The yao ren came silently, but the pervasive stench of decay always lingered.
"Your Highness, fewer people this way, let's go!"
Xiao Yao relied solely on her sense of the scent, her arm around Feng Yexuan's waist, her finger pointing in a direction.
Feng Yexuan didn't know why he trusted her judgment so implicitly.
Without a second thought, he took a step, leaped, and sped away with her in his arms.
"Your Highness, the number of yao ren seems considerable."
Xiao Yao, facing the wind, spoke, her words immediately scattered.
But Feng Yexuan could still hear clearly.
Xiao Yao's words reminded him.
He halted his steps, and the two stopped abruptly.
Xiao Yao looked surprised, "Why did we stop? The scent of yao ren is behind us!"
She hadn't even seen the yao ren, yet she knew this scent belonged to them.
The feeling was as if it were deeply etched into her heart, impossible to shake.
"You said the number of yao ren here is considerable?" Feng Yexuan asked.
Xiao Yao nodded, "I... it's just a feeling, it might not be accurate..."
"Can you sense where the yao ren are?" If not for the approaching yao ren, Feng Yexuan might not have noticed.
But her perception seemed different from others, or perhaps she was particularly sensitive to the scent of yao ren?
"From... the southwest, there's a very strong scent," Xiao Yao said hesitantly, unsure what he was thinking.
Feng Yexuan narrowed his eyes, "But based on my estimation, there are more yao ren in the northeast."
"That's the group that's closing in," Xiao Yao immediately retorted, "But the real main force, I'm sure, is in the southwest!"
Feng Yexuan looked up, gazing towards the southwest.
The yao ren were already very close, and it was clear that the group attacking from the northeast was indeed larger.
However, she insisted it was the southwest...
"Alright, I'll trust you this once!" With a turn, he headed towards the southwest.
"Hey! What are you doing? There are so many yao ren over there, Your Highness..." Xiao Yao was stunned!
He said he trusted her, yet he didn't listen to her!
With so many yao ren in the southwest, wasn't he walking into a death trap?
Feng Yexuan paid no heed, heading towards the southwest, and soon encountered the first group of yao ren.
"Protect yourself!" He released her, unleashing a sweeping palm strike.
Several of the first wave of yao ren immediately fell.
However, apart from those fatally struck by his palm, the remaining yao ren, even with severe injuries and spitting blood, got back up and continued to lunge at them!
Although Xiao Yao already knew from memory how tenacious they were, seeing it firsthand still made her feel a bit flustered.
In a moment of inattention, a yao ren's hand had already reached in front of her.
"Careful!" Feng Yexuan, anxious and angry, stretched out his long arm and pulled her back.
With a tearing sound, the yao ren's claws grazed his arm, drawing forth a stream of black blood.
"Their claws are poisonous!" Xiao Yao said urgently.
"Their entire bodies are poisonous!" Feng Yexuan retorted impatiently, almost wanting to curse.
After pushing another palm strike, he said displeasedly, "I told you to protect yourself, what have you been doing?"
In the face of a fierce battle, she dared to be distracted, did this girl have no fear of death?
"Sorry..." Xiao Yao dared not say more, drawing a short knife from her boot and stabbing the nearest yao ren.
Feng Yexuan felt a flicker of disappointment.
She had her clothes torn by him during the first half of the night, and after changing into another set, she had slept with her boots on.
Perhaps she was always thinking of leaving.
And her knife was taken from her boot, not from the Qiankun Chain's space.
She didn't have a Qiankun Chain at all.
So, what was he expecting?
"Your Highness, be careful!"
This time, it was Xiao Yao's turn to exclaim, "Don't get distracted! There's a yao ren behind you!"
As soon as she cried out, she immediately raised her knife and cleaved towards his back.