The deeper the disciples went into the forest, the stronger the spirit beasts became. Some cultivators with low cultivation level already began catching beasts within their level.
Whilst some others had become spirit beast nourishment.
He Yuan leisurely strolled behind Mo Jiu's group. He had no intention of contracting a spirit beast. With his sealed dantian, the only spirit beasts that his body would be able to contract were regular creatures that were on the verge of becoming spirit beasts.
The amount of spiritual energy needed to subdue and contract those kind of beasts was small so he would manage. I n the end, those kind of beasts had little to no fighting power so it would be useless to try.
Soon enough, some members of Mo Jiu's group began to notice the 'tail' behind them. Mei Hua frowned and aggressively slashed an incoming low level beast in two before sending He Yuan a warning look.
This happened for a few more times but He Yuan pretended not to see and shamelessly followed along.
When it happened once more, He Yuan smiled sweetly and sent her a little wave. This act seemed to anger her more and she paused. A lot of others who had been annoyed by He Yuan's presence also stopped whilst Mo Jiu was already drifting away from the group, having caught sight of a beauty walking towards another part of the forest.
Gu Long noticed Mo Jiu's movement at the same time He Yuan did. It was unsurprising considering the fact that the both of them had their eyes trained on the talented cultivator's figure -for totally different reasons.
Gu Long swifted rushed after Mo Jiu.
He Yuan was about to discreetly follow after when Mei Hua sent a wave of spiritual energy shaped like a much larger version of her axe his way.
BANG!
The spiritual energy destroyed a thick spirit tree to splinters. He Yuan held his chest as he stared at the nonexistent remains of the tree. Due to the amount of cultivators in the way, Mei Hua's aim had been a bit off so He Yuan was able to escape.
Escape was stretching it because even with her misplaced aim, the weapon glare was able to hit his feet as he dived. It was a good thing he was covered head to toe in defensive wears.
"Mo Sheng! For how long are you going to keep leeching off of us? Aren't you being a little too shameless here? What do you think we are?"
He Yuan stood up and waved quickly. "Fine, fine. I'll stop following." And then he rushed in the direction Mo Jiu and Gu Long had disappeared in.
The other members of Mo Jiu's team were left confused. They had no idea it would be quite easy to shrug off the leech.
He Yuan looked back one more time to see Mo Jiu standing in the middle of the group. In his confusion, he was about to pause and return when he noticed something else. Gu Long wasn't there and the Mo Jiu standing in the middle of the group appeared a tiny bit stiff.
If not for the fact that he'd seen Mo Jiu leave earlier, he would've believed that that was the real thing. He'd always wondered how Mo Jou had ended up getting trapped alone by those jealous disciples. It turns out he must have used this clone method to escape his group of followers at first.
When He Yuan was away from the sight of other cultivators, he took out the lotus artifact and hopped on in search of Mo Jiu. He would never be able to catch up if he relied on this body alone.
After riding for some time, He Yuan arrived at a small lake. There were two groups of young cultivators facing off each other with a male and a female in between the groups. On one side was Mo Jiu and Gu Long and on the other were disciples dressed in the same blue coloured robes as the male and female in the middle.
Ah, He Yuan thought. The jade twins had appeared and with the way they were eyeballing Mo Jiu, he was sure Mo Jiu had already saved them from the dangerous water vines and caught their interest.
Chu Leng, the male jade twin, threw a small pouch at Mo Jiu with a cold look on his beautiful face. "Benefactor, thank you for saving us just now. Have that as a show of appreciation."
Mo Jiu caught the pouch with a smile and brought it to his nose. "Ah~ How fragrant." Then he threw it back to Chu Leng. "I don't need any incentive to save beauties."
The female jade twin, Chu Feng, lowered her head as she blushed furiously whilst Chu Leng looked at Mo Jiu once more with heightened interest.
This interaction seemed to anger one of the blue robed cultivators so he took out another pouch and threw it at Mo Jiu's feet. "Anyways, I am grateful to you for saving my betrothed."
Mo Jiu stared at the pouch at his feet and his eyes glinted dangerously whilst Chu Leng looked over to the blue robed cultivator and frowned coldly.
He Yuan chuckled at this interaction. Mo Jiu was a pro at snatching other cultivators' betrothed and the betrothed of other cultivators always seem to love being snatched whenever Mo Jiu was the one doing the snatching..
Mo Jiu chuckled. "I'm very sure the beauties are capable of thanking me themselves. You claim to be betrothed but you couldn't even protect him. What if something had happened to him hm?" Then he smiled at Chu Leng seductively. "You deserve better~"
He Yuan could practically hear Chu Leng's heart beating at one thousand beats per minute. Wow, wow, wow. Mo Jiu was not holding back at all. No wonder the blue robed cultivators had taken such a high risk to get rid of him.
"BASTARD!" The blue robed cultivator rushed over to Mo Jiu with an angry roar.
SPLASH!
Mo Jiu had him thrown into the water with just a wave of his hand. The water vines from before rushed to attack the blue robed cultivator and the other blue robed cultivators rushed over to help with cries of horror.
The jade twins, on the other hand, stood facing Mo Jiu as the man of the show slowly walked towards them. He held Chu Feng's face up and caressed it with a smile, leaving the female trembling and blushing even more.
Next, Mo Jiu leaned into Chu Leng's ear and whispered something before taking his ears between his teeth. Chu Feng remained stoic but the shiver that ran through his body was not unseen by others.
He Yuan watched all of this in amusement whilst Gu Long had his head lowered. He seemed to have no reaction but his trembling fists were not lost on He Yuan. What a pity.
Mo Jiu took a step back and left with Gu Long behind him whilst the jade twins stared at his retreating figure with equal looks of intense longing.
The other blue robed cultivators managed to save their boss and the young cultivator also stared after Mo Jiu with burning eyes full of hatred.
He Yuan quickly followed after Mo Jiu but soon lost track of him. Shit! He cursed inwardly.
"Any particular reason why you've been following me around?" A voice said from behind him and He Yuan calmly turned around.
Mo Jiu.
He Yuan wasn't too shocked because he wasn't hiding the fact that he was following Mo Jiu in the first place. Mo Jiu was in the middle stage of Core formation so his spiritual sense could cover a broader range. He Yuan couldn't cover his tracks even if he tried.
"To stay alive of course." He Yuan said directly. "I can't cultivate and I'm in the Spirit beast forest. I would, of course, try my best to survive and find a spirit beast for myself."
Mo Jiu smiled and stepped forward. "So you are indeed trying to leech off of me. Tut, Tut, Tut. Daxiong~ What if I kill you instead so I can become master's only disciple?"
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