After killing the demonic wolves, Leyvi turned around and noticed that Valenia was staring at him.
Leyvi flexed his muscles and teased her like usual. "What? Are you charmed by me now? I can let you touch them."
"Who wanted to touch!? I have muscles too! Buekk!" Valenia retorted and stuck out her tongue.
Leyvi was amused. The more he teased her, the more she acted like a kid. Her tall and toned body created such a big contrast when she tried to get at him in a childish manner.
After collecting all of the bodies, Leyvi continued flying in a certain direction and then he met a demonic gorilla. There were no other demonic beasts near here since this gorilla had claimed this place as its territory. A demonic beast that could claim a territory was definitely strong.
Leyvi felt a strong excitement to fight this demonic gorilla.
ROAARRRRRRR!!
When Leyvi arrived, the demonic gorilla immediately roared and charged toward the human that intruded its place.
It jumped high in the air and slammed down with its gigantic fists. Leyvi put up a guard with his hands and took the powerful blow from the demonic gorilla.
BOOOMMMM!!
The impact caused a huge tremor and the ground below Leyvi sunkened. Both his feet were buried in the ground. Leyvi realized that the power of this demonic gorilla had reached the peak of intermediate level just like the demonic leopard they met in the grassland.
However, the him at that time and the him right now were vastly different even though the realm was still the same, early-stage Foundation Building realm.
At that time he had to use everything he had with the help of Anda and Lilian to kill the demonic leopard but now, he felt like defeating this demonic gorilla would be easy.
Leyvi grabbed the demonic gorilla's two fists tightly, his fingers dug into its flesh, causing it to scream in pain. Realizing that it couldn't get its fists away from the human, it opened its mouth as wide as possible to bite Leyvi's head and kill him in one go.
However, before the bite managed to reach Leyvi's head, Leyvi landed a powerful knee attack on the demonic gorilla's chest first, cracking multiple ribs and sending it flying upward.
As the demonic gorilla fell toward Leyvi again, he charged up his fist with his Qi and punched the demonic gorilla's head.
"Big Bang Uppercut!" Leyvi called out the name of his move.
BOOOMMMMMMM!!!
At the moment of contact, Leyvi's charged Qi exploded, and the demonic gorilla's head was instantly destroyed.
From start to finish, Leyvi hasn't moved a single step and didn't even use his martial skills. Leyvi looked at his fist that was still hanging in the air and smiled satisfyingly. With this, he confirmed that no demonic beast in the intermediate level could harm him anymore.
Leyvi wondered if he could fight with a high-level demonic beast. Although Anda warned him to stay away from high-level demonic beasts, he couldn't help feeling the itch to fight against one.
Leyvi collected the demonic gorilla's corpse and turned around. He saw Valenia stare at him with her eyes and mouth open wide.
Valenia was deeply shocked by how powerful Leyvi was especially that body of his. She was irritated that she couldn't even put a scratch on his body during their training but she didn't expect that even a peak intermediate-level demonic beast couldn't injure him.
Leyvi flexed his muscles to Valenia again. However, this time he didn't get the annoyed response he expected but a pair of hands touching his muscles and abdomen.
"Girl, why are you molesting me? Return my purity!" Leyvi joked.
Valenia ignored Leyvi's joke and continued touching his body. After a while, she asked, "How do you train your body?"
"You want to learn?" He asked.
Valenia nodded a few times. She was curious now. She wanted to be stronger too.
"The training is simple but you need a lot of money. I used a few thousand high and top-grade Minor Healing Elixir the last time." Leyvi told her the truth.
"What?? Wh-why do you need so many of that elixir?" She was truly shocked. That was way too many Minor Healing Elixir wasted.
"Like I said, the body training is simple, crush your body and heal it with the elixir. Repeat the process many times and witness the evolution of your body with your own eyes. Simple." Leyvi explained nonchalantly.
