As the sun start to rose, the sun's rays penetrated slowly through the lush forest. They gradually forced their way into the tree where Ning Qi is sleeping. As soon as they shone on his face, Ning Qi squinted his eyes a bit, before slowly opening his eyes.
"Whoop! That was quite refreshing!" After looking around a bit, Ning Qi stretched his body for a bit and felt comfortable. All his mental strength was restored back, providing him with a refreshing feeling.
The scene itself is absolutely delightful to look at. If there were any photographers here, they would make some good money, by taking some pictures of this.
After stretching a bit, Ning Qi jumped down from the tree, nimbly landing on the ground. He knows it's, nonetheless, not the proper time to capture all of them. He slowly searched for some fruits that can relieve some hunger of his in the meantime.
On the other hand, Chen Feiyu is seen to be talking with a young man, who looks to be in his early twenties. Chen Feiyu thought that Ning Qi may have already slaughtered the red blood sect and hurriedly informed the sect.
"Senior brother Hao! That is what happened... I don't know what happened inside thereafter that man left. Do we go inside and examine a bit?" Chen Feiyu asked a bit excitedly, wanting to see those bastards mutilated bodies. Even though, he doesn't like such scenes in normal situations... but he wants to see these cold-blooded man-eaters, as his disgust towards them has grown a lot, since the time he stayed here.
"Hm! Well... We can check. But we don't know whether that guy has slaughtered them or not yet. If we enter there presently, and they are still alive, that will make things a bit worse. According to our agreement, we mustn't set foot on their territory, unless it is necessary. But..." Shi Hao said, but he also wants to see what happened within there. He is a young man, who is only around 22 years, after all his curiosity and passion for justice are at it's highest.
Even though Chen Feiyu is at least 10 years older than him, he still needs to address him as a senior brother. As his strength is at present in the foundation establishment realm and his status is that of a core disciple of the sect.
He is the head of this time mission, who is guarding this place this time. After fortifying this place for six months, the mission can be concluded as over. There are only 20 days left for their mission to be completed before another batch will come to replace them.
Almost every batch, before them, suffers some casualties when they clashed with the red blood sect disciples. Because some of the young disciples are incapable to hold themselves when they saw their cruelty.
But this time, under his leadership, there are no casualties so far and there are only 20 days left to complete the mission. If he can complete the mission with no casualties, the sect master promises a foundation establishment realm pill. If he were to breach some rules now, instead of getting the reward, he will probably be punished, instead.
On one hand his curiosity and on the other tempting reward! Shi Hao started contemplating what to choose, while Chen Feiyu stood beside him obediently, without uttering another word, as it completely depends on this senior brother in the end. After all, If he enters their territory without him and the members of this sect are still alive, he won't be capable to get back alive, not to mention the serious punishments that will be implied by their own sect.
The punishments for him and Shi Hao will of course be going to be different, just like their statuses. Such Cruel truths are deeply implanted in Chen Feiyu and every other disciple from the day they started cultivation.
Just as Shi Hao pondered on what to conclude, a silhouette passed by them, without bothering to disturb them.
Who else? It is Ning Qi, who ate some wild fruits, even though they felt sour and he doesn't recognize what they are. After eating them, he felt he is quite reckless, thinking that they may be poisonous. But after waiting for around an hour nothing happened, except for the terrible taste that still lingered in his mouth, relieving him.
As he glanced at the sun's rays starting to shift, Ning Qi calculated the time is around 9 or a bit over than that. He subsequently embarked on his journey and gradually made his way to the entrance of the bamboo forest again.
After seeing someone else with Chen Feiyu, Ning Qi felt quite troubled and guessed that Chen guy may have informed him. He opened his eye ability to check on this guy's stats, which is surprisingly at foundation establishment realm 1, exactly the same realm as him.
Seeing he is not a trouble to him, he quickly walked past them, who are completely immersed in their thoughts.
Shi Hao, who was still pondering suddenly sobered up, as he suspected someone passing by. He hurriedly jumped back a bit, pulling Chen Feiyu along with him.
But Ning Qi didn't even look back and resumed his walk. On the other hand, Chen Feiyu's eyes went wide with shock, and hastily murmured something to Shi Hao.
"Fellow cultivator! Please stop right there. " Shi Hao, knowing it is Ning Qi, quickly used his speed and flashed past Ning Qi, obstructing the path. Seeing that Ning Qi didn't go before meant, that the Red blood sect is still doing well, which means he has to stop Ning Qi from trespassing now, according to the orders released by their sect master.
"What is it? I have to go quickly there so that I can seize all of them at once. If you want to stop me, I advise you against it, as you are not my opponent with your foundation establishment realm one cultivation."
Ning Qi stopped for a moment and said. This young fellow in front of him is already at the foundation establishment realm at such a youthful age meant, that he is quite an important figure in the Heavenly wolf sect.
If possible, Ning Qi doesn't want to employ force on him to maintain an amicable relationship with their sect.
