Chapter 17 A Pair of Skewered Lovebirds

The trio chased forward, only to discover that the tunnel was intricate and branching, leading them to a crossroads.

Xia Yan halted. Before she could speak, that dignified female voice echoed again from the tunnel on the left.

Without a word, Xia Yan drew her blade and charged forward.

The flames on her fist were no longer sufficient to light the way as she pursued, so this time, she held the massive blade diagonally forward, and flames rapidly crawled across its surface.

Jiang Xiao blinked.

This person was actually using the giant blade as a torch?

A two-meter-long giant torch, were you afraid?

Han Jiangxue carefully marked the crossroads. When she ran out and caught up with the two figures, she realized that Xia Yan and Jiang Xiao had already encountered the wildlings.

Calling them wildlings, there were actually only two.

There didn't seem to be any place to settle down in this cave. When Xia Yan and Jiang Xiao encountered the pair, it was in a slightly wider tunnel.

The left wall of this tunnel was slightly recessed, forming a natural small room, which was covered with weeds.

This small recessed area was only the size of a double bed. Were these two living here?

"Roar!" The male wildling roared angrily, standing as a lone warrior, blocking the way in front of the "double bed."

Behind the male wildling, a female wildling stood on the weeds, roaring angrily at Jiang Xiao and Xia Yan outside.

"They're social creatures, watch your right," Han Jiangxue said hastily as she ran over from the left.

Compared to the male wildling's stand, Xia Yan was equally imposing with her blade.

Xia Yan held the giant blade, standing in front of the two, her voice a little hesitant, "There only seem to be two of them here."

Han Jiangxue raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Jiang Xiao thought for a moment and extended his hand towards the tunnel on the right, releasing a jumping healing light wave.

Han Jiangxue was stunned for a moment. What was this operation?

Immediately afterward, Jiang Xiao listened carefully, and after a long time, he didn't hear any sound of the bell.

He turned to look at Han Jiangxue and said, "It really seems like there's no one else."

!!!

Xia Yan looked at Jiang Xiao in slight amazement. She had never thought that the bell could be used like this?

Was this what was called creativity?

Younger brother,

How many more surprises are you going to give me?

"Look ahead, don't look at me," Jiang Xiao said quickly.

"Oh, oh." Xia Yan came back to her senses, looked at the couple who were still roaring, and said, "This is so annoying, should I just stab them both to death? Might as well skewer them like a candied hawthorn."

The female wildling stood on the "double bed," and the male wildling blocked the doorway. The internal space was so small that Xia Yan's blade could indeed skewer them.

"Did these two elope?" Jiang Xiao asked curiously.

One sentence almost made Xia Yan laugh. She smiled and said, "That might actually be the case."

The female wildling on the opposite side saw the enemies talking and laughing, indifferent to their roars. She finally stopped roaring and raised her hands high, and a dark golden halo actually appeared under everyone's feet?

This was... a Halo of Yearning?

This disheveled female wildling was actually a Wildling Witch!?

Jiang Xiao was instantly stunned.

Good heavens,

Anyone with the word "Witch" in their name was a figure who could stir up trouble in their respective groups.

This Wildling Witch could completely recruit a group of younger siblings and become a clan leader. How had she ended up so miserable?

She didn't even have decent leather armor, and she only had one younger sibling?

Wait...

Was this male wildling not her younger sibling? But her lover?

My goodness, that was quite something.

Did these two really elope?

"*%$#!" The Wildling Witch roared loudly.

At the same time, the male wildling adopted a fighting stance, showing his sharp claws and fangs.

Inside the dark golden halo under his feet, dark golden time scales appeared.

Yearning + Dawn.

Jiang Xiao nodded. The star techniques were not bad, but... you were a Wildling Witch, the more younger siblings you led, the more powerful you were. Just this one lowest-level wildling was not enough for Xia Yan to strike twice.

Wildlings,

Were the lowest level of bronze creatures,

With only fangs and claws, he could have used weapons, but as the lowest level wildling, he seemed to trust his fangs and claws more, so he didn't have a tendency to use weapons.

Speaking of which,

How did a powerful Wildling Witch take a fancy to the lowest level male wildling?

This male wildling...

Hmm,

Indeed, he was a little handsome,

That figure, tsk tsk...

Just as Jiang Xiao was commenting on the male wildling, the opponent launched an attack!

