Spy 1

"You guys had put up a good fight with the Bloodthorn Stags." Li Tian drew the sword out of his hilt slowly. It felt like déjà vu as the same scene took place less than an hour ago. The Bloodthorn Stag charged forward towards Li Tian as if he was just a wall in its way. Li Tian disappeared from the front of the beast as he used Zephyr. He appeared behind the stag after a second. A long but swift incision sliced along the bloodied body of the stag. In an instant, the once raging beast had been neutralised by the small swordsmen. 

The three teammates of Li Tian soon gathered themselves together. Realising that the fight was over, they went over to Hong Yao's side first to check on him. 

"Are you okay, Hong Yao? Do you require medical attention? You are bleeding a lot from your mouth!" Kong Huo Yu asked restlessly. 

"I'm fine really. I had bit my tongue when I smashed into the tree." He then remembered something suddenly. Turning to Li Tian, he asked, "Wait, what happened to the two Bloodthorn Stags on your side?"

"Those two?" Li Tian pushed aside the shrub that was blocking the view of his side of the battlefield. There, revealed two cleanly cut corpse. Both of the Bloodthorn Stags did not seem to have put on much of a fight against Li Tian. He answered casually, "They were taken off by me already."

"…" Everyone realised that Li Tian had not even broken a sweat after that fight. It was as if he had just fought a Rank 1 Demonic Beast and just swatted it away like a fly.

"Just how strong are you Li Tian? Mmm? Not too bad really." Li Tian quickly changed the subject as he did not want to talk about it at the moment. He went over to Hong Yao's side first and started casting Light Qi onto his body. "Let me heal you up first. I'll take a look at Kong Huo Yu after."

A glowing energy started to engulf Hong Yao's back. Within a few seconds, the youth felt much better. Li Tian then went to Kong Huo Yu and healed his injuries too. Lin Xi Xi declined his efforts to help replenish her Qi and just stopped there.

"Uh I have used as lot of my Qi from that fight and to heal y'all. So I'm going to take a nap now." Li Tian scratched his head, while coming up with a shitty excuse. 

"You should rest a lot now then. The rest of us can just keep watch for you." The rest of the team agreed to Hong Yao's suggestion. The team quickly bagged up the meat of the stags and left the scene. 

Li Tian's eyes secretly gazed to the dark corner of a shaded part of the forest. The reason why he acted this way was because he noticed there was somebody watching over their fight minutes ago. He had empowered his senses since he entered the forest yesterday and could easily notice if someone inexperienced was watching him.

The person was definitely not a teacher as he could tell from his novice hiding skills. As such, he purposely hid his real strength at the moment and said he needed to rest. This was to see if the person had any nefarious purposes of spying on him.

When Li Tian's group left back to their base, the person in the dark followed behind them. The actions of the spy made Li Tian more suspicious and his deduction more real. The other three were still clueless that were being followed. If he was not wrong, the person had the rare Element, Darkness, making him even harder to detect. Only after settling down in the base did the spy finally leave and headed back to where he came from. 

A person appeared in his mind when he thought about the spy. Jiu Lian Xiang. The tyrant of the high school was the only person he had offended during the past two months. Anyone else wouldn't make sense. Knowing that he would probably do something during the Exercise, Li Tian was not surprised that Jiu Lian Xiang would send a scout to look for his whereabouts. Now, it was a matter of time before he would appear before Li Tian. He just needed to wait.

Several Kilometres West of Li Tian's team, the spy had made his way back to his group. There was a guy wearing gold rimmed glasses spinning his knife in his hand. The person was Jiu Lian Xiang. Seeing that his lackey had come back with a smirk on his face, he knew that there was good news. "So, did you find Li Tian and his gang of weirdos?"

The spy that was merged with the shadows had a small scar running vertically across his eye. His name was Jing Tie Ba, one of the lackeys of Jiu Lian Xiang. "I was in the middle of scouting when I notice the little runt and his teammates fight a group of four Bloodthorn Stags. The little runt is surprisingly really strong. He himself killed three of those beasts. Sadly, it seemed that he used a lot of energy while fighting and healing his teammates."

"Right, that Li family boy has the Light Element. Hmph, I may have underestimated his strength slightly." Jiu Lian Xiang harumphed. He was thinking about something devious to get his revenge for his brother. "You said that he had used a lot of his energy right?"

"Yeah. They are now resting in their base."

"I guess it is only right for us to send a little gift to them." Jiu Lian Xiang laughed deviously.