The moment he decided to leave, Ye Wen didn't hesitate any longer. Taking the few things Old Uncle Zong had left him, he resolutely left the village.
After searching all over for some time, Ye Wen had reached a definite conclusion.
The people of these few villages really did live in a secluded paradise.
For some unknown reason, the outskirts of the villages were home only to ordinary wild beasts. Not a single giant beast ever came to this land.
But once you left this area, you found yourself in an endless Giant Beast Forest.
Perhaps it wasn't actually called the Giant Beast Forest; it was simply a place where many giant beasts lived.
Every giant beast had an extremely strong sense of territory. Whenever one dared to invade another's territory, a battle would usually break out.
Death—or the defeated one fled!
Ye Wen, of course, didn't choose the route he'd taken to get here. Instead, he headed in the opposite direction.
Today marked the tenth day since he'd left the village.
Ye Wen still hadn't made it out of this forest.
Along the way, Ye Wen had been attacked by giant beasts several times, and each time, he'd managed to escape by sheer luck.
The most dangerous encounter was with an ape-like giant beast that spotted him and kept a close eye on him.
Though the ape wasn't as enormous as the other giant beasts, it was still far stronger than Ye Wen.
It stood over three meters tall, its body hard as rock. It charged around as it walked, snapping the trees around it like twigs!
Just like that, the Ape Giant Beast caught Ye Wen by surprise and ambushed him.
Caught in its grasp, Ye Wen was utterly desperate. He hadn't even made it out of the forest—was he really going to die here, without a sound?
"No! I can't die!"
Desperation drove Ye Wen to erupt with strength. He found himself so powerful that he forced his way out of the Ape Giant Beast's two palms.
When the Ape Giant Beast realized its plaything had escaped its grasp, it flew into a rage and punched Ye Wen squarely in the body. Ye Wen was sent flying more than ten meters before crashing into a tree and finally coming to a stop.
That punch was as big as a sandbag. Ye Wen hurt so badly that he couldn't help trembling.
The Ape Giant Beast looked curious, as if wondering how such a tiny thing could still be alive after taking a punch.
After Ye Wen had been in pain for a while, he suddenly felt a faint glimmer from the Pre-cancerous Cells inside him.
They drew the spiritual energy stored within his other cells and began repairing the damaged ones.
In an instant, Ye Wen felt completely restored!
"This... This is the Pre-cancerous Cells? Is this the ability I gained from cultivating the Endless Sacred Dao Scripture?
"I don't know how strong that ape is, but that punch just now must have carried at least tens of thousands of jin of force.
"Yet it didn't break my bones or tear my muscles. I only suffered superficial injuries, and even those healed in the blink of an eye!"
Ye Wen was so excited that his soul trembled. With a trump card like this, wasn't he practically immortal?
This had to be the body the Hongmeng Human Race took pride in. As expected of a former supreme race—they were truly powerful.
Now that things had come to this, Ye Wen had no intention of continuing to run.
He went straight at the Ape Giant Beast and began to fight it. He was eager to find out where the limits of his body lay.
But the result was a little hard to watch.
Ye Wen was no longer afraid of getting hurt. Even if the Ape Giant Beast punched him in the head, he'd be perfectly fine again after a while.
But without any martial techniques, Ye Wen had nothing but brute strength. The Ape Giant Beast sent him flying again and again in every imaginable way, making for an awkward sight.
A perfect punching bag—and one that couldn't be beaten to death!
The Ape Giant Beast nearly gave up several times. This tiny thing couldn't be beaten to death, yet it kept hovering in front of it. It wanted to roar:
"You damn masochist!"
Ye Wen had gone red-eyed and thrown caution to the wind. He took out the dagger Old Grandmaster had left him and attacked the Ape Giant Beast again and again.
At first, the Ape Giant Beast had sent Ye Wen flying with a single strike.
Now, Ye Wen could just barely control the strength of his body.
He could even dodge and weave through the Ape Giant Beast's continuous attacks. It now took dozens of strikes before the beast could send him flying again.
"Am I really a fighting genius?"
The Ape Giant Beast's huge body made for a massive target, and Ye Wen could hit it with ease.
He didn't deliberately aim for any particular part of the Ape Giant Beast, because he wasn't capable of that yet.
He could only seize every chance he got to attack, stabbing wildly at the ape with his dagger.
Every time the dagger struck the Ape Giant Beast, it hurt so much that it let out a loud roar.
After being stabbed several times, the Ape Giant Beast couldn't take it anymore. It let out a furious bellow.
Then its body began to emit a faint yellow light, visible to the naked eye.
Ye Wen stopped as well. He saw what looked like a layer of armor covering the ape, its color just like black mud.
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