Trouble Brewing

The two arrived a distance away from the cultivators and decided to take a rest. Xiao Yan was fuming in anger on what those detestable cultivators did.

"Those cultivators are too much! They already led the trouble towards us and they still are not satisfied and wish us to be the bait! See Mu Yue, this is what frequently happens in the wild."

Mu Yue now experienced what cultivators would do just to save their own skin. She will now certainly remember it and become more cautious when meeting strangers in the wild.

"Xiao Yan, do you remember the way back to the city? I didn't memorize the path we took as I was busy running." Mu Yue was not sure if they should continue hunting or try going back.

A circular object appeared on Xiao Yan's hand. She then handed it to Mu Yue and said, " This here is called a pointer. It will point toward the last saved location. Each important human areas have large crystals. The pointer will take the aura of a large crystal and it will always point towards it."

Mu Yue then looked at the pointer, she always knew that Xiao Yan possesses a lot of knowledge for her age. When they go to school, she will surely read for more information so she won't be caught off guard when an unexpected situation arises.

They continued to hunt for five more days while noticing that the frequency of monster appearance increased. They hunted 18 Tier 2 beasts and 5 Tier 3 beasts. They started to go back on the afternoon of the 7th day. When they arrived outside the forest, they saw cultivators with a badge on their clothes.

"Why are there a lot of hunters?" Xiao Yan asked a cultivator with a badge.

The cultivators with a badge are hunters with a mission from the Hunter Association. The hunter looked at Xiao Yan and said, "There was a report on the increasing amount of monster's appearing. A mission was issued to investigate this side of the forest."

"Did they found out the cause?"

"No, but there are increasing casualties on the side of cultivators. The higher-ups guesses that it is the premonition to a beast tide."

A beast tide is an attack on a human city by a large army of beasts. Although the cities are in human territory, more beasts can be found than humans.

Powerful cultivators cannot go and massacre the beasts as the powerful beings of the beast side will immediately go and provide help. The same thing will happen to the powerful beasts if they go and massacre human cities. Powerful figures can only attack those of similar strengths to decrease massacres.

It has been an unwritten rule and wars can be seen as a way to temper the weaker fighters. When a beast tide happens, only those below the celestial stage will participate. The powerful figures restrain each other so they can't interfere in the fight. They won't risk joining these battles as they might start a Racial War. The last Racial War happened 4 000 years ago and it brought a massive amount of destruction on the two sides.

Arriving at the Yan City, the two went to a branch of Hunter Association. They sold the beast corpses they hunted. The tier 2 cores sold for 2 gold while the Tier 3 cores sold for 3 gold. The corpses were a fifth of the price of their cores. The two earned 30 gold each and some silver. (1 gold = 10 silver)

These earnings are more than an average cultivator's as most cultivators only own storage rings when they are at the Foundation Establishment and only those with 1 cubic meter.

Xiao Yan has long noticed that Mu Yue owned a storage ring. Mu Yue's storage ring is full of spirit stones so she was only able to use less than 1 cubic meter. Most of the beast corpses were stored by Xiao Yan. This made Xiao Yan think that Mu Yue owned the most common storage ring and only just has it earlier than the others. (Tian Min's ring was left too long on the mortal world so it looks like an old common storage ring.)

Meanwhile, a group of important people is seen debating around a table. This group of people gathered at the City Hall to discuss what they should do regarding the reports they received.