Chapter 515: First altercations. [Vine Horror Soul Hound].
After witnessing the large crack across the dome's surface, Yasenia couldn't help but feel her heart twitch. Although she was confident in resisting an attack like that, losing a limb to it was a best-case scenario.
Unless she unleashed everything in her arsenal, that attack would be a dangerous blow to face.
On Yasenia's back, the girls discussed among themselves.
Evelyn asked with a serious tone. 'Can the formation hold against a barrage of such attacks?'
Angel answered positively. 'Yes. It should.'
Andrea commented. 'It would not be logical if it couldn't hold on, to be honest.'
And as soon as Andrea finished speaking, the crack along the surface of the colossal dome covering the mountain and a large part of the surrounding area healed instantly.
Our girls relaxed, but the rest of the people had a grimace on their faces.
Yasenia was still acting enraged, and her aura was blasting around like a hurricane of energy. She shouted aloud again as if she didn't care for the dome's situation. "YOU LOWLY CREATURES. COME OUT AND FACE ME!"
Elder Mao shouted. "Lady Yasenia, calm down! Could you attack the dome and try to destroy it?"
Yasenia's golden eyes turned toward them, and her pressure made them feel suffocated.
Elder Mu frowned and looked around them. "Lady Yasenia, we have visitors. It looks like the ambush is more than a formation."
Elder Song was enraged because of the attack Yasenia had received, and her face was cold and murderous. "It doesn't matter. Let's slaughter them all for provoking us."
The creatures that appeared were hundreds of plant creatures led by a powerful-looking tree man.
The plant lifeforms were together and had an imposing aura. However, the seniors found it slightly lacking for being an attack formation prepared to deal with them.
An Elder from the Fu family asked. "A Tree Man? What are they doing in this area? They should be much further north."
Elder Mu squinted and spoke. "Be careful. They are not a common species. Look, his race is a [Bone Melting Tree Man]."
Elder Mao was stunned. "Those? I thought they almost went extinct-."
Yasenia coldly interrupted, her voice filled with killing intent. "Even if he is the last of his species, today he will die."
Before the seniors said anything, Yasenia flapped her wings and flew above the group of plant creatures.
Then, the already monstrous aura around Yasenia multiplied many times over.
"[SUN DRAGON BREATH]!"
Yasenia's draconic body gained a faint golden glow as the energy around her was absorbed by her body.
Yasenia wanted to show unmatched strength, so she absorbed all the energy she could and moved a thread of Celestial Energy into her attack.
The dragoness's breath attack was an innate skill.
Innate skills were skills part of oneself, a skill she had an extreme affinity for. Therefore, adding this strand of Celestial Energy was possible.
Even then, the way she used to add the Celestial Energy was not a natural addition but a forceful action. Instead of sharpening a blade, it was like using more brute force without care for the edge breaking.
As the attack went from her insides out, Yasenia felt her throat bloat and about to burst. The energy rushing out of her was burning its way out as the pressure became so dense that it began condensing the air around her.
However, the result of the attack was well worth it.
Yasenia roared without holding anything back.
Everyone turned around and saw a black wooden arrow piercing a junior's stomach.
Before anyone could do anything, the impaled man screamed, and the arrow exploded in a reddish mist that made those who approached instinctively to help scream in pain and fly away with their swords.
The people touched by the reddish mist had blisters growing on their skin as a few parts began to rot away.
Thankfully, they all had healing pills and took one before the effects became dangerous.
Yet, the man that was struck did not have the same luck or time to react.
As the mist completely surrounded him and also seeped inside him, his body decomposed and rotted away quickly, making a puddle fall from the sky with a sword.
The man that had the arrow melted in a puddle and fell from the sky.
Following that arrow, everyone saw thousands of forest creatures appearing from the surrounding peaks, all with strengths in the Mental Nourishing Realm and a few with greater power.
A few held black bows between the army's creatures, which people assumed was where the arrows came from.
Elder Mu quickly shouted. "Protect the juniors from the arrows! The poison should not be strong enough to pierce our barriers."
Elder Hao squinted as he looked around. "There are a few auras I find dangerous."
Among the thousands of creatures, there were twenty powerful ones at the low level of the Unification Realm. Each of the four groups that appeared had five of them.
Then, there was a giant quadrupedal creature made of vines in the largest group of plant-based creatures. The body was not aesthetic as the vines wriggled constantly, and the head was terrifying, with a deformed mouth with sharp and purple leaking teeth and eye cavities that shone with a purple light.
The aura around it was strong enough to intimidate even the highest-level seniors in the group.
This formation was prepared with time, and its power was far above anything our girls could achieve while fighting.
Yasenia looked at that creature and concluded that she wasn't its match. Although Yasenia and the girls planned a few things and objectives, they didn't know all the functions the seniors included in the formation.
Kali exclaimed. 'What is that thing? I haven't seen that creature before.'
Valeria explained. 'That's a [Vine Horror Soul Hound]. It's still juvenile, but the strength is very high. It should be more than enough to keep the five elders from the Nine sects occupied.'
Andrea commented. 'Just from its aura, I can feel my body shudder. I think only that thing would be quite a challenge to defeat between all of us.'
Mirrory commented. 'It would be a difficult battle, but you can probably kill it without getting severely hurt if you play your cards right. However, these body cultivators will have it rough because its aura affects the body and the soul.'
Yasenia looked around and squinted as she maintained her body in place. "Elder Mao, that thing feels dangerous even for me."
He nodded with a severe face. "I understand."
Elder Song asked. "How should we divide the battlefield?"
Elder Mao commented. "How about trying to communicate first? Honestly, this is looking much more dangerous than it did at the beginning."
Elder Yu snorted. "We could also just charge and destroy all of them."
An elder from another clan interrupted. "Elders from the nine sects, we ask for your cooperation in protecting our juniors."
The five of them turned around and saw that all the powers were looking at them.
Elder Mao thought for a moment and nodded. "We will do as much as we can."
Yasenia internally snorted. 'Those words serve as a facade. The second you are in danger, you will probably not protect them.'
Then, he turned and spoke aloud while looking in the direction of the Vine Horror.