The two's hearts were beating rapidly as if it was about to jump out of their chests as they tried to fall asleep.
Tonight was especially cold so their bodies instinctively got closer for warmth once they fell asleep and were once again in the same position.
However, something disrupted their peaceful rest.
Roar!
The two instantly woke up and had no time to think about the ambiguous position that they were once again in.
Zi Hua hurriedly retrieved the tent into her storage ring, she only had one tent after all, then readied herself to face the stampede.
He Li did the same and got his dual swords out.
They two used the most 'heroic' method to defend themselves against the gray wolves that were heading their way... running for their lives.
To make sure that they do not get separate the two made sure to stay close together and held hands as they fled, disregarding their close contact.
Fleeing would be the most effective way seeing the situation, it would save the most energy.
The two turned to the side and found that the wolves were not chasing them but rather, seemed to be running away.
Whatever they were running from must be rather ferocious to have an entire pack of gray wolves running frantically away.
They soon found the answer, they spotted a enraged caracal-like animal will long teeth chasing after them, unfortunately, the caracal spotted them and diverted it's attention to the much more delicious looking meal, human cultivators, humans are rarely seen in the desert, making them a delicacy due to the low supply.
The caracal was High Stage Saint ranked!
No wonder the pack of wolves were running for their lives.
The two were only Martial Honors and would have difficulty going against it but more importantly, the sound of battle and smell of blood will attract other spirit beasts, if that happens they wouldn't be able to defend themselves in their exhausted states after their fight.
So they made the best possible choice, fly! (A/N: I bel- ok I won't, the other day my friend said that my singing sounded like a dying cat T-T Lol)
Zi Hua had her flying technique which allows her to fly without using spiritual power and He Li had a artifact from his master that only needed a bit of spiritual power to activate and it would create wings to allow him to fly which was much more efficient than using spiritual power directly.
The wings were attached to his back, they were a pair beautiful black feathered wings with purple highlights, his master had an obsession with purple and black due to them being dark colors, the obsession also seemed to have rubbed off on He Li.
The caracal roared and bore its fangs towards them from the ground.
However, although the two didn't require much spiritual power to stay afloat, the wind constantly caused them to go off balance and they had to use spiritual power to stabilize themselves by hitting the air with condensed spiritual power.
They wouldn't be able to stay like that for long.
They have to think up a solution and quick!
"Why don't we fly away?"
"That won't work, it's hard enough staying afloat, travelling like this will only be wasting our spiritual power"
"Then what should we do? We can't fight it but we can't fly away, running on land isn't wise either, we might lose our way whilst escaping or be caught up by it" He Li calmly analysed their situation whilst trying to think of a way to escape.
"Do you have any explosives?" Zi Hua won't be able to use her flame since that may cause a large fire due to its power which may eradicate some spirit beasts, which was not what she wants if she's going to be executing her plan in the future so the next best option was to light off an explosive in the sky to scare it off.
She wouldn't be worried about starting a fire since vegetation was almost non existence and the specks of fire that would rain onto the sand would be extinguished due to the lack of oxygen.
Other spirit beasts will be scared away too and follow their instincts to run away instead of being curious and wondering to see the source of noise unless they weren't normal.