163 Chapter 163 (1/2)

”Halt, you may not leave!”

A man with a spear pointed at some people, with him there were many others with similar weapons and clothes. This was the Jade Grass City docks and these men were the guards stationed there. They were following a previously given order of not letting anyone leave the city that a superior from the sect had given them.

They were having slight troubles as there were many people that came for the Dao Festival here. Everyone was going crazy after the two nascent soul uncles started fighting, fleeing the city was the only thing on there mind. The guards were able to keep the numerous people at bay for now, mostly due to the fear of the Dark Palm sect looming over them. Otherwise, the various clan warriors would have charged through these guards that were at most at the foundation level.

This was only to this point though, as a certain group of people charged into the dock area pushing everyone to the side.

”What are you doing, you may not leave, this is what the elders from the Dark Palm sect had decided, are you going against the venerable sect?”

The guard captain with the highest cultivation realm shouted out while seeing a large man with red hair charging forward.

”Venerable? Think you have them confused with some other sect, now move!”

The warning that the guard gave the group didn't work as they all got tossed to the side like ragdolls. The man with red hair was of course Huo Qiang, behind him were all the people from the triforce alliance. Clans that were to the side, looked shocked at the brazen show of force. Everyone was wondering who these people were, that didn't fear the powerful sect that was behind these guards.

”Everyone, go to your ships, we will follow Brother Dong's orders and go towards the Zhang Clan's Spirit Spring City!”

”Qiao, go with the Zhang Clan, and protect their ship, take care of Senior Jin.”

Huo Qiang knew that the old man was injured, he was still out cold and getting carried by some Zhang members. Zhang Liu on the other hand had awoken from his slumber and was more or less healed thanks to some recovery pills he had previously gotten from his master. The pills had the holy element infused into them, so they worked wonders for external and internal injuries of any kind. He and Feng Nuana were running along with the rest of the people from their camp, the short girl was glancing back and forth from the youth as if she wanted to say something.

”My lord, is it wise to do that? Shouldn't we return to the clan and alert the Patriarch?”

Huo Qiao asked while everyone was making their way into the docks, the guards that were there not really being able to do anything with the core formation experts around.

”Hah, you saw it all... Senior Brother is the only one that can protect us... we just need to tell that old fart to hide for the moment.”

”Young Master, please stop referring to the Patriarch that way...”

Qiao nodded and saw some reason in this. What good would it do to hide away in their main city, only to wait for the incoming doom? He didn't think that the Dark Palm sect would let them live, even this nascent soul elder was already ordering that Yang Kai to eradicate all the three clans that were involved in this fiasco. Probably letting themselves be protected by an allied nascent soul master like Zhang Dong was the better option, but he was still only one man.

”Are the communication jades still not working?”

Communications were still out, the jades in themselves had probably been destroyed and they needed new ones. Even the ones that were in their spatial rings were not working anymore. This worked in their favor as the sect that was chasing them wouldn't know that they left, or that the incident even happened before someone from this city reported it. They had some precious time now, the word about this incident hadn't reached outside yet.

While everyone was running towards their designated ships a big screech was heard. It sounded like a cry from some kind of bird, everyone that was rushing forward had to grasp their ears. The core formation elders quickly surrounded the juniors with their aura to protect them from harm.

Everyone looked into the distance to the spot that this loud cry originated from. The cultivator's eyes went wide as they saw that large beast opening its wings. It looked like a huge raven, but this beast was the size of a kaiju a lot bigger than normal creatures that were even in the core formation level. Its size was immense when it flapped those giant wings giant cyclones were created that produced massive windstorms.

”Master is fighting that?”

Zhang Liu and Xue were squatting down on the ground along with the other junior members, taken aback by the sudden appearance of that creature. Was that some kind of nascent soul technique that they didn't know about?

”Is that a Spirit Soul-Beast?”

The old granny from the Feng clan called out, her eyes squinting as she tried to look in the direction where the action was happening.

”I heard it takes a lot of time to create a Soul-Beast like that, not every nascent soul cultivator is able to do it...”

Most of the people here didn't really have information about the various techniques a nascent soul master used. They were shrouded in mystery, but this one was more of a staple so it was more widely known. Still, how one produced such a strong beast that rivaled its own master in battle strength was an enigma.

”What's a Spirit Soul-Beast?”

One of the junior members asked while quivering down on the ground.