Chapter 17: Request from Haotian Sect Disciples
In the sunset forest.

There was a group of people running quickly, looking back from time to time while running. Among them was a carriage being protected by them.

Not far behind them, a dozen soul beasts were quickly moving towards them. The youngest of these soul beasts was two thousand years old, and there were even two ten thousand year old soul beasts. The strongest of the dozen or so people escaping was a fifty-sixth level Soul King.

They also didn't expect that they would be attacked by soul beasts on the way back.

"No, if this continues, we will all be stuck." The leading Soul King of Haotian Sect was very anxious. They simply couldn't get rid of these soul beasts.

Suddenly, the ground in front collapsed, and a pangolin-like soul beast emerged from the ground.

"Oh no, it's a five thousand year old pangolin."

The pangolin is best at digging holes and has extremely strong defensive capabilities.

The huge pangolin beast blocked their way. Two disciples of Haotian Sect waved the black hammers in their hands and attacked without hesitation to fight with the pangolin beast. However, at this time, the soul beast chasing from behind had also caught up with them.

In a hurry, the soul king of Haotian Sect said to a female disciple: "Tang Lin, take the young lady away, we will hold back these soul beasts."

"Yes." The female disciple bowed and then drove away from the road beside. There was no other choice but to take this road, as it led to the depths of the Sunset Forest, which was exactly the opposite of their route.

But now this is the only way to go.

The carriage sped towards the depths of the Sunset Forest. Tang Lin waved the whip in his hand frantically to whip the horse, hoping that this would make the horse go faster.

However, not long after they ran out, a ghost tiger suddenly jumped out from the bushes and crashed into the carriage, overturning it.

The carriage was overturned heavily to the ground, and Tang Lin, who was driving, was caught off guard and flew out and hit a tree.

He stood up, ignoring the pain in his body, and walked to the carriage. He opened the door and saw a beautiful girl in a silver dress lying inside in a not-so-graceful posture.

After pulling the girl out, Tang Lin protected her behind him and released his martial soul. Three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, moved rhythmically around his body.

Not far away, the ghost tiger stared at the two of them fiercely. In its eyes, the two were just like prey. Tang Lin stared at the ghost tiger. If it weren't for the need to protect the girl behind her, she would have rushed up to fight with the ghost tiger.

This is the Sunset Forest, and we don’t know how many soul beasts there are.

The protected girl was in pain all over at the moment. She was not as strong as those soul masters.

The ghost tiger observed for a while and confirmed that there was no threat here, so it let out an angry roar towards the sky.

"Roar!"

Then, it pounced towards the two of them.

"Run." After saying that, Tang Lin rushed forward with the Clear Sky Hammer tightly clenched in both hands.

The girl knew that it was pointless to stay here and it would only add to the burden, so she turned around and continued to run towards the depths of the forest.

After half an hour.

Di Hong followed the traces along the way and found his way here.

In front of him, there were corpses lying on the ground, including soul beasts and disciples of the Haotian Sect.

At this time, he saw a disciple of the Haotian Sect lying under a tree covered in blood. He went over to check and found that the disciple was still alive, but dying.

Just when Di Hong was thinking about whether he could save him, the disciple suddenly opened his eyes, staring at Di Hong with a gleam of light in his eyes.

"Who are you?" he asked in a forced voice.

Di Hong said calmly: "I am not a nobody. I just found a lot of corpses when I passed by, so I came here. People are curious."

"You are from the Haotian Sect, right?" Although there were so many corpses, for some reason, Di Hong did not feel the slightest discomfort, nor did he feel nauseous. Instead, he did not care at all, as if he was used to seeing corpses. Even the pungent smell of blood did not affect him.

However, he actually smelled a faint fragrance amidst the bloody smell in the air.

"Yes." The man said with his dying breath.

"Do you need me to save you?"

"No need. I won't live much longer." The man shook his head, his breath becoming weaker and weaker.

There were several deep scars on his body that were deep enough to see the bones. The longest one went directly from the abdomen to the chest, and there were even several places that were pierced.

As if he knew he was about to die, he pointed in a direction, and that direction was where the carriage had escaped before.

"I'll ask you to find our young lady and send her back to the Haotian Sect. The Haotian Sect will be grateful to us."

After saying this, before Di Hong could ask anything, he took his last breath.

With a sigh, Di Hong stood up and bowed slightly to him. He didn't take it to heart just now, but now he understood why these soul beasts were chasing these people.

The faint fragrance mixed with the smell of blood in the air is specifically used to lure soul beasts. Obviously, someone has plotted against these people from the Haotian Sect. It is no wonder that so many soul beasts appeared on the outskirts of the Sunset Forest. It seems that someone has lured them here.

Looking in the direction where the carriage fled, he was still a little hesitant. Logically, he shouldn't care about such things. Who knows if there is any danger here? So many people from the Haotian Sect died, including a Soul King. He was only a Soul King of level 53.

Sometimes, if you don't seek death, you won't die.

But when he thought of the pleading look in the eyes of the Haotian Sect member before his death, he felt a little embarrassed to not go. Besides, it would be a waste not to earn favors from the Haotian Sect. After all, it was the number one sect in the world.

However, it seems that these people are not all direct disciples of the Haotian Sect, some of them are from side branches.

After hesitating for a moment, he made his choice.

After being possessed by the martial spirit, he flapped the red wings on his back and flew in the direction of the escaping carriage. Following the traces on the road and relying on his own flying speed, he quickly caught up with the carriage.

Looking at the carriage below, and then at the bodies of Tang Lin and a ghost tiger not far away, they looked like they had just died. They must have fought to the end and both died together.

"I'm late?"

The carriage had been destroyed, and there were only two corpses around: a man and an animal.

After landing, he searched around but didn't find any useful clues. Just when he thought the person was dead, he found traces of crushing in a bush, and he also found footprints. Most importantly, he smelled a faint fragrance, the same one he smelled before.

After following the traces for a few minutes, he found a sachet dropped on the ground.

He picked up the sachet and brought it close to his nose to smell it, confirming that it was the fragrance of the sachet that attracted the soul beast. However, this fragrance was mixed with other spices, and one could not smell it at all if one did not smell it carefully. But soul beasts were different, their sense of smell was much sharper than that of humans, and they would definitely be able to smell it.

"Roar!"

The tiger roars in the mountains and the birds fly away in fright.

A tiger roar came into my ears. Although it was far away, it was very clear.

Di Hong immediately rushed towards the place where the tiger's roar came from.

In a cave.

The girl from before hid here. Now she was in a miserable state, her fitted long skirt was torn and her body had many scratches.

At this point, she had no way to escape.

(End of this chapter)