Bai Yun looked at the bee queen and the various worker bees that were flying about. He watched them for a while trying to find out about their behavior and patterns that they had.
Bai Yun noticed that the queen bee was mostly sitting there and letting the worker bees do most of the work. The bees also had patterns to their movement. Once he observed them for a while, he was ready to move.
Bai Yun took out a qi replenishing pill and put it in his mouth, ready to swallow it at a moment's notice. He then slowly crept out of the tunnel, and crawled forward toward the bees. They hadn't noticed him yet due to his skills as well as their tasks.
Bai Yun came as close as he could before the bees would sense him. He waited under the honey wall cutout for a chance to strike and kill as many bees as he could in the initial strike.
As he watched, the critical moment came in a few minutes. The bees were flying around and they lined up in front of him by chance.
Bai Yun did not waste this chance and moved in an instant, casting both wind motion as well as a ray of moonlight simultaneously. His sword cut four bees that were standing in his path before anyone reacted to him.
Only then did the rest of the bees find out about the intruder in their midst. Bai Yun did not waste their silence and ran towards the other before they reacted. It was only after two more bees had been cut down did the queen bee scream, and the rest of the worker bees attacked him.
After spending so much qi, Bai Yun's reserves were empty, so he immediately swallowed the pill in his mouth. Qi quickly started to fill his dantian. The amount of qi in the pill was more than what he could hold so he started at attack and move rapidly, lest the qi be wasted. Since the bees were scattered around the room, and it took a while for them to come together, he started to pick them off one by one.
By the time the qi replenishing pill had run out of energy, he had killed nine more bees, reducing the number of bees to thirteen. But by now they had all surrounded him. Thankfully his qi reserves were full, or else he would be dead even faster.
The queen bee realized that the situation had changed. Not only had the intruder been surrounded, he also seems to have run out of steam. So the queen bee simply laid back and screeched orders at its workers. Even though it was relaxed, its eyes were filled with hatred towards the intruder that had killed more than half of its workers. The standoff between Bai Yun and the bees continued for a few minutes, with him trying to find a fault in their formation, and the bees trying to kill him.
All of a sudden Bai Yun's eyes were drawn to his sword. He saw that his sword had become even more cracked than before. With each collision with the stingers of the bees, especially those of the second circle, the condition of his sword became much worse.
Bai Yun had been a swordsman for tens of thousands of years. A single look was enough for him to realize that the sword would only last one more hit.
He smiled wryly as the realization hit him. It seemed as if he would not be able to kill any more bees. If he did not want to die and be disqualified, he would have to retreat immediately. Once his sword broke, he would not be able to hold the second circle bees back.
In that instant Bai Yun felt as if time had stopped. He looked around at the thirteen bees that had surrounded him, his eyes scouring every single one of them. He could see their wings moving in slow motion, beat by beat. He saw their eyes, red from anger. He saw their stingers thrusting straight at him. There was no way for him to kill them. He needed a large area attack even to hold them back and escape.
Bai Yun then thought of the second move of the moonlight sword, rain in the moonlight. It was an area attack, but something he had yet to master. He could barely trigger it properly, and even when he did so, something was blocking the move, making him unable to bring out its true strength.
Bai Yun grit his strength, and decided to use it anyway. His strength was nearly not enough to escape. If he used it, he would be at least able to push away the bees, so that he could run away. Without mastering it, using it would only cause him to waste a lot of energy, and not deal any damage. But he had no choice. He needed a moment to run.
Without waiting for it, he cast rain under the moonlight. Rain under the moonlight was a move that dispersed the strength of the sword into multiple thrusts. If a ray of moonlight focused all the energy of the castor into a single point and thrust the sword forward at great speed, then a rain under the moonlight split that energy into multiple pieces, and let it disperse in multiple thrusts that came one after the other. Each of the thrusts was much weaker than a ray of moonlight, but when a huge number of them came one after the other, it allowed one to rapidly send attacks in any direction as they please.
Bai Yun had only started to study the sword technique recently. The techniques that he studied in his past life consisted of very different principles, thus he found it a bit difficult to comprehend the technique at first.
Bai Yun attacked the bees one by one, pushing them back and hurting them in the process. With each attack, the bees were pushed back and Bai Yun gained a little more breathing room.
