Towards Eternity
Ch 551's. The Jade Bamboo Sect
Weng Lou continued to follow the group of Jade Bamboo Sect led by Nuan towards the Jade Bamboo Sect.
He continued to keep a distance of up to a hundred to two hundred meters away from them so that he could not be traced by a hundred percent. Although the person escorting Nuan was only in the Soul Cleansing realm, he did not know whether or not the person had some hidden cards.
It was better for him to be careful, than all his plans to fall apart due to his slight carelessness.
A few days passed, Nuan's group now entered a very dense forest area. There were many ferocious beasts living inside here, but their group could continue to enter the forest with great ease. Though there were some ferocious beasts with power in the Soul Cleansing that were detected by Weng Lou, yet they were all no one intending to attack Nuan's group.
Weng Lou suspected that there was an heirloom, or special items used by them, so it was not attacked by wild animals. Meanwhile, Weng Lou himself could continue to enter the forest quite smoothly. He had several times encountered wild beasts, but Weng Lou managed to 'exorcise' them, so as not to disturb him with a single blow on their buttocks.
It took one day and one night for Nuan's group to come out from within the forest, while Weng Lou could only click his tongue when he saw the time wasted so much just for them to pass through this forest. According to him, they could get out within a day from this forest, but Nuan and his group even reduced their speed in the forest even though they were not disturbed by a wild beast.
"It would take a whole week if it followed their speed. Actually I could have gone ahead of them, but it would have arisen suspicion when their group saw me in the Jade Bamboo Sect when I was still in the harbor when they were still there."
Weng Lou inevitably threw away the plan to get ahead of them and remained patiently following them from behind.
One week was just like that, and now Nuan's group reached a towering mountain where a lot of bright green bamboo flourished throughout the mountain. Weng Lou who was quietly following them finally nodded in understanding why the name of this sect was named the Jade Bamboo Sect.
The color of the bamboo-bamboo growing on this mountain at a glance made it seem like jade. If the person who saw it was not meticulous, perhaps he would really think that these bamboos were made from real jade.
But even though the appearance is very beautiful, but Weng Lou knows exactly how dangerous these bamboo.
*Shu- SPLASH!* A small squirrel was seen galloping towards one of the bamboos from outside the mountain. The little and cute squirrel was about to climb onto the bamboo, but something unexpected happened.
The bamboo he was visiting suddenly lifted and stabbed him to make him die just like that. A mouth also emerged from one of the bamboo near the bamboo that killed the squirrel. The dead body of the squirrel was then carried by the bamboo that killed it and put it in the mouth of the other bamboo.
Nuan's group only looked at the incident for a short while before then began to climb up the mountain, as if the incident was just something that had been commonplace in this place.
Meanwhile, Weng Lou who was watching in the distance could only click his tongue watching that. He knows what creature just killed that squirrel. It was a kind of meat-eating giant insect that had the appearance of bamboo trees among the original bamboo trees.
They have names, Bamboo Grasshopper, or bamboo insect. Their strength was at the Foundation Base level 9 to level 12. There were also some who were able to possess strength in the Soul Cleansing realm.
On Black Sand Island, this insect has long been extinct, even since hundreds of years ago. Weng Lou had seen some insects in this before in the Huwa Islands and honestly he was quite surprised by the perfect observation possessed by this insect.
Fortunately, they do not eat humans, and only attack humans if humans first injure them. You could say they are not too dangerous as long as they are not attacked first.
This time, Weng Lou chose not to follow Nuan's group up the mountain, instead waiting under the mountain. Although Weng Lou was very confident in the strength he had, yet this was the territory of others who had combat power on par with the Northern Heavens Sect, he thought. He would definitely be found immediately if he stepped into the mountain before him.
"I'll wait here a day or two, after that I'll just go upstairs." Weng Lou immediately turned around and went into the forest near the mountain.
He had to find a place to spend the night, or else he would spend his night wrestling with the beasts.
***
The next day, in the afternoon.
Weng Lou returned to the mountain path. This time it was seen that he had changed clothes. The clothes that hid dozens of his knives now he was not wearing anymore, but just wearing ordinary clothes while his two 'obsolete' swords in his hands tightly.
Yesterday Weng Lou discovered a cave that was very hidden and became the nest of a snake the size of an adult human. The snake is not very strong, but has a cleverness that sows an adult human. Weng Lou did not need to use force to subdue her, only slightly moving her by crushing a tree in one hit, the snake directly lowered its head on Weng Lou, a sign he was willing to be her subordinate.
All the goods that Weng Lou carries and has a suspected risk of having Weng Lou stored in the cave and the snake Weng Lou ordered to take good care of it.
*Tw.....* "Well....." Weng Lou let out his breath freely while staring at the mountain in front of him for a few moments.
After establishing his heart, Weng Lou stepped up the mountain. When he started to enter the mountain, the bamboo around the road swayed like it was blown by the wind. But Weng Lou knew clearly, that it was the Bamboo Grasshopper that caused this commotion.
He faintly heard the sound of footsteps following him as he continued walking down the road leading to the top of the mountain. But all of those sounds did not scare him, quite the opposite. He felt calm and secure from listening to the sound of footsteps that kept following him.
There was a reason why he chose to start climbing the mountain in the afternoon like this. The first, because he could younger detect the enemy in dark and calm conditions. Then secondly, there will be no people or members of the Jade Bamboo Sect who pass through this path when it is dark, and lastly because of the existence of the Bamboo Grasshopper on this mountain.
