Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

"Time is of the essence; you must depart overnight and get to this location."

Having said that, the chieftain pointed to a spot on the map.

Tang Wen stepped forward and examined it closely, discovering that even on the map, the distance was considerable.

"This... are we to walk the entire way?"

"Tiger Seven and Twenty-One will escort you both to the edge of our territory. Then, you must bypass several clans' war zones, enter the central region of the Qingluan territory, and retrieve the item."

Tang Wen nodded slowly: "Chieftain, may I ask what the item is?"

"An egg."

"A Qingluan egg?"

"Correct."

Tang Wen revealed an incredulous expression. You call this kind of mission a 'trial'?

This mission sounds like hell difficulty!

The Qingluan clan's overall strength, even if weaker than the White Tiger tribe, is only slightly so.

At most, they are short one or two Rank 4s.

The actual situation is hard to say.

It might even be stronger than the White Tiger tribe.

The more powerful the exotic beast, the harder it is to breed offspring.

This is especially true for Luan and Phoenixes.

They certainly won't be like wild boars in the mountains, which can have seven or eight piglets a year.

For high-rank Luan and Phoenixes, producing an egg once every ten years might be a luxury.

In short, breeding offspring is a major event for the entire Luan and Phoenix clan, and the Luan and Phoenix eggs will definitely be heavily protected.

There will definitely be Rank 4 experts personally guarding the incubation. How are we supposed to steal it?

Tang Wen didn't voice his question because Hu Lan squeezed his hand.

Out of trust for Lan'er, he didn't question it.

The Tiger tribe chieftain smiled: "Not every Luan and Phoenix egg can hatch. The dead eggs among them will be gathered under the Qingluan clan's sycamore tree. Note that the dead eggs can be used for medicine within a month of being retrieved, which is very important to our clan. You must pay attention to the time."

So we're going to steal dead eggs.

That's alright... alright my ass.

It's still full of danger!

"The phoenix dwells in sycamore trees, and that sycamore tree is also spiritual, so you must be careful. It's safer for one person to lure away the Rank 4 on the tree while the other goes to steal the eggs."

Tang Wen: ...

He really wanted to ask where the safety was!

However, he didn't act rashly. After considering it for a long time, he asked, "Has this mission been completed before?"

"Of course," the White Tiger chieftain smiled. "But it's easy not to come back."

"Are there any precedents for completing it without anyone dying?" Tang Wen asked anxiously.

"Yes."

Tang Wen was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard the chieftain say, "But the person was captured and never returned. It was the Holy Maiden who brought back the dead egg."

Tang Wen: "..."

Chieftain, is it still possible for me to give up on this mission?

Hu Lie smiled and took out a piece of black jade: "This is a charm left to you by Shadow King. If you are unfortunately caught by the Qingluan, it may save your life."

Tang Wen looked at Hu Lan and found that she wasn't worried at all, so he sighed and said, "Lan'er, when the time comes, you attract attention outside, and I'll go steal the egg."

Hu Lan remained noncommittal, only smiling gently.

"Aren't you worried about me?"

"Don't worry, Wen'er, I won't let you die."

"Your comfort is pale and weak." Tang Wen twitched his lips. "I will protect you."

Tang Wen knew there must be something fishy about this, but he didn't know what it was.

Hu Lie said a few more words and then personally saw them out.

Two white tigers were lying at the door, basking in the sun. The spirited one was Tiger Seven, and the lazy one was Tiger Twenty-One.

"Chieftain!"

"Yes, you can prepare to depart!"

"Yes."

Tang Wen cheered up, bid farewell to Hu Lie, and rode on Ah Qi's back.

Hu Lan was stunned and looked at Tiger Twenty-One on the ground.

Originally, Ah Qi was her mount and partner, but she had temporarily lent it to Tang Wen. She didn't expect that Tang Wen wouldn't return it now.

Seeing Hu Lie return to the cave, Tiger Twenty-One stopped pretending and turned into a kitten, jumping into Tang Wen's arms.

Hu Lan was stunned.

"Come on! Lan'er! We're running out of time."

Tang Wen patted the space in front of him.

Hu Lan suppressed the shyness in her heart and sat up.

Tang Wen immediately picked up Tiger Twenty-One and threw it aside, hugging the beauty in front of him, their faces very close.

Hu Lan's cheeks were slightly red, and she quietly distanced herself from him: "Until we return."

"Return? Lan'er, with such a dangerous mission, do you think we can return? I think we'll be eaten as snacks! Why don't we elope!"

Hu Lan laughed.

"Lan'er—" a dissatisfied voice.

Tiger Seven took off, and Tiger Twenty-One squatted behind Tang Wen, sulking, and raised its little paw to gesticulate at his back.

"Don't worry too much," Hu Lan continued: "We have an agreement with the Qingluan clan."

