The Rising Phoenix
Chapter 169: Trapped In An Array

Chapter 169: Chapter 169: Trapped In An Array

So, Bai Xifeng accompanied them to the nearby forest. Once they stepped into the forest, the scene in front of them suddenly changed.

"What is this?" Shao Chen was panicked.

"Hey, calm down." Qin Heng said to Shao Chen.

Shao Chen started to calm down a little bit. He was easy to be scared.

"Long Feng, what is going on here?" Qin Heng asked.

"Hmm... I think we are in an array." Bai Xifeng looked around.

"What? An array? How does it happen?" Shao Chen asked.

"Hmm... Someone must have placed them before. Then we came over and stepped into it." Bai Xifeng said.

"Then, who do you think placed this array here?" Qin Heng asked more.

Bai Xifeng looked at both of them. "It is probably the enemy."

"Why do you think so?" Qin Heng was curious.

"This forest is our Liuyin Empire’s lands. The military knew that we had been coming to this forest to collect the herbs. They would not be placing the array here. So, it must be our enemy. However, I don’t know which one." Bai Xifeng told her analysis about that.

Qin Heng and Shao Chen nodded several times after thinking about what Bai Xifeng told them.

"It must be Cailong Country. This forest is near the border with Cailong Country. They must be the one." Qin Heng gritted his teeth.

"What should we do right now?" Shao Chen asked while looking at the surroundings.

Qin Heng also looked worried. They were pharmacist, not an array master. To get from this array, they needed to break the formation. They did not know how to do that.

Before they could talk more, beasts appeared and surrounded them. They were surprised to see the beasts.

"Hmm... I have one question here. Are these beasts real?" Shao Chen asked.

"I guess they are real." Bai Xifeng looked at the beasts.

"What? Why do you say so? They are in the array. They must be some kind of illusion right?" Shao Chen said.

"Why don’t you think that the beasts are the same as us?" Bai Xifeng threw back the question.

"What are you talking about?" Shao Chen could not understand.

"What Long Feng said, these beasts also came across this array by accident and were trapped in the array as well." Qin Heng explained to make Shao Chen understand.

"Hmm... I think they are hungry too." Bai Xifeng added.

"What?" This time, both Qin Heng and Shao Chen were panicking.

"It has been 4 days since our people came into this forest. The enemy probably placed this array four days ago. And the beasts had been trapped since then. So, what do you think? They must be hungry a lot." Bai Xifeng explained.

Bai Xifeng was guessing the truth. The beasts had been trapped in this array and they were extremely hungry. They wanted to eat. They looked at the human who just suddenly appeared as they were looking at the food who suddenly appeared.

"What should we do? What should we do?" Shao Chen began to panic again.

Even Qin Heng felt the same as Shao Chen. Bai Xifeng was not panicked. She was looking at a beast.

There was a beast that caught her attention. It was a creature from ancient mythology. It had the body of a lion and the head of an eagle.

She wanted to tame this beast. She looked straight at this beast.

The other beasts started to attack them. They started to fight the beasts. However, hungry beasts could not be underestimated. They were stronger because they were hungry. Since the food had been delivered by themselves, they would take advantage of this chance.

They managed to kill three beasts at least before Shao Chen missed his step. Her right arm had been ripped out from his body. He shouted in pain.

Bai Xifeng looked at this and rushed to him. She stabbed the beast that ripped off Shao Chen’s arms. The beast died.

Other beasts fought for Shao Chen’s arms. One of them ran off with Shao Chen’s arms. Shao Chen looked devastated when he saw his ripped-off arm disappear from his sight.

Why would happen to him right when he already missed his right arm? His domain arm. He would be cripple. He would not be a pharmacist anymore. Thinking about that, he was crying.

Qin Heng felt terrible when seeing his friend in this state. They did not expect to be in this situation.

"Qin Heng, block the beast who coming over." Bai Xifeng shouted.

Qin Heng was surprised with the order but he still did as Bai Xifeng said. He was curious about what Bai Xifeng wanted to do.

Bai Xifeng took out the Muscle Cell Repair Elixir. She gave it to Shao Chen.

"Stop crying and drink this." Bai Xifeng said.

Shao Chen looked up and saw Bai Xifeng handed a bottle of elixir to him. He did not know what kind of elixir it was.

However, he just took it and drank it as he was told. He believed in Bai Xifeng.

The next moment after he finished drinking the elixir. He started to feel hot around his shoulder. Then, he saw a miracle happen in front of him. The hand started to grow back.

Qin Heng also caught the scene when Shao Chen grew his hand. The situation was very bizarre.

"This..." Shao Chen moved his new hand.

He felt the same. His fingers were working just fine.

Bai Xifeng also took out a Recovery Pill pill and gave it to Shao Chen.

"Eat this. You will be fine." Bai Xifeng said.

Shao Chen threw the pill into his mouth. The pill immediately melted inside his mouth. He felt his strength came back.

"Long Feng, you..." Shao Chen did not know what to say to Bai Xifeng.

"Stand up. We are still in danger." Bai Xifeng said.

Shao Chen and Qin Heng realized that they were not safe yet. They were still surrounded by the beasts.

Then they were startled as they heard some sounds. It was the sounds coming from Griffin. The beasts stopped attacked the human and looked scared at Griffin.

Bai Xifeng looked at Griffin. It looked straight into her eyes. It started to walk toward Griffin. Bai Xifeng was still in her stand form. She did not know what this gryphon wanted to do.

Then the griffin bowed to her. Qin Heng and Shao Chen were shocked to see the situation. Well, not only them but Bai Xifeng was also shocked to see Griffin suddenly bow to her.

’Baishe, what is the meaning of this?’ Bai Xifeng asked for Baishe’s help.

’Hmm... I think he wants to be with you.’ Baishe stated.

’You meant he wants to be my contracted beast?’ Bai Xifeng was surprised.

’Probably... Why don’t you ask him about that?’ Baishe said.

Bai Xifeng looked at the griffin. "Do you want to be my contracted beast?"

The griffin nodded with an expected look in its eyes.

Qin Heng and Shao Chen could not process the scene. They did not know why this beast wanted to be Bai Xifeng’s contracted beast.

"Why do you want to be my contracted beast?" Bai Xifeng asked again.

The gryphon started to draw a circle on the ground and pointed it to Shao Chen. Shao Chen was startled as the griffin pointed his paw at him.

Bai Xifeng did not understand at first. However, after thinking for a while, she finally understood it.

"You mean the pill?" Bai Xifeng asked.

The griffin nodded.

"But why?" Bai Xifeng asked.

’He is like me. We like to eat herbs and pills.’ Baishe stated.

’Oh, I see.’ Bai Xifeng nodded.

"Are you sure you want to be my contracted beast?" Bai Xifeng asked.

The griffin nodded.

Qin Heng patted Bai Xifeng’s shoulder. He had someone to say.

"Hmm?" Bai Xifeng looked at Qin Heng.

"Even though it wants to be your contracted beast, you can not do it here. We still need to get out from this array before you can contract this beast." Qin Heng stated.

"Huh? Why can’t I?" Bai Xifeng could not understand why she could not contract it here.

"Because we don’t have a beast tamer here." Qin Heng said.

Sometimes he felt Bai Xifeng did not know something oblivious.

"Oh... It is okay." Bai Xifeng grinned.

Why would she need a beast tamer if she was one of them?

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