Dark Night

Ye Mo laid on the ground weak, he applied ointment on his wound causing him to wince out in pain. He had just arrived the wild forest and he was already injured, he began to wonder if he made the right decision by listening to the system words.

He took a glance at the system's interface and his face grew bleak that he nearly spurt a mouthful of blood.

'Dammit. This trashy system was ripping him off, he had nearly lost his life in that fight but the system only gave him five experience points'. He couldn't care less if the system heard him or not as he cursed the system in his mind. He received no response from the system despite his incessant and relentless cursing, it looked like the system was directly snubbing him.

Movements could be heard as the grasses swayed opening the path for a pack of wolves. The pack of wolves glanced at their dead kin on the ground, they emitted thick killing intent as they tightly surrounded Ye Mo, blocking all his path of retreat.

Ye Mo was caught between laughter and tears, he was already at his wits end dealing with a One-eyed wolf, but this time a pack of wolves had come to avenge their dead kin.

He wore a grim face as he tightly gripped the fallen tree branch, he glared cautiously at the predators before him with heavy eyes, he knew that he couldn't fight them head-on so he had to create a path for his escape.

He moved as fast as lightning as he swept the broken branch like a sword to the wolf on his side. Clang! Sparks was generated upon collision with the wolf's claw.

The others wolves bounced upon him as he frantically waved the branch around knocking off some attack, but how could he defend against all attacks? His body was riddled with wounds as he directly spat a mouthful of blood. He drove the branch into the eye of the wolf at his back as he fled for his life. He had no choice but to run, even in his peak state he knew he stood no chance before them.

After running for about two kilometers, he looked back only to discover that the one-eyed wolves were still chasing after him relentlessly, he then remembered that their most prominent attributes were their speed. They left the dust in their wake as they ran, he took a bend as he increased his speed, tall trees, low plains, valleys, rocks flashed past, the scenery changed rapidly but the pack of wolves were still on his trail. It was as though they had a GPS tracker on him. The wild beasts nearby saw this scene and fled, although they had no sentience, they did not have a death wish.

Ye Mo was frustrated, it was a dark night, he had been running for more than two hours now but they refused to let him go. Ye Mo suddenly noticed that they stopped on their track about a kilometer away, he was surprised and suspicious and he stared at them warily. He was puzzled when he saw a gloating expression on their faces.

He took a closer look at the environment, it was a much more quieter than the places he ran past. It was more like a territory of some bigshot as the pack of wolves dare not approach, the spiritual energy was twice as other places in the wild forest.

A chill ran down his spine when a saw a colossal python that was twenty meters long python staring at him silently, it was so huge that he dwarfed in its presence. He knew he was screwed when he saw the green scaled venomous python. The python had a pair of pure black eyes with an enormous body and a long sharp tail. His luck shouldn't be that bad right! He had not gotten rid of the pack of One-eyed wolves when he jumped into an even more serious trouble.The green scaled python venom could only be cured with spirit herbs.

Hiss, hiss...

The green scaled venomous python stared at the human that intrude its territory evilly, he must be here for the plant that I have painstakingly natured for more than a decade. The python swung its tail towards Ye Mo. Ye Mo knew he had no space to dodge so he slashed multiple times with the broken branch. The python blew a poisonous fog to Ye Mo at the same time, he dodge the poisonous fog and was thrown into the sky by it's enormous tail. Ye Mo was sent reeling into the sky as his blood painted part of the sky red. He was at the brink of collapse, his ribs were fractured, his bones broken, he saw stars in his dizziness, he couldn't give up, he had not explored this world to its fullest.

It was then he had the system's elderly voice " that fellow is at the seventh stage of the Kung Fu Body Realm." He was shocked out of his dizziness, he couldn't withstand one blow despite the difference of one minor realm. It was no wonder the system was keen on his coming to the wild forest. Seeing that the system had no intention of helping him, Ye Mo braced himself for the worst. He turned to look at the distance, the pack of One-eyed wolves were still standing there, it looked like they wouldn't leave until they see him corpse.

He fought, more accurately he was beaten, the green scaled venomous python was clearly relieving his boredom as he swept his tail at Ye Mo repeatedly.

He was beaten so badly that his bones became visible to the naked eye. He had already forgotten the feeling of pain as anger,rage, humiliation had mistified his mind, he had never been beaten so badly before not even in his last life with his failed boxing career.

The beating stimulated his body potential as the cells and meridians in his body rapidly absorb the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth from the surrounding. The spiritual energy flowed from his meridians to his kidney, his kidney was being purified and strengthened, impurities flowed out of his pores making him look like a bloodied madman.

And pop... A barrier was broken and Ye Mo stepped into the legendary seventh stage of the Kung Fu Body Realm. Every part of his body brimmed with explosive power. He had a feeling that he could defeat his former self in three moves. His wounded body was healing rapidly, his cells seems to be alive as they repaired and cleansed the wounds on his body but the impurities stuck to his body.

While he was basking in the joy of his breakthrough, a long tail swept at him carrying an explosive power enough to blow up a boulder. This time was different, he did not dodge, he made a grabbing motion and clutched the python tail with both hands, he retreated a few steps to balance himself.

Bam. Bam. Bam. He swunged the green scaled venomous python whole body like a ragged doll.

The earth caved in, the tall forest trees fell, poisonous fog poured into the surrounding as the trees melted because of its corrosive power, the surrounding was in a mess. The green scaled venomous python was dizzy from the rollercoaster ride, it had clearly felt a sense of danger when the human advanced and had not taken him seriously but he thought the human would be such a monster. He had been at the stage for a decade but the human just broke through and was capable of beating him.

The python died while being swung around. The system notification failed to get his attention as his mind was focused on the changes that happened in his body. One of his five important internal organs had been strengthened, he felt as light as a feather, his impurities ridden body had been flushed with spiritual energy.

Looking at the pack of One-eyed wolves in the day stance, Ye Mo laughed sinisterly as he whooshed to them at a speed twice faster to his former self, the pack were startled by the human arrival and they rushed at him with their claws raised high. Ye Mo scoffed lightly and he threw a punch to the wolf nearest to him exploding it with one strike, seeing their kind dead their rage burned as they fought fiercely. Ye Mo shook his head no doubt that they were wild beasts they had no sentience and never knew when to retreat.

Not flustered by their joint attack, Ye Mo calmly faced them head-on, he drifted like the wind, attacked and defended training his movement and body to accustom itself to his new power, their attacks hit his body producing a clanging sound, his body had become harder. He punched forward again with the intent to kill, in less than three seconds the pack of One-eyed wolves laid at him feet dead. He went into the cave the green scaled venomous python had blocked before, he walked to the center where the spiritual energy was more dense and he saw a plant more precisely a hundred years old ginseng, it looks like the green scaled python had been nurturing the ginseng with his spiritual energy so that it breakthrough the next stage after eating but what he had sowed was reaped by someone else.

Ye Mo plucked the ginseng and kept it in the system space, after noticing that there was no more valuable thing in the cave he left.