Traveling for a total of 7 days, the team finally reach the border between the Flame Lion Ancient Kingdom. But as the Ancient Kingdom is not their target location, the group travel along the borders, borrowing the protection along their paths to slowly direct their path towards the Desert Crystal Sand Kingdom.
Three more days later, the group finally reach the first outskirt of the Desert Crystal Sand Kingdom.
Entering the kingdom's outskirt city, the business is seen bustling all around the way, once in a while, they will encounter a few petty thieves that try to rob some of their belongings but failed miserably due to the difference in strength between the petty thieves and the group members.
"Brother Altima, is it possible for us to take a rest in some nearby Inn ?"
Shi-Wen Qing suggested. After a total 10 days of travel, the group is slight exhausted, and in need of a good bath and refreshment before they proceed towards the Threat 1 Beast nest.
The group finally decided to stop from moving within the city and pay a visit to the Inn in front of them. Ordering a few dishes and drinks, they quickly had themselves prepared and freshen up, and get ready to continue their journey.
In a total of 10 days, the group finally reach a mountainous area, where some weird kind of plantations is covering all over the roads as they walked.
Wielding a temporary High-class Spiritual grade spear, Altima quickly chopped and open a path, allowing the group to march deeper into the mountain area, and as they path the weird plantation area, the group finally reach the bottom of the mountain range entrance.
Unexpectedly, a manmade Shrine is located nearby, giving the group some attraction to explore it before they proceed to look for the Beast's nest.
"What shall we do, Brother Altima ?"
Wu Chung, as the sub-leader, decided to ask for Altima's opinion on behalf of everyone.
"The location of the Beast's nest is still unknown, and yet we havenThe location of the Beast's nest is still unknown, and yet we haven't met with any resistance at all. I suggest we are to be on high alert for tonight."
"Me and Wu Chung will proceed to explore the shrine entrance, to recover a spot for us to use as a camping zone, while for Shi-Wen Qing, Qing Yi, Gu Pang and Fang Mu, you guys go and gather information on area nearby, so we know our path in case anything happened."
Altima passed some directions for the group members to follow, and very quickly, everyone proceeds to complete their respective task, while Altima and Wu Chung head deeper into the shrine and make a quick inspection before they decide that the shrine is safe.
Before proceeding, Altima makes a simple scanning on the Shrine, and head within with a slight clue about how is the Shrine is built within. Walking deeper into the tunnel, Altima is greeted with nothing but one huge Square, where they lit the bonfire in the middle, and allows the barely bright lights to lit the whole square.
Within the middle of the Square, a huge statue is standing tall, believed to be but many ages ago.
The craftsmanship is poor, but from initial sight, the statue feature is carrying an Ogre features.
Ogres. A counterpart of Goblins.
They came is bluish skin feature, a gigantic body as tall as a two-story building, well versatile in magic and physical battling, and one most important factor, Bloodlust.
An Ogres is a battle freak kind of Demonic beast.
Loved to battle and slaughter, whenever a place started to reside by an Ogre packs, the damage is going to be inevitable, where kingdom shall perish one by one, and the country shall be destroyed, again and again, as long there are people who wish to fight against the Ogres.
And within this shrine, it is used to worship the warriors and shamans among the ogres, which falls within the battlefield proudly, after managed to slaughter more enemies than any of the others could.
"Hmmm….."
"Ruk…rukk…."
A few growling voice could be heard deeper within the shrine paths.
Soon, a lizard-like beast slowly slithers from the darkness and appeared within the two youngsters.
"Hiss.."
"Human... What have you come for.."
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"Ogres Tribe is sealed, you have no needs to come for threats."
The Lizard looking beast is a being that already had all its four limbs chopped, speaks.
"We are here just to look for a place to stay for temporary. We bring no hostility."
Altima replied.
"If in that case.. Tributes!"
"One tributes for one head."
The limbless Lizard beast speaks.
"What would this elder need as tributes ?"
Altima replied again.
"Food! One piece of fruits for one Head!"
The lizard beast howled.
Altima withdraws a total of 6 Juicy Bloody Fruits that he retrieved from the Demonic Bridge Ritual, and throw it towards the Lizard beast.
"Good, you may stay, but don’t come in."
The lizard beast replied, and finally slither off from the spot.
On that night, Altima and the group spent a night sleeping and taking a turn on guard for the unexpected ambush, but luckily, no threat is to be found within the location.
"Brother Mobi, you sure this shrine hid no secrets ?"
Altima discussing regarding the shrine with Mobi.
"Yeah, the Mapping is complete, except the Lizard, it's literally worthless to explore here, as it's looked like a maze."
Mobi replied, and soon, the brother decided to leave this shrine and go deeper to hunt for the beast.
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"Pang Yan! Get the hell out of here now!"
A scream came outside the Medicinal Hall, shocking all the existing Alchemist within the hall. Some weaker constitution Alchemist is caused to accidently failed in their refining, causing a huge amount of losses within that few minutes.
"Senior brother Shen Fei, what can I help you ?"
Pang Yan came out from his room and politely greet the so-called Senior Brother.
"Pang Yan, I heard from the Elders that the superb quality Demon Strengthening Pellet is concocted by you, am I correct ? Here, take this ring. Within is a total of 1,000 Sets of the ingredient to concoct the pellets, make sure you get it ready within two days."
Shen Fei throws a spatial ring into Pang Yan's hand and makes his demand.
"Senior brother, two day is impossible for me to concoct this amount, can you give me more.."
"Shut Up!"
"When do I, Shen Fei need to listen to you lowly class Alchemist request ?"
"When I say two days, it means TWO DAYS!"
