“This is all my fault!” while she was probing the action from the throne but Theresa could catch the general situation from her position.

The horde mostly could not enter the barrier that she controlled. It was because she used the power from the fountain, a little of it to make her own barrier type. But Theresa also used her barrier at the top of the previous barrier, making it the double-layered barrier.

Then a door appeared from the floor near her throne before the door opened. From the door, there was someone with the entire place around her feet turned into green in color.

“Finally, I completed the task that both of you entrusted me with.” Surprisingly, the figure was Wu Qing and her face now showed that she was really tired.

“Oh, please rest for the time being.” While saying that, even Theresa lend a hand to her, showing much care and concern. To Theresa, the completion itself was remarkable but to do all of that in such a short period, only a few could really match that.

“I will rest for a while but how about the children? It’s dangerous outside if the barrier suddenly was gone.”

Wu Qing already suggested to let them have something like a warning signal to tell them that the barrier will be gone. And the purpose she left them at the front line was to let her agreement with Ye Xiaobai fulfilled.

‘Elder Sister, please let them have a little feeling of having their hands stained with blood for the first time.’

While she thought about him made such a request, Ye Xiaobai maybe had something in his mind.

“Be prepared. Once they start the process of removing the item, the barrier will slowly weaken. This will make those beasts outside the barrier, which are stronger than us, pour into this place.”

Even as Theresa had a weak power because of the restriction the world gave her but her descendants were after all stronger than her in this world.

“As for those children, I believe that they can hold on. Even my general sent there to help them so there is only us.”

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“Damn you! What right makes you defend that monster!?” the beasts charged straight at the knight. Its hind legs were large and long but the front legs were smaller, so small that anyone could ignore its existence.

“It’s my duty to defend this place.” The leader of Beeknight stood proudly, he had never given the opponent the chance to retaliate and kept stabbing with his lance.

The stabbing itself had its own understanding and profound movement but under the sight of the other person, it would like just another ordinary stab.

But sensing the strength of those two made Ye Yingyuan gasped in shock. He estimated that those to only at the late stage of Foundation Establishment but seeing the strength those two showed made him think about it.

But he also had his own battle of course.

“Cousin, remember what I told you when we walking to the forest?” seeing the astonishment from Ye Yingyuan’s face made Ye Xiaobai asked.

Of course, Ye Xiaobai helped them with his bows, shooting the arrows accurately and perfectly hit their target without fail.

“Oh, the power of bloodline or something like that? I see, so even my brother also have a similar condition.” Ye Yingyuan pondered about it and in just a short amount of time, he also understood.

‘No wonder Brother also have unexpected strength even before he starts cultivating the qi. But to think that the bloodline can supplement the power of someone...’

While he thought about the matter revolving around the bloodline, his hands moved without many intervals in every swing. And also at each swing, two or three blood fountain poured from those beasts that tried to get a taste of the boy.

Now his clothes were full of red stain while the sword had the taste of the beast's blood for the first time. But Ye Yingyuan’s eyes did not change a bit even after he killed more than a hundred.

“I'm not prepared for this yet.” And as for the little girl Li Ling, she was not used to such killing but with this experience, she had an example of the world outside.

Her heart beat faster and faster due to panic, her saber kept hitting those who were in the way. And even some of their blood covered her face. But on the other hand, Yue’s movement was seamless, peerless.

She swept the glaive down before she changed the direction with her hands, turning it from just sweeping to rotating the glaive around her. When she did all of this, no one could get close to her even the blood did not stain her clothes one bit.

Then she gripped the glaive before swept it vertically with the energy imbued in it and when she swung the glaive, an arc of energy formed from that action.

“Flooding Sweep!” it was the same move that Ye Xiaobai executed. Then an unlucky beast whose form was like a giant rat was sliced by the merciless energy arc. Even the internal organs spread out from the beasts, increasing the stress to those young people.

Then a large blast frequently appeared as Jack and that particular beasts exchange their attack, entangled themselves in the heat of battles.

Even with the advantage of the lance that had the further range than the beasts attack did not mean that he could easily get rid of his enemy.

“You still don’t give me the thing I wanted!?” every second they wasted on fighting, the beasts that could talk felt anger rising from his mind.

“You just some beasts that got your fortune by slowly comprehending the intelligence of the human. What makes you think to come here all at once?” Jack said while his strike with his lance increased in frequency.

But the beasts suddenly spun his body before an arrow came from its side. The arrow just barely scratched its abdomen, failed to hit the body. Of course, the arrow came from Ye Xiaobai.

