Chapter 162: Testing Strength (1/2)

Alex let Pearl fight for a bit longer. He kept finding monsters a little stronger than last time and had Pearl fight them. In the end, it was still the massacre. The cute, little guy could kill anything a realm lower than him in a single swing of his palm. Even monsters in his own realm struggled to stay alive.

Only monsters 2 realms higher than him could threaten him.

Along the way, he had seen quite a few alchemy materials by now and had taken them whenever he found one. He then found an area devoid of alchemy ingredients and no other monsters around.

”Alright, that's enough training against monsters. I came here to train and see exactly how strong I have become compared to the environment.”

He stood in front of a giant tree and reeled in his Qi so that it was hiding in his meridian and was no longer available around his body. His natural defense and offense dropped by over an entire minor realm.

He made a fist and punched straight into the tree. The tree was about 2 meters in thickness and Alex punches the exact center.

BOOM

The tree rustled as hundreds of leaves started falling. As for the place itself where he hit, there was a gaping hole, at least 20 cm deep. ”Wow, that is more than I would've imagined. ”

He looked at the hole and realized just how strong he was. ”Fighting against people in your own range doesn't exactly help you understand this sort of thing, does it?” he thought.

He punched the tree a few more times and decided to use different attacks. Legs, elbows, shoulders, fingers, palm, chops. He used whatever he could. In the end, the tree fell down from the overwhelming amount of holes in it.

Alex wasn't even a little bit out of breath. He looked around with his spiritual sense to see if he had attracted anyone, but thankfully he hadn't. He proceeded to the next tree about the same size as this one.

He let the Qi he was keeping inside his meridian flow out to every part of his body. Power coursed through his body once more as his cultivation base returned back to Organ Tempering 3rd realm.

”Alright, let's see what happens with a minor realm higher cultivation base. Although I don't think my cultivation base counts as a normal cultivation base,” he chuckled to himself as he thought about it.

He separates his cultivation from his body, but he couldn't separate his body from his cultivation unless he resorted to Qi-based attacks.

He prepped his fist once more, expecting to make a deeper hole this time. Without further ado, he punched the tree.

BOOM