Actually the mountain range that divided northern area from other area is called Mountain Range Of Demonic Beasts . In fact all the sects in every area are the protectors of humanity from demonic beasts .
The demonic beasts are also divided in 9 levels live Martial artists ranging from level 1 to 9 according to strenght and cultivation . A demonic beast has a very long life span and stronger body compared to humans but their cultivation speed is on the other hand slower. These beasts are not be underestimated as from the Martial Peak Realm , almost all the demonic beasts possess the ability to shapeshift into human forms and possess intelligence not inferior to humans . In superior realms, the beasts can train in human martial skills too which makes them too terrifying. Many wars have been fought between human and demon beasts race in the past with humans coming out victorious. So these beasts now rarely come out of the mountain ranges due to the pact between two races . The good thing is that the northern area of the mountain range which is parallel to northern area , only has beasts at lower levels and Martial Peak experts are sufficient to deal with them .
Raven did not think much as his only purpose in the mountain range is to eat and train and others things are mostly unnecessary to him . He is not originally from this world so he has no interest in the past wars or glory of human race at all . He will forge his own Martial Path and children can continue wasting their time on fantasizing and admiring past figures. He could not care less about them .
Well the mountain range is huge and neverending . At least Raven cannot see the end to it . Maybe he will explore further according to increase in his strength. He came to mountain number 9 which exists near the sect entrance. Simply because it's near the outer range only contains level 1 demonic beasts as strongest . As long as he is careful, he will not encounter level 2 or higher beasts here unless bad luck .
Actually Raven had visited many mountains after joining different research teams for different projects in his past life . So he cannot say he is familiar with them or like them but he has the knowledge about basic survival stuff . He has also trained a little bit in hunter skills so Raven with his attentive personality will not miss the tracks of beasts and can easily avoid them or even attack some from his own accord . Level 1 beasts have low intelligence so they cannot hope to compete with the mind of a researcher who has necessary survival skillls .
Therefore even though Raven has low cultivation right now , he is like fish in water and avoiding danger like nothing on the way . Soon he found a relatively safe are and decided to make camp here . There is a small waterfall here and low level beasts must consider this paradise while the stronger ones must hunt moderately to not alert them . This information was deduced by Raven after checking the battle aftermath and various tracks nearby . He could not be mistaken . Still he chose this place because its convenient as he wont have to go through the trouble to search for beasts for days. He is only here to train his skills and lower level beasts are more than sufficient. Meanwhile he will continue cultivating here and after he advances a few realms in cultivation and in his skills then some strong level 1 beasts wont pose a threat to him at all .
Luckily Raven did not have to wait much as just after an hour after he arrived here , a string panther arrived and Raven almost instantly concealed his presence to not alert it . Concealing presence is easy for Raven as after blood cleansing , he can easily close his body pores which leak little aura continuously. This is another benefit of that little adventure.
When Raven arrived only a few meters behind the beast , he drew his heavy sword in a single quick motion. The movement was so fast that it needed in less than second . A light which was more than a meter long was released from his blade and instant struck the beast which reacted too late and was split in two clean parts . Others may be satisfied with this performance but not Raven as he already spotted few problems with this performance.
First of all , he can be much faster as his strenght is far greater than this . The more than 50 kilograms heavy sword is like feather to him at this point.
Second the sword light which was his qi blade was not condensed enough and the power was scatterd all over the place . Thus it struck the target late and some power had already dissipated when the light reached the target . Raven after his blood cleansing has much greater connection with energy in atmosphere much less his own qi so even though it was his first time unleashing the Mountain Cleave Skill , he could easily see through it .
There were many other problems and if any other person heard Raven's thoughts now , they would die of shame as even experts cannot reach the same level of skill when they try a new martial skill for first time like Raven . His comprehension about the skilll had already reached small acconolishement and this was his first time unleashing the skill . Seriously, what kind of brain does this guy have ? They would ask him the same question
. Well Raven had the data and necessary strenght so this much was east for him . But in public this behaviour is called pure genius.
While pondering about the mistakes and the improvements he can make, Raven swiftly gathers the beast corpse and went towards his camp area . He started a small fire and the beast was already separated and the meat was now grilling. But Raven's mind was always running at top speed while simulations were happening inside it . After half an hour , the meat was cooked and spices made their debut . Raven enjoyed his meal and could not care less about the manners and his mouth was too oily now .
After burping , it was time for cultivation session and Raven estimated that he can break through to 4 the level if he cultivates for more than 12 hours straight . The reason was simple because after every three levels ,there was a qualitative change and further advancement became harder and harder. Still if others knew about this advancement speed, they will kill Raven first then suicide because they cannot bear to live in shame . Just to break through bottleneck of this level even God tier geniuses use external resources to stimulate the breakthrough and still require at least a week and Raven without those things can achieve the same in such a less time .
The area may be dangerous for others as beasts may attack any time but Raven had carefully chosen this area and there was not a single chance that any beast may spot this area because this area was small cave behind the waterfall and Raven had further used powders to erase his smell . Even level 2 beasts cannot hope to spot his smell here after so much preparation much less level 1 pups. Now Raven just wanted to follow his formula - Battle , Train , Cultivate and Repeat . He plans to spend at least one month here because after that the time of Annual Outer Sect Tournament will arrive soon and he still plans to kill Collin before that ..