Tang Wen was surprised: "Didn't you say that the races of the Ten Thousand Mountains have a covenant from ancient times? Who is an ally and who is an enemy is predetermined. Could it be that the Qingluan are not our opponents?"

Hu Lan smiled: "It's true that they are opponents, but we, as one of the strongest races, don't want to fight each other to the death."

"There's room for cooperation?"

"Yes. Our trial."

Tang Wen suddenly understood: "You mean, even if we are caught, we won't die?"

"You will die."

Tang Wen tightened his arms around her, disappointed, and said, "Then what are we talking about? Ah Qi, turn around, let's elope!"

Hu Lan found it funny: "Their Rank 4s won't attack."

"Hmm?!" Tang Wen's eyes flashed.

Hu Lan: "Both sides have an understanding."

After speaking, she took out a few fine, downy feathers of cyan and crimson intermingled from the air stone. Not afraid of them being blown away by the wind, she simply held them in her palm.

"This is?" Tang Wen took it, and his palm sank.

"It's quite heavy."

Hu Lan said with a smile: "Qingluan's wing down. When the time comes, wear it close to your body, and the Rank 4s will naturally not attack."

"Are you sure?"

"It has always been so."

Tang Wen was worried: "What if I don't bring it? Can I get close to the sycamore tree?"

Hu Lan turned around, her beautiful face without a trace of a smile, pursing her lips and saying: "That sycamore tree is ten thousand meters high. It is a Rank 4 divine tree and has spirituality. For the Qingluan clan, it is even more important than our main peak. Generally, there are two or three Rank 4s sitting on it, and the divine tree itself also has abilities."

"I understand. This down is a token. Without it, even the tree might kill me."

"Yes, we must be careful not to be discovered by the Qingluan clan's Rank 5s, although that is difficult."

Tang Wen was thoughtful.

Hu Lan sat up straight and continued: "Rank 5s will kill us. Even if we are captured alive, there will be no good end. I'm fine, I might be used to exchange for supplies. You, on the other hand, might be in a very bad situation."

Speaking of this, she frowned.

"My master is the Shadow King, and that won't work either?"

Hu Lan shook her head: "No, it won't work."

"I understand. I won't be caught."

"Tell me about the previous actions. What was the success rate of our predecessors?"

Hu Lan was silent for a while: "Heavy casualties."

Tang Wen: "..."

Seeming to feel that she had said something unlucky, she changed her statement: "Dead, crippled, injured."

Tang Wen: "..."

So, there wasn't a single one who lived well?

Hu Lan: "Uh, in short, you attract attention outside, I go in to steal things, and I will send you a signal when I succeed."

"Nothing will happen if you are caught?"

"No."

Tang Wen: "Hehe, Lan'er, do you believe that yourself? Twenty-One, tell me what will happen if we are caught."

"Don't... um!"

Tang Wen moved his hands up and covered her red lips.

Tiger Twenty-One did not react. Tang Wen urged her again and again, before she reluctantly said: "If you two are caught, you will be taken to have children."

"What?!"

Tang Wen doubted his ears.

"You heard it." Tiger Twenty-One refused to say more.

Tang Wen was stunned for a while, then forcibly turned Hu Lan's shoulders to face him: "Is what she said true?"

The great beauty guiltily looked away.

"Hmph! Then you stay on the outer perimeter of the territory and don't go."

"Only I can wear the White Jade Gauze Robe."

"What do you mean?"

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"Wearing it can make you invisible and hide you from Rank 5s."

"Only one piece?"

"That's right."

Tang Wen: "I don't need it, I know invisibility techniques."

"Your invisibility techniques can't hide you from Rank 5 Peak."

"Hehe." Tang Wen thought for a while: "Then let's make a bet. We'll both become invisible and see if you can find the invisible me or if I can find the invisible you."

"Okay. If you lose, you have to listen to me during the mission."

Tang Wen smiled: "If you lose, not only do you have to listen to me during the mission, but you also have to agree to one of my requests."

Hu Lan thought for a while: "Okay, let's compare when we rest. However, in order to better simulate the situation we are about to face, we should have one person become invisible and the other use methods to find them. Moreover, if we can't find each other in a quarter of an hour, we lose. If neither of us can find each other, we'll act together."

Tang Wen: "Okay, considering the real environment, we can't run too far after we become invisible."

"Of course."

"Let Ah Qi be our referee."

"Okay. You can compare when I want to rest." Tiger Seven felt sorry for Hu Lan for a long time.

After flying at full speed for a day, Tiger Seven's speed slowed down.

In order to catch Hu Lan off guard, Tang Wen did not use concealment techniques along the way.

"We are about to leave the territory, and we can't send you any further."

Tang Wen woke up sleepily: "Okay, I will compete with Lan'er here. Sister Seven, you be the referee. This is the battle where I establish my family status."

The two then stood on a cliff.

It was overgrown with withered trees and weeds, with rugged rocks and deep crevices. A slight carelessness could cause one to fall.

