NOVEL WEB Chapter 143 - Instant Strike
“Qing Lin, you and this employer stay behind.”
Xiao Yan pushed Qing Lin and the cloaked woman behind him. Qing Lin frowned slightly and looked up at Xiao Yan.
“Young Master Xiao Yan, I can also…”
“Rest assured, I know what I’m doing.”
Xiao Yan gently interrupted Qing Lin, patted her head, took a step forward, twisted his wrist slightly, stepped onto the hot and soft sandy ground, and focused his gaze on the snake-people tribe leader in front of him.
Behind Xiao Yan, the cloaked woman caressed her storage ring, and a long spear silently appeared from under the cloak.
According to what the cloaked woman sensed, Xiao Yan’s strength was only that of a two-star Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level), while the lowest in the snake-people tribe was an eight-star Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level), and the leader of the snake-people tribe was a four-star Da Dou Shi (Battle Grandmaster, 4th Level).
But seeing Xiao Yan now, ready to face them alone at any moment, although the cloaked woman admired his courage, she also thought Xiao Yan’s actions were too reckless.
However, the cloaked woman also understood that the snake-people tribe leader’s attitude towards humans was extremely hostile. Given the current situation, avoiding this battle was impossible.
All she could do now was to keep her nerves tense, be ready to support Xiao Yan at any moment, and try her best not to kill the snake-people tribe.
The cloaked woman knew that if she killed the snake-people tribe before reaching their destination, no matter the reason, it would be challenging to negotiate peacefully later.
She didn’t come here to make things worse.
While the cloaked woman kept her nerves tight, Xiao Yan looked at the snake-people tribe leader and spoke softly.
“Mister snake, Please be careful.”
“Huh?”
Xiao Yan’s words puzzled the snake-people tribe leader, and the cloaked woman also blinked in surprise.
In a situation where they were outnumbered and weaker, why would he remind the opponent before attacking?
Was this person’s brain okay?
Just as the cloaked woman was thinking this, in the next second, in her line of sight, Xiao Yan suddenly disappeared in the distance. When he reappeared, he had already crossed dozens of meters in an instant and appeared in front of the snake-people tribe leader!
Before the snake-people tribe leader could react, he felt a sudden heavy blow to his abdomen, and his consciousness immediately faded. He slumped to the ground.
Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Fortunately, even though they were from a different race, the weaknesses were essentially the same as humans.
If hitting the abdomen didn’t work, Xiao Yan would have to consider using other means to render this pair of snake-people tribe members combat ineffective.
Then, Xiao Yan’s expression suddenly changed, and his figure once again flickered and shuttled through the still shocked snake-people tribe members. In just a few seconds, the originally confrontational group of snake-people tribe members all fell to the ground motionless.
The cloaked woman, on the other hand, looked dazed, staring at the scene in front of her, and the long spear in her hand lightly touched the sandy ground.
Her entire being was stupefied.
‘Wh… what is this?’
‘What just happened…?’
‘How is it possible…?’
An Earth-ranked Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level) instantly knocked out a four-star Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level) and a group of at least eight-star Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level) among the snake-people tribe at a speed she, a seven-star Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level), couldn’t even see clearly?
‘Absurd!’
‘Utterly absurd!’
‘How could such absurd things happen?!’
‘Am I dreaming?!!!’
Compared to the cloaked woman who was filled with astonishment in her heart, the young Qing Lin didn’t consider so much. Seeing Xiao Yan subduing the entire group of snake-people in an instant, her petite figure ran over extremely excitedly.
“Young Master Xiao Yan! You’re amazing!!!”
To this, Xiao Yan just chuckled and then took out a bundle of ropes from his storage ring. After splitting it into two, he handed one bundle to Qing Lin.
“Qing Lin, help me tie them up. I’ll drag them along.”
Although Xiao Yan didn’t kill them, in this desert where there could be magical beasts at any moment, Xiao Yan would definitely not leave these unconscious snake-people tribe members here. Otherwise, if something happened, it would be no different from Xiao Yan killing them.
