Journey to the West: Begins with Tiger Vanguard

Chapter 37 Leader 1
It snowed heavily last night.

The entire Jindou Mountain range was transformed into a pure white world of silver fruits.

early morning.

It was just getting dark.

Deep in the bamboo forest of the sacred place.

Jindou Mountain Campground.

At the edge of a row of irregularly shaped, ugly and bloated wooden houses, there is a corner of the largest wooden house with a lot of vines climbing on it.

A tall and strong figure, covered with bright orange and black hair, and wrapped in animal skins, is sitting cross-legged on the soft and thick animal skins with his eyes closed, practicing meditation.

The black air surrounding its body was rising and falling with the tiger demon's breathing.

At this time.

Suddenly, the rising black gas stopped and then disappeared into the tiger monster's mouth and nose like swallows returning to their nests.

immediately.

The tiger demon woke up from his meditation and opened his eyes.

Feel the spiritual energy in your body filling and enriching.

The tiger demon's mind moved slightly.

Virtual ink writing data emitting a pale white light began to appear before our eyes.

[Realm: Late Spiritual Awakening Realm (99.99%)]

【Soul: 0.4】

[Kung Fu: Moon Yin Qi Eating Method (Minor Success) (2.11%)]

[Magic Powers: Tiger Roar (Proficient) (48.5%); Cheek Pouch (Proficient) (26.46%); Bone Tempering (Entry Level) (29.5%); Trampling (Entry Level) (25.22%)]

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"Finally it's come to this point, it's finally going to be full."

Looking at the subtitles that keep appearing in front of me, and looking at the data behind the realm column.

The tiger demon couldn't help but sigh.

Finally, he was only one step away from the spiritual realm, and from becoming a leader who could control the life, death and fate of little monsters like them with just a word.

Look at the data in front of you.

While the tiger demon was happy, he couldn't help but sigh for a moment, and his mind quickly recalled everything that had happened when he first traveled through time.

This tiger monster was naturally the one that happened on Earth three years ago. It was on its way to go fishing, and it greedily ate a poisonous mushroom in a roadside shop. It then traveled to the fantasy world of Journey to the West, and was transformed into Qi Hu, who was in the body of a mature tiger.

For three years.

Qi Hu except for the first few months when he traveled to Jindou Mountain.

Because of the great battle between Jindou Mountain and the neighboring Shejing Ridge, the group encountered several extremely dangerous and perilous situations.

Later on, because he used his cooking skills from his previous life in the Lingdi Bamboo Forest, he served as the camp's cook.

His life as a monster was relatively peaceful and stable.

Although the patrolling demons in the spiritual land would occasionally clash with the monsters in Snake Neck Ridge, there were generally no large-scale fights, so the situation could be considered stable.

During these peaceful days, Qi Hu has been persevering, practicing meditation silently, and silently gaining experience and improvement, without interruption for even a single day, until today.

Now, he has finally filled it up.

99.99%!

Although it is still less than 100% of his cognitive meaning.

But he could clearly feel that his current cultivation experience points had been maxed out and reached the top, with no more to go on.

If you continue to practice, it will be in vain.

Just like those monsters who have been trapped in the Qi Ling realm for ten, fifty, one hundred, or even hundreds of years.

He encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation.

The Awakening Spirit Realm transforms into the Spiritual Communication Realm.

The first step to evolve from a small demon to a big demon leader!
This is the first bottleneck in his cultivation as a monster.

This bottleneck is also the one that blocks the largest number of monsters among the monster clan.

Qi Hu initially thought that since he had a data panel very similar to the one he played in the game in his previous life, he would not encounter a bottleneck in his cultivation like the character in the game.

But obviously, he was thinking wrongly.

However, he has also played games where after upgrading to a certain level, certain conditions must be met before further upgrades can be made.

Therefore, Qi Hu was not too surprised that he had encountered a bottleneck.

After all, among the nearly twenty late-stage Qi Ling realm monsters in the camp, more than half have stayed in their current realm for more than three years, half have stayed in it for more than five years, and several have stayed in it for more than ten years.

If this ratio is applied to the more than one hundred monsters in the entire Jindou Mountain, the surrounding mountains, or even the entire monster clan, the number will be much greater.

In short, practice is difficult.

However, I don’t know if it’s because of the data panel.

Or it is because Qi Hu is naturally gifted and talented.

Ever since he had gained maximum experience points, he could now sense a sense of mystery and a sense of the unknown. It was a feeling that could only be understood but not described.

Qi Hu believed that was his bottleneck, and he just needed to find that feeling.

He will be able to break through the current late stage of spiritual awakening, advance to the spiritual realm, and become a leader-level monster.

As for how to find that feeling.

He has no idea yet.

But since he has that feeling, he is not in a hurry.

Now he only needs to cook lunch in the camp.

The rest of the time he is very free and has plenty of time to look for it.

"call"

He let out a long breath.

Qi Hu suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and turned his attention back to the panel in front of him.

The realm bar has been filled up, although it was stopped by a bottleneck.

But Qi Hu could still feel it.

The speed at which his cultivation level increased this time was obviously faster than that of his elder brother Changya and his second brother Dajiao.

Although his two sworn brothers had advanced to the late stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm earlier than him, the eldest brother was one month earlier and the second brother was three days earlier.

But none of them can compare to him who has a data panel.

When he breaks through the Spiritual Awakening Realm and advances to the Spiritual Communication Realm, this gap will further increase. Continue to look down.

