The outer perimeter was not a place for high level magical beast to appear into, the higher level magical beasts are usually in the depths of the mountains making the neutral area a "safe zone" for the youths in it. Human activities filled the outer perimeter of the forest, many people started lighting up their own fires to light up their surroundings.
"Dean, let's stick together." To-qe requested.
"Sure why not." Dean nodded his head, 1000 people disperse and went to find their own places for them to stay in many chose to stay in the outer most part of the forest but some chose to go deeper in the mountains.
With the starlight helping them to see where they were, Dean and To-qe also chose to go deeper, different light from different sources flickered here and there some use normal flames as a light and some used valuable artifacts such as "Light Sphere" to illuminate the way.
"Let's go deeper in, I wasn't able to bring any rations so I need to hunt for some food after we find a spacious area to set up camp, we'll also have an advantage when the trial starts at dawn, we will be able to leave earlier than the others." To-qe said as he observe the surrounding area.
"Alright, but you don't have to go hunt I brought some rations with me, let's just find an open area faster I need to eat now I am starving." The hunger in Dean was beginning to become more and more frequent to the point where his appetite was twice as large compared to before.
After roaming around Dean and To-qe were able to find a good place, gathering the woods and starting a fire by hand To-qe did this efficiently without any wasted movements like he had been used to it for a long time, "I frequently roam around since I was a child so I am used to doing this." To-qe notice the ay Dean looked at his movements so he gave a simple explanation to him.
Dean showed an understanding face and started taking out 3 oil wraps of meat from a bag that he was carrying with him, opening the oil wrap To-qe saw the thick slices of meat that can feed a normal person for a week.
Giving one of the meat to To-qe and divided the one of the meat by half Dean passed it down to To-qe and started eating, To-qe took a big bite and of the meat letting the juices of it explode in his mouth all of a sudden.
The savory and juiciness of the meat was fantastic, he had never eaten something like this before, before eating this meat the best thing that he had was a grilled meat of certain magical beast that he had at one time, but this meat was truly tastier and delicious than anything that he had eaten before.
He closed his eyes and savored the taste of the meat, then as he ate the meat slowly he heard Dean suddenly moved near him turning his head he asked "Where are you going? Are you going to cultivate already? Eat first the meat you gave me is delicious, it would be a waste to waste it so finish it first."
"No I won't be going to cultivate for now, I will be going to hunt some rabbits or a deer here or a level 1 magical beasts around here." The wind blew and Dean felt the hunger in his body was starting to appear once again so he dashed in the forest looking for an animal to be preyed upon.
To-qe didn't understand what he was saying, but he felt that Dean was giving a weird feeling he ignored it and just went back to eating. Not long after Dean went back there carrying 6 rabbits that were already skinned and gutted the rabbits were even skewered, placing it by the fire to be cooked he saw cross-legged and with his eyes close.
To-qe looked at this and realized what Dean was talking about earlier ---- So that means he already finished the portion of his meat and went out to hunt some more to eat. ---- looking at Dean a word slip out his mouth "Glutton".
Hearing what To-qe had said Dean opened his eyes as he scolded "Screw off."
"Did I let that slip? Well it is your fault for sharing some to me, not that I hate that. But can you really finish all of that, even after eating all the meat you already had?" To-qe gave a hearty laughed and took another bite of the piece of meat that was on his hands.
Dean rolled his eyes at him and chose to ignore him, To-qe didn't pry any further when he Dean ignore him and just focused at eating the meat he had. After he finished the whole thing he felt that his stomach would burst, feeling this way To-qe doubted that Dean could actually go and eat after he ate all those meat.
"I'll be going to cultivate over there, don't push yourself in trying to impress this genius alright?" To-qe went underneath the tree near them and sat there in a cross-legged position he closed his eyes and entered meditation.
He had already doubted that Dean would actually eat those rabbit meat, he was thinking that it must be to impress him or something when he did that. But when he opened his eyes right before dawn he saw that Dean was not kidding when he hunted rabbits because he was hungry.
On Dean's right there's not only 6 skulls of a rabbit but 11 of them, the ground was littered with the bones of the rabbits he had eaten, in the middle of this was Dean who was meditating with a serious face.
To-qe was not able to believe it ---- A human can actually eat that much food? Wait can he be practicing some kind of martial technique that can let him eat that much? ---- Different thought flowed in To-qe's mind, from cultivation technique to plain old glutton.
Dean didn't know that he was actually getting speculated upon, last night he ate a meat that can feed a man for 3 to 4 days and 11 rabbit meat, although he was hungry because he had not eaten since lunch yesterday Dean still ate too much than normal even for him.
The Heaven Devourer bloodline, his devour skill, and his void body all had something to do with his sudden change in appetite, Dean knew of this but he was enjoying this because can make the head of his Master ache every time he eats.
Dean opened his eyes before dawn truly appear and seeing To-qe was maintain the great sword that he carried Dean called out to him and went to the very edge of the safe zone, when Dean and To-qe reached the edge of the safe zone they detected that there were actually many people already there, like how they were detected by them.
Dean and To-qe went up on one of the big trees and waited for dawn to come, time slowly flowed for the people in there, then as the light of the sun finally emerge from hiding, without any hesitation Dean and To-qe took off just like everybody in there.