Yun Clan, inside the hall,
Everyone was silent upon hearing this. Yun Tian, the patriarch of the Yun Clan, looked calm but was perturbed within.
Both of Yu Ming's daughters are geniuses, as for universe, he has always been a comfort to him and the other clans. Now, upon hearing that he has started cultivating as well, Yun Tian didn't feel good.
"How did you find out?" he inquired.
"It's because he is going to participate in the competition held by our four clans," the old man from before replied.
Upon hearing this, Yun Tian began to laugh, "Even if he started cultivating, how much stronger could he be? Ok, forget about him; he wouldn't be able to create any difficulty for us," Yun said while waving his hand.
An elder from the Yun Clan suddenly stood up and said, "Patriarch, I don't think we should take this lightly. Both of his sisters are geniuses, and I don't think he would be any different."
Even though Yun Tian still thought it was impossible, for safety's sake, he nodded.
"Someone go outside and call Yun Liang."
Everyone in the hall was puzzled, but they stayed silent and waited for the patriarch to explain.
After 15 minutes or so, a servant came back with a young man. He was tall and handsome with black hair and black eyes. He had sword-like eyebrows, but there was a lecherous smile on his face. Because of a red mark on his face, everyone could understand where the young man is coming from now.
Actually, everyone in the hall knows about it, but they don't care, as long as he does his part.
He came directly in front of Yun Tian and asked with a smile, "Father, why have you called me today? This unfilial son of yours."
Yun Tian stood up in anger and said, "I have told you never to call me father again. And today, you have a job to do if you want your life to be stable here."
Yun Liang slowly withdrew his smile, and a serious expression appeared on his face.
"Ok, tell me, what do you want me to do?" his voice was cold.
Yun Tian ignored his disrespectful attitude and said, "His name is Yu Zhou, son of Yu Ming. I want you to go and check this guy out and see how he is now."
Yun Liang turned around and left without saying anything.
When he left, one of the elders said to Yun Tian, "Patriarch, I think you should show him his place; otherwise, someday he would dance on our heads."
Yun Tian waved his hand to make him stop. He had his own arrangements; he didn't need advice from anyone.
Two days later,
Universe at this moment came to the forest again because tomorrow would be the competition, and he wanted to be ready for it.
But this time he wasn't alone; two guards came along with him.
Universe didn't care about this and started his hunt. The first beast he saw was a blood wolf.
It is said that blood wolves used to be white and were called moon wolves. But one of the ancestors of the blood wolf did something that he shouldn't have done, and his whole lineage turned into blood wolves, and their intelligence also dropped sharply.
But they are very powerful compared to the moon wolves because they don't rely on moon energy to cultivate; they only need blood. The more blood they drink, the more powerful they would become.
The same beast was standing before him, but this one isn't matured yet. So Universe didn't feel any fear from it.
Just as the beast started running towards him, Universe stopped the other two guards from moving and ran towards the beast alone.
Just as Universe reached within the attack range of the beast, it shot its claw forward towards Universe's face. But he was ready and blocked it with his dry stick.
After flinging away the paw of the beast, Universe directly attacked it with a sword slash.
And the beast was cut into two parts, losing its life.
Taking a deep breath, Universe once again stepped forward followed by his two guards.
At this moment, both of his guards were really shocked. They knew that the young master could cultivate now, but they didn't know he would be so powerful. The beast from before was at the peak of the body tempering stage, but their young master easily disposed of it.
As they continued on their way, they talked among themselves, and even Universe would chime in from time to time. Suddenly, multiple beast roars came from their front.
After running for quite a while, they reached the place where the sound came from. And what they saw made them quite surprised.
At this moment, in front of them, a lot of beasts have gathered together. And they are not fighting among themselves but waiting for something.
As Universe and the guards looked a little further ahead, they saw a big tree. On it was a single fruit which looked like an apple. But it was green and giving off some kind of light.
Universe knew that it was a treasure. But he didn't know what kind. So he sat there and waited for the fruit to mature.
As the beasts and humans waited for two hours, suddenly, a golden light came from the fruit. And it was the sign of its maturity.
But Universe was anxious for another reason. He couldn't make a decision if he should steal the fruit or not. If he did so, then all the beasts would come after him. But he was not alone. While running, he couldn't take care of the guards.
But what surprised him was that the beasts started killing each other, and nobody went for the fruit.
Universe thought about it and decided to take the fruit for himself. But first, let the beasts kill each other.
The scene was really bloody; once there are benefits, they don't care about lineage or race. Their eyes were already red, and they were killing each other nonstop.
Some of the weaker ones left already because of fear. Now only ten beasts were left there, and all of them were at the peak of the second tier.