Suddenly with a slight crack a new tiny crack appeared at the sword tip. Bai Yun frowned as he saw this. His attack was in the middle of execution and this crack caused him to lose control of the latest thrust slightly. As he watched, the sword collided against the body of the bee in front of him, and the unstable qi caused a small explosion. When he saw this Bai Yun's eyes widened in surprise.
It was like lightning had gone off in his head. He realized that he had been thinking about the technique all wrong. Since the ray of moonlight was a penetration type technique, he had assumed that the case was true for rain under the moonlight. But it was not. The technique was meant to explode upon slightly penetrating the body of the enemy, thus not only causing extra damage, but also the reverse force of the explosion would allow him to retreat his sword faster.
The moonlight part of the rain under the moonlight was the light that would appear when the technique was executed. He had thought that the rain part in the name referred to the large number of attacks in the technique, but no. The rain was referring to how a raindrop would burst upon hitting the ground.
In an instant, countless thoughts ran through Bai Yun's head. He realized the true way of utilizing the technique, but it was too late by now. His sword was about to collapse.
A look of determination passed through his eyes before Bai Yun send his soul tendrils into the sword. The soul tendrils would cause the sword to stay together, but in exchange, he would be dealt with the backlash. He halted the technique he was casting, and once again used the rain under the moonlight, this time doing it properly.
As the true technique was cast, a small reverberating noise was heard, as if someone was hitting a drum very silently, but repeatedly. In a second the entire region around Bai Yun was washed in faint white glow. Bai Yun repeatedly hit the weak points of the bees, enlarging the wounds they had received, until they screeched out in pain as their bodies ripped in two.
As he stopped, Bai Yun spit out a mouthful of blood, and his sword shattered into pieces at the same time. Just as the blood and the pieces of the sword fell onto the floor, so did the bodies of the bees.
For a moment the entire cavern was silent. Bai Yun stared at the bee queen, who was stunned into silence by what had just transpired. Bai Yun knew that it wouldn't last for much longer. He acted immediately and send his soul tendrils against the queen. Before she could react, his soul tendrils had silenced the queen. But they were only strong enough to clamp its mouth shut. If she called for her followers, the situation would get quite dangerous.
Bai Yun cast wind motion and ran at the queen bee at full speed. He reached the bee in an instant and attacked the beast using the lions oar. As he approached the queen bee, his right arm lit up and he punched at the beast's heart, with the momentum of his speed for added strength.
The queen bee saw him coming and a ruthless look passed through its eyes. It thrust its stinger straight at Bai Yun, hoping to take him along with her. Bai Yun's eyes narrowed. He recalled the soul tendrils that he was using to keep the bee quiet, and grabbed his waist with them. With all the strength he could muster, he twisted his body out of the way of the stinger. Just as it passed by him, ripping his clothes in the process, he heard a snap coming from his back. But he had no time to waste on it as his fist went through the bee's heart at the same time. The queen bee looked at him for a moment in surprise before the light in its eyes disappeared, and it fell back dead.
Bai Yun stretched his back. Even though he had started on cultivation recently, he still had lived for a long time before starting on this path. His body was not in the optimal condition for doing such acrobatic moves, and such a maneuver had caused him to sprain his muscle.
Once he was done, he went behind the queen bees quarters, to find a small pot filled with a golden liquid. Bai Yun dipped his finger into the pot and licked it to taste. He realized that was the reward given to people who could clear an entire beast den. And this reward was tempered honey, a body cultivation treasure.
Tempered honey was a special product that could only be created by bee type races, and also took a long time to create. The bees would repeatedly distill the essence of honey, and then make large quantities of it before repeating the process again to make the power of it denser. This would take an incredibly long time to prepare. After each tempering the power in the honey would increase exponentially. The first few tempering weren't much valuable, but a thirteen or fourteen tempered honey was valuable enough to even move gods.
With a single lick, Bai Yun realized that the object in front of him was three tempered honey. Three tempered honey was quite valuable, and based on the amount in front of him, he seemed to have enough to make two more mysterious patterns. He figured that the organizers had kept so much of the honey in the test because they would have never expected a single person to make it all the way here all by themselves. He would have used it then and there but for the fact that he had no time left.
After he put away the honey, he stared at the remnants of his sword. Even though he only had a small amount of qi left, it would be enough to get back. The more pressing problem was the lack of a weapon. All that remained of his sword was the hilt.
