Chapter 218

Chapter 218 - Unwilling

Translated by Lesyt Team

Edited by Ilesyt

Outside the pit, Ke Ke and the others kept guard . Caesar wanted to go up the mountain several times, but it was stopped by them . He just walked around anxiously .

They did not hear any sound, but felt a little bit of shaking, so they felt it was very strange .

There were a few people who wanted to go down to have a look . But the chief had said they couldn’t move until they heard the whistle .

They had not heard the whistle of the chief yet, so naturally they could not act rashly .

The sun began to go down .

“What to do?” Ke Ke looked at Tuo who was next to him .

Tuo shook his head .

As time went by, everyone became more worried .

“Hey, someone is coming up!” The man at the edge of the pit shouted .

“It’s team leader, Ta!”

“Wei and the others!”

The people waiting outside the pit went to surround them at once .

Ta and Wei found a place to put down the two men with serious injuries and ordered the others to take them down the mountain and prepare some medicine for them . They needed to rest in a place where there was no miasma, to recover properly .

“Wei, you stay here, I will go down to have a look . ” Ta paused and then said to others, “Move away, and stay away from the pit . Don’t go down . ”

After a short fight, Ta knew the gap between them and the bat leader . It was not a common ferocious beast, Even if everyone in the two advance groups fought against it, they may not be able to hurt the bat leader . But it was likely that everyone of them would be killed .

In the pit .

Shao Xuan was still activating the power in his body and releasing the energy of the fire crystal in his hand .

Fortunately, he had been absorbing the energy of the fire crystal, so he was not too tired . But everyone had a limited amount of energy they could absorb from the fire crystals .

Like those warriors who absorbed the energy of the fire crystal at the fire pit, they could only improve themselves a little . A junior totem warrior couldn’t become a senior one directly . If one was too confident or too greedy, he may die before he could upgrade himself due to the explosion of the totem power in his body .

Therefore, after reaching the limit, Shao Xuan no longer absorbed the energy . If he became tired again, he could then still absorb the energy .

And this big guy in front of them, from the beginning to the present, still greatly absorbed the energy from the red energy lines released by the fire crystal . If Ao could see those energy lines, he would be shocked .

A ferocious beast could really absorb the energy of fire crystal! They never knew this .

The light above the pit became less and less . Due to the dense miasma, it was very dark in the pit . Now it was even darker . If they kept waiting, Ao did not know what would happen . They did not like the night, for that would make them feel more worried .

Glancing at the man and the bat that both stood still, Ao carefully stepped toward Shao Xuan .

When Ao was just two steps away from Shao Xuan, that bat leader suddenly looked at Ao . It flapped one of its wings but didn’t open it . This was more like a warning .

A bead of cold sweat dropped from Ao’s forehead, and he even breathed more cautiously . He could feel the black warm fog from the mouth and nostrils of this big bat .

Shao Xuan made a gesture in the back of the bat with his other hand to Ao to tell him not to worry about him and not to get close .

Glancing at the moving wing claws of the bat leader, Ao decided to move back to avoid irritating this guy . Otherwise, Shao Xuan, he, and several others around it would not be able to escape .

Ao had intended to go back, but he could not help but glance at the arm which Shao Xuan held out to the bat . He wanted to find out what was in Shao Xuan’s hand .

It was very dark, but Ao was relatively close to him and he had good eyesight . Even though he could not see the color of the thing in Shao Xuan’s hand, he could generally judge what that was in the end .

The Fire crystal?!

He fixed his eyes on it and found the colour of the fire crystal had become much lighter .

The color of the fire crystal would change for only one reason!

Ao had seen the colour of the fire crystals getting lighter gradually in the fire pit many times . But now it was the first time in his life seeing the color get lighter outside the fire pit!

No wonder the Shaman had such a good attitude towards Shao Xuan!

Ao held back his shock, thought about it, stared at the bat leader, and walked backwards .

Moving back two steps, Ao felt he stepped on something, and with the toe he shifted away the soft soil on the ground . Then he saw a fire crystal the size similar to the one he had picked up earlier .

He had dropped the one he had picked up earlier because of the bat leader suddenly appearing and he did not know where it was now . Unexpectedly he found another one!

Ao picked it up with the toes and it was lifted from the ground .

Ao was about to catch the fire crystal, but he suddenly felt an something about to attack him . A shadow chased away the miasma, and it quietly arrived at him . If not for Ao’s rich experience and intuition, he would probably have died here, not knowing how .

After the previous fight, Ao didn’t dare confront with it and just moved his feet . The soft mud scattered because of the strength of his feet . He barely avoided the attack from something which was as sharp as a big knife by making use of the strength of his feet .

