Chapter 339: Shattered Star Pavilion (I)
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Watching Gu Ye let out a hearty laugh with her cute face and sweet voice, Lin Zheyu felt rather strange. Still, he only dared to complain inwardly and did not dare to say it aloud. Gu Ye was nothing like Senior Sister Wen Zi. Although Senior Sister Wen Zi was as forthright as a man and carried herself openly and generously, her personality was gentle and her thoughts delicate.
Senior Sister Gu Ye was different. She was a bona fide Vajra Barbie, with a temperament even more ferocious than a reckless brute. If Lin Zheyu dared to speak his inner thoughts from just now, he would definitely be pinned to the ground and rubbed into the dirt by Gu Ye.
Lin Zheyu followed Gu Ye into Soaring Serpent Mountain. The entire mountain had been renovated quite well, with plots of medicinal fields laid out in an orderly pattern.
"How did you escape from those yao martial artists just now?" Gu Ye asked curiously.
She had been locked in combat with that half-yao for quite some time, and the two were almost evenly matched. The gap in their strength was not very large, and even if one side managed to win after going all out, it would only be a miserable victory. As such, neither the half-yao nor Gu Ye truly pushed things to a life and death struggle.
After the two fought for a while, the half-yao seemed worried that the disturbance here would be discovered and that reinforcements might arrive. At the same time, he assumed Lin Zheyu had already been dealt with, so he left on his own. Gu Ye followed the traces he had left behind and tracked them all the way to the battlefield, only to find the corpses of several yao martial artists, with no sign of him.
"My lightness and movement techniques are good, and I also used a secret art to shake them off. If a senior had not stepped in in time to deal with them, I would have run out of stamina and been caught very quickly," Lin Zheyu said with a smile. This was an excuse he had prepared long ago.
"Did you see clearly what the senior who made the move looked like?" Gu Ye asked. Though she was somewhat suspicious, she still accepted Lin Zheyu's explanation.
No matter how she thought about it, she could not imagine how a Marrow Refining realm martial artist could so cleanly and decisively kill five yao martial artists with Force Transformation realm strength. Even the number one on the Hidden Dragon List throughout the ages could not achieve such a feat, although most of them did possess the ability to fight above their level and rival Force Transformation realm martial artists.
If he were facing just one of those five yao martial artists alone, there would still be a chance to defeat them, but it would not be so clean and decisive and would only end in a miserable victory. Facing all five at once, there would be no chance at all. Thus, Gu Ye did not doubt Lin Zheyu's words. What puzzled her was which senior had actually made the move. Gu Ye examined the traces at the scene and could not sense the slightest remnant of true strength aura.
"No. I was focused on escaping at the time," Lin Zheyu said as he shook his head.