She cradled Ji Xinghuo’s face, her stunning visage leaning in.
Ji Xinghuo felt a softness and savored the sweet, heartwarming scent, reluctantly parting only after a long while.
Their gazes locked, breaths intertwined.
Ren Mian’s cheeks were flushed red; clearly, her heart wasn’t as bold as her actions suggested, but she managed to conceal her shyness.
"Do you understand now?"
"I do." Ji Xinghuo smiled lightly, "Sister Ren wants a taste of this tender grass."
"Nonsense." Ren Mian chided, slapping his shoulder lightly, "You little pervert, you’ve been making plans since the first day you saw , don’t think I didn’t know, and now you’re playing dumb."
"Hehe..."
Having his thoughts exposed, Ji Xinghuo, unfazed due to his thick skin, slightly tightened his embrace on Ren Mian.
Ren Mian imdiately sensed sothing was off, her heart skipping like she had been electrocuted.
"Don’t ss around." She quickly checked the dim surroundings of the Underground City, "This place is very dangerous, don’t push your luck."
"So would it be okay to change the location?" Ji Xinghuo asked.
"That won’t work either."
Ren Mian held his hand, her expression becoming serious, "The forms of the Rong Rong Composite can vary a lot, every tree is different, I can’t be sure of its capabilities; during battle, you should prioritize defense, staying alive is what’s most important."
"Alright, I understand," Ji Xinghuo nodded gravely.
After that, she detailed more key points about the potential abilities of the Rong Rong Composite and corresponding strategies.
After finishing, Ji Xinghuo, holding her, continued flying forward, the enormous shadow in front of them becoming gradually more pronounced.
A gigantic banyan tree stood at the center of the Underground City.
Even from over three thousand ters away, they could feel its imposing aura, the vegetation growing denser as they approached.
The canopy completely covered them overhead, its aerial roots dense like a forest.
But around its trunk, there was a clearing.
"Find a place to set down."
Ren Mian thought to herself.
Ji Xinghuo retreated back into the shadows, slowly circled to the backside of the giant tree, and found a spot not covered by plants to land.
Ren Mian landed carefully, her body sprouting green leaves and branches that covered her completely, blending her presence into the surrounding vegetation.
"Go on."
Ji Xinghuo nodded at her and then took flight.
He activated the "Stealth Ring", his figure hiding within the refraction, flew back the way he ca, and hovered in front of the Rong Rong Composite again, ensuring he was far enough from Ren Mian, and started approaching the giant tree.
As he got closer, the giant tree lood larger, filling his entire field of vision.
Three thousand ters, two thousand ters, one thousand ters...
At about five hundred ters, Ji Xinghuo’s path was blocked, vines and branches ford a dense net, making it impossible to pass without touching them.
He looked toward Ren Mian’s position.
This distance was beyond the communication range of the thought necklace.
"Let’s start then."
Ji Xinghuo said to himself, took the Black Constant Crystal Battle Bow from his back, drew a Tungsten Core Heavy Arrow, nocked, drew, aid at the trunk of the giant tree, and fired.
Boom!
The sound explosion resonated like thunder in the Underground City.
In an instant, the plants of the Underground City were stirred.
But before that, the Tungsten Core Heavy Arrow had already penetrated the trunk, booming as the bark exploded, wood chips flying, the whole tree shuddered, faintly emitting a pained moan, its branches and leaves shaking violently, the vines writhing like mad.
Rumbling...
All the plants ca to life, imdiately homing in on Ji Xinghuo, roots and vines surged from all directions, lashing toward him.
Ji Xinghuo flew backwards in mid-air, dodging the branch attacks.
anwhile, he fired another arrow.
The Tungsten Core Heavy Arrow turned into a supersonic black line, but before it struck the trunk, countless vines and branches blocked the path like a thick wall. Although a large hole was pierced through them, it ultimately deviated from its trajectory and missed.
Ji Xinghuo was still retreating when suddenly, the surrounding plants stopped attacking, clearing a space around him.
He seed to sense sothing and halted in mid-air.
