The longer they spent together, the more the fourth-level Warrior-Grade Demon Hunt Squad felt the gap between themselves and the twenty-first-level General-Grade Demon Hunt Squad. The dual-core couple, Long Haochen and Caier, continued to play the role of a stabilizing force. The other members also demonstrated their respective powerful abilities. More importantly, they were united.

The entire slaughtering process only took ten minutes. Long Haochen didn’t let a single enemy escape. The last Great Demon Knight died from the Holy Spirit Sword he threw out in a desperate move. And from the looks of it, Long Haochen still had plenty of energy to spare. The Light Elemental Spirit, Yating, had also been dutifully helping him recover.

Without removing Caier from his back, Long Haochen shook off the blood from his pair of heavy swords and strode back to the cave entrance with Haoyue.

Long Haochen didn’t have any powerful group healing magic, but that didn’t mean Haoyue couldn’t. A Holy Light Illumination skill instantly filled every corner of the cave.

“Everyone, get ready. I’ll clean up the battlefield, and we’ll leave here as soon as possible.” Long Haochen’s voice was a little hoarse. After saying this, he turned and walked out, collecting the corpses of the Great Demon Knights and Nightmare Demon Horses into the Eternal Melody.

That’s right, the Eternal Melody was also a storage magic item. As for how big its space was, Long Haochen couldn’t even sense it with his current spiritual power.

Through the slaughter just now, Long Haochen’s feelings became clearer. Every time he killed a Great Demon Knight, the opponent’s soul would immediately be absorbed by the Eternal Melody. Moreover, the enemy’s soul seemed to be more concentrated than the ones he had absorbed from the battlefield corpses before. Since he couldn’t stop it, he could only pretend it didn’t happen. He really didn’t understand the energy of souls.

With the help of the Eternal Melody, Long Haochen cleaned up the battlefield quickly. When he returned to his companions, everyone except for Dian Yan, who was still unconscious, had at least regained the ability to move.

Lin Xin seemed to have recovered from his previous excitement. Seeing Long Haochen easily clean up the entire battlefield, and taking away the corpses of the two groups of Great Demon Knights and Nightmare Demon Horses, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes. He gave Long Haochen a hand signal behind the backs of the others.

Long Haochen glanced at him and nodded silently.

“How is everyone?” Long Haochen asked.

Han Yu said, “Except for Dian Yan, who is seriously injured, everyone else can walk, but it’s a bit difficult to continue fighting. Yuan Yuan, Sima, and I have all taken Bloodlust Pills and Spirit Explosion Pills. I’m afraid we’ll be weak for a while. Ying’er’s McDull Pig is also badly injured and can’t absorb magic crystals to join the battle in a short time.”

Lu Xi said, “Our side is a little better. Han Daosi and Li Xin still have the strength to fight. Yi Jun burned his life force and is also unconscious. As his spiritual power recovers, I will need at least three hours to cast group healing again. Dian Yan will need at least seven days of my treatment to barely recover her combat power. Xiaomo and I are about the same, it will also take about three hours to recover our spiritual power.”

In this battle, although neither Demon Hunt Squad lost anyone, they could be said to have been crippled. The only ones who really had combat power left were Long Haochen, Li Xin, and Han Daosi. Caier was in a worse state than the seriously injured Dian Yan, as it would take seven months for her lost senses to recover.

Long Haochen nodded silently. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I’ll have Haoyue carry Dian Yan and Yi Jun. We’ll leave immediately, cross the mountains, and go deeper into the back. Without the obvious target of the Cave of Fearful Howls, it will be easier for us to hide in the mountains. When everyone’s abilities have recovered enough, we’ll try to return.”

Lu Xi nodded silently, but a hint of hesitation appeared in his eyes as he looked at Long Haochen.

Long Haochen knew what he was thinking. “I recorded the entire process of my time in the Cave of Fearful Howls. This is clearly not a place we can fully explore. After we settle down, I will share the exploration gemstone for everyone to watch.”

The content recorded by the exploration gemstone could not be faked, at least no one among them had that ability. It would require powerful alchemy.

Hearing what Long Haochen said, Lu Xi immediately felt a little embarrassed. He just nodded to Long Haochen.

Long Haochen said, “Let’s go then. The magic crystals from the enemy corpses I collected, your squad gets 30%.”

Lu Xi hurriedly said, “No need, we didn’t do anything.”

Long Haochen shook his head, his tone obviously a bit firmer. “We are a team now, everything will be distributed according to what we agreed on. Without you, my companions wouldn’t have been able to hold on until I returned. It’s settled. Let’s go.”

