Chapter 541 - 354: Calm and Composed, Dominating the Entire Field

Chapter 541: Chapter 354: Calm and Composed, Dominating the Entire Field

The ordinary Fish-headed Monsters savaging the members of the Treasure Hunting Squad were only at Tier One, so they couldn’t perceive the true level of Lin Li’s Spiritual Energy Wave.

However, they could sense the powerful aura radiating from this human—an aura even more terrifying than their own leader’s.

At the same time, when these ordinary Fish-headed Monsters saw their leader begin to retreat toward Bibo Lake, looking like it was about to flee, they became even more certain that Lin Li was an enemy not to be trifled with. They followed their leader’s example and began to pull back as well.

Lin Li’s gaze remained fixed on the giant Fish-headed Monster. When he saw it retreat, leading the other monsters away from the Treasure Hunting Squad members pinned to the ground, he gave a subtle nod.

Instead of immediately attacking the giant Fish-headed Monster, he had mobilized the Spiritual Energy in his Dantian, unreservedly displaying the full intensity of his Spiritual Energy Wave to intimidate the Mutant Beasts. This was the rescue strategy Lin Li had devised.

Although his current cultivation at the Peak of the Second Order was more than enough to effortlessly eliminate all the Fish-headed Monsters present, doing so would still take time.

If he had appeared and attacked the Mutant Beasts without a word, he most likely wouldn’t have been able to save all the members of the Treasure Hunting Squad, who had already been overpowered and could no longer fight back.

Intimidating the leading giant Fish-headed Monster by displaying his full power was the best possible choice when saving lives was the primary objective.

And events unfolded just as Lin Li had predicted. The giant Fish-headed Monster, with its Second Order Middle Stage cultivation, was no fool.

Faced with a human Cultivator whose strength far surpassed its own, it pragmatically chose to retreat to save its own skin.

As it retreated, the giant Fish-headed Monster nervously met Lin Li’s gaze. It had completely lost the insufferable arrogance it displayed while dealing with the Treasure Hunting Squad.

It was terrified that this fearsome human Cultivator would charge and attack it. On edge, it watched Lin Li’s every move, its feet never faltering as it scrambled toward the lake shore.

"GURGLE..."

After retreating more than thirty meters, the giant Fish-headed Monster felt it had enough breathing room and let out a loud cry to its minions.

It was the order to retreat. Hearing their leader’s command, the ordinary Fish-headed Monsters—already terrified of Lin Li—immediately picked up their pace. They followed their leader back to the shore and plunged headfirst into the water.

"SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH..."

Over a hundred Fish-headed Monsters churned the water, kicking up waves as they swam. A moment later, they had all vanished beneath the surface.

Lin Li watched until the Fish-headed Monsters he had frightened off had completely disappeared. With the danger now gone, he retracted his Spiritual Energy Wave.

He then turned to look at the members of the Treasure Hunting Squad on the ground, their faces filled with the joyous relief of having survived a catastrophe.

"We’re saved."

"Haha... We survived!"

"SOB... This is great! We survived!"

Having escaped the jaws of death, the Treasure Hunting Squad members either laughed with glee or wept with relief, releasing their frayed nerves through loud cries and laughter.

Just then, the Treasure Hunting Squad’s captain clutched his wound and struggled to his feet, calling out to Lin Li, who was about to turn and leave.

"Friend, please wait."

"What is it?" Lin Li stopped and turned to face the squad’s captain.

"Thank you for saving our lives. Could you tell us your name and where you live? We’d like to prepare a generous gift and pay you a visit to express our gratitude." The Treasure Hunting Squad’s captain explained why he had stopped Lin Li.

It was all thanks to Lin Li that the members of their Treasure Hunting Squad hadn’t died at the hands of the Fish-headed Monsters.

A debt for saving one’s life is something one can never forget. They had to find a way to properly thank their savior.

"I accept your gratitude, but there’s no need for a gift. It wasn’t much trouble for me, after all..." Lin Li said, shaking his head and declining the captain’s offer.

With that, he turned to leave.

The captain was greatly surprised, not expecting Lin Li to refuse so decisively.

Watching Lin Li’s retreating figure, he called out again, "Friend, can you at least tell me your name?"

Lin Li simply waved his hand without answering. He then walked into the woods and, a moment later, vanished from sight.

The members of the Treasure Hunting Squad stared in the direction their savior had gone. After a moment of silence, they retracted their gazes and looked at one another, at a loss for words.

"Our savior didn’t look very old, did he?" the balding man muttered to himself.

"Yeah! He looked about the same age as my younger brother. Twenty-one, twenty-two at most!" said the man with the injured arm.

"To be so young and have such a powerful cultivation... He’s incredible. You don’t think he’s one of those cultivation prodigies from a Noble Family, do you?" said the man with the bite on his thigh, leaning on a companion’s shoulder.

"The cultivation prodigies from the Noble Families I’ve met were, without exception, arrogant to the core. They all look down on us commoners.

"This savior was willing to help us, and the way he looked at us was... normal. He doesn’t seem like one of those prodigies from a Noble Family..." the man with the abdominal injury said, recalling the Noble Descendants he had encountered in the past.