The Mo family thought that the real culprits are Shadow and the other Great Families. They are unaware that the true perpetrator is merely a martial disciple.
Thus, no matter how hard the Mo family tried to investigate, there were no leads.
Shadow was already dead. How would they find Shadow?
You could say that, as long as Ye Tian won't reveal the Black Shadow Knife and [Dark Umbra] talent, there was no way that the Mo family could suspect that it was him.
In the following days, Ye Tian was cultivating with the Body Forging Technique every day. He acted like he knew nothing to avoid trouble. The entire Lin Hai base was in an uproar when the news about the death of Mo ShaoBei was revealed.
The death of their genius [Medium] cultivating talent caused the Mo family to go crazy and started a few skirmishes with other Great Families. There were a lot of people killed. Lin Hai base's strongest family, the Lin family had to step in to stop the skirmish.
As time passed and the Mo family still couldn't find any traces of Shadow, they could only think that Shadow had escaped out of the Lin Hai base. They gave up searching for him but they didn't remove the secret bounty that was placed onto him.
Once Shadow appeared, he would have to face the crazy onslaught of the Mo family.
10 days later, peace had returned to the Lin Hai base. Ye Tian prepared himself to leave Lin Hai base and enter the wilderness to hunt some vicious beast.
He needed more vicious beast blood for him to advance to the martial artist realm in a short period of time. Besides, even if he's a martial artist, to quickly gain strength, he would also need vicious beast blood.
However, once he enters the wilderness, he won't be able to return for a day or two. Therefore, he needed to give a proper 'explanation' to his little sister.
Ye Tian lied. He explained that the academy was going to bring a group of elite students for secluded cultivation. Thus, he won't be back for a while. His little sister didn't know anything about the academy and easily believed him.
This time, Ye Tian brought two knives. One was the Black Shadow Knife, for when nobody is around. The other was a newly bought steel knife, for when someone is around. He also bought some necessary items.
Once everything was prepared, Ye Tian walked towards the exit of the base.
Eastern city gate.
There were a group of soldiers guarding it. These soldiers were mostly martial disciples, only the leader was a martial artist.
A martial artist, after all, is a big deal. Martial artists could not possibly guard the city gate. There were many soldiers at the level of martial disciples since if a vicious beast attacked the base, you couldn't stop it without enough manpower.
In Lin Hai base, the most promising job was that of a soldier. The risk, however, was high. Every year, many soldiers are killed by vicious beasts.
Ye Tian went past the city gate and walked towards the wilderness. A soldier saw the back of Ye Tian and shook his head: "Another martial disciple wants to get rich quick. He thinks that the wilderness is like within the base? That brat will not survive for more than a day!"
Obviously, he thought that Ye Tian was one of the martial disciples that would throw their lives away for money.
In fact, there were a lot of martial disciples like this. They were lucky to find a corpse of a vicious beast. After bringing it back, they wouldn't need to work for a few years.
With such good rewards, there would definitely be martial disciples willing to take the risk.
...
One or two kilometers around the base was safe. That's because if a vicious beast were to enter this area, they would instantly be killed by martial artists. Unless there was an occurrence of a beast wave, then there would be a lot of vicious beasts around.
If you want to kill a vicious beast, you need to go further.
Ye Tian's destination was an area where vicious beasts lived, Small Green Hill.
According to information, Small Green Hill was only a hill back then. But when the Earth started to expand to a hundred-fold, Small Green Hill became a huge mountain. Within the mountain, there were tall trees and vicious beasts everywhere. Clearly a sign that this place had become a paradise for vicious beasts.
"Rumor has it that deep within the Small Green Hill, there are [High] tier vicious beasts and even beings higher than that. Is it true?"
Ye Tian pondered while traveling.
[High] tier vicious beasts can only be dealt by [Great] martial artists. Once you encounter one, even if you're an [Elite] martial artist, you wouldn't be able to escape.
Obviously, Ye Tian wasn't going to go deep into the Small Green Hill. He only wanted to kill some vicious beasts within the outskirts of Small Green Hill.
However, after leaving Lin Hai base for not longer than 10 minutes, he met a vicious beast before reaching the Small Green Hill.
"Steel-Armored Buffalo!"
Ye Tian stared at the 3-meter-long Steel-Armored Buffalo in front of him. His expression was grim.
The Steel-Armored Buffalo wasn't a weak vicious beast like the Vicious Beast Striped Snake. It was a bona fide [Low] tier vicious beast. Its strength and defense were far above the Vicious Beast Striped Snake. An average early-stage martial artist could do nothing to it.
In normal circumstances, only a team of martial artists can kill this Steel-Armored Buffalo.
Ye Tian held his steel knife, unleashed his [Speed] talent and used 'Shadow Strike' to cut the Steel-Armored Buffalo's neck.
Bang!
The steel knife appeared to have been rammed into steel. The Steel-Armored Buffalo's neck only appeared to have a white mark; no skin was cut.
"This steel knife's quality is bad. Also, my strength is only around 400 kg. There's no way I can break the Steel-Armored Buffalo's defense!"
Ye Tian felt helpless.
After that, he took out Black Shadow Knife.
The Black Shadow Knife was much sharper than the steel knife. At the very least, it could break the Steel-Armored Buffalo's defense. Besides, there was nobody nearby so he wasn't at risk of revealing his identity.
"Kill!"
Ye Tian turned into an afterimage, launched multiple attacks against the Steel-Armored Buffalo with an astounding speed.
The Steel-Armored Buffalo tried to stomp on Ye Tian, but its speed was its weakness. Its speed was slower than Ye Tian by a lot. There was no way its attack could reach Ye Tian.
After a minute of barrage of attacks, the Steel-Armored Buffalo finally fell onto the ground.
Collect the vicious beast blood!
Ye Tian took out a container and collected 10 portions of vicious beast blood. As for the leftovers, he didn't want them.
It wasn't that he didn't want to collect them, but he couldn't.
However, he cut 5kg of meat from the Steel-Armored Buffalo. The quality of the meat from the Steel-Armored Buffalo wasn't bad. It tastes good as well.
Continue forward.
One hour later, Ye Tian reached the Small Green Hill.
On his way here, he met a few obstacles. He met a few small animal herds and a strong vicious beast. He could feel a strong aura from a vicious beast from afar.
Fortunately, he was able to find some shady area to hide and it saved his life. Otherwise, he would have died in the hands of the vicious beasts.
At this point, he realized the danger of the wilderness. If you didn't have a team to work with, the likelihood of you dying was over 50 percent. Even if you are with a hunter team, if you aren't lucky, the entire team could be wiped out.
And this was only the area around the base where there weren't many vicious beasts. In places further, the number of vicious beasts would make your body tremble. They are much stronger and scarier. Even sending all the martial artists from the Lin Hai base wouldn't be enough.
Ye Tian also heard from his parents that the Lin Hai base was situated at a corner where the surroundings didn't have many resources. Even the strong vicious beasts weren't willing to come over. Otherwise, Lin Hai base would have already been destroyed.
After arriving at the Small Green Hill, Ye Tian didn't immediately hunt vicious beasts.
He had already obtained 10 portions of [Low] grade vicious beast blood. Thus, he wanted to cultivate for a few days before going to hunt some vicious beasts.
He walked around and discovered a hidden small cave, which he stayed in.