Jia Qian's pet snake had been specially refined with venom. Against an average person, it was enough to kill them instantly. In terms of lethality, her snake was the strongest in the association.
"Let's go!"
Jia Qian and Zhao Ying took care of each other and escaped immediately.
However, they were surrounded by the Grassy Continent's soldiers, so they immediately reacted and surrounded them. Not long after, the two of them were cut off and surrounded by over a dozen ferocious beasts. Behind them were the Grassy Continent's soldiers with murderous looks on their faces.
"Hurry up and save the captain!"
A soldier shouted. On the other side, someone had already saved the boorish man who had been bitten by the snake and fed him a special antidote.
The Grassy Continent was a dangerous place to begin with. There were all sorts of poisonous creatures around, so the people of the Grassy Continent always carried antidotes with them. They were especially well-prepared and experienced in dealing with snake venoms.
The soldiers worked together to feed him medicine, cut open the wound to let out the poisoned blood, applied the medicine, and poured a strange and pungent medicine into his mouth. After all this, the Grassy Continent soldier actually woke up.
A wave of obscenities and curses followed.
With a bandage around his neck, the soldier glared at Jia Qian and Zhao Ying with bloodshot eyes. He covered his wound with one hand and held a knife in the other. He walked towards Jia Qian and Zhao Ying with a murderous aura.
"Get out of the way! I'm going to skin these two girls alive!" The soldier was incomparably sinister.
Jia Qian and Zhao Ying, who were already surrounded and had no chance of escaping, looked at each other. They knew that they were doomed today.
The two of them had just snatched a knife. At this moment, Zhao Ying first glanced at Jia Qian, took the knife, and directly slashed at her own neck.
He would rather die than be humiliated.
At that moment, however, a long sword flew out of nowhere and cut the long saber in Zhao Ying's hand in half.
Zhao Ying's hand was empty. She looked down and saw only the hilt of the saber.
The incision was neat.
When he looked again, he saw a sword hovering in front of her.
The body of the sword was long and slender, carrying with it a refreshing charm, but also a strange demonic aura. These two things were originally like light and darkness, water and fire, they would not appear at the same time, but now they actually merged into one, very harmonious.
Apart from that, it was his aura.
It was such a sword, but it gave off the feeling that it could cut down an army with a single slash.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Sword Qi soared to the sky.
"What the hell is this?!"
On the other side, the Grassy Continent soldier was in a fit of rage. He could not afford to waste even a second, so he swung his saber and slashed down. In the end, a sword light flashed, and the Grassy Continent soldier, who had just escaped death, was sliced in two along with his saber.
No one could see how the sword had slashed out, because from the beginning to the end, it had been hovering there, motionless.
The Grassy Continent Army was thrown into chaos.
Just at this moment, a figure landed on a fiery cloud. When Zhao Ying and Jia Qian saw this person, they immediately burst into tears.
This person was none other than Lin Jin.
From afar, Lin Jin had noticed the situation. Due to the urgency of the situation, Lin Jin had no choice but to release the Breezy Sword to stop Zhao Ying from committing suicide.
Fortunately, he made it in time.
"That's good."
Lin Jin comforted her before turning to look at the girls' pet beasts. With a wave of his hand, Zhao Ying's pangolin and Jia Qian's white snake came crawling over.
"You two, take good care of your masters. Send them back to Jade Dragon City!" Lin Jin extended a finger and tapped on the pangolin and white snake's foreheads respectively.
In an instant, the two pet beasts emitted waves of energy. The power of the five elements wreaked havoc and the crisp sound of their bones transforming could be heard, like the crackling of firecrackers.
In just a few breaths' time, the two pet beasts had leveled up.
Rank 4!
A single finger had leveled up to Rank 4.
Everyone at the scene stared with their eyes and mouths agape, their hearts filled with great astonishment.
After all, everyone knew that the phenomenon of a pet beast leveling up to Rank 4 wasn't fake. This was clearly a sign of a pet beast reaching Rank 4. But the problem was, it was too simple.
With just a simple tap, this man managed to level up a Rank 3 pet beast to Rank 4 like he was turning a rock into gold.
It was ridiculous.
And terrifying.
To the average person, this was a miracle.
The Grassy Continent natives weren't the only ones who were stunned speechless. Even Zhao Ying and Jia Qian, who were probably familiar with Lin Jin, had their eyes wide open and their minds blank.
Both of them were beast appraisers after all. Although they had yet to obtain official beast appraiser qualifications, their beast appraising skills were already at the level of a Rank 1 beast appraiser, if not better.
In other words, both of them were professionals. Unlike the laymen, they knew the principles behind beast appraising and pet beast evolution.
In other words, while Lin Jin's skill was amazing and unbelievable, both of them knew that the evolution of pet beasts was still the same. In other words, even Lin Jin, who was widely acknowledged as one of the best beast appraisers in Middle Earth, had to follow the rules if he wanted to evolve a pet beast.
Everything had to be done step by step, and not a single one could be omitted.
Lin Jin's ability to promote a pet beast with a single tap meant that his appraisal skills had reached the level where he could understand the details with just one look. Also, that tap just now must have been mixed with something that could help a pet beast evolve. He could instantly adjust and even reconstruct the pet beast's meridians, and in an instant, he accomplished something that other beast appraisers would take months to prepare.
Of course, the beast appraiser had to know the corresponding pet beast's evolution method.
All in all, this amazing feat was nothing short of a miracle.
"Master Lin!"
"Greetings, Master Lin!"
It was only then that the two of them snapped out of their shock, surprise, and delight. They immediately greeted Lin Jin.
Lin Jin waved them off. "You guys head to the royal capital first. I'll go look for the others."
Zhao Ying's heart skipped a beat. She quickly told Lin Jin what she and Jia Qian knew and the results of their analysis.
Lin Jin frowned but didn't say anything.
If what Zhao Ying said was true, then it was fine. Since the enemy was here for him, there was no need for Lin Jin to hide, especially now that he was invincible in Middle Earth.
Why hide?
If there was anything, he could just face it head-on. He didn't even have to resort to tactics.
With absolute strength, Lin Jin could crush everything. In the past, this wouldn't have been possible when Lin Jin wasn't strong enough. But now, Lin Jin had the ability. With strength, he could do whatever he wanted.
"Go!"
At Lin Jin's command, the two Rank 4 pet beasts immediately carried their respective masters away. None of the surrounding Grassy Continent soldiers dared to stop them.
They were all subdued by Lin Jin's aura. At the same time, the 'immortal sword' hovering in the air exerted immense pressure on them.
It was as if if anyone dared to move, they would end up like the squad leader just now. Their heads would roll to the ground.
But if they didn't move, Lin Jin would. And Lin Jin's next move was going to be huge.
"Citizens of Maple City, go home. I'll kill anyone who dares to stop me!"