I appeared in the middle of the Inner Sect Plaza among many Inner Sect disciples.

At first, some of them were quite afraid of the demonic beast that was near them, but they quickly calmed down when they saw how tame I was.

"It's you!!"

Many people turned their heads in the direction of the cry.

Three familiar disciples zoomed towards me, while the leader pointed his finger at me.

"Because of that stupid beast, we were prematurely expelled from the realm. He almost killed Lean too!"

At least the person in question had the decency to look away in shame at this blatant lie, but he still said nothing.

At that moment, a crowd of onlookers gathered around me.

I wanted to punch these tongue-heads in the face a few times, just to teach them a lesson. But I kept my cool. I was a demonic beast in a human sect, if I lashed out, the consequences could be severe.

"Who is the bastard owner of this beast?"

I looked around and saw Huan Long coming forward: it seemed that the bastard's comment had upset him.

(Huan Long) "It's me. What's the matter? Why are you screaming like a whore?"

The first of the idiotic trio was about to start a fight, but the other two stopped him. After calming down, he said: "Your demonic beast attacked us in the secret realm, forcing us to leave prematurely. We demand compensation."

(Huan Long) "Strange Zhao is usually a very peaceful beast. Do you have any proof for what you are saying, or are you just making things up to get something out of it?"

The trio started to get nervous.

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(Idiots' leader) "How-how-how dare you?! Our words are proof! Your beast cost us our chance. We demand compensation."

Huan Long calmly continued, "Your words are not enough, besides, the only rule of the secret realm was not to kill each other. You seem quite alive to me."

Some people around began to point at the trio, while others began to laugh.

The trio, realizing that they would get nothing out of this, decided to withdraw.

After that, the various elders began to collect the resources from the various disciples and make a ranking.

When I realized that Huan Long wouldn't be in the top five, I decided to make my way to the pen.

On the way, however, I slipped into the shadows and disappeared.

I waited through the night, then slipped past the Foundation Establishment sentry, left the valley and, without anyone noticing, I was free.

While being pampered was all well and good, it was high time I regained the pride of a demonic beast and explored the land.

I chose a direction and started running, using the lightweight technique.

I ran north for days without rest, avoiding towns and other settlements to avoid being tracked. I remembered Gray's words about demonic beasts and devils being the enemies of mankind. They had only been nice because they thought I was stupid and under their control, if they caught me they would probably kill me or maybe enslave me properly.

I just hope they don't care too much about a rank 3 beast sending a Core Formation disciple or an elder after me.

And so I kept running, stopping only when I had reached the depths of a forest. Only then did I start thinking about my future cultivation.

At the moment, I have three choices: continue to search for resources on my own, find a place rich in raw qi, and settle there, or find a sect of demonic beasts and join them.

Since I don't know where to find the last two, I'll take the first one.

Now that I decided to stop running non-stop I looked inside the inventory and licked my lips at the stored yang win fruit.

I drank a mouthful that I got out directly inside my mouth, to test it.

The taste was pretty good but what I was interested in was its effects. I discovered that it was pretty useful not only in my qi cultivation but especially in my physical cultivation.

In fact that mouthful had been enough for me to be halfway across to a minor breakthrough.

‘With the quantity I have gathered, it should be enough for me to reach the core formation realm, to complete the bone refinement realm, and still have some leftovers. As always I should focus my efforts on mental cultivation if I don’t want to leave it behind.