Chapter 238: One Punch

**Chapter 246: One Punch**

Immortal Fairy gasped in surprise, instinctively slapping downwards. This was an ingrained response from ancient battles, her combat style having long since become habitual. Lü Chang had just gotten up when his head felt as if it had been struck by a massive boulder, causing him to crash to the ground.

"You are bad people! Arhat Fruit Fist!" Immortal Fairy heard them talking about stealing her storage ring, triggering unpleasant memories. She slapped each of them. Her tender, delicate hands concealed immense power, and combined with special force-application techniques, the four early-stage Golden Core demon beasts couldn't even block a single slap. They were flattened to the ground once more, spitting black blood.

Demon beasts possess a more vigorous qi and blood than humans. Now, after being struck by Immortal Fairy, their surging qi and blood rapidly cooled. Even their blood flow became sluggish, eventually stopping altogether, their hot blood turning to lifeless stillness. The Arhat Fruit Fist, known for its cooling and lung-cleansing properties, combined with the pufferfish's potent venom, instantly claimed the lives of the four demon beasts. In less than half an hour, five Golden Core stage demon beasts had died in this area.

"Even Qilin Immortal didn't dare to bully me, and you four little demon beasts think you can?" Immortal Fairy snorted, hands on her hips, feeling quite proud as she spoke. "There were people like you even in ancient times, who just loved to bully me—it's truly annoying. Thirty thousand years have passed, and nothing has changed." Immortal Fairy murmured to herself as she walked away, quickly putting the incident behind her. She began humming a cheerful song, leaving the four corpses behind. In ancient times, some people saw her as a beautiful and easily deceived woman and tried to trick her. Without exception, her intelligence saw through their schemes, and she killed them all.

"Picking, picking, picking mushrooms, picking a little mushroom..."

***

"The human body is truly fragile; it can be poisoned. If everyone could learn my health-preserving fist art and transform their bodies into great medicine, wouldn't all poisons be useless?"

"And Lu Yang, too. I kindly offered to teach him, so why won't he learn? Ying Tian Immortal and others knelt and begged me, and I still wouldn't teach them." Immortal Fairy walked leisurely, breaking off a tree branch and casually refining it into a magic artifact. She swung it around in the dense forest like a peerless sword. A strange power emanated from her, preventing any mosquitoes or insects from approaching.

This forest gave her a very familiar feeling. Before she became an immortal, she often traversed these woods, searching for medicinal herbs to improve her cultivation or facing ambushes from various prodigies. Her reputation at the time was immense, not only because of her beauty but more so because of her terrifying combat power and mysterious, unpredictable thoughts. No one could ever grasp what she was thinking or what she would do next. However, one thing was certain: she was absolutely everyone's nightmare on the path to immortality, the greatest obstacle. At that time, Ying Tian Immortal and Qilin Immortal had not yet made a name for themselves; the world knew nothing of them. Their greatest wish was to defeat the powerful Immortal Fairy, achieve fame in a single battle, and gain worldwide attention. However, they never realized this wish. Thus, Immortal Fairy was highly skilled at facing all kinds of dangers and challenges, making ambushing her in the dense forest an impossible feat.

A furious beast roar echoed from not far away, piquing Immortal Fairy's interest. Before she could even get there, she noticed the ground trembling, the source of the vibrations growing closer as if a colossal creature were running.

Boom! Boom! Immortal Fairy leaped onto a large rock, stood on tiptoes, and placed her right hand over her brow, gazing into the distance. "Is that...?"

Trees toppled, dust billowed, and a massive body, taller than the forest trees, revealed its rough back. It was a rampaging elephant chasing a few people. The elephant was pure white, like jade, and had six long tusks. The people were skilled, all at the mid-to-late Golden Core stage, but facing the enraged giant elephant, they had no thought of resistance, only running desperately forward.

Immortal Fairy jumped down from the rock. The people saw Immortal Fairy appear and were greatly alarmed, shouting frantically at her, "This is the Elephant King, an early-stage Nascent Soul! It's a true ancient bloodline, a Six-Tusk White Elephant! We don't know why, but it's gone mad! Little girl, run quickly!"

The Six-Tusk White Elephant, though not as prominent as dragons, phoenixes, Taotie, or Qiongqi in ancient times, was still a renowned demon race, second only to them, with at least three Tribulation Transcendence stage mighty figures emerging from its clan. The people being chased by the Six-Tusk White Elephant immediately discerned Immortal Fairy's cultivation stage—only late-stage Foundation Establishment. Faced with the rampaging Elephant King, even those at the early Nascent Soul stage wouldn't dare to confront it directly. If this young girl didn't leave, her fate would be clear. They didn't want to see the young girl die tragically.