Caier’s spiritual stove backlash caused Long Haochen to be extremely irritable, with less of his usual gentleness and more domineering. But his strength and ability were there, and when he said these words, it only gave people a sense of course, and even made the fourth-level Warrior-Grade Demon Hunt Squad secretly grateful. So many Nightmare Demon Horses and Great Demon Knights, one-third of the magic crystals was no small amount.

The group set off again. Although most of them were very weak and injured, as professionals, their physical strength was far superior to ordinary people. Under the light of dawn, the group of thirteen did not try to leave this mountain range. Instead, under the leadership of Long Haochen, they continued to cross the mountains and go deeper. After crossing two mountains in a row, they stopped in a place with a small amount of bushes.

This was a valley with a natural rock wall fissure that was perfect for them to take shelter in. By the time they had settled down, it was already bright.

Lu Xi became the busiest person, constantly recovering his spiritual power and healing everyone.

What made Long Haochen feel slightly relaxed was that Caier was gradually regaining her ability to move. At this time, he was sitting not far from the entrance of the rock wall fissure, letting Caier lean against him.

Caier was very quiet, unable to see, speak, hear, or smell, but she didn’t seem to care at all, just quietly leaning against Long Haochen’s chest.

Everyone else was resting, Han Daosi was on guard, Long Haochen held one of Caier’s hands and slowly wrote words in her palm, writing out the entire process of his time in the Cave of Fearful Howls without missing anything.

Caier couldn’t listen, but she could feel it. She seemed to be enjoying this feeling, letting Long Haochen move her hand on her palm, leaning in his arms, just like the well-behaved McDull Pig in Chen Ying’er’s arms.

“Lin Xin, come here for a moment, I have something to say to you.” Li Xin suddenly waved to Lin Xin, signaling him to follow her.

Lin Xin was stunned for a moment, his brows furrowed slightly, but he still followed Li Xin towards the depths of the fissure. Long Haochen just glanced at them suspiciously and didn’t say anything. In his heart, Li Xin was definitely one of the most trustworthy people. He understood this sister’s personality very well, and he didn’t know what had happened in the cave before. He continued to write words on Caier’s palm.

Everyone else was cultivating, not paying attention to them.

This fissure was very deep, extending nearly two hundred meters into the mountain, and looking up, you could see the spectacular scene of a sliver of sky.

Li Xin kept walking in until the figures of the others were blocked by the rock wall, then she stopped.

Lin Xin stopped not far behind her with a indifferent expression, simply combing his dark green hair with his fingers, braiding it, leaning against the rock wall, and said, “What did you call me here for? To kill me and silence me?”

Li Xin said unhappily, “You’re a man, why do you keep your hair so long, and you even braid it. Looking at you from the side, you look even more like a woman than me.”

Lin Xin curled his lips and said, “This is handsome, okay? Don’t talk nonsense if you don’t understand.”

Li Xin sneered and said, “Handsome my ass. Wait until you’re better looking than Haochen.”

Lin Xin’s facial muscles twitched suddenly. “You called me here just to hit me? The captain is better looking than me, but he seems to be more like a girl than me, too.”

Li Xin suddenly fell silent, looking at Lin Xin for a long time without speaking.

Lin Xin felt the atmosphere was a little strange and couldn’t help but look at her in confusion.

“I’m sorry.” Li Xin lowered her head slightly. “I was wrong before. I shouldn’t have scolded you without figuring out the truth. I shouldn’t have brought up your painful past.”

Lin Xin’s body trembled slightly, and a lingering pain flowed from the depths of his eyes. He also lowered his head slightly, throwing his combed braid behind his back.

“It’s okay. There will always be people who question it. Saying it out loud makes me feel better.” Lin Xin said bitterly.

Li Xin walked slowly to his side. “If you do something wrong, you should be punished. Or, you can scold me too. Or hit me, I’ll take it.” Her eyes were very serious, standing in front of Lin Xin, her heroic and beautiful face had an air of righteous martyrdom.

The corner of Lin Xin’s mouth twitched. “Big sister, please stop making trouble, okay? Can I beat you?”

“I won’t fight back.” Li Xin quickly emphasized.

“Is that it? I’m going back.” Lin Xin said unhappily. As he said that, he turned to leave in the direction he came from.

Li Xin stomped her feet. “I hate feeling like I owe someone. If you don’t pay me back, how can I face your companions?”

“Enough.” Lin Xin suddenly turned around and said angrily, “What’s the point of hitting you or scolding you? You’re right, I’m a coward, I just don’t have the guts to learn attack magic. Even if I hit you or scold you, will my mental illness, my inner pain be reduced even a little? Woo…”

Lin Xin’s words suddenly stopped, and his eyes, which were already big, widened even more.

If anyone could be here, they could see an extremely strange scene.

An heroic knight was holding the mage’s head with one hand, pressing his body against the rock wall, and then, awkwardly kissing his lips…

(To be continued)