"Do you think they"ll follow after us?" Lu Wan asked as they ran to the valley.Qi Huan frowned. "They shouldn"t be following after us. There"s no need to tail after us because they want our hunt, right?"
It was not impossible to steal other people"s hunt, but it was harder to do than said. If they were not powerful enough, trying to take other people"s hunt would only result in their demise. In addition, it was impossible to access other people"s storage bracelet because it was tied with their Eon Energy.
In other words, they have to make sure that the other party was willing to give them the core. Killing each other here was prohibited unless it was self-defense.
Which was ridiculous.
"Maybe it"s just a coincidence that they reached here?" Ye Jiao tried to speculate.
"It"s possible," Qi Huan replied. "But if that"s the case, there"s no need for them to pay attention to us, right? We"re in the middle of the forest and naturally it"s harder to detect us if they didn"t try hard enough."
"You got a point there."
Lu Wan pointed to the front. "The valley seems to be bigger when we"re inside."
"Yeah."
The three of them hadn"t stopped when Ye Jiao suddenly sensed a huge increase of Eon Energy from behind. Her face turned pale.
"Senior Brother Lu, Senior Brother Qi, I think, there"s a beast horde coming to our direction."
"Huh? It should be impossible. The teachers already drive most of the beasts outside. We shouldn"t have seen any when we"re just a few days away from the capital city," Lu Wan was shocked.
As soon as he finished talking, they could feel the earth shook below their feet. The other two"s faces changed as they increased their speed rapidly. They knew that in a horde, there might be a dozen rank 2 beasts or even rank 3. If they had to face them, it would be a certain death for them.
"Did we travel too far?"
"That"s impossible!"
"Did someone provoke the beasts?" Ye Jiao asked as she ran. Jumping across a fallen tree, she swiftly landed on the other side. Her expression was grim as she knew that the earth shook even faster.
"That"s possible."
"I think I could guess who would plan something like this," Lu Wan gnashed his teeth. He recalled that Ye Jiao told him in the past that she accidentally heard both Wei Cheng and Chen Zi Quan talked about harming him. The girl didn"t manage to hear the detail, but there was no doubt that this must be their plan.
Qi Huan frowned. "Did he pay with his life to provoke the beasts?"
"There"s no need for him to move by himself. He has dozens of guards who are willing to die for him," Lu Wan said. His pupil contracted when he realized that they had entered the rocky area as there were several rocks around them.
"The beasts are going to get faster."
Bam!
In the next moment, the three of them could hear the sound of something smashed down. To their horror, they saw a tree coming from behind them.
"DODGE!"
They scattered in several directions as their eyes were looking towards the tree in front of them. Dust filled the air as the tree smashed down the sandy rock. They turned their head and saw a ma.s.sive bull behind them. Its horn had just directly torn apart a tree that blocked its way.
"Get out of the way!"
The bull charged at high speed to Lu Wan"s direction, the poor boy hurriedly changed his direction to the side as he madly circulated his Eon Energy. His hand summoned out his chain blade in worry.
Slas.h.!.+
Right this time, Ye Jiao used her dagger and cut the bull"s side to attract its attention. Her legs were prepared to run if it was needed.
"We need to hurry before the rests catch up with us."
The bull was a rank 2 beast and it had directly destroyed everything on his way. The other beasts hadn"t arrived yet, but it would take less than one minute for them to charge here and possibly trampled everything beneath them.
Moo!
The bull made a loud sound. It was similar to that of a cow, but sounded more terrifying and heavy compared to them.
In the next second, it charged straight to Ye Jiao"s direction as the girl changed her direction.
Thud!
The bull"s horn hit her leg as Ye Jiao rolled on the ground. Qi Huan took this chance and charged to the bull, stabbing his sword from the side.
Jleb! Slas.h.!.+
At the same time, Lu Wan also directed his blade and wounded the bull"s side. The two sharp blades made a deep wound on its body as blood spurted out madly from its side.
"Don"t stop!" Ye Jiao yelled. Her face contorted in pain when she put weight on her legs, but she continued her charge to the bull.
As if sensing her, the bull suddenly changed direction and headed straight to Lu Wan. Its head directed the horn straight to Lu Wan! There was no time for him to retreat.
Clang!
Using his chain like rope, Lu Wan blocked the bull"s charge. He could feel his bone crushed because of the pressure, yet he continued to use his Eon Energy to his entire body to make sure that he would still be alive.
It was at that time, he felt a barrier was crossed and Eon Energy poured out of his body, protecting him.
"Senior Brother Lu!" Ye Jiao yelled and chased after the bull. Her curved dagger was stabbed on the bull"s back.
MOO!
The bull tried to move back, but Qi Huan had appeared by his side.
"Oh no, you don"t."
Stab! Stab! Stab!
The boy stabbed his sword to the bull in several movements, aiming for the heart. As blood gushed out like a waterfall, the bull created another noise again before it fell on the ground.
THUD!
"Is it over?" Lu Wan asked. In the next second, he could feel inside was burning and his stomach was twisted.
*cough* *cough*
"You have internal bleeding!" Qi Huan raised his voice in alarm.
"Uh-what?"
"We have to treat you fast!"
Before they could move from their position, they could see large amount of beasts coming out from the forest. They were running to their direction as if their lives depended on it.
Their expression turned grim. Could they survive this?
One has a twisted ankle, one has internal bleeding, and only the last one was fine.
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~~~ANNOUNCEMENT~~~
Hey everyone, Thank you for reading up until now and I"m really grateful for all the support you have shown me thro the comments, the votes, and the gifts all this times. (^_^)/
It has been more or less four months ever since the novel first published until now. When I first try to write this novel, I never expect that I could have a lot of readers. After all, I pick up quite an unusual route of story (with a female character that started as a child). The comment and the constant support shown to this novel keeps me going on because I know there are readers out there waiting for new update of the novel.
Don"t worry, I"m not making an announcement to end the novel (There are still a lot of chapters that I want to write and share). I"m making this announcement to tell you that POTL will be premium, which meant that the chapters will be locked.
I know that many of you didn"t like the premium, but I have spent hours working to create this novel. As some of you might have known (from the author"s note regarding exams before), I"m still a student and writing is my hobby plus side work, so I also wish to gain some income from it.
I do hope that you can continue to support me in this journey with the characters. Still, if you choose to drop the novel because it becomes premium, I respect your choice since I know that many of you have other novels you would prefer to spend your coins. It has been a pleasure to spend all these times with you.
Once again, I sincerely thank you for supporting me all this time. After all, I can"t get this far without all of your support no matter how insignificant you thought they were.
(As for the price of the coins (I really want to write spirit stones, but *sigh*), it"ll depend on the word count. 200 words is 1 coin. With the amount of words that I usually write, the price should be around 6-8 coins per chapter, sometimes might be more or sometimes lesser, but it shouldn"t stray too far)
As the start of premium, which is the next chapter, I will give a ma.s.s release. I can"t give you the exact date, yet, but it won"t take too long (~_^)
Hope you will enjoy them~ (And don"t worry, I will keep my usual chapter release of one chapter each day plus some bonuses as I"m still in holiday). You don"t need to give me gifts if you can"t, just use them to unlock the chapter after this if you still choose to continue reading.
Thank you!
With Love u003c3,
Sorahana
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P.S: Just to make it clear, I won"t relock any of the previously free chapters. The locked chapter will start from the next chapter, which is chapter 158 and onwards.