Chapter 116: This Highness Will Take It

When the shrill screams echoed in the cave, many people couldn’t help but cast their eyes on Le Xiang who was being eaten by the Ice Crocodile.

Then their gazes shifted to Lou Mu Yan.

She stood on a high rock in spotless white clothes with an indifferent expression, holding a golden longwhip.

Behind her, the frozen Water Elemental Energy beaded curtain broke inch by inch, turning into light blue powder, scattering in the air.

Many people cast disapproving glances at her. Le Xiang used an external force to increase her cultivation base to kill Lou Mu Yan, so she deserved to die, but why did Lou Mu Yan kill her and also throw her in front of a Demonic Beast to eat?

Such an approach was too cruel. This was the thought of many of the pupils of the Ten Distinguished Clans. The good feelings and admiration for Lou Mu Yan they originally had instantly faded and there was even a faint dislike.

Lou Mu Yan didn’t care about other people’s opinions, nor explained. She turned around to avoid the crazy Demonic Beasts and landed beside the lava, standing there quietly.

“Lou Mu Yan, they think you’re too cruel!” Lan Si watched her emotionless expression as she stood beside him. He revealed a gentle smile, as if knowing why she did it, and didn’t have a trace of disgust. Instead, a kind of appreciation rose from his heart.

He had seen countless women. They were either cruel, either kind, either gentle, either hypocritical, either arrogant or the like, but there had never been a woman who constantly refreshed his understandings like Lou Mu Yan.

Lou Mu Yan didn’t move, staring at the bubbling hot lava, and then whispered after a bit: “Doesn’t matter.”

Ye Zhan looked askance at the girl beside her, his eyes that were boundless and deep like the sea fluctuated slightly.

The gazes of Ye Qing Han, Yun Lan and the others that were cast on Lou Mu Yan were all very soft, and they weren’t disgusted by what she had done just now. Le Xiang was just looking for death, so who could she blame?

[BANG!!] Following the shrill screams and the roar of the Demonic Beasts in the cave, the surrounding rocks shook and an explosive sound with dense, strong Elemental Energy resounded throughout the cave.

The humans and Demonic Beasts currently fighting all looked in the direction of the Ice Crocodile with lingering fear. At this time, the place had been razed to the ground and the flesh and blood of more than a dozen Tier 5 Demonic Beasts splattered across the area. This sort of power was already very close to the full blow of a Sword Sovereign powerhouse.

“So that Le Xiang wanted to self-destruct by borrowing the external force.” The faces of those people who had thought Lou Mu Yan was cruel now turned pale.

If Le Xiang’s body hadn’t been thrown so far and was eaten by the Ice Crocodile, the Elemental Energy from the self-destruction would be even greater, and the people and Demonic Beasts who fought in the central area wouldn’t be spared from being affected.

The fights between the Sword Sovereign powerhouses were all being suppressed because below them were still the pupils of the various Clans, so the energy used wasn’t spread too much to avoid hurting their own pupils.

But Le Xiang obviously had no scruples at all. If they were affected by her self-destruction, even if they didn’t die, they’d be heavily injured.

Those who originally had some sympathy for Le Xiang all spat at her and were irritated with her in their hearts. There were some other emotions in their eyes that looked towards Lou Mu Yan.

The disgusted expressions were replaced by complexity, and a few people even had faint gratitude in their eyes. Even if Le Xiang’s target was Lou Mu Yan, but if she self-destructed, there was no difference between enemy or friend. This time, it was indeed Lou Mu Yan who saved them.

Lou Mu Yan, however, had no intention of being concerned about the complex gazes that had changed. Her heart was currently beating hard at this moment, as if there was something beckoning her at the bottom of the deep lava pool.

“Lou Mu Yan, you’re really only sixteen-years-old? My interest in you is really getting stronger and stronger.” Lan Si suddenly leaned down beside Lou Mu Yan, his even breath landing beside her ear.

Lou Mu Yan stepped back, furrowed her brows, and looked at Lan Si, saying: “If you’re really bored, why not think about how to deal with Senior Ye.”

A meaningful smile rose on Lan Si’s gentle and elegant face, “It turns out that aside from him, you also know.”

A colour of surprise flashed past Ye Zhan’s eyes, then he held back his emotions. He looked up and saw the golden light, grabbed by the Ancestor of the Xue Clan, suddenly spill out from his fingers. Then it assembled again and turned into an even brighter golden light, flying into the bottom of the lava pool.

“Don’t hide anything anymore, whoever snatches it will it belong to who.” When the golden light fell into the lava, Ye Zhan immediately took out his jade flute on his waist, flew up and slashed at the lava pool.

Lan Si also put away the smile on his face, took out his longsword and swung a strong sword light at the lava.

Meanwhile the Sword Sovereigns who were fighting in the distance looked at each other in confusion. Then they saw the part of the lava that Ye Zhan and Lan Si attacked suddenly erupt and shoot up a pillar of fiery lava.

The pillar of fire held a spar with a dark golden appearance but flowing golden liquid in the middle.

Instantly, the magnificent and beautiful rainbow that was above the mountain suddenly appeared above the pillar of fire, then turned into a seven-coloured stream of light, scattering onto the dark golden spar.

The flowing golden liquid in the spar instantly solidified and a layer of soft light enveloped it, radiant and colourful, truly breathtaking.

A faint fragrance spread from the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal, filling the entire cave.

“This—This is the birth of the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal.” A Sword Sovereign watched the formation of the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal in amazement, then flew over immediately. Seven other light figures flew out, following him.

Except their speed was still a few steps behind two figures, one black, one blue, that were already approaching the top of the pillar of fire.

Lou Mu Yan’s eyes brightened. She continued to form seals with one hand as she tapped her foot lightly and flew towards the pillar of fire.

She slapped out a palm and an icy hurricane engulfed the surrounding fire.

No one noticed that a transparent jade-coloured rune was quietly fused with the Ice Elemental Energy Condensation hurricane, surreptitiously blasting towards the pillar of fire.

And that pillar of fire that rose towards the sky, together with the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal it birthed, was instantly wrapped in a layer of frost and turned into an ice pillar.

Ye Zhan furrowed his brows. He slashed his flute again and a soft light, as if encompassing everything, whizzed out, slashing straight towards the top of the ice pillar, cutting off the ice-enveloped Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal.

Lan Si’s lips curled up and the longsword in his hand sliced down at the same time, carrying with it a power as if capable of destroying the Heaven and earth. It just so happened to fall on the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal, and the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal was instantly cut into five segments, flying out in different directions.

The two headed in different directions and caught one each while Lou Mu Yan stopped in her steps and stood atop the ice pillar with folded arms, watching the others compete for it.

The other Sword Sovereigns didn’t even think as they each flew in one of the three directions, all with the intention of at least collecting one of the pieces, then think things through later.

Yet who knew that they had yet to touch the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal when they were blocked by countless sword auras that suddenly scattered from a corner.

Then a red-clothed man wearing a silver mask appeared in mid-air mysteriously. He was tall in build with a domineering and noble temperament, as if looking down upon the world.

With just a wave of his hand, the three pieces of the Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal that was flying towards the outside actually obediently circled around, turning back, and landed in his hand.

“The Heavenly Frost Golden Crystal, This Highness will take it.”

Translation provided by May Our 梦 Come True