Path Of The Lilies

As Lu Wan noticed the hostility, he increased his pace and rushed to the Southeast direction at full speed. The other two also followed suit with darkened expressions. They were hoping to get out of this place in one piece and not by getting chased around by a large number of beasts!

"I"m not an idiot!"

"Yes you are!" Ye Jiao yelled. She couldn"t hold back her anger when she saw the beast also started to attack her.

Not only Ye Jiao, Qi Huan also felt like throwing this boy to the river. "Lu Wan, after this, you"re the great tank."

"That"s for later!" Lu Wan yelled without care. Right now, he could only think of reaching the end of the horde and ran in the gra.s.sland to avoid them.

Roar!

A Tiger pounced on Lu Wan. Sensing the strength of the tiger was that of rank 2, Lu Wan stomped his feet on the ground and forcefully s.h.i.+fted his direction. There was no way he would let himself get killed just like that.

"Attack back!"

Lu Wan raised his sword and made a slas.h.i.+ng movement, scaring the rank 2 beast away. He swiftly used this chance to run forward.

Ye Jiao"s eyes narrowed when she saw the beasts in front of her. Her hand took out the sword that Lu Wan gave to her before as a disguise as she moved quickly. Her sword made slas.h.i.+ng wounds on the beast"s legs, cutting them off.

Thud! Thud!

The beasts fell down in succession, blocking the route behind her. Her action caused the beasts on the back to slow down as Ye Jiao continued to push forwards. She tried to escape by using the gap between the beasts, but she knew that it would be impossible to do that every single time.

At times, the gap was simply too small.

"Careful! There"s a river!" Qi Huan warned from behind.

Ye Jiao stopped her legs right on the edge of the river. The river was long and deep, so she swiftly jumped to the back of a nearby beast.

Roar!

"Sorry, but I can"t swim that long with the river"s current."

Using the next beast, Ye Jiao jumped to the next beast, treating them as a bridge for her to pa.s.s. Her eyes were locked onto Lu Wan, who was following after her steps. His face was grave as he knew how dangerous their situation was right now.

Because they were rus.h.i.+ng, they unintentionally headed to the deeper part of the river. It was far longer and the current was stronger compared to the other one that they intended to use before.

"Can you swim?"

"Only a bit," Ye Jiao responded. She was taught how to swim when she was in the last month in h.e.l.l Island because she could do the training too well as rank 1. They taught her other important skills. One of them was swimming.

"Well, it"s a do or die."

Seeing the beasts already started to catch up, the two of them jumped forward while still using the beast as the pivot. The force generated was enough to send them further, but it still didn"t reach the other side.

"The current is really strong."

Ye Jiao moved her arm around in freestyle swimming style to reach the other side. It was hard to move around with her wet clothes, but she continued to pedal her arm and legs. After some unknown amount of time, she finally reached the sh.o.r.e.

Laying her body on the ground, she sighed. At least, they managed to pa.s.s through.

"Senior Brother Lu?" Ye Jiao recalled that she hadn"t heard from her two seniors.

"I"m here," Lu Wan raised his hand. He didn"t have any energy left as he lied on the ground, unmoving.

Ye Jiao directed her line of sight to the other side of the river. Her pupil contracted when she saw Qi Huan was still over there, fighting.

"We forgot Senior Brother Qi!"

"I"m sure he"ll be fine," Lu Wan didn"t have the strength to worry anymore.

Qi Huan was trying to catch up to the two of them. He knew that his speed was far lacking, so he has been pus.h.i.+ng himself to the fullest to generate a large amount of speed with the use of Eon Energy. The longer he stayed here, the more dangerous it would be.

The beasts around him have started to kill one another. They looked like they were ready to pounce at him anytime.

A beast jumped on to him from the side.

Slas.h.!.+

Qi Huan swiftly killed the beast. He saw his two juniors jumped into the water as he also followed suit. As he continued to run, he realized that he could use Eon Energy much better compared with before. It was as if he was breaking through a wall that previously hindered him from using his Eon Energy to the fullest. The feeling was strange, but he enjoyed it.

"Jump!" Ye Jiao yelled.

From behind him, Qi Huan noticed a tiger was making its way to him. He quickly jumped to the water.

Splas.h.!.+

Qi Huan quickly resurfaced and used his hands to pedal to the other side. He was a good swimmer because Chi Kingdom was filled with lakes, so their citizens naturally have a lot of time to swim.

Splas.h.!.+

The sound of water splas.h.i.+ng made his heart freeze. The only one behind him before was only the tiger. Using his Eon Energy, Qi Huan swam faster to reach the edge. His sense was telling him that the beast was trying to catch up, but he managed to shake it off.

"Come over here," Ye Jiao stood near the sh.o.r.e and pulled Qi Huan up when he was close. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, don"t worry so much."

"See, I told you he"ll be…."

Clang!

Qi Huan attacked Lu Wan suddenly and the boy reached equally fast by blocking it. Lu Wan frowned. "Are you going to kill me now?"

PLAK!

In the time needed for Qi Huan to attack Lu Wan, Ye Jiao also moved alongside him. She hit the back of Lu Wan"s head. "Senior Brother Lu, you should know better than to attack a beast in the middle of a beast horde. It"s the same as telling our existence and inviting them to kill us."

"I slipped!" Lu Wan defended himself as he rubbed his head. Before he could react again, he saw a hand coming to him from the front.

BLETAK!

"This is for causing trouble for us," Qi Huan said with clear annoyance. "Also, you should try to remember that you"re not alone in the horde. Do not leave your teammates behind next time."

"I"m sorry too," Ye Jiao also forgot to try searching for Qi Huan in the middle of the horde before. She was too focused on finding the safe way for her to pa.s.s, making her forget about Qi Huan, who was slower compared to the two of them.

"Sorry," Lu Wan apologized. He was still busy rubbing his head as both front and the back suffered from a hit. These two were truly ruthless as they didn"t hold back at all. He was sure that he would have a b.u.mp on his head if this continued. 

"Now stand up. We still need to cross this gra.s.sland and reach the other side. A lot of students are also heading to the beast"s horde now," Qi Huan pointed to the back.

It was hard to see with the amount of beasts there, so they were not worried that someone might see them. Unless that person has an extremely keen sight that could see clearly over the distance of several kilometers, they didn"t have to worry.

"Let"s go."

On the edge of the forest, Chen Zi Quan was looking at the beast horde with a frown on his face. The disruption nearing the end of the horde told him that there must be someone over there.

"Your Highness, shall we proceed?" Wei Cheng asked carefully.

"Have you seen Lu Wan?"

Lu Wan? Wei Cheng shook his head. Aside from the three of them, only several rank 2 students from Chen Kingdom was there. There was not even a sight of Lu Wan among them.

"We should hurry," Chen Zi Quan"s eyes glinted as he sped forward.

Not far from him, Mu Xin has just arrived. She heard what Chen Zi Quan said and her eyes were directed at the beast"s horde. It took her everything she had to arrive here this quick, but Lu Wan was faster?

"Also, didn"t Ye Jiao stay with him? How is it possible for her to move this fast?" Mu Xin felt suspicious, but right now, she had no way to confirm it. Her eyes noticed that the other geniuses from other kingdoms have started to arrive, so she picked up her pace and rushed to the beast"s horde. She didn"t want to be left behind too.