132 Chapter 132: Side Quest Part Two (2/2)

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Chu Yueli flew towards the direction of the mountain area referred by the city lord. However, she couldn't help by noticing several ground cultivators was also heading to the same direction as her. Looks like Mihawk's direction was also followed by the cultivators from the city. She ignored their existence before making her way towards the direction.

As soon as she makes her way to the said direction, she was greeted by another mountain area but this one was one of its mountain side destroyed.

”It seems a great battle has occurred here.” She spoke internally as she witnessed the destroyed part of the mountain. Whatever was launched into it caused some great damage to it. There are still traces of profound energy lingering in the air indicating that the battle was not a long time ago. Best she could guess was two days' top.

”Looks like Mihawk fend those enemies here before he disappeared.” The direction led her to this mountain area and any more than that is a dead end. She flew towards the destroyed area to take a look. As she neared collapsed rocks, she was greeted by a pungent smell as if she smelled a rotting meat. She covered her nose with her arm before making her way towards the source of the smell. Beneath a collapse rock, she saw a rotting corpse underneath it. The face was ultimately destroyed while the other body parts was slowly decomposing. Even the spatial ring was still intact. It was two days old, it was enough to create this kind of smell.

She immediately recognized the crest on the corpse's body. It was the mark of the Heavenly Mighty Sword Region. She widens her eyes as Mihawk was not only pursued by the Empire's sects but the sacred ground as well. But when she extended her senses towards her surrounding, she found two more corpses but the other two wasn't badly destroyed as the last one. These two had similar injuries on the heart area as well as a broken blade was stabbed on the shoulder on one of them. She heard rumors from the city that five Emperor Profound Realms and dozens of late stage Sky Profound Realm disciples went missing in the mountain area. They didn't even return back from the mountain area after Mihawk had disappeared.

Suddenly, she felt pressures suddenly surround her. She knew this kind of feeling. It was the same when she defended her sect before.

”ROOAARR!!!!”

She turned around and saw a massive white masked snake like beast suddenly pounce on her. The masked snake suddenly emerged underneath the ground again before opening up its massive fangs. She immediately activated her snow steps before stepping away from it. Then, two more humanoid white masked beasts suddenly emerged as well before raising their massive hands towards her. She was on her senses the entire time. How come she didn't realize them?

Then, not only one but dozens of white masked beast suddenly came from all over the direction. She remembered the beasts cultivation was only Peak of True Profound Realm despite their sizes but for dozens of beast suddenly appeared in this area was not normal.

”These beasts. This is an empty mountain area. What are they doing here?” She spoke while continuously evading their attacks using her snow steps. Their cultivation might be the same as Peak True Profound Realm cultivators but they still have the advantage in size and numbers caught her off guard. She immediately activated her profound aura and she managed to freeze these beasts instantly with her Frozen Cloud Art. With a single wave of her hands, almost a dozen beast froze on the spot while the rest either took flight or back away.

Seeing some of them scattered, she immediately took flight to the sky to evade them and engage the flying beast in the air. Just like before, the flying beasts spared no effort in trying to eat her. Even though she managed to bring down almost all of them by freezing their bodies and letting them fall into the ground but what puzzles her was the beast didn't even pursue her. They just flew past her towards something on the ground.

They turned their heads towards the thing that she observed before, the dead bodies of the Sacred Ground disciples. The beasts instantly grabbed the bodies before tossing them into their mouth. Some of the beasts even started attacking each other as they were fighting to get the bodies. What she witnessed right now is the beasts started fighting each other for the dead cultivators' bodies. However, what she didn't realized is the snake that attacked her from before devoured the badly decomposed body from underneath the rocks. One by one, the white masked beasts fell in their own battles and only the strongest ones survived. The other two beasts devoured the two dead bodies from before as well.

Then, a shocking thing happened enough to caused her to feel massive amount of shock.

The beasts who devoured those bodies from before started to grow in size before she could react. She knew about these beasts but she didn't know how they could gain powers from devouring cultivators and assumed their cultivation but they have to go through several process before they could achieve such power.

The beasts grew in size until it was bigger than her entirely. Almost as tall as half the mountain. Then, black shrouds suddenly surrounded the beasts like plague as it covers them entirely. But, she noticed one thing when those phenomena happened.

