Map and trouble that come along with it

After having seen the huge beast on the outside, forget Situ even Xiaohe was not calm at the moment, she did not want to become some beast food.  

In a way, she had the urge to improve her strength. It seemed that this was a already good enough to wake her up. As for resources that was not a problem for them to find, but rather the ability to take them was key.

in this region, numerous resources were accumulated and reaching the peak of rank 6 was possible with just consumption of resources.

But it seemed that even Situ had yet to understand the difficulty that came with entering the late stages, the 7th rank to be precise.

Let alone this, there were others beyond it, which could be said to require more than just resources even he himself was sure that without the insights from the stone steles, he would find it hard to reach the speed he had.

Even though it was not that fast, compared to those that were considered geniuses in this world.

After three hours he suddenly opened his eyes with a smile on his face, obviously he had made some gains but at the same time he had some helpless look on his face.

His realm did not show any signs of breakthrough at all, in this way he would stay in the 6th rank for a while. "I need to find more chances to be able to Cultivate faster."

He was aware of these facts, especially with the fact that others existed on this region and might be stronger. Meeting them would always be something that brought about some uncertainties.

Shaking his head, he threw the thought out of his head and looked towards the fire that was going out. "Let prepare some egg, I am hungry."  As he removed the sand and ass off the surface of the ground, the egg shell could be seen, but its color seemed to have become yellow from the heat. Even with his current level, he felt some pain when he removed the egg, using his hands due to how hot it was.

After cutting the outer shell, the egg was divided and consumed by the two of them but only Xiaohe got the benefits. Her blood was boiling and she took the chance to enter meditation, while Situ had some doubts on his face.

He probably would need to look for stronger beast eggs and consume more but that was no different from seeking death.  Looking at the palm - like blue jade stone he had on him, that seemed to be purifying his internal Qi he sighed. So, what if he had an opportunity, in the end it might be slowing down his speed, he forgets it was because of it that he reached 6th rank so fast.

In that way, he had to start thinking, more accurately, he was more or less wondering if there were ways to speed up his cultivation progress.

Looking around the cave, he seemed to realize that there were many caves on this part of the forest, and from the structure it seemed to have not been made by those in ranks, as their attacks could not accomplish this.

But it gave him some ideas, perhaps to obtain some opportunities, just like the palm-like jade he had gotten under the pool in the cave from before, all this were probably not there by accident. Looking around, even though it was dark, it did not stop him from wanting to explore this cave too. He landed his eyes on the flame that was almost being extinguished, this was his chance.

"Let me lite up a torch from this fire and look around this cave, though I can breakthrough in time, it is best to save as much of it as possible. This region is not safe, and my strength here is also mediocre as the most I can do is escape when a conflict arises."  As he thought of this he had already started to act.

It took some effort for the torch to be ignited, and he started to look on the walls of the cave, and as he had expected, it was indeed filled with some drawings, and this did not seem to make him excited as it was not what he wanted. But after moving around the entire cave, he remembered the structure of the drawings seemed to resemble some map.

"Indeed, this place seems to put more attention into caves, even though I can't get what I want, I should still memorize this map, as it could help me avoid many detours." He was indeed not very happy about it, as he was more expectant of something else, but in the end, he could only throw his disappointment to the side.

The map of this region could help him and the most important thing was that several markings were put on the map, but only one was marked red, this made him think that perhaps that was a place marked as dangerous, so he would try to avoid the place at all costs. While he was thinking, he looked to the side, and felt some blood energy surging, it turned out that Xiaohe had entered the fourth rank, and the peak too.

"Do the eggs of the beasts have this effect, so what happened if I were to locate those that were stronger than me? Wait, those people were also stronger than me but seemed to be eyeing the eggs it could not be because they were just hungry at all. In that case, it can benefit them, but it seems like it cannot do the same for me, why is that?" As he thought of this, he looked towards the object hidden inside his clothes seemed to have some answer already.

Seeing that she was still consolidating her foundation, he did not bother her, but rather tried to sneak out, and just as he had expected, some monster was lying some distance outside the cave. With his peak rank 6 strength he could not manage to kill it at all, so he acted in a restrained manner and moved towards another direction, trying to verify the map he had just obtained considering he had nothing important to do at the moment.

As for sleep, that was not going to weak with how uneasy he had been recently about his cultivation progress slowing down. The transformation of internal Qi did not seem that big from the 6th rank to the 7th rank but it was indeed not on the same level, but when compared to the next big realm, then the transformation was on another level.

It was also at this moment, that he started to suspect that the man he had seen before was not someone in the martial Rank, but he did not know about the next realm at all, due to having no access to information to verify like the insights from the stones in the area he had come from.

Moving sneakily until he reached some distance did, he start to rush, and the monster lying at the front of the cave opened its eyes with some doubts before closing them again. But Situ did not know about this at all, he was following the map to see the nearest marked area on the map. He would take detours to avoid some strong aura's he felt along the way.  But this also brought him further from his objective, at the time he realized it, he had been looking at the map wrongly, it was already too late and some huge eagle was eying him. With two moons in the sky, it was even more clear than in some areas at day time.

But the cold did not lessen due to it, rather it was more intense, forcing most of the beasts into sleep, during the night. Situ on the other hand, seemed to have never even realized the existence of this moons as anything unique, perhaps it was some will be affecting him since he was reborn in this world.

When situ looked around, he could see some pool and the something that resembled a hill beyond it.

Ignoring the dark water, he seemed to be lost even with the map.  This was because he did not follow the map but at the moment, he was at the red spot marked on the map.

But the moment his sight left the huge pool, when he heard some screeching from behind him, and reacted promptly by rolling on the ground, allowing him to avoid the claw of a bird that proceeded to tear into the ground.

Seeing the huge hole almost close to half a meter on the ground, he had some shiver pass down his. Spine.  Then he looked into the sky, a bird close to four meters was hovering, he did not freeze on his legs but dushed out.

His target was the huge pool before him as he knew that regardless of the moves, he made he could not fight thus bird.  For starters it can fly and he can't.

That attack power was enough to break all his bones in the body.

His only survival was hiding underwater. It seemed like he had been having bad luck recently, and thus survival came first and other concerns about the dark water were not important.