249 Bragging about Losing (2/2)
Xue Wei was unaware of how long it would take before Bai Tianyi's sword energy would recover, but a look at his face told him that the paleness had already been replaced by a rosy complexion. It was clear that he was not as strained as before.
On the return trip, they encountered neither friends nor foes. A few Fierce Beasts appeared and looked at Xue Wei with curiosity, but they did not dare move too close out of fear for the other three.
”Let us rest for a bit here,” Xue Wei said after they had traveled for a few hours. There was no one in sight and their current position gave them a clear view on all sides.
Lin Xiao and Hei Gou were quiet as they instantly sat down and started cultivating. They started mending their body and soul while at the same time training the Soul Guard.
Seeing them train, Xue Wei took the task of observing their surroundings. The pills he had taken were enough to heal him after a bit of time. He could watch their surroundings while cultivating to some degree, though it would not have the same effect as stationary meditation, but this was the best course of action now that they were in enemy territory.
Bai Tianyi sat down with his legs crossed, closed his eyes, and started emitting a pulsating, strange grey energy around him.
It went out of his body, rotated around him and returned to his body again in time with his breathing. This was the sword energy that he controlled. It was clear that with each breath, the energy that moved grew in size.
Xue Wei had been worried that the sword energy would take months to restore, but looking at Bai Tianyi's current state, it might not take all that long.
Time went by slowly. Xue Wei was eager to get merits, but he was not silly enough to rush his team when they were healing and cultivating.
Suddenly in the distance, Xue Wei noticed a group of experts that seemingly had noticed them as well. The group was heading towards them, but Xue Wei hesitated to wake up his comrades.
If the arriving experts were from the academy, then they could continue their training, but if they were bandits, then they had to fight.
Fortunately, it turned out that they were from the academy. Xue Wei went out to meet them so that they did not interrupt Bai Tianyi and the others.
When they noticed the black wristband on his hand, the academy students turned disappointed, and then they looked curiously at Xue Wei and the other three.
”Are you the newcomers from another continent?” the leader of the other group asked curiously. He had seen that all four had two eyes each and that they seemed to not have the distinct humbling behavior of a two-eyed expert from Yan Dalu.
”That would be us,” Xue Wei nodded his head.
He did not see any condescension in the eyes of these experts, nor did he see much disdain. He was surprised to see that they were all friendly and open towards him.
”You defeated Tang Liu and later helped him break through to the Ordinary Knight rank with his Qi levels. This piece of news, he is even bragging about it back in the camp,” the leader said, laughing out loud. ”Normally, a defeat is nothing to rejoice about, but because he managed to become an Ordinary Knight with his Qi levels, he was quite hard to get back down to earth. Everyone who has been in the camp already knows about it.”
”We are also aware that you have some abilities which are highly ranked compared to the Qi skills here in Yan Dalu.”
Hearing this, Xue Wei was slightly alert. Were they interested in his techniques? He was not willing to give them away just like that.
Seeing him tense up, the entire group smiled and shook their heads. ”Don't worry, we are not so starved for Qi techniques that we will make enemies with you over it,” the leader assured him. Xue Wei felt a bit calmer hearing this.
”Well, we will continue our expedition,” the group got ready to head out once more. Xue Wei said his farewell. He had already managed to get a bit of information from the leader of the group and he was quite happy that they were not bandits.
When he returned to his friends' side, he quickly found that Hei Gou had awakened from his cultivation.
His eyes were looking around him with a sharpness that had not been there before. There was a certainty and self-confidence emanating from Hei Gou that he did not have earlier.
The experience from that battle had given him the confidence he needed. He had started to understand that, after two mutations, his body was now no longer that average Celestial Dog he had been when he met Xue Wei.
He was now an overlord amongst the Primordial Beasts. He was now a beast that had been granted a heaven-defying talent. He was someone who could be considered a supreme genius. Everything about him had been changed, and it had been changed for the better.
But what race was he now? He himself had not even seen his full shape, but he understood that he could no longer be considered a Celestial Dog. He was now a completely new race of Primordial Beasts, a race that had never appeared before.