It's been a week since Rudra entered the outer region of the desolate forest, since then he fought two more beast , the first beast he encountered was a giant wind panther who was also at in 8th stage of body refining realm and was more powerful then the blood demon ape he fought previously, it was extremely fast but it was taken down by Rudra without much difficulty, and the second beast was the emerald scorpion at consolidated realm which nearly took Rudra's life with its extremely terrifying poison, but after struggling for hours he narrowly killed the beast.
And with these two hard fought battle Rudra strength and experience also increased, he breakthrough two minor realm and now he was in 9 stage of body refining , This speed of breakthrough terrified him . Although he wanted quickly increase his strength but he also knew that rapid breakthroughs could make his foundation unstable which could create problems for him in his future breakthroughs , but after many unsuccessful attempts of suppressing his rapidly increasing cultivation Rudra found out even with his rapid breakthroughs his foundation is extremely stable and powerful which made sigh in relief.
And while inspecting his cultivation progress he also find a few abnormal thing with his body it took him tens of if not hundreds of times the spirit energy to breakthrough a level which was am absurd energy for mere body refining energy, if not the magical bead in his heart it would take him years to just breakthrough a single stage .And second thing is he basically has no bottlenecks in cultivation, even in body refining stage a cultivator has to comprehend his body fully to made a breakthrough, but he has no such problems which made his cultivation even more fast.
In present Rudra was searching for his next beast in the forest his current plan was to slowly entering deeper in the forest as his strength increase he has no intention to leave the forest any time soon he first wanted to increase his strength until he has confidence to protect himself in outside world, to him facing beasts was much easy and simple then crafty humans, clearly his past in lee family has a deep impression on him which was clearing impacting his current decisions. suddenly he heard the bush rustling when he checked the source of sound he saw three middle aged mans .
After seeing a little boy all alone in the forest, the leader among three man approached Rudra, He was mercenary frank he and his team was commissioned to investigate the a weird phenomenon happened in forest roughly a week ago, he and his team was searching the forest for a few days now but with no result, which greatly disappointed him but he was not completely unlucky and encountered a extremely handsome kid all alone in the forest which made him happy a kid this handsome he could easily sell him to some rich lonely lady in a good price and make a small fortune for himself .
After completely hiding his malice behind a smile Frank approached Rudra and said. '' hey little brother why are you all alone in this dangerous forest , by any chance are you lost.