Supreme Emperor of Mist

"I don't believe you..." Peng Yan said as she listened to Qin Lan's description about the Blood Genesis Pill. It was like a test to her wisdom if she chooses to believe Qin Lan's word.

"You can choose to not believe what I'm saying, but it will be your loss." Qin Lan chuckled. Peng Yan's reaction wasn't unexpected. He also mentioned the same thing in his letter to Sun Wu Jian.

"Hmm..." Peng Yan was staring passionately at Qin Lan as she wanted to see how much truth was behind Qin Lan's words.

'If it's brother Sun, he'll believe all my words without a hint of suspicion...' Qin Lan chuckled.

...

"When did we make senior sister Lu unhappy?" Yi Feng asked Qiang Shou as he continued to dig further into the wall where they believe that there's Bloodstone hidden inside. But it's been close to half an hour now, and not a single crystal was found.

"I don't know... You know that I'm the worst when it comes to reading a woman's heart. How the hell I know that she'll be angry after we tell her about our Young Master taking advantage of Lady Peng Yan outside of the cave?" Qiang Shou replied.

Bulky like Shan Xiong Xin, but less bright than him, Qiang Shou once again speaks without considering that Lu Qing Yun was just behind him. She doesn't even need to bend herself slightly to listen to their loud whisper.

"You two are still having fun, huh?" Lu Qing Yun bites her underlips as she raised her Violet Queen Whip.

**PIA!**

Their buttock was whipped by her twice as she taught them to not spreading baseless rumors again.

If Qin Lan was to guess, the two would be the main suspects behind how Peng Yan gets to know so much about their Kuangshan Lu Sect. It's because both of them weren't bright enough to realize what they should talk about and what they shouldn't.

They're lucky that Peng Yan can be considered half an ally of their Qin Faction and Ninth Prince's Faction.

"Ouch!" the two screamed. Even the Peak Protection Saint Art couldn't protect their buttock from getting beaten black and blue by Lu Qing Yun.

Some of the Qin Faction members chuckled as they noticed that the two were digging at an empty wall. Even the blind could understand that Yi Feng and Qiang Shou must have incited their lovely senior sister's wrath.

**Ding!**

"Eh?" a unique sound from the pickaxe's response made Qiang Shou stops digging. He immediately removes the tool from the hole he made as he gives Yi Feng a push to get him aside.

"Hey! Why are you pushing me down onto the earth here?" Yi Feng turned to Qiang Shou with his angry face smeared by the dust and soil they dug.

But his anger was replaced by curiosity as the three of them were staring at that red light tried to escape from the hole Qiang Shou made.

"Senior sister..." Qiang Shou points his finger at the hole where the red light is coming from.

"Ma - Make a wider hole..." Lu Qing Yun stuttered as she was captivated by the beautiful light from the gap.

**Ding!**

**Ding!**

The light was so significantly bright, it almost illuminated the entire part of the tunnel they're at. But the moment Qiang Shou extends his hand over to pry one of the loose rocks around that light, an accident happened.

*BAM!* that location suddenly blew up and thrown all three of them back from that spot. A pair of pincers soon pops out from the gap as it demolished the entire wall to reveal a hollow space behind it.

"What the heck is that thing? Quickly inform the young master and the others!" they're in a mess as a Yao Beast suddenly appeared from the hollow part of the wall.

Even Qin Lan, who's still busy with his treatment on Peng Yan's unique condition, is alarmed by the explosion.

"Young master! There's trouble inside the abandoned mine! There's a gigantic scorpion that looks like the Fire Elemental Bloodstone is inside! We're unsure about the senior sister and two senior brother's condition now!" one of the members from Yi Feng's team came out in a hurry.

"Gigantic Scorpion that looks like the Bloodstone?" Qin Lan gently put Peng Yan down and followed the member into the abandoned mine in a hurry. As for Peng Yan, her face is still filled with embarrassment as she secretly smiled due to happiness.

'Heavens had opened its eyes... To think that he would hug me for so long and even taken advantage of me. Hehehe!' she hops like a cheerful bunny outside the mine.

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'Crystal-like Yao Beast... If I'm not mistaken...' Qin Lan's heart palpitates in excitement as he followed the member of Yi Feng's team further into the maze-like tunnels. The two soon came into a larger mining chamber lit with dazzling red light.

