First Encounter - 480

Since three months had passed. It was now time to gather. Zhu Yi left his room and walked towards the location where he could feel the most people.

He was led to a large room holding a meeting and promptly joined.

There was a lot of strategy, and Zhu Yi was placed in the 2nd squadron with another soul formation realm cultivator.

Although Zhu Yi did not know a lot of the specifics, all he needed to do was fight. He was also to be given a reward in the case that he killed a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast.

The meeting did not last long and they set out. With soul formation realm cultivators in the lead, they moved far away from the writing sect.

While the writing sect was the meeting place, 5 of the top ten sects were participating in this fight. Nearly all of their soul formation realm and nascent soul realm cultivators were here.

While they flew, Zhu Yi asked a question to the captain of the 2nd squadron, the other soul formation realm cultivator.

"Are there not going to be any Void Traversing realm cultivators fighting?"

He had yet to see or even hear mention of them.

The captain of the second squadron nodded. "All three of them participate in every fight. You will see them at the beginning of the battle."

Zhu Yi nodded. There were three known void traversing realm cultivators in the world. One from the Frost sect, one from the Writing sect, and one from the Grass Sect, the third ranked sect in the world.

 They flew slowly in order to let the nascent soul realm cultivators keep up. 

However, they soon arrived at an inconspicuous location. They set up camp here.

Zhu Yi was curious as to how they knew that Chaos Beasts would appear here, but he didn't ask. He didn't want to seem prying.

Looking around the camp, Zhu Yi saw many colors. Participating in this fight were the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th ranked sects in the world.

They were the Writing sect, the grass sect, the sky sparrow sect, the fire spirit sect, and the High boulder sect.

Zhu Yi waited for three days before he heard a loud shout. He flew out of his tent and looked a few miles in the distance. This was his first encounter with a Chaos Beast.

A giant gray beast that seemed to barely have a fixed form. It had four legs, tusks, and spikes around its head like a lion's mane.

It stood tall, its form reaching the skies. Zhu Yi could not feel the slightest hope in defeating it. 

Around it, more Chaos Beasts appeared. Some looked similar to the giant one, but every single one was at least slightly different.

These ones did not give Zhu Yu as much pressure, though he felt like he was facing a strong opponent.

Cultivators flew towards the Chaos Beasts as three colors appeared above the biggest one. The colors of blue like ice, black like ink, and green like grass formed a sphere around the biggest Chaos Beast that stopped it from leaving. 

The three colored sphere slowly moved away while extremely loud sounds came from within.

Zhu Yi charged forward and met with what he assumed was a nascent soul realm Chaos Beast. These were now the strongest existences on the battlefield.

Zhu Yi's target was fairly far away from others, and Zhu Yi could fight as hard as he wanted.

He unsheathed his sword and used the formless sword technique. The Chaos Beast saw him moving and charged, but cuts appeared on its body.

Truthfully, Zhu Yi did not feel much of a threat from the Chaos Beast. Although he wasn't quite near the level of fighting a Chaos Beast on the same level, he could be said to be in between fighting a Chaos Beast on the same level and fighting a Chaos Beast a level below him.

And he was only at the first level of the soul formation realm.

Despite suffering from an increasing amount of cuts, the Chaos Beast did not once falter or stop charging. It seemed like a wild, angry beast with no intelligence.

As it charged, a gray color began to appear around it. 

Zhou Fan sighed in awe. It truly was Chaos Qi. Luckily, this beast was not intelligent enough to actually use it well. Otherwise, Zhu Yi would not live to see tomorrow. 

Once the Chaos Qi appeared around it, Zhu Yi's attacks cut way less deep. Like this, he would only be able to slowly use up its Qi or bleed it out.

However, the formless sword was not meant for a head on attack. It was more or less a sneak attack.

Zhu Yi now had another attack for breaking through things.

He stepped forward and charged, he held his sword up and prepared to attack.

"Stop you fool!" Zhou Fan shouted.

Zhu Yi cut his attack short, hurting his arm, and backed away.

As he moved away from the charging Chaos Beast, he looked at Zhou Fan in confusion.

"That's Chaos Qi. That beast uses it like a fool, but if you carelessly touch it like that, you'll die without knowing how."

Zhu Yi was shocked. He did not know that Chaos Qi was that powerful.

"Chaos Qi is like a poison to cultivators. Don't be careless. If you're going to attack it head on, at least make sure that you don't touch the Chaos Qi." Zhou Fan said.

Zhu Yi nodded and unsheathed his sword again. He charged forward and held up his sword. Although it seemed the same, his body stopped as his sword swung down, preventing him from coming into contact with Chaos Qi.

"Breaking through all things."

Zhu Yi's sword came down like a hammer, creating a vertical slash that cut through all things. The Chaos Qi resisted it a bit, but just the residual power alone cut the Chaos Beast deep in the face.

It stopped charging for a moment, blood pouring out of its face.