Flesh-Eating Koala

"I'll attack from the front, you attack from the back", said Ye Chen.

"Alright, be careful", Lin Qing'er replied.

Then they waited for the appearance of the Flesh-Eating Koala. It did not take long for the monster to appear. 

Standing upright, as tall as a mature horse, covered with cyan furs from its head to its foot.The claws on both upper and lower limbs are long. It has rat-like ears. 

Two fangs were hanging down from its upper jaw, and two fangs were rising from its lower jaw. With obsidian black eyes, it looked at them. Illusory fumes come out of its nostrils, a display of anger. What Flesh-Eating Koalas hate the most is having their territory intruded.

Looking at the two humans before it, it extended its right palm and pointed south, then roared.

"Its asking us to leave", Lin Qing'er said.

"And that, we shall not do. Attack!", Ye Chen shouted.

Then his figure moved, and he arrived before the monster. The monster watched with disdain. When Ye Chen made a move just now, he revealed his aura which is at the peak of Soul Formation Realm. 'What can this little ant do to me?', it thought.

But,

PCCHH!

It suddenly felt a tearing on its foot. Looking at it, there's faint blood leaking out, just a few centimetres deep wound. He looked towards Ye Chen and discovered that a sword had appeared at some point, and it had blood stains on it, its blood.

Enraged, the monster leaped, and as it approached Ye Chen, it gathered energy into its two paws and beat them down on the young man. Ye Chen could feel the power coming from it and he retreated by several steps.

The monster didn't give him a chance to breathe though. It poured energy into his feet and leaped again. This time, it shot a foot attack. Ye Chen dodged with the sword and when the two collided, there was a 

CLANG!

The monster's paws and claws are as hard as iron, or even harder. The ground beneath Ye Chen caved in a little. But what Ye Chen paid attention to was the numbness in his two arms.

'The monster is strong', he thought.

But the monster was approaching again, but this time, Ye Chen was ready to make another move. He also leaped into the air and flipped three times, shouting

"Giant Whale Flipping Sword Art"

On the last flip, the sword was extended and flashed an energy blade(or blade made out of Spiritual Energy), which moved in the direction of the monster. The monster also poured energy into its paw, forming a barrier, and caught the energy blade. This time however, the blade made a cut in its paw. 

And was quite deep, which caused it to roar in pain. In its misery, felt danger from behind it and quickly leaped onto a nearby tree. Immediately after it left, the place where it stood before was hacked by icy spears, also condensed by Spiritual energy.

On the tree, it looks at the direction from which the attack came from. There behind where it stood, it saw a delicate creature. But it was this delicate creature that made a move on it.

Of course, it was Lin Qing'er who made the move. What she just shot out was a Spell called 'Icicle Spears Art', it is a move that would condense Icicle-like spears in mid-air and shoot them out like an arrow at the target.

From Lin Qing'er, the Flesh-Eating Koala felt a strong sense of danger, so it decided to use its environment to better advantage. 

With its lower limb, it held onto the tree trunk, and with its upper limb it tore off a branch of it and shot it towards Lin Qing'er, and then leaped onto another nearby tree, repeated the same process and shot the cut off branch towards Ye Chen.

It kept repeating this action for a dozen times, and then leaped into the air in Lin Qing'er's direction. It needed to take down this source of great threat first. The description is slow, but the action took only a few breaths, two breaths in total.

When it appeared behind Lin Qing'er by sheer speed, thinking it could finally take down this evil human, Lin Qing'er turned around smiling at it. It became alert and wanted to retreat, but it was too late.

An Icicle Spear shot down from above and pierced from its head, down to its spine, then it became a frozen corpse.

The branches it shot towards Lin Qing'er have all been frozen by her cold Spiritual Energy. And the ones shot towards Ye Chen have been burnt to ashes. This is their specialty, the major reason why Qin Bailong took them in as his personal disciples.

They both have Special Physiques too, just like Jiang Hou's Divine Body of Stars. However, their own Physique is not Divine Physique. Their physique is only at the Spiritual level, with the attribute of fire for Ye Chen, and Ice for Lin Qing'er.

