"My apologies, everyone. I have a wife and children at home, so I'll be leaving first!"
Seeing how powerful the mutated wild boar king was, one of the team members decided to bolt.
This team member was an inconspicuous martial artist from the Wind Wolf team. He hadn't made a move during the previous battle.
He had even stayed at the very back while traveling.
But who would have thought that this ordinary person, who had tested to be below an intermediate martial artist, was actually a martial artist with hidden talent?
He cupped his fists, then smeared oil on his feet, turned sharply, and sped away.
His speed was comparable to the flying fierce beasts from before.
"Dash talent? Sun Wu, you actually have hidden talent!?" Wind Wolf exclaimed in shock.
Dash talent, as the name suggests, is the ability to temporarily enhance one's speed.
This talent might seem useless in combat, especially for an ordinary martial artist like Sun Wu.
"Damn it, that brat Sun Wu actually dared to run away! The captain treated him well usually!"
"Who says not? The captain introduced Sun Wu to his wife!"
"Pah! That ungrateful fellow!"
"......"
The brothers of Wind Wolf collectively cursed, filled with righteous indignation.
But Sun Wu couldn't care less. He had finally managed to put some distance between himself and the mutated wild boar king.
Moreover, the wild boar king's attention seemed to be entirely focused on Ye Ningze and the others, and it hadn't even noticed someone slipping away.
Sun Wu kept looking back as he ran, completely ignoring Wind Wolf and his former brothers.
When he saw that the wild boar king wasn't paying attention to him, his face lit up with joy.
He fixed his direction towards the Sunset Forest and sped off.
Due to his current realm, Sun Wu couldn't fully utilize his Dash talent.
Even so, Dash talent was a mid-level special talent.
If this talent were cultivated to great mastery, it could even allow for flight or teleportation.
For now, it was more than enough to escape.
After confirming there were no pursuers, Sun Wu ran off without looking back.
Seeing this scene almost made the Wind Wolf brothers furious, cursing Sun Wu for his ingratitude.
However, with disaster looming, the captain, Wind Wolf, managed to maintain some composure.
"Wang Zhao, I'll lead the team to distract the wild boar king. You quickly send a signal for reinforcements to the main group!" Seeing that the situation was dire, Wind Wolf directly chose to call for help.
"Yes, Captain!"
Wang Zhao accepted the order and hastily retreated with his package.
For this trade route expedition into the Sunset Forest, the Sun family and Yang family had gathered over a thousand martial artists.
While this mutated wild boar king was indeed powerful, possessing strength comparable to a high-level elite martial artist,
don't forget that the Sun family had as many as seven Grandmaster realm existences.
Although it couldn't be determined how many Grandmasters the Sun family had dispatched this time,
regardless, as long as one Grandmaster arrived, the Wind Wolf team would be saved.
After the reinforcement team left, Wind Wolf turned to Ye Ningze again.
"Brother Ye, your talent is so high, it would be a shame to die here. Why don't you run first!"
Hearing this, Ye Ningze's lips curved slightly, and he smiled.
"Captain Feng, you worry too much. It's just a mutated wild boar king, I can handle it!"
As he spoke, Ye Ningze exuded the aura of a peak elite martial artist.
"Peak Elite Martial Artist!"
Wind Wolf stared at Ye Ningze in disbelief.
After all, a peak elite martial artist was Wind Wolf's lifelong goal.
Wind Wolf was exactly thirty years old this year, and his cultivation realm was that of an early elite martial artist.
While others might see Wind Wolf as already very powerful,
only Wind Wolf knew that without other opportunities, with his low-level talent, he might only reach the elite martial artist realm in his lifetime.
Advancing to the Grandmaster realm was something Wind Wolf had never even considered.
His lifelong goal was merely to advance to the peak elite martial artist realm.
What surprised Wind Wolf the most was Ye Ningze's age!
"Such a young elite martial artist is simply incredible!"
Wind Wolf and the brothers in the team all focused their gazes on Ye Ningze, looking as if they had seen a ghost.
Logically speaking, an ordinary martial artist with low-level talent could not reach the peak elite martial artist realm in their lifetime.
And those with intermediate talent, like Yang Chenfeng, the son of the Yang family patriarch in Qingcheng Base.
Thanks to the vast cultivation resources provided by the family, he was able to reach the elite martial artist realm in his early twenties.
And Yang Chenfeng was only an early elite martial artist, nowhere comparable to Ye Ningze.
"High-level cultivation talent!"
A thought sprouted in everyone's minds.
That's right, only with high-level cultivation talent could Ye Ningze reach the peak elite martial artist realm at his current age.
Upon this realization, Wind Wolf and everyone present showed expressions of reverence.
High-level cultivation talent, the Sun family's only remaining Grandmaster seemed to possess this talent.
As long as he didn't die prematurely, Ye Ningze also had the potential to become a Grandmaster!
Now, such a promising talent appeared in their team, how could Wind Wolf and the others not be astonished!
Amidst their astonishment, they felt deep respect for Ye Ningze.
However, Ye Ningze clearly didn't notice their thoughts at the moment.
After releasing his peak elite martial artist aura, he gripped his precious saber and charged towards the mutated wild boar king.
In just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the mutated wild boar king became a corpse under Ye Ningze's sharp blade.
"Phew, done!" Ye Ningze exhaled, gripping his black saber and stepping forward to dismember the wild boar king.
This was a mutated wild boar king, and it also possessed the cultivation of an elite martial artist. Any part of its body could fetch a high price.
"This, it's already finished?" Seeing Ye Ningze step forward to dismember the wild boar king, Wind Wolf and the other team members exchanged glances, their hearts greatly shaken.
They hadn't expected Ye Ningze to finish off the wild boar king so quickly.
Both were at the peak elite martial artist level, yet the wild boar king couldn't even withstand a single move from Ye Ningze!
"Could it be that besides his peak elite martial artist cultivation, Ye Ningze also has some special attack talent?"
The brothers under Wind Wolf couldn't help but speculate.
However, they didn't know.
Ye Ningze had been hiding his strength. The peak elite martial artist he displayed was merely a facade.
In reality, his cultivation had already reached the peak Grandmaster realm!
Coupled with his numerous life-saving divine abilities, he could even contend with a Grandmaster!
It was precisely because of this that Ye Ningze had joined the team so openly this time.
"Hahahaha, good stuff, all good stuff!"
Soon, all the materials from the mutated wild boar king were collected by Ye Ningze.
Ye Ningze was in high spirits.
Of course, Ye Ningze had no intention of sharing the materials with Wind Wolf and the others, as Ye Ningze had dealt with the fierce beast alone.