Chapter 2: Another Encounter with Time Travel

  Dazedly sitting in the mountain forest, the bright sunlight shines through the dense thicket and casts down, looking at the surrounding plants that even she had never seen before, Huayun couldn't help but furrow her brow, her face filled with bitterness.

  It's been two days since I arrived at this place. Looking around at the towering trees and strange plants, Huayun's heart is still full of doubts.

  Huayun clearly remembered that after treating the Indian Bodhi Tree in the backyard of the Indian Temple, he boarded a special plane to return home, but unexpectedly, the special plane exploded unexpectedly over the Indian Ocean.

  Hua Yun, who had fainted from the pain, found herself in this unfamiliar forest when she came to.

  He now has completely lost contact with the outside world, looking at the sun in the sky that is slightly larger than what he used to see, Huayun feels vaguely in his heart that this place does not seem to be Earth, and it is very likely that he has unintentionally come to another world.

  She peeled off the outer skin of a plant root, and Huayun expressionlessly took a bite. A thread of slightly bitter juice seeped into her mouth along her teeth. Although this plant called Mao Lu didn't taste very good, in order to have the strength to walk out of this mountain forest, Huayun had no choice but to eat it.

  After a brief rest, Hua Yun located the position of the sun in the sky and continued on her journey.

  The rustling of leaves continued to enter Huayun's ears, and just as Huayun's mind was wandering outside, a loud roar suddenly came from the depths of the mountain forest, accompanied by several people's shouts and bursts of explosions.

  Hua Yun's expression changed slightly as he listened to the strange sound coming from afar. He quickly walked in that direction.

  No one knows that Huayun, apart from being very knowledgeable about plants, also possesses a powerful ancient martial art. Plants have been Huayun's hobby since he was young, and his ancient martial art was passed down to him by his grandfather when he was little.

  As the head of the family, Huayun's grandfather was extremely strict with him from a young age. While many of his peers were playing under their parents' care, Huayun began to receive his grandfather's traditional martial arts training.

  The Hua family had a set of unparalleled martial arts in ancient times - the Wuji Xuan Gong. The Wuji Xuan Gong has a total of nine levels, and with each level up, one's strength will soar, and when they reach the ninth level, they will break through the void.

  However, with the advancement of technology, ancient martial arts gradually declined. By the time this set of Xuan Gong was passed down to Hua Yun's generation, although the secret manual and heart method were not lost, except for Hua Yun's grandfather who practiced Wuji Xuan Gong to the third layer, the rest of the Hua family did not even reach the second layer.

  Fortunately, Huayun also has astonishing attainments in martial arts. However, until now, under the strict requirements of Huayun's grandfather, Huayun has only cultivated Wujixuanguo to the peak of the first layer.

  The first layer of Wuji Xuan Gong is some basic health exercises and combat skills, Hua Yun has practiced to the peak but only reached the level of a national martial arts master. To reach the second layer of Wuji Xuan Gong, one must make the internal energy in their body flow freely and endlessly, Hua Yun is still far from this stage.

  A faint light flickered from the front, and the sound of human shouting grew louder, while the roar of beasts also grew louder. Huayun's gaze passed through the gaps in the bushes and looked over, only to see that not far away on an open space, a woman and two men stood separately at each corner, forming a circle. In the middle of the three people, two young women lay still.

  Two enormous, fiery red creatures, resembling lions, were ceaselessly attacking the three people, exposing their sharp claws and teeth, extremely ferocious. In a flash, they emitted bursts of wind sounds. Strangely, on the lion's tail, a flame was continuously burning.

  The two girls lying between the three men were obviously injured, unable to move, and the three people surrounding them in a circle outside also looked menacing.

  Leading the way was a middle-aged robust man with brown short hair, wearing a suit of armor, holding a nearly two-meter-long ancient giant sword in his hand, dancing with vigor, and on the giant sword, bursts of silver-white light kept emerging, accompanied by a huge sonic boom.

  On the other hand, there was a young man in his early twenties with brown long hair tied back, carrying a long bow on his back and holding a long sword in his hand, constantly wandering around.

  The remaining woman was wearing a red armor, with a torn red cloak draped over her shoulder, and a slender sword in her hand that flashed rapidly, emitting a faint blue glow.

