Chapter 133: Green-Skinned Monster

Bai Wan'er's head roared, dizziness overwhelming her mind as she stumbled backward.

"Can you play with me? I really want to join you." A little girl of only a few years old held a white cloth doll in her hands, looking at five or six children playing a game not far away, and said with envy.

The children playing the game gathered around the little girl. The little girl seemed somewhat nervous, gripping the white cloth doll in her hands tightly, but from her rosy complexion and expectant gaze, it was clear she truly wanted to join them in the game.

"We won't play with you. Mother said your father is a demon, and she doesn't let us play with a demon's child."

"That's right, that's right. Whoever plays with him will end up like his father—disappearing and going crazy."

"That's not right. I heard Da Niu from upstairs say you are a child without a father."

The children surrounding the little girl chimed in one after another, mocking her relentlessly. The anticipation in the little girl's eyes instantly dissolved into tears.

"No, no. It's not what you said. My father is a demon-slaying warrior. He's just fighting outside, and he will come back. Mother said so."

The white cloth doll in the little girl's hands had already fallen to the ground, and with tears welling in her eyes, she continued to protest.

"Demon girl."

"Demon girl, demon girl."

The children surrounding the little girl suddenly began to circle around her, enclosing her in the center while chanting "demon girl" over and over. At that moment, the tears in the corners of the little girl's eyes finally overflowed, and she burst into loud sobs.

"Senior sister, senior sister." Bai Wan'er opened her eyes again to find herself leaning in Wang Jiao's arms.

"I'm fine." Bai Wan'er already knew the answer she had known for a long time; it was just that her mother had always stubbornly believed that her father would return.

Bai Wan'er decided that upon returning this time, she would tell her mother the truth and let the mother, who had been tormented for more than twenty years, finally be freed from the Bai family.

Tian Xin also looked over at Bai Wan'er, seemingly wanting to ask what had happened just now, while Dao stood alone and silently under a distant tree, the ink blade in his hand having already vanished.

Bai Wan'er signaled to Tian Xin that she was fine, then asked, "Have those four-dimensional creatures shaken off?"

Tian Xin shook her shake, indicating that she wasn't quite sure either. "After your Purple Star Academy people brought us here earlier, we haven't encountered any more four-dimensional creature attacks, and Lang Xin hasn't detected any anomalies around here either. Perhaps the four-dimensional creatures have been left behind."

"It's also possible that we've come to a place where even the four-dimensional creatures that ambushed us dare not approach."

Ye Bai possessed an almost instinctive intuition for combat and an incredible premonition regarding danger. His increasingly chilly spine and the hairs on his arms that had stood on end more than once were all telling him that this place was far from safe.

As he spoke, Ye Bai turned around to look at Dao in the distance, expecting an explanation.

"That's right, I just lied to you—though you can't really call it a lie." Dao's answer was direct, so direct that the two girls couldn't fathom why he would do such a thing. Wouldn't this also lead himself into danger?

Ye Bai's expression didn't change much, as if Dao's reaction was within his expectations.

What kind of situation would make a hunter abandon its hard-earned prey? Unless the hunter suddenly became the prey itself.

"For four-dimensional creatures to give up chasing us... could there be beings here superior to the ones that pursued us just now, making even those creatures mere prey in this place?"

Dao retrieved the ink blade from some unknown space. At this moment, the ink-colored threads were gone from the blade, but it had turned even pitch-black, as if swallowing all the surrounding light.

"You're smart." Dao's gleaming eyes stared fixedly at Ye Bai. "You truly live up to being the opponent I chose. However, don't be too clever for your own good and end up dying by your own cleverness."

Almost in an instant, in the brief moment he locked eyes with Dao, Ye Bai felt as though he had returned to the time when he first met Dao, back to that isolated world where only the two of them existed.

"Lower-dimensional monsters find it difficult to quickly parse the structure of our world. When they attack, they only apply that minimal parsing to the specific body part they use for the assault."

Dao did not mention his master again. He now knew Bai Wan'er's identity; although his master had never spoken of it, he had once assumed his master's surname was Bai, and that the Bai family guard station in the northeast corner of Muyang City was his old home. He simply hadn't expected someone there to have been waiting for his master all along.

"I don't know the exact tier of the entities that exist here, but they should be of a higher level than the previous ones. They might have already completely parsed our world. If that's the case, dealing with them will be much easier for us."

As he spoke, the scenery before Dao's eyes suddenly shifted. The world began to collapse; the sky ceased to be azure blue and turned gray, twisting into a funnel shape.

From the gray, funnel-shaped sky, all sorts of monsters and demons continuously flew out—demons everywhere.

Every time his master spoke of this, his expression would be extraordinarily emotional, though it would soon turn into a sigh of regret that he was not born in that era.

"According to what you're saying, if four-dimensional creatures completely parse three-dimensional space, shouldn't they have an even deeper understanding of our space and become even more powerful? How could they be easier to deal with?"

