"Well, let's see what cool clothes I can find there," Thiago muttered as he started to search for clothes with the general search bar of the system shop.

He was dazzled by the number of items, so he filtered them by price, as he was short on system points at the moment, having spent almost all of them on the protective potions and the Fury Stone.

As he'd seen on his status, he had about three hundred and sum points left, which wasn't much, but it should be enough to buy some clothes.

After scrolling through a number of items, he finally decided on a typical cultivator's robe, so as not to stand out too much in black, which only cost him 10 system points as it had no functionality, was made of linen, and had none of the protective features that a normal cultivator's robe would have.

For the time being, that was good enough for him, as he only intended to use this robe to cover himself, so as not to walk around naked in his human form.

When the robe appeared in his arms after the purchase, he immediately tried it on.

"Ho! I look quite handsome in this robe, hehe," Thiago shamelessly praised himself as he looked at himself in the mirror. Still, you had to hand it to him, with the robe and the exquisite black zirconium space necklace around his neck, he did look cool and handsome.

"The only problem is that these clothes will probably rip when I change back into my animal form and vice versa. There are probably clothes that would automatically wear themselves on me and change according to the size inside the system shop, but I won't have enough points for that at the moment, sigh," Thiago suddenly realised.

"Well, I guess I have to prepare myself before transforming, or else I would have to buy new clothes every time," Thiago thought, as he could not find any other solution than the changeable clothes for now, as he pondered over the problem.

Although there were many things Thiago wanted to do now that he had finally achieved his human form, such as playing console or computer games in his mansion, which he could buy for almost no points in the system shop, this would have to wait for later, as he first had to return to the cave to see how Faye was doing. Now that that was settled, Thiago was ready to leave his inner world and set foot in the forest in his human form for the first time.

"Wait, before that I should do something first," mumbled Thiago as he was already asking inside his mind: 'Am I the strongest individual inside this forest now?'

No answer...

It seemed as if the system did not accept him asking for information in that way.

"Well, then I want the information about the name of the currently strongest individual in the forest where I currently reside," Thiago tried a second time, this time a little differently.

And see there the system answered this time...

[50 points required to get the desired information.]

[Do you wish to buy?]

[Yes] - [No]

'Well, yes,' answered Thiago firmly inside his mind while internally his heart was bleeding as he was spending fifty points once again.

Normally this would be nothing to him, but now he was basically penniless, and every point was precious for him. 'It's just to be safe,' encouraged Thiago him self.

He did it to see if he was already the strongest inside the forest, which theoretically should be the case now that he had slain the three strongest beasts residing within it.

But it could be that since buying the information about the world which had also included information about the forest which he was currently in as well as saying that the strongest beast inside it was at the superior student realm, some new beast or cultivator had entered this forest.

So, to be on the safe side and not carelessly feel that there was no more danger within the forest, He had decided on the spur of the moment to ask the system or more so buy the information from it.

After mentally answering 'yes', a name popped into his head: Thiago Khan. Fortunately, it was his own name, which meant that he was currently the strongest in this forest, so he should have nothing to fear for the time being.

Unfortunately for Thiago, he had not considered that there might be some secret spatial sub-spaces in this forest which, if a creature stronger than him were to be found in them, would not meet the criterion of being the strongest in this forest, since such a secret spatial sub-space would be in a completely different space and therefore, strictly speaking, not in the forest at all.

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Therefore, the system would not list it when Thiago had asked for the name of the strongest creature in this forest. Well, that was something for later, when he would find out about his little mistake. But who could blame him, there was no one to ask such detailed questions, except once again Han Jue, cough, cough?

"Phew, very good! Now I can go out with peace of mind," Thiago heaved, but just then it occurred to him that he had wanted to try out his chaotic body and had almost forgotten about it just now after successfully buying the clothes. 'Damn, I almost forgot that just now, well, it shouldn't have been an hour since I took the heart out of the Golden Basilisk's body, at least I hope so,' Thiago muttered desperately as he quickly took the Golden Heart out of his space storage and held it in his hand.

The reason he had said that he hoped it hadn't been an hour yet was that a rule of the Chaotic Devouring Body was that the core ort heart you devoured couldn't be older than one hour after the death of the beast.

But fortunately for Thiago, he had remembered in time, and it hadn't been an hour since, so the Chaotic Devouring Body would still be working on the Golden Basilisk's Heart, which would be of enormous benefit to Thiago, and it would have been really sad if he had lost it by forgetting the time.

"All right, so how do I use the Chaotic Devouring Body? Do I just eat the heart or what?" Thiago asked, inwardly cursing the description of the physique, which only said to devour the core or the heart, but didn't really explain how to do it.

