The Missions Tower deacon indeed hadn’t spoken incorrectly. In the back mountain, there was indeed danger everywhere. Who knew when they would encounter an ambush from a ferocious beast.
Also, these ferocious beasts had fought with Wind Sword Sect disciples all the time. Their combat experience was much greater than Lu Xuan and the others. Many of the times they were impossible to guard against.
Not long after the four had gone deeper, they had one by one suffered six or seven rounds of attacks, each enemy stronger than the last. Fortunately, they had learned the lesson from the first time and didn’t encounter that sort of danger again. After all, other than Lin Xin Yi, Xia Ye and Xing Feng were both body refining fifth level strength, and with Lu Xuan to cap it off, taking care of these outer boundary ferocious beasts could still be considered as relatively simple.
After being ambushed by a fifth level ferocious beast shadow fox and killing it, Lu Xuan stopped and said: “Let’s rest here. I’ll guard. You guys hurry and recover your soul force so we can ensure that our strength is in peak condition. Sixth level ferocious beasts will most likely appear in the next area.”
Lu Xuan had the Tai Yi Soul Return Tactic to rely on. Even while they were walking, he could still slowly circulate it. Other than a difficult battle, he didn’t have to worry about the question of soul force, but the other three couldn’t.
Hearing this, the other three also weren’t hypocritical. They sat down cross-legged on the ground and quickly began circulating their cultivation techniques, placing their safety in Lu Xuan’s hands.
His eyes alert and observing the surroundings, a trace of faint sword intent was released from Lu Xuan’s body. As long as it wasn’t an overly stupid ferocious beast, then when they felt Lu Xuan’s sharp qi power, they definitely wouldn’t come over to search for trouble.
After about half an hour, the three of them finished recovering and stood up. The team once again went inwards.
After entering this area, the four people clearly felt the surrounding atmosphere was different. The ferocious beast activity was much lower than before. As the forest went deeper, the active ferocious beasts would be even higher level. Lower level ferocious beasts didn’t dare enter here, otherwise they would just be reduced to food.
After passing by a few large trees, when looking forward, Lu Xuan’s pupils immediately shrank. An enormous bear appeared in front of them. It was originally been eating. Seeing that Lu Xuan and the others had come, it had immediately stopped moving, and raised its two eyes that were the size of copper bells, to stare at Lu Xuan.
The three people tightly following also saw the enormous bear. Xia Ye couldn’t help but exclaim in a low voice: “This is a sixth level ferocious beast, the iron armor bear. It’s close to the top among the sixth level. I’ve seen it before in a book. I hadn’t thought that the real guy would actually be so large!”
Seeing that this iron armor bear didn’t seem to plan to immediately attack, Lu Xuan also didn’t rush to start either. Not moving, he asked: “Its characteristics.”
“Its defense is particularly strong. If it were any other sixth level ferocious beast, I’d still have some confidence, but against this guy, I’m guessing a sword stroke from me wouldn’t be able to break through his defense.” Xia Ye quickly spoke. After he finished speaking, he couldn’t help but add in: “Also, it’s vitality is extremely tenacious. If possible, we should choose to not fight it.”
Hearing this, Lu Xuan’s mind raced, but the qi power he emitted didn’t weaken at all, instead becoming stronger and stronger.
“You and Xing Feng guard Xin Yi and retreat first. I’ll keep it busy.” Lu Xuan’s face was calm as he spoke. Since this iron armor bear was so difficult and wasn’t their mission goal, naturally there was no reason to take risks and waste time on it.
However, from his experiences in Qing Mountain Village, Lu Xuan also knew, if currently the four people all turned to leave, this animal probably wouldn’t let them go. It needed to be deterred to know that these people shouldn’t be bothered.
“Lu Xuan, be careful.” After Xia Ye and Xing Feng moved back, Lin Xin Yi couldn’t help but say.