8th Stage of the Kung Fu Body Realm

The sky was dim and swarthy, there was no concept of day, everything was dark, the pale moon illuminated the dark world faintly. The land was crooked, the dangerous terrains of the land spoke volumes of the perils that lie within.

It was like another world, the inner boundary of the Wild Forest gave an horrendous feeling, as though a terrific beast was overseeing the world from a different time and space. The Spiritual energy was thin, some plants had lost their vitality. Words of the mouth could no longer be used to describe this place; Ye Mo thought silently.

Powerful and vigorous roars could be heard coming from all corners of the forest. Spirit beasts; they were beasts that had their own sentience and had formed their beast core. They were on par with cultivators of the Kung Fu Spirit Realm and even slightly stronger, because they possessed a more stronger body.

When the system had told him to fight Spirit beasts, he considered it a death mission. Although, he was not afraid of Spirit cultivators in the first stage like the 'Senior brother Qin' he met earlier, those of the higher stages posed a fatal threat to him. He would not even last a single move under the onslaught of a second stage Spirit cultivator.

Luckily for him, he bought the encyclopedia of Spirit beasts from the system before venturing into the inner boundary. Though it had cost him all the accumulated experience points he gained while hunting in the outer boundary, he was not the least bit saddened or regretful, he remembered the old saying "the better the devil you know than the one you don't". What would truly be disastrous was for him to fight a beast he had no knowledge of. He had to play to the side of caution as the unknown was always terrifying.

Ye Mo walked vigilantly in the forest, he encountered many dangerous crevice and had nearly fell into many poisonous fog. As he went deeper into the forest, he fought different beast that had not fully condensed their core, the half-step Spirit beast, which he easily took care of.

Bang...

A pit was formed on the hard ground, as a gigantic Spirit beast came to Ye Mo's view. He was shocked when he saw the Spirit beast that had suddenly appeared, thankfully he bought the spirit beast encyclopedia from the system, he knew at first glance that the Spirit beast before him was a Stone Ape. Their body was not made of stone but it was no different from it.

They had a massive and very strong body, even cultivators two stages higher than them would avoid a head-on clash because of their strong defense.

The Stone Ape before him was a Tier-1 Spirit beast, with strong body and agile movement; it weakness lay in its abdomen. The human and the beast stared at each other for a long time and ...

Whoosh... The Stone Ape moved first and arrived before Ye Mo in a flash, throwing it's mountainous body upon him.

Ye Mo heart leapt to his throat, he was scared sh*tless, he hurriedly rolled on the ground to avoid the bone breaking impact.

Wham...A deep pit emerged where the Stone Ape body collided. Seeing that the human dodge the attack, the Stone Ape growled ferociously and charged again; it waved it claw blocking Ye Mo's escape route. He had no choice but to face it head-on. The system had stated earlier that fighting or better still getting beaten will improve his body faster.

Bang... Ye Mo clashed with the Stone Ape and was ruthlessly thrown five meters away. He nearly spat a mouthful of blood, he threw the branch he had been holding away, using the most crude boxing technique found back in his home planet to fight the beast.

His hands soon lost their feelings, the Stone Ape dealt him a serious blow on his back,he couldn't hold it any longer, he directly spat blood on the dark ground. His tenacious side kicked in, he fought more fiercely but kept his clarity. He gradually grew accustomed to the attacks, defending and attacking at intervals.

The spiritual energy from the surrounding slowly flowed into his body as he activated the body technique and fought at the same time. The Stone Ape eyes turned cold, he never took the human seriously, he simply wanted to see the human helpless expression before killing him, but this human had regarded it as a training tool. The attack became more brutal,but it was already too late.

Pop... The thin line seperating Ye Mo and the 8th stage of the Kung Fu Body Realm was broken, his body became more powerful, his body became more nimbler and his speed much faster. The Stone Ape narrowed it's eye, he could feel a faint threat coming from the human.

Bang... This time Ye Mo struck first, his first connected to the Stone Ape rock-like body causing it to retreat a few steps. Ye Mo was exhilarated, he found it unbelievable, his strength seems to have doubled. The Stone Ape widened it eyes in shock, that blow had caused minor injuries despite his frightening defense capability.

The aura of the Stone Ape changed abruptly, as a spirit beast it could awaken it's beast soul. The body of the Stone Ape now gave a mountainous pressure. Ye Mo would describe it as the Stone Ape gaining another rock body, in a short term his body became twice as hard as before but Ye Mo was not the least bit nervous, to be exact he had only exerted 70% of his strength in the former clash.

The Stone Ape charged at Ye Mo with lightning speed, his brutal eyes gazing at Ye Mo as if he was a dead man, the attack was simple yet brutal, he wanted to ram Ye Mo to death. Realising it's intention, Ye Mo threw a full powered packed punch at the Stone Ape, which was sent reeling back a few meters. His hands became slightly numb, the eyes of the Stone Ape regained it original clarity, the Stone Ape looked at the surroundings warily, it had a time believing that the punch was from that human. It clashed again with Ye Mo to verify this fact.

Bang! This time was even more serious, as it smashed down dozens of trees on its journey backwards.

Pow... For the third time, the Stone Ape finally understood that he had met a monster, he fled into distance with its fastest speed, judging from the aura of the human, he was a sixth stage Kung Fu Body cultivator, but he couldn't even withstand a strike with the body their ancestors had been proud of.

Ye Mo looked at the direction the Stone Ape escaped and shook his head. The 8th stage of the Kung Fu Body Realm had brought him quantitative changes, his power outburst doubled, his speed and reaction doubled and the flexibility of his body increased. He pushed that to the back of his mind and headad in another direction, once bitten, twice shy, he became more vigilant this time around, he wouldn't want beast popping out of nowhere scaring the sh*t out of him.

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" Second brother, I will create an escape route for you, quickly take third and fourth brother away."

" No first brother, we agreed not to abandon ona another, this time we will escape together."

" Yes, second brother is right, we either die or escape together."

" Now is not the time to share emotional sentiment, it decided second brother take your junior brothers away, while I buy time for you guys."

Ye Mo heard voices coming from the valley ahead of him, he tiptoed and appeared behind the group silently only to see the Stone Ape that had escaped earlier fighting with some group of young men. The Stone Ape paused it attack suddenly and slowly turned around to see a familiar face, it had changed it escape route three times to shake off that human, but the human proved to be a sticking leech. The young men were shocked, why did the Stone Ape suddenly flee? They heard a whoosh and a young boy appeared before the Stone Ape.

" You think you can escape again? Die!" Ye Mo used every part of his body as a weapon as he hit the Stone Ape abdomen with his full strength nailing it to the ground dead.

The four young men were shocked, one move and the Stone Ape was killed. Clearly this young boy was just hiding his strength, he must be at the stage above the spirit realm.

" Thank you for your help, we will forever be in your debt." said the first senior brother wearing an amicable smile.

" Thanks to benefactor for your timely rescue, we four brothers will remember this favour." The young man next to the first senior brother added

Ye Mo gazed at them without uttering a word for a long time. He found it absurd for a group of Kung Fu Body Realm cultivators to venture into the inner boundary, forgetting that he was also in the Kung Fu Body Realm.