Luo Ling naturally heard the shrill howl coming from the center of Wu Shan City. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she stared at the back of the eerie man, hesitating for a moment.
After a moment of silence, Luo Ling turned around and glanced at Ke Bei, whose face was as white as a sheet. The step she was about to take slowly retracted. With a slightly helpless sigh, she turned and walked towards Ke Bei.
The shrill roar just now didn't come from an ordinary zombie or an ordinary demon beast, but from a general-level demon beast.
Luo Ling had been following that general-level demon beast, which was in a weakened state, all the way to Wu Shan City. She just didn't expect that there would be a Divine Race here, and even more unexpectedly, she would meet Ke Bei, the young man who had once saved her life.
Encountering a general-level demon beast in a weakened state was a very rare stroke of luck.
Since Luo Ling happened to come across this demon beast, she naturally didn't want to give up. Originally, she planned to follow the demon beast all the way and make her move when it was at the end of its strength. But now, the situation had developed far beyond her expectations.
Luo Ling didn't have absolute confidence in dealing with a weakened general-level demon beast. Now, with the addition of a junior-level Divine Race, it was almost impossible for her to kill the weakened demon beast.
Demon beasts and the Divine Race had always been in cahoots.
In the face of the increasingly powerful humans, these two forces had established an alliance relationship a long time ago. It could be expected that if Luo Ling tried to kill the demon beast, that junior-level Divine Race would definitely not stand idly by. Once the two joined forces, with Luo Ling's current strength, the outcome would definitely not be good. Moreover, since her former savior, Ke Bei, was so seriously injured, Luo Ling had to stay, both emotionally and rationally.
"Can you still hold on?"
Luo Ling walked up to Ke Bei and supported his staggering body, asking with a worried expression.
"Yes."
Ke Bei gritted his teeth, enduring the intense pain in his chest, and slowly nodded.
"Are you really okay? Do you want to go back to the base city?"
Luo Ling looked at Ke Bei's pale face and still felt uneasy.
"I'm, I'm fine..."
Ke Bei managed to force a smile and slowly shook his head.
"You're being stubborn."
Luo Ling glanced at Ke Bei's bloody and mangled chest, furrowed her brows, and helped Ke Bei slowly walk into the residential building that was mostly collapsed.
She quickly and neatly took off Ke Bei's tattered gray standard battle suit, carefully cleaned the wound, and then applied a layer of ointment.
After simply treating the wound, the worry on Luo Ling's face didn't decrease at all. Instead, it became even more pronounced. Ke Bei's injury was much more serious than she had imagined.
Almost all of his breastbones were shattered, and all of his internal organs were also severely damaged. It was really hard to imagine how Ke Bei had managed to hold on with such an injury.
"No, we must go back to the base city. Your injury can't be delayed any longer."
Luo Ling frowned tightly and, without further ado, picked Ke Bei up.
As a powerhouse in the Mortal Transcendence Realm, Luo Ling's pure strength was also a notch higher than that of a third-level enhancer. Although after breaking through to the Mortal Transcendence Realm, there wasn't a qualitative improvement in physical strength, she still had the strength equivalent to about thirty people. So, it was quite easy for her to carry Ke Bei.
Being held in Luo Ling's arms, Ke Bei gave a helpless bitter smile. In fact, there was really no need to go back to the base city because he had just received a prompt from the system that his body was strong enough to undergo the tempering of the third layer of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong.
Once he underwent the tempering, everything would be fine. But Ke Bei really didn't know how to say it. He didn't want anyone to know the secret of the system, so he could only be helplessly picked up by Luo Ling.
As Luo Ling ran quickly, his face slightly collided with the softness of her chest. Ke Bei's face turned as red as if he had been drinking alcohol.
This kind of collision not only made Ke Bei feel embarrassed, but also made Luo Ling feel a tingle in her body, and a blush appeared on her pretty face.
"Don't move around."
Luo Ling's face was flushed. Seeing Ke Bei closing his eyes and looking as if he was enjoying it, she suddenly shouted coquettishly with a hint of shyness and anger. In fact, she really misunderstood Ke Bei.
Ke Bei also felt very embarrassed about this, so he kept trying to move his face outward. But the injury in his chest was too severe, and he couldn't control himself at all. He had no choice but to rest his face on the softness of Luo Ling's chest, thinking that this could reduce the collision.
Who would have thought that it would elicit a shy shout from Luo Ling.
Luo Ling's speed was very fast. Although she was carrying Ke Bei, her speed wasn't greatly affected. Soon, she ran to the front of a dilapidated gymnasium in the outer city of Wu Shan City.
Crossing the gymnasium meant leaving Wu Shan City.
"Roar."
