What the monkey did was right on its own. And they, the beasts did not blame nor care about it. Instead, they had looked at their pray, stood there at the front of the large door.
But those beasts did not know the danger increased along with the passage of time. As for those who crossed the door, they were given utmost protection and care.
“Now what? We are regrouping with all the remaining unit in this place. And as for those damnable beasts, what can we do?” Ye Xiaobai saw the situation was rather passive for his side.
“Oh, is that what you want to say?” said Wu Qing before she saw the girl beside Ye Xiaobai. The words that Li Ling had said now become reality as the girl she saw was really had the thing that Li Ling had mentioned before.
“Is there something wrong?” realizing the stare Wu Qing gave to Yue made Ye Xiaobai tilted his head.
And the one who exchanged a glance at the moment were two beautiful figures with their own charm at the least. And now they stared at each other without saying anything, increasing the intense moment.
“Sorry, that was just my mistake. I have seen the description of the race that has the traits of an animal but to see it with my own eyes, that is the first.” Wu Qing smiled at both Yue and Ye Xiaobai.
“Sorry if my figure is not to your liking.” Yue bowed a little before returning to her previous standing position.
But in her heart, she secretly felt surprised to see the reaction from everyone she had met since she entered the hive alone between the crowd of the beasts. Yue thought that there must be someone that will dislike her but her expectation now was shattered completely.
“Come here, let’s hear the next step of the plan.” Ye Yingyuan was the first to get close to the throne before informing everyone.
“Big Brother, you come here too!” Ye Yingyuan added. He knew that the last and the strongest barrier would be cast so he just told Ye Qingcheng to leave the entrance.
And Ye Qingcheng retreated from the door before a white wall appeared in front of the door. Fortunately, Ye Qingcheng knew that his current strength was unstable so he followed what his brother had said.
‘Currently, I’m not used to the strength my body has now. This is not good in the long term.’ Even though Ye Qngcheng gained more benefits from the bloodline awakening but it also had its own restriction as well.
His entire body had experienced huge transformation from head to toe and even from the outermost skin to the deepest bone marrow and capillary. But this did not mean Ye Qingcheng became so strong to the point that he could fight against Culture Core cultivators.
‘Especially about the bloodline itself, it gives me the chill when everyone explained it to me.’
According to the explanation by Alice, the bloodline power was inherent, meaning that it could be transferred to the descendant. This was like the slight increase in Spiritual Roots if both the parental had become cultivators and produced some descendant.
Other than that, the bloodline power heavily depended upon the strength their blood contained. This point made Ye Qingcheng realized that the dragon also had this bloodline power as well.
But sadly, the bloodline power holders had to increase the power of both their blood power and their body organs slowly and one by one as well, meaning that if cultivators also held the power of bloodline then the time he or she had to spent increased exponentially.
It also meant that Ye Qingcheng had to spend double or even longer times to just increase his power.
‘But it’s fine. The strength that it gave also not bad. At the least, it compensates the time I have to spend in the future. But if what they said is true then there are more people like me outside, having the power of bloodline in their blood.’
As for the advantage of the bloodline power of course lied in their body strength, endurance as well as toughness. Even if they faced the opponent of the same cultivation stage, they would not lose as long as the opponent was just equal to them in their cultivation.
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“Please hold yourself longer! I will finish it in a few minutes.” The more Wang Yu spent his time to remove the fountain from its place, the more energy had drained from his body.
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Now, he had reached the last stage to remove the fountain. He saw the transparent, root-like substance underground near the energy vein. Not only Wang Yu had to worry about his energy consumption but also the condition near the fountain.
“I can keep up. How long is my sleep duration?” it was around two hours ago Manstein finally woke up from his dream. There was still traces of blood stain remained on his finger and the corner of his lips.
And the small formation Vajra Turtle: Minor Scale was still working despite relentless attack Nightstalker King gave.
“Six hours. But you must be relying on the formation self-programmed defense to keep Nightstalker King at bay.” Wang Yu answered. He also felt proud to see the formation this time.
‘Vajra Turtle Formation was actually a defensive mobile formation type that relied on its extreme defense and mobility in the price of the attacking power have little to none power. If the enemy moved first, then the formation could release a terrifying defensive mechanism in form of light attacks.’
What differs offensive-type and defensive-type formation was in their style to eliminate foes.
Offensive-type used a large attack or strong and sometimes both factors to kill the enemies. Usually, this kind of formation can be ordered to attack the opponent but hard to guard against another attack too.
The opposite of that type would be defensive-type formation. This type of formation would only attack those who enter its range of defense area. And it was harder to get rid of this formation if someone had to step into the area of its effective range just to attack the weakness.
“Tch, even the entire channel was marked as its area of defense. What kind of formation is this!?” Nightstalker King had never seen or heard this type of formation.
Now its figure was revealed for Manstein to see. It used its hind legs as a center of its large movement and there was also two scythe-like arms that already turned into broken scythe in some of its parts.
Now Manstein felt assured of this formation’s defensive capabilities. And he also gave his thanks to those pieces of knowledge from his device that recorded every single thing those ancestors did in the past.
