The wild dog is slowly moving from right to left. Lin Yuan and Chen Ming moved forward without making a sound, and to close the distance between them and the beast.

Ten paces... eight paces... six paces... four paces away...

Lin Yuan and Chen Ming walked towards the beast, crouching and hiding behind the trees. Once they reached near it, they halted behind a wide trunk tree.

"We will kill that beast without its knowing," Lin Yuan murmured, a quiet smirk lingering on his face.

Lin Yuan slowly raised his palm, facing towards the wild dog. He moved his palm along with the wild dog, adjusting the aim to its stomach. Lin Yuan used Shell Strike before, but he recovered his beast essence. He again gathered the shell energy into the palm, but now he expanded the size of compression. Lin Yuan’s concentration is so precise, that the energy formed in front of his palm was so stable.

"Shell Strike," Lin Yuan whispered, blasting the energy beam straight.

SQUACK! SCREECH!

The energy beam pierced through the wild dog stomach, brutally, perfectly. The wild dog let out a high-pitched groan before it fell on the ground. Lin Yuan and Chen Ming rushed forward, closing the distance in three seconds.

The pulpy flesh of internal organs are splattered out from the stomach of the wild dog. Chen Ming felt a stir in his mouth, but Lin Yuan crouched, his face devoid of any unease. Lin Yuan extracted the beast core and commanded it to vanish.

Lin Yuan’s group now acquired the two Rank 2 Beast cores — one for Lin Yuan and another for Chen Ming — which practically makes them a winner of the trial. But one of them needs to go first.

"Time to go, Chen Ming," Lin Yuan muttered, his head turning slightly to see Chen Ming. "We completed our trail."

"Yes, you are right, Lin Yu—"

"Give your beast cores, bastards!" A familiar voice yelled from the backside, interrupting the words of Chen Ming. "We will let you out alive."

Lin Yuan and Chen Ming turned backward. It was Zhang Wei and Xiao Chen. Silence carried between them. Zhang Wei and Xiao Chen stood still, their stare locked onto Lin Yuan and Chen Ming.

"Can’t you hear what Zhang Wei said?" Xiao Chen shouted, an angry grin lingering on his face. "Give the two beast cores you have! We will let you out alive!"

’W–What the fuck? How did they find we have two beast cores? Are they spying on us?’ Chen Ming thought, his face filled with fear.

"Are you spying on us, shameless bastards?" Lin Yuan muttered, his voice calm but echoed across the field. "We aren’t gonna give anything to you! Shut the fuck up, and find your own beasts."

Chen Ming was shocked with Lin Yuan’s reply.

"Let’s discuss this, Xiao Chen," Chen Ming requested, stepping forward.

Lin Yuan analysed the black-haired guy. He was from the students who tried to answer the master Mo Qinghe’s question.

’His name is...? Yeah! Zhang Wei.’ Lin Yuan remembered, sensing his aura ’I can sense his beast essence... I think he was in Baby Beast Realm - Mid Stage.’

’Same as me then,’ Lin Yuan thought with a smirk on his face. ’What about another one?’

’Chen Ming called him Xiao Chen...’ Lin Yuan frowned, sensing the aura of Xiao Chen. ’What the fuck...? He is at the Peak stage in Baby Beast Realm?’

Lin Yuan was shocked that his opponent is stronger than him, and he felt something bad.

SNAP!

A flicker of instinct called out Lin Yuan. It screamed at Lin Yuan to escape.

’Something is wrong with that orange-haired bastard..’ Lin Yuan thought, his eyes devoid of emotion. ’I feel something bad is coming. Wait if I can shoot a laser beam with my beast essence. Can I convert it to a slash?’

Lin Yuan had numerous bad thoughts about Xiao Chen. An eerie chill crawled across Lin Yuan’s spine, his instincts screaming at him.

"Tsk... Don’t waste my time with your silence, Chen Ming," Xiao Chen sneered, taking a step forward. "Your time is ov—"

SLASH!!

A thick, red, diagonal line appeared on Xiao Chen’s face, bisecting the eyes symmetrically, before the upper part of face plummeted down and splattered. After a second, the half eye balls along with Xiao Chen’s body fell down with a loud thud. The pulpy flesh of eyes, brain matter with blood, brutally splashed on the grass field. And some blood spilled on Zhang Wei’s face.

For a few seconds, Zhang Wei and Chen Ming didn’t understand what happened. And then Chen Ming screamed, and his face became pale white. Zhang Wei slowly tilted his head to the right and downward, rubbing the spilled blood on his face.

