Chapter 8 - Planning for the Spiritual Vein (2/2)

'If I'm not wrong, that 8th stage Lizard Dragon should be at the bottom of the nest, as long as I don't spread my Divine Sense too far it shouldn't notice me, as for the 7th ranked ones, if there is any, they probably won't be able to feel my divine sense since it is much stronger than any other 7th stage beast'

After spreading his divine sense for 400 meters, Krune could already see almost all the lizards.

'Two 7th stage and nine 6th ones, I will need a to get rid of them little by little first, the stronger ones are deep inside while the weaker ones are close to the entrance or outside.

I know what to do.'

Lizard Dragons are predators and this mountain range is their territory, other beast would not get close easily.

Krune left to find a bait, with his Divine Sense it wouldn't be too hard, although spreading it 500 meters of distance spend a lot of spiritual energy, it doesn't mean that he has to keep it active 100% of the time, Krune circled around the border of the Lizards territory and spread his Divine sense every now and then for a few seconds, it didn't take long for him to find a 6th stage Demon Bear.

It was quite easy to deal with, Krune's cultivation is higher and together with his wisp energy body, as soon as the bear saw that it was a wisp, it disregarded any possibility of danger, wisps are hard to catch but are very good cultivation resources for all the other races, this Demon Bear wasn't afraid at all that Krune could present any danger to it, the bear rushed straight at him and when it got closer, an earth spikes shot from the ground under the bear, it pierced the bear which growled and tried to get rid of the spike when ten wind blades came from above and cut off it's head.

'As expected of a defense type beast, the earth spike didn't have enough power to pierce all the way to it's heart, with the amount of spiritual energy I used to cast it, any ordinary type 7th would have died if they didn't dodge in time. Even the wind blades, the bear's head only dropped after the 8th one hit, but with this big guy, it should be easy to slowly attract those lizards.'

Krune Grabbed the bear corpse, took out the Demon Core and brought it somewhere close to the but far enough so that he wouldn't catch the attention of the entire lair when killing the first ones to come.

He also prepared some pit traps with some earth spikes, he made sure to use a lot of spiritual energy in those spike so that they could be much sturdier and would likely be able to pierce the scales of the lizards. Although Lizard Dragons aren't as heavy and the demon bear they are still on the bigger side of the beasts around and this kind of trap would be very effective on them.

It didn't take long for a few Lizard dragons to get the scent of blood from the bear corpse and come close, there was four of them and they are used to the safety of their territory, so after seeing the bear corpse, those lizards didn't think much before rushing to get the meat, just when they where about the reach the bear corpse, several earth spikes came from bellow direct impaling three of them, the last one was luck that there was no earth spike ready where he passed, after noticing the danger it immediately tried to flee, but just when it turned back, several wind blades struck it from the side.

The Lizard Dragons have a high defense due to their scales, one or two wind blades wouldn't be able to straightly kill it, but the amount of blades obviously wasn't so little, just like with the Demon Bear, Krune used ten wind blades against this last Lizard precisely hitting it's neck, it could said to be an overkill already, Krune swiftly took out their Demon Cores and cleaned the battlefield.

'Good, there is another five 6th stage lizards, they should be coming soon.'

Sure enough, noticing that those four Lizards didn't come back after some time, the rest of the 6th stage Lizards came to take a look, there was even one of the two 7th stage Lizard Dragons leading the group, this one was smarter than the lower levels one, after taking a look it found the situation somewhat fishy, Krune noticed that and decided that to best way to bring them under his trap was to appear himself in front of them, no beast would ever let a wisp go away like that, they are too precious for the other races.

Sure enough, when a wisp suddenly appeared beside the Bear corpse all the lizards eyes lit up, the 7th stage one was no exception, he gave a big roar and all the lizards rushed over, wisps are hard to find nowadays, they couldn't let this one escape.

Krune snorted at this sight, he didn't move and patiently waited for them to enter the range of his earth spikes, they have long since be readied with enough spiritual energy and he just need a thought for them to activate.

As soon as they got inside of his trap, Krune controlled his spiritual energy to activate the traps, one lizard after another was immediately impaled, the only survival this time was the 7th stage one, it was alarmed, it never expected that a wisp could be this strong, although its body was able to fend of the attacks of the earth spikes aimed at it, it still suffered severe injuries, it immediately turned tail to run, but how could Krune let him go? As soon as is it started to move, four earth walls appeared around it, Krune had been prepared for something like this a long time ago, once the walls were erected, from above, one could see over ten wind blades coming down, the Lizard Dragon noticed the crisis, it used all it's strength to blow away the earth wall in front of it, although the earth wall was sturdy, it couldn't hold a 7th stage Lizard Dragon with a feint dragon bloodline for long, on the second hit it finally crumbled, but it was too late, wind blade after wind blade hit it's body finishing the job.

'Phew... that was dangerous, it almost escaped, those guys are really something else, as expected of a dragon bloodline, even with such a feint one.'

After getting the Demon Cores Krune decided to retreat, he used over 80% of all his spiritual energy in those two traps, he definitely wouldn't be able to deal with the leader and the last 7th stage the way he is at moment.

'I don't need to go far, I just need more or less two hours to to recover my spiritual energy and I can start the last phase of my plan.'

Some time after Krune left, the Lizard Dragon Leader and the other 7th stage one found out that almost all their nest was wiped out, the leader was enraged, but it couldn't do anything, Krune had left already, all it could do was to go rampage around it's territory until it finally got tired and decided to go back to their nest to prevent more casualties.

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Around two hours passed and Krune was back to his peak, he immediately set off, he wanted to finish all today.

'As long as I get that low level spiritual vein, I should have no more issues with spiritual energy for the creation of the next Spiritual Energy Meridians'

Krune looked at the entrance of their nest, it was a cave entrance on the base of the mountain, this time Krune wouldn't be able to rely on his earth spikes or wind blades, that 8th stage Qi Condensation Lizard Dragon leader defense is bound to be higher than the other 7th stage remaining lizard, it will be very difficult to cause any serious injury on a 8th stage beast with a feint dragon bloodline, but he wasn't intending to do that anyway.

Krune spread his Divine Sense a little, just enough to see the things around 50 meters ahead of him and moved carefully inside the Lizard Dragons nest, being a wisp here really is good, as long as he wasn't in their sight line they would not be able to detect him, first, wisps don't walk, they float, and second, they don't have a body, so they don't have a scent to start with. Well, at least not until they gain their human form.

It didn't take long for Krune to find what he was looking for.

'Found it!'

Around 10 minutes later, the Lizard Dragon leader sensed a Divine Sense scanning his nest, the leader was already enraged to start with and now someone dared to barge into his nest, it gave a profound roar and immediately set out, it was going to eat the intruder alive!