When He Jingfeng heard Yan Xuefei's explanation and learned that this group had been healed by Mu Jinyu taking an elixir, his eyes immediately brightened.
His breathing became somewhat heavy.
He was well aware of how heavy-handed Yan Xuefei's strikes were; generally, anyone hit like that by her wouldn't survive for an hour.
But Mu Jinyu not only saved them but also healed them completely without needing them to rest or even leaving a scar!
What kind of Miraculous Elixir is this?
If their Yan Kingdom could obtain the formula for this elixir and mass-produce it, wouldn't it mean fewer sacrifices for the soldiers going to war?
The national strength of Yan Kingdom would increase several times over!
The imperial physicians, who were nearly whipped to death by Yan Xuefei, naturally understood the value of the formula, and each of them was breathing heavily, their eyes reddened like rabbits.
They all wished to obtain this formula as soon as possible to study it well.
"Let's go visit Third Brother's residence to see what kind of person he is, daring to deal such a heavy hand against me!"
At this moment, upon realizing she couldn't temporarily restore her beauty, Yan Xuefei could no longer suppress the monstrous hatred imprinted deep in her soul against Mu Jinyu. She immediately wanted to rush to Yan Ran's residence, forcefully demand the formula from Mu Jinyu, and then torment him to death!
She reached for a thin veil, wearing it to cover the terrifying wounds on her face, speaking with deep resentment.
"Hmm, let's go!"
Originally not intending to personally go out to help Yan Xuefei, He Jingfeng, upon realizing the importance of the formula, also decided to personally set out, help suppress people for Yan Xuefei, and seize this extremely precious formula!
Not long after, they left the palace and headed towards the Royal Mansion where Yan Ran was located!
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At the Royal Mansion of Yan Ran.
The atmosphere was tense like a drawn sword!
After issuing a challenge to Mu Jinyu, Hou Xin barely glanced at the Third Prince's persuasion, continuing to stare intently at Mu Jinyu.
His gaze was filled with strong provocation and contempt.
He wanted to challenge Mu Jinyu, planning to shatter his legend as the third on the National Guard List, letting himself, an ordinary talent ranked only fifteenth on the Great Jiang Country's National Guard List, thoroughly suppress Yan Kingdom!
This would show the people of Yan Kingdom how formidable their Great Jiang Country was!
Several other geniuses from other countries invited by Yan Ran to the mansion took a few glances at Mu Jinyu before withdrawing their gazes.
Their eyes also carried disdain during the process.
They raised their cups for a tea sip again, discussing without caring that it was in front of Mu Jinyu: "How many moves do you think Brother Hou will need to defeat this guy?"
"This guy looks too young; even if he has the Second Layer strength of the Fanxu Realm, I suspect he hasn't learned much martial techniques, and his combat power shouldn't be high. Considering Brother Hou is a disciple of the Barbarian Demon Sect, he should defeat him in less than thirty moves!"
"I think ten moves will be enough…"
Upon hearing their words, Yan Ran's face became even uglier.
Mu Jinyu, facing Hou Xin's challenge and the contempt of the crowd, maintained a calm demeanor, glanced at Hou Xin, and then calmly said, "You're not qualified!"
"What?!"
Hearing Mu Jinyu's words, Hou Xin momentarily thought he had misheard. How dared Mu Jinyu say such things to him? He was stunned.
Mu Jinyu withdrew his gaze from Hou Xin and turned to look at Yan Ran, whose face was extremely uncomfortable, asking, "Third Prince, is this your arrangement?"
He had some doubts. Upon arriving at the Royal Mansion, facing the provocation of several insignificant ants, was it this Third Prince who doubted his strength, arranged it on purpose, trying to test him, to see if the rumors of him single-handedly vanquishing the Blood Sword Sect were true?
If it were an arrangement and test of the Third Prince, he wouldn't mind giving the other party a profound lesson before leaving Yan Kingdom!
And if it wasn't arranged by the Third Prince but a reckless guest, he wouldn't hold it against Yan Ran!
Yan Ran immediately understood the meaning behind Mu Jinyu's words, he shook his head in a pale face, "No… It wasn't my arrangement…"
After speaking, he somewhat regained his composure, quickly shouted at Hou Xin, "Hou Xin, how can you be so disrespectful to my guest? A National Scholar of Yan Kingdom? Hurry and sit down, stop causing trouble…"
His tone of reprimanding Hou Xin wasn't forceful.
After all, he was already showing weakness; without any strong followers by his side, how could he be forceful in the face of someone as strong as Hou Xin from the Third Layer of the Fanxu Realm?
If he had a force like Yan Hua, able to rally a hundred thousand City Guard Soldiers and had several National Scholars as friends, he could of course forcefully order Hou Xin to be expelled from the royal mansion!
With Yan Ran's words, the stunned Hou Xin came to his senses, barely acknowledging this Third Prince and laughed in anger at Mu Jinyu's earlier words.
"Hahaha… You actually said I'm not qualified to spar with you?!"
"Do you know who I am?"
"I am the chief disciple of the Barbarian Demon Sect, the First Sect in Jiang Country, also possessing the Second Layer of the Fanxu Realm. Yet, because of the abundance of strong warriors in Great Jiang Country, I can only rank fifteenth on the National Guard List. If you were in my Great Jiang Country, let alone third on the National Guard List, you wouldn't even rank in the top ten!"
"You say I'm not qualified to fight you? Do you really think that your title of third on Yan Kingdom's National Guard List is that mighty and prestigious?"
"What a frog in a well, ignorant and unaware!"
He ended with a sneer of disdain.
Looking at Mu Jinyu, his eyes were full of pity and sympathy.
It was as if he truly was looking at a pitiful toad living at the bottom of a well!
"Haha, if Brother Hou isn't qualified, how about Su Chengyi of the Galaxy Sword Sect of Great Wei Kingdom?!"
"Adding Feng Gaolang of Xuanyuan Sect from Dayuan Kingdom?"
At this moment, the few who were sitting and chatting originally, hearing the conversation between Mu Jinyu and Hou Xin, stood up after being stunned, and with a smile on their faces said to Mu Jinyu.
These people each possessed the Third Layer strength of the Fanxu Realm!
It can be seen that the strength of these sects from other countries is actually much stronger than the Four Sects of Yan Kingdom.
No wonder they looked down on Mu Jinyu, this Heaven's Pride ranked third on the National Guard List!
In the end, even those in the Second Layer of the Fanxu Realm joined in, mockingly shouting, "Adding me, how about that?!"
All of a sudden, it was as if Mu Jinyu had stirred up a hornet's nest, facing the pressure from everyone!
Watching this scene, Yan Ran's face turned even paler.
The situation was completely out of control, far beyond his command!
He suddenly realized why these people had agreed to his invitation to visit his mansion.
Probably they were originally planning to challenge Mu Jinyu and deeply suppress the prestige of Yan Kingdom!
Mu Jinyu looked at the scene, then at Yan Ran's changing expressions, and he understood that this wasn't an arranged trial by Yan Ran but a group of self-assured people discontent with the reputation he had built in recent times.
Though Mu Jinyu didn't care about the empty fame of the National Guard List, as it didn't provide any resource rewards.
However, since others were stepping on his head, he wouldn't remain idle without any reaction.
With a cold sneer, under the mocking gazes of everyone, Mu Jinyu slowly shook his head and sighed, "You people, even together, are not qualified!"
This statement was made.
The complexion of everyone changed sharply.
Looking at Mu Jinyu, their eyes were like looking at a dead man!