At this moment, Billy’s figure flashed by.
In mid-air, his wrist continuously rotated, and three arc-shaped blade auras, carrying a thunderous momentum, slashed towards the three giant beasts.
The three giant beasts perhaps sensed a crisis from Billy and didn’t confront him head-on, quickly dodging to one side.
Although the three giant beasts avoided fatal spots, the blade auras still left a shallow but noticeable bloodline on their backs.
Seeing this scene, a look of surprise flashed across Billy’s face.
Despite using seven to eighty percent of his strength, his strike only left a blade mark on the beasts.
This shows how extraordinary their defensive capabilities were.
The three giant beasts steadied themselves and, without much pause, roared and charged again towards Billy.
“I thought you guys would run away!” Billy said lightly.
Then, with a slight narrowing of his eyes, he gripped his wild blade and unleashed a blood-red arc-shaped blade aura with full strength.
With his current prowess, even a casual strike with full strength is something these high-tier Sacred Beasts could not withstand.
As expected, two of the giant beasts had bloody gashes on their necks after the blade aura struck.
Due to inertia, they took a few more steps before collapsing, with blood gushing from their wounds, quickly falling silent.
The other giant beast, although it dodged the blade aura, was severely frightened and turned to flee deeper into the valley.
However, after running only four to five hundred meters, Billy released another arc-shaped blade aura towards it.
The blade aura flashed across the beast, causing it to fall to the ground, twitching a few times before lying still.
“Chirp…,” seeing this, the flying beast gave a call towards Billy, seemingly thanking him for the help.
“Tsk tsk, ninth-rank Sacred Beast beast cores, we struck it rich this time!” Stout, blade in hand, walked over to the giant beasts.
Seeing this, the flying beast instinctively backed away several steps.
“Am I really that scary?” Stout glanced at the flying beast.
The flying beast remained silent.
“Boss, I’m going in to take a look!” Casey said to Billy and walked towards the cave.
“Mr Kimmons, I’ll go with you.” Azure Dragon, Azure Fang, and Bob followed him.
About ten minutes later, they led a group of people out of the cave.
Billy and his group looked over and saw that it was Elder Cruz and others, but there were only ten of them.
Each had varying degrees of injuries but fortunately, none were life-threatening.
“Thank you, Mr Billy, for saving our lives!” Elder Cruz and his group approached and made a gesture to bow.
“Elder Cruz, you are all injured, no need for formalities!” Billy waved a forceful wind, lifting them up.
After a brief pause, he said, “Elder Cruz, please sit. Let me treat your wounds.”
“Thank you, Mr Billy!” They exclaimed gratefully and sat down as directed.
Then, Billy and Stout began to treat Elder Cruz and his group.
During this time, several waves of Sacred Beasts appeared to attack, but their highest level was only mid-tier Sacred Beast.
So there was no real threat, and Stout just ended up adding more beast cores to his bag.
Every time Stout harvested a beast core, it seemed the flying beast had a thought of wanting to attack him.
If it weren’t for fearing Billy and his group’s skills, it probably would have already attacked.
“Alright, Elder Cruz, your injuries should be fine now. Just need some rest.” After roughly two hours, Billy addressed Elder Cruz.
“Thank you, Mr Billy!” They all bowed in unison.
“No need for thanks, Elder Cruz. Your injuries were incurred while serving Skydragon City.” Billy smiled faintly.
“Elder Cruz, what exactly happened? How did the flying beast know you were here?” Bob looked at Elder Cruz and asked.
“We owe our lives to that flying beast!” Elder Cruz took a deep breath and explained.
After listening to his account for a few minutes, Billy and his group understood the situation.
On the first day, Elder Cruz and his team were indeed only gathering herbs on the outskirts, but their yield was modest by the end of the day.
Several urgently needed herbs were insufficient in quantity, so they discussed and decided to venture into the misty jungle.
Thinking as long as they didn’t go too deep, there shouldn’t be any problems.
At first, there was nothing significant, only some fierce beasts attacking, but the strongest were only low-tier Divine Beasts.
Given their skills, Elder Cruz and his team easily managed.
However, on the afternoon of the second day, when they were about to return, they passed through a valley with a fruit tree that was a very rare medicinal herb.
They observed the surroundings carefully, finding no high-level fierce beasts, so they collected it.
But just as they were pleased, a low-tier Sacred Beast emerged from a cave nearby, the guardian beast of that fruit tree.
The highest cultivation in Elder Cruz’s team was at the Divine Realm late stage, so they couldn’t sense the Sacred Beast hiding its aura.
Consequently, the Sacred Beast attacked them.
After a fierce battle, they all sustained injuries.
The Sacred Beast chased them for dozens of kilometers before they finally escaped.
During this escape, two companions self-destructed to buy time for the rest, or all would likely have perished.
After escaping, they realized they were deep in the misty jungle with no sense of direction and continued heading outwards.
They soon encountered stronger Sacred Beasts.
In their despair, the flying beast coincidentally appeared and saved them.
Finally, the flying beast brought them to this cave, temporarily ensuring their safety.
“Elder Cruz, why did the flying beast save you?” Azure Dragon asked.
“I’m not sure!” Elder Cruz shook his head. “I felt like it understood some of our words.”
“We noticed that too!” Azure Dragon nodded.
Then Elder Cruz approached the flying beast and bow slightly, “Thank you for saving our lives!”
The flying beast chirped in response.
“Let’s go back to Skydragon City!” Billy thanked the flying beast and turned to his group.
“Sure!” They responded.
As they prepared to depart, the flying beast called out several times to Billy and walked a few steps to the side.
“Do you want to lead us somewhere else?” Bob asked the flying beast.