After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

After confirming the man's identity from a distance, Huo Yu quietly left.

Although he didn't understand why the Holy Maiden of the Demonic Path, who should have been in seclusion in the Chang Le Mountains, would appear here, he was unwilling to confront her directly in his current state.

Moreover, he sensed that Long Yucheng seemed to be in trouble.

After discovering Long Yucheng's astonishing cultivation speed, Huo Yu also gained a new understanding of his ability to cause trouble. When he arrived at Long Yucheng's location, he saw Long Yucheng surrounded by a pack of blue wolves.

Although this pack of blue wolves numbered only a dozen or so, and most of them were at the first level of Qi Refining, their leader was only at the second level of Qi Refining.

Beasts at this level have not yet awakened their supernatural abilities; apart from being larger and faster, they are no different from ordinary wolves. However, under a combined attack, they are far beyond what Long Yucheng, who is only at the first level of Qi Refining, can handle.

At this moment, Long Yucheng appeared extremely disheveled. He was already overwhelmed by the attacks, let alone being able to retaliate.

The wolves worked in perfect unison. He had just parried a wolf's attack with his bow when another wolf viciously clawed three deep wounds on his back. He rolled away to narrowly avoid a wolf's gleaming fangs from his right rear, only to run headlong into the pack leader, who was already lying in ambush on his left.

The wolves attacked from all directions. Long Yucheng was no match for them and was overwhelmed. He was exhausted and covered in scratches and bites.

Huo Yu did not rush to make a move, but instead watched coldly, wanting to see if Heaven would arrange an opportunity for Long Yucheng to turn danger into safety this time.

Only when the wounded youth was about to die in the wolves' jaws did he finally summon his flying sword, piercing the forehead of the leading wolves. Then he raised his hand and threw out several fireballs, finishing off the remaining blue wolves.

The blue wolf belongs to the wood element; its fur can repel water but is afraid of fire. Facing Huo Yu, who is at the Foundation Establishment stage, they were completely powerless to fight back. Soon, the last blue wolf also died in the fire, howling in agony.

Huo Yu then calmly walked towards Long Yucheng to check on his condition.

Long Yucheng had already fainted from excessive blood loss before Huo Yu made his move. He was covered in blood, and his wounds were gruesome.

However, Huo Yu could tell at a glance that these were all external injuries and did not affect the root cause. He casually took out a pill from his storage ring, put it into Long Yucheng's mouth, and used his spiritual power to stimulate him, and Long Yucheng woke up.

After being awakened by spiritual energy, Long Yucheng first touched his completely healed wounds, then was surprised to see wolf carcasses scattered all over the ground, and finally noticed Huo Yu standing to the side. He exclaimed in shock:

"Senior Brother Yu? What are you doing here? Is this the underworld?"

Huo Yu ignored his second question and only said that he was there to complete a mission for the sect.

As a righteous sect, it is the duty of the Qiongshan Sect to slay demons and protect the surrounding mortal towns. Long Yucheng had no doubt about this explanation.

At this moment, Huo Yu, who had pulled him back from the brink of death, seemed like a god descended to earth in his eyes. Even if Huo Yu said the sky was black and the earth was blue, he would nod in agreement without hesitation.

Not to mention that Huo Yu also gave him some kind of miraculous medicine, which completely healed his wounds and he could not feel any pain—so much so that when he woke up he thought he was dead.

Huo Yu is simply a great philanthropist!

"What are you doing here?" Huo Yu ignored Long Yucheng's tearful gaze.

Long Yucheng fell into an eerie silence.

It wasn't that he didn't want to say it, but he simply couldn't bring himself to say the reason, "I'm waiting for the beauty to die so I can complete my mission."

As soon as he stepped out of the Qiongshan Illusion Array, a system popped up a quest called "Hero Saves the Beauty," and the reward was the Spirit Gathering Pill he had been dreaming of.

Moreover, this task is different from the main and side quests; it is marked as an "important task."