“You wanted to grab the black water from the fountain and also used it to your own agenda so why don’t we do the same?” in a rare case, Manstein would show his other side but only faintly.
“Come on! Show me all you got otherwise you can forget about bringing the entire hive down or to catch us!” Manstein tried to taunt the Nightstalker King.
But on another side, Wang Yu even used the help from Coiling Dragon Formation just to lift the transparent root-like substance from underground but even with his power, he could not do it.
“It’s really hard, even for me Senior Wang.” Hou Fei also let out his thought at this moment. He had never expected that to remove the fountain, they had to even borrow the power Coiling Dragon Formation had.
Then both Wang Yu and Hou Fei circulated their energy to the golden dragon that already spun around the transparent root-like substance. The golden dragon let out its roar, showing its might by forming a trail behind its body every time it flew around.
The trail formed a certain kind of chains that tied itself to the root. Then an additional force surged upward, adding the extra help for Wang Yu and Hou Fei.
“Go! No holding back anymore or else the fountain will fall to the others.” Wang Yu did not want to hold back himself since the big push from the golden dragon helped him as well as their limited time.
‘And this place will turn into a dead zone if the teleportation is done this instant.’
He then used his right hands to sends five strings of energy to the certain point at the surface of the transparent root. And the next move was Hou Fei to take. Hou Fei was the one responsible for controlling the golden dragon that currently binding the transparent root.
“Bind it from the energy veins underground. Don’t let it absorb anything anymore from this point!” with some time to practice with the formation, Hou Fei could understand the basis of its movement as well as its principle.
The golden dragon then breathed out something that stuck the transparent layer, before the transparent layer revealed tiny flowing colors in its surface.
“Now we can see those absorbed energies. You can see from this flowing colorful energy flowed in its surface. That is the usage of ‘Breath of Visibility’, to let us see the thing that we can’t previously.”
Wang Yu nodded when seeing Hou Fei could use this method. But to do all of the previous deeds require more than just experience. It also needed the user to have an understanding of the ability as well.
After some time, there was a blinding light came from downward. Then the light disappeared and Wang Yu knew that the time had come for them to remove the roots in one attempt!
“Now let’s do this. I need you to keep the dragon pushing the roots upward and to stabilize the after effect of my doing. Would you do this for me?” asked Wang Yu. He knew how hard it was to reach this stage but to remove the roots the fountain had it was not easy.
Therefore he wanted to let Hou Fei reconsider the risk and gain from this case.
“Senior, I know very well about the consequences but it can’t be helped anymore. Furthermore, there’s still those children and Young Miss Wu to take account.”
Hou Fei shrugged his shoulders, as he felt that the risk and the gain were worth it. It was because to remove the roots, one must use their power without stopping even in the middle of the process and without interruption and also add the fact that they had to endure the long and energy consuming the process.
After that acknowledgment, they instantly used the entire power to lift the root!
The space around the root started to shake, meanwhile at the outside the tree which supports the hive also had its branch fell down, cracked surface of the tree’s skin also originated from this shake.
As if the alarm in their brains woke them from their fantasy, the beasts that already swarmed to every place of the hive except the royal chamber scared to the point of the disoriented movement.
“Now what will you do? Get out from here?” feeling the shake made Manstein realized the time had come for all of them to bail out from this place.
“Spatial Seal!” only Manstein knew that the cause of the spatial seal was the removal of the fountain. This was also considered as a danger on its own because the spatial was an unstable factor when something had its own spatial power.
‘So the Ranked Treasure had its own spatial power, huh?’ this would become the reference for Manstein who had never seen the spatial seal.
“You can have that fountain and you all can enjoy its benefit but it’s no use when he knows the spatial around here is not usual.” Could not handle the situation due to many unexpected factors made Nightstalker King had to retreat no matter what.
“You are good at hiding yourself, also good at dealing such a burst damage but in the end, it was all for naught. Even if you want to use any communication means to anyone, you will find it fail as many as you try.”
Manstein smiled with confidence. Not only the spatial seal locked the certain space but also reflected the entire energy that came from and to that space. The only way to let communication keep going was to break the spatial seal.
Now Manstein had no need to worry about anything at least for the moment. The group had already gotten the Yellow Honey, which was a good honey to cure the Black Plague disease. Other than that, Manstein also had some honey with him.
‘Other than curing disease, honey is used as a health potion. But here, I can use it as an energy drink. How about I enter the initial stage with this honey?’
As long as he did not overdo it, Manstein sure that he could enter the initial stage of cultivation. He sighed when that thought emerged.
He had learned many things just from his device alone and this time, he practiced it to the enemy. The first Manstein understood the most was about the formation so despite lacking the power, he had to make some formation.
‘But we need to get out from here. It is a good thing that Nightstalker King did not have a plan in case someone as good as Wang Yu appeared, slashing the time needed to remove the fountain once and for all!’
Manstein had planned several steps ahead. He had to use the wormhole that the formation had created while for the group, they had to endure the hardship traveling in the spatial distortion.