As Veronica didn't want to waste any time or someone else might find that beast she decided to set out right away. Vishnu also decided to follow them and they didn't have any complaints. Chen Jiaxin even would have invited him if he didn't have asked first as she wanted to show him their power. Her goal was that Vishnu would join their faction. Even though for now Vishnu wouldn't be of much help but later, he could become the most powerful backer they have so she decided to invest in him.
Even though she and her brother are from a powerful clan and has a high position within the clan that didn't mean they could do as they wish. Could their clan contest against sects? the answer is NO. No matter how powerful a clan becomes they couldn't contest against a sect, the only exception to this is the royal family. They have enough power to contest against 2 or 3 sects together but that'd never happen.
Vishnu didn't care about others' thoughts, he simply followed them because he is curious to see how much power this master of his has. Even though he knew that she is above the core formation realm he wanted to know how much power he could become in the future and old man Arthur also suggested that he should broaden his horizons as it'll be helpful.
They didn't take much, according to the three the Titan wolf is in the outer area of Blood Hill Mountain range so it'll take them around 2 hours to reach that place. Veronica Whistled and a gigantic white bird appeared in the sky.
Looking at the dumbfounded Vishnu, Veronica chuckled "It's just a Rank-2 white crane what are you so surprised about. You'll also get your own in a few days"
Vishnu looked at the bird and the thought of flying with it in the air delighted him. But he still had some questions.
They all boarded the 5m long and 2m wide bird. It flew with incredible speed.
"Master, what do you mean by Rank-2?" Vishnu asked. He didn't understand that part.
"Oh! you don't even know about this, Like our cultivation is divided into different stages beasts have their system too. A Rank-0 beast is equivalent to a body refinement cultivator, Rank-1 is equivalent to Qi training and Rank-2 is equivalent to core formation. But tends to be stronger than their cultivator counterparts because of their stronger bodies and natural ability. And the beast we're going to catch today is a Rank-3 beast equivalent to the core & soul fusion stage but because she has just given birth she should be considerably weaker now even though weaker it is still should be around the early stage of Core & soul fusion realm, These three are lucky to have survived when they haven't even reached the peak of core formation.
The three shuddered hearing this. Now they understood they've even lucky to have even survived. It was probably because the Titan wolf has been protecting his child and didn't want to attract too much attention that she didn't attack them with full power. Their greed momentarily blinded them so that they couldn't make rational judgments.
Vishnu learned that the realm above core formation is Core & soul fusion. He could already guess what that realm is all about from the name itself.
"Maybe I should also tame a beast that'll be helpful in danger" Vishnu mused himself but Arthur heard that.
'You don't need these low-tier beasts, Beasts are helpful when they're at the same cultivation base as you or above you otherwise they'll be just a burden. just take me as an example it is really difficult to find a beast at my cultivation base and even if you found one It is almost impossible to tame it as the higher the cultivation base of a beast the more intelligent they became and after a certain point they have the same intellect as us so it is really hard to tame them.
The next best course of action is to find a baby with the potential to become a powerful beast for example a dragon or a phoenix but at my cultivation level, even those aren't that helpful unless one uses tons of resources to help them with which one could make almost 1000 strong army of cultivators at that level so it isn't an ideal situation.
Dragons guard their babies to the extreme so that even if you want to kidnap and tame a baby dragon you might have to go through all of them. In the past one guy wanted to do just that so he gathered over 100 powerful cultivators to kidnap the dragon's baby but the outcome? All of them were annihilated but if true strong cultivators decided to do so they could do that easily but most don't want to waste resources on this.
And phoenixes aren't seen for thousands of years as most speculate that either they've gone extinct as the reproduction capabilities of these beasts are very slow or they've hidden in a secret realm so that no one could find them. there are other beasts but that is beside the point.'
The more Vishnu heard the more his enthusiasm bogged down.
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After 2 hours of traveling during which Chen Jiaxin keeps chattering non-stop to Vishnu, the group is finally at the location where the three said they found the Titan wolf. During their travel they've come across multiple beasts but as it is the outer area most of them just fled at the sight of the rank-2 beast.
The place they arrived is under a cliff. The cliff is about 150 m in height and there is a cave near. Chen Jiaxin pointed toward the cave and said "while we were exploring we decided to rest in this cave when we found it. At first, we were scared but then we found a little Titan wolf near it, we concluded that it must have given birth here so we tried to tame it but failed."
"Well you guys back off, I don't want you guys to be swept in this mess," Veronica said as she walked inside the cave. Vishnu looked around to find a suitable place to watch the upcoming fight.
As they all backed off Veronica entered the cave. After around 2 mins loud noises could be heard and then finally left the cave first. Her hair looked somewhat messy but other than that she wasn't injured.
"Heh looks like I underestimated it too much, still it isn't at its full power yet." Veronica had a vicious smile as she spoke out loud. But one could see that she is now serious about it. Even though Vishnu doesn't know what beast it is but he could feel tremendous pressure coming out of the cave and he didn't have to wait long to find out which beast it is as after a mere moment a beast appeared in front of Veronica.
'So fast!' Vishnu could swear that he has been looking at the cave entrance the entire time but he still couldn't see when the beast arrived in front of Veronica, but that didn't mean Veronica couldn't see its movements. She chanted something and then the fire started appearing in her hands then moved towards the beast like a serpent and tried to hold it in its place. The beast evaded the attack but couldn't get close to veronica as a result.
Only now Vishnu could take a good look at the beast. It's about 3m in height and almost 7m in length. Its fur was a mixture of white and green and from those ferocious-looking black eyes, it looked as if it was angry as well as weary at the same time. It probably just wanted to take its newborn child and get away but at the moment she didn't have enough power. It growled and jumped towards veronica as wind blades started forming from all sides.
'wind element huh' veronica muttered as she chanted something under her breath then a firestorm started to appear with her as the center. It nullified the wind blades and injured the wolf too.
"what was that?" Vishnu asked Arthur. Arthur could watch all things happening around them using his spiritual sense so he knew exactly what happened.
'It was just a firestorm spell, nothing special but effective enough for that beast.'
"Is chanting necessary to use a spell?" Vishnu knows there are different types of arts and spells, While arts needed signs spells needed chants so he wanted to know if there was a way to eliminate that?
'Hmm. Until mortal realm there is probably no way to do this but after one reaches above that the distinction between arts and spells disappears so is the need for signs and chants.'
"When you say probably so even you're not certain?"
'Hehe kid, There is no such thing as 100% sure in this universe. There is always an exception to things. From my long life and at the moment of my death the one thing I learned is that being 100% sure about something would only hinder in becoming strong.'
As Vishnu and Arthur were chatting and all their attention was on the fight, Nobody noticed a little figure sneaking out of the cave.