Strange World Alchemist Chef – Book 2
Chapter 8: Demonic Beast Stampede
Translated by Pill Bug
“Good, this beasts’ cultivation can keep up with this old man!” Chen Mie wiped the blood around his mouth and quickly stood up, Revelation surging out again, “Let this old man duel it!”
Seeing this demonic beast whose cultivation level reached the Void Spirit Stage, Chen Mie was even more convinced that there was something good under the ice lake. Now, there was no option other than him heading forward to fight.
Not waiting for Chen Mie to dash in, the bull spirit roared, charging forwards first, attacking by swinging Its huge hooves swung towards him. Chen Mie’s pupils contracted, quickly dodging to the side.
Boom! Chen Mie’s previous position was turned into a huge pit!
Chen Mie shouted while running: “Leave this brutish bull to this old man, all of you go explore the bottom of the lake!” He thought could delay this bull while letting the others hurry down the ice lake to explore the area.
“Ve, Venerable Chen …… there are many demonic beasts surging up!”
The person next to him shuddered and shouted out. Chen Mie turned his gaze and the sight filled him with horror. Through his eyes, he clearly saw a large number of demonic beasts flocking forwards, as if they had all gone mad. Their cultivation was also not low, all being above the Spirit Refining Stage!
Their group’s cultivation may be better, but there were simply too many enemies to deal with! The dense crowd of demonic beasts swooped in. Being at the Void Spirit Stage, Chen Mie could escape, but the rest would find it very difficult. Not to mention the existence of the Void Spirit Stage bull behind him. Chen Mie being able to save himself was already considered good.
“Damn, how could this happen, it seems we underestimated this place! Run!”
Without hesitation, Chen Mie turned to cover the crowd’s escape. Exploring was no longer an option in this current situation. If they forcefully continued, even if they could find something at the bottom of the ice lake, they would not live to bring it back. So the best plan was to hurry up and leave, find stronger reinforcements and return.
“Ah~~!”
A miserable scream filled the air. Chen Mie looked back and found that many of his men had been pounced on by the demonic beasts. In less than three or two exchanges, they were torn into pieces, the scene was simply too tragic to look at.
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The noise of demonic beasts rioting in the depths of the Phantom Forest, as well as the roars, made many cultivating disciples chilled with fear. As the noise picked up, Wu Xuan opened his eyes, a feeling of wrongness surging in his heart. This time, what arrived was no longer the roar of one or two demonic beasts, but the roar of countless demonic beasts!
He could feel that this cultivation site was surrounded by demonic beasts responding to the roar of other demonic beasts. The first ones that roared then drove the other demonic beasts to roar too, leading to the entire Phantom Forest rioting.
“What did those Imperials do, causing all the demon beasts in the Phantom Forest to rage?”
Zhao Tianlong and the elders of the Wu family quickly got up without hesitation, turning right to the disciples who were meditating, and said, “Everyone stop cultivating and run out of the Phantom Forest!”
Their sense of crisis was much more sensitive than the many disciples. Of course, as long as they were not deaf fools, it was clear that the demonic beasts of this Phantom Forest had gone on a rampage. If anyone could still cultivate calmly here, they were either fools, deaf, or peak experts.
The crowd of cultivators could only get up in a hurry, no matter how good the environment here was, they had to live to cultivate to enjoy it ah!
Still, it seemed that they were a little too late. [1]
They had just started to leave when a large number of demonic beasts surged in from the surrounding area. Besides the roars, there was also the sound of trees being broken. Seeing that, the crowd’s expression changed. Even if the fog was thick, they could still see a pile of demon beasts rushing in, and even just guessing from the sound, it was clear which direction the demon beasts were coming from.
“Roar!”
A demonic beast pounced on the group! The Wu clan’s elders repelled it with a move, then shouted: “Run! Hurry up and run, run towards the mountain, that’s the exit!”[2]
Looking upwards from here, the outline of a mountain could vaguely be seen, and that mountain was the mountain outside. Only when the mist was thin could it barely be seen. [2]
“El, Elder, behind us too……” one of the disciples shouted while trembling.
Their group was already surrounded, and the disciples were frightened. These disciples had been cultivating in the safety of the Wu clan all this time, where would they have seen demonic beasts before? And now, there were so many demonic beasts, even the lowest being at the Spirit Refining Stage. Those that were slightly more powerful were already at the Core Formation Stage, and these were absolutely not something they could deal with.
Wu Xuan looked around extremely calmly. Encountering this sort of situation, the first thing was to be calm! Would being anxious save anyone? However, there were too many demonic beasts ahead, with just his own strength, it was really difficult to break out.
Suddenly a figure swung over to their front, creating an opening in the blockade with a palm strike and roared: “Run!”
Looking clearly, this person who created the opening happened to be Zhao Xi’s father Zhao Tianlong.
“Father!”