”They are breaking through? Just from eating those bodies?” She spoke as she detected their cultivation suddenly entered the Spirit Profound Realm. It was slowly breaking through to the second and the third. The black shrouds suddenly towering her by a large margin before white arms suddenly formed on the side of the shroud. Not only that, massive white and pointy shoes like started to emerge from underneath it.

Then, a spike started to emerged from the top area of the shroud followed by a massive creepy white mask and spikes surrounded the neck area. In an instant it opened its massive eyes before showing her crimson red pupils underneath it. This is the first time she witnessed such a massive creature. Lastly, a massive hole suddenly formed on the middle part of its body. As the beast slowly formed itself, Chu Yueli was gawking underneath her veil.

”What in the divines am I witnessing?” Chu Yueli was speechless as she witnessed this new type of white masked beast in this region but she gained another important information. They consumed dead bodies or cultivators to elevate their powers. Then, those bodies she saw before was like a snack waiting to be devoured. No wonder those beasts are here. They probably detected the fight came from this place and wanted a piece of it.

This new type of beasts to her stood tall as high as the city's building before turning their red eyes towards her caused her to went up her guard. The beasts suddenly opened their mouth and massive amount of pressure suddenly felt by her.

”What now?” When she turned her eyes onto to the beasts, she saw a ball of red energy suddenly formed on its mouth. Judging from the pressure and the size of the energy ball, this can't be good. The process didn't even last five incense of time before the mouth of the closed entirely. The moment it opens….

SHOO!!!!

A massive red beam suddenly shot towards her and her instinct immediately forced her to evade.

BOOM!!!

An explosion sound was heard behind her as the massive beam landed on the mountain behind her. She turned around and witnessed the destruction of the mountain by a single red beam. She immediately turned back to them as she had to time to be impressed right about now. In an instant, the remaining two were also finished charging their own beam. The other two opened their creepy mouth before…..

SHOO!!!

SHOO!!!

Two similar massive beams were fired towards her as well. In an instant, she activated her snow steps to gained distance between her and those black shrouded beasts. If these beasts were to attack their sect, their barrier might not last long and who knows when they might be arriving there. Looks like she had a sense of duty to annihilate it. This might be the perfect time to test her new powers.

She noticed that she had been holding Tachikaze for a while and never drawn them even after she was teleported back into the outside world.

It's about time she draw the sword Mihawk prepared for her. She slowly unsheathes the blade from its scabbard as she witnesses the shape of her treasured blade. The sword had two different linings on it. On Tachikaze's top side was black while the one underneath it was silver. The sword however only had a single sharp edge on the silver part while the upper black part remained dull. On top of that, the sword was slightly curved upwards and it is much more different compared to other swords she held. Basically, Tachikaze is not a standard double edge sword, it is only a single edge and she had to get used using a different sword style.

”Mihawk... I promised to use this sword for a good cause.” She can feel absolute sharpness came from the sword itself and it even drawn her attention to be this excited.

The beasts once more charged their beam attack but Chu Yueli instantly maximized her speed. In an instant, he arrived on top of the beast before landing her attack. Due to her lack of experience using such exquisite blade, she just landed a simple downward slash onto one of the towering beast.

Slash!!!!

”This is...…..” She was shocked entirely as the blade simply cut the beast like a knife through butter as she entirely sliced the beast arm off. Not only it was sharp, it was also surprisingly light. Even lighter than her previous sword. It carried her will like a wind through the air as it slices the arm of the beast.

”Is this why he called it 'Severing Wind'?” She might not familiar with the name Tachikaze but the meaning of the name carries the true purpose of the sword in the hands. She instantly flew in the air once more before delivering a barrage of ice arrows to the remaining two shrouded beasts. Surprisingly, her arrows penetrated the beasts like caterpillar eating through a leaf. She sometimes forgets that her current strength is much stronger than the beast. She is a Peak Emperor Profound Realm cultivator after all.

Just like she predicted, it was the same as the smaller version of these beasts when she saw the long arm she slashed from before instantly repaired itself faster than her eyes could follow. The only way to kill these things is by shattering the mask of the beasts and her sect discovered it after losing several disciples to them. It was a lost cause but it was enough to turn the tide of the battle back then.

