Run or fight?

Lukas sighted, how did his fortune turn into misfortune? Was he really that unlucky that his godly encounter would try to ruin his life? A calm and relaxing cultivation time suddenly turned into a stors of being forced to be expelled.

But lukas couldn't change the past, it was time to think about what to do next. He could join a smaller sect, he might not have a chance at a big sect but a small one would surely accept him. He also could join a village and stay there as hunter, enjoying his life whike earning money from hunting beasts.

„DING DING

New Mission

Kill 50 foundation realm beasts in the spider queen forest. (time limit 1 month)

Reward: depends on the cultivation layer of the beasts

Punishment : get turned into a spider beast for a month. „

Lukas was dumbfounded, turn into a spider? The system could do that? Not to mention 50 beasts, beasts were usually stronger then humans. Each fight would a life and death battle… he definitely would attempt to manage to defeat all the beasts. But it would be extremely dangerous especially because the spider queen firest was one of the most dangerous places in this continent.

The out areas were relatively safe with only foundation realm and gold core realm beasts. But even those could be life threatening to lukas. The normal beasts were easy to defeat… but the spiders he had no confidence in surviving a fight against a spider beast.

If he got caught in one of their webs he wouldn't be able to free himself. Only gold core cultivators could savely travel through the outer areas of the forest. As for the inner area even the heaven toppling sect wouldn't dare to adventure to deeply. Cause deep inside the forest was the spider queen with poison soul level cultivation. That was a peak existence of this world.

Cultivation levels worked like this

Qi gathering realm

Foundation realm

Gold core realm

Soul core realm

Nascent soul realm

Golden soul realm

But there were exceptions and those were called unique realms. Unique realms could be achieved through cultivating special techniques. Or beasts had in common a unique realm. Unique realms worked like this, if a cultivator with a special poison technique breaks through to gold core realm. The technique would allow him to create a poison core instead of a gold core. The same worked with all other elements.

The unique cores had the advantage to amplify the power if one element but were mostly weaker in other elements. Beasts had unique cores mostly since they leaned towards one element. Tho it was important to carefully choose if you want a unique core or not since it can't be changed later on.

If a person with unique core advances to golden soul realm, their soul would become a unique soul. For the realm after golden soul, lukas didn't know if it existed or not.

He sighed this would be difficult for him to survive, it was time to strengthen his survival chances. He checked his martial skills and put all his points into upgrading blood red flower petal armor. This wouldn't increase his offense, but the healing ability would increase his chances to survive.

Blood red flower petal armor

Mastery 5/5

D grade

50 points to update to C grade

He could feel a huge amount of knowledge fill his mind. But sadly the points weren't enough to upgrade the technique to c grade. But still he got a whole lot stronger then before, as long he had enough preparation he could now easily heal himself in fights. Of course that was until he got serious injuries,this was a d grade technique the amount it could heal was of course limited.

He immediately walked towards the spider queen forest. He knew in what direction it was, after all it was one if the continents most famous forests. And it was also near the heaven toppling sect, it would be weird of he didn't know the direction.

After a week of traveling he arrived at the forest. He was starving, to avoid wasting time he walked straight to the forest without making a stop at villages. He only rested a few hours per day,but he made sure he wouldn't sleep more then 3 hours per day. Otherwise it would waste to much time, like this he arrived at the forest but was completely tired, exhausted and hungry.

He needed to find food quickly, otherwise he might die before he even has the chance to attempt this mission. He entered the forest hoping to find some fruits, he didn't really care about what he would find as long it was eatable.

But his luck was bad he didn't find any fruits to eat. Or rather his knowledge was to shallow, he couldn't recognize any of the fruits he found. Out of fear that they were poisonous he didn't eat them.

Would he die in this forest? Maybe he should just give up and accept becoming a spider beast. After all it's only for a month,that wasn't to bad. Being a spider beast for a month was better then dying. He decided he would search for a village if he couldn't find food soon. It would hugely decrease his chances to beat this challenge, but how could he care, he didn't want to die.

He would be stupid to risk his life just to avoid becoming a spider beast. He continued searching but just had no luck, he was about to return and search for a village when he met a boar beast. It was a layer 1 foundation realm boar beast, normally lukas would be confident in taking it down but now he was to exhausted. Should he risk fighting the boar? Or should he run and find a village?