After an hour,
The battle continued, and the number of gorilla's had increased to seven. However, no gorilla appeared after that, it seemed like that was it.
However, that wasn't just the problem, the real issue was that the vulpias were attacking and annoying these cultivators from the side, making it difficult for them to deal with the gorillas.
They were surrounded by a large number of vulpias. They had already grown to more than ten thousand already. Every passing vulpia would join the group to get a piece of meat. At first, this number was around four to five thousand.
This was a dangerous situation. It was getting difficult for even Yang Zhai. He was barely holding on with the Shadow Leopard as it was also getting tired. However, nobody from the qafila did anything extraordinary.
Hae Jin was also panting heavily. He was sent flying again by a gorilla. His defensive ire was also breaking apart. He had already defeated two gorillas with the help of his companion cultivators.
"Yue Qing, do something!" Xiu Lan shouted.
"Wait," she replied.
One the other hand,
Wu Zhi and Wu Zhu stood back-to-back, guarding each other while fending off two gorillas and numerous vulpias.
The real problem wasn't that they were weak, but that they were separated by the beasts. Not just that, but they were fighting against powerhouses.
On top of that, they had to deal with thousands of vulpias.
Yang Zhai just kicked a vulpia sent flying. After that, he turned around and back kicked another vulpia. He was being forced into using his strength.
Then, he back flipped and kicked another vulpia that came pouncing at him. He swung by placing his arms on the floor, then front-flipped and kicked a vulpia's head, smashing it to the ground.
Turning around, he punched another vulpia and smashed it into another vulpia. He had just punched when the Shadow Leopard came from behind him and bit a piece of flesh out of a vulpia's neck. He constantly used the green line to conceal his presence and the activation of Blood Demon Ka, which he relied on to keep his left arm working.
He grabbed a vulpia's neck and broke it. After that, he swung his left arm and the black snake came flying out of his arm and bit the vulpia pouncing at him. It started to eat the vulpia.
He propelled himself off the Shadow Leopard's back, leaping over it, and kicked a vulpia that was coming at him.
Everyone was busy fighting and he was a distance away from them, fighting his own battle.
So nobody should have noticed me fighting till now, but…: Yang Zhai contemplated.
"I can't keep on doing this. At this rate, I will exhaust myself and also end up revealing my strength. These people aren't doing anything, I need to do something before I end up exhausting myself,"
He ascended the Shadow Leopard. After that, he whispered,
"It's about time, come forth…"
He said this and extended his left arm to his left side. The air started to warp. From there appeared a small spark before a black wisp appeared.
Then a small four-edged star appeared with yellow edges and black inside. The star disappeared and a waving line started to appear. The line opened a little bit and golden wisps appeared from it. They soon turned black and started to spread above and below.
"What's that?" A cultivator shouted when he saw this anomaly.
From that, a gate started to manifest. It slowly expanded to the size of six feet and two meters long. Nothing could be seen behind the gate and only darkness as if a black vortex.
After a while, the foot of a beast came out, and then two feet. After that a head appeared. It looked around and fixed its eyes on a person who was also looking at it.
It jumped out and came to a stop beside Yang Zhai.
"Rank 5 Water Hound?" Hae Jin muttered, surprised.
Everyone was shocked as they looked at this.
Even the vulpias and the gorillas stopped fighting as if sensing something.
Only a little while had passed when another water hound came out of the gate. Slowly, two more appeared.
It started…
One beast after another appeared out of the gate. They kept on coming out.
"What's happening…" Xiu Lan muttered, dumbfounded.
Everyone was flabbergasted at what was happening.
Yang Zhai sat on the Shadow Leopard's back. Beside it stood the Water Hound.
The hounds kept on coming out.
A fight broke between the beasts.
At first, the vulpias were having an advantage because of the high numbers. The cultivators also joined the battle. However, with the passage of time, the cultivators kept on retreating to the middle as the hounds kept on coming out.
"What's happening here?"
"So many hounds…"
"Is it all being done by Tzu Yu?"
"I didn't expect that an average looking boy was holding such a…"
The cultivators were now fighting the gorillas more than the vulpias.
"It's, it's unbelievable…" Han Wen muttered.
Yue Qing could hear the cultivators' shocking whispers.
"Tzu Yu, that boy summoned a large group of hounds and they still keep on coming, just how many was he hiding?" Han Wen said to Yue Qing in astonishment.
Yang Zhai extended his right arm forward and activated Deep Root Ka.
He could order the water hound army around because their leader listened to him. So, they naturally considered him a leader and followed his orders. This rank 5 water hound conveyed his complex orders such as organizing.
However, if he wanted to control them directly and move them as he wanted, he needed to activate a ka, such as Deep Root Ka.
It gave him the ability to control the army himself and give them extremely complex orders as long as he had the leader under control. He could make them move, jump, sit, work according to a strategy made on the moment and such. Unlike before, where he could only tell them to move, attack, stop, retreat and simple things like these.
Its range was about a thousand meters, double the distance of the other paths' kas. An average rank 4 ka of other paths had a range of about two hundred to five hundred meters.
"I wanted to avoid using it, but I can't let it keep going… I need to end this quickly,"
Yang Zhai muttered.
He had been avoiding summoning his army to cross this region as it was directly declaring a war against a region. This was the region of the vulpia, it was their territory, if Yang Zhai entered their territory with such a big army of hounds, who would sit quietly? The region of vulpia would have attacked him all together.
It was like invading their house and nobody liked anyone invading their house.
He had to end this quickly…
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