In the borderline area of inner and center layer of the forest.
" sighh, its the month of hunting spirit beast" A young boy whispered to himself and that boy was Theo. Why he said that is because for the elders, its like training for new disciple, and for disciple of the said sect and academy its like its like tournament, But for people like Theo who doesn't know a thing about outside of the town, its like month of hunting spirit beasts.
The cultivator's Theo saw was in group and with them there was hunter who was acting like a guide for them. He heard them talking when they passes by him.
"don't worry mister, there is nothing to be far off, we will protect,"
" yeah, our leader is at the peak of qi refining, so don't worry,".
As the cultivator, were comforting the Guide, Theo whispered in a low voice after listening to their word," chee....,". Theo felt disgusted after listening to their word.
Theo never like cultivators from sect and academy, because they act high and mighty in front of others in reality they are coward. Theo hate them to the core, because of them his parent died and made him orphan.
This happen, 8 years ago, when he was 5 years old, when his parent was selected as guide. They promised them as the guys did just now. But they run away when the time came for protection. he never knew his parents died because of them until 1 year back during spirit beast hunting season, when the cultivators came just like today. At that time he heard from old man jiang when the group of cultivators thought of recruiting Theo, when they didn't find any guide.
Old man jiang warn him, and how his parent died because of them. from that onwards he doesn't like them.
Theo, move away from that location because if he heard them long, he might kill them and bring more trouble. He was controlling his anger so much that, the blood was dripping from palm. When he moved away.
" who is there ?" on the cultivator from the group spoke loudly alerting the other people in his group. The person who spoke was the person, whom the other cultivator from his group were praising.
" there is no one, Jason. It might be small beast roaming, leave it we came here to hunt spirit beast not some small beast," one of the cultivator replied him making calm down from his tense.
"yeah, there is nothing there Jason, lets go deep into the forest," others chime in too
listening to his fellow cultivator, Jason ease up and said ,'" hmm.." and they move again.
The group of cultivators were moving deep into the forest not knowing what danger might bring them.
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As for Theo after moving out from that location, he start hunting, that too carefully not alerting anyone. He knows if someone saw him, there might be trouble, that's why he was moving like an assassin, killing the beast fast, collecting it and moving out of the area. He did this all in 1 minute so that he won't alert anyone. As well as Theo was kill normal beast not spirit beast, he knows that of he tried to kill spirit beast there will be commotion and if there is a commotion people will gather.
As Theo was killing the beast and collecting it, but this time it was different the beast he was trying to kill was a spirit beast that too a hammer head bull. A type of beast who was strong in physical attack and their defense was absurdly too strong for beginner cultivators.
They were called hammer head bull not because of their head look like hammer, Its because their head is the strongest part of their body. and their attack are specialist in head attack.
Theo and the hammer head bull were playing tag game. The hammer head bull was trying to kill him using his head attack and Theo was dodging him. Theo never want to clash with spirit beast today, cause of all this hunting season for cultivators. But he never thought that especially today, there was too much spirit beast in the border of inner and central layer of the forest.
Theo run away from one spirit beast then he gets caught up in another spirit beast. In the end Hammer head bull lock into him, to which this situation escalated.
Theo dodge one more attack from the hammer head bull and attack it using it sword qi slicing his head off the neck, when the beast was recovering from his own attack when it hit the tree nearby. Before this Theo never got the chance to attack him fatally, each and every attack of his was shallow. But just now he got the opportunity, when the beast was stun momentarily from his own attack and Theo took the chance and cut the hammer head bull's head off from the neck using sword qi.
Theo was leisurely walking, toward the beast to collect it. He was exhausted fighting the beast, not physically but mentally. Before he fought the hammer head bull, he was killing normal beast too fast, consuming his mental energy. and after that he fought Hammer head bull, during the fight, he was dodging and looking for the chance to kill it faster, which also consume his mental energy.
He was tired, that's why he was walking leisurely and that mistake, brought him trouble.