17 Confronting a Hundred Beast King

Snowflakes continue to fall incessantly over Longhua Shan Mountain, turning the once green and vibrant scenery of forests and hills into a purely white and desolate landscape.

The dawn light slowly filters through the sky, but the sun at seven in the morning has not yet fully emerged, amidst a cloudy and stormy day, where dark clouds loom menacingly over the landscape.

Amidst this desolate scenery, a group of people swiftly follow a undirect route through the landscape, never maintaining a straight line,not making it easily ambushed.

This group consists of eight individuals, six men and two women, all wearing a red badge on their attire with a character for two written on it, identifying them as rank 2 Gu Masters, the elite force of the clan.

This group, of course, is the one Chen Wei joined after the academy competition, and the group is being led by his brother Chen Ming, a rank 2 upper realm Gu Master, that along with his impressive combat strength that has spread his fame both within the He An clan and the other two clans of Longhua Shan Mountain,thus making him the natural leader for this team of Gu Masters.

Chen Wei is currently located in the middle of the group, the safest place for him in case of a surprise attack, as despite his rank 2 cultivation and considerable combat ability, he is still seen as an inexperienced junior in real life-and-death battles by his teammates.

"Tai Pi, have you managed to locate the Hundred Beast King?" Chen Ming, leading the team, asks a thin man with long, unkempt hair, who is the investigation specialist of the group.

"He has moved from the location we were informed to a plain near a cliff about 200 meters to our northwest," Tai Pi, who walks with closed eyes, speaks in a low voice, his face resembling that of a bat faced man, which mothers would use to scare misbehaving children.

Of course, he was not born with this bat-like appearance, but it's the effect of one of the best rank 2 investigative Gu, called Echolocation Gu, considered to be at the peak of investigative Gu, but with the disadvantage of giving its user a bat-like face and partially blinding their own vision.

"From the information we have, the strength of this Hundred Beast King is bordering on rank 3, so the clan has sent us to eliminate this future headache while he still has rank 2 strength," Huang Be, a tall man nearing two meters, explains to Chen Wei to keep him informed of the reason they are going on this mission.

'This is also because I am being trained in real combat,' Chen Wei thinks about how in a situation where his group didn't have a newcomer, they would now be participating in missions on the front lines of the war that has been getting more intense recently. "I understand, Mr. Huang Be."

They quickly arrive at the plain and can see the Hundred Beast King precisely lying amidst the mud, surrounded by just over a hundred ordinary boars, most of them also resting in the mud.

Chen Ming and his group still keep a certain distance from the group of boars, not leaving the cover of the forest surrounding the plain to avoid revealing their arrival to the Hundred Beast King.

Chen Ming uses hand signals to indicate each member's position with him, Huang Be, and Zen Fu, a middle-aged man with a bald head resembling that of a Buddhist monk, being responsible for killing the Hundred Beast King.

Meanwhile, Tai Pi, Chen Wei, and Meng Xin, a tall woman with red hair, are responsible for dealing with the ordinary boars, killing them and preventing them from aiding the Hundred Beast King.

And the last member of the team, Ning Yun, a young female Gu Master who is also new to the team but already has three years of practical experience as a healing Gu Master, is responsible for staying in the back providing healing for anyone in need.

Chen Ming signals for the group to begin the attack and quickly creates water waves that hit the Hundred Beast King directly as it rests in the mud.

The Hundred Beast King roars loudly and starts to rise but is restricted by rapidly growing thorn-covered vines that began to sprout from the ground. But before it could deal with the vines, Huang Be advances quickly with a ferocious tiger toward it with strong killing intent.

Huang Be quickly reaches the restricted Hundred Beast King and begins to attack it using punches, kicks, elbow strikes—any part of the body that could be used for an attack—while Zen Fu focuses on increasing the strength and quantity of the thorny vines restraining the Hundred Beast King, and Chen Ming starts shooting water jets that deeply cut and pierce the Hundred Beast King.

While the three are fiercely engaged against the Hundred Beast King, Chen Wei and the rest are slaughtering the ordinary boars in masses, forming rivers of blood as the corpses pile up on the ground.

Tai Pi uses sound waves to both disorient and cause minimal damage to the boars, but he mainly remains in the support role for his teammates, with Chen Wei and Meng Xin being primarily responsible for the boar massacre.

Meng Xin creates large water blades that cut down numerous boars with each attack, but who is really standing out is Chen Wei, who indiscriminately launches blood cuts while collecting all the blood from the dead boars to use his newest creation, Leech Gu.

The Leech Gu converts large amounts of blood into primeval essence. Of course, as Chen Wei's Leech Gu is still at Rank 1, it only generates Rank 1 peak stage primeval essence, but this is already a good help to reduce Chen Wei's primeval essence expenditure.

'The liquor worm is truly a gu with enormous potential,' Chen Wei used a Liquor Worm to create the Leech Gu, but it was worth it for him since he considers it one of the gu with the greatest potential for the future, especially for the immortal realm.

Of course, he also plans to refine the liquor worm to rank 2 in the future since he already has all the refining materials prepared, as well as he plans to upgrade almost his entire gu arsenal to Rank 2.

Chen Wei plans to make full use of the peculiar characteristic of the Blood Path being easy to refine and nurture, not that money is one of his concerns, as he earns a portion of the profits from the Blood Path gu sold by the Chen family, since he is the creator of the gus.

So at least during Rank 2, money will not be a concern for Chen Wei, nor will cultivation resources, as the thing he lacks the least now is blood and dead animals.

But suddenly Chen Wei is taken out of his thoughts by the agonizing roar of the Hundred Beast King, who gives his last breath before dying after enduring an impressive amount of time under the onslaught of attacks from the three strongest members of this gu master team.

Shortly after killing the Hundred Beast King, they quickly help the others to finish off the common boars.

"So, what do you say? Was it a good slaughter, Chen Wei?" Huang Be says with a fierce grin on his face as he starts to collect the valuable parts of the boars to sell.

"It really was!" Chen Wei is happy to collect the blood of all the boars here, which is a loot that is extremely valuable to him.

"Everyone, wait, I have bad news!!!" When Chen Wei was starting to collect the boar's blood, Tai Pi shouts with a complicated look and a face full of worry.

"A group of Coyotes is coming in this direction; they probably want to hunt us down after sensing the smell of blood." Everyone quickly stoped looting the dead boars and prepares for battle. "But the worst part is that they seem to have a Hundred Beast King with rank 3 strength leading them."

All present feel their hearts sink a little because of such bad luck, but they still calm down to be reminded by Chen Ming that there is still a reserve escape route for them to flee, so they are not trapped on the plain facing a cliff.

Chen Wei internally sighs as he tries to suppress his growing nervousness since he imagines this is just the beginning of Heaven's Will making his life a hell.

And his concerns are confirmed when Tai Pi shouts again, telling him he also located another group of Coyotes with strength similar to the first coming from the only possible escape route for them!