"Even though I may not be your opponent. But I will still be capable to restrict you for some time If I give my best. That will be enough for my people to arrive and support me. Even though I am the leader this time, there are however some foundation establishment realm peak cultivators that are overseeing the entire situation. I hope, this fellow cultivator can stop here and give some face to our Heavenly wolf sect. " Shi Hao said slowly, finally irritating Ning Qi.
But from the way this addressed him, Ning Qi know that Chen Feiyu did a good job of not revealing his name to even their own sect members. Ning Qi decided to present one more chance to this guy.
"I don't want to be against your heavenly wolf sect. And what I am executing isn't an unpleasant thing, So I hope you guys from the heavenly wolf sect can stop impeding me. This will be your last warning!" Ning Qi declared word by word a bit seriously.
"Junior brother Chen! Promptly inform all the people in our team to gather here as soon as possible. I will try stopping this guy, or else our mission will be considered a failure and we will have to face severe punishment from the sect." Shi hao gritted his teeth and decided to stop Ning Qi in any way possible, even though what Ning Qi was about to do remain a worthy thing.
As soon as he mentioned those words, Chen Feiyu didn't know how to respond to this. He felt he may have informed a bit early, not giving Ning Qi enough time. But he still gritted his teeth and took out something from his pocket, which will send an emergency signal to all the people that are surrounding the forest.
Whoever sees that signal, must come to that spot as soon as they saw that signal, or else the consequences for such people are tremendous. The smaller punishment will be destroying their cultivation and expelling them from the sect.
Seeing these guys are about to make things way more serious than they are already. Ning Qi couldn't wait to deal with any of their nonsense anymore and swiftly released his Title aura.
Both Shi hao whose full concentration is on Ning Qi and Chen Feiyu, who is about to fire a signal suddenly felt a terror wash past them. Their bodies quickly stiffened and their legs started wobbling with horror. And mostly their eyes are wide open with panic, confusion, and terror-stricken.
Ning Qi leisurely walked toward Chen Feiyu who is looking at him in a bewildered manner. He seized the signal-firing talisman-looking thing from his hand and placed it in his pocket.
Chen Feiyu, who couldn't take the aura anymore fell to the ground as his breathing becomes hard. On the other hand, Shi Hao however held onto himself. But his turned red from the suffocating feeling. He looked at Chen Feiyu, who collapsed and looked at Ning Qi a bit pleadingly.
He felt he caused a grave mistake, by trying to restrain an unknown cultivator without gathering any proper information beforehand. He understood, that even if he executes them now, no one can be able to find him easily and with the strength, this guy has, even if someone from their sect founds him. It is pretty hard for them to take revenge.
After seizing the talisman, Ning Qi looked at Chen Feiyu's state, and then at Shi hao's pleading look, Ning Qi sighed before withdrawing his aura.
"I hope you learned your lesson and also don't follow me! I don't want any more disturbance from you." Ning Qi said, as he walked past Shi Hao, who is breathing ruggedly, wanting to take as much as he can.
"Thanks for sparing us, Senior!" Shi Hao gathered his strength and shouted back at Ning Qi, who is about to disappear from their sight.
"Senior brother! I'm ashamed for dragging you into this!"
Chen Feiyu gradually made his way to Shi Hao and said, as he felt he should have waited a bit more, before informing him. That would have prevented such a desperate situation for them. Absolutely, to them, it's almost a life-and-death situation. But for Ning Qi, it's just a warning... Two sides will maintain two diverse perspectives. The same applies in the ordinary mortal world too, every human thinks what they concluded represents the correct thing and their adversary is the one that is wrong.
"No! It's our neglect to be rash towards a 'Soul transformation realm' senior. Even our Sect master would have displayed some respect for this senior. Let's go, I don't think we can deal with this anymore... Let's inform the sect first. But we are fortunate we didn't run into a wicked person or a short-tempered indifferent person or else we would have become corpses already. Consider this as a lesson and a fantastic experience, Hehe." Shi Hao at first said everything slowly and seriously, but by the time he ends his words he laughed a bit, feeling what they experienced is quite thrilling and adventurous.
Chen Feiyu also smiled, as he felt that Ning Qi is not a terrible person from the very start. Even though he felt like he practically died. He, however, felt it is quite a thrilling journey and a fateful encounter with a powerful senior. He recalled yesterday's scene, where he tried to press down a soul transformation realm cultivator to make his face bloom with a foolish smile.
"Senior brother! I never thought the senior was such a powerful one. I thought he was at best a golden core realm or even less..." They soon walked away from there and started talking merrily, as they moved away from there and their friendship has grown a lot, compared to the previous time, when they are merely known to each other as junior and senior brothers of the same sect.
If some genuine high-level cultivators were over here, they would smile a bit and would think that these young fellows have a good mentality to become strong cultivators.
On the other hand, Ning Qi also started pondering over his behavior, as he felt not so good about how he dealt with them.