The lord of life and death

Rain stands on a tree's branch, watching the boar's herd reaction as Old Gu and Xue Lin come into their view. Old Gu, taking the lead, walks toward the boar's herd. The baby boars scramble behind the adult, with the herd leader standing in the way of Old Gu.

The Boar leader looked like stones embedded in his brown skin. Agitated by an intruder entering his area, he growled, and his leg kicked dust, ready for a charge. Old Gu took one step diagonally forward. With a tree behind his back, the boar leader charged toward Old Gu. 

When the Boar leader is charged, from Xue Lin's palm a blue fog emerges ahead of the Boar leader. When the Boar leader enters the blue fog, Old Gu moves from his position and the boar leader collides with the tree. Before the Boar Leader can get his bearing, Old Gu with his spear stabs at the boar leader's body creating sparks when it collides with the boar's skin covered in stones.

The cry and sound of fighting agitated the rest of the boars, and three adult boars kicked dust, staring at the blue fog. As the blue fog thinned, Rain could see ice-covered ground. Before the three adult boars charged toward Old Gu in an intense battle with their Leader, Xue Lin threw eight clay balls on the ground.

As the three boars charge, the clay balls grow larger and slowly transform into dogs. While the dogs come into shape, the icy ground slows down the boars one slipping. When the clay balls fully transform, the dogs attack the three adult boars and one adult boar protecting the baby boars behind with two dogs charging at each adult boar.

The clay dogs engage the adult boars, so they cannot help the Boar leader. Xue Lin starts casting a spell and 12 firebirds form in front of her attacking the adult boars. They are stone boars, so their defense is good but not like the boar leader with stone embedded in its skin. The firebirds only have one boar, when the attack lands on the board, it is unplugged by fire. 

In Star Immortal World, Rain's body does not have soul sense like in the Alchemist world. So he can only hear the cries of pain from the fire roasting him. Rain from the movement of the boar, He figures out it is rolling in the ground to extinguish the fire. Slowly the fire extinguished, Rain watched, the Boar's body burned beyond recognition, and because of the fire, its skin lost its defense.

The Boar crying in pain, lying on the ground and the two dogs who remained at a distance when the boar was on fire, now jump at the boar one tears the boar's belly open and the other goes for the throat of the boar. And in seconds, the boar dies with its organs spilling from his belly and the ripped throat.

The two free dogs attack another boar and Xue Lin uses the firebird spell on another boar. In the next two minutes, all four adult boars died three by Xue Lin spells and one ripped apart by the clay dogs. After Xue Lin joins hands with Old Gu and after 10 minutes they kill the Boar leaders. Rain jumps from the tree looking at the baby boars making the sound of crying as they try to wake up the dead adult boar.

" They will be live anyway." Rain thinks and from his hand, four flame balls shot at the baby boars and killing them. After this, they salvage the valuable resources from the dead boars. And start their hunting again.

Rain standing on a tree's branch again looks at the sky slowly as the sun sets. In the forest, while hunting time passed fast. He did not fight, all the fighting was done by Old Gu and Xue Lin because they came upon Lone beginning first-order demon. Both Old Gu and Xue Lin decided to fight on their own.

Now, Both of them are fighting against a Spike Bone Lizard, and they cannot do any serious damage to the lizard. Even if they are in the same realm, Xue Lin is at initial, Old Gu is at the middle of the realm whereas Lizard is at the peak of that realm one step away from advancing to the middle first-order demon realm.

Rain is contemplating whether to help them end the fight, as the inner region is already dark during the day because of the dense number of trees and the sun setting. In the night sky, the inner region will become more dangerous for them with their limited vision. Rain takes a glance at the sky for a second and then toward the fight. 

" Why the branch above my head is shaking?"

Rain then again looks at the sky searching the tree's branches for anything but finding none. Rain remains his eyes scanning the tree branches and then asking the soul chip, any demon that can camflouage itself in the tree's foliage.in these four mountains. 

As Rain scans the tree he receives the message from the soul chip- Petrify Chamelion, Forest Monkey, and Shadow Leopard. Rain thought still on Petrify Chamelion or Shadow Leopard as Forest Monkey lives in groups. They can remain hidden, but if they are in a group, Rain will notice branches dipping because multiple forest monkeys standing on the same branch.

He did not how to spot a hidden Petrify Chamelion but He knew how to reveal Shadow Leopard. They remain hiding in shadows but another light source can disturb the existing shadows. So from his palm, multiple fireballs emerge and they start to move around the tree branches surrounding him. 

And then suddenly, In Rain's view came a pitch-black leopard above his head on a tree branch in a position that could jump on him. And the leopard leaps at him, Rain's eye spots the leopard. Seeing the leopard coming straight at him, Rain did not have time to take his sword out, so he slapped toward the leopard, and from his palm, an energy palm emerged colliding with the leopard.

Rain watched the leopard push back from his energy palm in the air. The fireball did not fall on the ground, but somehow, it landed on another tree branch and vanished in the shadow. Because Rain's attention was on the leopard, without his control, the fireballs collided with trees and went out.

