Dragon's Soul Chapter 11: Paradise

During the day, the girls would gather food as Zhang built the raft. At night, they would sit together and cultivate.

If the trio were to be ranked by strength, Zhang of course would be strongest. Whereas if they were ranked by technique and skills Yuying would vastly outstrip Zhang. But if they ranked each other based on cultivation speed, Ai was leaps and bounds ahead of Zhang and Yuying. She had reached the 5th level and was one level ahead of the other two.

Over these three months, they had stayed purely on the beach and did not venture into the forest. This was because at night, they would hear loud roars and howls off in the distance and thundering footsteps that shook the ground.

The island was truly odd, this was due to the fact that, so far, there had been no signs of people. You would think that, on an island with such an abundance of food, there would at least be a small striving population or at least a small port town of sort for ships to dock.

Today, the sky was clear and the weather was nice and warm too Zhang decided to take a day to rest. The raft was nearly completed now and he only had to do the finishing touches. It was a fairly large raft or well we can call it a barge.

Now, all Zhang had to do was add sails and a rudder. Then make some oars to use when there was no wind to propel the raft.

After resting for half a day Zhang grabbed a wooden spear he had made and set out to survey the surrounding jungle.

Zhang had his trusty spear and the rusty sword that he had found in the cave and some rope made of vines.

He had chosen a fruit tree to climb up into. This type of fruit tree grew everywhere on the island and had a strange taste to it. The first bite into the fruit would be sweet, but the 2nd bite would have a strangely sour taste. The fruit itself looked strange also. It was an oval shaped, bright red in color and had small spikes all over.

Making quick work of the two deer, Zhang began to tie them with his vines and started heading back to the cabin. The two deer would serve as dinner tonight and their hides would be used at part of the sails.

"SHIT!!!!!!!" Zhang yelled

Zhang knew he did not have a chance of victory over this monster so he bolted the opposite direction.

"Maybe this will work", Zhang tossed the fawn at the Panther hoping it would stop pursuing him. But when the fawn landed in front of the panther, it was totally ignored.

Off in the distance there was a side of a cliff. If he was able to climb up this cliff the panther would not be able to pursue him but to do that, Zhang would have to abandon his deer.

Then out of nowhere a giant lion appeared. It was a three eyed voracious eater. This type of demonic best also matured at the 7th level like the panther but it was double the size of the panther.

Zhang took the chance to escape and he prayed that neither of the two beasts would pursue.

The voracious eater had snapped the panthers neck with its powerful paw and then began eating the panther and the deer.

By the time he returned to the cabin, it was night and the stars shone from the skies.

Zhang decided the he, very next day, would try his luck again and try to get more meat. This time, he would have to be cautious. He could, instead of using his spear or sword, use brute force to take care of the animals. This would prevent other predators from picking up the scent of blood.

The cabin was now filled with furs of different animals and even some demonic beasts. Yuying had asked Zhang to get fur so she could make blankets for the voyage. They did not know where they were and how far they were from civilization, and on the sea the weather was constantly changing, one day it could be warm and sunny and the next it could be freezing cold. So it would be best to be prepared.

Now they were preparing food for the voyage and after doing so, they'd be ready to embark and leave the island.

So today, would be the last day the trio would stay on the island. So they had a small feast because it would be their last warm cooked meal for a while.

However, that night a loud roar sounded in the night.

Zhang was the first to run out of the cabin to see what was happening. In the distance, he could see a giant snake sticking out high above the forest. In front of it was an equally giant ape.

Just when it seemed like the snake had the advantage, the giant ape overpowered it and broke out of its coils. The ape then tossed the giant snake away and when the snake's body landed it caused a huge boom. Many trees fell over due to the impact of the giant snakes fall and clouds of dusts were formed.

"That's snake is a level 8 Lightning Eater!!!", Zhang yelled.

Anything that was touched by the blue beam was instantly coated in a thick layer of ice.

Level 6 demonic beast's were rarely spotted by humans and level 7 were even more rarely spotted but here, were two beasts at level 8 battling in front of Zhang. It was a sight truly to behold.

"Quickly gather up our things we are setting sail. It is too dangerous to stay here any longer.", he screamed

Yuying and Ai hopped onto the raft and each grabbed an oar as Zhang pushed the raft into the water.

They looked back to the emperor ape and the lightning eater and saw that once more the lightning eater had wrapped the emperor ape. But this time. it had blasted the ape at point blank range with its lightning.

In retaliation to the lightning eater, the emperor ape shot its ice beam also at point blank range. However, the ice beam had a devastating effect on the snake unlike the lightning on the ape. Being cold blooded the extreme cold temperature from the ice had greatly injured the snake.

And for the first time, the ape did something he had not done before, it bit into the snake, a grievous wound appeared near the snake's head. Streams of blood was now flowing out of the snakes wound.

He wanted to see who would win this death match and afterwards try to scavenge what he could from the loser's corpse. These were demonic beasts at the 8th level their bodies would be consider treasures troves.

The lightning eater's scales would prove to be very useful and valuable. Those scales were incredible hard and since they belonged to a lightning eater the scales were resistant to lightning attacks.

A weird bulge appeared on the lightning eaters upper body and this bulge continued growing until it popped and another lightning eater's head appeared. Both demonic beasts were going all out and at the end for sure, one of them will perish.

One of the ape's arms were now occupied with the snake's other head. The ape still looked like it had an advantage though. This fight continued for hours and at the end of the fight the sun was about to rise. The giant snake had constricted the ape to death.

However, shortly after the giant snake began departing, it slumped over and also fell to the ground. It sustained too many injuries during the fight and had also expended too much essence.

An eerie silence broke out after the battle, to the extent where crickets could be heard. Zhang wanted Yuying and Ai to stay on the raft but they flatly refused him and wished to see the two corpses close up. Seeing that both of the huge threats were now gone, Zhang did not refuse.

Their first target was the Lightning Eater. Zhang was hoping to find some of its cultivation in a crystallized form. Zhang was also hoping to get many scales from the snake eater so he could use it to get an armor for Yuying, Ai, and himself.

The trio began walking into the forest towards the giant snake.

Chapter end