Chapter 9.

Entering the forest we continued to move forwards, on the way there were many beasts of near ten to a hundred years. As we moved Village chief continued to instill the rules of survival on how to move around in a forest what you should do and what you shouldn't etc.

At the same time, he asked me to identify the beasts as we walk since I had studied most of the books related to the beasts and how to identify them or what their age is.

Grandma has brought many books knowing that I was a genius and liked to study any worldly thing that could help me gain power. I have learned many things in these recent years now it's time to apply one of those things. So I identified all the beasts we came across, with pretty good judgment of their age and there was no error in my answers. So yeah looks like my memory and observation power are still good.

We walked for an hour before we reached the section where most of the hundred-year spirit beasts reside. As we walked into this area village chief put on some vigilance and asked me to be close to him since although these hundred years beast won't be able to do anything to him they can still try something funny with me. Like a snake in hiding might attack me instead of Village chief in front of me, although this situation is unlikely with his years of exercised senses. But is still adhered to his wishes and moved close to him.

At this time there was a sound of something or things rushing towards us. The village chief quickly stood in front of me completely blocking my sight while he looked at the front with an indifferent attitude. After a few seconds, we saw a group of dog type beast, dog type because they looked more like an aggressive dog than terrifying wolves. I saw them as I peeked my head out from behind Village Chief.

Seeing them so aggressive Village Chief wanted to take action but I pulled his sleeves and said.

" Village let me go. I can handle and they are all below 100 years so with you behind there won't be any problem. Anyway, I need to learn this in the future, so why not learn it now."

The village chief thought about my words and felt there was nothing wrong with it. So he nodded and let me take the action while he watched my back.

I stretched my hands and looked at the Dogs, now that I take a good look at them I know they are called Black-eyed dogs, the only thing that makes them different from common dogs is their whole eye will be pitch black while they are said to be crazier and attack whoever they come across without any reason which is also why no one has ever seen a black-eyed dog with higher than 1000 years since they will die earlier because of their craziness. They don't have any spiritual abilities just some physical strength so they are the perfect beast to let me start this journey of killing.

On the other side, black-eyed dogs have surrounded us in a circle. I looked at the dog standing in front of me which had the most years in him which is around 85 years. others are all below or around 50 years which means he is the leader among this group killing him will deter these guys and let them retreat. Though I don't want that but want to exercise and see the results of my years of practice. Thinking of this I looked to my right and rushed at the dog standing there, seeing me move it was like a signal and all the dogs pounced on me ignoring Village Chief.

But before they could reach me I was already in front of the black-eyed dog and summoned my stick spirit and poured my spirit power to control its length to 1.2 meter long which took less than 0.5 seconds with my efficient control of spirit power and I smashed the stick on the head of the dog before it could react and continued to attack the bottom of the stick to its stomach, next I used the top of the stick to hit it below his chin making it fly upwards after this I attacked the middle of its neck while it was still in air breaking it. It fell on the ground with heavy injury and slowly life drifting away. At this time the remaining 4 black-eyed dogs were already behind me 2 of them tried to bite my legs while one bit towards my waist and the last clawed his paws towards my face.

I used the purple snake slithering technique and agilely dodged their attacks while moving to attack the one who bit towards my waist, I used 15% of my spirit power and slammed my stick heavily on its head breaking it while blood and white stuff leaked out. Quickly backing while dodging their attacks I thinned the width of the Spirit Stick and poked the eyes of the dog jumping towards me while the stick passed through its eyes and entered its brain poking a hole in it and quickly killed it.

Only the last two dogs have left the leader among these and the dog with 53 years old. I attached spirit to my hands while I let the leader dog bite my Spirit stick I threw a heavy punch at the other dog cracking its skull and killing it. Now only the leader is remaining which was still biting hard to spirit stick. I used all my remaining strength to shake it off and controlled my spirit stick small and thin like a needle and threw it heavily towards the leader dog passing through its mouth entering its heart killing it slowly as the blood continued to come out of its mouth while it shook on the ground and slowly fell down.

After the last dog fell I relaxed and looked at the situation but seeing the blood and the brain mixed all around me I couldn't help myself and staggered back leaning on a tree I started to vomit all the breakfast I had earlier. Seeing me like this Village chief just placed his hands on my shoulder and silently supported me. While his eyes showed approval and delight at how a 6-year-old like me can single-handedly defeat a group of spirit beasts of near 100 years.

At this time Village chief let me take a look at the beast's corpses and I saw some strange energy particles gathering above them slowly forming a white-colored star. Among these 5 white stars, 1 was exceptionally bright and had some yellow mixed within which was the spirit star of the lead dog of around 85 years old.

After we saw this scene, we just shook our heads since the spirit beast of less than 200 years are not qualified for me to absorb and we headed forward towards the depth and tried to find the spirit beast that could bring me the best spirit ability and should be around the best range a spirit warrior at my level could accept.

We walked for another half an hour where we saw an ape type beast, lazily sleeping on a tree. Seeing this ape both of our lit up as this ape was among the list of spirit beast that I could absorb. Because this matter was important and by the color of the fur on its body and the stripes on its tail we could see that this beast is less than 500 years but not by too much, perfect for me to absorb as my first spirit star.

Normally for humans, the first ring should be less than 400 while genius can get their spirit stars depending on their physical and mental strength. There was once a genius who had his first spirit star of 1000 years old purple star. As soon as this news came out all the clans and empire power started to let their children do more physical training at a young age. But later through research, they knew it was because of that person's unique spirit and mental prowess he could have the first star of 1000 years for other who tried this had only one outcome that is death. From this, we got to know that everyone has their own range from which they could absorb their spirit star, and from then on the most high-level spirit star a person absorbed was of 800 years. From my physical fitness, it won't be a problem for me to absorb a spirit star of 500 years and the limit is 550 years more than that and it would be life and death.

While I thought all this Village chief and Wind Chime ape which was the name of this spirit beast, have already fought a few rounds.