Chapter 127: Zhao Wuji VS Yu Luomian_1

Deep within the Aquipeia Forest.

The previously tranquil surface of the Lake of Life was boiling like water, burbling incessantly.

This disturbance immediately alarmed Xiaowu, who was by the shore of the Lake of Life.

"What's happening?"

Her face filled with dread, she watched the Lake of Life, puzzled, "Could it be that some powerful enemy has come to the Aquipeia Forest?"

However,

nobody was there to answer her question.

Burble, burble, burble.

The water boiled even more vigorously.

Finally, at a certain moment, it reached a critical point.

With a thunderous boom,

a column of water tens of meters high shot into the sky.

Immediately after, a massive body, tens of meters long, appeared in front of Xiaowu.

Without a doubt, it was the Azure Oxpython.

"Da Ming, what's wrong?"

"Weren't you in seclusion?"

Xiaowu asked with concern.

"Er Ming, I've sensed Er Ming's presence again, just a short distance from here, not long ago."

The Azure Oxpython answered with a heavy, muffled voice.

"Er Ming?"

Xiaowu's expression suddenly complicated, followed by fear climbing onto her face, taking over all expressions.

"Could it be, could it be that Qin Xiao, he, he has come again?"

"Could it be that his target this time is you?"

"Da Ming, you need to flee, you need to flee now."

Xiaowu hurriedly shouted, urging Da Ming to leave.

There was no doubt, in her mind, that Da Ming was no match for Qin Xiao.

Having already lost Er Ming, if she were to lose Da Ming as well, Xiaowu felt her world might collapse.

"Xiaowu, calm down a bit."

Da Ming's voice echoed over the Lake of Life.

"How can you be calm at a time like this?"

Xiaowu's face was filled with urgency, "Da Ming, listen to me, now is not the time for idle talk, you need to leave now, I will stay behind to stop Qin Xiao. If he comes wanting a Soul Ring, I'll give it to him, if he wants a soul bone, I will fulfill his wish, I must protect you at all costs."

Xiaowu's voice was firm and resolute.

"Alas."

Da Ming sighed and said leisurely, "Xiaowu, calm down, that human named Qin Xiao has already left."

"Left?"

Xiaowu was momentarily stunned.

The visitor had left just as he arrived?

It felt to her as if a guest had stepped into your home only to turn around and leave without so much as greeting you.

Did he really think of the Aquipeia Forest as his own home?

"However, what was his purpose for coming here?"

Xiaowu wondered, puzzled.

After a moment of silence, Da Ming slowly uttered two words, "Soul Hunting!"

"Soul Hunting?"

Xiaowu was taken aback.

But that didn't make sense.

If he came for soul hunting, he had even less reason to spare them.

Seeing Xiaowu's puzzled face, Da Ming explained, "This time, Qin Xiao killed that Dark Evil Tiger, which could contend with Soul Beast Overlords with a Cultivation Level of a hundred thousand years when it only had over sixty thousand years of cultivation!"

"What? The Dark Evil Tiger?"

A look of shock appeared on Xiaowu's pretty face, "You mean that one, that same one who once escaped from you and Er Ming, the individualistic one?"

Da Ming nodded his huge bovine head.

"Yes, that very one!"

"Alas."

"I really don't understand how that human named Qin Xiao could have"

Speaking, Da Ming couldn't help but sigh, "Originally, both Er Ming and I found that creature quite disagreeable, but he has a soul skill known as the Life-and-Death Arena, which is particularly sinister. It can pull both it and the selected opponent into their youth and fight a life-or-death battle. It's safe to say that under this soul skill, it doesn't matter whether your opponent is a hundred thousand years or ten thousand years old; what counts is how strong you were in your youth. And in its youth, whether it's me, the Azure Oxpython, or Er Ming, the Titan Ape, none of us would be a match."

Upon hearing this, Xiaowu's face showed a look of shock, "Are you saying that Qin Xiao at the age of three or four was stronger than us soul beasts... no, than the Dark Evil Tiger?"

Da Ming's mouth twitched, "As much as it's hard to accept, that's the truth. Qin Xiao is truly so powerful that he doesn't seem human."

"If it weren't for the fact that he still hunts soul beasts for Soul Rings, I would have suspected that Qin Xiao was one of us transformed soul beasts."

Xiaowu opened her mouth wide and nodded subconsciously, "He's truly not human."

"Alas." Da Ming suddenly sighed again, "Had I known what would come to pass, that we would provoke such a formidable enemy, I would have never let you transform and enter the human world. Even if you had a thousand reasons to be unhappy, it would have been better than living in constant danger of losing your life."

"This, this..."

Xiaowu fidgeted with the hem of her clothes, her face also showing a complicated look.

After a long while,

she also heaved a deep sigh, "Da Ming, to tell you the truth, I regret it too. I've regretted it since the moment Er Ming died."

"I also regret following Tang San away from Shrek, would things have been different if I had stayed by Qin Xiao's side, ready to sacrifice myself as a Soul Ring when he needed one? Maybe then, Er Ming wouldn't have had to die?"

There was no denying it; the death of Er Ming had become a pain in Xiaowu's heart.

In this period, she had even stopped cultivating, immersing herself in endless remorse every day.

She thought of many things.

If she had not made those wrong choices in the beginning, at worst, it would have cost her own life.

...

Time flies swiftly.

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.

On the streets of Tiandou City, Zhu Zhuqing could already see the sign of Blue Tyrant Academy coming into view.

"There's the academy ahead, I wonder if Your Highness and Yiran have returned."