"Little sister, don't be afraid. With me here, these little fellows wouldn't dare harm you."
Gu Qingfeng said casually once more.
The woman inside the formation remained unmoved, only frowning as she warily watched the surrounding Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts while casting a suspicious and doubtful gaze at Gu Qingfeng.
If Gu Qingfeng were a Nine Luminaries Great Perfection Golden Immortal, his words might carry a shred of credibility.
Unfortunately.
He was not only not a Nine Luminaries Great Perfection Golden Immortal, he wasn't even an ordinary Golden Immortal. He was just a mortal with no cultivation whatsoever.
This was akin to a child saying that even the Heavenly Emperor would have to kneel and kowtow before him. No one would believe such a statement that couldn't even be considered a joke.
"Seems I'll have to find some time in the future to cultivate into an immortal first. Otherwise, no one will believe me when I try to play the hero saving a beauty later on."
Gu Qingfeng shook his head with a helpless smile, then tilted his head back and drained the wine in his cup. He stood up, stretched lazily, jumped down from the grand carriage, and swaggered over just like that.
Strangely enough.
As Gu Qingfeng walked over, the pack of over a dozen ferocious Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts not only didn't pounce on him, they actually...
Actually retreated.
It was truly so.
With every step Gu Qingfeng took, the dozen-plus Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts retreated a step.
If one hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would dare believe it was real.
Even witnessing it firsthand now, both the Purple-Green Immortal and the woman inside the formation found it unbelievable.
What made it even more incredible to them was that the Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts seemed utterly terrified of Gu Qingfeng. Their pairs of green, glowing eyes were filled with a deep fear.
How was this possible!
How could the incredibly ferocious Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts be so afraid of a mere mortal?
Could it be he wasn't a mortal?
No!
Although the Purple-Green Immortal was severely injured and her Senior Martial Sister was extremely weak, both their minds were still clear. Moreover, they were both Seven Luminaries Great Sun Golden Immortals. Their knowledge and experience were far beyond that of ordinary people. Naturally, they could also see that Gu Qingfeng truly was just a mortal.
But why would the Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts fear a mortal like this?
Could it be this mortal possessed something that made the Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts afraid?
That remained unknown.
By the time Gu Qingfeng walked up to the front of the formation, the dozen-plus Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts had fearfully retreated to a distance over a hundred meters away.
Seeing this scene, the woman seemed to have a great weight lifted off her shoulders. Unable to hold on any longer, she slumped to the ground. As her spirit relaxed, her Immortal Spirit stopped circulating, and the formation dissipated along with it.
"How are you?
Need a hand up?"
The woman raised her head, looking at Gu Qingfeng with an incredulous gaze, and asked in astonishment, "You...
Who are you?"
"Is it important?
If that question is very important to you, we might as well chat here first. After we're done chatting, I'll take you away."
"I..." The woman felt somewhat ashamed and didn't know how to respond.
Gu Qingfeng walked over, scooped her up in his arms, and was just about to head towards the grand carriage when suddenly, an earth-shattering roar echoed over.
This roar truly carried immense power.
It shook the earth violently. The swamp within a hundred-mile radius churned like boiling water. Many trees were shaken until they snapped. Horse King, sitting on the grand carriage, felt the Immortal Spirit within his body roiling violently. With a *wah* sound, he couldn't help but vomit blood from his mouth and nose. Ignoring his damaged Immortal Spirit, he quickly stood up, circulated his Immortal Spirit, and looked up to see.
This one look was enough to scare Horse King so badly he slumped back onto the grand carriage again. His mind went blank in an instant, and his consciousness grew somewhat blurry.
Demonic Qi!
A billowing wave of Demonic Qi swept over, like a gale-force wind rolling dark clouds to blanket the sky.
Accompanying the powerful Demonic Qi was a Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beast.
This Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beast was massive in size, like a towering mountain, easily twenty to thirty meters tall. The scales and spines covering its body were like rows of black, gleaming bone spikes. Its eyes glowed green yet were tinged with blood-red. A pair of fangs gleamed with a cold light. It held a nine-meter-long bone spike in its hand. As it appeared, Demonic Qi filled the sky, and its imposing aura was exceptionally fierce!
A twenty-to-thirty-meter-tall, mountain-like Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beast—not only had they never seen such a thing, they had never even heard of it. Horse King hadn't, and neither had the Purple-Green Immortal, a Seven Luminaries Great Sun Golden Immortal, nor her Senior Martial Sister. They had never heard that the Flowing Sand Minor Secret Realm contained such a terrifying Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beast.
This was no longer just an adult demonic beast, nor some demonic spirit, nor even a demonic immortal. It was probably already at the level of a Monster King.
A Monster King!
Damn it all, forget about Five Luminances Unity, forget about Seven Luminaries Great Sun. Even if a Nine Luminaries Great Perfection Golden Immortal came, they'd probably only have a slim chance of survival!
"Quick, quick, run away!
This must be a Monster King, it must be!
Run!
Run away!"
The woman in Gu Qingfeng's arms trembled, her voice filled with terror.
"It's just a Monster King. If you run every time you meet a Monster King, what will you do if you encounter a Demon Emperor or Demon Sovereign someday? Will you even live?"
Gu Qingfeng smiled nonchalantly and said, "Besides, although this fellow is a bit bigger, it's far from deserving the title of Monster King. It doesn't have the qualifications. At best, it's just an old demon that's been cultivating for a longer time. However..." Gu Qingfeng, holding the woman in his arms, glanced at the mountain-like old demon opposite them, then looked up at the Demonic Qi rolling in with the dark clouds, and chuckled, "This Demonic Qi is quite something. Seems it has some expert backing it up. And this expert is probably no ordinary figure."
Opposite them.
The old demon holding the bone spike fixed its green, blood-red eyes firmly on Gu Qingfeng. Its gaze held a deep-seated fear—a fear that kept it from attacking, from roaring, even from moving. It stared for a while, but the longer it looked, the more afraid it became, the more terrified it grew. Finally, it couldn't bear to look any longer. It turned and fled directly. The remaining dozen-plus Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts also left with it.
This scene left both the Purple-Green Immortal inside the grand carriage and the woman in Gu Qingfeng's arms utterly shocked, as if they had witnessed a divine miracle.
That the dozen-plus Bloodthirsty Black-Scale Demonic Beasts were afraid of this mortal earlier was one thing.
But how could this old demon, who had clearly cultivated for who knows how many years, also seem utterly terrified of this mortal?
Even if this old demon wasn't a Monster King, judging by that powerful Demonic Qi, it was absolutely an old demon that had cultivated for tens of thousands of years. Its strength was likely such that even a Nine Luminaries Great Perfection Golden Immortal would be no match for it.
Just what kind of existence was this mortal?
Watching the departing old demon, Gu Qingfeng shook his head with a sigh, as if mocking himself, and said, "Seems I'm really not what I used to be. Even I, this mortal, am becoming more and more ordinary. Damn it, now I can't even intimidate an old demon properly, let alone a little demon."