《Beast Cultivating System》Chapter 31 - Narrow Escape
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It has been two weeks since Dana has been travelling within the Xinghai Continent, Dana hasn't really been in a rush towards the Elemental Sect disciple selection, as within her Frost Wyvern form she can move at rapid speeds, far faster than any cultivator at her cultivation level.
One reason Dana enjoyed adventuring in her last life was to watch the scenery and famous sights of different countries.
The landscape of the Xinghai continent was beautiful, admiring the wonderful land full of life relaxed Dana greatly.
It feels very peaceful soaring through the sky in this atmosphere; it caused Dana to unknowingly decrease her speed taking the time to take in the unfamiliar territory.
Dana has already passed a few towns, and she got to say compared to the Azure Continent, there was already an unparalleled difference; cultivation.
In the Azure Continent, there were many mortals, in fact, the mortals outnumber the cultivators by a fair amount in the Azure Continent.
But since coming here everyone she has seen was a cultivator, accept some of the younger children.
Usually, in a common family, an individual will start cultivation at eight years old.
For privileged families and sects, they start below this age because of their upbringing with priceless cultivation resources and the assistance of a stronger cultivation method.
Children of cultivation families usually have a better altitude as both their parents are cultivators, thus naturally giving them stronger talent than mortal families.
From Dana's experience, everyone she comes across was at least within the Body Refining Realm, including the women.
This shows everyone generally practices cultivation within this continent, an additional thing is a Qi Circulation experts are too common!
In the Azure Continent, a Qi Circulation cultivator are considered to be top experts!
They are second only to Houtian Ranked Cultivators which are viewed as gods within the Azure Continent.
A Qi Circulation Cultivator could even be an elder within the top Academy within Azure Continent, Skyclad Academy!
But, here Qi Circulation Cultivators are just average cultivators.
She came across many mercenaries being within the Qi Circulation Rank, some even reaching Peak of Qi Circulation, nearly becoming Houtian Ranked Cultivators.
Compared to the Azure Continent the difference is huge!
Seeing the power of the continent for herself, made it dawn upon Dana that even with hearing the explanations of how strong a Tier 3 power is from Oldman Zhao, seeing it in person brings much more of an effect on Dana.
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However, upon the second week, Dana's peaceful trip ends as she comes across as Ninth-Ranked Houtian Spirit Beast!
Seeing such a beast made Dana wary, beasts such as this would be compared rare within the Azure Continent, but within Xinghai Continent it is just considered a strong beast, something which could be killed easily by even the elders of the sects or even some core disciples.
Still, for Dana the beast didn't require too much effort, as she is at Eighth Rank Houtian Cultivation, it didn't require much effort to take down such a beast with only a common bloodline in possession.
Converting the bloodline for a quick 100 soul points, besides the 100 soul points she gained from killing the beast, made Dana already receive 200 soul points altogether!
Its value was much lower than the Earth Wyrm's, because the difference between an uncommon and common bloodline is huge, not to mention that they are one of the strongest among uncommon bloodlines as they have dragon heritage, thus the soul points were nowhere near as much as the Earth Wyrms.
But, this wasn't what caused trouble for Dana, the main predicament was that she caught the smell of some humans... and somebody was powerful among them, their cultivation by far the highest Dana had witnessed since coming to this world.
"Hey, where did that beast go Elder Wi?" A male voice sounded.
"Hmm. It went this way... something stronger startled the beast, it seems this beast may be fairly troublesome..." A croaky voiced sounded.
Soon enough without Dana having enough time to not be seen, a group of humans came upon her seeing Dana's appearance, a hulking Frost Wyvern containing a beasts core within her 'hands' alongside the former dead beast they were tracking not too far from her position with its entrails dug out.
Seeing such a scene, the girls instantly screamed and the male disciples acting 'heroically' with the presence of such a powerful shield as Elder Wi, stood in front of them as if they were protecting them from the monstrous beast before them.
Instead, they were quaking in fear as if they were alone in front of this beast would they dare confront it? But, with Elder Wi cultivation he should have no problem dealing with it, and they can get a favourable impression from the females.
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Appraising the appearance of the beast, Elder Wi knew it was an infant Frost Wyvern, making him become extremely excited.
As rare bloodline beasts are still rare within this continent but are still easily recognised, the Elder Wi can easily recognise Dana within her beast form, but the truly incredible thing is that no one has enslaved a rare bloodline beast, as they are either an adult which are too powerful to be enslaved or are heavily protected by their parents making it impossible to do such a thing, with such a massive prize in front of Elder Wi why wouldn't he be overjoyed?
Seeing such greed filled gaze from Elder Wi, only one thought emerged in Dana's mind 'Run!', she is proud as a Frost Wyvern, but with such an extreme difference in cultivation why would she allow herself to be enslaved.
Pushing from the ground, she flees away astonishingly quickly.
Upon seeing such a scene a hawk-like gaze comes from Elder Wi, the students knew that the beast before them must be something big!
"Return to the academy and tell the elders of this news, I'm sure they will forgive me for leaving such a group of students for a prize such as this!" Ordered Elder Wi, dashing after the beast. He decided not to follow it flying which every Xiantian cultivator is capable of as it will rapidly drain his Qi and at the same time allow the beast to gain the advantage as it is a flying type beast!
He can never fly faster than the beast, but does that mean he cannot track it on the ground?
With his cultivation being a realm higher, 9 Rank of Xiantian Rank he is fully confident in being able to wear down the beast until it's exhausted and then come in for the prize!
As each of the students have relatively powerful cultivations and could take out with using some effort the beast which Dana just killed, Elder Wi was fully confident that they can easily return to the Sect without mishaps, if they don't intentionally cause their downfall!
Seeing the serious within Elder Wi's face they nodded and left, they will report the information to the sect as soon as possible!
As more and more days past, Dana was getting tired, under the constant chase of Elder Wi, she had never relaxed and used all her efforts to fly away, unfortunately, the difference in cultivation was too vast, and even with the advantage with flying, Elder Wi still maintained within distance compared to her.
Dana wasn't too far from the Elemental Sect competition so she decided to trick Elder Wi, as he would never expect her to have a human form, Dana quietly flew down to a cave.
As Dana knew it would take more than an hour for Elder Wi to catch up, she changed to human form, Elder Wi was using some technique to keep locating her and wherever she went he still followed, with this having constantly it made her grow exhausted with the expenditure of Qi.
I've been on this continent for a mere few weeks and I'm already in this much trouble?
Sneaking outside the cave Dana left as she wasn't too far from the recruitment of Elemental Sect she headed in that direction.
An hour later Elder Wi arrived at the cave, finding he seemed to lose track of the beast, a puzzled expression emerged on his face.
"Why have its aura completely disappeared?" Elder Wi was using a rare treasure to track the beast, it was something which used an individuals 'aura' to track it.
As Elder Wi managed to record Dana's 'aura' as a Frost Wyvern she couldn't lose him no matter how much she tried, in fact, she was fairly fortunate as if it was a Core Formation Elder instead of a Xiantian elder than she would likely have been captured easily!
As Dana's aura is majorly different in human form, she unknowingly managed to escape the device's detection.
Finding an unfamiliar aura here.
"Mmm. A new aura? It seems human... but oddly familiar" Elder Wi thought.
Thinking that this is his only lead, Elder Wi will follow it and 'interrogate' whoever it is where is the location of that beast!
He informed the sect, so even if he failed here, there will be a mass hunt for a beast.
An infant rare bloodline beast is just too incredible to pass up...
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