All of the monsters came at me at once, I managed to dodge the swing of the claws of two monsters, but I got hit in the back from another as I dodged, leaving me no room to react nor counterattack, I started running using the trees surrounding us to give the monsters a hard time on catching me, i suddenly jumped back attacking three of the monsters, killing them at once using my full strength into a punch. I quickly absorbed their energy, making a breakthrough to the 2nd stage of the QI condensation, and my body strengthed as well, now my power is on par with someone of foundation stablishment.
"Hoo!" I felt power surging inside me.
I looked at the remaining 16 monsters, who has surrounded me now, I punched the ground as much force as I could muster up, creating my first move, 'Erath shattering punch', the ground shattered creating a small crater, making an area of effect attack, the monsters all died, and the high ranking tier 3 monster who was controlling them was furious, it didn't know how i got this strong.
It started tracking me.
Meanwhile I was absorbing the energy of the 16 monsters who were dead, my wounds have already healed and my power sky rocketed, I already reached the 6th stage of Qi condensation realm, and my strength was on par with that of a core formation cultivator. This type of speed of growth is abnormally fast! Sure it took me 16 days to become a cultivator at the the first stage of Qi condensation... Which normal people would take one day... But to reach the fifth stage of Qi condensation would take one at least 3 years... And my strength is abnormally high too... I can tie with someone who just entered the core formation realm... I touched my chest thinking about my spiritual realm, the endless void inside it.
"At least I wasn't born without anything" I smiled to myself.
As I was enjoying myself, I could smell that the high ranking tier 3 monster was searching for me.
My sense of smell has gone up? Does absorbing the energy of monsters gives me their abilities as well? ...
I came back to my senses.
Let's think about this later. There's an monster searching for me... If I can smell it, then so can it... I sighed.
I walked away from where I was, and went deeper into the forest, I climbed up onto a tree hiding to ambush the monster when it came here.
As I was waiting to ambush it, 5 minutes had passed, I was caught by surprise when the tree I was hiding in went flying, I managed to land without getting injured, the monster ambushed me, as it already attacked, it didn't give me time to think as it jumped towards to kill me, but I managed to dodge.
Sh*t! What should I do now?! I looked around, but the monster seemed to underestimate me because it can see that I was clearly in the 6th stage of Qi condensation.
"Let me show you my power!" I jumped towards it clenching my fist, putting all my strength into it, about to use the 'Earth shattering punch' again.