Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

Ran Qingmo did not answer the question. Instead, she lifted her head and looked toward the southwest of Stillwater, a faint gravity in her cool, quiet eyes.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan looked that way too. His first thought was that Xu Changge had arrived. Unfortunately, apart from the endless blue sky, he saw nothing at all.

Xu Yuan glanced sideways at Zhou Chen, hoping the man could explain. But Zhou Chen ignored him this time. He, too, was staring solemnly at the southwestern sky.

Ying’er and Si Ziyu beside them were the same.

For some reason, Xu Yuan suddenly felt like he had been excluded from a little private club. Everyone around him understood what was going on. He was the only one standing there awkwardly, completely out of the loop.

Fortunately, it did not take long before Xu Yuan himself sensed something strange. Using one’s soul intent to probe the surroundings was, in essence, sensing the fluctuations of source qi in the area.

This depended on two things. First, the strength of the soul intent. The more condensed and powerful the soul, the more detailed the things it could sense. Second, the intensity of the source qi fluctuations.

Most of the time, the source qi between Heaven and Earth remained in a relatively balanced and still state. But the various activities of cultivators using source qi would disturb it. Cultivation and breathing exercises, magical combat, even simply traveling at speed, all produced fluctuations to varying degrees. The strength of that disturbance depended on the cultivation of the person causing it, and it would continuously weaken as distance increased.

Back when Xu Yuan sparred with those guards in the martial training ground, it had also stirred the surrounding source qi. But because their cultivation was so low, that disturbance could not even spread beyond the courtyard before weakening to the point where it could hardly be detected.

Xu Yuan’s cultivation was shallow, so he could not sense what was happening to the southwest. But he could still sense the source qi around him.

The Xu residence had already been reduced to ruins by several Grandmaster-level battles, and the source qi within it had become utterly chaotic after the clash of techniques moments ago.

Yet at this moment, Xu Yuan could faintly sense that all of the mixed and disorderly source qi around him was subtly surging toward the southwest.

Silence settled over the five of them.

Clearly, the battle outside Stillwater had also reached its final moment.

Amid that silence, Xu Yuan suddenly noticed the source qi beside him being disturbed again.

It did not come from far away, but from Ran Qingmo right next to him. Dressed in black as dark as ink, she abruptly tightened her grip on her sword hilt. With one step, the stone slab beneath her shattered, and she shot straight into the sky.

Zhou Chen and Si Ziyu followed immediately after.

Before Xu Yuan could even react, Ying’er appeared at his side as if she had teleported.

The sudden change left Xu Yuan stunned for a moment. What the hell just happened? Before he could think any further, that familiar sensation hit him again.

It was going in again. Ying’er’s source qi entered his meridians and rapidly circulated through them several times along some specific route. Then Xu Yuan felt a thin film, almost like a shield, form over the surface of his body.

After that, the world spun. Everything around him began to rush backward at terrifying speed. Ying’er had grabbed him and was sprinting madly toward the northeast without even looking back.

Still completely baffled, Xu Yuan had not yet sorted out what was happening when, from the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a figure streaking through the sky from the southwest.

The figure was unbelievably fast. From the moment Xu Yuan saw him to the moment he appeared above the Xu estate, only one or two breaths had passed.

It was a mysterious man wearing a mask. The air around him was slightly distorted, making his face and figure difficult to see clearly. But his clothes were in a rather sorry state.

His flowing long robe had been sliced open in several places by some sharp blade. Beneath the tears, the wounds were deep enough to reveal bone, and strands of blue source qi clung to them like maggots in the marrow, slowing his self-healing.

Even so, the aura radiating from this man still sent a chill down Xu Yuan’s spine.

Ran Qingmo, Zhou Chen, and Si Ziyu shot into the air, tearing through the void as they charged at the mysterious man.

A thunderous boom rang out.

In a single instant, two figures flew backward.

Zhou Chen and Si Ziyu came flying back exactly the way they had charged in, crashing heavily into the streets of Stillwater and kicking up a vast cloud of dust.

Ran Qingmo had also taken the full force of the blow, but she remained in the sky. Barely.

Qin Weijiu looked at the woman in a black robe before him and recognized her in an instant. The veins on his forehead bulged at once. He had come because he sensed that something had gone wrong here. He intended to forcibly rescue the Sage’s remnant soul, but he had never expected to be stopped by the precious disciple of that old man from the Sword Sect.

“Ran Qingmo! What exactly do you think you’re doing?!”

After taking a full-powered strike from a second rank cultivator head-on, a thread of blood trickled from the corner of Ran Qingmo’s lips. She glanced at this badly injured, mysterious expert, her beautiful eyes flickering in thought for an instant.

Then she suddenly turned and ran.

Qin Weijiu fell silent.

Watching Ran Qingmo turn into a streak of black and shoot off into the distance, Qin Weijiu had no intention of chasing her. He did not have much time left. He had to hurry and rescue the Sage’s remnant soul and Qin Mo.

But in the next moment, his eyes nearly split with rage.

That woman had run off with the Sage’s remnant soul still sealed in ice.

“Bitch!” Qin Weijiu instinctively wanted to give chase, but a suffocating wave of source qi had already come from the southwestern sky.

His heart sank hard. There was no time. He could not deal with that woman Ran Qingmo before Xu Changge arrived.

Qin Weijiu’s breathing grew a little ragged. Then he suddenly sensed another familiar aura in the north courtyard, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

It was Su Jinxuan. She was sitting inside Xu Yuan’s side room, clutching the hem of her skirt, her fists clenched tight.

During the battle between Zhou Chen’s group and Qin Mo inside the residence, they had all deliberately avoided the area where she was. Now that it had been quiet outside for so long, she was still obeying Xu Yuan’s instructions and had not come out.

Qin Weijiu glanced toward the southwest, his eyes flickering. Should he let Su Jinxuan continue staying by Xu Changtian’s side? No. In front of Xu Changge, there was no way her Bewitching Soul Devil Body could stay hidden.

The decision was made in the space of a heartbeat.

Qin Weijiu suddenly dove down. The defensive formation around the side room shattered instantly. He appeared inside the room. Before Su Jinxuan could react, Qin Weijiu’s powerful soul intent wrapped around her as protection, and then he shot into the sky, streaking off toward the horizon.

The sudden upheaval had come quickly and left just as quickly.

Ying’er stopped on the rooftop of a building in the city streets and set Xu Yuan down.

Thinking back over everything that had just happened, Xu Yuan raised a hand and rubbed the space between his brows.

The change had begun and ended almost in the same instant.

The smoke and dust kicked up when Zhou Chen and Si Ziyu crashed into the streets had not even had time to spread before that mysterious man fled.

It’s over... Standing on the rooftop, Xu Yuan let out a long breath.

Down below, the ordinary citizens had already erupted into chaos.

In this extraordinary world, many people had seen cultivators fight before, but a battle of this scale above a prefectural city was something most would never witness in their entire lives.

That thunderous boom, that black canopy covering the entire Xu residence, the profound formation patterns coiling visibly in the sky. Every bit of it hammered at the hearts and minds of the people. They did not know what had actually happened. They only knew one thing. The mighty estate had been wiped out in less than fifteen minutes.

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