Chapter 8: First Battle
Continuing on his journey, two more days passed quickly, Shen Xuan didn't even stop to eat these two days, despite possessing new abilities, he still wants his spirit rings.
"Huf... Huf... I'm finally here, wait... This map even contains the location of the Icefire Polarized Eyes, too bad I still can't get through their poison protection formation, maybe after I get to use it. the Dark Eyes."
Shen Xuan muttered heavily after stopping, he realized that the map he had bought with half of all his points was really complete and detailed.
The place where Shen Xuan was currently was at the entrance of Sunset Forest, even if it's just the entrance, in that forest spiritual power flows in a denser way, it's much better for cultivation than the previous place where he came from. he came.
*Gruuuu*
Suddenly a strange and embarrassing sound sounded, that was the sound of Shen Xuan's empty stomach, two days without eating might not be a problem for normal cultivators, but Shen Xuan doesn't even have a spiritual ring yet, even though he can delay hunger he still feel it.
"Good thing I killed some weak animals along the way and picked some fruit, I'm still a normal human after all." Shen Xuan muttered before looking for a place to build a fire.
Once that was done, Shen Xuan quickly prepared everything and put the meat to roast, now he can freely control the fire, this gave him a much faster speed in preparing the meat, and he could roast it several times faster.
Having eaten his meal, Shen Xuan began to explore Sunset Forest, even though the map did show locations of important places, the map did not show the ages of the spirit beasts in each area, it would be too much to ask, either Shen Xuan did it manually or was left with nothing.
Shen Xuan was discreet in his movements, no good would come from getting into a fight with a strong Spiritual Beast, perhaps further on.
Shen Xuan found that the location where he was was the area where the beasts aged between 20,000 and 40,000 were, the hegemonic beast of that area was a Crypt Spider over 40,000 years old, Shen Xuan still can't identify them perfectly, but he can take into account their colossal sizes.
Shen Xuan then ran in the opposite direction, according to the map this was the central part of Sunset Forest, which indicates that the deeper he went in that direction, the more powerful beasts would appear.
About an hour later, Shen Xuan arrived at the other end of the Sunset Forest, there were much smaller beasts there compared to the previous ones, Shen Xuan easily assumed that these beasts were at most 10,000 years old, and decided to run a little deeper in that direction. .
"System, buy me a manual on Cataloged Spirit Beasts belonging to the Douluo Continent."
After stopping on a branch of a large tree, Shen Xuan realized that he was more lost than blind in a minefield, so he decided to spend the rest of his points buying a book of information on Spiritual Beasts.
[Ding. Due to lack of points, this system will only be able to buy the basic catalog of soul beasts, it only includes information of beasts under 30,000 years old, would the player like to acquire it?]
"Yes, buy it." Hearing the robotic voice in his head, Shen Xuan had no doubts and quickly bought the book.
[Ding. As per player's request, purchasing Soul Beast Basic Encyclopedia, 1500 system points was deducted, purchased item was sent to system space, current points balance: 0]
Having finished listening to the system notifications, Shen Xuan quickly took out the book and started reading it, it took just over an hour to read all the information contained in the book, Shen Xuan now had all the information about all the Spiritual Beasts below 30,000 years in the Douluo Continent.
His first spiritual skill will be a fast and powerful attack skill, so Shen Xuan decided to look for beasts like Wolves and Tigers, he has no hope of finding any low level Dragons, Dragons are very rare in this world.
Quickly running along the path, Shen Xuan spotted many types of beasts, but none pleased him, either in age or species, continuing for some time Shen Xuan heard a series of roars.
'That sounds interesting, I bet they're fighting over territory, let's see what it is.' Shen Xuan thought before running even faster towards the roars.
*Rooooooooaaaaarrrrr Rooooooooaaaaarrrr*
*Shwiiiish Shwiiiish Shwiiiish*
*bang bang bang bang bang*
As he got closer to the place, heavy fighting sounds could be identified, the two beasts roared and faced each other fiercely.
Moving a little closer, Shen Xuan climbed a big tree, this was a great place where he could see everything from a great angle.
There were two beasts there, a wolf and a tiger, remembering the information, Shen Xuan quickly knew what beasts they were, the wolf was a Lunar Rune Wolf.
Looking at its fur coloring and its size, Shen Xuan could tell that it was a Lunar Rune Wolf that was a little over 4100 years old.
His most common attacks are his Ferocious Roar, this is a sonic attack that aims to attack the soul, he could also launch energy blasts from his mouth, but this skill had no name, there were also basic skills such as his bite which is capable of easily dismember the place where it bites, and strong thrusts.
The Wolf's opponent was a Tiger of Wind and Thunder, considering also its fur and size, it could be known that the Tiger was just over 4000 years old as well. His attacks consisted of his claws, bites, lunges, as well as being able to launch electric attacks and slashing attacks by swinging his wings.
The one who had the upper hand in this fight was clearly the Tiger of Wind and Thunder, he had more skills, he was faster in general.
Shen Xuan decided to just wait, this fight looked interesting and he didn't want to get involved yet, and he was in doubt about which beast to choose as his first ring, thinking about it as time passed.
Even after several minutes, the intensity of the fight didn't diminish at all, however the wolf was clearly at a disadvantage, he had been cut in several parts of his body.
"Well whatever, this is taking too long, the Tiger of Wind and Thunder seems more suited to me." Shen Xuan muttered before getting ready to attack the tiger.
Shen Xuan didn't stall too much, he quickly channeled the power of his dragon marks through his body and jumped up.
*BOOOOOMMM*
A light explosion sounded, Shen Xuan fell to the ground opening a large hole, the tiger managed to dodge thanks to his speed.
*ROOOOOAAAAARRRRR*
The tiger roared fiercely, as if to say that Shen Xuan shouldn't have interfered in his fight, meanwhile the wolf just walked away a certain distance away, his instincts telling him that he would have died if he was the target of the human in front of him.
"Huh, so you dodged it, no surprise considering its dual stat system of wind and thunder, both are known for their high speed and destructive power... Looks like I'll have to put some effort into it." Shen Xuan muttered before attacking the tiger again.
The tiger seemed to understand his words, he became even more furious after hearing them and roared with even more ferocity.
*bang bang bang*
Shen Xuan ran towards the tiger and punched him several times, the tiger just resisted using his strong lunges, Shen Xuan was a little impressed, he was using the strength of two dragon marks and even then he didn't kill the tiger as fast as he thought that would be.
'It seems that brute strength is not really the way to go in this world, even a 4000 year old beast doesn't die that fast, I'm using 20,000 jins of strength.' Shen Xuan thought before continuing his attacks.
*Rooooaaaaarrrr Rooooaaaaarrrr Rooooaaaaarrrr*
*bang bang bang bang bang bang*
More punching sounds were heard, they were more and more intense, Shen Xuan could use all his strength and try to crush this tiger, but he wouldn't have learned anything from it, being strong and not knowing how to use that force is a very bad and shameful thing .
Meanwhile the wolf just watched the battle from afar, over the course of a few minutes he decided to simply leave that place, the tiger would clearly lose, and if that human targets him after that it won't be good.
Noticing the wolf's departure, the tiger went into despair, his senses were not lying, this human will really kill him. Shen Xuan clearly saw the desperation in the tiger's eyes, he then gave a silent smile.
"Why keep fighting if you know you're going to lose? Running away is not an option, just sacrifice yourself and stop the pain, maybe this isn't the end for you." Shen Xuan said to the tiger suddenly.
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