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An hour later, the meat was finally ready. The smell was heavy and penetrating, filling the nostrils of everyone in the vicinity. The shadowy creature was drooling and there were even weaker creatures approaching.
But a simple growl from the shadowy creature scared them away.
Seeing this, Long Tian was both impressed and made aware of the fact that there is no other mutant creature nearby. Much less a sacred-blood creature.
He pulled out his hunting knife, cutting at the meat and leaving a pretty sizeable portion for himself. He tossed the rest to the shadowy creature, watching as it dove into the meat. It's sharp teeth sunk into the meat and tore large chunks with ease.
"Flesh of Long-clawed beast eaten. One mutant geno point gained."
As he ate the meat, Long Tian was gaining mutant geno points. Yet at this moment, his attention was placed elsewhere.
He was staring at the shadowy creature.
Wondering if the plants and herbs were aiding the shadowy creature in its evolution. He looked at it carefully, and barely noticed that the shadowy creature seemed to be more lively than before.
But it was hard to say if it was because of the nutritious and high-energy plants and herbs, or if it was because of the tasty food it was eating.
The only sure fire way of knowing, is if he learnt the way of making medicine from the Alliance.
Finishing his food, Long Tian returned to his exploration.
Under the watchful gaze of the shadowy creature, Long Tian left and began walking after resting under the moonlight. At the sign of the first light, he got to walking.
Traveling through the forest, Long Tian made it out after many days of walking.
Meeting and getting to understand many creatures. Their habits, various lifestyles, and their animalistic instincts. He walked out of the forest and turned back to look at it, his eyes resting on a creature struggling to decide whether it should stay for follow him.
Long Tian smirked, looking at the shadowy creature.
Over the past few days, the shadowy creature had been following him. Gazing at him from a distance and leaving leftover of his food on purpose. Meat that was heavily coated on plants and herbs, specifically to help the shadowy creature grow and evolutionize.
After much research, Long Tian had found certain effects that the plants and herbs hold. Some strengthened, others healed, poisoned, and even nourished.
The effects were weak, but they were there.
After many of his dishes, the shadowy creature was almost 5% stronger than before. It's growth was also going at a steady pace, although it had experienced the most when it eats mutant creature meat.
How much sacred-blood meat would allow the shadowy creature to grow?
Long Tian thought about it as he continued to train as he walked. Making great progress, feeling his body much more resilient and with more endurance than before. His body's genes and power was much more refined.
Caw!
Suddenly, Long Tian dived to the side, narrowly dodging an attack.
He felt a little chilly on his back, a product of something ripped his shirt off. Long Tian could feel the cold air brush against his back and he frowned. He turned to look at the bird beast that had risen back into the sky.
The bird was large, its height almost the same as that of a human. Its wing span was even greater. It sharp eyes starting at Long Tian.
Caw!
Opening its red curved beak, the bird let out a loud sound. It's bird legs revealed some sharp claws that still held portions of his torn shirt.
Looking at the bird, Long Tian furrowed his eyebrows.
Birds in God's Sanctuary were the one of the worst types of creatures to deal with. Whenever they are damaged, they fly up into the sky and flee. They also strike rapidly, not allowing one to counterattack.
The most sure way to deal with them is to shoot them down from the sky with a bow and arrow, but even that is difficult.
Man-made bows and arrows tend to not carry enough power and strength to harm the birds. One would need a weapon type beast soul to deal with them.
At this point, Long Tian can't do much.
All he could do was run, but would he?
He placed a firm grip on his new Z-Steel Sword's hilt and dodged the bird's attack.
Caw!
The bird let out another loud sound, hurting Long Tian and the shadowy creature's ears.
The bird circled around in the air, its eyes trained on its prey, Long Tian. It rose high into the sky, the sun right behind it.
It caused Long Tian to lose track of the bird for second, and before he knew it, the bird was nose diving at an extremely fast speed.
"Fuck!"
Long Tian cursed as he jumped to the side and was blow away by the force the bird carried around it. The bird destroyed a couple of trees with its momentum before rising back into the sky.
"How annoying…"
Long Tian took a deep breath.
Since he couldn't deal with the bird while its airborne, he will have to take it on while it dives.
His spear might do the trick.
Releasing the grip on his sword, Long Tian summoned his spear. Holding it in one hand and in a throwing position, his eyes focused on the bird.
He stared at it, seeing it rise into the air and performing the same trick as before. Blinding Long Tian with the sun before diving back down.
But Long Tian was ready this time.
He smirked and whipped his arm forward, throwing the spear as hard as he possible could.
