energy of the thunder ball in mid-air also dissipated from this world along with the orange light from her fist.

The human Sword Masters were all dumbfounded.
After a while, someone stuttered and exclaimed: “Lou Mu Yan—Sh—She—She withstood it? How—How is this possible?”

“Is she really just an Advanced-Phase Sword Monarch?”

“She should be, I heard that she’s always been able to skip-stage battle.”

“Even if she can skip-stage battle, but isn’t this a little too exaggerated? That’s a Demonic Beast at Peak-Phase Tier 8!”

“Didn’t you see that she’s also seriously injured? It must’ve taken the last of her energy to withstand the last blow.”

“In any case, she indeed hid her abilities well.
No wonder she can become the dark horse in the preliminary and semi-finals.”

“Yeah! We really underestimated her too much before.
Maybe she can still maintain her dark horse position in the finals.”

“That might not happen.
She and the Demon Cultivator are just taking blows, and not battling.
Xiao Jun Yao and the others aren’t vegetarians either.
It’s not easy to compete for the top ten from them.”

In fact, although many people were shocked that Lou Mu Yan could withstand three moves from the Demon Cultivator, but they still didn’t want to believe that she could advance into the top ten of the finals.

“I’m reconciled!”

Of course, some people were also completely convinced by her.
It wasn’t luck that she became the dark horse in this competition.

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This kind of energy wasn’t something that even a Sword Sovereign could take on, right? How did she do it?

“Lou Mu Yan really won’t disappoint.” Luo Li stared at Lou Mu Yan with starry eyes.

Lou Mu Bai and the others also heaved a sigh of relief, their palms filled with sweat.

They believed in her, but they were also afraid that accidents might occur.

Fortunately, she was always so unexpected.

“How did you do it?” The elderly, cyan-bearded man transformed from the Cyan Thunder Crocodile restrained the disbelief in his eyes.

He just couldn’t figure it out.
Even if Lou Mu Yan had a Spirit Flame, but she still couldn’t have possibly taken on his strongest blow.
He vaguely felt that her strength seemed to have increased greatly after the Sword Array was withdrawn.

But it was only a fleeting feeling, and he had no idea inwardly, so he was very curious.

Lou Mu Yan poured out a pill to treat her internal injuries.
Her face was still pale, but she stood proudly and had an outstanding temperament, “This, you don’t need to know.”

She borrowed one-third of Mo Yan’s strength just now to resist the thunder ball, but because the opponent was the most aggressive thunder attribute Demonic Beast, so she was still injured.

Of course, if she borrowed all of Mo Yan’s power, she definitely wouldn’t be injured, but she would also plant seeds of suspicion in the hearts of everyone here, and they would definitely think that she had some sort of magical treasure and there would be endless trouble in the future.

Now that she appeared seriously injured, then even if those people thought that she was incredible, they would only fear her and would not be blinded by illusory things.

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And she only just wanted to try the power of the Secret Skill.
She wouldn’t rely on Mo Yan’s power to fight again until the moment of light and death.

“This old man has lost.
Give me the names of the Spiritual Herbs and Spars you want.” The elderly, cyan-bearded man’s gaze was uncertain, but he could still afford to lose.

This girl indeed had many means, and She Ji and her elder brother didn’t die by her hands in vain.

Lou Mu Yan’s expression improved only after hearing his words.
She took out a jade slip and used her Mental Energy to engrave her desired Spiritual Herbs and Spars, then tossed it to the elderly man, “Then I’d like to thank Senior.
Can you deliver it to me after the melee is over?”

The elderly, cyan-bearded man didn’t reply immediately.
He took the jade slip and scanned it, then discovered that although the Spiritual Herbs and Spars were all high-end goods, but they could indeed be collected within a day.

“I can.” His voice was a little heavy, and one could tell he was unhappy.

It was the first time that he had been calculated by a human in so many years, and the anger in his heart couldn’t be extinguished no matter what, yet there was nothing he could do.

The two sides stopped the fight for two hours to recover and the melee would begin two hours later.

After Lou Mu Yan returned to the city wall, there were many people who wanted to come to flirt with her, but were threatened away by Luo Li.

She was happy to have some peace, so she found a quiet place and took another Spiritual Recovery Pill to recover quickly.

During the melee, Xue Xue could take the opportunity to suck more blood essence, and she also wanted to try to advance the colour of her jade tablet.

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Two hours later, a horn sounded in this space, and the people on both sides stood up and they leapt out of the city wall.
On the plain, the human Sword Masters and Demonic Beasts instantly battled it out.

Various coloured sword lights and Demonic Energy turned the entire sky into rainbow colours.

As soon as Lou Mu Yan jumped off the city wall, she was surrounded by five Transformation Stage Demon Cultivators and there were no less than one hundred Tier 6 Demonic Beasts.

Luo Li and the others, seeing that it wasn’t good, swiftly wanted to rush in her direction to provide reinforcements, but they were all blocked by the Demon Cultivators intentionally or unintentionally.

Lou Mu Yan glanced at the three men and two women who were leading with a half-smile, “You want to besiege and kill me?”

“You sure are self-aware.
Hand over King’s cyan bead and we can leave you a whole corpse.” One of the Demon Cultivators swept their gaze over Lou Mu Yan without fear and said.

Lou Mu Yan chuckled and raised an eyebrow, “Just with you guys?”

The elderly, cyan-bearded man would indeed no longer shamelessly attack her in public, but he could still instruct the Demon Cultivators under him to kill her.

But of course, she wouldn’t be polite to the Demon Cultivators who came to bully her.

“Humph, big talk.” The leading Demon Cultivator snorted coldly, exchanged a look with the other Demon Cultivators, and attacked Lou Mu Yan simultaneously.

With a thought, ten golden swords flew out from Lou Mu Yan’s cuffs to form a Sword Array and quickly returned with an attack.

The several Spirit Pets all transformed into their huge original forms and cooperated with her golden swords to quickly harvest the lives of the Demonic Beasts that were constantly rushing towards them.

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Lou Mu Yan used Flash Steps and blasted punch after punch, while controlling the Sword Array to kill her enemies quickly.

She and her few Spirit Pets quickly beheaded the five Demon Cultivators at Transformation Stage, turning them into nourishment for Xue Xue.

All the way forward, the one person and her demons slaughtered, and each of the Demonic Beasts that attacked her all turned into dried corpses.
Her moves were terrifying with unbridled dominance.

Her vigorous melee fighting style also attracted the attention of many conscientious people.

Two days later, the identity jade tablet in Lou Mu Yan’s hand turned green, and her ranking advanced to first place.
Chu Yan was dragged down to second.

Another horn sounded and the time of the melee was over.

However, all the human Sword Masters who participated in the competition didn’t rest or stop at this time at all as they all rushed through the encirclement of Demonic Beasts and flew towards the deep mountains in the distance.

Lou Mu Yan was no exception.
The time to reach the peak of the mountain was limited and all those who couldn’t reach the top of the mountain within ten days would be eliminated.

Of course, the peak of the mountain wasn’t that easy to get up to either.
Various Restrictions, Arrays and Demonic Beast ambushes were common occurrences.

After the melee, the alliances were also automatically negated.
Lou Mu Yan’s group and Ye Qing Han’s group rushed towards the top of the mountain.

Half a day later, they arrived in a rainy forest where the trees and the ground were all deep black and no grass grew anywhere.

Many people in front of them were blocked outside the forest and a few greedy people, who wanted to receive credit and took the risk of entering, all fell onto the ground and died the moment they took one step onto the black soil as if they had been poisoned, their bodies quickly decaying, leaving behind only skeletons.