abnabooks Chapter 299 Hunting Phantom Beasts
Chapter 299 Hunting Phantom Beasts
Chapter 299 Hunting Phantom Beasts
Gao Yaqing nodded slightly, her icy expression instantly softening.
After Gao Yaqing joined, Huang Yuande tried to find someone to join the team again, but no matter what he did, he couldn't find anyone else to join.
Soon, everyone had formed five-person teams, with only Chen Lie, Chen Huafeng, Huang Yuande, and Gao Yaqing missing one person.
Seeing that the students had all formed teams, Mu Ningshu said, "Everyone has formed teams, so let's get moving! Remember, if you find a white phantom beast that is less than ten meters long, don't act immediately. Send the coordinates to the other students right away, and the nearby teams will arrive shortly."
At that moment, a girl raised her hand and said, "Class monitor, can we form a group of six?"
Mu Ningshu looked at the girl who had spoken and said, "There are 150 of us in total. If you divide us into groups of six, won't one group have fewer than five people?"
"Um—I'm not very familiar with that group of four, we don't get along."
"Is group action something you can't do with people you know or get along with?" Mu Ningshu questioned.
Faced with Mu Ningshu's questioning, the girl simply lowered her head and remained silent.
Which teams are understaffed?
Mu Ningshu glanced around at the many teams present.
Gao Yaqing immediately stepped forward and replied, "Our group is one person short, but four people is fine."
Seeing Gao Yaqing with Chen Lie, Huang Yuande, and the others, Mu Ningshu was a little surprised but didn't pay them any attention. She nodded and said, "Then let's all set off!"
After Mu Ningshu answered, the 30 teams went to their respective locations.
Before long, many teams scattered in different directions.
Apart from Chen Huafeng, Huang Yuande and Gao Yaqing both looked at Chen Lie.
Huang Yuande asked directly, "Chen Lie, what do we do?"
"Of course, we're setting off to find the mythical beasts!" Chen Lie said directly.
After all, it was a class activity. Although Chen Lie didn't think he would stay in the class for long, he had still taken up a spot from Hunan and Guangdong provinces, so it was only right that he contribute to the class.
"Then which way should we go?" Huang Yuande asked.
Chen Lie said, "The camp should be far away; there should be more magical beasts there."
Chen Huafeng, who was standing to the side, said, "Far away from the camp? Although magical beasts generally do not attack people on their own, there are definitely more magical beasts in the distance from the camp than here."
Didn't that second-year student named Li Ming just say that even the weakest phantom beast is no weaker than a Refining Stage cultivator? What if a phantom beast goes berserk and suddenly attacks us? Wouldn't we be wasting a chance to enter the Sumeru Illusionary Realm?
Gao Yaqing said calmly, "I think Chen Lie is right. The only place to find traces of magical beasts is far from the camp. If you, Chen Huafeng, are afraid, you can wait here!"
"No, Gao Yaqing, haven't you always been at odds with me and Lao Huang?"
Why did you insist on joining our group this time? Are you trying to sabotage us?
"Huang Yuande and I don't think we've offended anyone, have we?" Chen Huafeng said.
Gao Yaqing sneered and said, "My joining your group has absolutely nothing to do with the two of you."
"Then what are you doing this for?"
"Because of classmate Chen Lie."
"Chen Lie?"
Chen Huafeng was taken aback and looked at Chen Lie with some surprise.
After Gao Yaqing finished speaking, she walked to Chen Lie's side with small steps and said softly, "Chen Lie, I was impolite before. I apologize to you here and hope you won't hold it against me."
Chen Lie waved his hand and said expressionlessly, "It's nothing, just a verbal argument. There's no real grudge between us, and I don't hold it against you."
Gao Yaqing's eyes lit up, and she smiled and said, "Thank you for your generosity, Chen Lie. We will follow your command in this operation."
"It's just about finding the mythical beasts, there's nothing to command, just search together," Chen Lie said.
"Okay! Let's go then!"
Gao Yaqing nodded, feeling a sense of relief.
She was actually uneasy about making an enemy of such a genius. She knew that Chen Lie's position in the 15th key class was only temporary, and he would probably be promoted to the genius class or even the super genius class soon. His future was limitless. Now that things were out in the open, her admiration for him deepened even more.
The four of them walked straight ahead.
Chen Huafeng, who was following behind, was completely baffled.
"Is Gao Yaqing possessed? Back in the genius training camp, she was so arrogant and domineering. I've never seen her so docile before. Why is she bowing her head and apologizing today?"
"What do you know?!"
Huang Yuande glanced at Chen Huafeng, then jogged over to catch up.
