10 Spirit Beast!
Ye Xian who departed from the Pearl city finally reached the outskirts of the Whispering forest after 2 days of long travel.
Ye Xian knew that cultivators who chose to live a stable and peaceful life won't be able to improve themselves after a certain level; Only those who tread the dangerous and perilous way can reach the peak.
That's also the reason why he decided to enter the Whispering forest! He wanted to fight many magical beasts by himself and gain combat experiences while he perfects his skills. At the same time, he wanted to temper his spirit energy, if there are any opportunities he wanted to increase his cultivation levels.
Naturally, if one battled against many beasts they will learn to use their strength in an efficient way and their survival instincts also improve in dangers.
When Ye Xian entered the outskirts of the Whispering forest, he described the forest in two words breathtaking and stunning, as far as his eyes could see, the forest is filled with majestic mountain peaks and tall iron like trees, stretched across the forest. He even heard sound of birds and loud roar which came from the distance.
'Zzzzz' 'Xuuuu'
He suddenly heard a whispering sounds coming from a distance, while a cool woody wind raised and blew past Ye Xian. Hearing the whispering sounds as that of a ghost murmuring, Ye Xian body unconsciously shivered, and he used his spirit energy to calm his mind. Thankfully, he already knows about this forest and it's whispering sounds, otherwise, he would never step his foot inside this forest.
Without wasting any time, Ye Xian executed his skill – Traceless Wind steps and traveled inside the forest as his figure slowly vanished. This is the advantage of the skill traceless steps, he wanted to further train this skill because only a movement skill will save one's life in a dangerous situation.
A week had passed since he entered the outskirts of the Whispering Forest. In this one week, Ye Xian traveled five hundred kilometers and fought against more than a hundred magical beats of seventh and eighth level of Mortal relam.
At first, Ye Xian was anxious and tense, he couldn't even face off against a Grade Eight Mortal ranked beast due to his lack of combat and battle experience. The Magical beasts he faced are Fierce, wild and ruthless to their opponents.
It took some time for him to adapt to the beast's wild and barbaric fighting style; At the same time, he also learned how to utilize and control hundred percent of his strength.
Today, he even fought against the Iron armored wolf which is at the 9th level of the mortal realm, as it's equal. Seeing it couldn't defeat the opponent, the wolf finally retreated. But Ye Xian was not happy, he wanted to improve his combat strength one step further.
Every time he fights against the magical beasts, the essence energy inside his body began to increase and his physical body also refined and strengthened again. Ye Xian was just a single step away from entering the 6th level of Mortal realm.
His physical body is as strong as some beasts, if he reaches the peak of the mortal realm, his physical body will be as that of peak mortal grade weapon no one can easily injure him.
His skills, Snow Tiger fist, traceless wind steps, and Falling leaf which are in 'skill control' stage also began to steadily improve.
Aside from fighting and improving his combat experience, Ye Xian also wanted to find some high graded herbs to improve his cultivation. In this one week, he couldn't even able to find normal medicinal herb much less high-grade herbs.
He was sure the herbs around some kilometers are either fully plucked by peoples who come in search of Medicinal herbs or a magical beast which is good at discovering the treasures ate everything.
He read about many books regarding magical beasts of this world, but he was sure there are no magical beasts capable of this feet. Then the only possibility is that the beast is spirit beast.
Spirit beasts are different from the magical beasts, like humans, once the beast awakens their spirit energy they will transform into a spirit beast.
The spirit beasts are the most powerful beast among the magical beast, no magical beast of the same level can defeat them. Moreover, every spirit beast awakens a unique innate ability to themselves, once they awaken their spirit energy.
Moreover, Spirit beast's are even rare than Numinous masters, only 1 magical beast can become spirit beast among the tens of thousands of magical beasts. They are also very hard to tame if one use force they will rather die than submit.
There are two ways to tame a spirit beast, one way is to raise them from a small age and another way is to defeat it with the same level of strength and make it follow you, willingly. Defeating a spirit beast with the same level of strength is nearly impossible task!!
If he could find the spirit beast, which is hunting the medicinal herbs then he can easily find high graded herbs and improve his cultivation level.
At the 5th level of the mortal realm, his strength is somewhere between 400 kg which is equal to that of normal 8th level mortal realm practitioner, since his skills all are in skill control stage, he can face any opponents under the soul realm. But against spirit beast which awakened its innate ability, he was not confident in his victory.
Ye Xian who was contemplating, suddenly a heard a loud 'hissing' noise towards his left. Without much thought, he directly rushed towards the direction he heard the sound.
After running a few meters, he saw a gigantic snake, 400 meters away from him, as it loudly 'hissed' and searched something around it. From it, one can assume it's fuming with rage. Its body is 15 meter in length with grey scales around it and 2-meter width; Its head is coated and shimmered with red crystal-like scales.
'It's a Red Headed serpent!!'
Red Headed serpent is a magical beast with Golden serpent bloodline. From its aura, Ye Xian concluded it's just single step away from reaching the soul realm.
The bloodline of beast differs to every magical beast. The bloodline of a beast is divided into many levels starting from Mortal Bloodline, Golden Bloodline, Emperor Blood lined beast and so on.
The Red-headed serpent has the Golden serpent bloodline because only serpents with golden bloodline can become a red-headed snake. Their Golden bloodline comes from the beast called Golden-headed serpent which reached Golden Core stage.
Every beast which reached the Golden core stage can pass on their bloodline to their child's but only a handful of them can awaken it.
Red Headed serpents are powerful creatures with terrifying strength, they are fast, wild and savage. With its strength of peak mortal realm, it can fight against soul realm practitioners and may even kill some weak soul realm practitioners.
When Ye Xian observed the surrounding, he caught glimpse of small rabbit hiding behind a tree some distance away from the red-headed serpent. The rabbit is 1 meter in size, it's furs are bluish- green like that of jade and in its hands there is Red colored fruit size of a tennis ball.
He immediately understood what's happening, the jade rabbit should have robbed the serpent's fruit and it resulted in serpent's fury.
"Wait... is it the jade rabbit that has eaten every herb in the surrounding? If it is, then the jade rabbit is a spirit beast which recently awakened its spirit energy." Because a newly awakened spirit beast needs a lot of medicinal herbs to consolidate their spirit energy so Ye Xian concluded in his mind.
Ye Xian inspected his surroundings again and saw a small tree, 5 meters in height with two fruits in it same as the rabbit carrying. With just a glance, he recognized the fruit is called Red blood fruit.
Red Blood fruit is Grade 1 fruit, very useful to mortal realm practitioner. It contains essence energy capable of increasing one's vitality and strengthen their muscles. Ye Xian was exhilarated if he could obtain this fruit he can easily reach level 8 of the mortal realm.
"I don't know, how strong both beasts are; I better wait here and ascertain their strength before I make my move." Ye Xian pondered for seconds and decided to wait.
The red-headed serpent, easily found out the thief, the jade rabbit, who robbed its Red Blood fruit. Jade rabbit didn't panic or run, seeing the serpent found it's hiding place, it haughtily came out to face the Red-headed serpent.
In front of the gigantic Red headed serpent, the jade rabbit looked like an ant but it still came out fearlessly because it's the pride of spirit beast.
