Chapter 4: Evil Sect?

Morning came and everyone left their rooms.

To us practitioners, sleep is really unnecessary to us as our body and mind are already resting when cultivating. Those who sleep are merely those who wanted to take a break in cultivating or just plain lazy.

Of course, in my case, since Vil and Fen didn't attempt to do anything this night, I naturally had to use this time to properly cultivate while they sleepAs for the two of them, they are really too lazy to cultivate and would only do so when they felt like it.

Eating is also unnecessary since we can use our divine sense to continuously nourish our bodies, but since there's a chef in our team, we were forced to eat anyways. Xene can be really persuasive

"Damn, this is really delicious!" (Bram)

"As expected of Xe-Nee! It's like having a movable first class restaurant!" (Momo)

Nee-san is commonly used in Japan when calling and elder sister and it can also be used as a suffix, on this case, Momo used a play of words and came up with this nickname. Well, Xene didn't seem to mind it but none of us used that nickname as it feels weird coming from a non-Japanese.

Still, Xene's food are really delicious, compared to my random cooking, the difference is like heaven and earth!

In fact, even El is drooling just by looking at it.

"Ughh! Dammit! Let me out! Let me out! I also want a taste!!!" (El)

Needless to say, I ignored her and just continued to enjoy our meal.

After a while, we finished eating breakfast and went out to visit the village chief, Roch Shi, to inform him that we'll be leaving immediately since there isn't anything for us here.

When Roch heard it, he showed a reluctant face before finally sighing and nodding.

It seems that he wanted to prepare a banquet to celebrate the rebirth of the sakura tree but after remembering that their involvement should be kept a secret, he figured there shouldn't be a need for it.

Afterwards, little May came and hugged Momo for a while before reluctantly parting.

Just like that, our little episode in this small village ended without much suspense. To us, this was simply us passing by. But never would we have expected that, years from now, our names and figures will still be engraved deeply in this [Stone Village] but that another story.

We continued to travel the continent heading north-west, to the direction of the capital city, [Crown City]!

Since there is land right now, we didn't always use our flying swords to fly, at times, we would take a break and enjoy strolling the grasslands.

The route we chose to reach [Crown City] is a simple straight route. After leaving [Stone Village], we arrived at a wide grassland where a few beasts live simply.

If in the [Mortal Continent], there exists the monsters known as demonic beasts, here, though there are also demonic beasts which haven't transcended into the [Deity Realm], there are also an even more troublesome monsters that does not have a humanoid form even though they have a strength equal to that of a deity.

These are the ferocious beasts, or to some, they are called fero-beasts.

These fero-beasts are divided into three ranks. [Devil], [Demon], and [Hell] rank. Likewise, they accordingly have the strength of a [Demigod], [God], and [Highgod] stage of the [Deity Realm]. But it is also known that fero-beasts are two levels stronger than their counterpart deity.

For example, an early [Devil] rank fero-beast is equal to that of a late [Demigod Stage] deity. Naturally, a peak [Hell] rank fero-beast is stronger than a peak [Highgod Stage] deity.

Since Bram and the others talked to uncle more than me, I asked Bram and the others if it is safe, they explained that there shouldn't be a problem because uncle and the other supreme highgods always spread out their subordinates in locating early [Hell] rank fero-beast in order to kill them while they can.

They also naturally give out missions in their territories to hunt these fero-beasts and give out high rewards.

Having determined that it is safe, I breathed a sigh of relief and casually continued our journey.

So far, we haven't met any fero-beasts in the grasslands, only non-deity demonic beasts so there wasn't any problem.

After a day of traveling, we arrived at the edge of the grasslands and saw a thick forest in front of us.

Before leaving, Roch has already explained to us various things we will encounter.

This forest is known as [Greenwood Forest]. And yes, the tree trunks are really green instead of brown

When I used [Wood Appraisal] on it, it says it's called [Greenwood Tree Wood]I really want to yell how unreasonably lazy this name is but didn't know exactly who to yell at so I can only shout in my heartSTOP BEING LAZY YOU DAMN AUTHOR!

After getting it out of my system, I looked at its description and durability.

Unlike normal wood, this is actually a very sturdy one! Normal wood has a durability of 30 but this one has 400! More than ten times the durability!

