Roar! Roar!

This bear charged alone, yet carried the momentum of ten thousand beasts.

Wu Quji’s expression remained unchanged: “Ba Zhi, shoot it dead!”

He recognized this giant beast!

He remembered that yesterday, Qing Ba Zhi had resolved the battle with a single javelin against a forest bear. There was nothing to fear. Though this one was larger and stronger, it should be no different.

But he turned his head: “Hey, Qing Ba Zhi?”

There was no sign of Ba Zhi. He had donned his cloaking garb and vanished without a trace.

Qing Qi Shu and Qing Jiu Ye had already launched themselves far away.

Thump, thump, thump! The ground rumbled like drums.

In the blink of an eye, the forest bear was upon them!

Jiang Wang casually swept Wu Quji aside.

The wind howled!

The forest bear twisted, its massive paw slamming down.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Jiang Wang transformed into a flaming meteor and exploded away.

Wu Quji, already airborne, simply increased his altitude, flying straight up.

But then he saw the forest bear rise on its hind legs, the ground sinking beneath it. The entire bear leaped into the air!

This bear could jump high!

Due to its massive size, even a small jump was enough to clear Wu Quji, casting a huge shadow and bringing its paw down upon him.

This paw, like a dark cloud overhead, blocked out the sunlight.

Wu Quji shook out three golden needles, two piercing the forest bear’s eyes, and one piercing his right arm.

His right arm immediately swelled at a visible rate, the muscles bulging, as he activated his physical potential.

A golden light flashed, but the forest bear simply closed its eyes.

Clang! Clang!

The golden needles struck the forest bear’s eyelids, emitting only faint sounds before bouncing away, unable to penetrate.

The forest bear’s paw continued its downward trajectory.

Wu Quji’s swollen right arm clenched into a fist, and he retaliated with a powerful punch.

Wu Quji was smashed into the ground, the sound of his arm bones breaking drowned out.

Jiang Wang’s eyelids twitched.

What kind of monsters were in this Forest Sea Origin Realm?

This forest bear clearly possessed some intelligence and even knew some combat techniques.

Wu Quji was, after all, a master capable of entering the Seven Stars Valley, yet he was nearly defeated in a single exchange.

At this moment, Qing Jiu Ye was crouching on a horizontal branch.

His eyes were fixed on the forest bear’s movements, his arm muscles tensed, and a short bow flipped into his hand. He instantly gripped it and reached behind his back.

He grabbed at air.

Where was his arrow?!

He frantically took down his quiver and shook it vigorously, but it was empty.

Meanwhile, the forest bear’s paw landed on Wu Quji.

The massive form descended from the sky, intending to crush Wu Quji alive.

The wind screamed.

A javelin suddenly appeared, piercing the forest bear’s rear.

The forest bear plummeted, crashing to the ground.

Before it fell, Wu Quji had rolled and crawled away from the spot.

“Haa, haa, haa.” Wu Quji, shaken, gasped several times and roared, “You only act now? Did you Saint race want me dead?”

He asked what he thought, without considering the consequences.

But this accusation was very serious, and if not handled well, it could shatter the cooperation they had just reached with the Saint race.

After falling, the forest bear continued to roar. Its massive paws pounded the ground, creating several large pits, but the javelin seemed to have stolen all its vitality, making it weaker and weaker until it was silent and still.

This ferocious giant beast was dead.

Qing Ba Zhi walked over from afar—in everyone’s vision before, there was only a tree, his position was a horizontal branch. The magic of the cloaking garb was evident.

Eight braids hung on either side, appearing neat and tidy. With a shake of his hand, the vines wrapped around his arm shot out, hooked the javelin inside the forest bear’s body, and pulled it out.

As he retrieved the javelin, he said coldly, “If the Saint race warriors wanted you dead, they would never use another’s hand. Don’t measure us with your outsider’s filth.”

