Supreme Sword Sovereign

"What?"

Gu Han was a bit slow to react.

Help?

Help with what?

With your cultivation level, do you really need the help of a monk at the Meridian Opening Realm?

"Young brother, you must help me!"

The young man repeated, this time with a hint of pleading in his tone.

"If someone asks, you mustn't say you've seen me, okay?"

"Absolutely mustn't say! My life's happiness depends on you!"

Whoosh!

As his words fell, he stirred up a gust of wind and ran off without a trace.

Happiness?

Gu Han was still bewildered.

What happiness?

"Young Master."

Ah-Sha quietly poked her head out.

"Who was that? Doesn't he want our spiritual herbs?"

"Forget about him!"

Gu Han quickly stowed away the spiritual herbs.

"This guy might be sick!"

"What does his happiness or unhappiness have to do with me!"

Of course.

He grumbled, but he didn't dare linger any longer. If that person came back and noticed the spiritual herbs in his hands, it would be a real loss.

He hoisted Ah-Sha onto his back.

He deliberately chose a direction opposite to that of the young man and ran wildly away!

...

About an hour later.

"Huff..."

Seeing that no one had followed, Gu Han let out a sigh of relief.

Good thing no one chased after us!

The previous fight with the demonic vine had already drained much of his energy, and now he had been running at full speed for so long. Even with his profound Spiritual Power, he felt tired.

"Young Master."

Ah-Sha wiped the sweat from his brow with concern.

"Shall we keep running?"

"No need."

Gu Han shook his head.

"Let's find a place to rest first, and then..."

"Roar!"

Suddenly!

A roar broke through the air!

A Demonic Beast!

And judging by the sound, this beast was no weakling!

Gu Han's heart tightened, and he immediately became alert, sword at the ready!

First the demonic vine.

Then that mysterious man.

And now a powerful beast.

It seemed...

Today was especially unlucky?

As he was thinking...

"Roar!"

Another roar.

With several towering ancient trees falling in succession, the silhouette of the beast came into view.

It resembled a wild boar.

Two zhang long, with a row of three-foot-long bone spurs on its back, gleaming coldly.

This Demonic Beast...

At least fourth order!

Gu Han's heart sank.

Fourth order, equivalent to a master of the Yuan Gathering Realm. Even in his best condition, he might not be able to win, let alone now with his cultivation level greatly depleted, his chances of victory were even slimmer.

"Young Master!"

Ah-Sha suddenly gripped him tightly.

"Let me do it!"

She could see Gu Han's caution and understood that this beast was no ordinary foe. And she had a hunch that if she used that indescribable ability, she could easily handle this beast.

"No!"

Gu Han decisively refused.

"Did you forget what I said? You just watch, I can handle it..."

Whoosh!

Before he could finish his sentence, the beast didn't even glance at them and charged straight ahead.

Gu Han was stunned.

Just now...

Did he see a hint of fear in the beast's eyes?

Swoosh!

Before he could think further, a sound of tearing through the air came!

A giant purple-gold hammer, two feet in diameter, fell from the sky and landed precisely on the beast!

Boom!

A loud noise!

Gu Han felt the ground beneath his feet tremble!

Looking again, a deep pit several zhang wide had formed not far away, and within the pit, the beast was smashed into a pile of mush by the purple-gold hammer.

"This..."

Gu Han's pupils constricted.

Boom!

Boom!

...

Before he could react, the ground shook again.

Then... an incredibly burly figure appeared in his line of sight!

Gu Han was dumbfounded.

Even Ah-Sha was stunned.

Thud!

Thud!

The figure beckoned, and the purple-gold hammer flew back into her hand. With two steps, she approached Gu Han.

"Kid!"

A deep, resonant voice came.

"Did you see someone pass by here, running very fast?"

Gu Han instinctively looked up.

He couldn't help but look up.

The figure was a full three heads taller than an ordinary person, with bulging muscles. Even the wide green shirt couldn't hide her robust physique. Just standing there, she exuded an immense sense of oppression.

Looking up further...

Gu Han was completely dumbfounded!

That burly body was topped with a woman's head, looking no different from an ordinary woman, even... somewhat delicate!

This...

Is a woman?

"What are you looking at!"

The female warrior seemed a bit embarrassed.

"I'm asking you, did you see that person or not?"

"No!"

Remembering the young man's plea, Gu Han shook his head as if possessed.

"Haven't seen anyone!"

"And you!"

The female warrior turned to Ah-Sha.

"No, no!"

Ah-Sha quickly hid behind Gu Han's back.

"I didn't see anything either!"

"Hmph!"

The female warrior didn't bother with them any longer, hoisting the purple-gold hammer onto her shoulder and growled fiercely, "Just you wait! Once I find you, I'll skin you alive!"

Boom!

Boom!

...

As her words fell, she took long strides away, disappearing quickly with a speed that belied her size.

After a long while.

The ground slowly stopped trembling.

Gu Han was speechless.

