Shenyan stood at the entrance to the Grey Fog Forest with a determined look on his face. He had to at least complete one task today before the sun fully sets, otherwise, the grey fog of the Grey Fog Forest will spread across the forest, hindering his sight and other senses of direction. Shenyan did not waste too much time and immediately proceeded to make his way into the forest with a clear goal in mind, that is to hunt a couple of Giant Boars to complete one of his tasks.
With long strides, Shenyan found himself in the forest, there were long and big trees everywhere along with grassland that stretched out as far as the eyes can see. Some of the grasses in the deeper parts of this forest may be rare medicinal materials that the alchemists— who concoct Medicinal Pills would scramble to get their hands on; They usually demand for such rare materials and put-up tasks for other cultivators to venture and search for said materials in the deeper parts of the Grey Fog Forest.
Shenyan was not here to pick up medicinal herbs, so his attention was focused on the outer section of this forest. Upon walking for a while, he found his targets, there were two Giant Boars in the distance, about ten meters away from his direction. Shenyan carefully approached this Spirit Beasts as they were described to have sharp senses and surely enough, when Shenyan was about three meters away from them, one of the Giant Boars turn around and met Shenyan's eyes. Shortly after they proceeded to stare each down.
'What is this human doing? Is he trying to sneak attack on yours truly? Humph, how stupid.' The Giant Boar snorted and mocked Shenyan who clearly was an amateur.
Shenyan did not know what the Giant Boar was thinking of him at this moment, and he continued to stare at the Giant Boar. After a while, he decided to draw his steel sword around his waist. When the Giant Boar from just now saw his action, it snorted loudly to call the attention of the other Giant Boar that was only five meters away from this Giant Boar.
"Humph, Buhiii!"
'Brother, come quickly! This stupid human dared to look down on us in our own territory! We need to show him who is boss!' The Giant Boar said to the other Giant Boar in the distance.
Shenyan, who was only focused on the one Giant Boar in front suddenly found the other Giant Boar rushing towards their direction with immense speed. He was taken by surprise when he saw this at first, but shortly after, a slight grin appeared on his face. He wanted to see how he would fare when fighting against two Spirit Beast, after all, he still had not been able to fully utilize his sword techniques since the wolves were technically not even considered Spirit Beasts, they only had first to second level Spirit Apprentice cultivation base.
Shenyan did not charge right away, he waited for the other Giant Boar to come closer before making his move. Shortly, the other Giant Boar came rushing with steam coming out of its mouth in anger and annoyance.
"Humph!" The approaching Giant Boar let a loud snort in fury.
'How dare this human look down us? We would show you the consequences for coming here alone. We brothers are invincible when we work together!' Thought the approaching Giant Boar as it gave Shenyan a fierce look.
Immediately upon reaching the side of its partner, the Giant Boar let out another snort before both Giant Boars decided to surround Shenyan. One was coming from Shenyan's back and the other from his front.
"Humph! Buhii!" With a snort and a loud squeal, both Giant Boars charged at Shenyan.
Shenyan was excited when he saw how fierce looking those two Giant Boars were when they charged at him.
'Finally, a real battle!' Shenyan thought with a smile on his face.
"Boom." With a loud stomp on the ground, Shenyan lunged himself forward as he faced off against the Giant Boar in front of him. Shenyan was not using his full speed at this moment otherwise, it would have ended a long time ago if he did.
Due to this, the Giant Boar in front gave him a look of derision as it mocked this stupid human who dared to charge head on against it.
"Humph!"
'Die human! Brother, I will take this one!" The Giant Boar said to the other Giant Boar behind Shenyan as it fully charged into Shenyan.
Shenyan saw that the other party suddenly increased their speed, his eyes twinkled as he met the attack of the Giant Boar with his steel sword strengthened with his spirit energy.
"Boom!"
A loud sound resounded as the Giant Boar collided with Shenyan's steel sword. Shenyan did not waste time and proceeded to execute his sword technique at this moment.
Meanwhile the Giant Boar thought that it had successfully pulverized the human as there was no sign of the human in front of it at this moment. A look of happiness showered its face as it mocked the stupid human that dared to look down on it.
