Chapter 2853 — Spirit Beast Rampage
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Zhao Qilei, Feng Shihua, Li Ciba, and Ge Xian were frantic with worry. By rights, today was the day to prepare to leave the Five Fiends Wildlands—yet Wei Zhao had still not returned! True, there were still five days of the extension, but after so many days without word, the next five might bring none either!
"The leader still hasn't come back. What should we do?" Feng Shihua looked to Zhao Qilei. Of them all, only Zhao Qilei had been the first to follow Wei Zhao, and he understood Wei Zhao's character best. So at Feng Shihua's question, Li Ciba and Ge Xian also turned their eyes to Zhao Qilei.
"Let's wait two more days. If the leader still hasn't returned after two days, we'll travel together to the teleportation formation and leave this place first!" Zhao Qilei said after a moment's hesitation. He knew Wei Zhao's character well: if Wei Zhao had run into danger or trouble, then their continuing to wait here would only be a burden to him!
What was more, the Five Fiends Wildlands held the aura of the Five Fiends. Past fifteen days, that aura would invade a cultivator's body; once twenty days were reached, it exceeded what an ordinary cultivator could withstand. If they did not leave by then, the Five Fiends aura would put a person into a coma—or worse, cause them to lose control of their cultivation.
So waiting here was of no help at all. On the contrary, if they themselves were struck by the Five Fiends aura, Wei Zhao would have to find a way to rescue them. Better, then, to leave first.
"That... isn't that a bit much? Without the leader, our situation will be very dangerous—we might well end up buried in this place!" Li Ciba revered Wei Zhao above all; Wei Zhao had avenged his fellow disciples! If he had not taken Wei Zhao as leader, then Li Ciba meeting Zhang Naipao would have been a meeting of enemies. He was unlike the others—likely even if Zhang Naipao did not kill him, Zhang Naipao would never suffer him to stay in the safe zone.
"Ciba, you've mistaken my meaning. The leader's word is his bond. If we keep waiting here, the Five Fiends aura will inevitably invade our bodies, and then it will only be more trouble for the leader to save us! The leader's strength speaks for itself—what he cannot handle, we certainly cannot. And the leader told us to leave when the trial ended, which is today. We'll wait two more days; if the leader hasn't returned by then, we leave first," Zhao Qilei explained.
"That works too." Feng Shihua understood Zhao Qilei's meaning and nodded, then said to Li Ciba: "Brother Qitan is right. The leader's strength is great; there's nothing we can do to help here—we might only drag him down."
Li Ciba nodded as well. Though he did not want to leave, what Zhao Qilei and Feng Shihua said made good sense, and he knew that waiting here was useless—better to leave. But what worried him more was something else: "These past few days, the spirit beasts outside seem to have gone on a rampage. Before, so long as you kept your distance, spirit beasts would not take the initiative to attack cultivators, but now they chase cultivators down and attack. I fear that if we go out, we won't be a match for these spirit beasts, and one misstep could bury us here as well. Truly, we're caught between a rock and a hard place..."