An Unyielding Wind

Chapter 36 - The Secret Land

This chapter has been translated by wyhcwe, all credits belong to them.

After a short period of celebration, the people's excited gazes gathered on the person and the wolf nearby. That was a youth clad in black robes with cold features.

Aofeng put away the short Vanquisher of Armies. Liao Yao turned back into a normal silver wolf. The mercenaries moved to form a path of their own accord. Their eyes when they looked at her were filled with shock, respect and gratefulness. Most importantly was that the person's presence when they appeared out of the sky had won over everyone here.

Thetan and Vino exhaled in relief and turned to look at the black-clad person walking towards them. When they looked, their shock erupted. In battle just now, they had not seen the person's appearance clearly. When they looked now, they found it was such a young and beautiful youth.

"Mimicry? That's a sacred beast!" The breath they had just exhaled was sucked in again. Thetan had gone to many places and was widely learned. He naturally knew that only magus beasts that were sacred rank or above could use mimicry. His gaze when he looked at Aofeng became even more astounded. Which prestigious family was this young master from?

People would usually not obtain such high ranking magus beasts unless it was a prestigious family.

Thetan walked forward. He bent forward slightly and his right hand turned into a fist at the left of his chest as he made a full bow. "Young Magister Daren, I am very grateful for your help! Thetan of Crimson Forge gives you my respect."

Aofeng looked around and didn't see Rong Luo. She was slightly disappointed. She said coolly, "Gather the spoils, we must leave here soon. Otherwise, the blood will attract more corpse-eating ghosts."

The surrounding mercenaries were overjoyed. While the corpse-eating ghosts were the bottom among the nine-star magus beasts, and they gave off a noxious odor, their entire body was treasure. Their claws and teeth could be sold. Aofeng telling them to clean up meant that the person was giving this wealth to them. Even if they hadn't completed the mission this time, their trip could be considered fruitful.

Several dozen nine-star magus beast corpses were nothing to Aofeng. All of her interest was on the Fire Dragon Fruit at Soul Breaking Cliff, so she did not care.

"Thank you for your generosity!" Thetan said with a respectful and joyful smile. He hurriedly directed his subordinates to clean up the battlefield as fast as possible, and then left with Aofeng to continue to move towards the Soul Breaking Cliff.

Through Thetan's introductions, Aofeng learned the identities of this group. They were the Ninth squad of the Crimson Forge Mercenary Company. Thetan and Rong Luo were extremely close friends.

Rong Luo had brought the people that had just left Qin City to participate in the Neversetting Sun City's magic beast tide. Thetan's squad had coincidentally received the mission of the Fire Dragon Fruit. They planned to first obtain the fire dragon fruit and then meet up with Rong Luo on their return. They hadn't expected to have the bad luck to encounter a large swarm of corpse-eating ghosts.

"You are also searching for the Fire Dragon Fruit?" Aofeng's fine brows creased as she reminded them, "According to my knowledge, there are many spirit beasts that reside on Soul Breaking Cliff. Even one spirit beast isn't something that your squad can withstand. Aren't you going to your deaths?"

"Is Zhui Yun Daren's magus beast that sensed this?" Thetan looked with admiration at Liao Ya. He then glanced at Aofeng who had an aloof expression from the start and rarely spoke. He was even more sure of his guess. Only sacred beasts could feel the presence of other high star-level spirit beasts.