Chapter 5 Mishap Turned into Blessing (1/2)

Chapter 5 Mishap Turned into Blessing

The sudden death of the Shadow Tracker, had left Daniel worried to say the least He expected that the crocodile would turn its attention back on him at any moment, so in his mind, dozens of ideas on how to escape were made and discarded

What he did not expect, was for the Yellow-striped Cairound Fresh blood oozed from its injuries, which aye belly pressed on the ground, and its leathery eyelids blinked slower the more ti of the big crocodile's chest turned slower and gentler, he understood that it didn't have e to crawl out of the nest of sticks and roots that protected him

His eyes directed at the crocodile with hostility and a still lingering fear He had risked his life more than once because of this beast It would have killed hile er Daniel stood in front of the dying crocodile, the less fearful he felt He thought about how his sister would have been worried sick about hi, about how she would be unable to pay the next installment of their debt how she would have ended in the hands of that disgusting man, which would have used her, and then forced her into prostitution or worse His anger grew by the h he was fairly sure the beast did not have long to live, he was unwilling to bet on it

As this thought crossed his e rock with both hands, approached the giant crocodile, and bashed it over its skull

Thump

The rock hit the head of the crocodile hard enough for its flesh to flatten, and its scales to cave in Daniel's anger grew bigger after the first hit He didn't knohy such a powerful beast would follow him for hours he wanted it dead

Thump Thump Thump

The crocodile's skull started to chip and splinter under the bloody mess that was once a layer of durable scales

Thump Thump Thump Thum-cruh Crr-squelch Squash Squash Squash

Blood and brain e stone down against the crocodile's large skull over and over again Before he could notice, he was covered in thick blood Pieces of brain and flesh were spattered over his arms, chest and face The stone was so deeply sunken into the Yellow-striped Caiet it out, he would need to tuck his hands inside the sore inside its skull and pull

Daniel sat on the ground His lungs swelling and deflating at an astonishi+ng rate, as he looked at his blood covered hands The first thing he tried to do, was to clean the them over his clothes, but since his clothes were also drenched in blood and brainhis s When his eyes met with the Shadow Tracker's body, his face turned into one of relief He was afraid of that beast, but it happened that this panther had saved his life, so he didn't feel any hate towards it

Daniel was standing, trying to calculate the direction, when soht his attention No further than twosized pearl was resting on the ground

The pearl was covered in blood, with small pieces of brain matter stuck on its surface, and splattered all around it Daniel would have never noticed it if not for the di

Daniel didn't know much about ranked beasts, since he had lived all its life inside the city walls, and went out only to scauide, he was unfa beas cores Of course, that didn't mean that he had never seen one of a lower level The various marketplaces weren't only places for common citizens to buy pottery, clothes or other items of common use In fact, most of them had a vast choice of weaponry, armory, elixirs and even beast cores

When he was a kid his father had teached hithen their own bodies A practitioner of the Martial Cultivation would absorb the core essence and turn it into Ki The ki would then be used to refine the various parts of the cultivator's physical body, as opposed to cultivators of the Spiritual Cultivation, who turned the core essence into then the cultivator's connection of his spirit with the Spiritual Plane, which would allow them the use of eleic

Beco a practitioner of both types of cultivation was impossible, as Ki reinforced the practitioner's body to a point where it would beco to connect the spirit to the spiritual plane at that point, would be like trying to push the end of a thread through a steel wall

Daniel had only heard from his father about Martial cultivation, as he himself was a practitioner, as h, about the reason why practitioners of the Spiritual cultivation couldn't strengthen the body afterwards

What a practitioner of the spirit would tell him, is that the spirit isn't bound to any part of the body A person's spirit would extend to the entire body Laws of space didn't matter for the spirit, which had no need to reach a determined place to connect to the spiritual plane The spiritual plane herever the spirit was, so the entire connection between the tas the practitioner's body

If the body was too resistant, the spiritual plane would be cut off fro it impossible to connect the two

The critical point was the peak of the third rank

At the peak of the third rank, the body was not durable enough to cage the spirit, so most practitioners had to choose which path of cultivation to follow, before advancing to the fourth rank One exa cultivated to the fourth rank of ic

Daniel didn't know the first thing about absorbing beast cores Losing his parents at a young age and the responsability of keeping hirow up earlier, and work for the past four years, so he had never had a chance to go to school Nonetheless, he was fiercely intelligent With the first few copper coins that he ht books and clothes for his sister She o years older than hio to school

Before their mothers died, he had promised her that he would have worked hard, taken care of his sister, and done all he could to prevent his sister froood life for herself

His expression whilethat promise, was so determined that his mother believed in it, without the shred of a doubt