Chapter 66 - Reunion (1/2)

Hashirama and the 30 mad saints under him slowly made their way to the source of the loud noises which had never stopped even once and kept ringing out like a constant bombardment from military planes.

”Careful, there are way too many spirit beasts and many demonic beasts as well. Try to not to aggro them,” Hashirama looked at the moving trees and ordered. The jungle actually looked like it was moving. All the massive trees were rocking back and forth as if the ground was about to be turned upside down.

*Rumble*

The grounded started to shake and everyone went on full alert.

*ROAAAAAAAAAR*

Towards the left, an extremely loud monsters roar sounded and sent a few of the lower leveled soldiers flying several meters in the air. For the first time, Hashirama's expression changed.

”Stay here, I'll go take a look,” he said looking at the source of the roar and disappeared in a second. Staying in the canopy for cover, he jumped from one tree to another for several minutes until he finally got a glimpse of the monster.

”Impossible, how can it be here?! There is no death energy in this place!” sweat started to pour down his face. ”I must find the others and warn them, we have to leave this place right now!” he suddenly turned around and ran straight back to the soldiers.

”Quickly, we must move!” without explaining anything he commanded and without trying to hide anymore they rushed towards the noise.

Fortunately, Hashirama's team wasn't alone in the assumption that the original noise might be from one of them. Others had the exact same ideas and they were slowly making their way to Hao Xuan's location as well.

”Kill them all! Quickly, we don't have time to waste!” a voice shouted from his right this time.

”Hmm?” he turned around and followed the voice and was delighted, it was Maddy's team!

”Hash?!” Maddy sensed him coming before he could actually see him. ”Just in time, come help us clear these worms away,” he said with a laugh and jumped towards a 7-meter long white worm coming out of the ground.

The worm had hundreds of small pointy arms all along the underbelly, and if any of them got a hold of their prey, death was all but guaranteed. Their faces completely opened up exposing the multitude of teeth and tentacles. Along with their 4 beady eyes, they were hated by almost every single creature. The bodies were hard with extremely sensitive hairs on them, appendages were mostly poisonous.

They were able to lie dormant for months underground until someone passed by and they would jump into action.

Hashirama nodded and jumped in the monster crowd with his dual scimitars. Wherever he went blood flowed. He was an expert in 1vsMany battles and did extremely well in battles.

Maddy, on the other hand, was the exact opposite and was a force to be reckoned with one-on-one but was much less 'efficient' in a crowd.

Hashirama's party reached as well and together they killed most of the beasts while a few like the worm escaped.