Battle Through the Heavens: Starting with Cao Ying as an apprentice

"Miss, hurry! We must leave immediately!"

"Xiao Xi, you should go, I can't leave!"

Two staggering figures suddenly entered Su Baichen's field of vision.

He was currently hidden in the void, his aura completely concealed. Even so, when he saw one of the two figures clearly, his pupils still involuntarily contracted slightly.

Lingxi!

He had seen this girl once before on the third level of the Heavenly Tomb, but he never expected to meet her again here.

[Lingxi calls her 'Miss'? And the other one... could she be a young lady from the Spirit Clan?!]

The thought had barely formed when Lingxi exclaimed urgently, "Then why did you bring me here, Miss?! This is not an escape route at all!"

"Activate the self-destruct formation!" The spirit clan's young lady, addressed as "Miss," was pale and bleeding from the corner of her mouth, but her eyes shone with a terrifying light, revealing a resolute determination to perish together with the enemy.

"A self-destruct formation?!" Lingxi was clearly terrified by this crazy idea, her delicate body trembling violently.

"Miss, this treasure vault is connected to the Spirit Clan's ley lines. If it explodes, you will also..."

"No buts!" the Spirit Clan heiress interrupted sharply, her eyes resolute.

"Although the Spirit Clan's lineage has been severed, this treasure must not fall into the hands of the Soul Clan! Even if it means blowing up the entire treasure vault, we must take a piece of their flesh!"

Lingxi paused for a moment, then, seeing the unwavering determination in her mistress's eyes, she gritted her teeth and nodded firmly: "Alright! Let's blow it up together!"

Just as the two were about to activate the array's core, a sinister laugh suddenly rang out, shattering the momentary tragic atmosphere.

"Hahaha, you only want to blow it up now? Don't you think too highly of me, Soul Wind, and treat me like I don't exist?"

Before the words were finished, the space behind the two women distorted, and a figure appeared like a ghost.

Lingxi and the young lady of the Ling Clan froze abruptly, their faces filled with disbelief and astonishment as they turned around.

"Soul Wind! How did you find this place?!" Ling Xi's voice trembled, clearly not expecting that this demon could block her last escape route without her noticing.

"Hehe, shouldn't we thank you two for leading the way?" Hun Feng grinned maliciously, his eyes sweeping greedily over the surroundings, taking in the precious books and rare treasures that had not yet been destroyed.

"If you hadn't fought your way in, I might not have been the first to find the Spirit Race's ultimate treasure trove!"

"Now that we've found it..." Soul Wind's eyes flashed with killing intent, and he clenched his fist.

"Then you're all useless, go to hell!"

After speaking, he moved like lightning, rushing straight at the two women, his fierce fighting spirit almost tearing the air apart.

However, faced with this sure-kill attack, the young lady of the Spirit Clan was not flustered at all. Instead, she curled up a mocking smile: "Soul Wind, don't you even know where you are!"

She suddenly swung her jade hand forward, unleashing her inner fighting spirit without reservation, which poured into the obscure array plate in the center of the treasure vault.

Om-!

In an instant, the entire treasure vault shone brightly, and mysterious runes lit up from the walls, weaving together into a huge net of light that instantly blocked Hun Feng's path.

"What?! This is... a defensive array at the Dou Sheng level?!" Hun Feng's attack crashed hard against the light net, but it didn't even cause a ripple before being completely blocked.

Immediately afterward, the sneer on his face froze, replaced by boundless horror.

"Too late! Soul Wind, since you're here, come and turn to ashes with us!" The Spirit Clan's young lady's face was as pale as paper, yet she still frantically poured her battle qi into the self-destruct formation.

"Miss, let me help you!" Lingxi channeled her battle qi into the other person's body.

As the two moved, the entire treasure vault began to tremble violently, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.

Hunfeng felt a chill run down his spine, and a sense of impending doom rose in his mind. The devastating sense of crisis made his scalp tingle.

[Damn it! What family would bury something like this, capable of mutual destruction, in their own treasury?!]

[This is absolutely insane!]

He dared not hesitate any longer. He suddenly flicked his sleeve, forcefully grabbing the nearest pile of rare medicinal herbs and minerals, and retreated rapidly, transforming into a streak of light as he rushed out the door.

Boom! ...

Just as Hunfeng stepped out of the treasure vault, a deafening roar came from behind him!

The terrifying explosive energy was like a sleeping primordial beast awakening, instantly devouring everything.

Even though Hunfeng had escaped a hundred meters away, he was still violently thrown away by the terrifying aftershock and crashed heavily to the ground, looking utterly disheveled.

The explosion of the Spirit Clan's treasure vault was so loud that almost all the powerful figures within a thousand miles sensed it immediately.

"Young Clan Chief Hunfeng, are you alright?"

Several auras of Soul Clan Battle Saints rapidly approached, and one of them quickly stepped forward to help the dust-covered Soul Wind up.

"Get out of my way! What could possibly happen to me!" Hun Feng shook off the other's hand. Although he appeared to be only covered in dust, a hint of fear and rage was hidden deep in his eyes.

Just then, a terrifying, suffocating pressure suddenly descended, and the surrounding temperature seemed to drop to freezing point instantly.

The somewhat illusory figure of Void Devouring Flame appeared out of thin air, its pair of fiery eyes staring intently at Soul Wind, the anger in its eyes almost bursting forth.

"Lord Void Devouring Flame, this is an accident! I didn't expect those madmen from the Spirit Clan to have buried a self-destruct formation in the treasure vault!" Feeling the oppressive aura, Soul Wind involuntarily took a half step back, his voice filled with obvious fear.

