Chapter 145: Well met!
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"All crew members, prepare for landing." the captain spoke out.
BOOMM!!
Dust and sand was blowned off from the ground as the Airship landed on a tall flat cliff above the Grand Canyon.
"I knew beforehand that the Phoenix Cradle was fast, but to think that it was THAT fast!"
"Me too! If we were to fly personally, I reckon we would only arrive here in the evening.. but now, we are already here barely even one hour after the departure!"
Some of the students was extremely impressed with the Phoenix Cradle. To put it into a perspective, a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator could fly up to 2 or 3 times more faster than those in the Qi Condensation realm. A Core formation realm were faster by 3 times than the realm before it, but slower at least by 2 times than a Golden Core realm cultivator!
Meanwhile, Nascent Soul realm was 2 times more faster than Golden Core realm cultivator, and the Phoenix Cradle Airship here, was at least 1 times more faster than that!
"Listen up everyone, we have received an update for the battle plan tomorrow. So please head over to your designated zones immediately upon disembark. Goodluck to you all!" the Captain spoke out.
Another update?
Everyone showed a surprise reaction to this piece of news as several of them began to commented out.
"This monster stampede this time around sure is weird.."
"Yeah.. not only is the total number of monsters this time around is far beyond anything else from the past, the dates was even pushed forward to tomorrow when its supposed to be next week!"
"Right.. what is going on here?"
Hearing their conversation, Duan Li couldn't help but to scratch the back of his head awkwardly.
If I were to tell them it was my fault.. would they even believe me?
Psheww!!
Everyone started to flew away towards their respective zones as Duan Li and his party flew further to the North, where their battle front was located - the outskirts of the Blastwinter desert.
After flying for about half an hour, they could finally see the forward camp of where they would be staying before tomorrow's battle. However, what had them totally surprised was that , there was already a number of people occupying these camps, and by the looks of it, most of them were injured too!
What happened here?
"Hmm?" Zhuge Liang saw the 2,000 students approaching in from afar.
"Xu Liyu, go to these students and find out if any of them has any healing related skill arts. The Fourth Squad should be quite exhausted after doing such a prolonged treatment for us." he instructed.
Acknowledging the intention behind the latter's words, Xu Liyu nodded before quickly approaching the students that had just landed with confused expression on them.
"My name is Xu Liyu, and I am the leader for the Fifth Subjugation Squad. Pardon us for using your forward camps like this, but we need a helping hand right now and will explain everything else later on." she swiftly said.
Then, without wasting anymore time, she continued, "Does anyone here has any practical healing related skill arts? Please come with me, we have many people injured that needs immediate attention!"
As the crowds were still confused, their response was mostly blank faces, looking towards each other. But after hearing who she was, coupled with some of the men here that had swiftly recognizes her as their idol, they immediately stepped out from their stupor!
"She is the REAL Xu Liyu! Guys, let's help her out!" a grown man with a swag hairstyle shouted out to his team mates, before the rest of them nodded.
"Wait! She had mentioned before that only those with healing abilities should go! We shouldn't annoy her or she might hate us.." another man spoke out with concern apparent on his face.
Realizing this, most of the men began to curse out and blame themselves for not bothering to learn any sorts of healing skill arts before!
As cultivators, their body and regenerative abilities were far beyond the resilience of normal people. Injuries that would take normal humans months to recover from would only take them a few days due to their bodies that were saturated with spiritual Qi.
Thus, there wasn't a lot of them that had learnt such an art coupled with two specific reasons;
One was that, any form of healing skill arts was extremely difficult to master, such that even the lowest grade would requires the utmost dedication and talent to learn, and these took a lot of precious time. With most cultivators preferring stronger offence and defense over healing abilities that would be far more suitable for a support, it was no wonder why only a few of them had came forward to Xu Liyu while the others could only grit their teeths in enviousness!
Second was that, healing abilities was widely known to take too much spiritual Qi of its user! This had many cultivators with a lower Qi efficiency to shy away from even thinking about learning it!
Even out of all the ten members of Duan Li's party, the only one who came forward was Duan Li and Xu Rong.
However, this had Shen Lu and the rest of Duan Li's followers to be surprised. After all, it would be understandable if Xu Rong had practiced some form of healing skill arts being a spellcaster and a sophomore student.
But their Lord here was just a fresh junior like Xiahou Yu and Shen Murong!
Not even Shen Murong here has learnt any form of healing skill arts, and that was coming from someone that belongs to a prestigious clan!
Was it because his mother had taught him before?
This was the only possible explanation that they could come up with.
"Hmm? You are that new Lord that people keeps on talking about recently.." Xu Liyu said as she noticed Duan Li coming forward. This caused some of the men to throw him dagger stares from sheer jealousy!
"Damn it! The goddess spoke to him!"
"ARGH! Why can't it be me? This isn't fair!"
"Why did she spoke to him? Did they know each other?!"
Duan Li was a little bit taken aback by this, as he didn't expect that his fame was already taking effect here to the extent that he was known by the leader of the Fifth Subjugation Squad!
This is a good feeling!
Seems like I have to act a little bit aloof right now!
"En. My name is Duan Li." Duan Li nodded as he replied to her casually.
Xu Liyu nodded as well before turning her attention towards Xu Rong. Contrary to what Duan Li believed, even if she knew about him, there was a high chance that she might not know how he even looked like.
In other words, he was only noticed by her because of Xu Rong that was standing beside him.
"It's been a while little sister." she said.
"Hello elder sister, indeed.. it has been quite a while since we last met.. How are you?" Xu Rong replied.
EHH?
They are sisters?!
At this moment, it suddenly dawned onto Duan Li that the truth of why she knew about him was probably because of this little sister of her's.
She might have caught wind that her little sister had joined a certain Lord, and the rest was quite simple to predict.
"I'm fine, but let us talk later.. right now, we have a more pressing issue to solve." Xu Liyu said.
All of the students that had came forward nodded as they realized this as well. Thus, they followed her and went inside a big tent centered in the middle of the other tents.
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To remind everyone again, every sunday, I will have my off day from writing a chapter lol.
Enjoy and Thanks for reading!
ps: next chapter is much longer! ;)