Baichuan nodded and hurriedly started his explanation.
"When you entered the Lord Phoenix Trial Grounds a month ago—"
"Hold up a minute! A month ago?!" Yun Che stopped Baichuan and asked in astonishment. A month? He spent a month within the trial ground? What kind of bullshit was that?
But seeing Baichuan nodded, Yun Che couldn't only blink his eyes in confusion.
'I spent a month digesting Divine Phoenix Pellet and Three Drops of Phoenix Blood? No way! That doesn't even make sense!'
He thought for a movement before his eyes widened.
'Don't tell me… Because I messed up with the timeline, the world is trying to fix it? I can't think of any other reason, really. Dammit! I'm not strong enough to fight against the World Will. Can't it just die peacefully already?'
Yun Che clicked his tongue. He couldn't believe that despite dying this world cared so much about the timeline. He only messed a little and it was already trying to release new patches.
"Continue."
"Yes! So after you entered the Lord Phoenix Trial Grounds, everything was fine for some time when suddenly our village was surrounded by the people calling themselves Black Demon Mercenary Group. They seemed to have found out about our village from Xian'er and Zu'er! When they first appeared, Miss Cang Yue had already gained consciousness. Seeing them trying to kidnap people from our village, she valiantly fought against them. But, in the end, even she wasn't enough to fight against the whole group."
"In the end, we were forced into Lord Phoenix Grounds and rely on her to protect her. But since our profound strength stuck at the Peal of Elementary Realm, children and adults alike started getting thirsty and hungry. Miss Cang Yue couldn't bear seeing us like that so she tried to attack them once again just to lose once more!"
In the end, Baichuan gritted his teeth. His expression was filled with indignation for not being able to even protect his own villagers.
Yun Che could tell that Baichuan hated his own weakness but couldn't do anything about it.
"I understand everything."
Softly laying Cang Yue on the ground, he softly caresses her cheeks. He had read that she was a selfish woman who was ready to sacrifice her life if it meant saving another person, and now seeing it he couldn't help but praise this quality of her.
Yun Che knew after all. In the end, he was a coward. He valued his life more than anything. If he was in the same situation as her, he doubted he would risk his life to save unknown people. After all, what's the point of sacrificing your life when you will gain nothing from it? He will die, and the people of Black Demon Mercenary Group will kill everyone after.
It was simple.
That's why he praised Cang Yue's ability to remain selfless. It was quite a rare quality to have in a cultivation world where people cared about themselves more than anything else.
"Take care of her."
Baichuan nodded seriously.
Yun Che stood up and walked towards the Black Demon Mercenary Guild with a smile on his face. Finally, he was able to fight! He has been itching to fight someone! What's the point of reincarnating in a new world but not using your powers fully?
Previously, he was too weak to fight anything. But now, he could say that he at least had decent strength in this small empire.
'Still at the level of an ant, but no one is stopping an ant fighting another ant so…'
"Who the fuck are you, pony? Did they send you to your death door?" The person standing at the center of the group sneered seeing Yun Che.
Yun Che could see that his shoulder was damaged. He guessed it was probably Cang Yue who did it during her fight with him.
"How's your shoulder?" Yun Che smiled and questioned. "Seems like you got beaten by a woman half your age."
Suddenly, the scowl on the face of the person vanished and was instead replaced by intense hatred and murderous intent.
"If you have guts then say the same thing after leaving your little safe house, bitch!"
Yun Che smirked.
He looked at the person with a knowing smirk.
Yun Che raised his leg, as if about to kick a ball, and kicked. Phoenix flames danced out before forming a ball, a solid condensed ball of phoenix flames.
The moment Yun Che's leg hit it, it blinked! Leaving behind a trail of phoenix flames, it passed the barrier and made its way towards the Black Demon Mercenary Group.
Their eyes widened. They couldn't believe that Yun Che not only exited the barrier but even attacked them from inside the barrier. How cowardly can one be?! They wanted to scream but they could only run randomly to dodge the coming ball of condensed flames.
It hit in the dead center of the ground before bursting into a flame explosion, killing some dozens of mercenaries.
["Flame Ball" skill acquired!]
The explosion was quite big forcing the people to scatter away from its area of effect.
Black Demon's eyes widened. This destruction was many times stronger than his third-level of True Profound Strength!
"You bastard!" He growled but Yun Che looked uneffected.
"What? I'm not dumb to jump into the danger zone when I can kill all of you from the safe zone. I have played enough RPGs to know my shit."
Yun Che snickered.
Yes, he was stronger than them right now. And he could probably kill them even if he didn't retort to such methods, but what's the fun in that? He wasn't fighting them, he was treating them as his test subjects!
They were his genuine pigs as he created new skills.
"Don't die so soon, okay? I would be disappointed." Yun Che smirked like a demon as dozens of fire orbs formed around him.
Black Demon could only watch in horror as those fire orbs suddenly became fire beams instead and started bombarding his prized mercenary group!
Like a judgment of higher power, they rained on them without stopping! It was like Yun Che had an inexhaustible amount of profound energy and he could continue using them for as long as he wanted!
["Fire Beam" skill acquired!]
After the continuous bombardment of minutes, it finally subsided.
Yun Che realized that not many people were alive any more. And those who were, they were running for their dear lives; it also included Black Demon, leader of the mercenary group.
Not caring about anything else, all of them ran away from Yun Che.
"Hmmm. Last one then."
Once more, phoenix fire started to gather behind him before taking the shape of a spear, a single spear. With a thought, Yun Che controlled the spear and launched it towards Black Demon. Yun Che made sure to control its trajectory along the way so it followed behind Black Demon.
Black Demon, seeing the spear zooming at him with unbelievable speed, shouted and used his profound strength to fight back against it.
Sadly, his struggle only lasted for an instant before the spear penetrated his body before invading it, burning all the organs from inside.
["Homing Fire Spear" skill acquired!]
"There!"
Dozens more same spear appeared behind Yun Che, this time not having him to control them, they followed after their target themselves.
Within seconds, Yun Che effectively killed all the mercenaries.
Baichuan and people of phoenix village could only stare at him in utter disbelief and reverence.
'Hmmm… It feels nice to be looked upon with such eyes…'
{This man… Sigh…}