As time goes by, as his body becomes stronger and stronger, even the suicidal methods become less and less effective. He kept adjusting the height of the trees higher and he even let the wild beasts attack him freely without retaliating. His body became stronger to the point that even jumping from the highest tree couldn't injure him anymore and the paws and bite force of bears and tigers couldn't even tickle him! Even his internal organs became resistant to shock.
'I haven't found an exit for ten years despite exploring nearly a hundred miles of this seemingly endless forbidden forest... Nearly a superhuman now in Earth's standard not by cultivating, but through the body alone. Is it time to challenge those top predators of Qi Refining Realm beasts? If not, my growth would be stunted.'
Neru's eyes shuttled from trees to trees at this moment and he felt thousands of ants crawling on his back. 'There's something here!'
Suddenly, the area he was in was enveloped with darkness. Neru wasn't stupid. He didn't stand idly and attempted to dash forward to escape the wave of darkness threatening to devour the area he was in.
The instinct honed from the thousands of battles he experienced in ten years and began to warn him!
Neru's eyes squinted slightly as he pivoted his left foot, twisted his hips, and sidestepped. In a split second, a shadow whizzed past his previous position and a spherical cut appeared on there.
'If I was a few seconds later, I would have died.' Neru's expression became gloomy.
At this moment, even with his physique that reached the limit of normal humans. He was certain that the attack of the assailant from the shadow was enough for him to meet Hades.
"Who is it!? Come out, you bastard!"
Suddenly, multiple eyes emerged from the shadow glowing in yellow light. If it was someone with Phobia, they would surely scream wildly now and maybe even lose consciousness. Neru had to admit that he felt his scalp go numb at the sight.
"So it's you... Aren't I beneath you? Why are you targeting me now? Did you perhaps noticed my progress which made you feel threatened? How ironic..." A shit-eating grin appeared on Neru's face as the assailant walked out of the darkness.
It has the head of a monkey but with multiple eyes like an arachnid. Its lower body has a total of eight arms. Each of them had purple liquid on the sharp tip.
Obviously, it was one of the top predators of the forbidden forest along with the giant turtle. The one that ignored him in the past and looked down upon him like an ant. Now, it actually paid him a visit and tried to kill him.
Neru scanned the surroundings but there was nothing but darkness. 'This is bad... Didn't expect that this bastard still has the power to create a dome of darkness. Is it the method it uses to hunt down stronger prey? Now it makes a lot of sense...'
Then, Neru stared at the spider money that was similarly looking at him. Specifically, it was looking at his body with greed.
'No, it seems it didn't feel threatened with my growing strength. It's just here because it noticed how thick the energy density my body has and will help it to advance its realm.'
Neru felt upset for the first time. This spider monkey was really too arrogant! Does it think it could bully him? A pushover that it can kill wherever it wants? A tonic for his nourishment?
'Good...' Suddenly, Neru's pupils took upon the color of the azure sky. He looked at the darkness and saw a special gold thread. He didn't hesitate anymore and dashed towards the gold thread that only he could see.
The spider monkey tilted its head with confusion. Probably thinking 'What the fuck is this human doing? Charging at empty space and swinging his dagger at nothing but air?
Of course, the spider monkey wasn't that smart to think of such things but its intelligence wasn't worse than a 7-year-old human due to it being in the Qi Refining realm!
The spider money couldn't understand what Neru was doing. But the next second, Neru slashed the golden line of the thread successfully. The darkness ceased to exist.
The fresh breeze and the trees around reappeared. At this moment, the spider monkey's movement became noticeably stiffer. It was the first time that an enemy managed to cancel its ability!
'It's time!' As he saw the spider monkey particularly distracted. Neru decided to take the opportunity to launch an attack.
Flicker!
He kicked the ground seven times in a second. Then, his figure disappeared, only to appear a meter away from the side of the spider with a ferocious smile on his face and dagger raised from his left hand trying to hit one of the lines of vulnerabilities located on one of its limbs.
It was a movement technique that he created. Inspired by dark warmongers that he fought. Dark warmongers are humanoid wild beasts that specialize in ghostly movement and stealth. Neru had fought a lot of them throughout the years as those bastards constantly tried to assassinate him.
Unfortunately, the spider monkey was worthy of its position as one of the top predators on the food chain of the forbidden forest. It quickly reacted and gave Neru a disgusting smile.
Neru poured all his strength into the dagger only for the spider monkey to perfectly bite the dagger. Now the dagger was caught between its teeth.
'My dagger won't even budge!' With a fierce push, Neru gritted his teeth. The forceful exertion made the veins on his biceps and forearm bulge.
At this time, Neru realized that the gap of strength between him and a creature of the Qi Refining Realm was too high!
Suddenly, it raised four of its arms that were covered with purplish liquid and launch them to Neru viciously.
Neru engaged all the muscles on his back and decisively pulled out the dagger. As a result, the dagger almost cracked under the pressure of the bite of the spider monkey. Fortunately, he managed to pull it back.
'Those purple liquids are bad news. It might be a deadly poison. I need to dodge somehow...'
Only the four arms of the spider were left in his vision due to his full concentration. In just a few seconds, they would hit him.