9 THRONES

CHAPTER 52: THE EARTH BEAR

Vann immediately rushed without hesitation towards the origin of the shout, but Vann still remained cautious because there was a possibility that all of this was a trap.

In this monthly match, however, there was a rule whereby a disciple could take the tokens collected by other disciples.

So Vann did not dare to act recklessly, let alone his opponent this time was likely Tude's partner.

When Vann reached the scene, he stood on a tall tree and hid his whereabouts as best he could.

In front of Vann's eyes now, something shocking happened.

There was a bear that had brown skin, its skin looked very strong like iron armor.

Then the bear was 2 meters tall, he was now hitting a disciple from the Wood Sword Academy until his entire body was bleeding.

More precisely there were dozens of corpses of disciples around the bear, all of the disciples he killed were bleeding and their bodies were destroyed by the blows of his bear, most likely the dozens of people were already dead while the person he was hitting right now was Tude's colleague who was shouting just now.

Seeing the situation there, Vann shook his head, the other Tude colleagues returned lucky because he died first before meeting Vann.

But Vann had no interest in fighting the bear that was there because Vann knew the bear.

The bear was none other than the Earth Bear, a level 9 Qi Gathering bear monster.

Although Vann had once managed to defeat the level 1 Qi Fondation snake monster before obtaining the 5 Element Sword Technique, but Vann's success was due to the snake monster being unable to move anymore due to mostly eating.

Not to mention the earth bears are very unique, they have powerful blows that can destroy even iron armor as well as fearsome defenses.

even 4-man Qi Gathering level 9 was not necessarily an opponent of the Earth Bear, therefore Vann had no interest in taking risks against the earth bear.

Moreover, the advantage against the Earth Bear is not that big, at most only the skin of the Earth Bear gives an advantage.

When Vann was just planning to leave, the Earth Bear stood up because the man he hit was dead.

Suddenly the Earth Bear raised his head to stare at Vann, he actually discovered Vann's whereabouts on top of the tree without making any sound from earlier.

Vann was also very surprised, he had heard the Earth Bear was very expert at detecting human existence, but Vann did not think the Earth Bear was still able to find it, though Vann has hidden his existence as best as possible and does not make any sound.

Before Vann moves, the Earth Bear runs as fast as possible and hits the tree where Vann is.

"Booooom!".

The tree where Vann stood looked extremely strong, but it was now instantly destroyed with just a single blow from the Earth Bear.

Sensing the tree where he was about to fall, Vann planned to jump towards another tree and escape from here.

But just as Vann was jumping, he found the Earth Bear opening its mouth and firing an extremely powerful cultivation energy at him.

Staring at the cultivation energy that the Earth Bear shot out of his mouth, Vann knew he would die if he did not dodge or resist the attack.

Without hesitation, Vann who was in the air drew his sword, he could not dodge now which made Vann decide to hold off the energy shot of the Earth Bear.

"Type 2 Wood Sword Technique, Tree Sword", cried Vann who slashed towards the energy belonging to the Earth Bear.

"Shelf!".

Although Vann manages to stop the Earth Bear's energy fire, he also loses his chance of escape, which makes Vann have to land on the ground.

Vann stared at the Earth Bear while smiling bitterly "Against the Earth Bear has been very troublesome, moreover it seems that you are a unique Earth Bear. The Earth Bear should not have the ability to fire energy from its mouth".

Based on the books he had read, there were some monsters born with their own unique powers. But the number of unique monsters is very small, the odds are only 1 in 10,000.

Therefore, Vann did not think he found any unique monsters in this match.

The Earth Bear did not understand Vann's words so he just ran forward towards him while slashing his claws, Vann dodged to the side and slashed down the Earth Bear's belly "Switch Technique 5 Element stage 1, which is the first step, Water Wave".

The water immediately gathered on Vann's sword, then he slashed the water sword towards the Earth Bear.

"But!".

Vann who slashed the bowels of the Earth Bear did not feel like he was slashing the bear's stomach, but Vann felt he was slashing a hard iron.

Vann's slash just now did not inflict a fatal wound to the Earth Bear, but Vann did not worry and turned around again to slash the Earth Bear using the water still gathered on his sword.

The amount of water on Vann's sword this time was far more than before, even the Earth Bear felt the threat from Vann's slash this time which made him not dare to hesitate anymore.

The Earth Bear gathered earth energy on his hand and struck towards Vann.

"Shelf!".

Fists and swords collided, Vann was knocked back 5 meters and his hands were slightly bloody.

However Vann was still better than the Earth Bear who was thrown tens of meters away before hitting the tree hard, there was a huge hole in his body that was formed due to Vann's sword slash and water.

Sighing heavily, Vann who was feeling exhausted suddenly felt his strength increase to a level 8 Qi Gathering.

At first Vann was surprised, but he was immediately pleased.

In addition to absorbing cultivation energy, crystals and medicine, there was another way to increase strength that was actual combat.

Between the fight of life and death, if someone manages to win then there is a possibility that he will increase his strength and pass the obstacles that have plagued him so far.

Vann re-saves his sword happily, then walks towards the defeated Earth Bear.

Vann stepped forward and planned to check if there was anything valuable on the Earth Bear's body.

Vann got 10 tokens from the Earth Bear, it seems like the committee realized that this Earth Bear is so unique that they give 1 additional token to anyone who managed to defeat it.

After not finding anything valuable anymore, Vann raised his head to the sky to briefly find the sky getting darker, the early stage monthly match was over.

Carrying dozens of tokens with him without knowing if he managed to proceed to the next stage, Vann walked away from the Soul Forest.

Soon the time runs out, if Vann does not return from the forest according to the specified time then there is a possibility he is also considered a failure.