"Hmph! Did you think that explosion just now was just a simple self-destruction?" Void Devouring Flame sneered, his voice terrifyingly deep.

"The power of that formation has reached the level of a late-stage eight-star Dou Sheng expert sacrificing himself! If I hadn't intervened in time to suppress it and limit the blast radius, it would have triggered a chain reaction, and the entire Spirit Clan territory and even the surrounding thousands of miles would have suffered!"

"By then, even a deaf or blind person will be able to notice what's going on here!"

It grew angrier with each word, its fiery eyes flashing with killing intent: "And another thing! If it weren't for me, would you have escaped? You would have been reduced to dust long ago!"

The Void Devouring Flame was cursing the heavens in its heart. It was originally in the sky, leisurely devouring the souls of the Spirit Race experts, when a thunderclap suddenly appeared, almost causing the carefully created devouring field to collapse.

Looking up, I was completely devastated!

That idiot Hunfeng couldn't even handle two little girls, and he actually let them sneak into the treasure vault and activate the destruction formation.

What a useless teammate who's good for nothing and good for making things worse!

Couldn't you have ended the fight before they even stepped into the treasure vault?

They insisted on letting them in!

idiot!

Deep within a primeval forest thousands of miles from the Elven territory, a crack silently appeared in space.

Su Baichen slowly walked out with two unconscious women, and casually set up a concealment barrier.

He paid no attention to the two women, but instead gazed into the distance toward the Spirit Clan, where a lingering afterglow still hung in the sky.

Recalling the terrifying shockwaves of that time, Su Baichen's lips slowly curled into a cold smile, his whisper dissipating into the forest with the wind:

"Void Devouring Flame... You must be feeling pretty bad this time, right?"

Chapter 357 Ling Yuhan's Choice!

"Ugh...where am I?"

Ling Yuhan opened her eyes with difficulty, and what she saw was an unfamiliar wooden beam, with a faint medicinal fragrance lingering in the air.

She instinctively propped herself up, but this aggravated her internal injuries, causing a wave of dizziness that made her involuntarily groan softly.

"Miss, you are awake!"

A joyful cry, tinged with tears, rang out. Lingxi scrambled from the corner to the bedside, her little face still wet with tears. When she saw that someone was awake, her eyes lit up instantly.

Ling Yuhan composed herself, her gaze falling on Ling Xi, and a great weight lifted from her heart.

She looked around and found herself lying on a soft bed, covered with a brocade quilt. The room was elegantly furnished and was by no means a wilderness.

"Lingxi, how did we get here?" Her voice was hoarse, weak from surviving a disaster.

"We were rescued, right?"

Seeing Lingxi nodding vigorously, Ling Yuhan instantly understood seven or eight parts of the meaning.

“Yes! It was Mr. Su who saved us!” Lingxi said as she carefully helped Ling Yuhan up.

"Miss, please hurry, Mr. Su is outside."

Ling Yuhan took a deep breath, suppressing the violent pounding in her chest. She straightened her slightly disheveled clothes, and with Ling Xi's help, she forced herself to walk out of the room, her body still weak.

In the courtyard, Su Baichen stood with his hands behind his back, dressed in white, looking indifferently at the clouds drifting by in the distance, as if everything around him was irrelevant.

Hearing footsteps, he slowly turned to the side. When his deep eyes swept over Ling Yuhan, they were completely unmoved, as if he were looking at a blade of grass or a flower by the roadside.

Ling Yuhan's heart trembled, but she still forced herself to be strong and respectfully curtsied: "I am Ling Yuhan, thank you for saving my life, sir."

Her voice was gentle, yet it carried an undeniable resolve.

"I have no way to repay your life-saving grace, except... to offer myself to you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Su Baichen frowned slightly, waved his hand, and said in a flat tone that revealed no emotion: "Hmm? No need, it was just something I did on the spur of the moment."

Ling Yuhan was indeed breathtakingly beautiful, with skin as white as snow and features as exquisite as a painting. Her ethereal temperament, unique to the Spirit Clan, was even more endearing.

What kind of beauties hadn't Su Baichen seen? Compared to the women in his family, this one, though beautiful, was still lacking in some ways.

Moreover, he saw through the other party's scheme at a glance.

This is hardly a case of "offering oneself in return"; it's clearly a case of realizing one's current precarious situation and urgently needing to find a powerful backer.

It must be said that this woman reacted extremely quickly. Having only been unconscious for a moment, she swiftly located her position and began to seek a way out for herself and her people. She was a clever woman, but unfortunately…

Su Baichen, he has no shortage of women.

"Mr. Su, please take us in!" Seeing that the young lady's offer of herself was rejected, Lingxi was so anxious that she was about to cry, and quickly stepped forward.

"Miss and I are both very talented! We would never cause you any trouble!"

"No need," Su Baichen said firmly.

Seeing that the last path was about to be cut off, Ling Yuhan bit her lower lip, as if she had made a great decision.

With trembling hands, she pulled out a rather antique-looking storage ring from her bosom.

She presented the storage ring with both hands, a hint of pain flashing in her eyes, but she still said firmly, "Mr. Su, if you don't mind, please use these to exchange for your protection!"

Su Baichen raised an eyebrow, took the storage ring, and scanned it with his divine sense, his eyebrows slightly raised.

Inside the storage ring was a hidden world. Although there weren't many hard currency items like pills, it contained copies of combat techniques and cultivation methods, including many Heaven-rank and even quasi-Earth-rank manuals.