Chapter 186: Summer’s Big Fight (2/2)

Seeing the soft smile of that middle-aged cultivator who walked to the side of Tiger King, not to mention the respectful salute, Ling Yan’s body involuntarily began to tremble, tingling as a feeling encompa.s.sed all over her skin. Her heart ached with terrible pain as she involuntarily recalled the cruel past events.

Right now, Ling Yan has successfully a.s.sumed the human form. Small parts of her body still retained the characteristics of spirit beast, after all, she was a member of Beast Master School, which let her enjoyed all the rights of human cultivators. However, prior to that, she was just an ordinary spirit beast in the Beast Master School captured by its members on a desolate mountain. She had to experience a harsh training to learn the rules of the human world.

And at that time, the one responsible for training her was exactly this brown-skinned cultivator before her.

Beast Trainer A Xia.

”Ling Yan? Long time no see.”

In the presence of that friendly smiling face, Ling Yan tremblingly retreated a few steps. In the past, whenever A Xia exposed such a smile, it meant the beginning of pain for her.

Seeing this unusual development, Tiger King frowned. ”I heard that in the Southern Heaven Region, you two have a master-disciple relations.h.i.+p. So you two should know each other very well and has a tacit understanding. Moreover, your past collaborative efforts are also good. That’s why I called him here. Ling Yan, what’s your problem?”

Ling Yan opened her eyes wide. She very much wanted to say her piece. However, seeing the impatient stare that was written all over Tiger King’s look, she could not utter even a single word.

Perhaps Tiger King was aware of some of the things that happened in her past, but he didn’t care. As he said, the two of them once has a master-disciple relations.h.i.+p, with a tacit understanding of each other, and efficient collaborative efforts… It was a perfect partners.h.i.+p indeed, if you don’t think about all the pain Ling Yan had once suffered.

And for this pain of Ling Yan, would Tiger King even cared?

”I, have no problem.” Ling Yan tightly clenched her fist while inwardly telling herself: ”I am not like the old me. Now I’m a peak Jindan Stage cultivator and no longer afraid of the middle-level Jindan A Xia. A Xia has been cultivating for two hundred years, no longer he could go further than that… He’s no better than me!”

However, while she was thinking about it, A Xia’s voice came from behind her, ”Mm, it’s been thirty years since we last met, but now your power is already at the peak Jindan Stage. It’s really an enviable talent.”

During which, several icy-cold fingers quietly stroke the nape of Ling Yan. A trace of negative cold energy immediately dissipated, as if it tried to freeze her entire Jade Mansion.

Ling Yan was alarmed. Just now, when she was about to raise her magical power to resist, that energy immediately disappeared without a trace. However, A Xia himself never moved even half a step, always standing next to Tiger King.

A cold sweat trickled down from the girl’s head as she was utterly confused.

However, at this time, no one paid attention to her unusual state. After Tiger w.a.n.g a.s.signed people to deal with the matter of Zen Master Dog Meat, he began to arrange for other people in the Grand Cloud Mountain to continue setting up arrays, refining spiritual treasure and catching the immortal beast moon spirit. Everyone held their breath, afraid that they would miss even a single instruction.

Right now, it was almost the seventh month, closer and closer to that critical moment. The tasks scheduled by Tiger King became more and more tight, so no one has the leisure time to pay attention to the situation of others.

After a long time, Tiger King finally finished arranging out the tasks. All the present Elders have already departed, except for one person who looked deathly pale.

That person was Chi Hou. After he lost Silver Back and White Teeth, his two spirit beasts, in battle, and his main magical treasure taken away, his cultivation base had suffered a big drop; he barely managed to stay in Jindan Stage… In many people’s eyes, this young Elder has lost his value. And just now on the tasks arrangement, Tiger King had already given Chi Hou’s original tasks to other Elders.

Being ignored and not given any responsibility, Tiger King’s intention to him seemed to have been clear enough. However, Chi Hou really didn’t want to be put down like this.

”Great Elder, I…”

Tiger King simply paid no heed to him. Without sparing even a glance at him, he turned around and left the hall.

Chi Hou went into despair. He felt that his chest stifled intermittently. Inside his Jade Mansion, a layer of hazy fog has covered his golden core. Unexpectedly, there were signs that it was about to rupture.

However, at this time, a trace of negative power seeped from behind him and stabilized the turmoil of his Jade Mansion. Chi Hou turned his head in surprise, only to see a slightly unfamiliar face.

A Xia?

Chi Hou didn’t know much about the Beast Trainer from the Southern Heaven Region. He only knew that his cultivation base was just middle-level Jindan and hasn’t made any real progress in the last fifty years; on the Immortal Cultivation road, he was already a basket case. However, on the path of beast taming, he had obtained recognition from the several Great Elders in the Southern Heaven Region. And who knew what kind of method used by Tiger King, the Great Elder in the Grand Cloud Mountain, to let him be transferred here to partner with Ling Yan?

In short, the distance between them was far apart even if they were of the same sect—after all, even if the other side was already a waste in the immortal cultivation path, it was still a middle-level Jindan waste, far more powerful than Chi Hou himself. What could this kind of person possibly want to do with him?

A Xia revealed a smile, which on that brown face of him looked horrendously cold to Chi Hou.

”There is something I want you to help. Just now, the Great Elder didn’t a.s.sign you with any task, so I want to take advantage of your free time… We might as well take a trip to Celestial Water Lake.”

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[1] Lei Zhen means Thunder Shock

[2] Xia in A Xia means summer