Killing People for the First Time

Subsequently, James ran leisurely towards the wind crane while thinking of a way to clean up the mess.

However, when James arrived on the scene, he shook his head helplessly and laughed inwardly. 

What James saw were the two men who had their legs cut off and were lying on the ground, their expressions filled with despair as they looked at the wind crane in fear.

'What an interesting situation! This fool, the wind crane literally executed the order as it was, which is neither correct nor incorrect at the same time. But it's funny because I told it not to let them run away, and it directly cut off their legs.' James smiled and shook his head while placing his palm on his forehead.

"Hey, hey, hey... what an interesting situation we have here." James walked slowly and laughed. 

"Wait, please don't kill me... I am the son of the Mortos City Lord, and my elder sister is married to the son of Duke Mo Feng." The young man pleaded, trying to scare James by mentioning his background.

"I know, anything else?" James replied with a smirk. 

"Tell me what we need to do for you to let us go." The young man was still trying to save his life. Seeing that James didn't care about his background, he assumed that James must have a strong background too, possibly even stronger. 

"Hmmm... seal your cultivation first and answer some of my questions, and I'll let you go." James said after thinking for a while. 

The duo immediately sealed their cultivation and prepared to answer the question honestly. 

James nodded at their quick decision to not hesitate when given a chance of survival. He then walked closer, since he wanted to ask them face-to-face. 

"First, why did you target me?" James asked coldly, and his expression instantly became serious.

"We only knew that you had a lot of treasures from one of our people in the store you visited earlier." The young man answered honestly, as he remembered that James had stated he could tell if someone was lying or telling the truth. 

"He's telling the truth this time." Little Fluffy commented from the sidelines, watching the scene unfold.

James nodded and asked, "What is the cultivation rank of your father?" 

The young man was confused as to why James asked that question and hesitated for a while before answering, "As far as I know, my father is at peak rank 6." 

"He's telling the truth again." Little Fluffy informed James. 

"Okay then, that was all I wanted to know. I'll let you go now." James unsheathed his sword and used his Fire Sword Skill [Fiery Sword]. 

"Wait... didn't you just say you would let us go?" The young man suppressed his anger and asked. 

"I did, but I didn't specify where to go, right? As I said, I will let you go, albeit to the underworld rather than the city." James smiled mockingly. 

"You bitc..." Before the young man could finish his sentence, James had already swung his sword, swiftly cutting their heads off. 

'Hmmph, how dare you lie to me? You were still too young to trick me. Well, technically, in this life, you are older than me, but... Nevermind.' James stopped his useless thoughts as he stored their corpses in the beast's space. 

Subsequently, James was surprised when he heard a few notifications from the system. 

[Ding! You have killed the Peak-level Gold rank beast.] 

[Ding! The experience at peak rank 1 has increased to 10%.] 

[Ding! You have killed the Peak-level Gold rank beast.] 

[Ding! The experience at peak rank 1 has increased to 20%.] 

Even though James only received 10% experience for each kill rather than the full 20%, he was still content, guessing it was because the wind crane had cut off their legs and was counted as external assistance.

As for their situation, because they sealed their own cultivation, the system probably didn't mind as long as it wasn't sealed by others, as that could be considered external assistance. 

After looking at the notification and learning something new about the system, James was happy since Little Fluffy only told him about the things that he needed to know, leaving the unnecessary details for him to figure out on his own.

Afterwards, James continued his journey to Nagabourne City, still looking for beasts to fill up his experience and test his combat limit. 

This time James intended to test his true combat limit since his cultivation rank had finally caught up with his beast master rank.

Because James's beast master rank had always been higher than his cultivation rank, allowing him to easily kill beasts with a single move, even if they were significantly above his rank.

Although he could have avoided using his magic skill and instead relied solely on his cultivation, he just didn't want to do so since it was such a hassle and a waste of time.

However, now that he was forced into the situation because he was poor and unable to upgrade his beast rank to be above his cultivation rank like before. 

He might as well test his current power limit since his cultivation rank is now the same as his beast master rank, allowing him to finally engage in real combat. 

However, James wouldn't really test his cultivation combat to the point of really struggling in a fight with a beast that he is having a life and death experience in a battle.

Because he thought that it would be wasting too much time from battle since he would feel tired and wanted to have a rest at that moment, resulting in his main objective being delayed, which was to go to Nagabourne City and sell items so that he could upgrade his pet's rank and become stronger again. 

After riding leisurely on the wind crane's back for around half an hour while enjoying the scenery, James heard a notification from the system that caught his attention. 

[Ding! Detected a Big Centipede, High-level Gold Rank Beast 200 meters Northwest ahead] 

[Race: Big Centipede] 

[Attribute: Mid-level Poison Element] 

[Rank: High-level of Gold Rank Beast] 

[Qualification: Gold]

[Skills: Hardening scale, Poison legs, Poison Bite]

[Description: This is a powerful centipede that is stronger than other beasts when it comes to melee combat as it has [Hardening Scale] skill, which could strengthen its defense while inflicting poison on its enemies through its legs or bite.]