5 Chapter 4 - First Encounter, First Kill

After cultivating for the entire day as predicted Dana finally reached the Second Level of Body Refining realm, which upon doing so Dana felt her body size increase alongside her scales becoming sturdier.

Feeling the newfound strength of her body made Dana marvel at the wonders that cultivation brings to an individual, even with just this slight increase in cultivation rank Dana feels like she could get addicted to this feeling.

Now achieving an increase in her cultivation rank, gave Dana newfound confidence in exploring the Forest making her decide to hunt beasts.

As Dana has been in Devil's Peak for over a day, she feels already feels hunger from her stomach. Although it disgusts her at the thought of eating raw meat Dana resolved herself to do so, thus Dana not only wanted to hunt beasts entirely for soul points but also for herself.

Dana already asked how beasts cultivate without a cultivation method, in which it states that beasts devour each other carcasses to absorb the Qi within the flesh. This encouraged Dana even further to search for some prey as not only will it appease her hunger, but it will provide a benefit towards cultivation.

Concerned for her safety, Dana already asked the system earlier if she had the means to protect herself if she goes hunting in this area, in which the System responded to the delight of Dana that this area is incredibly safe with only Rank Three and Four Body Refining Beasts, which will definitely pose no threat to her because of her bloodline!

Earlier Dana had gained further insight into the importance of bloodlines towards a beast, in the cultivation world a beast power would correspondingly rank towards the quality of its bloodline, thus because Dana is a Frost Wyvern which is one of the strongest Rare Bloodlines around, Dana discovered in realm a Frost Wyvern is one of the most powerful. As from further discovery Dana, she discovered that she was in a low realm which possesses a little number of beasts which could even compete with a Frost Wyvern.

Making Dana know with certainty she is unrivalled compared to beasts in the same Cultivation Realm in terms of strength, and even beasts which are three or four ranks above her may pose a minimum amount of threat towards her. Therefore, with the backing of her bloodline, Dana has truly no fear towards Rank Three and Four Body Refining Beasts.

Not to mention her bloodline purity is astonishingly high, which results in her being naturally stronger than other Frost Wyvern's.

Dana quickly sprinted at an astonishing speed for her size, her Draconic paws carrying her at an inhuman pace incomparable towards any animal in her previous life is capable of.

After searching around the area, she finally came across her first conquest, a large Fox covered in blazing red fur.

"System, which beast is that and how strong is it?" Asked Dana in a curious tone.

[Ding! Host that spirit beast is a Firefox, a beast which contains no bloodline heritage but owns a natural affinity for Fire Qi. The beast's basic ability is shooting a ball of Fire by gathering the Fire Qi within its mouth, its cultivation is at Rank Three Body Refining.]

Hmm. Dana wondered how many soul points could a Beast of this Rank be worth? Dana inquired about her query to the System.

[Ding! The Firefox is worth two points, as it is a Beast at the third Body Refining Realm which contains no bloodline heritage, thus its total value is two soul points.]

After hearing the response to her question, this made Dana even further realise the sheer fortune she encountered for such an expensive cultivation method.

Looking at the Firefox she firmed her resolve into making it her first kill since coming to this world, she knew she cannot hesitate with killing other beasts to survive in this place. With resoluteness in her gaze, she stealthily walked towards the beast.

Getting as close as possible without alerting the beast, Dana pounced towards the back of the beast aiming to sink her canines into its neck.

The Firefox suddenly felt its survival instinct flare, signalling danger. Narrowly escaping from Dana's attack, a shallow wound emerged across its neck.

Shock emerged in Dana's eyes, however, this soon turns into a look of understanding as based a conclusion upon witnessing its agile reactions.

As she has just been a spirit beast for a mere day, she is obviously not going to compare to a spirit beast which has been living within this type of environment its entire life. Dana is still inexperienced in moving her new beast limbs enabling the Firefox which had spent many years within a hostile environment experiencing life and death situations in being able to escape the fatal attack Dana launched towards it.

However, even though Dana was inexperienced, she is still a Frost Wyvern, which is an apex predator of this realm which natural abilities is far superior compared to the FireFox, thus why Dana still caused a minor injury towards it.

Upon witnessing Dana's appearance, the Firefox knew Dana is a threat towards its life, and without using its best means for survival it cannot withstand the being before it, so without hesitation released its strongest method of attack; Fire Blast.

Knowing her attack failed, Dana saw the surrounding Fire Qi was gathering within its mouth, Dana knew the Firefox used its strongest means of attack! It shot a ball of fire towards Dana, which was releasing a blazing hot sensation.

To counter the Firefox's attack, Dana used one of the Frost Wyvern's bloodline abilities; Frost Breath, causing Ice Qi to form a constant stream of Ice which shot out from Dana's mouth.

