Chapter 322 - Practice of food (1/2)

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“Fellow Daoist Lonemoon.” Remembering the person next to him, Dong Wu’s expression looked happy, as he hurried to side-step and smile warmly, “Regarding the matter of ten sword arrays that Fellow Daoist mentioned, can we discuss it in the audience hall?”

“Of course!” Lonemoon didn’t refuse and followed suit. After a while, his footsteps stopped, as he turned back and dragged Shen Ying over. This one would definitely get lost if he doesn’t keep an eye on her!

“This one is…” Dong Wu seemed to only notice Shen Ying now. He thought she was a disciple going to practice?

“My… Junior Sister, Shen Ying.” Lonemoon replied.

“Oh, Fellow Daoist Shen. Come… inside, please!”

So the three went together towards the direction of the Divine Heavens Sect audience hall.

Lou Hong who was being left behind, “…”

He suddenly felt that Honesty Sect didn’t have much need of a sect master after all. Alright, he had better go home and count the spirit stones.

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The number coming from Honesty Sect this time wasn’t huge. There were around 30 in total, and in the morning Lou Hong had divided them into two teams, led by Lou Tao and Yi Qing respectively.

Yi Qing was cold in temperament and didn’t talk much. But perhaps due to his ferocity in the sword arrays, the disciples had seen him much, and they had an illusion of him being high up and beyond their reach. All those at the same level respected him, and he could pretty much get them to obey with a mere look. Besides, most of the party were sword cultivators. Sword cultivation emphasized the understanding of Sword Dao, the most important for which was practical fights. In one word, it’s all about doing it!

Therefore, they were very different from the other sects who had to take notice of other spirit herbs or weapon refinement materials, while avoiding the demon beasts by all means as they walked. Their group came just for the demon beasts, so they not only didn’t have to avoid them, they even looked for their nests. They went straight all the way towards the depths of the mystic realm.

Perhaps due to bad luck, the few demon beasts they encountered along the way were only at the second or third level. They did not encounter any of the higher levels. Second and third-level demon beasts are equivalent to the Qi Refinement stage, and presented no challenge to them at all.

Only after three days did they meet a fifth-level demon beast. Everyone looked happy, as they formed an array and started fighting. They spent nearly six hours before they defeated that beast. At the time, everyone except Yi Qing had already exhausted their Spiritual Power, and couldn’t move any more.

Yi Qing looked at the others, before he took his sword and walked towards the dead demon beast. He waved the sword, and a sword light flashed. He directly took out the Spirit Pill in the stomach of the demon beast, looked at it, and suddenly looked up again to ask, “Who has the Spirit Root of Ice?”

The group stunned. A disciple raised his hand blankly, “I am, but it is double roots of Ice and Wood.”

“Oh,” Yi Qing answered, as he threw over the Demon’s Spirit Pill in his hand, “Take it.”

“Ah! Ah?” That disciple stunned, took it subconsciously, “You… are giving it to me?” He didn’t quite know how to react. This was the Demon’s Spirit Pill, and it’s one of a fifth level demon beast! He’s giving it away like this? Although everyone fought together just now, everyone knew that young Uncle-Master was the only one who mattered. Without him, they probably wouldn’t have been able to defeat this demon beast.

Everyone else had that stunned look as well. They thought carefully, and realize that all the way, while young uncle-master rarely fought besides taking care of them at the side, he didn’t seem to take anything at all.

This was… a bit too selfless.

Everyone’s heart was warm with emotions. Just as they were about to say something, a loud roar of demon beast suddenly was suddenly heard. The trees in front fell down together, and even the ground was shaking.

A giant beast the height of three people was there in front of everyone. Its shape was like an ox, but it had scales all over it. There were two rows of sharp horns on its head, and nine tails were waving on its back. Flames emerged from its four hooves.

It roared loudly towards the group. They felt a hot, burning sensation immediately, as if all the surroundings were going to catch fire.

“It’s the Fire Hooves Beast!” A disciple cried out, and everyone’s faces whitened.

“My god, it is a sixth-level demon beast. It is equivalent to the Golden Core stage!”

“What can we do? We can’t beat him.”

“We don’t have any more strength. Young uncle-master, quickly…”

Before anyone could finish, a wave of sword rain fell on the beast. Instantly, the giant beast thrice the height of a person became like a griddle. It slammed onto the ground with a loud bang and made no more sound.