Multi-Gene

The abrupt scream of a person drew the attention of everybody. David was immediately on guard as he heard the scream.

It was one of the young lady's guard that had screamed out loud, he fell to the floor, shaking severely, while frothing from his mouth and his nose.

There was two holes in his neck which was obviously some sort of bite mark. Not too far away from his body, a small snake could be seen escaping into the bush.

"It's a Violet Needle snake, a rank one demonic beast, everyone be careful!" The young lady immediately warned and everyone's expression changed and they immediately got on high alert.

As for the guard that was on the floor, no one bothered with him. Everyone knows the poison from the Violent needle snake is so potent that the moment it enters into the blood stream, it reaches the heart within five seconds, attacking it and causing a severe heart attack which would eventually lead to death.

The man was already death the moment he got bitten which was why there was no one seeking to attend to him but to defend themselves from the poisonous snake.

After a few seconds of being in high alert, the group started to move away from the location the snake might be hiding.

It was then something happened.

"Watch out!"

The female disciple amongst the five disciples that had accepted the mission together shouted, pointing at David.

The rest were quick to withdraw within the vicinity David was in, gazing at him with looks of pity in their faces as though David was already dead while the sword Kinesis disciples quickly sent their flying blades towards David's direction.

Since the snake was occupied, this was a perfect opportunity to kill it before it kills anymore people.

"Uhn, what's that?" David muttered as he felt a slight itch on his finger. Gazing downwards, he saw a violet coloured snake latched on his palm, biting desperately against his finger, releasing a drops of venom which slid from his finger to the grass, making the grass die instantly.

David watched the snake expressionlessly for a second and then he used his other hand to slap the snake into a bloody pulp. It was as though he was killing an insect and then flicked the headless body of the snake away.

Cleaning the blood off his hand with an handkerchief, David raised his head only to see that the others were gazing at him with shock, disbelief and awe.

Confused, he asked. "Is there something wrong?" they were all staring at him as if he had done something exceptional when all he did was kill an annoying little bug.

The young lady recovered from her shock and took in a deep breath as she said. "There's nothing wrong brother David, we just didn't expect for you to deal with the troublesome snake so easily, seems like we've underestimated you, please forgive our ignorance."

She seems to be genuine with her words as she bowed elegantly to David.

David raised an eyebrow as he still couldn't understand why it was surprising he could deal with the snake. Even when he was still a Spryher, he dealt with something even more difficult than the Violet needle snake, the Soaring Threadserpent.

It was a species that was even more difficult to deal with as it could somehow fly through the air for a short period of time and its speed was also exceptional as it was almost as fast as a bullet.

Waving his hands off, David smiled as he replied. "It's nothing much Lady Quin. We should get going since we the place we are going seems quite far and deep."

The others gazed at David with solemn expressions on their faces. While it could only require a bit of strength from them to kill the Violet meddle snake, it would be quite hard to kill it with one's own palm.

The four disciples glanced at each other and they could see the vigilance for David increase in their eyes.

David could feel that the other disciples were keeping their distance from him. Expect from two people, a lad and a young man who didn't seem to be phased by scene.

But David wasn't aware of it but even if he was aware of them keeping their distance from him, who knows if he would even care in the least.

The group continued their journey and occasionally a poisonous bug would attack the group but would be immediately eliminated by one of the disciples at random.

On their way, they had lost three guards of the seven the young lady had brought with her, remaining just four more guards and the fact that the guards hadn't ran yet means that the rumination from their death would be quite beneficial to their families or close ones.

"Oh! That's a Crimson Holy Basil and a Flax Gincko Haha, I didn't expect to be lucky so early." The young lady was surprised and delighted. Taking her team of her-pickers, they went ahead and carefully plucked the herbs while David the four other disciples from different academy kept guard.

A few times, a couple of demonic beast would show up which was immediately sliced into pieces as soon as it showed up.

As time went on, the young lady occasionally found quite a number of useful herb which she and her people picked up as they went deeper into the forest.

All of a sudden, the young lady stopped and she frowned as she sniffed the air with her nose. Closing her eyes, she inhaled deeply and carefully.

The rest were confused as to what the young lady was doing but they didn't disturb what she was doing.

She then opened her eyes and her eyes wore an unexpected delightful smile.

"Is something the matter my lady?" One of the male disciple in the group Long Feng spoke as he glanced at the young lady with curiosity.

The others also gazed at her, waiting for her to speak.

The young lady smiled turned around towards the group then she replied. "It seems we are in luck this time. Although I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I can smell the scent of a grade 3 herb within the vicinity!"

"What!?" They were instantly shocked and then the shock turned to joy as the expression of the team suddenly brightened up as the heard the young lady. Herbs are divided into seven grades, from grade one to grade seven. Grade one being the least potent while grade seven herbs are said to revive even the dead.

The herbs they had been picking before were all grade one herbs and they had only seen a single grade 2 herb which was enough to make the journey here worth it.

But now, the lady said she seem to have smelt the scent of a grade three herb. If they could harvest it, the herb could be sold for thousands of gold coins which was enough to tempt the disciples themselves into having their own thoughts about it as a disciple only receives 50-100 gold coin per month.

But if they dared to have second thoughts, snatching the herbs is indirectly disgracing the academy which would eventually lead to the academy hunting and punishing the disciple who breaks the protocol.

It doesn't matter how tempted they are, they had to follow the protocol.

The female disciple Zhu Shimei walked forwards, her curved eyes brows frowned as she spoke. "If you are really sure there's a grade three herb somewhere here, then there must surely be a rank 2 or possibly rank three demonic beast guarding the herb."

"You are right, if the demonic beast guarding the herb is at rank 2 then it would be quite easy if we attack it together, but if its a rank 3 demonic beast, then things will become very dangerous."

Everyone suddenly went quiet upon hearing words of the other male disciple Ding ling.

The remaining disciple who had been quiet throughout the journey Long Chen suddenly spoke up. "Dealing with a rank 3 best is indeed troublesome but I'm confident in my strength and with brother David support coupled together with the support of you guys, dealing the rank three beast shouldn't be so difficult."

The group blinked their eyes and thought about the matter. Long Chen strength had long since been revealed through out the journey. As he was always the fastest person who slays any beast that dares came close to them.

His sword attacks were insane fast and aggressive! One could only see the shadow of his flying blade once he attacks, not giving any chances for the opponent. And the most terrifying aspect of this was that he didn't see to have used twenty percent of his strength as he didn't seem tired in the least after using sword Kinesis all through this while.

And as for David, although he had only showed his strength once, the knew he wasn't to be underestimated as even the fang of the rank one demonic beast was unable to pierce through his skin.