He avoided the attack, but before he went down on the ground, its sharp claws came down from above, and in the next moment would almost kill Ao there .

Fast!

Too fast!

The spear which Ao had used was broken, He could only take out a stone knife at the moment, and raise it to stop the claw . He knew that the bat leader had been able to destroy his spear and Gui He’s sword easily . He might not withstand the next hit, but he had to do so .

Ao knew that when his feet touched the ground, its wing claw would directly hit the knife, and even press hard on the stone knife . However, he could no longer retreat .

When the wing claw came down, an arm raised to stop the wing claw .

The sharp and fierce claw which was about to hit him stopped suddenly .

Ao landed on his feet, but did not run away . He still raised his knife, but looked at  Shao Xuan in front of him .

The bat leader stopped for a few seconds and retracted its wing claw .

As for the fire crystal which Ao found, it was swept away by the wing of the bat leader before he grabbed it . He did not know where it was .

In fact, Shao Xuan did not have the confidence to stop the bat leader, who suddenly became mad . But he couldn’t do nothing while seeing it attack Ao . He just had a try .

It did work .

This bat leader really cared about the fire crystal .

There were many fire crystals, but the energy of those which had been dug out hadn’t been absorbed . There was only one reason for this - it could not absorb the energy inside the fire crystal by himself!

It could perceive where the fire crystals were, and the giant pit was made by it . In other words, it was very likely that the fire crystals on the ground were dug out by the bat leader himself .

Although it dug some fire crystals, it could not get the energy from the crystals . Shao Xuan guessed that it might have swallow the fire crystals as it ate prey . However, after all, even a ferocious in the transformation towards a king beast couldn’t digest those fire crystals .

It just excreted what it ate .

The ground of the pit was covered by rotten things, of which there was much that looked like mud . In fact, it was the feces of the bat leader .

The fire crystal at the foot of Ao, in fact, was what the bat leader got rid of from its body . The soft “mud”, in fact, was its feces .

Having avoided being killed, Ao still felt his fast heartbeat, then heard some  sounds on the rattan vines . He saw Ta coming down from above . Ao waved his hand, indicating that they should not come over . If they irritated bat leader again, Shao Xuan may not be able to stop it from attacking them .

Ao had guessed correctly what Shao Xuan was doing, but due to his limited knowledge, he could not believe it . And he did not want to let more people know Shao Xuan’s secret . The Shaman certainly knew it, but he had not said it for some reasonable reason .

Three hours later, outside the pit, it became even darker . The little moonlight that could enter the bottom of the pit was almost completely blocked by the miasma .

Click!

A slight noise in Shao Xuan’s hand was heard .

The fire crystal, which could not be cut or broken by a sharp knife, cracked .

This also meant that the energy inside this fire crystal was almost completely consumed .

Shao Xuan turned over his wrist to drop the pieces from his hand . In this way he told the bat leader in front of him that the energy of this one had been absorbed . At the same time, Shao Xuan was still thinking: Don't dig out another one from the feces and make me continue to absorb the energy from it .

That bat leader flapped its wings to poke at the crystal pieces on the ground, which has become unobtrusive . No one knew what it was thinking and it just looked at the pieces for a moment, opened its wings, flew, and disappeared in front of Shao Xuan and the others .

When the bat leader left, Shao Xuan felt the air here become fresh . As the bat leader, they felt the stress release .

“It has gone . ” Gui He came and said .

Ta also came, held a fire crystal, handed it to Ao and said, “I just picked it up from there . . . “

Before Ta finished his words, Ao grabbed the fire crystal from Ta’s hand and threw it far away .

Ta: “…”

“The fire crystals in this place, we had better give up . ” Ao said .

“Why?” Ta and Gui He were anxious . There were many fire crystals!

“The bat leader knows this, and it will not let us take even one from here . Otherwise . . . I fear it will chase us and kill us . ”

If it was a powerful ferocious beast, even if they could not defeat it, Ao would take the risk to take the fire crystals away from here . But this was one in the middle of becoming a king beast . That was why they were totally defeated .

If they were chased by such a guy . . . all of them may be killed . Ao did not dare to take this risk .

Many beasts in the mountains were much smarter than what the people expected .

“I agree with the chief . ” Shao Xuan moved his painful arm and said, “Here, every fire crystal has the smell of the bat . Even if we bring them back to the tribe, we will be tracked . ”

Ta and Gui He were silent . They all understood the reason, but they were unwilling .

Fight? They would lose .

Steal? They could not steal .

There were so many fire crystals within reach, but they could not take them .

So unwilling!