In the rustle of the trees, the tree stingers were all waiting for the killing intent to die down. Why? Delicious looking prey was in front of them.
To further prove a point that killing intent only goes so far in the wilderness. The tree stingers were silently waiting.
A loud ruckus caused them to look in the direction of the campsite. A woman looking deliciously delicatable appeared in there vision.
One tree stingers tried to go down and get close. When it did, nature killed the tree stinger.
This caused the others to go crazy. They are a social tribe. When a member gets attacked or is killed. The crazy truly begans with them.
Before anything could happen, large water sprouts came forth from the ground.
This engulfed the entire area where the tree stingers were. Iris was angry for having to deal with Rex not being there currently and having to deal with the poison inside of her.
As her eyes dilated and her Qi started to become unstable. Bella came from behind and tried a method to knock out Iris. This only made Iris madder.
"WHAT. DOES. THIS. LITTLE. BITCH. THINK. SHE. IS. DOING?" Iris yelled.
"There was a bug on your neck. I just so happened to kill it for you." Bella replied.
Iris instantly became happy.
"Yes, no bugs need to hurt my perfect skin. So please keep smacking me the way you did please." Iris said joyfully.
The poison was acting weird on Iris. It seemed like was more willing to let people lie about what they were doing. She did allow Bella to not get hurt.
"Maybe I'll try." Liz thought.
A few moments later, the ground shook.
"DIE!" Iris shouted.
She shout thousands of water spears towards the forest. Unwillingly, a few hundred creatures died during the clash.
The sound of a beating drum sounded. This made Liz and Violet worry. The Apex of this forest was a Gorilla type beast.
Due to its nature, the Qi inside it would change the color of its fur. When calm the color was blue, when angered black, when happy red. The Qi would change during the type of battle the beast was having. Nature Qi when defending territory, Water Qi when attacking another territory-it becomes extremely explosive to nature, when facing an unknown adversary Fire Qi would blow through the nose.
What makes this beast truly the Apex was that when the beast hits its chest. The sound of drums playing could be heard. The drum sounded is actually it forcibly changing the attitude of itself and changing the Qi that it is using.
Massive flame snorts could been seen in the darkness. The beast seemed to have sensed a poisonous powder in the air. The beast was trying to see if it was all gone.
To its surprise, it found a large scent of it. The gorilla type beast was quite fond of humanoids. It would not actively try to harm then, but if the beast is provoked during a mate or calm period. The beast would ravage most cultivators below the Fifth Realm.
Even up to the Eighth Realm would not get out unscathed. A Ninth Realm cultivator usually lore the beast away with traps for weaker cultivators to finish off the beast. Even that could get the cultivator targeted. Only a Warlord ranked beast could get away unscathed.
The gorilla beast entered the campsite. Flames erupted from the nose seemingly in a pleasant manner. The fire from the beast seemed to calm Iris down.
The two other women also got much better after this. It was not a sure shot way of becoming better. At least, this was a good start.
"Stay here and help protect us please." Amber asked.
The gorilla nodded its head. Flames snorted out of its nose once again these flames helped the women recover.
To the gorilla, it had found mates and a site worth protecting. It sat down on its bottom and it stared into the forest. Tree stingers watched as the gorilla sat down.
This angered them greatly. Roars of the tree stingers erupted in the trees. Snorting of flames could be seen from the gorilla.
Suddenly, a massive boulder was sent flying into the spot where the tree stingers were. The darkness covered up the boulder. Wind could not affect the tree stingers either way. So when the boulder collided with the tree stingers, about twenty died immediately.
Seeing more of their brethren die, the rest of them were ready to enter the campsite.
Before they could enter, a massive explosion of killing intent flooded the area. Even the gorilla could not hold back the poop and piss from exiting.
Rex came back with a piece of bark. This was no ordinary bark. This was bark was the equalizer for men. Small doses could make men's sperm more potent and longer inside the womb.
In large doses, it causes men to go crazy and lose their mind. The dose was more about how long the smoke stayed and the bark burning rather than pollen like for women.
The tree that the bark is found on is a rather strange tree. It forms a heart like shape, an actual beating heart not like a valentines day heart, in the center of four trees together.
Each tree alone cannot stand the weather elements. When they bind, and the heart shape is formed. Across from them is a flower bed that appears and something blocks the duo from being beside each other.
In ancient times, when the burial of a husband and wife would happen. Most of them wanted to be separated so that the trees and flowers could sprout above them in small villages.
More times than not, nothing would happen. Usually men would have their cemetery somewhere and women would have theirs. Since the item needed to separate the two in forests was unknown. This became a side note for most people. That was until Rex learned what it was.
A piece of rusted metal in the ground. Even though, he never cared for the trees or flora. He had to admit that the history was worth looking into.
When Rex came with the bark, Iris said, "Dear beast, let our husband in so that he can cure us completely."
The beast not wanting the women to know that it pooped on itself due to Rex's killing intent allowed Rex to enter.
The gorilla stayed there until morning when the group left. It cleaned the spot off of its fur and cleaned the poop away so that when another mate would come. This place could be home.