The First Venerable of the Prosperous Age

Seeing Lu Xiaosan approach, He Lai lowered his voice and asked, "Now, do you want to join them, or come with me?"

Seeing that Lu Xiaosan finally showed the same firm look in his eyes as he did, He Lai understood and smiled with satisfaction.

Lu Xiaosan nodded at Zhan Wei's forehead again, but before he could even lower his hand, a bolt of lightning struck him at lightning speed.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself perched on Helai's shoulder.

A dazzling array of afterimages flashed past beneath him, indicating that He Lai and Wei Shanshan had already begun exchanging blows.

Before long, these afterimages became more numerous and denser, with red shadows of knives, swords, halberds, and all sorts of other weapons.

He Lai carried himself and fought to a standstill with Zhan Wei, proving himself worthy of the title of commander of ten thousand soldiers.

They fought fiercely, but Lu Xiaosan, who wasn't even in that league, was the one who suffered.

Throughout the battle, he constantly teetered on the edge of swords and spears, and was toyed with like a plaything by the three. At times, he would land on Wei Shanshan's shoulder, only to be immediately pulled back into He Lai's hands when danger was imminent.

Lu Xiaosan couldn't help but sigh, "It's over. I've been carried around and put on someone's shoulder. I've become the kind of useless teammate that storyteller was talking about! I have to rely on He Lai to save me, but I still have to keep dragging him down, and... I still have to keep enduring the scorn of those people outside! Ugh." Suddenly, Lu Xiaosan felt extremely dizzy and unbearable.

It's the same principle as only the speedster in the car doesn't get carsick. After such an intense battle, Lu Xiaosan, who was in the car, was already seeing stars and felt the world spinning around her.

"Ugh!" A large mouthful of vomit landed on someone's shoulder, no one knows who.

"Ahhh—!" Wei Shanshan screamed as a sword pierced her abdomen.

All because Lu Xiaosan vomited all six bowls of spicy soup she had eaten that morning onto her snow-white neck.

Although she possessed formidable martial arts skills, she was, after all, a young virgin not yet twenty. How could she possibly bear being vomited on so suddenly, especially by a monk who reeked even more than vomit? How could she possibly continue to fight with all her might?

Seeing the situation, Helai and Raymond both stopped and stepped back.

Raymond rushed to Wei Shanshan's side and asked softly, "How are you? Are you alright?"

Wei Shanshan trembled with terror, repeatedly shouting, "Quick, quick, quick, quick!!"

"Quick...what? Oh!" Raymond was covered in sweat and hurriedly pressed on the bleeding wound on Wei Shanshan's abdomen.

"No! Take off this smelly dress I'm wearing!" Wei Shanshan cried out in terror.

"Huh!? This...?"

"Hurry up and take it off! What kind of behavior is this, a grown man so indecisive? And don't you know how uncomfortable I am right now?" Wei Shanshan said angrily.

Raymond understood her pain, but he was being asked to undress his beloved in front of thousands of people. How could he possibly accept that?

"Hurry up!" Wei Shanshan shouted, leaving Raymond no room for further hesitation.

Raymond gritted his teeth and finally took off Wei Shanshan's clothes, which were covered in vomit, in front of the entire audience.

"Oh—!" Thousands of men outside the arena exclaimed in unison, all of them staring intently at Wei Shanshan's snow-white and graceful shoulders and back.

"Oh..." Another collective sigh rang out from the female spectators outside the arena. They simply couldn't accept that the male audience members would be captivated by the beauty of their enemy.

Raymond was flustered and at a loss when he saw the woman he loved dressed provocatively but was completely unaware of it.

He hesitated for a long time before clumsily starting to help her clean the foreign objects off her body.

"Be gentle, you're hurting me!" Wei Shanshan said, panting and frowning in complaint.

"Okay, okay..." Raymond blushed and wrapped his clothes around Wei Shanshan again. Only then did Wei Shanshan breathe a sigh of relief and feel a little better.

