The massive fishes had gathered there for a while, waiting for more food to come their way. Alex had killed the past few days, and each time he did, it would attract other fishes to come there.
‘Are there no herbivores among these fish?’ Alex wondered. ‘Do they all eat each other? Is that how they continue to get strong?’
Alex saw a fish swim for him, either following the light or his scent. He swung his sword to the right, and the fish was cut in half. He quickly swam up to it before the other fishes could and grabbed the beast core in its body.
Then, he turned towards the others that came for him and cleaved through them too.
Killing these fishes took barely any strength at all. He was way too strong for all of this. However, while fighting through these fish, he made two critical analyses.
First, he was most definitely weaker. His attacks should have been way stronger than just this.
‘Damn,’ Alex thought. ‘There is no way the seal is suppressing my Intent as well, is it?’
Alex hoped that was not the case, but if it was, it would take him a lot longer than he had thought it would.
Second, none of these fish ever attacked with their Qi at all. They always came to get physical up close, despite their cultivation base. By now, they should be using their Qi for all sorts of things, and none of them were doing so at all.
‘Do they not have the knowledge to do so?’ Alex wondered.
Beasts required bloodline knowledge to know what they were supposed to do. They weren’t intelligent enough on their own to learn what they could do.
‘Maybe due to the lack of Heaven, they lost all their knowledge as well,’ Alex thought. Although, he wasn’t entirely certain if Heaven was involved in that or not.
After killing nearly 50 different giant fish, there were no more there for him to kill. So, Alex took out a giant sack and collected their beast cores.
After that, he sat cross-legged on the seafloor and waited for the other people to come get the fish remains. While he waited, he made sure nothing went to waste.
Since there was so much blood there, he had begun absorbing their blood aura as well.
The amount of blood aura within these fish was pitiful, and even that was diluted in these waters, but it was still something. And at this point, he didn’t have the luxury to choose.
He had to use what he could get.
While he absorbed the blood aura in the water, the people from the tribe came to the scene of the massacre and took back what they could with them. Each one of them was stunned at the size of what Alex had killed and wondered if they too could reach that point in their life.
Alex waited until everyone was gone. Once they were, he decided to test out if his Intent had truly weakened or not.
He threw out a few attacks, each of which he knew how strong they should be. And yet, when he finally did manage to use those attacks, they were all quite weakened.
‘No, something is definitely up. My attacks shouldn’t be this weak.’
His attacks should have held the strength of the Immortal realm, capable of cleaving through mountains. And yet, the attack he was creating was barely capable of leaving a decent mark on a mountain.
‘Damn you, Storm God. Just you wait.’
He began eating the cores next and cultivating underwater. He had gotten used to this by now, so he was quite quick about everything. By the time he was done with it all, his Dantian was about half-full.
‘Nearly 200 beast cores, and I barely reach half,’ Alex thought. ‘How many more fish do I have to kill before I fill my Dantian entirely?’
He didn’t particularly care if he killed too many fishes, but he needed to let them stay around for the sake of the tribes. If he killed too many, the other fish could run away, leaving the area barren for these people.
The ones that cultivated to the True realm should be fine, but the ones that were lagging, and especially the kids and elderly who couldn’t cultivate, would lack food sources.
He couldn’t just kill as he wanted.
After a while, Alex returned to the tribe. The sky shimmered in the afternoon, the sun somewhere to the west. There was about an hour or so before the sun went past the mountain.
He looked around the tribe until he found Tara.
“Hey, can you find Wushu for me and meet me near the shore? And anyone else with a higher cultivation base. I want to teach you guys something.”
“Uhh, sure,” Tara said. “It might take a few minutes. They just got back.”
“It’s alright. Just have them gather there in the next 10 minutes.”
Tara nodded and left.
Alex walked toward the mountain and found more rocks he could use. After gathering a handful, he returned to the shore and placed them around the sand.
He waited for a bit longer, and a few dozen people gathered.
Alex checked their cultivation base, and each person had a cultivation base higher than the 5th Skin Tempering realm.
“Since you are all gathered, let me tell you what we are doing today. Stand before the rocks, please.”
The people separated and stood before a rock each. They looked confused and kept watching.
“The thing I want to teach is simple,” Alex said. “Copy me.”
He reached to the ground and picked up the pebble. Everyone copied him, picking up the pebble as well.
Alex opened his fist, letting the pebble remain on the open palm. Everyone copied.
Then, Alex lowered his palm.
Everyone tried to copy but immediately failed. Where Alex’s pebble remained floating in the air, everyone else fell to the ground.
Everyone looked at the floating pebble in shock as it was not something they had ever seen before.
“Are you all ready to learn about Qi Manipulation?”