“Okay!”
Qing Lin nodded vigorously, took the rope from Xiao Yan, and together with him, tied up the snake-people tribe members. The ends of the ropes were all held by Xiao Yan.
Although Qing Lin also wanted to help drag one or two, her small frame was too frail. She was about to summon her pet to help, but Xiao Yan softly stopped her. After all, he wasn’t unable to pull them, so just let it be.
At this moment, the cloaked woman finally snapped out of her astonishment, silently retracted her long spear into her storage ring, and walked up to Xiao Yan, speaking softly.
“Do you need my help?”
“Ah, it’s okay, I can handle it alone.”
Xiao Yan smiled and waved his hand. He took out a map, confirmed the direction with Qing Lin, then pulled the rope, dragging the group of snake-people tribe members forward. The cloaked woman also continued to silently follow behind Xiao Yan.
Watching Xiao Yan’s back, the cloaked woman’s eyes flickered with a strange light.
The combat power that Xiao Yan had just displayed was definitely not something a Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level) should possess.
Originally, the cloaked woman thought that Xiao Yan, as a Dou Shi (Battle Master, 3rd Level), was certainly not as strong as Xiao Ding, a Da Dou Shi (Battle Grandmaster, 4th Level), so she had been worried all the way.
But now it seemed that she had been overly concerned.
Although she didn’t know why, based on her estimate, Xiao Yan’s combat power might not even be inferior to a Da Dou Shi (Battle Grandmaster, 4th Level).
The combat power Xiao Yan showed exceeded the concept of fighting beyond one’s level. The cloaked woman had seen people fight beyond their level before, but what Xiao Yan showed was far beyond that.
‘How did this man cultivate to have such strength?’
The cloaked woman furrowed her brows tightly.
Come to think of it, she seemed to have heard the name Xiao Yan somewhere…
The cloaked woman lowered her head, silently contemplating.
After a while, she suddenly raised her head, and her eyes also revealed astonishment.
Yes! The fiancé of the Yun Lan Sect’s young sect mistress, isn’t he called Xiao Yan?
Yes… that’s right.
The two captains of the Desert Metal Mercenary Company, Xiao Li and Xiao Ding, came from the Xiao Clan in Wutan City. Xiao Yan, being their younger brother, is undoubtedly also from the Xiao Clan in Wutan City.
So, the current Xiao Yan is the same person who is engaged to Nalan Yanran, the young mistress of the Yun Lan Sect!
Thinking about this, the cloaked woman’s inner vigilance suddenly rose a few notches.
Although the cloaked woman wasn’t interested in such matters, the three-year agreement between Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan had become widely known in the Jia Ma Empire. Even if she didn’t actively seek the information related to it, she had heard some rumors about it.
From what the cloaked woman knew, this three-year agreement was not set by Nalan Yanran because she looked down on Xiao Yan. On the contrary, it seemed to be a way to force Xiao Yan to fulfill the marriage contract immediately.
Honestly, in the cloaked woman’s view, the Xiao Clan in Wutan City and the current Nalan family were not even in the same class. The two forces were not comparable at all.
Moreover, at that time, Xiao Yan was already a well-known waste.
Therefore, when she first heard this rumor, the cloaked woman’s first reaction was that it was just baseless gossip.
The distinguished lady of the Nalan family, the beloved granddaughter of the Lionheart commander of Jia Ma Empire, the future sect master of the Yun Lan Sect, didn’t forcefully annul the engagement and instead set a three-year agreement with her waste fiancé?
How absurd could it be?!
However, now, the cloaked woman seemed to slightly understand.
At least the current Xiao Yan in front of her had nothing to do with the waste she had heard about before.
If he were considered a waste, then there would be very few normal people left in the Jia Ma Empire!
However, the cloaked woman had a vague feeling in her heart.
Perhaps Nalan Yanran’s persistence in Xiao Yan had nothing to do with his strength…
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