The group was walking towards the outside of the Forest of Darkness very slowly because they always met Demonic beasts which was quite troublesome for Bi Jiao's group but that wasn't for Han Xiao and Ne Zha, they were both very easy to finish off any Demonic Beasts that got in the way.
However they allowed Bi Jiao's group to train so the two of them let the group face the Demonic Beasts, if there was a Demonic Beast that the group couldn't handle Han Xiao would face the Demonic Beast, it didn't take long he was just like chopping tofu when facing even Demonic Beasts. who were on par with fourth Golden Realm cultivators. Today they rested near the river. They couldn't tell how many days they had been walking. But thanks to the watch on Han Xiao's arm that he brought from his previous world they knew the time, it had already been seven days when they first met.
Han Xiao and Ne Zha sat by the river and chatted together about the situation they were in.
"It's a shame they said the origin of the item was completely unknown and now we're trapped in this strange world," muttered Ne Zha.
"Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous that we here would have the strength and cultivation like in a novel. Haha," Han Xiao blurted out.
They are happy to know there is another world besides the world they were born in but they also regret not being able to return to the world where they were born as well. Now they just follow what was taught and shown by the two Tigers at that time. Han Xiao pondered and digested the more memories in his mind that he got from the White Tiger.
In this world every cultivator had a grade starting with the smallest: Bronze–Silver–Gold.
Copper and Silver are divided into three grades respectively: first–second–third
Meanwhile, the Gold realm has seven levels. As cultivators practice until the Golden Realm, they will build their Fate Palaces in the neigong meridians of each Fate Palace into strength and soul homes.
Three palaces make up the domain, five palaces make up the realm, seven palaces make up the world, ten palaces make up the universe. But it is not easy for a cultivator who wants to build ten palaces that requires great talent and luck, so far people with ten palaces can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
After building the Fate Palace, cultivators can break through the Palace Expansion which is divided into four levels: First–Second–Third–Peak.
And the Palace Expansion was divided into three: the Mortal Palace with one to three Fate Palaces, the Earth Palace with five to eight Fate Palaces and the Heaven Palace with ten Fate Palaces.
So the more Fate Palaces they formed during their practice in the Golden Realm the better, but most cultivators stopped at three palaces and six. It was extremely difficult to form seven Palace Expansions. So forming ten palaces was just a dream.
After the Palace Expansion was the King Realm, it was equally divided into four namely: First–Second–Third–Peak.
And then the Spirit Realm and Void Core, to the next level the two Tigers didn't tell Ne Zha and Han Xiao because they had already sealed a memory that would be unlocked when Ne Zha and Han Xiao reached the Spirit Realm.
Each level in the Golden Realm represents the talent of the cultivator for example Bi Jiao, he has already reached the second Golden Realm this proves his talent is not bad that as young as a cultivator of the second Golden Realm can be called Bi Jiao is a cultivation genius. Whereas the other four like Xue Yan they were only at the second Silver Realm.
However it was only natural since Bi Jiao was a major descendant of the Bi Clan, it was a large cultivating family in the Yang Empire.
Currently Han Xiao and Ne Zha are in the second Silver Realm.
But they were able to fight Demonic Beasts that were many times more powerful than them because the Striped Tiger provided the strongest attack technique namely 'Shadow Blade Finger' it made Ne Zha's fingers as sharp as blades and like shadows that could not be stopped. Anyone who was hit by this technique below the third Golden Realm would die instantly without knowing how they died!
If it was for the third to seventh Golden Realm it would be enough to fatally injure them.
The two of them also obtained the cultivation technique of the two tigers, Han Xiao he cultivated the 'Devourer Manual' it allowed him the Blood Essence of the opponent as well as the Qi of the opponent thus allowing Han Xiao to advance unhindered on the path of cultivation as long as he had sufficient understanding! But this Manual had the side effect that after devouring the Qi of other cultivators it would carry negative energy that made Han Xiao want to kill and kill.
Ne Zha is no less frightening. His cultivation of the 'Spirit Elementum Manual' allows him to absorb Qi from nature at a peerless speed it allows him to never run out of Qi to feed the tree of life in his dantian and has a high level of Qi purity, only Ne Zha has to trying to condense his own blood Essence unlike Han Xiao who could take from other cultivators. However, this didn't have the same side effects as Han Xiao.
Qi is energy for cultivators, their ascension in practice also desperately needs Qi to refresh and grow the tree of life within their dantian,
For Han Xiao's technique was so powerful he got the 'Sky Smashing Fist' technique from the White Tiger, each hit would be as heavy as a mountain and great destruction, but that didn't satisfy him so he asked Ne Zha's Shadow Knife Finger, he also gave Ne Zha's Mountain Destroying Fist Zha to swap.
The two of them started cultivating in the Forest of Darkness until the second Bronze Realm then suddenly hearing the sound of fighting caught Han Xiao's attention who wanted to try out his new power. Han Xiao left Ne Zha behind then he found Bi Jiao's group, he quickly cut the centipedes with Shadow Knife Finger technique.
Their cultivation speed was astonishing because during the seven days they did two cultivation increments and the increase was very short, cultivators usually needed one day to break through from the Bronze Realm to the Silver Realm but Han Xiao and Ne Zha only needed three hours! This made Bi Jiao's group chuckle in awe and fear, but they didn't know what level of practice Han Xiao and Ne Zha were. This was the uniqueness of the Manual of the two Sacred Tigers to them. Cultivators who had practices below the Third Golden Realm would not know about Han Xiao or Ne Zha's practices in their current practice, if their practice went up then other cultivators who could see their practice would have to be much higher than the two of them!
