Chapter 978: Things have come to this point, so I have to put on a smile

Night began to fall again. Various sounds began to sound in the forest.

Ye Chen and the instructor sat face to face next to the campfire. The instructor picked up a small root and threw it into the fire, and the flames immediately shot up to a height of more than one meter.

The instructor said: "This is oil wood, specially used to press kerosene. All the oil lamps in the village use this kerosene."

Ye Chen didn't say anything, but concentrated on turning over the two animal legs on the iron shelf. In the past few days, both he and the instructor had fallen into a whirlpool of failure. The instructor always felt that failing to teach Ye Chen well was his biggest failure. Ye Chen felt depressed because his animal cultivation had not made any progress.

There was a fishy smell in the wind. That afternoon, Ye Chen killed a large magical beast. Even after absorbing its beast soul, there was still no progress at all. Ye Chen had no choice but to cut off two animal legs and roast them for dinner.

Ye Chen made several cuts on the animal's legs with a knife. The instructor gave Ye Chen two green fruits and said:

"Use this juice to rub the beast's legs."

That is a unique spice fruit in the mountains. The instructor watched Ye Chen squeeze the green fruit with his hands and let the juice pour on the animal's legs. Suddenly he said: "Let's go back tomorrow."

Going back to resume his life means giving up on Ye Chen. Although Ye Chen knew that this moment would come sooner or later, he still felt a little disappointed when he heard the instructor say it.

"Well, I'm really sorry to trouble you."

"No~", the instructor smiled to cover up his disappointment, "I'm still very happy to be with you!"

Ye Chen smiled and said nothing.

"But your body is stronger than before, which means it is still useful, right?"

Ye Chen looked at his breasts and said, "The breasts are bigger than women's."

The instructor smiled and said, "Those are chest muscles."

The two laughed.

The clan leader of the Zhan clan, like the instructor, had great expectations for Ye Chen. After listening to the instructor's report, he was silent for a long time, then walked out of the room to the living room, looked at Ye Chen, then sighed and said:

"Don't be sad, not everyone here is suitable for animal cultivation."

Ye Chen also sighed. What else could he do now that things had come to this, he could only force a smile and pretend not to care.

"It's okay, Patriarch. I have other methods of cultivation."

"Yes, young people should stay optimistic."

The clan leader patted Ye Chen, as if he had something to say but didn't want to say it. However, the instructor said: "The training these days is not completely useless. His physique has changed a lot."

The clan leader nodded and said, "That's it, you go back and rest first."

Not long after Ye Chen returned to his house, someone knocked on the door. Ye Chen opened the door and saw that it was Ella. Ella was holding a woven bamboo plate in her hand. The plate was covered with white cloth. It looked like some kind of food and had a fragrant aroma.

Ella said: "I heard that you are back, and I brought you delicious food."

Ye Chen took the thing and asked, "What's delicious?"

"The Tianxiang cake we have here."

Ye Chen put the plate on the table and took off the white cloth, only to see a light yellow flatbread inside. But it looks delicious. Ye Chen has been eating meat these days. He hasn't eaten grains for a long time, so he has an appetite for it. After eating, Ella said:

"I heard that the effect of your cultivation was not good. I'm really sorry."

"I'm sorry too."

"You weren't hit, were you?"

Ye Chen said: "A little bit, but after eating your cake, everything feels better."

The two chatted for a day. Ye Chen also felt much happier with Ella's company. But at night, Ye Chen watched the people of the Zhan clan coming and going, but he couldn't learn how to cultivate beasts, and he always felt like an outsider in his heart.

Ye Chen didn't sleep well that night. The next day, Ye Chen found Ella by the well. Ella was washing her hair. When she saw Ye Chen carrying a backpack, she asked:

"Where are you going?"

"Uh," Ye Chen said with some embarrassment, "I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Why, don't we treat you well?"

"No, I plan to continue going to the mountains to find monsters and continue cultivating them."

Ella seemed not to understand for a moment and didn’t even know what to say. Ye Chen continued: "I don't plan to give up."

"But..." Ella paused, "Then I'll go with you."

Ye Chen smiled and said, "I see that you have a lot of things to do here. If you go with me, I'm afraid it will bring you a lot of trouble. And I just want to continue trying for a while. If it doesn't work, I will give up." alright."

Ella knew it was useless to say anything now, so she could only say: "Then take care of yourself. No matter what, remember to come back."

Ye Chen nodded, said goodbye to Ella and went straight into the forest.

In the mountains and forests near the War Clan, there are relatively few monsters. Many monsters have been driven away by the War Clan or captured to make food rations. So Ye Chen only caught a few small monsters in the first few days.

However, before Ye Chen came out, he specifically consulted the old men from Zhan and learned from them that he could encounter more monsters by going northwest.

Ye Chen then kept walking towards the west. On the seventh day, he encountered a very fast monster in a valley. After a hard fight, he was able to capture it. Then he began to absorb the beast soul and eat the beast meat.

Since then, more and more monsters have appeared in the mountains and forests. It became easier and easier for Ye Chen to hunt those monsters. It's a pity that apart from letting him eat more and more animal meat, there is still no progress at all in cultivating the spiritual energy of animals.

On this day, Ye Chen was chased by a super-fast monster. Ye Chen called it "Lightning". Lightning was all black, with only a white line on both sides of its body. The white line really looked like lightning in the dark. It had the body of a cat, but a mask-like inverted triangle-shaped exoskeleton on its head. Its claws were particularly sharp and its teeth were also very sharp.

This was not the first time Ye Chen had encountered it, but since he had encountered it, it had been chasing Ye Chen, and Ye Chen got rid of it by relying on the forest. This time Ye Chen ran to the edge of the cliff, with no way to go and no forest to hide. He had no choice but to fight the monster.

However, the speed of Lightning made Ye Chen completely unable to keep up, and it bit Ye Chen's shoulder after a few jumps. Although Ye Chen felt pain, he was not as scared as he imagined. He grabbed Lightning, pulled it off with force, and threw it off the cliff.

Ye Chen didn't expect that he would be able to get rid of Lightning so easily. He looked at his wound and found that although he had not made any progress in spiritual power during this period of beast cultivation, his body had reached a very strong level. As a result, the lightning only left two minor wounds on his body.

What Ye Chen also did not expect was that due to the absorption of the beast soul, his frozen dantian and brain also began to unfreeze.