After this thought appeared in my mind, I carefully thought about it. I felt that it was highly possible as it was the only reasonable explanation for Nam and the others' disappearance.
After confirming this idea, I walked around and observed the surroundings, trying to find a flying beast.
Not long after, I found a ferocious beast with wings in the bushes. It had a pair of gray ears and a head that was as big as a fist with a mouse's eyes. Under its white feathers, its body was as tall as a person. Its withered legs had sharp claws with only two toes. It looked very strange.
In fact, when we had just entered this hunting ground, we had already encountered this ferocious beast. According to Nam, this ferocious beast was called the Rat Stork. Its power wasn't high, but it could speak the human language. It was timid and vigilant.
I didn't hurry to catch it, but instead searched for around half an hour. After confirming that I didn't find any other flying ferocious beasts that could allow me to cross the cliff, I decided to use the Rat Stork.
After I found the Rat Stork, I tried to restrain my aura and slowly approached it. However, when I was a few meters away, it still noticed my movement. It flapped its wings and tried to escape. However, it couldn't use its speed at this distance. I shot forward and released my monster energy from my arms, suppressing it to the ground.
The Rat Stork constantly flapped its wings in an attempt to break free. However, this ferocious beast only had a late stage Monster Spirit cultivation. Under my suppression, it could only resign itself to its fate after struggling for a while. It laid on the ground and whimpered.
Since Nam had said that it could speak the human language, I probingly said, "Don't panic. As long as you listen to me, I'll let you go."
The rat stork opened its stinky mouth and let out a few unpleasant squeaks from its throat. Then, it kept nodding its head.
It seemed that this Rat Stork could really understand the human language. I was delighted and pointed at the opposite cliff, telling it my purpose.
After the Rat Stork heard me, its body shivered and its eyes showed fear. However, under my coercion, it finally lowered its head and agreed.
I was anxious as I didn't know what Nam's situation was. I immediately rode on the Rat Stork's neck and grabbed its mane.
The cliff between the two training grounds was steep, but it wasn't that far in a straight line. After flying for half an hour, I reached the opposite shore. However, I didn't let the Rat Stork leave immediately. Instead, I rode on it and continued to fly in the forest. After traveling for another 15 minutes, I finally felt the Dao Aura imprint on Nam's body. I then let the Rat Stork land and jumped off its back.
I originally wanted to leave the Rat Stork behind so that it would be easier for me to bring Nam away after I found him. However, I changed my mind after thinking for a moment.
The ferocious beasts here were only at the realm of Daemon Generals. Although I was only at the early stage of Daemon General, I still had many talismans and many spells that I could use. I didn't have to be afraid of these ferocious beasts with the cultivation of Daemon Generals. I didn't dare to say that I could kill them, but at least I could guarantee the safety of Nam and the others.
With that thought, I decided to let the Rat Stork leave and followed the aura of the Dao Aura imprint deeper into the forest.
The ancient, savage aura in the hunting grounds was several times denser than before. I didn't dare to be careless and spread my spiritual sense to sense Nam's location while keeping an eye on my surroundings.
However, the strange thing was that I hadn't met any ferocious beasts after walking for two hours. Could it be that the intermediate disciples had already killed all the ferocious beasts here?
I quickly shook my head as this possibility was almost impossible. Apart from the ferocious beasts, I hadn't met a single student from Saad Academy. My spiritual sense didn't even detect any signs of human activity.
Even though I didn't understand, I didn't pay much attention to it as the aura of the Dao Aura imprint was extremely dense. This meant that Nam and the others weren't far away.
I hastened my steps and passed through a patch of grass. I found Nam and Tana's silhouettes in an open space, but Saidar wasn't here.
Currently, the two of them were lying on the ground with their eyes closed. However, their auras were still normal. It was obvious that they had just fainted.
I hurried to check them one by one. After I confirmed that they were all right, I woke them up and asked them what had happened.
Nam rubbed his head and his eyes were still in a daze. On the other hand, Tana had already woken up. She answered first, "When we were resting, a few ferocious beasts suddenly attacked the campsite. Those ferocious beasts were very powerful and we weren't their match, so we quickly escaped. However, the ferocious beasts chased us relentlessly. In the end, it was Saidar who lured the ferocious beasts away.
We had originally planned to meet up at the cliff, but just as Nam and I reached there, a ferocious beast flew over and grabbed us as it flew away from the cliff.
