Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1430: Bathing Woman

Chapter 1430: Chapter 1430: Bathing Woman

"There are plenty of spirit beasts in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, but quite a number of them are docile. As long as we don’t actively provoke them, they won’t attack us. Also, once we enter the mountain range, be sure to avoid the territories of the spirit beasts, otherwise we might anger them... Remember this!"

Sun Lin, having undergone numerous training sessions in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, spoke from experience and gave specific instructions to Fang Bai and the other three before heading in.

Zheng Hong and the others nodded in understanding.

As the Wind-Chaser Steeds approached the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, they became visibly agitated and uneasy. Fang Bai and the others understood that the steeds feared the ferocious birds and beasts of the mountain, so they left them in a safe spot outside the range and proceeded on foot.

Walking through the mountain paths of the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, they were flanked either by towering peaks or dense forests that stretched tens, even hundreds of meters tall, making the Martial Artists traversing within seem as insignificant as ants.

From deep within the mountain wilderness, the chilling sounds of tiger roars, monkey cries, eagle screeches, and hawks’ calls would occasionally ring out. The team couldn’t help but feel a sense of trepidation, their spines tingling.

In the five-person party, Sun Lin led the way, Fang Bai guarded the rear, Shi Ming and Zheng Hong walked on the sides, and the weakest, Huang Zhong, was placed in the center of the formation.

The team’s main purpose for this training session was reaching the "White Bone Gully" within the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, where they hoped to gather some rare spiritual medicine and collect unique materials for crafting spiritual artifacts.

Sun Lin led the group along a route she was most familiar with from her previous expeditions.

Because disciples of Lingxu Palace commonly traveled this route, they didn’t encounter any attacks from ferocious birds or beasts along the way, but they also didn’t find any valuable cultivation resources.

"Follow this stream ahead. After traveling about another hundred miles or so, we’ll reach ’White Bone Gully.’"

The group arrived at a winding stream and Sun Lin pointed towards the path ahead.

Walking quickly along the stream, they covered thirty miles before reaching a small lake, several miles wide, nestled at the foot of a mountain.

The lake’s water was crystal clear, smooth like a mirror. It reflected the green hills, lush trees, white clouds, and azure sky, creating a stunning and idyllic visual feast.

"This place is so beautiful, it looks like the legendary paradise hidden from the world. The spiritual energy here is far denser than that in Lingxu Palace—if we could cultivate here for a while, it would be quite beneficial!"

At the lakeshore, Shi Ming squatted down, scooped up some lake water to wash his face, and gazed across the water while expressing his admiration.

At that very moment, Zheng Hong suddenly extended his hand and pointed towards the lake slightly ahead to the left, stammering, "Th-there’s someone there..."

The group turned their heads in unison, looking in the direction Zheng Hong was pointing. Their expressions quickly turned peculiar.

All of them had sharp eyesight and spotted, roughly a kilometer away in the lake, a graceful figure—an enchanting woman with long hair cascading down to her waist—bathing alone.

The water was shallow, barely covering the woman’s chest, leaving her elegant and delicate neckline exposed.

The woman appeared leisurely and at ease, humming an indistinct tune as it was carried by the breeze across the lake to Fang Bai’s party.

On the lakeshore, her neatly folded clothes were resting.

Even from a side view, the woman’s beauty rivaled Sun Lin’s—perhaps even outshining it.

The lake wasn’t large, but there were still numerous concealed spirit beasts within.

Just as the woman was bathing, a Green Bamboo Snake, over a meter long, skimmed across the lake’s surface, lightning-fast, heading straight for her.

"Watch out, there’s a Green Bamboo Snake!"

Huang Zhong, knowing the snake’s venom was lethally toxic and ordinary spirit pills wouldn’t suffice to cure its poison, couldn’t help but shout out in concern for the woman’s safety.

"Huang Zhong, you..."

"You’re ruining everything!"

"Ugh... What trouble we’ve gotten into now!"

Sun Lin, Shi Ming, and Zheng Hong, upon hearing Huang Zhong’s loud warning, instantly realized how bad the situation could get. They wished to cover Huang Zhong’s mouth, but it was already too late, making them stomp their feet in frustration.

"Huang Zhong, that woman is a Foundation Establishment Expert!"

Fang Bai looked at the bewildered Huang Zhong and said with a wry smile.

"F-Foundation Establishment Expert?"

Huang Zhong froze upon hearing Fang Bai’s words, immediately realizing his mistake. He slapped himself in the face and anxiously looked back at the woman in the lake.

If she truly were a Foundation Establishment Expert, she wouldn’t need his warnings to notice the snake.

What if she thought they were spying on her while bathing? There’d be no way they could justify themselves.

Furthermore, if she turned out to be an enemy of Lingxu Palace, she’d have every reason to attack them.

A Foundation Establishment Expert’s power was no trivial matter. If she became enraged, their party of five might not escape unscathed.

Almost at the exact moment Huang Zhong’s warning left his mouth, the bathing woman abruptly turned towards the Green Bamboo Snake. Lightning surged on her right hand with an audible "bzzt", accompanied by faint thunderclaps.

With a casual wave of her hand, accompanied by a deafening sound, a streak of lightning shot out and enveloped the meter-long, arm-thick Green Bamboo Snake in an electric net, tearing its body to pieces in an instant.

Fang Bai’s eyes lit up with interest towards the woman.

In both his past and present lives, it was rare for him to come across Martial Artists adept in Thunder Lightning Martial Arts Techniques. Dongfang Ruhua was one, and now he’d unexpectedly met another.

However, Dongfang Ruhua had an Innate Thunder Lightning Spirit Root, while this woman’s natural aptitude fell short. She must have begun cultivating Thunder Lightning Martial Arts Techniques from a very young age to have reached the Foundation Establishment Realm in her twenties.

After killing the Green Bamboo Snake, the woman in the lake immediately leapt out, her figure as ethereal as light gliding over water, landing gracefully on the shore. She swiftly donned the clothes resting there with dazzling speed.

Over her attire, she wore a purple soft armor that accentuated her curvaceous figure, adding a touch of power and majesty to her beauty.

Fang Bai could instantly tell that the woman’s purple soft armor was forged with Thunder Stones, making it a spiritual artifact with both offensive and defensive capabilities. Any Martial Artist unfamiliar with its properties who tried to ambush her would be met with a backlash of lightning from the armor.

Equipped with the purple soft armor, the woman’s combat strength surged, making her a formidable opponent even among Foundation Establishment experts.

After quickly putting on her clothes, the woman’s gaze, as sharp and piercing as electric currents, locked onto the group of five standing nearby.

Huang Zhong met her gaze and immediately felt as though two sharp arrows were being shot at him. He involuntarily shivered, then quickly lowered his head.

"You dare to spy on me bathing... Unforgivable!"

In a flash, the woman’s figure appeared directly before Fang Bai and his group. Her teeth clenched, her face darkened with fury as she spoke coldly.

She hadn’t used her Divine Sense to scan the area while bathing. Now realizing she had been watched, her anger and embarrassment grew overwhelmingly.

If it weren’t for the fact that among these five there was one with cultivation on par with hers, she would have immediately attacked, intending to gouge their eyes out.

"Saw? Uh, no... No, we didn’t see anything at all!"

Huang Zhong, overwhelmed by the woman’s gaze filled with killing intent, stammered in fear and tried to explain in a panicked manner.