6 A troubling situation arises (1/2)

On the 7th year in the nearby forests began to grow restless, the attacks on Ever Reach Mountain grew from beasts moving out of their territory.

After losing numerous lives, more focus was put on training the younger generation and talents even if it meant putting them into the conflicts to help them grow faster.

Both little grey and brown had trained hard and experienced battle tempering themselves many times leading them to reach 3rd rank of spirit gathering.

From their accomplishments in this part of the world it would be praise worthy, typically humanmartial schools begin accepting children at the age of 6 to begin learning a cultivation manual, unless the family possesses a manual of their own they would not be able to practice.

Possessing a manual and training at a young age can be helpful towards entering a school but noble and merchant families often have more cultivation resources and better training manuals, martial skills and weapons.

Of course talent and hard work can overcome this in time but the younger years are the best time to train and build a firm foundation, beginning at a later age often the non nobles would suffer losses in competitions to gain resources due to their lower cultivation and connections slowing their cultivation speed and burying their talents.

Is it fair? Of course not but the world rule is the strong rule over the weak and often everyday to climb to the peak of strength requires facing struggles, hardship and life and death situations on a daily basis.

So it can be imagined that 2 low ranked beasts achieved this feat despite their lower ranks within the spirit beast species, perhaps their talents came from their innate attributes like their father and consuming the beasts cores of their kills.

Unlike humans who kill for vanity, possessions, love, lust, hatred, territory, justice or glory… Beasts are quite simple, they possess no wisdom until they reach 1st rank of spirit gathering and after unlocking their spiritual wisdom they are quite straight forward.

So territory issues can happen if invaded by humans or other beasts leading to some of them to attack Ever Reach Mountain, after that it is a simple rule of survival of the fittest.

They died only to have their cultivation in their beast cores consumed helping to promote the growth speed of the new generation of the mountain.

Currently there were 5 promising youngsters gaining popularity, 2 being the deer siblings, 3rd rank at 7 years old.