Chapter 10: Super Strong Physique

  Looking at the endless forest, and the people walking in twos and threes towards the inside, Ye Tianfan couldn't help but exclaim: "This forest is really big!" "Yes, yes." Xia Lingyue also rarely agreed with Ye Tianfan's opinion, although he didn't say anything, but still smiled happily with a curved corner of his mouth. "Alright, let's go, follow me closely." After saying that, he walked half a step ahead of Xia Lingyue and led the way inside.

  Here is the translation:

  Here, it's necessary to talk about the classification of demonic beasts' levels. Whether in the Cultivation Realm or the Ten Thousand Beast Forest, demonic beasts are also divided into eight realms: Non-Entry Level, Demonic Foundation Stage, Demonic Dan Stage, Demonic Infant Stage, Separation and Reunion Stage, Union of Body and Spirit Stage, Tribulation Stage, and finally the Great Vehicle Stage. These correspond to humans' Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Dan Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, Separation and Reunion Stage, Union of Body and Spirit Stage, Tribulation Stage, and Great Vehicle Stage.

  However, demonic beasts in the Cultivation Realm can generally skip levels when challenging others. For example, a Golden Dan initial-stage demonic beast can challenge a human cultivator at the Golden Dan middle stage. As for divine beasts, they are even more abnormal - ordinary ones can skip two levels when challenging, while abnormal ones can even skip an entire level, such as the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, Qilin, Dark Turtle, and Phoenix, which are representative examples.

  At the beginning of the journey, there were no demon beasts, after all, there were too many people passing by the outer periphery, and the weak and small demon beasts in the forest's outer periphery would not come out. The powerful ones generally wouldn't appear either, since outside there was nothing like heavenly treasures or earthly riches, nor was there the thick spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the forest. Therefore, any demon beast that had broken through a boundary would try to head towards the inner periphery as much as possible, rather than going outside. Of course, this didn't apply before the Golden Dan period, since at that time demon beasts hadn't developed spiritual intelligence yet.

  It wasn't until they walked thirty miles that they finally encountered some scattered low-level demon beasts. Even Xia Lingyun, who had only recently started cultivating, could handle some of them. The two of them walked very quickly, and it wasn't until an hour later that they ran into a Golden Dan period demon beast called the Fire Lion, which had mid-Golden Dan level strength.

  When Ye Tianfan encountered it, he felt a thrill of excitement, thinking that finally there was a demon beast that could let him show off his skills. But who knew that after just a few moves, he would knock it to the ground? He felt a surge of anger in his heart and really wanted to kill it, but in the end, he still let it go. This was because he had discovered that this Golden Dan period demon beast already possessed spiritual intelligence, and he couldn't bring himself to randomly kill something with spiritual intelligence.

  As a result, the demon beast was sadly beaten until its four legs went soft before being spared. The demon beast was also beaten to the point where it shed tears, and if it had known that this was because it wasn't useful enough, it might have cried even more.

  After Ye Tianfan and the other person walked far away, this Flame Lion limped back to its old nest, silently swearing in its heart that if it saw them again, no matter how far away they were, it would sleep in the cave, because it was too tired from being beaten.

  Not far from there, Ye Tianfan encountered another demon beast and solved it with one move. In the following time, all the demon beasts Ye Tianfan encountered were in the Golden Elixir stage. After experiencing this, Ye Tianfan felt that his cultivation was roughly equivalent to the middle stage of the Embryonic Breath period. If he used his own sword technique, it would be roughly equivalent to the peak of the Embryonic Breath period, close to the Separation of Spirit period. So Ye Tianfan accelerated his pace and finally encountered the first demon beast in the Embryonic Breath period after three days. Ye Tianfan excitedly rushed up without saying a word and started fighting, scaring the demon beast at first, but then it reacted and violently shouted: "You two insignificant human cultivators dare to intrude into my territory? Don't you want to live? But I'm also a bit hungry now, so I'll make you my food, haha!" The demon beast laughed loudly after finishing speaking.

  Ye Tianfan didn't bother with it, but continued to attack. The beast also didn't back down and instead launched a fierce counterattack. Ye Tianfan's fists and feet flew up and down, left and right, constantly targeting the beast's weak points. Meanwhile, the beast was protecting its weaknesses while simultaneously launching a massive assault on Ye Tianfan, thinking that with its powerful physique, it could crush Ye Tianfan's body with just one slap.

  Unfortunately, it was a disappointment, as Ye Tianfan's clothes didn't even touch the corner of his garment. The beast finally became enraged and suddenly increased its speed by 10%, catching Ye Tianfan off guard. He was slapped with a paw, but to his surprise, he only felt a bit of pain and nothing more happened. Not even his skin was scratched. Seeing that he hadn't been injured, Ye Tianfan was overjoyed, realizing that his physical body had reached the level of a low-grade spiritual artifact.

  With this newfound confidence in his physical strength, Ye Tianfan's eyes blazed with fervor as he gazed at the beast, which was now filled with even more anger and attacked him with increased ferocity. However, Ye Tianfan, feeling empowered by his own physical prowess, began to engage in close combat with the beast using his Earth-style martial arts.

  This battle was even more intense than before, and Ye Tianfan seamlessly integrated all his previous martial arts skills, frequently employing Tai Chi fist techniques to harmonize offense and defense. He fought with unbridled enthusiasm, almost shouting out loud as he released years of pent-up frustration from being unable to cultivate. It seemed that Ye Tianfan also had a tendency towards violence.

  The other beast was depressed, because Ye Tianfan was getting stronger and stronger in his fight, while its own secret method time was almost up, and when that happened, it would enter a weak period. In this forest where the strong preyed on the weak, it believed that there would be other beasts waiting to stab it in the back. So it thought about how to escape. It wanted to run, but Ye Tianfan wouldn't let it have its way. Every time it tried to run, he would use his footwork to chase after it and bring it back. After an hour, this beast finally collapsed under the double blow of exhaustion and injury.

  After the battle, Ye Tianfan quickly sat down cross-legged on the spot to recover his true yuan. An hour later, after recovering his true yuan, Ye Tianfan opened his eyes and said to himself, "A Yuan Ying period beast is indeed different. Even a Yuan Ying initial stage beast that doesn't use sword techniques is so difficult to deal with. It seems that I need to be careful on the road ahead."

  "Brother, you're finally awake," Xia Lingyun said with concern and a hint of blame in her eyes. "I saw you almost get hurt earlier, and I was worried about you." Ye Tianfan replied, "It's fine, nothing happened. I'll just be more careful next time." Then he went to clean up the beast's corpse. After all, every part of the beast's body was a treasure. He stored the beast's tendons, bones, and fur in his storage ring. As for the remaining meat, Ye Tianfan buried it underground.

  In the following days, Ye Tianfan went on to find several more Yuan Ying initial stage beasts to practice his martial skills against, until he no longer had any effect, then gave up.