Chapter 21
Finally walking for long, he found his first beast which was a Bone crushing Python. Bone crushing python had a strong defence because of the scales on its skin.
Those scales can protect the Bone crushing python from most of the attacks. But it had a weakness in its defence.
The trachea of the Bone crushing python is a vulnerable spot on its body and an attack on that spot can make it lose strength and paralyze it.
This bone crushing python had the strength of the second stage of the energy condensation realm.
Ron was confident enough to fight against a second stage of energy condensation realm beast with his exalted stage body tempering realm strength and with the knowledge of its weakness.
He knows that he could easily kill it. He took his sword and stabbed at the trachea of the Bone crushing python when the python tried to coil around Ron and squeeze him.
With the trachea injured, the bone crushing python was twitching but had no strength to escape from Ron.
Ron slashed his sword and separated its head.
Ron took away the important materials and the beast core present on its body which could be sold for a good price.
After putting away the things, he continued on his journey.
As days passed by, Ron was improving at an exponential rate.
He killed many beasts for the past few days as he travelled deeper and deeper.
He also encountered cultivators with cultivations of body tempering or first stage of energy condensation realms who tried to kill him in order to steal his wealth but unlucky of them that they met Ron.
'I am not a good person and so don't expect compassion from me.' Ron thought while he killed the humans.
He obtained some red grade martial skills from those he killed.
Ron thought "It is better to train the red grade martial techniques rather than the high grade techniques so as to cultivate it successfully within a short period of time".
After days of training, he successfully cultivated his movement technique and the attack technique.
The movement and attack martial techniques he trained and cultivated were among the martial skills he obtained from the dead.
The movement technique he cultivated successfully was a red grade skill called Swift Steps movement skill whereas the attack skill he trained was a red grade sword skill called the 'Solitary strike sword technique'.
With the help of the second dimension of the Phoenix pearl, he gained enlightenment and cultivated the martial movement and attack techniques during the past few nights.
He then trained it to perfection during the combat with the beasts and humans in the forest.
'If I did not have the second dimension- the Enlightenment dimension of the pearl, it would have taken months for me to cultivate these skills' Ron thought in his mind with relief.
Days passed on one after the other whereas Ron either tried to improve his cultivation to break through to the Energy condensation realm or he improved his battle prowess.
After two months…..
Ron sensed a group of beasts approaching him.
He was glad to encounter a herd of prey and the herd approached him slowly, steadily and sneakily in order to encircle him.
But those beasts did not know that Ron had detected them for some time.
Finally, he sensed what type of beasts were his prey with his soul perception.
A pack of Red-moon wolves!!!
Ron thought 'These wolves are more fierce and huge than the wolves on planet Earth'.
But he was shocked to see that these wolves were red in colour. A blood-red skin fur covered their body making them appear bloody vicious.
A pack of thirteen Red-moon wolves surrounded him in order to block his entire escape route but this action made by the wolves actually made Ron laugh.
'Let's begin the slaughter… Hahahahaaaaa'
Ron initiated the attack and made his move on the pack of Red-moon wolves.
Solitary Strike sword technique!
Whoosh!
The sword shine flashed before instantly disappearing.
A radiant glow from the sword was so fast that no one saw it.
Puchi!
A red-moon wolf howled before dropping to the ground as a vast amount of blood sprayed out from the severed neck of the wolf.
The scent of blood from the dead companion made the remaining red-moon wolves crazy, they made a blood curdling growl as they rushed towards Ron.
The aggressive red-moon wolves bared their fangs and they pounced on Ron with the intention to bite and tear him into pieces.
Swift Steps Movement Technique!
With a flexible and strong body, Ron swiftly stepped to the side with the movement technique as he skillfully dodged the attacks of the red-moon wolves.
He waved the sword again and again while he dodged the strikes of the wolves.
Each time his Sword swept out, he severed the head of a red-moon wolf along with it.
After a few seconds, all that left was a single red-moon wolf with extreme fear in its eyes as it looked at Ron.
Then it took a few steps back.
Ron thought that it was planning to escape and he even sneered at the wolf.
But the wolf did not escape as he expected, instead, it made a powerful howl and sprinted towards him.
"What a fool...." Ron said to himself.
But Phoenix smirked at Ron "Actually, you are the fool."
"What do you mean by that?" Ron inquired.
"You will know it soon. It would be better if you move away from this place" Phoenix spoke with expectations in his eyes as if he was waiting for something amazing.
Ron was confused "Ehh?"
Hooowwwl....
A howl of a beast from a distance so far away could be felt by Ron as if it was near him. This shows the true strength of the beast that howled.
'The beast that howled now must be in the inner region of the forest. It must be a beast with the strength of the fifth stage of the Energy condensation realm and above. Luckily, I am in the outer region' thought Ron.
As Ron was still thinking, there was another howl.
Hooowwwl...…..
But the howling sound appeared somewhat closer to Ron than the first one as if the beast was moving in the direction of Ron.
Ron now understood what Phoenix meant by those words.
'Holy sh*t...'
Ron started running in the outward direction towards the city but Phoenix said "you would not be able to run away from it. It is moving way faster than your speed. It is better to run in the east direction for some time and then head to the inner region of the forest."
"Bullsh*t... do you want me to die? Why should I run towards the inner region?" Ron shouted.
"Fool, powerful beasts are territorial in nature. You might not be able to run away from that beast. So lead it to the territory of a beast more powerful than the beast approaching us. If lucky, it might stop following us and would not enter the territory of the other beast due to the fear." Phoenix lamented.
Ron was embarrassed and apologised "Sorry grandpa Phoenix, I never experienced such a situation in my past life. Even though I was an assassin and a mercenary, I never experienced a situation where I had to deal with powerful beasts. Please forgive me for shouting at you."
Phoenix was murmuring and pouting to express his displeasure.
As Ron was speaking, he started following Phoenix's instructions and changed his direction.
"Grandpa Phoenix, I never knew you would even know such things. You are the smartest person I have ever met....…"
Ron was flattering Phoenix in order to improve his mood. Ron actually felt guilty, so he knew that Phoenix was easy to please.
After hearing the flattery, Grandpa Phoenix was pleased
Phoenix happily said "We still have time to escape to the inner region. That beast needs to reach the area where you slaughtered those wolves, it then needs to capture your scent and follow your scent to reach us".
Ron joyfully nodded and then sprinted in a certain direction.
He was using the Swift steps movement skill again and again to cover more distances.
But Ron could feel the danger approaching him quickly from the back.
He suddenly sensed the powerful beast that was chasing him with his soul perception.
Finally, he saw the beast with his own eyes.
It was a four metre tall red-moon wolf and it must be the alpha king of the pack of wolves Ron killed.
Ron started making energy slashes with his sword so as to deter the wolf as much as possible.
As Ron was sprinting, he heard a sudden roar from a certain direction to the front.
The roar actually made Ron extremely happy instead of feeling fear.
Phoenix spoke "Kiddo, go in that direction. That roar was a warning to the alpha wolf by that powerful beast. It must be intimidating the wolf to back off from its territory."
The wolf that chased Ron howled back on hearing the roar.
It howled with fear in its eyes. It was afraid of the beast that roared at it.
Its body trembled but it did not take any further step to enter the other beast's territory. Finally, it turned back and left.
Ron who was running sensed that the wolf king did not follow him anymore using the soul perception.
He let out a sigh of relief.
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