Fiiuuu!
The spear whistled through the sky as it tore through the air.
The bronze spear moved fast, but the bird dove even faster. Right when one would think that the spear would miss, the two collided!
Crack!
But the scene of the spear piercing the bird was nowhere to be seen. The spear cracked instead, breaking into pieces and destroying the beast soul.
Long Tian didn't frown at the loss of a beast soul, instead, he smiled as he dodged the bird's dive.
The moment when both the bird and the spear had collided, Long Tian saw the spear tear into the bird before being broken.
He narrowed his eyes.
"Another mutant creature," muttered Long Tian.
Watching as the bird flew back up, Long Tian grunted. He had no other method to attack the bird, other than a close ranged attack.
His hand grasped the hilt of his sword and the muscles on his arm tensed.
'Fast… I need to be fast…' he thought. A single moment of hesitation or being the slightest bit of slow will kill him.
It was strange.
He could feel his heart beating rapidly in excitement. Not a shred of fear within him as he looked at the diving bird. He slid one foot forward, his body lowered and forward.
Closing his eyes, Long Tian focused.
He felt the wind, the flow of the blood in his body, and the slow beating of his heart.
Caw!
Then, without any suspense, he pulled the sword out of its sheath. It drew an arc from the ground up to the air swiftly.
Caawww?!
Bang!
The pained cry of the bird rang and Long Tian turned to look at the bird that crashed to the floor near him. An entire wing had been severed, its blood sprayed everywhere as it tried to move.
It wriggled and screeched in pain.
Long Tian swung his sword, removing the blood on the blade as he approached the bird. His eyes narrowed and he looked at the bird in the eye before swinging down his sword.
Thud!
"Mutant Steel-beaked Bird killed. Beast soul gained. Eat its flesh to gain 0 to 10 geno points randomly."
The head fell and along with it was the kill confirmation.
Long Tian reached to the steel-beaked bird's body and smiled. His dinner for the day had been acquired!
Late at night, after preparation and cooking, Long Tian had fully cooked the bird. Enjoying his mutant geno point increase as he looked at the beast soul he had obtained.
"Type Beast Soul: Mutant Steel-Beaked Bird — Flying."
Nodding his head, Long Tian chuckled before turning to look at the shadowy creature beside him. Happily eating away at the bird's leg.
"If you're going to keep following me, you're going to need a name," he muttered. "How about… Shadow?"
He nodded to himself and looked at Shadow.
"Good name?"
Shadow looked at him for a second before resuming to chow down on the bird leg. Nothing was more important than the steel-beaked bird's leg.
Long Tian nodded.
He got to eating as well.
Whenever he got full, he would just train his swordsmanship and
In just a single day, with traveling done in between, Long Tian finished the entire bird. He returned to eating the usual primitive creatures that he killed along the way.
The trip was almost halfway there.
Long Tian had recorded over three mutant creatures in a small notebook, excluding the two he's eaten and Shadow.
It seemed that the farther he was from the shelter, the more common these creatures were becoming. Long Tian recorded every discovery he made mentally.
As he completed his mission, he researched and studied God's Sanctuary, its creatures and the vegetation.
It all intrigued him.
…
Long Tian: Not evolved.
Status: None.
Life span: 200 years.
Required for evolution: 100 geno points.
Geno points gained: 100 ordinary, 92 primitive, 12 mutant, 3 sacred-blood
Beast souls gained: Sacred-blood Bloody Slayer (Shapeshift), Mutant Steel-Beaked Bird (Flying)
…
Listening to his information, Long Tian smiled. With his current strength, he could already deal with mutant creatures quite well.
But shortly afterward, he frowned.
He recalled the way that Xue Longyan had used his bare hands to destroy Han Sen's primitive spear. Even he couldn't do that yet, even with his enhanced and refined version of
Maybe if he entered the Minor Completion stage, but at its current Introductory stage, his body was still being improved and refined by the power of his
'I need to push myself harder.'
Long Tian thought to himself, planning to really challenge himself. He looked at the weapons on his body and decided to push them onto Shadow.
He wanted to fight with his body, prove that he could deal with beasts with his own body as well.
Become dependant on weapons and beast souls?
Long Tian realized that he was limiting himself already. He shook his head and grinned a little. Before being a swordsman or spearman, he is a martial artist. Training his body and fighting with his body.
As a martial artist, his body is his weapon.
He may have reached the Master realm in Xingyiquan, but he hasn't truly brought out its strength.
Standing up, in the break of dawn, Long Tian trained with greater vigor than before. Pushing his body to its limits before running his