Wasn't it the smell that attracted the Water Hounds onslaught to begin with?
When Wang Lei thought of this, his eyes widened. A realization struck him.
He slowly lifted his head, his eyes full of shock as he looked at Yang Zhai.
"There is a scent coming from my body as well,"
"Me too, there is a scent coming from my body too,"
Both Tian Yu and Li Wei spoke respectively.
"Jaen Fen, you scoundrel!!"
Wang Lei shouted furiously and raised his right hand to attack Yang Zhai. However, a hound bit his hand, making him unable to activate his methods.
He tried to free himself, but another hound bit his left leg.
Right after enslaving the Water Hound, Yang Zhai made them stop their assault, making the cultivators relax. Then he caught them off guard with the scent. However, after getting away, he ordered the onslaught again.
This resulted in them being unprepared and their circle ended up breaking apart.
On top of that, the scent made the hounds wild. As a result, they were in a perilous situation.
Yang Zhai would occasionally stop the hounds from attacking for a few seconds, making the cultivators relax and extremely cautious at the same time. Playing with their psyche.
Thousand Scent Ka, a rank 2 Ka Yang Zhai bought when he arrived in Luo Sect. Its ability was to attach scents to anything the cultivator wanted. He just had to make it eat the scent he wanted it to give off.
The water hounds were extremely attracted to the scent Yang Zhai made it eat; the one he just attached to Wang Lei and the others.
A single rank 2 ka resulted in the Luo Sect's downfall.
"It's not the tool that is useless, but the one who uses that tool,"
Yang Zhai said with a calm expression, his eyes like a deep ocean. Their depth, too deep to comprehend.
After a while, all the rank 4 cultivators died leaving only two. Yang Zhai made the hounds drag their bodies to him.
After that, he activated the Blood Demon Ka and pierced a cultivator's heart from the inside.
"Uh…, please spare me… please… I beg you! Please…I will do anything you want!! I will become your servant…please spare me!"
When the other cultivator saw his companion die, he began to beg for his life. His rays had already depleted, so he couldn't even activate his methods.
However, Yang Zhai did the same as he did to the first cultivator, killing him.
"I will be needing you two in the future,"
He killed them himself for the Corpse Collector. He left their bodies attached so that he could use them in the future when needed. Of them all, these two had suffered the fewest hound bites and wounds.
After killing them, he activated Meliora and healed the wounds. Thereafter, he stores them in the Corpse Collector.
After an hour or two,
Wang Lei and the others were lying on the ground, out of purified rays, exhausted, injured, and defeated.
Yang Zhai had ordered the hounds to stop the assault.
However, Yang Zhai didn't get close to them. In fact, he did something else,
"Tian Yu, Wang Lei, and Li Wei, do you want to know something…" he said nonchalantly.
However, they were too exhausted to reply.
"Look here," he activated the Corpse Collector and Ji Woo's corpse appeared.
She stood there, looking at the three. Her clothes were bloody, but Yang Zhai had already healed her wound.
"Tian Yu, look here…"
When Yang Zhai saw that Tian Yu still wasn't looking, he said again.
"Fine, Ji Woo, why don't you ask him yourself…" Yang Zhai asked indifferently.
When Tian Yu heard this name, his mind shook. He sat down with all the strength left.
"Ji Woo… why are you with him?" He asked slowly.
But when he saw blood on Ji Woo's clothes, his heart sank.
"Ji Woo, why aren't you answering me? Why aren't you saying anything?" Tian Yu said with a shaking voice, tears trickling down his face.
"You… what did you do to her…" he asked.
Yang Zhai was about to say something when he heard a howl from afar.
His eyes narrowed, he called for Vara,
"Vara,"
"Yes, master,"
"Go, look in the east direction and tell me what you see." He instructed,
"Yes, master," Vara took off.
After a while,
"Master, there is an army of hounds coming this way. You need to leave this area as soon as possible,"
When Yang Zhai heard this, he hurriedly killed Wang Lei and the others.
"Go and inform Jun Haru and the other two to leave the village this instant, and tell them to meet me near a lake about thirteen miles away from here in the west of here."
He ordered Vara,
"Also, tell them not to wait for Mah Qi,"
After that, he activated the inheritance ring and a gate started to manifest slowly. After a while, it manifested completely.
However, this time around, instead of the inheritance place, a dark space filled with stars appeared behind the door. It seemed like there were two spaces in this gate; one was the canyon that led to the inheritance ground, and the other was this space.
"Now, enter!" Yang Zhai made the rank 5 Water Hound order its army to enter the inheritance gate.
After that, it howled and the hounds started to enter the inheritance gate.
After a while, no hound could be seen around, not even the corpses of the hounds that were killed. He had made them take these corpses with them.
They could serve as this army's food for a while.
After storing the corpses, he left.
"If only I had a little more time, I could have made them reveal the location of the essence stones mine or the mountain if they had any," Yang Zhai thought.
He couldn't make his hounds go against the incoming hounds, he might end up incurring heavy losses for no reason, and he might not even get the essence stones.
He could enslave this rank 5 waterhound thanks to the Luo Sect, but the Luo Sect was done for.
At night,
Yang Zhai came to a stop near a huge lake.
The lake's water was still, with no ripple in it. It paints a beautiful image of the sky filled with stars. There were some sounds but it was still a serene silence.
The slow whispering voices of the leaves seem to be calling for someone, along with crickets and cicadas. This serenity was healing to a person's mind.
Yang Zhai is looking around quietly. He is not using any lanterns, but only his eyes, which seem to pierce through the blanket of night and see everything it had to hide.
He could see everything clearly in nine hundred meters.
"If I remember correctly, it should be around here somewhere,"
He seems to be looking for something.
"There, Shadow Leopard," Yang Zhai's eyes fell on something.
It was a black leopard, lying on the grass, sleeping quietly.
Yang Zhai slowly walked close to it. After that, he took out the Deep Grip Ka, however, before he could place it on the leopard, he heard a noise from behind and used the Earth Burial Ka right away.
He fell down into the pit and something passed from where he was standing.
He hurriedly jumped out and saw that the leopard had run away. What he saw was another leopard. It was black but had deep white eyes. Even though it stood there, Yang Zhai could barely sense its presence.
He couldn't even determine its rank. If Yang Zhai didn't see it with his own eyes, he would not know if it was standing there at all. The only reason he managed to dodge its first attack was because of the noise he heard.
"Veilstalker… not good. The worst enemy that I could face at night,"
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