Ten Days! Max-Level "Sword Saint"

The next day.

Rustle—

Rustle—rustle—

The friction of leaves being blown stirred and echoed above the jungle with the morning breeze.

Tang Zheng rested both legs on a thick branch, leaned against the trunk, and opened his eyes. He took out his pocket watch and opened it.

"It's 8:07. I wonder whether this world's time is exactly the same as in my previous life." Tang Zheng closed the pocket watch again and looked up at the forest, which was still shrouded in gloom.

Although the sun had risen long ago, very little sunlight penetrated the dense foliage.

Still, compared to nighttime, his vision was much clearer.

Tang Zheng had woken up long ago. More precisely, he had spent the entire night in a half-asleep state, perhaps because of the physical enhancement brought by his level.

Although he had not slept for long, he felt neither drowsy nor tired.

If the jungle's visibility had not been so poor, Tang Zheng would have started moving long ago.

Whoosh!

Sitting on the thick branch, Tang Zheng tilted his shoulder, and his body immediately dropped from the tree.

At the instant before he landed—

Bang!

Tang Zheng adjusted his landing posture and touched down steadily on both feet.

"Time to act."

Tang Zheng gripped the Iron Sword in his hand and spoke calmly.

As he fully entered the Troll territory,

the number of Goblins he encountered in the jungle gradually increased. At the same time, countless Goblins turned into Tang Zheng's experience points.

One day!

Two days!

Four days!

Over several consecutive days, more than a hundred Goblins became Tang Zheng's experience, along with some beasts and ordinary Monsters.

The "Sword Saint" level rose once again, reaching 9Lv!

The number of Goblins he had slain seemed considerable, but in reality, it was not. The Great Forest of Tob was extraordinarily vast, and more than a hundred Goblins were merely a tiny fraction of the countless Goblins within the Troll territory.

Moreover, these slain Goblins were only those Tang Zheng had encountered normally in the jungle. On average, he had killed just twenty Goblins a day.

So it was not many at all.

Furthermore,

Tang Zheng discovered that not all Goblins lived in groups. Many of them gathered in groups of just a few to live and hunt.

It was not that Tang Zheng was unwilling to work harder and kill more Goblins.

Rather, the jungle environment placed far too many restrictions on him. Every day, the forest remained in complete darkness for as long as thirteen hours.

That was extremely unfavorable for Tang Zheng, a human. Although Goblins were weak, they possessed the racial ability of innate "Night Vision."

Nighttime was simply unsuitable for hunting.

In addition, the dense jungle obstructed Tang Zheng's movements to some degree. The area he could cover each day was extremely limited, further restricting his ability to act.

In the days that followed,

Tang Zheng's daily routine became monotonous. He was either killing Goblins or on his way to kill Goblins.

If he was lucky, he would encounter a Troll.

After all, wherever a Troll existed, a Goblin settlement would inevitably be nearby.

As time passed,

Tang Zheng himself failed to notice that the rising number of dead Goblins had caused the outer areas of the forest to begin filling with a faint, bloody stench.

The smell gradually spread from the rotting corpses of the countless Goblins that had been left untreated.

Instead of attracting the jungle's many beasts, it caused quite a few of them to flee the outer areas in fear and migrate toward the center of the jungle.

The beasts had begun to realize that a terrifying monster had appeared on the outskirts of the forest!

4 years before the New Calendar.

Month of the Lower Wind, June 11.

Ten days had passed since Number Two entered the Great Forest of Tob.

Within a small Goblin settlement,

"Waaah!"

"Waaah—"

"..."

The Goblins' shrieks and wails rang out in a dense chorus.

Tang Zheng swung the Iron Sword expressionlessly, sword flashes constantly streaking through the air.

Whether it was because he had slain too many Goblins or because the "Sword Saint" level had risen, Tang Zheng's swordsmanship had grown increasingly polished.

He kicked out.

The heavy force sent a Goblin flying, smashing into several Goblins in the distance who were trying to escape.

Tang Zheng pushed off with his foot and caught up in a few steps. As his blade flicked,

the heads of several Goblins flew into the air and fell to the ground.

A moment later,

all the Goblins had been dealt with. As usual, Tang Zheng cut off their ears, stuffed them into his pack, and stored them in the Item Box.

Gulp~

Gulp~

Tang Zheng picked up the waterskin at his waist and poured several large mouthfuls into his mouth before finally exhaling.

Immediately afterward,

ignoring the corpses on the ground and the blood that permeated the air, Tang Zheng took out a thoroughly cooked piece of wild boar and began gnawing on it.

"This small Goblin group actually doesn't have a Troll? What a pity."

Tang Zheng's cheeks bulged as he chewed and thought silently.

The Goblin corpses around him did not affect his meal in the slightest. After all, he had grown somewhat accustomed to it after living in the jungle for so long.

At this thought,

Tang Zheng simply squatted on the ground, set the Iron Sword aside, held the waterskin in one hand, and bit into the wild boar with the other as he replenished his strength and rested.

The wild boar he had caught several days ago had been cooked directly with the "Warming" magic, then cut into pieces and stored in the Item Box. Whenever he wanted to eat, he only needed to take some out.

At this moment,

Tang Zheng looked almost like a wild man from a distance.

The sturdy hemp clothes on his body were tattered, with leaves and traces from branches in the undergrowth stuck all over them.

His originally short black hair had also grown much longer, making him look disheveled.

This was already the fifth set of clothes Tang Zheng had changed into. His previous clothes had been even more tattered than these.

If he had not mastered the "Odorless" magic, Tang Zheng would probably have been giving off a sour stench from head to toe by now.

However,

through the holes in his tattered clothes, the exposed skin clearly showed that Tang Zheng's entire body had imperceptibly developed a sturdiness and muscularity.

"Status Board."

Tang Zheng silently recited the words in his heart.

[Status Table]

Player: Tang Zheng

Karma Value: 35 [Neutral]

HP: 113 (8%) MP: 13 (1%)

Physical Attack: 113 (8%)

Physical Defense: 13 (1%)

Agility: 113 (8%)

Magic Attack: 13 (1%)

Magic Defense: 13 (1%)

General Resistance: 0 (0%)

Specialty: 0 (0%)

Total: 28%

[Ability Table]

Talent: [Player]

Overall Level: 11Lv

Experience Bar: 1721/5000

Classes:

Basic Class: Genius 1Lv (Warrior...)

Intermediate Class: Sword Saint 10Lv

Skill Points: 19

Passive Skills: Item Box, Slash Enhancement (10%)

Active Skills:

Warrior: Instant Reflection, Fourfold Slash of Light, Quick Slash, Stealth

Magic: Paper Making (1st Tier), Warming (1st Tier), Minor Wound Healing (1st Tier), Magic Arrow (1st Tier), Odorless (1st Tier)

Job Skills: Medicine Making, Alchemy