Chapter 480: First Encounter - 480
Since three months had passed. It was now time to gather. Zhu Yi left his room and walked towards the location where he could feel the most people.
He was led to a large room holding a meeting and promptly joined.
There was a lot of strategy, and Zhu Yi was placed in the 2nd squadron with another soul formation realm cultivator.
Although Zhu Yi did not know a lot of the specifics, all he needed to do was fight. He was also to be given a reward in the case that he killed a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast.
The meeting did not last long and they set out. With soul formation realm cultivators in the lead, they moved far away from the writing sect.
While the writing sect was the meeting place, 5 of the top ten sects were participating in this fight. Nearly all of their soul formation realm and nascent soul realm cultivators were here.
While they flew, Zhu Yi asked a question to the captain of the 2nd squadron, the other soul formation realm cultivator.
"Are there not going to be any Void Traversing realm cultivators fighting?"
He had yet to see or even hear mention of them.
The captain of the second squadron nodded. "All three of them participate in every fight. You will see them at the beginning of the battle."
Zhu Yi nodded. There were three known void traversing realm cultivators in the world. One from the Frost sect, one from the Writing sect, and one from the Grass Sect, the third ranked sect in the world.
They flew slowly in order to let the nascent soul realm cultivators keep up.
However, they soon arrived at an inconspicuous location. They set up camp here.
Zhu Yi was curious as to how they knew that Chaos Beasts would appear here, but he didn't ask. He didn't want to seem prying.
Looking around the camp, Zhu Yi saw many colors. Participating in this fight were the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th ranked sects in the world.
They were the Writing sect, the grass sect, the sky sparrow sect, the fire spirit sect, and the High boulder sect.
Zhu Yi waited for three days before he heard a loud shout. He flew out of his tent and looked a few miles in the distance. This was his first encounter with a Chaos Beast.
A giant gray beast that seemed to barely have a fixed form. It had four legs, tusks, and spikes around its head like a lion's mane.
It stood tall, its form reaching the skies. Zhu Yi could not feel the slightest hope in defeating it.
Around it, more Chaos Beasts appeared. Some looked similar to the giant one, but every single one was at least slightly different.
These ones did not give Zhu Yu as much pressure, though he felt like he was facing a strong opponent.
Cultivators flew towards the Chaos Beasts as three colors appeared above the biggest one. The colors of blue like ice, black like ink, and green like grass formed a sphere around the biggest Chaos Beast that stopped it from leaving.
The three colored sphere slowly moved away while extremely loud sounds came from within.
Zhu Yi charged forward and met with what he assumed was a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast. These were now the strongest existences on the battlefield.
Zhu Yi's target was fairly far away from others, and Zhu Yi could fight as hard as he wanted.
He unsheathed his sword and used the formless sword technique. The Chaos Beast saw him moving and charged, but cuts appeared on its body.
Truthfully, Zhu Yi did not feel much of a threat from the Chaos Beast. Although he wasn't quite near the level of fighting a Chaos Beast on the same level, he could be said to be in between fighting a Chaos Beast on the same level and fighting a Chaos Beast a level below him.
And he was only at the first level of the soul formation realm.
Despite suffering from an increasing amount of cuts, the Chaos Beast did not once falter or stop charging. It seemed like a wild, angry beast with no intelligence.
As it charged, a gray color began to appear around it.
Zhou Fan sighed in awe. It truly was Chaos Qi. Luckily, this beast was not intelligent enough to actually use it well. Otherwise, Zhu Yi would not live to see tomorrow.
Once the Chaos Qi appeared around it, Zhu Yi's attacks cut way less deep. Like this, he would only be able to slowly use up its Qi or bleed it out.
However, the formless sword was not meant for a head on attack. It was more or less a sneak attack.
Zhu Yi now had another attack for breaking through things.
He stepped forward and charged, he held his sword up and prepared to attack.
"Stop you fool!" Zhou Fan shouted.
Zhu Yi cut his attack short, hurting his arm, and backed away.
As he moved away from the charging Chaos Beast, he looked at Zhou Fan in confusion.
"That's Chaos Qi. That beast uses it like a fool, but if you carelessly touch it like that, you'll die without knowing how."
Zhu Yi was shocked. He did not know that Chaos Qi was that powerful.
"Chaos Qi is like a poison to cultivators. Don't be careless. If you're going to attack it head on, at least make sure that you don't touch the Chaos Qi." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi nodded and unsheathed his sword again. He charged forward and held up his sword. Although it seemed the same, his body stopped as his sword swung down, preventing him from coming into contact with Chaos Qi.
"Breaking through all things."
Zhu Yi's sword came down like a hammer, creating a vertical slash that cut through all things. The Chaos Qi resisted it a bit, but just the residual power alone cut the Chaos Beast deep in the face.
It stopped charging for a moment, blood pouring out of its face.
Chapter 481: Chaos Mist - 481
The Chaos Beast shook its head like a wild dog. Chaos Qi began to pour out of its body wildly, before being dragged back within its body.
