The Lazy Cultivator

Part 9: Out of the Forest of Death

Lin Zhu came out of his space ring after feeling the supplies for wandering were ready, before coming out of his ring he had time to add to the contents of his storage bag. Previously Lin Zhu only needed money and spirit stones but upon second thought he also needed some healing pills and needed to store 10 items of top-tier level 3 healing pills in his storage bag.

Before exiting the hut, Lin Zhu inserted all the books and furnaces in the hut into his spatial ring. He left the hut after all the contents he had moved, Lin Zhu did not spare a single object in the hut. Don't tell me that Lin Zhu is greedy, he just wants to keep all the relics of the ancient Han clan so that when He builds the Han clan they can be stored there.

Lin Zhu came out of the death forest unhindered because He did not cover the realm of his strength, He deliberately did so to avoid fighting with the spiritual beasts inhabiting the forest. After arriving at the border, Lin Zhu had just hidden his power realm to the normal limit.

Initially after the border Lin Zhu wanted to press his realm to zero so that He looked like an ordinary person but He paused because given how hard the world of cultivators always attach importance to strength and power.

Normally the realm possessed by a 14-year-old ranged in stage 3 so Lin Zhu decided to hide his realm to level 10 or peak level earth. Understandably, he was a wandering boy so there was no way he could reach such a high realm without a strong background.

The location of the death forest was very far from the residential area, it took one week to arrive at the nearby village but Lin Zhu could shorten his travel time if he wanted to, but Lin Zhu, who still looked like a beggar, decided to take a leisurely walk even though with his ability he could get to the nearest village in 2 days.

The atmosphere around it still feels dark but cool because along the way the trees grow well. Lin Zhu sometimes encountered small animals that were foraging, Lin Zhu would pause if the animal he encountered was a rabbit.

Lin Zhu remembered that in his past life the contract beast was a snow bunny with a realm that had reached a level equivalent to him, he said, Lin Zhu was so fond of rabbits that even when he chose the contract star he was against the grand priest's desire to have Lin Zhu sign the Desert Tiger.

Mumpung is still in the forest is he looking for spiritual animals to contract? It was already possible that he would think about it again because normally a new cultivator could make a contract with a spiritual beast when he was 16 years old, it would still take 2 years for Lin Zhu to be able to do so.

“Qi Lu, can't you come out and accompany me to talk? I was so bored” complained Lin Zhu, after Lin Zhu went out of the hut Qi Lu chose to stay inside his spatial ring.

‘Can't miss, the energy outside is too thin and can harm me because it has to spend a lot of energy to maintain my spirit form, he said, after all, we can still communicate through telepathy like today’ said Qi Lu who can only be heard by Lin Zhu

*Note: if we distinguish telepathy with italics yes so as not to be confused*

“Ugh, talking like this is not cool, it's like I'm talking to myself because I'm the only one who can be seen talking” Lin Zhu lamented.

“You-“ Lin Zhu delayed the words he wanted to say when he sensed that there were some people in front of him who might be engaged in battle because they felt the energy overflow and the sound of weapons clashing with each other although it sounded faint in his ears because the distance he thought was still quite far from where he was standing at this time.

Lin Zhu was worried, should He approach those people or avoid by choosing a detour that would likely take him longer to get to the nearest village.

“Qi Lu, should I approach or dodge?” Ask Lin Zhu.

'Miss can get close and see the situation, who knows if there is a party that needs help because usually when there is a battle around here there must be a malicious party who is looking for profit' Qi Lu replied.

“Alright, let's see the situation first and decide what we will do later” said Lin Zhu.

Lin Zhu changed his path, he was walking leisurely now He decided to climb up the tree through one tree by one with a technique to relieve the body and not forget He wiped out the air of his existence so that the people did not realize his presence.

The sound of the battle was increasingly clearly heard along with his steps approaching the area where the battle was taking place. When he felt that his position was close and could see everything clearly, Lin Zhu stopped his steps. He sat quietly on a tree branch and watched the battle.

As Qi Lu had said earlier, one of the parties that had fought had malicious intentions. Lin Zhu guessed it because the other party must be from a noble family looking at a luxurious carriage surrounded by guards and the other party dressed all in black, it seemed like they were a bandit group inhabiting this area.

So far it seems like the two groups look balanced in terms of numbers and strength just that one side is busy attacking brutally and the other is busy defending around the horse carriage and attacking, and the other is busy defending around the horse carriage, that's what's troublesome.

One side freely exerts all its strength to attack without caring for its friends while the other side defends more with a divided focus. If there was one person who was at the sky emperor stage maybe the defending party was able to put up a counter-resistance.

This kind of battle was clearly unbalanced, if left unchecked then the party who attacked brutally would benefit but the problem was that Lin Zhu was still confused whether he should help or not?. Lin Zhu still did not understand why there could be such a group of nobles around the death forest with such a minimal number of guards? Is his family crazy? When did they not know that the place around here is very dangerous? Demonic spiritual beasts alone were already dangerous plus the bandits consisting of those wild cultivators. Obviously, coming to a region that deserves the nickname of this demon territory with a minimal number of escorts is a suicide act.

To Be Continued