Chapter 136: The Mysterious Man!

With a few ape cries, an extremely dangerous feeling surged into Ye Yuan's heart!

This dangerous feeling made Ye Yuan's scalp tingle.

He knew that if he took another step forward, he would definitely face a catastrophic disaster!

The next moment, Ye Yuan retreated even faster than he had come!

"Senior Sister, let's go!"

Ye Yuan chose to retreat without hesitation. That was a third-tier demonic beast; it could wipe out the two of them with one hand.

Feng Zhirou also sensed something was wrong. Without waiting for Ye Yuan's reminder, she executed the Spirit Swallow Dance and swiftly dashed down the mountain.

Feng Zhirou and Ye Yuan fled down the mountain one after the other, but this lasted only a few breaths before both of them came to an abrupt halt.

"Senior Sister, be careful!" Ye Yuan shouted urgently.

Almost the moment Ye Yuan shouted, a white shadow over one person tall charged in from the side, arriving later but reaching Feng Zhirou in an instant!

Faced with this extremely powerful aura, Feng Zhirou was terrified. Without even thinking of resisting, she instantly retreated.

But compared to that white shadow, Feng Zhirou's speed was too slow!

Through a blur, Feng Zhirou saw a giant ape claw swatting down at her!

"Ah!"

In panic, Feng Zhirou raised her sword and struck out randomly, then closed her eyes in fear.

This third-tier Tongbi Stone Ape was too strong; it was simply beyond her ability to resist.

"It's over!" That was Feng Zhirou's final thought.

"Chi..."

Nine sword beams streaked across in front of Feng Zhirou, also charging in from the side, converging from different directions to a single point, striking the belly of the Tongbi Stone Ape!

Ye Yuan had activated the Nine Swords Technique at the first moment.

Unlike the chaotic attack last time, this time the nine sword beams converged into one. Ye Yuan's control over the sword beams had reached another level!

This was also Ye Yuan's extraordinary performance under extreme urgency; if he were to strike again, he might not be able to do it.

The nine afterimages of the Nine Swords Technique were not illusions but real entities!

This first move of the Azure Firmament Falling Sword was evolved by Ye Yuan combining the strengths of two sword intents, using the extremely fast movement of the Falling Flower Sword!

Each attack was personally delivered by him!

It was just that the speed was so fast in that instant that it appeared as if they came from nine different directions.

When the nine swords merged, the attack power was naturally unmatched, but it should not have been enough to harm a third-tier ape king.

Yet that ape king chose to avoid its edge!

With a "whoosh," the nine sword beams, after merging, flew out along their original trajectories, disappearing into the void.

Though it takes time to describe, it all happened in a flash.

From Ye Yuan's retreat, to the two of them fleeing, to the ape king attacking Feng Zhirou, to Ye Yuan relieving the siege by attacking a vital point—it all took only a few breaths.

At this moment, the ape king stood a few zhang away from Feng Zhirou, Ye Yuan also stood a few zhang away from Feng Zhirou, while Feng Zhirou was still waiting with closed eyes for the ape king's palm to strike.

The two humans and the beast had fallen into a stalemate!

"Wha... what happened? Ye... Ye Yuan, did you save me?" Feng Zhirou finally came to her senses, stammering as she looked at Ye Yuan.

Ye Yuan ignored her, keeping his eyes fixed on the ape king in the distance.

The third-tier ape king was terrifying; it could almost kill them both instantly. That Ye Yuan had managed to save Feng Zhirou just now was merely an impossible task accomplished under specific conditions.

The Ape King judged that Feng Zhirou was stronger and posed a greater threat, so it chose to attack her first.

And Ye Yuan happened to be at some distance from Feng Zhirou, so the Ape King could not attack both of them at once, which gave Ye Yuan the chance to strike calmly.

The reason the Ape King chose to retreat was that the spot Ye Yuan attacked was precisely the weakness of the Stone Ape! Ye Yuan's strike was extremely accurate!

If the Ape King had taken this blow head-on, it would likely have been severely injured by now.

Otherwise, given Ye Yuan's cultivation at the Qi Realm, no matter how strong his attack, it could not have done much damage to the Ape King.

In fact, if the Ape King had been willing to take a hit and strike back, Feng Zhirou would already be a cold corpse.

The reason Ye Yuan's sneak attack succeeded earlier was that the Ape King had underestimated them too much, thus revealing its weakness.

If the Ape King launched another attack, Ye Yuan and the woman would surely die!

So Ye Yuan never dared to relax his vigilance, keeping the Ape King firmly locked in his sights.

The Ape King clearly had not expected that a mere Qi Realm martial artist could pose a greater threat than that woman at the fourth layer of Liquid Spirit!

After the exchange, the Ape King could not help sizing up Ye Yuan.

Its ape face stared at Ye Yuan, revealing neither joy nor anger.

Seeing that Ye Yuan ignored her, Feng Zhirou dared not act rashly. Trapped between the two, she felt extremely uncomfortable.

But no matter how foolish she was, she knew she had just narrowly escaped death. She could never have imagined that Ye Yuan, a Qi Realm martial artist, could threaten the Ape King, who was at the Crystal Coagulation Realm!

This was too incredible!

Just now, she had been flustered and failed to mount an effective attack, but even if she had gone all out, she would still have been swatted to death by the Ape King.

Of this she was all too aware!

In that moment, the Ape King's power had suffocated her!

Yet Ye Yuan had actually managed to rescue her from under the ape king's grasp!

Though only a few breaths had passed, Feng Zhirou felt as if years had dragged by.

Fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead; every exhale of the ape king filled her with deep unease.

Feng Zhirou saw the grave expression on Ye Yuan's face and understood that the scene just now would likely be hard to repeat.

But what could she do?

Just as Feng Zhirou's thoughts were wandering, the ape king moved again!

Yet Ye Yuan did not move!

The moment the ape king stirred, a series of gibberish sounds came from Ye Yuan's mouth, completely unintelligible to Feng Zhirou.

What was Ye Yuan doing? Was he trying to communicate with the ape king? But how could the ape king possibly understand him?

As a princess of the Qin Kingdom, Feng Zhirou was well-traveled and knowledgeable, yet she had never heard of humans being able to communicate with demonic beasts!

There were too many kinds of demonic beasts—too many to even count—and each species used a different language. How could humans possibly master them?

But at this critical moment of life and death, would Ye Yuan do something so futile?

Feng Zhirou's eyes involuntarily turned to the ape king, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes.

The ape king, who had been about to launch an attack, actually stopped!

This... was simply astonishing!

A human, actually able to communicate with a demonic beast!

Feng Zhirou realized that the more she interacted with Ye Yuan, the more she felt the mysteries surrounding him multiplying.

Was the fifteen-year-old Ye Yuan really taught by his so-called master?

Truly a man of mystery!