Chapter 116: Night Activities
The sun gradually disappeared in the horizon as the day turned into night, enveloping the whole Tando Woodlands in a blanket of darkness, with a bright moon shining above as the only source of light.
The day had passed with many interesting fights happening all over the designated zone which entertained the populace. However, for the sects it was just an starting to main part.
The participants had not bothered with each other as they preferred to hunt alone. Even if they encountered each other, they would change routes unless they had past enmity.
The participants were very careful in choosing their opponents but even then some of them encountered the Tier 4 Abominations. Naturally, the only result was that most of the quit before even trying and Ning Xi had to rescue them.
Till the evening, things were balanced among the disciples but now they were going to change. The night had come and along with it came the horrors dwelling in night, and the schemes of other Sects.
The nights were far more dangerous than days because many of the most dangerous Spiritual Creatures only hunted in nights. Not to mention the disadvantages humans had. After all, not many could see good in night.
However, there were some people who were just made for the nights and one of such people was Ying Yue, who was resting on a tree's top, eating a roasted meat she had stored in her storage ring before coming here.
She then looked at her other hand which held a green coloured fist sized sphere. It was the Spirit Core of the Dark Vraksha, a Mid-Stage Tier 4 Spiritual Creature, which meant that it would give her a total of 14 points.
'Aghh! Extracting the Spirit Cores will always remain at the top of my hated list. It took so much time just to take this out.'
Extracting Spirit Cores wasn't easy and in fact, a very time consuming task. That's why there wasn't much difference between the points of various tiers. After all, it could take exact same to extract Tied 2 Spirit Core as much as it would take to extract Tier 4 Spirit Cores.
So, it was natural for which core the disciples would go.
The Spirit Cores were not fixed and could be found in different parts of the body so luck also played a huge part in this. This was one of the reasons disciples were looking for higher Tier Spiritual Creatures to save time and take more points.
It had taken almost a whole 15 minutes for Ying Yue to extract the Spirit Core of Dark Vraksha which was the same time she needed to extract a Tier 3 Spirit Core.
'I wonder, if Master is happy with my current progress. I didn't really do anything major aside from fighting that damned tree after all. Even these Spirit Cores I've collected feels like they're too few.'
Ying Yue's legs were dangling in the air as she ate her meat, thinking about the day she had. However, in middle of it, she sensed some movements and raised an eyebrow. She had been keeping her Spirit Sense close to her so as to not alert a Spiritual Creature but even then she sensed two figures.
'Hmm, let's see what they're upto!'
Ying Yue finished her meat quickly, even stuffing deep into her throat and stood up. She threw the green Spirit Core back into her storage ring and disappeared from her spot. Now that it was night, it was far easier for her to travel as she was a creature of night.
She didn't even use her Shadow Step and simply relied on her ability to follow the figures she had sensed. She didn't do anything else and simply observed them.
After some time, they stopped near a cave and looked around vigilantly. Seeing that no one were near them, they went into the save and returned shortly after. Ying Yue didn't follow them as she was afraid she would be caught in that small space.
The two figures once again made sure that no one has watched them and covered up their tracks. Of course, they didn't sense Ying Yue as it was practically impossible to see her in the darkness of night.
After that, the two figures once again ran in different direction and Ying Yue followed them while giving the cave a last look.
'i will come back here.'
Ying Yue continued to tail behind the two figures as they spent another two hours to go into many areas, only to stop for a few seconds. Ying Yue got confused of their activities but then she thought of the places she had been till now and a rough map appeared in her mind.
'A rune formation? They're making a Rune Formation of this level here? Interesting! I don't have enough knowledge to know what it is but guess it'll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow.
But why are there two people? Did two Sects decided to Collab? Really?'
After two hours of running around, the two figures stopped near a small slope as they discussed something. Thereafter, they went into different direction as if what they had done what they came there for.
Ying Yue stood high up in the slope, looking at them and a smirk appeared on her face.
'Nice! I was getting bored in these qualifiers. Show me what you got! Wait!
Am I getting master's habits? Whatever.'
Ying Yue sighed and raised her head to look at the white moon, trying to hide behind the Black clouds.
'Now, should I wait for tomorrow or slaughter some more Spiritual Creatures?'
In the end, Ying Yue felt that she was still sort of Spirit Cores and decided to hunt more. Deciding on that, she disappeared in the darkness of night as another slaughter followed out.
Some time away, Bai Li set in a cave as he roasted the meat of a Spiritual Creature, while mumbling.
"I hate nights. I can't even hunt properly. Well, who cares I'll just take everyone's Spirit Cores tommorow and be the winner."