After about a year of seclusion, Ji Yen finally reached the 7 layer of Grade 1 demon beast realm.
And Ji Wen also reached the 5 layer of the grade 1 demon beast realm.
The reason both of them cultivate so fast was due to the spiritual vein under the cave upgraded to Mid Mortal Grade. Which has twice as pure heaven and earth Qi than Low Mortal Grade.
Part of the reason is also because both Ji Yen and Ji Wen spent most of their time cultivating inside. Only coming out when necessary, like food.
Inside the cave, two huge birds were seen sitting.
The two are in similar size and shape, also similar kind.
They were Ji Yen and Ji Wen.
At this time, Ji Yen opened his eyes.
He looked around the cave and saw Ji Wen near him. He murmured softly. "How much time has passed?"
An familiar message popped up in front him.
[Replying to the host. Exactly 11 months and 10 days have passed.]
"11 months huh..?" He looked down and said in a low voice. "So, the time for five petal tree to bear fruits is here."
"Data." He called out in his mind.
[Data.
Identity: Wind Chasing Sparrow.
Name: Ji Yen.
Rank: Low Grade 2.
State: Stable state, normal.
Realm: Grade 1 Layer 7(peak).
Bloodline: None.
Abilities:
Active: Wind Step, Feather Blade, Air Pulse Sense.
Passive: Wind Affinity Boost. ]
Seeing the data, Ji Yen nodded with satisfaction. After cultivating for only about 2 years, he has already reached the 7 layer of Grade 1 demon beast realm.
Even the demon monkey took years to reached that.
And Ji Yen finally understood why the age of the demon monkey was so old. It was because the red tail monkeys are rare and their cultivation speed is slow. Which is why the age of the monkey appeared 88 years old when he checked.
After closing the system data, Ji Yen turned to Ji Wen and called out his name. "Wen."
Ji Wen snapped his eyes open. Then he looked at Ji Yen.
"Go out and take care of the flies outside." Ji Yen simply said.
"Yes." Ji Wen stood up and left the cave.
After some time, Ji Yen also stood up and walked out of the cave.
In front of the cave, Ji Wen stood a few meters away from the from entrance of the cave.
And around him, 7 human cultivators in black lay around him with bloods flowing out from their bodies. They are dead.
Ji Yen's voice came from the cave tunnel. "Already done?"
Ji Wen responded. "Yes." Then he turned around.
There he saw a big demon bird standing at the entrance of the cave.
That was Ji Yen. As his realm goes higher and nearer to Grade 2 realm, his appearance also changes drastically.
His body becomes more bigger. And his appearance also became more like that of hawk. Now, he is about 2 meters tall, his body length is about 2.5 meters.
The dead humans are all in black clothing, but Ji Yen knew those humans are Li clan's men.
After Ji Yen and Ji Wen went into seclusion, their territory became a ownerless place.
That made the Li clan's people more unruly in the territory. Seeing the ownerless place, the Li people started exploring the place.
Just two days before, they found the cave entrance of the Ji Yen's spiritual cave.
Ji Yen gave them a warning, not to approach the cave.
At first they stopped appearing near the cave after knowing that a demon beast has occupied tha cave.
But after a day or two, instead of ordinary hunters, cultivators started appearing near the cave. That annoyed Ji Yen.
Finally, today, he decided end them.
Ji Yen looked at those dead bodies and then turned to looked at the direction of the five petal tree.
He knows there must be more people near the five petal tree.
"Let's go." He said to Ji Wen.
Then both of them turned into smaller bird and flew towards the direction of the tree.
Some time ago, Ji Yen found out a way to change Ji Wen's body so he could also change from big to small. So that is why, Ji Wen was also able to changes his form.
Ji Wen's smaller form looked just like just like a wild sparrow. But Ji Yen's smaller version looked more like a hawk rather than a wild sparrow.
Along the way, Ji smelled some odd smells. But he did not think much of it, as he felt that it much be the humans waste smell or like that.
When they arrived at the place of five petal tree, they found tents and about 30 people staying around the tree.
The reason why the Li clan members staying near the tree openly is because of Ji Yen's disappearance.
If they were in other territory where the demon beast patrol its territory regularly. The Li clan would not have openly stayed.
After checking the surrounding, Ji finally looked at the tree. There he saw five unripe fruits hanging on the tree.
When Ji Yen checked the data, he found the fruits to be just a few days away from maturation.
So, both Ji Yen and Ji Wen decided to stay there until the fruits reach their mature state.
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Many people staying there found it odd that a sparrow and hawk staying there in one place. What they found it more intriguing was that the sparrow would leave sometime and comeback.
But the hawk would never leave the branch.
They even tried to chase it away. But non of it work. So they simply left it there.
They did not try to kill it because they are afraid that the blood might attract some unnecessary attention.
5 days later, finally the day of maturation came.
That morning, Ji Yen found the people setting up platform that looked like fighting arena.
Ji Yen found it odd. Instead of preparing to get the fruits, they are busy setting up fighting arena?
However, his curiosity did not last long.
At around noon, two middle-aged men came to the place. And with them, 6 youngsters also arrived at the place.