Xia Dongyi remained silent. The mistakes that she made today were anything but small.
Ignoring the nature benefits, the beast's own traits, and Beast Qi, everything she know and learned, she ignored that and did things rashly. If not for the fact that she got her head in the start right, then she would have faced many other problems.
And, she started to cook beasts meat that was filled with energy in the middle of a forest filled with beasts and the aroma of that was so addicting that if the beasts reached her position before she run, then only God knows her fate.
Xia Dongiy kept her head lowered. She felt ashamed of her behavior, the behavior that she should have never shown. She had learned way too many things but she still behaved like that.
[Master, not everything would go in the way you want it to be. This is not the modern world, this is the word of Cultivation, a strong preying on the weak world. You are nothing more than a disciple with just some special privilege, please face the reality else you need to face it in the hard way that you may not like. And I am not going to give advice from now on.]
Every word that left Mai's mouth stuck like a thorn in Xia Dongyi's heart. She knows the darkness of the world but the prospect of strength and venturing new places made her head reach over the top, making her over-excited about every single thing she was experiencing.
'I was getting way too excited and ignore many things even with the traumatic experience I had, I still got overconfident. My strength is nothing in front of truly strong people...and I am creating problems for Mai too...'
Xia Dongyi kept her head lowered. This time, Mai floated in the air. Xia Dongyi needs to grow on her own, not with her help every time.
['I hope this would help Master grow... these mortals could be of little help to Master...if not much..']
Mai silently hovered in the air. Everything about her was invisible. She was looking towards the trees in front of Xia Dongyi with shadows lurking in them.
Meanwhile, Xia Dongyi was downhearted. How could someone living mostly a normal life adapt to the cruel world, even with memories of living in that atmosphere?
Suddenly, the wind started to blow wildly. Tresses started to flutter. Xia Dongyi feeling something amiss quickly lifted her head, her gaze focusing in front of her from where two shadows suddenly crept from the trees.
She turned cautious. Two people wearing complete black clothes suddenly appeared in front of her, any normal person will turn cautious from that.
"Who are you?!"
Xia Dongyi asked loudly. Her snow-white sword appeared in her hands.
The two people in front of her looked at each other and nodded.
"Our Madam had called you to be in her presence, so come with us!"
The one on the left side answered, but it was difficult to discern their voice whether its man or woman.
Xia Dongyi looked around cautiously.
'Urgh...I can't sense their strength at all...'
She wasn't able to sense what realm both people that appeared in front of her at, and this made her even more cautious. One needs to be way too stronger to hide their strength from others or have a technique to hide, but the latter technique is costly and only some people own that.
This made her even more serious about the situation.
"Who is this Madam you speak of?!"
Xia Dongyi inquired loudly but her gaze continued to wander all around the place, looking for any place from where she could escape.
"You will know once you come with us!"
The one on the right answered this time, and they both extended their hands and a black sword appeared in their hands, completely black, matching their pitch-black outfit.
'There should be someplace to run away! I can't risk fighting them like a fool, not after everything that happened today. And I only have 90% of my spiritual energy left, running using it consumed quite a bit of energy...and the dark and the bloody aura is clearly that of killers, experienced killers or assassins...'
Xia Dongyi had been in the same situation in her past life too, but at that time, it was easy for her to escape without caring for her life. But not now. She had people who cared for her, making her unable to leave like that. She now felt a need to cherish her life.
"No! I am not going with you!"
Xia Dongyi screamed and started to run back. Even though she may be weaker than those two people, but her purity of spiritual energy made a large difference in everything, and she know about it too well.
She ran like wind while changing her direction in between. After 20 minutes of continuous running, Xia Dongyi paused and looked around only for her eyes to be wide open. She found herself standing just a little bit away from the position she had started running.
Suddenly, sounds of clapping resounded in the forest. Xia Dongyi turned towards her back and saw both people clapping their hands.
"Marvelous. Your speed is truly marvelous, but did you think that we had no preparation for that?"
The right one, Shadow One spoke out loud, and along with its words, Shadow Two nodded.
'They were observing me!!'
Xia Dongyi instantly realized that she had been in their palm for a long amount of time.
Which was true.
"You...You!!"
Xia Dongyi pointed her finger but no words came out of her mouth. She was speechless.
Her cautiousness increased even more. She now knows that they were proficient in killing in dark for sure as she wasn't able to sense any of them for a long time.
"We don't have much time, a large area around here had been enclosed under an array, so don't think of escaping at all."
Shadow Two also barked, informing Xia Dongyi of the reason for her returning to the same place.
'A fascination array...trapping the victim in their fantasy and at the same time, enclosing the whole space, making those weaker than the creator not to escape...there should be an array key too...but it looks like they had it already hidden.'
Every array had an array key, using which anyone could disable the whole array, and Xia Dongyi know that the people in front of her were experienced, so how could they let something like an array key out in the open.
"I see...so you have chosen force."
Not getting any reply for a whole minute, the Shadow One readied his sword and along with him, Shadow Two did the same.
They both were serious to force their way here as they were allowed to use force by their Master.
Shadow One leaped in the air and ran toward Xia Dongyi while Shadow Two silently observed.
Xia Dongyi also extended her sword. Shadow One, who had appeared in front of Xia Dongyi suddenly vanished!
Xia Dongyi opened her eyes wide, her eyes weren't able to observe Shadow One's moments at all.
Suddenly, she was blasted out in a tree as a sword, which was in its sheath hit her in her ribcage.
"Urghh...that hurts like hell!!"
Xia Dongyi just now felt two or three of her bones breaking. The pain was a little too much but she tolerated it while gritting her teeth and stood up while groaning in pain.
Her gaze turned to her front, the place where she was standing before, and Shadow One stood there now, while its head in her direction. She wasn't able to even see the eyes of Shadow One as it too was covered in the mask, unlike hers which showed her eyes.