Dual Cultivation In Martial Peak

Chapter 65: A 6th Order Monster Beast?

"Once again, thank you for saving our lives." The man and the woman, who had now recovered some of their True Qi, thanked the Hu Sisters again.

"If I'm not wrong, the two of you are from the Reflecting Moon Sect, right?"

"Indeed. I am Chen Xue Shu, and he is my Senior Brother, Shu Xiao Yu." The woman, Chen Xue Shu, explained. "Senior Sister..."

Noticing the confusion on Chen Xue Shu, the Hu Sisters introduced themselves.

"It's Hu Jiao'er."

"I'm Hu Mei'er; you can call me Junior Sister Hu."

Even though the Hu Sisters looked the same age, Hu Mei'er was undoubtedly the youngest within the group, being in a similar age group to Su Mu.

Not to mention that a distinction like this was better than letting some strangers call them by their given names.

Chen Xue Shu and Shu Xiao Yu seemed to be in a hurry, and when they completely absorbed the Blood Beads to recover their True Qi, they left, and the Hu Sisters followed them.

After running for a few minutes, the four of them suddenly heard the sounds of combat.

"Over there!" Chen Xue Shu and Shu Xiao Yu both spoke out in unison.

Soon, the group arrived at their desired location, looking at the scene of several Monster Beasts attacking a group of cultivators.

The group's situation appeared to be similar to that of Chen Xue Shu and Shu Xiao Yu, with them being under attack by various Monster Beasts of different species.

Surprisingly enough, all of these cultivators were from various forces, but they somehow banded together to fight these Monster Beasts, making their survival possible.

"Senior Sister Hu, Junior Sister Hu, if you don't wish to intervene, please wait here. After we finish up, I'll bring you two over and explain everything in detail," Chen Xue Shu said with a serious expression and then joined the battle along with Shu Xiao Yu, helping the group of cultivators.

"Hmm. Mei'er, in case someone asks, tell them that we don't have any pills left with us." Hu Jiao'er said after observing the situation for a few seconds.

Just by looking at the group of cultivators, it was easy to tell that they had been running low on Recovery Pills, and in a situation like this, it was easier for everyone to turn against the one who had them.

Hu Jiao'er would have no problems turning most cultivators into Blood Beads if a situation like that occurred, but deliberately causing conflict with so many people would be a stupid idea.

Not only will it deplete the Hu Sisters' strength, but their current targets were the cultivators from the Tian Lang Dynasty.

"Okay." Hu Mei'er replied, watching as a roar rang out, and after hearing that roar, the several dozens of Monster Beasts began falling back, quickly disappearing into the forest.

After a few minutes, Chen Xue Shu and Shu Xiao Yu came over, both of them revealing tired expressions as they scanned the aftermath of the battle.

"Are these all the cultivators left from the Great Han Dynasty?" Hu Jiao'er asked.

"Indeed." Shu Xiao Yu nodded. "Except for us, there are only the four Tian Lang Dynasty Cultivators remaining, but those four now have hundreds of Monster Beast servants."

When the isolated place opened, there were more than three hundred cultivators from the Great Han Dynasty, but now, only around thirty of them remained alive, with most of them suffering from varying degrees of injuries and severe exhaustion, along with depletion of True Qi.

"These past few days, those Tian Lang Dynasty people's Monster Beasts have only increased in number; there are simply too many of them for us to kill." Chen Xue Shu added, anger apparent on her face.

"I hate to admit it, but almost eighty percent of Monster Beasts in this isolated place are their slaves." Shu Xiao Yu continued.

'But... Doesn't that mean that if done correctly, killing those four Tian Lang Cultivators can also lead to gaining hundreds of Blood Beads from various Monster Beasts? I'm sure they'll be of minimal help to Su Mu.' Hu Mei'er thought, and her lips curled up into a small smile.

"By the way, who is in charge of this group?" Hu Jiao'er asked, noticing that her little sister was up to something.

"It's him." Shu Xiao Yu glanced to the side, pointing towards the man who had a sword hanging on his waist. "Nine Star Sword Sect's Wu Cheng Yi, a True Element 7th Stage Cultivator. Out of everyone gathered here, his strength is the strongest, so for now, we're all following his lead."

Hu Jiao'er looked at the Sword Cultivator Chen Xue Shu was talking about, and she noticed that Wu Cheng Yi was staring at her and Hu Mei'er.

The Nine Star Sword Sect's disciples all cultivated the way of the sword; it was an extremely famous Sect whose reputation echoed throughout the Great Han Dynasty, and it was Hu Jiao'er's first time encountering a Sword Cultivator other than Su Mu.

Wu Cheng Yi possessed great personal strength and came from an extraordinary background; such a person temporarily commanding this group made sense, because, in addition to him, there was likely no one else in this group of young cultivators who could serve as the leader without drawing public criticism.

'From the looks of it, he can't even detect that I'm stronger than him, huh?' After looking for a few seconds, Hu Jiao'er lost all interest in the so-called Sword Cultivator. Even when she was at the 7th Stage of the True Element Realm, she was stronger than Wu Cheng Yi.

But even then, Hu Jiao'er had to admit that Wu Cheng Yi would make an excellent Blood Bead, and that was without counting all the Blood Beads he must've hoarded while acting as the leader.

"Senior Sister Hu, what's your cultivation realm?" Chen Xue Shu asked.

"7th Stage True Element." Hu Jiao'er replied without much consideration.

