Chapter 36 (Part A) – Common Enemy

(Part A) – Common Enemy

Impacts from the attacks of the bears was very heavy but, fortunately for the group, Gu Yu was standing between them and the chief bear, and it was evident that he could stand a while longer without much trouble.

“We need to stand tough; help from our school will be arriving soon.” Gu Yu encouraged loudly, raising everyone’s morale.

Gu Yu stood facing the ‘brave’ layer bear directly, and was facing the impact of his attacks, his teeth were clenched, but he couldn’t afford to reflect his adversity in his actions much, as it would sink the morale of his team to the bottom, in which case, casualties would be inevitable.

Bi Fan, who was sitting and watching from a tree at a distance, could understand this very clearly. Meanwhile, his face wore a cold smile.

Since ‘the rising sun’ school had made his life so difficult, he wasn’t afraid to strike back.

He was a lot stronger now and had almost reached the ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer. Using that strength, he leveraged himself down to the ground and gently ducked behind a boulder.

The bear and Gu Yu’s group were both engaged in a fierce battle so no one paid any attention to the quietly approaching Bi Fan.

As he reached closer to the battle field, Bi Fan snuck behind a boulder. He was almost ready to execute his plan. He picked up a handful of pebbles, as the smile on his face became even wider.

Bi Fan chose the man standing next to Gu Yu as the first target, and raised his finger as he threw a pebble into the air.

He used ‘the immortal finger’ to direct the stone at his intended target, with an astonishing force, the diseased stone hit its target and a piercing scream resonated in the battle field.

“Quickly, get down!” Gu Yu was really strong and was fighting with everything he had, but even then he was able to spot that shooting stone.

He wanted to pull his companion aside, and out of that shooting stone’s path, but he reacted a little too late.

“AAHHHH!” Gu Yu’s companion screeched a blood-curling scream.

The boy’s arms were still hanging by his side when he hit the ground. A hole had been poked into his arm, right at the spot where the stone had pierced his body, and blood gushed out.

“What humans? Even a human is helping these bears against us?!” Gu Yu was furious.

He tried to estimate the origin of the stone based on the orientation of his comrade’s body. His eyes searched around in vain as he failed to find this new opponent.

Bi Fan, who was hiding behind a rock, laughed as he ignored Gu Yu’s predicament.

This wasn’t a time for morality or righteousness, if Bi Fan hadn’t found a way to deal with these ‘rising sun’ disciples, then they would have come looking for him sooner or later. So this was more like a pre-emptive measure to sort his troubles a little early.

Gu Yu and his delegation seemed to have almost lost this fight now, as the odds were far too unfavorable for them.

Moreover, Bi Fan had also succeeded in distracting their attention from the bears that were in front of them, as they were trying to keep an eye out for any more surprise attacks.

The bears read this situation and reacted very intelligently, and they suddenly launched a wave or ferocious attacks, taking advantage of the situation.

Gu Yu’s companions were sustaining injuries in quick succession, but were somehow still standing tough. Gu Yu, in comparison, was slightly better off.

“We must stand tough; reinforcements will be here any time now.” Gu Yu hadn’t given up yet and tried to raise the morale verbally.

“Don’t mess with me, otherwise, I swear you devil, I will make sure that you pay for these sins later. Believe me; you will curse your fate.”

Bi Fan ducked out of his hiding spot again, popped a few stone into the air, this time four of them and shot them at the people who were engaged in combat.

“Smack!” Gu Yu’s reacted sharply as the tip of his sword stabbed the stone, breaking it into pieces.

The other reacted much slower, and the stones hit their targets.

Bi Fan didn’t manage to kill anyone this time around, but did enough to slow them down further, leveraging the fight against their favors even further.

The bears seemed convinced that they would be able to shred the humans in front of them to pieces with ease, as they roared for victory and charged for their preys.

The look on Gu Yu’s face changed drastically, almost as if he was ready to abandon his companion, like he was ready to make a run for it.

“You want to leave? Well, not so easily.” Bi Fan grinned slyly.

With his finger ready to cause chaos, he started lashing out bullets of stones at Gu Yu, making it even more difficult for him to escape, as he stood there, surrounded by bears.

His companions, were even worse off, they quickly got divided and disbanded and were basically standing corpses now.

The bears would show them no compassion, for humans were just another source of food to them.

They quickly killed the others, leaving Gu Yu alone, standing in the middle of the entire bear squad.

“You evil, attacking me sneakily! Show yourself to me and I swear that I’ll cut you to pieces!” Gu Yu roared, his eyes red with rage.

Bi Fan curled his lips, but didn’t speak up. Anyway, Gu Yu was already as good as dead, so why should he bother wasting the skillfulness of his tongue.

His hands were itching to see if the bears were treating Gu Yu properly or not.

“Boom! Ah!…” there was a sound of a violent collision, which was followed by muffled screams from time to time for a little while.

It took a while before the sounds from major movements stopped, leaving only the sounds of bones being crushed by the bears.

Bi Fan snuck out to take a look; Gu Yu’s dismembered corpse was being devoured by the bears as they tore his body to pieces.

Gu Yu was already dead, so Bi Fan took some steps back and went towards the forest, but he didn’t go too far, he found a tree close by and climbed up, as he waited for the bears to leave.

Gu Yu and his companions were fairly strong, which means that they might be carrying some very valuable items with them. And once the bears were gone, Bi Fan could go back and collect the spills of the war.

A while later, once the bears were done eating all they wanted to, and had grabbed the left overs between their teeth, they left the scene.

As soon as the bear were out of sight, Bi Fan leapt off the tree and onto the ground underneath it.

The ground of the battlefield was stained with blood and human flesh, a terribly frightful sight.

Bi Fan held back his vomit as he bent over and seized the weapons from the ground, he collected all the spar that he could find and even picked up a Yin Yang pouch that was still intact and not bloodied.

He was putting his loot away when he heard the sounds of chatter coming from nearby and realized that the source was coming closer.

“Is that the reinforcements from ‘the rising sun’ school?” Bi Fan quickly made a move and hid himself in the bushes nearby.

Soon, three young men appeared along the borders of the clearing.

“Gu Yu and the others should have been here? What happened, why aren’t they here?”

“Let’s look down by the river, Gu Yu and his company was very strong, very highly unlikely that something went wrong with them.”