Chapter 94: Chapter 93

The two men regained their consciousness, they were indeed from two separate factions and one even mentioned that his clan brother had been slain by some other monsters not long ago. This brought the number of core formation elders up to seven, three had passed away in the jungle filled with game monsters.

The first man had a full beard and black hair, his stature was average the same as his height. His hair was all over the place, the days in the jungle weren't kind to this man as he looked a bit sickly probably some side effects from the spider venom. The second gentleman looked like a Shaolin monk. He had six dots on his forehead and a long white beard that went to about his navel, he was even wearing large round beads around his neck.

The first man's name was from a clan called the Kwok clan, and the baldy wasn't from a clan at all but instead from some kind of small Buddhist sect. It was quite a low-level sect, core formation cultivators were the strongest warriors that they possessed. The name of the sect was Tranquil Lotus Sect and it was also participating in this expedition to earn some resources and favor with the dark palm sect. 

Matt's attention moved to the dark-haired elder though, he was grasping his hair tightly, eyes bulging out and red, his brows furrowed. 

"Blasted Dark Palm Sect, they lied to us... we are doomed..."

He kept holding onto his head and trembling, he was seemingly in shock as he kept mumbling to himself and not really paying attention to the group that had rescued him. He was firmly slapped into shape by the Huo clan young master, that was getting annoyed by how he didn't even thank them for the rescue.

"What are you mumbling about you old fart, get a hold of yourself, what is this about the dark palm sect?"

The man looked up at the crimson-haired man, then at the other people that were staring at him as he let out an uncomfortable sounding laugh.

"Ah ha ha, don't you understand... they played us all... there will be no reward... there is no treasure, we will all die here..."

Everyone looked at him suspiciously, the man knew something that they didn't.

"Oh, why would you say such a thing?"

Matt chimed in moving closer, as he was afraid that his new brother would do something drastic to the man that lost his marbles. The man just looked at him and took out some kind of jade, it looked like some kind of more advanced communication jade but it was a bit cracked. He threw it on the ground and started talking, even without the other people having to ask.

"The Sect contacted us a couple of months ago, they mentioned this forsaken place and promised treasures and riches if we took this communication jade with us and reported what was in the secret ground to them."

"We didn't think much of it, we only thought that we would go in and leave. They must have blocked most of the information about this place, we just assumed the previous people were incompetent..."

The man slumped onto his knees, clearly not thinking that he could get out of this alive.

"But there hasn't been any word from outside and these monsters just keep coming, they never stop."

Matt placed his hand on the man's shoulder thanks to his tranquil will he was able to somewhat calm other people down. The calming feeling washed over the nervous cultivator, that slowly started to calm himself down.

"Calm down, Everyone knows that we were probably sent here as some kind of experiment, but if we stay together we still stand a chance."

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Kwok Xun looked up at the man that had a strange positive outlook on things, he could feel that the cultivator was quite powerful, probably being in the great circle of core formation but he wasn't quite sure. He wanted to believe him, but after having spend weeks running away and battling strange monsters he was just tired.

"You should listen to brother Dong, but we can also just leave you here if you are going to be a hindrance."

Huo Qiang chimed in, Matt's brows furrowing as he started threatening the dude that had PTSD. Though it showed some effects as after calming down, the man went red in the face with rage and jumped up.

"Me? a hindrance?"

He glared at the younger crimson-haired man, who was just grinning back not really caring one way or the other. In his opinion it would probably be better to just leave this guy here, why would they need someone that was a coward? Though when he looked at Zhang Dong, looking for approval he found the man staring daggers at him which made his smile turn upsidedown. 

'What are you doing you meat for brains, I even managed to calm him down and you riled him up again.'

"I'm sure you were through a lot, but so were all of us, before brother Dong came and rescued us all."

Feng Liena moved in, she was carrying herself a bit differently than usual. Matt expected her to threaten the guy, or even try to give him a couple of smacks. Instead, she was quite calm, she was talking softly while keeping eye contact and with a gentle smile on her face. Was this her normal character when she dropped the female lead act? She also called him brother without the little part, which was a sign of progress.

While the tanned beauty was talking, he glanced to the baldy on the side. The man was remaining silent while sitting down, he was clearly in a cultivation position and by the Qi signature, he was trying to heal his wounds. When he noticed Matt's gaze on him, he just nodded while clasping his hands, probably just his way of saying thank you.

Kwok Xun looked at the lady, then back to Huo Qiang who turned his face to the side, seemingly embarrassed when the woman mentioned that he was rescued by Zhang Dong as well. The man let out a long sight before nodding and turning to Matt, he made a decision.

"Well, if you are willing I will accompany you."

The man proclaimed while thinking that he didn't have any other choice if he wanted to survive.

The group got reorganized, they had seven members now which meant that the overall battle strength had increased. Matt wasn't sure how to arrange the group this time around, but he decided to put the girls in the middle, the two new arrivals were in the back with mutton chops elder and he and Qiang were in the front.

They tracked along and finally, they spotted a change of scenery. There were two massive mountain ranges to the side, going straight up into the clouds. This mountain range formed a path of some sort as the path to the sides was blocked by them and the path forward was getting narrower with each step. It looked like the secret ground wanted them to move between these two mountains soon enough they figured out why.

There was a clearing, in that clearing stood a massive monster. It looked somewhat like a snake but it had two large legs protruding from the front part and the middle body part was a lot thicker than the rear tail part, it also had two serpent heads. They were a bit away from the thing that looked like the guardian of this area, behind it was a large gate embedded into bedrock.

"I bet the next area is past that gate... we either have to beat this monster of sneak past it?"

The group looked at the monster while thinking about possible ways of getting through. Matt didn't think sneaking was an option, the gate would probably only open after the monster was slain and busting through it would probably be more difficult than killing the boss that was guarding it.

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