"If it is not done by then, well, don’t blame me for accidently visits your sister. I heard that the Pang's Three Stalk of Peony is still virgin and untouched ?"
Pang Yan tried to get some logic into Shen Fei's mind, but before he finished, he was interrupted, and as well threatened with the safety and purity of his younger sisters, is depending on his attitude and actions.
"I.. I will make sure its done."
Pang Yan replied weakly, losing all the confidence to retaliate.
"Good Dog! This is why Elder Shen and Oldest Uncle Shen is feeding you until now."
"Leave!"
Shen Fei turns his back, patted some dust around his shoulders, and leave the Medicinal Hall without any more words.
"Fellow brothers, please go back to your task."
Pang Yan politely speaks to the other Alchemist, and slowly return to his room. Within, slowly came a weeping sound and some rants of anger, but soon, even that is gone as well, replaced by only the sound of non-stopping concocting.
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The next day, Altima and team quickly move deeper into the mountain area and explore locations which slightly seem dangerous. As they move, many Demonic Beast that proof to be dangerous and threatening, they will quickly dispose of it before it is allowed to multiply or regroup to form a much more dangerous pack of Demonic Beast.
This process goes on for another two days, where they finally met their initial targets.
Even within the scanning report, Altima could see the danger sign within the interface reports.
Nest of Thunderous Demon Ape - Threat level 1 - Stage 6
Total Beast reported: 50,000 Young Ape / 1,500 Adult Ape / 2 Elder Ape / 1 King Ape
Cultivation strength: 3rd Stage Master of Zen tier - 3rd Stage of Soul of Zen Tier.
Hidden Location: Infant Ape Burrows / Demon Ape Pool / Thunder Shrine
Notes: Thunder Elemental Beast, further preparation required.
"Brother Altima, here, take this."
Gu Pang passes a few medicinal pellets to Altima and the rest of the team, as well as a few different items such as a bracelet made from Yellow colored Vines, a feather that seems to fall from some huge gigantic bird, and a belt that made from some marble rocks.
"The first thing is a medicine called the Lightning dispersing Pellet. It increased the possibility of nullified the Thunder element when attacked, and also strengthening a cultivator's body through tempering it with Thunder Element."
"The yellow vine bracelet is a special preparation item that our town people used to bring along when hunting. If we shook it hard and allows the vine to be vibrating too hard, a huge dried vines umbrella will come out, which is good for facing Thunder elemental beast."
"The feather is the item we could use in case we are cornered by all sides. This feather belonged to the Thunder Rain Emperor Beast, and along the way of its flight, feathers that fall from its wing is always treated as treasure by the Ape beast due to the colorful appearance and strong In thunder essence energy."
And lastly, the Marble Sharpening Belt."
"This belt is not too amazing or godlike when fighting thunder beast like the Thunderous Demon Ape, but the Ape's body is always filled with a layer of Slimy Goo, where it protect their skin from getting burned from the constant rain of thunder and lightning."
"For people that utilize weapons like me, Wen Qing, Qing Yi and Wu Chung, we will need to keep sharpening the weapon with this marble and use It to slice smoothly across the Ape's heart. Meanwhile, for Fang Mu and Brother Altima, this is prepared marble dust, and best suited for people who depend on their martial arts."
"I finish my explanations. Brother Altima, anything to add into your orders ?"
"We do have certain information to share."
Gu Pang finished his explanation and next come to the information from the Shi-Wen Qing and Qing Yi.
"from our studies regarding this beast, we found some reports regarding the way to kill the beast while preserving its best corpse value. Their weakness is located on their left chest instead of the right. Although the heart is the best way to instant-death the beast, but this will cause us to miss the opportunity to obtain a fair amount of profits."
"We shall delegate each other's position. They are weak towards internal attack or shockwaves, so if anyone among us could do it, please speak now."
"I am skillful with Internal Damage."
Altima stands first.
"I'm not too skillful, but few of my martial arts is related to internal damage."
Wu Chung stands as well.
"if we only have two heavy attackers, it would be tough to dispose of them perfectly."
Qing Yi explained.
"Guys, I have a secret to let you all know about it too."
Altima honestly talked.
"Brother Altima ?"
The five of them wondered. After all, their leader here always have many surprises for them, but unexpectedly, there is still some surprises that yet to be exposed to the group.
Without hesitation, Altima kept his spear away, and withdraw another treasure that hidden within his Spatial Ring.
Ferocious General "Meng Jiang" Protector Spear - Early Zen Tier Treasure
Description: Created by a combination of Goblin and Human Blacksmith Elder, A transcendence weapon that bears an appearance of 6 Feet and 6 inches long, Crystal refined Violet Tip and a sturdier than any Mace and Hammer's Pommel, and a total of 5 pieces of Spatial formed beads on the middle of the spear.
Meng Jiang Spear came with 5 Special features and required to be blood bond to fully unleash its capability. The spear not only able to store a various special weapon, medicine, and important treasure within, it could even absorb and amplify the Zen, Yin, and Yang essence into more condensed and pure energy for usage.
The spear could even reach the form of Energized, which release the limitation border and further enhance the capability of the owner and weapon, and lastly, the Tool Soul Release, but the form after released is still unknown yet.
Special Note: All Zen Tier Treasure could be upgraded.(Early - Low - Middle - High - Peak - Earth - Heaven - Mortal - Immortal)
"This is my actual spear, except in near death or important situation, I won't use this at all."
Altima holds his Early Zen Tier Treasure high up to the air and allows all of them to look at it.
"Big brother, that’s a Named Treasure!"
"Oh my, I would never imagine our big brother still have an Early Zen Tier Treasure within his arsenal!"