Murong Xue's face went dark. She did not expect that the revenge would come so soon.

She spoke in a cold voice to her partners behind her, "Lin Nan, take others with you and leave now. Take care of Xiaobai."

"Mu Tian, we won't leave without you." They could not run away while their partner was in danger.

Murong Xue's face grew grim. "Hurry up. You won't be of help here. He is at the ninth stage of blue-level." In order to test the opponent, she did not go all out to attack him just now and she believed that he did the same and just used half of his power.

Among the other four, Lin Nan was at cyan-level and was the strongest. Murong Xue was unable to take care of all of them when the fight became fierce.

The other four changed their expression, "The ninth stage of blue-level? If so, we can't leave you alone here." In their eyes, Mu Tian was at the beginning stage of blue-level at most, so he could not beat the old man.

"You all have to stay and die here today." The old man jumped up in the air, ready for another attack at the four.

"Hey, old man, it's me who you'll face." Murong Xue came forward and stood in front of him immediately.

When the old man saw that Murong Xue was just at yellow-level, he burst into laughter, "Ha-ha! A boy at yellow-level dares to rush to the front. Since you seek death, I will help you! Howling Storm!" He made a mudra and the wind howled like wolves, which was terrifying. In a moment, the storm gathered into a terrifying force that rustled the trees around them.

Murong Xue's eyes grew cold and she gathered all her spiritual power to make the second move of Phoenix Soaring. "Phoenix Taking Wings!"

A flaming red phoenix that was more intimidating than in Phoenix Roar came into shape and soared up in the sky. Eyes slightly open, the phoenix seemed to be conscious and looked at the wind wolf. The wind wolf hesitated for a while and then got into a fight with the phoenix.

Xiaobai, curling up in Lin Nan's arms, yawned and said to him, "Let's go. He is not a match for her." It did not worry about Murong Xue at all. Instead, Xiaobai even wanted to have a good sleep.

Xiaobai knew that although the old man was at the ninth stage of blue-level, Murong Xue was at the beginning stage of purple-level. One-level gap meant vast differences, and Murong Xue could beat the old man with nothing but just her spiritual power.

"What's Mu Tian's level?" Mu Tian was known to be at yellow-level, but Lin Nan did not believe it. Although he was not sure about Mu Tian's real level, the one thing he could be sure about was that Mu Tian was way more than at yellow-level.

"Just at the beginning stage of purple-level." Xiaobai turned over and said carelessly.

"Purple-level!" Lin Nan and the other three answered in one voice.

Xiaobai was startled by their loud voice and its chubby body trembled. "Do you have to be so dramatic about it?"

The other four felt that they were bombarded. Mu Tian achieved so much at such a young age, which made the peers abashed.

They decided to stay since their partner was the stronger one in the fight. Why should they leave in this case?

After a while, as expected, Murong Xue remained calm and detached while the old man looked much worse. Nothing of Murong Xue's clothes was out of place, but the old man's clothes were scratched and bloodstains were over his body. He ended up half lying on the ground.

"Pooh!" Blood came out from inside the old man.

Step by step, Murong Xue walked up to him and Phoenix Sword in her hand made a harsh sound as it was dragged forward.

The old man got terrified and kept retreating, "What are you? A monster? You couldn't be at yellow-level."

A sneer appeared on the corner of Murong Xue's lips. "I didn't say that."

"No, please let me go. I was asked to do this." In the face of death, the old man had long lost his bravery, and he became spineless and begged.

"Let you get away with it? No way!" Murong Xue and her partners would have been dead if she had not been at purple-level. If Murong Xue had been defeated, the old man wouldn’t have let them go, either.

The old man regretted his decision to take the task. He would never have done that if he had known that there should be a boy at purple-level.

"I have money. I have crystal coins. I can give you all I have. Please let me go." He took out his storage ring and handed it over to Murong Xue.

"I'll take it after killing you." Murong Xue answered coldly.

The old man's eyes grew fierce and his spiritual power broke out in an instant.

"Oh, no, he wants a self-explosion. Run, Mu Tian!" Lin Nan shouted in panic.

Even a master at purple-level could not bear to take the hit when a person at the ninth stage of blue-level did a self-explosion.

"Ha-ha! Go to hell with me, all of you!" The old man was laughing blatantly and he even jumped to grab Murong Xue's foot.

Murong Xue took a cold look at him and swung her Phoenix Sword towards him.

But it was too late. In a moment, the glowing light surrounding the old man grew more intense, and then there came an explosion.

"No! No!" The other four rushed forward to rescue Murong Xue.

Even Xiaobai's eyes became wide open and red.

After the explosion, there was only a giant hole.

They wondered whether Mu Tian turned to ashes.

The moment they thought of this, unbearable pains came upon them.

Lin Nan's arms got loose and Xiaobai slipped down. His knees felt so weak that he knelt on the ground.

Although they had only been with each other for one day, they already saw Mu Tian as their brother.

One could spend a minute with some people to know them well enough to trust them with his life, but there were also some people one could never make friends with them no matter how long they had been together.

The four believed that Mu Tian belonged to the first group.

"No!" Lin Nan looked up to the sky and bellowed.

Zhao Qi, Zhu Ming, and Wu Xiaomei almost cried and they could not believe that the one who was feeding them with roast meat just now was gone.

