Chapter 4 - Need More Spiritual Energy (2/2)

Even though Krune made a bee line to the inner parts of the forest, in the last three days he still got pursued by two hunter groups, fortunately there is very few hunter groups with a member capable of putting tracking markers, those two groups obviously didn't have anyone of this type and with his rich experience it was quite easy for him to leave them behind, Krune now could already feel the concentration of spiritual energy growing the further he went and from here onward it will be very hard to find any hunting group, in exchange he could few the auras of beast more often.

One of the good things about being a wisp is that as an energy being he could feel other energies that are not part of the environment around him even without developing his spiritual sense yet, which helped him to pass far away from those beast, another thing is that wisps that are not in their human forms don't have a smell to start with so the beast can track him.

But that is only for now, the higher the enemies cultivation the harder it is to feel their energy, this is basically the disparity of cultivation levels working its wonders, so Krune had to be even more cautious the further he went.

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Another five days later the Krune finally arrived at the division between the outer and inner parts of the forest, his ability to feel the beast energies is almost gone already, from here he will definitely not find any beast under the 5th stage of Qi Condensation and those are just the weak ones.

First he needs to find a place to hide, the spiritual energy around him at moment is already enough to speed up his cultivation by at least four times, he is planning to first create the two last meridians and reach the 5th stage himself before set off to look for a spirit vein, those veins are usually occupied by 7th stage QI condensation beasts or higher but even though their intelligence is better than those of lower grades they are still a far cry from an adult wisp mind, Krune is not underestimating them but now he is quite confident that as long as he plan well he will be able to get a spirit vein for himself.

There is one thing that Krune must do doesn't matter what before leaving the Katiu forest, and that is to reach the Foundation Establishment so that he can turn into his human form, if a wisp like him dares to step out in his wisp form it will be a wonder if he can get near to the closest city without being caught. But things are different when you achieve your human form, unless the other side has a cultivation much higher than oneself they will not be able to tell that Krune is a wisp, the most they will be able to see is that Krune isn't really a human but probably a demon beast in it's human form, and a demon beast with a human form is bound to be at a high level of cultivation so no one will try to find trouble with it.

In fact demon beasts in human form walking in the streets ins't anything uncommon, as long as they don't cause any ruckus in the city the guards won't do anything to them, not to mention those beast usually come with a lot of spirit stones from their lairs and those spirit stone are basically the universes currency, different from gold, silver or cooper, spirit stones are accepted everywhere.

If the city guards start to capture or kill those demon beasts no more demon beasts will come out of their lairs and the spirit stone available on the markets will definitely fall, no lord of any city wish to see that happen.

Krune advanced very carefully, trying to keep aware of the surroundings, at first everything was going okay, he was trying to find a river, if anything went wrong he could still try to dive into it again to escape, there wasn't much trees around him at moment so he had to take extra care to not be seen, sure thing by feeling the beasts energy he avoided quite a few battles, but he never thought that danger would be coming from above.

”Crowww!”

Krune froze for a moment, when he looked above he could see a dark feathered bird diving straight at him, he immediately recognized it, the four winged demon crow, a demon beast with a cultivation that varies between 5th and 6th stage of Qi Condensation.