Chapter Sixteen: A Thin Line Between Life and Death

  The vast grassland, surprisingly, didn't have a single ferocious beast, yet there was an inexplicable oppressive feeling. The deeper Qin Yu and Xiao Hei ventured into the grassland, the more cautious they became, their spiritual awareness fully extended, both of them sensing an unseen crisis.

  "Little Hei, there's a small mountain in the distance." Qin Yu stared at it thousands of meters away, but felt that this small mountain was somewhat strange.

  On the grassland, a vast expanse of misty haze, mostly small lakes or wild grasses, but suddenly a small hill emerged in front, Qin Yu's already tense heartstrings tightened further, Xiao Hei Eagle's gaze also converged, and then transmitted a message: "Big brother, let's go around that small hill!"

  It's just Xiao Hei being cautious for once.

  "Alright, go around!"

  Qin Yu and Xiao Hei both accelerated their flight involuntarily, flying westward around a distant small mountain. The small mountain was dark red in color, with rocks that were neatly arranged in blocks. When Qin Yu and Xiao Hei flew halfway there, suddenly—

  "Human, Little Black Eagle."

  A spiritual consciousness transmission sound echoed in Qin Yu and Xiao Hei's minds.

  "Xiao Hei, hurry up!"

  Qin Yu didn't care about anything else, and immediately transmitted his spiritual sense to urge Xiao Hei, while he himself also started flying at high speed. Qin Yu had already guessed that this strange prairie must have a very powerful demon beast, one that even his spiritual sense couldn't detect.

  "Shall we go?"

  Suddenly, a shocking aura radiated from afar, completely suppressing Qin Yu and Xiao Hei. The aura was much more overwhelming than the heavenly thunder of the 49th Heaven's Calamity, causing Qin Yu and Xiao Hei to feel their heartbeats pounding incessantly in their ears.

  "Big brother, what a terrifying aura!" Xiao Hei couldn't help but turn his head towards the source of the aura.

  Qin Yu also turned his head to look over.

  All they saw was a huge dark cloud covering the sky, and then this huge dark cloud flashed, and fell in front of Qin Yu and Xiao Hei. The speed was so fast that it left Qin Yu and Xiao Hei staring with their mouths agape. Clearly, this monster's speed was faster than theirs.

  "Humans, Black Hawks, now that you're here, do you still think you can run?"

  The monster's voice in front of him echoed in Qin Yu and Xiao Hei's mind.

  Qin Yu looked at the monster in front of him and couldn't help but take a deep breath. The monster's entire body was dark red, over 100 meters long, and several tens of meters high, with its whole body covered in dark red armor like rocks. Its neck had six sharp and thick spikes, and on its forehead was a golden horn.

  "Divine Beast: Vah Ruta!"

  Qin Yu felt a dryness in his throat, and he had also read about many demonic beasts in some of the cultivation manuals in Leishan's study. This dragon-like lion was enormous in size, said to be the offspring of the divine beast Shenlong and the divine beast Huoyan Lion.

  Oh my god!

  Yao beasts are also divided into many levels, and the highest existence is the divine beast. The divine beast has a strong power, and it's impossible to judge from the surface boundary. A yuan infant stage divine beast is even more powerful than a dongxu stage cultivator.

  Divine Beast, in the eyes of a Cultivator, is synonymous with overwhelming power.

  It's also in the Great Completion stage, a divine beast that has gone through nine calamities can take down ten cultivators at the Upper Great Completion stage. The gap is really too big.

  "Big brother, what a powerful aura. Even the Golden Flame Eagle in its Yuan Ying period didn't make me feel this uncomfortable." Xiao Hei was also feeling immense pressure at this moment.

  Xiao Hei and Qin Yu had no chance of catching up in their high-speed flight. They had just seen the speed of this Longyan Lion, which was more than twice as fast as Qin Yu's fastest state. They had no hope at all.

  Longyan's eyes stared at Qin Yu and Xiao Hei, then his spiritual sense transmitted a laugh: "You actually dare to enter my forbidden domain, it seems that you are also outsiders, fundamentally not knowing the rules here."

  Qin Yu knew that the divine beast's wisdom was no less than that of humans, and immediately spoke in a respectful tone: "I am Qin Yu. My second brother Hei Yu and I need to hurry back to the Profound Dragon Continent. We have never been to this grassland before and do not know its rules. I hope senior can let us leave."

  Qin Yu knew the principle of lowering one's head when under someone else's roof.

  "Senior, can I ask what realm you've reached? I feel like you're much stronger than that Yuan Ying stage's Jin Yan Eagle." Little Hei didn't know what was going on and asked Long Yan Shi this question at this time.

  Longyan Lion stared at Xiao Hei and replied, "The Golden Flame Eagle of the Yuan Ying period? Is it the Yellow Feathered Eagle from 70,000 miles east? Although I am also in the Yuan Ying period like him, but this little bird, even if ten came, I can easily take care of them!"

