The legendary warrior novel Chapter 26

It took Ricky quite a long time to calm himself down. He was much too excited.

Now he set his goal on finding out whether his spiritual meridian was suitable for improving his spiritual power and cultivating himself with the manual. He wanted to know if it could enhance his cultivation and skills.

However, it would take a long time to attest whether his spiritual meridian could really improve his spiritual power. Because of this, Ricky now turned his attention to the scarlet runes inside the Blood Zone of his spiritual meridian.

Although Ricky had never heard of a manual that could transform into runes, he speculated that those mysterious runes were exactly the contents of the Chaos Manual.

With this in mind, Ricky gathered his spiritual energy and activated his newly acquired spiritual meridian, after which he began to examine and decipher the runes.

But perhaps, Ricky had overestimated his ability to read the runes, or he simply hadn't reached a sufficient cultivation level, for even though he had spent the whole day studying the runes, he couldn't make sense of any of them.

"It's probable that my spiritual meridian isn't suitable for making weapons," Ricky thought to himself, a little disappointed.

But he didn't dwell too much on that. After all, it wasn't his primary goal for the time being.

"I'd better put this aside first. I have to focus on hunting some more beasts now. I need to fortify the seventh grade of Skin Refinement!"

And with that, Ricky left the pungent place and began to track and hunt the beasts.

This time, after he hunted and killed several beasts, Ricky didn't throw away the valuable materials he got from the beasts anymore, as he found out that the Blood Zone was like the Storage Ring and could store a large number of items.

Of course, Ricky was pleasantly surprised to discover this. However, he regretted throwing away so many valuable beast materials after his previous hunting. It was really a shame. If his spiritual meridian had undergone the changes some time ago, he could have collected plenty of materials worth a fortune.

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After a few days, Ricky found that the number of the beasts at the periphery of the Lion King Mountains had suddenly diminished, because when the beasts had realized that the mountains were very dangerous now. Many of them escaped and went deeper into the mountains.

The beasts could go deep into the mountains, but the warriors who were in the Iron Blood Trial didn't dare follow. They were afraid that a beast of Blood Purification would easily tear them to shreds.

With so few of the fierce animals around there, Ricky only managed to hunt four beasts at the seventh grade of Skin Refinement in the span of three days.

"Alas. At this rate, I won't even be able to hunt one hundred beasts at the end of the Iron Blood Trial," Ricky muttered, frowning as he stood in the forest.

He had learned that the top three participants at the past two Iron Blood Trials had all hunted at least two hundred beasts.

"Do I have to hunt the beasts of Blood Purification instead?"

The century-old ironwood could also absorb the blood of the fierce animals at the inferior stage of Blood Purification. And after that, there would be five hundred black dots forming on the ironwood.

Five hundred dots! Five hundred times as many dots of a beast at the advanced stage of Skin Refinement.

However, it was not easy to kill a fierce animal of Blood Purification. Usually, even five warriors at the peak of the ninth grade of Skin Refinement could not succeed in killing a beast at the first grade of Blood Purification. There was a high chance that they all could be killed by it instead.

This was because of the substantial gap between Skin Refinement and Blood Purification.

Since Ricky was only at the seventh grade of Skin Refinement, he knew that it was impossible to hunt any beast of Blood Purification on his own.

"This means that I have to steal other participants' ironwoods," Ricky decided after mulling it over for a while.

Ricky was willing to follow the rule that he would not attack others unless he was attacked first, but in the martial arts world where the weak were the prey to the strong, he had to attack others in order to get what he wanted and reach his goal.

Right then, three figures suddenly appeared before him. Two of them were handsome young men, and one was a resplendent, beautiful lady.

'Well, I just decided to start robbing others, and now my prey seems to have come to me, ' Ricky thought with a smile.

But as the three warriors got closer to him, Ricky began to feel stunned, as he could clearly feel that they were the outstanding cultivators at the eighth grade of Skin Refinement.

Ricky was confident he could defeat one of them, and he was sure he could successfully escape while fighting against two. However, if he had to battle with three of them, he might not be able to defeat them.