Roar!
While casually traversing through the thick foliage of the Dyst forest, Ceceada suddenly heard a loud roar coming in front, probably just a few hundred meters away.
Trees swayed as the shockwave from the roar passed by and pushed the air away from the source of the roar.
When he heard the loud roar, he didn't show any fear and just continued moving, his eyes unmoved by the loud roar that might even cause other people to immediately lose consciousness due to its sheer loudness.
"Perfect timing!" He shouted excitedly in contrary as he itchily thought about fighting, wanting to test his full strength that is also one of his main goal for entering the forest.
His hair and robes fluttering as he let the shockwaves of the roar pass by his body.
His pace didn't slow down and continued to carelessly ram his body to the impeding trees in front that dared to block his path, letting it slam his body without causing any to damage to him, not even making him feel anything from the impact.
After a while, with the help of the moonlight behind it, a huge silhouette of a quadrupedal animal can be seen emerging in the distance, its orangish eyes shining brightly in the dark, with a round pupils that stares directly at Ceceada.
With the fast speed of Ceceada, he quickly approached the silhouette without much emotion. His arms extended forward as his Sun Palm lights up the surroundings, slowly making the huge silhouette visible for ordinary eyes.
Whoosh!
When he is just three meters away from the figure, he immediately stopped, causing the air in front of him to continue it's movement due to inertia, rendering the trees and the creature's fur to sway relentlessly.
He then quickly sized up the huge animal in front of him.
It resembles a tiger, but is bigger than an African elephant from earth. Just the leg of the animal is enough to make Ceceada look like a dwarf!
The huge tiger then excitedly bared it's fangs in an instant when he saw Ceceada in front, thinking that this is just another easy prey; the great thing is that the prey just delivered itself!
Although, the prey is small, it is still meat.
However, the tiger didn't immediately attack, and checked its surroundings, looking for traps. Absolutely aware of the cunningness and intelligence of humans.
With its amazing perception, it easily assessed the situation. When the tiger quickly learned that there are no traps around, the tiger immediately thought that Ceceada is just a foolish human who thinks he is strong enough to beat a beast like him.
This is not the first time that this beast will prey on a human as there had been instances where human cultivators will come here to test their own strength, some are even more indifferent than the prey in front of him. Yet... what happened? They all died with a single swipe of his paw!
Even though the tiger noticed what Ceceada had done earlier, destroying the trees in his way, the tiger knows that he can also do this easily. In contrast, it stimulated the tiger's wild fighting instinct!
Ceceada looked at the tiger in front of him with a smile on his face, not intimidated by the size difference between him and the huge tiger.
The tiger lowered its body and extended its front leg forward in a flash, intending to swipe Ceceada's small figure instantly!
Ceceada saw the fast movement of the tiger, but didn't dodge, intending to let it slam on his body.
Whoosh!
The tiger's paw distorted the air around it as it hooked through the air towards the flank of Ceceada, instantly making a loud sonic boom!
Ceceada looked at the huge paws with sharp claws on his side, but didn't even flinch.
Bang!
A loud explosion echoed for kilometers as the tiger's paw hits Ceceada's side!
Roar!
When the tiger touched Ceceada, it felt like he just tried to hit a massive boulder, making the tiger roar in pain!
Ceceada only felt a little pat on his shoulder and didn't feel anything painful from the impact, surprising even himself.
'Just how strong my body is?' Ceceada asked himself while gratefully appreciating his strength.
After that, he looked at his durable robe that is shredded instantly by the sharp claws of the tiger, but is quickly mending!
The robe's tears and holes glowing for a bit as they quickly closed on themselves, whereas the robe parts that detached itself from the main robe immediately attached themselves again as if the robe didn't even get damaged in the first place!
In a just few moment, the robe is fully fixed!
Experiencing the weak strength of the tiger, he is more interested now in his white, ordinary looking robe the can use mana around it to heal!
"Good robe!" Ceceada laughed as he saw the robe absorbing the surrounding mana to heal itself.
What?!
The shock is visible on the tiger's expression as it looked at the human in front of it while itself roared in pain. Observing the carefree and indifferent expression of the human cultivator when it turned all its attention on the robe made the tiger feel belittled and livid!
'I'm a powerful beast of the level 9 of Body Refinement realm! How dare you not look at me in fear?!' The tiger thought in frustration, not used to seeing a human with such carefreeness.
Whoosh!
However, the tiger is smart, shook its own arrogance and quickly used the opportunity to quickly turn its body on the opposite direction and run away from the human, thinking that it just encountered an Elemental Formation realm cultivator!
The tiger ran as it blamed the sky for the unfair matchup!
Although Ceceada diverted his attention to his robe, he didn't miss any detail of changes from his surroundings. Before the tiger even left, he already felt the intent of the tiger to escape.
He sneered as he looked at the tiger's huge a** while it quickly ran away in the distance, ramming itself on the trees that is blocking its path as if they were toys!
