“Now, let’s send the others out first,” Shen Yuan said as he manipulated the Mystique Realm using the Realm Heart.
The entire realm shook as the disciples looked at Shen Yuan in shock. “Se-Senior Brother, what are you doing?” Ling Mei asked as she looked around to see the space shaking.
“Oh, this? It’s nothing. I’m just sending everyone on their way,” Shen Yuan said as the orb turned invisible while still following behind him.
“Let’s leave now. The Mystique Realm will close soon,” he spoke while looking toward the horizon.
Ling Mei and the others nodded their heads, as they had already gotten far more than they had expected on this trip to the Mystique Realm.
Shen Yuan began sprinting through the forest first, and the others soon followed after.
‘Good, they have become far stronger than when they first entered the Mystique Realm; they can keep up at this level of speed,’ he thought while observing the progress of the group.
He increased his speed little by little to test their limits, and he soon found some of the weaker disciples who couldn’t keep up with him anymore.
Shen Yuan slowed down as all the disciples caught up with him. But he didn’t stop, continuing to run at a slower pace.
Soon, he found another beast wandering around the forest slowly.
He raised his hand for the group to stop, making hand signs to inform them of the danger ahead as Ling Mei and the others tensed up.
If it was something that could make even Shen Yuan wary—who had killed that gigantic monster in one slash—then they must be in grave danger.
But as soon as their gazes landed on the danger in question, they felt cheated, as it was the same type as the very first beast they encountered inside the Mystique Realm.
“Senior Brother, why are we stopping at this place?” Chen Yue whispered softly, closing the distance between them.
“Are you going to finish that monster off as well?” Ling Mei softly asked, trying not to startle the beast.
“Heh, not me, but you guys.” Shen Yuan smirked as he broke a small branch and continued, “Let’s see how much you guys have improved in this time.”
Wan Ling and the others took a deep breath as Ling Mei said, “Alright, we need to test that as well. Let’s make a strategy to tackle that beast.”
“Yes, we need to be organized, unlike the last time.”
“Wan Ling and Ling Mei should be on the offen—”
BAM! ROARR!!
The sound of something exploding echoed through the surroundings as Shen Yuan’s voice followed, “No strategy is the best strategy sometimes.”
The disciples looked to where Shen Yuan had been standing, and, seeing that he was no longer there, they hurriedly turned their heads to look at the beast.
Their eyes widened as they saw broken fragments of wood all over the place while the beast was staring at them.
“Umm… can we tell it we weren’t the ones who did that?” Chen Yue asked with a weak smile, looking at the beast’s scary face.
“Ready yourselves, everyone!” Ling Mei shouted as she took out her sword and got into position to face the beast.
The others took out their weapons as well, ready to fight the beast, which didn’t waste a single second.
It sprinted toward them, roaring as it felt the pain from the wooden branch that Shen Yuan had thrown at it.
ROARR!
Ling Mei stood at the front, raising her sword above her chest to block the beast’s claws.
BAM!
The sword and claws struck each other as Ling Mei didn’t get pushed back this time from the attack.
Wan Ling and the others felt excited to see this scene as their fighting spirits soared above the clouds.
Chen Yue recited an incantation and enhanced her own weapon before attacking the beast from the side, drawing blood from the first strike.
Wan Ling didn’t hold back as she used her light Qi-infused sword to slash at the waist of the beast.
The other disciples also joined in on the fun; all the poor beast could do was whine in agony, which fell on deaf ears.
Shen Yuan smiled proudly, seeing their progress. “Good, they have improved drastically during this period of time. If it continues like this, then each one of them can take on one beast alone.”
Soon, the beast lay dead on the ground, its blood dyeing the ground black as the disciples looked at each other in surprise.
“Was this beast weaker than the one we fought before?” Wan Ling innocently asked.
“No, you guys have become stronger.” Shen Yuan appeared in front of the group and assured them of their current strength.
The disciples turned their heads away from the corpse to see Shen Yuan standing behind Wan Ling.
He patted her head and continued, “You guys have raised your strength so much that you haven’t realized yet. Your weakness was your offensive capabilities, and those are now fixed with the treasures and inheritances of this place.”
Wan Ling turned around to see Shen Yuan smiling softly at her. “Senior Brother, do you think we can beat the disciples of Azure Sky Sect and Ironwood Mountain Clan?”
Shen Yuan chuckled softly and shook his head, “You can defeat their average disciples easily, but you are still not at the level of their top inner disciples. You would need to learn the higher-level techniques of our Sect to win against them.”
The disciples nodded their heads as Chen Yue opened her mouth to speak, but Shen Yuan interrupted her, “No time to waste now, we need to head out since we have already tested your ability.”
Chen Yue closed her mouth and nodded as she and the rest of the disciples began running again towards the exit.
Shen Yuan nodded his head and began following after them as he soon started leading them again towards the exit.
…
Soon, they reached the exit of the Mystique Realm as they saw the Azure Sky Sect and Ironwood Mountain Clan’s disciples leaving in sorry states.
The eyes of the Ironwood Mountain Clan members widened in horror as soon as they saw Shen Yuan. Shan Bo was being carried by two other disciples as he seemed unconscious still.
Shen Yuan smirked seeing them as he took a step towards them, but the disciples of the Ironwood Mountain Clan got so scared with his one step that they hurriedly ran towards the exit, shoving aside the disciples of Azure Sky Sect who looked at this scene in confusion.
“What is happening?”
“Why are they running like that?”
“They seem like they have seen a ghost or something.”
….
The Azure Sky Sect’s disciples murmured amongst themselves while looking at this scene.
But they didn’t come forward to question them, as they didn’t want to mess with Radiant Lotus Sacred Sect when they were about to leave.
Shen Yuan stopped as he saw them hurriedly leaving, “Tsk, what cowards. I was not going to eat them alive; why are they running as if their life depends on it?”
Chen Yue giggled softly, hearing that as she replied softly, “That’s because they don’t know whether you will keep them alive or kill them so the news of their young master being beaten to a pulp won’t spread around.”
