A day had passed, and Zheng-Fu had successfully broken through to the next level. However, he had to use about 20 immortal-level Qi energy stones to do it. That was a large amount of Qi energy stones for others with a normal energy range…

If anyone absorbed that much Qi energy, their energy range would explode. No one's energy range could take up that much energy in one go. Zheng-Fu's energy range enabled him to do so…

Whoosh!

"How many stones do I need to use to break through to the next level?" Zheng-Fu said while crinkling his eyebrows out of sorrow. Then he turned to Jin-Tian and found that it was not there. He was startled by that and started to call out its name…

"Jin-Tian! Jin-Tian!"

Thud!

Roar! Roar!

It did not take long for Jin-Tian to show up after Zheng-Fu started to call it to him. The servant monster stopped in front of Zheng-Fu with a big Silver-Fish Monster in its mouth…

Thud!

"Where did you go?" Zheng-Fu asked while looking at the Silver-Fish Monster in Jin-Tian's mouth. Jin-Tian put the fish down and showed its tongue to Zheng-Fu while wagging its tail. Zheng-Fu understood right away where Jin-Tian had gone. He then asked, "Did you catch it!?"

Jin-Tian nodded with a smile. Zheng-Fu, who wanted to yell at Jin-Tian for going away without telling him, did not know how to react to Jin-Tian's gesture. He could not bring himself to yell at his servant monster…

"Alright! But you must not go anywhere without me, ok?" Zheng-Fu said with a firm voice…

Nod!

Roar! Roar! Roar!

When Jin-Tian heard Zheng-Fu's words, it nodded to accept Zheng-Fu's order before licking his face one big time. Now Zheng-Fu's head was covered in Jin-Tian's saliva…

"Whoa! What are you doing? My face is all wet." Zheng-Fu rushed to wipe off the saliva on his face immediately. He was about to yell at Jin-Tian, but could not do so again because of its innocent eyes…

"Ugh!"

"Don't give me that innocent look! You're really something, Jin-Tian!" Zheng-Fu decided to go to the river that he saw on the map. He wanted to clean himself up and continue the journey…

Boom!

When Zheng-Fu arrived at the river, he jumped into the water instantly. Jin-Tian also joined him. Both of them enjoyed being in the water for a while before getting out to prepare for the journey. They grilled the Silver-Fish Monster for breakfast…

"I think I might be the strongest one in this region, but I could be very weak compared to others in other regions. But even so, I would never let anyone mess with my family, including you, Jin-Tian," Zheng-Fu said while he was eating the Silver-Fish Monster. He looked at Jin-Tian, who also enjoyed eating the fish, with great affection…

According to Zheng-Fu, Jin-Tian was still very young. It had become a part of his family, so he loved and adored it tremendously…

Boom!

All of a sudden, an explosion occurred not far away from where Zheng-Fu was. It was an explosion from some kind of fight. Zheng-Fu could detect strong energy from two entities. So, he was certain that two opponents were fighting…

"Let's go and check it out, Jin-Tian!"

Roar!

The minute Zheng-Fu finished his sentence, he and Jin-Tian headed to where the fight took place immediately. It did not take long for them to get to the scene. They used a special technique to disguise their energy levels. Their fake energy levels were now at the ninth level of the Foundation Building stage, so the people who were fighting would not be able to detect them…

"Those are chickens!"

When Zheng-Fu arrived at the scene, he saw two chickens fighting one another. The explosion was indeed caused by the fight between them. The chickens that he saw were huge. They had blue eyes and tails that looked like rat tails. Besides that, they both had some kind of horn on their heads. Zheng-Fu started to measure their energy levels.

His face turned pale when he realized their energy levels…

Zheng-Fu could sense that both Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monsters were at the Nascent Soul stage. But he did not understand why they were fighting one another because they were the same kind of monster. So, he started to look around to find the cause of this fight. Then his eyes hit another Rat-Tailed Pheasant lying on the ground not far away from the other two…

The Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster that was on the ground was slightly smaller than those two. It was not as strong as them either. This Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster was watching the fight with sparkling eyes and cheering on the two Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monsters that were fighting…

Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!

Bang! Boom! Bang!

The fight continued violently for many shichens. Finally, it came to the point where one of the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monsters ran away, so that was the end of the fight. The winner walked toward the one on the ground not far from it. Both monsters rubbed one another with their heads. Then the winner got on top of the one on the ground and they started to move together…

Cluck!