Tian Xin didn't know what Dao's master had told him, but shouldn't a four-dimensional creature become even more formidable after parsing this world?

Dao glanced at her and continued, "Regardless of the dimensional space they originate from, unless the incoming monsters are powerful enough to assimilate the entire space, they have to submit to the rules of our three-dimensional space. All creatures, regardless of their rank, ultimately must obey spatial rules."

"And at that moment, they are no longer mysterious, invisible, or untouchable to us, forcing us into passive defense. At that time, we are equals."

Dao looked up at the endless trees stretching out before him. A leaf fell, followed by another, and then countless leaves descended from the sky. Amidst the falling foliage, several black shadows flashed continuously.

Dao's expression shifted slightly. He had long since sensed the monsters hiding in the trees, and he believed everyone present also knew something was lurking in the branches above.

In an instant, a black sword light from the ink blade slashed toward the shadows amidst the dancing leaves. The black blade light flickered with intermittent, weaving ink-colored threads that appeared and vanished.

As it turned out, the only thing that could scare away demons was another demon. Dao looked at the entangling ink threads on the ink blade and warned everyone, "Materialized demons."

As soon as his voice fell, various elemental powers carrying diverse battle skills assaulted the falling leaves in the sky. In an instant, the leaves still in mid-air were reduced to fine ash under the onslaught of elemental forces, and the four-dimensional creatures hidden among the foliage revealed their true forms.

Their entire bodies were dark green, as if assimilated by the color of the leaves. They held clubs the color of tree trunks, their faces ferocious, and the saliva at the corners of their mouths drawn into taut threads by the wind generated by their rapid descent.

"Goblins?" Tian Xin looked at the bizarre four-dimensional creatures in the sky, suddenly recalling that goblins were monsters that had only existed before the Dark Era.

The brown clubs met the oncoming elemental attacks head-on.

"Boom, boom-boom."

Airwaves rippled, and the elemental energy was shattered, dissolving back into elemental spiritual mist that re-integrated into the space. Several trees closest to the explosion center were snapped directly in half.

"Roar." Roars echoed from behind the elemental spiritual mist, and green liquid dripping from above sizzled upon hitting the ground, emitting corrosive sounds.

Ye Bai used *Fire Bodhi* to attack the four-dimensional creatures that had not yet landed. The *Fire Bodhi* caused virtually no damage to the sudden monsters appearing in the sky.

In his perception, the *Fire Bodhi*, which had already been compressed twice, was instantly annihilated from the inside by another, even more intensely compressed energy, causing him to lose contact with the fire elemental power in a fraction of a second.

A brown wooden club broke through the elemental mist and smashed straight toward Ye Bai's head, as if intending to blast his skull apart in a single blow.

Wielding the *Jinghong Blade*, wood elemental power surged, tempering a green energy shield over the blade. The two characters "Jinghong" on the blade seemed stimulated, glowing brightly, and immediately after, the first battle rune manifested on the *Jinghong Blade*.

"Clang." After the green-skinned monster's wooden club collided with the *Jinghong Blade*, it bounced back instantly like a rubber ball.

However, the immense kinetic energy brought by the green-skinned monster's descent, coupled with the unknown four-dimensional creature's strength, made the experience far from pleasant for Ye Bai.

Ye Bai had already exerted his utmost capability to block the green-skinned monster's assault. He had always gone all-out against unknown creatures; the unknown represented infinite possibilities, and infinite possibilities meant variables.

He had already tried his best to overestimate the four-dimensional creatures, but he still underestimated them slightly. A colossal force transmitted instantly from the *Jinghong Blade* into his arms. Ye Bai had originally thought that four-dimensional creatures who had parsed three-dimensional space would attack primarily using elemental powers like them.

Yet he hadn't expected the elemental power within the wooden club to be pathetically scarce—not belonging to any elemental power he knew—while its sheer physical strength was astonishingly massive.

The ground beneath his feet shattered instantly. Ye Bai could even feel the bones in his body groaning and cracking under the immense pressure as he retreated, slamming heavily against a nearby tree trunk with a dull thud.

Ye Bai took a deep breath, circulating the wood elemental power within his body rapidly between his bones to continuously repair the fractures.

"Is its strength really that great? Or is it four-dimensional force?" Leaning against the tree, Ye Bai didn't dare move again as he looked at the others.

Almost everyone wore a grim expression. Wang Jiao, in particular, had her knees bent and was kneeling on the ground. Around everyone, there was a deep footprint identical to his, making it clear that they had all suffered from the green-skinned monster's monstrous strength.

Among them, only Tian Xin appeared the most relaxed, with white energy constantly flickering between her palms and fists, her dark eyes fixed on the surrounding movements.

After launching its single strike, the green-skinned monster bounced back into the grass and vanished completely, just like the four-dimensional creatures encountered at the very beginning.

"Stop looking. Unless they take the initiative to attack, it's impossible for us to find them." Dao glanced at Lang Xin's pupil-eyed gaze and Tian Xin's guarded expression.