Chapter 276: Monster God? (2/2)

“Dead, dead. We’re really all dead!” Her lips trembled faintly and her brown eyes shone with fear.

“This… is a bit of overkill, isn’t it?” Beigong Yu was caught off guard by the incoming army as well.

It was a group of heavy cavalry clad in black armor and riding exceptionally fierce beasts as their mounts. The dust they kicked up threatened to obscure the entire horizon as they charged at Lu Yun and the others. There were at least three hundred thousand of them!

It was ludicrous that the Monster God would send such a large army just because Aoxue had bullied a few toll-takers. Even Lu Yun was flabbergasted. What was this Monster God thinking?

Silver starlight sparkled from Qing Han as he readied for a fight.

“Surrender, blasphemers against the Monster God!” the leading black-armored rider bellowed upon halting the army three hundred meters away from them. “Surrender at once!”

“I wish to speak with the Monster God,” Lu Yun said coldly and took a step forward.

“A mere cultivator,” scoffed the leading rider, “and you have the audacity to demand an audience with His Holiness?”

“Oh? Do you think I’m not good enough?” Lu Yun chortled and walked toward the imposing army on his own. Wising up to the truth, Qing Han retracted his starlight aura and quietly watched Lu Yun.

“Stop!!” shouted the leading rider. “I ordered you to stop!!”

“Why should I?” Lu Yun asked with a supercilious smile.

“Stop at once, or I’ll, I’ll...” panic colored the rider’s voice.

“Or what?” Lu Yun cracked a smile. “Or you’ll bite me?” His voice focused into a straight line that zipped into the army. “Aren’t you supposed to be with Mo Yi, little thing? How did you end up here?”

“It really is you, Lu Yun!” said a childlike voice. “If you don’t expose me, we can still be friends!”

“Alright, alright, I won’t,” Lu Yun transmitted to her with resignation. “Just dispel your illusions, first.”

Swoosh!

All three hundred thousand soldiers vanished in the next moment, but to others, it’d leisurely retreated after capturing Lu Yun and the others.

A pretty little girl of about nine years old appeared before Lu Yun. She was simply too exquisitely pretty and had big eyes, a small mouth, delicate nose, and fair skin. Dressed in white, one could see what a great beauty she would grow into.

It was Miao, the little fox Lu Yun had discovered in the burial mound under the Myriad Formation Summit. She’d disguised herself as a beautiful man, then, but had ended up exposed by Mo Yi. Although she lacked raw power, she was a master of illusions who could fool almost everyone. Lu Yun was an exception, since he was an expert of feng shui and knowledgeable in many other fields.

“Rumors have been flying for the past couple of days that you were coming to the island. I didn’t expect you to actually come here and undermine my authority!” Both her voice and face were childlike, but she affected a mature tone when she spoke.

“There were rumors about my arrival?” Lu Yun’s face clouded over. “Have the old men from the Qing Clan come already?”

There was no question that Lun Yun would make a stop at Levitating Island first after entering the North Sea. Thus, a few Qing dao immortals had come to the island ahead of him to announce his arrival. Lu Yun was a public enemy of the North Sea, after two monster kings had died at his hands.

Once the news reached the North Sea Court, there really would be three hundred thousand soldiers coming after him.

“What about you?” Lu Yun asked in bafflement. “How did you become this Monster God? And you’ve almost gained human form already. Didn’t you say it’s only possible after ascending to peerless immortal realm?”

He only realized now that Miao had truly transformed into a human, rather than create the form from illusions.