Three days later in the residential area, Bai Chen was meditating in the room he’d rented. His facial expression was calm. His eyes were shut tight. He had been absorbing celestial qi.

Suddenly, his eyelids quivered. He opened his eyes. His lips curved into a smile.

“It seems like my secondary foundation level is very stable now. I should be ready for the tertiary level.”

Bai Chen slowly stood up. After he’d gotten out of the Tien Nan trade association building, he’d rushed to the best residential area right away.

It was in the eastern part of Xin Ye city. According to the memories he had, it was a great residential area filled with celestial qi.

As for the price, it was reasonable for Bai Chen. The rental fee was only 1000 gold coins.

He’d already got his money from in-huang flowers and earth herbs that he’d sold, so it was nothing for him.

After standing up, Bai Chen felt like he needed a shower. He walked out of his medium-sized room to the back of the house.

Behind it was a small open space. There were wooden buckets with clean water in it. It was where he came for a shower. Every rental house had this shower area. It was not much, but it was enough.

After a shower, Bai Chen walked out of the house. He dressed in a light blue colour outfit that he’d bought during the past three days. He was about to go to a small restaurant in the area.

He wanted to try the food in this city. Then, he would be off to do more sub-missions. After that, he thought about meditating until he reached the tertiary level.historical

He walked for a short while and eventually arrived at a traditional restaurant. It was like the ones he saw in period Chinese martial arts movies.

There were less than 10 people in the restaurant. Bai Chen walked in, sat at an available table, and ordered his food like he used to.

He was used to this because of the memories that he’d gotten from his future self. He used to come and eat here.

Shortly after that, the food arrived. Five bowls of egg noodles were placed in front of Bai Chen. The steam came out of the bowls packed full of beast meat and small egg noodles.

This was called beast egg noodles. The broth was made from a beast called the four-eyed chicken, which was a low-grade beast that could be found practically everywhere in the celestial world.

Bai Chen looked at those five bowls for a whole. Nostalgia crept into his heart. He started to eat them. They were very delicious, but not as good as the food that his mother or Xu Xue Ning made.

In only the blink of an eye, it was already two hours later. Bai Chen was standing outside the city. In front of him was the hundred-beast forest.

The hundred-beast forest was as its name implied. There were more than one hundred kinds of beast in it!

There were not only beasts, but also valuable herbs ranging from low- to high-grade ones!

However, it was difficult to find even one. If one did not have enough luck, it was very hard to find a single herb in this hundred-beast forest.

‘This forest is full of strong beasts. The strongest ones are at a tertiary foundation level. I have to be more cautious than usual,’ Bai Chen thought.

His future self, who’d reached the very end of the cultivator’s path until he could stand in the immortal realm, would certainly not have had the time for any medium-grade beast at the formation level.

The reason why the formation beasts were called medium-grade beasts, instead of low-grade, was because formation beasts were medium-grade beasts.

The beasts that were considered medium-grade beasts were formation and earth solid beasts.

If they were at higher levels, they would be categorised as a higher grade. If they were lower than the formation level, the nascent and foundation levels, they were all low-grade ones.

Humans were also categorised like this. Cultivators who were at a nascent or foundation level would be called low-grade.

A lot of people walked in and out of the hundred-beast forest every day. Every single one of them was a cultivator. They all wanted to grow stronger.

However, it was not a smooth path. It was actually rather unyielding and harsh. If one missed only a single step, even one’s life would be lost. One would have to die in the cruel world of cultivators!

Some cultivators who visited the hundred-beast forest came back out with immense power, while some could never make it back.

It was obvious how dangerous the hundred-beast forest was.

“Weakling, if you don’t plan to go in, don’t block the way!”

While Bai Chen was standing in front of the entrance of the forest, an unsatisfied voice could be heard.

Bai Chen could not help but frown. He turned to look at its source.

He saw a group of five people. One of them was familiar.

Bai Chen had met him three days ago. It was that arrogant fat man.

The fat man seemed to recognise Bai Chen as well. He spoke with disdain. “It’s you!”

“You know this man, big bro Tong?” one of the men asked.

They were all middle-aged men. It seemed like ‘big bro Tong’ was the strongest among them, at the tertiary foundation level. There were two secondary foundation cultivators and two primary foundation cultivators.

The fat man was named Tong Ba. He shook his head slowly. “How would I know this trash?”

“Don’t cross the line too much!” Bai Chen spoke coldly. Even though he acted like he had been calm earlier, he would not just stand there and be the only one being cursed at.

People had their limits, whoever they were. Even Chinese monks got angry when they were mocked about their bald head; Bai Chen was no exception.

The entrance of the forest was huge. It was clear the fat man had intentionally shouted at him to show off his superiority and his greater strength!

End of Chapter 382