My Five Bigshot Seniors: I am The Most Coddled Junior!-Chapter 397 - 77: [Eighth Update]
"It’s the Shadowless Bee!"
"Look, it’s the Cloud Splitting Leopard!
"And there’s the Iron Armor Bull!"
"..."
They recognized the spirit beasts following behind that group of people, and each was extremely surprised.
"This is bad, it’s a beast tide!"
Someone shouted, and everyone’s expression changed.
"What, how could this be? Isn’t this the Secret Realm? How could there be a beast tide?" Zhang Mu looked at the approaching spirit beast horde with a pale face, his expression very shocked, and upon closer inspection, a trace of fear could be seen in his eyes.
"Even though this is a Secret Realm, it’s also a forest, isn’t a beast tide quite a normal occurrence?" Nan Hua retorted to Zhang Mu, although his expression was very grave, his brows knitted tightly, watching the direction of the spirit beast horde.
"Is this the time to talk about this?" Rong Ye gave the two a look, "Shouldn’t we be running right now?"
As he spoke, Rong Ye had already tapped the tip of his foot, appearing over ten meters away.
Nan Hua and the others were stunned for a moment, glanced at the ever-closing spirit beast horde, exchanged a look, and turned around.
"Run!"
Nan Hua shouted loudly, and several of their bodies shot out like arrows off the string.
Li Wenxi and Dong Yunqi also started running in the opposite direction, and when they saw Nan Hua and the others, they paused for a moment, seemingly surprised that there were others around!
The trees in the forest were too many, and most were very tall, with branches and leaves so lush that they blocked out the sun, making it hard to determine direction, but at this moment, Nan Hua and the others couldn’t care about that. The most important thing now was to shake off those spirit beast hordes!
Although some of the spirit beasts in the back were not high-level, they couldn’t withstand the sheer numbers. With the cultivation of these people, stopping would mean death!
Nan Hua and the others ran at the front, quite a distance from the spirit beast horde, still not particularly urgent, but those at the back were worried to death, fearful that they might be killed by the spirit beast attacks the next moment.
"We were just about to get out of the Secret Realm tomorrow, and we run into a beast tide, what kind of luck is this?" Feng Yang glanced back, unable to help but complain.
He previously thought that his luck in entering the Secret Realm this time was quite good, not long after entering he met Gu Qingqing and Rong Ye, attached himself to strong allies, then successfully found the herbs needed for the sect’s task, and his cultivation was on the verge of breakthrough, he was quite happy, but didn’t expect this to happen.
Zhang Mu nodded in deep agreement, his face showing an expression of suffering.
Although Nan Hua and the other two didn’t speak, their thoughts were similar to Feng Yang and the others, feeling that their luck wasn’t the best.
Nan Hua glanced back at the beast tide behind them, frowning tightly, and as he ran, his mind was racing with solutions, mainly because there were too many spirit beasts and too few of them, just over thirty people, totally not a match for these spirit beasts. To defeat them, they needed more people!
After covering some more distance, they encountered another group, about twenty or so people, including members of the Bihai Heavenly Palace and the Star Palace. Seeing the spirit beast horde, these people were also extremely shocked and then joined Nan Hua’s group, running frantically.
Initially, Nan Hua and the others had randomly chosen a direction, and they didn’t expect to end up at the Cold Pond where Gu Qingqing and the others had disappeared before.
By this time, their numbers had swelled to nearly a hundred, making their group significantly larger.
All the way, Nan Hua had been thinking of strategies, and now with so many people, he had a bit of a plan.
"Rong Ye, how many talismans do you have left?" he asked as he ran, turning to Rong Ye on his left.
"Not many, about a hundred. I gave most of the good talismans to Geng Geng, and these are ones I drew recently." Although Rong Ye didn’t understand what Nan Hua intended, he answered truthfully.
Upon hearing this, Nan Hua frowned, somewhat dissatisfied.
Then, he turned to face Mu Chen, "Mu Chen, do you have any sedatives or something similar that can take out those spirit beasts but has little effect on people?"
He knew Mu Chen was always fond of researching those strange elixirs. Just because other Alchemists couldn’t make them didn’t mean Mu Chen couldn’t, so he asked tentatively.
"Yes, but not much, it can only take care of about forty to fifty, and it’s only effective on those below the Low-level True Immortal Realm, anything above True Immortal Realm and it basically doesn’t work." Mu Chen did have some attempts, but since it was still experimental, the quantity produced wasn’t much.
Seeing that Mu Chen really had some, Nan Hua’s eyes brightened, and his gaze towards Mu Chen was filled with delight.
"Great, as long as you have it. Hurry up and take it out, I will need it later." Nan Hua said to Mu Chen.