"Ah!" The male wildling roared and clawed at Xia Yan.

Tear!

Xia Yan raised her hand and stabbed. In this narrow space, it was difficult to miss with that huge, thick blade...

A lot of thunder, little rain.

The male wildling was pierced by Xia Yan's giant blade just like that.

Xia Yan felt like an old master making candied hawthorns, holding a bamboo skewer and shouting at the hawthorns on the table: "Move yourselves."

Then the hawthorns happily responded, jumping and bouncing themselves onto the bamboo skewer.

Level suppression still had its advantages and disadvantages. The Wildling Witch issued orders from on high, and the male wildling charged forward loyally.

But... facing Xia Yan's giant blade, how could he charge?

The male wildling could only skewer himself to death.

"Yaya ya ya ya ya!!!" The Wildling Witch suddenly flew into a rage, and the Halo of Yearning under her feet became even deeper, and the time scales rotated clockwise even faster!

But... it didn't seem to do much good.

All of her star techniques were auxiliary, without any offensive star techniques. At this time, she was blocked at the door by Xia Yan, and there were no younger siblings around. It was simply a tragedy of tragedies.

She turned sideways, trying to break through along the burning giant blade.

But Xia Yan wasn't stupid, she retracted the blade and stabbed forward.

Two basic moves, skewering the violent, roaring Wildling Witch onto the burning giant blade as well.

Just like that, they died?

Were these two wildlings here to be funny?

A high-level Wildling Witch just died like that?

It wasn't until Xia Yan retracted her blade, stepped on the male wildling's corpse, and pulled the two off the skewer... uh, off the blade.

Until now,

Xia Yan hadn't quite reacted to what had happened.

Dense footsteps came from the left. Han Jiangxue looked over and saw Li Weiyi with flames burning in his hand, followed by Hai Tianqing, finally catching up.

"Hai and I blew up the entrance, outside is a group of wildlings fleeing, and a group of ape-ghosts chasing, it was really too thrilling." Li Weiyi explained, gasping for breath.

Han Jiangxue nodded silently. Thankfully, they entered this cave, otherwise, experiencing another scene of white ghosts walking at night in the snowy field, no one might have survived.

"Hai... Hai Tianqing." Xia Yan suddenly spoke, turning to look at Hai Tianqing with a puzzled look, "The highest-ranking general in the wildling population, the Wildling Witch, why was she only followed by one member of her clan?"

Hai Tianqing's chest rose and fell slightly. It could be seen that he was much more physically fit than Li Weiyi. He tilted his head and looked at the two corpses stacked together under Xia Yan's feet and said, "Are you sure this is a Wildling Witch?"

"Of course, she just cast the Halo of Yearning." Xia Yan said with certainty.

Every star bead should be hard-earned for her, but this battle was a little too easy.

It was just a matter of taking a bamboo skewer and skewering them.

Hai Tianqing frowned and pondered, guessing, "It is also possible that she was exiled by a certain group. If two Wildling Witches appear in a group, there will be a situation where the leader is replaced. They are not humans, and their way of solving problems is very bloody and crude. Of course, even in human society, there is a situation where two tigers cannot share the same mountain."

Xia Yan nodded and continued, "But this male wildling is the lowest level of the population, and he will not leave the group. He has no qualifications or ability."

Jiang Xiao said weakly, "A Qiang fell in love with A Zhen?" (pinyin transliteration, likely a reference to a popular story/trope).

Hai Tianqing: "..."

Jiang Xiao walked into the small room and rummaged through the weeds on the ground, and a burst of pungent breath rushed towards him.

Jiang Xiao didn't find any treasures, only a few stone bowls.

Some of the stone bowls had water stains on them, probably because they had just been knocked over, and hot water had flowed out.

Some of the stone bowls still had traces of blood, and some cooked meat scraps could be found in the grass bed. Jiang Xiao wasn't sure if it was ape-ghost meat or the meat of wildling compatriots, but it was disgusting anyway.

Jiang Xiao walked out, and a thought flashed in his mind. He said, "This tunnel seems to have a lot of forks. Let's keep looking. Maybe this place is like a lovers' hotel?"

Xia Yan looked at Jiang Xiao, amused and annoyed, and said, "Do you think there are similar single rooms here?"

Jiang Xiao nodded heavily and said righteously, "Yes! We'll skewer all the couples!"

Li Weiyi took a step back subconsciously...