Ceceada then slowly accelerated and ran in a pace similar to the tiger, closely following behind the tiger's tails!
The tiger noticed this and increased its paced while disdainfully thinking to itself:
'Even if you are an Elemental Formation realm cultivator, you won't be able to catch up to me!'
The tiger is aware of its speed advantage of predators compared to bipedal chimps and quickly used his best advantage for escaping.
Ceceada also wanted to know how fast he can get and increased his speed again!
He looked in front of him and saw the swinging balls of the tiger, preventing himself to burst out laughing from the hilarious view that he sees; his cheeks puffing from the sheer prevention of laughing.
The tiger tilted its head and saw the puffing cheeks of the cultivator, not knowing the meaning of it.
Although the tiger is intelligent and can understand human emotion to certain extent, it still cannot derive any meaning from human laughs and smiles. Thus, it is completely discombobulated from trying to derive any meaning insights from the expression of the cultivator.
It didn't think too much and just increase its speed, widening the distance between the tiger and Ceceada again for a few meters.
After a while, thinking that it quickly outpaced the cultivator, it proudly looked back again just to be hit by a massive disappointment.
He can see that the cultivator is still very close. Not even a bead of sweat is forming from the forehead of the cultivator!
As if insulted, the tiger finally had enough and increase its pace to the maximum, distorting the air around as it accelerated by at least four times its speed earlier!
Whoosh!
The tiger ran so fast that its body caught fire instantly, making it look like a falling meteor. Its paws leaving a deep hole on the ground each time the tiger uses it to move forward!
Ceceada noticed this and finally became serious, boiling a sudden urge in his heart!
Swish!
His body quickly accelerated in an instant, leaving blurry after images behind him. The size of the holes that he leave behind as he stomps his feet each time he accelerate are quickly surpassing those of the ones left behind by the tiger!
They are so fast that they don't even hear the sounds of loud explosions caused by their earth shattering stomps, their speed quickly outpacing the vibration of the air!
Some weaker animals of the Body Refinement realm immediately ran away from the source of sounds, afraid that they might attract the attention of the fighters.
With Ceceada's speed, he quickly closed in the distance between him and the tiger!
The tiger didn't even look back anymore as he completely assumes that there is no way the cultivator will catch up to him now!
While running just a meter behind the tiger, Ceceada lowered his body and with his free hand, he picked up a rubble the size of a fist, while forming a devious plan in his heart.
He looked under the huge a** of the tiger and saw the uneven-sized, loose balls of the tiger that is swinging back and forth.
He grinned as he looked at the biggest one that is double the size of his own head. He tightened his grip a bit and cracked the rubble.
After that, he then bent his arm that is holding the rubble behind him and threw it forward with all his strength!
"No mercy!"
The stone pieces tore through the air as if they were shotgun projectiles, quickly and instantly meeting with the balls of the tiger!
Roar!
The tiger jolted and roared pain as it felt a sharp pain on its most protected jewels! Its pace sped up for a bit because of panic but quickly slowed down right after.
While running, Ceceada became serious as he avoided the trickle of blood bursting from the sack, afraid that those might fall on his face.
He noticed that the tiger slowed down because of the pain and increased his own speed a bit more!
After that, he jumped with all his strength and accurately landed on the tiger's head!
Bang!
His pointed leg tore through the skull of the tiger, killing it in an instant.
He then jumped away right after!
Screech!
After dying, the tiger's corpse slid due to its inertia and made a screeching sounds as its belly grazed through the uneven, rocky soil.
As its corpse slid, Ceceada saw a trail of red liquid being left behind by the tiger, most coming from the bleeding sack, some coming from hole of the skull that is bursting with blood.
When Ceceada saw this he looked at his durable slippers that he took from a ring. His face a bit disgusted by the brain matter still dripping away from his legs.
[Ding! Congratulations! After the host's first kill, he will be rewarded with a title, "Digital Health Bar"]
[With "Digital Health Bar" being active, the host will get a health bar that only himself can see, unless willed otherwise by the host. With the health bar not reaching zero, the host will remain at his peak state! However, once it reaches zero, the host will die instantly!]
Suddenly, a system prompt sounded in Ceceada's mind, shocking him to the core!
Health Bar... F***! Isn't this too op?!
It's very similar to games that he played before, where the opponents or even his character will be able to fight as if not injured, even if when the HP is very low. However, the character will die instantly once it reaches zero!
Even if it didn't look very OP in games since the opponents also have the ability, in the real world, it will be very horrible to see someone having it!
'With this ability... ' Countless ideas formed in Ceceada's head as he thought of the newfound ability and its limitless potential for the future.
In front of him, he can see a green colored health bar that is full. He didn't see any numbers in his health bar, only bright green color that fills the entirety of his health bar.
Intuitively, he knows that only he can see the Health Bar right now, and he doesn't have any plan on revealing it to anyone.
This can be a life saver!
The more Ceceada thought of the situation, the more he though of how ridiculous the situation is. However, he can only be grateful as he gained another powerful skill in his arsenal.