"What was that just now?" Lin Ling asked with a pale face as she supported Wang Xi, who was still injured.

"It should be a Tunshui Beast." Yi Yaofan's face also sank as he replied.

"Tunshui Beast!" Lin Ling was startled, and the other few people's faces also became ugly, "You're talking about a seventh-rank Tunshui Beast?"magic

"It could be."

"Then …… that Li Yu and the others ……" She did not continue, but everyone already understood that the three who were eaten by the Tunshui Beast could not be saved. The Tunshui Beast, a seventh-rank water spiritual beast, is equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage.

"Didn't they say that the Dreamless Realm only has spirit beasts below the sixth rank?" The female cultivator who didn't talk with Shi Xia before said while trembling, "Why did a seventh-rank beast appear!"

No one answered. It's impossible to beat a seventh-rank spiritual beast, with ten Golden Pill staged cultivators.

"It's not safe here anymore, who knows if that Tunshui Beast will follow us." The female cultivator's face grew paler and paler as she suggested, "Let's hurry back to the exit."

Saying that, she didn't care about the others and once again flew up with her sword. Yi Yaofan also did not object, he waved his hand to indicate that everyone should also leave.

Shi Xia just pulled out her longsword when a fishy smell wafted to her nose. The female cultivator who just flew ahead suddenly bent in an odd angle, as if she was being squeezed by something.

Her heart tightened and she shouted into the air, "Get out of the way!"

It was already too late, the female cultivator let out a cry of pain. Her entire right arm was directly torn off. Blood covered her body, as she directly fell down. As she fell to the ground, a huge snake head with sharp horns appeared out of nowhere, biting the ripped arm of the female cultivator in its mouth. Two copper bell-like eyes stared at them with nothing but hunger.

"It …… it followed us." The crowd was dumbfounded seeing the spiritual beast that appeared out of nowhere. They didn't even know when it followed them.

The Tunshui Beast swallowed the female cultivator's arm, lowered its head and opened its mouth towards the female cultivator who just fell on the ground.

Shi Xia's grip on her sword tightened. Turning her Qi into aura, she waved her sword. A large flame rose from the ground, forcing the snake back.

"We have to fight! What are you waiting for?" She yelled back.

Yi Yaofan was the first to come back to his senses and also shouted, "The Tunshui Beast is a water based spiritual beast! Don't attack it with water magic or spells!"

Only then did the crowd begin to bring out their weapons. Some used fire, some made swords with their Qi, some sacrificed magic weapons and began to counterattack.

Yi Yaofan summoned a heavenly thunder with his sword. With a boom, a huge thunder came from the sky and rang out the whole area. The Tunshui Beast was struck squarely by the thunder. At the first blow, the Tunshui Beast immediately let out a painful hiss. As the tip of the thick tail slapped over to the group, several rows of trees fell to the ground with a clatter.

"Quickly dodge!" Shi Xia reminded loudly. Using one hand, she used a spell and called up the earth and made a wall, blocking the snake's tail.A simple wall of earth obviously couldn't stop this seventh-rank spiritual beast. Its snake tail only paused for a moment. Followed by a forceful swing, the wall immediately fell. Shi Xia knew the wall couldn't block it, she simply used it to stall for some time. As she was distracting the snake, other people had already flown away with their swords. She calculated the time, and then immediately called out her long sword.

As she was flying up, the person in front of her suddenly stopped her and pushed her away. Shi Xia's balance became unsteady and she fell to the ground and twisted her foot. The person who had just pushed her away had already flown up, and it was actually Wang Xi and Lin Ling.

Wang Xi was injured, so the speed of their swords were slower than others. Naturally, they were at a disadvantage. But by pushing her down, they wanted to attract the attention of the Tunshui Beast, and buy some time to escape.

Seeing that the spiritual beast had opened its mouth to lunge at her, Shi Xia began to curse them in her heart. Now it's too late to hide, she could only defend!

Grasping the sword in her hand tightly, she mobilised her Qi into fire spirit and made countless swords covered with flame. Each one was burning red with blazing flames. They rose to the sky, and in a flash, the swords converged together into a huge wave of flame, and directly rushed towards the Tunshui Beast.

The Tunshui Beast once again let out a loud hiss of pain, and moved its attack targets from Shi Xia to others. The closest to her happend to be Wang Xi and Lin Ling. The Tunshui Beast opened its mouth and spewed out a wave of water directly to the two.

Lin Ling was shocked and quickly tried to make a defensive barrier. The barrier saved them from the wave of water but they still fell from the sword.

The sword in Shi Xia's hand moved. A huge wave of fire rose before instantly changing back to thousands of spirit swords, and rushed towards the snake and attacked it squarely. But all the spiritual beasts are born with a strong body. On top of that, the snake had scales covering its whole body. Even though the swords hit it, it was completely unresponsive. The swords were bounced back by the scales covering its body and unable to cause any damage.

The other people also attacked with various techniques, but everything was completely ineffective.

The Tunshui Beast did not even blink. It opened its mouth towards the two falling people to bite them.

