The aura emanating from them was fierce, as if stained with the indelible scent of fresh blood.
They were clearly not benevolent beings.
One of them walked towards Ji Yan.
Ji Yan’s body tensed like a mother cheetah.
Protecting the bulging beast-skin bag in her hands as if guarding her cubs.
“Don’t be nervous, we’re all from the same clan, I won’t harm you! I just see that as a woman, carrying so many precious materials must be tiring and dangerous. Let me keep them for you!”
The man smiled, but his smile was clearly malicious.
“Get lost! This is to ransom my brother. Anyone who touches it, I’ll kill them!”
Ji Yan was like a mother lioness baring her fangs, but the five men were not afraid of her.
If Ji Yan were still at her peak, they would have been extremely wary.
But now…
Ji Yan was almost at the end of her strength, and her body was covered in wounds from fierce beasts. She might even die if left here unattended.
“Hand it over!”
The man sneered and kicked Ji Yan’s arm away.
Then he brazenly snatched the beast-skin bag.
Upon opening it, he was shocked by the dazzling array of precious demonic beast materials inside.
He gasped, “We’re rich! These materials are worth at least ten million taels!”
“How many demonic beasts did this woman hunt…”
“Hahaha, I knew I’d get something good by following this woman!”
“Give it back!”
Ji Yan tried to snatch it back, but she fell halfway and collapsed to the ground dejectedly.
“Hmph, you still want to use these materials to ransom your bastard brother? Ten million is a lot, but… the Dark Martial Hall’s price is one hundred million!”
“Give up now, Ji Hong offended the Dark Martial Hall, he’s definitely going to die. Even the King of Heaven can’t save him!”
“No matter how desperately you hunt demonic beasts and earn money, even if you sacrifice your life, you won’t be able to gather this huge sum.”
The five men sneered with amusement, savoring Ji Yan’s despair and struggle.
“You have one more option! That is to agree to Young Master Mo Xie’s request and become his woman.”
Young Master Mo Xie was the son of the Dark Martial Hall’s master, one of the renowned Four Young Masters of Tian Chu City.
It was he who wanted Ji Hong’s life.
The five men’s lecherous gazes swept over Ji Yan’s slender yet powerfully built waist.
They couldn’t help but lick their dry lips.
It had to be said, Ji Yan’s body was incredibly alluring.
Slender where it should be, voluptuous where it should be, with almost no excess fat.
In her early twenties, she was in the prime of a woman’s life.
Coupled with her unique wild aura, she was fatally attractive to men.
No wonder even a top young master like Young Master Mo Xie, who had countless women, coveted her so much.
“Shut up! I will never yield to him!”
Ji Yan cursed loudly.
“Hiss, then there’s nothing we can do. You can only watch Ji Hong die.”
“Since you don’t want to throw yourself into Young Master Mo Xie’s arms, then let’s not let the fat flow to outsiders. You’ll submit to us!”
A wicked fire had already ignited within the five men. They looked at Ji Yan as if they wanted to devour her whole.
One of them eagerly lunged forward.
Ji Yan raised her hand to strike, but another man grabbed her arm.
Soon, her other hand, and even her two feet, were seized by others.
She bit at the man again.
But what harm could she do in her current state?
The man, enraged, slapped her heavily to the ground.
Then he roughly tore at her clothes.
“You beasts, I’m your cousin! How could you do this to someone from the same clan!!”
Ji Yan’s eyes widened with hatred.
She hated these people to the core.
“So what if we have the same surname, or if you’re our cousin? It’s even more exciting, isn’t it? I’ve fantasized about this day for so long, I’m dying for it!”
“Good sister, you know our Ji family is a beast-taming clan that associates with beasts. We advocate the law of the jungle. Do you still want to restrain us with such worldly morals? What bullshit morals, what bullshit conscience, it’s all dog shit! Hahaha!”
The five men cackled, their actions becoming increasingly unrestrained.
“Stop!”
Suddenly, a faint voice echoed.
The five men were startled and looked warily towards the source of the sound.
They saw a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old walking out from the forest.
He was dressed very plainly, in cloth clothes and shoes.
His appearance was delicate, his expression indifferent.
Most strangely, despite his young age, the boy had a full head of gray-white long hair!
“What kind of useless trash are you, daring to disturb our good time? Are you tired of living!?”
“Scram! Or I’ll chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs.”
The five men scoffed contemptuously.
Ling Fan did not speak. The cultivation fluctuations of the peak Qi Refining realm began to emanate from him.
The five men couldn’t help but sneer.
They were all in the Profound Gang realm.
Although they were only in the early Profound Gang realm, they had extremely rich combat experience, and their methods were cunning and ruthless. In a fight to the death, they were not afraid of any martial artist of the same level.
Let alone a mere Qi Refining realm cultivator!
“Damn it, you useless piece of trash really want to die, don’t you!”
Their good time interrupted, one of the most violent men among the five charged forward furiously.
Boom!
He thrust out a palm, his dense and refined martial qi surging on his hand, quickly transforming into the shape of a demonic beast’s claw, intending to rip Ling Fan open.
The other four men watched with cold smiles, as if they had already seen this gray-haired youth turn into a cold corpse.
However, the next moment.
Pfft!
Ling Fan moved his fingers, and a sharp spike of earth-yellow true qi suddenly erupted from the ground.
Like a skewer for roasting…
It impaled the violent man.
He couldn’t have died more completely.
The other four men’s faces changed drastically.
Even Ji Yan’s eyes narrowed.
Such powerful earth-attribute martial skills!
Unexpectedly, this unremarkable gray-haired youth was also a rare earth-attribute martial artist.
“Fuck!”
“Damn it, this kid is not to be trifled with.”
“Attack!”
The remaining four men attacked Ling Fan.
It had to be said, their encirclement attack was very methodical.
Similar to demonic wolves surrounding prey, their coordination was extremely tacit, and their attacks were sharp and venomous.
However, their strength was too far from Ling Fan’s.
With Ling Fan’s current cultivation at the peak Qi Refining realm, his cultivation alone could rival the Heavenly Origin realm.
How could he be shaken by a few Profound Gang realm martial artists imitating demonic beasts?
Ling Fan did not even use his full strength.
With a mere flick of his finger.
Streams of earth-yellow true qi spikes erupted from the ground, and the remaining four men quickly became human skewers, just like the one before them.
Dying with their eyes wide open!
They never understood why this youth was so terrifying.
After killing all five men, Ling Fan’s expression remained unchanged, not a drop of blood splattered on him.
He walked towards the fiery, wild, and beautiful female martial artist with his hands behind his back.