When Ye Fan had regained conscious, he was quite startled to see that it was not only Mei Yinxuan that was with me but Chen Yuyan and Fan De as well.
He blinked his eyes to recall what had happened but he could only remember that he was being kissed by Mei Yinxuan and then the next time that he remembered was that he had fallen backward on the ground and had struck against a rock.
At this moment, his head was still hurt and he saw that there was a bandage on his head.
But did something happened while he had black out?
Chen Yuyan was smiling to Ye Fan, "Senior Brother Ye Fan, I am so glad to find you again. Do you know that I have been so worried for you?"
Ye Fan smiled bitterly and suspected that this was not from her heart but she was just trying to sweet talk to him.
So, he merely said out of politeness, "Thank you for your concern."
Fan De was also smiling to him and he said, "If it was not for your Senior Sister Yinxuan calling out loud for your sake, we won't know that you are nearby."
Ye Fan smiled weakly at that; it seemed that Fan De did not know that he had already been discovered by Ye Fan.
Fan De turned to give Mei Yinxuan a friendly rebuke, "Junior Sister Yinxuan, next time you ought to be more cautious. What if it is not us that are nearby and your calls for help may have attracted some unfriendly profound beasts or cultivators?"
Mei Yinxuan pretended to feel guilty, "I was really anxious for Junior Brother Ye Fan at that time as he was injured on the head."
Fan De nodded, "Since we have found one another now, we should try to find Fairy Xuan Xueqi as soon as possible. Also, we need to find Huangfu Ming and Ouyang Nana too."
Mei Yinxuan merely nodded and she looked quite composed.
Ye Fan was actually secretly looking at her composure as she had been sobbing earlier before he had been blacked out.
It seemed to him that Mei Yinxuan did not tell Fan De and Chen Yuyan that she had already chanced upon them much earlier.
But at the same time, he was also thinking: Why did senior sister kiss me earlier? Isn't her beau supposed to be Fan De?"
Fan De had suddenly lifted Ye Fan up as he smiled to him, "Let's go now. Junior Sister Yuyan and you ought to stay behind me. After all, I am stronger than the two of you."
He had taken charge of the party now.
Ye Fan nodded, "Thank you Senior Brother Fan De."
Chen Yuyan praised Fan De and she was giggling softly to Ye Fan, "Senior Brother Fan De is really a strong cultivator. He has been taking care of me while we are together."
When she had said that, both Ye Fan and Mei Yinxuan could not help looking at each other, apparently disgusted by what they were hearing.
It was more than just 'taking care' of her that crossed their minds at this moment.
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2 hours later in the dense tall forests that seemed to sketch endlessly.
Fan De, Mei Yinxuan, Ye Fan and Chen Yuyan were all walking in the forest when they had suddenly heard the loud thundering roar of a profound beast.
This startled Ye Fan as he quickly unsheathed his long sword.
He had another scabbard with him and this contained the earth-step divine sword that his protégé mistress had given to him but he did not try to draw it.
Fan De and Mei Yinxuan had turned pale immediately.
"3rd rank profound beast…" Fan De gasped aloud as he used his divine sense to alert him to the profound strength of the approaching profound beast that had been alerted to their scents.
Profound beasts use ranks and not cultivation realms to denote their disparity with the cultivators as profound beasts cannot cultivate. The ranks have a 1 to 9 rank denotation and is comparable to the cultivators' cultivation realms.
However, each rank is also divided into weak, medium, strong and epic.
A weak profound beast is comparable to the same realm cultivator.
A medium strength profound beast is comparable to the same realm cultivator or a realm above.
A strong strength profound beast is comparable to a higher realm cultivator by one or two.
An epic strength profound beast is extremely dangerous and is compared to two or more higher realm cultivator.
Profound beasts usually have weaker animus than the cultivators hence that the reason why their ranks are used to compare against the cultivation realm of the cultivators.
However, their profound defense and profound strength is on another total level entirely.
For profound beasts, size did matter and the higher rank they were, the more capable that they are in facing groups of cultivators.
Therefore, to Fan De, Mei Yinxuan, Ye Fan and Chen Yuyan, even a third rank profound beast was extremely dangerous. More so to Ye Fan and Chen Yuyan since they were only at the second cultivation realm.
In just a breath or so, a long tusked big armored boar like creature could be seen!
This profound beast was the Swine King Boar and it was as tall as Ye Fan and Fan De.
Fan De said panicky to everyone, "Arms up! We can't outrun it and have to fight. This is a most dangerous profound beast. I garner that it must be a strong profound beast."
Mei Yinxuan nodded with great anxiety as she raised her long sword, "This type of profound beast has a low regeneration rate so we may still be able to win."
Chen Yuyan looked at Fan and Mei Yinxuan with panicky eyes, "Will we… be able to survive? I don't want to die just yet…"
As for Ye Fan, he had calmly raised his long sword and he was quietly appraising this third rank Swine King Boar.
This was his first ecounter with such a powerful profound beast and naturally Ye Fan was nervous but he also saw it as part of his experiential training.