"Here you go." Mu Chen directly took out a box and handed it to Nan Hua, "This contains the seductive fragrance I developed, it’s only effective against spirit beasts. Just light it with the wind at your back."
Nan Hua carefully put it away after receiving it.
"Third Senior Brother, what are you planning to do?" Rong Ye asked Nan Hua, puzzled by his inquiries about the talismans and seductive fragrance.
"Of course, we’re going to deal with those spirit beasts. We can’t keep running from them; we’ll eventually run out of stamina and Spiritual Power. At that point, those spirit beasts will likely finish us off. We might as well resolve them together!" Nan Hua said to Rong Ye, as if it were a matter of course.
His expression was very serious, not as if he were joking. Rong Ye was taken aback after hearing it and then thought about it, realizing Nan Hua was right.
In terms of stamina, those spirit beasts are much stronger than us, and this place is a Secret Realm with few places to hide. If this continues, we’ll eventually be exhausted. It’s better to take the initiative and deal with those spirit beasts.
"But we are too few in number, we can’t compete with the spirit beasts." He frowned, feeling a bit frustrated.
"That’s why we need to use strategy, not brute force!" Nan Hua certainly understood this point. He looked back at the group of spirit beasts behind him and spoke calmly.
"You already have an idea?" Rong Ye knew Nan Hua well enough to know that although he sometimes seemed unreliable, he was quite dependable most of the time. If he said so, he surely had a plan.
Nan Hua’s eyes flickered slightly, and he nodded.
"In a while, distribute your talismans among us. Then I’ll go to the back and set up an Array on the path the spirit beasts will pass through. I’ll also light up Mu Chen’s seductive fragrance to deal with some low-level spirit beasts first, to give everyone a breather." He briefly explained his plan to Rong Ye, also letting Mu Chen and the others around them hear it.
Zhang Mu and Feng Yang were shocked and worried when they heard that Nan Hua was going to deal with those spirit beasts, as there were quite a few of them. They were worried if Nan Hua could manage.
"Don’t worry, I’m not a fool. You keep running, and I’ll go take a look first." Nan Hua was confident in himself; even if he couldn’t kill those spirit beasts, he was sure he could escape.
"I’ll go with you." Mu Chen pursed his lips and suddenly spoke.
"I’ll go too." Rong Ye looked at Mu Chen, then at Nan Hua, and also spoke up.
Nan Hua glanced at the two, his gaze deep, and nodded.
The three of them rushed against the flow of people towards the spirit beast group. People who caught sight of them were stunned, looking at the three as if they were fools, thinking they must be crazy. Otherwise, why would they run backwards when others were running forward?
Nan Hua and the others naturally ignored the gazes of others. They quickly reached the back of the team, seeing the approaching army of spirit beasts.
At the front was a group of sand wolves in the middle stage of the Earth Immortal Realm. The three glanced at each other and threw the talismans in their hands towards the sand wolf group.
The sand wolf group hadn’t figured out what was happening when they saw a rain of arrows, along with fireballs, lightning, and hail, rushing toward them, stupefying them. Their cultivation level was already at the bottom among the spirit beast group and was wiped out in a wave of talisman attacks.
Their bodies also affected the spirit beasts behind them, causing many to trip because they couldn’t stop in time, making the spirit beast group somewhat chaotic.
At this moment, Mu Chen took back the seductive fragrance he made from Nan Hua and lit it. Nan Hua waved his Glazed Frost Flower Fan, causing the fragrance to drift towards the spirit beast group with the wind.
The ones at the front had relatively low cultivation, and right after being tripped by the sand wolf corpses, they got up and ran a short distance before smelling the fragrant aroma and collapsed in droves.
At this moment, Nan Hua used an Array to encompass the unconscious spirit beasts, and thousands of sword lights fell from the Array, turning the unconscious spirit beasts into sieves.
Blood directly stained the ground, and hundreds of spirit beast corpses lay on the ground, appearing somewhat gruesome.
By now, the speed of the spirit beasts at the back slowed down, and their gazes towards Nan Hua and the others changed.
At first, when they looked at Nan Hua and his companions, it was as if they were looking at food; now, it had changed.
Meanwhile, those sect disciples who were running at the front felt that no spirit beasts were chasing them anymore and stopped, confused about what happened behind. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
"I just saw three people run to the back. Could it be that they stopped those spirit beasts?" Some who saw Nan Hua and his group boldly speculated.
"How is that possible? The highest cultivation allowed to enter the Secret Realm is the True Immortal Peak. Although some of those spirit beasts have low cultivation, they are numerous. How can three people possibly stop them?" Someone skeptical immediately dismissed the idea.
"But the spirit beasts indeed haven’t chased after us anymore? If not them, then what could have caused those spirit beasts to stop pursuing us?"
"Shouldn’t we go check it out? If spirit beasts come over, we can run again anyway!"
