To others it seemed like a screech, but Long Yu clearly heard a raspy voice, "You mongrels how dare you hurt me, kukukuku, you are different and more delicious, I will bring present you to our queen, damn aren't you lucky to be father of thousands of my new siblings, Daddy~ dearest."
Long Yu gritted his teeth this bugs from his 'Never to Meet Ever list', were really testing his patience, wait a minute a 8th rank Zifu Disciple calling someone Queen and mother, there is a high chance that this Queen bug may be one of those few Wanxiang Adept monster, they will have to hurry or else if she arrives it will be disastrous.
"F**k we have rotten luck", cursed out Jack loudly, neither the group nor the spider moved as they eyed each other.
"Jack! There is child here do not curse in front of a child.", Tina scolded Jack with a scandalized look on her face.
Long Yu did not pay any attention to it, he activated his 'Divine Eyes' and 'Buddha's Mind', another Rank 6 skill he learned from Celestia, as long as this skill is active it calms one mind, also it allows them multitasking and parallel thinking at an insane level. But Long Yu knew he has only a couple of minutes before he will suffer backlash from using such high level techniques not only that he will be exhausted.
He used a Rank 3 technique, Whispering Winds', his elder sister Antariskh taught him, a supportive skill used to communicate with allies who are nearby a very useful and easy to use skill for those below immortal level.
A faint whisper reached the group Shadow Wolves ears, "I have a plan", they quickly took a sideway glance towards Long Yu, who quickly explained his plans to others.
Bashista in a scathing manner, "This is too risky we ca…", but was interrupted by Long Yu, " I trust you, I know I can trust my life on your hands. On top of that she is angry at me and targeting me specifically, thus only I can pull this off", he and his tem never understood, but they felt compelled to listen to a child.
Suddenly Jack screamed out, "F**k, I do not want to die.", with that he bolted in a random direction as fast s he could, soon the rest of the shadow wolves followed suit as they bolted in different directions. Leaving a dumbfounded and scared Long Yu alone, who fell on his butt out of fear, tears appeared on his face, "Guys where did you all go", he shouted, but no answer came, the spider tried to sense for any presence nearby but she found none, oh well she will hunt them soon with her sisters, but first she will transport this child to her mother. "Please I did not do anything to you leave me alone", whimpered out scared Long Yu shaking in fear and the bloodlust from the spider.
A dozer eyes leered at Long Yu as it jumped towards Long Yu, as it jumped towards its prey, its dozens of eyes locked into Long Yu's dread filled eyes, all of a sudden, the dread vanished replaced by a sudden all too familiar glint appeared in the child's eye, she had seen when her mother hunt's her prey after luring the prey in a trap, she cursed herself she had become too arrogant and now she will fall in a trap, it will hurt a lot but she had confident she will escape from it but the jeers she will have to listen it made her blood boil in anger.
Long Yu quickly executed a Rank 4 movement skill 'Floating Cloud Steps', and moved out of harm's way, as he shouted out," ACTIVATE", an array as big as half the size of the 20 foot wide spider formed on the ground underneath it, before it could react it was slammed by a combination of fire and wind, tossing it up in the air flipping it, it screeched in pain from being burned by wind enhanced flame, it had never in its long life suffered so much pain the flames roasting and charring the underneath of the spider black, its eyes became red with anger, it no longer wanted to capture him but wanted to feast on his flesh. But unfortunately it never got a chance, when it was completely flipped up in midair, two words glowed on its body "PARALYZE", "GRAVITY", suddenly the gravity around the creature increased to 100 times, the spider weighing a ton slammed from a height of 50 feet as if struck by a giant invisible sledge hammer creating a huge crater the entire forest floor in the nearby vicinity shook at the impact, Long Yu did not waste any time, he bellowed out, "NOW!!!!", soon his teammates appeared brandishing their weapons as the attacked the spider relentlessly.