And before Rain can form another group of fireballs, the leopard emerges from another shadow near him. Rain was shocked and unable to use his energy to defend, himself so as not to get his face ripped by the leopard. Rain catches the two forearms of the leopard that is going to rip his face and Rain falls with the leopard in his grip.

Rain in the air, kick in his belly by the leopard's back leg. From the leopard's aura and strength, Rain concludes it is in the same realm as him. Most Animal's strengths are stronger than humans in a similar realm, so the leopard's strength is similar to an average fifth-realm grandmaster but Rain's strength is one step away from a seventh-realm grandmaster after he advances to the fourth realm of grandmaster his body strength increase by 50 percent.

So, Rain in the air changes his position and falls on the ground with the leopard cushioning his fall, Rain can hear the sound of bones snapping and the cries of pain from the leopard. Rain stands on his feet, and looks at the leopard writhing in pain, he looks up to see Xue Lin, Old Gu, and the lizard stop their battle and stare at him and the leopard.

Rain stares at the lizard's eyes and without moving his eyes, Rain unsheats his sword and drives the sword inside the head of the leopard. Then the leopard becomes silent and the lizards growl at him in a threatening manner. But Rain notices its legs sliding backward which means it wants to escape.

Before Old Gu and Xue Lin can engage the lizard again, Rain charges toward the lizard," Leave it to me." Rain shouts as his sword collides with the claw of the lizard but because of Rain's strength, the lizard steps back unsteadily. And Rain without giving any chance to the lizard, he attacks, every strike drawing blood.

While attacking the lizard, Rain shouts behind him," Old Gu, quickly skin the shadow leopard. We have to leave the inner region it is getting dark." he separates the right arm of the lizard and in the next move drives his sword in the chest where the lizard's heart is at underneath. 

Rain looks back and only spots Old Gu hunching over the leopard while in Xue Lin's palm a ball of light brights the surroundings. Rain then turns toward the lizard as it takes its last breadth and sits down as he salvages the valuable parts of the lizard. After finishing salvaging the valuables he gives them to Xue Lin who puts them inside her spare space bag. 

And in the same formation, they start walking upward, to reach the camp other side of the mountain. They did not return to the same way they came because half an hour later they came upon a small valley between two mountains. This is not the central valley between the four mountains but a small valley between two mountains.

So, they did not walk around the valley but entered it, which turned out to be a mistake as they came head to head with a mother Red Bear with her cubs in a clearing under the moon's light beside a pond. Seeing them the mother bear charge at them. Rain stands in the way of the mother bear to disrupt its charge. Rain swings his sword sending out sword energy against the bear.

It did not stop but slowed down the bear's charge. But Rain did not stop attacking with his sword energy, which led the bear to stop and stand on its rear leg with red color energy erupting from its body, stopping Rain's sword energy from touching the bear's body. 

The Bear roars at Rain and charges at him standing with red color energy surrounding the bear. Rain also charges at the bear with his sword and collides his sword with the red energy on the bear's paw. Rain murmurs feeling the mother bear's strength" Strength similar to average 6th realm grandmaster but its realm is peak beginning first order demon." So, my strength is only half a realm higher than it with my sword skill and more energy reserve. The Victory will ultimately belong to me.

Rain starts exchanging blows with the bear, and as the soul chip starts it works to figure out the bear's attack pattern. When the soul chip figures out the bear attack pattern, then Rain would able to quickly kill the bear. So, he starts to think about the valuable parts of the red bear. They are also called Blood Heart Bears because the bear species stores its condensed blood for itself when it advances to the next realm.

For, Rain it is a resource that helps him consolidate his realm in the fourth realm grandmaster. So, he can advance to the fifth realm of grandmaster. Rain starts his daydreaming, it is night so it can be nightdreaming as he thinks he can advance to the 6th realm of grandmaster before he goes to the core of the white stone mountain range. Thinking this, Rain murmurs," Then we have to stay another night."

But Rain's night dreaming is cut short, as he hears a large roar behind him. He did not even turn around. The roar made him figure out what demon roared upon them and the shouting of Old Gu and Xue Lin confirmed his guess. Rain lets out a shout and from his mouth fire emerges like a flamethrower and enflugs the bear's mouth. Rain then jumps and turns back to see another bear charging at Old Gu and Xue Lin.

Rain shouts," Make way." as they jump giving a clear view to the charging bear, Rain sends a massive fireball toward the bear. He did not watch if the fireball struck the bears only he heard the sound of an explosion and the roar of a bear. As he turns around to see the mother bear walking toward him with charred skin on its face. 

Another massive fireball formed in Rain's palm, which led the mother bear to step back and watch Rain warily. Rain throws the fireball not at the mother bear but at the tree beside the pond. Which has a hole at the bottom of its trunk from where the bear cups watch the fight. Seeing the fireball unplugging the tree with its cup, the mother bear runs toward the tree.

Rain shouts, "Run." and he runs towards Xue Lin and Old Gu, while He and Xue Lin attack the bear with another fire attack. He with a massive fireball and Xue Lin with a firebird spell. The fire attack stops the bear as he and the other two escape the clearing.