Seeing that there was no "fan service" to be had, the male spectators outside the arena erupted in a loud chorus of boos. The boos had barely subsided when the female spectators joined in, booing loudly at the male spectators.

The three eunuchs also raised their delicate fingers and said in a coquettish voice, "Tch, what's so interesting about this girl? Is it really necessary for these spectators to be so angry?"

Seeing that Shan Shan's breathing was gradually calming down, Raymond tore off a piece of cloth from his pants to press on her wound and helped her slowly get up.

For some reason, the female audience members gradually erupted into enthusiastic screams.

It must be because she saw how carefully Raymond took care of Wei Shanshan. Beneath his rugged and upright exterior, there was such a tender and doting affection, which made the female audience members in the arena swoon.

The muscular body that stood resolutely in front of Wei Shanshan, along with its sharply defined bronze muscles, instantly filled the entire arena with masculine hormones.

The female audience member was drooling and overjoyed, completely disregarding how immoral he had been in the past.

At this point, along with the three eunuchs, thousands of female spectators outside the venue screamed and turned against the government!

Unfortunately, James and Wade remained unmoved by everything happening off the court. They knew they were guests from afar, and everyone here was their opponent.

Raymond's expression then became domineering again. He used his powerful hands to press down forcefully from above, while taking a step as if he were a king ruling the world, intending to tell everyone that he would suppress all doubts, sighs, and cheers.

Wei Shanshan touched the wound on her abdomen and felt that the wound was very shallow. She quickly realized that it was because Helai saw that she had suddenly suffered such a change that he did not go all out.

At this point, Wei Shanshan clasped her hands in thanks and said, "Thank you, Hero Helai, for showing mercy."

He Lai patted Lu Xiaosan's back as she vomited repeatedly and replied calmly, "You all better not go easy on me."

“Of course. No matter how strong or weak the opponent is, going all out is the greatest respect you can show them,” Raymond said, turning his neck. The bulging veins in his muscles spoke volumes about his intense desire to fight.

Looking at Lu Xiaosan, who was vomiting uncontrollably, Helai sighed and asked, "So, is your target me or this child now?"

"Of course it's him!" Wei Shanshan roared, drawing her sword again and charging forward, all to take Lu Xiaosan's head and vent her humiliation.

Then Helai picked up Lu Xiaosan again, and the severed leg transformed into a red giant hammer, which he kicked fiercely into the pile of rocks in the air.

He couldn't abandon Lu Xiaosan, but Lu Xiaosan couldn't withstand such a battle, so for now he could only keep smashing the boulders, hoping to break through the green stone and find an opportunity.

With a loud "boom," the boulder shattered, scattering red light.

"Oh no, it's redstone!"

A red light flashed, and suddenly a blizzard raged, transforming the surroundings into a frozen, icy kingdom.

Upon closer inspection, a thousand miles of ice and snow stretched as far as the eye could see! A deluge of snow was relentlessly blanketing the summit of the icy mountain before us.

James and Wei were standing on the top of the ice mountain, at a loss, when suddenly a red grappling hook came swooping down from the cliff in front of them.

Then, the crane carrying Lu Xiaosan leaped back to the top of the mountain, followed closely by several snow-white eagles that were chasing and tearing at the two of them.

"Falling off a snow-capped mountain and being chased by eagles—is this the dangerous situation one faces when encountering the Red Stone People? Yes, the danger lies in the unexpected shifts in location," Raymond couldn't help but say.

"That's strange. He Lai is already a top-tier expert. If he wanted to fly high, he could simply use a wave to attack his body. Why would he need to go through all this trouble by conjuring up a claw hook?" Wei Shanshan asked.

"They're afraid his powerful red energy wave might hurt the monk," Raymond replied. Suddenly, Wei Shanshan tugged at his sleeve. "Look!"

Turning around, I saw red, beastly eyes in the snow-covered forest behind me, constantly emitting low growls.

