~SKREE~SKREEE~SKREEEE~
Several cries were heard all at once and made some of the disciples wince in pain.
"Heavens! They're so horrible!" A female disciple closed her ears with her hands.
"Pay attention, if you keep your hands like that, you won't be able to react as quick." Jing Luo warned.
He knew how important sense was and a small lapse could be the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Y-yes senior!" The female disciple replied.
"Do you know sensory suppression techniques? Use them to reduce your hearing if the screeches are too much for you to bear." Jing Luo added.
"Uh, we… don't know them."
"I know one!"
"I know too!"
"Those that know should teach the others after this fight." Jing Luo stated and focused on the beasts that had just appeared.
~shing~
~thud~
~Crack~
Lin Mu was already fighting the beasts that had appeared. This time there were three beasts and all of them were different from the beetle like beast that had just appeared before having pale white body parts.
The first beast looked like a dog, but had six legs and a long jaw. It had a crystal on the back of its neck but it was black and green in color than black and blue. The beast was also smaller than the beetle beast from before.
The second beast was a long lizard that had the claws of an eagle and the neck of a bird. It had the same black and blue crystal on its back. It was about the same size as that of the beetle beast.
The third beast was the same size as the lizard, but was far more bulky. It looked like a ball of fat and moved around by rolling. It had dense fur on it, that popped out like sharp needles.
Its mouth was on its stomach and had sharp teeth in it. The crystal that it had was located in the middle of its eyes and was black and blue in color as well.
"This dog like beast is far weaker than the one before." Lin Mu said as he easily broke the beast's limbs with a pat of the short sword.
~UWEEEEEE!~
The dog beast let out a cry filled with utter pain. With the loss of its limbs, all it could do was to lie on the ground and twitch now.
"It's equivalent to a core condensation realm beast, I guess…" Lin Mu noted and went to take care of the other beasts.
~swish~
The lizard beast swiped its tail at Lin Mu, but he quickly dodge it with blink while the Fat ball like beast rolled towards Lin Mu, trying to crush him.
~ROAR!~
Before the fat beast could even get close to Lin Mu thought, it was sent flying by a red blur.
~BOOM~
The fat beast exploded into a bloody mess and was now scattered around the wall.
~GRRR!~
Little Shrubby growled as he gave an angry look in the empty corridor. He could see the other beasts that were biding their time and gave them a warning.
Like saying, 'if you try the same thing, this will happen to you.'
~gulp~
The disciples who saw this couldn't help but swallow their saliva. The ease with which Little shrubby had utterly destroyed that beast was stunning to them since even Lin Mu was not doing something like that.
Though they did know that the way Lin Mu was fighting right now was so that they could see the weak points of the beast and had an easier time.
~CRACK~
Lin Mu broke the legs and tail of the lizard as well and left it writhing on the ground.
"All of you can now kill them and see how these beasts are. Test out your strength and judge it for yourself." Lin Mu said as he went ahead.
"Yes, senior!" The disciples said as they quickly got to fighting the now incapacitated beasts.
While they were doing so though, Elder Weimin came to stand beside Jing Luo and spoke.
"Does he have experience with teaching students before?" He asked.
"As far as I know, no." Jing Luo replied.
"You sure he hasn't taken any disciples before?" Elder Weimin asked doubtfully.
"No. He never had the chance… and I don't think he's looking to take any, either. He himself is just learning." Jing Luo replied.
"Hmm… I never would have thought. He does have the skills of a good teacher. He can be a good master if he decides to take disciples of his own." Elder Weimin praised.
"Maybe… but with his personality, I doubt that will happen any time soon. And the burden that he bears is not something that will allow others to come too close to him." Jing Luo stated.
"I see… I'll look forward to his accomplishment in the future. I'll be honored if I can simply be seen as an acquaintance in the future." Elder Weimin said calmly.
"Indeed." Jing Luo nodded his head and thought of his grandfather.
'He truly was wise to befriend Lin Mu. Others would die to have an ally like that…' Jing Luo thought to himself.
While he was doing this, Lin Mu was now surveying the area in the next hall. He was hidden near the ceiling of the roof, in one of the supporting pillars.
"There's way more beasts here…" Lin Mu muttered as he counted over twenty of them.
"Hmm… the disciples should be able to handle some of them. I'll let them fight and take care of the rest." Lin Mu said as he returned to the previous hall.
By now, the disciples had finished killing the two incapacitated beasts and even had the crystals extracted.
"Senior Lin Mu! Look!" Hu Yun held up the crystals.
~shua~
He probed it a bit and spirit Qi started to leak out of the crystal along with the bluish gas as well. He stopped doing that and the spirit Qi stopped as well.
"Huh, so it's like a spirit stone." Lin Mu took note.
He then touched the bluish gas that was close to dissipating in the air and suddenly felt something.
"What?"