Long Yucheng asked the system how important the important task was, and the system replied that important tasks would be followed by subsequent tasks in the future, and the rewards would become more and more generous.

But when he hurriedly used his last of his gold and silver to buy a bow and arrows, without even bothering to haggle, and ran all the way to the woods north of the city, he found nothing.

Long Yucheng thought he was too late, but the mission was still clearly displayed there. He asked the Heavenly Path Assistant if there was a mistake in the mission, but the answer he received was that the mission location was right there.

Long Yucheng refused to believe in bad luck and searched the entire forest, but instead of getting a chance to save the damsel in distress, he almost lost his life to wolves.

"I've been cooped up in the sect for too long, I'm craving some wild game..."

Long Yucheng was still racking his brains to come up with a reason when the cold voice of the Heavenly Path Assistant suddenly rang in his mind: "Time limit exceeded, mission failed, important mission removed."

Long Yucheng's half-finished excuse completely stalled.

Huo Yu glanced at Long Yucheng, whose expression was strange, but didn't expose him. He simply said calmly:

"The Blue Wolf is already a low-level demon, and its flesh is not suitable for consumption."

"I see, thanks to Senior Brother Yu for reminding me."

Long Yucheng said awkwardly, inwardly cursing the Heavenly Dao System to the bone.

What Long Yucheng didn't know was that this wasn't the system's fault. It wasn't him who should have been attacked by the wolves, but the female protagonist, Shen Xinyue.

Shen Xinyue had indeed been here, but her experience differed from the original plot: she didn't enter the forest after Long Yucheng, but rather arrived while Long Yucheng was still at the entrance of Huo Yu's cave seeking permission to leave. During this time, she wasn't attacked by wolves, and the person she encountered wasn't Long Yucheng, but Bai Xue.

An incense stick later, Huo Yu appeared at the inner gate of the Qiongshan Sect carrying Long Yucheng.

When Long Yucheng was put down, he had several wolf pelts on his back and was holding a bag wrapped in wolf pelts in his arms. His face was pale and his legs were weak. He almost knelt down as soon as he touched the ground.

"Thank you for the ride, Senior Brother Yu. I'll go to the Contribution Hall to exchange these things for spirit stones, and then I'll wait for you at the Mission Hall."

Huo Yu nodded, watching as Long Yucheng, covered in blood, staggered away amidst the disgusted gazes of the inner disciples, before turning and heading towards the mission hall.

The so-called sect mission was obviously fake; Huo Yu had no mission to complete. However, he happened to have some things to confirm at the Mission Hall.

The appearance of the pack of blue wolves that Long Yucheng encountered was truly strange. Blue wolves prefer cold weather and mostly live in the frigid north. However, Zhao is located in the south, with mild winters and hot summers, so blue wolves should not be present within its borders.

However, these blue wolves reminded him of someone from his memory. That person called himself the Blue Wolf Hermit, who commanded a snow-white blue wolf. He had once fought with Huo Yu for the same Purple Cloud Crimson Pearl Grass in a celestial abode, and ultimately died at Huo Yu's hands.

Coincidentally, the Hermit of the Blue Wolf happened to have a spiritual object in his possession that had a miraculous effect on the soul.

Huo Yu carefully checked all the recently issued missions in the mission hall and found that there were no missions to exterminate the Blue Wolves. This meant that the pack of Blue Wolves had only recently appeared in the vicinity and had not yet alerted the Qiongshan Sect. If this matter was indeed related to the Blue Wolf Hermit, it would save Huo Yu the trouble of going after him.

However, in his previous life, when Huo Yu killed the Azure Wolf Hermit, the latter was at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm; it was unknown what his cultivation level was now. Most importantly, was the spiritual item that Huo Yu wanted now in the Azure Wolf Hermit's hands?

After Huo Yu came out of the Hall of Affairs, he saw Long Yucheng standing by the door of the Hall of Affairs talking to an outer disciple.

Upon seeing him come out, Long Yucheng ran over:

"Senior Brother Yu, I've finished everything here."