Tian Long and Uncle Shen continued walking for a while in the interior.
As they walked down the road, Uncle Shen sensed danger coming from below, so he sent his spiritual sense out with all his might and sensed what danger he was facing.
With lightning speed, Uncle Shen carried Tianlong and then jumped from a position two meters backwards.
"Uncle Shen, what's going on?"
Tian Long was astonished at Uncle Shen's strange action, but before he heard Uncle Shen's reply, he saw a huge hedgehog about four meters long emerging from the ground from the area where they were standing.
"Uncle… Uncle Shen is this!"
Tian Long was terrified of the monster that appeared in front of him. He knew what a monster was from reading books about herbs, monsters, and various other things.
"That's right, young master, it's an earth hedgehog and this beast has also matured and can efficiently fight a cultivator in the late stages of the earth realm."
Uncle Shen took out a spear from his back. It was a long spear with a dark black blade extremely sharp, emitting a murderous aura before he continued his speech.
"Young master, hurry up and hide behind one of the nearby trees so that the effects of the battle do not affect you."
"Good Uncle Shen."
Tian Long did not hesitate and quickly left within 10 meters of Uncle Shen behind a tree.
(There is no use for me in this battle, be it for my inability to cultivate, would things have turned out this way, would I be unable to control my destiny in this way.)
Tian Long muttered to himself as he gritted his teeth despising himself for being useless, but at the same time he was determined to continue and fight in order to heal his meridians and walk the path of cultivation to control his destiny.
In the same breath, a violent aura filled with killing intent erupted from Uncle Shen, Uncle Shen galloped quickly to the point of disappearing, the moment Uncle Shen arrived in front of the earth hedgehog beast and then sent an attack from his spear towards the hedgehog's right shoulder.
The hedgehog noticed Uncle Shen's movement and moved his arm and met Uncle Shen's attack with his tougher claws.
"Hmmm, it's not bad if you can counter this sudden attack."
Uncle Shen spoke and then sent a fiercer attack towards the hedgehog's head, dodging the hedgehog's attack and then sending a claw attack to completely obliterate Uncle Shen.
Uncle Shen repelled the hedgehog's attack and the exchanges between them continued.
"Uncle Shin, this hedgehog, his problem is his slow movement, in addition, his body is not as hard as his claws, so you can finish him with one clean attack."
Tian Long analyzed the hedgehog's weakness from his knowledge of the hedgehog in the books he had read and his observations of Uncle Shen and the hedgehog's intense battle.
"Hmm, it looks like you're right, you have sharp eyes."
Uncle Shen sighed and then sent a swift attack towards the area where the hedgehog was standing to distract him.
A gust of dirt rose that obscured the hedgehog's vision,
While the hedgehog was searching for Uncle Shen, he appeared behind him, shadowed him at great speed and then sent a spear slashing the sky and earth towards his head.
"Hurricane Dragon Spear."
Uncle Shen roared and attacked the hedgehog, the hedgehog saw the attack but his body did not respond to him from the aura of the deadly attack and his reaction was delayed by a split second.
A split second doesn't count as much time, but in intense battles, every split second can determine your life from your death.
In the next moment, Uncle Shen's spear pierced the hedgehog's forehead, releasing a fountain of blood that filled the floor.
Uncle Shebin took a deep breath before approaching the hedgehog's body and taking out his heart and tentacles and putting them in his bag.
Beast bodies are considered moving treasures as their hearts are important materials in alchemy and their teeth and claws are good materials in blacksmithing, in addition to having monster cores that are found in second and third rank monsters after condensing their consciousness.
"Uncle Shen, you did a great job."
Tian Long took a deep breath and then praised Uncle Chen.
"I do not deserve this praise, young master, but without your help, things would have been much more difficult for me."
"How is that Uncle Shin without you I would have died a long time ago."
"It is my duty, young master. Of course, I will protect you. So, young master, shall we camp here tonight or continue on our way?"
Tian Long thought for a bit before replying to Uncle Shen.
"Uncle Shen, we shouldn't stay here too long, the smell of blood will attract more monsters, and if we encounter many monsters like earth hedgehogs or stronger monsters, we probably won't be able to escape in peace."
Tian Long made up his mind as to whether he preferred to camp tonight or go ahead and it was his decision to go ahead to ensure his safety.
Uncle Shen laughed at Tianlong, then cleaned his battle clothes and continued on while joy was apparent on Tian Long's face calmly analyzing the matter.
"That's fine. I've thought of all possibilities, okay, let's go."
"Okay, let's go."
Tian Long replied to Uncle Shen and collected some herbs nearby to fill their need for food in the coming days."
After four days in the interior of the forest,
Tian Long and Uncle Shen passed by many monsters and dangers along the way.
Uncle Shen fought many middle stage monsters of the second level, and they hid and escaped from the late stage monsters of the third level,
Since monsters needed three people of the same cultivation stage to kill them without error, while Uncle Shen was in the late stages of the Earth realm but he was alone and couldn't face a monster of the same cultivation level.
Finally, Uncle Shen and Tianlong finally crossed from the inner region safely and reached the outskirts of the core region.
"Young master, we are the outskirts of the core area, from now on we should hide well and leave no traces behind so that the monsters in the core area won't chase after us."
"Good Uncle Shen, let's go."
Tian Long walked beside Uncle Shen with determination and longing that could be seen in his eyes.
After they entered the core area with an incense stick, three shadows appeared on the outskirts of the core area.
"The target is ready. If they don't come back in two weeks, we'll go and make sure they're dead."
A middle-aged man's voice spoke in a serious manner to the two shadows standing behind him,
"Good sir."
While both of them spoke at the same time, they agreed with the words of the man standing in front of them.