"So you are telling me that there was a beast that chased you to the river and you have no choice but to jump down from a cliff to escape" Xiao Ying had told him everything about her journey with the guards.
"It must be a new kind of animals that I haven't found yet but from what she described it, it must be an Ape" Sun Zhen had no memory of such animals, even from the predator category.
Even if he had met one, he would die really fast even with the Dark Furry (Spear) because he hadn't learned anything about fighting or any Spear Art.
"Please stay inside, I will go out a little bit" Sun Zhen decided to prepare more stuff for this so-called monster.
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At the same time, the news about Xiao Ying missing inside the Forest caused a lot of commotion because most of the people thought that if 4 Late-Stage Juqi couldn't fight the monster and 2 of them already been killed by it.
Chance of her surviving? Almost 0% so people thought that she was dead.
*Inside the
Eye Patch Man's base*
"I should have prepared for this" Eye patch guy sat on his chair as he looked out the window.
Behind him were subordinates who all lowered their head because they let the information spread. When Guard#1 came back with injuries, they escorted him back to base for treatment and they did it openly while most of the people knew about the mission.
Not only that, some people asked him about the incident inside the Forest and he answered it like he was a hero but failed to save people. So the information just spread to all the corners of the city.
"He will be here any seconds now" Eye patch man closed his eyes and sensed the insane amount of Qi from one direction.
When he opened his eye, a person already appeared in front of him and it was Scar man. Even the subordinates couldn't see how he just appeared in the room.
"Blind, you seem relaxed?!" Blind was the Eye patch guy nickname and Scar guy said it with his killing intent spread all over the room.
"Don't be too rash, Xiao Yun. You and I all know that this is an unfortunate incident" Blind didn't back down as he also used Scar guy name and counter the killing intent with his own.
Xiao Yun (Scar Guy) and Blind (Eye Patch guy) made a Qi storm just by letting their Qi out. The Qi storm blew all the subordinates away while the 2 guys were the center of the Storm.
"You known that I can not do anything about this, your daughter wanted an adventure and you asked me for her protection. If you asked me to go with her then I will do it but we can not just leave the city" Blind said.
"I don't really care anymore, she is gone" Xiao Yu finished speaking, he attacks Blind.
Their fists clashed and there were thousands of afterimage from their hands appeared. This showed that they were on another level different from those Juqin stages.
But the fight didn't last long as Xiao Yun was much stronger than Blind. Xiao Yun had more Qi and had better techniques to fight back.
"HUH" Xiao Yun hit in Blind's chest with his fist that so strong that created a force of air blew out of his body.
Because of the pain, Blind kneeled down and coughed out blood from his lung. Xiao Yun only looked at him with anger in his eye as he raised his hand and readied to chop Blind's head off.
When Xiao Yun's hand almost reached the neck, his hand stopped and he was forced back by some force that normal people couldn't see.
Angry and frustration that what Xiao Yun felt for Blind and his useless "guards" but this time he didn't look at Blind. Instead, he looked at the tower in the middle of the town despite he was very far away.
The tower was the tallest building in the city, it styled like a pagoda tower in Chinese. On the highest floor of the tower, there was an old man who seemed in very deep meditation.
His clothes looked like a monk from the mountains. His head and beard were deep white but his beard was so long that it reached the stomach.
"Don't stop me. If not, I will release all of it"
Xia Yun threated the old guy through telepathy that only high-rank cultivators could do.
"Your daughter is still alive and well" The old man showed him a pink petal, it was vibrating with life and energy.
"...Life Petal, when did she become your disciple?!" Even in an unreal world, the whole place shook as Xiao Yun screamed with Qi bursting out of him.
"That isn't important right now...you can have my permission to leave the city only for 5 hours. Found her fast" The telepathy world was destroyed as they left it.
As Xiao Yun returned back, he really wanted to kill Blind but the old man refused to let the guy be killed. He really didn't like the outcome but he still had a way to relieve his anger.
Xiao Yun started lifting his hand and someone appeared in the air. It was Guard#1 and seemed like all his injuries were treated.
Panicked and confused, Guard#1 was just inside his room but now he was inside the base lobby and floated in the air. He then noticed Xiao Yun and figured out that he was here for his daughter's death.
"Please don't kill me, it wasn't my fault...She should have stayed with us" Guard#1 shouted out with fear but Xiao Yun didn't care as he was starting what he wanted to do.
Guard#1 suddenly felt pain all over his body at the same time as Xiao Yun slowly closing his hand. People started to hear the sound of bone cracking from Guard#1.
It was like crushing a paper, Guard#1 kept being crushed and crushed until his flesh exploded all over the place.
