Next day.
Zhao Qing Ying’s tent.
The peak lords were gathered here with the elders from all the different peaks.
Zhao Qing Ying had a furious look as he stared at Zhao Ming Ye.
"What happened to the formation array protecting the encampment area?"
"I’m sorry, senior martial uncle. The rats had gnawed and destroyed the formation. My men succumbed to the rat poison," Zhao Ming Ye said.
Hearing this, Zhao Qing Ying decided not to pursue further as he knew these dark cultivators from the Dark Lotus Sect weren’t pushovers.
They always had a devious way of doing things.
"Any information from the rat man’s body?" He continued to ask.
Zhao Ming Ye sighed and shook his head.
"I couldn’t get anything out of his memories. It’s being locked by some technique. I could try and break it, but it might take at least a month."
Zhao Qing Ying frowned as he listened.
The Dark Lotus Sect must have figured out that Qing Feng Sect was using the Memory Recall Formation to gain an advantage.
He turned his focus to Hun Yen Kun next.
"What’s the damage from last night?"
Hun Yen Kun couldn’t help but yawn and took out a scroll.
He unrolled it and read out the information he had gathered throughout the night.
"Twenty disciples were badly injured, five had died, and the rest have been taken care of by the Alchemy Peak’s physicians."
There were about eighty disciples left able to fight.
Zhao Qing Ying thought for a moment and said, "Let’s continue according to plan. If we don’t move, we will be sitting ducks waiting here."
The peak lords and the elders nodded and got to work.
"Move out in ten minutes!" A disciple head appeared at the entrance of Lin Fan’s tent and shouted.
Lin Fan and the rest were finishing breakfast at that moment.
They sighed and quickly packed up.
The disciple then briefed them on their mission for the day.
Lin Fan’s team was to be the vanguard and sweep out any disciples ambushing in the woods that led to the Tai Mountains.
When Fong saw Lin Fan’s team still intact, he was surprised.
His own team had someone badly injured, and they had to continue the mission with three persons.
How did this scholar-looking guy survive? This scholar-looking guy must have been lucky, he thought.
Lee Xiao saw Fong’s glances, and he smirked back at Fong.
"I see your team got smaller," Lee Xiao shouted.
"Your team got lucky. Let’s see just how long your luck can last," Fong refuted weakly.
Fong quickly walked away with his team.
...
The day started off smoothly as they didn’t encounter much except for beasts that were wandering in the woods.
When it was afternoon, they reached an area that cleared up with fewer and fewer trees.
Lin Fan felt something off, so he stopped and said, "Let me check it out first. This area seems odd, as if it’s specifically cleared to wait for us."
Fong’s team, who was beside them, heard Lin Fan, spat on the ground and said, "Coward. If you are scared, stay at home with your parents. It’s obviously so much quicker to go through this way."
He said and waved his team forward.
Other teams also shook their heads at Lin Fan and followed suit.
"Ah, help!" Fong turned back and shouted after he was in the middle of the clearing.
Everyone turned and looked, but they tried very hard not to laugh when they saw Fong safe and sound.
Lee Xiao wanted to lunge at Fong, but Lin Fan held him back.
A familiar sound had erupted in Lin Fan’s mind.
[Ding!]
[Detected 40 souls with malevolent intent incoming!]
[Terminate Flesh Eating Sand Bugs with malevolent intent for 4000 vengeance points.]
"Argh, help!" Fong’s voice could be heard again as he shouted at the top of his lungs.
The other disciples didn’t bother with him, thinking that he was fooling around again.
But as they moved on, they felt the ground stir below them.
And suddenly, bugs appeared from the ground, grabbing onto their feet.
Pain was felt when the bugs took a bite from their legs.
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Ho Ming quickly thrust his sword at one of the Flesh Eating Sand Bugs coming at them.
The Flesh Eating Sand Bug, which looked like a beetle with its hard shell (elytra), was as tall as a person, and it sprayed a green-colored gas at Ho Ming.
Whoosh.
The twirling wind went through the green-colored gas and blew it apart.
Splatter.
His twirling wind strike ripped the Flesh Eating Sand Bug apart.
"Don’t touch or breathe in the green-colored gas," Lin Fan said as he leaped away from the gas.
Lee Xiao and Tai Lan followed suit.
When the green gas came into contact with the bushes and trees, they started dissolving.
Lin Fan felt the ground beneath his feet stir, and he stomped onto the ground using the Seismic Rupture ability.
A seismic wave ruptured in a circular manner, radiating out from where Lin Fan was standing.
Three Flesh Eating Sand Bugs were hurled into the air by the seismic wave.
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Lee Xiao couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw what Lin Fan did.
This ’Lu Ding’ was more powerful than he could ever imagine.
Tai Lan dropped his jaw and patted Lee Xiao on his shoulder.
He pointed at Lin Fan and said, "How do we get him out of the team now?"
"Great. You’ve finally learned to tease me," Lee Xiao shook his head at Tai Lan’s rare glimpse of smartness.
Lin Fan, however, was busy with the Flesh Eating Sand Bugs.
He took out his hammers and swiped them at the bugs.
The illuminated Ember Wolf and Frost Fang Ice Tiger lunged at two of the Flesh Eating Sand Bugs.
Lin Fan then stowed the hammers and took out his spear and lunged at the final Flesh Eating Sand Bug.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud.
The hard shell of the Flesh Eating Sand Bug cracked as Lin Fan’s Dragon’s Roar Thousand Thrust landed on it.
The slicing waves were too numerous, and soon, the hard shell cracked open and the slicing waves cut through the body of the Flesh Eating Sand Bug.