Leave it to me!

In the 10 meters radius space in the depth of the forest, various kinds of branches were scattered all over the area. The smell of urine still lingered in the air and there was also some grey coloured fur on the branches.

The length of these strands of fur was of about two inches.

Seeing this type of fur, Nie Li immediately identified that it was the Fox Bear demon beast's!

"Who is it?" Suddenly, an alert voice sounded.

Nie Li looked towards the direction of the voice, and a figure appeared from behind the tree. Seeing the other party, Nie Li was slightly surprised that it was actually Chen Linjian. Shortly after, a few people appeared behind Chen Linjian, two of them were the underlings of Chen Linjian, and one of them was actually Shen Yue.

"How come you are here?" Chen Linjian looked towards Nie Li and asked.

"When I was practising, I smelled the trace of a strange odour hanging in the air and followed it here!" Nie Li said as he swept his gaze between Chen Linjian and Shen Yue. Chen Linjian and Shen Yue were only familiar with each other and were not a group, otherwise Chen Linjian wouldn't have killed so many of the Sacred Family's members in the previous life.

Shen Yue coldly looked at Nie Li, that gloomy gaze of his was filled with darkness.

Strange odour? Why hadn't they smelt it earlier?

"When two of my underlings were searching the place, they found this place so Shen Yue and I came together to take a look!" Chen Linjian said. The relation between the current him and Shen Yue was still quite good. Both were the direct descendants of a Major family, so they both maintained a clear relationship on the surface.

Shen Yue coldly said, "Alone here in the middle of the night, you might be harbouring ulterior motives." Shen Yue couldn't wait to pour all the foul water onto Nie Li.

Nie Li was too lazy to refute. This kind of speculative words that had no evidence backing them, as if Chen Linjian would believe them.

Chen Linjian looked at Shen Yue, then looked at Nie Li again. He had heard of the conflict between Shen Yue and Nie Li. Someone with little background actually dared to confront the Sacred Family, was Nie Li self-confident or was he ignorant?

"This demon beast nest has already been abandoned for a long time." Shen Yue said as he glanced around the area. After seeing Nie Li here, he was too lazy to stay any longer. Since this trip was to the Ancient Orchid City Ruins, he would have plenty of chances to deal with Nie Li. There was no point in talking to much nonsense with Nie Li here.

"This demon beast nest has indeed been abandoned for a long time!" Chen Linjian said nodding his head while looking at the surrounding scattered branches. Suddenly, he seemed to have noticed something. He turned towards Nie Li and asked, "How do you see it?"

He clearly considered Nie Li's knowledge to be quite vast.

"On this side of the trunk, there is some fur residue. Also with how the nest is being stacked, according to my judgement, it should belong to demon beasts called Fox Bears. The size of the Fox Bears isn't too big, an adult Fox Bear has a height of one meter and two meters would already be considered a very strong build. This nest is so huge, so there should once have been a whole population of Fox Bears living here." Nie Li analysed.

Hearing Nie Li's words, whether it was Chen Linjian or the two underlings behind him, they were all looking at Nie Li dumbfoundedly. With so little information, Nie Li was actually able to analyse what kind of demon beast had once lived here. This was simply too scary. After all, in the St. Ancestral Mountains, there were if not tens of thousands then hundreds of thousands of species of beasts around.

It seemed that the decision to bring Nie Li along had been correct, Chen Linjian thought.

"With so little information you were able to deduce that this was once the nest of Fox Bears? Isn't that too arbitrary!?" Shen Yue refuted from the side. As long as it was Nie Lie's words, he would oppose them.

"Continue talking." Chen Linjian did not bother with Shen Yue as he faced Nie Li and asked.

Shen Yue opened his mouth in discontent but he did not say anything. Although both him and Chen Linjian were the direct descendants of Major families, there were seven direct descendants in the Sacred Family that were of the same age as him and he wasn't the one being paid attention to. If he was able to marry Ye Ziyun, only then would his position in the Sacred Family rise, and he would become one of the candidates to be the next house master. Chen Linjian was not the same as him. Since his birth, Chen Linjian had already been determined to become the next house master of his family and his talent was extraordinary. Therefore, Shen Yue did not dare to strain their relationship.

Nie Li treated Shen Yue as if he was completely invisible and continued, "Generally, adult Fox Bears are Silver rank demon beasts. Based on the Fox Bear's living habits, three fifths of the Fox Bear's time every year would be spent in their cave hibernating, to pass the time when the St. Ancestral Mountains are at their coldest. Only in the early summer would they then come out from the caves and hunt in the forest."

"Is it this time of the year?" Chen Linjian asked astoundedly.

"Correct" Nie Li nodded his head, "The air in this area carries the smell of urine, if this was left last year, after a long time of wind and rain, the smell would already be long gone. Fox Bears are very conscious of their territory, marking it with urine. I guess they will appear soon!"

Nie Li thought carefully and only through careful observation was he able to obtain so much information, which caused Chen Linjian to admire him. He looked at Nie Li in a different light. Nie Li was simply a Demon Beast Encyclopaedia!

"Then what should we do?" Chen Linjian asked. He had begun to seek Nie Li's point of view.

