>>5919161The first barrage of attack was not enough to deter the Flying Shark Monster - the strength of a 6th stage monster is nothing to scoff at.
You step up, and send your Bonded Hawk assault the monster alongside your sect's comrade.
Another spirit rise behind your back and attack from your cart - another Hawk? Who's got that? Its shape looks blurry and is hard to look at.
Your gaze naturally shifts toward Bathias, but his own Spirit Hawk - made of fabric? is currently circling your cart.
Your send your Hawk circling the Shark - you don't need to take a blow to your Astral Self while shielding the monster at the same time from one of the spiritual blast.
Speaking of blasts, they are from all shape and form. Ice spears, fire blast, searing flashes, ominous curses.
You'd like to say you wish to reach that stage, but none of those elements, close to the part of your soul encased in the Hawk, resonate deeply with you. Well, fire skills seems not as bad, but how much comes from the Hawk's spirit Flame element?
Your Hawk start pecking at the Flying Shark, with little-to-no effect. Meanwhile, said Shark rushes in an insane short-speed burst to attack one of the cart - housing some of the grown disciples - toppling it, sending the cultivator screaming.
Ryota jumps from his own cart, sending his staff which split in three, and spins insanely fast. The squat tanned man steps on the platform.
You're witnessing the fabled ability of fourth-stage cultivator : the ability for Inborn Realm cultivator to use what is mostly known as the "Sword Controlling Art". Looks like Ryota found, or made, his own technique for triple-staff control.
Riding the disk, Ryota plunges, catching the three unlucky disciples - ignoring the one that spawned wings in his back and the one which grasped the toppled cart.
That might have been the best target for the shark, disrupting five of the spellslingers among the cultivators. Still, his target was too strong for his ability.
None of you is close to the sixth realm. But quantity have a quality of its own.
Despite higher-grade cultivator being akin to natural disasters and fearsome to face, the view of a single person able to face an army of mediocre talented people is almost laughable. But not unheard of.
The shark didn't came back after attacking the cart. It would have taken more to slay it, but your fellow disciples weren't even hurt in the attack.
Some might develop vertigo-related inner demon though.
