The group is seated nicely, and slowly, Altima shared his experience with the group to obtain their trust.
At first, from listening to Altima stories and shared experience, the group first hated to believe it.
But as the sharing goes, the group starts to felt the difficulties, and the burden carried by this young person that is less than 12 years old.
The experienced is share, and close to the ending, they felt respect.
The respect towards Altima's decisiveness, ruthlessness, persistence, is more than any of them can bear.
"Brother Altima, we will keep this secret for you."
"Yes. We are glad we could know you now, and not earlier."
"Brother Altima, you are my idol now. Who knows that I might be the one next to bear the responsibility for the Wu Family."
"Your head dreams too much, brother Wu. With your current cultivation how you wanna lead the Wu family ?"
"Heh, don’t look down on me."
"Brother Altima... You're amazing."
Their talk slowly becomes chatter, and after a short while, they started to back on their track.
"If in this case, Brother Altima, the five of us will make our move and gather most of the Thunderous Demon Ape to your location, take your shots as you deem fit."
The five of them agreed to have Altima becoming the main Damage dealer, and move out immediately.
Within minutes, clashes started in 5 different spots, where the five of them is charged by a huge number of Thunderous Demon Ape as they were spotted. Fighting ensues all over the way, causing even running back to Altima's position is difficult.
"Brother Altima!"
Qing Yi is the first one to completely return to Altima, luring a total of about 40 Apes to Altima's location.
(Surging Wave-Swept the Ocean)
Altima waves his spear and with each strike, a number of upgraded Water Dragon Cannon is launched toward the Thunderous Demon Ape, and immediately the weapon penetrate the body of the Ape, and explode within, carrying the First formation among 64 Bagua Diagram, the Force Formation, and thus destroying the internal Left chest of each Demon Apes.
Continuously, Wu Chung, Shi-Wen Qing, Gu Pang keep bringing in the Thunderous Demon Ape and allows Altima to quickly dispose of them without any delays.
But in another side, Fang Mu seems to have a problem in handling his part of the contribution.
"Brother Fang, are you still capable of handling this matter ?"
Altima asked as the team leader, as the performance and the capability of each member will affect the progress of the hunt.
"My cultivation is slightly too low to attract their attention. If this continue, the balance between the section will break off, in case few of the Apes within my area manage to wander around and enter the position where Brother Gu Pang and Sister Qing Yi is located."
Fang Mu speak without hiding anything. After all, in this part of 6 person party, each has to trust their back to another, so they could proceed and retreat without worries. With Fang Mu stating his capability issue, Altima slowly turn their luring spot into another location, making it closer to Fang Mu as an adjustment to enhance his capability.
Six hours later, Altima and team finally stopped hunting the Thunderous Demon Ape. First reason is due to the night is almost coming, The Ape is a semi-nocturnal beast, which means their capability, sensitivity and battle strength is much stronger as the night come.
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Second reason is due to the big hunting session a few hours back, had already reduce their amount by a whole lot. It would take not too long before the beast noticed that they are under some sneak attack, so guards and defense would be a lot tougher as the night come.
Gathering the corpses and the required materials as proof and for other purposes, Altima's team quickly withdraw from the nest and return to the shrine. Within the shrine, the Lizard Beast appeared once again, asking for his tributes to allow the team to stay within the shrine.
Instead of giving only the fruits, Altima decided to allow the Lizard Beast to consume an extra 5 vials containing the blood essence of the Thunderous Demon Ape as rewards for attending to their needs.
"Hisss….Five bottles of Blood Essence... Nutritious!!!"
The Lizard Beast happily gulp it carefully, as it has no limbs to hold it properly. But based on its appearance and its movement, Altima could guess that this Lizard is even agiler and comparable to snakes when they think about its movement.
"Youngling... Do you want to hear a story ?"
The Lizard Beast offer to tell a tale for the free tributes he received.
"Elder Lizard, please start, we are anxious for it!"
"Elder Lizard, Is the story is about this Ogre Tribe ?"
Fang Mu and Shi-Wen Qing, the most childish among the six quickly show their anticipations.
"Hisss! It's related but not too much."
"I am born after their tribe is getting destroyed, but I manage to encounter one younger Ogre before it ventures into the deeper sea."
"I will start now, Younglings!"
The Lizard Beast replied, and soon he starts his story.
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FILLER!
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I am 6,000 years old this year.
