The Endless Promise

35. Blue Rain

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The monsters were led by a giant Level Eight bear, which charged forward the instant it saw them.

Weiyan nodded and Xu Wen and Xu Lian activated a twin technique.

Xu Wen could control wood like his mother, but Xu Lian had inherited her father's boundary techniques.

Combined, the two could create a fortified wall, strong enough to hold a Level six, maybe a Level Seven, but they knew it wouldn't hold any level eights for long...

The twins created two walls, one between them and the beasts, and a longer one to keep the beasts from following Xu Lin's group, even if they broke through the first one.

The bear crashed into the first wall, shaking the terrain, and they all took involuntary steps back as the wall shuddered.

Their weapons hissed to life, and they stood at the ready.

Weiyan turned to Luoyin. "2nd Disciple Zhang, I let you stay because you're knowledgeable." And she intended to personally ensure his safety. "Do you have any ideas?"

'Hmph. I stayed because I can't let anything happen to you!' Luoyin thought. 'Yuan Jing!' He activated the farseeing technique, and it creeped beyond the wall, calculating the beasts' strengths.

"There are thirty-three beasts. Seven Level eights, Five Level Sevens, Sixteen Level Sixes, and five Level Fives..." The beasts were all troublesome types too, with several tigers, wolves, pandas, serpents, and a rhino.

There were too many!

He had used too much qi already, in hurrying back to the camp, and secretly killing that first snake which had nearly attacked Xu Min.

And he would not summon Yinying.

There were simply too many eyes present, and he didn't even know Yinying's current strength.

He turned his appraisal technique on Weiyan and the others... They were strong, but wouldn't be able to defeat a handful, so a regular fight would be pointless.

They needed a way to destroy several at once...

"I do have a plan." Luoyin finally said. "...but it will depend on you. I need you to buy me some time!"

Weiyan nodded.

The giant bear's assault on the wall sent tremors through the ground, and Xu Wen and Xu Lian held their hands in seals, attempting to reinforce the walls.

But with a terrible creak and groan, the wooden wall snapped, and the creatures burst through.

The bear rampaged in first, followed by a tiger and two wolves larger than big carriages.

"Scatter!" Weiyan ordered, and they all leapt several distances apart.

"Xu Lian! The serpent!" Weiyan ordered, and Xu Lian instantly turned her attention to a level seven serpent which was easily the fastest, and its slithering around would surely make things difficult.

Xu Lin cast hand seals as she moved, and several barriers erupted from the floor along the serpent's body, locking it in place.

"Everyone, evade as much as possible!" Weiyan called out, managing to block a deadly swipe from a tiger, and the leaping away.

Tao Yun was already hurling fireballs at the bear, evading its gigantic claws, and he occasionally shot dense flaming arrows at other approaching creatures, using his weapon, a large fiery bow.

Meanwhile, Xu Wen's vines shot about, locking onto the creatures, holding them down or at least slowing them down for as long as he could, while Weiyan went between he and Xu Lian's captured victims, dealing blows to them, for what it was worth.