Chapter Thirty-Six: The Fire Rhinoceros King

  "It's finally out, it would have been better if you had cooperated earlier." Leng Ruoxue saw that her goal had been achieved and couldn't help but say with satisfaction. She had caught so many Fire Rhinoceroses, yet the Fire Rhinoceros King still pretended to be dead.

  "Alright, stop calling out, it's just a scratch, you're not dead yet!" Cold Snow said to the Fire Rhinoceros that was wailing in despair after being scratched on its buttocks. She hadn't intended to kill it, she just wanted to scare it a bit. However, she wasn't someone who couldn't bring herself to take action, she just felt that killing them off easily would be letting them off too lightly. Her brother's injuries, her brother's grievances - could they be avenged by simply killing these Fire Rhinoceroses? She was more inclined towards mental torture, after all, when dealing with enemies, mental torment was far more effective than physical torture.

  "You... you're a devil!" cried the wounded Fire Rhinoceros, its buttocks slashed by a knife. Other humans had always kept their distance from them, but these two detestable humans had actually come to their doorstep of their own accord. Hmph! When their king arrived, these two detestable humans would be dead for sure. The king would definitely avenge this wound, the Fire Rhinoceros thought to itself, seething with rage.

  Listening to the distant running sound getting closer and closer, Leng Ruoxue knew that Huo Xiwang was almost there. It seemed that Huo Xiwang had brought a lot of subordinates with him. Come on, the more the better.

  "How dare you, humans, to bully my people on my own territory!" The Fire Rhinoceros King roared, its large nostrils continuously spewing flames, it was furious, and the consequences would be severe.

  "This young lady has been bullied, what can you do to me?" Cold Snow deliberately provoked, unexpectedly this Fire Rhinoceros King was actually a 5th-level Sacred Beast, and it relied on its numerous subordinates, not even putting the 8th-level Sacred Beast, Yu, in its eyes. It was really arrogant, very good, she liked this kind of thing, this kind of cleanup was just what she needed. Looking at the thousands of Fire Rhinoceroses in front of her, her mood was extremely joyful.

  "Humans, you will regret this!" The Fire Rhinoceros King said indignantly, his copper bell-sized eyes staring roundly.

  "Bring it on, let these humans taste the power of our Fire Rhinoceros clan!" The Fire Rhinoceros King roared. All the spiritual beasts in this misty forest knew that it had a bad temper, so none of them dared to provoke it, and it reigned supreme here. At first, when that eagle caught one of its Fire Rhinoceroses, it didn't think much of it, thinking they were just passing by. After all, losing one or two Fire Rhinoceroses wasn't a big deal for it, as the forest was always about survival of the fittest. But then they caught over ten more, all high-level Fire Rhinoceroses, leaving its subjects in a state of panic. So, the Fire Rhinoceros King couldn't just sit back and do nothing. Fortunately, it had many subjects, so that eagle wasn't worth worrying about. As for these two humans, they were even less of a concern, as in its eyes, they were just coming to die.

  As soon as the order was given, the crowd of Huo Xi surrounded Leng Ruoxue and Ye Chen, their eyes gleaming with malice, staring at them, especially Huo Xi who had just been stabbed in the buttocks, glaring at Leng Ruoxue with hatred.

  "Are you going for the big one or the small one?" asked Leng Ruoxue.

  "I'll take the big one, you can have the small one to test your sword skills." Ye Chen said, knowing that Xue Er's Flowing Star Sword Technique had yet to be truly tested for its power.

  "Just as I wanted, Yu, keep an eye on them and don't let them escape." Leng Ruoxue instructed.

  "Yes, master." Yu flew into mid-air, ready to catch the Fire Rhinoceros at any moment.

  "Great Rhinoceros, where are you looking? Your opponent is me." Huo Xi Wang's lack of focus made Ye Chen extremely dissatisfied.

