Chapter 40: Ten Realms

The camp was bustling extraordinarily.

The initiator of all this was naturally Gu Han, who was frantically hunting demon beasts.

During this period of slaughter, Gu Han's strength had reached the ninth-stage martial apprentice.

He was only one step away from advancing to martial practitioner.

He is now deep in the dense forest, and the strength of the surrounding demon beasts has visibly increased considerably.

Randomly encountered ones are all one-star seventh-stage and eighth-stage demon beasts.

However, what Gu Han is now targeting are demon beasts that have stepped into the two-star threshold.

In his earlier battle with Xue Wen, Gu Han knew he might still have a gap with demon beasts just entering two-star, but the gap wasn't large.

Moreover, with this period's strength increase, if careful, there is still a chance to kill two-star demon beasts.

And those seventh- and eighth-stage demon beasts, although they are only one or two small stages lower than Gu Han.

But before Gu Han now, they are one punch each, unreasonable!

A continuous stream of qi blood and four-main attribute points surged into Gu Han's body.

Occasionally there are also various elemental forces and such precious harvests as demon beast qi blood.

However, because the demon beast inner cores haven't been gathered enough, Gu Han directly chose to provide the excess demon beast qi blood to Little Wolf, letting it increase its strength.

So that when facing two-star demon beasts, he wouldn't even be able to skirmish.

The heavy sound of falling to the ground rang out again loudly.

This is a huge-bodied saber-toothed pig, whose strength reached the one-star peak.

Even though it's Gu Han now, he still needed two punches to smash the opponent to death!

A warm current flowed through Gu Han's body.

"Ding, congratulations host for absorbing from the saber-toothed pig 500 points of qi blood, 50 points of defense attribute, 5 points of demon beast qi blood."

Although the saber-toothed pig's strength is not as good as Xue Wen's, it is nevertheless a representative of abundant qi blood.

The qi blood value provided to Gu Han actually equals that of Xue Wen!

"Ding, congratulations host for reaching the limit of qi blood value; you may choose to break through to tenth-stage martial apprentice, or break through to martial practitioner; please host choose yourself."

The system's voice suddenly sounded, causing Gu Han to be stunned momentarily.

"Isn't it that in this world, after ninth stage one directly advances to the next major realm?"

"Tenth-stage martial apprentice, after coming to this world, Gu Han is still hearing about it for the first time."

"\"Ten\" means perfection; whether martial apprentice, martial practitioner, or martial master, or even higher realms, only the tenth stage is the realm of perfection!"

"However, the requirements to achieve tenth-stage martial apprentice are extremely stringent; in this world only those top-tier heaven's pride can reach it; it's completely normal that the host's previous incarnation never heard of it."

The system saying this is almost as if directly saying Gu Han's previous incarnation was a weak chicken.

However, Gu Han can also understand this; if his previous incarnation were truly strong, it wouldn't have been merely a first-stage martial apprentice…

The realm of tenth-stage perfection, Gu Han had heard plenty about it even before crossing over.

In many novels, the protagonist cultivates to this realm.

However, in many of those novels, later on this perfected realm seems not to have much effect.

The protagonist that should be unbeatable, still remains unbeatable.

But Gu Han still wants to give it a gamble!

Since the theory of ten realms exists, it must have its rationale.

If you don't go through every realm, how would you know your shortcomings?

Gu Han immediately thought in his heart,

"\"I choose to break through to tenth-stage martial apprentice! \""

The resonant sound of a great bell's heart pulse echoed within Gu Han's body.

His meridians and bones are receiving unimaginable strengthening.

In the eyes of Little Wolf beside him, Gu Han suddenly burst forth a strong qi blood, which for carnivorous demon beasts possesses tremendous attraction!

But Gu Han himself seemed to have turned into a statue, motionless!

"Aoooo..."

Little Wolf immediately became anxious.

Around already sounded a series of fine rustling sounds, obviously the surrounding demon beasts came upon smelling the blood qi.

Although its strength now rivals that of an adult phantom water wolf, facing a one-star ninth-stage demon beast it still has a fighting chance.

However, if there are too many, it also cannot be a match!

Soon, seven or eight wolf beasts with pupils glowing emerald green slowly walked out from the forest.

Their bodies lowered, their emerald-green pupils fixedly stared at Gu Han emitting thick blood qi.

Foul-smelling saliva continuously dripped from their mouths, obviously they were drooling over Gu Han's flesh!

"Aoooo~"

Little Wolf anxiously howled, wanting to wake Gu Han up.

But Gu Han was like a wooden stake, with no response.

Seeing these wolf beasts drawing nearer, Little Wolf could only decide to fight to the death to protect Gu Han's life.

But just then, it suddenly noticed that these wolf beasts seemed to be of the same clan as it!

These phantom water wolves' fur, although much more mottled compared to it, is not smooth water-blue.

However, one can still roughly tell they belong to the phantom water wolf clan.

"Aoooo... Aoooo~"

Little Wolf anxiously expressed to those phantom water wolves that we are our own kind, there's no need to fight to the death.

Hearing Little Wolf's shout, the leading Phantom Water Wolf also seemed to be stunned for a moment.

Around here, only this pack of Phantom Water Wolves exists; the previous pack, due to a territorial dispute, had its wolf king fall at the hands of their wolf king.

Lately, I haven't heard of any Phantom Water Wolf giving birth to a pup outside.

However, the Phantom Water Wolf race is extremely easy to identify; they can even confirm that Little Wolf's bloodline is superior to theirs!

Within the current pack, only the wolf king possesses such pure bloodline.

One of the Phantom Water Wolves secretly wondered, could it be that the wolf king, while out fooling around, fathered this pup?

Considering this almost sole possibility, several Phantom Water Wolves howled, seemingly communicating information.

After a moment, a Phantom Water Wolf with a slightly larger head stepped forward, howled twice at Little Wolf, indicating it would take Little Wolf back to the den, then strode leisurely toward Gu Han.

That posture clearly meant it wanted to eat Gu Han before returning to the wolf den.

At this, Little Wolf suddenly panicked; seeing Gu Han about to meet his doom in the wolf's jaws, Little Wolf could only go all out.

Little Wolf's eyes darted, and it followed closely beside the Phantom Water Wolf, appearing as if it wanted to help the wolf deal with Gu Han.

The Phantom Water Wolf was very pleased with Little Wolf's performance, preparing to let Little Wolf also have a hearty meal later.

Seizing the moment when the Phantom Water Wolf was off guard, Little Wolf suddenly bit down on its throat.

Phantom Water Wolf:!!!

It didn't even have time to let out a scream before its neck was instantly snapped by Little Wolf.

The Phantom Water Wolf's body collapsed to the ground, blood continuously flowing from the wound, and in the blink of an eye it ceased breathing.

Even in death, its pupils retained an expression of disbelief.

It couldn't understand why Little Wolf would, for a human, strike against its own kin!

Seeing this, the other Phantom Water Wolves' pupils widened dramatically, and they issued threatening howls at Little Wolf.

In the next instant, several Phantom Water Wolves formed a hunting formation and surged to encircle Little Wolf!