'What the hell! When will they stop and how are there even so many of them together?' Shirong thought as he looked below at the Hard Eared Limber Mice.

The Hard Eared Limber Mice were chattering amongst themselves and sniffing the ground. They finally liked up when Shirong did a quick scan of the area using his spirit sense.

"This is gonna be one big extermination…" Shirong muttered as he gripped the Immortal Crystal armament tightly and looked on at the increasing numbers of the Hard Eared Limber Mice.

They finally stopped coming out then their number had exceeded by 100,000. Shirong couldn't tell the exact count but Lin Wu could very well do it.

~DING~

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SPIRIT BEAST COUNT: 101,278 beasts of which; 1 is Late stage Core condensation realm beast, 2 Early stage Core condensation realm beasts, 8922 are peak stage qi refining realm beasts, 23145 are late stage qi refining realm beasts, 33699 are mid stage qi refining realm beasts and 35509 Early stage qi refining realm beasts.

——

Just the sheer amount of beasts that were currently appearing out of the ground was enough to level an entire city. Perhaps the Deer Wood city would be eradicated in less than ten minutes if such a large number of beasts were to show up there.

Even if a majority of them were just at the qi refining realm, they were enough to kill most Peak stage core condensation realm beasts with ease. Just a single attack from all of them combined would be enough to pulverize a beast to minced meat.

"Don't tell me all these Hard Eared Limber Mice came here because of the change in territories? Do they want to claim a new territory for themselves too?" Lin Wu wondered.

He kept on looking at the Hard Eared Limber Mice and so did Shirong, who at this moment was ready to just escape. It was now that Lin Wu realized he couldn't hear the Hard Eared Limber Mice talk.

'Wait, why isn't the system's translation not working?' Lin Wu wondered.

~Screech~Screech~Screech~Screech~Screech~

All he could hear was a cacophony of screeching and chittering.

"System, what's the problem here, why are the Hard Eared Limber Mice not meaning anything?" Lin Wu questioned.

~Ding~

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ANSWER: The Hard Eared Limber Mice are not speaking anything, thus the host cannot understand its meaning. They are merely creating animistic cries and noises on instinct. Further analysis of the Hard Eared Limber Mice shows that they are in a frenzied state and are not fully conscious.

Besides a majority of them are qi refining realm beasts and thus cannot speak coherently, anyway.

——

Lin Wu read the system's answer and found it to be rather suspicious. He understood if the Qi refining realm beasts were unable to speak, but even the core condensation realm beasts were not saying anything.

"System filter out the Core condensation realm Hard Eared Limber Mice on the map." Lin Wu ordered.

~ding~

The map window flickered before the number of red markers decreased swiftly and only three of them were left. All three of them were clustered together and were located in the central area of the herd.

"System, focus and see if they are speaking or not." Lin Wu said.

~Ding~

——

AUDITORY FILTER ACTIVATED: Targeting Core condensation realm Hard Eared Limber Mice.

——

~Screech~

Even after doing that, all Lin Wu could hear was the sound of screeching.

"Dammit! Seems like even they are in a frenzied state…" Lin Wu cursed upon seeing no response.

He had thought that he would be able to hear what the Core condensation realm Hard Eared Limber Mice were talking about and then plan from there. But now that attempt failed before he even started.

'Should I escape or no?' Lin Wu wondered.

There were a few possibilities that could happen from here on. Either he would be able to kill a large amount of them or would get killed along with Shirong.

~Meep~

Suddenly a small group from the Hard Eared Limber Mice herd seemed to have noticed Shirong, who was flying above them and decided to attack. Shirong had thought that there wasn't much they would be able to do to him at a place this far up, but he was proven wrong.

The Hard Eared Limber Mice that had attacked him were at the back thus he had not seen them, also with there being such a large number of them, his sensing with the spirit sense had also gone a bit haywire. There was only so much that it could handle at once, and these were simply too many beasts for him to accurately read.

The Hard Eared Limber Mice attacked in a rather different way than before. They were extremely cooperative with each other and jumped off each other's backs to climb on top of tree branches and then jump from there to attack Shirong.

~Shua~

~Cut~

~Splatter~

Shirong of course responded to the attempted attack. Even if he had been unable to detect it at the moment it happened, his instincts were still sharp enough to respond to them. He immediately swung the Immortal Crystal Armament in its spear form and slashed the Hard Eared Limber Mice apart.

Their blood and guts spilled back onto the ground and covered some of the other Hard Eared Limber Mice that were below them.

~Screech~

The fresh scent of blood from their companions seemed to have incited the Hard Eared Limber Mice even further, and their noise only increased more. This time Lin Wu could feel a unified wave of spirit qi spreading from them.

It was as if the entire heard was acting as one and their spirit qi signatures were combined as well. Still, when Lin Wu tried to focus deeper on it, he realized that the spirit qi wave would resonate three times before actually combining into one.

It would first start from one of the two early stage core condensation realm Hard Eared Limber Mice kings and then to the other one before spreading to the entire herd. Then from there, it would resonate with the late stage core condensation realm: Hard Eared Limber Mice king one last time and then be released again.