During the flight, not long after, we were blown unconscious by the fierce astral winds. We only woke up now. "
After listening to Tana's explanation, Nam gradually regained his senses. He nodded in confirmation as he asked me, "Duo Ji, where did you go?
Did you meet with any danger? "
I shook my head and didn't mention anything about myself. Instead, I continued to ask, "What kind of ferocious beast caught you here?
Among the flying ferocious beasts that I found in the surroundings of the hunting ground, only the Rat Stork had a larger body and was able to do that. "
Nam nodded and told me that the one that caught them was the Rat Stork.
Even though my previous guess was the same, I felt that it was rather strange after hearing them confirm it.
Firstly, the Rat Stork was extremely timid. Why would it suddenly attack Nam and the rest?
Secondly, the Rat Stork didn't attack them or bring them back to its nest after being caught. It just left them on the grassland. What was its purpose?
I couldn't understand it, but since there wasn't any danger, I didn't think too much about it. I just let Nam and Tana regulate their breathing and checked their bodies. Afterwards, I brought them to explore the surrounding situation.
After all, this was an unfamiliar hunting ground. I didn't dare to sit here in a daze without understanding the surrounding situation.
During the exploration process, Nam's expression was extremely dejected. He complained to me that since we came here, we probably wouldn't have the chance to hunt for beast cores anymore. Even if we were lucky and met other intermediate disciples that were participating in the trial, they would successfully bring us away. In the end, we would have no fate with Jin Yueye.
Hearing Nam's complaints, I smiled, but I didn't think so in my heart.
After coming here, it was true that we couldn't hunt for ferocious beasts in the Monster realm. However, there were ferocious beasts that were Monster Generals. As long as we killed them and obtained the Yellow rank beast cores, even if the quantity was small, we would be able to easily defeat the low rank disciples that only had normal beast cores.
Also, since we were able to hunt beast cores that were higher ranks than us, the final results of the intermediate and high rank disciples wouldn't be able to compare to ours.
Of course, I didn't directly tell Nam and the rest. In the end, I could only rely on myself to hunt for beast cores.
As I was thinking about this, I suddenly heard a "Putong" sound behind me. I turned around to see that Tana had fallen to the ground. Her face was pale, and it was obvious that she was exhausted.
She struggled to get up, but Nam walked over and held her down. He turned to me and said, "Duo Ji, we've been walking for so long. Let's rest for a while.
I didn't see any movements in the forest, so it shouldn't be a problem. "
He was worried about Tana, so I couldn't say anything else. After thinking for a while, I found a hill nearby and brought the two of them in. We decided to temporarily camp here.
Nam brought Tana to sit down on a huge tree root. Tana rolled up her sleeves and revealed a wound on her arm. Only then did I realize that there was a wound that was nearly ten centimeters long on her arm, and blood was constantly flowing out.
Nam looked at it and instantly became anxious. He asked, "Why were you so careless? When did you get hurt?"
As he said that, he immediately took out some ointment from his pocket and applied it on Tana's wound.
Tana shook her head with a pale face. "I don't know either. I just felt some pain in my arm. I only saw it after I lifted it up … I might have accidentally scratched myself."
Nam's face was filled with heartache. After carefully applying the ointment, he comforted her. "You don't have to worry. After applying the ointment and stopping the bleeding, you'll be fine."
Looking at their lovey-dovey appearance, I smiled and prepared to have them stay here for the time being while I went out to investigate the surrounding situation. I also wanted to see if I could find a few Monster Generals to get some Yellow level Beast Dans.
As I was thinking about that, there was a rustling sound from the distant forest before I could take any action. The three of us simultaneously turned to look and saw a beast walking towards us.
The beast's body resembled a cheetah. It was at least two meters long from head to tail. Its entire body was silvery-white and there was a pair of huge ears on its head. In front of the ears, there was a grey eye the size of a fist. Its long tail was curled up from its abdomen to the front of its body. It was playing with the tail in its mouth.
The beasts in the Monster region were all strange. It wasn't strange for a beast to look like that.
However, its body was shrouded in a strong aura. It was at least at the intermediate stage of the Monster General realm. This made Nam and Tana's expressions instantly change.
Nam was the first to react. His eyes were filled with despair as he stared at the beast. After a while, he spat out two words.