After rounds of tempering of her body she was covered in sweat and impurities that her body releases "a few more rounds of tempering and i should be able to breakthrough" panting, the girl stood up and proceed at the nearest river to wash herself.
After washing, she made sure to collect some precious herbs as well on her way back as well as some daily necessities. As she made her way back, she started another round of grinding herbs and making aome poison powder since the current amount that she had isn't enough.
After a day or two just doing this routine, suddenly a forceful roar was heard inside her hut "Finally! I broke through to body Condensation realm!" She punched one of the tree with a very thick thrunk and her fist almost sunk through it without even utilizing her spirit qi. "Phew! I should be able to defeat a spirit transformation expert with my Spirit flowing and body condensation realm. Now I just need to consolidate my current realm for a few more days and then proceed again in venturing in the forest." With a plan in mind she decided to consolidate her realm for few days.
A few days have past and not only she was able to consolidate her realm, she was also able to improve her realm and almost breaking through to intermediate Spirit flowing realm and halfway through of initial body condensation realm. Check her supply and her weapon, a woooden spear and a stome knife she set out and verture deeper in the forest.
As she delve deeper in the forest, she encounter a fierce beast, an armored earth drake. Armored Earth Drake ia aggressive and territorial in nature, with it's hard carapace and scale all over it's body, even a rank A adventurer would have a hard time penetrating its defense. Its sharp claws will rend a normal cold iron steel like butter hence its claw and very hot commodity with blacksmiths.
"Perfect timing! I want to test my current strength and see how I will fare with this type of enemy!" Her eyes lit up and her battle spirit was ignited and made the first move "try to take on this!" She dashes towards the drake and guide her spirit qi to flow on her fist. As she drew closer to the drake, she immediately punch out her fist to the drake "Godfield Seven fist of destruction first move: Big Bang Implosion!" As her fist collides with the drake, at first look, there was no damage at the outer shell of the drake however... splurt! The drake didn't move and after a few moments, blood started to gush out from its mouth.
She stared at her fist sighing "bone is damage with cracks and some bone fragments are protruding on my flesh. At most this will heal for a few days, it seems that I won't be able to use my fist technique for a while. Maybe I should use some of my normal techniques just as before I reach Body Filling realm combine it to my Spirit flowing realm." She wave her fist to remove the protruding bone fragments in her fist and prepare a herbal bandage and apply it to her fist.
She started to butcher the drake and harvest the scale, blood, claws and meat of the drake. Fortunately, she has space in her backpack and was able to carry 70% of the loot. She then tried to look for a cave that she can stay for the meantime and luckily, she was able to find an abandon cave nest.
There, she prepare a camp fire and have some drake skewer. After consuming the meat, she also took out the blood that she got from the drake and after mixing the poison powder and the drake's blood, the mixture become more potent. She smeared the new mixture on her body and a piercing numbing pain struck her followed by blood dripping on her seven orifices. She gritted her teeth and meditate and after suffering for almost an hour to the point that she nearly pass out, a colling sensation arrive to refresh her body. Her skin glows and her cells are like hungry wolves devouring her energy hence she immediately eat the drake skewers that she just prepared.
After eating 3 pounds of drake skewer, she was still hungry so she took out the remaining drake meat and barbeque it on the camp fire. After eating all of the drake meat, she started to meditate and consolidate all of her gains and after a few minutes of meditating she opened her eyes "peak state of body condensation realm! And Intermediate Spirit flowing realm. Also my hands are healed." She exhaled and smile.
In the morning, she left the cave and continue to travel in the inner walds of the forest. As she travels in the inner walds, she saw a rare herb that she was familiar with "isn't that serpent's tongue?" What she saw was a herb that was in a shape of a snake's tongue with a purple hue at the of it's leaves. After checking the plant for a moment, she was able to confirmed that it was serpent's tongue. She collected the herb and put it in her back pack "with this plant and the remaining blood drake, I should be able to create the madman's poison and breakthrough to Body Filling realm and proceed with combining my Spirit realm and Body realm. I just need some auxiliary herbs."
After travelling for half a day and almost it's almost dusk, she was able to collect all the necessary herbs she needed and she only need to find a perfect place to break through. As she was trying to find a place to rest, dusk soon settle and still she haven't found any place to rest. After a few more minutes of looking, she saw a light "a light? A camp fire!" Her eyes lit up and immediately run to the light that she saw and as she was nearing to the camp fire, with her acute senses, she was able to determine that they are human and one of the human was bald "a buddhist monk perhaps?" She blurted out.
"WHO'S A BUDDHIST MONK!" the bald guy shouted which starlted the girl.