She teleported to the beast's head and spoke ”If your weakness is the same as the other white mask beast then you should fall if I did this....” She swung Tachikaze horizontally releasing her Emperor Profound powers in a form of an ice slash towards the mask of the shrouded beast. What shocks her once more that despite the beast had massive size, the slashes traveled through its head and thus slicing the beast's upper part of its mask in one go at the same time freezing the other part of the mask.

The same as any other white masked beast, the sliced part of the beast's body slowly fell the ground at the same time disintegrating into the air. She stood up on the air at the same time gluing her eyes on the sword. She slowly spoke ”This sword really is a treasure. To think that he gave me this kind of sword as a gift.” At this rate, the other treasures in her ring were paled in comparison compared to this. Not to mention the sword is quite durable.

The remaining two beast remain standing before her. She suddenly turned her eyes towards her direction she came from. She detected cultivators were on their way here and she immediately frown. These things grew stronger the moment it consumed cultivators and she will never let it grow stronger. Even if after consuming a dead body from before, the cultivation of these beast was slowly rising. Now, both of them achieved seventh level of the Spirit Profound Ream. Any more than this, they will achieve higher states.

She immediately increases her speed through her snow steps. As her speed increased, she immediately murmured ”Frozen Cloud Second Art, Ice Snowball” Just like her sister, she can also form an Ice snowball but it was instantly formed because of her empowered cultivation. She threw the massive snowball towards one of the shrouded beast before it exploded upon impact.

BOOM!!!

As the explosion occurred, the ice arrows from the snowball rain upon on the poor massive shrouded beasts. Although the damage was small, it bought her enough time to instantly arrived on top of one of the beast before she delivered the killing blow on top of its forehead. In an instant, the mask of the massive beast instantly shattered and it immediately disintegrate into the air. The remaining beast saw its disadvantage towards the lone female cultivator before forming a grabbing motion in the air. In an instant, the air suddenly cracks before slowly opened up a portal similar to those mysterious black portals suddenly spit out the white mask beast from before. She never had the chance to explore what is it like behind those black portals.

”You're not escaping from me.” She instantly increased her speed once and she immediately sliced the arm of the massive beasts in an instant. The portal's formation was instantly halted before it could fully form and she use its massive body to catapult her body upwards at the same time stabbing her blade on it. She drags her blade while it was being stabbed before she pulls it out and landed a coup de grace on its mask.

SLASH!!!

In an instant, the mask of the shrouded beast instantly split into two before it could regenerate its sliced arm preventing it from fully opened the portal. As the last beast disintegrate into the air, Chu Yueli was shocked that her combat capabilities soars towards the skies in one single day. Combined with her training with her sister, she never knew the power of the Emperor Profound Realm was this powerful. She has to make sure to train with her sister later as she still can't control the output of her strength. One wrong move and she could easily take an innocent life carelessly. She even need to control Tachikaze's sword slash, she was also shocked as the blade was really sharp. Then, she remembered one of Mihawk's words back in the arena.

She slowly recite the words as she as she heard them.

”Without strength, a sword is nothing but an iron bar.” Although the meaning is direct, she was sure the phrase had even much more profound meaning. Until she figure it out, she will continue to chant it. She slowly sheaths her sword back to its scabbard. Tachikaze was indeed powerful but she was far from mastering it. She had to start over as her new sword didn't match her previous mastered sword art.

As she witnessed upon the massive beast from before, she knew that it's because of her current strength that she could easily fend them off. If it were to Mihawk who had the capabilities to fend off even monarch level cultivators, he could destroy them with a single slash from that black sword. Even several Emperor Profound Realm disciples are a joke to him and the horned creature he fought before was at least stronger than them.

She assumed that the rest of the sacred ground disciples were vaporized by him but only three corpses remained intact. Speaking of them, Mihawk was doing her sect a favor by vaporizing those disciples. For months her sect was harassed by the Mighty Heavenly Sword Region as they possessed greater powers than her mother or sect master. Part of it because they heard the sect was filled with beautiful women. But due to the barrier of their sect as well as the emergence of white mask beasts, those disciples can't even breakthrough it.

She slowly flew above the skies once more before observing the mountain area. Looks like everything was in order and Mihawk probably disappeared somewhere. She slowly smiled knowing that he is safe somewhere before turning her head towards the direction of her sect. Looks like she had some explaining to do when she revealed her cultivation to her sister.

Speaking of her, it was time for her to enjoy her new life.

But, she's been missing for almost a week. How in the world she's going to tell this to her sister?