After a moment, he walked up to the queen bee, and cut off her stinger. Then he picked up the hilt of his sword, and jammed it into the stinger as hard as he could. After swinging around his makeshift lance, even though it was too short to be called that, he smiled in satisfaction.
It was time to slaughter his way out.
Queue 45
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After he left the queen's quarters, Bai Yun found an exit he had not used before and left the bee quarters. He tried to be as stealthy as he could, but he was still found out when he was more than halfway through. From then on he had a slightly hard time leaving the hive. But he still managed to do so relatively easily.
Once he left the hive, he quickly found an exit and then left the beast den. When he left the mountain Bai Yun realized that he had left from a different cave than the one he used to enter.
By now the lance he had made was mostly damaged. He threw the object away, and headed towards a river nearby. When he reached there, there were a few insects there, drinking the water. Without a weapon he ended up having to rip them apart with his bare arms.
Once he reached the side of the river, he nearly punched the river in reflex. When he looked at his reflection in the river, he smiled wryly. Not only was he covered in the blood of insects and his own, but some of it was also blue and some red, making it even more hideous. His clothes were ripped in many places, and there were pieces of flesh in his hair.
Bai Yun jumped into the river, and cleaned himself. He then took off his shirt to check his body.
When he saw the results he ended up nearly crying. His body was lean, but there were no muscles to be seen. And he thought that he even saw a tinge of flab in his belly. 'It was only a tinge, that's why I missed it.' Bai Yun hypnotized himself. He then tried to stretch his body, only to stop in pain.
'At least some good came of this excursion.' Bai Yun thought. 'Now I know what I have to fix.'
Since he had not cultivated till he became fourteen, Bai Yun's body had already reached a critical stage. He had passed the optimal time to start training and his body had started to stiffen. And ever since he was reborn, Bai Yun was focused on increasing his cultivation and learning battle techniques, and had completely ignored his body. The thought never even crossed his mind. After all, in his past life he had started cultivation when he was an infant, and had never had to face this mess.
'I ignored the foundations and focused only on the outside.' He thought.
Bai Yun pinched his waist, only to find that between his fingers was fat.
'Mission Priority One: Turn this body into something I can look at in the mirror without crying.' Bai Yun declared in his heart.
Once he was done with this, he changed his clothes, and headed back to the plaza. Due to his various delays, he reached the meeting place about ten minutes late. When he reached there, about ninety people were already there.
"There you are," Zhang Zi said, "I was starting to wonder if you had kicked it."
"Is everyone here?" Bai Yun asked him.
"Three participants died when they went out hunting. We thought that the same happened to you." Zhang Zi said.
"What? How the hell did that happen?" Bai Yun asked.
"Those morons found a precious herb that was being protected by some beasts. They were too greedy and didn't call for reinforcements. The beasts on the other hand, did. By the time we got there, they were already dead. In the end the herb ended up with me and Hui."
Bai Yun shook his head. The situation was getting messier. With ninety five people, the whole problem would only get harder. "What about the teams for the siege? Have they decided on them yet?"
"They are still deliberating. They can't decide on how many people should go. It is not just that some people want to defend or some people want to attack, the problem is that they can't even decide on how many people should be in the attacking team. So they are all still trying to figure it out." Zhang ZI explained.
Bai Yun looked at the group. They were all simply fighting between them. Some people wanted to take a large attacking force and storm the beast den, while some wanted to take a small elite force and leave the rest of them for defense. Gong Ming simply watched all of this transpiring without intervening.
After this went on for a while Bai Yun stepped up. "STOP." He shouted. The entire group turned to him in stunned silence. Zhang Zi, who had almost fallen asleep, woke up with a start.
"Now that I have your attention, do any of you have any idea how it is inside the beast den?" Bai Yun asked.
The group stared at him. "Who the hell do you think you are?" One of them shouted. "If you have something to say, then say it. Else shut up!" Another one continued. The rest of the group quickly followed suit, and threw in a few insults in the mix.
Ignoring the ruckus, Bai Yun continued. "I went inside the bests den just now." The entire group was startled upon hearing this. Zhang Zi grinned upon hearing that, while Gong Ming narrowed his eyes.
"I can tell you one very important thing about it, and that is that the tunnels inside the beast den are too narrow. Only one or two people can fight at the same time in there. Any more, and you will only get in each other's way. So no matter how many people came, we would have to operate as small teams. And since the entire thing is a labyrinth, no one would be able to come to any other's help. Finally, since the tunnels are small and meandering only close combat fighters can function properly. And defensive fighters will simply be surrounded and overwhelmed. So I suggest that only people with great speed, or people with great combat strength need to go." Bai Yun explained.