  Leng Ruo Xue gazed at the nearly thousand Flame Rhinos surrounding her, raised the sword in her hand, and unleashed a move called "Flowing Star Slashing Moon". The sword energy shot out like a meteor towards the crowd of Flame Rhinos. Although she hadn't infused any spiritual power into that move, it was still just a simple sword technique, yet it managed to leave those thick-skinned Flame Rhinos with numerous scars. Next, she agilely weaved in and out of the clumsy Flame Rhinos, unleashing another move called "Fire Tree Silver Flower". The sword energy, infused with fire-attributed spiritual power, swept towards the group of Flame Rhinos like a blazing meteor, instantly killing nearly half of them. Her speed was extremely fast, those lumbering Flame Rhinos didn't even have time to react before more than half of them died. Leng Ruo Xue saw that the group of Flame Rhinos had lost all their attacking power, with some dead and others injured, so she stopped her hand and looked towards Ye Chen's direction.

  Leng Ruo Xue watched as Ye Chen used only his fists to beat the Fire Rhinoceros King into a state of complete disfigurement, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy. She couldn't help but feel speechless - just how hard was this demon's fist? It could actually beat the Fire Rhinoceros King into such a state.

  "Spare my life, old master! It's all because the little one didn't recognize Mount Tai... Waaahhh..." Fire Rhinoceros King begged.

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  "Don't worry, we won't kill you now." Leng Ruoxue said, she believed that the Fire Rhinoceros King's body and mind should have suffered a severe blow by now.

  "As long as you answer my questions honestly and your answers satisfy me, I will let you go."

  "Really?" The Fire Rhinoceros King asked with some fear, now it was truly afraid of these two humans, where did this devil come from, wooo...

  "If you want to die now, don't believe what I'm saying." Leng Ruoxue said somewhat impatiently.

  "I believe it." The Fire Rhinoceros King hastily said, how dare he not believe?

  "Alright, then I'll ask you, a month ago, didn't you guys almost kill a man?" asked Leng Ruo Xue.

  "How did you know?" The Fire Rhinoceros King was shocked in his heart. Were these two demons here to avenge that man?

  "Why kill him?" Leng Ruoxue asked, suppressing her anger.

  "We didn't mean to kill him, we wanted to kill the woman who came to steal our fire rhinoceros fruit." The Fire Rhinoceros King said somewhat dejectedly. Fire rhinoceros fruit was their favorite fruit and extremely important to them. Anyone who tried to steal it had to die.

  "Tell me about what happened in detail." Leng Ruoxue commanded.

  "Yes...yes." Huo Xi Wang explained the situation in detail at that time, and then looked at Leng Ruo Xue with a pleading gaze, wu wu wu... It didn't want to die!

  "What does that woman look like?" asked Leng Ruoxue. It turned out that Hu Xiong Wang was also seriously injured at the time, so he let that woman off easy.

  "I can't say it out loud, but according to your human perspective, she should be very beautiful, right!" said the Fire Rhinoceros King, who didn't like human women.

  "If you see her again, can you recognize her?"

  "Niang, niang, even if she's turned into ashes, I'll still recognize her." Huo Xi Wang hastily guaranteed.

  "Wait until I bring the person here, if you can recognize them for me, I won't kill you." said Leng Ruo Xue.

  "Yes, yes."

  Leng Ruoxue took out a pellet of medicine and stuffed it into Huo Xi Wang's big mouth. "This is poison, don't think about running away, otherwise you won't live for three days."

  "No, no." Huo Xi Wang said with a desire to cry but without tears. This was its territory, where could it run to? It wasn't easy to occupy this piece of land, how could it bear to abandon it?

  Leng Ruo Xue and Ye Chen sat on the feather together, leaving the Misty Forest after they had finished what they needed to do. Before they left, of course, they wouldn't forget to take away those dead Huo Xi, which were their spoils of war.

  "Xue Er, what you gave Huo Xi Wang was really poison?" Ye Chen asked with some curiosity.