CHAPTER 211: CHAPTER 8: SKY PIT (8)

In the past, when Li Shuning led the team, it was a very pleasant experience. Li Shuning would arrange the route and accommodations in advance, so the people following her never had to worry about these details. Even when facing enemies, Li Shuning would stand at the forefront.

Now, with Li Tong leading, she took a map from the family and simply went out with the team. She did not study the route or think about accommodation.

When they set out, it was a convoy dispatched by the family.

The cars kept moving, stopping only at midday for lunch and a two-hour break, then they were back on the road.

Once night fell, they found themselves nowhere near a village or a store.

This left Li Tong dumbfounded.

Everyone was a martial artist, with rather large appetites. Although they were nowhere near a village or store, there were plenty of wild animals around.

Together, they managed to catch some, roasted and ate them, but what about sleeping arrangements?

There were only six vehicles, and they couldn’t all cram in to sleep, could they?

Li Tong truly hadn’t prepared anything, not even tents.

In contrast, when Li Shuning led, she always had accommodations arranged well in advance, precisely calculating how far the vehicles should travel each time, the difference was clear.

Afterwards, they lit a campfire in the wild and spent the night sitting in the open. Yet Li Tong complained they didn’t remind her earlier.

Li Tong returned with her elite team to the Li Family two months later, with still about ten days until their journey to the Sky Pit.

In the past, whenever Li Shuning led, there would always be some gains, more or less.

However, this time, with Li Tong in charge, one of the descendant disciples was seriously injured and there were absolutely no gains.

The others were rather miserable too.

Seeing them in this state made the people in the family quite puzzled.

Gradually, the story of Li Tong’s expedition spread.

Naturally, people began to compare Li Tong with Li Shuning.

Li Tong was furious.

Clearly, she was the strongest. It was merely lack of experience that led to mishandling the team. She would definitely do better in the future, and couldn’t believe people were talking that way about her. Oh, she would show them; she would always be the strongest.

As for those who deliberately mocked her, one day, she would make them regret it.

Li Shuning was oblivious to these happenings. She had been cultivating this whole while, compressing her True Yuan to the limit. Externally, it appeared Li Shuning’s power had returned to the peak of Third Rank, yet in truth, her strength was far superior to anyone at the Third Rank peak.

When Li Shuning emerged, the next day was the departure to the Sky Pit.

Li Tong wanted to provoke Li Shuning but had no chance.

Li Shuning’s next appearance was within a forest.

Surrounding her was utter darkness; nothing was visible, and naturally moving was out of the question.

Additionally, Li Shuning dared not use a flashlight or similar device. In this pitch-darkness, switching on a light would be dangerous.

Fortunately, Li Shuning was not an ordinary person; her spiritual power could serve as her eyes.

She sensed her surroundings were filled with trees and, not far away, a giant snake.

Li Shuning gasped.

The giant snake’s body was the size of a tire. To be honest, there was little nowadays that could frighten Li Shuning, yet such sleek, cool snakes made her hair stand on end.

Li Shuning cautiously moved away from the snake’s direction.

Although the forest was filled with countless dry leaves, some were damp at the moment. Li Shuning used her spiritual power to envelop herself, True Yuan undetected, and carefully left the snake’s area without making a sound.

Once she couldn’t sense the snake anymore, Li Shuning broke into a run.

Oh my, if the snake had really found her, she was uncertain she could take it on with her current strength.

Her spiritual power targeted souls, and without intelligence, the snake would hardly be affected by it.

Looking at the snake’s size, Li Shuning hadn’t reached Fourth Rank yet, and although her power might exceed Fourth Rank, she was almost certain she couldn’t defeat it.

As Li Shuning ran, she felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, a faint congestion in her chest, as if something were about to happen.

Li Shuning’s face turned grave, and she halted.

She realized that like before, learning when she was bank-side, after circling for hours, she seemed to have returned to the starting point.

The distant giant snake still coiled within the cold, moist cave, its breath steady, suggesting it was asleep.

Li Shuning didn’t know when the snake would wake, and if it would notice her while hunting.

She cautiously distanced herself from the snake again, planning to wait for an opportunity, either to avoid or tackle the snake.

One day passed without the snake waking, then two, still asleep, three days, and it remained dozed.

Li Shuning couldn’t help but roll her eyes, would this drag on for seven days?

In this place, the snake seemed to be the local boss of this area, though other creatures existed, like Li Shuning, they were equally cautious. Attacking Li Shuning? That was out of the question.

On the fourth day, Li Shuning did not relax her vigilance. Suddenly, she stood, the snake moved.

With disaster seemingly looming, chaos suddenly erupted in the forest.

The snake within the Sky Pit was evidently different from ordinary ones.

The snake smoothly slid towards other creatures in the forest, not swallowing them outright but chasing them together.

Then its tail whipped suddenly, striking the animals, which frantically fled.

Yet the snake seemed like a cat playing with mice, slowly, elegantly pursuing the animals.

Wherever the snake headed, Li Shuning moved the opposite way, avoiding direct confrontation with it.

As Li Shuning dodged the snake yet again, she found herself near the snake’s dwelling cave.

Li Shuning used her spiritual power to scan, stunned to find no other snakes within; however, there was a crystal clear egg.

The egg was palm-sized, emitting faint white light.

Her mind screamed to take the egg, take it, take it.

Li Shuning had entered the cave, and when she came to her senses, she was already holding the egg.

Startled, Li Shuning quickly stashed the egg within her Qiankun Ring, promptly leaving the cave.

When Li Shuning touched the egg, the snake seemed to sense it, fiercely swallowing the small beast in front of it whole, swiftly heading towards the cave, crashing through several forest trees along the way.