While contemplating
chatting Bi Jiao approaches Han Xiao and Ne Zha, Bi Jiao invites them to enjoy the meat of the Demon beast they just killed. Han Xiao and Ne Zha followed Bi Jiao towards the group by the bonfire not far from the river.
"Senior is Snake meat, very delicious and has a lot of Qi in it." Xue Yin gave a large piece to Han Xiao and Ne Zha.
Han Xiao and Ne Zha hesitated for a moment, this is the meat of the big snake they killed while approaching the river. They are doubtful because they have never eaten snake meat. Moreover, this Demonic Beast snake is not poisonous but is it delicious as Xue Yin said?
Han Xiao took a small bite and chewed it, a moment later Han Xiao's eyes became very bright he quickly took another bite and placed a large piece of meat for him then ordered Xue Yin to take another for Ne Zha.
"Uemh… So delicious," said Han Xiao with meat in his mouth. He was a fan of food in his previous world so this delicious snake meat made him lost in pleasure.
Ne Zha saw Han Xiao who was either hungry or greedy for the meat, Ne Zha took a knife and took a small piece and then fed it. Ne Zha is just like Han Xiao he is a foodie so greedily eats meat like Han Xiao.
After they ate the meat they rested for a while and then continued their journey.
They continued walking towards the outside of the forest until one day they encountered a Demonic Beast, these were Demonic Beasts that were on par with cultivators of the Mortal Palace to Earth Palace. And they met this Lightning Jade Ape. It was a level 5 Demonic Beast in the form of a giant Ape that had skin as hard as jade and had lightning flashes all over its body, what was terrifying was that this Lightning Jade Ape was on par with the Earth Palace!
Han Xiao wasn't afraid instead he had an impressive gleam in his eyes, he was happy that he had finally found such a powerful Demonic Beast because all this time, all Demonic Beasts were like tofu to him.
"Okay, let's see how strong this big monkey is." Han Xiao laughed then lunged carelessly towards the Jade Lightning Ape.
Others would think of him as crazy or arrogant but he himself knew of his strength recently that Han Xiao and Ne Zha reached the first Golden Realm. If anyone knew of the ascension of their practice which is like the fish in the sea and the eagle in the sky it would make them fear and worry about such an ascension.
Han Xiao raised his arm and flowed Qi into his fist, he used the Sky Destroying Fist technique and clashed head-on with the giant Ape.
boom...
As the fist clashing force from the blow caused the ground to crack and dug several meters down, the incident stunned Bi Jiao's group and dropped their jaws on the ground.
"Th… it's the Earth Palace, how can Senior Han Xiao be able to fight evenly even if it looks like the Lightning Jade Ape is at a disadvantage!" Bi Qingchen spoke stuttering seeing Han Xiao's strength.
Only Ne Zha was calm in the group, but even Bi Jiao was dumbfounded and became serious when she saw the scene.
Han Xiao took a few steps back while the Jade Lightning Ape was blown flying backwards due to Han Xiao's punch, as the ape got up showing its broken arm with blood running all over it.
"Heh, it turns out that this is the only strength of this Jade Lightning Ape? Just a big body, I will make you roast meat after this," Han Xiao said in a mocking tone, even though he was superior it still made his arm numb from the lightning shock from the Ape's body. Lightning Jade.
"Wiiiiiiik...!"
The ape was enraged by Han Xiao's provocation and attacked once again, Han Xiao was not afraid he quickly charged forward and attacked using his Sky-Destroying Fist again.
The shockwave made the forest fall apart, but it was still dark and the sunlight couldn't enter the Forest of Darkness.
After exchanging blows four times Han Xiao got bored and immediately ended the life of the Lightning Jade Ape.
Bi Jiao's group couldn't calm down after seeing this, Han Xiao's strength was too great they glanced at Ne Zha who was always calm and silent. Was Ne Zha's strength as big as Han Xiao's or even more? Just imagining it made them shiver with fear, if the two of them worked together maybe the ape would die in one hit!
Bi Jiao's group could only guess at Han Xiao and Ne Zha's practice of being in the Palace Exodus for being able to defeat the Lightning Jade Ape so easily. The five of them fighting a centipede alone had a lot to lose how about this Lightning Jade Ape? Maybe they all died.
"This Demonic Core of this Lightning Jade Ape must be very expensive, not to mention that this skin is as hard as jade and contains lightning element which is excellent for a cultivator who cultivates lightning!" Xue Yan said happily, but beneath her excitement she immediately remembered that the one who killed this Lightning Jade Ape was Han Xiao.
"Well, it's quite useful you guys just take the rest I just took this Demon Core." Han Xiao took out the Demonic Core on the Lightning Jade Ape's head then gave all the rest of this Lightning Jade Ape to Bi Jiao's group.
"B…but this Lightning Jade Ape senior was killed by you," Bi Jiao said in confusion.
Han Xiao looked at Bi Jiao then said cheerfully as usual, "Just take it I don't need it."
These words made Bi Jiao's group secretly delighted, Bi Jiao quickly thanked Han Xiao then dismembered the Jade Lightning Ape's body.
Just as they were cutting the Jade Lightning Ape suddenly a group of men in black clothes and their auras suppressed Bi Jiao's group suddenly appeared, Han Xiao not far from there immediately got up and saw this newcomer.
They numbered twenty people with a leader who had a practice level in Palace Expansion!