The 0.4 soul power behind the soul power bar was earned by him in two fierce conflicts with the monsters patrolling the border of Snake Neck Ridge two years ago and one year ago respectively.

In those two fights, he attacked and killed two monsters from Snake Neck Ridge.

However, if he doesn’t have enough soul power, he won’t be able to strengthen himself, so he has to continue accumulating it.

Keep looking down.

The "Moon Yin Eating Air Method" behind the skills column has been strengthened once before, and its proficiency has now reached the small success stage. It is the thing that Qi Hu is most proficient in and understands most thoroughly.

It has only reached the minor success stage. Qi Hu now has no choice but, or should I say, does not want to calculate the growth rate of the experience bar of this technique.

Because proficiency increases too slowly.

As for the efficiency of practice in the current minor success stage, it far exceeds the previous proficiency stage and entry stage.

This is probably the main reason why Qi Hu's cultivation speed quickly surpassed his elder and second brothers.

Continue downwards.

Behind the magical powers column, there are still four magical powers.

Except for the storage ability "cheek pouch".

The proficiency of the other three magical powers has been improved to a certain extent.

However, these improvements were not achieved through Qi Hu's special training, but rather through his active participation in conflicts with the monsters in Snake Neck Ridge and his gains through fights.

As for the magical power "Cheek Pouch", because it is used frequently and every day, its proficiency is also increasing the fastest.

Without special reinforcement.

Now it is almost catching up with the innate magical power "Tiger Roar" which has been strengthened once.

these past three years.

Qi Hu knew the talents and magical powers of many monsters in the camp, and he also took a fancy to the magical powers of some monsters.

But it was just as he thought before.

If he wanted to learn supernatural powers, he would have to pay a huge price, but now he couldn't afford it, nor did he want to pay it.

When you become the leader, you can use your power and strength to directly overwhelm the little demons. If you learn later, you can avoid a lot of trouble and save a lot of cost.

Wait a little longer, it will be soon.
After carefully reading the data that represented everything about himself from top to bottom, Qi Hu closed the panel.

Didn't get up immediately.

Qi Hu sat on the animal skin cushion in the corner and closed his eyes and meditated for a long time, after thinking through some things.

Then he stood up, picked up the hanging big gourd kettle, gulped down half the kettle, and hung it back.

The eldest and second brothers have not returned from patrolling the mountains yet.

Today is also Qi Hu’s hunting day once every five days.

As for why it changed from three days to five days now?
Of course, it was because his storage ability "Cheek Pouch" had been advanced to the proficient stage, and the internal storage space had become much larger, several times larger than before.

The number of monsters in the camp has also increased from a dozen three years ago to nearly twenty now.

This is also the reason why Qi Hu has a much larger storage space, and the number of his kitchen assistants has increased from one to two. Even with an additional storage space, the prey stored can only last for five days.

Of course, Qi Hu deliberately concealed the size of a certain storage space.

He tightened the deerskin around his body.

A lot of firewood was added to the fire pit.

Qi Hu then picked up the big iron knife with many notches on the blade that had been with him for three years and was standing in the corner, opened the door and walked out.

"call"

The air was freezing cold after the heavy snow.

Qi Hu, who had just gone out, shivered from the cold.

After thinking for less than a second, he immediately turned back into the house, walked to his bed in the corner, and picked up a piece of animal skin from the thick pile.

Then wrap it around your body and tie it up.

Then he opened the door again.

He didn't know what level of monster cultivation strength had to reach to not be afraid of the cold.

Anyway, Qi Hu feels that the weather is very cold now.

"Long Tail Brother"

"Long Tail Brother"

Soon, two monsters, one with a rat head and the other with a crow head, came in front of Qi Hu.

These are Qi Hu’s two current kitchen assistants.

The rat demon is called Hu Zichang. He joined the kitchen two years ago and became Qi Hu's assistant in the kitchen.

The former kitchen helper, the Toad Demon Dadu, was caught when he crossed the border of Snake Neck Ridge with Qi Hu three years ago, but was rescued that night.

But his luck was too bad. A year later, that is, two years ago, when he followed Qi Hu to hunt in Lingdi and the edge of Shejingling, he was attacked and killed by a Shejingling shaking head.

As for the other crow demon with a bird's head in front of him, it joined the kitchen a year ago.

At that time, when the main mountain sent a lot of patrolling little demons to the spiritual land, Man Gutou added a kitchen helper to Qi Hu's kitchen.

"Walk"

When his two men arrived, Qi Hu didn't waste any time and turned around and walked out of the camp.

"Brother Changwei, where are you going today?"

"How about we go back to the place we went last time?"

"That place last time? Forget it. Almost all the beasts in Snake Neck Ridge that borders us have been captured. Why don't we go west?"

"We have been catching beasts in the west for the past few months. Let's let the beasts recover a bit."

"Then where did you say you were going?"

"How about going east?"

"We have been catching beasts in the east for about half a year last year. Let's let those beasts recover."

"Then where do you say we should go?"

"Go north!"

Hearing the two demons arguing, Qi Hu made the final decision.

“North.”

After hearing Qi Hu's words, the crow demon dared not speak. The rat demon with a long beard hesitated, but still said: "Brother Changwei, our brothers on the main mountain like to look for spiritual medicine in the mountains and forests near our spiritual land. There are not many ordinary beasts there."

But Qi Hu, who felt that going north would bring him closer to that mysterious feeling, did not explain, but said again: "Just go north!"

(End of this chapter)