Chapter 144: Razor’s Edge
Kang Lin was more than a little nervous about jumping over the wall and into the fray. Her last battle hadn’t gone very well. Sure, she’d survived without any serious injuries, but she hadn’t done much damage to the beasts, either.
When she’d arrived at the village, she’d been following her grandfather’s instructions. Her mission was to, in order of priority, determine all she could about the mysterious Chao Su and his actions, keep herself safe, keep Pan Jiang safe, keep the other Poison Claw Sect members safe, and if possible, get some experience fighting against beasts.
If she were still following those instructions, she might just have decided to take her fellow sect members with her and leave as soon as the sect leader departed. But she was no longer only a granddaughter and Poison Claw Sect member. She was a disciple.
Master had poured so many resources into her—a pill to ease her advancement; a new cultivation method tailored specifically to her qi aspect; two techniques, one for launching bolts of lightning from her spear and one ridiculous shield technique that would automatically respond to threats once mastered, that were both also attuned perfectly to her qi aspect; and a new weapon better in quality than most sect scions received from their families. To repay his generosity, she needed to excel. Instead, she barely held her own for a few minutes before having to retreat.
She needed to do better.
In an attempt to steel her nerves, she told herself that she was facing only a mere five beasts instead of a hundred. Five was doable. Much better than one hundred. She had, after all, faced a much greater quantity and emerged relatively unscathed.
Right?
Of course, there were just her and two others. Three total. Versus five. So she and her allies were outnumbered.
And of course, the beasts were all rank five, which equated to between minor realm four and minor realm six of Foundation Establishment. She was only in the first minor realm and had only recently achieved even that much. Both her techniques were barely at Small Success.
The twins were in the same situation.
She was about to face five spirit beasts that all significantly outranked and outnumbered her team. Was she crazy? Were all three of them crazy?
Last time, she’d felt almost no fear about going against a teeming mass of beasts. Sure, they didn’t outrank her by nearly as much, but there were so many more of them.