"You're saying that there might be a Heaven Pulse Lotus here?" Wang Xuzhi's expression was somewhat grave as he looked at the large patch of See-Through Leaf Grass in front of him. Although the Heavenly Pulse Lotus, which could cleanse meridians and reshape meridians, only existed in legends and no one had ever seen it before, the See-Through Leaf Grass was extremely rare. However, the air in this place was moist, and there were so many See-Through Leaf Grass growing strangely, and each one of them was full of vitality. Perhaps there really was a pond with strange treasures growing in front of them.
As long as there were rare treasures, apart from the accompanying grass, there would also be accompanying demonic beasts. In other words, there was at least one sixth-rank demonic beast here, and it might even be a group.
"Let's go back first and discuss with Senior Brother Chen Yi whether we should go in and investigate." Wang Xuzhi put away the box containing the Spiritual Grass. Her face was no longer as excited as before. Instead, it was somewhat solemn.
No matter what, a sixth-ranked demonic beast was equivalent to a late-stage Azoth practitioner. One of them was an early-stage Azoth practitioner, while the other was an early-stage Azoth practitioner. If they were to encounter a sixth-ranked demonic beast, even if they didn't die, they would still lose a layer of skin. Moreover, their Spirit Veins did not need to be cleansed in the first place, so the Heaven Pulse Lotus was not very meaningful to them.
But before they could return to the gathering point, they bumped into someone. It was Little Fatty Zhao's sweetheart, Lu Cha. She was walking very leisurely, almost breaking into a jog. When she saw the two of them, she was stunned, as though she was trying to hide something. She looked around for a while, before nodding her head as a greeting.
"Junior Sister Lu, what's wrong?" Wang Xuzhi asked casually.
Her face paled and she forced a smile. "No … Nothing. I just encountered a demonic beast. Senior Brother Xiao has already taken care of it. I was just about to inform Senior Brother Chen. "
Zhu Yao however grew even more suspicious, as she turned to look at the direction she came from. "You guys can't have entered the place filled with See-Through Leaf Grass, right!?"
Lu Cha's face turned even paler, looking as if her thoughts had been guessed. Suddenly, a loud roar came from not far away, resounding through the clouds. The three of them could not help but feel dizzy, and even the ground started to shake.
"It's the sound of a demonic beast." Wang Xuzhi's eyes were filled with reproach as she looked at Lu Cha. Both of them were well aware of what she was thinking. Earlier, she was walking together with Xiao Yi, and the two of them must have seen that patch of See-Through Leaf Grass from the other side, and they had even entered it. However, she did not expect that they had startled the Life Companion Demonic Beast inside. Xiao Yi was no match for it, hence, he had her come out to look for help. However, she did not want too many people to find out, hence, she did not tell them.
Just from that roar, that demonic beast was definitely not simple. Sure enough, not long after, they heard the rumbling sound of running. Even the birds and beasts on the trees fled in all directions. Something was chasing them.
"Senior-martial uncle Xiao?" Lu Cha looked towards the direction of the voice anxiously, as though she just realized the severity of the matter.
"Let's inform the others. Hurry!" Zhu Yao summoned her flying sword, pulled Wang Xuzhi who was at the side, and signaled for Lu Cha to follow her with her eyes. Only after flying into the sky did she see, on the ground not far away, a gigantic beast that was even larger than a house was currently running towards them.
The three of them flew at top speed, and finally arrived at the gathering point after much difficulty. Chen Yi and the other martial brothers were already standing below.
"What happened?" Chen Yi realized the situation was amiss as well, and hurriedly ran over.
Wang Xuzhi walked forward, and explained the situation to the others. Before he could even finish, he suddenly heard another roar, and Zhu Yao simply felt a gigantic shadow enveloping towards her.
"Little bun!" Wang Xuzhi anxiously shouted, as he looked at … the direction behind her with a deathly pale face.
Only then did Zhu Yao slowly turn her head a little stiffly, facing a gigantic beast head. It looked like a bear, yet, it was covered in scales, and there were even three horns that looked like steel blades on its head. It paused for a moment, and then, it suddenly opened its mouth towards her, revealing a mouthful of teeth that were even longer than her legs.
Then, it stuck out its tongue, and licked her.
Zhu Yao whose body was covered in saliva: "…"
She wasn't Bing Qi Ling!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The other female cultivators present were all frightened by the sudden appearance of the demonic beast. A shrill scream rang out. It was unknown who it was, but a huge fireball was summoned and thrown over.
Just as Zhu Yao was about to be burnt, Wang Xuzhi rushed over in time, and rolled away.
The demonic beast seemed to have been angered by that fireball earlier, as it roared and charged towards the crowd. Everyone had no choice but to summon their weapons one after another to fight. Various mystic arts were thrown towards the demonic beast.
Wang Xuzhi supported Zhu Yao up, summoned his sword as well, and blocked in front of her. Zhu Yao looked at the violent demonic beast at the center. She did not know if it was a misconception, but she felt that the demonic beast earlier did not want to kill her.
Just as she was thinking about it, the demonic beast spat out a fireball, and just happened to fly towards her direction. Zhu Yao dodged it, and when she turned to look at the place she was standing at earlier, it had already turned into a pit of fire. Alright, she was now certain that it wanted to kill her.
