25: Incorruptible Murong Fu! (Please collect)

"Impudent!"

Ning Yuan's expression turned cold. He circulated his Bei Ming Divine Skill, and the two clashed again. Duan Yanqing immediately felt his True Qi being drawn out and flowing towards the opponent.

"Xingxiu Sect's evil skill!"

Duan Yanqing's stiff face changed slightly. He forcefully circulated his Internal Energy to push Ning Yuan back, retreating several steps, and said with uncertainty, "You actually know the Xingxiu Sect's evil skill? I didn't expect Southern Murong to be connected to the Xingxiu Sect. What is your relationship with that old Xingxiu fellow?"

Not everyone recognized or knew the Bei Ming Divine Skill.

However, Ding Chunqiu was infamous in the Jianghu, so the Bei Ming Divine Skill was easily mistaken for the Dissolving Skill. They wouldn't know if their martial arts were nullified or absorbed.

"What is the Xingxiu Sect? Do their martial arts even deserve to be compared with mine?"

Ning Yuan sneered, disdainful.

Then his figure flickered, appearing instantly beside Dao Baifeng. He grabbed Yue Lao San's wrist with one hand, and the Bei Ming Divine Skill circulated simultaneously. Yue Lao San's Internal Energy was instantly absorbed by Ning Yuan.

Clatter, clatter, clatter... Yue Lao San trembled all over, his face twitching violently, unable to speak a word.

He was not Duan Yanqing; if his Internal Energy was absorbed by Ning Yuan, he couldn't break the connection by his own power.

"Ah!"

At this moment, Dao Baifeng cried out in pain, struck on the shoulder by Yun Zhonghe's steel claw. With a pull of the steel claw, Dao Baifeng's shoulder clothing was torn off, leaving three bloody marks on her fair shoulder.

Dao Baifeng's face paled. She covered her shoulder and retreated, blood oozing from the corner of her mouth.

"Beauty, if you had surrendered earlier, why suffer this fleshly pain?"

Yun Zhonghe looked at Dao Baifeng, rubbing his hands together, eager to move. "Pretty Daoist nun, my steel claw has my special aphrodisiac on it. You're injured, and now the medicine has flowed into your body with your blood. Why not surrender and let me save you!"

Yun Zhonghe was drooling for a moment, then he was about to strike again, grabbing towards Dao Baifeng's chest.

"Nonsense."

Dao Baifeng's face initially changed upon hearing this, but after silently circulating her Qi and finding no abnormality in her body, she dismissed it as Yun Zhonghe deliberately trying to disturb her mind. She didn't take it to heart, forcing herself to raise her longsword and face the enemy again.

But very quickly, after a few moves, Dao Baifeng was struck on the chest by the steel claw again, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood. The steel claw pulled back, and her outer Daoist robe was directly torn to shreds.

"Sanren, be careful."

Ning Yuan immediately warned upon seeing this, simultaneously pulling Yue Lao San closer to Dao Baifeng.

At this moment, Duan Yanqing's finger force attacked again. Ning Yuan flung Yue Lao San away, quickly came to Dao Baifeng's side, and pulled the injured Dao Baifeng into his embrace. "The Utterly Evil, this battle will be considered a draw between us. The next time we meet, it will be your death day."

"Want to leave?"

Duan Yanqing snorted coldly. He slammed his iron staff into the ground, then leaped up, soaring through the air to Ning Yuan's front, and struck a palm towards Ning Yuan's chest.

Bang!

Ning Yuan held Dao Baifeng with one hand and returned a palm strike with the other.

However, due to the hasty response, facing Duan Yanqing's fully charged palm strike, Ning Yuan's face suddenly paled. But this force entering his body was instantly dissolved by him. Yet, Ning Yuan forcefully made a trace of fresh blood ooze from the corner of his mouth.

"I'll remember this palm strike!"

Ning Yuan used the force of Duan Yanqing's palm strike to leap dozens of zhang away with Dao Baifeng in his arms, turning to disappear into the forest.

"Where are you running!"

Seeing the beauty he had almost grasped disappear, Yun Zhonghe was about to give chase.

But Duan Yanqing stopped him.

"Don't chase. Southern Murong lives up to his reputation. Even if you catch up, you'll only become a soul under his palm."

Duan Yanqing spoke hoarsely, and Yun Zhonghe immediately obeyed.

He didn't dare to chase alone anyway.

After all, this was an expert who could fight The Utterly Evil, their boss, to a draw.

"Boss, damn Murong Fu! I've lost 30% of my Internal Energy. My chance to become second in command is far off, it's hateful!"

Yue Lao San finally recovered at this moment, his face full of lingering fear. Then, feeling his damaged Internal Energy, he immediately became furious.

His strength was already slightly inferior to Ye Erniang's. Now, losing 30% of his Internal Energy, the gap between him and Ye Erniang was even greater.

How could he ever replace her and become second in command?

"This Murong Fu's martial arts are strange. I didn't expect that she, from a famous family, would have such a deep connection with the Xingxiu Sect. And he didn't even use Star Shift. He clearly had a chance to use it just now, why..."

