Chapter Three: Hunting magical Beasts!

Its been about 6 days since I woke up from being in a coma. I've been cultivating everyday since than using the World Tree Cultivation Technique, and apparently I broke through twice, so now Im a body tempering stage 2 expert, but nobody else knows about that yet.

After I finish my daily three hours of cultivation, I decide to explore the city more, so after talking to my parents about it, to which they agreed, I set out towards the market.

About twenty minutes later, I get to the market, looking for good, aged herbs or somthing that might hold nature energy to help the World Tree grow, when I overhear a group of three people talking.

"Hey! Did you hear? Apparently the Elemental Dragon sect is accepting diciples! Do you think we should try to enter?"

"They are? Wow! What kind of test are they doing?"

"Yeah, what kind of test is it? If it's to hard or dangerous, why bother!"

"I think they first test your cultivation realm and stage, than they bring you to Dead Lion Forest where you have to survive for at least five days."

"What! Dead Lion Forest! No way am I going to try! Like I said, why bother!"

"Yeah, are you stupid! How could we survie in Dead Lion Forest!"

Me, hearing them speak, decide to enter for experience. Walking over to the group of three, I ask.

"Hey, you said that the Elemental Dragon sect is accepting diciples, right? Where is the test going to be and when?"

After talking to them for a while, I find out that the test will began at Azure Dragons Fountain, which is at the center of the city, and that it will began in a month and that only people at body tempering stage four or higher can enter.

Hearing about the test, I get excited, but that quickly dies down when I remember that I don't have a lot of experience in fighting or killing, so I decide that I have to get used to that. How? By killing magical beast of course!

With that thought, I head towards the city gates, and after stating my reason for leaving to the guards, I head towards the forest.

one hour later, in the forest.

After walking around for about an hour at the outskirts of the forest, I still haven't found anything. I didn't dare go towards the center of the forest earlier because of some things the guards told me about it, but after not finding anything on the outskirts for an hour, I start to get impatient, so, after gathering up my courage, I start my trek towards the center.

About an hour later, a 18 year old, black haired young man could be seen fighting a giant purple leopard with a black stripe that looks like a lightening bolt going down it's right side.

As the leopard swipes towards the man, claws as sharp and long as swords, he quiclky doges to the right and runs towards the leopard and slides under it, grabing its hind leg, effectively pulling it down hard, injuring its leg. Trying to get up quickly, the purple leopard stumbles, which causes it to fall again. Noticing its badly injured, the man runs towards it, and punches as hard as he could at the leopards head, which effectively cracks it's skull, quickly killing it.

This man is me, who, after only searching for about five minutes at the center of the forest, found this giant, striped, purple leopard feasting on a deer. And seeing my chance, decided to fight the leopard. The leopard wasn't very strong, only at body tempering stage one, but it's speed was almost as fast as mine, but I managed.

Looking at the body of the body of the leopard, I start to remember that I hadn't eaten all day, so after making a fire and skining the leopard, I start to cook it. After waiting for a few minutes, seeing that the leopard is done cooking, I pick up a piece of it and bite in to it. After eating a few more pieces, I start to feel an unknown type of energy build up in my dantian, and after thinking a bit, I remember the World Tree book, and how it said that the World Tree will grow if I absorb things that contain Nature Energy. Nature energy! Of course it is! It's a wild animal that lives in nature, so it would definitely make since! Quickly eating more and more of the cooked leopard meat, I start to feel the amount of Nature Energy inside my dantian rise, and when I think that this could cause me to have a break through to body tempering third stage, I run out of leopard meat! Quickly puting out the fire, I run deeper into the forest, trying to find more magical beasts to kill, preferably higher staged ones, but I'll take what I can get.

After running deeper in the forest for about twenty minutes, I stumble upon a group of about five monkeys jumping from tree to tree. Quckly jumping up and above them, I try to stomp on one, but it dodges by jumping off of the tree limb, since I broke it with my stomp, and calls out to it's other monkey friends, who swiftly surround me. Seeing that im surrounded, I go after the fattest monkey, thinking it will be slower than me, which it was, and kick it in the head with as much force as I could, which breaks it's neck, effectively killing it.

Seeing their friend get killed, the other monkeys start screeching towards me in anger, as one of them jump at me from behind . Which I dodge, because it gave out it's position by screeching, the stupid monkey!

Anyway, after dodging, the monkey flies over my head. Grabbing it by the tail, I slam It's head on a nearby tree, which causes it to explode into meat paste. 'Two down, three more to go!' I think, as all three monkeys leap at me this time, learning from their friends past mistakes.

As I punch out at the smallest monkey, before it could slow down to dodge, its stomache gets caved in by my fist, killing it. Four down, two to go! Before I could dodge, the other two monkeys attach themselves to my arms by sinking their teeth in to them. In pain, but still strong, I take my right arm and slam it against a tree, which kills the monkey. The monkey on my left arm quickly lets go and jumps off, and tries to run away. Seeing the monkey try to run away, I think of something on the spot, and pick up a stick and try to enhance it with some Nature Energy, which causes the stick to grow sturdier and stronger, and throw it at the monkey, impaling it through it's heart, killing it.

Exhausted and injured, I collect all of the monkey's bodies and head back to where I made a fire earlier.

After arriving, I made a fire and skinned all the monkeys and started to cook them. Remembering what Nature Energy did to the stick earlier, I make a ball of it and start to go over all of the scratches, bites, and bruises on my body, and see them start healing immediately.

'Nature Energy is amazing!'