BXBX NOVEL Chapter 171 Strategic Retreat
"Eat,eat, eat! Do you know anything else except eating?", Zhan Chen yelled out in frustration while looking at the memory of the sixth tier magical beast. He had never felt such frustration in his entire life.
Looking at the memory of a cultivator was no small matter as a cultivator had countless memories inside his mind. it was same for a magical beast or one could say it was more difficult considering the longer lifespan of a magical beast.
Longer lifespan meant more memories and Zhan Chen became increasingly frustrated as he looked at the memory of the sixth tier magical beast.
He only had one wish now. If given chance, he wanted to violently beat this stupid bear which he had tamed recently. Even it\'s recent memories were filled with various kinds of exotic bear foods.
Checking the memory of the sixth tier magical beast didn\'t mean he forgot about the battle. He kept dodging and waving his sword at the group of magical beasts.
The fifth tier and fourth tier magical beasts had their hands full with the Shen clan experts as the Shen clan group had similar numbers of fifth stage and forth stage warriors.
The magical beasts group which came towards Li Shu, Li Yan and Kai Min were comprised of third tier wolves and it was less than a child play infront of Zhan Chen\'s current cultivation.
But Zhan Chen didn\'t dispose them early as he kept playing with the third tier howling moon wolves. His goal was simple. He didn\'t want to stand out too much infront of the sixth stage experts of Shen clan.
Each swing of his blade left a deep would on the bodies of Howling moon wolves. Kai Min, Li Shu and Li Yan also stepped out to help as they could battle with third tier magical beasts.
While battling the Howling moon wolves, Zhan Chen finally found out the clues he was looking for. He stopped looking at the memories of the sixth tier bear as a deep frown appeared on his face.
\'Our situation is far more critical than what I have imagined. These sixth stage beast are not collaborating on their own rather a seventh stage beast lord has gathered all the beasts under her command\', Zhan Chen thought to himself.
He was calling the beast lord \'her\' because the magical beast had managed to take a human form after reaching the seventh tier.
"There is no point in dealing with this bunch of magical beasts now. We need to retreat first. Afterall, the target of the seventh stage demoness was not us", Zhan Chen pondered inside his mind.
His mind acted up quickly and he figured out a smooth solution for ordering the Shen clan experts to retreat. His target was clear. He only had to take one of the sixth stage expert of Shen clan as his slave and he could convince all of the Shen clan experts to retreat from their battle with the Howling moon wolves.
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"Elder, why are we retreating?", one of the Shen clan expert couldn\'t hold his curiousity and asked.
Their group was still fleeing from the group of chasing Howling moon wolves. The magical beasts had only fifth tier experts while they had two sixth stage experts. So, the Shen clan cultivators couldn\'t understand why they were fleeing from the magical beasts despite such a huge advantage in strength.
"You guys are big fools. You have yet to find out that these magical beasts are being commanded by a sixth tier magical beast", elder Tong of Shen clan spoke.
"What? A sixth tire magical beast!", the expression of the Shen clan warriors changed after hearing the words of elder Tong.
"And now you should guess why I tell all of you to retreat. I want to avoid a battle between sixth stage experts", elder Tong added.
The Shen clan experts nodded their heads in understanding as they followed behind elder Tong.
After some time, a loud roar of a bear came from the distance and the Howling moon wolves stopped in their tracks.
Then another loud roar came and the Howling moon wolves retreated towards their earlier location. The Shen clan experts felt baffled but the retreat of Howling moon wolves still calmed their nerves.
"The beasts are retreating. We should thank elder Tong this time", one of the Shen clan expert spoke in admiration. Other experts of Shen clan also praised elder Tong as they were able to avoid a meaningless war.
Elder Tong felt awkward for a moment as he heard the praises of his juniors. He knew he had no role in this matter. All of this was thanks to his master who warned him in time.
Elder Tong subconsciously turned his head to look towards Zhan Chen but Zhan Chen reminded him not to look towards him. There was still elder Yang of Shen clan who was watching everything from shadow. Zhan Chen didn\'t want to deal with a mid sixth stage expert with his current cultivation. So, he was doing his best to not attract the attention of others towards him.
"Elder, what should we do now? We have changed our path once and now this path is also blocked", the Shen clan experts looked towards elder Tong.
"Brother Yang, can you guard our group for a while? I will go and scout out a path for us", Elder Tong sent a mental message to his companion.
Elder Yang who was hiding in the shadow stood silent for a while. Then he gave a nod to elder Tong as he couldn\'t think of another plan in this situation.
"But let\'s go to a open place first. Our group can take a rest and you will go look for a path for us", Elder Yang proposed.
Elder Tong didn\'t have any reason to refuse as the idea for scouting was given by Zhan Chen. Zhan Chen didn\'t want to spread his soul consciousness too far as it could easily attract the attention of seventh tier beast lord. So, he could only give the task to elder Tong who can check the path described by his sixth tier bear pet.
The Shen clan experts found themselves a suitable place soon enough. They got down from their horned lions and freed them to roam by themselves.
The horned lions were third tier magical beasts. So, they were intelligent enough to not go away from the visual range of their masters.
The Shen clan experts could finally relax themselves slightly as most of them sat in groups to take a little rest. Their sixth stage expert and fifth stage experts were still here. So, they were not bothered by the leaving of elder Tong.
Zhan Chen also sat down near Li Shu, Li Yan and Kai Min but his focus was on elder Tong who was now scouting the path ahead.
"Don\'t stretch your soul consciousness far wide. Just limit it to a minimum required distance and follow my direction", Zhan Chen spoke to elder Tong.
Elder Tong felt unsure but he still followed Zhan Chen\'s direction. Zhan Chen himself kept analyzing the mental map of the terrain as he gave instructions to elder Tong from tme to time.
Zhan Chen had to stop what he was doing because he had two familiar visitors.
"Ling\'er, what happened? Is there something bothering you?", Zhan Chen looked towards Ling\'er who was standing with Su\'er.
"Greetings young master", Su\'er greeted Zhan Chen. Ling\'er also did the same but she asked a question which stomped Zhan Chen completely.
"Young master, will you miss me if something happened to me today?", Ling\'er looked towards Zhan Chen. Her eyes were full of emotions as she stared at Zhan Chen.
The question of Ling\'er took everyone by surprise as Li Shu, Kai Min and Li Yan looked towards Zhan Chen. Her question managed to attract the attention of some Shen clan experts also.
Zhan Chen didn\'t give her a reply immediately as her question striked a chord in his heart. Both Su\'er and Ling\'er were not some random girls he had come across. They had long become an irreplaceable part of his life as he kept spending time with both of them.
Zhan Chen never thought that they would leave such deep impressions in his heat as their relationship started as a casual dual cultivation session. But now, Zhan Chen could feel how deep their relationship had become without him realising it.
Everyone in the surrounding especially the girls around kept their eyes on Zhan Chen as all of them wanted to hear the reply from Zhan Chen. A capable male cultivator had multiple females but most of the female cultivator had only one person in their life. So, many of them would love to see whether a talented young man like Zhan Chen had some reciprocal feeling or not.
Even Shen Ruyan also looked towards Zhan Chen as she wanted to to hear the answer from his mouth.