One day's worth of hard work was equivalent to a month's worth of hard work. An opportunity like this wasn't something that one could simply come across.
The two looked at each other, understanding each other without words. Leng Leng nodded slightly and went back to recuperating. She had expended quite a lot of energy in the day, and if everything went well, she would have to take on the main responsibility tomorrow. She couldn't afford to slack off.
The night passed uneventfully. By the time the sun rose, everyone had basically recovered to their peak condition, and they continued their journey under Lin Yi's lead.
The next two days, the group's experience could be said to be more daunting than dangerous. Although they did encounter various kinds of spirit beasts along the way, most of them were only at the foundation establishment stage. Lin Yi didn't even need to do anything, as long as Leng Leng and Lingshan could take care of them. To the group, it had become a true battle training journey.
As for the spirit beasts that were as strong as golden core practitioners, Lin Yi could basically take care of them with a pure qi pill fire bomb. At the very least, he could scare the opponent away. As long as there weren't more than two of them appearing at the same time like before, it wasn't a big problem.
Of course, golden core spirit beasts usually had their own territory, and each territory could only have one master. Unless they happened to step on the dividing line, the probability of encountering such a situation was not high.
However, on the third night, Lin Yi's group welcomed an uninvited guest.
Leng Leng and the others were recuperating as usual. Lin Yi, on the other hand, was guarding the tree trunk out of habit. Suddenly, his expression changed. At the furthest end of his divine sense's range, there was clearly a flying spirit beast approaching their direction at high speed.
"Goumang?" Lin Yi paused. The silhouette of the flying spirit beast was extremely blurry, but judging from its wings, it was most likely the primordial Goumang that they had met before.
Lin Yi's first thought was that the Primordial King Goumang had chased up to him, but he quickly rejected that theory. This was because the other party wasn't that big in size. It was a far cry from Primordial King Goumang's massive body. At best, it was an ordinary Goumang.
There was nothing to be afraid of if it was just an ordinary Goumang. Ignoring Lin Yi, even Coold and company could deal with it calmly after the past few days of combat training. However, Lin Yi's expression was rather heavy. For some reason, Goumang gave him an inexplicable sense of danger. This was a feeling he had never felt when he faced the primordial Goumang King and Crimson Scaled Snake.
"Something is coming from the sky. Everyone, be careful." Lin Yi did not dare to neglect and immediately reminded Coold and the others below.
Coold and company immediately felt as though they were facing a formidable foe. They knew very well that this thing was no trifling matter. Otherwise, with Lin Yi's habits over the past few days, he wouldn't have been so nervous and cautious. He didn't even warn them and instead let them sense it themselves, using this as a test of their ability to react.
For the past few days, Lin Yi wasn't playing the role of a pure guardian, but an instructor. However, it was clearly not the time to test them before figuring out the strength of that thing.
Moments later, the thing was only half a kilometer away from them. Although it had an unfathomable aura lingering around it that could fool most people's perception, Lin Yi would have wasted all his years if he couldn't see its true form at this distance.
"Worm?" Lin Yi was taken aback. It clearly had a pair of gigantic Goumang wings, but its body was a white and tender worm. This scene was so bizarre that it left him amused. How could it be a worm?
"Worm? What worm? " Coold and company were baffled. Their perception range was not that far away. Even if it was that far away, they wouldn't be able to see through the unfathomable aura on the other party.
Lin Yi didn't answer, but he didn't let his guard down. No matter how funny the other party's appearance was, his increasingly strong sense of danger wouldn't lie. In the cultivation world, people who judged people by their appearance generally didn't live long, and Lin Yi was never one of them.
In the blink of an eye, the other party was less than twenty meters away from Lin Yi. It calmly landed on the trunk of a big tree on the opposite side, facing Lin Yi directly.
"You're Lin Yi?" The brain-eating bug sized up Lin Yi with great interest.
Lin Yi was slightly surprised when he heard that. He could guess that the other party was coming for his group, but he didn't expect the other party to call out his name. He immediately asked bluntly, "How do you know?"
"Simple. It's because I ate Primordial King Goumang," the brain-eating bug answered frankly.
This answer immediately stunned everyone. Coold and company exchanged looks and could not help but suspect if the fellow was bragging. For such a tiny worm to be able to eat the massive Primordial King Goumang, what kind of joke was that?
Lin Yi fell into thought. He was momentarily unable to imagine how the other party had eaten Primordial King Goumang, but his intuition told him that it was an extremely dangerous fellow, far more dangerous than Primordial King Goumang!
"Then … who are you?" Lin Yi continued asking.
"Envoy. In their words, I'm that lord's envoy." The brain-eating bug remained very frank.
"Envoy?" Lin Yi's eyes flashed slightly because he saw the pair of gigantic wings on the other party's back instantly vanish. Now, it looked like a white worm through and through, appearing even more harmless.
While Lin Yi was sizing up the Brain-Eating Bug, the Brain-Eating Bug was also sizing him up. As for Coold and the others below, the Brain-Eating Bug was not interested in them at all. It seemed to be only interested in Lin Yi.
"Are you here to capture the tributes as well?" Lin Yi continued probing. This guy's reaction was completely different from all the other spirit beasts he'd met before. All the spirit beasts, including the Ancient Goumang King and the Red-Scaled Snake, had only cared about the number of tributes. They weren't interested in a troublesome human like him at all, completely different from this insect envoy.
"You can say that." The brain-eating bug's answer was noncommittal. It was an envoy, unlike Primordial King Goumang who had to provide sufficient human tributes in order to survive. Even if it did nothing, it would not suffer any punishment. However, since they had encountered each other, it did not matter if it was just a little help.
"Alright, I have no more questions." Lin Yi nodded. At the same time when he finished his sentence, Coold and the others understood and moved forward at the same time. This was the secret signal that they had agreed on earlier. Although it was very dangerous to do so at night, and they might encounter other unpredictable dangers ahead if they were not careful, but it was much better than everyone staying here in front of a strong enemy.
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