Hu Lan smiled slightly: "Should I go first?"

"Okay. Do you want me to close my eyes?"

"Haha, that's—not impossible." Hu Lan sensed his confidence. Thinking that he had been taught by Shadow Tiger, he might have been taught some very powerful concealment techniques, so she prepared to strike first.

"Alright." Tang Wen spread his hands and closed his eyes.

Ten seconds later, he opened his eyes, and Hu Lan was gone.

Tang Wen had not seen the White Tiger Gauze Robe, but his mental power swept over it, and there were no flaws. A mountain was a mountain, and a tree was a tree.

Nothing extra had been added to the scene before him.

He vibrated a large area with his mental power.

He did not sweep up Hu Lan either.

Looking at the experience panel, he felt that he did not have any effective way to break the invisibility.

To be precise, there were no means to break the invisibility without hurting people.

Divine Ability Blade Technique or a meteorite falling from the sky, these great killing moves were really not suitable for use on Hu Lan.

Then, there was only the concealment technique.

Tang Wen's mind moved, and the entire cliff disappeared in Tiger Seven's eyes.

Pseudo Divine Ability - Dimensional Concealment.

He had been poured a lot of wine yesterday and had no time to study it. After the concealment technique was upgraded to a new level, it was the first time he had used it.

Everything in front of him was still clear, but it was like looking at people through a clean piece of glass, as if he was not in the same space.

In his perception, the entire cliff was normal, except for a position directly above a certain stone, which was a little uncoordinated.

On closer inspection, it seemed as if there was a figure there.

Hu Lan was shrouded in Tang Wen's concealment technique and did not feel anything. She only kept turning her head to look around, wanting to see where Tang Wen had gone.

Tang Wen gently came behind her and put his hand on her shoulder: "Honey, I found you!"

Scare!

Hu Lan was startled, her shoulders shook, and she almost launched an attack directly.

"You! How did you do it?"

"Hehe. You lost, it's your turn to find me! Let me remind you, it only took me half a minute to find you just now."

Hu Lan adjusted her mood and calmed down before saying: "I will use a range attack. A continuous wind will cover the entire cliff. You have to be careful. You must take the initiative to show yourself if you can't hold on."

"Don't worry."

It was Hu Lan's turn.

The mountain wind, which had only been shaking the branches, instantly became violent.

Gale Crossing—

Accompanied by mental shock.

Tang Wen, in Dimensional Concealment, did not feel even a trace of wind.

The gale swept away the boulders, broke the big trees, swept across everything on the cliff, and even lifted a layer of the rock surface.

All of this happened before his eyes, but it had nothing to do with him.

He was like an observer or spectator in another dimension.

"Wen'er, you didn't leave the cliff, did you?" Half a minute passed, and Hu Lan stopped.

The cliff became clean and tidy, and the ground was as flat as if it had been carved from a whole piece of stone.

"No, I'm right in front of you." Tang Wen showed himself on the ground, as if he had never left.

"How did you do it?"

"You lost. The mission will be under my command."

"Listen to me, this mission is extraordinary."

Tang Wen looked at her without moving.

Hu Lan smiled helplessly: "Okay, it looks like you are better at concealment than me, so you will go under the sycamore tree. I will attract attention."

When the time comes, I will make a bigger commotion.

Tang Wen shook his head: "It seems you still don't know how powerful your husband is. Come, stand over here, I will take you into invisibility together."

"You can take people into invisibility?"

"Of course, everyone I've taken says it's good." Tang Wen looked back: "Someone's coming."

After speaking, he concealed the entire cliff.

"It's our Rank 5 patrol team. They probably heard the commotion just now."

Three people and three tigers came to the top of the cliff:

"Here, when I came to patrol yesterday, it seemed to be a cliff, right? Why is it gone now?"

"The commotion just now sounded like one of our own acted."

"I saw several figures through the telescope, how did they disappear in the blink of an eye?"

"..."

Tang Wen grabbed Hu Lan's hand and quietly retreated, the concealment spell was mostly dispelled, and the cliff reappeared!

"Who's there?!"

"This?"

The patrol team was extremely shocked.

The vanished cliff had reappeared.

What kind of trickery is this?

Attack!

Three people and three tigers, six fifth-rank experts, attacked together towards the front.

Tornado, Gale Assault, Sky-Piercing Line...

Area-of-effect attacks, mental shocks, White Tiger's Roar to the Heavens, and the mysteries of wind appeared simultaneously.

Hu Lan was startled and immediately wanted to stop them, but Tang Wen put his arm around her waist.

She could only watch helplessly as all the attacks passed right in front of them.

The two people and two tigers were completely unscathed.

Hu Lan's eyes showed even more astonishment—that wave just now clearly enveloped her, how could this be?

Tang Wen smiled slightly: "You are completely ignorant of your husband's power."