Zhao Xi bit her lips, knowing full well that if she didn’t run now, she would be dragging them down instead. At once, she quickly ran out, Wu Xuan following closely. Wu Yuxin, who had been closely following Zhao Xi from behind, sported a pretty face pale from fear. Although her cultivation was high, she had seen too little of the world, such a scene caused her to panic and unable to utilize her cultivation properly.
When Wu Xuan ran out, another demonic beast pounced. A cold glint flashed through Wu Xuan’s eyes, and just as he was about to strike, Zhao Tianlong again sent over a helping palm, swatting away the beast and roared: “JUST RUN!”[3]
Wu Xuan quickly caught up, just as he managed to reach Zhao Xi and the girls, the painstakingly created opening was once again blocked by the demonic beasts. The three of them were the only ones who ran out, and when the demonic beasts outside saw them, they quickly started pouncing on them.
These demonic beasts seemed to know that they wanted to escape, and were dead set on blocking the exit. Zhao Xi gritted her teeth, turned around and ran to the side, shouting,[4] “Run this way!”
Wu Xuan knew that running on that road would lead them deeper into the forest, but surrounding them were a dozen demon beasts blocking the way with only an opening on that side, so he was helpless. With just the three of them, how could they win?
As they were running, they suddenly found that those demon beasts did not continue chasing them. Could it be that the demon beasts were stupid, and could not see them in this fog?[5]
Unfortunately, they all thought wrong. After they had run quite a distance, they ran straight into two giant tiger-like and bear-like beasts blocking their way! The two bear-tiger hybrids also spotted them and opened their mouths with a roar, their scarlet eyes full of hostility.
“Bear tigers!” Zhao Xi said in surprise: “It just had to be bear tigers! They are Spirit Refining Stage demon beasts, but there are only two of them, we can handle it! Sister Yu Xin, we’ll deal with one each!”
Except for Wu Xuan, they all had the strength of Spirit Refining Stage or more, so they should not have had any big problem dealing with two bear tigers. The two of them drew their swords and attacked the bear tigers with all their might, one on one respectively, except for Wu Xuan. [2]
Zhao Xi simply ignored Wu Xuan; what could someone at Body Refining 8 do? Probably scared silly just standing there?
At first, they thought they would be able to easily clean up the bear tigers, but they soon found it to be wrong. Their attacks couldn’t hurt the two bear tigers at all. Their hides were too thick, unless it was a divine weapon, it was difficult to pierce through.
“Damn, their hides are too hard, and they are too fast, they can’t be killed at all!” Zhao Xi’s face was pale as she took a few steps back to avoid the bear tiger’s pounce.
Wu Yuxin’s side was even worse, being forced back by the bear tiger, her pretty face ashen, her inexperience reflected in the situation. Zhao Xi had it better, being somewhat evenly matched with her enemy, but just not good enough to kill the bear tiger.
Suddenly, the bear tiger dodged through Wu Yuxin’s attack. Its forelimbs slammed the ground, hissed and pounced on Wu Yuxin. Wu Yuxin was frozen like a deer in headlights by the sight of its wide open bloody mouth.
“Sister Yuxin!”
Zhao Xi saw this, her beautiful eyes slightly red. She wanted to rush to help but she could not make it in time, and there was a bear tiger occupying her right in front, completely not letting her disengage.
“Illusion Breaker!”
Suddenly a figure rushed in, aiming a fierce blow at the body of the huge bear tiger. With a bang, the bear tiger was knocked flying away backwards, landing hard and gouging a long trace on the ground.
The one who rushed out to save Wu Yuxin was none other than Wu Xuan, who was no spectator and had been looking for an opening to attack since a while ago. His rescue was completely unexpected by the girls. In their view, Wu Xuan was a burden to be protected by them.
But everything happened so suddenly. They did not expect Wu Xuan to rush forwards, and that attack just now was also very strong! Obviously, this was not something a Body Refinement 8 cultivator could display, this was something at least at peak Body Refinement Stage level.
Gumihou: It’s all wow whee! MC so cool, MC should be trash but why is he so cool. A-re? M-my heart suddenly went kyun~! And my lower ha-
Pill Bug: Please keep it PG13
Gumihou: My knees suddenly can’t hold me up anymore, kyaaa~~
Pill Bug: What I find more disgusting is how the elders in charge of the kids panicking first
Gumihou: And MC being ExtReMLy caLM
Pill Bug TL Notes:
[1] Split sentences into a separate paragraph for dramatic effect.
[2] Removed repetitive descriptions.
[3] Modified Zhao Tianlong’s shout a bit to show his exasperation and urgency.
[4] 娇喝道 Really, what do I use for this description? Delicately shouted?
[5] Removed OOC smugness 众人都是一喜
Gumi is very proud of Pill Bug’s sarcasm.
Cultivation stages:
- Body Refining Stage
- Spirit Refining Stage
- Core Formation Stage
- Void Transformation Stage
- Void Spirit Stage
- Emperor Stage
Each stage has 10 levels, going from level 1 to level 10. Levels 1-3 are early stage, 4-6 are middle stage, 7-9 are late stage, level 10 is peak stage.