  Longyan Lion himself exuded an aura of intimidation, and then looked at Xiao Hei with a different interest: "Xiao Hei Eagle, you seem to have an aura that attracts me, I feel... eating you should be very beneficial for me."

  Qin Yu and Xiao Hei were shocked at the same time, just now seeing Long Yan Shi was still good to talk to, with a glimmer of hope in their hearts. Now Long Yan Shi actually said this.

  "Little Black Eagle, you seem to have some feelings for this human. If you agree to let me eat him, I'll spare his life. Eating a human wouldn't do me any good anyway, and I'm too lazy to bother. What do you think of my plan? Actually, I dislike forcing other demons the most. But... if you resist, then I'll have no choice but to eat both of you." Longyan Lion's voice echoed in Qin Yu and Little Black's minds.

  Xiao Hei felt the aura of Longyan Lion, an aura ten times more terrifying than that of Jin Yan Eagle, and knew that he was no match for it. Perhaps even a Dongxu period cultivator would not be confident in facing this Yuan Ying period divine beast, let alone Qin Yu and Xiao Hei.

  Xiao Hei looked at Qin Yu, and his eagle eyes emitted complex human emotions, which Qin Yu clearly felt.

  "Big brother..."

  "Xiao Hei, don't think nonsense." Qin Yu's cold voice sounded in Xiao Hei's mind. "Xiao Hei, if you don't fight hard and die for me like this, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life. Moreover... we also have a chance to escape!"

  Qin Yu recalled the introduction of the Long Rock Lion in his cultivation book.

  "I've read about the Longyan Lion, it's a divine beast with incredible strength and speed. The defense of its Longyan armor is also off the charts, said to be even stronger than that of a dragon. However, nothing is perfect. Due to its massive body, its agility is lacking, making turns and dodges its weakness. It only excels at linear speed."

  Qin Yu said this, and Xiao Hei also completely understood Qin Yu's meaning.

  "Big brother......" Xiao Hei was very clear, although Qin Yu's words were reasonable, but the Longyan Lion was after all a divine beast. As long as one person or eagle was slightly careless, they would be killed by the Longyan Lion.

  "Never mind, even if it's death, let's die together. Who cares about the divine beast." Qin Yu's heart also turned ruthless.

  Qin Yu's bloodline has the unique pride of the Qin family, which was passed down from Qin Shi Huang's victory. Generation after generation of Qin family children, whether it was Qin De or Qin Feng, Qin Zheng, or Qin Yu, were all that kind of proud person.

  "You two little guys, what are you whispering to each other? Xiao Hei Ying, have you thought it through?" Long Yan Shi's eyes looked down at the small figures in front of him, Qin Yu and Xiao Hei were indeed 'small' in Long Yan Shi's eyes.

  "Senior, I've agreed." Little Hei Lingzi replied through mental transmission.

  Longyan Lion burst into loud laughter, the sound echoing for hundreds of miles. Qin Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately transmitted a spiritual message: "Xiao Hei, escape, fly westward, change your flight trajectory!"

  Xiao Hei unfolded 'Flash Nine Flashes', and after a few slight vibrations on his wings, he shot up into the sky at incredible speed like a zigzagging bolt of lightning.

  And under Qin Yu's feet, a top-grade spiritual artifact 'Yan Chi Sword' appeared. The power of the pale silver star completely penetrated between his body and the Yan Chi Sword, making Qin Yu's physical body seem like a spiritual artifact, merging with it! Qin Yu stepped on the flying sword and flew westward.

  One man and one eagle flew out from both sides of the dragon lion.

  Longyan Lion suddenly realized he had been deceived when One Man and One Eagle flew away at high speed, and couldn't help but let out a burst of anger, letting out a loud roar to the sky. The voice of spiritual awareness echoed in the minds of One Man and One Eagle: "You two little guys dare to deceive me? I will eat you both!"

  The Longyan Lion's body moved and it directly broke through the air, instantly catching up with Qin Yu, its speed was incredibly fast.

  "Ah!"

  Qin Yu was like a surfer on a surfboard, stepping on the flying sword and making a 90-degree high-speed turn, dodging the attack of Longyan Lion behind him. The Longyan Lion's body flashed, changing direction again and chasing after Qin Yu.

  "With a body so large, its agility is still so strong." Qin Yu took in a breath of cold air, "I don't know who wrote that about the Longyan Lion in the Xiantian Secret Manual. It's actually nonsense." Qin Yu was furious in his heart, but he didn't feel completely hopeless yet.

  Although Longyan's agility is good, after all, his body is too big, and in terms of agility, he can't compare to Qin Yu, who is as agile as a human.

  "This Dragon Rock Lion's understanding of the wind is not even comparable to that of 'Black Wind Leopard'." Qin Yu stepped on his flying sword, and his entire person seemed like a fallen leaf in the midst of a fierce gale, constantly drifting about with ease, lightly dodging the Dragon Rock Lion's attacks time and again.

  Suddenly——

  A flame shot out of Longyan's lion mouth and sprayed directly at Qin Yu.

