After entering the abandoned ruins, the Eleventh Palace Master of the Glazed Lake Sect didn't do or say anything. She only used her Profound Mana cultivation base to bend the light at her will and turn invisible to the eyes of anyone below that level.
She was going to follow and protect the girls from her sect secretly, while at the same time, observe Seth's moves. However, unknown to her, Seth could see her very clearly. Actually, he could sense her soul energy fluctuations, because that was how Soul Sense worked to identify stronger auras.
"Seth..."
A beautiful voice brought Seth back from his distraction.
"Hm? Is there anything you need Caizhi?"
"I want you to observe our fight and not interfere for some time. We came here specially to get more experience in combat situations and I know that if you participate, you can easily defeat the beasts we are going to hunt."
Seth opened up a smile and said: "Heh... There is no need for you to ask me that. I don't plan on helping you girls doing your hunts. However, if the situation gets out of control, I will have to step in."
Caizhi smiled and said: "Good. I want you to watch how much stronger I got after training all this time."
"Alright."
Caizhi turned towards the other girls and nodded.
"Alright. Everything is ready girls. We can already start."
After Caizhi said those words, Jiayi immediately opened her old book and Seth felt that her presence started to fade. It was a very strange feeling. She was standing there, but her book made everyone feel like that there was nothing there.
Seth looked towards her catalyst and realized that it was most probably the cause. He could feel the presence of a spirit inside it.
Jiayi touched her old book and closed her eyes. A weak pulse of Qi emerged from it while passing through everything in the vicinity. It kept expanding towards the distance until it touched the first Profound Qi beast. However, Jiayi didn't stop it and continued to channel her Qi on the book, until the weak pulse finally touched the aura of a Qi Transformation late-stage beast.
"Found it! Five kilometers towards that direction." Jiayi pointed towards the east. She closed her book and stood behind the other girls, together with Caizhi. Ruolan and Xiurong went to the front because they were both melee fighters that would open the way for them.
They took their weapons in hand and started to advance towards that area.
A kilometer ahead of them there was already a Profound Qi beast devouring the corpse of another one. The environment around it seemed to be calm and without any disturbances, but suddenly a bright light blue light passed very quickly through it, severing its head in a single moment.
Ruolan appeared on the other side, while gracefully moving her arm and swinging her sword to clean it from the leftover blood.
Two hundred meters in front of her, a beast that was hiding in the center of a pile of debris, saw how fast the other beast died and decided to leave the area and hunt on another place. However, it only took a single step before being pinned by a lance that came flying from a very far distance.
Xiurong appeared near the dead beast some seconds later and extracted the Profound Qi core from the body.
A bit later, Caizhi and Jiayi arrived there.
They kept advancing fast towards their destination and less than fifteen minutes, they were already there. The path behind them was thoroughly cleaned and they acquired twelve Profound Qi cores while advancing.
"It's here." Jiayi said to the other girls.
In front of them there was an open field with only some medium boulders here and there. The terrain was mostly made of sand and solid rock and there was less vegetation here than any other part of the Abandoned Ruins dungeon.
"Where is it?" Xiurong was ready to strike the beast, but couldn't spot it anywhere. Her aura was sharp and ready to pierce it.
Ruolan turned towards Jiayi to ask if they were at the right place, but noticed that she was looking towards the ground.
"It is down there!"
"Down? You mean it is inside the ground?"
"Yeah. It is a hundred meters below us."
The girls creased their eyebrows after hearing her words, since it would be really hard to lure that beast out. While the other girls were stranded by the situation, Caizhi put her hand in a very beautiful blue and silver hairpin on her hair and it suddenly shone in a bright light.
A little blue sphere detached from the hairpin and enlarged before her eyes. It was her new orb, personally given to her by the Lake Goddess. The sphere hovered above her palm as she put her Qi energy inside.
Her Qi transformed into water in a very quick speed, creating a stream of water that started to flood the ground. The stream turned into a raging tide as it crashed against the floor, making the entire area wet. What was once a solid floor, turned into mud. After some time, the mud turned into a barren water.
This water was wetting the ground all way down where the beast was. The soil started to move, since it wasn't firm anymore and not even thirty seconds later, everything collapsed down, creating a huge crater.
The Qi Transformation late-stage beast was right in the middle of the collapsing ground and everything came crashing on top of it.
Boom!
No dust particles raised, since everything was wet, but the destruction around the ground was massive.
Caizhi achieved a great deal while spending only a little bit of Qi energy, injuring the beast down below even before the fight begun.
"Phew." Seth looked that massive destruction from afar and saw that the beast down below started to move. Its Qi energy was already overflowing and it seemed to be absolutely mad.
The ground started to part and move, and a long worm body started to emerge from there. It was entirely covered by a thick layer of rocks, making its defense higher than the clouds. However, the girls could see that its tail was thoroughly crushed and bleeding already. Caizhi ingenious attack worked pretty well on that Qi Transformation late-stage beast.
The Rock-Armored Worm wiggled crazily and its aura crashed down on the girls, pressuring them.
Caizhi was a bit better than the others, since she was a Qi Transformation powerhouse as well, but the other girls were still Profound Qi Realm cultivators and were having a hard time to resist it.
Caizhi channeled more Qi inside her orb and shouted: "Water of Mitigation."
Her Qi enveloped her friends, washing the pressured they were feeling off. The girls felt a refreshing sensation that made them ready for the battle.
Xiurong grabbed her lance tightly and turned into a shooting star, piercing her way towards the worm. Ruolan drew a beautiful arc with her sword in the air, and a long cut flew towards the armor of the worm, right where Xiurong was going to pierce, cutting some pieces of the armor first.
Xiurong's lance penetrated the armor and put another hole on the beast, making it writhe in pain.
The team work between the both of them was reaching perfection and Seth got amazed by their ability to injury an opponent a whole realm above them.
However, it was not enough. The worm moved its head towards Xiurong and opened its mouth, that had at least a hundred plus fetid teeth and was going to swallow her whole, when suddenly a layer of mist appeared around Xiurong and she disappeared from the place she was, appearing beside Jiayi.
"Are you okay, Senior Sister?"
"I'm good. It's just that his mouth stinks horribly."
Xiurong looked towards the place that she and Ruolan had worked together to pierce and took her lance in her hand. A hundred blue symbols appeared one by one on the body of the lance and it started to spin.
Xiurong's eyes were sharper than a razor as they locked on that spot. She threw the lance that contained a lot of Qi and at the next instant, it had already pierced the worm through that hole.
Ruolan used that chance to get near the crushed tail and put salt on it, by using her skills.
"Dancing Blade!" Many water waves left her blade and crashed directly towards the tail. Ruolan movements were fluid and she seemed to be dancing while attacking.
GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
The worm made a strange noise and started to struggle, hitting everything around it.
Caizhi looked towards it and a light blue light flashed inside her eyes.
"Drain!"
Her Qi energy entered through the hole the girls had put on the worm and through the destroyed tail, reaching deeper inside its body. Caizhi controlled her energy precisely and the water inside each cell, started to leave it, dripping from the injuries the beast had.
The worm started to shrunk in a speed that was visible to the eye, and at the same time, lose the strength to struggle. Three minutes later, it was only a withered and dried corpse that didn't even reach one meter long.
Seth watched that scene totally surprised.. Caizhi has gotten stronger and found new friends too.
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