Jiang Wang dispersed the spells he had prepared and frowned, “Wu Quji is seriously injured, it was his own carelessness. But we do lack understanding of this bear. There was no warning before the battle, no reminder during the battle. Qing Ba Zhi, if you continue with this attitude, the Hidden Serpent Land will no longer follow us.”

It was one thing when the two sides were strangers, but now that they had joined forces, Qing Ba Zhi’s arrogant appearance was inappropriate. Even when facing the forest bear, he didn’t immediately remind them, he may have been enjoying the show.

Jiang Wang would no longer indulge him.

At least until Yan Xiao was eliminated, he, Wu Quji, and Su Qi shared a common interest.

Qing Ba Zhi was silent for a moment, then said, “Forest bears enjoy ramming trees from a young age, their fur is impervious to blades and spears, and they have almost no weaknesses, except for the anus. Fighting it head-on is courting death. You have already seen its terror, do you think I can casually stab it with one shot? I hid to find an opportunity, not to watch the show.”

Jiang Wang looked at Wu Quji, who muttered, “I accept this explanation.”

Unity was still needed at the moment, so Jiang Wang said nothing more.

Su Qi floated down—he didn’t know where he had run off to before, but his movement was extremely fast—and landed in front of Wu Quji, concerned, “How is your injury?”

“The others are fine, it’s just that the bone is broken, and I need medicine. Even if I use golden needle bone knitting, it will take at least ten days to heal,” Wu Quji was from the Golden Needle Gate and knew his injury very well.

As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, let alone a broken bone. Even if Wu Quji was a transcendent cultivator, and the Golden Needle Gate was skilled in medicine, he couldn’t mend a broken bone in a few days.

This also meant that he would not be able to participate in the battle against Yan Xiao in good condition. Because the Saint race killing Yan Xiao would only make him stronger, the three “Dragon God Messengers” were the main force against Yan Xiao.

Before it even started, combat power was lost!

Wu Quji’s weakening would increase the pressure on Jiang Wang and Su Qi accordingly.

Golden needle bone knitting was already a very advanced medical technique, unattainable by mortal doctors.

Jiang Wang had no good solution either.

At this time, Qing Qi Shu also jumped closer and asked suspiciously, “The nearby giant beasts have already been cleared, why would a forest bear be guarding here?”

This forest bear clearly had some intelligence and was aware of the martial power of the God’s Shadow Land. Yet, it still rashly launched an attack on them. It was really puzzling.

The fallen forest bear was also more than a person tall, and Qing Ba Zhi looked relatively weak standing in front of it.

He looked at it for a while, closed the forest bear’s eyes with his hand, and explained, “This is a mother, the forest bear killed yesterday was its child. I think it came to find its child.”

The others exchanged glances and were silent for a moment.

Many incomprehensible things became reasonable with the addition of the identity of “mother.”

It wasn’t just humans.

At this time, Qing Jiu Ye walked over with a blank expression.

“What’s wrong?” Qing Ba Zhi asked.

In fact, he wanted to ask why Qing Jiu Ye’s arrow wasn’t fired immediately.

With Qing Jiu Ye’s archery, he could have prevented the forest bear in advance, so that Wu Quji wouldn’t be in danger. But asking it directly at this time would inevitably intensify the conflict. So he asked in a more subtle way.

“My arrow is lost!” Qing Jiu Ye said.

He used the word “lost.”

This was very strange.

The arrow was to Qing Jiu Ye what the javelin was to Qing Ba Zhi, and the shield was to Qing Qi Shu.

This was their livelihood, their weapon for fighting for their lives. To put it more seriously, they should lose their lives before it.

It could be broken, it could be damaged, but it shouldn’t be “lost.”

“I’m not saying you, but you’re too absent-minded, how can you lose an arrow? It’s just that the priest said a few words, what’s the big deal? So fragile!”

Qing Qi Shu complained and subconsciously reached behind him.

“Huh! Where’s my shield???”