Chapter 121: Shock Without Danger (1/2)
Chapter 121: Shock Without Danger
They quickly picked their missions, one six star mission and one seven star mission.
The six star mission was to kill a sixth level ferocious beast, the lightning marten. Just killing a lightning marten and bringing back its corpse was enough. It didn’t require Lu Xuan and company to process it. The mission reward was 4000 contribution points.
In total, there were four people. If they could complete this mission, each person would get a 1000 point split, which could be considered as quite wealthy.
As for the seven star mission that Lu Xuan had picked, the contribution reward was even greater, a full 10000 contribution points, more than twice the six star mission’s rewards. Of course, the difficulty was also much higher. The mission request was to kill a flame striped tiger. Flame striped tigers were seventh level ferocious beasts whose whole bodies were streaked with fire-red, which was the origin of its name, not that it could spit out flames.
“Let’s go. Stay close, don’t get any big ideas.” Lu Xuan warned the group. This was the first time they were entering the mountain and there wasn’t an older student to lead them. It was very easy for something to occur.
The place where these ferocious beasts lived was in the mountain behind the Wind Sword Sect. The mountain behind the Wind Sword Sect was an extremely large forest that had countless birds and animals living inside of it. It was said that there were even demon beasts in there. It wasn’t something ordinary disciples could handle.
However, those demon beasts all lived deep within the forest. When the Wind Sword Sect people hunted, they would almost never encounter one, and also, those demon beasts’ wisdom wasn’t low. They knew that the Wind Sword Sect had countless experts and didn’t dare to walk out, otherwise they would definitely be killed by the various great elders of the Wind Sword Sect. The price of a demon beast wasn’t cheap. Its entire body was treasure. Even the blood and flesh were very tonics that were very useful for most people.
With the map imprinted inside of the identity plates, they naturally wouldn’t get lost and went directly to the back mountain. On the way, they rubbed shoulders with quite a few other disciples, and judging by the way they were going, they were also going towards the back mountain.
After walking almost half an hour, Lu Xuan noticed the road was becoming more and more deserted, more clusters of trees, and the occasional sound of a beast’s roar in the distance.
“This should be in the scope of the back mountain. Everyone be careful.” Lu Xuan vigilantly scanned the surroundings. Sword light flashed, the Lovesick sword was already taken out of his storage ring, held in his hand.
While he had been in Qing Mountain Village, he had gone into the mountains many times. He knew that the creatures inside the mountain were very cunning. Who knew when they would be attacked, moreover, these ferocious beasts would be even stronger than the ones in Qing Mountain Village, their intelligence would be higher too.
Upon seeing this, Xing Feng and the others also tightly held onto the long swords in their hands. They all knew this wasn’t something to mess around with. In the event of danger, it was very likely that they could die. However, rather than nervous, they were more excited.
Although the back mountain had dangers, it wasn’t as bad as previously imagined, after all, countless disciples went into the mountains to kill ferocious beasts and successfully completed their missions every day. Moreover, they were still at the outer boundaries. To come across a fifth level ferocious beast was already a rare enough event.
Maintaining vigilance under Lu Xuan’s lead, the line of four people began moving inwards, after all, their goal was a sixth level ferocious beast lightning mink. A ferocious beast of that strength wouldn’t appear in the outer boundaries.
Lu Xuan walked at the very front. Xia Ye and Xing Feng walked in the very back, placing Lin Xin Yi in the middle. Speaking of which, with Lin Xin Yi’s current strength, completing a six star mission was already her limit. She wouldn’t be of any use on a seven star mission. For the sake of safety, she probably shouldn’t have come. However, Lu Xuan was worried that rowdy guy Xu Wen Yang wouldn’t be peaceful, thus he brought her along. He was confident that he would be able to take on a seventh level ferocious beast without any problem. Also, Lin Xin Yi wasn’t a troublesome person. Even if she couldn’t help, at least she also wouldn’t get in the way.
Just at this moment, a bush to the side suddenly shook and a large figure immediately broke out of the bush, quickly springing out, directly attacking Lu Xuan’s group.
Lu Xuan was undoubtedly the target of the incoming attack. Although this figure’s attack was very fast, it didn’t seem too quick in Lu Xuan’s vision. For him who used Rushing Thunder Flash, this kind of speed was truly not worth mentioning.
Lu Xuan didn’t dodge and flicked his wrist instead. The Lovesick sword waved and a stream of yuan force immediately came out, very precisely striking the ferocious beast.
The ferocious beast was in pain and howled. Its figure immediately stopped, allowing everyone to clearly see that it was a wolf-type ferocious beast. Currently it was grimacing in pain as it stared at Lu Xuan and and the others. It was very aggressive, but its eyes held a faint trace of terror. It was appearing tough outwardly but was timid inwardly. It knew that this group of people in front of him weren’t good to provoke.
“It’s a bush wolf, fourth level ferocious beast. This kind of wolf is different from other wolves, for example, it’s always alone and likes to ambush its enemies from inside bushes. Its speed is extremely fast. If the ambush is successful, it can take a life in one attack.” Xia Ye walked forward a step to stand by Lu Xuan’s side and speak. His family wasn’t an ordinary one. The City Lord’s Mansion had many texts, among them were some books that talked about various ferocious beasts. After being forced to by his father, he had read many of them when he was younger. Naturally he could recognize this one in a single glance.
Lu Xuan lightly nodded his head, but his eyes were continuously focused on the bush wolf, not relaxing at all. He had also heard of this bush wolf before. It was said that there were some also in Qing Mountain Village, but over there, the bush wolf was the top of the food chain. He couldn’t imagine that after coming to the mountain behind the Wind Sword Sect, that it would be reduced down to a boundary predator.