Ye Chen came over, and the four Protectors also appeared.

"It is not very sharp,right?"Ye Chen asked.

"It is indeed not very intelligent", answered Wang Wu.

"But, brother Chen, why do you love competing with monsters in terms of Body Tempering? You just have to take that much time to slay what you could have burned up", Lin Qing'er asked.

"Ah! I was only testing my progress. It is not a good thing to be blinded by current level of achievement, right? A cultivator must measure himself by how much progress he's making each day. That's the true achievement", Ye Chen defended himself.

"Hmph", snorted Lin Qing'er. She could not find words to refute what Ye Chen had said.

"What do you want to do with the body of the monster? There are not many treasures on it besides its Monster Core, its paws, and its claws. The jaws are used by demonic cultivators who practised ghost techniques", Wang Wu asked.

Humans have Dantian which would transform to Purple Mansion. Monsters have Monster Cores that could store Monster Qi, and would later transform to Monster Mansion. When any monster beyond the Dantian Expansion Realm dies, its energy would again be gathered and condensed into a Monster Core before its vitality vanishes.

"To eat it of course", Ye Chen and Lin Qing'er echoed in unison.

They said it so fast that the Protectors became speechless from being caught off-guard. Looking at the duo who looked like they haven't eaten in months, they thought, 'Aren't you monks? At your level, even if you don't eat for a decade, it won't affect you, right?'

However, they didn't say that out loud. Their job here is to keep the two safe, and accompany them back to the Holy Lord in good conditions.

"Alright then. But before that, let's find a good place, we can't stay here for long", Wang Wu said.

Ye Chen took the monster corpse into his storage ring quickly. As he thought about what delicacies they would make out of the meat. After a while, they found a cave, slayed the monster in it, and Ye Chen made fire, while Lin Qing'er was applying seasonings on the skinned monster.

Both the limbs and the head have been taken off. The innards too, apart from the heart and lungs. Ye Chen especially loved eating the hearts. To him, it is the most delicious part of any monster.

A few moments later, the beast meat is ready. The fragrance of it filled the cave, but did not drift to the outside of it. A formation has been set up in advance. 

In the One Hundred Thousand Monsters Mountain Range, the least you want to do is cause a monster riot. If the fragrance of a cooked beast goes out, the nearby monsters would perceive it and know that there's a human nearby making a delicacy out of their monster race.

Then they would gather and form a circle around the human. If the human is strong enough, he may be able to slay many of them and escape with injuries. If the human is weak, he would perish. If he is too strong, the monsters would die.

So, as a caution, everyone who enters the Mountain range has at least basic accomplishment in the field of Arrays and Formations.

Because the fragrance was too inviting, which brought back long-buried memories, the Protectors were 'forced' to accept the duo's 'Filial Piety'.

And so, both the Protectors and the duo ate to fill, clearing the whole monster meat in a few moments.

Sighing, Ye Chen said, "Like every good thing, this monster meat is gone too. And quickly so"

"There are other monsters in this Mountain Range anyways. We can eat as much as we want", Lin Qing'er said.

But a voice sounded in their minds at this time. He really could not take it anymore.

'What are you two idiots thinking? If you continue to be lax, don't blame me for sending you to the depths of the Inner Region. I can at least do that much. You are here to train, not to eat delicacies. Don't get lost in the moment', Su Yaoren said angrily.

At this moment, Ye Chen and Lin Qing'er seemed to have woken up from a dream. It is always like that with 'pleasure'. You become totally lost in it that the important things are cast aside, just to relish the moment.

But it is that moment of relish that would bring ultimate destruction.

'They are still kids in their hearts. They need to face more cruelties to know that Heaven and Earth is a battlefield. It is either you compete, and fight for a chance of survival, or die', Su Yaoren thought.

Ye Chen and Lin Qing'er didn't know that someone was making plans to give them harder times in the future. Otherwise, they would cry at this moment and beg for leniency.

But time will always reveal the mystery.