Chapter 1548: Chapter 22: Reunion with Sun Xitong

The strength of the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python wasn’t particularly overwhelming, roughly equivalent to the Seventh or Eighth Layer Heaven of the Creation Realm.

However, compared to these mercenaries, this Fierce Beast was far too powerful.

After all.

Among mercenaries, there were very few truly formidable cultivators.

Those cultivators with powerful cultivation disdained becoming mercenaries.

Casually finding a Great Force and serving as a Guest Officer earned far more than being a mercenary.

And they could live more freely and at ease.

And enjoy relatively higher status.

The status of mercenaries, in any World, was relatively low.

Now, under the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python’s attacks, these mercenaries were dying one after another, yet no one could withstand the beast.

Lin Feng was not a savior.

What’s more, he and this group of mercenaries were nothing but strangers passing by.

So Lin Feng had no intention of helping; he was just about to leave when he suddenly heard a shout.

"Retreat, retreat quickly..."

It was a woman’s voice.

When he heard this voice, Lin Feng felt a faint sense of familiarity.

He turned his head and saw a female cultivator in dark-purple Chain Armor and men’s clothing, heroic and valiant.

When he saw that female cultivator, Lin Feng was slightly stunned.

No matter what, he had never thought he would see this woman in a place like this.

Sun Xitong.

A woman he hadn’t seen in over a decade.

Back then.

The Ancient God Demon Battlefield opened.

Lin Feng and Sikong Zhaiyue entered the Ancient God Demon Battlefield together to temper themselves, and as they were entering, they were ambushed.

Someone wanted to kill Lin Feng and Sikong Zhaiyue and take their storage rings; the one who ambushed them was called Liuu Wuqing.

This man was injured by Lin Feng, so they became enemies. Later, Liuu Wuqing brought his Second Senior Sister Sun Xitong to seek revenge and wash away his humiliation, but they still couldn’t do anything to Lin Feng and were instead hunted down by him.

After capturing Sun Xitong, Lin Feng did not kill her.

Lin Feng had always been the type to pity fragrant jade, so he basically wouldn’t kill pretty female cultivators.

As for how he dealt with pretty female cultivators, everyone understood.

After that incident, Lin Feng never saw Sun Xitong again.

He hadn’t expected that after a separation of some twelve or thirteen years, he would actually see Sun Xitong once more.

The Sun Xitong of today was as beautiful as ever.

Only compared to before.

She now carried a more mature, seductive charm.

"So she actually survived that calamity..." Lin Feng’s mood was complicated.

Sun Xitong’s sect was also one of the sects in the northern Seventy-two States. Lin Feng wasn’t sure exactly which sect, but he guessed it should have been an Ancient Force–level sect.

In that great calamity, the northern Seventy-two States were almost turned into a Ghost Realm.

Those who survived.

Were extremely few.

For Sun Xitong to survive was naturally no easy thing.

Only now, Sun Xitong had become a mercenary.

It seemed likely that her sect had been destroyed, and to survive, she became a mercenary.

"Hoo..." At this moment, the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python opened its bloody maw and spewed out a sky full of flames.

The flames it spat turned into densely packed flaming Light spheres that smashed toward those mercenaries.

Bang bang bang...

Each flaming Light sphere blasted into the mercenaries; as the spheres exploded, many mercenaries were either killed or gravely wounded.

"Die!"

Seeing this scene, Sun Xitong shouted angrily, a short blade in each hand, and charged swiftly toward the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python.

"Captain, be careful!" many mercenaries cried out.

"Hurry and fall back." Sun Xitong said in a low, crisp voice.

The other mercenaries quickly retreated with the wounded.

Sun Xitong, meanwhile, rushed to the underside of the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python’s body, her short blades cutting toward its body.

But when the short blades sliced into the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python’s body.

Sparks flew in all directions.

Sun Xitong’s attacks simply couldn’t break through the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python’s defenses.

"Bang."

The giant python’s massive head swung violently.

It smashed directly into Sun Xitong’s body.

Sun Xitong was sent flying.

Her face went pale as paper.

Her body was still in midair.

The Nine-headed Flame Giant Python had already opened its bloody maw and was lunging to swallow Sun Xitong.

"Captain..."

Seeing this, many mercenaries’ eyes almost split open as they charged toward the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python.

But the python’s massive tail swept out violently.

In an instant.

Many mercenaries were swatted flying.

Those whose strength was slightly weaker were killed outright by that single blow.

Watching as the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python was about to swallow Sun Xitong in one bite.

Sun Xitong found she had nowhere to dodge; her face turned ashen, full of despair.

At this moment, Sun Xitong suddenly felt an arm wrap around her waist.

She turned her head and saw a man, his arm around her slender waist.

That man raised his left hand and traced out a strand of Sword Qi, and the powerful Nine-headed Flame Giant Python was directly slain.

Sun Xitong was shocked inside. This person’s strength was terrifying.

Only then did she come back to her senses and hastily push Lin Feng away.

"Looks like she didn’t recognize me."

Lin Feng’s brows lifted slightly.

What had happened in those years was already twelve or thirteen years in the past.

Lin Feng had gone from a youth to a young man.

His appearance had also changed.

Separated by over a decade, recognizing someone at a glance was not an easy task.

"All the better; that means one less entanglement." Lin Feng muttered to himself, and turned to leave.

"It’s you..." At this time, Sun Xitong’s voice trembled slightly.

Lin Feng stopped and turned his head to look at Sun Xitong.

Sun Xitong gazed at Lin Feng, her expression complicated.

She had indeed recognized Lin Feng. The moment she saw him, she’d felt a sense of familiarity; after thinking carefully.

Wasn’t this the very man she had been unable to forget for more than ten years?

What happened that day was something Sun Xitong could never forget in her lifetime.

She had once thought, countless times, of taking revenge and washing away her shame.

But as time passed, her hatred for Lin Feng seemed to grow weaker and weaker.

And when the calamity descended, her fellow disciples, elders, relatives... all died.

It was simply like the end of the world.

Sun Xitong escaped with great difficulty.

After that, to survive, she became a mercenary.

Every day, just to live, she racked her brains.

The hatred of the past had long since faded.

Perhaps only in the dead of night would she occasionally think of that man.

She would wonder whether he had already died in that great calamity.

Sometimes she even felt an intense sense of desolation.

This life of ours is truly filled with far too many uncertainties.

One never knows when disaster will descend.

Until this day, when Sun Xitong thought she would die miserably under the Nine-headed Flame Giant Python’s fangs, that man who had vanished for more than ten years appeared before her eyes.

Sun Xitong found that she felt no hatred; she even felt a bit of joy.

In the northern Seventy-two States, far, far too many people had died.

Being able to see that Lin Feng was still alive in this world, she felt that it was truly... wonderful.