Xiao Ming and the others didn’t go back to the same area that the spirit beasts had been in before.
After all, the plan was only to run away from them and not defeat them, so the spirit beasts would go back to where the herbs were once they lost sight of their targets.
As such, they met in a location not far from where the herbs had been before.
When Xiao Ming arrived, she found that she was the last one to arrive.
Everyone else was already there as if they were waiting for her.
When she arrived, Huang Xie and Yu Huang immediately came forward to ask, “You’re late. Did something happen?”
Xiao Ming shook her head before saying, “I’m fine, it’s just that…”
She quickly explained what happened with Wu Yun and how she had formed a secret alliance with the Holy Myriad Land.
It wasn’t just Huang Xie and Yu Huang, the others that had been listening in on this also knitted their brows when they finished hearing what Xiao Ming had to say.
The Love Sect group remained silent, but Mo Sha came over to ask, “Are you sure that this person is trustworthy? They could just be pretending to reconcile with you to make you let your guard down.”
Xiao Ming didn’t deny this as she nodded in agreement, but she also said, “Even so, it isn’t as if we have anything to lose from this secret alliance. If they really are setting a trap for us, it isn’t as if we are obligated to step into it. For now, the more allies that we have, the better. Even if those allies aren’t as trustworthy.”
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Mo Sha raised a brow with a bit of doubt in his eyes, but he slowly nodded in agreement.
He could understand where Xiao Ming was coming from, so he decided to trust her judgement on this matter.
“Roar!”
There were roars filled with rage that suddenly rang out while they were talking.
Turning to look in the direction of the roars, they suddenly revealed smiles as they looked in that direction.
That was because…that was where the herbs had been located. It was also where the spirit beasts would converge once they had lost sight of their targets since they would go back for the herbs.
But the herbs were all gone because they had taken them all, so there was nothing left for the spirit beasts.
The only thing that the spirit beasts could do was…roar out in rage.
No, it wasn’t the only thing that the spirit beasts could do.
There was one other thing that they could do.
There were large explosions that came from the direction all of a sudden which made the smile on their faces become even wider.
The spirit beasts were venting their anger on each other by attacking each other.
It was a shame that they wouldn’t be able to harvest those spirit beasts after they were done attacking each other, they had no other choice.
While they had enough herbs to most likely pass this first round, that didn’t mean that they could just give up on collecting more herbs yet. Things could always change and they wouldn’t want to be caught off guard.
At the same time, it was better to collect more herbs since there were herbs that they could use in this Ten Thousand Beast Valley. It wasn’t as if they would have to hand over everything that they obtained, like with the Fire Lotus Flower.
As for the spirit beasts, their materials couldn’t be handed in for points and there was no spirit beast that they needed. While the cores might be useful for cultivation, it wasn’t as good as herbs.
So it was better to leave those spirit beasts be and find more treasures.
After resting up for a bit while listening to the sounds of the spirit beasts fighting, they headed out again.
They were heading even deeper into the Ten Thousand Beast Valley.
It seemed like everything was going fine until…
As they were passing by a cliff, there was a spirit beast that suddenly charged out at them, catching them off guard. This was one of the spirit beasts that had been chasing after them earlier.
They thought that they had lost it, but it seemed that this wasn’t the case.
This was a honey badger spirit beast that seemed to have found them with its acute sense of smell. It had chased after them after losing track of the ones that it had been chasing.
No one had expected one of the spirit beasts to have such an acute sense of smell, but here it was coming after them.
Since it had come so sudden, they weren’t able to fight back in time.
They weren’t even able to put up their guard in time.
The one that it attacked was…Xiao Ming.
It was unknown why it chose Xiao Ming, whether it was because she was close by or if there was a different reason. However, this honey badger just rammed its head at her while she was passing by the cliff.
She wasn’t able to guard against this and was pushed by the honey badger over the cliff.
But before she fell down, Huang Xie and Yu Huang immediately charged forward to grab her hand. Both of them managed to grab one of her hands, but the force that the honey badger charged at was just too much for them.
So even if they grabbed her hands, they were pulled along by her off the cliff.
While in midair, Xiao Ming suddenly twisted to kick the honey badger away, even though it kept swinging at her with its small claws.
Huang Xie and Yu Huang both recognized that this was a dangerous situation since the fall was quite long. If they fell this entire way, it was very likely that they would shatter every bone in their body.
They couldn’t allow that to happen to Xiao Ming.
Yu Huang pulled out his sword and looked at the cliff as if he wanted to stab his sword into the cliff wall in order to stop their fall.
However, they were just too far away from the cliff wall for him to reach it.
Huang Xie had been panicking at first as well, but then he suddenly turned so that he was under the other two. Once he was there, there was a green glow that appeared around him as he activated his physique.
While he wasn’t certain that this would work, he hoped that it would help them negate the fall.
It didn’t take long before the three of them disappeared from sight.
The Love Sect and Demon Palm Sect group didn’t know what to do after the three of them disappeared, but Mo Sha seemed to take the lead once the three of them were gone.
Tie Yong or the other elder disciples could have taken the lead of the Love Sect group while Xiao Ming was gone, but they listened to Mo Sha since he had the most logical plan.
“We’re splitting into two groups. One group will remain up here and wait for them to return. The other will go down and see if we can find them.” Mo Sha suddenly gave this order.
They wasted no time at all as they split up into two different groups.
…
This moment had also been captured on the screens outside, so there were quite a few people that had seen this happen.
Once they saw what happened to Xiao Ming, Huang Xie, and Yu Huang, there were quite a few people that…turned to look at Lin Fan and the Love Sect group with smug looks.
In the beginning, there were few people that even liked the Love Sect group since they were biased against them because they came from different empires. Not to mention, the Love Sect did make a few enemies during the few days before the tournament started.
So now that misfortune had struck the Love Sect, naturally they would seize this chance to laugh at them.
The elders of the Love Sect glared at those around them before turning to look at Lin Fan with worried looks. While they were angry at the other sects, they were more worried about Lin Fan since two of the ones affected were his disciples.
They also looked at one of the generals with a worried look since Yu Huang was his grandson.
The general was worried, but there was nothing that he could do.
Lin Fan…wasn’t worried at all.
“This cliche…isn’t it used all the time?”
That was what he thought when he saw the three of them fall off the cliff.
Huang Xie had the title of Heaven’s Chosen, so his providence wasn’t something that was normal.
Even if he fell off a cliff, it would only be a chance for him to gain a treasure rather than him suffering.
And this was a trope that was often used in the cultivation novels that Lin Fan had read in his past life…
There would normally be some kind of treasure or hidden inheritance under these cliffs.
So he couldn’t help looking forward to seeing what kind of special treasure this main character disciple of his would find.
…
“Where is this? What happened?”
When Xiao Ming woke up, she looked around herself to find what had happened.
She found that she was sitting in a cave that had a pool in the center of it and by the pool…
There was Huang Xie and Yu Huang sitting there around a fire with their clothes off.