Chapter 8 - The lost army

"The mirror of nature? What the heck's that" questioned Bai Feng.

A dazed look appeared in Sun Wukong's eyes as he began to tell his tale

"It was a very long time ago, that I came to know of the mirror of nature. I may have not mentioned it to you but there was a reason why I was trapped within that red pearl. Once ago when I was at my youthful prime, you could say that I was a battle thirsty maniac. I loved fighting with strong people, the sensation I got every time I got injured by a strong opponent or injured a strong opponent was unforgettable and every time I battled, I got stronger and stronger" said Sun Wukong

Bai Feng listened carefully to the monkey gods story as he hoped to learn more about the world where the monkey came from

Sun Wukong continued and said "My urge to battle every strong person, grew to the point where I decided to rebel against the entire heavens. I sought out the strongest power within my world and wanted to become the strongest of them all. But unfortunately I was bested by that old man who they called the great Buddha emperor. He was too strong for me and as punishment for creating havoc and unnecessary battles I was forcefully trapped within this red pearl. My own life seed. And was sent hurtling out of the domain of gods and into the low tier realms. Where I eventually ended up in this cave, on this world surface

Bai Feng looked up and asked "But where does the Mirror of nature, come in"

"Well the mirror of nature was an item of the Dao that I won after I defeated the Dao of nature. She was a tough opponent. Her herself was not on my level but every living creature made from nature assisted her in battle against me, I would have lost If my fellow monkey brothers hadn't helped me. As a reward for winning the fight against her, she decided to give me one her personally created Dao treasures, the mirror of nature. The ability of this mirror was so powerful that it was ranked in the top ten ranks of the 72 Dao treasures. By using this mirror, I was able to transform my monkey brothers in an army feared by many. However, when I was sealed and sent here, my fellow brothers were sealed within that mirror and my connection to the mirror was broken. But I don't know If this was out of pity or not, but the so called Buddha threw the mirror in the same direction as me, and when I crashed onto this planet, I could sense that the mirror landed in the same area as this one, waiting to be found. And my brothers have been sealed into that mirror for countless of years, unknown whether they are alive or not" said Sun Wukong

As he talked about the last part, Bai Feng could see a wave of grieve and regret flood the red monkeys face, but he quickly covered it up and stood up abruptly

"That's why I am asking you Bai Feng to recover the mirror, make it yours and see if my brothers are still alive or not" asked Wukong

Bai Feng stood up as well and replied "Don't worry Wukong, even if you hadn't mentioned your lost brothers I still would have went to search for it and see how it made such a powerful army, but how will we find it, I thought it was not in your control anymore"

"It may not be in my control but a treasure like that, especially a Dao of nature treasure reeks of nature intent and it will probably be located right in the most flourishing area of Demonshrine forest which is not far from here"

"Then what are we waiting for? " exclaimed Bai Feng

He walked out of the cave he had spent so long in but as soon as he came out of the cave he was welcomed by trouble. Right in front of him was a large group of crystal beast's and even ordinary beasts . Sun Wukong giggled at this site as if he had already sensed the beasts

Bai Feng looked at him with eyes that could kill but looked back to the current group of beasts which were the real danger at the moment

He remembered that because he had enough mana he could use a skill that only Demi lords could use called martial sense. Martial sense allowed cultivators to release a thin wave of their energy that was almost transparent and anything that the wave touched would be detected by the cultivator

He activated martial sense and when he found out how many crystal beasts' there were and their cultivation, he grinned widely as he thought about the number of crystal cores he will get. By using martial sense, he found out that there were around 165 crystal beast's and the weakest one among them had a cultivation of a Peak Mortal rank and the strongest was coincidentally a Rank 1 Demi lord.

The crystal beast's shivered as they saw the blood lust emitted from the red eyes of the red youth standing in front of them. Bai Feng's battle intent intimidated them but they didn't back down as they thought the numbers were against him

Bai Feng stood tall and the spirit of Sun Wukong followed his every action. They both released an intimidating battle aura and prepared to face the horde of beast. Bai Feng jumped right into the air and located the strongest crystal beast straight away. The Rank 1 Demi Lord crystal beast was known as a hellhound. It had blood coloured skin and dagger like teeth and claws, its squinting eyes full of hate glared at the youth who jumped in the air. It bent its back to show the spear like crimson -black horns that protruded from its leathery forehead and back. It planned to skewer the plummeting Bai Feng.