"We have to leave this place immediately, go in the night. The Fox Bear's sense of smell is very sensitive. If the Fox Bears found out that someone had invaded their area, I'm afraid that they would go in an all out war with us. Although we have sufficient strength to kill this Fox Bear group, it's inevitable that we will also have causalities. Our goal is the Ancient Orchid City Ruins!" Nie Li recalled that in the previous life, Ye Ziyun had mentioned that on their trip to the Ancient Orchid City Ruins, they had once been attacked by Fox Bears, which had killed a few people. This allowed Nie Li to be even more assured that this area was dangerous.

Chen Linjian drifted in his thoughts for a moment and said, "Okay, we'll leave by the night!"

"Young Master Chen, don't listen to his nonsense. Since this place is empty, there won't be any Fox Bears appearing. It would be even more dangerous to travel in the night. We should wait until daybreak before traveling!" Shen Yue immediately rebutted.

Nie Li spread both his hand up. Staying or not was Chen Linjian's decision. Anyway, it wouldn't be a threat to him.

"Let's leave!" Chen Linjian firmly decided. Without a question, he chose to believe in Nie Li's judgement more.

Chen Linjian was a wise man, he knew who to believe and who not to.

Back at the camp, Chen Linjian gathered everyone who was still dreaming moments before..

"Young Master Chen, what's going on?"

"Yeah, why did you get us to travel in the dark?"

Everyone was filled with endless doubts.

"Never mind anything, just listen to my order!" Chen Linjian said firmly. Disregarding the persuasion of others, he led the group towards the exit of the forest.

Nie Li was together with Ye Ziyun and although Ye Ziyun was also a little confused, she did not ask anything.

Right as the group of people just stepped out of the forest, they felt the trembling earth, tremors, and the roars of bears sounding from the forest. Instantly, everyone understood what had happened.

"Young Master Chen is wise!"

"Fortunately Young Master Chen brought us out, otherwise, we would have inevitably had a war with those Fox Bears!"

Everyone commended Chen Linjian. However, Chen Linjian clearly knew that it was all to Nie Li's credit. If it hadn't been for listening to Nie Li's words, they would have definitely been attacked by those Fox Bears. Although they could have won against those Fox Bears, it was inevitable that there would have also been causalities!

At this moment in Chen Linjian's heart, he was already full of admiration for Nie Li. Since young, he had always been an excellent leader among his peers. However, for the first time, he had to admit that his knowledge was far from Nie Li's. One had to know that Nie Li's age was still lower than his by a few years!

At this moment Shen Yue felt depressed. He would have never thought that Nie Li really hit the spot and that Fox Bears would actually appear. After several confrontations with Nie Li, he had been below Nie Li every single time. This was building up more and more resentment in his heart.

Fortunately, the Main Affairs Elder had sent 3 Silver rank experts to follow behind. Shen Yue's gaze was gloomy. Once Nie Li separated from the group, he would find the opportunity to kill Nie Li!

Nie Li was quietly walking at the back of the group together with Ye Ziyun. He looked backwards and his mouth revealed traces of sneers, he was already well aware that there were people following behind the group. Seeing Shen Yue's unfocused look, Nie Li could guess that the few following behind were definitely from the Sacred Family.

They were probably looking for a chance to lay their hands on Nie Li!

Ye Ziyun and the others still had not noticed that they were being followed, however, all this could not escape the keen senses of Nie Li. If he was being followed by several Silver ranks and had been unable to notice it, then he would have lived in vain.

"One, two, three… Three Silver ranks!" Nie Li was walking quietly.

Dawn gradually arrived. Chen Linjian slowly walked to Nie Li's side, looked at Nie Li and said, "Thanks for your foresight Brother Nie Li, otherwise we would have surely been attacked by those Fox Bears. Although we wouldn't be annihilated by them, there would have been inevitable causalities. I, Chen Linjian owe you one." If there had been casualties on the first day, the morale of the team would be greatly affected.

Hearing Chen Linjian's words, Ye Ziyun looked at Nie Li astoundedly. She never would have expected that it was actually Nie Li who had noticed the Fox Bears.

"Young Master Chen is too kind." Nie Li calmly said without a hint of arrogance.

Chen Linjian slightly nodded. Since coming into contact with Nie Li, he had realised that Nie Li was quite capable. Seeing Nie Li's calmness from the praise, he admired Nie Li even more.

Nie Li lowered his voice and said, "Young Master Chen, we're being followed."

Hearing Nie Li's words, Chen Linjian was taken by surprise. He turned his head and looked at the forest behind.

"Don't look, there are three Silver ranks. I don't know who they were sent by." Nie Li said immediately.

Chen Linjian quickly retracted his gaze, pretended to be at ease, and said, "What are their motives?" Chen Linjian frowned, he hadn't offended anyone in Glory City!

"They might be from the Dark Guilds!" Nie Li said. Although he could determine was that those three were from the Sacred Family, Nie Li still said that those three Silver rank people were from the Dark Guild.

After hearing Nie Li's words, Chen Linjian's eyes flashed with a cold light. The Dark Guild was notorious in Glory City because they were a secret organisation created by criminals. The Dark Guild generally didn't dare to appear in broad daylight so they secretly did all kinds of evil deeds and were the common enemy of all of Glory City's families!

"You can leave this matter to me!" Chen Linjian patted on Nie Li's shoulders and walked to the front.