Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

[Yet...I am unable to dismiss the sensation of danger.]

Lee Shen nodded at the comment as he drew the sword. The sheath went inside the spatial ring and the wavy molten pattern on the blade reflected the daylight.

"These cultivators are above your pay grade. So avoid fighting them and find the portal quickly."

Lee Shen glanced over his shoulder and saw that the students also felt the aura of the incoming cultivators. These kids pulled out their weapons with no knowledge of their incompatibility with these people.

Hearing the professor's words, the students grasped the situation and sharpened their senses to find the portal.

'Protect the students as they find the portal.'

Zena and Fero heard their master's voice in their head and they took a few steps backwards before turning around and disappearing.

As soon as they left, 10 cultivators arrived before Lee Shen.

[Watch out for the puppets. They are deadlier than cultivators.]

The puppets were incredibly agile and devoid of pain receptors. The construction using some special metal also increased their explosive strength. At this moment, Lee silently evaluated the might of the bow.

"You are highly unusual for an adventurer. Your strength and speed surpass that of Emperor Immortal cultivators. Your Mana reserve is also aberrant.

Why don't you share your secrets so that you could leave here alive!"

The tallest among the cultivators spoke and his elvish ears could be seen.

A smirk crept up Lee's face as he heard these words. He couldn't help but shake his head as he lifted the sword and rested it over his shoulder.

"Aren't you too much of a stupid for a cultivator? Or are all cultivators like you?"

From the hostility flooding around him, it was obvious that they came here to kill. This he nullified their efforts to sweet talk with provocative words.

Hearing Lee Shen's words, the cultivators released their aura. It rushed at him like gale but was only able to flutter his robe. The students and the beast duo felt this thick and intimidating aura and quickened their pace.

The next second, the feline puppets have pounced on Lee Shen.

The Foresight was activated with its usual slo-mo vision. Lee could now see the puppets on a detailed scale.

'These puppets are not ordinary ones.'

Though they possess stats inferior to Lee Shen, he could still feel a pressure on his soul. But it was not something that could deter him.

Still, it made his concern.

[It is a Soul Attack. It suppresses the target's soul and restricts it to an extent that the soul could even be devoured. After the soul is consumed, the puppets would gain corresponding enhancements while your body becomes an empty shell.

Fortunately, the Deity grade quality of the sword is nullifying the effects.]

The situation became crystal clear and Lee acknowledged his weakness despite higher resolve and reconstructed body. The need for destroying these puppets constantly rang in his mind.

*slash*

Lee stepped forward and sliced the air. Due to the pinnacle quality of the sword, the strike instantly reached the puppets and broke them down to fragments of metal!

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*yawn*

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12 Midday.

5,975,810 Essence harvested.

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The cultivators could not put up a quality fight as Lee Shen broke down their prized puppets within a couple of breaths. Before they could counter-attack, Lee had appeared near them and the cultivators disappeared from reality.

Now, all ten of them rested in the EsGen and became farmlands of Essence.

Lee Shen did not hesitate to crush the puppets with his hands. After the disappearance of the cultivators, they had become inactive and dumb.

Right now, Lee was resting with the students in front of the cave. While Lee spent his time with the cultivators, the students have successfully excavated the cave entrance.

The veil of thick wild vines covered the entrance and the students did have difficulty even though they went past the entrance twice or thrice. It was completely accidental how Dambo found the cave when he tripped over a stone and ended up tearing the vines that covered the entrance.

*muffled nom nom noms*

Because the students spend a lot of stamina for searching for the entrance, they were exhausted. Thus, Gillian opened up the spatial ring and fed them all with cooked fox meat.

He did not neglect the matter of beasts and gave them a share too. Since the pile of fox meat was quite enormous, Gillian treated Zena and Fero generously.

Soon after finishing their meal, the party entered the cave.

[You can feel them, eh?]

'I think it is the concealed death energy.'

Though the time was day, the light could not enter the deep parts of the winding cave. The fire affinity students were asked to produce flames for visibility.

Except for the professor, nobody else detected the interiors of the caves brimming with intense hostile energy.

[The moment the portal is activated, the energy will erupt. It would be well within a cultivator's level of tolerance.]

Dnekewy spoke as he knew the secrets of the portal activation. He also added that how and where this energy is hidden is unknown to him.

[This world keeps so many secrets, no one knows the blade hanging above their head.]

While the trio engaged in a casual chat, the students took care of an army of centipedes that rushed at them. Soon, the air inside the cave became unbearable with burnt odour.

"Observe and evaluate. Control the output. Kill efficiently."

Lee felt like the students are forgetting the basics of effective combat so he said to the students. The students who were absorbed in frying the centipedes woke up from their trance and found the atmosphere unsuitable.

Wind affinity students quickly drove the polluted air out of the cave and a new batch of air came in. The students did not bother to receive further instructions from the professor and walked forward.

Soon they came into a circular underground chamber. No hostilities were arising from the space and there was nothing in the visible range other than a doorframe made out of stone.