"Ah …… go away!" Lin Ling screamed in a high pitched voice. She was so scared that she even forgot to move the sword in her hand. Just as the snake was about to swallow the two, Wang Xi suddenly stepped behind Lin Ling and pushed her from behind. Lin Ling was pushed directly in the mouth of the beast. Taking the chance, Wang Xi quickly leaped backwards, jumped out of the Tunshui Beast's attack range and flew away.

As the Tunshui Beast's mouth closed, Lin Ling's body was crushed into halves. With a thud, half of the body fell straight down from the snake's mouth. The expression on her face was terrifying, with a mixture of disbelief and fear.

Shi Xia frowned in disgust. Just now Lin Ling pushed her down in order to save Wang Xi. But Wang Xi sent her directly into the mouth of the snake in order to escape. Maybe this is what they call retribution.

But she didn't have enough time to think about this. The Tunshui Beast attacked again and started to chase the cultivators up in the air. Although its body was huge, it was extremely fast, not losing to the speed of the longsword in any way. Except for Yi Yaofan's lightning, everyone's attacks on it were not half as effective. In less than a moment, everyone lost their composure. They were either swept by the tail or injured by the water wave thrown by the Tunshui Beast.

But why was the wall of fire formed by her sword technique just now able to hurt it? Did it…… hurt its vitals? Shi Xia took a closer look at the Tunshui Beast, and noticed that not far below the head, a piece of scales was missing. The colour of the scales on that side were a little different than other scales, as if it had been burnt by something.

"Attack three inches below the head, it has old injuries there!" Shi Xia shouted.

The crowd froze for a moment and immediately changed the direction of their attack. Yi Yaofan also summoned a thunderbolt and struck directly at the location she mentioned.

"Roar……!"

The Tunshui Beast let out a sharp scream. When the others noticed that their attacks really worked, they didn't hesitate and began to use various spells and hit directly at the same place.The Tunshui Beast's miserable scream, one louder than the other, rang throughout the whole forest as it rolled on the ground in pain. Its tail moved left and right, instantly sweeping out a clearing in the forest that was littered with trees. Yi Yaofan once again summoned another cloud of thunder to attack it.

Suddenly, the Tunshui Beast rose up towards the sky, unleashing a new magic trick, it instantly disappeared.

"Disappeared…… disappeared." The remaining few people looked at each other in surprise.

"It didn't disappear!" Yi Yaofan's expression turned ugly as he explained , "It can become invisible! We don't know where it will appear next time, so everyone should be careful."

The look on the crowd's faces grew more and more frightened. Staring carefully around, they began to think with trepidation. Not only was the spiritual beast seventh ranked, it can also become invisible!

An eerie silence fell everywhere around them.

A moment later, Shi Xia felt a fishy watery smell coming from behind her. She didn't hesitate and quickly turned around and waved her sword. This time she no longer used fire but converged thunder on her sword. Instantly countless lightning emanated from her sword and attacked the open space at the back.

As the thunder rumbled everywhere, the Tunshui Beast appeared less than three meters behind her. With a loud scream of pain, it once again disappeared in the same place with a new injury.

Shi Xia quickly jumped back, her back was drenched in a cold sweat. She knew that the spiritual beast was stalling time and would attack again.

"Everyone gather in one piece! I'll hold up the defence formation!" Yi Yaofan pulled out a talisman and shouted towards the remaining few people.

Without hesitation, everyone flew directly towards him and leaned against each others' back. Yi Yaofan sacrificed the protective formation talisman, and a formation diagram appeared under their feet. A transparent protective shield directly shielded the only six people left inside.

"Senior Brother Yi, how long can this protective formation talisman last?" Someone asked with a gulp.

"…… An hour."

"Only an hour!" The people in the formation panicked, "Then after an hour, we will be dead."

"What should we do?" Mu Ting was on the verge of tears, looking around nervously he exclaimed, "This is a seventh-ranked spiritual beast. We can never beat it. It can also turn invisible."

"I should have known better. I shouldn't have listened to Li Yu and gone looking for some Hanyu Flower King." Wang Xi said indignantly, "If it wasn't for him, how could we have encountered this Tunshui Beast?"

Once these words came out, other people also started to blame Li Yu, who was the first to die in the mouth of the beast. As if this can reduce the fear in their hearts.

"Stop it!" Shi Xia exclaimed loudly, "Rather than blaming others, why not think about how to deal with this Tunshui Beast."

The crowd turned quiet for a moment. But Wang Xi coldly snorted and said disdainfully, "Speaking as if you have a way! Hmph, a mere outer disciple."

Shi Xia looked back at him, "Yes, I'm an outer disciple! But at least I can acknowledge that I can't do it. Throwing my own people into the mouth of a spiritual beast and running for my own life isn't something I want to try."

"……" Wang Xi's face instantly turned pale. He suddenly remembered how he pushed Lin Ling to the mouth of the spiritual beast. He thought no one saw it but he didn't expect Shi Xia to be a witness.

Everyone in the group was more selfish than the others. But the most impecunious of the group must be Wang Xi without a doubt. Although Lin Ling was selfish and pushed her away to be the scapegoat, but at least she cared for Wang Xi. But this Wang Xi did not hesitate to push the person, who cared for him at all times, to the mouth of a beast. Not only that, he was blabbering now as if nothing had happened. Even calling him a scum would be an insult to the word.

As each of them had different thoughts with the same fear, the surroundings around the formation became quiet.

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