  Looking at the movements and footsteps of the three people in front of her, Huayun could only use one word to describe them, which was rotten!

  The people in front of him had no skills at all, and the flashes were just smooth, but what was even more rubbish was that the swords in their hands only had three monotonous attacking methods: chopping, sweeping, and hooking. The defensive techniques of swordsmanship were also limited to blocking and parrying.

  The big man in the lead was using a giant sword, which is understandable. The other two, however, were using slender swords but failed to bring out the agility that slender swords are known for.

  However, Huayun looked down on the swordsmanship of the three people in front of him, but he could still see the great power contained in the blades of their swords. Especially that giant sword emitting a silver glow, Huayun had no doubt that its power could chop a huge boulder into pieces with one strike. But once they abandoned their great power, those without any skill were far inferior to the great masters of swordsmanship on Earth, and even less than those Western fencers.

  Although the attacks of these three people were extremely powerful, they were no match for the agile attacks of the two Flame Lions. The leader, a big man, was barely holding on, and the female swordsman was also struggling to keep up, but the young man was in a very sorry state under the attack of the Flame Lion.

  Apart from the constant close-range attacks, the two Flame Lions would occasionally stop their agile movements and spit out a huge fireball from their mouths, attacking the three people who were huddled together from a distance.

  In order to protect the two girls in *** , the three of them could only huddle together and lost their nimble offense, unable to exert themselves.

  Seeing the situation in front of her eyes, Hua Yun understood that she had already arrived in a completely strange world.

  But Huayun understood that now was not the time for her to be disheartened, what she needed to do at present was to rescue these five people from the two-headed lions.

  If it were to face a single lion on earth alone, Hua Yun would naturally not be afraid with his own strength. However, seeing the two lions in front of him with flames on their tails and able to spit fireballs from their mouths, Hua Yun did not dare to take risks lightly either.

  Cautiously crouching behind a bush, after a moment, Hua Yun had arrived at the side of a Flame Lion.

  Hua Yun didn't launch a surprise attack, but instead quietly hid to the side, waiting for an opportunity. The three people and two Flame Lions who were in the midst of intense battle hadn't noticed that there was now one more person hiding in the bushes beside them.

  Hua Yun observed for a moment, and finally waited for an opportunity. A flame lion dodged the giant sword warrior's powerful strike, suddenly taking a big leap back, almost retreating to the edge of the nearby bush. The flame lion, which was sure that its enemy would not dare to rush forward, opened its bloody mouth wide, and a fireball the size of a washbasin quickly emerged from its mouth, flying rapidly towards the giant sword warrior.

  Just at this moment, Hua Yun made his move!

  Without any warning, Hua Yun suddenly burst out of the bush and jumped onto the back of the flame lion, her legs hooked tightly around its abdomen, and her hands grasped its neck firmly.

  "Surround the other one, I'll take care of this side!" Huayun shouted at the three people beside him, not caring if they understood or not. He was barely able to hold down this Flame Lion, and if the other Flame Lion came over, he would be done for.

  Fortunately, the three of them understood Huayun's meaning and immediately quickly surrounded the other Flame Lion.

  Hua Yun's sudden appearance startled the flame lion, which was stuck in its neck and let out a furious roar. Its body kept jumping up and down, trying to shake Hua Yun off its back.

  Under such a great force, if it were an ordinary person, they would have been thrown off by the Flame Lion long ago. However, Hua Yun was using the Locking Technique from his national art, and his entire body was like an iron hoop, firmly clamped onto the back of the Flame Lion.

  Seeing that he couldn't shake off the guy on his back, the flame lion suddenly lifted its head and a ball of flames instantly shot up into the sky. Fortunately, Hua Yun was prepared and felt the lion's change, so she slightly shook her head, and the huge fireball just grazed past her temples, burning a few strands of her hair.

  With her left hand exerting force to hook around the Flame Lion's neck, Huayun thrust out her right hand, executing a move called "Double Dragons Playing with Pearls", and two fingers vigorously inserted into the Flame Lion's pair of eyes.