However, Xiaobai felt differently. It was not ruthless. The Agreement of Shared Destiny told it that Murong Xue was still alive since it was still breathing there.

"Why are you crying? There is nothing to cry about. Shame on you." Xiaobai cast a disdainful look at them and it ignored the fact that its own eyes got wet as well before.

Lin Nan found it unbelievable and he looked at Xiaobai with his indignant eyes, "Mu Tian had been so nice to you, but you..." He choked with sobs and failed to finish his sentence.

The other three had the same look.

"He is not dead yet. Stop crying and find him. Hurry up." Xiaobai knew that Murong Xue had been hurt though she could escape with her life. It could not locate where she was now by the signal between them, so Murong Xue might pass out. When a person at the ninth stage of blue-level did a self-explosion, it would cause serious results.

"Is what you said true?"

"Mu Tian is still alive?"

"Search, fast!"

The four rose up at once and did not doubt that Xiaobai was lying probably because they wanted to believe what it said subconsciously.

Even Xiaobai began to search with its short legs and spiritual power as fast as it could.

"I found him. He is here." They heard Lin Nan's surprised and cheerful voice.

They ran over to him.

Murong Xue had many scratches and her clothes were torn.

Lin Nan helped her sit up and reached out gingerly to see if she was still breathing.

After a while, he was sure that she only passed out and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Nan gathered all his spiritual power to check if Mu Tian was suffering from internal injuries, only to find that his spiritual power was rejected.

"So strange." Lin Nan wondered.

The others got very nervous, "What's wrong?"

"May I?" Wu Xiaomei walked up to Murong Xue's side and used her softer spiritual power to check on Murong Xue.

After a minute, Lin Nan failed to refrain from asking, "What now?"

Wu Xiaomei shook her head.

The rest of them all changed faces.

"You mean he is badly hurt?" Lin Nan asked gingerly.

"No, I mean I can't run a check for him." Wu Xiaomei had never seen such things before.

Normally, such a big explosion would be overwhelmingly strong for Murong Xue, but the dazzling light blurred everything and they did not know what had happened.

Xiaobai said in a childish voice, "Let's get out of here and find a place to hide first. We'll get in trouble if more of them come for us." Although it knew nothing about medical skills, it could feel that Murong Xue's life was not in danger thanks to the agreement between them.

"You're right. We need to get out of here." Lin Nan picked Mu Tian up and was surprised that he was much lighter than he thought. Lin Nan even felt as if he hadn’t held anything. What was more, Mu Tian's body was so soft that Lin Nan felt he was boneless and different from ordinary men. But Lin Nan did not overthink it and he thought that maybe Mu Tian was a pampered noble boy.

"Let him take a healing pill." Wu Xiaomei took out the pill bottle from the spatial bag, picked one healing pill, and put it into Murong Xue's mouth. The healing pill melt at once, so they didn’t need to worry that Murong Xue couldn’t swallow it down.

"Let's go. The uproar must attract a lot of attention." Lin Nan's voice was heavy.

Zhao Qi picked up Xiaobai from the ground and they ran in the opposite direction at a high speed, not daring to stop.

They all thought that it was a bad time to get into another fight since Mu Tian was hurt.

Not knowing how far they had run, Wu Xiaomei almost reached her limit and they slowed down.

"There is a cave. Let's go over there and hide in it." The cave Zhao Qi found not far away was hidden in weeds and branches, and it required high attention to spot the cave.

"Okay. Let’s go there. We need to treat Mu Tian as soon as possible." Lin Nan nodded and agreed with Zhao Qi. Although no internal injuries were found, the scratches still needed cleaning and dressing.

Zhu Ming said, "You stay here. Let me go there and check on the cave."

Lin Nan waited while holding Murong Xue.

Zhu Ming fought his way through the weeds around the cave and entered it. After a while, they saw him waving and walked up to him.

The cave was about ten square meters, not very big, but luckily, the ground was dry.

Zhu Ming found a clean corner, cleaned the stones, took some hay from the outside, lay down the hay on the ground, and covered the hay with a long coat from the spatial bag. After all of these, he said to Lin Nan, "Put him down."

Lin Nan did it very carefully and he found Mu Tian's face very pale.

Wu Xiaomei took out clean water and towels from the spatial bag and cleaned Mu Tian's face and skin around the scratches.

"Take out some healing medicine." Lin Nan said when the cleaning was done.

Then he sat down next to Murong Xue and started to take off her clothes.

Seeing this, Xiaobai gave him a hard scratch at once.

The back of his hand had several cuts and started to bleed immediately. Xiaobai's attack was real.

It guarded her and glared at Lin Nan, "What are you doing?"

Covering his bleeding hand, Lin Nan responded in a cold voice, "It should be me asking you. Don't you see that he got lots of wounds? I am going to apply the healing medicine to him."

He did not know what exactly this snowball was. It should be a spirit beast, but he never saw one of its species. Besides, a spiritual beast that could speak their language normally was very strong, but Xiaobai seemed to be weak.

Xiaobai remained unmoved and spread its paws to stop them, "No need for medicine."

The other four all felt angry, "Mu Tian is wounded and bleeding. Do you want him to die here?" If Xiaobai hadn’t been Mu Tian's pet, they would have kicked it out right now.

"It's nonlethal. Anyway, you don't need to dress his injuries." Xiaobai knew Murong Xue would lose her mind if the others had seen her naked and found out her secret.