Path Of Sword Master

hg afgs  vxj cksh o silh sdh n ilsdj ls s ol os ps js  l  os  n ln n d nk  n  ls n  ks  nf a sword can be seen floating, which after some time floating in the air fell on the ground sharply, a boy can be seen running with fervor in a hurry, keeping the half-broken sword with hilt him, the boy who had maturity and caution gleaning from his face, the boy was 4ft 5inch tall, he had a thin body frame, but it was toned with muscled and free of unnecessary fat, his hair was dark black as ink which was long and tied from behind, the slightly matured looking boy was none other than Li Jie himself, who has been under constant training by Mr.Teacher.

The sword which broke in two was a Low-Grade Common Weapon, it was something he borrowed from the Li Family Treasury, he was running at full strength by using the "Rushing Ox Step Technique", which he had mastered quite a long time ago.

The beast who snapped Li Jie's sword in two was a BloodBursting Tiger, which was at the Essence Gathering stage, one stage above Li Jie who was of Grandmaster stage, while Li Jie can fight those beasts of one stage above him, but there was a big chasm between Grandmaster Stage and the Essence Gathering stage, where one starts collecting the essence energy in their bodies, and fight using that energy, which increases the cultivator or beast's strength tremendously, there is an overall improvement with the help of essence energy.

Li Jie could fight back and defeat any cultivator or beast with one stage higher to him, but the BloodBursting Tiger was different, at first when Li Jie attacked this tiger, the tiger was perceptive enough to save itself from Li Jie's attack, nonetheless, it was struck on the back, which gave it an injury, feeling the pain from the injury, the BloodBursting Tiger winced and looked at Li Jie who was the cause of it, The BloodBursting Tiger was furious and attacked Li Jie with swiftness, but after all this time training, Li Jie had high agility and was moving to and fro, not letting the BloodBursting Tiger a chance to even give a scratch, because Li Jie knew, the BloodBursting Tiger's claw was infused with essence energy, which would give him a fatal wound, that's why Li Jie was cautious all the time, and he was trying to get out of this predicament.

But right at that moment, when Li Jie was trying to be cautious of it, the tiger was able to find an opening at which it pounced on Li Jie, when it suddenly opened it's mouth, which had fangs as sharp as a High-Grade Common Weapon, and was almost going to bit of Li Jie's head, had it not been for his sword, which he raised a shield to protect himself, which was then snapped in two after the tiger bit the sword quite the hard way, which ended up breaking the sword in two.

At the present, where the BloodBursting Tiger can be seen chasing Li Jie, and Li Jie was running at full strength, he was pressed hard to find some way to turn around the situation he was in, or else he will be in trouble, finally he noticed a big rock which was a bit pointy, Li Jie went in front of it and turned around to attack the BloodBursting Tiger by punching it using the "Boulder Fist Technique", which was quite strong after he mastered it, it would make his fists swollen and then he would attack at the target, but the BloodBursting Tiger was a special type beast, it's skin was tough and it had essence energy to help with it's defense, even after punching the BloodBursting Tiger near it's neck, except for some shaking, it changed nothing as the BloodBursting Tiger was again ready to pounce at him.

Li Jie took the half-broken sword out, as it was better than nothing to use in this situation, he was trying to find the BloodBursting Tiger's weakness, it was then that he noticed the back wound given to it by him before, Li Jie then focused his attention on the BloodBursting Tiger's back, when it pounced again, Li Jie simply shifted to the side, while the protruding rock wasn't visible at first, but after he moved to the side, the BloodBursting Tiger couldn't stop it's momentum and it's face crashed on the protruding rock.

Right at that moment, without wasting any time, Li Jie attacked the BloodBursting Tiger on it's back again, especially at the wound which surprisingly cut into deeper than he imagined, as there wasn't much resistance against his weapon, the BloodBursting Tiger roared with fury after getting a deeper wound, it was furious at how this human in front of him wounded him again, while his face was almost going to hit the protruding rock, it covered it's face with all of the essence energy, it could muster, which lead to no essence energy covering it's back, this is why Li Jie was able to Cut open it's wound deeper easily.

Li Jie then attacked the BloodBursting Tiger, again and again, sometimes he would punch it, while sometimes he would use the broken sword, any situation that was favorable to him at the moment was captured by him without much thinking, finally, after hours, it can be seen that both the BloodBursting Tiger and Li Jie had wounds all over their body, while Li Jie had less, the BloodBursting Tiger had more and most of it's blood was spilling out of it's body, finally when the BloodBursting Tiger was helpless, it wanted to do something, which made Li Jie flinch, but then he relaxed and gave one final blow to the tired BloodBursting Tiger on it's eye, which was pierced into it's skull, killing it instantly.

Li Jie heaved a great sigh of relief, as he knew that if the BloodBursting Tiger hadn't drained most of it's blood in the battle, it would have been able to use one it's skill, which was called blood burst, what it does is that it increases the BloodBursting Tiger's strength by two-fold, which would make it easy for the BloodBursting Tiger to kill Li Jie, that's why Li Jie was being cautious around the BloodBursting Tiger, but thankfully it is known to use this skill, only when it is in extreme danger as it takes a huge toll on it's body.

Sensing the attacker to be someone of the Grandmaster stage was what made the BloodBursting Tiger underestimate Li Jie, and the reason why the BloodBursting Tiger didn't use it's life-saving skill was because it had lost most of it's blood, which is needed to trigger the ability.

After killing the BloodBursting Tiger, Li Jie went towards the corpse of the BloodBursting Tiger, he cut open it's abdomen area, where the core of the beast is present, only beasts of Earth stage and above start developing their core, which increases in size, the higher their stage, the current core of the Essence Gathering BloodBursting Tiger had the core, the size of a pebble.

After storing the pebble, Li Jie then cut off some of the BloodBursting Tiger's meat and stored it in an empty pouch, which was folded behind him, on his belt.

"Huh, I have to come here, after every three weeks, I wonder how everyone at home is, the entrance exam will be soon, I am really curious, who will I be fighting", thought Li Jie.

He was cautiously moving, here and there and finally he climbed up a hill, where he tapped on a wall with a stone in different positions, which lead to lead to a cave getting visible, apparently, it was an illusion formation, taught to him by Mr.Teacher.

After entering the cave, Li Jie took out the meat of the BloodBursting Tiger and took all of them out, and then put them in a container, there were also other containers that had beast's blood in them, Li Jie would have collected the BloodBursting Tiger's blood to but he couldn't as it had already lost most of it's blood.

Li Jie was collecting blood because of alchemy practices, the blood of beasts are also used for many pill recipes, especially there's a paste which is made using the blood of different high-grade beasts, it is used to increase the defense of a cultivator's body, but after Li Jie uses it, he found out that, it also helps him in absorbing the excessive bloodline essence which is stored in his chest area.

Not only that, using any pill or paste which is related to body refining, helps him in absorbing more of the bloodline essence, which helps him in increasing his Body cultivation stage, which is already extremely tough for most of the cultivators of this continent, and the reason why it's less practiced, but with the help of the body refining pills, that Li Jie himself has refined, helped him in increasing his body cultivation faster.