482: Chapter 482 The Crane's Revenge

Su Ming raised his head, his eyes narrowing slightly.

In the distance, amid the sea of clouds, two massive avian creatures were gliding slowly toward Star Gazing Cliff, flapping their broad wings in an extremely leisurely manner.

As the two birds flew closer, Su Ming saw their true forms clearly.

They were two white cranes.

The one in front was frighteningly large, its wingspan stretching several zhang wide. Its feathers were as white as snow, without a single stray color. However, what was most striking was the edge of its broad wings, which faintly shimmered with an extremely bizarre seven-colored luster; under the sunlight, it appeared both sacred and ridiculous.

The other white crane, flying slightly behind, was smaller, but its eyes revealed an undisguised ferocity. Faint, colorful markings also remained on its tail feathers.

The two white cranes circled in the air for half a turn before landing with extreme precision on a massive blue stone beside the spirit field.

They folded their wings, their slender necks bent slightly, and looked down at Su Ming, who was standing in the mud, and Shadow One, who was in mid-air. In their eyes, there was no panic of being caught in the act, but rather an extremely arrogant provocation that seemed to say, "I did it, what can you do about it?"

Su Ming's pupils constricted abruptly.

The seven-colored luster on the wing edges... wasn't that the Sect Head's white crane that had stolen and eaten the Seven-Colored Spirit Mushroom, mentioned in the Qingfeng Gossip last night?!

And the one behind with the colorful markings was undoubtedly the one from Spirit Beast Peak that had almost pecked Shadow One through a few days ago.

This was a long-planned revenge!

This Spirit Beast Peak white crane had clearly remembered Shadow One's Aura. Not daring to come and cause trouble alone, it had actually gone to hug the thigh of the Sect Head's white crane, bringing this "bully among birds" who walked sideways throughout the Sect to directly raid Su Ming's home!

Shadow One, upon seeing that Spirit Beast Peak white crane, felt new and old grudges erupt like a volcano.

It didn't care about the opponent's status or the size difference. In its perception, there were only mortal enemies!

"Chirp——"

Shadow One emitted a sharp cry that tore through the air, and the "Sharp" Law deep within its brow was driven to its limit in an instant. Its body almost turned into a deep blue-black line, difficult for the naked eye to capture, and with a tragic and resolute Aura, it rushed straight toward the face of the massive Sect Head's white crane!

"Don't!" Su Ming's expression changed drastically; it was too late to intervene.

Facing Shadow One's seemingly thunderous charge, the Sect Head's white crane standing on the blue stone didn't even put down the claw it was using to preen its feathers.

It merely glanced at Shadow One with extreme contempt, as if looking at a fly that didn't know whether to live or die.

Just as Shadow One was about to slam into its face.

The Sect Head's white crane just flicked its massive right wing forward very casually.

"Bang!"

A dull thudding sound rang out.

There were no flashy Spells, nor intense collisions. The massive difference in size and strength was displayed vividly at this moment.

Shadow One's fist-sized body was like a baseball hit by a giant sledgehammer, flying backward fiercely at twice the speed it had come.

It traced a miserable arc in mid-air, smashing heavily into the muddy spirit field, rolling several times before stopping, its black feathers instantly covered in mud, looking utterly pathetic.

But the ferocity in Shadow One's bones was completely ignited.

It didn't even let out a cry of pain; pushing off hard with its claws in the mud, shaking its slightly dizzy head, it took to the air again, like a tireless mad dog, launching a desperate charge at the Sect Head's white crane once more.

"Slap!"

Another extremely casual wing slap.

Shadow One was ruthlessly slapped away again, this time crashing into the trunk of an ancient tree, shaking down a flurry of leaves.

The Sect Head's white crane, from beginning to end, didn't even straighten its slender neck. It maintained an extremely leisurely posture the whole time, even beginning to use its sharp beak to preen the few snow-white feathers on its chest that had become slightly messy from flapping its wings, completely ignoring Shadow One's provocation.

Su Ming stood where he was, fists clenched tight, his knuckles turning white from the force.

The liquid Water Spiritual Energy in his body was already circulating crazily; if he wished, he could instantly condense dozens of water arrows capable of piercing metal and stone.

But he could not act.

That was the Sect Head's white crane!

In a major cultivation Sect like the Cloud Hidden Sect, where Ranks were strict, the Sect Head's personal Spirit Beast had a status even higher than that of ordinary inner Sect Elders. Never mind that it had only ruined a patch of medicinal field; even if it had demolished this Star Gazing Cliff today, as long as no one died, who would dare touch a single feather on it?

If Su Ming were to injure this white crane today just to vent his anger, he would not only immediately become a target for everyone, but he might even be stripped of his qualification for the Secret Realm in half a year.

The core of The Way of Cautious Survival was to swallow all unwillingness in the face of absolute power.

Su Ming took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart. He stepped forward twice, trying to resolve the problem in a relatively peaceful way.

He raised his right hand, waved at the two white cranes on the blue stone, and said with a heavier tone: "Two Crane Brothers, this spirit field has already been ruined by you, your anger should be dissipated. Please leave quickly, do not pester any further!"

Hearing Su Ming's words, the Sect Head's white crane finally stopped preening its feathers.

It slowly raised its head, looking at Su Ming with extreme coldness using its black-and-white phoenix eyes.

Those eyes were filled with human-like disdain and mockery. The posture seemed to be saying extremely arrogantly: "Who do you think you are?"

After that glance, the Sect Head's white crane turned its head extremely arrogantly and, right in front of Su Ming, extended its long neck to slowly peck out a surviving, high-quality silver-spotted heart-clearing orchid from a patch of intact soil at the edge of the blue stone, swallowing it like a snack with a crunching sound.

Inside the Void Realm of the xuantian ring, Lin Yu was sitting cross-legged comfortably on a cloud condensed from Soul Power. He saw everything happening outside clearly.

"Hahaha! I'm dying of laughter!"

Lin Yu's heartless laughter echoed crazily in Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness, shaking Su Ming's brain until it ached a little.

"This silly bird, does it really think it can be Heaven-Defying just because it has a 'Sharp' Law? A Rank 1 fledgling going to single-handedly challenge a Rank 3 Peak Great Demon, this isn't called brave, this is called delivering takeout to others!"

Lin Yu laughed while pointing and commenting like the most critical spectator, "Tsk tsk tsk, the footwork is too poor. During the second charge, it should have used the mud on the ground to slide-tackle, but it insisted on going head-on. Now it's good, being patted around like a shuttlecock, it's really embarrassing for me."

Lin Yu laughed until he was leaning forward and backward, "Let you offend people, now it's good, not only did they come to the door, but they also called a big boss from society to take revenge. This beating is well-deserved!"