Lucas ran off as soon as he finished speaking. The muscular girl wanted to say more, but she could only watch him run into the distance!
The Fifth Rank Warrior who had just wanted to ask Lucas the secret of his strength saw him leave, then leaned toward his tribe's deputy chief and said, "Aren't we going after him? This is our chance to learn the secret of why he's stronger than an ordinary fifth rank warrior."
The Sixth-Rank Warrior shook his head. Although he too wanted to know the secret this fifth rank warrior possessed that allowed him to keep growing stronger, judging by the power of that last attack, he was clearly no match for him.
Before this fifth rank warrior arrived, the Velocidragon had been overwhelming them. Its departure certainly had nothing to do with them. There was only one possibility: that last blow from this fifth rank warrior had given the Velocidragon a sense of mortal danger. That was why it had chosen to retreat!
The Sixth-Rank Warrior said, "We only came out this time to put you through a trial and select a successor for the tribe!"
"We didn't bring the chief's seventh-level Earth Armored Dragon, so the few of us probably couldn't beat that young man?"
Although this Fifth Rank Warrior could also recognize Lucas's strength, he asked in disbelief, "We'd need my father's Seventh-Level Magical Beast to deal with him?"
The Sixth-Rank Warrior nodded, then said, "What else did you think? Why do you think the Seventh-Level Velocidragon left?"
Although his desire to obtain Lucas's power had blinded the Fifth Rank Warrior, his tribe's deputy chief's reminder brought him to his senses. After thinking it over carefully for a moment, he understood. He then said to the sixth-rank deputy chief, "I didn't think it through."
The sixth-rank deputy chief turned to the muscular girl and said, "You were more thoughtful, miss, planning to trick him into coming to our tribe."
The muscular girl seemed to still be savoring Lucas's strength, and simply said, "I didn't think that much about it. I just thought he must have a powerful natural physique. If I had a child with him, that child should be strong in the future too!"
Hearing his tribe's young lady say this, the sixth-rank deputy chief privately acknowledged that he had overthought it. The other boy, who had remained silent all this time, gazed thoughtfully in the direction Lucas had left and wanted to follow him. But after looking at the tribespeople around him, he gave up!
After running a long way, Lucas looked back. Seeing that the fierce girl had not followed, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Lucas slowed down, feeling some regret. He had thought he would be able to obtain a method of contracting magical beasts this time.
The chance to contract a magical beast clouded my judgment just now. I actually exposed the fact that I have a secret that lets me keep growing stronger! Luckily, I didn't reveal that I knew a battle qi cultivation method!
Their tribe's trial involved stealing the young of Seventh-Level Magical Beasts. That meant their tribe certainly had Seventh-Level Magical Beasts that had already grown up. Although he could now hold his own against a Seventh-Level Magical Beast one-on-one for a short time, that was all.
If he faced a Seventh-Level Magical Beast together with a Sixth-Rank Warrior and a group of Fifth Rank Warriors, however, the only possible outcome would be defeat and capture!
Thinking about it now was truly frightening. If they had said they had a method of contracting magical beasts, he would certainly have followed them to their tribe for the chance to contract one. Once he got there, things would no longer be up to Lucas!
The final outcome would have been horrific torture, being forced to hand over the cultivation method that allowed him to keep growing stronger, and then being killed.
Thinking about it now, he actually had to thank that muscular girl. Her blatant intentions had frightened him, and only then had he belatedly recognized the danger. After all, while training in the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, hadn't Linley been deceived by humans and suffered a slash across his stomach that nearly cost him his life? Lucas now felt that he was still too kindhearted. He was also easily blinded by power, and being unable to freely control his own desires was dangerous too.
He had read many novels, most of which had said that cultivating one's state of mind mattered more than cultivating one's own power. Thus, experiencing unity with heaven and understanding nature were more important than simply increasing one's battle qi. This was also why he had left the tribe to train.
Only after experiencing the mortal world, experiencing danger, and facing it head-on could one accumulate what one wanted!
Having lived the life of an ordinary old man, Lucas naturally could not comprehend such a realm! In his previous life, he had lost his family early on, then lost his master. After that, he had spent most of his time protecting his wife and daughter!
Now, he naturally did not want to lose too much or experience that feeling again. With something to pursue, he had a direction in which to advance!
Although it was a little regrettable that he had not obtained a method of contracting magical beasts this time, he had gained another insight. His intervention to help them had not been in vain!
Lucas only wanted to find somewhere to settle down for a while. He would first break through to become a Sixth-Rank Warrior, then head deeper into the mountain range to challenge more powerful magical beasts!
After leaving the valley where those warriors had been, Lucas knew this was an area inhabited by Seventh-Level Velocidragons. He did not dare stay here alone for long!
Although Lucas had never attended school, he was an old countryman. He knew that many wild animals gave birth to their young in safe places, and he also understood that even in places they considered safe, there were animals more dangerous than themselves that fed on their young.
Thus, Lucas naturally knew that this valley was most likely away from the Velocidragons' territory, and that there should also be powerful magical beasts here that fed on Velocidragons. So, before he had grown strong, he hurried away from this place!
Along the way afterward, Lucas continued challenging magical beasts without interruption. At dusk that day, he raised his head and looked at the clouds in the sky. After spending so long surviving in the wild, Lucas could easily tell from the weather that it would probably rain soon.
He immediately realized that he needed to find somewhere to rest before the rain began. Before long, Lucas found a cave. After checking that no magical beasts lived inside, he hurried to gather some dry wood!
Lucas had rarely had a proper bath along the way, so he planned to use the rainwater to wash the filth from his body!
By the time Lucas finished gathering things, he discovered that the rain had already begun. He lit a fire and cooked himself a pot of magical beast meat.
Then he stepped outside the cave and stood in the rain. He let the rainwater wash over his body, experiencing the might of heaven and earth in the rain.
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