After about 3 days of devouring Shan Mong was finally able to use all the pills and his cultivation advanced all the way to the 8th ring his 7th ring was completely full and his 8th ring was about 10 percent full
He believed that if he had about 5 more such pills he would have been able to successively reach the diantian expansion realm
This consumption of qi was monstrous because he used pill that originally core cultivators used
His foundation was as solid as any cultivator with regular speed because his DARKNESS DEVOURING TECHNIQUE was different
He took out the map that he had gotten from the cultivators and started reading it It was actually a decoded one but even if it was not decoded he would have been able to decode it because of the inheritance he had recieved from his grandpa that belonged to his friend
This map lead to a cave that was about 40 mile away from his current location he started moving toward the cave with the first ray of sun the next day
On the way he was very cautious because of his earlier encounter with the Silver winged Golden eagle he know that there were many beasts that could kill him here without him even noticing them
He come across many beasts on the was but chose to avoid them not because he was afraid of them but because he did not want to fight them because fighting these beasts did not bring him much benefit
He could devour them after killing them but that would be too much waste of his time
On the way he avoided most of the beast but some still wanted to meet their ansestor thus Shan Mong fulfilled their wish and let them reunite
One devil horned tiger wanted Shan Mong to meet his ancestors Devil horned tigers were called that because they had horns same as the horns of devil This one that wanted shan mong to meet his ancestor was actually a peak diantian realm just one step away from successfully forming its core
Shan Mong and the tiger fought for about 2 hours but still could not decide a winner even with shan mong qi reservers he was sweating profoundly
This was because his qi was in quality a grade lower than the tiger his qi was depleting faster than tiger's
He let the tiger land a hit on his arm and used "The Claw" on the tigers right eye and used the opportunity to escape
He did succeed in escaping but the unlucky tiger that was blinded by shan mong soon ended up being the prey of its rival but this had nothing to do with shan mong as he was also not in a good situation
90% of his qi was used and he needed some time to get back to his peak position he hollowed out a thick tree and hid in it started using the devouring technique on his low grade qi stones
One could cultivate using the qi stone but the progress was very slow and the qi refined was impure thus it needed a lot of refining to be used it was just not worth it to use low grade qi stone for cultivate
He restored his qi and it was again night time he could not go back to his cave so he chose to search for a thick tree climed it up halfway and hollowed it enough for a person to sit comfortably sat inside and covered it with the bark that was still almost intact and thought that this was hopefully enough to let him survive that night
Lady Luck smilled at him that night and no beast come to him when the day broke he again started moving toward the cave after some twists and turns he finally reached the cave after two hours of travelling
This was actually not a cave but a mountain that was about 1000 feet tall at the left side of mountains he started searching for the signs listed in the map after searching for a good while he finally found the trigger to open the cave enterance
It was actually an old formation and he had to circulate qi in a specific way to open the formation with his knowledge about formation that he got from his grandpa he could open it without any difficulty
Well he did not get the inheritance of the formation master but a weapon forging master But to make high rank weapons one needed to know formations and engrave them in the weapon Therefore his know about formations was actually quite deep
He was able to open it up without any difficulty the cave was very deep he could not see the end of the cave because of limited light
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