THE BLACK CULTIVATOR

WELCOME PARTY

Chris's eyes narrowed. "Nineteen beasts, all at the perfect stage of Qi Condensation." He smiled slightly.

[Note: Perfect Stage = Peak Of Current Realm, Breakthrough Into The Next Realm A Step Away]

"All this one na welcoming event for me, for breaking through abii?" He clenched his fists.

From the forest and rocky hills around him, monstrous roars exploded. A horde of beasts — Iron-hide Bulls, Shadow Panthers, Grey Wolves, Venom Spike Apes, Lightning Wolves, and other vicious creatures — charged toward him like a tidal wave of fangs, claws, and fury.

"Oya ohh! Make we dance!" Chris said.

The Naija youth drew his Grade 4 Kitana from the system screen. He charged forward, shattering the air in a burst of raw power.

Instead of retreating, he moved straight into the horde.

"SHEPE!"

[Voice Of The Streets Activated]

The sonic wave staggered the front line. Unlike the boar earlier, these beasts were far more advanced at the perfect stage, and their bloodlust only amplified their strength and ferocity.

Three lightning wolves broke through and attacked from different angles.

[Rhythmic Combat Intuition Activated]

Chris spun, dodging two of the lightning wolves' attacks, but the third clamped its jaw onto his left shoulder.

"Argh, you get mind oh." He met the wolf's eyes head-on.

He instantly drove his blade through the wolf's skull. The wolf's eyes shook violently before rolling back.

Chris withdrew his blade, and blood gushed out.

"Thud." It fell to the earth.

"Naija Heritage: Shield Of Shege!" He summoned, blocking a combined charge from four Iron-hide Bulls.

"Boom." The ground broke apart.

The impact sent him skidding back twenty meters, blood spraying from his mouth.

The beasts showed no fear. They came in waves — clawing, biting, smashing, and spitting venom.

[5x Recovery Maxed Out]

[Host Body Status: Cracked Bones, Internal Bleeding, Loss Of Blood: 30%]

[Estimated Time To Full Recovery — 30:00]

Chris pushed on, fighting like a demon.

"I go break all of una today!" The Naija youth roared.

"Naija Heritage: Pressure Of Tinubu!" He smashed two apes into meat paste.

"Blade Art: One Blade, Ten Thousand Cries!" Chris stood firm, his right hand tightening around the Kitana's handle. Foundation Qi overflowed as the air seemed to melt and cracks spread across the earth.

A group of panthers lunged at him. He swung once — fast and silent. His Kitana tore open the ground. One strike multiplied into thousands, turning the panthers into sliced meat.

Another set of panthers advanced. He navigated their every attack with streetwise evasion, appearing behind them to deliver devastating counter strikes. The mountain shook violently as boulders and nearby trees were lifted and thrown far away.

But nineteen perfect stage beasts were no joke.

Thirty minutes later, Chris was breathing heavily, his body covered in blood — some his, mostly theirs. Deep gashes decorated his chest and back, and his left arm hung slightly limp from the venom.

Surrounded and standing on the cracked earth, he let out a loud laugh.

"This welcoming party too sweet! But at the end of the day, I be Naija boy — I no be normal person, I be craze boy!" He raised his voice.

Chris dashed forward toward the beasts whose bodies had sustained more injuries and bleeding.

[No Pain-No Gain Full Capacity Engaged]

[Special Buff Activated]

[Note: The more damage you take, the stronger and faster your body will respond]

[Side Effect: Temporary Weakness To Foundation Realm]

His eyes turned bloodshot with battle lust. The battle grew even more savage.

Spit slipped from a Venom Spike Ape's mouth as it struggled to break free from Chris's iron grip on its neck.

Chris used the ape as a living club to smash two other beasts.

A lightning wolf's thunderbolt struck him directly in the chest, but he endured the pain and countered at extremely close range.

"SHEPE!"

The wolf's head detonated.

[Warning: Host Body Severely Damaged]

[Suggestion: Run Away]

"I No DEY RUN ANYWHERE, SYSTEM!" Chris yelled.

One by one, the numbers dropped.

Only three beasts remained: two massive Iron-hide Bulls and an Alpha Lightning Wolf.

The Bulls charged while the wolf called down a thick pillar of lightning.

The Naija youth grinned, both feet planted deep into the ground, sweat evaporating from his skin, blood dripping from his chin.

"Naija Heritage: Pressure Of Tinubu, Full Power!"

A giant brown sword the size of a three-storey building materialized. The clouds parted as the pressure of otherworldly energy pinned the beasts down.

"GO TO HELL, BASTARDS!" Chris roared.

He slammed it down with everything he had.

"BOOOOOOOOM!!!"

The entire battlefield was flattened. Trees were uprooted, rocks turned to dust, and the final three beasts were crushed like pies into the earth.

The Naija youth lay flat on the rocky ground as the dust slowly cleared.

The air was thick with the smell of blood, sweat, and ash.

[20 Qi Condensation — Perfect Stage Beasts Defeated]

[+50 Points Added To All Stats]

[Foundation Building Realm — Early Stage Progress: 30% — 70%]

[Daily Quest Completion Rate: 100%]

[Daily Quest 1: Completed]

[Rewards: +2000 System Points, +1 Advanced Bone Refinement Scroll, +1 Teleportation Talisman]

[Time Until Body Is Restored: 10:00]

[Beast Cores x20 Absorbed Automatically]

[New Title Earned: Horde Slayer]

[Naija Heritage New Skill Unlocked: Blade Art Lv1]

With his chest heaving, Chris got onto one knee, his body a mess of cuts.

A smile escaped his face.

"African, Naija, una boy no fall hand. It wasn't easy — but God pass them," he muttered.

As the rest of the dust slowly settled, something unusual caught his eye. Where the final lightning bolt had struck the earth during the battle, a large section of the mountainside had collapsed, revealing a perfectly hidden stone archway covered in brown vines and glowing runes.

The archway pulsed with mysterious dark energy.

[Hidden Location Discovered]

[Entrance To The Void Mountain Found]

[Warning: Extremely Dangerous Zone. Recommended Cultivation — Core Formation Or Higher. Massive Opportunities And Treasures Inside]

[Daily Quest Completion Rate: 100%]

[Daily Quest 2: Completed]

[Rewards: +500 System Points, +Name Scroll Of Lion Clan Li Yan's Killers]

He forced himself to stand, using his Kitana as support. His eyes studied the newly revealed entrance with a tired but excited smirk.

"After all this fighting, na so you open up for me?" Chris whispered.

He took one step forward. The world suddenly spun violently. All the accumulated damage from the breakthrough, the brutal twenty-beast horde fight, the blood loss, venom, and cracked bones crashed down on him at once like a mountain falling from the sky.

"Chaii, I don mess up today. This world sweet but... I miss my family," Chris murmured.

The Naija youth's vision blurred, his knees buckled. He tried to grab the stone arch for support but missed.

"Thud."

He fell heavily onto the rocky ground, right in front of the void's entrance, unconscious.

[Host Has Entered Critical Exhaustion State]

[5x Recovery Maxed Out]

[Healing Progress: 10%...12%]

[Estimated Time Until Consciousness: Unknown]

While Chris lay motionless, the system stayed active.

[Alert! Alert!]

[Multiple Powerful Energies Detected Approaching From Across The Western Desert]

[Estimated Arrival: 4 Hours]

[Identify: Lion Clan Sect Expedition Team]

[Composition: 30 Qi Condensation Disciples, +2 Core Formation Elders, +1 Core Formation — Perfect Stage Elder]

[Purpose: Exploration Of The Ancient Ruins And Secret Realms Within The Void Mountain]