Ling jumped out of the wooden bathtub, only wearing his pants and half naked with a spear on his right hand just like a primitive caveman.
He readied his stance upon the direction of the Spirit Beast who was crouching in the thicket of the tree line.
Pair of eyes gleaming in crimson glints, sending a ferocious aura. It growls so low, warning the nearby spirit beasts that Ling was its prey.
Not long after that, the Spirit Beast stepped out from the line, revealing its majestic white fur.
"Hmm… Juvenile Frost Wolf, an Earth Rank Spirit Beast. Tsk! I need to get crafty if I want to defeat this wolf!"
Upon looking closer, the wolf had some fresh scars across his back, a battle mark that indicates that the wolf has lost its territory to another Alpha Frost Wolf recently.
"Huh! You have lost your territory and now you are preying upon me? What a shameless dog! You should have died in the fight instead!"
Feeling ridiculed by a mere human's child, the Frost Wolf pounced forward with his jaws lashing his pent up anger to him.
Ling, however, although he has a big size gap compared to the Frost Wolf, he used that gap as his advantage to slip through between its legs.
He tried to slice its underbelly but the Frost Wolf was truly agile. It's barking and growling ferociously.
It activates the innate ability, releasing spine chilling Frost Qi. Freezing the soil in a tens of meters radius.
The chilling air soon creeped on Ling's body and seeped to the core of his bone.
"I have to end this fight very soon! Or I will die because of this cold!"
Ling summoned the Spearhead that he had forged with his own blood by using Blood Iron Spear Head.
As a seasoned war General in his past life, fighting far stronger opponents was not a new thing for him. He knew exactly when to strike and when to dodge.
Frost Wolf snarling and barking aloud, it became fiercer upon seeing the Blood Spearhead.
"Good, it seems like the Frost Wolf is taunted by the aura of my Spearhead. I have to use this opportunity to lure him into the woods and kill it there!"
Ling ran as fast as he could with the little legs of his. Conveniently, Ling ran into a dangling vines. He grabbed those vines to swing his body up in mid air like a tarzan.
When he gained enough altitude, he let go of the vines and let his body free falling towards the incoming Frost Wolf.
"Huh! I got you now! Starfall Strike!"
Ling threw his spear with all of his might, piercing the wolf's throat all the way back to its butt. Split second later, King used his Blood Spearhead to stab its heart.
Everything happened in a fraction of seconds. If Ling fought this Frost Wolf six months earlier, he would've been long gone.
"Heh. My very first kill in this world!"
Ling pulled out his blood-drenched spear out of the wolf's body. After that, he casted an incantation which activates his Blood Iron Spear Art.
The wolf's blood, which was very rich in Yin Qi, was slowly absorbed by his Blood Spearhead.
Before long, the wolf's carcasses dried up, not even a droplet of blood left inside its blood vessels.
Ling's Blood Spearhead grew slightly larger and sharper. The density also increased and made it as hard as a rock.
"I need more blood to forge this Blood Spear, only then, my cultivation will grow exponentially by absorbing the life-essence and the energy of my opponents directly from this spear!"
In his previous world, this Cultivation Art was considered taboo. However, since Blood Iron Art doesn't exist in his second world, the big factions and major sects would most likely just ignore this diabolical cultivation art.
"Sigh… Now, I have to wash my body again because of this mutt!" Ling says, kicking the dried carcass while splattering the blood on his arm.
After he cleaned his body from the sweat and blood, Ling was finally on his way back to Fang Zheng's Mansion.
Early in the morning, when the first ray of light bathed the Bramble Maze Forest, Ling had arrived at the front gate of the mansion.
"I hope Fang Zhen Shifu is not waking up yet from his meditation. I will be in very big trouble if he finds out that I've been away for six months now."
Suddenly, a strong killing intent was directed to Ling. Standing in mid air, Dean Fang Zhen looked down upon the young boy.
"Looking for something?"
"Eh! Dean Fang Zhen?" Ling startled half-dead.
"Disciple Ling just come back from his secluded training and greeting the great Fang Zhen Shifu!" Ling kowtowed before his master.
"Get inside, now!"
With just a flick of his wrist, Fang Zhen sent flying high and landed at the courtyard.
Qiqi was shocked and hide behind the Eternal Spring Fountain.
"Brother Ling?!"
Fang Zhen lashed his anger, raising his voice towards the little girl. "Who told you to stop! Keep going on your training!"
"Y-yes shifu!"
"Shit! He's completly furious right now! This is might be my last day here!"
"Ling!" Fang Zhen exclaimed, his voice was stern, but not in crazed manner. More like an agitated teacher dealing with his troublesome student.
"Yes, Shifu!" Ling quickly changed his mannerism. Sitting fold-legged in front of Fang Zheng.
"You have been gone for six month! Neglecting your training and left without my permission! Give me a reason for me to not cripple your body today!"
Ling kowtowed before him once again.
"I have an inkling that only the real battle between life and death could nurture me the best! Hence, I embark to the nearby forest in order to get stronger!"
"Huh! Fifth Stage Body Foundation?" Fang Zheng was shocked, Ling was able to break through four stages within a six month was something that ordinary people couldn't achieve.
Especially in the early stages of cultivation.
Ling was indeed wrong in this case, however, Fang Zheng wasn't an unreasonable man either.
Each individual has their own path and methods to gain their power strength.
Alas, the dean of the Royal Academy lowered his anger.
"Very well! I acknowledge your power. However, I still have to punish you and teach you a lesson for neglecting your training!"
"This disciple shall receive your punishment, Shifu!"
"Since you have gotten stronger. You have to ring the bell twenty times per day! And I don't even care if your limbs fall off!"