Invincible Young Master in the City
Chapter 873 - 689: The Girl with Malicious Intent

Chapter 873: Chapter 689: The Girl with Malicious Intent

Ye Fan charged to the front of the young girl, first probing the True Qi within her body. Upon confirming that her cultivation level was very low, even at the early stage of Qi Cultivation, he slowly lowered the magic sword in his hand.

"Who are you?" Ye Fan’s aura still did not diminish, capable of instantly killing the girl before him.

The girl trembled and said, "I... I was captured by them. They want to absorb the Cultivation Technique from my body, but my cultivation level is low, they said they would go back... and slowly torture me, please let me go."

The girl knelt on the ground, beginning to kowtow to Ye Fan.

Her voice was mournful, without a trace of might, like a lonely and weak girl, making Ye Fan reluctant to harbor killing intent.

Looking closely at the girl’s appearance, she was quite pretty, except for a red scar running from her upper to lower eyelid down to her cheek, looking rather mournful. Even her hands, bound by chains, bore some scars.

The girl’s cultivation level was not high, Ye Fan considered her no threat to himself.

"I don’t kill women, you may rise." Ye Fan waved the magic sword, cutting the chains on the girl’s hands. The girl, who originally closed her eyes in fear, opened them upon realizing Ye Fan was only helping her out of the trap and not killing her. However, seeing the chains cut, her expression showed some reluctance.

Ye Fan thought to himself, are you getting addicted to being chained?

Ye Fan asked, "Do you know where the closest Immortal Fate Monument is from here?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, quickly nodded, and said, "I... I will take you there."

This made Ye Fan feel relieved, as it seemed the girl had no intention of escaping and was even willing to guide him, which was a sincere gesture. He nodded.

The girl got up, took a few quick steps to the dismembered bodies of the loose cultivators who were slain, picking up the scattered magic artifacts. Like every other loose cultivator, she knew her purpose in surviving in the Pan Gu Secret Realm was to collect more Spiritual Energy and continue cultivating.

Unfortunately, due to Ye Fan’s earlier killing spree, many magic artifacts were destroyed by him. Only a few low-grade magic artifacts remained usable, which she cradled over to Ye Fan, intending to store them in her own storage bag. Then she remembered that this spoils of battle should belong to Ye Fan, including herself being one of Ye Fan’s trophies.

"Master, here you are." The girl offered these low-grade magic artifacts to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan shook his head and said, "Keep them for yourself. Also, I am not your master."

The girl said nothing else, putting the magic artifacts into her storage bag. Only then did she sincerely looked at Ye Fan and said, "Master, I will take you to find the Immortal Fate Monument."

Ye Fan nodded, then put the Immortal Sword back into his storage bracelet and set off with the girl to find the Immortal Fate Monument.

Having a familiar guide would make Ye Fan feel much more at ease, as he was new to the Pan Gu Secret Realm and was unfamiliar with its environment.

Ye Fan first became curious about the passage of time within the Pan Gu Secret Realm, as he noticed the only light source was the dim sky, with no sun, hence no day or night inversion, but there was still time in the secret realm. How was time measured, then?

Ye Fan could not afford to ponder on this, but fortunately, he had a watch to approximately know how long he had walked.

The girl led the way ahead, passing by some ruins along the journey, and occasionally encountered some remains of other cultivators, with some low-grade scattered magical treasures on the ground. The girl would always go forward, pick up the treasures, and place them in her storage bag.

"How much further?" After walking for about twenty-four hours, Ye Fan couldn’t help but ask.

The girl’s tone was somewhat evasive, "There’s still some way to go. It was originally far from here to the Immortal Fate Monument."

This differed from Zhuo Junwu’s description, making Ye Fan alert. He asked again, "Then where are we?"

The girl’s face showed a hint of delight, quickly saying, "This is the northwest of the Great Sorrow Domain. We need to head south..."

Ye Fan immediately harbored suspicion, as Zhuo Junwu had told him that although there were terms like "Western Region" and "Northern Region" in the Pan Gu Secret Realm, specific directions did not exist because there were no magnetic poles, nor an Arctic or Antarctic within the Pan Gu Secret Realm. Distinguishing directions was meaningless, and many terrains were self-rounding like a carousel; at one moment heading south, and the next moment might be heading west, and soon after, heading north.

The only constant direction in the Pan Gu Secret Realm was the Immortal Fate Monument, as every rotating disc revolved around the Immortal Fate Monument as the center. To find it, one must keep changing directions and proceed.

This girl was clearly exploiting his unfamiliarity with the Pan Gu Secret Realm to deceive him.

Even the reaction of the Immortal Pointing Needle in his hand was intermittent, indicating the girl was leading him in circles.

"We’re almost there." Perhaps realizing Ye Fan’s expression changed, the girl hurriedly said, "Let’s rest, then in another hour we can reach the Immortal Fate Monument."

Ye Fan slightly nodded, finding a relatively higher terrain on a slope to sit down, beginning to adjust his breath, as it had been a long while since he had done so since leaving Earth.

The girl also sat down, first sorting through her spoils of battle but occasionally casting glances at Ye Fan.

Now Ye Fan wanted to see what she intended to do, so he deliberately showed a flaw by starting to gather Spiritual Energy within himself and circulated it internally, making the girl think he had entered a meditation state.

Indeed, upon realizing Ye Fan was meditating, the girl’s first reaction wasn’t to run but to stand up and step closer to Ye Fan.

She actually intended to ambush Ye Fan!

Ye Fan thought, the girl shouldn’t be so foolish; she should clearly sense that her cultivation level was far inferior. Coming over to seek death would only have one outcome — she must have a method in her Cultivation Technique to conceal her Spiritual Energy.

The girl approached Ye Fan step by step without stimulating any Spiritual Energy, as a cultivator would naturally generate resistance when encountering powerful Spiritual Energy.

To succeed in one strike, she must maintain a calm mindset until she reaches Ye Fan, then suddenly explode, killing Ye Fan in one move. All the cultivation and magical treasures on Ye Fan would become hers alone.

The girl gritted her teeth and thought, "You’ve forced me to do this."

The girl suddenly wielded a very short magic sword in her hands, and as words couldn’t keep up with the speed, the sword shot directly towards Ye Fan’s Baihui Acupoint at the top of his head. The cultivation released from her wasn’t at the early stage of Qi Cultivation but during the late stage of Foundation Establishment, remarkably similar to Ye Fan’s cultivation level.

At such a young age, she was already close to successfully forming a Golden Core, obtaining five hundred years of lifespan!

Unfortunately, she still underestimated Ye Fan’s vigilance and cultivation.

Usually, someone in meditation finds it hard to react when strengths are similar between both parties, but Ye Fan had his focus on her all along. Ye Fan surpassed the girl in cultivation as he possessed the ability of introspection, and he began his path of cultivation with the ancient martial Hugging Core Great Path, perhaps capable of contending with opponents at the initial stage of the Golden Core.

"Poof!"

The girl thought she had succeeded with one strike, but she didn’t expect the magical sword to be blocked by a burst of powerful force when it stabbed down.

In the next moment, even her grip on the sword was unstable, and as she involuntarily released the sword, her entire body was sent flying.