Through moving around with the assistance of the Movement of Ghost Steps, Altima readjusts his position for about 5 times, and yet still failed to search for an opening to land another blow on his opponent. As the time pass, a feeling of urgent and rush came into Altima's head.
"If I still failed to enter this Defensive net formed by the mantis for the next 5 Minutes, His concussion from my previous attack will be pointless. By that time, this mantis will be taking more precaution from my next attack, and it will make me face more difficulties in disposing of him by that time."
"If in this case, let us do things the rougher way."
Altima quickly channel a stronger surge of Yang Energy into his outer Body, pushing his 1st Stage of Zhen Wu Warrior Body into its limit, and making a head on the attack towards the Defensive net formed by the random swing from the mantis. Through suffering a few strikes on his shoulder, Back and Chest, Altima finally manage to enter the range where he could attack without any worries.
"Try this continuous Hit of mine this time!"
"Ascend of the Rhino Fist, Tiger Fist!"
"Zhen Wu Iron Palm Shakes the Sea!
"And Lastly!"
"Ascend of the Dragon Fist!"
Through a consecutive 4 hit combo, Altima quickly decapitates the Tiger Stripe Mantis head split from its body. Thus ending the fight gloriously. After looking at the body shaking for another 2 minutes, all struggling is gone, and the mantis finally falls. As the battle is over, Altima proceeds to gather all the available precious material within the Mantis. First is the Abdomen of the Mantis, which packed with abundant Supply of the Demonic Insect Essence, which is important for cultivators who focus more on Poison and secret weapon Martial arts and Cultivating technique.
After successfully collected a total of 10 Liquid pouches of essence until it's gone, Altima next proceeds towards the Thin Wings, and tear both off before placing it whole into the Spatial Ring. Next, the mantis Skull is sliced into two halves, revealing a total of 4 pieces of small demonite Stone within, as well as a piece of shining bead which likely known as the Pure Insect Essence Bead, which thirst by all the other Insects as this bead is part of their cultivating and growth treasure.
Heading towards the Claw, Altima Thoroughly destroyed the Claws which holding a total of 22 Teeth from both Side, totalling himself a 44 Units of the Teeth. As all the Remaining parts have been harvested, Altima proceeds towards one last part of the material he needs to retrieve, the Thorax of the Mantis. With a swing of the Knife, Altima Carved out the Outer layer of the Thorax Scales, which grows alongside with this Tiger Stripe Mantis throughout its life. This Scale is Sturdy, Durable and could be used alongside with the joint layering between the armours or Robes which often worn by the cultivators.
With this first wins against a resident within the forest, Altima will soon be recognized as a participant in this "Emperor of the Forest" competition. But Altima placed this worries aside and continue his cultivation. Of course, first of all, he would require obtaining a new location as this current spot is a total wreckage due to the fights between the Tiger Stripe Mantis and Altima, a Grade 8 Early Practitioner Cultivator.
As he moves about 500 Metres away from the original location, Altima stumbled across a bed of plants which known as "Python Weeds". Although Altima has a total of 5 Seeds within his inventory, but seeing a bed of Python Weeds is still a surprise, due to the high requirement of blood is required to grow this enormous amount of weeds. Came together with the finding of this bed of weed, there must be a few trees which provide the Nutrients to the weed around.
Altima survey and search around the location, and finally found a total of 4 Essence Suckling Tree, about 600 Metres apart from the Python Weed location. Feeling lucky, Altima have a rush to quickly harvest all the available weeds, but soon manage to be awakened by Mobi from his Rushed greed.
"Silly kid, You are totally Blinded by the Lust and Greed before your eyes!!", Mobi stopped his strangling on the wrist as he seen Altima wake up.
"I have no idea that even I will get Charmed by the Python Weed as soon as I found it. We are lucky as the guards are not around it when I found them. Sorry Brother Mobi.", Altima quickly apologizes to Mobi.
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The reason why Mobi and Altima are being in such a caution is due to the Python Weed Guards. Due to the high concentrated blood essence surrounding the Bed of weeds, The Guardian of this type of plants, is a strong and Formidable Beast named Bloodlust Bear Beast. This beast is currently out of the range Altima could try and fight, due to the Difficult Threat level of 3rd Stage Warrior Practitioner Tier, they often come in a family of one male and one female.
