The Journey To Become The Strongest
Chapter 15 — Yama Mountains (9)
The cave was humid with a fairly low temperature and dark.
“Dark once.”
Lian Huanran complained though with her current eyes, Lian Huanran could still see clearly. After walking through the Cave for a few minutes, Lian Haocun suddenly said with a volume that Lian Huanran could still hear, saying,
“Cautious.”
Lian Huanran nimbly shot back from where he had stood before. A black bear suddenly appeared at Lian Huanran's place earlier.
Lian Haocun said in a cold voice to Lian Huanran,
“This is only level-3. You should have handled it. And the Bear does not have much advantage with the terrain inside the cave.”
After saying so, instantly Lian Haocun stood on the other side of the Cave that was not noticed by the Black Bear. The black bear roared at Lian Huanran, it seemed like the black bear was starving.
Lian Huanran who was forced to face a magical beast with a Level-3 equivalent to Foundation Building stage 5 felt anxious and agitated for a moment. However, the magical beast is equivalent to 4 stages above it, but the thought of Lian Haocun winning against the Lion who was on par with the Core Formation stage made Lian Huanran's anxious and agitated heart calmer and appeared confident and eager to win.
Lian Huanran immediately kept his distance from the Black Bear who started to want to attack Lian Huanran. Lian Huanran unleashed an ordinary dart without any technique from the Black Bear's blind spot to test how high the Black Bear's defense was.
Thanks to his magical beast instincts, the Black Bear sensed danger and rushed away from the arrow but the arrow still hit the Black Bear's left foot. The wound is not deep, but it still bleeds.
Lian Huanran felt grateful in his heart, ‘Thankfully his defense could still be pierced by ordinary arrows.’
Not allowing the Black Bear to rest, Lian Huanran immediately released three arrows simultaneously which each hit the Black Bear that tried to attack Lian Huanran again from the front, although the arrow was not pierced at the Black Bear's vital point, it was still very disturbing for the Black Bear making him roar annoyed many times to Lian Huanran who looked quite relaxed and calm now.
Not only did it fail to attack because Lian Huanran had already made another distance, the Black Bear was also hit by several dart attacks.
The Black Bear lunged again towards Lian Huanran, Lian Huanran flexibly evaded the lunge of the male Black Bear which weighed tens to hundreds of kilograms.
Although the speed of the Black Bear could be considered quite high, that speed was still inferior to Lian Huanran who since childhood had already practiced speed intensely. Although the training was not easy, the results were clearly visible during the speed fight.
Lian Huanran took advantage of the opportunity when the Black Bear landed on an empty spot to use the Technique he learned from the Hell Fire Arrow Scroll, the Red Fire Arrow. Instantly in the arrows that were ready to dart to attack the opponent there was a red fire.
Temperatures in the environment are increasing, but have not yet reached the heat as when the element Lian Haocun was raised. The fire that was burning in the arrows seemed to intend to burn the opponent to ashes. The fire-covered arrow hit one of the Black Bear's vital points of open defense.
Lian Huanran immediately relaxed his tense muscles and lowered his vigilance, assuming that the Black Bear was dead, but unexpectedly the Black Bear that had more than one arrow on its body jumped crashing towards Lian Huanran, intending to smash the body of 10-year-old Lian Huanran with her weight.
The air around Lian Huanran felt like a soothing and pleasant wind and carried the scent of wood and plants.
Before the Black Bear could hit Lian Huanran, a thin plant suddenly appeared and flexibly bound the jumping Black Bear. Lian Huanran fell down, his legs feeling limp from fear, panic and anxiety. As if feeling the feeling of Lian Huanran, the plant bound the Black Bear even tighter.
Lian Haocun who had been positioning to attack the Black Bear before it could befall Lian Huanran returned to the place to watch.
After calming down, Lian Huanran realized that she was neither injured nor crushed in the slightest. Lian Huanran was somewhat dazed to see the Black Bear in the air roaring many times to him. Then Lian Huanran looked at her hand which had a plant bound to the plant that bound the Black Bear.
Immediately a sense of pleasure, excitement and various other positive emotions appear override the emotions of panic, anxiety and fear. The excited Lian Huanran shouted towards her Brother who was still on the other side of the Cave,
“Sister! I managed to awaken the Element!”
Lian Haocun did not respond but turned his eyes to the Black Bear that was still roaring at Lian Huanran.
Lian Huanran immediately returned to his guard and killed the Black Bear with the Red Fire Arrow Technique. It takes three arrows with the Red Fire Arrow technique to kill the Black Bear. After confirming that the Black Bear was dead, Lian Huanran immediately rushed to the side Lian Haocun was intending to ask for praise.
“Sister, how was I earlier!?”
Lian Haocun replied briefly, “Hm, pretty good but you're too less vigilant.”
Lian Huanran felt very happy and automatically ignored Lian Haocun's last sentence. Lian Haocun felt his heart soften a little faced with the cheerful Lian Huanran.
“Come back.”
Lian Huanran looks confused by the words of Lian Haocun, “But this Big Brother is not the deepest part of the Cave. There's still another way.”
Lian Haocun replied, “There is nothing inside.”
And immediately returned outside the Cave following his memories. Lian Huanran followed her cold brother,
'I will definitely become as strong as Big Brother so that I can also protect him!'
That was how Lian Huanran had a new motivation to cultivate and practice.