Zhu Yi felt as if some sort of sphere was forming. He ran around the Chaos Beast, circling it while waiting for another opportunity to strike.
Suddenly, he heard a booming shout from afar. "Retreat!"
Zhu Yi looked over and saw that the man who yelled was looking at him. Suddenly, Zhu Yi felt danger descend. He moved away at the fastest speed possible before the sphere formed inside the Chaos Beast broke with an explosion.
Zhu Yi had gotten far, but the self-destruction using Chaos Qi was powerful and had a wide range.
Zhu Yi was hit by an aftershock and spat out blood. He was sent flying far away, colliding with a mountain before finally stopping.
He laid down, bleeding for a few minutes before finally regaining his thoughts. With a cough, he spat out blood and stood up.
Zhou Fan examined him and spoke. "You were lucky to not be hit with the direct explosion. Otherwise, Chaos Qi would be destroying you from the inside out."
Zhu Yi, with blood covering his body, nodded. "Why didn't they tell me about any of this?"
Zhu Yi was confused. Were they trying to kill him?
"I think they tried, but you never answered the door." Zhou Fan said.
"Hmm?"
"You were so focused on training that you missed a couple of door knocks. On the way here, I guess they assumed that you had already known everything."
Zhu Yi understood. He was glad that his life was not being targeted.
Zhu Yi looked into the distance and saw a rapidly decreasing gray mist. It seemed to be rolling into itself, slowly vanishing.
Zhu Yi charged towards it. This was his spoil of war, and he wanted to see if Zhou Fan could use it to recover.
He soon arrived and stood at the edge of the mist, not daring to enter. It only took a single fight before he had gained a fear of Chaos Qi.
Zhou Fan jumped off of Zhu Yi's shoulder and walked into the mist. After a moment of waiting, the mist began to rapidly decrease as it rolled onto itself towards the middle. In a span of a minute, the gray mist was gone.
Zhou Fan stood there silently. Zhu Yi watched.
After another minute, Zhou Fan sighed. "Good stuff. With this, recovering more is not impossible."
Zhu Yi was relieved. Once again, there was a clear path forward. The worst moments of his life had been the time when he was wandering the world, trying to find even the slightest hope of cultivating faster.
Every second that passed had felt like a blade inching towards his neck. Only when he had found a solution did he finally feel any sort of relief.
After breaking through, he had once again felt that same despair, though not nearly as seriously. Luckily, he had found another clear path.
Zhou Fan got on Zhu Yi's shoulder and Zhu Yi flew into the sky. He looked around for another target before hearing a voice.
"Assist the nascent soul realm cultivators against the core formation realm Chaos Beasts."
Zhu Yi nodded and flew back a bit.
There were many more battlefields here, with thousands of core formation realm Chaos Beasts.
There had been just as many foundation establishment realm Chaos Beasts, but they had been quickly wiped out.
Zhu Yi flew through the battlefield and used the formless sword. He very quickly killed 50 Chaos Beasts and Zhou Fan absorbed the mist that they produced upon death.
Nobody suspected a thing and thanked him for the help. He would not take any of their credit and, to them, was helping for free.
By the time he had killed 50 core formation realm Chaos Beasts, the core formation realm Chaos Beasts were gone.
The mist that the Core Formation realm Chaos Beasts produced was about a tenth of the nascent soul realm Chaos Beast.
In other words, Zhu Yi had absorbed the equivalent of 6 nascent soul realm Chaos Beasts.
Zhou Fan clearly felt a boost. Zhu Yi flew over to the battlefield with soul formation realm cultivators in order to help, but the fight was over. Although there had not been that many Nascent soul realm Chaos Beasts, some soul formation realm cultivators had to team up in order to win a fight. Only a small minority like Zhu Yi were able to single handedly fight a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast. Among all those that had participated, only a single nascent soul realm cultivator had perished.
After so many years, the top ten sects had become rather efficient at fighting and surviving against Chaos Beasts. It was a good thing that these Chaos Beast had no intelligence. Over many years, techniques and strategies could be created and used against them.
Zhu Yi relaxed and stood on the ground. The battle was over, and the next one would be in a hundred years.
The captain of the 2nd squadron walked over and patted Zhu Yi on the shoulder. He was one of the few that was able to fight a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast alone.
"You were good out there. Even I can't compare to you. If you want to join the Writing sect, you're always welcome." The captain said with a grateful look.
"Thank you, but I've always been more of an independent cultivator." Zhu Yi responded.
Perhaps before, he would have joined. However, after seeing Wen Si's memories go missing, he didn't dare get too close.
The captain of the 2nd squadron nodded in understanding and left to go see others. After an entire day, three colors appeared in the sky once again.
Although he didn't see any figures, Zhu Yi heard a voice.
"The fight is over. Everyone can return and claim their rewards."
These words came from the void traversing realm cultivator of the Writing sect and signified the end of the fight against Chaos Beasts.
Zhu Yi left with those from the writing sect, intending to claim a reward.
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