Xu Zhi and Chu Xiao Yue stayed at the rear of the team and did not make many moves. Chu Xiao Yue did not need the extra combat experience, so it was better to let her teammates practice. As for Xu Zhi, she was simply lazy. She did not need it either, and besides, she was only a first-year student. What was wrong with slacking off for a bit?
Through the [Eye of Secrets], this vine's level was not low—roughly at the second stage of Longevity. According to the dean of students, most of the extraordinary creatures at the outermost edge were at the Comprehension level. There were also Longevity-level creatures, but they were generally local tyrants that "ruled" small patches of territory around the outskirts.
This vine was likely the local tyrant here.
Killing such local tyrants would generally yield quite a few gold coins, all of them cores left behind by the extraordinary creatures they had killed. The vine could not digest cores of incompatible attributes, but they were still energy, so it collected them.
Their original target had not been this local tyrant. After all, even at the second stage of Longevity, it was not a difficult opponent when subjected to a righteous group beating.
They had planned to go a little deeper, somewhere more challenging. But since they had encountered it now, they naturally could not let it go.
Without Chu Xiao Yue, Shu Yushan naturally became the team's main attacker. Ji Muge, the substitute, was especially skilled with dual blades, which happened to be quite useful at a time like this. Useful for clearing away these annoying vines, that was.
As the five of them approached the vine's core, more and more attacks came their way. Clearly, the vine was also shocked that these prey,