  "It's done!"

  "Big Brother!" Little Hei also started worrying from afar.

  Qin Yu's heart was filled with a wave of terror, and in an instant, his entire attention was focused on that flame. The deep blue flame didn't need to be thought about to know how powerful it was. The speed at which the flame shot out was even faster than the Dragon Rock Lion's speed.

  At the moment of life and death, the pale silver star power on Qin Yu's body suddenly surged.

  Stellar Domain!

  In an instant, a huge nebula formed on Qin Yu's body surface, and the nebula inside his body also stirred rapidly. In that moment, Qin Yu's entire body seemed to split into two, of course, that was the phenomenon when Qin Yu's speed reached its peak.

  At the moment when there was no room for escape, Qin Yu finally dodged it. He even felt the terrifying heat emitted by the flame as it brushed past his body.

  The range of the Star Domain is only the range of the surface star cloud, Qin Yu cannot move over a large area, and the Star Domain needs to mobilize all the energy of the star cloud in the body. Fortunately, Qin Yu has already entered the middle stage of the star cloud, so using it for a short time will not have much impact on him.

  The starry sky came to an abrupt halt as Qin Yu went mad and charged westward in a frantic dash, his entire flight trajectory devoid of any regularity.

  "Big brother." Xiao Hei's voice was filled with excitement at this moment.

  "Don't waste time, speed up!" Qin Yu was now flying high in the sky, shuttling between the clouds and mist. The dragon rock lion seemed to have become enraged as well, chasing after Qin Yu one moment and then Little Hei the next. But compared to him, Qin Yu and Little Hei were like ants, too small and too agile.

  Suddenly——

  "Little Black, quickly, towards southwest!"

  Qin Yu's spiritual awareness suddenly felt a powerful aura coming from the southwest, which was no weaker than that of Long Yan Shi. At this moment, Qin Yu couldn't care about anything else, if he continued to be chased like this, who knows when he would be killed.

  In an instant, Qin Yu and Xiao Hei flew southwest for hundreds of miles.

  A crisp and clear cry echoed above.

  "Longyan Lion, this is my territory, you roll back to your old nest." A vast spiritual consciousness covered Qin Yu and the others where they were. The voice of the spiritual consciousness even reached into Qin Yu's small black brain. Qin Yu was instantly overjoyed.

  In front of him was a gigantic red bird, tens of meters long, its entire body engulfed in flames, its beautiful and moving scarlet feathers emitting an aura of nobility. Qin Yu immediately made the judgment.

  "Divine Beast Vermilion Bird!"

  Qin Yu was stunned, he couldn't have imagined that he would encounter two divine beasts in a row. But Qin Yu immediately became extremely excited and hastily transmitted his voice to Xiao Hei: "Xiao Hei, quickly fly under from below, don't provoke this Red Luan!"

  "Haha, got it! Let them fight each other!" Xiao Hei also cried out strangely and immediately dived down. Qin Yu also sped down at an extreme speed.

  Longyan Lion didn't care about Qin Yu and Xiao Hei anymore, and Hong Luan also ignored Qin Yu and the others. In the eyes of these two great divine beasts, one person and one eagle were just small fries. Qin Yu and Xiao Hei were just a condiment to Longyan Lion's life, dispensable. But the divine beast Hong Luan was an old opponent of Longyan Lion's.

  "How dare you tell me to get out?" Long Yan Shi was furious.

  The red bird's wings spread out, but it was about the same height as its body. The red bird was born noble, and its noble aura naturally spread out. The red bird said: "Longyan Shi, this is my territory, you come to me, you still dare to be arrogant with me. Do you want to fight again?"

  Longyan Lion was furious, who cares about that, suddenly looked up at the sky and let out a loud roar, the entire air shook.

  ……

  "Boom~~~~"

  A series of thunderous roars came from behind, with a power far greater than the 49-day catastrophe. Qin Yu and Xiao Hei both felt the air's urgent shockwave. They couldn't help but look at each other in horror, the divine beast's battle was too terrifying.

  "Never mind all that, Xiao Hei, run faster."

  Qin Yu and Hei Feng flew westward at incredible speed, with Qin Yu displaying his "Flash Nine" technique. The two of them were racing against time, flying as fast as they could towards the west. They didn't dare to slow down, for who knew if Long Yan would come after them again after finishing his battle.

  With Longyan's strength, as long as they are hit, it is a dead word.

  This flight lasted for three hours, a full three hours, and Qin Yu flew at the fastest speed. In the past, flying with a machine would only take a short while, but he had never flown so desperately before. After just three short hours, Qin Yu and Xiao Hei suddenly saw -

  Distant houses, and a sharp decrease in the wild spiritual energy.

  "Haha, Xiao Hei, we're finally back!" Qin Yu suddenly came to his senses from the extreme escape, and it was clear that the previous frantic escape had allowed him to directly escape from Hongyuan to Qianlong Continent. After several months of traveling through Hongyuan, Qin Yu and Xiao Hei finally returned alive!