A week had passed…

Zheng-Fu finally reached the area in the center of the forest. He hardly encountered the monsters on the way there. It was like the area was a monster-free zone. Zheng-Fu found that it was odd. He did not want to believe that the deepest part of the forest could be that quiet…

Zheng-Fu believed that there must be some kind of reason that that part of the forest was free from monsters. It was completely quiet without any monsters' roars or moans or any sight of them. But no matter how hard he tried to find the reason, he could not do so. That was when he started to reduce his pacing speed. Then he increased the intensity of his disguise and sensory detection…

He aimed for his sensory detection to cover the length of within five hundred meters because it allowed him to get a precise detection. Even the monsters or martial artists who were two levels above him would not be able to get away from the detection. It was more efficient within the length…

"The atmosphere reminds me of the scenes in the movies I have seen in the previous world. It's like I'm in a place that lures me in to meet with high-level monsters," Zheng-Fu said while staring ahead of him. He was confident in his hunch about the place…

So, Zheng-Fu started to walk slowly like a ninja…

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Winds touched the trees in the area, making an eerie sound. The part of the forest was also cool because it was a rainforest. Zheng-Fu looked at the map and found out that he was right at the center of the forest…

"Whoa! I'm at the center of the forest. I almost forgot to check the map. But where is the exit?" Zheng-Fu exclaimed out of shock. He was walking deeper into the forest until he took out the map and realized that he was at the center of the forest. However, he did not see anywhere that looked like an exit to him…

"Or do I have to search for it?" Zheng-Fu, all of a sudden, noticed that the map only showed the area of the center of the forest. There was nothing that was said on the map that showed the exit spot. So, he realized that he had to look for it…

Sigh!

"And I thought I would be able to get out when I got to the center of the forest. Now I have to spend more time finding the exit. I'll be damn!" Zheng-Fu said while resting his hand on his forehead. And then he said, "What if there's a tiger coming out or something? Being in a forest like this…"

Roar!

Zheng-Fu did not have a chance to finish the sentence as he heard the monster's roar. It actually sounded like a tiger's roar. Now the trees in front of him started to shake…

"Darn it! I shouldn't have mentioned the tiger in the forest like this!" Zheng-Fu blamed himself for mentioning the tiger…

Boom!

A minute later, the trees started to fall down, and a huge monstrous tiger that was as tall as a three-story building appeared in front of Zheng-Fu. Its fangs stuck out of its mouth. The monster also had horns. Its body was covered with purplish-brown fur. The furs on its wrists and ankles were also the same color. It was like a mutant tiger…

Roar!

"I don't think this is good for me. I guess I just have to run." Zheng-Fu decided to turn back when he saw that the monster was deadly. But before he could move, the trees behind him also fell down, and what emerged from the ground in front of him were huge green vines…

Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!

"Carnivorous Vines!?" Zheng-Fu exclaimed out of shock to see the monster appear in front of him and the Carnivorous Vines with spikes behind him. The Carnivorous Vines came with a huge mouth and sharp teeth…

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Carnivorous Vines hit the vines on the ground, causing cracks and holes in the area. The smash was so forceful that they could push an elephant away in one hit…

"What do I do? There is the Carnivorous Vines in front of me and the furry monstrous tiger in the back. What if there were more on my left and my right…?"

Boom! Boom!

Zheng-Fu did not even finish the sentence when the trees on his left and right-hand sides fell down with two more monsters approaching him…

Squawk!

Scream! Scream! Scream!

One of the two monsters that just appeared looked like a turtle. It was as tall as a three-story building. It had a spiky shell. Its noses were like two chimneys. The monster's mouth was full of hot lava. Every time it roared, lava would spill out.

The lava caused a flame everywhere it touched…

The other monster had the head of a rooster with a peacock tail. The monster had a bluish-brown color. Its body was long like a snake, but it came with wings. It was as tall as a two-story building. The appearances of the four monsters stirred the place because of their strong energy waves…

Whoosh!

All of a sudden, right after all four monsters appeared, a light beam occurred in the space within the circle surrounded by the monsters. Zheng-Fu just happened to be in the middle of it too…

"What happened!?" Zheng-Fu said while trying to soar away from the light beam, but his feet were bound, so he was unable to move anywhere. He could not do anything but crinkle his eyebrows and then…

Whoosh!