The young girl seemed stunned, standing motionless where she was. One of the men suddenly exerted force, trying to grab Immortal Fairy and run with her, but to his surprise, Immortal Fairy seemed to be fused with the earth. The man was astonished; as a late-stage Golden Core expert, he couldn't even budge this young girl. What was going on with this little girl? The other people also tried to move Immortal Fairy, but all attempts failed. The Six-Tusk White Elephant was right behind them, so they dared not delay and continued to run.

"Elephant, you're being naughty. Your clan leader once swore an oath to me not to harm humans," Immortal Fairy said, revealing a secret unknown even within the Six-Tusk White Elephant clan. Unfortunately, this white elephant was already enraged and couldn't listen to anything. Immortal Fairy sighed. If she didn't stop this white elephant, those people would surely perish. It was just a pity for this body.

She then took a deep breath, adopted a stance, and clenched her right fist, placing it at her waist. "Immortal Fairy Fist Art." She slowly threw a punch.

***

"Young Master Song Hua, and the other young masters, are you alright?"

"We noticed some commotion over here just now. You didn't accidentally stray into the Six-Tusk White Elephant's territory, did you? You absolutely cannot go in there!" The bodyguards arrived, panting. These young men were young masters from the Song family in the Imperial Capital, here at Demon Suppression Pass to gain experience for future promotions. For safety, the Song family had also hired several bodyguards for them. At first, they were somewhat obedient, but later, these young men found the bodyguards increasingly annoying, always restricting them. If they couldn't do anything, why come to Demon Suppression Pass—for tourism? So, they seized an opportunity when the bodyguards weren't paying attention and secretly left. They hadn't gone far before they stumbled into the Six-Tusk White Elephant's territory and inexplicably provoked the white elephant.

Seeing Song Hua and the others sitting paralyzed on the ground, wide-eyed and staring blankly, the bodyguards followed their gaze and were equally stunned. It was a terrifying gully, as if a monstrous giant had slid through, toppling countless massive trees. At the end of the gully, a white elephant the size of a small mountain lay on the ground, unconscious.

"What happened?" Song Hua and the others couldn't answer, or rather, they didn't know how to describe the scene they had just witnessed. A petite girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, in the late Foundation Establishment stage, faced a rampaging early-stage Nascent Soul giant elephant. With just one punch, she knocked the giant elephant down. That punch seemed to have drained the young girl's strength, and she softly collapsed to the ground, merging with the earth and disappearing.

***

"You're saying there's an early-stage Nascent Soul Six-Tusk White Elephant nearby?" After continuous battles, Lu Yang sat on the ground, panting and resting, listening to the Eagle Mountain Five Heroes introduce the extremely dangerous demon beasts in the vicinity.

"That giant elephant is said to have early Nascent Soul cultivation, and its territorial sense is extremely strong. If anyone trespasses into its territory, they'll be trampled to death—it's a fight to the bitter end."

"And it has a volatile temper, even towards other early Nascent Soul demon beasts. As long as they dare to intrude into its territory without warning, they will be attacked. There was once a time it fought another early Nascent Soul demon beast over this; the final result was a tragic victory for the white elephant and the other demon beast's tragic death."

"Hiss—" Meng Jingzhou gasped, hearing this. "Is it that fierce?"

"Indeed? I know you two young heroes are amazingly strong, having successively defeated several Golden Core stage demon beasts with ease. Even so, I'm sure you wouldn't gain any advantage against that Six-Tusk White Elephant."

"So, we absolutely must not go near the Six-Tusk White Elephant's territory," the Eagle Mountain Five Heroes advised.

"I understand," Lu Yang nodded. He always took good advice.

"Lu Yang, I'm back." Immortal Fairy's immortal soul floated into the spiritual space, unnoticed by anyone.

"You're back so soon? It hasn't even been three days yet," Lu Yang said, surprised. Knowing Immortal Fairy, he thought she would at least play for three days.

"Hmm, your wood clone wasn't sturdy enough. I broke it while playing," Immortal Fairy said with a wronged expression.

"What did you do?" Immortal Fairy stuck out her tongue, finding it quite embarrassing that she had broken the wood clone. "I'm not telling you." If she had used Lu Yang's main body in the battle, Immortal Fairy was confident she could have defeated the white elephant with one punch without causing any injury to Lu Yang's body.