The white mercenary paused in his tracks. While chewing on gum, he walked towards Ning Tao. He was two meters tall, about a head taller than Ning Tao. He was almost twice the size of Ning Tao, so it felt like he was looking down at him, accompanied by an inexplicable sense of white superiority.

Ning Tao handed the elixir prescription to the white mercenary, while speaking on his phone, “I’ve already given it to your people. Release the hostage.”

“Release him,” Lin Qinghua spoke.

Ning Tao said to the white mercenary, “Go back.”

“Ptooey,” the white mercenary spat out the gum in his mouth and it got stuck on Ning Tao’s shoe.

Ning Tao looked down at the piece of gum stuck on his shoe then looked back up at the white mercenary.

The white mercenary raised a thumb at Ning Tao then twisted his wrist, twisting his thumb around.

Ning Tao stared at him expressionlessly, completely indifferent to this taunt. To him, it was nothing but a taunt by a loser. If it were not because Ge Ming was still in Lin Qinghua’s hands, he would have taken this idiot’s life with just one needle.

The white mercenary turned around to leave, waving at the helicopter encircling in the sky.

The encircling helicopter slowly descended.

Lin Qinghua’s voice came through from the cell phone, “You better not have any tricks up your sleeves or else Ge Ming will die.”

“Release the hostage,” Ning Tao commanded coldly. He had no more patience for politeness towards Lin Qinghua.

The helicopter descended, hovering about two meters above ground. Ge Ming was pushed out and he fell into the snow. Both his hands were tied and in that moment, was impossible for him to get up from the pile of snow.

Lin Qinghua appeared from the cabin of the helicopter but did not get off, standing by the hatch and waiting for the white mercenary to bring the elixir prescription over.

Suddenly the voice of Howling Celestial Dog rang in Ning Tao’s head, “Dad, they’re here!”

Ning Tao nodded.

Just when he finished speaking, a few white shadows rushed out from behind, charging towards the white mercenary. Each of them seemed to be equipped with hang gliders, leaping huge distances of up to ten meters!

These few people were the suicide practitioners brought here by Sun Pingchuan. In the blink of an eye, they zoomed past Ning Tao and Howling Celestial Dog. They did not attack Ning Tao and Howling Celestial Dog; their aim was the elixir prescription in the white mercenary’s hand!

Bang bang bang!

The mercenaries from Black Fire Company immediately fired their guns yet these practitioners were completely unfazed.

Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat…

A dull sound of gunfire suddenly came from the side. It was the noise of machine gun shots being fired across. A rain of bullets pelted across, a few mercenaries from the Black Fire Company were immediately gunned down. Despite wearing bulletproof vests, they were still vulnerable to the machine gun bullets. Blood and flesh of the mercenaries spilled everywhere, their heads exploded and arms severed, even their chests and stomachs were ribbed!

With their firearms and through the complex terrain, those few suicide practitioners continued charging towards the white mercenary.

In the midst of the chaos, the white mercenary ran towards the helicopter hovering at the back.

Swoosh!

All of a sudden, a short spear flew downwards from a height behind. In a flash, it flew across hundreds of meters and disappeared. The spearhead pierced into the back of the white mercenary and through the front of his chest, pinning him right onto the ground!

Sun Pingchuan had also began to take action.

And as expected, another shadow glided down from above Ning Tao. It was none other than Sun Pingchuan!

Lin Qinghua’s voice came through Ning Tao’s cell phone, “Bastard! How dare you trick me!”

Ning Tao picked up his cell phone and said nonchalantly, “It’s none of my business. You’re not the only party that wants the elixir prescription.”

Lin Qinghua yelled, “Are you not afraid that I’ll kill the hostage?”

“You better be thinking about yourself first.” After speaking, Ning Tao lifted his left arm and waved forward.

On the peak of Everest.

Jiang Hao spotted Ning Tao’s waving gesture through her optical sight. A smirk appeared on her face and in that moment, she pulled the trigger.

A special bullet was launched from the Sun Chaser Gun and in the next second, it hit the cockpit of the helicopter.

Boom!

With a loud boom, the helicopter, which was hovering in the air, instantly turned into a ball of flames. It then broke apart into pieces after a series of explosion. Burning bodies fell off the helicopter but it was unknown whether they were mercenaries from the Black Fire Company or Lin Qinghua’s.

Ning Tao could no longer hear Lin Qinghua’s voice through the cell phone.

Sun Pingchuan had already charged to the side of the white mercenary’s corpse. He came to an abrupt halt, immediately grabbing the elixir prescription from the white mercenary’s hand.

All of a sudden, a phantasmagoric shadow charged over at a rapid speed from the foot of the hill. Before it arrived, a disc-like object swooped across.

A suicide practitioner went over to block it. With a long sword in hand, he stabbed right into the disc-like object without hesitation.

It was only then did Ning Tao get to clearly see what it was, and in that same instant, he charged towards Howling Celestial Dog.

It was a land mine!

Rumble!

The sound of explosion shook the whole place, and the practitioner who had the sword stabbed into the land mine was instantly blown into pieces. Nothing bigger than the size of a palm was left.

The wave of explosion rushed through and consumed the whole area, instantly melting half of the snow that covered the hills. The heat wave could grill a steak!