The day's events were hard to describe as either lucky or unlucky.

"Young Master."

Ah-Sha was still shaken.

"She..."

"Let's go!"

Gu Han didn't dare stay any longer.

If they didn't leave, they might encounter more bizarre people.

...

Late at night.

Inside a Demonic Beast cave.

The fire illuminated the cave as bright as day, and the cave's owner was being roasted on the fire, sizzling with oil.

"Huff..."

Gu Han exhaled a turbid breath and slowly opened his eyes.

Not only had his fatigue vanished, but his cultivation level had also improved slightly. The cost... was that he had used up quite a few Yuan Crystals.

Beside him.

Ah-Sha was eyeing the beast meat, her mouth gleaming.

"Hungry?"

Gu Han smiled and was about to take down the meat.

"It smells so good!"

Just then.

An abrupt voice came, and before Gu Han could react, a figure appeared inside the cave.

"Who!"

Gu Han tensed up, immediately standing up.

"It's you?"

The person.

It was the young man they had met during the day.

"Don't be nervous."

The young man gestured with his hand.

"I mean no harm, I just came to thank you for your help... cough cough, I'm here to thank you, little brother."

As he spoke.

He unceremoniously tore off a leg of the beast and began to feast.

"Ah, this beast meat is not bad when eaten occasionally."

Ah-Sha glared at him.

"You..."

Seeing that he didn't mean to attack, Gu Han relaxed a bit, but still kept his guard up.

"Why are you back?"

"Hehe."

The young man chuckled mischievously.

"This is called a feint to the east but attack in the west. You all thought I went deeper, but I never went far!"

With that.

He finished off the meat in his hand and reached out for more.

"That's mine!"

Ah-Sha couldn't hold back any longer and jumped out to protect her food.

"Cough cough..."

He awkwardly withdrew his hand.

"Little girl, why so stingy? There's so much meat, can you finish it all by yourself..."

"Young brother, you're quite something."

Perhaps to cover his embarrassment, he turned to Gu Han.

"That Purple Crystal Vine's poison mist, even a Yuan Gathering Realm person would suffer a great loss, yet you managed to come out unscathed. No wonder you dare to wander around the Barbaric Wilderness Forest with a little girl!"

Purple Crystal Vine?

Gu Han's heart sank.

He had been seen!

"Don't worry, I, Shen Xuan, wouldn't stoop to murder and robbery."

Gu Han felt a bit more at ease.

"That person... that person..."

He wanted to say 'young lady.'

But thinking of her muscular physique, he couldn't bring himself to say it.

"She... is she the one chasing you?"

"Yes!"

Shen Xuan's face showed grief and indignation.

"She's my junior sister!"

...

Gu Han was speechless.

A junior sister chasing her senior brother?

And threatening to skin him?

What kind of grudge was this, or were they both out of their minds?

"What does she want with you?"

"She..."

Shen Xuan looked at Gu Han deeply.

"Wants to marry me!"

Pfft!

Beside him.

Ah-Sha, who was devouring a leg of the beast, couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

"Sorry..."

"I didn't mean to..."

Her face was flushed, seemingly embarrassed.

...

Gu Han almost couldn't hold back either.

But his self-control was much stronger than Ah-Sha's, and he managed to suppress it.

Across from him.

Shen Xuan looked aggrieved.

At this point, Gu Han's hostility towards him lessened, and he even felt a bit of sympathy.

Putting himself in Shen Xuan's shoes, if such a muscular woman wanted to marry him forcefully, he would run ten times faster than Shen Xuan!

"You've had it tough..."

He didn't know how to comfort Shen Xuan.

"Isn't that the truth."

Shen Xuan looked pitiful.

"I can't beat her, so I can only run, sigh..."

Saying this.

He seemed to have been holding back for too long and began to pour out his woes to Gu Han.

"Young brother, you be the judge. Even if she and I were Childhood Sweethearts and mutually in love, she can't just force me to marry her. I, Shen Xuan, am a man of seven feet tall. How can I..."

"Wait!"

Gu Han felt dizzy.

Childhood Sweethearts?

Mutually in love?

"Do you... like her?"

"Of course, from the first moment I saw her, I fell for her. Hehe, actually, she feels the same!"

...

Gu Han wanted to say 'you're sick.'

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"If you both like each other, and she wants you to marry her, just marry her. Why hide from her?"

"Young brother."

Shen Xuan sighed.

"You might not understand. It's she who wants to marry me, not the other way around."

"She... marry you?"

Gu Han finally understood.

"Right!"

Shen Xuan's face was grave.

"A man born in this world, if he marries, it should be him marrying her, not going to the Murong Family as a son-in-law. Even if you kill me, I won't agree!"

...

Gu Han was sure now.

Shen Xuan was really sick.

And quite seriously so.

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Boom!

...

Suddenly!

The earth shook violently!

"Shen Xuan!"

That deep, resonant voice came again.

"You Bastard!"

"Making me go such a long way around, come out to me!"

...