Chapter 96

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Chapter 96- Cultivation (7)

Gu Anran was carefully digging up a herb, while Hong Qingyi was butchering the now dead guardian beast of the herb.

Suddenly, a weird feeling surged in her heart, causing her hands to stop for a moment.

“Anran, my side is finished, what about you?” Hong Qingyi walked over.

“En, mine is done too.” Gu Anran put the herbs into the box and stood up.

“Then let’s start our next mission!” Hong Qingyi took out a sword and flew away.

Must’ve been an illusion…Gu Anran suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, and took out the flying sword before she flew in the direction Hong Qingyi left in.

They soon came to the next mission location. The two of them carefully hid behind some trees as not too far away was a steep valley filled with bloodsucking wovles. The goal of their mission this time was to grab the fruit guarded by the bloodsucking wolves, the Qingxue fruit. It was a medicinal ingredient that every pharmacist dreamed of. Although the herb is not common, it can still be found, so why did every pharmacist dream of it?

That’s because the average strength of the bloodsucking wolves is well-above the Nascent Soul rank and in that valley there are at least 5 wolves of the Spirit-Severing rank. Two of them in the middle stage, one in the final stage, and one at the peak stage that was a half-step away from the next rank. Usually only one Spirit-Severing beast might guard the fruit, but here there were three fruits and thus the level of danger was to be expected.

Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi have just entered the early stage of the Nascent Soul rank. They might not be able to even get rid of one wolf, let alone grab the Qingxue fruit guarded by the wolves. If they carelessly grab the fruit, it would attract the wolves and it would not be very funny when they rip you to shreds.

Even if dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators were here, they would hesitate. After all, fighting with beasts is a dangerous and bloody affair. Furthermore, the beasts can ignore the difference in ranks sometimes and fight cultivators several ranks higher than them. So unless the beast was injured or had children/things they needed to protect, it would always be a very deadly fight for the cultivator. This just showed how fragile human cultivators were. They’re skin was thin and easy to break and their spiritual power was not as abundant. So often the fights were many cultivators against one beast.

“What should we do?” Hong Qingyi swallowed nervously, “It is said that there is a certain scent on the Qingxue fruit that cannot be eliminated no matter what you do. However, only the bloodsucking wolves can smell this scent and can track the thief down even if they’re dozens of miles away. So unless the wolves are killed, we won’t be able to complete our mission.”

Hong Qingyi’s words were indeed correct. In the past, a certain Core Formation cultivator found an unguarded Qingxue fruit with his dumb luck. For some reason, there were no wolves nearby at the time so he picked the fruit and planned to sell it at an auction in the nearest city. However, not long after entering the city, the city was ransacked by a large number of bloodsucking wolves. The large city turned into a living hell as blood stained the roads and broken bones littered the ground. As for the cultivator who brought all this misfortune, all that was left of him was a small piece of clothing and a large pool of blood on the ground. His entire body was torn apart into pieces and the Qingxue fruit disappeared. This incident shocked the entire cultivation world and was one of the reasons why Qingxue fruit are so rarely seen.

This matter also gave Gu Anran a headache. Anyone could see that these wolves were pack animals, and stuck together. Could they try drawing each wolf out one by one and then killing them? But these wolves are not stupid, once they find two or three of their pack members missing, they’ll probably noticed something is wrong and all come out snarling.

This mission may be very dangerous, but the reward was very high, about 15,000 points! That’s about half the number of points they earn from completing the main mission. However, they were risking their lives to gain these points. If the two of them were at the peak of the Spirit-Severing rank or the Form Separation rank they might have had a chance, but the two of them were only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul rank! This was the important point! They’ll be killed immediately!

“I remember that other than the Qingxue fruit, the bloodsucking wolves are also attracted to the scent of the Xunyou grass.” Gu Anran said and then took out a stalk of dark blue leaves that exuded a peculiar fragrance. It took them about half a day to find this grass and they had dug this out of the swamp not too long ago.

One of the bloodsucking wolves’ favorite foods is the Xunyou grass, but because the Xunyou grass is rare and grows deep in the swamp, it is not often found. In a swamp as large as a basketball court, it might not necessarily have this plant so many bloodsucking wolves may not be able to eat them in their entire lifetime. However, the peculiar scent is still very attractive to them even if they haven’t even eaten them before.

“You lure the wolves away and I’ll snatch the Qingxue fruit.” Gu Anran planned.

“But….” Hong Qingyi hesitated.

“Use your spiritual power and this grass to attract them out and then run that way.” Gu Anran pointed in a direction where it can be considered to be the center of the secret realm. In the center resides one of the overlords of the secret realm, one of the rank 7 beasts in the secret realm. If they can use the Xunyou grass to lure the wolves over there and have the overlord take them out, then everything will work out.

“Remember to bring your teleportation device. Once you throw the Xunyou grass over there, make sure to immediately teleport away.