Immediately, Altima escaped from the Area covered with a scratch mark on the trees, and quickly scattered 2 bottles of the Demonic Beast Blood (Animal) to his surrounding, and escape the location. Returning to his previous location before he proceeds again to another location, Altima quickly nestled on a part where there is a small opened cave. Within the cave, Altima quickly proceeds to check on his Plantation Realm and process some of the harvests. For this time, Altima purposely allows the stem of Powder Flower to be remained within the Realm for some time until they become a dried Stem.as for the next batch of 20 Powder Flower Pollens make their way to migration, Altima harvest all of them after a duration of 5 hours is reached. With this way, Altima manages to produce a total of 40 Dried Stem, as well as a total of 20 Stem of Powder Flower this time.
With the Experience bar increased to (120/100,000), Altima quickly places the 40 Dried Stem within the production tab, and had the Stem processed into 80 Seeds. Again, Altima repeats his procedure, but this time is with the Hanging Beanstalk Tree instead. Through Planting all 40 Seeds together into the plot, Altima place another total of 40 seeds of Powder Flower as well side by side with the Trees. Where he cultivate for temporary until the Prompt required him to select on migrating, Leave the Stem along the way until its completely mature.
On the same time, Altima actually feeds his Wolf Cub once a day, as the Wolf cub are grown enough to hunt for themselves. Still pretty attached to their owner, both Wolf cubs travel across the Outer Forest area, fighting with targets which are weaker than 3rd Stage of Early practitioner Tier while passing on the news for Altima and his parents. The parents are able to sleep soundly too, due to both of the wolf cubs are pretty alert during the night when resting.
While for Altima, He is Facing his next challenge at the moment. After consuming and assimilating with a total of 200 Balancing Zen Pills, Altima receives a boost of Yin Yang Essence, which is boosting his current Cultivation into the next stage. As the Wave of Yang Essence keeps burn him outside, Altima is facing a challenge of freezing energy from the Yin Essence which came from the opposite side.
"A little more to go!", Altima convinces himself, so he would never give up.
Moments later, the Cave is found Burning due to the hot Yang Essence Energy is flowing out without any Control, as if a balloon is burst and the air is running out without any restrictions. As the energy essence burst out from the Cave, soon, a tower of Yang Energy quickly Rush towards the sky and immediately dissipated. Leaving with only a Crater about 3 metres wide, and with a child body leaning in the middle, Lost consciousness. As he lying on the floor for a short moment, a piece of glowing red bead finally falls down from the Sky, and directly landed in the middle of his chest.
A few hours later, Altima finally awake. First of all, he notices the Burning Red bead on his chest, which feels burning when touching it. Placing the bead aside into Mobi's Inventory, Altima quickly gets a change of clothes and move away from the crater, which used to be a cave until yesterday night. As he had himself cleaned and clothed, Altima quickly checked on his condition and noted that he had already passed the border of 8th Stage and Jumped 1 stage ahead, where he currently is at a newly formed 10th Stage of the Early Practitioner Tier.
Immediately, Altima had his Spatial Realm taken cared off, where due to the moments he is away from the Wake, the 40 Trees of Young Beanstalk is on its way to the 2nd 12 hour, which will be turning into the Adult Beanstalk soon. Meanwhile, for the Powder Flower, all of the stems is dried, while an additional 20 Stems is seems to be reaching its dried maturity as well.
Quickly, Altima harvests all the available normal stems and dried stems, then replanted a total of 40 Seed again, while harvesting a total of 20 Beanstalk Trees, giving him a total of 75 Young Beanstalk this time. With the number of harvest reach (255/100,000), Altima had the same procedure, and turn all the dried stems into a total of 80 seeds once again, while keeping all the other ingredients.
As for the Balancing Zen Pill, Altima currently had only a total of 72 left within his inventory. Which means, Altima would require to went out for a hunt for cultivating resources if he intends to have a next quick breakthrough. In the Meantime, Altima, who had managed to return towards his home, started to spend the rest of his Week by practicing and cultivating his Martial Arts into a deeper understanding.