He could be certain that Mu Hanyan hadn’t hidden her strength at the time, which meant her power had really soared from a sixth-tier Swordsman to Tenth Rank in less than half a year.
Could it be due to the Life-bound Star Disk left by ancestor Tian Lie? Apart from this, Mu Feng couldn’t think of any other possibilities. In fact, he wasn’t completely wrong; the Life-bound Star Disk indeed played an indispensable role in Mu Hanyan’s strength today. However, what he didn’t know, was that not just anyone could benefit from Mu Tianlie’s Life-bound Star Disk—if it had been him, not to mention a surge in strength, even his life would have been at risk.
Mu Feng’s feelings were conflicted. The Life-bound Star Disk left by Mu Tianlie wasn’t exclusively for his direct lineage; it only showed slight favoritism towards his own children. Any descendants of the Mu Family could own the Life-bound Star Disk if they were fortunate enough, so Mu Hanyan owed them no gratitude.
If it had been one of those consumed by greed, they wouldn’t care about his life or death. To eliminate future trouble, they might even kick a person when they were down, but Mu Hanyan hadn’t thought that far. She still saved him at the most critical moment.
Logically, he should be grateful to Mu Hanyan, but the thought that the Life-bound Star Disk, a possession of the Heishi City’s Mu Family and something a direct descendant like him with the strength of a Great Swordsman should have owned—not a distant relative like Mu Hanyan—made it difficult for him to accept.
Gratitude, discontent, envy, and jealousy tangled within Mu Feng’s heart.
While he was lost in his thoughts, a mess inside his head, they were getting closer to the crack in the mountainside. Despite the Exotic Beasts’ frenzied attacks, resulting in occasional injuries to their people, those wounded were quickly shifted to the center of the group, replaced by others at the front lines, miraculously resulting in no fatalities.
"Great Swordsman, she’s actually a Great Swordsman!" Seeing Mu Hanyan’s strength, You Chen was surprised, but even more so, he was delighted.
His whole life, successes and failures were due to the Beast Taming Technique. It was because he learned this technique that he could rely on the help of powerful Exotic Beasts to escape danger time and again. However, it was also because he had learned the Spirit Summoning Beast Language from that fragment of ancient text that his strength could no longer advance by even a bit, forever stalled in the Sword Saint Realm.
So, he was all too aware of the constraints that the Spirit Summoning Beast Language placed on one’s strength.
Looking at Mu Hanyan, who was only about fifteen or sixteen years old and had already reached the Realm of Great Swordsmen, she seemed to be completely unaffected by the Spirit Summoning Beast Language. Fresh chapters posted on NoveI-Fire.ɴet
There was only one possibility: her understanding of the Spirit Summoning Beast Language far surpassed his own. Otherwise, she couldn’t have broken the constraints and achieved such power at such a young age. Xia Youchen reaffirmed his previous judgment.
They were getting closer and closer. Mu Hanyan could already see the anxious faces of Mu Cheng and Wu Qiuyun at the entrance of the mountain crack.
The two hadn’t gone far, instead, they were waiting at the entrance of the crack for Mu Hanyan and the others. If it weren’t for their own acknowledgement of being less powerful, that rushing forward would only get in Mu Hanyan’s way, they probably would have gone forward to meet them by now.
"Whew!" Just as they were about to rush into the mountain crevice, a gust of wind sounded beside their ears, and Xia Youchen’s corpse-like figure blocked their path.
With a mere wave of his arm, all the Exotic Beasts stopped their attacks, retreated a few steps but still maintained an aggressive stance, glaring intently at the people.
The group of Swordsmen also stopped, not having the courage to fight the beasts to the death, but facing Xia Youchen, a near-legendary figure, they truly dared not make a move. A person’s reputation precedes them, and the fame of Xia Youchen was indeed a bit too resounding.