As fall sets in, John is preparing to breakthrough. 'I’m finally reaching the starting point.’ He says excitedly. Now with the core growing solidly inside him, he is feeling more secure. Hopefully, no one will notice him. So he can whittle the centuries away, in peace like a good plant cultivator.

By John’s side, the ever-present Joe, the bull is lazing about sleeping. Joe has defeated most of the strong demonic beasts in the area. He is now the king of the hill and surrounding lands. At least the number of challengers has dropped. John is sure that there won’t be anyone disturbing him during his breakthrough.

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“Dammit, since when was there a demon bull guarding this hill?” Elanor curses at the hill. Why did it have to cause her so many problems? She had come a month after healing. But to her surprise, there was now a stubborn demonic bull on the hill.

Cursing her luck, she had stealthily watched the hill, for the past month. She knew for sure she was right about a treasure appearing. Why else would such a demonic beast stake its claim on the hill? She had witnessed the strange quick-growing grass and the battles between demonic creatures.

”It isn’t a treasure hunt if I just smash everything, is it?” Elanor questions herself. She doesn’t seem to have a choice now. No one is willing to help her. Even after she described the strange occurrences, they’d already scoured the area and weren’t willing to take a risk for nothing. Still, she is determined and meticulously spies on the bull. After a while, she notices that the demonic beast sleeps quite heavily after eating its fill.

So after waiting a few days in the tall grass surrounding the hill, she finally sees her chance. The bull had gorged itself quite heavily and is now sound asleep. Elanor nervously bites her nail. But no matter the risk, she isn’t willing to wait any longer. She slowly crawls through the grass towards the hill to seek her good fortune.

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As John gathers his strength to break through, he notices something strange. On the edge of his senses is a peculiar sight that leaves him speechless. There is a young lass with her butt waving in the air while she crawls through the grass. Her hips sway back and forth with even her behind jiggling a bit.

As she grows closer, John observes a perspiring young lady with some great curves. When he was human, it was impossible to view such beauty. Let alone get close enough to see her perspiration and pure white skin. Now, however, a strange determined young lady crawls on the ground towards him.

‘Does she think she’s hiding?’ John wonders. He is in awe of the sight before him. A woman with the bobbing rear end of an untouchable fairy (Note Fairy is often used in Chinese novel translations for otherworldly beauties, and Elanor is not the mystical creature) crawls towards him. Her chest dislodged, showing more cleavage then such beauty would typically show. ‘Of course, if she knew that I am watching, she wouldn’t be so bold and audacious,’ John reasons.

As John jovially watches this woman’s antics, he tries to understand what this beauty is up too. There is only him and Joe up here. Yet Joe is too strong, and he hasn’t even reached Seed coalescing. So to John, there is nothing of value here. Once on the hill, the young girl starts digging around and searching for something.

John can’t hold it in anymore and laughingly thinks, ‘there is no treasure here, silly girl. Just a fat bull that doesn’t know how to stop eating!’ Of course, this did no good as the girl can’t hear him. As the determined girl continues to look around for treasure, he begins to worry. ‘The only conspicuous thing up here is me,’ he concludes. John is afraid that this determined female might take him to be the treasure. If he gets taken away, who knows what will happen. Perhaps some alchemist will grind him up and use him in some mysterious potion?

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Elanor is quite happy with her stealth ability. She is sure even if someone came along, they would see nothing. It wasn’t easy, though, as she curses her loose clothes as they begin to shift poorly. ‘Luckily, no one can see me,’ she consoles her self as she hugs close to the ground.

She remains sure that the treasure must be nearby. ‘Is it around this lame looking bush?’ Elanor speculates. The grass grows with the bush as the center point. Even a fool can tell something is strange. She starts to inspect the area thoroughly. “Hopefully, the treasure has come to the surface, since the original search,” Elanor mumbles.

As Elanor focuses on her search, she feels her hand in some sort of squishy mud. She freezes in shock, ‘it hasn’t rained recently!’ She hesitantly inspects where her hand is. To her dismay, she finds it in the middle of a big pile of manure. If she weren’t searching for a treasure, she would definitely cry out.

With tears in her eyes and a slight sniff, Elanor continues her search. She glances at the sickly bush as she begins to search around its roots. Soon though she gives up, there is nothing there. ‘It is probably closer to the Demonic beast,’ she reasons. With trepidation, she crawls away from the bush towards the bull. Slowly the curvy woman inspects every inch of ground.

Elanor is so focused on the ground that she is oblivious to the world around her. The young cultivator furiously searches for the treasure until she feels something on her bottom, knocking her out of her revelry. She nearly yelps but quickly covers her mouth with her clean hand suppressing it. Glancing behind herself, however, shows no offender. “Keep it together. No one is here!” Elanor consoles herself quietly as she suspiciously looks for what had touched her.

After a short time, she puts the incident out of her mind and continues the search. The beautiful treasure hunter isn’t willing to give up over a figment of her imagination. Then she feels a slap on her round rear end. “Eek!” she screams out. The sudden pain makes it impossible to suppress her reaction.

Elanor is beyond infuriated, ‘Who is playing a prank on me?’ She asks herself while gritting her teeth. She quickly gets up to search for the offender. Yet none can be found anywhere. She begins to feel a warm wind on her shoulder that smells like a garbage dump. “Ew gross, what is that stink?” the fairy complains. Elanor can’t help but hold her nose with her clean hand and turn around angrily. As she does, her complexion becomes pale white as a furious demonic bull stares at her.

“I'm sorry! Please don't eat me," Elanor screams while running away with a mischievous smile. She is a swift girl as she often has to run from lustful men and women. She can't blame them; she is just too attractive, so everyone wants her. After pursuing her for an hour, the demonic bull gives up. Joe is more worried about his hill, then a silly girl hopping around the nearby grasslands.

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John is flabbergasted; he had only wanted to deter the girl and scare her away. He hadn't expected such a massive reaction from his small slap. John sigh in exhaustion. It took too much strength to move like that. 'So much for breaking through today,' he sighs dejectedly. He prays for the young girl to escape. He won't enjoy watching her decompose after being skewered by the giant bull’s horn. Still, he is safe for another day. Hopefully, this young lady will not return.