Chapter 10 Growth
"Mom, I'm going out!"
"Take care on your journey, and remember to come home for dinner tonight."
Huo Yuhao waved behind him to indicate that he understood, then followed the mountain wind and left the town, entering the wilderness.
After resolving his immediate crisis with Dr. Zhang, Huo Yuhao used his remaining twenty gold soul coins to buy a small house in the town. Although it wasn't big, he finally had a home of his own.
The house was also in the northeast of the town, not far from Dr. Zhang's medicine-making workshop, just a few houses away, which was why he chose this house.
After finding a stable place, Huo Yuhao began his journey of self-improvement. Just as Shan Feng said, if you want to move forward, you can't slack off at any moment, or you will be swept away by the torrent of life.
Huo Yuhao didn't understand any methods of cultivating soul power, but that didn't matter, because he had already found a way to improve himself.
At first, Huo Yuhao was very anxious when he didn't have a cultivation method. He even planned to beg Dr. Zhang to teach him again, and he was willing to repay Dr. Zhang even if it meant working like a slave.
Huo Yuhao, who was still hesitant, was led by Shan Feng to the wilderness to begin physical training. Shan Feng said, "Don't let thinking stop you from moving forward, meow!"
Whatever decision you make in the end, it won't affect the fact that you need to lay the foundation for becoming a hunter right now, which is to have a strong and healthy body.
Exhausted from the mountain winds in the wilderness, Huo Yuhao discovered a miraculous phenomenon at night: his soul power was beginning to increase!
What Huo Yuhao didn't know was that the improvement of soul power was closely related to physical fitness; only a strong body could accommodate more soul power. In ancient times, the earliest soul masters didn't have any strange or unusual techniques; they all grew through training and hard work.
This method is primitive but effective, but its drawback is that it is very tiring and painful.
Simple training rarely yields improvement; one can only perceive an increase in soul power when one is nearing their limit. However, each such training session is a challenge to one's will. When one's whole body aches and weakens, every minute and second seems to be extended indefinitely, causing two words to echo in Huo Yuhao's mind—give up.
Why not acquire simple cultivation techniques instead of resorting to methods that almost torture yourself to improve? Am I a masochist?
At this moment, Huo Yuhao would recall the first day when he couldn't get up from training and cried, saying he wanted to give up. Shanfeng encouraged him, saying, "Every pain you feel during training, every drop of sweat you shed, will become your shield when you face challenges and crises in the end!"
"The strong won't tell you how arduous their journey was; you'll only see their most shining moments, meow~"
Thinking of the humiliation he had suffered in the Duke's mansion, his mother's incomplete recovery, and his initial promise to Shanfeng, Huo Yuhao remained silent. However, the next day, he got up early and, dragging his aching body, returned to the wilderness with Shanfeng.
Of course, high-intensity training needs to be paired with a hearty meal. While Huo Yuhao was training silently, the mountain wind would leave and venture deeper into the wilderness, closer to the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Palico race is born with first-class stealth skills; they can even use their sharp claws to quickly dig a hole in the hard rock ground to hide themselves.
Shanfeng made himself a coat that blended well into the natural environment using the fur of wild animals and vegetation. With his excellent hunting skills, he hunted everything from ordinary wild animals to those with a bit of soul power, including what people called soul beasts.
Huo Yuhao's food became increasingly abundant, and the meat containing soul power nourished his body well, soothing the hidden injuries caused by excessive exercise.
Moreover, the food Shanfeng prepared was exceptionally delicious. Even the grand meals in the Duke's mansion that Huo Yuhao remembered could not compare to the food Shanfeng made in the wilderness with simple tools.
"Food is important, meow~ If I have the right ingredients, I can make a feast that can boost my combat power in a short time, meow!"
The mountain wind squinted, delighted that Huo Yuhao approved of its cooking. It told Huo Yuhao that in its world, before the Hunter War, they would eat a delicious feast to enhance their combat power.
Before becoming a hunting cat, Yama-kaze was a proper chef cat, having systematically learned how to make delicious food.
On a giant rock, Huo Yuhao wiped the sweat from his face, picked up a large pot of meat soup, and drank it down.
"Mmm~ That feels so good!"
It could be said that Huo Yuhao, who endured painful training every day, looked forward to mealtime the most.
In just two months, Huo Yuhao's soul power had increased by one level, and he no longer looked as pale and frail as when he first left the Duke's mansion.
Although Huo Yuhao hasn't started his growth spurt yet, the long hours spent in the sun and wind have given him a healthy tan, and his body is full of streamlined muscles, radiating vitality and energy.
After Huo Yuhao acquired level two soul power, Shanfeng also noticed some changes in himself. First, his range of activity expanded. The radius of one kilometer centered on Huo Yuhao expanded by another five hundred meters.
Under Shan Feng's deliberate guidance, Huo Yuhao's training location was now very close to the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest. After Shan Feng's careful investigation, no dangerous soul beasts were found to be lurking there, but Shan Feng himself was already able to enter the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest.
After seeing Huo Yuhao finish the meat soup, Shanfeng carefully examined Huo Yuhao's physical condition. He took out a small notebook from the self-made leather backpack on his back, opened it, and found various kinds of information recorded inside.
There are records of plants and animals, and there is already a lot of information about soul beasts on them, which Shan Feng slowly figured out.
Turning to one of the pages, there was a drawing of a slender snake, its body adorned with some kind of blue dye.
An unidentified serpentine spirit beast possesses a spirit skill that, when used, causes its entire body to emit a blue light, increasing its sliding speed by one-third. The flesh of its body parts has undergone various biological experiments and has been found to be non-toxic.
Shan Feng added from the back that after being made into broth, it had only a moderate effect on stimulating Huo Yuhao's soul power and could only serve as a general supplement.
"Yuhao, I found the medicinal herb you needed today, meow~"
After taking back the notebook, Shanfeng took out three small flowers from his backpack and handed them to Huo Yuhao for inspection.
This small flower has six warm yellow petals, with tiny white dots dotting its orange-red center. It's recorded in the herbal medicine book that Dr. Zhang gave to Huo Yuhao; it's called Huangyang Flower, a relatively common medicinal herb with mild properties, and it's a common ingredient in many prescriptions.
However, fresh flamingo flowers cannot be used directly; they need to be dried before they can be used in medicine. Moreover, Dr. Zhang's prescription requires at least twenty-six flamingo flowers for one course of treatment, and these three are far from enough.
"Mountain Wind, you are really amazing!"
Huo Yuhao gave Shanfeng a grateful hug, which immediately provoked a resistance from Shanfeng.
"No, no! It smells so sour and stinky, meow!!!"
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