*BOOM!*

A five feet long purple scaled snake was blown away, shattering a tree with three meters of circumference into pieces. That snake had red eyes that were filled with visciousness but it was currently heavily injured, with half of its body's scales blown away, revealing its fissured flesh that was covered in its own blood.

That snake was comparable to a cultivator at the fifth layer of qi condensation, but its strong body could even let it fight head on with someone at the sixth layer.

Abruptly, a spear light containing an icy dark energy shoot out from between the trees aiming at its head. The purple snake couldn't even react in time with its heavy injuries without even mentioning the speed of the spear light.

*Puchi!*

That spear light pierced right between its eyebrows but strangely, no blood came out as a layer of frost spread out from its injury before a dark glow then corroded and disintegrated it. The snake couldn't even utter a cry as the light on its red eyes dimmed down.

*Swish!*

A nimble and tall figure wearing tight black leather clothing rushed out from between the trees and stood in front of the purple snake.

With a pondering look on his face, Di Feng analyzed the injuries of the purple snake.

"Even after a full month, I still didn't manage to understand what the true meaning of darkness is, without even mentioning ice. I think that my cultivation is still what limits me aside from how I don't know about the proper way of going about with further improving their respective powers... I should have asked mother before! Oh well, I will do so when I go back."

Aside from this, Di Feng also realized how big the differences were between battles and training in the real world from the virtual world during this past month, something that had been on his mind ever since before he even came to train at the Evergreen forest. For example, in the virtual world he could use much more freely the power of darkness due to its overabundance whilst in the real world, he had a harder time doing the same.

Even then, with this being the real world and the fact that darkness was most abundant at night, he didn't realize that his current control over darkness and even ice was already abnormal for a normal human... Due to this unknown ease in elemental control for Di Feng, he had managed to even fuse the two elements which he found complemented each other into an attack.

In short, even though he found it hard further improving the power of his control and of the elements he did control, it was mainly because of his lack of knowledge and of cultivation base while in reality, his ease at elemental control already exceeded the norm just that he did not know about it.

As he muttered to himself, Di Feng extracted a crimson bean sized beast core from the purple snake. Lately, he had been hunting down fey beasts and plants so as to use their cores to cultivate but as this was just the outer sector of the Evergreen forest and his own cultivation base was lacking, he could only rarely find appropiate fey to hunt. There were many times where he had to run for his life when he suddenly encountered a fey much more powerful than himself.

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*Sigh* "My body is just too demanding, even after all this time, I'm only at the early fourth layer of qi condensation... Fortunately, I'm much more powerful than anyone else at my level thanks to the physical strenght it grants me as well."

As of right now, his true qi vessel was as large as four arms while it had a width of three palms while his opened meridians even numbered at fifty five! This was absolutely no normal achievement as he had fifteen more opened meridians than a normal genius at his own stage. He had the ambition of opening all one hundred and eighty after all, so it could be said that the opening of meridians also had its own toll on his supposedly lagging behind cultivation base.

It was just that Di Feng tended to ignore some details of the process as he aimed higher while his understanding of great or normal achievements bordered on the extremes only. This was just like how he thought that his progression in his elemental powers was also slow without even knowing the specifics or how it was for others.

Di Feng was just about to turn around and leave but..

"Brother Feng!!!!"

A charming voice powered by true qi and filled with vigor resounded thorought the whole outer sector of the Evergreen forest.

Di Feng was taken aback for a second before he sighed while rubbing his temples.

"So she did come in the end... It seems that my training will have to stop here."

Mixed emotions could be seen on his expression as he recalled some of his most precious of memories as well as some of those grim ones where he had to control his emotions so as to not let rage fill his head...

"This is good moment to apologize. Ever since I understood a little the reasoning of my father as well as moved on from whatever humilliation I suffered in the past, I have been thinking about how idiotic I was acting when I said that to her four years ago... It was not completely her fault after all."

Di Feng proceeded to rush straight towards the origin of the voice.

As he got near, sounds of fighting entered his ears. There were enraged roars followed by booming sounds as well as charming laughter. It gave the impression that a huge commotion was occuring.

He ended rushing all the way back towards the entrance of the outer sector and also from where he first entered.

There, a beautiful girl with golden hair and crimson eyes flew on the air, approximately above fifty meters of the ground. She wore a black uniform with golden stripes and a badge with an also black background that had a golden star engraved on it. That seemed to be from a renowed academy as it was luxurious and even projected a spiritual aura. That uniform in turn completely enhanced the girl's perfect figure.

Right now however, the girl was laughing brightly while holding a silver longsword on her right hand. Below her on the ground and inside the cover of the forest, a completely white tiger with green eyes sneakily moved around the trees.

The white tiger had blood on most of its fur but it was not seriously injured, at most they were superficial wounds. Around the two girl and tiger fighting, craters and shattered trees lay on the ground. No other fey could be seen as they had probably run far away by now.

The girl's eyes abruptly lit up as from the corner of her eyes she catched sight of a tall youth. Her smile widened a bit unconsciously while a cunning light flickered within them.

"Hehe, you're in no way a tiger, you have to be a scaredy cat for you to be running around like that!"

The girl laughed arrogantly as she adopted the pose of a master swordwoman in absolute control of the situation. Her back straight, her expression dignified and her left hand behind her back. It was perfect and filled with an aesthetic beauty!

Di Feng's eyes lit up at the sight of this but he then moved his sight towards the white tiger and then his face fell and his lips twitched ever so slightly.

In the next moment, the sun itself seemed to direct its light at the girl while her silver longsword even had flames that appeared sentinent coiling around it. A powerful forcefield created from a very concentrated true qi coming from the girl's dantian then expanded towards her surroundings.

She then said with an arrogant tone.

"If you surrender now, I may spare your life and let you be my cute little pet!"

At this atonishing show of force, the white tiger seemed to become very fearful as it started shaking all over before nodding frantically, as if its life depended on it.

The girl, showing that her words had their desired effect, strangely dissapeared from her previous spot with a flash of golden light being left behind on her original spot and in just a blink of an eye she appeared attop the white tiger's back, who remained quiet and tried hard not to shake.

And just at this moment, the girl seemed to very casually look at her surroundings and 'coincidentally' see Di Feng, whose forehead currently showed quite a few black lines. His expression was that of someone trying very hard not to shout or say anything while remaining deadpan...

"Oh! There you are, Brother Feng! I came looking for you all the way here and even fought a hard battle with a ferocious fey beast before finally subduing it! very heroic right? Aren't you moved? Do you not feel the urge to shout 'Big Sister Qingyue is awesome!' in excitement? Aih, Are you too shocked to even speak?..."

"Ji. Qing. Yue!" Di Feng gritted his teeth as he spoke, hoping that she would just stop speaking.

"Yeah! That's me, the most amazing genius girl!" A cheeky grin covered her face. An almost unnoticeable glint of happines flashed thorough her crimson eyes as she looked at Di Feng however.

Seeing Ji Qingyue like this, Di Feng abruptly felt like not apologizing at all...