Bad luck or great fortune? This overwhelming wealth is too much to accept!

Inside the guest room, Lin Mo's face was currently ashen to the extreme.

He lowered his head to look at Mu Yurou, who was still rubbing her head in his arms with a bewildered expression, and an inexplicable sense of dread welled up in his heart.

Because it went without saying; he now understood just how absurd the 'unimaginable level of bad luck' Mu Yurou had spoken of truly was!

At this very moment, if his senses were not mistaken... that terrifying aura that made his Divine Soul tremble even through the flying boat's defensive Formation... was the genuine article—the might of a Saint!

"Ah haha..."

"Big brother, do you see now just how bad it can get?"

Mu Yurou finally snapped out of her daze. Seeing Lin Mo's livid expression, she could only let out an awkward laugh and shrink her neck into her shoulders.

"Although... it might not be that absolute."

Lin Mo took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

"Perhaps... this really is just a coincidence?"

"After all, the world is vast. Occasionally running into a powerful expert passing by isn't an impossibility."

There was no concrete evidence yet to prove that this sudden turn of events was caused by Mu Yurou's 'bad luck aura'.

So Lin Mo thought it better not to scare himself.

"Sigh, you don't understand."

Mu Yurou let out a melancholic sigh, wearing an expression of one who has seen through the Mortal World.

"In my current state, I am an absolute source of misfortune, a jinx scorned by the Heavenly Dao."

"Whoever stays by my side will inevitably share in my bad luck."

"This is fate, unavoidable."

She seemed to have already resigned herself to her fate.

"It's fine."

Lin Mo shook his head, his expression returning to calm.

"Since I've promised to protect you, I won't go back on my word."

"Even if it truly is a Saint standing before us, I'll find a way to get you through this!"

"Let's go. First, let's go out and see what's actually happening outside."

Saying this, Lin Mo supported Mu Yurou's weak body, pushed open the door, and strode out onto the deck.

The moment he stepped onto the deck, a suffocating pressure assaulted his senses.

He saw the Fierce Sword King and Formation Grand Master Gu Jian standing shoulder to shoulder at the bow, their faces tense as if facing a formidable enemy.

As for Lei Jingxiao beside them, his eyes were wide open, fixed unblinkingly on a certain point in the Void Realm ahead, not daring to even breathe heavily.

"Brother Lei, what are you looking at?"

Lin Mo instinctively asked.

"Shh!!"

"Brother Lin, don't make a sound!!"

Lei Jingxiao was startled by the sudden voice, his body jolting. He hurriedly turned his head and made a shushing gesture at Lin Mo.

"Careful not to attract those two big guys over!"

"Look for yourself!"

He pointed a trembling finger forward.

Lin Mo followed the direction of his finger.

The next second.

He was stunned!

In the Void Realm far in the distance, two terrifying figures that blotted out the sky and sun were engaged in a ferocious battle!

They were two giant birds of unimaginably colossal size!

One of them was entirely covered in magnificent, jade-green feathers,

each feather seemingly carved from the purest emerald, radiating vibrant vitality.

Its wings, when spread, spanned thousands of *zhang* wide. With a single flap, it could stir up ten-thousand-*zhang* gales, tearing the firmament asunder!

Its opponent was a crimson Divine Bird, its entire body burning with raging flames, resembling the legendary Phoenix!

Wherever the crimson Divine Bird passed, the Void Realm twisted and collapsed from the heat, an endless sea of fire spreading beneath its feet as if it intended to incinerate this entire stretch of heaven and earth!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The green and red figures clashed madly high in the Nine Heavens!

Every exchange unleashed earth-shattering, terrifying shockwaves!

Even from such a vast distance, that world-destroying impact force

still caused the Formation-protected flying boat to rock violently, as if it might fall apart at any moment!

"Hmm?!"

"Senior Yang, Uncle Gu, what's going on?!"

Witnessing the world-destroying scene, Lin Mo's expression also turned extremely grave.

"Sigh... don't even ask."

The Fierce Sword King wiped cold sweat from his forehead, explaining with lingering fear:

"Just now, Jingxiao piloted the flying boat into the Void Realm, intending to travel at full speed."

"But we hadn't gone far when a massive tremor occurred deep within the void, forcibly ejecting us from the spatial channel."

"And then... the moment we emerged, we saw this spectacle..."

The Fierce Sword King's tone was filled with ruefulness.

This was simply a disaster out of nowhere!

Just traveling peacefully, yet they could run into a battle of gods at this level—their luck was truly something else.

"This is troublesome..."

Gu Jian, standing nearby, wore a grim expression. Staring intently at the two giant beasts, he said in a low voice:

"If I'm not mistaken, these two fighting Yao Beasts... are ancient Divine Beast descendants—the Azure Feather Green Luan and the Fire Fierce Phoenix!"

