Hopeless

In the forest we found all the traps destroyed, at first we thought it had been done by someone, but the claw marks proved it was made by some beast and a very strong one.

"We'd better be extra careful when we're hunting, this beast could still be out there, and by the damage caused it could very well be one of holy blood." Chen Ley said, warning us to redouble our attention

"Would we be able to hunt her with our current strength?" asked Wei Qi smiling

Everyone looked at him like he was an idiot. His brother Wei Qing who was closest to him slapped him on the head and said, "We haven't even filled half of our mutant points yet and you already want to face a holy blood beast? You trying to lead us all to death."

Wei Qi was embarrassed when he realized that everyone was looking at him and his surreal proposition. After this short interlude, we went back to walking deeper into the forest.

We spent 10 days hunting as we went deeper into the forest, I killed some primitive beasts along the way and finished maximizing my gene points.

During these days we found two more mutant Casuar, and another 3 beasts, 2 of them were easily killed by our teamwork, plus the last one a thorny devil, it gave us a lot of work to kill, unlike those that exist in the alliance these here reached more than a meter, with his temperament that was very different from the docile and harmless commonly seen in the alliance, not to mention its sharp thorns that made our attacks difficult, and if we weren't careful we'd be hurt while attacking.

With hunting these ten days my mutated gene points increased to 16, despite the increase, I felt I was going too slowly, the problem was that the higher climbed in the category the bigger the beast, so it would take longer to eat all the meat, if we hadn't in 6 I think it would have spoiled a lot of mutant meat.

As we had gone very deep in the forest we decided to start our walk back, on the way back we encountered 4 more mutant beasts, after eating your meat my mutated gene points reached 20.

Everyone was excited because in this hunt we got many mutated points, despite the danger we ran, as we went deeper into the forest the risk came with its rewards. What we didn't expect is that the real danger was on the way to the shelter where we thought it was safest.

When we reached the point where the traps had been destroyed, something seemed to be different, we couldn't even find a common beast near the spot what should be impossible.

"People, have something wrong around here, we didn't find any animals when on the way it's very strange, you better be prepared, maybe we'll have to fight for our lives again."

Seeing how apprehensive Chen Ley was as he warned us it seems that now is not the time to get distracted.

Everyone summoned their beast souls in preparation, looking around to see if anything was approaching. That's when a giant pangolin with more than 3 meters entered our vision, unlike those we hunted before, the scales that covered it had a reddish hue that conveyed a sense of power and a bloody aura.

When we all saw this huge predator in front of us, I knew that even if I wanted to get his attention so the others could escape, it was impossible. This was surely a beast of holy blood, if I were fighting alone I wouldn't be able to last a minute.

"It was nice to meet you guys, the adventures we lived here were so much fun it's a shame I can't continue" Chen Ley began to speak in a melancholy tone

Summoning my holy blood beast soul, with the spear in hand, I looked at my companions who were already desperate.

"We can't give up we still have hope, with this spear of holy blood, if you can give me a chance, maybe I can kill this beast, but it's going to be impossible to do this alone I need your help." Han Long said as he looked at everyone, surprised that he had a beast's soul of holy blood.

"I can't guarantee that we'll be successful, but it's better than sitting around waiting for death, if you still have someone you care about waiting for you to come home, you can't give up." As he thought about his mother and brothers, Han Long tightened his grip on the spear.

Wiping the tears, the first one who recovered was Mei Ling" Brother Long is right folks we can't just give up"

While they tried to gain the courage to fight in search of a chance to survive, the giant Pangolin didn't give them time to regain their spirits. Curling himself into a ball, he came too fast.

Wei Qi didn't think twice when he saw the attack coming and launched himself in front of his comrades to prevent them from being hit, even with armor giving him strength, he was thrown with impact, with pieces of his mutated armor flew away.

Wei Qing seeing that his younger brother didn't get up after being hurled away, with tears in his eyes, raised his shield and attacked with all he had.

Chen Ley seeing that they had broken formation, and thinking that in such a hopeless situation the main thing that could define whether they could survive or not was discarded.

"Brother Long we'll cover for you, try to find an opportunity to attack, but remember we can't last long if missing that chance will be the end for us."

Han Long, seeing the responsibility for the survival of everyone in him, did everything to concentrate. When he felt everyone's movements slow down.

By the time Chen Ley and Hua Ting attacked, the beast flicked its tail in their direction, Han Long could only watch apprehensively, knowing that if they didn't dodge they would be out of combat.

Chen Ley barely managed to escape, but Hua Ting was not so lucky as the tail still hit the right side of his body, and even from a distance I could hear the cracks of bones breaking.

Mei Ling was shooting arrows non-stop trying to distract the pangolin, which unfortunately didn't help as her armor was much tougher than a mutant beast and covered more parts of her body.

With two already defeated on our side, the fight wasn't going very well, that's when Wei Qi woke up and sent his beast's soul to his older brother, even if he wasn't whole, it would help.

Taking advantage of his armor, Wei Qing launched his charge attack with Chen Ley following right behind him, taking advantage of the moment of impact to attack one of the beast's eyes, which screamed in pain, but the cut was very superficial.

That's when I saw that my opportunity arrived, I knew I didn't have enough strength to kill a beast of holy blood even with the spear, my mind worked fast trying to find a way for my attack to penetrate enough to kill.

As I ran towards the pangolin everything was in slow motion, that's when I thought about coating my spear with Qi, even though I couldn't accumulate it inside me, I could still manipulate it.

Making my decision I closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened my spear it glowed bluish, at that moment I knew I had made it, now all I could do was push the spear into the head of this beast.

Tum tu

Tum tu

At that moment I could only hear my heartbeat as I pushed my spear forward, I felt the flesh splitting at the tip as it pierced a path.

Giant pangolin of dead holy blood. Beast's soul obtained

Eat your meat to gain 0-10 holy gene points

As he listened to the sound of the sanctuary he remembered how many times he silently complained that his reincarnation in this world had not come with his system, with no means of cheating, but now he felt that even without such a system he could still reach the top with the cultivation techniques he had known since he unraveled the mystery to start accumulating the inner Qi this would be the start of his climb to the peak.

"Han Long help me check Brother Qing's situation at the last moment he ran into the beast," said Chen Ley, panting as he saw the beast no longer move.

Han Long came out of his reverie and went to where Wei Qing was lying, seeing that he was still breathing he breathed a sigh of relief.

"He is still alive, but he is very injured we need to send him back to the alliance and receive proper medical treatment"

"he's not the only one wounded around here Sister Ling you help Hua Ting, Long, you and I take the Wei brothers while we drag the beast, if only to sell the meat we can't leave something so precious behind" said Chen Ley

After tying the pangolin's body to some ropes, supporting the wounded, we walked to the shelter.