100 Alone

Rudra was currently part of a group from Ziwen's sect, they had formed an expeditionary group that would complete various feasible tasks from the demon merit board.

It had been almost a week since they had set out from the Blood Camel Inn, yet Rudra was not able to form any type of connection with these guys. They seemed to have an indifferent attitude towards him, so he could only bother Ziwen to pass time. Their attitude towards him was probably affected by the fact that Kane, the current alias of Rudra was only in initial stages of demonic cultivation.

As time progressed, they would sometimes bump into other teams, but everyone walked away unscathed since there were no conflicting interests.

On this day, the team traveled south and walked in the opposite direction of the exit of the Tranquil forest.

"The first phase of the merit will end in another few days. We should hurry to the appointed mission locations, what do all of you think?" Ziwen proposed.

Rudra thought for a moment but didn't say anything. He looked at Ziwen, obviously seeking his opinion.

Rudra then said, "How about we split up for the search, We'll meet up there before the time approaches."

"Do you have something planned?" Ziwen was curious.

Rudra smiled as his eyes looked into the distance towards the south. "I just feel that it would help increase our search efficiency."

"Kane, I will wait for you." Ziwen clapped Rudra's shoulder as he was concerned about leaving the member with the lowest cultivation alone.

After exchanging greeting all the members of the team chose a direction and sprinted towards it.

Rudra left the team, and then made swiftly to the south. Rudra paid no heed to Ziwen concealed blackmail.

"Heh, We will see Mosquito man!"

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Ever since entering the hunt mission, all the spirit creatures that Rudra had encountered had headed in that direction. This made him curious; just what was happening there? What was it that was caused so many spirit creatures to continuously be congregated in that area?

These spirit creatures all seemed to be in quite a hurry to the point that even those usually interested in the flesh and blood of humans didn't bother to stop and attack when they passed by human camps.

"Something more tempting must be happening in the south!"

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The area to the south was an enormous, deep abyss. There were boundless caverns at the bottom of the abyss that ran in all directions and their entrances were numerous.

Rudra hid well outside the caverns.

Suddenly, the ground beneath his feet trembled as the head of the Rat poked out.

The rat stopped for a second before it madly rushed towards Rudra, its eyes glowing red its bite was an inch away from Rudra when,

Bam!

"Here we go!"

The unmoving body of the rat lay on the ground below, its head turned to a pulp.

Rudra used a simple water spell to clean his hand and to dispose of the rat carcass.

Spirit creatures had incredibly high intelligence and an innate wariness of humans. If they discovered a human here, it would be attacked by a mob of furious beasts.

"I would have to be careful, this rat could already sense my presence if a horde of them would attack me then it would be game over...." Rudra sneaked sticking close to cavern walls using his Omniscient Eye.

Rudra didn't come here to become a living target for these spirit creatures. He had come to take a look at just what the spirit creatures were fighting over.

It was apparent that the item all these spirit creatures were fighting over wasn't ordinary, given that there were so many of them here.

"I've participated in the Demon Merit hunt because I wanted to put myself in better standing in the demon camp, through these missions and exchange for all sorts of good items. Since I've lucked into it this time, I naturally won't let it go. Although it'll be a bit dangerous, I should still make an effort for it!"

Fortune came from risk. With high risk came high rewards.

Rudra naturally understood this, and so he used Wood Energy to turn his arms into large shovels made of tree trunks and cleave a new passageway. He didn't excavate it through to the end and stopped when they were about two to three meters away from the outside world.

Along the way, he had used the Omniscient Eye to make sure he was at a safe distance from the spiritual and demonic beasts.

This distance allowed him to observe the scene through the Omniscient Eye without any worry about being discovered by the spirit creatures in the outside world.

Rudra's Omniscient Eye could feed information to his five senses. He made use of this mental art to sense everything outside and fed it into his eyes, able to see things without seeing them at all.

Rudra deployed the "Eye" to the maximum. He saw through the transference of imagery of an enormous chasm, with hundreds of spirit creatures surrounding all corners of the abyss.

These spirit creatures were all staring fixedly at the depths of the deep chasm, with the fervent light of greed emanating from their eyes. It was as if there was something that would make them go crazy beneath the chasm.

"It looks like there's something nice below!"

The perceptive abilities of the Omniscient Eye were exceedingly strong. He could even sense that there seemed to be two incredibly abundant spirit powers being contained below the chasm. One of them was the pure spirit power of ice and the other was the pure spirit power of fire.

These two miraculous powers emanated faint blue and red light within the chasm. The two colors blended in one other and made the entire chasm look quite eerie.

"Can it be that there are two different treasures within this chasm?" This eerie scene made it difficult for Rudra to get a grasp on things. Theoretically speaking, ice and fire were opposing elements. These two powers constrained and neutralized each other. Logically speaking, they wouldn't be able to coexist!