Bab 6: Red Lotus Cave

Alex forced the person who brought him in a Ultivehicle to stop at a place and return.

He wanted to experience the world himself and without any help.

Armed with a well-detailed map, he got there.

After several days of walking alone in the wilderness and studying everything he could. He arrived in front of a mountain that had the red lotus cave at it foot.

He was shocked by what he saw.

This mountain looked divine. It was a single mountain, but it stretched far more than his eyes could see.

"What a mountain. So huge." he muttered with awe filling the entirety of his heart.

Then he looked at the cave at the base of the mountain. Whether it was formed by nature or by man he couldn't say.

He didn't think deeply about it. He walked into the cave and was astounded by it.

It was really wide and sweet scents filled the air. He could see red lotuses growing almost everywhere.

He walked for sometime before he started hearing human voices. He knew there were people who always come here to either kill beasts or capture them or use the beasts to hone themselves in battle.

He walked close to these voices and hid behind a rock in this place. He looked over cautiously and saw about ten people.

Surprisingly, these people were young boys and girls, about the age of twelve to fifteen.

Their group consisted of six boys and four girls. The boys wore yellow shirt and trousers while the girls wore yellow blouse and skirt.

"These look like uniforms. They must be from an academy" he guessed.

As he scanned around from where he hid, there was one whose silhouette caught his attention.

She was a girl as this person wore blouse and skirt. But her blouse was hooded and she gave the feeling of aloofness. She was quiet but the others by her side talked.

"Who's there?" the older one in their group shouted.

Alex's eyes widened in surprise. "How did that big guy know someone else is around?" he got up slowly and smiled.

He felt like a thief that was caught red-handed. "Hello guys. I am sorry if you felt I was sneaking up on you guys." he said with a jovial smile.

The older one named Nathan asked suspiciously, "Why were you hiding behind that rock? You thought we wouldn't discover you?"

"Not at all. I only hid to see if you guys weren't dangerous. If I noticed a sinister aura from you guys, I would immediately turn to leave, my safety comes first. I have heard stories of this cave and the nefarious people that come in here regularly that would kill even babies without batting an eye." Alex said hurriedly in defense for his actions.

"Who did you come here with?" The older person asked.

"I came here by myself." Alex responded.

"What? You came in here yourself? Seems you don't like your life. Forget about the evil people, how would you leave with your body intact when hundreds or thousands of beasts come at you?" one of them from the group asked.

"Hmm. What a question, well, I can run." He said inwardly.

After thinking of what to say. He said "I would try to escape. I have great evasion techniques, I would evade all of them, none would be able to match my speed. Besides, I won't go too deep. I only came here to develop my battle prowess. The beasts around here shouldn't be too strong, I should be able to kill all of them, even if they number in hundreds."

The group were lost of what to stay. "Who does this boy think he is? Someone not from an academy, who hasn't gone through refining or the baptism of competitions in an academy was claiming he could fight hundreds of beasts himself?" They shook their heads and turned to go further into the cave leaving him behind.

Alex knew he was exaggerating things but it was good to carry oneself.

Besides, he felt his uncle was wealthier than all of these peoples' families combined and he studied an A-grade Trinity Methodology that only gods should have.

he smiled when he thought to here.

"Hey guys, can I come with you? I promise not to cause any harm. Besides, I can fight pretty well." He said.

"Oh. With your measly mid-phase entry stage cultivation rank. Open your eyes and look well. We are all in the late-phase and peak-phase entry stage. Besides, you are not someone from an academy. So, what battle skills would you possibly have and how would you be able to help us?" Someone from the group said.

Michael looked at the person who spoke and gave a eye that hinted he should shut the hell up.

"Sure. You can come with us. Just make sure you don't cause problems for us and that you would support us when we engaged the beasts in a battle." Michael said.

"Yes, I promise" Alex said.

Then he joined their group.

They walked for a long time before they started hearing howls of beasts in the distance, it seemed to be approaching them.

"They have perceived our smell. Everyone ready yourselves." Michael said as he and the others pulled out either a sword or a blade from their sheaths.

Alex also produced a sword. He was given by his uncle.

Not very long, hundreds of beasts could be seen rushing towards them. They raised up clouds of dusts as they moved.

Quickly, energy-attacks were launched at the beasts from far killing them one after the other.

One could see brilliant rays of colored energies shooting at extreme speeds towards the beasts.

These colors were due to the different energies they cultivated.

Alex wielded a blade that began to glow in intense cyan light.

This light was extremely bright it outshone the other colors of light emanating from the weapons of everyone here.

It was very brilliant that it dyed everywhere cyan.

