“Thank you!!! Thank you big brother bear! You were amazing over there! There were a bunch of bad guys but you went Splat, Swish and then I was a little worried but you emerged just fine and before I knew it you had beaten them all! A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! Have I already said thank you? And how did you survive those attacks? And…”

I interrupted the chatterbox Icy Sparrow: “Hold on. There will be times for thanks and questions later. Now we have to go and regroup with the Big Eared Mouse and the Golden Crocodile. They should have gone through a similar kind of battle.”

(Icy Sparrow) “Sister Mousy and Shiny Croc? Quickly let’s go, we must help them!”

I rolled my eyes at the little fellow's antics and started sprinting toward the swamp, home of the Golden Crocodile. By the time we arrived, the battle was over. The first thing I noticed was the Golden Crocodile: he was three meters tall and twelve meters long, with shiny golden scales. It took me a while to find the Big-Eared Mouse, as it seemed to have brought the entire mouse colony with it. I counted over two thousand of them around us.

I looked at the big crocodile and said: “Hi I am Zhao. Nice to meet you.”

(Golden Crocodile) “Hi. You must be the naive bear newcomer that helped us for free that Mousy talked to me about. You can call me Croc. Hey Icy, how are you?”

(Icy) “Good, good. Brother Zhao was so cool. He defeated the enemies with a Pow, Pam,...”

I zoned out Icy and instead talked to Mousy: “Is everything alright? What do we do now?”

(Mousy) “Yeah, just a bit tired. I arrived just in time, luckily Croc is quite tough. As for what to do now: we rest and wait.”

(I) “Just that?”

(Mousy) “Yes, once the guardian wakes up, she will lead us. Hopefully, they hadn’t been able to steal anything noteworthy or before going to the Beasts’ continent we will be made to lead a beasts’ riot.”

(I) “A beasts' riot? What’s that?”

(Mousy) “Have you been living under a rock for all your short life?? A beasts’ riot is when a high member of the beast race gathers a great number of demonic beasts to attack human territory.”

(I) “But this will just kill a great number of innocents!!”

(Mousy) “You are too soft. Humans raid our territory to hunt us and steal our resources all the time.”

(I) The only ones capable of doing so are the cultivators. And the only perpetrators of this attack are the ones from the sects.”

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(Mousy) “Well unless you have a better method to do it then this is the only way. We have to retaliate somehow or they will think that they can attack us without consequences.”

Our discussion ended there. In the following days, I spent my time cultivating and pondering the problem of how to avoid a beasts’ riot.

The days passed until one morning we were woken up by a furious roar in the distance.

(Mousy) “It seems that the guardian has awoken. Let’s go meet her.”

We followed Mousy and soon we arrived in front of a lone mountain. Halfway the mountain was a cave and from that cave descended a beautiful blue leopard with little blue flames coming out from her fur.

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “Good, you are all here. And who invited this bear here? Whatever. Now you may be wondering why I called for you.”

(Mousy) “We already know the gist of it. While you were hibernating a group of elders of a sect snuck into your lair to steal something. What you probably don’t know is that they also sent some of their disciples to kill us with some formations. If it wasn’t for Zhao here, we would all be dead right now.”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “Preposterous, they dare! First, they stole my earthly herb and they even wanted to kill the ones I am in charge of? I will immediately rally a beasts’ raid to teach them a lesson.”

(I) “Wait!”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “What now?”

(I) “This will just upset the human population and not cause real damage to the sect responsible.”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “So what? Do you have a better idea?”

(I) “I think I do. My idea should make the sect responsible suffer considerable losses without the loss of many innocent lives.”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “I’m all ears.”

(I) “We target their spirit mines”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “It’s this your grand idea? Do you think that nobody has ever thought about it? The mines are protected by arrays that they will activate as soon as they spot us. Not only that, but those arrays also send a message to the sect to get reinforcements. Every time that we tried we had no choice but to retreat defeated.”

(I) “But you didn’t have me.”

At these words, I went towards a shadow nearby and activated my stealth skill.

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “ I see how those Foundation Establishment pipsqueaks could be fooled by it. But there should be at least fifteen of them plus one or two Core Formation dudes. How could you deal with them on your own?”

(I) “Well I would just need to disable the formation. Then you can easily deal with the Core Formation elder and deal with the mine.”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “That could work. Do you know anything about formations?”

(I) “ I don’t. I hoped you could help me with that.”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “I don’t know much about them or else I would have put them inside my cave. And cracking a formation is even more difficult than assembling one.”

I looked down dejectedly.

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “Fortunately we only have to deal with a deactivated formation. Even if you don’t know how it works all you have to do is to disable enough array flags and the formation won’t work.”

(I) “So…”

(Blue Flaming Leopard) “So you are our chance to deal a big blow to those bastards”