Chapter 422: Silver Moon in the Sky (1/2)

After crying out for the little nun, the silverback gorilla rushed at her like he was reuniting with a family member. There were several holes through his body, and his shining, silver hair had been dyed crimson. He was in the nascent spirit realm now.

A dozen more cultivators of the same cultivation level chased after him, brandishing immortal swords.

“Help, little miss!!” the gorilla whined when he saw his pursuers catch up. Despite his six-meter-tall body, he quickly made his way to the little nun. Despair and regret crashed down on him when he saw she was alone. “Damn, I’ve dragged you into this too...”

“Don’t worry, just watch how I teach them a lesson.” A confident look flashed over the little nun’s face. The gorilla had twice saved her back on the Ingress Path, so she wouldn’t sit idly by when he was in danger.

Over the past ten days, she’d been locating and fixing all the flaws she’d left in herself when she first traveled this path. Although she was still a peak nascent spirit cultivator, she’d made tremendous progress from the cultivator she’d once been.

“Oh? Look at the immortal light surging to the sky, there’s a burial mound here!” The cultivators chasing after the silverback gorilla came to a halt. They didn’t consider the little nun, a mere nascent spirit cultivator, a threat. The burial mound was far more important to them.

“What a great opportunity! Just look at this surging sword qi, the heritage of a powerful sword immortal must be here! Junior sister, since we’re both humans, we’ll let you go if you walk away now.”

The leader of the group was a peak nascent spirit cultivator as well. His gaze was as sharp as his sword, and his presence inspired dread in others. After all, only the best of the best had survived to this point.

The little nun took a step forward and shielded both the gorilla and the mouth of the cave. “Just for that courtesy, I’ll extend the same to you. Leave now, and I’ll let you off the hook.”

Swoosh!

“...what?! You asked for this!” The man’s sword energy reached the little nun as soon as he finished talking.

Clink!

The girl raised her hand and blocked the attack with a crescent of silver moon.

“Hypocrite,” scoffed the little nun, advancing and slashing at the man with her crescent. She may be young, but she was extraordinarily experienced. She knew that if she walked away now, these people would ambush her.

The wounds on the silverback gorilla were explanation enough; he’d only been injured so seriously because he’d been ambushed.

“She’s good!” The cultivator bore the brunt of her attack head-on and staggered back, his arms going numb.

“Call in reinforcements!” snarled the leader.

However, that wasn’t really necessary. The surging sword qi in the cave had already attracted the attention of many cultivators. A good number of them had come to the area and were lurking about, observing the situation before making a move.

Quite a few in the dark world used the radiance from the burial mounds as bait to kill cultivators.

All of these cultivators were on the same side. As soon as the leader called out, a good number of them encircled the girl and the gorilla.

“We need the plant in the gorilla’s hand, kill it!” transmitted the leader. They’d been doggedly chasing after the gorilla because it’d acquired a great treasure. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of slashes coalesced into one enormous patch and slammed into girl and monster like a descending mountain.

The gorilla snarled furiously and readied himself to charge them, but the little nun pushed him away.

Hum.