Yuehan is fully prepared this time but is still taken aback by its increased speed even in his slowed down perception. Yuehan holds the knife in front of himself since he didn't account for the increase in speed and force. Yuehan is tackled to the ground with the wolf being on top of him. When they fell, Yuehan's perception was able to capture everything in slowed motion, allowing him to position the dagger through the top of the mutt's mouth. When they hit the ground, the force dislocated his shoulder, making him grunt in pain but allowing the dagger to stab through its tough inner skin, killing the wolf.
Yuehan lays there in contempt of his lousy fight, thinking of ways he could have done better. After two minutes, he gets up in pain but is still hungry, so he goes to finish his dinner. After picking up his plate and chewing a few bites of meat.
Unknown to Yuehan, the jaguar is behind him waiting for him to have his full attention on his food. The jaguar sees his opportunity and slices up Yuehan back, leaving a big claw mark and leaving the dislocated shoulder with blood. Yuehan screams out in pain, He turns around in pain to notice nothing there. He looks around the plateau but sees nothing. Yuehan sits back down on the ground and rips up his shirt into 5 long straps that he uses to cover the injury on the back. He does this slowly and carefully, making sure to keep an eye out for the jaguar.
The jaguar goes in to attack again, right when Yuehan tries tying the shirt straps in place around his body. The cat stops in its tracks before backing away back into the darkness.
It appears the earlier scream had alerted Elizabeth that there is an intruder. Scaring the jaguar back to the edge of the forest.
Yuehan is still in extreme pain even after using his shirt as a bandage. He doesn't have enough focus to look at Elizabeth, the one who just saved his life but could just as well end it. Yuehan tries going to bed hoping to forget the pain. It took a bit, and he was able to sleep.
a month has passed since Mr. Hen returned from the spirit forest alone. In that time, Tang San has hit level 15, and Xiao Wu is level 14. They have become increasingly worried for their friend, but whoever they ask for help to look for him they say, "he's probably long gone, 10 percent of spirit apprentices don't even make it to get their first ring." or something like "don't worry about it. he's probably just skipping school or visiting home. Children normally grow homesick after a while from home." But Tang- San didn't believe such words when Mr. Hen came back alone and unwilling to answer his question. After three weeks of insisting, His Master agreed to take him, but Tang San will have learned how to live in the forest, and if they can't find him in a week, they are going back to the academy. Tang San agreed to such an agreement.
3 days later, Tang San can be seen slicing yellow and brown mushrooms using a small knife. He was cutting into the mushrooms and only graved the bits on the inside and not the outside. Xu Xiaogang is seen sitting on an uprooted log while Su Poe, his summon beast, stands guard.
"The outside of the Botox mushrooms is very poisonous if eaten, but if the inside is taken out without any of the outside mixed in, then it will make a good food in case of emer-"
*sniff*
The Master was interrupted by his soul beast sniffing the air. The master's soul beast is a cute yellow fat dog with an amazing smell. Its name is San Pao. San Poa barks at the master. trying to tell its master to follow it. After a few tries, the point gets across, and they start following San Paol. After an hour, San Pao stops and implies it's right ahead. master steps first through the bushes to see a bloodbath of at least 20 soul beasts and their ring floating above. San Pao must have smelled the blood. How much blood will there have to be for something to pick up a full hour walk from the source, what caused this, he thinks, while looking at the surrounding mess. Tang San walks into the clearing. He immediately rushes to a pile of corpses and uses a technique called Controlling Crane Catching Dragon allowing him to lift the 50–100-pound corpses. After lifting 5 corpses in the pile to see Yuehan face covered in blood. he drags Yuehan out of there. once he dragged Yuehan out. Tang San brings his head to Yuehan's chest, hoping to hear a heartbeat. Tang San is worried, but he thinks rationally when he hears a heartbeat after 5 seconds and then a couple every second. Yuehan has almost zero spirit essence. master puts a black liquid in Yuehan mouth. "Tilt his head back." Master says aloud.
Tang San nods and tilts Yuehan's head back a little. Tang San looks at Yuehan's body to notice a huge slash mark on the back, a bite mark on his arm, and a dislocated foot. Tang San, using his spirit energy, picks Yuehan up onto his back, and starts walking towards the path to go to the edge of the forest, taking a break every hour to check on supplies and Yuehan conditions.