Feng Luotian cut the conversation at that and enthusiastically said to the two: “Actually, you guys should focus on your training for the entrance exam. I heard the one who gets to the top three of score ranking will directly become a disciple of an elder right away. It is a good opportunity for you, Brother Sun.”

Feng Luotian turned to Mei Yue’er and continued with his enthusiasm: “And Yue’er, although you already have a father as a school headmaster, it doesn’t hurt to try hard and top the score. With that, your father would be proud of you.”

Sun Wuji spiritedly flared up with eagerness and invited his friend: “If that’s the case, then our goals would be the same then!! We just need to get stronger, right, Brother Feng!! Let’s go to the Warland Thicket to train!!”

Mei Yue’er wiped away her tears and urged Feng Luotian to come together: “Um!! Come with us, Luotian!! Maybe you will find a fortunate encounter there.”

Getting the invitations from his friends, there was no reason for him to reject them. So, he smiled and agreed to it right away: “Okay. Let’s go then.”

Warland Thicket

Following a loud boom, a two-meter-thick tree was blown apart after being crashed by Sun Wuji’s stone body. Currently, the upper half of his body was transformed into the stone giving him a boost to offensive and defensive capabilities.

In this outermost part of Warland Thicket, the trees were much denser than any normal thicket. Trees grew faster than one could thrash them all.

Complacent with himself, Sun Wuji shouted with laughter: “Hahaha!! At this rate, I will become Six Fangs Fighter before the exam. I will beat down that Ying Lizhua to the ground the next time I see him.”

Mei Yue’er suddenly appeared behind Sun Wuji after finished her movement technique training: “Stop being delusional, Wuji!! That bastard was already at the peak of Six Fangs, only half-step to Seven Fangs. He will be even stronger by the time of the exam. How are you going to beat him, huh?”

“…” With a dazed pause, Sun Wuji rolled his eyes at Mei Yue’er: “Sister Mei, ah!! Why do you have to ruin the moment? Even if I am not strong enough, but you will definitely be. Aren’t you already Six Fangs like him? Even though you are a bit weaker than him right now, I think, with your talent, you will become Seven Fangs Fighter, or even Eight Fangs before the exam”

Even though Sun Wuji felt a bit irritated with Mei Yue’er’s indifferent comment, he spread his arms and answered in a carefree manner.

Mei Yue’er replied: “I will try.” Then she looked at Feng Luotian sitting cross-legged with closed eyes on top of a towering rock a few hundreds of meters away. She gently activated her Theríon, and streaks of green light connected between her and the place behind Feng Luotian.

After a glass-breaking sound was heard, in a blink of an eye, Mei Yue’er disappeared from her original position and reappeared behind Feng Luotian: “How is it, Luotian? Any luck?”

Feng Luotian slightly shook his head: “No. Sigh, I feel bad for everyone who supported me with these monster cores.”

Feng Luotian gestured at the pile of gems in front of him. They varied in colors and sizes. Also, the amount of energy exuding from them was different. Then he continued: “That’s including your father. He has given me a lot of monster cores, even the very expensive – Ten Fangs monster core!! And I still cannot do as everyone has expected. I don’t even have the face to meet your father right now. I’m too much of a disappointment, wasting too many cultivation resources that should have brought about other many geniuses. Sigh, you know, sometimes I wonder, where are all the energies I have been absorbing gone to?”

Mei Yue’er stayed silent, lost in thoughts.

Sun Wuji jumped up to where the two were and joined the conversation: “Yep, I was there when Brother Feng was refining the Ten Fangs monster core. And there was no change to his aura at all. Maybe next time, we should try a Talon core.”

“!!” Feng Luotian was fully taken aback by his friend’s suggestion: “Are you out of your mind, Brother Sun? Ten Fangs core’s value is more than enough for a commoner to live for a lifetime!! Now, you are asking for a Talon core, a level above that?”

Sun Wuji shrugged his shoulders not knowing what to say next: “I’m just saying.”

One could get a monster core just by hunting a monster living in the wild. After killing the monster, the core could be extracted from the strongest parts of its body, such as heart, hull, fang, claw, and etc.

Similar to humans, monsters also had power levels. And the monster’s level represented their monster core’s level. For example, a Ten Fangs Monster Core would, of course, be obtained from a Ten Fangs Monster, which had strength on par with a Ten Fangs Fighter.

Ten Fangs Fighter was the peak of the Fang Realm. The next step would be to break through to the Talon Realm and become a One Talon Warrior.

Ten Fangs Fighters were already respected and would at least become a teacher or instructor in schools, like Teacher Shu.

One could imagine how hard would it be to get a Ten Fangs Monster Core, let alone a Talon Monster Core which came from a Talon Monster holding the strength on par with Talon Warriors.

Mei Yue’er comforted her friend by volunteering to do the task: “Luotian, when I get strong enough, I will hunt a Talon Monster and get a Talon Monster Core for you.”

She was certain that with her talent, she would reach such cultivation in no time.

Feng Luotian felt warm in his heart and nodded with a smile of gratitude. But in truth, even though he deeply appreciated Mei Yue’er’s intention, he did not have much hope for it, because he felt that no matter how much energy he got from cultivation resources, nothing would change.

Every doctor in the city already diagnosed him and said that they could not do anything to elevate his conditions, or even have a way to do it. So, the root of the problem of him being a cripple should not be resolved by just absorbing energy.

Sun Wuji saw a chance and began to shamelessly boast and laugh out loud: “You know what, Brother Feng? If I meet a Talon Monster today, I will take it down and give its core to you. Hahaha!!”

Mei Yue’er would not allow such words to go untouched, so she berated him: “Wuji, what you said is impossible!! First, how is a Five Fang Fighter going to take down a Talon Monster? You will be dead in a minute facing such a creature.”

Mei Yue’er continued: “And second, you won’t find a single Talon Monster here in this outermost part of the Warland Thicket, even if you turned every stone and …!!”

RUMBLE!!

Before Mei Yue’er finished her preaching, an overwhelming suppressive force crushed the three of them. They could hardly move their bodies. Not only from the suppressive force, but it was also from their most instinctive feeling of fear.

They slowly turned their heads towards the origin of the force. And what they saw caused their eyes wide open. An enormous gray wolf appeared right before their very eyes a few hundreds of meters away.

With a shaking voice, Mei Yue’er managed to utter its identity and power: “Wight Wolf!? And this aura … a One Talon Monster?!”