"Thank you, Master."Ye Jiao beamed as she kept the egg close to her. On the side, Qin Zheng shook his head. "You should be careful when making a contract with beasts in the future. You can only have a limited number of beasts."
"Ah, then how many can I have?"
"One."
"…" it meant that she could only have this little egg as her beast? Ye Jiao pulled the egg into her embrace as if saying that she didn"t want to get separated from it. No matter what, she wanted to keep it.
Qin Zheng opened his mouth, wanting to say something else when they suddenly sensed danger. His eyes sharpened. "Ye Jiao, you should keep the egg inside your body for now."
"What?"
"Just think of the egg entering your body and it will be because it"s your beast."
Ye Jiao did as Qin Zheng told her as she thought of the egg entering her. In the next second, it disappeared from her view and she could weirdly find it inside her consciousness. It was as if there was another s.p.a.ce inside her body where the beast could reside.
She quickly refocused her attention as she looked in the direction where she could sense immense pressure. A large dark wolf beast appeared within their view. Its fangs glowed under the light, threatening them along with an invisible layer of pressure it gave off.
"I can"t move."
The moment the beast came to her view, the pressure grew bigger and it bound her entire body. In that moment, Ye Jiao understood that the beast in front of her was not a beast at rank 3, but a rank 4. The difference was so large that it was terrifying.
"Ye Jiao, Qin Zheng, you should stay back," Zhan Jing stepped forward. "I"ll take care of this beast."
"Master!"
Zhan Jing smiled rea.s.suringly. "Do not worry, this level of beast can do nothing to me."
Growl!
The dark wolf beast growled deeply and charged straight towards Zhan Jing. It dashed like lightning. So fast! They can"t even properly see the movements when they heard the sound of a clash.
Bam!
Zhan Jing directly made a wall out of the dirt in front of him. He frowned deeply. This beast was pretty fast.
Growl!
The wolf jumped to the side and dashed again.
It had turned into a contest of speed as the wolf kept on trying to reach Zhan Jing, but the man didn"t allow it. He would create a wall to block and then attack with his large sword.
Slas.h.!.+ Howl!
"Jiao"er," Qin Zheng suddenly called out. "There"s another one."
Ye Jiao"s body turned cold when she heard what Qin Zheng said. Since the first dark wolf"s attention was fully focused on Zhan Jing, her body was released out of the pressure. She could move again, but she hadn"t dared to do so because of fear and worry that her movements would gain the wolf"s attention.
Looking at the side, she could see a beast awfully similar to the first one walking towards their direction. It was emanating an ominous aura as it growled deeply, threatening the two of them.
"Can you move?" Qin Zheng asked.
Ye Jiao nodded slowly. "I think I still can."
"This beast has just advanced to rank 4, so its power should be limited. I need you to attack it together with me."
"Do you think we can match our speed?" Ye Jiao frowned. They hadn"t fought together because all this time, it was finished with just one of them. In addition, they would rather fight with one another than helping out because of their interaction so far.
"We have to try," Qin Zheng said unhurriedly. His expression turned solemn as he summoned his sword. This was Ye Jiao"s first time seeing the black sword up close. Compared to the first time when this young man used it when he was chased by the people from Bao Fu organization, the sword looked a bit scary as there was a baleful aura around it.
Perhaps, it was her who didn"t pay close attention to it back then.
"I"ll begin."
As soon as he finished saying that, Qin Zheng dashed off from his place and headed towards the wolf. His sword was swung hard, but the wolf already saw it as it jumped to the side, evading the attack beautifully.
Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ Jleb!
Howl!
While his right hand swung the sword, Qin Zheng took the opportunity to pick out his hidden weapon and threw it to the wolf"s direction. One of them missed but the other one directly hit the beast on its stomach.
Just when the wolf wanted to charge back to Qin Zheng, Ye Jiao arrived by its side and swung her dagger.
