The blood gave me a signal

Qin Xian brought Qin Yun and the team shuttled through the forest in search of demonic beasts!

It had to be said that the team's hunting experience was extremely rich. This shocked Ciro greatly!

Because not too long after, they had found a Demonic Horned Bear!

Although the bear was only a Rank 1 Demonic Beast, it had a very strong impenetrable skin on its body. It was like the shell of a turtle and was not easy to deal with.

The bear was extremely slow but the group was extremely fast especially the guy with a girlish look. Ciro almost couldn't make heads or tails whether the guy was a 'she or a he' just by looking at him.

The feminine person walked around the bear, continuously using his flexible sword, sending streams of scorching green qi into the bears body, slowly depleting its energy.

In a few moments, he had knocked the bear down.

Just like that the bear was being butchered and the team continued on their way ahead after they picked the important materials on the bear's body specially the core, eyes, and the horn.

Not long after Ciro appeared at the side of the bear absorbing the blood essence of the beast. Ciro was really not comfortable absorbing the blood essence of the beast while sticking his fangs at the beast skin. He tried to find ways on how to directly absorb the blood essence without sticking his fangs but he failed to do so. He tried five times but he truly failed because of this he could only gave up temporarily.

After absorbing all the blood essence of the horned bear Ciro began to cultivate in order to convert the bear's life energy into his.

Inside Ciro's body a vast flickering life energy slowly flown to the energy cube at the center of his heart. The energy cube was the one who absorb the life energy of the bear and convert them.

Before, because of the deference in the cultivation rank Ciro's cultivation rouse tremendously when he absorb the blood essence of a rank 2 demonic beast. Luckily Ciro's body was strong enough to handle the tremendous life energy of the Giant Rainbow Peacock. Ciro was of course not a careless person to just absorb blood without care if the blood essence is from a higher rank. He knows his limitation.

Eastern Rutrock Mountain Range was located in the far south of Zukeviel Empire, considered as one of the most dangerous place in the Zukeviel state.

But as they always say the higher the risk, the greater the reward. Some adventurers were even willing to risk their lives in pursuit of the treasures within the mountain, but most ended up there for eternity without coming back. All that was left were piles of bones and empty skulls with nothing but sorrow and regret.

On the other hand, others who dared enter and survived, returned with the treasures left behind by cultivators of the past and became stronger than they ever had been before.

Over the past 2 days that Ciro and Qin Xian's team had been travelling, through forests and mountains, they encountered quite a few vicious beasts. Fortunately, they travelled at a swift pace, meaning they had avoided most of the beasts in the forests. Most beasts that were of the 5th to 6th Mortal Stage Realm were able to use beast skills, but were not intelligent. As long as they do not provoke them, they would not attack.

As for the beast with a cultivation of a Spiritual Qi Condensation Stage, their intelligence were on par with a small human child. Unlike the others, these beasts attacked without warning or reason.

Although they tried to avoid them, they still fought some Mortal Stage beasts with a cultivation of 8th realm and collected their beast cores. The stones were all colors of different elements that corresponds to their attributes, and was about the size of a marble, and emitted a strange glow.

"Our target is just up ahead!" remarked Qin Xian.

Looking towards where Qin Xian was pointing, all he could see was a pitch black forest, where even the the ground up ahead is pitch black and dried. Dense, dark fog surrounded the entire terrain, forming an ominous atmosphere in the mountain range.

"Stay closely. This place gives me the creeps everytime I went here," said Qin Xian as he slowly headed towards the black forest. Just behind him was Qin Yun and the others, who was fully alert as they had never ventured into these lands before and treated this as an opportunity.

"Now that I think of it what was up there? What give them the courage to go in there? Tsk... Even I got goosebumps!" Ciro said while looking ot the ominous atmosphere in the black forest.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

"This..."

Cirp was shocked this is the second time the blood at the center of his heart skip a beat again.

"T-this feeling... Danger." Ciro unconsciously blurted.

He never have this feeling before but when the blood makes its move the feeling he feel are simple to guess.

"It's hinting me... Does this mean it's really dangerous to go there?"