"What the fuck...?" Zhang Wei screamed, falling down to his back helplessly, and sprawling backward. "Who the hell did this?"

"I am!" Lin Yuan answered, his face is calm with no guilt or hesitation. "If not he will kill both of us."

"I will kill you, bastard brat!!!" Zhang Wei roared, lunging towards Lin Yuan. "I will rip your heart out."

"Antler Slash!" Zhang Wei commanded, extending his hand forward while sprinting.

But Lin Yuan dodges it in time by jumping sideways. But Chen Ming knelt down there, lost his sanity. Lin Yuan doesn’t have the beast essence left for another ’Shell Strike.’ He already used it twice, now he had only 1% essence.

Zhang Wei pivoted towards Chen Ming, darting his eyes from Lin Yuan to Chen Ming. "I will kill your friend now!"

"No....!" Lin Yuan frowned, running towards Zhang Wei. "Stop it!"

Lin Yuan clenched his fist tightly, until his knuckles turned white. Just before Zhang Wei unleashed the attack towards Chen Ming, Lin Yuan landed a devastating punch on Zhang Wei. He didn’t use any beast essence; he just punched with his raw power. Then the direction of attack launched from Zhang Wei was drifted down, piercing the leg of Chen Ming.

SCREAM!!

Chen Ming screamed so harshly, before falling unconscious. Zhang Wei tripped because of the impact of the punch.

Lin Yuan rushed to Chen Ming. Blood spilling out from the wound in Chen Ming’s leg. Lin Yuan ripped his own robe and tied tightly to stop the bleeding.

’How the hell a 15-year old boy’s punch is this strong?’ Zhang Wei thought, his head tripping from the impact of the punch. And he slowly stood up again. He cannot unleash another attack, because he used up his beast essence.

Zhang Wei lunged forward to fight with bare fists and raw power now. Lin Yuan jolted his head back suddenly, giving an intense stare to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei stopped. He was scared with the stare, it was not a stare of a child. Lin Yuan slowly got up onto his feet.

"How dare you hurt a person who has no intent to fight?" Lin Yuan sputtered, his eyebrows furrowed with an intense glare towards Zhang Wei.

Lin Yuan stepped forward, slowly, meticulously. With each step Lin Yuan took, Zhang Wei took a step back in fear. Lin Yuan reached Zhang Wei and punched his front face so hard that Zhang Wei fell down to his back again. Lin Yuan clutched the robes of Zhang Wei tightly, crouching on him.

"Sorry...! Please spare me... please don’t kill me!" Zhang Wei pleaded, tears rolling out from his eyes. "I won’t tell any—"

"Shut up..!" Lin Yuan interrupted, and punched him so hard on his face again.

PUNCH! PUNCH! PUNCH!

Lin Yuan landed punches on Zhang Wei one by one. After a few punches, blood oozed out from Zhang Wei’s nose, and then with the impact of punches, Zhang Wei’s left eyeball gouged out from the sack. Lin Yuan ignored the eyeball and punched to splatter the eyeball on his face.

Zhang Wei died. Lin Yuan stood up, his robe color was a mix of white, dusty grey and blood red. The skin on right hand knuckles ripped off, blood dripping down from his blood-shedded knuckle. Lin Yuan walked straight in the direction where Zhang Wei and Xiao Chen came.

"I know you are hiding there." Lin Yuan muttered, his voice reaching a guy hiding behind the tree. "Come out!"

The guy was Fenglian. He just arrived the moment before Lin Yuan stood up.

"What happened, Lin Yuan?" Fenglian stuttered because of fear crawling out on his marrow. "Why did you kill Zhang Wei and Xiao Chen brutally?"

"They attacked us, asking the beast cores. They threatened to kill us..." Lin Yuan replied, his face spasming with scary look and fear. "See, Zhang Wei tried to kill Chen Ming, but by luck he got hit on his leg. Please take him up to the academy. I will be back soon!"

Fenglian believed. He knew Zhang Wei and Fenglian rushed towards Lin Yuan’s group to kill them. Fenglian slowly lifted Chen Ming on his back, and started to walk towards the exit of the forest.

****

At the exit of the Outer Beast Ridge’ forest...

Two guards arrived there after a few minutes the students went into the forest. They are standing there, because if any emergency occurs they will be like help to the students.

"See that, someone is coming." A guard named Luo Zheng muttered.

Then the vision got clear. They saw Fenglian carrying a body on his back. Luo Zheng and Shen Chi rushed towards Fenglian and took Chen Ming’s body. And they carried him to the academy.