From inside the carriage, Chen Yuan’s voice suddenly rang out.
Gongsun Yang immediately pulled on the reins, bringing the carriage to a halt.
The originally calm and relaxed eyes beneath the straw hat suddenly turned sharp, looking at the dense forest ahead and an empty mountain path.
He spoke simultaneously,
"Young master, what’s wrong?"
At this moment, the mountain was silent; it was unknown when the birds and beasts within the forest had stopped making noise.
Suddenly, the carriage curtain was lifted, a gust of wind surged, sweeping up the fallen leaves on the road, and these leaves started to flash with golden light, shooting forward along the mountain path and disappearing at the bend several miles ahead.
Soon after, a muffled rumbling sound echoed from afar.
Then, the chaotic sound of hooves and the rumbling that was reminiscent of an earthquake resounded.
A few breaths later, at the corner of the mountain path several miles ahead, a dozen figures were seen riding horses, driving carriages, or frantically tapping their feet on the ground, rushing madly towards this direction.
Once their faces were visible, they turned out to be some familiar faces that had escaped from the inn earlier.
Among them was the inn’s shopkeeper who had fled quickly before.
At this moment, these people were soaking wet, faces filled with terror, desperately fleeing.
"The people from Bailong River are indeed coming to kill!"
Then, it could be seen, the distant mountain valley shook violently, and at the corner, a murky yellow torrent rushed furiously.
The water surged four to five meters high, resembling a giant earthy yellow snake winding through the valley, unstoppable, carrying large rocks within it, rolling, splashing, attempting to swallow the people and horses.
In Chen Yuan’s carriage, the waiter watched this scene with a pale face, terrified, as he kicked around the carriage with his hands and feet trying to get up, but his legs were too weak due to fear.
But the next second, a horse whinnied.
Beside the waiter, the driver whom he only regarded as someone driving the carriage suddenly shot out like a cannonball, turning into a piercing air wave, rushing towards the surging torrent in front.
In the span of a breath, the small figure with the straw hat reached the wild torrent, stretched out his hand, and punched the five-meter-high torrent.
The previously predatory murky yellow waves exploded, turning into turbulent streams that scattered along both sides of the valley.
Then the figure rushed in, and several screams echoed from within.
Soon, a massive black shadow was flung from two miles away, and a few breaths later, that shadow whistled heavily, crashing in front of Chen Yuan’s carriage.
With a loud "bang", the ground shook thrice.
A ten-meter-long black snake covered in dense black scales and with a horn on its head crashed down, letting out a piercing hiss of pain, its body twisting and rolling, its tail smashing deep pits on the ground and against the mountain walls.
Quickly, a small black dot fell from the sky, heavily hitting the snake’s head.
The fierce head of the black snake was smashed directly into the ground.
Following this, the massive snake body quickly shrunk as if deflated.
Afterwards, Gongsun Yang, carrying a figure in black armor, with green eyebrows and snake scales on his face, dropped him like a dead dog before the carriage, then bowed towards the carriage, an aura sharp and exposed!
"Young master, how should we handle this?"
"He has horns on his head, ask him his origin!" Chen Yuan’s voice calmly sounded from within the carriage.
Gongsun Yang pinched the creature’s neck and then kicked its knees, forcing it to kneel on the ground.
The creature let out a gruesome howl of pain, black energy flashed wildly off its body, yet the shattered black scale armor glimmered with tiny golden characters, firmly trapping its demonic energy, making its expression fierce; amidst its howls, two sharp fangs grew from its mouth, and its triangular snake eyes filled with venomous glare, emitting violent hissing.
"Human Clan Heavenly Pass!"
"Do you even know who I am?"
"I am the Third Prince of the thousand-mile Bailong River here, if you dare kill me, my father will grind your bones to dust."
This voice was filled with a post-pain ferocity and unspeakable arrogance, akin to a rogue and rascal throwing a tantrum in the marketplace.
Whether it was extreme pain, out of rage losing sight of reality, or evolving without developing a brain, in this land he was used to being lawless.
After all, the creature was locked by the aura of the Heavenly Pass Taoist Soldier, captured single-handedly by Gongsun Yang, with another master in the carriage; did it not realize the gravity of the situation?
In the carriage, Chen Yuan’s light gold eyes looked through the window curtain, observing the creature’s wild appearance, cold-eyed, and thought, this little Heavenly Pass demon dares to take the prince’s title, seems this Evil Flood Dragon in Bailong River truly is accustomed to lawlessness.
He spoke expressionlessly, filled with indifference.
With these words, Gongsun Yang raised his hand and fiercely slapped the head of the so-called "Third Prince".
In an instant, the creature’s head exploded like a watermelon, red and white scattering everywhere.
Even its Demon Soul directly turned to ash, not even letting out a scream.
Its remaining body fell to the ground, seemingly not completely dead, its muscles continuously twitching, then its original form revealed again, becoming a headless snake corpse.
This creature was actually a hui, a snake morphs into hui after a hundred years of cultivation, hui into jiao after five hundred years, and jiao becomes True Dragon after a thousand years of refining, undergoing True Spirit tribulation.
At this moment, inside the carriage, Chen Yuan continued to speak,
"Extract the Blood Essence from this demon, skin it, don’t waste it."
Gongsun Yang accepted the command, immediately seizing the massive demon corpse, extracting tendons and skinning, then spitting out a fire to envelop the creature’s body, after which he took it to a hidden area to destroy evidence.
A few breaths later, he returned, a heavy splash of an object hitting water echoing from afar.
At this time, on the mountain path, witnessing these scenes, the people fleeing from the inn were dumbfounded.
When they were a mile away from Chen Yuan, they all stopped, eyes filled with fear looking in their direction.
Wanting to speak but dared not.
Moreover, their faces hardly improved with the death of the hui.
That black snake claimed to be Bailong River’s Third Prince?
Oh heavens, they killed the Third Prince of Bailong River, even skinned and extracted the tendons of the enemy’s body; if the Flood Dragon in Bailong River learned of this, it wouldn’t shake the heavens and earth, changing a thousand miles into fathomless land?
They had landed themselves into even bigger trouble, those aware of the truth were ashen-faced.
Some panicked, even uttering some common sense, bowing from afar towards Chen Yuan’s carriage,
"Thank you for saving our lives, but you’ve killed the Third Prince, this realm may turn upside down, waters meet again, future encounters await!"
With this, someone mounted a horse, instead of following the mountain path, they steered their horse into the vast forests.
Continuing on the mountain path would only arouse suspicion, intending to find their own escape route.
More than one person thought ; many rushed into the forests, preparing to hide within.
Soon, those people vanished completely.
Neither wanting to embroil themselves in this disaster nor engage with Chen Yuan’s group, they could only escape for survival.
"A bunch of useless fools, saved their lives, no gratitude, only fearing trouble, scattering and fleeing." Gou Yue scoffed from the side.
"Young master, should these people be dealt with?"
This time, hearing the fleeing people’s words, Gongsun Yang seemed to recall something, raising his head, cold light flickering in his eyes.
With these words spoken, Gou Yue who spoke earlier, along with Xu Shaoqing, seemed to understand the deeper meaning of the old servant beside Chen Longhu, their eyelids twitching.
What kind of people are these, so wicked?
"No matter, irrelevant, your actions weren’t for them!"
"Hurry on the journey!"