'Humph! That atta show him! You dare to mes—' However a squeal suddenly drew the attention of the Giant Boar who thought it had already achieved victory.
"Buhiiii!!"
'Watch out, little brother!!' The other Giant Boar screamed.
'Hm? Brother, what is it? Why are—' Before the Giant Boar could tell what was going on, it suddenly felt a sharp pain around its neck and its vision blurred and shortly covered in darkness, never to see the light again.
[Vertical Sword Slash]!
Shenyan had executed his sword technique the moment he managed to use the smoke generated from his collision with Giant Boar to maneuver himself to the back of the Giant Boar. With a thought, he activated his basic sword technique, Vertical Sword Slash. The steel sword slash downwards as it let out a 'Swish' sound before the Giant Boar's head was lopped off.
"Buhiiii!"
'No!! You damned human, how dare you kill my little brother?' When the other Giant Boar saw this scene, it was immediately filled with rage as it immediately charged at Shenyan ready to run him over and get revenge for its little brother.
Shenyan watched this Giant Boar as it glared at him with resentment before charging toward him, with a bewildered expression on his face. Shenyan tilted his head and thought.
'Is it trying to get revenge for its fallen comrade? I didn't know Spirit Beasts were this loyal. Sadly, I need your life to fill my belly. So unfortunately, I cannot let you live either.'
"Swish!"
[Vertical Sword Slash]!
"Squeal!"
With a single swing of his steel sword, the Giant Boar was cut into two. Before the Giant Boar died, it still glared at Shenyan with resentment and indignant look on its face before losing consciousness and lost its life shortly after.
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After the 'fierce' battle between Shenyan and the two Giant Boars ended, Shenyan decided to get their beast cores and also pick up their carcasses. A few minutes later, Shenyan finished packing the two Giant Boars into his storage pouch without an issue. Shenyan decided to look around and see if he could find other stray Giant Boars that he could add to his harvest just now but sadly, he could not find any stray Spirit Beasts and so, he decided to check the peripheral of the middle section of the Grey Fog Forest without actually venturing into it, but a few moments later, he heard a loud sound of a Spirit Beast roaring in the distance across the peripheral of the middle section of the Grey Fog Forest.
The roar was so fierce that it caused Shenyan to be startled and he decided to leave and just as he took one step forward, another roar resounded shortly after in the surrounding, this time, fiercer than the last.
"Growl!!"
The roar was so deafening that if one does not cover their ears, their eardrums would pop due to the shock waves carried over from its spirit energy release. It felt like a spirit pressure yet at the same time it was not; this might be the special ability of this fierce animal.
"Ugh!!"
"What was that noise just now?" Shenyan covered his ears from the noise, he felt a sudden pressure on his body, and he almost fell over due to the force of the pressure.
Although, while Shenyan was unfazed by the pressure attack, just like how he was not fazed by Leng Lanyue's spirit pressure back then, but there seem to be a force on his body causing him to almost fall over and also the scream from the animal just now was unpleasant, so even if he was not affected by the mental attack, it was still uncomfortable to bear.
Due to that, he was disoriented and almost fell over. If a normal cultivator were to be in Shenyan's place right now, they would have long since bled from their orifices due to the pressure and mental attack from the fierce animal.
While Shenyan was feeling uncomfortable from the sudden Spirit pressure and mental attack, he suddenly heard a familiar sound ring out in his head, immediately drawing his attention.
Ding!
[Mini Origin Quest Activated: The User is currently under the attack from a Frenzied Ruler Class Spirit Beast. Due to the User's action of suddenly killing the two Giant Boars from before, it was drawn by the blood spilled. It will not give up until it sees the User dead. Its hatred towards humans run deep. Due to being hurt by other human cultivators, the Ruler Class Spirit Beast is currently vengeful towards all human cultivators and will immediately launch a merciless attack on anyone it comes across. Defeat the Ruler Class Spirit Beast, Red-Skinned Ape King! If the User succeeds, the system would unlock another main feature of the Primordial Origin System, if not, the User would have to find other ways to unlock this main feature, which may take forever.]
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