Chapter 43: Settling The Victory (2/2)

He nodded at Nie Tian, and the both of them exchanged a look of tacit mutual understanding.

At that time, Zheng Rui reminded him in a loud voice. “Brother Tao! Don’t just stand around. Come and help us get rid of this Frost Python!”

“I’m on it!” Pan Tao said, laughing.

However, just as he was about to rush towards them, his eyebrow twitched, and he noticed that Nie Tian was in a poor state.

Face serious, Pan Tao instructed. “Tong Hao! Don’t bother with the spirit beasts any more. Go to Nie Tian’s side and guard him for a while. He seems to be under the weather.”

Tong Hao was the only one whose spirits didn’t rise after the Lurker Lizard fled. He was still standing there looking stunned.

He knew very well that if Pan Tao hadn’t jumped in to fight off the Lurker Lizard, he would have been its next victim, and he… would have surely been killed.

As of this moment, he was still seized by fear.

Upon Pan Tao’s order, he glanced at Nie Tian, and found that Nie Tian was sitting on the ground with a pale face, and appeared to have lost all his spirit. He furrowed his brows and seemed to be somewhat unwilling to take action.

He wasn’t aware that it was Nie Tian who had really saved him.

While everyone else was bathing in blood, Nie Tian, on the other hand, was sitting on the ground…

That made him feel that it was a bit unfair.

He thought Nie Tian did nothing to help.

“Tong Hao! Did you hear me?!” Pan Tao glared at him.

Only then did Tong Hao respond. “Yeah, got it. I’m on it.”

From his point of view, it was Pan Tao who had saved his life, and he was in his debt.

Therefore, as long as Pan Tao instructed him to do something, he had to follow it, regardless of whether he was willing or not.

Soon, he arrived to Nie Tian’s side.

“What’s wrong? Are you okay?” he asked indifferently.

“It was nothing major, but I’m a little weak.” Nie Tian didn’t explain, so as not to make Pan Tao, who had been incessantly praised by everyone, feel embarrassed. “Thank you for protecting me.”

“You’re welcome. I’m just following big brother Pan Tao’s orders.” With an unconcerned look on his face, Tong Hao sized up Nie Tian, before putting on an enigmatic expression, saying, “You’re quite the talker. Moments ago, you told us to cast aside our fears, but now… look at you!”

Truth be told, Nie Tian’s poor state and pale face did add up to the image that he was scared.

He took it for granted that Nie Tian had been scared to death, seeing no hope of surviving the fight with the Frost Python and the Lurker Lizard.

Nie Tian let it pass and didn’t argue, since he didn’t have the energy to waste on a person like him.

“As it turns out, you’re nothing but a talker,” Tong Hao murmured, looking at Nie Tian again with his eyes full of disdain.

All of a sudden, the other teenagers started to cheer.

“The Frost Python has also fled!”

“The rest of the spirit beasts are all retreating back into the depths of the glacier area!”

“Hahaha! We’ve won! We’ve fought them away!”

Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention, and only then did he realize that the Frost Python, at an amazing speed, had indeed fled to the deepest parts of the glacier area.

After losing assistance from the Lurker Lizard, it was forced to face An Ying, Zheng Rui, and Pan Tao together. Apparently it understood that once the three of them joined forces, it would be almost impossible to defeat them, and thus it left decisively.

The moment it left, the remaining spirit beasts certainly didn’t dare to linger around, and scattered in all directions.

“Do we chase them?” Zheng Rui asked, trying to conceal his excitement.

An Ying stood there holding her long saber, panting heavily, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead. “No, we don’t. I’ve consumed too much of my spiritual energy dealing with the Frost Python. I don’t even have thirty percent of my spiritual power remaining in me. I have to recover as quickly as possible, and only then can we march further into the glacier area.

“Who knows if there are more second grade spirit beasts there.”

Pan Tao agreed. “Right. To be safe, we’d better recuperate for a bit.”

The trial takers, having just escaped death, wanted to chase the spirit beasts, but after hearing An Ying and Pan Tao’s comments, they all quickly gave in.

After this battle, every single one of them looked at Pan Tao differently.

In their eyes, it was Pan Tao who had severely wounded the Lurker Lizard that had been hiding in the dark. He had single-handedly made the greatest contribution to this battle!

Pan Tao was the one who had laid the groundwork for their victory.

Without him, the Lurker Lizard would be a huge threat to everyone, and Zheng Rui and An Ying wouldn’t have been able to force the Frost Python to flee.

Even though they didn’t say it publicly, but after going through such a tribulation, everyone had come to view Pan Tao as a leader, just like An Ying.

They even began to muse that Pan Tao should be the one to give orders.

Pan Tao had earned respect and stateliness for himself with his performance in this battle.