Chapter 33

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

In the dense Heaven Forest, all kinds of thick vegetation grew as if they had been given some miracle fertilizer, they grew so large that they easily overlapped each other in the thick canopy up above, blocking the already dim sunlight from the setting sun. With the lack of sunlight, the damp and rotten yellowed leaves below the canopy line gave off a disgusting scent.

In the depths of the forest, occasional roars of wild animals could be heard. Sounds of wild animals going on the hunt and the pitiful cries of the hunted echoed throughout the depressing forest.

But that didn’t seem to affect Chu Nan, as he continued to powerlessly lean against the huge tree trunk behind him while balancing himself on a large boulder. After an entire day of walking, his initial excitement had simmered down due to the fatigue caused by the long journey, so he couldn’t care less about the weals and woes of the animals in the forest.

He listlessly turned his head to look at Shanz, who was busy roasting rabbit’s meat, and Catherine, who remained quiet but did not reveal any fatigue. Chu Nan clicked his tongue and complained internally. ‘Do they even know the word tired?’

‘In any case, I’m dead beat!’ Chu Nan lightly hammered his exhausted legs and secretly peeked at Catherine.

‘Aren’t they supposed to be followers that take care of me? So why isn’t she coming over to help ease the fatigue in my legs?’ Chu Nan murmured in his heart, not daring to raise such a shameless request to Catherine. That female druid had a strong sense of pride and only god knows if she would break his legs with a punch if he were to order her around.

“Expert, the meat is done…”

“En?” Chu Nan took the roasted meat and furrowed his brows. “Shanz, what did you call me?”

“Ah?” Shanz blanked out momentarily, and with his thick rough hands, he scratched the back of his head and awkwardly laughed. “Chu… Chu Nan…”

“Yeap~, that’s better.” Chu Nan found the word ‘expert’ rather ear-piercing, but the main reason for the change was that he was afraid that they could continue to call him as such in front of outsiders. Them calling him an expert would attract too much attention so he might as well have the both of them call him by his name since it was much safer going out in public like that.

Shanz plopped down by Chu Nan’s side, and the instant his large body landed on the ground, Chu Nan could even feel the boulder beneath him trembling ever so slightly.

‘This barbarian’s body should be at least around 400 kg, right?’ Chu Nan peeked at Shanz’s arms that were thicker than his thigh and clicked his tongue once again.

After Shanz sat down, he looked at Chu Nan with worshipping eyes while munching on two roasted rabbits.

The residents in the Heaven Forest were all people who worshipped the strong but for the barbarians, it was especially prominent. Shanz had often listened to his village’s elders depicting the grace and attitude of experts.

Experts were often separated into two types. The first type of experts possessed strange tempers and hobbies while having a rather prideful personality as they had lived their lives above others. Generally, they would not approach ordinary people, not to mention giving pointers. As for the second type of experts, they were usually more powerful than the first type. Oftentimes, these type of experts were the true top figures of the world. They were more fond of being low-key, but they weren’t stingy in regards to giving pointers to those with potential while still not disregarding those weaker warriors.

This type of experts would often be more powerful than those experts who lived like a king and they were more than not the genuine figures that stood at the peak.

In the recent journey, Shanz received an order from Chu Nan when he had addressed him as an expert during two instances. And the order was: He was not allowed to address Chu Nan by an expert but instead, he was to call him by his name.

In the beginning, Shanz could not understand the rationale behind Chu Nan’s request. After he had inquired about it, Chu Nan indifferently said a single sentence. “One should be low-profile and all the more so when we go out.”

Recalling the personality of the rumored second type of experts from the stories he heard, Shanz was so excited that he felt like shouting out loud. The person he had encountered was unexpectedly that low-profile but powerful expert.

“Why are you looking at me like that? Go and train after you’re done eating.” Chu Nan took a bite off the unseasoned rabbit’s meat and recited one of the dialogues he learned from the numerous martial arts novels he had read in the past. “Skills are something similar to rowing a boat upstream. If you stop moving forward, you will fall back. If you wish to be strong, you must never fall back on your progress.”

Shanz and Catherine’s eyes immediately brightened up. Spoken like a true expert! What he said was so simple yet profound!

Looking at the two bodyguards of his who openly revealed worshipping expressions, Chu Nan continued to eat while researching what he should do after leaving the forest.

Even though his bodyguards were strong, they knew very little about the outside world. They didn’t know how many countries there were in the outside world or even about the internal situation of each country. It was to the extent that they were unsure of which country they would and should be setting foot on when they left the Heaven Forest.

Chu Nan gently rubbed his temples. Not only were these bodyguards totally oblivious of the outside world, or even the situation of their own race, they were simply the type that replies with ‘don’t know’ to whatever question was thrown to them.

It was hard for Chu Nan to imagine them as the barbarian price and the druid princess. When he asked them about the history of their own race, how they entered the Heaven Forest, or how they lost their battle skill inheritance, they knew nothing about it.

The only thing they knew was that a massive event had happened in this world a very long time ago and at the end of it, a large number of races migrated into the Heaven Forest.

Could it be that there was a great friction between the humans and other races? Thus, both sides engaged in a violent fight and the humans won in the end. As a result, all the other races migrated into the forest?

After Chu Nan put forth that hypothesis, both of them immediately denied that possibility.

Even though humans were powerful, they were not even considered rivals if all the races were to work together. Even until today, the humans didn’t but most likely couldn’t obstruct the other races from entering the outside world. It was the races’ respective temples that restricted their people from having too much contact with humans in the outside world.

Chu Nan somewhat regretted deceiving two numbskulls of bodyguards to leave with him. If he knew beforehand, he should have cheated that druid elder to come with him regardless of what plan he had. A druid who had lived for so many years definitely knew more than these two blockheads.

The bonfire continued dancing and a bright crescent moon was hung up high above the night skies. The burning flames illuminated Chu Nan’s face to reveal his mixed expression.

As the age-old saying goes: By knowing yourself and the enemy, only then can you emerge victorious in every scam! With the current situation where he was unsure about the outside world, Chu Nan did not harbour much confidence whether he could repeatedly scam more people after leaving the forest.

What should I do then? Chu Nan furrowed his brows in ponderment. After blankly looking at his two bodyguards training for a period of time, he started feeling bored.

With a sigh, Chu Nan clicked his tongue and stretched before groaning. His mind started to wander around as he thought, ‘It’s no wonder it is easy for people who crossed worlds to become experts. With no computer or internet, they have basically no entertainment after arriving in another world. Therefore, they could only train, train, and lastly train again.’

Opening his spatial bracelet, Chu Nan flipped through the again. However, the training for the external chapter was simply too difficult.

‘Aren’t there any easier sutras?’ Chu Nan casually flipped through a dragon race’s skill book and his eyes suddenly lit up.