Duan Yanqing's eyes flickered with doubt. "It seems this matter requires careful consideration."

Ning Yuan's final display of the Bei Ming Divine Skill clearly made Duan Yanqing extremely wary.

Ordinary Jianghu people couldn't distinguish between the Bei Ming Divine Skill and the Dissolving Skill.

One absorbs others' Internal Energy for one's own use, while the other dissolves others' Internal Energy.

And the Bei Ming Divine Skill was too mysterious; apart from the Three Elders of Xiaoyao and Ding Chunqiu, probably no one could recognize it.

On the other hand, Ding Chunqiu was famous for his Dissolving Skill, known to everyone in the Jianghu.

"Boss, no matter how powerful Southern Murong is, didn't he still lose to you, Boss? If he hadn't escaped quickly, he would probably have died here today."

Yun Zhonghe immediately spoke flatteringly.

Then he said with regret, "That beautiful Daoist nun was poisoned by my aphrodisiac. If she doesn't control it... Hateful, that Murong Fu stole my woman!"

Thinking of the beauty he had almost had being snatched away by Ning Yuan, Yun Zhonghe became even more indignant.

Duan Yanqing's eyes flickered, but he said nothing more, only a hint of doubt in his gaze.

He felt that, given the strength Murong Fu had displayed earlier, his palm strike might not have necessarily injured the opponent.

Even if it was a fully charged blow, it shouldn't have been so easy.

However, Duan Yanqing quickly stopped thinking about it... On the other side, Ning Yuan held Dao Baifeng by the waist, swiftly moving through the dense forest.

Dao Baifeng's cheeks were flushed, whether from injury or some other reason, she didn't know.

After a long while, the two found a secluded mountain cave and stopped.

"Thank you, Young Master Murong!"

As soon as Ning Yuan put her down, Dao Baifeng reacted, quickly stepping back, her hand covering her chest, holding up the torn clothes that had slipped down her shoulder, a hint of embarrassment on her face.

Aside from that one time long ago, she had never had such intimate contact with anyone.

Moreover, the person opposite her was only a few years older than her son, Duan Yu.

"It's good that Sanren is unharmed."

Ning Yuan let out a long breath, then said, "The leader of the Four Evils truly lives up to his reputation."

"Young Master Murong exaggerates. If not for me being a burden, The Utterly Evil probably wouldn't have been able to do anything to Young Master."

Dao Baifeng shook her head. She naturally saw that The Utterly Evil had suffered a loss at Ning Yuan's hands.

Then, as if remembering something, she quickly asked, "How is Young Master Murong's injury?"

"If not for me, Young Master Murong wouldn't have been injured by The Utterly Evil's palm strike."

Dao Baifeng looked at the bloodstain at the corner of Ning Yuan's mouth and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, a minor internal injury, I can still suppress it."

Ning Yuan said, forcing more blood to ooze from the corner of his mouth, but his gaze was fixed on Dao Baifeng with concern, especially her exposed fair shoulder and the obvious bloody marks. "How is Sanren's injury?"

"I heard Yun Zhonghe say his steel claw was poisoned. Has Sanren felt any abnormality?"

Dao Baifeng saw Ning Yuan's gaze land on her shoulder and only then realized that because of Yun Zhonghe's steel claw's pull, not only was there a wound on her shoulder, but her clothes had also been torn open, revealing her undergarment.

Her Daoist robe, in particular, had been pulled down, and now she was only wearing a white inner lining, in an awkward situation.

Her cheeks involuntarily flushed. She quickly raised her hand to press the torn, messy clothes against her chest, shook her head, and said with feigned calmness, "They are all superficial wounds. I'll bandage them later."

"As for poison, I haven't detected any. I imagine Yun Zhonghe was deliberately exaggerating."

Dao Baifeng silently circulated her Qi and felt for a moment, still finding no abnormality, so she said indifferently.

"That's good. I see this mountain cave is uninhabited, so it seems we can only spend the night here."

Ning Yuan looked towards the dark cave entrance.

It was late night, but fortunately, the moonlight was bright, illuminating everything clearly.

Ning Yuan found some dry firewood and lit a fire in the mountain cave, the flames flickering.

"Sanren, I'll stand guard outside. You bandage your wounds first."

Before Dao Baifeng could speak, Ning Yuan offered proactively.

This made a hint of gratitude appear on Dao Baifeng's face.

"Thank you, Young Master Murong!"

Dao Baifeng immediately said.

Watching Ning Yuan walk out of the cave and turn his back to it, Dao Baifeng thought, "This Young Master Murong is indeed handsome and upright, truly worthy of being the renowned Southern Murong of the Jianghu."

Subsequently, Dao Baifeng tore a strip from the corner of her clothing, intending to bandage the wound on her shoulder, which would also prevent her shoulder from being exposed.

But after several attempts, Dao Baifeng awkwardly realized that at this position, she couldn't complete the bandaging by herself.

After a long while, after a period of psychological struggle, Dao Baifeng finally looked towards Ning Yuan outside the cave.