The beetle suddenly started moving its wings really fast and created a gust of wind. However, these weren't normal gusts of wind.
Ning had taught the beetle one of the only two beast skills it knew, the Blinding Gusts technique. The gusts of winds suddenly blinded 3 people that the beetle had targetted.
The beetle then slammed onto two of them at the same time before piercing the other one with its trident-like horn. The one that got pierced was sent out of the secret realm, but the two that were slammed on still remained.
Apparently, the damage wasn't fatal. The beetle simply flew up and slammed back down on them with its hard back. This time, the two were sent out of the secret realm before they could be hurt.
Now there were only 4 of the people remaining.
Ning slashed at one of the men with his sword, sending out an energy slash towards them. However, just as it was about to land, a sword flew at the slash and destroyed it.
"What's going on here?" A voice came from a little further back. Ning looked behind the man and frowned. He was getting into more trouble now.
"Where are the rest of the guys," the man with the sword that was fighting the bird asked as he walked up to his fellow sect member.
"Brother Jan, why are you here? Is the bird dead?" the man asked.
"No, we left it because of the sounds here. The bird's not going anywhere with its eggs being there," the man with the spear also walked forward. "Where are the others?" he asked as he looked around.
"That man and his damn beetle defeated the rest of us. They already left the secret arena," the guy answered.
"What?" the 2 of them were a little surprised and looked towards Ning and the Golden Shelled Beetle who had jumped close to him to protect him.
"That's… I've never seen such a beetle, what is it?" the guy with the sword asked.
"Me neither. But it should be strong to be in the 1st Foundation Establishment realm," the guy with the spear said as he turned to look at Ning.
Within a second, his eyes went from disinterest to confusion, to anger, and to finally happiness.
"It's you, bastard," he shouted.
'Sh*t, he recognizes me,' Ning thought.
"You are the one with the spear, yes, I recognize you. Give it back to me you bastard," he shouted.
"You recognize him, brother Gai?" the man named Jan asked.
"Remember what I told you about the auction where I lost that amazing spear? It was to this guy. Hey, bring the spear out, I want it," he said.
Ning said nothing and just stood there with the sword pointed in front of him.
"I said give it to me," Gai shouted and immediately dashed forward to stab Ning with his spear, but the beetle got in between them.
CLANG
The spear was stopped without a single damage to the beetle. "What the?" the man was surprised. He tried to tab the beetle once again, but it didn't work.
Slashing, Stabbing, or even just pushing, nothing worked.
"Brother Gai, why are you taking so long?" Jan asked.
"This damn beetle is—" Ning suddenly attacked with his sword from the side. Gai blocked the sword with his spear and parried it sideways.
'F*ck, it hurts,' Ning said as he held his chest. The sudden movement had agitated his ribs once more. While he wasn't in any danger, the pain was too much.
Gai thought he had an opportunity and stabbed at Ning, but the beetle arrived once more to block his attack.
"Tsk. Brother Jan, I need your help. Can you handle the beetle?" he asked.
"Sure," the Jan guy said and he too dashed up to beetle to attack it. When his advancements were stopped as well, he was shocked.
"Damn, how is a beast a realm below us so strong?" Jan asked.
"How should I know? I have never even seen a beetle-like this before today," Gai Said. "Keep it busy."
"Sure," Jan said and started furiously attacked the beetle. None of the attacks were making a single scratch on the beetle's back, but it was enough to keep it busy and stop it from going back to Ning.
Now that Ning was without protection, Gai immediately tried to stab his shoulders. He didn't want to give him a fatal wound and risk him leaving the realm before handing over the spear.
Ning parried spear attack with his sword and slashed back. A water barrier appeared out of nowhere blocking most of the damage, while a bit more went and landed on Gai. However, that wasn't strong enough to even ruffle his robes.
Gai was a little surprised. 'This barrier can blocks attacks from other 2nd Foundation Establishment realm cultivators. Just how strong is he? And why is he fighting so stiffly?' he wondered.
Ning was only using one arm to fight to avoid moving his entire body. That was the same reason why he wasn't using any movement techniques either.
Gai started attacking him with barrages of spear attacks, while all Ning could do was block them and maybe throw in an attack or two.
'Sh*t, I won't be able to keep up much longer,' he thought.
Off to the side, the beetle was also suffering from a ton of attacks. The remaining 4 people had joined the man named Jan and started attacking the beetle.
All that the beetle could do was get onto the ground and take the attacks. The only way for it to get out of it now was to either call it back to the beast space or help defeat its attackers.
'F*ck, it's not time yet,' Ning thought. He really didn't want to do this since the timing wasn't right, but he was about to die and this was his last resort.
Suddenly, he slashed at Gai horizontally and sent him flying a few meters back. Then, he took a deep breath and shouted.
"Come out, Night."