" One, two, three, four... " A few weeks passed and Chen Kai and Nameless seemed to get used to their bodies' conditions, by now they were doing push-ups and sit-ups
Shallot hasn't passed any time with them he just stayed floating above them protecting them from any beasts that came after them, the only times he interacts with them is when he brings them food or changes their training regiment
The next day in the morning Shallot finally descended while they were doing some exercises and said " That's enough, you two are ready, you are alone now, I will be waiting on the coast of the desert zone I hope you can arrive there, do not disappoint me " Then *ZOOM* he shoots up to the sky until he's completely gone leaving Chen Kai and Nameless with a surprised expression, he didn't even give them the time to say anything, he didn't even care that they were wearing messed clothes specially Nameless who was shoeless and wearing a big bag of fiber as clothes
Nameless and Chen Kai turn to see each other then Chen Kai says with a serious face " We have to stay together if we want to survive "
Nameless snorts with a smirk as he says " Fine by me, after all, you seem to know more about those beasts than me, but remember this, I won't follow your orders and if you are in trouble you are on your own "
Chen Kai frowns slightly and says " Then it will be the same for you " Then they begin to walk with Chen Kai walking a few steps in front of Nameless
They were walking to the east at a calm pace, taking care of their surroundings from any possible spiritual beast and hiding places, the forest was a little dense causing them trouble detecting any possible beast nearby the good thing is that there were a lot of hidden spots like huge rocks and small sumps to cover their entire bodies
Having walked for at least a couple of hours they didn't see or hear anything on the way but they weren't surprised because both of them knew that Shallot caused all that after he chased away too many spiritual beasts, those beasts must have thought that this place was 'Shallot's dominion' therefore they won't dare to come near it but the doubt was, where 'Shallot's dominion' ends?
But suddenly after a few hours more almost at sunset, Chen Kai and Nameless stopped making faces of disgust so they covered their mouths with one of their hands
" What the heck is this smell, gosh it smells like putrid fish and horse crap! " Said Nameless with disgust, and his right hand covering his mouth and nose just as Chen Kai
In front of them, some bushes started to move, making Chen Kai say with surprise " Hide! " both of them jumped to a sump filled with mud behind them right at their left side
The sump covered half of their bodies in mud but they submerged their bodies enough to leave just their eyes and upper heads exposed, both of them waited to see what would come out from the bushes and when it came out Chen Kai thought with a worried frowning expression ' It's a f*cking Rotten Sloth! '
The Beast was a tall (Around 2 meters tall) dark green sloth, it moves slowly and without caring about its surroundings the most distinguished part of the sloth was that it has a big hump at least half the size of its body, the hump has various holes of different sizes all of them emitting a small thin green smoke
Chen Kai submerged his head in the mud even more after he took a deep breath of air, Nameless saw him and did the same but Chen Kai was thinking with concern ' Leave, leave, leave ' but despite all his prays the Rotten Sloth seemed to be moving towards them until it was a couple of meters ahead of them
The worst thing is that both of them begin to have the urge to take a good breath of air, they can't hold back the air without the help of their non-existent Spiritual Energy, the sloth hasn't noticed their presence yet so it was taking its time eating some tree branches near it
' Goddammit! I can't take it anymore, but if I come out that thing will hear me, even if I'm very silent, besides, that thing is a Silver Level Spiritual Beast despite being physically weak, the poison it releases could kill cultivators at the Spiritual Soul level, there is no way we could kill it ' Chen Kai was thinking with a trembling body that was yelling him for air until he could hold it anymore, just like Nameless behind him
" Ugh... " They tried to be as silent as they could so they just took their mouths and noses out from the mud but that was enough to be heard by the Rotten Sloth
*GRUNTS* The Rotten Sloth turns to see in their direction making a small grunt, then Chen Kai stands quickly and yells " Run! " They jumped out of the sump as fast as they could suddenly *GRUNTS* the sloth lays on the grass and *PUFF* like a gas grenade, green smoke was exuded from every hole on the sloth's hump, the green gas was emitted in great quantities and it was expanding very fast around the sloth
They both vomited at the same time from the unpleasant smell of gas, it was even worse than before " Agh... What the f*ck is that sh*t?! " Yelled Nameless as he cleaned his mouth as he was running as fast as he could
" Just keep running and don't breathe the gas! " Yelled Chen Kai running but despite they were running with all their strength the gas was catching them ' The gas will kill us the moment we breathe it! even those stupid uncles of mine will die if they breathe it! '
Running through the forest was a difficult task taking into account the trees, rocks, bushes, and mud that reduced their speed drastically so it came to the point that the gas caught them
Both of them started to panic when they were inside the gas cloud, the first thing to be affected by the gas was their eyes, they felt like they were burning and when they couldn't resist anymore they breath a small amount of the gas the good thing is that the cloud stopped expanding so they could get out from it but they fell to the ground almost immediately
" Agh...! " Nameless and Chen Kai were on the ground grabbing their throats as blood started to come out of their mouths and noses ' No! ' Yelled Chen Kai mentally
After a few minutes of rolling in pain on the ground, they stopped moving while their faces were covered in blood
Some time passed and suddenly *COUGH* *COUGH* Chen Kai woke up at that moment he suffered an attack of coughs, he then touched his face and noticed that his hands were covered with dry blood just as his nose and some parts of his mouth ' Why I'm not dead? '
Suddenly he heard a shout of anger " Haaa! " he turned to see at his left still sitting on the ground and what he saw left him speechless
*GROANS!* " HAHAHA, Your f*cking gas isn't doing anything to me anymore, haha " *GROANS!!* Nameless was stabbing the Rotten Sloth's left eye with a wide stick introducing it deeper and deeper inside its head
The Rotten Sloth isn't doing anything else than releasing gas to defend itself but Nameless is just laughing even when he has his face covered in blood and he is breathing the gas of the Rotten Sloth in great quantities
' What the hell is going on? He shouldn't be able to breathe that gas at all! ' Chen Kai saw Nameless with amazement as he killed the Rotten Sloth without caring about the toxic gas