"Back off!" Qin Lan pulled the member's collar as he drags him away from the chamber's entrance. A blaze of flame suddenly sweeps around the gap as it came and gone in a flash. All that was left from that sudden outburst was the rocks glowing in red from all the flames.

"You - Young Master..." the member almost peed in his pants from brushing off with death. If Qin Lan wasn't there for him, he would have turned into a block of cinder from that deadly flame.

"Stay here!" Qin Lan said and entered the mining chamber with the Eight Transformation Treasured Brush in his right hand.

"ROAR!" the Yao Beast was going amok like it was disturbed from a great sleep. The two pincers were at least two meters long, as this creature stands at around ten meters long and close to two and a half meters tall. If it wasn't because there's a height limit inside this cave, it might be possible to grow taller than this.

'What kind of luck is this?' a drop of sweat rolled down to his chin as Qin Lan revealed a smile on his face.

"Young Master..." Han Xue and You Qing came forward. As for everyone else, they're gathered behind Peng Yan's subordinate as he kept the City Protecting Treasure activated.

"Is there any casualties?" Qin Lan asked.

"Two deaths... Should we retreat? This beast is a complete first-level Bone Reconstruction Layer demon." You Qing said. It was evident that the fight against this creature was arduous to them by looking at You Qing's haggard look.

"You guys retreat. I'll take care of it on my own." Qin Lan's replied was unexpected to the two as they got stoned where they stand.

"Impossible, Young Master! Let's retreat together!" the two quickly controlled their young master from acting recklessly.

"Just listen to my instruction. Did the two of you grow wings now to stop me from doing something?" Qin Lan shook his shoulder to release himself from their grasp.

"ROAR!" perhaps it was bored from listening to the conversation between Qin Lan and his two subordinates... The Yao Beast once again gathered its Spiritual Energy around the mouth and sprayed the flame at them.

"Silver Willow Dance." Qin Lan proficiently displayed one of the forms of the Silver Willow Sword Technique to redirect the attack. And with a push from his hand, he had You Qing and Han Xue retreated into the protection of the Country Protecting Treasure.

"Bring everyone and leave. Nobody shall come in without me coming out from this mine." Qin Lan said.

The display of his Formation Qi and peak-level Flesh Refining strength quickly stunned everyone present. Not even one of them knew that Qin Lan was already a peak-level cultivator in the Flesh Layer.

"Young Master is a peak-level cultivator!!!" one of them cheered. And soon, more of them cheered as they followed Peng Yan's subordinate and retreated back to where they came from.

'These idiots... Quickly leave...' Qin Lan pointed his sword at the Yao Beast like he's warning the creature. He looked exactly like a valiant general right now in front of the eyes of all his subordinates.

The moment all of them left, their battle continued. Almost encompassing the entire mining chamber with a swing of its pincer, the Yao Beast attacked Qin Lan more ferociously.

As for Qin Lan, he can only take an evasive stance against this chain of attacks while looking for a gap to counterattack. And unlike a human's strength where it was limited by how strong is the physical body, a Yao Beast physical attack is not one to be taken lightly.

It was an attack even the Qiankun Golden Sword is incapable of handling without reinforcement by Formation Qi.

(Can you speak?)

Qin Lan tried to communicate with the Yao Beast using the language that belonged to the demon.

"ROAR! ROAR!" instead of getting the reply he wanted, all he got from the Yao Beast was a few ferocious screams with saliva dripping out from the edge of its mouth.

'Look's like it's just a mere Yao Demon. How good could it be if you're a Yao Soldier instead?" Qin Lan shook his head. By putting more Formation Qi into his brush, he vanished from the spot instantly as one of the pincers slammed at where he stands.

"Mountain Splitting Strike!" Qin Lan sent a blade force over at the Yao Beast and forced it to a retreat. Deciding to not giving it a chance to recover, Qin Lan charged forward in an attempt to break the Yao Beast's sturdy defense.

"That's my chance!" Qin Lan finally created a gap between the hard exoskeleton from all his attacks and prepared to give it a deadly blow. But it seems that the Yao Beast is preparing for a killing blow because the stinger had transformed into something akin to a morning star.