The moment he finished, the people in the elite team camp started to gloat, while the other camp started to look annoyed. "Well then how many people do you propose go for the attack?" One of them asked.
"Honestly, just Zhang Zi and I are enough. Everyone else would only get in the way." Zhang ZI started to laugh upon hearing this. "Well said." He said while holding his stomach in laughter. Bai Yun wondered whether he had said some magical words, as the entire crowd seemed to be antagonistic towards him now.
"Now, now." Gong Ming finally stepped in. "Let us not look ungentlemanly by fighting. First I must thank Young master Long Tian in his great undertaking of scouting the beast den to provide us with valuable intel." Saying so, he gave Bai Yun a bow, causing others to clap unenthusiastically.
"Now then, let us continue the discussion of how we are going to conduct the raid shall we" Saying so, Gong Ming easily took charge of the situation, leading them back into a civilized discussion.
As he watched Gong Ming operate, Bai Yun felt goosebumps. Honestly, Bai Yun was impressed by how he waited until the whole situation had stabilized before smoothly taking charge.
Bai Yun then left them to their talk and went to the flag to exchange for things that he needed. He currently had over a thousand achievement points by now. The first thing that he did was to exchange for a sword worth three hundred and thirty points. There were better swords that he could have exchanged for, but he decided to buy a few other things also.
After this Bai Yun exchanged for a bow that was worth two hundred and eighty points, along with twenty arrows, each costing ten points each. With this Bia Yun had already spend eight hundred and ten points. He then also bought two qi replenishing pills and two healing pills. By now his points was starting to dry up, and he did not have much left. After some deliberation, he chose an antidote priced at seventy points in case of an emergency leaving him with only three points left.
When Bai Yun went back to the camp, he found that they had finished their discussion. After asking Zhang Zi about it, he learned that they had finally chosen on four more teams to go with them. But one of those teams had two of their team mates killed earlier, so they only had two people left in their team. So a total of sixteen people would be in the attacking team. The remaining seventy nine people would be staying back to defend the plaza.
"Don't worry," Zhang Zi declared, "I will definitely end the undefeated streak of Insect World."
As they started to set off, a new problem emerged. Song Hui decided that she wanted to go with Zhang Zi to have some fun. This created a new headache, as meant that all three of the strongest individuals would have to go together due to the rules. To add insult to injury, Song Hui's whip would be completely useless in the narrow tunnels.
In the end Zhang Zi had to trick her to calm her down. He told her that the reason only sixteen people were going to the den was because it was extremely easy and that was why they needed her to stay and defend the plaza. Hearing this Song Hui pledged to do so very happily.
Once the group got ready, they decided to set off for the beast den. But instead of heading directly for the beast den, they took a longer route around, in order to avoid the beast tide.
Once they were a good distance away from the base, and a short distance from the mountain, the group decided to rest until the fighting began. The group set up camp on a hill from where they could watch the beast den.
Bai Yun used this time to rest and meditate. His qi reserves were running low, and he did not want to waste a qi replenishing pill so soon. And it was also not possible to take too many of them one after the other lest your qi become impure. Bai Yun climbed up a tree, hid himself in its branches and proceed to meditate.
While he did so, most of the others were not content with wasting this time. They went and checked the nearby area to find any precious material that maybe there.
After an hour had passed, Bai Yun had recovered eighty percent of his strength. He opened his eyes and stared. A rumble passed through the ground.
Under the watchful eyes of the assault group, countless number of insect beasts rushed out of the beast den. As they watched they saw a large number and variety of insects rushing out of the den, and heading straight for the city. When the people there saw this, they were scared out of their minds.
"Thank God I am not part of the defending team." One of them said.
"No need to thank anyone. We are going into their home, where we will be surrounded by the insects. I don't think either of us will be in a better position." Zhang Zi responded. Hearing this the rest of the team fell silent.
After five minutes the beast shad left the den. By now the entire group had started to feel the weight of their responsibility. Bai Yun watched them silently. He waited for five minutes and then jumped down from the tree.
"Well then. Lets get going. Its not like anything is going to change if we just sit around here." He said while moving towards the beast den.
Bai Yun's mission in this chapter is also mine. And I will achieve it!
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