Chapter 117
"Shijie Xu, please don’t hesitate any longer and ask the sect for help!" The Qing-Yun disciples had once again found themselves in a dangerous situation . There is a saying that a single mistake could cause a hundred more, and the "Foundation Stage" beast from before had given the disciples quite the scare, causing them to step off course and into a mountain valley occupied by a pack of Ash Wolves . It didn’t take long before a group of sixth-tier Ash Wolves had surrounded these surviving disciples and pushed them into another battle .
At this point, all of the Qing-Yun disciples were tired and their Qi was in low supply . Xu Linyun in particular had already exhausted her Qi fighting off the two stone golems earlier, and she hadn’t even had time to rest before they’d run into these wolves . This was like adding salt to a fresh wound, as she could no longer defend the Qing-Yun disciples all by herself as she had before .
The disciples fought as they tried to escape from these wolves, and seven or so wolf corpses could already be seen, yet these Ash Wolves still did not give up the chase . Some of the disciples were so terrified that they started to cry out to Xu Linyun for help, hoping that she would ask for assistance from the sect .
Yet Xu Linyun tightened her brows . It would be easy to ask the sect for help, and the cultivation level of the sect master or any one of the chief elders would allow them to definitely come to their rescue . Forget about these wolves, not even the "Foundation Stage" beast from before would be a problem . However, if the sect was called upon, this mission would be deemed a complete failure .
Her shifu had spoken with her prior to the mission, and Xu Linyun was told that the tolerable threshold for failure was fifty percent . Until at least half of the entire group had died, there was no reason whatsoever for her to give up on successfully completing the mission .
The Qing-Yun Sect had already made up its mind . It would use methods similar to those the dark sects used to find a group of talented individuals .
"Everyone, return to that valley in order to fend off the wolves . We shall rethink our plans there!" Xu Linyun had made the decision and tightened her brows even further . She decided that they would retreat back to one of the earlier safer valleys in order to recover Qi with Revitalization Pellets, then she would return to kill the Ash Wolves’ eighth-tier pack leader . She herself was a core disciple in the eighth tier, after all, and she found it unacceptable to give up the mission and ask the sect elders for help just for a beast in the same tier as her . She may have asked for help if the Foundation Stage beast had come after them, but—for better or worse—it seemed that beast in particular didn’t want to make an enemy out of these Qing-Yun disciples and had merely scared them off .
Arooooooo… .
Far away on the peak, the hill-sized pack leader of the Ash Wolves released an eerie howl towards the retreating Qing-Yun disciples . It had seen through the disciples’ plans with its cold gaze and it suddenly leapt from the peak, its claws like steel and its back like iron . It dashed into the forest with an unmatched speed, its body only occasionally visible before it landed amidst the battlegrounds like a bolt of lightning .
With a single claw, two Shuwen disciples were torn asunder .
"No! It’s the wolf king!" Shuwen Valley’s Pi Junzi nearby was shocked at witnessing such a thing and felt his blood run cold .
"Nnngh, can’t wait any longer!" Xu Linyun clenched her teeth and took out two Revitalization Pellets, one for herself and another for her white crane . She couldn’t just sit and wait for the wolf king—who was clearly stronger—to kill all of these Qing-Yun disciples right in front of her, and she therefore decided to give it all she had by replenishing her Qi while taking on the wolf herself .
As soon as the white crane consumed its pellet, it let out a long cry before transforming into a white shadow and looked towards the wolf king with determination . The wolf king let out its own long howl when it heard the crane’s cry, and it changed its focus towards Xu Linyun instead .
After the call of the crane and wolf, however, another loud cry unexpectedly came from an eagle in the distance . The sound was so sharp it was as though it would slice open the heavens, and a black shadow darted towards them as swift as lightning . Before anyone could even clearly see what was happening, a giant steel eagle had arrived above the valley with a youth in his twenties atop its back . The youth’s physique was tall and slim, his eyes shined with a stern light, and his lips were as thin as a blade . "Animal! How dare you put your claws on our Qing-Yun disciples?" the youth atop the steel eagle’s back loudly questioned, and from his hands appeared an iron sword that cleaved downwards from above .
A black sword light flew down from the skies like a sudden streak of black lightning—abrupt and violent . The eighth-tier wolf king was alerted by this and its iron-like fur stood up on its back like millions of sharp needles . The wolf king released a deep, demonic howl, the sound waves turning into a distorted tidal wave that destroyed numerous trees and stones as it headed towards the black sword light .
"Heh, you want to block my iron sword? In your dreams!" the youth atop the steel eagle softly laughed . As he shifted his wrist, the black sword light began to twist and turn freely as though it was filled with life . It split into hundreds of thousands of segments before colliding with the demonic howl—dissipating the wave of sound—before reforming back into one and returning to the youth’s hands with a flash .
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