"Cr-crush my body?" Valenia felt goosebumps hearing Leyvi's method. Obviously, it sounded simple, but who in the right mind would dare to attempt it? Valenia looked at the man who was always so goofy and annoying again. His presence felt like a huge mountain now.
It wasn't just her madam who was abnormal, the husband was also abnormal all this time.
"So you want to try it or not? You are Anda's Alchemic Knight so a few thousand Minor Healing Elixir won't be a problem." Leyvi offered. If someone wanted to follow his method, he would gladly help, after all the result was effective.
Valenia felt that her strength was leaving her legs as she slumped to the ground. "Nonono...Leyvi, I don't want to learn it anymore. I don't like too much pain."
Leyvi was disappointed. He thought he would get a body training partner. Since this exchange, Valenia was a bit more respectful toward Leyvi but she would still get annoyed and retorted when he teased her.
Afterward, Leyvi and Valenia went further into the forest while avoiding other cultivators. Sometimes they would hear the sound of other cultivators battling around them but Valenia found it weird that they never met any of them. Leyvi laughed inwardly at her confusion. He still didn't tell her about his spiritual sense.
While moving deeper, Leyvi would pick up all the alchemy ingredients he found that Anda listed and when they met weaker demonic beasts, Leyvi left them to Valenia to settle. Every time she fought, a few trees would fall as a result. The enormous broadsword of her would cleave many demonic beasts in half destroying some demonic cores in the process.
Leyvi would scold her every time this happened and she would retort. The bickering continued for a few days until she managed to control her broadsword better. At the very least, she didn't cut them in half anymore, she used the blunt side of the broadsword to bludgeon them to death. As long as the demonic cores were preserved, Leyvi didn't mind.
It was their fifth day in the Bara Forest.
"Good job Val. I think you should change your weapon to a mace. You'd look more menacing. Hahaha!" Leyvi started his routine teasing.
"Hmph, I'm not listening to you anymore! Broadsword is the best!" She pouted.
As he was about to continue, Leyvi noticed a demonic beast come out of a hole in the ground. It was a demonic red fox. For some reason, it looked malnourished. Since it came out of a hole, it probably could dig. Leyvi decided to recruit this demonic red fox.
Leyvi signalled Valenia to follow him and he went after the demonic red fox as it cautiously looked at the surroundings searching for something.
When they were near the demonic red fox, Leyvi stopped and landed.
The demonic red fox immediately heard the sound and it got on guard. It growled at Leyvi menacingly trying to scare him away. Unfortunately, it didn't work. The human kept coming nearer and there was also another human still floating slightly behind.
"Do you need any help?"
The demonic red fox suddenly heard the male human talk and for some reason, it could understand him. Is this human trying to help? In any case, it doesn't have much choice at this moment.
"Can you save my babies?" The demonic red fox said to Leyvi, pleading for help.
Leyvi heard a female voice coming from the demonic red fox.
"Huh? Babies?" Leyvi extended his spiritual sense into the hole the demonic red fox came out from and he saw three cute little cubs. However, they also looked malnourished.
"I can help you and your babies, but all of you must become my spirit beast. My wife is an Alchemist Master so she could help your babies grow strong and healthy." Leyvi stated his condition while smiling. It seemed like he was taking advantage of their plight, but in reality, his offer would only change their life for the better.
Although the demonic red fox didn't know what an Alchemy Master was, she could sense that the human was telling the truth. When she was about to give birth, she was attacked by another demonic beast and was seriously injured. She managed to get away and give birth safely but she was too weak to hunt any food.
As a result, she became malnourished and couldn't produce milk for her babies. Now her babies couldn't get any nutrients too. She decided to go out and hunt because they would die if she didn't try.
"We will become your spirit beast so please save us." The demonic red fox agreed to Leyvi's condition.
"Very good. From now on you will be my third spirit beast!" Leyvi smiled. Was beast taming really that hard? Why does it feel so easy? Are they lying to him?