Chen Lie and his group advanced about four kilometers outside the camp and finally saw a white phantom beast floating in the low sky, resembling a long whale head and snake tail.
Upon seeing the white phantom beast, Gao Yaqing quickly said, "That's the phantom beast. I've seen it in the Sumeru Illusionary Realm Catalogue."
The white phantom beast is the lowest-level phantom beast in the Sumeru Illusionary Realm, capable of floating at a low altitude of less than ten meters. However, judging from this phantom beast's appearance, its length seems to be close to fifteen meters, definitely not less than ten meters. We'd better not provoke it.
Although Chen Lie had entered the Sumeru Illusionary Realm in his previous life, he did so very few times. When he was a steward at the Martial Arts Training Academy in Tai'a Star Province, he was always alone and solitary. Therefore, he did not know much about the mythical beasts, which were unique creatures in the Sumeru Illusionary Realm. He nodded in agreement with Gao Yaqing's words.
As expected, the mythical beast with a whale's head and a snake's tail did not attack anyone; instead, it simply swam away.
Since there were already mythical beasts appearing in this place, Chen Lie did not advance any further, but instead searched the surrounding area.
Suddenly, Huang Yuande shouted, "Everyone come quick! A white phantom beast, no more than ten meters long, is floating over here!"
Upon hearing Huang Yuande's voice, Chen Lie immediately turned around and saw a white mythical beast with a head resembling a sea lion and a lower body resembling a fish tail, slowly swimming about seven or eight meters above the ground.
At this moment, Gao Yaqing and Chen Huafeng also arrived.
"We've spotted a phantom beast? I'll send the coordinates to the classmates through the Sumeru Illusionary Realm and have the rest of you head here," Chen Huafeng said.
"No need, they can't help. Let's handle it ourselves!"
Chen Lie simply waved his hand.
"Solve it yourself?"
Chen Huafeng was puzzled; how could they possibly have the ability to solve this on their own?
"Then we—"
"You three hold my line and make sure the phantom beast doesn't escape. I'm going to test its quality!"
"good!"
Gao Yaqing nodded and joined Huang Yuande in blocking the back of the magical beast.
Seeing Chen Huafeng still standing there, completely bewildered, Gao Yaqing immediately said, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and stand at the back, ready to intercept the phantom beast!"
Although Chen Huafeng found it strange that Chen Lie had become a key player, he followed Gao Yaqing's advice and went to the rear.
Upon seeing this, Chen Lie immediately leaped up and instantly arrived in front of the phantom beast, striking it on the forehead with a palm.
With a loud "boom".
The attacked phantom beast roared angrily, its gentle appearance suddenly changing. Two sharp fangs grew from the corners of its mouth, followed by four limbs.
The mythical beast with a sea lion's head and a fish's tail instantly transformed into a monster with sharp claws and giant legs, roaring as it launched an attack on Chen Lie.
Chen Lie sliced through the air with both palms, his powerful blood and qi surging continuously. In an instant, a blood-red dragon more than ten meters long emerged from his palms and charged towards the phantom beast.
"roar!"
The phantom beast was knocked to the ground by the powerful force of its blood and qi, let out a roar, and then got up to attack Chen Lie again.
In a short time, Chen Lie had already fought the phantom beast for dozens of moves.
He roughly figured out that this phantom beast possessed a strength of over 24000 jin, roughly equivalent to someone who had cultivated two major organs during the Refinement stage, but it was indeed much stronger than other Refinement stage cultivators of the same level.
Chen Huafeng, who was in charge of keeping watch, was shocked.
How could Chen Lie, from a province in central Sichuan, possess such strong martial arts skills?
To fight a phantom beast alone, you'd need at least the Refining Stage, right?
With his superb fighting skills, Chen Lie fought the phantom beast for over a hundred moves before seizing the opportunity and unleashing a punch.
With a loud "boom," one of the phantom beast's claws was broken off.
The phantom beast was struck hard, and its originally ferocious appearance changed, once again becoming a harmless creature with a sea lion's head and a fish's tail.
The phantom beast seemed to sense Chen Lie's danger, and after emitting a strange hissing sound, it instantly turned and left.
The direction the phantom beast fled was directly north of Huang Yuande's position. The phantom beast was much faster than Huang Yuande. It suddenly turned around and fled, and Huang Yuande was caught off guard and was directly overtaken by the phantom beast.
"Wow, how come this thing is so fast?"
Huang Yuande was startled and tried to chase after it again, but found that the magical beast was already more than ten meters away.
"Huang Yuande, you're such a terrible teammate!"
Upon seeing this, Gao Yaqing angrily accused, "The phantom beast was about to be captured, and you actually let it escape. You were asked to hold the line, are you just for show? You can't even hold off the phantom beast for two or three seconds?"
