Blue Phoenix Chapter 4 - To Become Strong

While seated within the tree, Hui Yue’s breathing slowed down and became so shallow that no one, should they pass right below the tree, would be capable of detecting him. During the time Hui Yue was within Shenyuan’s borders, he had come to understand that it was incredibly rare for beasts who were capable of scanning the area with their beast energy to scan up into the trees. They would usually scan the ground and search in those directions while only a few would think to scan into the trees above.

There were multiple reasons for this. First, the price they paid was a severe amount of their mist energy, and at the same time, the forest was split into two main regions; the sea of leaves and the forest floor. Although the two locations never existed without the other, the magical beasts which lived up in the sea of leaves never descended to the forest floor while those on the ground were incapable of climbing into the sea of leaves.

The reason that Hui Yue chose the treetops rather than the floor was due to the beasts who lived here. Although the treetops had an amazing array of bugs, birds, monkey species, and reptiles the majority of them were not territorial. Those who were would only look after their territory not caring about anything else.

The majority of these bug beasts were quite weak. Not one of them was stronger than a Practitioner rank which allowed for Hui Yue to easily protect himself. Even if a full swarm arrived, they would be nothing to the white-haired boy. It was in many ways as simple as swatting normal flies.

The snakes proved a bit more troublesome. However, they, too, were of a relatively low rank. The majority of them had the strength of a Master ranked cultivator. Their venom could be dealt with when Hui Yue allowed his qi and spiritual energy to enter his body to go through the Dai Mai meridian and enter into his muscle, blood vessels, and bones eradicating the poison which struck him.

The most challenging was avoiding the family groups of monkeys. There were so many different types of monk

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