The branches blocking in front of the vine banyan complex also moved aside, revealing the trunk. Under Ji Xinghuo’s gaze, a shadow erged from beneath the bark of the trunk where his arrow had hit.
Unexpectedly, it was a humanoid creature.
It had the torso and limbs like a human, its skin smooth and pale green, its figure curvaceous like a woman’s, devoid of clothing, erging step by step from the trunk, first the feet, then the thighs, slender waist, undulating chest, to the neck, and finally the head.
"Incarnation..."
Ji Xinghuo’s heart tightened; this must be the Incarnate form Ren Mian had ntioned.
This Incarnate was about two ters tall, with a swaying slender figure; he watched it step out of the trunk, inexplicably filled with anticipation.
However, when he clearly saw its face, he couldn’t help but feel a huge disappointnt.
Its looks were indescribably ugly.
It had all the facial features, but the proportions were off, as if haphazardly assembled like blocks. On its head grew dense green vines, presumably its hair. Its forehead bore a pair of antler-like branches, with bifurcations birthing leaves and several bright small flowers.
It seed to tread on an invisible floor, stopping mid-air after stepping out from the trunk.
Ji Xinghuo noticed it was holding a Tungsten Core Heavy Arrow, exactly the one he had shot into the trunk.
After it erged, the hole in the trunk quickly healed.
It cast a cold gaze.
Ji Xinghuo felt a surge of palpitation, but unexpectedly, the opponent did not imdiately attack but instead introduced itself, "I am called Qian Lv."
It spoke in the Highlander language.
The accent was strange and unfamiliar, as if multiple dialects of the Highlander Tribes were mixed together, its voice gender-neutral, indiscernible as male or female.
Ji Xinghuo was shocked; this creature could actually speak but did not respond.
"Are you an Eternal Day Guardian sent by the Crystal Elite Clan?" it seed to know a lot, scrutinizing Ji Xinghuo from kiloters away, its eyes brimming with confusion and puzzlent, "Many Highlanders like you I have killed, but none were as strange as you."
"What’s strange?" Ji Xinghuo finally spoke.
If he could stall for ti with conversation instead of fighting, it would be perfect.
Qian Lv said, "You have only evolved four tis, you should be weak, but your aura is stronger than those who have evolved five tis, I even felt threatened."
This could also be discerned?
Ji Xinghuo realized he had underestimated the intelligence of his opponent, just a few words, it spoke more fluently and was laden with much information.
He was about to speak again when suddenly, Qian Lv vanished.
A major warning blared in his mind, a stabbing pain at the brow.
In extre danger, the Wanxiang Star Pupil automatically activated, entering Myriad Phenona.
The world in front of Ji Xinghuo seed to freeze.
Electromagnetic Induction imdiately located Qian Lv, who was flying towards him at an inconceivable speed.
Qian Lv’s posture was horizontal as it moved forward, its body elongated to minimize air resistance, and the hand holding the Tungsten Core Heavy Arrow turned into a vine wrapping around the arrow.
Its entire body, like a gigantic arrow, tore through the air, forming layers of shock waves around itself, faster than the speed of sound.
Supersonic!
Ji Xinghuo was startled; the speed of sound on Earth Abyss Star was higher than on Earth, about 400 ters per second.
Yet the enemy’s speed far exceeded the sound speed of Earth Abyss Star, at least 500 ters per second!
More terrifyingly, this Qian Lv reached supersonic speed instantly, almost without any process of acceleration, defying common sense.
How was this possible?
As Ji Xinghuo was in the state of Myriad Phenona, trying to respond, he found that Qian Lv’s speed was even faster than he imagined; despite being slowed down by more than a dozen tis in his eyes, it was still rapidly closing in on him.
"I must dodge!"
Ji Xinghuo’s mind whirled.
The Rotating Magnetic Field and Electrostatic Field were fully activated, generating a tricolored scale armor of gold, silver, and cyan covering his body, with a transparent Flow Barrier outside. Overclocking Thought had already been activated, and in his hand, the Black Constant Crystal Battle Bow fired an arrow.
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