Duncan jumped through the bush and swung his sword in a vicious manner.
The demonic beast that was fleeing from him let out a mournful cry and died, as Duncan's sword cut into its body with ease. Hot blood splashed across Duncan's face as he calmly wiped it away.
Grabbing the bleeding beast's body, Duncan lifted it above his head and drank its blood hungrily. When his hunger was satiated, Duncan produced a gourd made of wines from his bag and collected the remaining blood nonchalantly.
It had been ten days since he had been left in the wilderness by his senior brother.
During these ten days, Duncan had gone through an earth-shattering transformation both physically and ntally. He no longer shied away from fights. Rather, he welcod them with gusto.
Even if he could feel that the demonic beast in front of him was stronger than he was, Duncan readily engaged in a fight against the beast these days. Sotis he would eke out a victory, sotis he would have to flee with his tail tucked behind.
Regardless, he never shied away from a fight.
Duncan had a few goals these days. If the demonic beast he ca across was stronger than him, he would fight until he wounded it and then flee from it. If the beast was weaker, then he would hunt them down and kill them no matter where they tried to flee.
With these two creeds in mind, Duncan's ti in this wilderness beca a constant slew of battles. There would rarely be any ti from battling one beast to another. By the ti he was done with one beast, he would have wandered into the territory of another beast and it would also attack him.
Duncan never cared about doing things discreetly. He never hid and found an appropriate ti to assassinate a demonic beast. He preferred to engage them head-on and fight it out with them.
With such an attitude, Duncan almost lost his life multiple tis in these ten days.
To anyone else, such a reckless manner of cultivating would be a huge danger. But, to Duncan, this was the ideal way to cultivate his .
By putting his life on the line and battling non-stop he had made trendous progress in the past ten days. Every ti he had been forced into a corner, he sohow found himself breaking through and escaping his predicant one after the other.
His cultivation has been on the rise continuously for the past ten days. He was close to reaching the seventh level of the Qi Gathering realm by now. The seventh level of the Qi Gathering realm is also called as Advanced Qi Gathering stage. Form being a novice in cultivation to reaching the Advanced Qi Gathering stage, Duncan has spent at most 20 days in total.
This showed how suited this cultivation technique was to cultivate in such a manner.
It was not just that. Duncan's increase in cultivation was just one of the effects of his arduous training regin. Along with his cultivation realm, his martial techniques have also reached a new level in these ten days.
Constant fighting had seen his is made to thrive in slaughter. It was where the full effect of his cultivation technique showed its might. Without engaging in slaughter, it is impossible to cultivate this technique.
Likewise, his acted on the principle that a sword could cut absolutely everything. As long as the sword was sharp, it cut through anything in this world.
But, these days, Duncan began to realize that the sword ntioned in the booklet is not a physical sword or a treasured weapon. The sword was a taphor. It actually referred to a kind of mindset. As long as a person understood this and explored this, their strength would increase trendously.
Likewise, the cut ntioned wasn't just a sword cut. It was also a concept. As long as the user understood this concept, they could increase the power of their strikes multiple tis, regardless of what weapon they held in their hands.
Unfortunately, Duncan has only been able to glimpse into these secrets from far away. Those concepts were cloudy in his mind. He didn't entirely understand the aning behind them. While he knew what they represented, he wasn't able to understand them even a single bit.
Right now, he hasn't even scratched the surface with his techniques. He was like an outsider standing in the distance and looking enviously at the drunken reverie that was happening so distance away.
Only when he joined this drunken reverie would he be able to see, feel, and understand the reverie in an intimate manner. Standing at a distance and knowing that a reverie is happening was of little help to gain true understanding.
However, even knowing these things has increased Duncan's power considerably. Just being an outsider who knows about the reverie was enough to boost his strength to a whole new level.
Duncan could only imagine how ferocious his strength would beco once he understood these things.
However, Duncan's improvents didn't just end there.
As an added bonus, Duncan's constant battles have honed his instincts to a ridiculous degree. Being constantly hunted or chasing after prey had made his danger sense to be developed to a high degree. Duncan could perceive even a falling leaf 100 ters behind him with his eyes closed.
Such terrifying battle awareness was no joke. For soone like Duncan, who was relatively weak in the grand sche of things, to have such great instincts was almost demonic in nature. Such instincts can never be obtained easily. They can only be cultivated through countless battles. That is why those with great battle instincts will always be powerful seniors.
And with each difficult battle, his instincts were only improving constantly.
Not just the instinct, Duncan's eyesight, his hearing, his sense of sll, his body control, qi control, and every other aspect that would differentiate him from a typical cultivator were also improving at a trendous rate.
These things are the factors that differentiate ordinary cultivators from powerful cultivators. As they say, a flower that was grown in a glass garden can never be as tenacious as a flower that blooms in the wild. While Duncan might not know this, these formative experiences will one day help him out of troubling situations.
Moreover, battling different demonic beasts ca with its own perk. No two demonic beasts were similar in nature. Ever since they gained sentience and are able to cultivate, demonic beasts will differ from each other.
Whether it be personality, combat style, cunningness, or any other factor that allowed them to survive in the wild, these demonic beasts would have gone through different experiences and would have grown accordingly.
By battling against a variety of them, Duncan also began to learn to adapt his combat style accordingly. While he wasn't a great strategist, Duncan learned to adapt according to the needs of the battle midway through the fights.
If he realized that a particular demonic beast had a high physical resistance, he would try to find its weak spot and target it. If he realized that a particular demonic speed excelled in speed, he would try to outlast its endurance and kill it afterward.
Likewise, Duncan's battle tactics also began to evolve constantly through battles and he began to have an instinctive knowledge as to what to do in battle and when to do it. He began to hone his ability to capitalize on the openings and learned to identify feints from weakness after suffering a few tis.
Having gone through a grueling tempering experience, Duncan's body also started to show the effects of such experiences physically. Duncan's body was no longer without any blemish. There were scars all over his body from half-healed wounds.
His clothes were in tatters and his temperant had gone through a drastic change. Earlier, there was a bit of naivety and inexperience radiating from Duncan's body. But, these days, a bloodthirsty aura seed to perate his body constantly.
Having been through nurous near-death encounters, Duncan's ntality also began to change. No longer was he struck with fear and rooted in his spot while facing powerful demonic beasts. These days, he was able to calm down and face their imposing presence without flinching much.
Such a steady mind can't be obtained by cultivating in the sect. One needs to go through a tempering of thousand battles to achieve it. While Duncan hadn't gone through thousand battles, his mindset was slowly moving toward that realm.
Above all, the biggest change to Duncan wasn't sothing that others could see physically or perceive upon seeing him. Only the most observant people would notice that almost subdued fire burning deep in Duncan's eyes and heart.
The biggest benefit Duncan obtained from these ten days was a kind of confidence in himself. It could be only noticed in his subtle gestures like the way his eyes always stared straight, his shoulders stood relaxed and high, and his walk beca steady and asured in a mysterious way.
This confidence he began to have in him also gave birth to a kind of unflinching will that had a root in his desire to beco a powerful cultivator.
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