Poor Wooden Monkey Clan

"Char!" (Dragon Breath!)

Wang Shòu exclaimed as he took a deep breath, exhaling a burst of fierce purplish-blue fire, knocking out a 150-year-old Wooden Monkey.

[Congratulations! You have leveled up! You are now at level 13.]

'Good. It has been two weeks, and now I'm level 13,' Wang Shòu nodded, satisfied with the progress of his strength. He could now easily use Dragon Breath, which he learned when Charmander reach level 12.

'Status Window'

[Name: Wang Shòu]

[Race: Charmander]

[Level: 13 (175 Years Old)]

[Self-Created Move: Spark Tackle (Unusable), Smoke Explosion]

[Pokemon: Pikachu (15)]

'It's not in vain that I often kept grinding the Wooden Monkey Clan...'

The Wooden Monkey is a small green monkey with the ability to condense weapons out of branches. They are not very strong, ranging from 50 to 150 years old, and they often hunt in groups. The strongest among them are the 200-year-old Boss Wooden Monkeys, which Wang Shòu easily defeated in his Pikachu form.

They are also highly protective of their race member, so every time I defeat one, two more Wooden Monkey would come. So they are the perfect sandbag to help me get stronger.

As for the Self-Created Move, Smoke Explosion, Wang Shòu came up with the idea a week ago after Charmander reached level 8 and learned Smokescreen. While he doesn't exactly remember the principle and science of smoke, he vaguely remember that the smoke is highly combustible, igniting after contacting an outside fire.

Thus, he wondered what would happen if he ignited the smoke with Ember after using Smokescreen, causing a smoke explosion. This move required delicate control of temperature and manipulation of the Smokescreen to achieve the desired effect.

So he tested it out on the enthusiastic helper Wooden Monkey Clan.

Wooden Monkey: "Grook! Grook! (ಥ﹏ಥ)" (We don't want to be your helpers!!)

Conveniently not understanding what they said, Wang Shòu spent five days perfecting the Smoke Explosion.

'Now, I should probably leave here. Staying here won't make me any stronger.'

After all, Wang Shòu currently resides in one of the weakest areas of the outer region of the Great Star Dou Forest. The strongest spirit beast here is only the 200-year-old Boss Wooden Monkey, which he has already defeated.

The Great Star Dou Forest is divided into four regions: outer region, middle region, inner region, and core region, where the Fierce Beasts reside. The closer one gets to the middle of the Great Star Dou Forest, the stronger the spirit beasts become.

The outer region usually has 100-year-old spirit beasts, while the middle region has 1,000-year-old spirits, and the inner region has 10,000-year-old spirit beasts, with some even close to 100,000 years old.

As for the core region, it is the territory of the Top Ten Fierce Beasts, where each one is a powerful spirit beasts who is more than 200,000 years old.

The leader of the Fierce Beasts is Di Tian, the Golden Eye Black Dragon King, who is over 800,000 years old. Relying on the bloodline of the descendant of Dark Dragon King, and Light Dragon King, Di Tian can fight on par with a 3rd Class God.

However, there is an even more terrifying creature sleeping under the lake in the core region of the Great Star Dou Forest—Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, who can fight against 1st Class God and can temporarily contend with a God-King.

So, unless he is 100,000 years old, going to the core region would be just simply asking for death.

If Wang Shòu wants to get stronger, he will need to venture deeper into the Great Star Dou Forest and fight against stronger spirit beasts.

'I will miss the Wooden Monkey Clan... they were so helpful and enthusiastic. Every time I visited their home, they would always offer me delicious fruits to eat...' Wang Shòu reminisced, remembering the tasty food the Wooden Monkey Clan had stored.

If the Wooden Monkey Clan heard what Wang Shòu was thinking, they would have the heart to kill him.

Wooden Monkey: "Grook?! Grook!" (Are you kidding?! It's because you are stronger than us that we had to give you our precious stored food!)

As Wang Shòu reminisced about the delicious fruit, suddenly heard an an unusual sound, which is amazing considering Charmander have no ears but hey, its Pokemon. It just work.

"Char? Char?" (Hm, this sound? It's familiar yet unfamiliar... like a human voice?)

Curious, Wang Shòu quickly ran towards the source of the battle. After running for five minutes, he hid behind a nearby big tree and the big-blue eyes peeked out slowly.

'Hm? Five humans, and it seems there are five kids who look about eight years old, along with a young adult. Judging from their appearance, they seem to be spirit masters...'

Seeing this, Wang Shòu got an idea of what is going on. Could it be that they are here to get spirit rings for the five kids?

But why? The Great Star Dou Forest is surrounded by massive steel wall and a giant barrier full of technological sense, hang over the sky of Great Star Dou Forest. Those belonged to the Spirt Pagoda, with the purpose to monitor the Great Star Dou Forest and make sure spirit beast don't go extinct.

Ordinary kids can't enter the Great Star Dou Forest, except perhaps the privileged children of people in high positions within the Spirit Pagoda.

But if that is the case, then why are they here? They could just get powerful spirit souls which can provide the perfect spirit rings for them.

Filled with questions, Wang Shòu quietly sneaked closer to them, hiding amidst the lush vegetation, and listened in on their conversation.

After listening to a bunch of gibberish words he didn't understand, Wang Shòu gave up in frustration. 'Gah! I can't understand what they're saying! System, can you understand what they say?'

[They are speaking in the Chinese language. The oldest spirit master is telling the five kids to be careful in the wild and also say that they will head to the south.]

'Chinese? Oh, that explains why I can't understand their language. But south... isn't that where they live?' Wang Shòu glanced in the direction the group of humans was heading. The direction they were going to was the habitat of the Wooden Monkeys.

'It seems that the Wooden Monkey Clan is in big trouble...'