The Bamboo Grasshopper that had been placed on this mountain was a ferocious beast that was nurtured by the Jade Bamboo Sect and was used as an observer as well as a guard for the disciples of the Jade Bamboo Sect who passed through this mountain.
Here, not only were the Bamboo Grasshoppers alive, but there were many other ferocious beasts roaming around and were deliberately nurtured by the Jade Bamboo Sect.
But there are times when their ability can not be used, namely at night. The cold night air strangely disrupts the locusts' communication system.
This was the main reason why Weng Lou chose to walk in a time like this. He walked in the afternoon like this, surely his arrival had been known. But that was all, the reason time had turned into night just as Weng Lou walked for ten minutes up the mountain.
The members of the Jade Bamboo Sect would not get any information regarding him now, and only knew that there was a young man who had come to this mountain. They will only get other information about it if it is morning, or if anyone comes down here and gives them their own information.
"Hmm.this air must be because of the many bamboo trees that are planted so that it makes it different. This can indeed interfere with the communication of the locusts," said Weng Lou who breathed deeply and felt the difference in the air at that place.
Weng Lou continued walking up the mountain until then half an hour had passed, and he had reached a quarter of the way to the top. This included being very slow to the size of a person who possessed a power as big as Weng Lou.
He deliberately walked leisurely so that he could arrive at the peak as late as possible. If he could, he wanted to arrive when it was morning. Weng Lou did not want to waste his time checking out this place by getting a lot of questions at the top later.
It would have been great if he had arrived in the morning, he would definitely have been left to rest a little first before then being asked a few questions. For example the reason why he came here, or whether he was a spy or not.
As Weng Lou was dissolving with his thoughts, suddenly, the sound of footsteps that followed him began to slowly disappear and made Weng Lou again pay attention to the surroundings once again. He discovered that there were no bamboo trees growing on this path that he was going through, thus making him a little astonished and curious.
He set his focal point on both of his eyes, and activated the Eagle Eye Technique. As if he could see at night, Weng Lou frowned as he did not find a single bamboo tree three hundred meters away from him.
A cold chill hit his body and made him feel cold. Weng Lou's eyebrows shot up. Feeling cold?
His body is a highly trained body and is a trained body that can withstand many weather and conditions. Even ordinary flames were no longer hot to him, just an ordinary warm sensation he would feel when exposed to ordinary flames.
But now, he felt cold? Just be right! Weng Lou quickly turned his head in one direction and suddenly jumped to the side avoiding an ice spear that shot rapidly towards him.
*hush! Arakk!!* The ice spear pierced the ground where Weng Lou stood before until it reached half. The ground around the spear was stuck instantly frozen instantly and let out an icy chill that could freeze anything.
"Es immortal?! Are there any ice-elemental beasts living here?!" Weng Lou was stunned staring at the frozen ground, while not far from him a creature as big as an adult dog walked slowly towards Weng Lou.
Weng Lou's sensitive ears could hear the creature's footsteps, so he turned around and saw a strange animal that had snow-white fur.
The star resembles a dog, but with one large, bright blue eye in the center of its head. On the back, there was a pair of small white wings that would not even be able to produce wind when flapped. The body of the beast continuously let out a chill from within its body thus making the surroundings become frozen.
When he stepped up, the ground he was on would instantly turn into ice, thus creating an ice path behind him. Weng Lou's eyes displayed the shock of the data seeing this beast, and he couldn't help but click his tongue as he nodded in annoyance.
"How can there be a Pi Xiu here?!" Weng Lou thoughtlessly stared at the beast he called Pi Xiu.
Pi Xiu was a mutation of the Winged Lion that had absorbed Yin energy and made him possess the power of the Eternal Ice element. But this made him lose the ability to fly and the large body he had.
If ordinary people saw it, they would think this white beast was something cute, but the reality was the opposite. This beast was nothing more than a mass-destroying monster that would rampage and destroy anything in the surrounding environment. Yin energy in his body, making him possess a dingib and cruel nature, this was the reason why he would go berserk when he saw something before him.
"Damn, it looks like this is his territory. There is not a single bamboo tree around! It seems like this little monster is the main culprit!"
Just when Weng Lou was planning to leave the place immediately, he, Pi Xiu before Weng Lou had now opened his mouth wide and pale blue-colored energy particles gathered in front of his mouth and formed an ice spear of much larger size than before.
!!!!
A danger sign rang from Weng Lou's body. He quickly dropped his body to the ground, and a split second later, the spear shot right past behind his back. Weng Lou could feel a cold sensation as the ice spear moved past him.
*Hush-SPRASSH!!*
The huge spear hit the ground and instantly shattered into pieces into ice powder. Weng Lou's eyes widened to see the small grains of ice scattered in the air and fell on the ground. Without waiting at all, he immediately kicked the ground and darted away from the location where the ice powder was scattered.
*Tss.....Ohhhh!!!* With the speed of lightning, the ground within a ten-meter radius instantly turned into ice after all those ice grains landed on the ground.
*Glekk....*
Weng Lou gulped his saliva watching that. He knew how cold the Eternal Ice was. Even with his current body he would feel a chill reaching his bones if hit by an attack from the Eternal Ice.
"I've never even tried to fend off an attack from Sister Ning, let alone try to fend off this attack of Pi Xiu?! There I will instead turn into an ice sculpture in the blink of an eye!"