Fallen Star Mountains, Outer region.
There were tens of beast corpses scattered around a lone tree. At the base of the tree, the mangled body of a teenager was sitting leaning against it.
Blood was flowing nonstop from the wounds on his chest. There were claw and teeth marks on his limbs, that were proof of fight that just happened.
Xiao Yan had woken up some time ago by the pain of being bitten and clawed by beasts that were attracted here by the energy released by the portal. He had not even started recovering from his injuries from using the portal, he was surrounded by beasts. These were just rank-1 and rank-2 beasts. They were not even supposed to be ants in his eyes, but unfortunately, he was badly hurt and couldn't even muster up a thousandth of his cultivation.
But fortunately, he was Young Master of Xiao clan, he had some lifesaving treasures such as one-time-use talismans. He had used a ten-thousand Sword talisman which was enough to decimate an army of rank-4 beasts, say nothing of rank-1 and rank-2 beasts. Even though it was a pity to waste such high-level talisman on these low-level beasts, he had no other choice, among all the other talismans he had, he had chosen the lowest one, after all, he was a peak Emperor, why would he keep low-level talismans.
Still, his recovering wounds were reopened by his activity and they started bleeding again. Now, he couldn't even open his eyelids that were twitching from pain.
…
Guo Gang followed by the Lin family guards and Zeng Cai followed by the mercenaries were surrounding the frightening battlefield. Both would shiver every time their sight fell on a rank-2 beast corpse.
If they could bring all these beast corpses to Fallen Star City and sell them, they won't need to work for the next tens of years and live a lavish life. But none of them dared to make a move due to the fear of offending the teenager who was resting while leaning against the tree.
They didn't know if he could muster more strength or if he was even alive or not. But they were sure he was at least a Qi Sea realm cultivator. Only then would he be able to slay all these beasts. None present here could take the wrath of such an existence. It must be known that even the Patriarchs of the largest families in Fallen Star City were at the Qi Sea realm. They were wondering what to do next,
*bang*
The carriage door opened, and three gorgeous maidens stepped out from it. They were Xue'er, Yi and Yun. Xue'er had changed into a black robe with floral patterns and covered her face with a veil, but that still couldn't conceal her beautiful features.
When they arrived at the scene, Xue'er was stunned by the tens of beast corpses but her pride and confidence as a genius took a serious blow when she saw the teenager who was about her age but had already at least broken through to the Qi Sea realm. Compared to him, she who was still at the 3rd stage of Qi Condensation realm the disparity was huge. Faint redness crept her face with embarrassment as she remembered how she flaunted herself as a genius. If she were to know Xiao Yan was a Heavenly Spirit realm Emperor, then she would probably be ashamed to death.
But above everything else, she, Yi and Yun none of them could take their eyes off his astounding face. 'How can someone be this handsome?' that was the same question swirled in their heads.
"Uncle Gang, please help him into one of the carriages, we will try our best to treat him," said Xue'er "also, leave some guards here to collect all these corpses and bring it to the place we are camping. We will ask him how he wants to deal with it after he wakes up."
"Miss are you sure? What if he misunderstands us after waking up?" asked Guo Gang.
"Don't worry, I will personally talk to him. Also, we will have to extend our time at the camp, we can't let these materials go to waste. If and whatever he doesn't need, we can take them to Fallen Star City."
"Okay," said Guo Gang and started to give orders to the Lin family Guards to clean up the battlefield.
Inside one of the carriages, the Lin family guards placed Xiao Yan gently on a bed they prepared on one corner and left to take care of their duties.
Xue'er and her maids were already waiting inside the carriage, they still couldn't take their eyes off his handsome face. Yun had some experience in medicine. She started cleaning the wounds and applied some medicine to stop the bleeding.
There were wounds all over the body, so it was inevitable that they had to first take his clothes off.
"Young Miss, can you please wait outside?" asked Yun politely.
"Why? What's wrong with me staying?" asked Xue'er.
"We have to take his clothes off to clean his wounds and nurse him, so …" said Yun while blushing slightly.
A slight blush crept onto Xue'er's face "Okay, do you need Yi?"
"Yes, I need her help bandaging him."
With that Xue'er left the carriage. Outside Guo Gang was already waiting for her. Upon seeing her,
"Miss, what happened? Did he wake up?"
"No, Yun is currently treating him, we will know once they are done," said Xue'er with slight redness on her face.
"Oh, okay"
A couple of hours later, they reached their destination. It was a large lake. To its east was a small clearing enough for a hundred people to camp. Once here, the mercenaries and guards started preparing the camp. As they know they would be here for a couple of nights, they had to prepare for it.
While the guards were busy, Xue'er was waiting beside the carriage where Xiao Yan was being treated.
Sometime later, Yi and Yun came out of the carriage with tomato faces filled with excitement. As if they had seen the most wondrous thing in this world.
Xue'er didn't even need to ask the reason as imaginations filled her mind.
"Yun, how is he? Did he wake up?" asked Xue'er, she was dying to know more about such a genius.
"No, he had lost a lot of blood. So, he will need a lot of rest. I am not that well versed in medicine so I don't know how long it will take for him to wake up. We can only wait. But thankfully he had high cultivation, or he would really have been dead," said Yun with a serious expression.
"Okay then no point in wasting time worrying, we will let him rest for tonight and see tomorrow."
As night came, the new camp had already been set up. They had been traveling for a couple of days already and everyone was eager to have some rest, so except for those on patrol everyone tried to get some good sleep.
…
*swoosh* *swoosh*
A shadow flashed through the trees not even making the leaves rustle. It made unusual turns seemed as if going in circles, but that was just to confuse if anyone was tailing him. He traveled for quite some time before he reached a small mountain cave.
Inside the cave, there already was someone waiting for him.
"You came," said the other shadow.
"Yes, what's the plan?" asked the shadow politely. It sounded sharp and blurry.
"We wait. There's someone I would like you to meet. We will start once he is here" said the shadow again.
"…"
After a few minutes of wait, another shadow flashed and entered the cave.
When he saw the last person entered, the first shadow was really surprised.
"You are …"
"Yes, and I would like you to work with him tomorrow to capture Lin Xue'er, you can do whatever you want with others."
"Young Master, a new variable has appeared. We would have to adjust our plan," said the last shadow.
"Oh, what happened?"
"On our way here, we rescued a Qi Sea realm expert. Although he is seriously injured now, once he wakes up it will be troublesome without the elders or the Patriarch."
"What bullshit luck does she have," cursed the Young Master, "that's fine, I got in touch with someone from Thousand Poisons Sect recently and got hold of their famous Qi dispersing powder. Here take some, if you manage to feed it to him, he will lose all his Qi and will not be able to gather it for twelve hours, even if he is at Qi Sea realm."
"Young Master, after the job if I am hunted by the Lin family …"
"You both don't worry, I will help you leave Fallen Star City and can even take you to the capital, you will be safe there."
"Thank you, Young Master," said both shadows.
After some more discussions, they departed. Watching the shadows leave, "What a bunch of morons, your lives mean nothing. After I get my Xue'er, you will say goodbye to this world, ha-ha-ha" Young Master laughed manically "You will be mine Xue'er, you will definitely be mine."