The bird had a really long yellow beak and a body full of red feathers. It was around 2 meters in length and was bleeding slightly from the head.
In front of it were many cultivators all wearing orange robes. They were all from the Dazzling sect.
The bird was around the 2nd Foundation Establishment realm. Most of the cultivators didn't have that high of a cultivation base here.
However, the two that were fighting did. They were both in the 2nd Foundation Establishment realm.
Ning looked at the current scene of battle. A Bird protecting its eggs, against two assailers surrounded by many others in a field that looked like it was charred.
Ning looked at the bird and realized what it was. "A Blazing Toucan," he said with a bit of astonishment. They weren't very strong creatures, but that was according to Ning's standard.
To the normal people of the Shattered Isles, this bird would be worth a lot. "Those 3 eggs especially would sell for a lot," he thought.
He looked towards the 2 men and was even more surprised. One had a sword in his hand, while the other one held a spear.
'It's him,' Ning thought. The one holding the spear was the man from the auction house that had looked at him weirdly.
The toucan suddenly breathes fire out of its mouth like a flamethrower. The man with the spear suddenly spun it creating a barrier out of water in front of him.
The flames never passed through the water and were completely stopped. The other guy suddenly jumped up and slashed down at the bird with a very strong gust of wind.
The poor bird couldn't move away due to its eggs being behind it.
A 2nd Foundation Establishment realm bird and 2 other men with similar strength, as well as a crowd of other men at various lower strength— Ning didn't like that.
'Sh*t, I need to get out of here,' he thought and slowly tried to move back, however, unfortunately, and nearly comically, he stepped on a branch that made a rather loud sound.
Most of the people didn't really hear it over the sounds of the fight in front of them, but the two people that were surrounding the fight closest to him did and turned around.
Ning didn't even wait and started running, but as he did, his ribs started hurting once more. Due to the sudden movements, the mild pain relief from yesterday that was starting to end suddenly couldn't stop that much pain at once.
"Arghh," he screamed as he held his chest and stumbled to the ground.
"Someone's here," the guy closest who had seen Ning shouted, letting the others in the crowd know. The two fighting the bird didn't bother with a random nobody showing up and kept on fighting the bird.
The others, however, immediately ran to Ning to see who would get the points first. Before they even reached Ning, they already had their weapons out.
Some were even shooting arrows at Ning. However, that wouldn't do much damage to Ning right now.
"F*ck, I can't move properly right now. It hurts," he thought. He took out the sword and started blocking the arrows that were coming for him.
Then, he called out the beetle once more. The Great Shelled Beetle immediately deterred a lot of threats, but with the crowd, there was always confidence.
Even when something seemed stupid or impossible, when people got together, they would always choose to do that. It was the same here.
Despite seeing and feeling how strong the beetle was, the crowd rushed toward the beetle to attack it. "Protect me," Ning gave the order.
That was all the Beetle needed to know what to do. Immediately, the beetle spread its wings and flew to the nearest man. Its horn was glowing yellow, which the man tried to stop with his armor, but that didn't work.
A 7th Qi Condensation realm cultivator could not survive the attack of a 1st Foundation Establishment realm beetle at all. He immediately turned to yellow lights and disappeared.
If the beetle itself wasn't a great deterring factor, the current event was. Seeing a beetle kill one of their sect members scared them a bit.
"H-Hey, he was weak. We are much stronger than him. Don't be afraid," A man said immediately lifting the other's spirit.
"F*ck off," Ning shouted and swung his sword at one of the men. The man tried to block with his sword, but he was instead blown away and quickly disappeared in bright yellow light.
"Sh*t. He is strong too. Everyone, split in half; half of you attack the beetle, the rest attack that guy," another person shouted.
There were about 10 of them remaining aside from the 2 fighting the bird, so 5 of them started surrounding Ning and the beetle each.
Ning looked around. He wasn't very worried about them wounding him or his beetle. He was more afraid that the movements would lead to his wounds getting worse and him having to leave the secret realm early even.
Also, the 2 cultivators away right now weren't nobodies either.
The beetle immediately flew back and stood near him. Its orders were to protect him, so it would prioritize that. Ning slowly got up with his left arm on his chest and his right hand holding the sword.
"Come."
The people immediately released nearly a dozen attacks on Ning. The Beetle got in front of him and protected him. Ning then immediately sent out another attack with his sword. This time it was a black slash.
He targeted the weakest one of the group he could find. The last remaining 7th Qi Condensation realm cultivator. Two men came up to him and swung their swords, but the beetle got in front of them.
They were surprised at how agile the beetle surprisingly was. "Move," Ning ordered and the beetle flew up.. With the two attackers exposed, Ning immediately swung at them, defeating them in an instant.