She had no plans on staying with this group, and if any of them were captured by the Tian Lang Cultivators, revealing her newly increased cultivation base, it might foil their plan to take them by surprise.

"What about Junior Sister Hu?" Shu Xiao Yu asked.

"4th Stage True Element." Hu Mei'er replied, understanding what her elder sister planned on doing.

"No wonder you survived with only two people." Chen Xue Shu concluded, letting out a small sigh.

After gaining whatever information they could and familiarising themselves with what the group had found about the Tian Lang Cultivators, the Hu Sisters left.

Although some cultivators retorted, saying that everyone's chances of survival would increase if someone as strong as Hu Jiao'er stayed with them, the latter simply pointed her sword at their throats.

At the end of the day, even Wu Cheng Yi couldn't do anything as the Hu Sisters left.

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"Quite the interesting catch my Monster Beasts made."

Sitting on the stone with her legs crossed, the woman looked at Hu Jiao'er with a vicious smile before licking her lips, with the two of them being surrounded by dozens of 5th and 4th Order Monster Beasts.

'I don't like doing this again.' Hu Jiao'er was, as usual, acting as bait to capture the Tian Lang Cultivator in front of her, with her body covered in some fake wounds.

After a month of careful analysis, the Hu Sisters decided their first target would be this woman, the weakest cultivator from the Tian Lang Dynasty, along with being the youngest. From the information they had previously gathered, her name was Zi Mo.

If it was only about killing Zi Mo, Hu Mei'er could've done it without much trouble, but they needed to capture her alive to extract some information about her companions, mainly the strongest one among them, whom the Hu Sisters couldn't gather any information on since he wasn't even around.

But subduing Zi Mo without killing her or alerting the other Tian Lang Cultivators wasn't simple thanks to the dozen of 5th Order Monster Beasts—all of them comparable to 5th to 7th Stage True Element Realm Cultivators—that were always guarding her, so Hu Jiao'er needed to get close to her, letting Zi Mo's Monster Beasts catch herself after some struggle.

It was the same tactic the Hu Sisters had used against the Thunder Valley's disciples, and in Zi Mo's eyes, Hu Jiao'er was simply a 7th Stage True Element Cultivator, so the Tia Lang Cultivator wasn't even on guard against her.

Hu Jiao'er watched as Zi Mo got up from her seat and started walking forward, but before she could reach her, Zi Mo's eyes widened in shock, and she hurriedly turned around.

Thud!*

Thud!*

Two of her Monster Beasts had just fallen to the ground with arrows made out of True Qi embedded into their heads.

"At least those from the Thunder Valley had some level of intelligence." With a swift motion, Hu Jiao'er grabbed Zi Mo's neck, releasing her cultivation base to pressure the latter.

"T-True Element 9th Stage." Zi Mo's face instantly went pale, knowing that in such a situation, she had no strength to resist the woman in front of her, but before she could say anything, Hu Jiao'er spoke.

"Tell your Monster Beasts to stay still."

While saying that, Hu Jiao'er tightened her grip around Zi Mo's hand, making her nod weakly before crying out. "Fall back!"

The Monster Beasts that were about to attack Hu Jiao'er stood in place, quietly looking at the scene.

"Gah!"

Hu Jiao'er roughly grabbed Zi Mo by her hair, gaining a painful groan from the latter before asking. "Are these all of the Monster Beasts under your control?"

"T-There are some more..."

"Summon all of them here, and if you try anything funny..."

The look in Hu Jiao'er's eyes made Zi Mo tremble, and she nodded in return, doing as she was ordered to.

"Good."

The reason Hu Jiao'er was going through all this trouble was because of the idea her little sister came up with.

According to Hu Mei'er, the Tian Lang Dynasty's cultivators had control of almost eighty percent of the Monster Beasts within this isolated place; wouldn't that mean that they could collect their Blood Beads, as long as they could subdue the cultivators controlling those Monster Beasts?

Since Su Mu was exploring the secrets of this place, the Hu Sisters doubted he had much time to collect Blood Beads to aid his cultivation, so Hu Mei'er decided to gift him some from the Tian Lang Dynasty Cultivators and their enslaved Monster Beasts.

They were sure that the Blood Beads would help him increase Su Mu's cultivation by at least five or six stages, reaching a similar cultivation realm to their own, probably even surpassing it.

After all of Zi Mo's Monster Beasts had gathered around, Hu Jiao'er watched them kill each other, effectively turning more than sixty Monster Beasts into Blood Beads for them to take, only leaving a single Monster Beast alive to collect all the Blood Beads.

"Now, tell us about your Senior Brothers and Senior Sister." Hu Jiao'er ordered, standing in front of Zi Mo, who was sitting on her knees in front of her, with Hu Mei'er standing next to her.

"Yes..."

Under the threat of losing her life, Zi Mo started explaining the strengths and weaknesses of her fellow cultivators, but before she could go on for much longer, Hu Mei'er stopped her.

"What do you mean your Senior Brother only has one Monster Beast under his control?"

"Unlike the rest of us, who went for numbers, he went ahead and only enslaved a single 6th Order Monster Beast." Zi Mo explained, causing the Hu Sisters' eyes to widen in surprise.

A 6th Order Monster Beast was equivalent to an Immortal Ascension Realm Cultivator—an invincible existence within this isolated place.

Everything up until now had gone exactly as Hu Mei'er and Hu Jiao'er had planned, but...

Things turned out worse than they had expected.

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A/N:

Damn, releasing one chapter a day is exhausting, but I won't stop until the Hu Sisters' pov is over (probably two more chapters).