Chapter 99: Half a Year

*pant* *pant*

Lin Xiao slipped down from the beasts' back and looked down with relief. Seeing that the boar was no longer breathing, he felt relieved that he was still alive. At the same time, he felt annoyed because he couldn't defeat it so easily.

Tep!

Wang Jun stood before Lin Xiao and looked at his work while nodding. "You're the first to kill it."

"Ah?"

"The others are also fighting the same beasts."

Hearing that, Lin Xiao's face turned dark. He pointed to the beast behind him with annoyance. "Can you teach me a bit more about the beasts' ranking?"

"It's ranked by number," Wang Jun started. "The weakest is rank 1, and the strongest is rank 9. The one you usually fight in the remote village is unranked or what you call as normal animals. As for the one that you occasionally fight are Beasts Rank 1, they usually have similar strength to Body Training Rank 6 to 7."

Lin Xiao nodded. He had fought several beasts back in the past and Elder Wang always told him that if he couldn't defeat them, he would be a disgrace. Fortunately, he was usually able to one kill them without much difficulties.

"The one in front of you is beast rank 2, which is usually as strong as Body Training Rank 8 or 9," Elder Wang replied. "Some Beasts Rank 2 can even be stronger than Body Training Rank 10, but this one is fairly weaker."

Hearing that, Lin Xiao shuddered. If he had to face a beast with the strength of Body Training Rank 10, wouldn't it be suicide for him?

"Beast Rank 3 is as strong as Foundation Establishment. Beast Rank 4 is as strong as Golden Core Stage 1, Beast Rank 5 is as strong as Golden Core Stage 2, and so on." Wang Jun then looked at Lin Xiao. "Also, Golden Core had 3 stages."

Lin Xiao nodded. It was then he recalled the other rank. "How about Half Golden Core Stage?"

"Half Golden Core meant that you don't even reach Golden Core Stage 1." Wang Jun's showed a trace of disdain. Those who reached this stage was usually because they failed their breakthrough, thus they stuck in the half stage.

If they wished to breakthrough to the proper stage, they would need to expend more power and if they fail again, they would die. Because of this, those who had stuck in Half Golden Core Stage would not dare to attempt any more breakthrough unless it was necessary.

They had failed once and might not even succeed if they tried the second time.

Not everyone was willing to bet on their lives to make another breakthrough because in mace places, Half Golden Core Stage was already considered to be so powerful. They could even become the leader of a small sects, so it was good enough.

"Half Golden Core is not a formal rank?" Lin Xiao asked in astonishment.

Wang Jun nodded. "It's the rank of those who failed to enter Golden Core Stage."

"I see."

"The stages are still very far for you, so you have to focus more on training. From now, I'm going to teach you new skills, so pick a weapon."

"Weapon?" Lin Xiao's eyes lit up. He had been thinking about which weapon he wanted to have in the future. After all, the villagers only trained Mountain Punch for a long time without any chance to even hold a sword. He had always dreamed the time when he could finally wield weapon.

Wang Jun nodded. He had seen Lin Xiao's progress and at this point of time, Lin Xiao had already reached the peak of Mountain Punch for his current stage. Unless he made a breakthrough to Body Training Rank 9, his attack would not increase that much.

Since that was the case, he chose to start training Lin Xiao in weapon.

"Sword!" Lin Xiao replied with a grin.

"Alright."

Handing a wooden sword to Lin Xiao, Wang Jun warned the boy. "Watch my movement closely and you will have to follow the same stance every single day until you master it, got it? The name of the skill is Mountain Sword!"

"Yes!"

Wang Jun turned around and began to move. His movement can look fast but it could also look slow. It was very profound and gave off the feeling that it was out of this world. Yet at the same time, it was also a beautiful movement.

Lin Xiao found himself enraptured by the movements in front of him. For the first time in his live, he felt that he had seen something that was so beautiful that he didn't want to move his eyes away. His attention was completely sucked by the swords' movement that seemed to be able to cut through the air.

Swish!

As Wang Jun finished his movement, he glanced over and saw Lin Xiao moved just like what he had showed.

'As I thought, he's really good at learning skill.'

Lin Xiao moved and even though there were still some awkward moments, it was not that bad at all. After he had finished, Lin Xiao grinned. He was sure that after a few times, he would be able to move better.

He glanced at Elder Wang in excitement.

"What is it, you brat?"

"Teach me other skill!"

"Learn that first!" Wang Jun ordered sternly.

"YES!"

Seeing how excited Lin Xiao was, Wang Jun sighed. He was planning of having Lin Xiao learnt here for half a year. It seemed that while teaching Lin Xiao how to survive against more powerful opponent, he would have to teach other skills to this brat.

'Oh right, time to check the others.'

Swish.

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Beast Ranking and the estimated strength:

Unranked: Untrained people to Body Training Rank 3

Rank 1: Body Training Rank 6 to 7

Rank 2: Body Training Rank 8 to 10

Rank 3: Foundation Establishment

Rank 4: Golden Core Stage 1

Rank 5: Golden Core Stage 2

Rank 6: Golden Core Stage 3

(A/N): The list might still be updated later when the story progressed furthe