Didn't you see how much effort Chen Lie's battle pet put in?
"this----"
Huang Yuande scratched the back of his head, somewhat embarrassed, and said, "It is indeed my fault, but the magical beast was too fast, and I really didn't have time to react."
Chen Lie arrived, waved his hand, and said, "Forget it, failing the first time is normal. We'll just find another phantom beast to hunt!"
"Um—I'll definitely be more careful next time!" Huang Yuande said.
"Let's hope so!"
Gao Yaqing snorted coldly.
The fleeing phantom beast didn't go far. It turned back a few hundred meters away from Chen Lie and the others, hissing as if mocking them.
"Is this thing really that intelligent?" Huang Yuande asked in surprise upon seeing this.
After the phantom beast finished mocking and was about to leave, a person suddenly appeared beside it.
The man struck out with his palm, and a blade of true energy appeared, instantly slicing the phantom beast in two.
The phantom beast suffered a fatal injury and vanished instantly, leaving behind a crystal core the size of an egg that fell to the ground.
"Yay! I managed to snag a lucky kill! I killed a phantom beast so easily!"
The person who killed the beast picked up the crystal core, speaking with obvious joy.
At this moment, a woman with long hair reaching her waist walked over from a distance: "Mengmeng, this phantom beast was already seriously injured, which is why you were able to kill it so easily."
I think you should return the crystal core to them; it's not good to take advantage of them like this.
"No way. They were incompetent enough to let the phantom beast escape. Now that I've killed it, it's naturally my reward."
The woman with waist-length hair shook her head.
On the other side, Gao Yaqing saw the method used by the person who had just killed the phantom beast and whispered, "It seems to be two senior female students from Blue Star University."
I told her to use her true energy to kill the phantom beast. A first-year student at the Qi and Blood stage can't use true energy.
"Oh, it's you, senior!"
Huang Yuande looked over and indeed saw two girls: one with waist-length hair and the other with a petite figure.
"That long-haired senior looks familiar; I feel like I've seen her somewhere before."
At this moment, two girls walked towards Chen Lie.
The petite girl looked at Chen Lie and the others with an unfriendly tone and said, "Hey, I saw it just now. It was indeed you who seriously injured the phantom beast, which is why I was able to kill it so easily."
"But you yourselves are incompetent, and the phantom beast escaped. Now that I have the phantom beast's core, don't even think about getting it back!"
As soon as the petite girl finished speaking, the girl with waist-length hair spoke up in surprise.
"Chen Lie? It's you—"
Chen Lie nodded to the girl with waist-length hair. This girl was the same one he had met at the restaurant a few days ago, Ruan Liuyun, Ruan Liusu's cousin.
"It's me, hello!" Chen Lie said directly.
Ruan Liuyun smiled slightly and said, "I didn't expect you to be hunting phantom beasts in the wilderness of the Sumeru Illusionary Realm so early. Are you preparing for Starry Sky University in the future?"
"It was a collective action of the class."
"A class-wide activity? Do classes of super-geniuses even have activities like this?"
Ruan Liuyun found it a little strange, but she didn't ask further. Instead, she said, "This is my classmate, named Zhao Mengmeng. She came with me today to hunt phantom beasts."
After the introductions, Ruan Liuyun said to Zhao Mengmeng, "Mengmeng, this is Chen Lie, who is temporarily—my cousin's friend. Please return the pet crystal core to him."
Zhao Mengmeng pursed her lips and said, "My cousin's friend? What kind of complicated relationship is that? You can tell from that you're not even acquaintances."
"I'm so broke this month I'm practically eating dirt. Liu Yun, you wouldn't let me starve and freeze at Blue Star University this whole month because of this completely unrelated relationship, would you?"
Ruan Liuyun coughed twice and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Chen Lie and I are not unrelated. Give the phantom beast core back to Chen Lie, and next time we hunt phantom beasts together, the core is yours, okay?"
"Really? You can't back out now!"
"No regrets!"
Zhao Mengmeng nodded and, with her small, white hand, gave Chen Lie a magical beast core the size of an egg.
"for you!"
Chen Lie didn't stand on ceremony and took the crystal core directly from Zhao Mengmeng's phone, saying, "Thank you."
"Don't thank me, I don't need your thanks. If you want to thank someone, thank this Lady Ruan. She's very generous and righteous." Zhao Mengmeng waved her hands repeatedly.
"We're all family, no need to be so polite!"
Ruan Liuyun said very generously.
According to the news her grandfather brought from Sichuan, her younger cousin's marriage went very smoothly. So, Chen Lie is now her brother-in-law, and a brother-in-law is naturally family.
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