The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 3099 Perhaps I'm overthinking it.
The shadowy figure watched the beasts begin to move, but suddenly used its consciousness to keep the unicorn and the female unicorn behind: "Don't run away, you two stay here and return to the bottom of the lake!"

The two unicorn beasts looked at each other, nodded, and then ran towards the cliff. Just as they were about to rush down the cliff, the beast that could fuse with the unicorn turned around again, came close to the shadowy figure, crawled down, and conveyed a message.

"Should we carry the unicorn back to the cave?"

The shadowy figure chuckled, holding the staff that had transformed from the unicorn horn in his hand, and said, "No need, I haven't used this staff in a long time. Besides, this staff will no longer be used to operate the mechanism on this bridge. I have already secured the iron chain bridge, and the dragon will no longer be used."

It turns out that the horn on the unicorn's forehead is the weapon of the shadowy figure. It seems that it hasn't been used for a long time, which is why it wielded the stick for so long when it first got the root.

Upon hearing this, the unicorn seemed to nod in understanding, then turned and led the other beast back to the bottom of the lake.

After watching the two strange beasts climb down the cliff, the shadowy figure turned around, stomped on the beast beneath its feet, and charged towards Qian Ying's location.

Previously, sending the two strange beasts back was intended to preserve the lineage of this beast race. These two beasts were the largest and served as the parent species for the race's reproduction. Therefore, even if the entire race were wiped out, as long as these two beasts remained, the race would reproduce again.

Now, after a thousand years and for other reasons, his strength has declined too much. Apart from those two beasts, the strength of the other beasts is also uneven, but overall, they are all relatively weak.

Therefore, it's best to save the seeds to ensure safety.

With a thunderous roar, more than a hundred strange beasts charged toward Qian Ying's direction.

In the shadowy eyes, these hundred-odd strange beasts appeared rather weak. However, for Qian Ying and his companions, this was definitely not a good thing. After all, even the weakest of these beasts was comparable to the tenth level of the Acquired Realm, while many others had already reached the initial stage of the First Level of the Innate Realm.

Of the entire expedition team, only Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing are openly considered to be innate masters; the rest are all acquired masters. Therefore, if they encounter these strange beasts, they will definitely be in deep trouble.

Unfortunately, the shadowy figure seemed to have overestimated them, and even left two beasts as seeds to ensure that the entire beast horde was consumed.

After all, the shadowy figure had been observing the entire team for quite some time. Although he looked down on their overall strength, he always felt there was some threat within the team, and it seemed that if they didn't take it seriously, they would definitely suffer a loss.

That's why the shadowy figure interfered when the team was crossing the lake at the end, wanting to see what posed a threat to them.

Unfortunately, after killing four guys, there was still no discovery. Could it be that my methods were inadequate and failed to force out the threat lurking within the group?

The shadowy figure racked its brains but couldn't figure out what could possibly be a threat. Even though its strength had plummeted to an unbelievable level, these intruders were all incredibly weak; how could they possibly pose a threat?

Thinking back to the four guys I killed earlier, they were all surprisingly weak. Maybe I was just overthinking it.

Therefore, while wanting to eliminate these invaders, he still left a backup plan, thinking that in case anything went wrong, even if he lost these beasts, he could use these two beasts to reproduce again and eventually restore the current number of beasts.

……

On the other side, when the strange beasts roared together, the expressions of all the members of the expedition team changed.

"This...this is the roar of a strange beast?" "Yes, absolutely. It's the sound of the strange beast that was fighting Elder Qian and Elder Zhou over there by the lake."

"That's right, it's the sound of the strange beast." After all, every time they wanted the strange beast to appear, they would press the button on the building at the bridgehead, and the beast would roar when it appeared. Therefore, all the warriors in the group were very familiar with this sound.

"But the roar doesn't seem to be from just two beasts, but from many more." Listening to the roars, although the sounds were very weak, it was still clear that it was definitely not from just two beasts, but from at least dozens of beasts, or even more.

The warriors discussed amongst themselves, their faces turning grim, and they felt extremely anxious. Damn it, if dozens or even hundreds of strange beasts rushed over, they would be doomed.

Qian Ying's expression also turned grim: "Elder Zhou, did you hear those roars?"

"I heard that. It seems there are quite a few of them. Looks like we're in trouble," Zhou Zixing said. "If all these beasts charge at us, we'll have no chance of dealing with them."

"Yes, we absolutely cannot handle so many of these strange beasts charging at us. Especially their strength; if they are all on par with those two beasts, we will undoubtedly lose," Qian Ying affirmed.

"so……"

The two old men looked at each other, then said at the same time, "Retreat! We must retreat!"

"We must go into the building behind us to avoid the attacks of the alien beasts. If we stay here, we'll definitely be waiting to die!" Zhou Zixing said.

Qian Ying nodded and said, "That's right, that's what I think too."

After saying that, without waiting for anything else, he stood up and looked for Qian Wantong: "Manager Qian, Manager Qian...!"

Although the sound was not loud, it was clear enough to reach everyone's ears even in a noisy environment.

The martial artists were still discussing amongst themselves, filled with unease about the impending attack. Qian Ying's shout brought them all to a silence.

After all, Qian Ying's strength is undeniable; let's first hear Elder Qian's plans for dealing with these strange beasts.

"Everyone, please be quiet and pack your belongings. Wait for my orders!" Qian Ying said again, her voice clearly reaching the ears of every martial artist in the quiet night.

After receiving Qian Ying's order, all the martial artists felt much more at ease and quickly began packing their belongings for the journey across the Su.

Qian Wantong quickly ran to Qian Ying's side: "Elder, what are your instructions?"

"Immediately arrange for Ouyang Nan and the others to go ahead and scout ahead. If those strange beasts come after us, we definitely won't be able to handle them, so we must enter the ruined buildings ahead to avoid their attacks," Qian Ying said.

However, Qian Wantong hesitated. After all, he had already expressed strong objections to Ouyang Nan going ahead to scout the way at the lake. How could he explain it to Ouyang Nan now and ask the others to lead the way?
I had promised Ouyang Nan and the others that I would arrange for someone else to go next time so that they could take turns resting.

(End of this chapter)