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    Duncan started the next day by vacating the ce he was in as the first order of business. He was really worried that he might run into some other powerhouse, who would make him feel weak if he stayed in that spot one more night.


    It really wasn''t a good feeling to have.


    Duncan didn''t even venture far from the ce before he was best by a rampaging demonic bear. At first, Duncan tried to avoid the bear and slip by it. However, the bear directly made a beeline to his location causing Duncan to have no other option than to fight against it.


    The truly weird part of that encounter was that the demonic bear was weaker than him. It was just a middle-stage Level 1 demonic beast. With the senses of the demonic beast, it should have avoided Duncan at all costs.


    However, the reality was different.


    The bear looked hell-bent on killing Duncan, causing Duncan to reluctantly put it out of its misery. If it had been before he entered the seventh level of the Qi Condensation realm, Duncan might have had to exert some effort to kill the bear.


    However, after breaking through, Duncan''s strength waspletely different from how he was before. With a simple swing of his sword, Duncan beheaded the bear and drained its blood.


    Duncan was perplexed by the event as he knew that this was a bit uncharacteristic for the demonic bear to send itself to its death. By all logic, the bear shouldn''t have even chased after him and should have been d that he didn''t find a fault with it.


    But, things werepletely different from what logic dictated.


    Shaking his head in bewilderment, Duncan walked away from the site of the bear''s dead body not even pausing to collect its corpse. Duncan had formed a weird habit after being in the wilderness for a dozen days now.


    He would only collect the corpse of the beasts that truly gave him some challenge while battling. Only the meat of those beasts will be smoked or roasted by him and consumedter. As for the nuisances that he could easily dispatch like this bear, he only collected their blood for his wine.


    Little did Duncan know that his encounter with the bear was the first in a long string of strange events that happened throughout the day! All through the day, he was constantly challenged by a lot of demonic beasts, causing him to be embroiled in one battle after the other.


    The thing that irked Duncan the most was that even lower-level demonic beasts would challenge him. Only when he exerted a bit of his cultivation pressure would they turn tail and flee.


    One particr time, Duncan had a really huge headache when he was set upon by a group of monkeys who were at the middle stage of Level 1. If it was before he broke through, he would have no other option but to flee for his life after being chased by so many demonic beasts at the same level as him.


    But, with his breakthrough, Duncan wasn''t afraid of these monkeys. He dispatched the first few brutally and intimidated the others into retreat. But, that reprieve onlysted for a small time.


    For the next few hours, he was constantly being hounded by this bunch. As time passed, their number only seemed to increase causing a hugemotion to erupt wherever he went.


    Despite trying to leave them in dust multiple times, these monkeys would somehow find their way back to him as if they had something that could track him through the wilderness.


    As for getting rid of thempletely, Duncan could only dream about that. The moment he stopped and killed one monkey, the rest would flee into the distance. They would watch and wait until Duncan left before once more following him. This happened a few times causing Duncan to feel a little aggrieved.


    The most annoying part was not them following him. It was the fact that they would create amotion any ce they went causing other beasts to take note as well. The moment these beasts took note, they would rush to challenge Duncan as if they were obsessed.


    If he was a little careless while dealing with these other beasts, these monkeys might use that opportunity to steal his stuff. Several times, these monkeys have tried to steal Duncan''s bag causing him to kill a few of them in retaliation. But, nothing seemed to intimidate them for a long time.<novelnext></novelnext>


    Duncan felt really aggrieved after being harassed like this by this bunch of hooligan monkeys. But, there was really nothing he could do to deal with these monkeys effectively.


    He didn''t have anyrge area of effect attacks in his arsenal to decimate a bunch of them with one swing. He fought with his sword. That meant, he was someone who engaged in closebat most of the time. His manner of killing is to cut his opponent.


    Duncan felt that he was at a severe disadvantage in dealing with these hooligan monkeys, who only harassed him instead of fighting him. If only he knew some kind of attack that could damage arge area, then he could have taken care of these nuisances in one go.


    So, by the time midday rolled around, Duncan was really not in a good mood. He was pissed off and seething with frustration.


    Finding a tree with arge shade, Duncan rested his legs a bit and refreshed himself a bit. The distant sounds of the monkeys creating a ruckus caused Duncan''s eyes to twitch a bit.


    "Looks like I need to get off this regionpletely. The beasts here are around the strength of middle stage Level 1. If I venture further in, I mighte into the territories of advanced stage Level 1 beasts. Let me see if these monkeys dare to enter their territories," Duncan let out a vicious smirk and nced in the direction of the ruckus.


    "I don''t whose bad luck that rubbed off on me. Things have been going well until yesterday. Maybe it was meeting Shen Wulong that caused this. Ever since I met that guy, I have been running into one trouble after the other. Even my senior brother refused to help me, sigh! This fellow Shen Wulong''s luck seems to be really bad," Duncan muttered irritatedly.


    Suddenly, his eyes twitched in annoyance. Unsheathing his sword, Duncan shed it behind him causing a head of a monkey to fly out andnd with a thud. Turning around, he saw a few monkeys scurrying into the distance. This has be a familiar sight to him throughout this morning.


    "These things are getting more and more craftier. While most of them created a ruckus and diverted my attention, some of them sneaked behind my back and tried to steal my stuff," Duncan grumbled.


    "If not for my hones senses, I would have fallen prey to their deviousness long back. Driving other beasts to fight me while they tried to steal my stuff, creating ruckus and diverting my attention, repeatedly harassing me non-stop, these things really have some means," Duncan let out a murky breath and got up from his resting position.


    "I need to get rid of them soon. Or else, these things might just drive me nuts," Duncan gritted his teeth and set off into the interior regions hoping to cow these abominable nuisances with the help of other demonic beasts.


    After traveling for a while, Duncan reached a spot where the wilderness gave way torge grass fields. True wilderness inside the Grasnds was only limited to certain regions. Most of the area in the Grasnds was filled with tall grasses. That was the reason this region was called Grasnds.


    And the area these grasses grew in was truly vast. Duncan had heard from merchants in Starmist City that the region of Grasnds wasrger than several provincesbined. Seeing the geographical maps featuring Grasnds as a whole in the sect has truly opened Duncan''s eyes as to how vast the region that was called Grasnds truly was.


    Duncan stopped at the region where the wilderness met the grass fields and turned to look back. He saw the monkeys tailing him from a distance. They were hanging in the trees and using the leaves as a cover. But they were truly doing a pitiable job of it.


    Letting out a murky breath, Duncan stepped into the grass fields hoping this new area might put an end to these nuisances. Within moments, he used his movement technique and vanished into the distance.


    "Let me see if they truly dare to venture into the grass fields," Duncan muttered to himself and continued on his way determined to put as much distance between him and those damn monkeys.


    A few moments after Duncan vanished into the distance, arge group of monkeys came to the same spot he had stopped and looked ahead with worried faces. They screeched at each other for a long time and came to a consensus.


    Half of them turned around and vanished into the wilderness, while the other half looked at the grass fields in trepidation for a bit and followed the delicious scent of fruit that was left in the wake of the human they were tracking.


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