Chapter 107

The breakthrough was finished without any problems, the spiritual nodes became even stronger and the branches of his spiritual network continued to spread and strengthen throughout his body.

Now you can take your time, the next breakthrough is very far away, which means you can continue to explore the forgotten lands and hunt the bearded.

The appearance of these creatures somehow reminded Sam of a zombie, well, or some kind of advanced undead, who knows. But despite their appearance they were still living creatures.

In any case, now Sam was going to use artifacts, the armor helped to defend himself from fire, he would soon find out its effectiveness against the spiritual attacks of the bearded men.

Sam put on his modest outfit and gloves, pulled on his hood. But then, awkwardly, he took off his gloves again and started hurting himself until he felt the call, and then he started on his way.

He began again to kill the creatures one by one and devour the crystals, soon he again found the bearded man with the amulet.

This time, the bearded man could not even wound him properly, the armor really reduced the influence of spiritual attacks by some degree.

Having devoured his crystal, Sam began to patiently wait for reinforcements, and soon that help arrived. The bearded men appeared one after another and attacked Sam, of course to no avail.

After killing about thirty of them, they never appeared again. Sam took out the amulet and tried to walk forward with it, but no one else found it.

Having smashed the amulet to pieces in an attempt to understand something, Sam did not understand anything.

Sam did not plan to be engaged in professions, not at the moment at least. Maybe at high stages of cultivation, memory will become completely trouble-free, then it will be possible to think about professions.

Sam had only one super ability, he remembered well all the shitty things that happened to him.

He quickly forgot the good, but the bad got stuck in his memory and it was impossible to throw it away.

For example, he did not feel hatred for Gloria, because he himself climbed to her. But if he could, he would have killed her anyway, just in case.

But Bella tried to plot against him, set a whole pack of cultivators on him. So many times he wanted to tear her apart, but he did not dare.

She was a huge boss, a dragon thousands of meters in size, in front of which Sam was powerless. If he ever will manage to tear her apart, he would consider it as huge achievement, like killing a boss or something.

While repeating the procedure for catching beards, Sam continued to move around.

A week later, he could roughly estimate in which direction the bearded are a little stronger, and in which a little weaker, there was almost no difference, but if you kill them for a whole week in one direction, it still manifested itself.

Thus, he could move deeper into these lands in search of stronger creatures.

At times he tried to detect them with his eye skill, although he learned this technique, as well as the technique of movement, but he was obviously far from perfect.

But he used them almost constantly and gradually became more skillful.

Over time, he could notice the bearded with his spiritual eyes a little earlier than he could see them with his normal gaze, and gradually he trained to improve his ability.

Of course, there were not so many of these creatures, sometimes it took a lot of time to find another squad.

Usually in the center of the squad there was a leader with an amulet. He still didn't understand what they were doing here.

After only 5 months, Sam seemed to finally stumble upon one of them with the power of Core Formation.

Gradually devouring the crystals, his mutation became stronger, once he was able to feel the bearded without even injuring himself. And even later, he even began to distinguish a little their strength.

Having checked his own body, he could not find this energy properly, but with his whole body he felt that it was there, like a motionless fog filled his entire body.

Only if Sam was injured did this fog turn into a chaotic storm.

The body gradually strengthened and changed, this transformation took place imperceptibly.

Sam only felt that meditation gives best effect little by little. And even without armor, he practically did not receive injuries.

Precisely because he became stronger, he risked moving forward until now.

Of course, he could not see the enemy, but solely due to the mutation, he assumed that this time he met someone at the Core Formation stage.

Unlike the others who were in the groups, this one was alone, and Sam had walked quite a distance since he killed the last bearded men.

Presumably, they simply cultivate on this land, but due to the characteristics of the abandoned land, no living creature can notice the other until it gets close enough.

Sam may have been a tough nut to crack, but his attacking potential was not that high.

Even to beat the defenses of the bearded men at the stage of Foundation Establishment, it was necessary to inflict far from one blow.

Even if Sam can withstand the attacks of the creature of the stage above, he is unlikely to be able to inflict decent damage on him himself, much less catch, given that they can fly.

Sam simply turned around and headed the other way.

After just a month, Sam finally reached saturation point, he could no longer absorb crystals.

He chose a place for himself where he did not feel anyone around and again began to meditate.

Even though food was good for his cultivation, if you eat food solely to maintain the body, then Sam did not need much. He hoped there would be enough supplies for him.

All he had to do now is cultivation non stop until he will get to the Core Formation.