Then again, it's still not as tough as the weird ores in this world that has at least 600 durabilityon the other hand, this is more flexible than those ores so it would make a great bow. As if it's natural, I cut down a few [Greenwood Trees] at the edge of the forest while the others looked at me weirdly.

After cutting down a dozen or so trees, I placed them all in my interspatial ring. Including the leaves for me to experiment in pill making.

So far, my pill making and array knowledge is still limited. In arrays, I only used qi to make them. Only by using divine sense will I be able to bring forth an array's true power. As for pill making, I naturally can't use ingredients that cannot be found in the [Mortal Continent]. Plus, I don't have any alchemic fire so I also can't bring out the true potency of the pills I made.

Alchemic fire can only be found in special places in the deity lands. There was only one such mention of it in Devan Shan's journal, and that has already been refined by him. After his death, the alchemic flame will remain in his body where I can go and take it. But after asking Mei about the tomb's location and getting there, I didn't find any alchemic flame. Most likely, it has already been taken by someone else so I can only use my flames instead.

When I experimented before, mana-infused flames and qi-infused flames brought about different results.

When I use mana flames, I felt as if the pill is a part of me. But when I use qi flames, I felt as if the pill is one with the world.

This proved that my speculation of mana being an essence of one's self, and qi being an essence of the world is true.

If this is so, what is divine sense?

Surprisingly, it is stored in the soulcould it be the essence of the soul?

Forget it, it is useless to think about these things now. I'll naturally understand more the stronger I get.

Anyway, Roch had already warned us to be careful in the [Greenwood Forest] as there will be fero-beasts lurking here from now on.

We could just fly over it but after so long of simply traveling, all of us are itching for a fight. Plus, if we fly, we could meet some flying fero-beasts, in that case, we will simply be at the disadvantage as we have no experience in air fights.

*Rooooooooaaaaarrr*

Sure enough, we've already heard a roar of a beast! And judging from its aura, it is definitely not a demonic beast!

"Be careful, it's a peak [Devil] rank fero-beast!" (Momo)

"[Three Headed Ape]! Its left head spits out flammable poisonous gas while its right head shoots lightning in its eyes and the center head's roar has a stunning effect! Just this one monkey can do a coordinated attack that can kill us all!" (Lucas)

"The fur is also tough enough to be fire proof so avoid using fire or lightning based attacks!" (Liza)

Though it was obvious that fire may not work on it, Liza's precaution of not using lightning based attacks is because one of its head can use lightning as well and there may be a chance that not only will lightning not work, but it may also strengthen it.

Momo, Liza and I have the [Enemy Appraisal] skill, but even that doesn't show every detail so we can only take caution.

Plus, this guy's a peak [Devil] rank fero beast so he is at least equal to mid [God Stage] and may be possibly equal to late [God Stage] deity!

The strongest amongst us is only at mid [Demigod Stage] so we cannot be careless in this fight. Luckily, all of us here are used to fighting opponents that are stronger than us so none of us panicked. Instead,

we're all very excited.

This may be the first time we worked as a team, but I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem. Though I'm not that used to team play with others, Bram is, so all I need to do is follow his lead.

Bram is, after all, the guild leader of the largest guild in the world or so I heard. His leadership skill definitely surpasses mine.

"Gabriel will be our main tank, Xene and Terry will be our main attacker, Me, Momo, and Liza will support from behind. Lucas, make sure the enemy remains in a single area and not let it escape or roam free. Also, can you do something about that poison gas?" (Bram)

"Already on it. [Angel's Domain]!" (Lucas)

Bram and the others only knew that I have the [Angel's Blood], not how I got it so he merely asked in case he also has a way to counteract this poison gas.

Borrowing the cultivation of my [Earth] body, I can stretch my domain up to around 20 meters around me. That's more than enough to cover everyone while fighting. Like this, the poison gas won't be a problem

For me, I don't have that much preference regarding that area, but I at least want there to be something to...well, grab...

There's also a small preview of some things regarding alchemy and arrays here but I'll add more details when Lucas does it in another chapter.

Next chapter! You will see alot of familiar characters! Who they are, you will have to find out!

Till the next chapter!