Zheng-Fu lost consciousness and his eyes started to close down slowly. Not long after that, he woke up and was shocked when he found that he was not in the forest anymore. Instead, he was lying in the desert, where it was so hot that the heat could burn regular people inside out…

Zheng-Fu, who was in the Nascent Soul stage, did not feel the heat at all. His eyes were only bothered by the sunlight. When he gained full consciousness, he started to slowly get up. When he looked at himself, he found that his black outfit was torn apart when it was perfectly fine before he lost consciousness…

"Where is this place?" Zheng-Fu tried to look around him to see where he was and how he got there. Then he heard something…

Scream!

Help!

It was a scream and a cry for help from the other side of the desert, which was not so far from where he was. Zheng-Fu used his sensory detector and felt that a group of people was fighting with a Desert Worm Monster. There were about thirty people in the group. Five of them were at the third level of the Golden Core stage.

One of them, who was standing in front of the group, was at the eighth level of the Golden Core stage. It looked like he was the strongest one…

However, the Desert Worm Monster was way much stronger than the people in the group. It had tapped into the Nascent Soul stage. Being a monster made it even stronger too…

"Please go, Master! My lady! I'll stall the monster," the leader of the group said while pointing his sword at the giant Desert Worm Monster…

"No! We have to go together, boss Tu!" a middle-aged man, who was called 'Master,' said while thinking deeply. He was the owner of the goods caravan…

"That's right, boss Tu! We must get out of here together," a young girl, who was about twelve or thirteen years old, said with a fearful expression…

Boom!

"Argh!"

About ten of the mercenaries were killed because they were much weaker than the Desert Worm Monster. They were like ants under an elephant's feet…

"Leader! Our men can't withhold the monster! Please go!"

Boom!

"Argh!"

The man did not have a chance to finish his sentence when he got hit by the Desert Worm Monster so hard that he got thrown away, fell down, and died. The young girl screamed with great fright, so the Desert Worm Monster turned to her and the two men next to her…

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Shriek!

Even though the monstrous worm was huge, it could move extremely fast. Its drooling saliva made it even more repulsive. The monster aimed to approach the young girl because it loved eating women's flesh. It paid attention to no one…

"Help me!"

Thud!

Shriek!

All of a sudden, a man soared down and landed between the Desert Worm Monster and the young girl. Everyone was stunned by the incident, except for the monstrous worm. However, the monster had to stop abruptly eventually because it could feel the strong pressure energy and the killing intent…

The Desert Worm Monster trembled and could not move because of the pressure energy from the person who had just appeared in front of it…

"The monster that hurts people is not a good monster!"

Whoosh!

Stab!

Boom!

The light beam that was projected from the man's hand happened so quickly that no one could catch up with it. It went right through the monster's heart, which caused it to fall down and die…

What happened in front of everyone made them forget to breathe because of the utmost shock. The situation that they were in was a nightmare, but then, all of a sudden, a knight stepped in and killed the Desert Worm Monster within no time. He made it look like the monstrous worm was nothing when he killed it within a second…

"What!?"

Boss Tu was the first one who got himself back together. He rushed to check on his Master and the Master's daughter instantly. His actions called everyone back to themselves. The owner of the caravan stepped forward while lifting his hands and saying…

"Thank you for helping us, Master," the middle-aged man said while cupping his fists and bowing to pay gratitude to the hero who saved him and the group…

The mysterious man turned out to be Zheng-Fu. When he saw that the group would be killed by the Desert Worm Monster, he rushed to help them by using a straw hat to cover his face…

"No need to thank me!" Zheng-Fu waved his hand to stop the middle-aged man from getting all official with him while putting one hand behind his back. It made him look completely smart, despite wearing a very torn outfit. Everyone wondered whether he was a great martial artist or a homeless man…

However, they continued to admire him because he was the one who ended the monstrous worm's life…

"Please allow me to repay you!"

"No! Please! I can't. Besides, you've lost a lot of your goods," Zheng-Fu said while pointing at the caravan that was broken with goods lying around…

"No!"

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