These wild beasts leaped from the forest: their greyish-white fur, speckled with black spots, was overflowing with saliva as they roared at their prey. Their bloodthirsty red eyes were even more striking—they were snow leopards, their fur enhanced to a frenzied state.

A ferocious roar erupted.

"Snow Leopard, shut up!" Raymond roared.

In addition to the red-eyed snow eagle that attacked Helai earlier, the animals here have all been subjected to a brutal treatment; their red eyes and bloodthirsty nature are their defining characteristics.

These animals have been greatly enhanced in strength and speed. What's most troublesome is that they can't be killed or driven away. The only way to completely get rid of them is to smash the boulder and switch to the next scene.

On the other side of the cliff, He Lai had already driven the undead eagles into the snow with his spear. Although the spears pierced their bodies, they continued to bite and gnaw, their killing intent undiminished.

He looked at Lu Xiaosan, whose face was pale and who was shivering from the cold, and said to Zhan and Wei, "I'll have to trouble you two to hold off these snow leopards." After saying that, he carried Lu Xiaosan and ran towards the group of flying rocks on the other side of the snow mountain.

"Stop! What if you hit the green stone?"

Just as they were about to give chase, their bodies became incredibly heavy, as the heavy snow had already piled up three feet of snow on them.

However, their excellent physical condition meant they didn't feel anything, especially Raymond, who was shirtless and didn't feel the slightest bit of cold.

In that brief moment of distraction, several snow leopards pounced on him from behind.

Wei Shanshan instantly transformed into black lightning, darting among the snow leopards, when suddenly a sharp pain shot through her wound. In that brief moment of slowing down, the snow leopards were right behind her, impossible to shake off.

These snow leopards were just as fast as her.

In her surprise and disbelief, she saw Raymond's blue blade slash down, and several snow leopards fell to the ground.

But their severed limbs quickly grew back, and they rose again to charge at the two. This explosive offensive momentum relentlessly assaulted the two.

"We shouldn't have stood there like idiots. We should have left immediately. These snow leopards were probably meant for the cranes that the spirit stones had just brought back to the snow mountain, but they've gotten entangled with us instead," Wei Shanshan complained as she slashed at the attacking undead snow leopards.

"Next time, attack Helai directly!" Raymond said as he crushed the immortal snow leopard in his hand.

As the two were locked in fierce combat, a blinding red light flashed from afar. When they opened their eyes again, they found themselves on a beach on a small island, with the vast ocean stretching out before them.

"Did...did He Lai strike the red stone again?"

Just as I was wondering what was going on, the waves in front of me suddenly began to roll, and the surrounding waves surged and roared.

A red light flashed beneath the sea, and suddenly, waves dozens of meters high erupted from the entire area. Vast amounts of seawater poured down on the island like a torrential downpour.

Upon seeing this, James and Wei leaped back quickly and hid on the top of a tree, only then did they see the crane's figure flying out from the towering waves.

He Lai carried Lu Xiao San, who had been frightened unconscious by the fish, and held a huge red harpoon in his left hand, on which were three red-eyed sharks struggling and wagging their tails.

In his right hand, he held a red fishing net filled with all sorts of small, bloodthirsty, and immortal fish of all sizes. Each one had sharp teeth and its mouth was still throbbing.

For Lu Xiaosan, this was undoubtedly a nightmare come true, so he fainted from fright in the very first second.

"It seems that Hero Crane has struck the red stone again."

Looking at the unconscious Lu Xiaosan, Helai couldn't help but shout, "Little brother, you can't fall asleep at this crucial moment!"

Seeing that he still didn't react, He Lai gritted her teeth, and a burst of red energy erupted from her body. She hoped that the red energy would scald Lu Xiaosan awake, and that she could also fly straight towards the group of rocks in the air.

"Where do you think you're going!" Raymond, his body shimmering with blue light, charged straight towards Crane.

When Helai saw him arrive, he took the opportunity to throw all the fishing nets and harpoons in his hands at Raymond.

Raymond swung his sword down, and hundreds of bloodthirsty fish instantly turned into blood flowers.