Long Yu winced as he saw the downed spider, the fall broke its carapace that was on top of it, and its tail caught between its body and the forest floor was crushed, as bluish white blood flowed out of it. Before he himself attacked with his favorite and only original skill, 'Joyous Rain', his master's gave the skill a Rank of 4, but at the same time encouraged it to see if the skill can be evolved and with lots of trial and error he created various version of the skill.
Normally a skill of any rank is further sub divided into 4 different types from the lowest Low level, Mid level, High level and the highest Superior level, the Superior level skills are bit different from the other three because unlike them, this one has almost reached the next rank.
Long Yu used his strongest attack skill, a Rank 7 Superior level Skill or which many may call a Pseudo-Rank 8 Skill, 'Joyous Rain Version 28', this skill not only had the properties of the original Rank 4 skill 'joyous Rain', but it was enhanced by combination of Grand Dao Of Sword, Grand Dao of Alchemy, Grand Dao of Ice and Superior Dao of Fire, the level 5 sword force shaped like raindrops, drilled into the spider, the Spider was burned, roasted, frozen and melted from the inside. Soon before the bewildered eyes of the Shadow Wolves team, spider died giving off a loud shriek, as loud flame burst from the inside as a part of it turned to ash, a part of it froze and then shattered before vaporizing to dust and another part melted giving up a pungent smell, indicating poison was into play. The whole spider was gone within a few breaths of time, nothing left except a few scorched marks and gooey liquid which was currently corroding the forest floor in its place.
Veronica spoke for the first time with a slight hint of fear, "Long Yu what was that attack?"
Long Yu gave a smug grin, "That was an experimental version of a skill I created almost a year ago."
The Shadow wolves were stunned when hearing that, what kind of genius are they dealing with, such level of cultivation attained at such young age, mastery of array to the point it greatly injured a creature 4 sublevel above him, not to forget the attack which he claimed was created by him, at least a Rank 8 by their standard, not to mention the battle tactics and intellect. This kid will grow up to be a fearsome fellow whose name will echo in every corner of this realm if he lives long enough, their thought was interrupted when Long Yu coughed up some blood and they were horrified t see blood dripping from his nose as well, Veronica quickly stepped forward, as she checked on Long Yu, helping him to stop the bleeding as well as cleaning the blood of him.
The others surrounded him, Ruth spoke up, "Brother you alright? Did you get poisoned?", everyone had concerned look on their face.
Long Yu just shook his head before replying, "Do not worry, I am fine I just use a few support skill, to enhance my thinking and multitasking capabilities, as I exceeded the normal usage limit I suffered a little backlash nothing to worry about."
Only to get bopped in his head by Jessie, "'Nothing to worry about' my a**, do not use such dangerous technique if something happens we will not be able to get help in time.
Ruth: "Here use this it will remove the smell of blood from your body, we do not want to attract some predator."
After everything was settled the packed their bags again and set off. What they failed to notice was that a small spider of Rank 3 Houtian saw everything as it scampered off to notify its Queen about the death of one of its beloved daughter.
Meanwhile Ryuu/ Long Yu noticed a number '1' appeared on the array on his wrist, he asked, "Why does my wrist have a number '1' on it?"
Jack: "The point are usually shared by teammates thus '1' means we have collected 1 point till now, only 4,999 to go, we have to pick up the pace we only have 7 days to conquer all biomes."
Long Yu grimaced at that, 'the creator of this trial was a miser.'
While his group was busy chatting Bashista's brain was running a thousand mile per second, the kid would have looked cute carrying that kiddy looking teddy bear backpack, but the battle prowess, the presence he told them to follow his plan, he could never forget it, when the kid asked them to no ordered them to follow his plan, he felt compelled to follow as if something stopped all logical reasoning of his brain only following his command was the only thing he wanted to do.
The kid is dangerous, what is he?, is he even Elder Mei's Grandson or is he something else masquerading as a child. He suddenly heard laughter as he saw Jessie making fun of the kid drinking milk from his bottle. While the kid was spouting how 'milk is awesome and awesome people like him only drink milk.', he even cracked a smile on seeing the duo bantering, 'nah after all he is just a child, a child I do not want to make an enemy out of.'