“Who says it isn't? Lately, I haven't even had time to Cultivate… ”

“Sigh…, what good does it do us to talk about these things? Elder Lin Zhi said he wants to see the person alive, or the corpse if he’s dead… ”

“See the corpse? What corpse? From such a high cliff, not to mention a person, even a Yao Beast would be reduced to a pile of minced meat if it fell. Besides, there's a big river at the bottom of the cliff. In my opinion, it would be a miracle to find a body… ”

Up in the tree, Ye Chen watched the Lin family Disciples gradually walk away, and a cold snort escaped his heart: “Good for you, Lin Zhi, not only did you witness me jump off the cliff, but you also want to find my corpse. Since you're so fixated on me, how can I disappoint you?”

With that, Ye Chen flipped and jumped down from the tree. While searching for Yao Beasts, he pondered in his heart how to deal with the Disciples of the Ye and Lin families.

For Ye Chen, although these people had no personal grudge against him.

The problem was their differing stances.

Who told them to be people from the Ye and Lin families?

Previously, if it weren't for that old geezer Lin Zhi forcing them, how would he and Ye Lin have taken the risk of jumping off the cliff?

And then there was the Ye family. He was crippled by the Wang family’s Grand Elder, and not only did they not seek revenge for Ye Chen, but they even thought of marrying Ye Lin off to the Wang family’s second young master.

How could Ye Chen tolerate this?

Just then.

“Roar…”

As Ye Chen was contemplating how to scheme against the Lin and Ye families, suddenly, a roar from a Yao Beast echoed.

The next second.

A Yao Beast's figure, swift as lightning, lunged towards Ye Chen.

Seeing this scene.

Ye Chen didn’t have time to think, he swung his fist, as big as a sandbag, and punched towards the attacking Yao Beast.

“Boom…”

With one punch, Ye Chen thought that even if he couldn't kill this Yao Beast, he could at least severely injure it. However, to his surprise, the Yao Beast in front of him, like a phantom, gradually dissipated.

“Hmm? Is this an afterimage?”

Ye Chen, whose punch missed, looked around warily, but found no movement whatsoever.

As if the Yao Beast from before had never appeared.

But his intuition told Ye Chen that a Yao Beast was definitely hiding nearby.

As for what kind of Yao Beast it was.

Based on Ye Chen’s guess, it was most likely a Lightning Leopard.

After all, within the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, there weren't many speed-type Yao Beasts to begin with.

And this was in the outermost perimeter of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

Besides the Lightning Leopard, Ye Chen couldn’t think of any other Yao Beast.

One must know that within the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, although Yao Beasts were everywhere, there was a strict Rank system here.

It could be said that in the outermost perimeter, apart from first-Rank Yao Beasts, second-Rank Yao Beasts were rarely seen.

Among first-Rank and second-Rank Yao Beasts, those known for their speed were only the Crimson Moon Silver Wolf, Lightning Leopard, Crimson Meteorite Snake, and other Yao Beasts.

However, compared to other speed-type Yao Beasts, the Lightning Leopard was the fastest.

This could be seen from how Ye Chen had previously sent the Crimson Moon Silver Wolf flying with a single punch.

If the attacking Yao Beast just now had been a Crimson Moon Silver Wolf, it would have been beaten flying by Ye Chen long ago.

But the facts proved that the Yao Beast just now was not a Crimson Moon Silver Wolf.

Looking at the quiet surroundings.

Ye Chen thought that continuing like this was not a solution.

He then lifted his foot and continued to walk forward, intending to lure the Lightning Leopard out.

As for whether he would be ambushed by the Lightning Leopard.

Ye Chen had never considered it.

After all, Ye Chen’s physical body had already reached the level of copper skin and iron bones.

Even ordinary weapons couldn't harm Ye Chen in the slightest.

Let alone a Lightning Leopard.

Indeed.

Just as Ye Chen expected.

Just a few steps after Ye Chen started walking, the Lightning Leopard, hidden in the dark, seized the opportunity, suddenly opened its bloody maw, and its figure, swift as lightning, bit towards Ye Chen.

Just as it was about to bite Ye Chen's flesh, Ye Chen suddenly turned around and swung his fist, as big as a sandbag, towards the Lightning Leopard's face.

Compared to the previous punch, this punch truly landed squarely on the Lightning Leopard's head.

“Rumble…”

After a moment, a booming sound echoed, which was caused by the Lightning Leopard falling to the ground not far away.

“Hmph…”

“With just this much skill, you still want to ambush me. You really don't know what's good for you…”

Looking at the Lightning Leopard twitching on the ground, Ye Chen snorted coldly. He then unhurriedly walked over to the Lightning Leopard, and without a moment's hesitation, drew the heavy sword Wufeng from his back, finished it off with one strike, and then carried the Lightning Leopard's corpse towards the cave where Ye Lin was.

Not long after.

As Ye Chen carried the Lightning Leopard's corpse back to the outside of the stone cave, he suddenly remembered something and turned to walk towards the nearby waterfall.

Arriving at the edge of the waterfall.

Ye Chen found a clean spot, put down the Lightning Leopard's corpse, then drew the heavy sword Wufeng from his back, skinned the Lightning Leopard, and along with the Lightning Leopard's corpse, placed them in the clear water at the edge of the waterfall, washed them several times, before retrieving them and walking towards the stone cave.

After all, that stone cave was not as large as the previous stone chamber. If Ye Chen carried the Lightning Leopard's corpse back, not only would there be no place to put it, but even if there was, he would still have to skin it and so on.

Rather than going through such trouble, Ye Chen might as well process it outside directly.

Inside the stone cave.

Ye Lin was curled up alone in a corner, and when she heard footsteps outside, she retreated further into the corner, feeling a bit scared, not even daring to breathe loudly.

As if afraid that an outsider passing by might hear the movement and find this place.

However, fortunately, the person who came was none other than Ye Chen, carrying the Lightning Leopard's corpse.

Seeing Ye Chen walk into the stone cave, Ye Lin finally let out a sigh of relief, her eyes reddened, and she threw herself into Ye Chen's arms, sobbing.

“Brother, you’re finally back. You don’t know how scared I was whenever I heard movement outside while you were gone…”

Looking at Ye Lin, who was crying her eyes out, Ye Chen placed the freshly cleaned Lightning Leopard corpse and the skinned Lightning Leopard hide on the ground, stroked Ye Lin's small head, and gently comforted her: “Lin'er, don’t cry, isn’t big brother back now… ”

Ye Lin said with tearful eyes: “Brother, next time you leave, can you take me with you?”

“I'm really scared here alone…”

Ye Chen said softly: “Lin'er, it's not that big brother doesn't want to take you, but outside is more dangerous than here…”

“Just now, big brother went to the exit of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains. Do you know? Besides people from the Lin family, there are also people from the Ye family guarding there…”

“What? People from the Ye family?” When she heard that the Ye family had also sent people to guard the exit of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, Ye Lin wiped away her tears, her small face puzzled: “Brother, how could people from the Ye family appear in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains?”

“Didn’t you kill all those Ye family Disciples when we were in Qingcheng Mountain before?”

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