Chapter 463 - Internal Destruction (1/2)

”What? You've taken care of the magical beasts already? How is that even possible?” Yu Rou said.

Then she peeked her head outside the carriage window to look at the front.

”W-What?!” Yu Rou exclaimed in a shocked voice the very next moment, startling Xia Jingyi.

”What happened?!” Xia Jingyi asked her.

”T-The magical beasts on the road have all been killed!” Yu Rou said.

She pulled her head back inside the carriage before turning to look at Yuan with a look of disbelief on her face.

”H-How did you do that? What did you do?” she asked him.

Yuan lifted his palms and removed the camouflage that kept the Starry Abyss invisible, revealing to them the secret.

Yu Rou looked at the beautiful black dagger hovering above Yuan's palm and said, ”Wait a minute… I have seen that dagger before. You used it to remove materials from magical beasts before!”

”Yes, and I can control it without needing to wield it, allowing me to attack from a distance. It's very convenient.”

”Wow… As expected of you, brother…” Yu Rou mumbled in a low voice, her eyes filled with admiration.

Xia Jingyi was also impressed by his prowess as well, and she wondered what cultivation level he was at, but she was too shy to ask him, so she could only imagine it inside her mind.

Sometime later, the carriage began moving again after the driver snapped out of his daze.

And for the rest of the journey, Yuan would take care of the magical beasts before they could even reach the road.

About three hours after they left Seashell City, their carriage finally arrived at the Orange Lands.

”Wow, no wonder why they named this place the 'Orange' Lands. There's so much orange color in this place…” Yuan mumbled as he admired the orange scenery.

From the grass to the trees and the flowers, they were all orange in color, almost like this place was experiencing autumn while the rest of the world was in a different season.

”Do you know where are the Black Horn Bulls?” Yu Rou asked the driver.

He nodded and pointed to the wilderness in the distance and said, ”You can find them a few miles in that direction. I will be stationed here until tomorrow or until you're all ready to return to the city.”

”Alright. Thank you.”

Sometime later, Yu Rou and the others followed the driver's directions and disappeared into the distance.

Once they were inside the orange wilderness, Yuan said, ”Xiao Hua, can you look for the Black Horn Bulls for us with your Divine Sense? Mine is still too weak to search for them efficiently.”

”Sure thing, Brother Yuan,” she said.

”What?” Xia Jingyi raised her eyebrows after hearing Xiao Hua's words.

Did she just call him 'Yuan'?

It was at this moment that Yuan realized that Xia Jingyi wasn't aware of his identity and that he didn't tell Xiao Hua to not call him 'Yuan', as he wasn't prepared for Xia Jingyi's presence.

Meixiu and Yu Rou also realized this, but they couldn't think of any good excuses to make so quickly.

'Xiao Hua, call me Brother Yu Tian!' Yuan quickly used his Divine Sense to speak with Xiao Hua.

”B-Brother Yu Tian?” Xiao Hua said.

When Xia Jingyi heard this, she thought to herself, 'Oh, so I really heard it wrong… Their names sound kind of similar, too.'

After all, there was no way that Yu Rou's brother would be that famous Player Yuan.

'Hopefully, she didn't find out…' Yuan sighed inwardly.

However, he then wondered to himself, 'Wait… Do I really need to hide my identity from her? I think she's trustworthy enough to know about my identity…'

But it was a little late since he's already tried to hide his identity from her.

A moment later, Xiao Hua said, ”Brother Yua— Yu Tian, there's a couple of Black Horn Bull half a mile in that direction.”

”Okay, let's go.”

They started moving in the direction that Xiao Hua pointed towards.

About ten minutes later, they stopped moving.

”Wow, there's so many of them— at least a dozen. How should we take care of them?” Yu Rou asked.

”I can kill them with the Starry Abyss, but I doubt you'd want me to do that…” Yuan said.

”That's right, brother. If you do everything for us, it wouldn't be fun. We're here for the experience, after all.”

Then she said, ”I am going to use wind blades to take out as many as I can. Jingyi, you'll take care of the ones that I miss.”

”Okay.” Xiao Jingyi nodded her head before taking a seat on the ground and retrieving a familiar-looking object from her spatial ring.

”That's… a zither? You can play the zither?” Yuan was surprised to see Xia Jingyi pull out a zither.

”Yes.” Xia Jingyi said as she placed the zither on her lap.

And she continued, ”The zither is similar to some of the instruments I play, so I picked it as my main weapon.”