71: Hehehe, let the hunt begin!

In that dead silence filled with endless horror and disbelief, Blood Overlord, and the Blood Fiend Sect Disciples behind him who had long been scared out of their wits, collapsed to the ground like mud with all their bones removed, trembling.

Mysterious Ink's cold dragon pupils slowly swept over them.

Immediately, the colossal snake tail, obscuring the sky and sun, swept out once more!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Accompanied by a series of dull explosions, Blood Overlord and the others were all swept away like rolling gourds, each spitting blood, their bones shattered, and their combat power completely crippled on the spot!

"Don't waste it," Mysterious Ink's thought, full of the meaning of "frugality and good housekeeping," echoed in Ye Feiyan's mind. "Even a small mosquito is still a piece of meat. It's perfect for you to consolidate your newly Breakthrough Golden Core Realm."

Ye Feiyan nodded upon hearing this, her face no longer showing any of her previous hesitation or struggle.

Without any refusal, she immediately sat cross-legged, and the Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture roared into operation!

Under the eyes of Blood Overlord and the others, filled with endless fear and despair, their bodies, along with their Divine Souls, transformed into streams of the purest blood-colored energy, surging madly into Ye Feiyan's body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea!

After refining, Ye Feiyan felt the cultivation within her body, which had only increased by a tiny bit, and couldn't help but secretly shake her head.

It seems that Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators are indeed just a drop in the bucket for her current Realm.

She slowly stood up and walked in front of Mysterious Ink, her clear and cold phoenix eyes still filled with an unyielding, deep shock.

"I still can't understand," she asked directly, "how exactly did you withstand that Early Nascent Soul stage attack head-on?"

"You must know that among Cultivators, the gap between major Realms is like an unbridgeable chasm!

Third Tier Peak seems to be only one step away from Early Nascent Soul stage, but the difference is immeasurable! An attack from a Nascent Soul Cultivator absolutely possesses the power to easily obliterate any Third Tier Peak existence!"

"Not only did you not die, you didn't even... suffer any injuries. This is illogical."

Facing Ye Feiyan's probing questions, Mysterious Ink, this time, did not hide anything.

"Innate Divine Ability, Absolute Defense," his thought slowly came. "Once activated, it can passively exempt ninety percent of the damage from that attack."

"What?!"

Hearing this, even with Ye Feiyan's two lifetimes of experience, she couldn't help but gasp, her face filled with unparalleled shock!

Immune to ninety percent of damage?!

How... how could there be such a perverse and unreasonable terrifying Divine Ability in this world?!

She instantly understood what this Divine Ability truly meant!

This was simply a top-tier, heaven-defying "counter-kill" Divine Skill!

No wonder Mysterious Ink withstood an attack from an Early Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator without a single scale broken... Afterwards, Ye Feiyan began to inventory Blood Overlord and the others' Storage Pouches.

Suddenly, her clear and cold phoenix eyes narrowed sharply!

Inside Blood Overlord's Storage Pouch, a strange, palm-sized compass, entirely blood-red and without any pointers, lay quietly.

"This is..."

"soul fixing disk!" A hint of joy flashed in Ye Feiyan's eyes. She held the compass in her palm and explained to Mysterious Ink, "This item is a Secret Treasure used by Demonic Path Sects like the Blood Fiend Sect to track fellow Disciples. Simply attach a wisp of Divine Soul to it, and no matter where one is, their location will appear on this compass."

She pointed to the dozen or so small red dots slowly moving on the compass.

"These should be the locations of all the Blood Fiend Sect Disciples who entered the Tidal Palace this time!"

Upon hearing this, an extremely dangerous glint instantly flashed in Mysterious Ink's cold dragon pupils.

He slowly opened his mouth.

"Heh... heh heh heh..."

A strange laugh, filled with endless grimness and coldness, exploded in Ye Feiyan's mind!

"Little girl."

"It's time to hunt."

Upon hearing this, a bloodthirsty smile, identical to his, slowly appeared on Ye Feiyan's clear and beautiful face.

The two no longer hesitated and immediately took action!

...Inside a deep mountain gorge formed by giant coral reefs.

On both sides were towering, bizarre coral mountains.

At this moment, a Blood Fiend Sect team, also dressed in blood-red robes, was lurking in the shadows of the gorge.

Leading them was a gaunt-faced, sinister-eyed middle-aged man, whose aura was clearly that of the Early Golden Core Stage!

He was Blood Soul, one of the five Golden Core Elders of the Blood Fiend Sect who entered the Tidal Palace this time!

"All of you, pay attention!" Blood Soul reprimanded his Disciples in a low voice. "The Sect Leader has commanded that our goal this time, in addition to the Tidal Palace's Legacy, is to completely eliminate those so-called 'Heaven's Chosen' from the Beast Taming Sect here!"

"The target of our small team is Zhang Han, the second Disciple of Qingyunzi, the Second Peak Lord of the Beast Taming Sect! That guy also has an Early Golden Core Stage cultivation and is extremely difficult to deal with! Currently, we don't know his exact location, so we must proceed cautiously and search everywhere!"

However, just as his voice fell.

His sinister eyes suddenly narrowed, abruptly turning towards the entrance of the mountain gorge!

"Hm? Someone's here?"

He had already set up his "Corpse Bone Worms," nurtured with Secret Techniques, at the entrance of the gorge as an alert.

At this moment, he clearly sensed two auras, slowly but steadily, approaching into the gorge.

"Go! Let's see!"

Without any hesitation, he immediately led his Disciples to silently meet them!

A moment later, when he clearly saw the familiar figure at the entrance of the gorge, dressed in white robes as pure as snow and possessing unparalleled grace, he was first stunned, and then a cold sneer, filled with contempt and disdain, appeared on his face.

"I wondered who it was, turns out it's Jinyun old man's newly accepted precious Disciple, Ye Feiyan."

He glanced at Ye Feiyan's Early Golden Core Stage cultivation, then at the small black snake beside her, and his heart became as steady as an old dog.

"That Blood Overlord is a good-for-nothing!" he cursed in his heart. "He can't even deal with a little girl who just broke through to Golden Core, truly useless!"

However, this was also good.

Since Blood Overlord failed, this great merit would be his to claim!

He slowly emerged from the shadows, looking at Ye Feiyan with eyes full of cruelty and mockery, like a hunter observing its prey, and his hoarse voice slowly sounded.

"Heh heh... I really didn't expect this."

"The prey would actually deliver itself to the doorstep."

However, upon hearing this, Mysterious Ink and Ye Feiyan both exchanged smiles.

Prey?