The Golden Armor Mantis, which had been so fierce just moments ago, was now like a lifeless fish, unable to move. The disparity was truly shocking.

“Fortunately, I made it in time.”

Under Xen Kai’s incredulous gaze, Blaze Regret let out a sigh of relief, a faint smile appearing on his face.

From the moment the Golden Armored Mantis appeared, he had been prepared. Thankfully, he managed to save Yun Suhaila at the last moment. However, what he hadn’t expected was that Xen Kai would push a girl out as a shield in a life or death situation, an act he found utterly disgraceful.

“So, this guy had been hiding his strength all along.” Muk Karthik shook his head with a bitter smile. It turned out he had misjudged from the beginning. Who could have imagined that the small spirit warrior from the Atlas Shop would have advanced so quickly?

After a while, Yun Suhaila snapped back to reality, a trace of bitterness appearing on her delicate face. She hadn’t expected that the one who would save her in the end would be the very boy she had always mocked and ridiculed.

“Brother Blaze Regret, thank you very much this time.”

Having swiftly dealt with the sixth rank Dominator Mantis, Yun Anuar walked over with large strides and gratefully clasped his hands towards Blaze Regret. If it weren’t for this young man, his daughter would have been lost to him forever.

“It was nothing, really,” Blaze Regret replied with a smile.

Looking at Blaze Regret’s warm smile, Yun Suhaila felt momentarily lost. To him, saving her life must have indeed been a trivial matter.

Thinking of this, Yun Suhaila couldn’t help but feel a twinge of bitterness in her heart.

“Xen Kai, are you even a man? Using a girl as a shield?” Muk Karthik strode over, angrily glaring at Xen Kai, the veins in his neck bulging.

“I…”

Xen Kai was at a loss for words. Seeing the look of disappointment in Yun Suhaila’s eyes, he felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. At the same time, a deep resentment towards Blaze Regret arose within him, a cold killing intent quietly spreading in his eyes.

“If you could kill the Golden Armored Mantis, why didn’t you act sooner?” Xen Kai asked angrily, looking at Blaze Regret.

“Hey, get your facts straight. My Blue Flame Demon Cat is only at the fourth rank. It barely reached the fifth rank after using Flame Breath. Do you think that doesn’t take time to prepare? Moreover, the Golden Armored Mantis was attacking you first. Do I have an obligation to save you?” Blaze Regret retorted with a cold smile.

Under Blaze Regret’s barrage of questions, Xen Kai’s face turned pale, his eyes bloodshot, but he couldn’t find any reason to argue back.

“Crack!”

In front of the giant tree, the Blue Flame Demon Cat quickly withdrew its claws, blood splattering. The Golden Armored Mantis twitched a few times on the ground before its life completely faded away.

Even though the Red was only at the fourth rank, after using Flame Breath and with claws strengthened by the Blazing Blade Flower, it was enough to tear through the body of a sixth rank spirit beast. Not to mention, the Golden Armored Mantis’s carapace had already been bombarded by the Blue Flame Demon Cat’s fire.

After extracting the spirit core of the Golden Armored Mantis, the Blue Flame Demon Cat entered a state of Cat illusion and trotted back to Blaze Regret’s side.

“Alright, let’s go.”

Yun Anuar cast a glance at Xen Kai, suppressing the urge to kill him with a single slap. He then turned around and left the area without looking back.

Muk Karthik snorted coldly, ignoring Xen Kai. As they walked, he began to speak excitedly, “I never expected you to improve so quickly. The first time we met, you were just a low rank spirit novice. I never thought that now, you would surpass me.”

Blaze Regret smiled and discreetly placed the spirit core of the Golden Armored Mantis into the Void realms Stone. This was his first encounter with a metal attribute spirit beast, and he wondered what other attribute spirit beasts he might discover in the future.

The group slowly made their way through the forest. After the recent events, the atmosphere became unusually heavy. Except for the excited Muk Karthik and Blaze Regret, who occasionally responded with a few words, no one else was willing to speak.

Yun Suhaila carefully sprinkled powder from a packet onto the wound of the Wind Scythe Bird, her beautiful eyes occasionally glancing at Blaze Regret. Noticing that he never looked her way, she suddenly felt a sense of emptiness.

This was the first time she had been so completely ignored.

Sighing softly, Yun Suhaila regretted her earlier actions against Blaze Regret. If it weren’t for that, she wouldn’t be in a situation where she couldn’t say a word to him now.

What she didn’t know was that Blaze Regret simply didn’t feel like talking, and as for holding grudges, he couldn’t be bothered.

“Walk straight for two hundred meter, then turn left. There seems to be something interesting there.”

As Blaze Regret was casually chatting with Muk Karthik, the light laughter of Master Magi suddenly rang in his ear.

A gleam flashed in Blaze Regret’s eyes. He nodded slightly, about to come up with an excuse to turn the group to the left when Yun Anuar, at the front, suddenly stopped.

“Shh!”

Yun Anuar turned to the group and made a gesture, then cautiously took a few steps forward. He parted the branches of a low bush, revealing a scene that instantly silenced everyone.

In the midst of the surrounded trees, countless Overlord Mantis were scurrying about. Piles of blood soaked spirit beast corpses lay on the ground, resembling a small mountain.

The blood had stained the surrounding ground red.

Gently lowering the branch, Yun Anuar pointed to the left and quietly began to move in that direction.

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