Cultivation Pet Shop

All the people on guard suddenly turned in the direction that the roar came from to see a giant tiger charging out of the forest at them.

They were all experts from the four great families that had been specially chosen to come into this Ancient Era Ruins, so none of them were weak. They all immediately reacted by pulling out their weapons to face the tiger even though they could feel its aura.

A Child Soul Realm beast!

They didn't know why this Child Soul Realm tiger would suddenly attack them, but that didn't mean that they were just going to back down from it.

However, they weren't fools either, thinking that they could take this Child Soul Realm tiger on alone. So one of the guards suddenly turned around to run to the camp to get backup while the other three protected his escape.

As this person ran off, the other three watched the tiger in front of them with strange looks since they couldn't understand what this tiger was doing.

This tiger was just pawing around them, as if it was being wary of them which didn't make sense at all.

After all, this tiger was in the Child Soul Realm while the three of them were all in the Embryo Soul Realm. They were only in the High Embryo Soul Realm, not even the Peak Embryo Soul Realm, so they wouldn't have been able to last under the claws of this Child Soul Realm tiger for long.

So the fact that it seemed wary made the three of them feel very strange.

Of course, none of the three of them abandoned their posts as they cautiously watched the tiger walking around in circles.

If they just withdrew and allowed the tiger to reach the camp, there was no doubt that they would receive strict punishments after returning to the family. At the very least, if the three of them worked together, they could stall long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

However, in the end, the tiger never made a single move.

Two minutes passed as the tiger just circled around and then the experts from the camp arrived.

When the experts saw the Child Soul Realm tiger standing there, they didn't feel any fear, rather they felt a bit of excitement.

After all, there were more than four different Child Soul Realm Experts among the experts of the four great families. Even if a beast was stronger than a normal human expert, they far outnumbered the tiger.

The materials from a Child Soul Realm beast weren't cheap and now that there was one offering itself to them, how could they refuse?

So getting into formation, the four Child Soul Realm Experts led the rest of the Embryo Soul Realm Experts to start surrounding the Child Soul Realm tiger. Of course, the Child Soul Realm tiger wouldn't just let itself be surrounded by these people that easily.

As soon as it saw that more humans had shown up, it started to turn and run away.

The experts from the four great families had already had their greed ignited, so they wouldn't let it get away that easily.

The four Child Soul Realm Experts left the Embryo Soul Realm Experts behind as they charged forward to stop the Child Soul Realm tiger from running away.

Since they knew that they outnumbered this Child Soul Realm tiger, they didn't worry about holding back their life energy as they started moving faster and faster. All they cared about now was catching up to it before it could run away.

But before they could catch up to the Child Soul Realm tiger, there was a roar that came from the forest in front of them.

All of them were caught off guard by this roar and before they could react, there were several beasts that jumped out of the forest in front of them. Even the tiger suddenly turned around and attacked them.

The experts of the four great families might have been caught off guard by the sudden appearance of these beasts, but they were still experts in the end. They immediately raised their guard, but it was just too bad that they were outnumbered.

There were more than double their number in beasts and they were shocked to find that every single beast was in the Child Soul Realm.

All four of these human experts were sent flying back into the Embryo Soul Realm Experts that had been running over, knocking the Embryo Soul Realm Experts to the ground.

The few experts that were still standing looked at the beasts that had suddenly appeared with looks of pure shock.

"What is going on here? Why are there so many beasts that suddenly appeared?"

"Why are they all in the Child Soul Realm? Don't these beasts not work with each other? Why are they suddenly fighting in a pack?"

"Does any of that matter? Run!"

After the last person spoke, all of the experts from the four great families jolted back to their senses and immediately turned to run. They all started turning in different directions since they knew that spreading out would give them the best chance of escaping, or rather it would give some of them the best chance of escaping.

As for the ones that were targeted by the beasts, they could only offer their condolences for them.

Unfortunately for them, the beasts didn't give them that chance.

While they had been in a daze from being ambushed by these beasts, the beasts hadn't stopped moving as they spread out in a circle around the experts of the four great families.

These human experts weren't fools, they knew that they would be trapped as long as the beasts were able to fully circle around them, so they immediately started looking for any way of escape.

To their surprise, they found that the area around them was still open and not guarded by a beast. However, that didn't seem like it would be the case for long as the beasts to the sides were still moving to circle around them.

These experts from the four great families immediately seized their chance when they saw this.

The four Child Soul Realm Experts quickly recovered and they immediately turned as one of them shouted, "Run to the back! Run as fast as you can before we're completely surrounded!"

They didn't understand how the situation had developed to this extent, but they understood that the most important thing for them to do now was to escape this predicament.

Once they were safe, they would be able to figure out their next moves.

All of the experts of the four great families ran together as one, forming a wedge formation as they charged at the one hole in the line of the beasts.

They knew that the beasts wouldn't let them escape this easily, so they had formed a wedge formation to concentrate all their power into a single point. That way, even if the beasts tried to stop them, they would still be able to break through.

After all, the only beasts that could reach them to stop them would be the two beasts that were on the side at the very edge of the beasts' formation.

But strangely enough, the beasts didn't rush forward to stop them. Instead, the beasts let them run straight forward.

However, that didn't mean that the beasts allowed them to escape.

The beast formation started moving at the same pace as them, allowing them to continue forward, but they still weren't able to lose the beasts around them. They continuously charged at the one open space in the line of beasts, but they were never able to break free.

The experts of the four great families didn't lose hope at seeing this since they knew that as long as they kept moving, they would be able to avoid being attacked by the beasts.

The beasts were focused on moving at the same speed as them, so they weren't able to do anything else. Even if they were to attack them, they would be able to easily dodge these attacks of the beasts and escape their formation.

So this had suddenly turned into a battle of stamina.

As they were running along, the four human Child Soul Realm Experts couldn't help thinking about something.

When they had chased down the Child Soul Realm tiger, they clearly hadn't been able to sense anything around them.

So just where had all these Child Soul Realm beasts appeared from?

Even if they had been taken by their greed, they hadn't lost all rationality while chasing the Child Soul Realm tiger. They had been releasing their spiritual senses the entire time to see if there was anything else hiding in the woods.

But they hadn't sensed anything at all.

Then as they looked at the formation of the Child Soul Realm beasts, they almost couldn't help feeling that it was almost like they were being led somewhere by these beasts.

After all, the beasts should have seen that there was no use chasing them, but they still kept pace with them.

Even if they were intelligent beasts because they had broken through to the Soul Realm, beasts still didn't work that well together since most of them only cared about protecting their own territory.

These beasts were different, instead of staying in their territory, they had come out to chase after them.

Could it be that there was someone behind these beasts?

After all, their behaviour was just too strange.

As they were lost in their thoughts, someone from the group suddenly called out, "Look, there's a cave in front of us!"