Novius vanishes along with the white realm. Max stood before the glowing mountain,he started to analyze the inheritance. It contains various body refining methods and insights mostly about body refining stages,various treasures and heavenly materials like herbs that are helpful to body, after seeing the clear and numerous insights he began to wonder if these insights are common or it is the knowledge of novius[what he was not aware of is that right now what he was studying is Coveted by countlesd sects ] he furter studys and soon he learns about the place he was in-
Max after knowing where he was,his heart beats faster, sweat forms on his forehead. Apparently the place where max is called "DEATH MOUNTAINS".It is a place where no human would dare to inhabit or enter aside from top powers or daring people, A place that is filled with endless monsters, no one know how many monsters or how many beings died in this death mountains. Fortunately Max was currently in outermost part of outer zone, the monsters here are mostly first & second rank and some at third rank.
Cultivation in this world is divided into ranks from first to ninth rank. the first tow ranks are known as body strengthening stage and also they are low level in cultivation world. In these ranks one needs to strengthen his body to bear the burden for next ranks, if one's body is not strengthened enough he might not be able to breakthrough to next ranks.
Max looked at the direction where the other students went and it is going into the outer zone. He was confused whether he should warn them or not, because if he warn them, then they question him "how did you know? " and he didn't want them to learn about novius and inheritance, because if novius intended to share his inheritance with all of them he would do that instead of picking the one that driven out of curiosity to even risk his life. In the end max decided to enter the cave left behind by novius for night.
Inside the cave is a small space enough for max to live and also there is a bed made with wood and a black fur that is so smmoth and silky, comfortable for sleeping. Max lay on bed and decided to analyze the inheritance one more time before going to sleep.
Night flew and morning came.
Max also wakes up and looking at the direction the students went,lazily stretches his muscles. He want to go find them and show them the right direction,after all they are all his classmates. With this thought he set out to find his classmates. he reaches the tree where he part ways with them, he looked at the tree and continues to move, his journey is smooth not encountering any monsters until after running a kilometer he stops obviously it is because of exhaustion but then max smells a faint smell of blood, he looked at the direction where the smell is coming from and slowly moves towards it. After reaching the source of smell he stood there frozen because what greeted him was a pile of corpses in a pool of blood,that is still somewhat fresh.they are none other his classmates, they are all dead.Max forces himself to stay calm.He didn't expect them to die he would've expected them to be dead when they went too deep but it is still the outermost part of outer zone,monster here are 1st &2nd ranks and of course they are stronger than ordinary people but at least they should be able to run towards his cave,I can only say it's unfortunate. He decided to examine the corpses to guess what happens,the corpses -some were headless and some organs are scattered all over the corpses,he looked at the marks on the corspes,they look like they are ripped off by some kind of sharp claw.He looked at the blood and estimates that this happens roughly between 2-5 am in morning.Realizing that the monsters might be nearby he ran off to the cave because there is a array placed by novius for protection that's why Max sleep's soundly even though there are monsters. He soon reaches the cave and lay on the bed, his body is soar from running and his heart is beating like a war drum "Dub Dub Dub Dub".
Max after claiming decided to cultivation even though if he starts running now he can exits the outerzone and reaches a nearby city but having strength means no harm