124: Monsters attacking the city?

In the days to come, Clarissa planned to start teaching Ally combat skills.

Starting from low-level skills, she would gradually teach Ally all the combat skills she knew. As for proficiency, that would depend on Ally's own diligent practice.

...

Gui Xu Realm.

Three months had passed.

Yi Xin and Ying Xi had also formed an adventure team in the Gui Xu Realm, just the two of them.

Over these three months, they had experienced a lot, traveling through more than a dozen cities.

They had also killed countless monsters and earned a lot of gold coins.

They even bought a house in a city, providing them with a place to settle down.

Thanks to the "Exchange Platform," Yi Xin grew even faster.

During this time, he also earned over two hundred thousand source points.

Yi Xin bought and upgraded several talents:

【Martial Arts Talent II】

【Bridge of Heaven and Earth II】

One talent was related to martial arts, and the other was related to "Qi." The next upgrade would require 1,000,000 source points.

His physical fitness had increased to 449 points, and his Qi reached 788 points.

His strength was steadily and continuously improving.

Just from the data, it wasn't entirely clear what level Yi Xin was currently at. In the "Cross-Realm Platform," Yi Xin's combat power had also reached Level 2, putting him on the same level as Bai Mo.

However, in terms of combat power, Yi Xin was much stronger than Bai Mo.

And Ying Xi's talent was equally astonishing, not much worse than Yi Xin's, who was practically cheating.

However, just today, Ying Xi was preparing to return to Xu Heng. She felt uncomfortable staying here and now felt that she had enough experience, so she planned to return to Xu Heng to continue living her own life, at one with nature.

Yi Xin did not stop her. This was Ying Xi's path, and it was her fist. Every martial artist had their own path.

As a martial artist himself, Yi Xin naturally understood and comprehended this.

Ying Xi returned to Xu Heng, while Yi Xin remained in the Gui Xu Realm, continuing his path of tempering.

Yi Xin sat in a bar in the Kluoma Empire, the same bar he and Ying Xi had visited previously when they met the adventure team composed of four different races.

Last time, there were six of them; this time, he was alone.

"I didn't expect to feel a bit unaccustomed without Ying Xi by my side..." Yi Xin smiled helplessly. Over the past few months, he had grown used to having a "deadpan," "aloof," yet "cool and cute" girl by his side.

"Why am I feeling a bit melancholic now?" Yi Xin shook his head helplessly.

Then he suddenly overheard a group of rough adventurer men at a nearby table, drinking and loudly discussing something:

"Recently, it seems quite a few Crevice Monsters have appeared..." a burly middle-aged adventurer said.

"Is that so?! Have a lot of new crevices emerged recently?" another bearded adventurer asked in surprise.

"Of course! And didn't you see that the Adventurers' Guild has posted many monster subjugation quests about Crevice Monsters..." The middle-aged adventurer nodded, saying he wasn't just talking nonsense; it was all based on facts.

"Alas, these are all disasters!" The bearded adventurer shook his head, took a big gulp of wine, and sighed.

"Who knows? These monsters always appear from time to time, and no one knows what the other side of the crevice looks like!" The middle-aged adventurer shrugged.

"Huh? Hasn't any brave warrior ever ventured into a crevice?" a younger adventurer asked in surprise.

"Hahaha!" The middle-aged adventurer burst out laughing upon hearing the young adventurer's words: "Of course there have! But either they are never seen again, or they emerge from another crevice. I heard the world inside is purple, a world of nothingness, with many floating stone paths. He walked and walked, not knowing for how long, and then he came out from somewhere."

"I see!" The young adventurer nodded and said, "Then where do these Crevice Monsters originate from within the crevices?"

"Who knows! If I knew, I wouldn't be here!" The middle-aged adventurer shook his head.

...

Yi Xin listened to their conversation and became interested in the Crevice Monsters.

Over the past three months, although he had heard of them, he hadn't encountered any yet. From what others said, there seemed to be quite a few, but they weren't very common...

According to what he had just heard, the crevices seemed to have increased recently, and monsters were appearing more frequently.

He hadn't checked the Adventurers' Guild quests recently...

"Crevice Monsters, huh... I'm a bit curious about what kind of beings these monsters are!" Yi Xin thought, wondering if he should go and see for himself... He also didn't know the level of danger...

Although he had an adventurous spirit, he wasn't someone who recklessly courted death.

He was just an exploration-level martial artist, and he didn't know the strength of Crevice Monsters.

It would be great if he could find out their specific strength... Yi Xin thought, and then he heard some other information. This was the advantage of a tavern: a source of intelligence.

"War is about to break out again; the Kluoma Empire is going to war with the Osland Empire..."

"War? Why?"

"It seems to be because of a gold mine... That place is right on the border between the two countries..." The person sharing this information suddenly lowered his body, as if he didn't want others to know, but his voice was very loud: "This gold mine! I heard this gold mine! Its reserves exceed 1,000 tons of gold!"

"1,000 tons of gold!" The people around gasped.

"No wonder the two empires are going to fight!"

"This reserve is truly astonishing!"

Everyone was discussing animatedly.

"War... is there going to be war...?" Yi Xin frowned. It seemed the Gui Xu Realm might not be suitable for him to stay much longer...

He was a Xu Heng person. He didn't want to see or participate in a war here. It was better to return to the Gui Xu Realm and wait until the war ended.

"I should have gone back with Ying Xi!" Yi Xin was a bit helpless, not expecting to have to return so soon after staying for less than half a day.

"It's going to get chaotic now!"

"Indeed!"

"Sigh, everyone be careful lately!"

"No choice~"

Yi Xin listened to the subsequent conversation, drained the remaining wine in his glass, then stood up, preparing to leave.

Boom!!!

Suddenly, an explosion occurred in the city.

"What's going on?!" Yi Xin turned his head towards the direction of the explosion.

Immediately after, there were several more booming sounds, and the city named Aona City suddenly became noisy.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

A soldier shouted through something like a megaphone.

The entire city's army immediately mobilized.

Yi Xin frowned and quickly rushed out.

"Roar!" From the other end of the street, a huge black panther, over three meters tall, suddenly charged towards them. Wherever it passed, there were broken civilian corpses.

"Monster?!" Yi Xin's brows furrowed when he saw the monster. Moreover, this monster's eyes were completely purple light, and its fur was incredibly dark, as if it were an entirely black leopard-shaped creature, with purple glowing eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth with chunks of flesh, its canines long and protruding outside its mouth.