Cultivation Pet Shop

There was a group of three people from the Hunters Organization that were moving through the forest.

They had been collecting various herbs and killing beasts for materials.

Everything had been going smoothly since the morning, but Murong Yue couldn't help feeling that something was off.

Over the past few days, they had been preparing to fight the Thunder Sect, True Spirit Sect, and the Assassins Association, but today, Lin Fan suddenly allowed her to lead a group to look for herbs and beast materials.

It was clear that he was using them as bait for the enemies, but it almost felt like he was rushing things which made her a bit worried.

After all, there really wasn't a need for them to use bait since the enemies would eventually make their move. With the traps that they had set, it wouldn't be a problem for them to wait for the enemies to make a move before attacking them.

However, Lin Fan chose to send them out as bait for the enemies still.

Actually, she was right that Lin Fan was trying to rush this, but it was for a different reason from what she thought it was.

Lin Fan wasn't rushing this because he was not confident in his own plan, but rather because he wanted to save as many of the other people as possible.

If the enemies were to make a move, they would naturally start from whoever was closest to them, which was actually the Alchemist King Hall group.

Even if Lin Fan had chosen to abandon them, he couldn't just completely abandon them since they were still important for his quest. If he was able to save them, he would at least attempt to save them.

Which was why he had sent Murong Yue out.

As for the other two members of Murong Yue's group, they were her loyal subordinates, so they didn't question anything as they followed her.

After half a day of collecting herbs and hunting beasts, they still didn't encounter anyone at all.

However, when Murong Yue and her two subordinates let their guard down the slightest bit, they realized that they had made a mistake.

As soon as they took a moment to relax and take a break, there were several attacks that suddenly rained down on them.

They weren't able to make it in time to block these attacks and they were preparing to take it with their bodies, but the pain never came. In fact, they couldn't even feel the life energy waves that should have come from the hits that they received.

When they looked up, they found that there was a barrier that had formed in front of them.

None of them understood why this barrier had formed, but they knew that if it hadn't formed, it would have been bad for them. So they knew that whoever made this barrier was clearly on their side.

Actually, it wasn't that hard to guess who made this barrier if they thought about it carefully.

However, there wasn't time for any of that as there were several cloaked figures that had appeared in the trees around them. They stood above and looked down at them, waiting for the smoke from their attacks to clear.

After the smoke cleared and they saw that Murong Yue's group was unharmed, one of them who was clearly the leader said, "Finish them. Make sure that you don't harm the one with the red hair, the rest you can kill."

As soon as his voice fell, the other figures jumped out of the trees and pulled out their weapons, falling down towards Murong Yue's group.

Murong Yue's group immediately pulled out their weapons to meet them, but before the two sides could clash, there were attacks that suddenly flew out from around them.

Both sides were surprised by these attacks since they clearly didn't expect them and definitely no one expected that the attacks would be aimed at the cloaked figures.

The cloaked figures all raised their weapons to block these attacks out of instinct, but as soon as they did, they realized their mistakes. The moment that they turned their attention to these attacks, they realized that the power of these attacks far exceeded what they had expected.

It was just too bad that they didn't have any time to dodge it either as the attacks were just too fast for them to follow.

So in the end, the attacks slammed right into them and knocked them out of the air. They were like kites that had their strings cut as they fell to the ground, creating several plumes of dust.

Then as the plumes of dust settled, their sorry appearances were revealed.

The cloaked figures were mainly in the Embryo Soul Realm, so when faced with these attacks that held the power of the Child Soul Realm, it was hard for them to resist. However, they were still able to block more than half of the power contained in these attacks because of their weapons.

All of them had Child Soul Realm Artifacts, which was what gave them the confidence to ambush Murong Yue who was in the Child Soul Realm.

Still, the attacks caused quite a bit of damage to these figures.

The leader who had still been in the tree watching over things suddenly turned in the direction that the attacks came from and released his spiritual senses. However, when he couldn't find the attackers, he knitted his brows and asked, "Who is it? Do you hold some grudge against us?"

He shouted this out in a threatening voice, but there was no answer that was given.

Instead, there were more attacks that suddenly appeared in the air, flying out at this leader.

The leader had his spiritual sense around him, so he had noticed these attacks as soon as he appeared, but he knitted his brows even deeper when he sensed these attacks. After all, these were ten different attacks in the Child Soul Realm.

Not to mention that each of these attacks contained a different law, which meant that they came from different experts since it was incredibly rare for someone to have more than a single law.

Ten different Child Soul Realm Experts, what kind of a concept was that?

It had to be known that there were only around twenty Child Soul Realm Experts that entered in the first place and that was spread out across the twelve great factions. For ten of them to attack at the same time, that would mean that there would be at least five different factions that were working together.

Five different factions working together just to help the Hunters Organization?

That would be crazy!

Not to mention that it would be very detrimental to their plan.

While they had been planning on taking care of all the other factions and taking what they had gained in the trials, their plan was to take care of them one by one while they still didn't know what was happening.

All of these thoughts passed through the leader's mind as the attacks approached him.

The final conclusion that he came to was that no matter what the situation was, the best thing he could do now was escape and report this matter to the lord.

This leader was someone from the Assassins Association, so what he specialized in was not power, but rather speed.

As the attacks approached him, this leader didn't panic at all as he calmly analyzed the path of each attack. Once he finished determining the paths, he immediately jumped off the branch that he was standing in and turned in the air before jumping off some kind of invisible platform in space.

This jump sent him at a trajectory that perfectly aligned him with a hole in the formation of attacks aimed at him.

However, right as he was about to pass through that hole, there was something that suddenly stopped him. It was almost as if there was an invisible barrier that appeared that immediately sent him flying back into the midst of the attacks that had been aimed at him.

The leader revealed a shocked look since he had recognized this barrier.

This was the array that the lord had given the other members of the Assassins Association to take care of Lin Fan.

While they had lost contact with the five of them, the lord had said that they wouldn't be able to take the array from them. So why did it appear around him now?

This thought however only appeared in the leader's mind for a second since he didn't have time to think that much about it. What was more important right now was finding a way out of the trap that he had found himself in.

Even after being bounced back into the midst of the attacks aimed for him, the leader didn't panic as he started bouncing around in the air using invisible platforms. This allowed him to keep moving and dodge the attacks that had been aimed at him, but he always dodged by the slightest margins and sometimes, he even had to let the attacks graze him.

There was no doubt that he hadn't escaped from those attacks unharmed, but his combat abilities weren't affected at least.

That was unless he was trapped here and wasn't able to escape to recover.

Without even thinking, the leader charged out again because he didn't believe that this barrier around him was the same barrier that the lord had given them before. He was certain that this was just a trick that the enemy was playing on him.

However, once again, he hit the barrier and was sent flying back into the center of the array.

Even when he attacked the array with his most powerful attack, there wasn't even a single ripple that appeared.

As he was sent back into the center again, there were faint balls of light that appeared around him.