Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land

The sound, upon first hearing it, was like a starving beast roaring from its throat when it spotted prey.

Fast, incredibly fast.

A strange wind rose up abruptly from the bottom of the cliff.

The strange wind came suddenly, with a ferocity surpassing a tsunami.

Yue Jinghua and two others, including Ye Zi and Yue Chen, felt like three lean boats on the sea, suddenly tossed outward, their insides churning tumultuously.

Immediately after, another force pulled them simultaneously toward the cliff.

Sky Gang Wind.

Yue Jinghua was scattered by the wind, and a terrifying thought intruded her mind.

She had seen on the continent that in some perilous mountainous areas of Longteng Continent, there naturally formed Sky Gang Winds existed.

At its mildest, the Sky Gang Wind howls like wild apes; at its worst, it covers the sky and the earth with its fierceness.

If one were pulled into a cliff by the Sky Gang Wind, even those with copper skin and iron bones would be shattered to pieces.

They say it’s slow, but it’s actually fast.

As they were falling, Yue Jinghua flicked her wrist, and a streak of golden light flashed between her slender fingers. "Soft Finger" extended and wrapped around Ye Zi’s waist, a gentle flick of her wrist tossing him up the cliff.

When she turned to save Yue Chen, she saw the Little boy next to her, unflustered, muttering continuously, and the vines wrapped around the cliff seemed to come alive, spreading branches and leaves, quickly forming a green vine net that entangled both of their feet.

"Not bad," Yue Jinghua unexpectedly praised Yue Chen, whose face flushed red. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly became speechless, not daring to breathe out loud, staring blankly at what was behind Yue Jinghua.

It turns out that while falling, Yue Jinghua was at the highest position with the fastest speed. Among the three, Ye Zi had already been tossed onto the cliff and was now calling out loudly above.

Yue Chen, being smaller, was now hanging about seventy to eighty feet above Yue Jinghua.

Seeing his strange expression and feeling a disgusting stench coming from below, Yue Jinghua knew something was amiss and held her breath to look back.

She saw a huge Mountain Wall Salamander, about two meters long with green skin and red eyes, lying on the steep cliff face as if carved by axes and chisels.

At first glance, Yue Jinghua thought she had seen a crocodile.

The Mountain Wall Salamander belonged to the salamander family of Dark Beasts, omnivorous, usually feeding on moss and insects on the cliffs.

But looking at the Salamander King in front of her, which seemed to have grown on steroids, Yue Jinghua wondered if this creature grew by eating humans.

The creature had rough, thick skin, its body covered in lumps of uneven sizes, with its strong limbs and suction cup tentacles firmly fixing its body on the steep wall, unaffected by the howling Sky Gang Wind from below the cliff.

Although Yue Jinghua was protected by Dark Energy, the Sky Gang Wind still made the corners of her eyes ache; she was more worried about Yue Chen above possibly slipping.

The territorial awareness of Dark Beasts is inherently strong, and this Mountain Wall Salamander King had been living in this area for hundreds of years and had achieved Seventh-level Great Success.

It had always relied on the terrain and Sky Gang Wind near Longevity Bridge, claimed the cliff as its own, and had swept away all the eagles and vultures that originally inhabited the area.

Who would have known that recently strangers kept intruding, disturbing its peace?

But in a moment’s time, the Mountain Wall Salamander King was also unsure about the strength of these intruders, its bulging eyes staring at Yue Jinghua, who swallowed hard, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.

"Zong Shaoqing, you damn betrayer," Yue Jinghua, almost tearful from the stench of the Mountain Wall Salamander King’s breath, wished to dismember the instigator Zong Shaoqing, as she realized he had let her walk into this deadly trap in the Black Forest.

To strike first is to gain the upper hand, Yue Jinghua read the same thought in the protruding eyes of the Mountain Wall Salamander King.

In an instant, with a powerful kick of its hind legs and a hiss, the Mountain Wall Salamander King shot out its tongue, red like a snake’s.

Yue Jinghua, whose waist was girded with tough vines, performed a backflip, narrowly avoiding the attack.

The formidable tongue left a hole in the solid mountain wall as if it were made of tofu.

"Yue Chen, you go up first," Yue Jinghua said, leaping a few yards off the mountain wall like swinging on a swing, just as she was about to hoist Yue Chen up.

In Yue Chen’s eyes, which resembled glass marbles, a fierce light emerged, and he swung his sleeve, causing the vines around him to stand erect aggressively.

"clang, clang, clang," each vine, as if having eyes of its own, aimed at and attacked the Mountain Wall Salamander King.

The Mountain Wall Salamander King, though thick-skinned and fleshy, was now clinging to the cliffside, consuming considerable Dark Power.

Additionally, Yue Jinghua seized the opportunity and coordinated an attack with Yue Chen’s vines.

"Get up there," Yue Jinghua’s body surrounded by Yaksha Killing Flames, heard her give a light shout and kicked at the belly of the Mountain Wall Salamander King.

Though Yue Jinghua’s kick seemed gentle, her control over Dark Energy had significantly improved since she practiced the Dark Energy transformation technique taught by Old Kuru.

With the Dark Energy Sword, her Dark Power could increase fivefold; focusing the Dark Power in her hands and feet could triple its strength.

This kick was perfect, aligning with the vigorous Sky Gang Wind blowing from below.

A gust of Sky Gang Wind surged upward, and the Mountain Wall Salamander King’s body, weighing several hundred pounds, was lifted off the cliff by the wind and Yue Jinghua’s Dark Power.

Yue Chen softly instructed, and the agile vines wrapped around both of them, securely lifting them onto the cliff.

Once on the cliff, the Mountain Wall Salamander King, stunned unconscious by the wind and Yue Jinghua’s kick, was swiftly tied up securely by Ye Zi and Yue Chen.

In just a few months, Ye Zi had matured significantly in intellect and lost her childish capriciousness.

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The growth in Yue Chen’s eloquence and courage by day and night made their teamwork seamless and their binding incredibly swift—they were truly a pair of little wolves.

It seems the idea of taking them out for training was the correct decision.

Yue Jinghua couldn’t help but sigh internally, truly the old waves are pushed forward by the new. It seems she, one of the old waves, needed to up her efforts too.

"Ah, there’s something in the belly of this Mountain Wall Salamander," Ye Zi noticed while binding the creature’s hind legs that its abdomen was unusually large.

Touching it, she found a semi-spherical protrusion in the salamander’s belly, feeling somewhat firm and somewhat soft.

Could this Mountain Wall Salamander be a pregnant female? But the Gold Eater Worm quickly denied this as this salamander was male.

"It’s a male, kill it, kill it," the Gold Eater Worm shouted incessantly, the creature’s ugly appearance and bad breath completely unsuitable for being contracted.

"Wait," Yue Jinghua felt around the salamander’s belly and suddenly felt something move inside.

A live being?

Yue Jinghua was astonished. Could it be that what Zong Shaoqing wanted her to find at Longevity Bridge was inside the Mountain Wall Salamander’s belly?