Chapter 24 (1/2)
Behind the bush, the night spirit lady looked at Mo Xiaobai with fear and astonishment in her eyes.
She swallowed a mouth of saliva, and whispered to the barbarian man, “Boss, what do we do now?”
The barbarian man was frowning heavily. He glared at Mo Xiaobai. There was fear in his eyes too.
“I didn’t expect the Fake Smile Tiger, Cheng Peng, to die in his hands. Cheng Peng’s cultivation stage was at one force point sixth-rank, yet this young man killed him so easily. How powerful is he?!”
The young male human at the side felt like giving up. “Boss, we can kill him if we attack him together, but one or two of us might die. We might even die together with him…”
The barbarian man didn’t say anything. He just stared intently at Mo Xiaobai, and wondered if he should attack him.
As for the two rabbit-men behind the big tree, they were discussing in low voices too.
“Brother, what should we do? Should we attack him?”
“Even Cheng Peng died in his hands. Are you sure we can defeat him?”
“But… Cheng Peng had quite a lot of assets. Are we going to give up so easily?”
“…”
“…”
Their gazes flickered.
In the past, they might have given up already.
After all, it was just exceptional ingredients separated out of two magical beasts. Now, however, the assets of the Fake Smile Tiger, Cheng Peng, were there too.
Although they were shocked by Mo Xiaobai’s ability, they weren’t able to leave willingly with so many treasures laid out in front of them.
In the other direction, Mo You and Mu Yuzhu glanced at each other when Mo Xiaobai killed Cheng Peng. There was astonishment in their eyes too.
After a moment of silence, Mu Yuzhu slowly put down the longbow she was drawing. “Xiaobai will be fine even if we don’t follow him.”
Mo You nodded. “That’s right. When I was his age, I wasn’t so decisive.”
There was relief in his expression.
Beside him, Mu Yuzhu smiled proudly. “Of course. You have to know whose son he is!”
Mo You smiled.
Isn’t he my son too?
What are you saying?
He didn’t want to argue with Mu Yuzhu. Instead, he squinted and looked in the direction where the other two groups of people were hiding.
“I’m afraid that they might not give up.”
“Let’s see how Xiaobai deals with it.”
Mu Yuzhu’s gaze turned cold again. She clutched her longbow tightly.
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After breathing in deeply for some time, Mo Xiaobai finally managed to calm down his emotions.
Just as he planned to pick up Cheng Peng’s items, he suddenly froze.
He turned and looked towards the forest. His pupils constricted.
To kill Cheng Peng, Mo Xiaobai came closer to the forest. His lines of white lights were covering the forest, so he noticed that there were actually grayish-black lines of lights in the forest too!
There were even two areas with grayish-black lights!
He tensed up instantly and grabbed his heavy sword.
Although these two grayish-black lines of lights were fainter than the lights surrounding Cheng Peng, it didn’t mean that they weren’t dangerous.
He scanned the areas where the grayish-black lights could be seen, and coldly said, “Who’s there! Come out!”
The three-man team and the team of rabbit-men trembled when they heard what Mo Xiaobai said. They were dumbstruck.
The barbarian opened his mouth in surprise. “He’s able to sense us?!”
The male human appeared frightened. “Boss, his true power might be even stronger than what he displayed.”
The rabbit-woman opened her mouth too. “Brother, should we retreat?”
The two rabbit-men were staring at each other too.
After remaining silent for some time, both parties made their decision.
Retreat!
In Mo Xiaobai’s vision, the lines of grayish-black lights in the two areas disappeared slowly, and soon turned white.
Mo Xiaobai was stunned. He was confused too.
What happened?
Just now, there were still gray lights there. Why did they disappear in the blink of an eye?