But instead of panicking, Bai Feng merely laughed at the hellhound's naivety and reeled back his fist as he planned to see which was stronger him or the hellhound. Just when he was about to get skewered he hurled his fist towards the horn from his head, the hellhound roared and screeched with pain as its horn on its forehead dug into its skin almost piercing its skull, nearly half of the horn had been crumpled. It jumped backwards away from the Bai Feng screeching in pain.

Bai Feng was stunned by his strength, he didn't think he would create that much of an impact and his skin was incredibly tough he didn't even get a scratch. Bai Feng turned his attention back to the hellhound that was hurling around in pain. He quickly thought of a plan and decided to use this as a way to distract the crystal beast's. The rest of the crystal beast's stared at Bai Feng with anger for injuring their leader, they formed a circle around the leader. Bai Feng summoned all the strength he possessed into both his fist and plummeted them towards the soft grass ground. The area shook and the ground split, clouds of dust from the rumble coloured the area and all the beast's lost their sight, some even fell onto the ground from the shaking.

Bai Feng quickly used the dust cloud as a cover and used to [Infinite clones] skill to summon 5 clones which instantly consumed quite a lot of his mana. This is when Bai Feng realised that the skills the monkey king gave him were too energy consuming but that was fair considering their strength and potential in battle. Because of Bai Feng's eyes the dust cloud didn't even affect his view and that applied to the clones. He ordered them to use this to their advantage and the clones immediately headed into the dust cloud slaughtering one crystal beast after the other, and the real Bai Feng stationed himself at the top of a nearby tree and began using the [Intervening Phoenix bow] skill to snipe of the crystal beast's however because he only had some mana left he was only able to kill 27 of the beasts.

All of his arrows hit their target exactly where he wanted, Bai Feng was surprised by this as he had never used a bow before but it wasn't long before he realised that it was because of his new red eye. Whenever he focused on a crystal beast a marker would appear on it and he could see all their weak points, the strongest parts of their body even where their crystal cores were. Using this to his advantage he was able to efficiently snipe all 27 crystal beasts with his remaining mana.

After that he joined his clones below on the actual fighting and recalled two of them so he could regain back some mana. But by the time he joined there were only 20 or so crystal beast's left which surprised as he didn't think his clones were that efficient.

He shrouded both of his hands and feet with mana and leaped in to join the massacre. He leaped, vaulted dodged all incoming attack and then would use blink to appear near the opponent's blind spot or weak spot using his eyes, after that he would quickly strike them and move onto the next.

By the end of the one sided battle, there were 4 Bai Feng's surrounded by 164 dead crystal beast's, the only enemy alive was the injured hellhound, it looked at Bai Feng with desperation and fear in its eyes and prepared to charge towards him.

Bai Feng just stood before it and recalled the rest of his clones, the hellhound charged towards him and screeched a battle cry but when it was just 5 metres away from him, Bai Feng used [Monkey's blink] and appeared on the left side of the hellhound and the next thing the hellhound saw was Bai Feng's blade like fingers going through its neck. It screeched and fell to the floor dead with Bai Feng's hand still in its neck.

Bai Feng grabbed onto something in its neck and pulled it out of the hellhounds corpse. There was a jagged orange crystal in his hands that seemed to glow. He could sense a berserk but pure energy within the crystal

"This must be the crystal core" realised Bai Feng

"It holds at least twice the amount of energy than in pills, this is the best energy source for me as the berserk energy won't bother me because of my bloodline" thought Bai Feng

He threw the orange crystal core into his mouth and just as he was about to bite into it, to his surprise the crystal core started to melt in his mouth into a small ball of energy that was small enough to be swallowed, so Bai Feng swallowed it into his mouth and straight after it entered, it burst into streams of energy and headed towards the spiraling vacuum dantian, as Bai Feng thought its berserk nature could do nothing to him under the oppression of the Seven Celestial Dragon bloodline.

His dantian pulsed for a moment before settling down, Bai Feng estimated that if he had 3 or more crystal cores' like that he would have been able to rise up a rank. He greedily stared at the 164 dead crystal beast's that were waiting to be plundered from them. Bai Feng summoned 5 clones and ordered them to collect the crystal cores from each of the corpses while he sat down and began to recover his energy.