After Zhou Yue made his reverse getaway, Zhong Yi and Mu Yawen made it safely to the teleport point and warped back to base.
Zhou Qiaoling, who had already been home for a while, was crouched by the feed box, fighting with Mischief Cat and Mianyouyou over wild berries. Hearing the noise, she pulled her head out of the feed box and wiped the red juice from the corner of her mouth.
“Yo, you two senior brothers are back?”
“Your big brother probably isn’t coming back...”
“No worries, it’d be weird if he did.”
Zhou Qiaoling said with a giggle.
No sooner had she spoken than the team voice channel crackled with Zhou Yue’s out-of-breath voice.
“ZHOU! QIAO! LING!!”
His voice sounded like he was grinding his teeth.
“Who are you cursing?! I’ve been running my ass off!!!”
“Oh no no! We were just saying you’d definitely make it back!”
Zhong Yi quickly tried to smooth things over.
“Like hell!! Old Zhong, you’re cursing me too!!!”
“???”
...
Zhou Yue was sprinting for his life.
Behind him loomed a massive green titan.
From time to time, a gust of wind tearing through the air would come from behind, or an enormous spirit-energy orb with a diameter of four or five meters would crash down with crushing pressure.
Zhou Yue was, as always, a cultivator known for his precise maneuvering — every time, at the very last moment, he would just barely dodge the Forest Mammoth’s fatal strike.
He ran all the way from the Forest Mammoth’s territory down to the plains below the base, and the earthquake-like tremors behind him still hadn’t stopped.
Clearly, the beast was still hot on his heels.
“You little... hit it once and take some aggro!!”
Zhou Yue shouted furiously, pointing at the Qiwanwan waddling at his feet.
The latter just looked up with an innocent expression, stretched out its little wing, and pointed at its own cheek.
Even though Zhou Yue had already switched the battle mode to “Aggressive Attack,” this little runt was still fleeing right alongside him, with zero awareness of sacrificing itself for its master.
“Ugh! This coward... it must have the Timid trait!”
Zhou Yue cursed under his breath in frustration.
Just then, the trembling of the earth behind him began to fade into the distance.
Zhou Yue turned around just in time to see the Forest Mammoth turn away, walking back toward its own territory.
“Whew! Finally stopped chasing...”
Zhou Yue let out a relieved sigh.
That entire chase, he had relied purely on his own two legs to run from the Forest Mammoth’s territory all the way down to the foot of the old homestead.
Right at that moment, the Qiwanwan that had been cowering the whole trip suddenly got bold.
It started laying into the nearby level-two and level-three Mianyouyou and Pipi Chickens, launching water jets at them one after another, strutting around like a total bully.
“You little... NOW you know how to fight monsters...”
Zhou Yue stared speechlessly at this Qiwanwan—a creature that was all bark when it came to the weak and all tail when it came to the strong—and half-wished he could just blast it to sleep with a rocket launcher.
“Whoa, big bro actually survived??”
Zhou Qiaoling’s voice suddenly rang out.
Zhou Yue looked up and saw Zhou Qiaoling, Zhong Yi, and Mu Yawen standing at the edge, grinning down at him.
They had clearly been watching the whole show.
“You guys... have no conscience!!”
Zhou Yue cursed with a dark face.
“Hahaha! Old Zhou, what are you saying? Isn’t it great that we all made it back safe and sound?”
Zhong Yi laughed and slapped Zhou Yue on the shoulder.
“That sounds... weirdly off...”
Zhou Yue couldn’t help but frown.
Just then, he saw the Qiwanwan shoot a water jet at Mianyouyou.
Mianyouyou happened to use its Rolling skill to dodge, and the water jet hit nothing—flying off into the far distance...
【-1】
The green silhouette that was almost out of sight suddenly flashed a familiar number above its head.
“ROOOOAR——!!”
The Forest Mammoth spun around again, its furious eyes locked dead onto Qiwanwan and Zhou Yue.
“Squeak squeak squeak...”
The Qiwanwan immediately dropped its bad attitude, scampering behind Zhou Yue and clinging to his calf, shivering like a leaf.
“???”
Zhou Yue looked at the Qiwanwan, then at the Forest Mammoth charging toward them like a small mountain, and swallowed hard before saying:
“What if I release it right now... can you two settle your personal grudge without dragging me into it...?”
The response was an ultra-long-range spirit energy orb from the Forest Mammoth.
The orb landed dead center among the four of them, blasting them all into a sooty mess, their health bars reduced to slivers in the same instant.
“Damn it! Qiwanwan, you piece of crap!!!”
Zhou Yue’s mouth twitched.
“What do we do, it’s about to— uh?”
Zhou Yue was about to call for help from his teammates when he suddenly realized that the names above Zhong Yi, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen had all turned red.
He glanced again and spotted a small line of system text:
【You have been expelled from the sect (Lingxiao Sect) by the Sect Master (Zhong Yi)!】
“???”
“I’ve expelled him from the sect now. You two can settle your personal grudge without dragging our family into it, right...?”
“YOU JERK!!!”
...
The Forest Mammoth arrived fast, and it arrived hard.
And this time, running was no longer an option for Zhou Yue.
The beast came right up to the base and immediately unleashed its ultimate move —【Earthquake】.
It stomped the ground twice, and in an instant, the entire base was shaken to pieces.
“AAAHHH!! My Pal-us!!!”
“Nooo... the home I worked so hard to build...”
“Waaah!! My metal ingots haven’t finished smelting!!!”
“Stop wailing! I’m about to die here!!!”
...
Within less than five minutes.
The four of them respawned at the original spawn point, stark naked, staring at each other in disbelief.
“It’s all Old Zhong’s fault for jinxing us!”
“It was you who lured it here!!”
“Curse you, Old Demon Lu! Why did you have to put a Forest Mammoth right in front of our doorstep!!!”
“Master, your disciples are unfilial... Lingxiao Sect has been wiped out!!!”
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e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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