Suddenly, a roar sounded, and Luo Ling stopped in her tracks.
A demon beast that was three stories tall, covered in green scales, and had a single horn on its forehead, with four hooves thicker than the waist of an ordinary human, rumbled towards them.
There was also an eerie man with a handsome face standing on the demon beast's shoulder.
Looking at the demon beast that suddenly rushed over, Luo Ling's pretty face changed instantly. Her expression became solemn, and she slowly put Ke Bei on the ground.
"Roar, humans, die."
The huge demon beast, as big as a small mountain, opened its huge mouth, let out a roar, and spat out simple words.
General-level demon beasts had intelligence no less than that of humans, and they could speak human language.
"Hehe, human woman, do you still think you can go back alive?"
The eerie man standing on the demon beast's shoulder smiled sinisterly.
The eerie man's smile was very strange and happy. Originally, he couldn't keep Luo Ling here by himself. And if Luo Ling went back, then he couldn't stay in Wu Shan City anymore because once the news spread, a large number of human powerhouses would rush over quickly.
But now it was different. A general-level demon beast, even a weakened one, plus his own strength, would definitely be able to keep this newly advanced Mortal Transcendence Realm powerhouse among humans in front of him.
"Hmph."
Luo Ling didn't say anything. She let out a cold snort. Her face was more solemn than ever. Her sword was unsheathed with a flash, and a chilling coldness instantly rose from within her.
A general-level demon beast, plus a junior-level Divine Race, even if Luo Ling was a Chosen One, she could only run away. But now, with the injured Ke Bei, it was very difficult to escape.
She couldn't abandon Ke Bei, so she could only fight.
She had to take a gamble. The general-level demon beast had been weakened for more than ten days. Although she didn't know what had caused the demon beast to be so weak, its combat power must have been affected.
Staring coldly at the huge demon beast like a small mountain, Luo Ling already had a plan in her heart. She had to kill the weakened demon beast with lightning speed, and then a single junior-level Divine Race would not be a threat.
She must not drag it out, otherwise she would really die here.
"Roar."
The demon beast let out a roar, and its huge body rushed over like a tank. The green scales reflected a cold light, and the one-meter-long blood-colored horn on its forehead stabbed fiercely towards Luo Ling.
The eerie man standing on the demon beast's shoulder also moved at the same time. He stomped his foot hard, and a surging force burst out instantly. He swooped down like lightning.
"Heavenly Cold."
Luo Ling's eyes were completely pale white, and a terrifying coldness seeped out of her body. With a low shout, her pair of jade-like hands spun rapidly in front of her chest, and a chilling coldness shot out. The temperature within a radius of about ten meters around suddenly dropped.
When the demon beast and the eerie man stepped within ten meters of Luo Ling, a white mist instantly enveloped them.Immediately, an ice mountain rose from the ground, and the demon beast and the eerie man were frozen into ice sculptures, their bodies stiffening in mid-air.
While the two were frozen in mid-air, Luo Ling didn't dare to hesitate for a moment. A murderous coldness suddenly rose on her slender sword, turning into a white ray of light that slashed fiercely towards the demon beast's ferocious huge head.
Crack~Bang
In less than a second, the entire ice mountain suddenly exploded.
Just as Luo Ling's sword light was about to slash at the demon beast's neck, the ice mountain shattered, and it happened to regain its freedom. With a shrill roar, the demon beast's huge body suddenly turned, and Luo Ling's sword slashed onto its green scales, creating a shower of sparks.
At the same time, the eerie man standing on the demon beast's shoulder threw a fierce punch towards Luo Ling.
The terrifying fist wind carried a sharp sound of breaking the air.
"No, if this goes on, Luo Ling won't be able to hold on for long." Ke Bei stared at the three parties engaged in the battle, his brows furrowed tightly.
"I have to help her!"
Ke Bei gritted his teeth, enduring the waves of piercing pain, and staggered forward, walking towards the dilapidated gymnasium behind him.
He had to immediately undergo the tempering of the third layer of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong, but he couldn't let anyone else see it, so he could only hide in the gymnasium.
Luo Ling rotated her jade-like palm and fiercely clashed head-on with the eerie man. Her body quickly retreated. Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Ke Bei's trembling figure walking towards the gymnasium. A sense of disappointment suddenly welled up in her heart.
"So you're also a coward who's afraid of death."
A bitter smile escaped from the corner of Luo Ling's mouth. Thinking of the first time she met Ke Bei, the scene where he used his body to block the zombies and prevent a single drop of blood from staining her, and comparing it with the current scene of Ke Bei tremblingly hiding in the gymnasium, an endless sense of disappointment suddenly surged in Luo Ling's heart.