In 3 days Yu Min was already waiting with his stuff near the main gates. Just in several minutes 3 more students appeared. All of them were with standard bags. Additionally, Yu Min notices that all of them are similar. When they get to Yu Min they see that his bag is a little bit different. But then they quickly represented themselves.
“My name is Zhe Di” - talled the first one
“My name is Zhe Li” - talled second one
“My name is Zhe Fa” - talled the third one
“Nice to meet you. My name is Yu Min. As I understand you are brothers” - As soon as Yu Min saw that he already was expecting something like this. It is very common in the cultivation world that families all have similar talents.
“Yes, we are triplets” - answered all 3 brothers.
Yu Min and Parasite keep the conversation to get more information about them. Each was on the level 6 major stage and they were 20 years old. So it means that they were cultivating for 5 years. While Yu Min was almost 17 years old, he was cultivating only for 2 years. For the triplets it means that their level was a little bit below average to achieve such cultivation.
In several more minutes, the Inner Disciple appeared in a green robe with a similar bag which Yu Min has. Yu Min and triplets quickly represented themselves.
“My Name is Vu Rai. I will be responsible for your team. During this month I will show you different dangers which Dark Wood has as well as I will help to gather experience of how to survive in Dark Wood. During our journey you should pay attention to any strange things which you hear, sense or see. Any of my words should be taken as an order and should be done immediately. If you disobey it may cost you life. As well you should remember that I will be sharing a report about your readiness to get into Dark Wood. Now please take those amulets and each provide one drop of blood to other amulets” - Inner Disciple took 5 amulets out of the bag and shared them with everybody.
Each disciple quickly gave one drop of blood to each amulet and then the Inner Disciple had direct energy into the amulets and they shined for a moment. Disciples saw that now on their amullets they can see 5 red dots. One which was big one was their own amulet. Smaller dots were amulets of other disciples.
“Don’t lose them while it would be hard to find you if lost in the woods or we would be required to run in different directions. However, we would travel along the edge of Dark Wood. But still from time to time people are dying there.”
The Inner Disciple checked one more time his bag as well as bags of all others. When he was checking bags of others it was possible to see dissatisfaction on his face. But when he checked Yu Min's bag he was a little bit surprised, but quickly hid his emotions. - “Let’s go. Before midnight we need to find a camping spot.” - talled Inner Disciple and directed to the edge of the Dark Wood.
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Main entrance of the sect was directed to the cities of the mortals. However, on the first cross-road all of them turned left. The Dark Sky sect was located near the mountain on the left side. In front of the sect there was a Dark Wood. However, there were no gates while that wall was built to hold back monster waves. From time to time waves of monsters were appearing and Sect was one of the first defence lines. On the right side was a mountain. But in that mountain was mine to which Yu Min was going to fulfil his duties and as well there was a direct path through the mountain to Dark Wood. Sect has one of the best locations while other sects which were located near Dark Wood could be easily surrounded from the left or right side by monsters from the wood.
Till midnight the whole group got through the mountain and got to the edge of the Dark Wood forest. “Be very careful. We are on the edge of the Dark Wood and even here could be hidden by some danger.” - Everybody saw how Vu Ray had changed after they left the mountain. Now he became much more careful and was checking the territory each 15 minutes. Before midnight they got deeper in the woods and found a camping spot which was left by previous disciples. While they were preparing camp Inner Disciple was giving different instructions about how to put up a tent, where it should be located, and how to put signal traps. In 2 hours they have finished camp and Vu Rai has taken everybody for the first hunt.
They didn’t get far from camp. And in just 1 hour they got to the glade in the woods where they found many hares. Then Inner Disciple explained how to put traps and the tactic how they would be hunting for hare. The plan was simple: they would put many traps in their current place. Next they would surround the glade from several sides and would chase them until those will not get in traps.
When the ambush began many hares began to run on different sides. But around 20 of those were running just into the traps. Due to this their hunting was very successful and they could prepare some food supplies. All the disciples were happy that it was so easy and they became very relaxed when they were going to their camp. At some point Zhe Fa, one of 3 brothers, separated from the group then everybody heard his scream.
When both brothers already wanted to go and help the Inner Disciple gave a command:
“Everybody stay here and don’t split up” - and then he went into the direction of screaming brother. He was running much quicker than any QI Formation cultivator could.
After Vu Rai got away just in 2 minutes they were ambushed by the Black Wolf. It was really the same as in the bestiary which they saw 2 metres tall bigger than human several times. The attack was very unexpected, but at the last moment Yu Min dodge Wolf jaws. But Zhe Li was not lucky and was bitten in his shoulder. For the Yu Min it was not luck, but in reality Parasite sensed a huge killing intention directed on Yu Min. - “I need to kill them, I need to eat them.”
“Move away, move away, move awayyyyy” - just before Wolf attacked in the Yu Min mind were only those thoughts out of nowhere.
And due to this he forced Yu Min to use “Wind Step” and move away from where he was standing.
“Now you need to punch it. This Black Wolf wants to kill you. You should kill it instead. You can do this” - Parasite was trying to put those thoughts into the Yu Min mind.
Just after that Yu Min saw the opening and tried to punch the wolf with full force in the stomach. However, Yu Min was as well terrified, and only due to the fact that Parasite was suppressing his emotion Yu Min was able to place that blow. But still that blow was affected by Yu Min's emotions and due to this he was not able to release full power. Maybe only 70% of it was used.
“Run, run, run” - only that thought was appearing in Yu Min's mind when he understood what he was going to punch. And that is why his punch was not very effective
However, it was just enough to cause a lot of pain to the Wolf. Due to strong pain Wolf opened his jaws and released Zhe Li.