Chapter 616 A Chance Encounter

Boom—

A muffled bang reverberated through a jungle as a colossal lizard landed heavily on the ground.

"Kill!" A cold female voice resounded, accompanied by a beautiful figure descending on the lizard's top. She stabbed her long sword into the lizard's head, taking its life away instantly.

"Good job, Sister Tao!" Another four women in white dresses walked up to the woman and praised her.

The woman named Yun Tao retracted her sword and smiled sweetly at her companions. "Thank you, sisters."

"Let me dispose of it." The petite girl among the group suddenly took a silver knife out and began to dissect the lizard's remains. Her neat and swift movement clearly showed that she was extremely proficient.

Soon, the lizard's remains were divided into several parts. Afterward, they stored the materials away and started to move.

They had no idea that someone was watching them from a distance right now. This person was no other than Yun Lintian.

"Not bad. Decisive enough." Yun Lintian nodded his head in satisfaction. It wasn't his intention to follow these disciples, but they happened to move in the same direction as his.

Yun Lintian took this chance to see their performance, and he could be at ease after seeing the whole process. The lizard they had just killed earlier was at least the peak of the Ruler Profound Beast. They could easily finish the lizard with their peak of the Heaven Profound Realm's power, indicating how powerful they were.

"Why are you acting like a father sending his daughters away?" Hongyue's annoying voice resounded in Yun Lintian's mind.

Yun Lintian laughed slightly. "You're not wrong. Since we left the Misty Cloud Peak, I've vowed to protect them well. Seeing them doing well, I can be at ease now."

"Tsk." Hongyue clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction and ignored him.

Yun Lintian looked around for a while and started to move. He continued heading toward the center. After some distance, he rose into the air and started speeding up as he approached a mountain range several kilometers ahead of him.

Along the way, Yun Lintian discovered a lot of profound beasts, but he kept avoiding them as he didn't want to waste his time here. At this point in time, he suddenly spotted two small figures in the corner of his eye. His gaze started following downward after the figures, and after hesitating for quite a while, he decided to slow down and descend.

Two figures were little girls that looked eight or nine years of age. Their red robes were tattered, full of holes everywhere. Judging from their anxious expressions, they were currently running away from something.

Yun Lintian landed on a tall tree and hid his presence, observing the situation. From the aura of the two little girls, Yun Lintian could perceive a trace of fire energy that he was highly familiar with.

"Big Sister, I'll buy you time!" The small girl with a short sword in her hand suddenly said and stopped her movement.

"No! We will escape together!" Another girl with a ponytail hairstyle halted her tracks and quickly pulled her younger sister away anxiously.

The girl with the short sword shook her head and began to resist. "You know that we can't escape from them with our current speed."

"Shut up, Yanyan! Don't make trouble, okay? Even if that's the case, we still have to run." The ponytail girl yelled and exerted more strength to pull her younger sister away.

At this time, a large burst of profound aura came from behind the two little girls. This was an intense burst of someone in the early level of the Saint Profound Realm.

Yun Lintian's gaze trailed after the aura and saw a middle-aged man in black with a cold demeanor rushing toward the girls at breakneck speed. Seeing this, Yun Lintian couldn't help but look again toward the little girls. He frowned, starting to feel a little concerned for no reason.

"Going to be a busybody as usual, huh?" Hongyue's mocking voice resounded.

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Yun Lintian rolled his eyes without saying anything. While he was hesitating, a heat sensation appeared on his finger. More precisely, it was coming from Yun Lintian's invisible interspatial ring.

Yun Lintian was taken aback and quickly moved his mind. Soon, he discovered the heat aura was coming from the hexagon red jade with the word "Huo" on it. It was only at this moment did he remember this was the token that Little Flame gave him… Why did it suddenly become like this?

Yun Lintian involuntarily gazed back at the little girls that were running with their lives… Could it be… they are someone from the Fire Cloud Rat Clan?

"Where are you going!? Do you think you can escape from me?" The middle-aged man said gloomily as he drew closer to the little girls.

"Big Sister, we can't run anymore!" The little girl, Yanyan, said anxiously and swung her arm, trying to get rid of her older sister's grasp.

The ponytail girl glanced backward and saw the middle-aged man increasingly approaching them. She gritted her teeth and stopped her movement. "Let's fight him!"

The middle-aged man's brows raised in surprise, and a disdainful grin appeared on his face. "With just you two? Are you dreaming?"

A purple profound light gradually condensed on his right palm as he spoke. He stuck his palm out the next moment, and the purple profound light instantly shot toward the little girls.

The complexions of the girls abruptly changed. They quickly conjured layers of profound defense, but they were totally useless, facing the overwhelming power of the incoming purple light.

The smile on the middle-aged man's face grew thicker upon seeing his attack easily penetrated the girls' defense. In that instant, his heart suddenly tightened. His intuition madly screamed "danger," and he instinctively retreated with all his might.

Bang!!

Just as the middle-aged man's body lunged backward, he suddenly rammed into an invisible wall of ice. An extremely strong force threw him away, causing him to fall miserably.

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"W-who!?" The middle-aged man's face darkened while returning to his feet. He wildly scanned the surroundings, but he couldn't find a single trace of anyone nearby.