Sun Pingchuan was being blown off the ground, before he could land, he had already spewed out a mouthful of blood.

With Howling Celestial Dog in his arms, Ning Tao rolled twice in the melted snow before letting go. “Go uphill to look for your Mistress Qing, get her to retreat!”

Howling Celestial Dog immediately ran towards the peak. It had already been exhausted after a series of combat; it would only be a burden to Ning Tao if it stayed here. It was very clear of that, and without hesitation, ran as fast as it could.

Nobody would have thought of chasing after a dog at this moment.

Ning Tao picked himself up from the ground and sprinted up the hill.

With Ladder under Feet, the rocky slopes became like flat ground and was effortless to scale. He was moving faster than the four-legged Howling Celestial Dog!

“Ning Tao! Are you still thinking of running?” A deafening voice was heard.

Ning Tao did not stop, only turning back to take a glance.

On the hill, a phantasmagoric shadow was approaching this direction. It was a giant of about three meters tall. His skin was slightly greenish, he was bald and had a pair of eyes with a greenish glow. His body was extremely strong, comparable to a King Kong. His left arm was not made of flesh, but rather, a silver mechanical arm, which had a gun installed on it. It was huge and strange.

Nicholas Conway was here.

When he was still in Shan City, Ning Tao had heard from Wang Yaoyang about Nicholas Conway’s description and it was similar to this. Ning Tao had not thought much of it back then but now that he had seen it in person, he was shocked. How the hell could this be a human? This was the orc from World of Warcraft!

However, despite being such a huge person, Nicholas Conway was almost as fast as Ning Tao. With a run and a leap, he was instantly beside the corpse of the white mercenary.

That white man’s corpse had already been blown into pieces and was beyond recognition. His hand which was holding onto the elixir prescription was resting on a rock. In his tightly locked fist, revealed a piece of paper which was soaked red, seemingly still intact.

Upon seeing that hand, Nicholas Conway made an abrupt halt and reached out to the fist holding onto the elixir prescription.

Yet at this very moment, an icy flash of light crossed the air and pierced into Nicholas Conway’s chest.

It was a flying sword!

Before the wielder of the sword was visible, the sword had already made an appearance.

“How low class!” Nicholas Conway’s mechanical arm threw a punch towards it.

Sparks flew, accompanied by a noise of crashing metal.

The sword flew towards the direction it came from, and it flew towards a woman wearing a black bamboo hat and black veil who appeared on a rock on the hill.

As he was running, Ning Tao looked over to that woman. In an instant, he could not help but recalled Yin Molan’s words from the time he had just killed Bai Sheng. Yin Molan had tracked down the two youths, Wu Xiaolin and Liu Xian’er, and ended up meeting a woman at Yinyue Mountain. Wu Xiaolin and Liu Xian’er had also been taken away by her. Based on Yin Molan’s description, that woman was also veiled and wore a bamboo hat, her true powers were unknown.

This woman matched Yin Molan’s description completely.

Ning Tao was shocked and muttered to himself, “If she was the woman who had taken away Liu Xian’er and Wu Xiaolin, then she must have something to do with Bai Sheng. She is most probably the true master behind the Genesis Biotech Company but why would she send two disciples to Bai Sheng? Or could she be the Zetian Fairy?”

There were so many questions and Ning Tao could not figure them out.

The woman in the black bamboo hat suddenly pointed an Incredible Sword Finger towards Ning Tao.

Swoosh!

The flying sword which was hit by Nicholas Conway had turned into a stream of light, flashing in the air and landing on Ning Tao’s right leg.

A strong force impacted his right leg and Ning Tao, who was sprinting, suddenly lost his balance and fell on the ground, rolling off the slope.

“Thinking of running away? Do you think you can really run away!” The woman’s voice was so authoritative, like raging river water it overwhelmed him.

The flying sword which had hit Ning Tao’s leg once again charged at Ning Tao, but Ning Tao had fallen into a pile of snow and suddenly disappeared. There was not a footprint in the snow. Neither were there any traces of blood from the sword attack. He had vanished all of a sudden, as though he had simply disappeared into thin air.

Actually, Ge Ming had also disappeared at the same time. However, who would have cared about an almost worthless hostage at this point?

Even though the woman in the black bamboo hat was not around, it was almost like the flying sword was her pair of eyes. She seemed to have realized something when Ning Tao suddenly vanished, and immediately yelled, “Ning Tao! You won’t be able to keep the elixir prescription. If you want to live, give it to me!”

Give it to me—— give it to me—— give it to me——

In the air, on the hilltop, inside the valley were filled with the echoes of her voice.

But there was no response from Ning Tao at all.

It was still the same hill, the same snowy field.

Two women reached out to hold Ning Tao’s arms, pulling him out of the snow.

These two women were Bai Jing and Qing Zhui. Bai Jing was still holding onto her magic lantern, the Bright Light of the Sea of Misery. Behind the two women laid a fat man. That was Ge Ming. He was unconscious and covered in blood, seemingly heavily injured.

Ge Ming’s disappearance was Bai Jing and Qing Zhui’s doing too. After the battle ended, they had waited at the foot of the hill and commenced their rescue operation. Bai Jing created an imaginary snowscape with her Bright Light of the Sea of Misery and along with Qing Zhui, sneaked to Ge Ming and took him away.

It was the perfect rescue operation.