  In the midst of the Flame Lion's mighty roar, Hua Yun's right hand hooked backwards, his center of gravity shifted downwards, and with a burst of strength, he twisted the Flame Lion's neck into a knot.

  The roar ceased abruptly, a burst of fresh blood spouted from the lion's mouth, its massive body fell to the ground powerlessly, and there was no sound anymore.

  The three people on the side and another Flame Lion also discovered the situation here at this moment.

  The Flame Lion who had lost his partner was disheartened and reluctant to fight, under the joint attack of the three he was in a precarious situation everywhere, in the chaos he was beheaded by a giant sword wielded by a big man.

  As they saw their crisis lifted, the leader of the group let out a long sigh of relief from his mouth, while the female swordsman and young man almost fell to the ground on their buttocks. The prolonged battle had severely depleted the strength in their bodies.

  The big man in the lead looked at Hua Yun with a mixture of reverence and gratitude, then came to his front with a respectful expression, thanking him: "Little brother, thank you so much just now! If it wasn't for you, we would have been finished this time!"

  As he said this, Ron glanced sideways at the two charred bodies of the Blast-Ended Skrewts.

  Today, the five members of the mercenary group were originally just preparing to hunt some low-level magical beasts and collect some magic crystals in this mountain forest, but they did not expect to encounter two fourth-tier Flame Explosion Lions.

  The fourth-tier Flame Blast Lion was formidable, but with his own strength as a fifth-tier White Silver Warrior and the combined efforts of the other four members, they could barely cope. However, the two Flame Blast Lions suddenly ambushed the two mages in the mercenary group, leaving Katarina, a second-tier fire-element mage, and Luna, a fourth-tier water-element mage, severely injured and unable to fight.

  As a result, the Blade Mercenary Corps was immediately plunged into crisis. Linda was a 4th-tier Bronze Warrior, while Lise was a 3rd-tier Black Iron Warrior and an archer to boot; in close combat like this, Lise as an archer was basically unable to contribute much, and on top of that they had to protect the injured Katarina and Luna, so the three of them were already in grave danger just earlier.

  Just when Roan was almost in despair, a young man ran out of the forest and solved one of the fierce fire lions with two or three moves, which made Roan extremely surprised.

  Earlier, Hua Yun had seen the entire battle between Luo En and that Four-Stage Blazing Lion. Being able to resolve it so quickly, although it could be considered a sneak attack, the young man's strength was not to be underestimated. At least when he didn't have his giant sword, he couldn't do it as beautifully as him.

  Allen continent worships the strong, is a world where strength is respected. As a fifth-tier white silver warrior, Lorne possesses strict swordsmanship virtues.

  Although the black-haired, black-eyed youth in front of him was extremely tattered and seemed like a refugee, Hua Yun's previous performance and his lifesaving favor to the Lir Blade Mercenary Group made Ron, as the captain, speak with special respect.

  "Mercenary Blade Squad?" Hua Yun found that she could understand the other person's words, and her eyes narrowed slightly as she smiled: "Oh, don't be polite, it's just a small effort." She thought to herself, I almost got killed, and it's just a small effort? If I weren't in unfamiliar territory, I wouldn't have taken such a risk!

  After hearing what Hua Yun said, Luo En's heart suddenly became solemn and respectful: "No, this little brother, although the previous matter may have been easy for you to do, but for us, it is a great kindness."

  Indeed, saving one's own life is a great kindness that can be considered a huge favor for anyone.

  Hua Yun smiled slightly: "Hehe, I'm just a traveler, little brother is too awkward to call. If you're willing, you can call me Hua Yun. I don't know what the Blade Mercenary Corps came here for?"

  At this moment, Hua Yun immediately started chatting intimately with Luoen, he just wanted to learn more useful information about this world from Luoen's mouth.

  Just as Hua Yun and Luo En were chatting, the young man who had been carrying a bow on his back came over with a look of anxiety: "Captain, you'd better go take a look, Luona probably can't hold on much longer!"

  "What?" Ron exclaimed in surprise.

  "Hey Ron, why don't we go take a look together?" Hua Yun suggested, seeing the worry on Ron's face.

  Nodding, Ron led Huayun to walk towards the two girls lying on the ground not far away.