‘Left, right, at the side of Cousin! Don’t you dare to lay a finger on him!’

When he detected another stealth beast roaming around Ye Yingyuan, Ye Xiaobai instantly reload his bow. Then with a quick hands movement, he aimed his bow straight. Not only that but he also had his ways to detect the hidden enemies.

And another arrow flew as fast as the winds.

“!” only when the arrow came close to him that Ye Yingyuan realized that Ye Xiaobai shot another arrow again. Even though he felt that presence but to his surprise, his cousin helped at such crucial moment.

“Ch!” just when Ye Xiaobai wanted to aim his bow, the ground near him turned into a sinkhole. He did not expect that the creatures even traveled under his feet.

Fortunately, it was only one giant worm. But Ye Xiaobai bitterly smiled as he had never expected to be ambushed. But it was also due to his intense focus to keep the safety of his cousin and those around him that he almost fell from his own negligence.

‘Certainly, I will not do the same thing again. As for the skill I learned from them, at least it is useful.’ Thought Ye Xiaobai. For the skill that allowed him to detect those hidden beasts, it originally came from his enemies that previously used him as a puppet!

Then he remembered something.

‘The arrows number now five, enough to caused some damage.’ Then Ye Xiaobai turned on a certain button before aiming his bow at the mouth of the worm.

When he released the button, simultaneously five arrows came out together with astonishing speed!

Before he knew it, the arrow penetrated straight into the worm’s body, without giving it the chance to burrow itself again. Then a thick blue liquid slowly came out from the wound.

“That’s useful for burst attack.” Commented Ye Xiaobai.

“You’re good,” said Yue when she examined the little girl. She just watched how the saber that Li Ling used slashed down, giving the opponent the pressure of total offensive.

But no matter how talented she was, to suddenly faced her first experience to kill a living being still made Li Ling nervous even though she somehow knew that this day would eventually come.

She could not hold on for much longer, as her legs gave up. Just when Li Ling was about to fall that Ye Yingyuan caught her by his hands.

“If you can’t, then it is better to leave this place to me. At least you still have the heart for those beasts, unlike me.” Said Ye Yingyuan with his face showed his helplessness.

‘Is it because of my body constitution? Is that the reason why I don’t feel a pity in slaughtering them even though they are the same living being like me?’

“Boy, if you think you are heartless then you need to throw away those thoughts!” another boom sound could be heard from the place where the Beeknight and the beast battled against each other.

Jack finally stabbed his lance with all of his energy exerted, finally penetrated the neck of that beats! Blood dripped slowly from the wound to the lance, before it slowly fell to the floor.

“Ugh.” Seeing those gore scene made Li Ling wanted to throw everything in her stomach but her hands were held by Ye Yingyuan.

“What that knight said is true,” Yue added. She also ventured outside of the forest but eventually, she ended up in the forest looking for someone.

‘Young Master, I have finally found him. Even though Young Master said that he was supposed to be my master but you are no doubt, my savior. And as for your friend, I will see him further to match the description Youn Master gave me.’ Yue thought that inwardly.

And there was another reason she had ventured out alone in the forest. But she did not want to tell anyone.

While she still in thought but her body movements did not slow down, instead it was like Yue had her move honed to the peak because the glaive in her hands moved like a slithery snake.

The glaive then moved diagonally, cutting a leg of the beast and made it roared with anger. But it did not matter to Yue as she swung it downwards, decapitating the beasts into two parts.

“You have to become a little more cruel to your enemies. Think about what if they hurt someone you cherish, then think again that all of that is caused by you.” Said Yue.

“You know that this day will come.” Ye Yinyuan slowly said to Li Ling. He also knew that such a day would come, forcing him to stained his hands with the blood of the living being whether it was human or the beasts.

“But I feel guilty to kill them. At first, when I kill those beeknight, I already had this feeling but I suppressed it. It was because they really threatened the safety of me and all of the group but now I have to do it again for the same reason.”

Li Ling actually had another thing that lingering in her mind.

“When I think about it, I kill them because I need to defend myself, to defend my own desire. But what about those beings? Did they not have a desire that we can simply kill it due to inconvenience or is it because of something else?”

When hearing her thoughts, Ye Yingyuan then said softly while sighing.

“Basically, we kill to defend anything we have. Whether it is our survival, our ideology, our family, our desire, everything that we have!”

Then he continued after a short break. He realized this when he saw the beeknight rushed to their position just for the sake of their colony!

“Even though it is not right to kill but when we are in a defensive state, the one who attacks first is the one who has more guilt, more sin to think! Every day we kill but not just indiscriminately, do you want to accept this now?”

