# Chapter 6 Partial success
He sent a wisp of green Qi into this map and slowly sent it through the page. The Qi turned a strange white as he saw an interesting tree start to form in this Qi, but suddenly the white Qi started to vibrate violently, tearing up the piece of paper.
So Oak thinking quickly stopped the white Qi from growing and focused on the etchings on the paper, and in a few seconds, the paper turned to dust. He attempted to hold it together, but it was impossible with his skill level.
The Qi then turned back into his green color, and he promptly absorbed it.
'Hmm, so I really need to be careful other people's Qi or types of energy. I also need to make sure that I fully dominate it before absorbing it as well.'
With that thought, he connected with his wisp clump and strengthened the connection.
He had the Map, not blood soaked in his head. Because of the paper being torn apart for some reason, he didn't know he wasn't able to get everything down but had a massive overview of the range. And some locations, but he found something shocking.
First, not only was the mountain range on here, but it was half the continent. The thousand beasts mountain range took about a quarter of the continent and if he did the math correctly that range was 1.5 million miles in size that's half the fucking size Australia.
'Well shit i think I would need centuries if not thousands of years to fully engrave and understand all the mortal realm plants in the outer region. Also, how the hell did I manage to steal this map? Do they not see it as valuable?'
What Oak didn't know was that they had more like this, but they tactfully let him have it as they would never have just a single copy laying around.
'Oh well, I will just hover around the outer region of the mountain for a year, then go to the inner areas in the second.'
He then looked around his home and wondered how long he was in research mode. But he had better things to do, like studying that hypnotic Blue Lily. To which he went with his process of watching it absorb qi, refining it, store it, use it to make energy and enhances its body then getting rid of impurities. He spent an hour doing this from what he thought.
He felt that with each plant, he was getting faster, too. So he just continued.
An hour, 2 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, then a full day passed and Oak could be seen Eyes blood shot staring at a pink flower with a crazed expression and looking like a new york vagrant that was clearly addicted to crack and looking for his next fix with his short but lengthening brown hair that looked more and more like brown roots from a tree.
Suddenly, a hunger hit him, which made his eyes roll. He got up, and the crazed look left him.
'I was able to get around 20 plants woven into my immortal root, but I feel that I still haven't mastered them unless I can take these plants and make my very own creation. It's like I can give a textbook definition to them but not truly understand how they evolved without taking it into my own hands like making a pill, potion, or just a whole new plant.'
At this point, he couldn't care to think anymore as he was hungry and didn't like the feeling of hunger. So he quickly looked for his meal, which was a 3 headed chicken with green feathers and killed and cooked it. Its taste was rather interesting as it was a combination sweet and sour. Oak felt that the eggs of this chicken would make a great breakfast item.
As the sun broke dawn, he finished up and took a look at this Immortal Root, which started to resemble the ecosystem around him with those 20 plants.
Suddenly Oak paused but continued to act as if nothing was wrong.
'Something is watching me. The plants around me are shivering that's truly a strange thing and it Only happens when they encounter something on my level while there still in the mortal realm. There was no sound of anything breaking, so it must mean this lifeform is light of foot and touch.
There is also the fact that my hairs are standing to stand up. There also is also-' Oak didn't think any longer using all his skill and power he leaped off the cliff he was on because he felt the thing right behind him. Then he heard a screech that sounded like a monkey and with a glance behind him he saw it.
It was an 8 ringed tailed monkey. But it didn't have any ordinary rings they weren't black but gray like a ghost, and this thing skin was white. It had a hideous face and gazed with so much hatred that it looked like Oak tortured its family in front of it.
'Wait, family, as the thought crossed his mind, he quickly flipped as he hit the ground to displace the fall. The monkey was even better at this and launched itself at Oak, its black eyes filled with anger as it reached to break Oak neck.
Too bad Oak sidestep this grab and quickly pierced his hand toward the monkeys heart. Sensing this, the monkey twisted his body to Oak surprise, and his hand pierced the monkeys lungs.
The monkey took advantage of Oak surprise and strangled Oak with its tail. To this, he immediately clenched his bloodied hand and grabbed the monkeys spine and squeezed. Then, with his other hand aimed at the base of the monkeys tail.
Sensing the impending doom, the monkey took drastic measures, and it used its weak, pale white arms and legs to rip itself away from Oak. There was a clear hole in the monkeys chest on its left side.
The two stared each other down, and it was clear that only one of them was going to leave this place alive.
'Is this monkey related to the one from before? Oh well, it doesn't matter at this point as I left that things body at the cave. But let's end this quickly as if that thing punches or pierces any part of my body it's game over from the pain and this things arm which has an odd serrated edge to it'
While Oak was thinking and was having a stare down with the monkey he immediately activated his Gaze Of Life and used all the Qi wisps in his body to cause the tree behind the monkey to Strap down the monkeys body aiming to block off blood flow and restrain The monkey for a couple seconds. This caused Oaks face to pale but he ignored the headache and pain for abruptly using it all and his inexperience on doing such a complicated task.
Oak then lunged at the monkey full force and his right arm aimed for the head and his left toward the heart.
This application of Qi on the tree to restrain the monkey was a fools task. As this was a mortal tree vs. a Super soldier monkey. So it quickly broke out of the trees restraint but it was too late as it's last sight was Oak inches from the monkeys face and it's brain getting crushed by Oaks hand while his heart was torn out from the monkeys back.
Oak after getting the kill, he quickly moved back in case of any last stand. While crushing the monkeys heart. While gazing at the brain matter, which was sprayed on the tree. After a few seconds, he relaxed as the moneys last sign of life, and Qi slipped away.
'What happened to that monkey? There is no way it would charge at me, especially when we could both sense each other's power. But how did it escape my senses with that other monkey? Did it already have this power then, but why did it just allow me to attack its family member like that?
I have never heard of immortal roots, especially in the life category, being able to somehow help another person in the super realms.
Also this battle if I was even off by a second I would have died first when we landed i didn't move far enough away. Second the tail I didn't have the skill to rip it off.
I also didn't have the skill to rip out it's heart even with this body's vast combat experience with mortal beasts. Which now that I think about is probably because I simply don't fight like a martial artist it's more like an assassin. If I had some poisons when that monkey got away, it simply would have died by a poison.
My skill with those Qi wisp and my plant attribute simply arnt enough. Luckily, I wasn't foolish enough to go into the inner region. Otherwise, I wouldn't survive long.'
With a sigh, Oak gathered the remains of the monkey and ran back the long way to his home. In case the monkey had Comrades, that would try to kill him in his sleep.
'Well, i need to make poisons and potions to strengthen the body. While they would be mortal grade, it can at least get me to the super commander stage. They would also cause any other super beasts to be slowed down at least temporarily to let me land the kill shot.
But should I return to the village? At this point there are benefits from increase security and peace when concocting potions to strengthen my body and hiddenly making poisons. They also should have martial techniques that relate more to assassin's too.
With a lot on Oaks mind as he ran home he went to sleep as soon as he got back and locked up. As using all this Qi wisp was draining and a over all terrible experince.