“Alright, I understand.” Hong Qingyi nodded and rushed out quickly.

Soon the smell of Xunyou grass wafted out and in an instant, the eyes of the lazy wolves immediately widened. As if they were injected with chicken blood, their eyes were bloodshot and full of desire and madness.

“Awooooooo~” The loud howls of the wolves resounded throughout the valley and countless wolves rushed out of the valley towards the source of the smell. The scene was a lot like some dogs gone crazy after seeing a bucket of fried chicken!

Gu Anran was somewhat speechless, the effect was so powerful…..but there was only one Xunyou grass and over fifty wolves. How were they going to divide the grass between all of them? Were they going to fight it out? Well, that wasn’t her problem to care about, all she has to do is to complete the mission.

Gu Anran put on the invisibility cloak she had bought from the shop. The cloak could not only make her invisible, but also conceal her scent as well.

Once Gu Anran saw about two-thirds of the wolves out of the valley, she didn’t dare to dally and carefully made her way into the valley. Each wolf was several times stronger than her, so she still tread lightly as she made her way inside.

After carefully bypassing another wolf, Gu Anran arrived at where the three Qingxue fruits were growing and quickly and carefully collected them into her storage ring.

“Awooo!” The angry roars of the wolves still left in the valley sounded out and scarlet eyes all turned to stare at the Qingxue fruit that had disappeared.

Gu Anran was just about to run away, but she never expected that despite wearing the invisibility cloak the wolves were all staring accurately at her. It seemed that she had underestimated the smell of the Qingxue fruits!

After lots of practice, escaping was a trivial matter for Gu Anran. After all, with her low cultivation, it was considered the basics of survival to know how to escape.

She dexterously evaded the bloody claws of the wolves as she gritted her teeth and ran away. However, the terrain here was very unfavorable for her. Meanwhile, the wolves were familiar with the terrain and moved quickly with their strong bodies. If she wanted to make it out alive, she had to get out of the valley! But reality doesn’t always cater to one’s wishes.

AwwooooooO!

A much stronger and even louder wolf howl sounded out. Suddenly, a bloodsucking wolf twice the size of regular wolves appeared and stood at the exit to the valley and blocked Gu Anran’s path. Strands of red hair in the shape of a crown on the big wolf’s forehead made Gu Anran’s pupils shrink, it was the Wolf King!

Then, while she stared at the Wolf King, several bloodsucking wolves a little bit smaller than the Wolf King, but bigger than the regular wolves, jumped down. All seven of these wolves were in the Spirit-Severing rank.

This scene caused Gu Anran’s heart to sink. She watched as the eight wolves rushed towards her and with a feeling of powerlessness, she could only close her eyes and wait for the final ending.

However after waiting for a while, the expected pain and suffering did not come, instead she fell into someone’s warm embrace.

Earlier….

Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan flew as fast as they could on their swords. They passed many precious herbs and fruits, and even when powerful beasts stood in their paths, they didn’t stop and continued forward. Either they slayed their beasts with their swords or simply flew over them and continued forward.

“Qingli, are you sure we have to continue forward?” Chi Mengyan asked. When she met Hong Qingyi, the girl was only in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment rank. Based on those two’s strength and aptitude, they could not have increased their cultivation that much in such a short period of time and survive so close to the center of the realm!

“They’re further ahead.” Mu Qingli said firmly. Although the connection was erratic and their location kept changing, she was sure that Anran must be further up inside the secret realm/

Chi Mengyan believed in Mu Qingli’s ability. This was the only way for her to find Hong Qingyi, because Hong Qingyi and Gu Anran were always together. As long as they found Gu Anran, they would be able to find Hong Qingyi!

The two of them were about to see the people they were longing for after all this time, so they accelerated their speed and flew towards the inner depths of the secret realm.

Awwooo…..woooo….wooooo! Not too far away, the howling of wolves attracted their attention.

“What’s wrong, Qingli?” Chig Mengyan saw that Mu Qingli’s complexion had changed drastically and her heartbeat quickened at the sight of her friend’s pale face.

“Anran is over there!” Mu Qingli rushed towards the direction of the howling wolves. Chi Mengyan’s face also darkened when she heard those words and rushed after Mu Qingli.

When Mu Qingli reached the source of the howling, she saw a scene that made her eyes crackle with lighting. Those eight bastard beasts actually dare to attack her Gu Anran!

In an instant, the spiritual energy of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Form Separation rank erupted out and directly killed five of the Spirit-Severing ranked wolves in a blink of an eye.

Mu Qingli got rid of the Wolf King and the other powerful wolves while Chi Mengyan’s follow-up attack cleaned up the rest of the wolves in the valley. Mu Qingli was not worried about Chi Mengyan at all, and instead focused on the deathly pale and fragile figure in her arms. With a heavy and distressed heart, she hugged the person tightly into her arms.

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