Dana could instinctively already use this ability as any spirit beasts will have an instinctive knowledge on how to use their bloodline inherited abilities, therefore it was no problem for her to use the bloodline ability without prior practice.

This was another benefit in which a bloodline provides an individual with powerful abilities which doesn't require practice to master, as a cultivator would strenuously practice martial skills which purely requires them to use their comprehension to understand the meaning behind the martial skill, whereas a bloodline user could have a mastery towards skills just as powerful as martial skills with no

need to practice at all.

The Frost Breath directly dispersed the ball of fire,continuing unhindered towards the Firefox, which nimbly dodged to the side away from the Ice Qi freezing the objects which remained within its path.

Seeing the Firefox escaping from her attack again Dana now realized she has truly underestimated the various other spirit beasts, making her decide she should stop having a superiority complex towards other beasts because of her bloodline being stronger, with them having to survive within such a deadly place full of predators day in day out, their battles instincts which have been honed repeatedly making it far outstrip hers, a human which hadn't experienced real danger her entire life.

Furthermore, Dana knew she will have to do some serious training to gain further understanding of her bloodline abilities, so she can utilize them with the utmost efficiency, otherwise, she will waste her natural gifts.

So, therefore she charged towards the FireFox. The FireFox met her in this exchange as it knew it cannot possibly outrun the being in front of it, so knew this was the best possible solution to survive this ordeal.

Dana bit into the Firefox and clawed at its body inflicting savage wounds into the Firefox, it let out a howl of pain as it attempted land strikes of its own.

But, how strong was a Frost Wyvern's body?

Unlike the Firefox, Dana could immediately tear open its flesh like paper and ignore the attacks directed towards her because of her naturally strong defensive capabilities.

After over five minutes past, the desperate struggle from the Firefox finally ceased,as it let out its last breath of life.

"Now that was much more difficult than I anticipated, System I thought this was not meant to be any challenge what so ever towards me?" Dana asked, with a puzzled expression on her face.

Honestly, Dana was full of disbelief as even with her natural advantages of being the much more superior spirit beast, with a stronger bloodline, she still received injuries, with the Firefox battle experience it put up a great fight causing her to lose out on most of the exchanges.

However, with her natural high vitality and strong defence, the Firefox couldn't cause any damage towards her whereas in the Firefox's circumstances the injuries piled up over time, causing the Firefox to get weaker and weaker until it couldn't any further resistance towards her.

[Host, it would be an easy battle with a usual Frost Wyvern and the Firefox, as you are very inexperienced with being a beast, you ended up being at a disadvantage towards the Firefox. The system recommends Host to practice towards lower level beasts to gain more adaptability towards your body and battle experience before confronting the stronger beasts.]

Dana now knew how naive she truly was, with the praises of the system about how powerful her bloodline was in this world she had grown too arrogant, thinking she was invincible towards any spirit beast or cultivator at similar of a cultivation rank compared to her.

She knew she has to put much effort into getting herself used to her new beast body alongside having real battle experience in fighting within this form before engaging the stronger beasts within Devil's Peak.

This was just a regular Rank 3 Body Refining Spirit beast, and she still struggled despite having one of the strongest rare bloodlines.

"Well, I still have gained 5 soul points, guess I got more training to do before I go hunting spirit beasts which have uncommon bloodlines and are far higher levels of cultivation than me," Dana thought.

However, Dana's rumbling stomach suddenly disturbed her thinking.

"Guess I really have to eat this beast raw..." Dana spoke with hesitation looking upon the carcass of the Firefox.

She knew she has no means of creating a fire at all with her beast-like hands, and as her attribute was Ice not fire, then she can only consume the beast like it is.

Taking a chunk out of the beast, Dana strangely didn't feel repulsed and in fact, the taste was delicious. Soon Dana was chunking down the beast meat with enthusiasm, her previous repulsed expression gone with a face filled with satisfaction about her full stomach.

Content with her appetite filled, Dana felt puzzled over her experience. She felt it strange that as a former human, she should find eating raw meat such as this with disgust but instead she found as it a perfectly normal thing to do.

Looking upon the previous chunky body of the Firefox, with all the remains being left is just a bunch of bones. It seems I really was hungry; I gulped down a full seven stone sized beast. Looking upon her body she wondered where the hell did all that meat go?

But, upon realizing that her version of 'normal' will not exist upon being in this world she discarded this thought, many crazier things have happened to her within this past day, a large belly isn't as far stretched out of her realms of understanding.

Feeling her cultivation has to take a clear improvement after devouring the Firefox, Dana ignored that her natural reaction was irregular and just to continue eating spirit beasts.

She would have to feed herself somewhere right? Finding a quiet area to cultivate, Dana entered a trancelike state absorbing the Qi. Thinking will be busy the next week in training herself up into a standard in which she could be proud of.