In a certain part of the forest, a figure was standing on top of a lifeless huge snake with purple scales. Despite his body bloodied because of his wounds, there was a complicated smile on his face.
"It is too early for me to kill a mid-rank 3 beast. I almost died again." Raia said while catching his breath.
He fought the purple python for two hours before finally killing it. The python was very agile and its attacks were very fast added with its tough defense, it was not just difficult but it would be impossible to defeat it on his own.
Good thing he had a good sword. The 'amber sword', as what Raia named the four-horned goat's sword, compensated for his lack of penetrating power. It was not enough to slice the purple python with one strike but it can easily inflict damage to its scales.
And after a long driven battle, he barely won by hair.
'I should just be glad I killed a mid-rank 3 beast despite just having a 1st level Martial Spirit State combat power.' Raia said to himself.
He already possessed a 1st level Martial Spirit State combat power after taking the blue spirit fruit.
If people found out that he has already a combat power of a Martial Spirit State, they would actually believe if someone says they are farts compared to Raia.
Raia took the high-grade recovery pill that he bought and healed himself. After which, he took the fang and crystal of the purple python to his spatial ring. Afterwards, he also sent its whole body inside the ring. He will give the fangs to his father and use the crystal for himself just like all the other crystals he harvested that day. The rest of the loot will be sold for some credits.
Exhaustion filled every part of him.
"I should get back home first."
He returned to the city and headed straight to Gran's shop.
"Raia kid, you didn't go to school?" Gran asked with a cigar on his mouth.
"Yes. I'll hunt these next few days to earn credits." Raia said smiling.
Then the two began their deal. Gran almost had a heart attack when he saw the body of the purple python. He asked Raia for confirmation and when thet kid said he hunted it, Gran was more shocked.
'This kid killed a mid-rank 3 beast although he was just at 8th level Martial Physique State. He was only seventeen! This Raia kid is a monster! Did something happen to him? I can see and feel some changes in his appearance and aura.'
Gran wanted to throw Raia a wave of questions but held it back afraid of making the kid uncomfortable. He had some theories on his mind but he will need some time to confirm it.
Raia was not afraid of Gran knowing that he killed a purple python and performed a slaughter in the forest. Gran keeps all the information about his customers private. More so for Raia that is the son of his friend.
At the end of the deal, Raia earned a total of 90,000 silver credits.
He smile was beaming. It was the largest amount of money he had. The credits he earned that day were more than what he earned for the past five years.
Then he chuckled awkwardly after thinking about something. Gran asked him what was wrong.
"It's nothing. I just remembered something." He answered. Inside, he was thinking, 'A man who owned planets is smiling because of a few thousand credits. My life is really hard.'
Raia bought some recovery pills from Gran bringing his money down by half. He thanked Gran and left the shop.
Raia then went and bought a phone for himself.
At last, he returned home.
"You're early today." Rose said when she saw Raia coming.
Raia smiled at her. "I'm already a bit tired. I'll head out again tomorrow." He sent the remaining credits he had to her mother. Rose was shocked and thanked Raia.
"I'll cook you some meals." She said and headed right away to the kitchen.
Raia left for the smithy, gave his father the purple python fang and left. Hauran just thanked him and didn't ask any more questions.
In his room, Raia didn't swallow the purple python spirit crystal. It was too much for him to take. His body might explode if he tries to take it in his state.
He didn't even take the low-rank black-tailed beast crystal yet because it is a suicide to absorb the amount of energy it has.
Instead, he used the mid to peak-rank 2 spirit crystals to cultivate using his new foundation and body. He first took a few mid-rank 2 spirit crystals.
However, he was greatly surprised when he felt that the energy the crystals have was almost instantly absorbed and refined in his body.
The process only took a few minutes to take.
He swallowed another batch and the result was the same.
The energy was like a water droplet dropped on a sponge. It was absorbed instantly.
Raia decided to try the high-rank 2 crystals next and the result was obviously better than the first one.
Thereafter he used a peak-rank 2 crystal but it didn't even take him half an hour to refine its energy.
He stopped cultivating after sensing that the crystals were almost useless to him now.
"Rhea can use these for the mean time." He put the low-rank crystals into a bag.
"I'll give these to her." He will just hand it over to her after she came home from school.
Raia left his room and ate the meal his mother prepared. After a fulfilling meal, he went back to his room and entered the world inside.
"Let's try to find a blue tear fruit."
