48 Clearance Artifac (1/2)

After that, Wang Lu, along with Wen Bao, knocked out more than ten different monsters in the Small Clear Sky Peak. From the lowly category one first rank monster to category two third rank monsters, it was basically a routine for them—slip into the opposite party’s lairs and wait for them to rush back and then fiercely intercept; it was a smooth journey!

Along the way, Wen Bao always felt like he was in a dream land. He thought this experiential learning at the Small Clear Sky Peak would have a high risk for someone who was still on the ninth level of Qi Cultivating Stage like him. But as of this moment, it seemed unremarkable at all! As long as he followed senior brother’s instruction, it was really easy to accumulate the challenge points! At this point, counting on their ten consecutive victories, which resulted in additional bonus points, he had earned more than two hundred challenge points!

Senior brother was indeed senior brother.

In fact, Wang Lu’s contribution was more than what Wen Bao realized! Regardless of how synchronized their attack method was, they only relied on brute force. If not for their strategic timing and place, let alone the category two third rank Stone Wood Ape, even category two fourth or fifth rank monsters would easily route them. But how could it be that easy to get this strategic timing and place? Along the way, Wang Lu, almost without a mistake, directly found the monster’s lair, like he was an adept hunter who had lived in this place for a long time.

Wang Lu certainly didn’t live in this place for a long time. However, more than a month ago, he and his Master, together on a flying bamboo sword, wantonly looted the Small Clear Sky Peak. At that time, because his position was at the front, he was able to quickly grasp the complete picture of the Small Clear Sky Peak. Through his memory in addition to his keen sense of surrounding spiritual energy, a natural ability that came from his spirit root, his professional adventurer’s reasoning ability, and internal sect data regarding the place, he was able to accurately infer a lot of monster’s lairs.

This was one of Wang Lu’s most crucial cards in this experiential learning challenge.

For this experiential learning challenge, Wang Lu had made preparation for most of the days in the past month, and for a top student like him, he was able to prepare many things. Prior to departure, Wang Lu not only compared the map of the Small Clear Sky Peak with the distribution of the monsters and analyzed them, he also drafted multiple sets of solutions on the method to deal with each of the monsters.

When all the preparations was completed, only then did Wang Lu embark on this experiential learning challenge. At this point, as a professional adventurer, he simply had to analyze those sets of solutions for the Full Moon Valley before he perfectly executed them.

After earning more than two hundred challenge points, their task was basically fifty percent completed. However, as the saying went, the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets. When they arrived at the Lotus Pond, the real problem arose.

At the beginning of the Lotus Pond, the distribution of the monsters was more complex. The monsters that have fixed lairs became less and less, and monsters that like to migrate became more frequent. When he rode on the flying bamboo sword with his master, they didn’t put too much attention on this place… To sum it up, this place was the one Wang Lu had least comprehended.

Wang Lu, after all, was just a body refining novice cultivator. Thus, he had no Stars Diffraction Technique of the Sect Leader that could help him discern the various monsters around them. Consequently, they finally encountered real difficulty.

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At this time, Wang Lu and Wen Bao were walking on the road at the edge of the Lotus Pond. However, when they went through a bog, the two encountered a surprise attack from monsters.

“Senior Brother Wang Lu, what are those!?”

Watching the incoming waves of palm-sized long-tailed frog monsters, Wen Bao could not help but feel that his chest was tightening in disgust.

After a long silence, Wang Lu answered in a very serious tone, “They are Long-tailed Poisonous Toads, a category one sixth rank monster. They have teeth, and their saliva contains venom. Besides these, they have no other advantage, except that they live in groups.”

Living together in groups was often a property that defied the heaven. For example, a pack of wolves could expel a ferocious tiger, and a colony of ants could devour a large elephant. This Long-tailed Poisonous Frog was a mere category one sixth rank monster, not to mention the other monster, even an ordinary wolf was much better than it. If it faced a Full Moon Roar, a simple roar could kill these waves of Long-tailed Poisonous Frogs.

However although Wang Lu could handle Stone Wood Apes and even a direct roar attack from the Full Moon Roar, this time, he couldn’t handle this Long-tailed Poisonous Frog.

“Retreat.”

Wen Bao was stunned. “Retreat?”

Previously, this senior brother always espoused the peerless mode, but faced with this category one sixth rank monster, he actually asked him to withdraw!?

However, before he could inquire further, Wang Lu had already turned around and fled. Over a hundred poisonous frogs would soon swarm him, so Wen Bao didn’t dare to stay a moment longer and quickly followed Wang Lu.

Fortunately, although Wang Lu had no way to overcome these more than a hundred poisonous frogs, he easily found a dry path among the mud and quickly evacuated Wen Bao from the scene.

When they were out of the Long-tailed Poisonous Frogs’ territory, Wen Bao finally realized - once those waves of poisonous frogs made their attack, perhaps Wang Lu himself would be okay, but he himself would certainly be gnawed to the bones.

Meanwhile, while his Black Iron Sword had a powerful explosive single target attack, it did not have an area attack. Although his strike could knock out the Stone Wood Apes, he could not strike many Long-tailed Poisonous Frogs at once. Social monsters like that was this duo’s nemesis. No wonder upon seeing them, Wang Lu immediately wanted to retreat.

It was no wonder that since entering the Small Clear Sky Peak, Wang Lu would often choose a particularly demanding road because once they took a wrong step… Wang Lu was simply trying to avoid this kind of social monsters!

Previously, the more than ten species of monsters that they had knocked down were all solitary type. Even if some of them lived in a group, the numbers were particularly scarce. So, it was possible to separate them by various means and deal with them one by one, like the Stone Wood Apes… “Senior Brother Wang Lu truly deserves to be a professional adventurer, I could never match his ability to come up with this kind defying-the-heaven strategy,” Wen Bao mused.

However, Senior Brother Wang Lu was not omnipotent; encountering this Long-tailed Poisonous Frog meant that the situation has gradually gone out of control. Moreover, this bitter experience seemed to have stained them with bad luck. They tried to take several different routes after that, but in each route, they would always encounter similarly social monsters who lived in groups. The level of these monsters was not high, yet their numbers were enough to overwhelm them, so they had no choice but to take another route… Once, they have an unfortunate encounter with the Five-headed Golden Haired Red-eyed foxes. These foxes were agile and fast, and they were also good at fighting in packs. Although Wang Lu could defend himself, he wouldn’t be able to take care of Wen Bao; and in all likelihood, Wen Bao would end up being mercilessly bit pieces by pieces by those foxes. Thinking about the pain that Wen Bao would suffer through, he could not help but shiver.