Chapter 25: Spirit Beasts

Chapter 25: Spirit Beasts

[Max Strength Reached]

William finished his second Blood Orange of the day as he debated on what to do. After he had completed the unbelievably favorable trade, he spent the next couple of days wandering around to try and find more Spirit Grass.

He had wanted to start munching on a Wind Cherry as soon as it was safe. However, having to wait a day for it to be safe since he had already consumed so much Spirit Grass might have saved him from doing something beyond stupid. With half of his Spirit Grass traded away, the amount he had left was enough for approximately fifteen Strength points. Before he risked eating anything that added points to his attributes, he needed to find more.

The sheer abundance that could be found together was the only thing that would make William feel less anxious about the idea of losing his twenty Strength points.

On a side note, he discovered that eating spirit plants that helped with Strength no longer activated the RNG. Being a mortal and all, he still needed to eat, and he finally had a safe way of filling his stomach without gambling his attribute points. With Blood Oranges reasonably easy to find if a few hours were spent searching, that had been his diet in recent days.

However, that also meant he had searched almost every bit of the area surrounding the little grove he had made as his temporary base. His only choice now was to either go to the camp the men had set up or leave his comfortable grove and head deeper for unexplored areas.

The choice was obvious.

William secured his handy, overfilled silk pouch over his shoulder and looked around the picturesque grove. He gave the tree that had provided him shade for the past few days a couple pats before leaving the place. It wasn’t the first time he thought of going deeper to explore, but he had always decided not to do so in the past.

With Lan Yin’s warning about being careful with his life, William was reluctant to leave an area confirmed to be safe. Still, if he wanted to make full use of this place, he needed to find more opportunities.

Besides, it was beyond typical for the rewards to be greater the deeper you ventured in a cultivation world. While greater rewards would generally be useless for a mortal like William since taking a bite out of spirit plants at a higher level would mean death, perhaps he would discover a way to gain experience points.

With this mindset, William set out, and that mindset was challenged within hours when he didn’t see any difference whatsoever. It was the same foliage, the same occasional spirit plants, and the same sense of safety. However, no Spirit Grass, probably due to his shitty luck.

William was accompanied by his soft steps on the grass with occasional crunches when a dead leaf was crushed under his feet. It had become so common for those sounds to be his companions that it was almost blocked out by his mind. That was why William’s ears perked up when he heard something different and froze on the spot.

He almost believed that it was a hallucination born out of the hope of something happening. That was until he heard it again.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

William heard the faint flutter of wings, the first sign of something else being alive in this place that wasn’t a human.

He waited to hear it another time and snapped in the direction of the sound.

[Species: Fire Sparrow | Level: 6]

“... What the fuck,” William muttered as he stared at it. It was hard to believe something so small could be at that high of a level. Its size was no different from an average sparrow, only with bright red feathers that seemed to be giving off a hazy heat.

It was adorable, but William’s first thought was how many experience points he could get if he killed it. He was well aware that it was the sort of thinking he sneered at when reading characters kill their way to the top, but that sounded so reasonable at the moment.

That annoyance quickly gave way to disgust when he looked at the smashed remains of the Sky Hare. He quickly moved away from the dead body and roughly shook his hand to get the animal guts off.

Name: Wei Liang (William Davis)

Age: 13

Level: 5

Experience: 320/625

Cultivation: N/A

Health: 84/85

Strength: 20

Stamina: 3

Agility: 4

Luck: 1

Points: 16

If it ever existed, any regret for killing the Sky Hare disappeared when he saw the HUD. All he needed to do was ambush more of these stupid things, and he basically found himself a hack to get to level ten.

It seemed the good times would continue when William heard the bush start to rustle again. He chuckled and took a few steps toward the noise, unafraid of these experience point factories.

Until he saw a mass amount of blue text fill his vision.

Sky Hares.

So many Sky Hares that he could barely see them over the jumbled-up blue text trying to tell him their levels.

William stared at the army of Sky Hares, and he could swear that they were eyeing the fist that had just crushed one of their brethren. He quickly hid the gore-covered fist and started to back away slowly.

When they made a tiny hop in unison toward him, William darted away as fast as he could, his heart beating in his throat.