26 STRANGE MOUNTAIN

That night, the mountain was silent and poignant with agitation as the soldier's nerves were tested with the long wait and none of them could sleep, as the night seemed as if it would never end. The most nerve-racking thing was that they were just a few kilometers from the battlefield and since they were able to hear, how it went and from the sound, it could be imagined that a massacre had occurred. As by the sound soon after they left the army was defeated and stragglers were being hunted down by members of the snow empire army.

This was what was happening when, dawn arrived the next morning signifying, that it was a whole new day a few minutes later the sun rose. This was both good news and bad news for Sir Eric and his unit as light would give them more hiding options as trying to hide from pursuers while in an unknown place was very dangerous while also moving during the day would make it hard for them to hide their track.

A look of worry could be seen on Sir Eric's face, while he contemplated their options. They were now within enemy territory and going back to the territory of the sky empire was going to be hard, as they were at war and all path between both empires had been closed and carefully guarded especially rainbow fort and the surrounding rainbow mountain that had just been conquered were locked down and tightly guarded as their control over it was not stable and they needed to guard against the stragglers who would use a moment of inattentiveness to deal a very big damage to them.

"Sir, the men are up, and list of our troops have been made we have seven xiantian experts and thirty houtian experts and they are ready waiting for your orders "Mr. Bernard said to sir Eric as he saluted to him, sir Eric second in command as well as assistant Richard died by a stray arrow, during the battle so Mr. Bernard was filling in for him good.

"Good, how was the scouting team, what have they found out about this hill and any way to reenter, the sky empire." Sir Eric asked with a bit of anticipation in his voice.

"No sir, they couldn't find any way to reenter the sky empire and security is tight. Also, it had been found that the mountain contains seven tier three demonic beast and tens of tier two demonic beast. So they are trying to map out a path to go around it, but it's likely to leads to the snow empire." Mr. Bernard answered Sir Eric while trying to keep his voice neutral but it was very hard for him.

This was because the ranking of demonic beast in the divine beat world was divided into tier one to seven corresponding to the seven major cultivation realms, so a tier three demonic beast was said to be equal to a transcending mortality experts but that wasn't exactly, the case as they were usually more powerful than a cultivator of the same level but they were usually stronger than cultivator at their level. So it was a terror for Bernard when he heard that there was up to seven tier three demonic beast here.

"what, there are tier three demonic beasts here and seven of them at that, in such a small mountain as this how is that possible, I can't believe such a small hill can produce enough resource to support seven tier three demonic beast and tens of tier two demonic beast." Sir Eric was shocked this was more bad news for them they were now stuck between a rock and a hard place, and their chances of survival had been drastically lowered again.

James was by Sir Eric's, side, when this news was brought as Sir Eric, has not allowed him to leave his sight since they broke out of the enemy encirclement. As he was worried that something would go wrong in this environment and he wouldn't be near to protect him.

So when he heard this he knew that he had to say something as he had not only invented the nihility drug while he was in the rainbow fort he had perfected it, in a way that it could interfere with a transcending mortality experts connection with the world.

which made it able to reduce the battle prowess of transcending mortality experts who has not comprehended profound mysteries, since he did not have much information of profound mysteries and how it works, and he also invented and studied some other drugs which have advanced his herbal and alchemical knowledge of this world as he had gotten a lot of resources and information related to alchemy in rainbow fort as a tier two scholar.

"Father, I believe I can provide a way to get us out of here, I had not just been cultivating while in the rainbow fort. I was also practicing my alchemy skill and I have perfected it, although it is now made using tier one herbs and thereby required more resources in its production it can affect transcending mortality experts and I have some other drug which can also help us" James said disappointed

although James said this with a hint of disappointment in his voice those that were around him like Sir Eric and Mr. Bernard were bamboozled to hear what James said as for them to hear that a pill made using tier one herbs could affect transcending mortality experts. If they had heard someone else say that they could do it they would have laughed at that person's face but coming from James they believed him because of the talent he had shown in making the nihility drug, that imperial alchemist couldn't reproduce completely even with a lot of training from the inventor of the recipe.