Ye Yingyuan then remembered that he still held that soft, tiny hands of Li Ling. In an instant, he let go of his hand while his face almost turned red from embarrassment.

“I don’t know.” Said Li Ling in her weak tone. But then she continued her words, “However, what you said have some truth in it. It is just that my unwillingness to accept this.”

“Good then, at least you have the consciousness about the living being.” Ye Yingyuan could not help but smile at the thought that Li Ling had. It was her care for the others that made him have good opinions about her.

‘But what about me? Am I started to think the living being is special yet ordinary that cause the change in my mind?’

Seeing that smile made Li Ling’s heart beat faster. She wanted to see this expression more often rather than seeing the solemn look that Ye Yingyuan had.

“What consciousness? It just my naive thought in your eyes right?” even though she said that but Li Ling felt satisfied to say that.

“Ah, you came!” suddenly, Ye Xiaobai exclaimed in surprised. And at the same time, countless eyes turned around to see a figure emerged from the shadows.

“Big Brother!” Ye Yingyuan shouted in ecstasy. But they also felt that aura, the aura that carried the primordial air around him.

The beasts outside the barrier roared, shouted and produced many kinds of sounds that made ordinary person eerie if they heard that.

“All of you please move away!” it was Ye Qingcheng and he warned them all as his fist started to retract behind his hips. Ye Xiaobai then also added.

“Hear what he say! Get away from there, you too Yue!” he said that to warn everyone including Yue.

Of course, they had to believe it because even if they did not want to, a momentum came from the arms that Ye Qingcheng used to form his fist.

“Isn’t he just a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator? Why did I feel this kind of fear?” Yue muttered in confusion.

There was no person in that place to know the power of the giant race that once inhabited their world. Even Manstein also left in unknown because the information about it was scarce.

As for everyone else, they felt that aura too. Ye Qingcheng just forming a fist with his hands, then retracted his arms before a lot of energy was stored behind the arm.

When the people that in the barrier were no obstructing his sight that Ye Qingcheng finally punched to his front! The aura also followed his fist and the energy behind propelled the fist’s momentum to a new whole degree.

The fist was fast but the energy followed behind it also not lose in comparison. It moved so fast that the air was compressed within the fist, enhancing the power the fist possessed.

‘If that power hit the barrier, I’m afraid that..’ when Jack the leader of the Beeknight thought about it, to his surprise the barrier was still effective but the scene behind the barrier made him gaped.

The beasts that crowded the barrier turned into the whole red mist or the meat paste, leaving no intact corpse to be recognized!

“Big Brother got stronger again.” Ye Yingyuan walked hastily to his brother and when he reached Ye Qingcheng, Ye Yingyuan hugged him.

“I’m worried for Brother. I thought that the cause of the pain was just a strange illness but since I know that Brother has the strange bloodline flowed in your body, I really hope that Big Brother can awaken it to maximize the potential.”

What else Ye Qingcheng could do other than to pat his little brother in his head.

“Don’t worry about your brother, Little Yuan. Instead, you should worry about Elder Brother.” Said Ye Qingcheng full of care. Then he continued when seeing both Ye Yingyuan and Li Ling stuck together, “And it seems that you two are a good match after all, looks like this is a necessary report to be given to Mother.”

“Don’t you dare, Big Brother!” even Ye Yingyuan did not give a care to those beasts that already became no more than a pile of meat and instead, he remembered the thing about his relation to a certain someone.

While the duo brothers now ran around shouting and yelling at each other, Ye Xiaobai came to Yue. Since she was someone that his friend cared, he would treat her kindly.

“It’s really a good move there.” That was the impression Ye Xiaobai had for the ability that Yue showed during her performance. Even she used the same ‘Flooding Sweep’ as his friend while Ye Xiaobai also learned the move from him.

“No, it is you who have a good move. Even you used the bow and the glaive simultaneously then. If only I did not barge in at that critical moment.” Yue smiled with her eyes looked at her feet.

“But you can move around those beasts with leisure as if whether they exist or not is not your business. How did you do that?” this was pure question Ye Xiaobai asked. But Yue just kept her mouth closed tight.

“It’s alright if you don’t want to tell.” Ye Xiaobai could only accept the fact that she currently had some matters that should not be asked.

“Then about the message he left, I should visit his family. I’m responsible after all.” Ye Xiaobai then told Yue about his intention.

“But, but Young Master said that you need not go to his family!” Yue suddenly intercepted, even her animal ears shook and her tail moved in such a move, indicating her concern for the matter.

“I’ll make a trip immediately after this is done.”