A musky smell of earth hit his nose, chirping of birds, Ryuu noticed they were standing on a forest floor, trees so big that their tops cannot be seen, so thick it would take twenty full grown men to even surround its trunk.
Ryuu/Long Yu: "Wow, this forest is huge, so which of this biome that is the most dangerous."
Bashista: "It is relative you see some may say snow biome, for some it will be forest", he replied with a shrug.
Long Yu nodded at that, as they were walking he kept his ears open as he listened to the chirping of the birds and howling and growling of animals as well as noises made by smaller insects. Trying to discern anything he could find anything about the forest.
Suddenly he heard a cacophony of various smaller animals as they fled, he only made out a few tidbit, 'run the seductress is here', he showing extreme a agility caught a small red tailed squirrel, a level 1 Xiantian beast, the beast was scared, first he was running from that seductress now he was caught by a human, he had heard how vicious humans are, he cursed his luck, before closing his eyes waiting for his death. But death did not arrive to him, instead he heard the human speaking in his language, "Oy squirrel speak who this seductress is? If you speak truthfully I will release or else kukukuku."
His kind was always known as faint hearted coward, but he knew well they were realist who knew their abilities well, as well as non violent beast, who detested violence as such they do not participated any form of combat. But he wouldn't let this human push him thus he replied with great anger, "My lord my father, my grandfather, oh great ancestor please have mercy.", Long Yu glared at him, his Divine body acting its magic, he uttered only one word, "answer". "Yes yes my lord, the seductress is a Human faced Spider –scorpion.", Long Yu's blood ran cold, he instinctively released the squirrel, who hastily ran away as fast as he could. Meanwhile his teammates were wondering what was he doing, "Brother Yu, what happened, stop playing with the squirrel, let's go."
Long Yu stammered out, "Yes let us leave", how could he warn his teammates now, without trying to tell about his divine body. Suddenly a thought occurred to him.
"Brother, the beasts seemed restless as if they are fleeing from something, I caught the squirrel it seemed it was frightened beyond believe, there must be some strong creature coming this way."
The others hummed at that they knew as a team their points are shared thus instead of mere 5000, they have 40000 in each biome to get a pass into the next biome.
Bashista frowned before asking, "Long Yu which direction did they come from."
Long Yu: "East."
Bashista:"Tina Veronica scout ahead, we will set up ambush here."
Long Yu took a deep breath, this was his very fast battle, a battle to death he had spar with his teachers, or some puppet soldier, but never a living breathing creature, he tried to calm his nerves as he thought of every possible attack scenarios and weakness of the Human faced Spider-scorpion.
Soon he saw a panicked looking Tina and Veronica, "Run it is a Rank 7 Zifu Disciple, Human faced Spider-scorpion. ", at that all the members of shadow wolves had a grim face, among them only Bashista and Han were Rank 8 Zifu Disciple, others were only Rank 7 Zifu Disciple, except Jessie who was only Rank 6 Zifu Disciple the weakest before Long Yu arrived. A beast is always stronger than those of the same rank, but there are some who are very dangerous like this spider, it had scorpion like tail that looked like a very beautiful female, with a very enticing voice but in reality a very dangerous poison organ from which a very dangerous poison is released which effects anyone who breathes in or physically come in touch with it. The person becomes a thrall to the spider, who the spider uses to fertilize her eggs, then she uses the thrall as an incubator to her eggs, which when hatches eats the host alive from the inside.
Long Yu was scared the last thing he want to become some baby spider chow.
They were zipping through the forest for hours, when suddenly Ruth who was at the front stopped before signaling others to stop, before motioning others to be silent then pointing, they saw a participant, lying on the ground naked as he kept giggling in a creepy manner with drool leaking from his mouth, a huge spider lying on top of him, as something seemed to penetrate the man which was sending something round inside the man. It was black hairy spider, with ten of her eyes darting here and there keeping an eye out. A large beautiful woman looking tail was raised proudly, the face of the woman looked lifeless and a tad bit creepy to Long Yu, a live Human faced Spider-scorpion, and normally he would be happy to meet some new creatures, this was one creature which was near the top of his 'Never to Meet Ever list', he wanted to save the poor man but jumping foolishly will do more harm than good, he looked towards his team leader waiting for his orders.
He wasn't disappointed, when Bashista gave the order to move to the rear, the will attack while the creature was busy from the rear, they will try to flip the creature, then pin down or completely cut off its tail. The abdomen was the softest spot for it the will attack it with everything, and kill it as fast as possible.
The leader gave the signal and they attacked, Bashista and Ruth used their war axe and great sword respectively and attacked the beast in an upward motion with two loud cries, "Sky Splattering Axe", "Great Dividing sword", the spider gave a screech before it was turned upside down, the other wasted no time as they attacked the legs severing them as Tina and veronica riddled the tailed with arrows enough to completely immobilize it. The shadow wolves attacked their downed foe ruthlessly, bringing an end to their foe.
The poor bastard was gravely injured, the attack which flipped the spider caused the proboscis to be ripped apart forcibly causing the injury, soon the man died, Long Yu was horrified at first but soon the array on his neck worked its magic, calming him down sealing away any traumatizing thoughts at the moment. Jack then poured a liquid on the corpse which then quickly eroded, the only indication of its presence was blackened humanoid spot on the ground.
Tina came and kneeled in front of Ryuu, as he put her hands on his shoulder, "Brother are you alright?"
Ryuu just smiled at her concern, "I am fine we are cultivators something like this shouldn't brother bother this."
Jessie smirked at his answer, "You are right kid, simple faer of death should not bother us."
Some of them were not pleased, 'a child not traumatized by death, why do I smell some foul play here', was the combined thoughts of Veronica, Tina and Bashista.
They quickly dismantled the corpse as they put share of spoil in their respective space bag.
Suddenly Long Yu drew his sword and attacked towards Han, "Joyous Rain", his attack went and hit something above Han, as loud thus and screeching came from behind him, he quickly jumped forward and stood beside his teammates holding his spear tightly, his blood turned cold as his face turned ashen if it weren't for Long YU he would be dead because in front of them was a Rank 8 Zifu Disciple, Human faced Spider-scorpion, who was injured from the previous attack and looked furious.
'We are so dead' a thought shared by all of them.