Where does that wicked woman get her conscience?

"We've been discovered." A girl in a pale yellow dress stepped out of the darkness, her eyes fixed on the flickering flames. With that chilling demeanor, who else could it be but Ye Qingchi?

"Your strength... can't be hidden under my nose at all." Guan Xun scoffed at the other party's confidence. "What is it?"

"You!" Ye Qingchi's pretty face darkened, and she raised her hand to break the tree branch next to her. She gently rubbed the back of her hand, suppressing her anger. "My second brother, Ye An, although he has no injuries, his entire arm is useless."

"Oh, and then?" Guan Xun replied dismissively, meeting the questioning gaze that narrowed into dark eyes.

Was this person seeking revenge? In her opinion, the relationship between the siblings wasn't that good.

Ye Qingchi's anger, which she was trying her best to suppress, kept rising. This indifferent attitude from the other party was the one she hated most in her life!

Then?

That was Ye An's hand holding the gun, the guarantee that she and her mother had secured their place in the family. Her father had always favored sons over daughters and didn't think much of them being born of a concubine. It was only thanks to Ye An's hard work that she caught her father's eye. Now that she had been crippled, her future was predictable.

Her anger at this moment stemmed more from the fact that she and Ye An had the exact same face and were nearly equal in strength, yet she was ignored and looked down upon simply because of the difference between their genders!

Ye An is ruined, and her mother cries every day, but she still has her, right? Why do people look down on her so much?

Recalling the looks in the eyes of those in her family, Ye Qingchi clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. No matter how painful it was, it couldn't hide the anger in her heart. She exhaled a deep breath and said in a low voice, "I'm not seeking revenge for Ye An, but I want to put my mother at ease. Since you've crippled one of his arms, then I'll give him one back."

Upon hearing this, Guan Xun raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes slightly, finding the words too funny. No one had ever asked her to return anything so seriously before.

Should we ask her to return an arm?

"Pfft." She couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Ye Qingchi raised an eyebrow: "What are you laughing at!"

"I laugh at your overestimation of yourself." Guan Xun's smile faded slightly, and he raised his chin slightly. "Come on, give it a try."

Veins bulged on Ye Qingchi's forehead, and she trembled slightly with anger. Strands of blue spiritual energy seeped out from her body, and cool, gentle ripples swept around, adding a touch of mist to the already chilly forest.

It is the water attribute, which is relatively common in the Five Elements system. It looks gentle, but it actually has hidden strength.

Her gaze swept over the raging flames in Guan Xun's hand, a cold glint in her eyes. In the Five Elements theory, water naturally overcomes fire, and in the current situation, darkness was more advantageous for her.

"It's quite cool here," Guan Xun sighed inwardly. The other party's little scheme was too obvious. Did she want to extinguish the flames first? Then let her extinguish them.

The premise is that she can destroy it.

Extend the flame slightly forward, and the originally flickering flame suddenly becomes even more vibrant in color. At first glance, it looks no different from before, but upon closer inspection, one can discover that the flame now carries an aura that can devour everything.

The flames had been replaced in the instant they flickered.

"Master!" Chi Rong's voice suddenly rang out, filled with long-lost excitement.

Guan Xun glanced at the blue spiritual energy attacking him, his eyes filled with indifference: "Burn it."

As soon as he finished speaking, flames rose up and transformed into two small fire snakes. The moment they collided with the blue spiritual energy, they actually burned along the path from which the spiritual energy had come!

Swift and fierce, unstoppable.

"What?!" Ye Qingchi's pupils suddenly contracted. She had never seen such a strange flame before and was immediately shocked. Seeing that the flame was about to burn her, she immediately withdrew her spiritual power and retreated.

But the flames seemed determined not to let her go. The fire snakes coiled and tore through the spiritual energy mist, covering a distance of more than ten meters in less than half a breath. Such terrifying speed made her heart sink to the bottom.

Even her eldest brother Ye Kerong, who is known as a genius, was defeated by Guan Xun. She should have been more cautious. She was careless.

"Water Moon Mirror Flower!" Ye Qingchi gritted her teeth and shouted coldly. As she retreated, blue spiritual power suddenly enveloped her body, and her aura spun rapidly, instantly condensing into a water mirror that was constantly rippling in front of her.

Do you think you can use such abilities to stop the Crimson Flame?

Naive.

The fire snake darted about, completely ignoring the water mirror as it pierced through it. Wherever it passed, the flames ignited the mirror, and in the blink of an eye, it was reduced to ashes.

Ye Qingchi's face turned deathly pale. From the moment the flames ignited her spiritual power, she knew that her spiritual power was no match for the flames and might even become the source of their burning.

Right now, all she could do was run and figure out a way later, but she never expected that the move she used with all her might wouldn't even buy her a moment to escape.

"I surrender!!"

"No... I surrender!!!" Faced with the oncoming flames, Ye Qingchi's eyes were filled with terror. Her limbs went weak and she collapsed to the ground. The hair ornament on her hair swayed with her movements, reflecting a golden light under the firelight.

This isn't the academy's competition arena; you can't just admit defeat and save your life.

Guan Xun wore a faint smile on her face. She took a few steps back, somewhat casually saying, "If you attack me, you'll have to sign a waiver of your right to life or death."

She had barely finished speaking when she abruptly changed her tone and shouted sharply, "Come back!"

The raging fire python, its blood-red mouth wide open as it was about to devour Ye Qingchi, suddenly stopped, swayed slightly, and instantly returned to Guan Xun's palm.

At the same time, the forest trembled, and loud cracking sounds accompanied by the sound of trees being snapped in two echoed all around.

A dark shadow suddenly darted out from above the forest, its enormous size plunging the already dimly lit forest into darkness.

The sudden commotion intensified Ye Qingchi's fear. Before she could recover from the fierce attack of the flames, a huge black shadow enveloped her, and a giant, snot-like green slime rained down from above, causing her to gag from an indescribable stench.

Her trembling hand reached for her face, and before she could even see what was happening in front of her, she was swallowed whole by the dark shadow...

"Snapped!"

The dark figure landed, trampling down a large number of tall trees, causing the small, low-level monsters hiding among them to scream and scatter in all directions.

The dark figure raised its thick, blunt claws and slapped them repeatedly on its round, bulging belly. Its four fingers were webbed together, and each slap produced a loud bang and a strong, eerie wind.

Soon, it opened its huge mouth wide, its long tongue sticking out, and its fingertips, like willow branches, reached down into its mouth. After fiddling around for a few moments, it pulled out a small, golden thing.

It was the hair ornament that had just been hanging on Ye Qingchi's head.

It stared intently at the hairpin, raised its head and howled, its foul-smelling slime splattering everywhere as its long tongue moved, looking extremely excited.

"Ha." A rare look of surprise appeared on Guan Xun's face.

This is an eighth-tier demonic beast.