"Risefire Beast!" Chen Yi looked at the demonic beast at the center with extreme astonishment. The Risefire Beast was a very mystical demonic beast. It was of the fire attribute, yet, it liked to stay near water sources. Hence, it was immune to both water and fire. It was a fifth-ranked demonic beast when it was born, and when it matured, it would be sixth-ranked. She had to admit that Chen Yi did have some talent for leadership. After recognizing this demonic beast, he loudly reminded everyone. "Don't use fire and water-type mystic arts. The Risefire Beast is immune to both water and fire."
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly stopped their fire and water-type mystic arts, and switched to other mystic arts. Some had even directly flew forward, and used their sword techniques. Among everyone, Wang Xuzhi's sword techniques were the strongest. He himself was charging at the very front, and his sword techniques were airtight, preventing the demonic beast from advancing even an inch.
"This is a fifth-ranked demonic beast." Chen Yi was overjoyed, and only then did he realize that this was a young beast. Although a mature Risefire Beast was equivalent to an Azoth Paragon, a fifth-ranked demonic beast would at most be at the intermediate stages of Azoth. Even if demonic beasts were innately stronger than human practitioners, with so many people, it was more than enough to take down this young beast.
Zhu Yao wanted to help as well, but other than Wang Xuzhi, no one else knew that she was a disciple of Jade Forest Mountain, and it was inconvenient for her to summon her sword as well. She could only do the same as the other female practitioners, and stand at a place slightly further away. Occasionally, she would cast a Binding Art, Binding Art, and restrict the demonic beast's movements.
Chen Yi's guess was right. This was a young beast, and was basically unable to take on everyone's attacks. Not even a moment later, that demonic beast had already fallen onto the ground. It was slashed by his sword, and fresh red beast blood flowed all over the ground.
The crowd cheered, and heaved sighs of relief. Chen Yi counted the number of people, and realized that other than three disciples who suffered some light injuries, the rest were fine.
"Just what happened?" Chen Yi asked Wang Xuzhi. Earlier, when he heard the words' there was a demonic beast ', he saw this demonic beast.
Behind Wang Xuzhi was Lu Cha.
Lu Cha's expression changed, and then, she slowly said. "Senior-martial uncle Xiao, senior-martial brother Zhao, and I discovered a lot of See-Through Leaf Grass over there. However, for some reason, this demonic beast suddenly charged out. We were no match for it, so we had no choice but to return to inform you guys."
"Then what about senior-martial uncle Xiao and junior-martial brother Zhao?" Chen Yi continued to ask.
Lu Cha's face paled, as though she had only just realized this problem. Logically speaking, the demonic beast had already been killed by them, so the two of them should have returned as well. Could it be …
Before the crowd could even think about it carefully, that 'could it be', descended from the sky just like that.
The first to land on the ground was little fatty Zhao, who was covered in blood. His abdomen seemed to have been stabbed by something, and blood was currently flowing out. His white robe had already been dyed the color of blood.
Before everyone could check what happened, suddenly, a wall of fire descended from the sky, and sprayed towards the crowd. The two injured disciples did not manage to dodge in time, and had already turned into ashes.
With a loud rumble, a gigantic demonic beast that looked exactly the same as the demonic beast earlier, yet was three times its size, was already standing in front of the crowd. A huge stench of blood filled everyone's mouth and nose, and there were still flames that had not been extinguished in time in its mouth.
Xiao Yi landed as well, and his entire body was in a sorry state. Although his injuries were not as severe as little fatty Zhao's, there were still quite a few small wounds on his body.
The moment that large Risefire Beast landed, it saw the little Risefire Beast that was already lying at the side. Throwing aside the crowd, it anxiously sprinted over, and using the horn on its head, it lightly touched its corpse. As though it had already realized that it was already dead, it let out a sorrowful whimper. It seemed like this was a mother beast.
Zhu Yao's heart could not help but tighten. This couldn't be that little Risefire Beast's mother, right!?
As expected, after the large Risefire Beast whimpered for a long while, it suddenly let out a mournful roar. Turning its head, it looked at the human practitioners on the ground with even more fury. Its claws forcefully scratched the ground, opened its mouth, and spat out a ball of flames that was even bigger than before.
"Not good, hurry and dodge!" Chen Yi who was currently helping little fatty Zhao to stop his bleeding shouted loudly.
As though everyone had just awoken from a dream, they quickly flew up on their flying swords. Wherever the flames reached, it had already turned into ashes. Evidently, it was a hundred times stronger than that little Risefire Beast earlier.
Lu Cha raised her hand and summoned a gigantic icicle, which flew towards the demonic beast. The moment the icicle came into contact with the demonic beast, it immediately formed a large piece of ice, attempting to freeze the demonic beast and restrict its movements. However, the demonic beast's speed was extremely fast, and the moment the icicle covered it, it immediately shook it off. When the other female practitioner saw this, she materialized countless spiritual swords and attacked the demonic beast's surroundings. Although they were unable to penetrate the demonic beast's scales, they had still indirectly increased the speed of the ice freezing.
Just as the demonic beast was about to be completely frozen, the Risefire Beast suddenly let out a loud roar, and the scales on its body began to stand up one after another. With a whoosh, a large piece of fire was emitted from the scales, and as though its entire body was set ablaze, the ice on its body was instantly melted completely.
"Mutated Risefire Beast!" Chen Yi exclaimed.
Before the crowd could even react, that Risefire Beast whose entire body was emitting flames suddenly disappeared. Not far away, however, a miserable cry sounded out. The female practitioner who used spiritual swords to attack it earlier, was already bitten by the Risefire Beast. The moment its mouth closed, that female practitioner's miserable cry suddenly stopped, and only fresh red blood slowly flowed out from the demonic beast's mouth.
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