Raia searched around for hours but didn't find what he wanted.
After another hour, he encountered a familiar silhouette.
"We met again." Raia grinned as he stared at the group of four-horned goats in front of him.
This group was larger than the last one with over seventy goats.
Unlike last time, he charged straight into the crowd. The goats noticed his presence and were enraged.
They also rushed into Raia.
Raia drew his sword and attacked the first goat.
With his 1st level Martial Spirit State combat power combined with a mid-grade 3 weapon, killing a peak-rank 2 four-horned goat was possible even though they were equal in combat power.
He only needed one powerful slash to separate its head from its body.
Seeing this, some of the goats halted their feet. They became hesitant to move forward after discovering that the creature they thought they can kill was slaughtering them easily.
Raia was wearing a smile while killing the goats that attacked him. The goats always use their pointed horns to stab his body. He was being very careful of these attacks because if he let one hit him, he would be in a very dangerous situation considering that the goats were attacking him from all directions.
He was attacking while also evading at the same time.
Raia was really proud of the amber sword that he and his father created. It already became his only partner in the world inside.
After half an hour, forty out of the original seventy died in his hands. He was red because of the blood of the goats.
However, Raia also sustained a stab in his left shoulder. He was caught off guard by one of the goats that attacked him from a behind while he was swinging his sword.
"I told you I will be back to kill you. It's unfortunate I didn't get to kill you first." He said while pointing his sword towards the smaller sized four-horned goat.
This was the same guy that he tried to attack and failed. Then it went and gathered a group to hunt him down.
The smaller sized goat's eyes were glaring at Raia. He didn't get scared and stared back.
He then charged up into the remaining goats. He will not let them escape.
With every single strike he made, a life of a four-horned goat was lost.
Raia moved away a few times to move to an advantageous position and not get cornered.
The goats couldn't fight back. Their attacks didn't connect to Raia and on the other hand, he constantly manages to kill one after releasing one swing of his sword.
However, the goats didn't retreat. They all fought Raia and even the small sized goat threw in some attacks.
Another half an hour later and Raia sat down on the ground surrounded by the dead bodies of the four-horned goats.
Having successfully killing all these goats, he was elated. He extracted all their spirit crystals and sent all of them along with the corpses into the storage space afterwards.
Raia exited the world inside.
Back to his room, he healed himself then washed his body. There was still time before dinner so he went back into the world inside.
"Let's resume searching for the blue tear fruit."
Raia wanted to find another blue tear fruit. He felt that even though his foundation and body was definitely stronger than before, they can still improve more.
He knew for himself that his body was still far from its peak state.
In Martial Physique State, the cultivator tries to strengthen his body to the best state he can or until it reaches its limit. The higher the state of the body before breaking through the Martial Spirit State is, the better.
It was because the body will be the one to hold the spirit while it was being strengthened during the Martial Spirit State.
But attaining the peak state of the body was easier said than done. Most of the cultivators couldn't make their body reach a very high state much more the peak state.
The few who could do so were either very talented in cultivation, has the greatest resources or had awakened a physique talent.
There are always geniuses when it came to cultivation and that is a fact. Also, having your hands into the most valuable and powerful resources will definitely bring you a great benefit.
On the other hand, the physique talent was something a very few people in Rhost have.
Having a talent was already rare in this world and even though physique talent was not the rarest type in the universe, it was still an excellent talent to have.
If anyone had awakened any talent, their life can change in a single night.
An ordinary man can be turned into elite in a blink of an eye.
Raia had already devised a simple plan to hide the thing about his worlds inside.
It was to make people think that he had awakened a physique talent. That would be a good cover for his fast advancing levels and the change in his appearance. In addition to this, he can also enter as an elite in the top university and he can ask for the protection of his family while he submerge himself into getting stronger.
Even the government would have him protected if they discovered he had a 'talent'.
However, in order to do that, he needed to push his body into its peak. The blue tear fruit is his answer. Not only it strengthens his body, it also strengthens his foundation which was also a very important aspect of him.
Raia carefully roamed around trying to find the signs of a blue tear fruit. However, even after three hours, he didn't find it.
He then thought to himself, "The black-tailed beast was guarding the blue tear fruit last time. Maybe I should not just search for plants but also beasts that might were trying to guard something."
Raia then continued searching with that idea on his mind. He was looking for plant and beast at the same time.
After another hour, he discovered a beast and it beside it was a plant with blue leaves.