"Whoa! Are they doing that?" Zheng-Fu's face turned red the minute he saw what was going on between the two Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monsters. He understood immediately why the two Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monsters fought each other. He had to cup his head to ease his stress…

Zheng-Fu realized that he had just witnessed two male monsters fighting one another over a female monster. He could not stay at the scene any longer because it was too awkward for him. So, Zheng-Fu and Jin-Tian left the monsters instantly…

"Sigh! I stared because I thought that there might have been some kind of treasure there, but…!" Zheng-Fu said, feeling goosebumps. It was the first time he had seen monsters mated. He turned to Jin-Tian and said, "When it's time for you to do that, please do it somewhere far away, alright? I don't want to ever see anything like that again."

Eh…?

Jin-Tian did not know what Zheng-Fu meant, so it bobbed its head around. But then it started to understand what Zheng-Fu was trying to say, so it ran to him and prepared to lick his face. Zheng-Fu rushed to lift his hand to stop Jin-Tian from getting close to him…

Squeak!

Jin-Tian stopped abruptly before it reached Zheng-Fu. But then it jumped over Zheng-Fu while roaring and showing its teeth…

Growl!

Cluck! Cluck!

Zheng-Fu turned back to see what was going on and saw the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster that lost the fight. It stared at him angrily…

"The Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster that lost the fight!" Zheng-Fu exclaimed while crinkling his eyebrows. But then he let out a cunning smile not long after that…

Zheng-Fu thought that he had an advantage over this monster because it was severely injured. He could ask Jin-Tian to finish it. He knew that this monster wanted to attack him and Jin-Tian because it thought that they were weaker. After all, they hid their true energy levels…

"Sigh! How unlucky you are, monster. I guess you wanted to take it out on me after losing the girl to your friend, but it's not wise to take it out on us. Why don't you go play with it, Jin-Tian!?" Zheng-Fu turned to Jin-Tian and told it to deal with the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster…

Roar!

Jin-Tian did not wait for Zheng-Fu to say it twice, so it started to release its real energy level instantly. The energy wave and pressure energy that came out of Jin-Tian feared the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster instantaneously. It was only at the second level of the Nascent Soul stage, while Jin-Tian was at the fourth level…

Cluck!

When the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster realized that it could not defeat Jin-Tian, it tried to run away. Zheng-Fu ordered Jin-Tian to kill it because its corpse would be priceless. The Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster was a real monster. It was not just an animal monster. So, its essence would be the high-level one. He would not want to let it go…

Rustle!

Stab! Stab! Stab!

Jin-Tian jumped at the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster immediately. Then it used its sharp claws to slash the monster countless times, causing the monster to moan in utmost pain. It was impossible for the monster to fight Jin-Tian, whose energy level was much higher than its own…

Squawk!

The Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster shrieked and decided to dash towards Jin-Tian to give it all, but Jin-Tian did not give it a chance to do so. Jin-Tian, instead, jumped above the monster and used its sharp claws to pierce the monster's head…

Crack!

A loud sound of a skull being shattered occurred with a flow of blood running from the monster's head. The Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster had come to an end…

Roar!

Jin-Tian roared with joy after defeating the monster. It jumped up and down before running to Zheng-Fu and sat beside him while wagging its tail as if it wanted something from him…

"Great job, Jin-Tian!" Zheng-Fu walked to Jin-Tian and rubbed its head to compliment it…

After the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster died, Zheng-Fu walked to its corpse before using a knife to cut out its essence. However, as the knife touched its skin, the knife was broken into pieces…

Bang!

"Whoa! What a strong skin!" Zheng-Fu exclaimed in shock because he did not expect that his knife would be shattered so easily. But then, coming to think about it, he realized that a normal knife could not be stronger than the skin of this high-level monster…

"Sigh! I guess I'll just have to find something stronger to cut it open. Let's keep its corpse for now!" After he finished the sentence, Zheng-Fu sucked the corpse of the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster into his crystal dimension…

Whoosh!

After he finished with the Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monster, he started to continue his journey to the center of the forest. He, as expected, encountered many kinds of monsters along the way. And as usual, every one of them was weaker than him and Jin-Tian. So, they ended up running away…

It was great that the monsters did not try to fight with Zheng-Fu and Jin-Tian because just running on the trail to the center of the forest all day was already exhausting. Zheng-Fu finally wanted to rest, so he was looking for a big tree to make a rest spot because he liked to sit with his back against a tree…

Thud!

"Jin-Tian! As you can see today, those two Rat-Tailed Pheasant Monsters could get so fierce like that. I know that they are low-level monsters, but imagine if we got closer and closer to the center of the forest. We'll definitely encounter something stronger. So, I want you to be vigilant about it because this is just an hors d'oeuvre!"

Roar! Roar! Roar!

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