I came from a proud Golden Carapace Lizard Tribe. Our tribe is strong. When our newborn is hatched from the egg, they already possess a strength of Early Master Practitioner of Zen Tier. With abundant food resources and fighting experience, even the weakest one could grow to at least a Soul Practitioner of Zen Tier upon maturity.
This Flame Forest Continent, during that 6,000 years ago is not dominated by Humans, but us, the Demonic Beast.
What is the Thunderous Demon Ape? They are just the lousiest bloodline among the Apes. During the time I'm born, plenty of Strong beast such as the Firewing Tyrant Tribe, a Tyrant bloodline Demonic Crow Beast is even considered normal in this continent.
That time, our Golden Carapace Lizard Tribe ruled over the 1/10 of this continent, and receive plenty of tributes from the demonic beast all around.
I can still remember how the beast lower their heads as they saw any of our Lizard Tribe adults walk past. We literally controlling their life.
But then.
A tribe that used to stay and live underground in a different ecosystem suddenly appeared.
One of the main reason is due to their habitat is exposed to one subterranean tribe, the King Driller Mole Tribe. The Mole tribe accidently uncover the living places belong to a pack of Low Ogres, which is almost the lowest position of bloodline among their tribe, living in an underground full of minerals and crystals.
Since many of the Demonic Beast like us could use the Crystals and Minerals as cultivating resources, War happened.
The Firewing Tyrant Tribe, the King Driller Mole Tribe, The Golden Carapace Lizard Tribe, and two less worth mentioning tribe participates in this war to destroy the nest of 1,000 Low Ogres. Although they are only a Low Ogres, but we totally underestimate their strength.
A mere Low Ogre have the strength of Middle Emperor of Zen Tier strength!
If we met with the Older Ogre, they might already pass the border of Zen Tier and entered the Kun Tier strength.
Even a child Ogre could have a strength of at least a King Tier.
Our combination of 5 different Demonic Tribe was outmatched, and the war started to escalate to an even bigger concern, and affect the whole Continent.
Soon, the hunter becomes the hunted.
The Ogres grow stronger from consuming all the flesh and blood from the 5 tribes breathen and started to come out from their hidden underground nest. Perhaps it's was our 5 tribes fault to try and taking what was supposedly belong to others.
The ogres grow even more ferocious.
They started to pillage nest of other beasts, and even some villages belonged to the humans.
As their action grows to an unforgivable degree, a very strong power, finally reveal themselves to the world of Beast and Human for the first time.
The Divinity Clan.
Appearing from the clouds, the Divinity Clan sent their most basic Heavenly troops down to the continent to contain this matter.
One by one, we are looking at them as they descend from the sky, and with each swing of weapon, they easily kill an ogre without any difficulties.
By that time, we are finally understood the meaning of,
"You may be big, but there is always some beast that is bigger than you"
A within our eyes, a mere Demonic Beast, we are blessed by a favor from this divinity being.
Within the period of one week, the Divinity Clan totally destroyed the Low Ogres Tribe, and pushing them to extinction.
But there are some remnants is still hidden among the continents.
One of them, a youngling is caught by surprise by our leftover from the Golden Carapace Lizard Tribe. We tried to fight, but at the end, we failed.
That moment decided the fate of our Golden Carapace Lizard tribe. I am the only lucky survivor, among my whole tribe. Everyone is dead, and even their Blood Essence is absorbed by the Young Ogre before he left in a hurry.
But as he leaves, instead of devouring me, the Ogre choose to decapitate me.
Two stamps came from the left and the right. As its end, all my 4 limbs is crushed, and yet he still uses the swords that we Lizard Beast could wield, and chopped it cleanly.
I received a blessing from the Divinity Clan afterward, looking at my pitiable state.
In return, I decided to move towards this mountain, and stay secluded by myself.
But then I found this Shrine, and it is worshipping the Ogres.
So I end up bringing all the leftover corpses of my tribes, buried them within here, and each moment, I curse the ogres with my life.
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I'M NOT THAT MEAN, THIS IS THE DIVINITY CLAN OPENING SOON!
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Finished listening to the story, the Lizard Beast, for the first time, Stay along with a group of a human for a night before they return to their trip next morning.
But in each other's mind, and enlightenment regarding how vast is this world is deeply imprinted within their minds and would bring them to the deeper path of cultivation in future.
And within Altima's mind, is another story.
"As we finish this Mission, I will make sure this Lizard Beast will follow me in my path."