Wood River

Almost reaching to the Destroyed Fate mountains, Lazy Wafula started to feel the strong bloodthirstiness. It seemed like they were about to meet the beasts. The beasts seem to avoid the area around the shelter for some reasons which baffled him because the system had told him that low tier shelters tend to be attacked by beast hordes. Shouldn't those beast be roaming around the shelter while giving the cultivators a difficult time to chase them away?

The earth of this cultivation plane seemed to be alive as of now, it was releasing a dark mist which made him revitalized as if he had drank something cool after walking in the desert for a long time without finding water anywhere.

"Beep"

[ Level one bood energy +1]

'The heck! Just walking around the area can make one fill the blood energy bars? ' Lazy Wafula was astounded. He never imagined that he can gain blood energy just by being in this place.

"Beep"

_"Host should know that the dark mist can only fill the level one bar though at a slow pace. probably you can end up finishing to fill it up within a year if you depend on it and that is only filling up level one. So, host should not think about cultivating with the dark energy because it is a slow process. Find the concentrated blood energy from beasts. That will help you level up faster."

'As expected.' Lazy Wafula had thought that he can just sit there meditatively and then the dark energy can fill his empty bars, but it seemed like he was overthinking it. He can not outplay the system.

The trees in the undead cultivation plane looked sinister as he can see some of them bore fruits that look like internal organs of different beings. Some trees had faces others had a resemblance with skeletons and so on. Lazy Wafula and Fey Wesonga had became used to such a sight and nothing can stop them from advancing.

Just a few minutes away from the Destroyed Fate mountains, they started to meet beasts. The first beast to come out was a creature with a single hind leg and two fore limbs. The creature had no hair on its smooth scrunched skin. Its head had little flesh as almost the entire head was taken by its skeleton. Its eyes were hollow and lifeless. But don't look down upon this creature, the creature just like a monkey, can move across the trees as if it was on the ground. It released an echoed laugh and dashed towards them while jumping from tree to tree. This creature never stopped laughing which got in Lazy Wafula's nerves.

"How do we share the blood energy of this beast?" Lazy Wafula asked Fey Wesonga, his eyes not leaving the laughing maniac.

Fey Wesonga paused for a moment, he was expecting Lazy Wafula to ask him the strategy that they were going to use to bring down this beast but the guy was asking him about dividing the meal and they had still not yet gotten their hands on this meal. The guy was proud and impulsive for sure.

"I think this beast should be yours for the taking. After all, we can not share blood energy. The next beast will be mine. We alternate that way." Fey Wesonga answered finally. "But how are we..."

Lazy Wafula didn't even wait for Fey Wesonga to finish what he was talking about and he activated his attribute turning himself black like ink and because he didn't have a weapon, he decided to use his hand like one. Fey Wesonga seeing that Lazy Wafula was preparing to fight, he didn't dare to be left out and he also activated his attribute which made his pores to release dark pungent smoke to the surroundings. He summoned a huge axe which had some skulls embedded on its handle.

While Fey Wesonga was still pondering about where to start from, Lazy Wafula didn't wait for the beast to reach them, he jumped as if he had wings and grasped a branch before swinging himself and then threw himself to where the beast was. At the same time, the beast was also in the process of jumping to another branch making them to meet each other midair.

Without waiting for further ado, Lazy Wafula swung his palm like a knife to the little beast but his palm passed through the after image of the beast before he slashed his hand on another branch snapping it in half. The tree which he was on released a shrill and shook itself from side to side wanting to shake off Lazy Wafula off it.

Suddenly, Lazy Wafula felt a gut feeling and instinctively without thinking much about it, he allowed himself to fall to the ground with a thud. The space where he had been earlier was then occupied by sharp blades which were aimed for him. The blades suspended in the air and without finding anyone there, they retracted from where they had came from.

"Fuck! That beast tricked me into angering the tree. It wanted to use the tree to finish me off. Fey Wesonga, you should be vigilant! This creature is so conniving." Lazy Wafula warned him.

While they were still searching with their eyes where the beast had disappeared to, Fey Wesonga felt something and suddenly waved his axe aside which not only missed its target, but it also continued forward and struck the trunk of a tree beside him. Realizing what he had just done, Fey Wesonga turned to flee but it was already too late for him because a small sharp twig from the tree was already launched towards him.