"And judging by their aura... they are both fully mature adult forms!"

Gu Jian recognized the origins of these two Yao Beasts, but the realization shocked him greatly, even filling him with a sense of despair.

The reason was that these two Divine Beast descendants were both genuine kingly Bloodlines among Yao Beast clans!

Once matured, their strength was terrifyingly high!

"Adult forms?!"

Hearing this, Lei Jingxiao's face turned deathly pale.

"I remember that once Divine Beast descendants reach adulthood... they are at least Saint realm existences, right?!"

Saint realm Yao Beasts!

What did that mean?

It meant that if they took a dislike to them, a casual breath could crush everyone on this boat to dust, leaving not even ashes behind!

"So it really is the Saint realm?"

Lin Mo wasn't too surprised, as he had already discerned it was genuine Saint might earlier in the room.

What he hadn't expected was that the owners of this Saint might would be two Saint realm Yao Beasts fighting each other!

"Wait..."

At that moment, the Fierce Sword King seemed to have noticed something and suddenly exclaimed.

"I know why they're fighting!"

He pointed towards a towering mountain at the edge of the two beasts' battlefield, his tone filled with disbelief.

"Look there! Is that... a nirvana fruit?!"

Following the Fierce Sword King's finger.

Only then did the others notice that on the cliff face of that mountain grew a peculiar small tree.

A single fruit hung lonely from the tree.

The fruit was entirely purple-gold, surrounded by visible Law runes, flickering and emitting an alluring, flowing light!

Clearly, this fruit had fully ripened!

And although the two terrifying beasts fought with heaven-rending, earth-shattering force, they both intentionally or unintentionally avoided that mountain, afraid of damaging the fruit.

It was obvious this was their target of contention!

"nirvana fruit?!"

"Hiss... that's one of the essential main ingredients for refining the Saint Grade Medicinal Pill 'nirvana great elixir'!"

"It's also an extremely rare Heaven And Earth Treasure in the world!"

Gu Jian also saw the strange fruit, a flash of heat momentarily appearing in his previously grave eyes.

Well-traveled and knowledgeable, he naturally knew the value of this thing.

As the main ingredient for refining the nirvana great elixir, nirvana fruits were often priceless and unavailable on the market!

After all, a single nirvana great elixir was enough to allow a Venerable One struggling bitterly in the Nirvana realm to Breakthrough smoothly and without Bottleneck all the way to a Nirvana Emperor!

It could even... increase the chance of becoming a Saint by twenty percent!

Therefore, such a supreme treasure was an irresistible, fatal temptation for any Cultivator below the Saint realm!

"To think it's such a precious Saint medicine."

"No wonder these two Yao Beasts are fighting so fiercely over it!"

"What a pity..."

"Before two adult Saint realm Divine Beast descendants... we stand absolutely no chance of competing for it!"

"We don't even have the qualification to get close!"

The heat in Gu Jian's eyes lasted only a moment before quickly extinguishing, turning into a sigh.

"Forget it..."

The Fierce Sword King also understood this. He made a decisive decision, turning his head and shouting at Lei Jingxiao in a low voice:

"Jingxiao! Stop looking!"

"Turn around immediately! Get away from this trouble spot!"

"This Opportunity is not something we can covet."

"Survival comes first!"

No matter how precious the nirvana fruit was, one needed to be alive to claim it!

Snatching food from the tiger's mouth right under the noses of two Saint realm Yao Beasts?

That was purely asking for death!

"Yes! I'm leaving right now!"

Hearing this, Lei Jingxiao didn't dare hesitate in the slightest.

He might be reckless, but he wasn't stupid.

The mere shockwaves from a battle of this level could kill him. If not now, when would he run?

He immediately began frantically operating the flying boat, preparing to turn the bow and distance them from this terrifying battlefield.

However.

Just as the flying boat began to turn.

BOOM!!!

A deafening, colossal roar suddenly came from the distant sky!

It was a full-force collision between the two Yao Beasts!

A world-destroying, terrifying shockwave instantly erupted from the point of impact, spreading out in all directions like a tsunami!

Crack.

The mountain where the nirvana fruit grew had a large section sheared off by the impact of this shockwave!

And, as luck would have it.

The nirvana fruit hanging on the tree was also swept away by this violent blast of air!

It transformed into a purple-gold streak of light, tracing a graceful yet bizarre arc across the sky.

Then, under the stunned gazes of everyone,

it flew unerringly... straight towards the direction of the flying boat!

"Plop!"

With a soft sound.

That supreme treasure, which had caused two Saint realm Yao Beasts to fight to the death and which the Fierce Sword King and the others coveted but dared not touch,

just... lightly, landed right in Mu Yurou's arms!