72: Chapter 72 You filthy scoundrel, what are you staring at?

Outside Xibo Pass, in a stretch of black mountain forest spanning hundreds of miles, several figures flashed by at extreme speed, as if chasing something.

"Sister, are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Hurry, as long as we escape back there, we will be saved."

The woman in green shook her head, her face deathly pale.

"But you've been poisoned by that group of thieves. If you continue to force your cultivation like this, you will die."

The woman in orange beside her looked worried; she was also covered in blood.

The woman in green glanced at her, gritted her teeth, and said:

"Have you forgotten what the commander told us? Besides, if we can return alive, we can become God Venerate."

"But..."

"No more 'buts.' You go, I will hold them off."

The woman in green shoved the woman in orange away, pressed her palms together, and charged toward the middle-aged guard closest to her.

"You dare to break into the Qian Mansion? Be good and leave your lives behind; perhaps I can grant you a quick death."

"If you want to fight, then fight. You talk too much."

"Foundation Technique, Rainy Night."

A rain flower bloomed around the woman in green, and then her entire body transformed into a mass of green water, merging with the falling rain filling the sky.

"A mere parlor trick." The middle-aged guard sneered disdainfully. A stream of light swirled in his palm as he struck the air. Instantly, a spray of blood was spat out, and the woman in green reverted to her original form.

"You are already heavily injured. With a body so severely wounded, how could you possibly be my opponent?"

"Foundation Technique, Explosive Fist." Runes surged around the middle-aged guard as he struck directly toward the woman in green.

"Remember, the God Venerate Family is not something trash like you can provoke."

"Die!" The woman in green suddenly roared, and the Five-Colored Sha around her body erupted frantically. Within just a few breaths, the middle-aged guard who had rushed up lost all signs of life.

Pfft. Another large mouthful of poisonous blood was spat out, and the cheeks of the woman in green were already covered in wrinkles.

"I'm reaching my limit."

The woman in green gritted her teeth, and her figure moved once more.

"She absolutely cannot die here. Absolutely not. She still has a younger brother and sister to take care of, and she still needs to become God Venerate."

"Sister!" The woman in orange, who had run far from the original spot, heard the commotion behind her, turned back to look, and immediately called out with joy.

The woman in green did not respond but instead shouted urgently, "Run!"

Subsequently, several attacks landed simultaneously on the spot where the woman in orange was located. For a time, the sounds of explosions, rumbling, and impacts were incessant.

"Little sister!" Seeing this scene, the woman in green immediately rushed over. "Thank goodness, you're alright."

The woman in green had just let out a sigh of relief when a cold voice from within the smoke caused her heart to leap into her throat once again.

"Rest assured, she won't be hurt for now; I haven't caught you yet."

"Foundation Technique, Thousand Leaf Flying Knives."

The young man dropped one hand, and countless flying knives swept in from all directions.

"Foundation Technique, Rainy Night."

Facing the incoming flying knives, the woman in green gave a sharp cry, and transparent water droplets fell from the sky once more, attacking the knives.

After their collision, a wave of air surged across the sky.

The young man walked out from the shadows, his expression indifferent, hands behind his back; he actually had the demeanor of an expert.

"Hmph, you are disregarding your origin to frequently force the use of Foundation Technique; aren't you afraid of becoming a cripple?"

Upon seeing the man, the woman in green could not help but let an intense killing intent erupt from her eyes.

It was this person who wanted to steal the Foundation Technique of the two sisters and turn them into cultivation vessels.

The young man sensed the intense killing intent radiating from the woman in green, and his expression turned slightly mocking:

"What, it seems you really want to kill me?"

"However, relying on you, a Tuotai Realm, to kill me, a Wulou Realm, I'm afraid you have no chance."

He clapped his hands together, and the flying knives that had previously vanished gathered around him once again.

"Sometimes, if you were a bit more sensible, you might live longer."

He thrust both palms downward, and several flying knives flew toward the woman in green simultaneously.

Seeing this, the woman in green immediately circulated her internal True Qi, but as soon as she gathered a trace of it, the toxins in her body could no longer be suppressed, and she spat out another large mouthful of blood.

"Die." The young man gave a cold smile, and the flying knives descended.

After several pained cries, the Five-Colored Sha within the woman in green began to disperse. An aura of Sha pressure instantly blocked the rushing young man, forcing him to halt his offensive.

"With the Sha injected into your heart meridian, you are beyond saving. However, before you die, if I take you by force, this young master can still obtain your Foundation Technique."

Seeing the sudden ripples of Sha, the young man's lips curled into a smile of unconcealed delight.

He had taken a liking to these two women when they went to the Qian Mansion to deliver a letter; he hadn't expected them to be so unyielding.

They had been poisoned by him and pursued for so many days, yet refused to submit. He was actually looking forward to what would happen next.

Seeing the Sha block the young man's attack, the woman in green did not hesitate; she pulled up the woman in orange, who was locked in a bitter struggle, and charged out once again at an extreme speed.

"Burning your lifespan? This young master would like to see how much lifespan a mere Tuotai Realm has to squander."

Every time the woman in green used lifespan burning, the young man would grow angrier.

"This bitch would rather die from exhausting her lifespan than become my cultivation vessel."

"In that case, when I catch you, I will definitely torture you first."

The young man cast a spell with both palms, and a rune surged simultaneously. "Foundation Stance, White-Clad Healer."

As the young man unleashed his Foundation Stance, the wall of Sha that the woman in green had fused with Sha was quickly shattered by him.

"Pursue!"

Accompanied by the young man's renewed pursuit, sounds of air being pierced and fighting would ring out from the hundred-mile mountain range from time to time.

Although not intense, it would often startle countless birds and beasts.

After a bloody battle, the two women, Green and Orange, escaped once again. This enraged the young man so much that he grabbed one of his subordinates by the collar and roared in anger.

"Who can tell me, why can a group of Wulou Realm experts not catch two Tuotai Realm ones? Why?"

He kicked away the subordinate whose collar he was holding, and after roaring at the sky several times, the young man spat out a mouthful of blood.

"In this battle to pursue the two women, I have lost three Wulou Realm and several Tuotai Realm experts of my Qian Family. If you cannot catch them, you will all be buried with them."

The young man was truly driven mad by anger. Poisoning, burning lifespan, Sha poison invading the heart meridian—which of these was not a death sentence?

Why could the two women still escape? He truly could not understand.

He punched a nearby treetop and issued the order to pursue once again. He had to catch the two bitches.

"Keep chasing! To the ends of the earth, you must bring these two bitches back to me."

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

In Death Fishing Village, Kang Dalei stopped his movements, panting from exhaustion.

Three hundred mu of land had finally been completely plowed by him in three days.

Looking at the vast, endless fields, there was no joy on Kang Dalei's face, only despair.

With so much land, when would he finish planting it?

[Ding-dong, congratulations to the host for completing the achievement of plowing one hundred mu of land; reward: one stalk of dogtail grass.]

If he plowed the land and didn't plant it, the people nearby would think he was an idiot.

"I need to come up with a solution."

Kang Dalei ignored the dogtail grass rewarded by the system; the name alone sounded like it lacked any technical substance.

"If that doesn't work, should I just let them plant it?"

Kang Dalei glanced at the disciples of Death Fishing Village, his eyes darting around.

Slap. Just as Kang Dalei turned his eyes, a thin, older sister behind him slapped him across the face. Because he was completely unprepared, this slap sent him stumbling a few steps.

"You filthy pervert, if you're going to plow the land, then plow it. What are you looking around for?"