I Tame Beasts by Feeding

Chapter 316: Chapter 266: Jade Hairpin

"This..."

"So that’s why I always felt that sword strike looked familiar..."

After listening to Meng Wuan’s explanation, Yu Changsheng and Li Minghan fell silent and didn’t speak for a while.

They merely looked up at Si Jian Cliff, lost in thought. Embarrassed expressions surfaced on their faces in unison, and they were inwardly astonished.

Neither of them had detected the sword inheritance hidden within Si Jian Cliff. They felt it was a shame, but only slightly.

After all, they were Beast Masters and naturally knew little about the ways of Sword Cultivators. It was perfectly normal that they couldn’t perceive the subtleties of that sword strike.

This, however, served to highlight Meng Wuan’s astonishing talent and superb Comprehension. That sword strike hadn’t merely slain Yang Chengxu; its sheer cutting edge had made even Yu Changsheng feel endangered.

’If it had been me, caught off guard, I would have found it just as difficult to block.’

At this thought, Yu Changsheng couldn’t help but mourn for Yang Chengxu for a moment. His opponent had been certain of victory this time, having had two perfect chances to kill him, yet both were unexpectedly thwarted.

First, it was Li Minghan, who forced Yang Chengxu to pay a price and use a Secret Technique. Then, just when he thought victory was in his grasp, he was slain by a single sword strike from Meng Wuan...

This was why Yang Chengxu’s eyes had been filled with such aggrieved frustration at the moment of his death.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Who can truly predict these things?"

Letting out a soft breath, Li Minghan silently treated Yu Changsheng’s wounds. Afterward, Yu Changsheng stretched his limbs a bit. The effects of the two Life-Returning Pills were still working, and his Status had improved considerably.

To a Golden Core Cultivator, the Life-Returning Pill is a rare and precious Holy Medicine for healing. To a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, it’s practically a second life.

And having taken two Life-Returning Pills in a row, as long as Yu Changsheng still had a breath left in him, he certainly wouldn’t die.

Yu Changsheng slowly closed his eyes. Li Minghan stood guard beside him. After feeding his beasts a few Healing Elixirs, he recalled them all to his Inner Realm.

The battle against Yang Chengxu had been incredibly perilous. If Li Minghan hadn’t been keeping the Celestial Cyan Sub-Dragon and the Celestial Shadow Dragon occupied, Yu Changsheng likely wouldn’t have held on until Meng Wuan intervened.

Meng Wuan’s intervention was not something Yu Changsheng had anticipated at first. He had been secretly lying in wait within Si Jian Cliff, using the sharp Sword Qi on the cliff to completely conceal his presence.

This was also why, after Yang Chengxu used the Boundary Pearl to seal the surrounding space, Meng Wuan was still able to appear; he had been inside the sealed space all along.

Furthermore, Si Jian Cliff was saturated with Sword Qi, so Yu Changsheng hadn’t dared to recklessly probe the area with his Divine Sense. As a result, even with his powerful Divine Sense, he hadn’t noticed anything amiss at first. It wasn’t until Meng Wuan secretly sent a Divine Sense transmission to him that the subsequent kill-shot was possible.

After replaying every detail of the battle in his mind, Yu Changsheng’s breathing became long and steady, and his Cultivation also began to slowly recover.

Seeing that Yu Changsheng’s Status had stabilized, Meng Wuan nodded. Without saying much, he silently walked over to Yang Chengxu’s corpse and frowned slightly.

He swiped a finger through the air, and an invisible burst of Sword Qi completely obliterated Yang Chengxu’s corpse into ash. Then, he picked up the fallen Storage Pouch and began to silently inspect it.

After a long moment, Meng Wuan slowly pulled an object from the Storage Pouch.

It was a White Jade Hairpin, wreathed in Spiritual Qi. It was bright and translucent, its jade color faintly tinged with a milky white that made it appear all the more delicate. An ingeniously carved Phoenix Welcoming Flower adorned it, so lifelike it seemed a work of Celestial Craftsmanship. At the head of the Jade Hairpin, two small words elegantly appeared: Meng Ying.

Other than that, there was nothing particularly special about it.

Li Minghan looked over with a trace of curiosity. Meng Wuan gently caressed the Jade Hairpin, his gaze softening until his eyes saw nothing but the pin.

After a long time, Meng Wuan solemnly and carefully put the Jade Hairpin away. After a moment of contemplation, he tossed Yang Chengxu’s Storage Pouch at Yu Changsheng’s feet.

"I’m taking this Jade Hairpin. It belonged to... an old acquaintance of mine. The rest is yours."

"...Alright."

Yu Changsheng was silent. He slowly nodded, neither saying more nor refusing. He silently put away the Storage Pouch without immediately inspecting it. Instead, he turned to Li Minghan and said seriously, "After we get out, we can split whatever’s inside between the two of us."

"Just in case there are any tracking marks on it. If that old bastard Mu Yongxian detects them, we’ll be in trouble. Leave it with me; I have a way to block their detection."

Li Minghan was taken aback for a second, then he smiled and nodded. "Alright. You’re the one who thinks things through. We’ll do it your way."

Yang Chengxu was dead. Without a doubt, once the Secret Realm closed and news of his death got out, it would cause a massive uproar. The subsequent wrath from the Spirit Dragon Sect was not something the two of them could easily withstand.

Although it was difficult to investigate what happened inside the Secret Realm, if something belonging to Yang Chengxu was discovered in Li Minghan’s possession, then they wouldn’t be able to explain their way out of it.

And as Yang Chengxu’s master, Mu Yongxian naturally had methods to track certain things.

Yu Changsheng’s solution was also very simple. Instead of rashly opening the Storage Pouch, he put the entire thing into his system backpack.

The system backpack was an independent space in and of itself. No matter what methods Mu Yongxian had, he would never be able to detect it. Yu Changsheng was very confident about this.

"These two dragons..."

Li Minghan paused, looked at the corpses of the Celestial Cyan Sub-Dragon and Celestial Shadow Dragon, and said after a moment of thought, "I’ll leave these two dragon corpses for you to handle, Changsheng. I already have the Red Mountain Sub-Dragon, so I don’t need them."

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