All these thoughts swirled in Wang Julong’s mind, but the girl quickly shook her head. "I only care about him because he’s my friend," she thought as her gaze briefly swept toward the path Hui Yue had taken. Before returning to her task of observing plant seeds, she sighed once more.
As he crossed the forest, Yan Xiaobao quickly arrived at the area guarded under the forced control of the City Lord.
Standing in the shadow of a tree, Yan Xiaobao observed the people ahead, waiting for Deng Wu to catch up with him.
"Keep my body safe," Yan Xiaobao said. Without waiting for a response, his companion acted swiftly. The white-haired boy sat down in ditation, fusing himself with the earth, letting his consciousness rge completely with it.
Yan Xiaobao allowed the ground to tremble everywhere, leaving traps and soil-crafted spikes scattered across the area. Coffins ford of earth buried people alive, suffocating them to death.
A scream echoed through the forest. Once the final guard was dealt with, Yan Xiaobao withdrew his consciousness back to his body and stood up.
"I am the Forest King!" His voice, amplified by Qi, reverberated through the entire forest, shaking the ground once again.
"I warned you not to co here!" Yan Xiaobao continued as he swiftly located the black cloak he’d previously donned and wrapped it around his body again. Gesturing for Deng Wu to follow, he made his way toward the elder and the City Lord.
Hui Yue walked along the forest’s outskirts, where nurous corpses lay scattered. With a simple hand motion, the earth beneath the bodies began to shift, gathering all of them beside Yan Xiaobao as he proceeded toward the outskirts where the City Lord was waiting.
As a figure draped in a black cloak erged, visible shock flashed in the eyes of the City Lord and his entourage. Another cloaked figure followed, alongside rolling waves of earth delivering the bodies of the guards who had entered the forest.
Yan Xiaobao stepped forward, and upon closer inspection, the City Lord noticed that his feet never touched the ground. Instead, he hovered several centiters above it, suspended there without any traceable ripples in his cultivation.
"He’s not what you think he is." Suddenly, the voice of the City Lord’s forr captain rang out in his mind, causing his heart to pound painfully as adrenaline and Qi stirred violently within his body. Every fiber of the man standing before him exuded fear, much like the guards had felt. The key difference lay in the City Lord’s awareness that everyone cultivates so sort of path through existence, as the essence of heaven and earth is omnipresent. Yet here was a man, floating without any detectable cultivation base.
Yan Xiaobao wasn’t truly flying by himself, but rather hovering atop two small spheres of Qi.
Gazing at the City Lord, Yan Xiaobao commanded the earth to deliver all the corpses directly before him. As the bodies piled up, the City Lord’s own fear caused his body to tremble uncontrollably, regret overwhelming him for not heeding his forr captain’s warnings.
Observing how the man manipulated the earth with such mastery, it beca clear that Yan Xiaobao’s cultivation base far surpassed not only his own but also that of the elders. This realization caused an almost explosive sense of regret to erupt within the City Lord’s heart.
"I’ll give you one last warning," Yan Xiaobao said in his altered voice. "Step into my forest again, and I will not spare you any face!"
With those words, Yan Xiaobao turned around. Relying on his Qi spheres, he floated back into the forest, leaving behind the elder and City Lord, who stood paralyzed in disbelief and terror.
Watching the figure disappear into the distance, the City Lord and his elders exhaled heavily, as though their very lives had narrowly been spared.
What they didn’t know was that Yan Xiaobao could have gone to great lengths to avoid killing the City Lord.
This was not out of respect or even the slightest fondness for him. No, it was because Yan Xiaobao recognized the precarious state of Cave’s End City. If the City Lord were to be lost, the city would likely fall into chaos.
"Let’s go back," the City Lord said with a weary sigh, his eyes, which once burned with pride and battle-hardened determination, now dulled and vacant. His forr arrogance had shifted into the appearance of a broken old man. "From this day forward, we must stay far from the forest."
Allowing no room for further discussion, the City Lord moved toward the corpses, placing each into a storage stone. He then turned and began the journey back to Cave’s End City. For the remainder of the trip, his face bore a heavy, oppressed expression, while the four accompanying elders kept close and wore similar looks of grim defeat.
At the forest’s edge stood two cloaked figures in black. Neither moved as they silently watched the five n slowly retreat toward the city, carrying storage stones filled with countless bodies.
Every step was slow and heavy, their faces marked by a bleak oppression, the air around them thick with suffocating tension.
As he gazed at the five retreating n, Yan Xiaobao’s eyes burned with lethal intent. They had sided with Sun in this matter, attempting to sell her for personal gain. Although Yan Xiaobao could slightly comprehend their motivations, he resolutely refused to accept their choices.
"Why didn’t you kill them?" Deng Wu’s voice cut through the eerie silence lingering in the forest after the bloody confrontation. The dark-haired man easily recognized the murderous intent that still flickered in his friend’s eyes.
"Killing them wouldn’t solve anything," Yan Xiaobao sighed, slowly turning his gaze away as the group disappeared into the horizon. "If I killed them, a new City Lord would take over. Who knows if he’d dare to challenge , the Forest King," Yan Xiaobao explained, his voice weary and his body aching from the clash with the soldiers.
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