"Well, I honestly don't like the idea of eating a heart, it seems rather strange, but it's not like I haven't eaten one before, just not such a big one," Thiago muttered as he had already decided to eat the heart, as it made the most sense in his opinion, as the Black Hole skill would not be of much use in the current situation, as it would probably only convert the heart into essence or system points instead of giving him some of the basilisk's characteristics.

"Well, it is not the first time you have eaten a raw heart," Thiago reassured himself, for it was true that he had eaten a raw heart shortly after he had come into this world. It had been the rabeer that he had eaten raw, which of course included eating its raw heart.

Wait, it would make more sense to transform into my tiger form first, so that I can swallow the whole heart at once and don't have to take as many bites as I would have to in my human form now,' Thiago thought just before he could take his first bite into the heart.

And so as not to destroy his new clothes, Thiago quickly undressed and put them in his storage space, where they would not be soiled by any blood that might spill when he swallowed the heart. When he was done with that Thiago transformed back into his huge tiger form. "I wonder if I can alter my size at will," muttered Thiago, because he would find it very convenient if that were possible.

And indeed, as he thought of reducing his size, his whole body contracted a little, shrinking in height and length. "Haha, amazing! This is so cool," Thiago marvelled as he played around with his size for a bit. Only after a few seconds did he come to his senses and remember what he had originally wanted to do, "Haha, I was so distracted by being able to change my size at will that I almost forgot what I wanted to do right now."

Thiago quickly gathered himself and fixed his gaze on the heart he had placed on the ground before transforming into his bestial form and moving his abyssal maw towards it.

The heart was about the size of two human heads placed side by side, so it was easily swallowed directly into Thiago's maw, which in his largest from at the moment was about four metres in diameter.

"Hmm, the taste isn't as bad as I thought, it's quite salty but not too salty at the same time, interesting," commented Thiago as he swallowed the heart into his body.

At that moment, Thiago felt something inside his body start to work and he felt a tingling sensation in his claws, which confused him for a moment until the sensation disappeared and he received information in his mind about the attribute he had just gained by eating the Golden basilisk's heart.

"The gilding ability, a truly great ability, and it works a little differently on me than it does on the golden basilisk. I don't gild things with my saliva, instead my claws produce the secretion, and I can drop it from my claws or use it to inject it into an enemy when my claws scratch them," Thiago thought after realising what attribute he had gained by eating the basilisk's heart, and to be honest, he was quite happy that he had gained the gildening ability, as it was truly powerful and could be used in many situations.

Thiago was already thinking about how he could make the best use of this ability, and he was also wondering if he could actually collect the secretion from his claws and make a potion, perhaps to sell later when he came to the city, but that was just a preliminary thought, and he was not sure yet.

"Now that this is done, I should leave the inner world," Thiago decided as he changed back into his human form and put on his clothes.

And in a fraction of a second, Thiago found himself back in the area where he had devoured the three beasts before, and it was still visible that a huge battle had taken place there before, as there were no trees standing within a certain radius, and the whole ground was either charred black from the lighting or frozen by the ice serpent, and some trees further away were now made of gold.

"Sheesh! It really looks like a bomb hit here," Thiago sucked in a breath of air.

Well, after this little episode, Thiago no longer cared, and instead of going straight back to the cave, he wandered towards the territories of these three animal overlords, as they should have some kind of treasures or precious herbs lying around, and as he walked, he kept an eye out for some high quality or interesting herbs with his Eternal Eyes of Truth.

"Haha, it really is a great feeling to walk through the forest with two legs," Thiago said happily, loving every second of it - oh how much he had missed a human body.

Well, before he reached the first beast's territory, he had discovered a green flower with yellow sparkles growing a few metres inside a small cave at the foot of a large hill.

According to his Eyes of Eternal Truth, this flower was called the Flower of Joy, and could be used in various low-level potions or pills as a supporting ingredient in alchemy, as it had good stabilising properties. The Flower of Joy itself also had other uses, such as being used in aromatherapy to promote feelings of happiness and positivity for cultivators who had suffered from qi deviation.

It was also believed to have some medicinal properties and was used to treat certain ailments.

As he approached and examined the flower more closely, he noticed its vibrant colours and delicate petals. Its scent was sweet and soothing, filling the air with a soothing aroma. He couldn't help but feel a sense of joy and contentment as he held the flower in his hand.

Just as he had taken a single step forward to see if there were any more of those flowers in the cave, he suddenly felt everything blur before him, and when he came to his senses he found himself in a completely unfamiliar environment that had absolutely nothing in common with the cave he had just walked through...