Mugan opened his eyes the next morning, feeling so tired, like he ran a long marathon, his eyes blinking to adjust to the morning sun, which he hadn't gotten used to, he pushed up his body, surprisingly not feeling the pain from his knee.
He untied the cloth he had tied on his knee and saw his knees healed which greatly shocked him, was this the effects of the holy forest effect he asked himself , as he stood , taking out the map underneath his robe, he stared at it to figure his next move, but before that, he had to eat something, lest he knew he couldn't continue the journey.
Mugan looked for the nearest stream to fish, he didn't even know how to but decided to sit close to the shore as he had gotten worms from a dead tree , he put tons of worms together, throwing some in , to draw the fishes towards his direction, he waited as he baited them, and soon three fishes sworm towards his direction, and he tactifully caught two before the last one escaped.
He made a small fire with the help of a stone match, which filled the forest and roasted the fishes to eat.
As he finished eating, he regained most of his energy, and decided to continue on the quest for the seeker's eye.
Odin the Cosmic spirit guide had been residing within mugan since last night was busy now examining his new host, to his thoughts, the boy looked frail but he already liked his decisiveness.
He noticed how the boy's spirit flow was circulating around his core, it was weak but since Odin's and mugan's spirit flow had mixed , his flow had increased but without him cultivating it wouldn't make any change , and he would only make his presence known when the boy showed any form of bravery. He also wondered why the boy had a strong bloodline that didn't match his spirit and energy flow.
Mugan journeyed deep into the holy forest trying to get to the seeker's eye location which would take more than a month , which he didn't have, he met others as they crossed paths and noticed there were more than slaves in this forest , it seemed there were also cultivators and warriors too, which further strenthened the difficulty and danger of the mission.
He walked under the blazing hot sun , as he came across ruins and buildings in the forest, which made him wonder how someone could stay in such dangerous place.
A blood leeching slime had coiled around a tree as it sighted it's next prey, as it slowly uncoiled itself, crawling towards mugan who had no idea he had been targeted, slimes were level 2 beasts, because of it's slow attack power but were dangerous because they never gave their prey a chance of survival once they were within it's grasp.
The slime color were the same as that's of the forests grass , which helped it in blending in and catching it's prey unaware , but were noticed easily by someone who had reached stage two of spirit flow cultivation and stage 1 energy flow, which currently mugan lacked.
He walked deeper in, as the slime followed him, closing in on him, and next it coiled around mugan's two legs, leeching it's skin to his skin wanting to suck him to death.
Mugan paused at the burning sensation on his legs, as he felt his energy leave him, and he looked down to see the slime cawl up to its upper body, leaving him frightened and helpless .
He tried reaching for the small knife he always used for work which he happened to carry,with his free hand he pulled it out, stabbing down the slimes body, he stabbed and stabbed till it's blood splattered on his face and clothes.
The slime becoming more pissed off tightened it greasy body around mugan trying to suck him to death.
He was already feeling drowsy and weak with each passing moment and wondered if it was the end of his journey, he looked at the sky while still trying to stab the slime despite it's relentless, till he became so weak as the knife freely fell his hands.
Would this be my last he thought as the slime feeling the deflating energy flow of it's prey coiled upwards to finish it's job.
Odin saw the boy's bravery , taking out a level 2 beast such as the slime was a walk in the park for him, but he wanted to see the boy's fighting spirit which he had seen.
He took over mugan's body since he had already lost consciousness.
SPIRIT COSMIC FLOW - THE DANCING RIVER UNLEASH
Came Odin's voice from mugan's body as bright blow light bursted from mugan's body releasing a massive pressure within 60km radius within the holy forest, shaking trees and lands and cultivators and warriors also felt the massive pressure.
The slime had bursted into pieces due to the massive pressure it felt unexpectedly from it's prey.
Odin went ahead to absord the slime's energy and spirit flow , till it's flesh reduced to ash, what it did was called core absorbing technique, which only high level cultivators can use, as it restored mugan's energy flow and spirit flow.
This is all I can do boy, Odin said , you will have to cultivate slowly to the top from now on, Odin said as mugan's body Landed with a soft thud on the ground.
Mugan had lost consciousness for more than six hours , before he opened his eyes wondering if he was in the after life, he remembered the greasy body of the slime sucking his energy , as he thought he took his last breath, he stood up, looking at his body , feeling twice more energized before he lost consciousness.
How did I survive he asked his self, as he looked around, did someone save me?, he looked around again searching for his savior.
The spirit guide flew out of his body knocking him on the head, I saved you boy, so you should be paying respect to this elder Odin said which grabbed mugan's attention to look at the see through floating man who looked no more than 2 ft , bearing a long moustache.