"Tiance True Dragon, Mu Jinyu?"
Among the crowd, some like San Liu, Nameless, Lucifer, and Li Yaotong knew Mu Jinyu, the Dragon King from Dragon King Hall.
However, there were others like Ren Xiaoyao and Sheng Rulai, who had long been reclusive and unfamiliar with the leadership of Dragon King Hall; hence they were unaware of Mu Jinyu's identity.
"Amitabha, so the benefactor is the new Dragon King, I am honored,"
Sheng Rulai chanted a Buddhist phrase and greeted Mu Jinyu.
People like Ren Xiaoyao, sanctioned by Mu Jinyu's previously demonstrated strength, dared not mock them from Dragon King Hall anymore and nodded slightly at Mu Jinyu as a form of greeting.
Mu Jinyu also nodded at them, his gaze lingering a bit longer on Lucifer, Reinhardt, Le Le, and Li Yaotong.
Seeing they had no intention of starting a fight, he then turned to Jian Ruyan and asked, "By the way, I am here to find Ah-Xiang. Do you know where he is now?"
Upon hearing Mu Jinyu's words, Jian Ruyan's pupils involuntarily shrank slightly, and she desperately wanted to tell him about Xiang Mantang's plight and have Mu Jinyu rescue him.
But considering the crowd around, she suppressed the urge and shook her head at Mu Jinyu, "I'm not sure, he might have gone to do something."
"Oh," Mu Jinyu nodded slightly, his eyebrows faintly furrowing.
After awakening, Su Zijin and the others wanted him to spend more time with them and didn't mention Xiang Mantang's condition. However, he vaguely sensed something was amiss. After inquiring with Mu Hongchen, he learned that Xiang Mantang might be in danger, so he hurried over here.
But upon arrival, he only saw Jian Ruyan and a group of people holding a meeting; he was even bullied and didn't see Xiang Mantang. And just now, Jian Ruyan's expression was somewhat strange; he always felt that something might have truly happened to Xiang Mantang.
Could it be...
His awakening was related to the trouble at Xiang Mantang?
But if something truly happened to Xiang Mantang, he had no reason to feel a sudden impulse.
Maybe he was overthinking?
"By the way, what are you doing here?" Mu Jinyu suppressed his inquiry towards Jian Ruyan and asked what she was doing here.
Jian Ruyan said, "It's about the reasons for the changes in weather, and specific information about the chaos-causing demons."
As she spoke, she briefly relayed to Mu Jinyu the information about the demons that Li Yaotong had mentioned.
Of course, she did not omit any important details because, should anything happen to Mu Jinyu as a result, she would have been troubled by guilt.
"Such a thing has happened!"
Listening to Jian Ruyan's account, Mu Jinyu looked up at the dark mist swirling in the sky. Earlier, when the sun was shining brightly, he hadn't noticed these strange changes and thought the local weather was just harsh.
After hearing Jian Ruyan's overview, he vaguely felt that his awakening might not only be due to the effects of the jade pendant left by his mentor, but also related to these resurgent demons.
Upon awakening, Mu Jinyu discovered that the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was much denser than before.
He initially thought it was a memory disorder due to his long slumber and mistook his sensation.
But as time passed, he realized his senses were not mistaken. As he approached the source of the dark chaos, he felt even more distinct changes in the richness of the spiritual energy.
"Uh…"
At that moment, bursts of excruciating cries emerged, and everyone saw the burly Dante, clutching his waist, limping towards them.
Since it was unclear to Mu Jinyu that Dante had originally planned to assassinate Jian Ruyan, Mu Jinyu had not struck lethally during their encounters, merely teaching him a lesson.
As Dante limped closer to the crowd, his gaze filled with wariness towards Mu Jinyu, then he stopped in his tracks.
It wasn't that he was sincerely weak and utterly vanquished by Mu Jinyu; rather, after acquiring the werewolf bloodline, he naturally had its multitude of weaknesses.
As the saying goes, hard-headed with a tofu waist, this means the wolf's head is very hard, but its waist is like tofu dregs; once hit, it must kneel.
And Mu Jinyu struck him twice directly in his waist, coupled with the fact that he is not a true Divine Realm Warrior, which led to his embarrassing predicament.
Jian Ruyan turned to glance at Dante and sneered, "Now that our Dragon King is here, do you still dare to continue claiming that my memory has been tampered with by demons?"
"Oh?" Upon hearing Jian Ruyan's words, Mu Jinyu immediately understood why they had started fighting.
Initially, he thought Dante was just bullying Jian Ruyan, but now, knowing about the demons and the severity of the Tumult and the Tide of Chaos, he realized that Dante was not just bullying Jian Ruyan—he was truly preparing to kill her!
Saying outright that Jian Ruyan's memory had been altered by a demon was nothing but an act of revenge on the Dragon King Hall, seeing it was unguarded!
Mu Jinyu's gaze turned to Dante, filled with fury and intent to kill, he said deliberately:
"Originally, I was quite displeased with your Withered Tree Quest for Spring, trying to steal my Beauty Pill prescription under the guise of researching your Elixir of Immortality. Just now, I didn't kill you because I didn't want to completely break off relations with your Withered Tree Quest for Spring...but since you have decided to burn bridges, let me take you down a notch!"
"Dragon King, please calm down, do not strike!"
"Now, the overall situation must be a priority—we should avoid internal strife!"
Seeing that Mu Jinyu was about to seriously strike Dante down, someone stepped in to mediate.
Startled, Mu Jinyu turned around and, with a cold gaze, stared at Le Le from Paradise Lost and Li Yaotong from Omniscient and others, sneering, "What? When this guy was trying to kill my people, none of you stopped him, but now that I am about to retaliate, you come to mediate? Do you really think Dragon King Hall is easy to bully?"
He understood why everyone had such a fickle attitude—it wasn't because they were on good terms with Withered Tree Quest for Spring.
It was because Dante's strength was of the Pseudo Divine Realm, far more valuable than a Peak Energy Transformation Martial Artist like Jian Ruyan, and knowing the decline of Dragon King Hall, they did nothing previously when Dante attacked Jian Ruyan!
But now that he was about to kill Dante, a high-valued Warrior of the Pseudo Divine Realm might play an important role given the current situation...
So they preferred to risk offending Dragon King Hall just to save Dante!
In truth, this was simply because they looked down on Dragon King Hall. Otherwise, if Old Dragon King, Xiang Mantang, and other three Divine Realm Warriors were present, which one of them would dare to target Dragon King Hall openly?
Meanwhile, Mu Jinyu was confronting them.
On the other side, seeing that the situation was not in his favor, Dante immediately turned around and staggered, ready to flee the scene.
He knew that if he stayed any longer, he would probably die!
"Think you can escape?"
Mu Jinyu abruptly turned his head, staring at Dante, and started to chuckle coldly.
Although he had just been in a confrontation, that didn't mean he was not keeping an eye on Dante.
The moment Dante ran, he immediately ignored everyone else and chased after him!
"Dragon King, please, calm down!"
Someone tried to persuade Mu Jinyu to stop.
"Clang!"
Jian Ruyan drew her sword and the Curse Ice Phoenix Mark appeared on her brow again, ready to intervene.
With the Curse Ice Phoenix Mark activated, her strength reached the Divine Realm momentarily. Although she couldn't kill Dante, she could delay the others just long enough for Mu Jinyu to finish him off!
In an instant, Jian Ruyan was confronting Le Le and the others.
"Ahh!!"
And just as they were about to clash, Dante, who was trying to escape, had already been caught up to by Mu Jinyu, and his life was taken!