This was the colour of windforce energy as he channeled it into the blade in his grasp.

Once the blade started to gleam, turbulent winds surfaced.

He slashed out horizontally and a wide cyan ray of energy shot out at extreme speed.

It slashed cleanly through many of the beasts.

A single slash had caused the death of more than thirty beasts.

Everyone looked at Alex with surprise in their eyes. The strength of his attack was on par with that of a peak-phase entry stage cultivator.

Alex too was astonished, he didn't think he could unleash an attack that could cut through the extremely tough skin of beasts and through many of them at that.

He stopped thinking about it and began to enjoy the attention he was given because of his powerful strike.

He felt like a superstar.

Someone in this group snorted in envy and launched his attacks at the beasts.

Despite being in the peak-phase entry stage, he could only kill ten beasts. It was far behind the number of beasts Alex killed with a single slash.

Michael's fist began to glow in deep yellow light. At a distance, it looked like his fist was a rock and a metal at the same time.

It looked stony and shone with a metallic lustre.

"Ravaging Ironstone Fist" Michael punched out towards a beasts that leapt over.

Bang!

The beast exploded into bits and a fist of yellow light shot out at high speed towards the other beasts in the distance.

Some of these beasts exploded while some were knocked unconscious and were grievously wounded.

Their bones shattered and blood spurted from their tough hides.

One of the young girls, the one exuding the aura of aloofness took action after standing for a while doing nothing.

She produced a white blade which was a treasure-weapon and rushed towards the beasts incoming.

"Where are you going? Come back!" Michael shouted but she ignored him.

While rushing at a great speed towards the beasts, the blade grasped in her hand began to erupt a white light as she poured energy into it.

Then bright white flames surfaced around the blade. This white flame caused the temperature to radically increase.

The flame was extremely hot such that the heat emitting from it was several times hotter than the heat that would emit from a hundred burning coals.

"Incinerating Heavenly Blade"

She shouted when she got to a close range of the beasts. Then she slashed out with her blade at them.

A large white ray of energy shot out to the beasts. It left a wide trail of white flame in the air as it cleanly cut the body of the beasts in halves.

This ray of energy was purely white flame moving in a straight line like a ray of light. It burnt the beasts to crisps once they were cut through by the wide straight-line stream of fire.

Every other person then marched forward with braveness and killed the beasts that came at them.

The beasts by now had reduced in numbers.

They got enraged such that a thick vengeful aura began to emanate from them. They roared and spat out scarlet balls.

These balls emanated intense heat that caused Alex and the rest to be horrified.

Alex quickly took action.

He placed one hand above and the other below. The palms faced each other, then windforce energy poured from within his body into the space between his hands.

This energy instantly molded into a ball which increased in size as Alex added more energy to it.

Few seconds later, the ball grew to a size many times that of a tennis ball.

The large amounts of energy condensed and shaped into a ball between his palms caused the air to become chaotic.

Strong winds began to move about.

He aimed the cyan ball at the scarlet balls shooting over.

As it jetted out of the space in his palms at great speed, it brought with it powerful gales.

When it reached a close proximity, it exploded releasing strong currents of air that rapidly cooled the scarlet balls.

None of the balls could withstand the tremendous blast of air.

The scarlet heat-balls dissipated away with the wind.

Everyone couldn't help but marvel, Alex had just blocked the heat-balls fired by these beasts beasts all by himself.

They started to look at Alex in a new light.

They had to accept that although he wasn't from an academy, he could be called in the same note as them.

After being astonished for a few second, they resumed their battle with the beasts.

The young girl wielding a white blade kept it away. Then her hand began to glow in intense white light and emitted great heat.

Pointing at the beast, the white glow emitting from her hand changed to a red glow and the heat emanating from it increased.

"Seven Rings of Fiendish Fire" she uttered and abruptly, seven red rings of fiery energy shot out from her finger towards the beasts at extreme speeds.

On getting to a close range, the first ring exploded releasing red flames that burnt the beasts.

The second exploded, followed by the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh.

The power of the seventh ring was frightening as it had the total devastating might of all the six rings of energy.

Alex was amazed by this aloof but extremely beautiful girl. "She's this powerful?" he asked inwardly.

The girl who just executed that fascinating finishing move now looked pale.

She had really put everything into that last attack, killing off close to a hundred beasts at once with the power of her peak-phase entry stage cultivation level.

Only she knew why she did that.

Her reason was because Alex was oppressing them, but it was unintentional.

Although, he wasn't from an academy, yet he could rival them with his lower cultivation stage.

She was ashamed of this and she believed everyone else too were ashamed but they couldn't show it.