After they heard the news from the members of the subsidiary group, all of the members of the four sects started to look at each other with wariness.
It was as if they no longer had any trust for each other.
There might have been a bit of trust in the beginning since they were all working for the same goal of defending this Divine Blood Fruit from the spirit beasts. But now it seemed that the trust between them had completely disappeared.
It seemed like they were only fighting for themselves at this point.
This was made even more clear as they moved to four different sides around the Divine Blood Fruit.
They all made sure that there was equal space between all four of their groups so that no one would be able to make a move without the others finding out. They didn’t want to give the other groups a single bit of space to stab them in the back.
But that didn’t mean that they stopped fighting the spirit beasts.
This was made even harder since they had to be on guard against the spirit beasts with special powers. They had to put extra vigilance into keeping guard against these spirit beasts that had special powers.
These spirit beasts with extra powers were strong enough to even threaten the elders after all.
As they continued fighting the spirit beasts, they also couldn’t help wondering…
“When will this end?”
It really didn’t seem like there would be an end to these spirit beasts charging them.
They couldn’t even help wondering if there were these many spirit beasts on the White Frost Mountain in the first place.
Still, they gritted their teeth and held on since they knew that this was all that they had to do.
Before long, there were more people that arrived and these people completely pushed out the spirit beasts. That was because these were people from the four sects and what they had brought were the formations that the four sects created.
While they were confused why the people that they had sent ahead were split up like this, they didn’t hesitate to group up with them.
Like this, the four formations were set up around the Divine Blood Fruit to repel the spirit beasts.
But even with the four formations being set up, it didn’t seem like the spirit beasts were planning on backing down. They were coming at them from different angles, as if they were trying to find something that would work.
It was just that the four formations that these four sects put up were not normal formations in the first place.
It wasn’t as if the spirit beasts would be able to break them just because they attacked from different angles.
So they just kept the formation up and repelled all the spirit beasts that tried to attack them. There wasn’t a single one that was able to take a single step forward when facing these four formations.
During this time, the leaders of the four sects went to find the scouts that were sent ahead.
“What? Are you sure of this?” That was the reaction of the four leaders when they heard their reports.
“Absolutely.” There was no hesitation in the words of the elders as they said this.
It was as if they wouldn’t believe anything else even if someone beat them to death.
The leaders of the four sects deeply knitted their brows when they heard this, but they didn’t do anything in the end. After all, they were still surrounded by the spirit beasts and this wasn’t the time to antagonize the other three sects.
It was best if they all worked together to take down these spirit beasts first.
After all, the Divine Blood Fruit hadn’t even ripened yet. They would still have to fight over the Divine Blood Fruit later, so it was best to save energy while they still could.
The spirit beasts at least seemed like they weren’t smart enough to realize that it was futile to attack them. They just kept slamming themselves against their formations and killing themselves.
The eyes of some of the disciples lit up seeing these spirit beast corpses piling up outside their formation.
These spirit beasts might only be in the Foundation Realm, but so were some of the disciples. Even the disciples in the Qi Condensation Realm were a bit excited about this since they could also use these corpses.
Once the fight was over, they would be able to claim those spirit beast corpses for themselves and make a large profit. So there was a part of them that actually wanted more spirit beasts to come and slam themselves into the formation.
After all, the more spirit beasts there were, the more they would be able to earn.
It was just that the spirit beasts wouldn’t remain this way forever.
While they were all focused on the spirit beasts that were attacking them from the front, there were a few that snuck around to the side of the formations. This might not seem like anything important until…
“Ah!”
Everyone immediately turned in the direction of the scream.
It came from the Golden Temple’s formation.
One of the monks that had been in a key position of the formation suddenly collapsed into a pool of blood.
No one was able to see what did it, but that was the least of their concerns.
Because the monk had been in a key position, the moment that he collapsed, the formation was under a lot of strain. That meant that the others had to put even more effort in to prevent the formation from collapsing.
It was just that this wasn’t the only incident.
There were three more people that suddenly collapsed, but they didn’t collapse from the same formation. They were people that had been in key positions of the other three formations, so the same situation happened with the other three sects.
None of them were able to let their guard down for even a single second as they had to face the waves of spirit beasts that were coming at them.
But then…
“Come out and face me!”
One of the monks in another key position of the Golden Temple’s formation suddenly released a palm attack while shouting this out. That palm attack hit one of the other monks near that monk and knocked them down.
All of the other monks couldn’t help moving away a bit, but they couldn’t move too far since they still had to stay in formation.
“What is it?” The leader asked from the center of the formation.
“There’s something in the dark attacking me. It’s already attacked me twice.” The monk quickly replied.
As soon as they said that, the other three formations also had the same reaction.
The monk’s voice was loud enough that they all heard what he was saying, so they were able to avoid the attacks at the last second. However, that just made everyone even more anxious.
After all, to attack them in their formation like this…
It was impossible unless the enemy had some way of breaking through their formation.
They didn’t want to believe this since this was the formation that they trusted in, the formation that they were relying on to defeat the spirit beasts. If this formation broke, then there was no doubt that they would all die here.
At the same time, they wanted to trust in this formation since it was a formation that had been given to them by the Five Great Sects.
These were powerful formations from the Five Great Sects, so they didn’t want to believe that there were any flaws here.
Watching from afar, Ye Qing Huan couldn’t help looking surprised when she saw this happen.
That was because since she was watching with Lin Fan, she was able to see the things that he did. Though if it wasn’t for her higher level of cultivation, she might have even missed it.
It was a group of monkeys that made their way through the formations of the four sects.
These monkeys seemed to have some kind of special ability that allowed them to hide themselves in plain sight. It was almost as if they disappeared into thin air with the way that they hid themselves.
But that wasn’t the most shocking part.
The most shocking part was how those monkeys had made their way into the formation, while at the same time…how precise their actions were. It was as if they were being completely controlled by something.
They had found gaps in the formations of the four sects and had been able to sneak into those gaps to attack the ones in the key positions.
However, even Ye Qing Huan hadn’t been able to find those gaps earlier.
She thought that unless one was a formation master, they wouldn’t be able to find those gaps at all since these were considered high level formations.
But the monkeys slipped into those gaps easily and attacked those people in the key positions of the formation.
It was done too smoothly to be considered a coincidence.
A person that could see through the gaps of these high level formations and control spirit beasts to the point where he could even order them to take precise action, this was clearly not the abilities of a normal person.
Ye Qing Huan thought that she already knew everything about Lin Fan, but it seemed that this wasn’t the case…
“Just who is he?” Ye Qing Huan muttered in her heart.
But then her expression relaxed as she thought, “It doesn’t matter.”
Right, it didn’t matter for her since she had already made a decision on how to treat Lin Fan.
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