They saw a huge beast, as huge as a hill. It had a huge shell on its back that resembled that of a hill rock. It had sixteen eyes.
Its tail was as long as thirty meters. It had four legs with claws. The legs were as long as seven meters.
It was holding the lower half of the rank 7 cultivator.
"Wha, what's that?" The rank 7 cultivator said. His eyes widened and fear could be seen in them.
That beast was also emanating an aura now.
"Rank, rank 8 beast?" The other rank 7 cultivator said in disbelief.
"The Sleeping Tortoise," Yang Zhai muttered and jumped onto the tortoise's shell.
"How, how is he able to get close to it and it's not doing anything?" They were flabbergasted to see that the tortoise didn't do anything to Yang Zhai at all.
"What? Are you guys scared to do anything now?" Yang Zhai said with a mocking tone.
"How dare you mock us?!"
As they heard this, the Mantora Mountain cultivators felt mocked and were annoyed. One out of the two rank 7 cultivators slashed his arm in the air and a space split up right in front of Yang Zhai. From that, a hand emerged and tried to grab Yang Zhai.
However, the sleeping tortoise pounced backwards and bit the hand before tearing it apart.
AAAAAAAA!!!!!
The cultivator who just attacked Yang Zhai screamed. Half of his right arm had been torn apart.
"Dodge!! You idíot!!!" The other rank 7 cultivator shouted.
When the rank 7 cultivator who had his arm torn heard this, he instinctively dodged to his left. However, the sleeping tortoise surpassed it, tearing away his right shoulder along with the right side of his chest and abdomen.
The sleeping tortoise had extremely sharp teeth.
The blood gushed out of the rank 7 cultivator's torn area, like a shower. His expression of confusion and his eyes showed fear. He fell on the ground and writhed around in pain, trying to hold his scream so as not to attract the sleeping tortoise.
Right at the moment of death, it seemed that he understood how this sleeping tortoise worked: Yang Zhai thought as he looked at the writhing rank 7 cultivator.
"However, it's too late…" as Yang Zhai said this, he jumped down from the tortoise shell and landed on the cultivator, his punch landing on the cultivator's head, smashing it.
The remaining rank 7 cultivator looked at this with wide-open and shaking eyes.
"Tzu Yu!!! You ungrateful bastard!!!!" He shouted at Yang Zhai with fury.
Yang Zhai stood up and turned his face around to look at the cultivator. With calm expression, he looks on as if piercing through the cultivator's thoughts. His eyes, speaking of the abyss, fill a fear in the cultivator's brain.
In this darkness, as if nothing is spared from his eyes.
Yang Zhai's hand was covered in blood and brain matter.
Yang Zhai shook his hand, shaking the blood and brain matter off his hand.
However, Yang Zhai didn't stop there, he hurriedly jumped back onto the tortoise's back.
The rank 7 cultivator woke up from his momentary daze.
"No, I need to hide first, it's extremely dangerous to fight this beast without knowing what its abilities are."
As such, he activated a rank 7 speed type Ka and ran into the forest, only to feel the rank 8 beast chasing it closely behind.
"It's supposed to be a tortoise, how the hell is it running so fast! At this rate, it's only a matter of time before I get caught by it."
Yang Zhai was holding onto the rank 8 cultivator tightly so as not to fall off it.
It was about to catch up to the remaining rank 7 cultivator when a rank 6 body cultivator punched it fiercely.
The tortoise turned around and slashed the cultivator with its claw, splitting the cultivator in half.
It gave the rank 7 cultivator enough time to get away from the tortoise.
"Ban Li! Idiot, why did you have to attack it?!!" The rank 7 cultivator was heartbroken when he saw his companion splitting apart. He wanted to attack Yang Zhai impulsively, but managed to hold himself, not letting the sacrifice his companion made go to waste. He kept on running.
However, the tortoise ran after the cultivator again.
"Why is it so bent on chasing me and not doing anything to Tzu Yu? I am sure this beast was just woken up by him just now, so why is it not doing anything to him?" The rank 7 cultivator contemplated, bewildered.
The tortoise came to a stop suddenly and opened its mouth. A ball of water three inches appeared in front of its mouth.
After that, it grunted, and a beam of water was released from the water ball that travelled towards the rank 7 cultivator at a fast speed.
The rank 7 cultivator felt an attack coming from behind him and dodged instinctively.
However, the water beam took a turn in mid-air and chased the cultivator.
"Hmm!" When the rank 7 cultivator saw this, his eyes dilated. Sweat appeared on his face.
He activated his fastest method he could and even forced the rank 7 kas to provide him speed to provide more power than their own limit. This caused the void kas to crack at a faster speed.
Even though he managed to speed his way out of the beam's way, it didn't stop chasing him.
"No, not good, at this rate, he will die. We only have one rank 7 cultivator left here. If we lose him as well, we won't be able to capture Tzu Yu…" a rank 6 cultivator who was seeing all this muttered.
Another cultivator who was close to him heard him and looked at the cultivator.
"Hey, what are you thinking? Don't do anything stupid here. Brother Boum will definitely find a way to get out of this in one piece. Do you hear me?"
"Brother Ken, do you really believe so? Even Brother Kamera and Brother Lee couldn't do anything in front of this beast. What can Brother Boum do here? Right now, our target is only Tzu Yu, not this beast. My methods aren't fast enough or strong enough to stop this beam, but my body definitely is. Also…" he stopped for a while before continuing,
"Also, I think this beast isn't targeting us, but our existence. That Tzu Yu's presence as well as aura has disappeared for some reason, but not ours. We are constantly using our methods. Especially, Brother Boum, he is using cultivation methods to increase his speed and run away from this beast, releasing constant aura and his presence."
"This is a never-ending loop. This beast will keep on chasing Brother Boum until one of them dies. Besides, didn't you notice that Tzu Yu deactivated his presence-hiding method before activating it again when he punched that hill-looking beast's shell?"
"Then why isn't it attacking us and is only attacking Brother Boum? After all, we are also not hiding our aura or presence."
"I think the reason is that Brother Boum is the strongest among us. So that beast is trying to eliminate the strongest threat here. Anyway, I will go and interrupt the attack, while you inform Brother Boum and think of some way. "
After saying this, the rank 6 cultivator came out of the darkness and activated his defense at full strength and tried to go beyond. He made the kas exert so much strength that they almost shattered.
As both the rank 7 cultivator and the attack were traveling towards their direction, he didn't have any difficulty intercepting the attack.
When the rank 7 cultivator saw his companion suddenly emerge from behind the trees and stand in his way, his eyes enlarged and a thought appeared in his mind, increasing his heartbeat with a fear igniting.
As the rank 7 cultivator bypassed his companion, he looked at his companion who was looking back at him with a smile.
Only one word came out of the rank 7 cultivator's mouth in that short of a time,
"Why…"
Before he went past him.
As he surpassed him, the rank 7 cultivator was pulled away by the other rank 6 cultivator out of the beam's way and thrown away at full speed.
He used his strongest cultivation method right away and a phantom fist, as huge as a one-storey building, manifested in front of him.
It clashed against the water beam only to be shattered right away. The water beam couldn't be stopped and continued. Striking the rank 6 cultivator who was in its way. It pierced the rank 6 cultivator's chest and still continued even though its speed had been slowed down significantly.
However, this much wasn't enough to reach or kill the rank 7 cultivator, so the sleeping tortoise dispersed it itself.
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