Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 974: I’ll Take You Across the River!

Chapter 974: Chapter 974: I’ll Take You Across the River!

Ouyang Jian, despite being a martial artist with the strength of Heaven Level Perfection, was not to be underestimated. Although he couldn’t injure the Black-Scaled Giant Python, it was difficult for the python to harm him as well.

He abandoned his long sword and, using all his strength, struck out with both palms to meet the python’s sweeping tail.

"Boom!"

Ouyang Jian’s palms collided with the giant tail of the Black-Scaled Giant Python. True Yuan burst forth from his palms, creating a resounding boom that caused the water within a dozen yards to tremble.

The residual waves of True Yuan spread outwards. A member close behind Ouyang Jian was affected, thrown backward by the wave’s force and collided with another disciple behind him. Both exclaimed and simultaneously fell into the river.

Several Nether Crocodiles, fond of murky hunting, swiftly approached from a distance, silently lurking in the water nearby during the fierce battle between Ouyang Jian and the Black-Scaled Giant Python.

Seeing prey falling into the water, the Nether Crocodiles surged forwards, launching an attack on the two members of Ouyang Jian’s team who had fallen into the river.

In this Nether River, powerful spirit beasts ruled everything.

Although these Nether Crocodiles were not as strong as the Black-Scaled Giant Python, they were stronger than the two members of Ouyang Jian’s team who had fallen into the water.

They stirred the water into waves, attacking in a group with the ferocity of tigers and leopards on land, while the two members of Ouyang Jian’s team, although struggling, seemed as helpless as lambs.

In the blink of an eye, two martial artists who ranked among the top hundred in the Inner Court disciple strength chart were dragged to the riverbed by several Nether Crocodiles. Plumes of blood rose from underwater; clearly, they were not going to survive.

"Fellow junior brothers and sisters, time is of the essence. Let’s cross the river now!"

Seeing the battle between the Black-Scaled Giant Python and Ouyang Jian together with several Nether Crocodiles feasting on the corpses of Ouyang Jian’s team members, Shen Yulin knew that if they missed this opportunity, crossing the river later would come at a great cost. She shouted, using her palm as a sword, cut down a tree by the river into sections, and tossed them into the river.

These chunks of wood, placed a few dozen meters apart, would facilitate easy river crossing using their movement techniques, as long as there was no attack from river spirit beasts in mid-crossing.

Now, with several ferocious spirit beasts distracted by the members of Ouyang Jian’s team fighting fiercely on the water surface, Shen Yulin saw this as an excellent opportunity to cross the river.

"Follow closely behind me! Do not let your guard down!"

In the midst of her shout, Shen Yulin’s body soared into the air and landed on a piece of driftwood floating twenty meters away in the Nether River. From there, she propelled herself forward and, within a few moments, had crossed much of the river.

Seeing this, the members of Shen Yulin’s team also drew their weapons, protected themselves with True Yuan, employed their movement techniques, and began to cross the river.

Huang Miao, seeing the members of Shen Yulin’s team, one after another, leaping across the river, and with Shen Yulin already safely on the other side without encountering any attacks from spirit beasts midway, couldn’t help feeling elated.

"Let’s cross the river too!"

Huang Miao tightened her grip on the Willow Leaf Twin Saber, her face lit with excitement. She quickly spoke to Fang Bai and the four others, then prepared to leap toward a piece of driftwood in the river.

"Senior Sister Huang, wait a moment!"

Fang Bai reached out and gently tugged at the hem of Huang Miao’s clothes.

Huang Miao turned back, frowning, and said urgently, "Junior Brother Fang, we can’t wait. If we wait any longer, we’ll miss our chance!"

Fang Bai gestured with his mouth towards the river and said, "Senior Sister Huang, have you forgotten that I have a special perception of spirit beasts? There is one blocking our way across the river right now."

Huang Miao was taken aback. Fang Bai had indeed mentioned before that he could sense the presence of nearby spirit beasts, and their team had rarely encountered attacks from powerful spirit beasts on their journey. It was precisely Fang Bai’s guidance that had helped them avoid the territories of those powerful spirit beasts.

Therefore, when Fang Bai said there was a spirit beast blocking the river, Huang Miao couldn’t help but believe him, but her gaze shifted towards Shen Yulin on the opposite shore, and she couldn’t help but wonder why Senior Sister Shen was unharmed.

No sooner had this thought surfaced than the river water burst open with a boom, waves rolling and water splashing everywhere, and a Black Scaled Python appeared on the surface, blocking the path of Shen Yulin’s team.

Not far from the river’s surface, several weaker Black-Scaled Giant Pythons and Nether Crocodiles peeked out, their eyes glued on this side, ready to seize any opportunity.

At that moment, ten members of Shen Yulin’s team, including Shen Yulin herself, only five had reached the opposite bank, while the remaining five were blocked in the river.

Huang Miao, seeing the Black Scaled Python that had just burst out of the water as enormous as the previous one, involuntarily gasped in shock.

She turned to look at Fang Bai, thinking with a lingering fear, "Thank goodness Fang Bai stopped us, otherwise I would have already swept into the river. It would have been difficult to come back then! Not to mention that Black Scaled Python, even those weaker Black-Scaled Giant Pythons and Nether Scales nearby would be too much for me to handle."

Hou Ziping and Liu Qingqing, as well as Liu Liehu, also felt fortunate.

If it were not for Fang Bai, Huang Miao might have already crossed the river, and they would have immediately followed, with unimaginable consequences.

"Brother Fang, what should we do now? The Nether River is full of lurking spirit beasts; should we still cross it?"

Liu Liehu asked with a grimace.

Huang Miao, Hou Ziping, and Liu Qingqing all looked towards Fang Bai, seemingly waiting for his decision.

"Of course we’re crossing! If we don’t venture into the core area of the mountains, our venture into the mountains would have been in vain!"

Fang Bai spoke and walked west along the bank of the Nether River. After walking a hundred meters, he stopped, faced the Nether River, and pointed towards the river surface, saying, "The bottom of the Nether River is full of lurking spirit beasts. Crossing here is relatively the easiest as the lurking spirit beasts in this area are weaker, and we can easily handle them."

He casually uprooted a tree as thick as a leg from the riverbank, mimicking Shen Yulin’s actions, broke the tree into several pieces, and threw them into the river.

"Let’s go, I’ll lead you across! If any spirit beasts attack, don’t worry, we’ll join forces and kill them!"

Fang Bai said, being the first to leap towards the broken logs in the river.

He stimulated his True Yuan, moving as swiftly as lightning, so fast that one could only see a blurred figure. In a few breaths, he had already reached the opposite bank.

"Junior Brother Fang... such fast movement technique!"

Huang Miao couldn’t help but exclaim, thinking to herself, "Although I haven’t sparred with Junior Brother Fang, I’m confident that he is much stronger than me! Could he, like Senior Brother Tu, be concealing his true skills?"

This thought merely flashed through her mind before she too leaped up, following the path Fang Bai had just taken across the river surface, and swiftly raced towards the opposite bank.

Soon after, Hou Ziping, Liu Qingqing, and Liu Liehu followed in Huang Miao’s footsteps, jumping onto the broken logs in the river.

Watching Huang Miao and the others enter the river, Fang Bai’s lips curled up with a strange smile and with a slight movement of his lips, he sent out a series of strange secret words using the Thread Condensation Sound Transmission Technique.