Awakening of the Ancient: Rise of the Fallen

"There's no need for that. I can stay up for a few days without needing any sleep. It's a specialty of our Spirit Fairy Race," Valeria told Xu Ming.

"Really? Then why did I find you sleeping so many times before?" Xu Ming asked. Her words did not convince him.

"That's because I was bored. I said that we don't need to sleep every day, but I never said that we couldn't sleep. I only sleep two times. One is when I am actually sleepy, and the second time is when I'm bored," Valeria replied.

"So, you're not sleepy and not bored?" Xu Ming asked her.

"Yeah. I'm not sleepy. Also, we are in the middle of a battleground. How can I be bored?" Valeria responded.

"Alright. Let's continue then," Xu Ming told her.

Valeria sat on Xu Ming's shoulders while he started walking ahead. They had already killed 13 Peak Gold Core Realm beasts on the 1st day itself and only needed to kill 37 more. They say six days to finish this task 

Xu Ming continued walking deeper into the forest and farther from the entrance portal in search of the Peak Gold Realm beasts.

He was constantly using his Divine Sense to keep an eye on his surroundings.

Since he had entered this place, he had found hundreds of Spirit Realm beasts but only 13 Peak Gold Realm Beasts. 

After walking for an hour, he found a beast. It would be better to say that the beast found him 

Xu Ming could see through his Divine Sense that a Dark Storm Sparrow was flying towards his direction.

Without giving it a chance to attack, Xu Ming got into a sword stance.

"3rd Strike of Heaven!" He swung his sword.

The Dark Storm Sparrow had still not reached yet, but Xu Ming had guessed its trajectory and realized how long it would take it to reach near them. 

A bright arc of light left his sword and went towards the sky.

The Dark Storm Sparrow had just reached there when Xu Ming's attack hit it. The attack managed to cut off its wing.

The right-wing of the Dark Storm Sparrow was cut off, making it fall to the ground.

Xu Ming was already waiting there. The Dark Storm Sparrow fell right before his feet.

Xu Ming raised his sword and thrust it in the neck of the Dark Storm Sparrow, killing it instantly.

"That brings our number to fourteen. Only thirty-six more to go," Xu Ming muttered.

He put the body of the Dark Storm Sparrow in the storage ring that was given him by the Sect Master to hold the beast's body.

The Sect Master didn't know that Xu Ming already had a ring of his own. Xu Ming's ring was much bigger, as well. The Sect Master would've been shocked if he was able to see the ring of Xu Ming. Xu Ming found it really useful that he could make his ring go invisibly; otherwise, he would long have been caught.

Xu Ming started walking ahead in search of more beasts. 

Xu Ming didn't know how strong that beast was, but from the roar, it sounded like it was definitely stronger than the beasts that he had met in this place so far.

The roar was powerful, and Xu Ming understood that the best was definitely a strong beast who was most probably in the Earth Realm. 

Even though Xu Ming wasn't afraid of the beast, he decided to ignore it. He only needed to hunt Gold Realm beasts. He didn't want to waste his energy to fight an Earth Realm beast for no reason. 

He changed his direction and started walking in another direction.

There was also a different thought process behind it. He felt that the Gold Realm beasts wouldn't stay in the area of the Earth Realm beast. The chances of him finding a Peak Gold Realm beast ahead was almost negligible in his eyes. Thus, he changed his direction and started walking in a different direction.

Xu Ming continued walking in the direction he had chosen, and after some time, he started finding the Peak Gold Realm Beasts that he was looking for.

In the next 4 hours, he found 5 Peak Gold Realm Beasts, and he killed them all. 

He had killed 19 Peak Gold Realm beasts, and it wasn't even the afternoon of the second day.

Even though he killed five beasts in such a short time, he had also depleted most of his energy.

Xu Ming's Origin Energy reserves were running low. He decided to rest.

Xu Ming climbed on one of the trees and sat on its branch as he started resting and restoring his Origin Energy Reserves.

Xu Ming sat on the branch. While he was restoring his Origin Energy, he noticed Valeria lying on his lap. She was sleeping.

"I wonder if she sat bored now or if she sat lying about the 'no need of sleep for days' thing," Xu Ming muttered as he watched her sleep.

After 4 hours, his Origin Energy reserves were full, and he was ready to get to work, but Valeria was still sleeping.

He wondered if he should wake her up, but he gave up on that plan. She kept an eye on him all night long to keep him safe; he decided to wait a few hours for her to wake up.

He shifted her to his hand from his lap as he jumped down from the tree. He made sure that she didn't feel the impact of his landing.

"I can at least find the location of the other beasts in the meantime," Xu Ming muttered as he continued waiting ahead.

He had Valeria sleeping on his palm, without any trouble. She was sleeping like a child.

After walking for an hour, Xu Ming found more Peak Gold Realm Beasts. There were 2 Peak Gold Realm Beasts. Both of them were fighting each other, but none of them was injured. It seemed as if the fight had just started.

On one side was the Peak Gold Realm beast Snow Eating Bear whereas on the other side was the Blood Red Wolf. Both of these had different specialties. While the Blood Red Wolf had speed as its defining trait, the Snow Eating Bear was more well known for its strength that was able to crush its opponents to smithereens.