It was gory and disturbing, most of them puked out because of the thing they saw.
"BLIND, I will forgive you for sending incompetent people to protect her but never ever let me see you. If I see you again, I will make you completely blind"
After giving Blind an option to save himself, Xiao Yun flew into the sky and headed to the Forest.
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"I hope this would be enough," Sun Zhen said as he finished preparing for the worst case scenario
After thinking a bit, he decided to go with her to the city. The reasons were that he missed people and civilization, even if it was a little backward and the second reason was that he wasn't confident to take on an Ape that killed people, and it was smart enough to know how to ambush.
As for everything inside his camp, he would leave those things behind as he didn't need them anymore, even the rabbits and the tree because he already had all of them inside the Block.
When he came back into the house, he saw 3 more empty bowls of apples.
"Damn, how the hell she can eat that much of apples without feeling full. Those apples were enough to feed me half a year" He thought.
"...I am sorry, it's just that I am very hungry" Again, she used her hand to cover her red face.
"Nah, don't worry too much, I have plenty more. But we have to go now, staying inside the forest ain't going to help us. We need to go back to your city as soon as possible" He said.
"Okay. Lucky for us, I still have the map inside my bag" Sun Zhen also picked a bag near her when they were at the river.
As she opened the map, he could see the whole forest and it was huge. There were many parts that were out of his reach because it was too far away or too dangerous to go on.
He also noticed a lake on the map and familiar place so he concluded that was his place on the map.
"Great, at least we know the direction" She said it while still eating an apple.
After they finished preparing, they got out of the house and Xiao Ying didn't move as she kept looking at the tree and its apples. She was drooling all over those apples on the tree.
"Is she addicted to those apples? I never saw a case that a person got addicted to apples before" He thought.
Without his permission, she picked all those apples with an unbelievable speed. Less than a minute, all the apples had gone into her bag.
"Ahem, we need to prepare food for our journey. Just in case something happens" She coughed
"Okay then" No, he knew she was lying but chose not to speak about it.
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*One Hour Later*
"Where are we on the map right now?"
"Still far away from the city"
The Two had already gone very far from Sun Zhen's place but only with a map and the changing terrain which made the journey way harder.
Also, there were only 2 apples left because Xiao Ying ate almost all of them about 15 minutes ago and they chose not to talk about it as she was too ashamed of herself.
As they were walking, they saw something not too far away from them
"Hum? What is that?.....A person?" Sun Zhen said
"Oh god...it is one of my guards" After seeing who it was, Xiao Ying said with fear and concern for the man.
Because they talked loud enough, Guard#4 looked up and his face filled with joy as he finally found some help.
"Help...Help..he..lp please" He barely could say anything as he was too thirsty, tired and full of injuries on his body.
Before they could respond to the Guard, something dropped down from the tree and crushed the guard, killed him in process. The one that killed the guard was the Ape from before.
"Blahhhh" Sun Zhen vomited as he saw the man head crushed right in front of him. He had seen a lot of human and animal corpses but he never saw a human got killed, let alone the scene of the head being crushed.
"We have to run" Xiao Ying's face paled but she was calm and pulled Sun Zhen up to run away from the monster.
Without any hesitation, they ran as fast as possible but didn't think about where they were running. The Ape didn't act like last time, it chose to run after them by jumping from trees to trees.
No matter how long they ran, the Ape still behind and he knew that soon he and Xiao Ying would be tired, meant that their chance of surviving would be decreased significantly.
"Ying, stop, I need you to pass me one of the apples while you hide somewhere" He said while kept looking at the Ape
"What? Are you crazy, you will die. My guards are Juqi stage yet they still got killed by that monster" Both of them didn't stop but they slowed down a bit.
But before they could run anymore, Sun Zhen ran at her and held her hand so that she could stop running.
"Trust me, I will not die," He said with confidence but his trembling feet said otherwise.
She stared into his eyes and it showed fear of dying but it also showed the will to survive.
"Please don't die" She then gave him the apple from the bag and ran away far enough to see the Sun Zhen.
When the Ape saw one of the preys stopped running, it also stopped and jumped down to see what kind of play was the prey playing.
"You are one ugly Ape" Sun Zhen could now look closely at the Ape and it was ugly as f***.
He then brought out the Spear from his back and dropped the bag that he prepared for the journey. After that, he bit the apple the regain energy.
Seemed like his action angered the Ape as it was a sign of looking down on it. Angered, it smashed its chest and readied to kill him.
"Come here you Ugly Assh***"
He pointed his Dark Fury at the Ape as he provoked it more despite it didn't know human language.