Swis.h.!.+
It hit the air as the wolf jumped back. Gritting her teeth, Ye Jiao pushed her legs to move because the beast raised up its body and leg, trying to stomp her to her death. That one attack left a deep crack on the ground as if telling her that she would surely die if she didn"t move from that place.
"This is insane."
She could barely move under the pressure that the beast emanated from its body, yet she had to fight with it. Readying her dagger, she was about to face the wolf again when Qin Zheng had attacked its leg.
Slas.h.!.+
It cut off the wolf"s back leg directly. The wolf quickly used its other legs to create a distance as it howled angrily. Blood flowed out from the place where its leg was cut.
"You won"t be able to move as fast as before," Qin Zheng said coldly, a dark killing intent flashed within his eyes for a split second.
From the side, Ye Jiao"s body froze for a moment when she sensed that thick killing intent. If she had to say, it was far darker and harsher compared to the one that Qi Huan used before. It was as if she was facing a greater killing machine much more frightening than her senior brother.
It was scary yet fascinating at the same time.
Growl!
The beast charged straight to Qin Zheng as the latter used his sword to directly block the wolf"s bite. His eyes narrowed when he sensed the sudden change of pressure around him. Formless wind blade appeared within the air and attacked him directly.
Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+ Slas.h.!.+
Qin Zheng"s eyes were solemn as he looked at the beast. His left shoulder has a slas.h.i.+ng wound as blood flows out.
"Careful, Ye Jiao. He"s starting to use his power as rank 4."
"I understand."
Internally, Ye Jiao wished to escape more than anything. This beast was capable of using elemental power, which meant that she had to face a much stronger and much dangerous beast compared to the one before. With her movements already limited due to the pressure, now she had to make sure that she didn"t die because of his elemental attack.
Great. She jumped the rank too much…
Couldn"t this beast appear when she already reached rank 3 instead of now? She didn"t want to die yet.
Growl!
The wolf growled and summoned several wind blades out of the midair. It was directed at Ye Jiao and Qin Zheng, forcing the two of them to scatter and jump here and there to evade the attack.
Amidst the barrage of the wind blades, the two of them tried to get closer to the beast. Several wind blades. .h.i.t their body, engraving wounds on their flesh. Once he was close enough, Qin Zheng directly swung his sword towards the beast"s head.
Clang!
It was faced with the wolf"s fangs.
Ye Jiao slipped into the back and swung her dagger to the wolf"s other leg with all of her power. The thickness of the flesh and bones made her wonder how Qin Zheng managed to slash through it. With her current strength, she was unable to pierce through the bone!
Clang! Jleb!
"Coat your dagger with Eon Energy!" Qin Zheng yelled. He threw several small blades to the wolf as it moved to evade them.
Ye Jiao looked at her sword with widened eyes. She had never learned how to coat her sword with Eon Energy. Seeing the wolf was getting ready to charge at her again, Ye Jiao just pushed out her Eon Energy and covered her dagger with it.
Slas.h.!.+
Qin Zheng attacked the beast from the back, gaining its attention again. The dark wolf turned around and attempted to bite Qin Zheng as it created numerous wind blades again.
Ye Jiao took this chance and moved nearer to the dark wolf"s leg. She swung her sword as fast as possible, hitting the same wound she caused before. The dagger has increased in sharpness as it cut through the bone. It didn"t cut off the leg, but it was close to it.
HOWL!
The angry wolf howled to the sky. It turned its body around as it created numerous wind blades. It was at that time Qin Zheng stepped forward. His sword pierced through the wolf"s neck. The wind blades that were about to form midair stopped as it started to scatter, returning back to its original form as air.
"It"s over," Qin Zheng whispered as a killing intent flashed within his eyes once again.
The wolf, terrified with the sudden outburst of killing intent, stopped for a split second. Qin Zheng swung his side to the outside as blood spurted out just like a water fountain. The dark wolf"s eyes turned dim as it fell on the ground with a loud thud.