The fight was even at first, but eventually the spirit beast pushed back the human cultivators.
It was as if the spirit beast had endless amounts of spiritual energy as it fought the human cultivators, so they couldn't help being pushed back in the end.
Finally, the human cultivators couldn't take it anymore and their barrier was shattered by a blast of lightning from the spirit beast. All of them were scattered and landed on the ground with varying degrees of injuries.
The young master who led them was the least injured one out of them all.
The elders had all used their spiritual energy to protect the weakest young master in the end.
But that was their mistake since this weakest young master couldn't do anything.
With one last blast of lightning, the young master and these elders were all turned into ashes.
Seeing that its enemies had been killed, the spirit beast didn't waste any time and wandered off.
After waiting for a bit, Lin Fan walked out with Mu Bao Bao to the ashes that these cultivators had left behind.
He searched through the ashes a bit until he came to what he was looking for.
Lin Fan reached down and pulled out several rings from the pile of ashes on the ground.
These were the Spatial Rings left behind by the cultivators. Even if their bodies had been burnt to ashes, these Spatial Rings had been strong enough that not a single scratch was on them.
As expected of something that was created by a powerful sect.
These things were anything but ordinary.
But of course, there wasn't time for them to go through these Spatial Rings right now. They were still in the middle of nowhere and needed to find some shelter first.
If they were to meet a spirit beast like this group had done, it was very likely they would be the next ones killed.
And as luck would have it…they did meet one. The worst part was that it was the exact same beast as before.
As they were prepared to leave, the minx that had killed this group came back as if it had detected something.
Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao still had that illusion spell around them, but the minx's eyes immediately fell onto them. It was as if the illusion spell had no effect at all.
However, the minx didn't act the same as before where it immediately attacked. Instead, it just looked at the two of them with a curious look before…suddenly turning around and walking away.
Both Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao let out sighs of relief after seeing that the minx walked off, but they didn't relax long.
They knew that it was dangerous to stay here for long, so they immediately walked off to find shelter.
As they moved along, Lin Fan had Greeny's puppets scout out the area around them.
There wasn't much that they found, other than two more groups being attacked by spirit beasts.
The same fate fell upon these people as the first group that they had found. It was just that their corpses were finished off in different ways.
One group was completely drowned by a ball of water while another group was cut to pieces by blades of wind.
Instead of heading there himself, he had Greeny control the puppets to dig through the corpses to find the Spatial Rings.
It took a while to get the puppets there, but they were able to get those rings in the end.
The other thing of note was that there were plenty of herbs all around them.
As Mu Bao Bao had explained before, this Minor World was a place for cultivators to farm things, so it shouldn't be strange that there were herbs like this all around.
However, when Lin Fan looked at them closely with his Appraisal Eyes, he was able to see something interesting.
These things had something in common with the treasures that had lined the walls of the hall.
Even though there were many herbs all around them, Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao didn't pick a single one. Mu Bao Bao had considered it, but Lin Fan told her to leave them there.
So the two of them proceeded along just like this.
As for what they were following…
The concentration of herbs increased as spiritual energy became more concentrated in the air, but at the same time, that also meant…that there would be danger.
It was certain that there was something special at the points where spiritual energy was concentrated. So instead of heading towards those things, Lin Fan led Mu Bao Bao away from those points of concentrated spiritual energy while looking for a place to hide.
There was no need to poke the hornet's nest right now.
It was better to rest up and then search this Minor World for a way back.
But of course, there wasn't just a single point where spiritual energy was concentrated.
There were many different points where spiritual energy was concentrated and they formed different areas of concentrated spiritual energy.
When they got far away from one point of concentrated spiritual energy, they would slowly enter another zone of concentrated spiritual energy.
So instead of continuing forward, they walked to the side and traveled along the edges of these zones of concentrated spiritual energy. They followed the dead zones, looking for a place to rest.
After searching for a bit, they finally found a place to rest, but they also found that they weren't alone.
There were other people who had the same idea as them and had followed the borders of the spiritual energy zones until they arrived at this place.
This place was a lake that was under a waterfall that didn't seem to have any spirit beasts around, so it was a place for them to rest and create a camp to gather information from.
That is if they were all working together.
There were a total of five different groups that were currently at this lake and they were all seated separately from each other. All of them were from different groups and there was conflict between them from what Lin Fan had seen when they separated into groups, so it didn't seem like they would work together unless they had no choice.
So Lin Fan judged that it would be safe to rest here for now, especially since they couldn't see the two of them in the first place.
But the moment that they arrived, there was another group that also arrived.
When they walked into this hidden spot, all of the groups that had already been there couldn't help being shocked.
That was because it was Bi Qing's group who had just walked in.
All of the other groups went on guard, but at the same time, they couldn't help revealing a trace of hope in their eyes.
They hadn't been able to find a single thing while searching this Minor World and they had almost given up hope of being able to find a way out. If it wasn't for their duties pushing them, they might have given up already.
However, they had seen how Bi Qing had predicted the teleportation that had sent them here in the first place.
They knew that Bi Qing had to know more than she was putting on…
If they stuck with her…they might be able to find a way out of this place.
Of course, the catch was being allowed to follow her.
She had shown disdain to every other group before this and had refused to work with anyone, so it was very unlikely that she would allow them to follow her.
So they just had to see how this would go.
After Bi Qing arrived, she looked around at the five groups that were there before saying, "That's more than I expected."
Everyone in those five groups had heard this and they couldn't help trembling when they did.
As people who had made their way to this place, they had naturally seen many things on their way over here…
Including signs of entire groups from sects being wiped out by the spirit beasts.
They knew that there were terrifying dangers waiting for them in the forests around, so they knew exactly what she was talking about.
She had expected them to be killed by the spirit beasts that were in the forest around them.
All of them couldn't help feeling a bit angry when they heard this, but they restrained themselves in the end as they waited for Bi Qing to say something else. After all, if she was going to say something like this, she must have something that she wanted from them…
But in the end, she didn't say a single thing as she looked for a place to sit down and rest.
After they settled, there was only silence that followed.
However, Bi Qing's group completely ignored the other five groups after they arrived, as if they didn't see them anymore.
All five of those groups just tensely sat there staring at Bi Qing, waiting for her to make a move.
In the end, she didn't do a single thing.
Lin Fan and Mu Bao Bao were also tensely waiting since they knew that Bi Qing had seen them.
When Bi Qing came in, her eyes had turned in their direction and she had revealed a smile, showing that she saw them right away.
Lin Fan really felt a blow to his confidence after all of this.
After all, not just Bi Qing, but even the spirit beasts could see through his illusion sp
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