At this time, Aaron could deliver an attack that weighed around 6 to 7 thousand kg. That was more than the power of a 4th tier magic 'Flying Ball of destruction' that summons and throws a big sized canon ball made of stone towards a target, truly remarkable.
The fact that he could produce such raw destructive power using his very own body was something he would have never thought of. This was the power of cultivation.
"I've been training and cultivating for months, I'm starving. Time to hunt some prey. This should be easy." Aaron said with a little grin on his face as he walked away from the cave, and deeper into the forest, which meant away from the river of ends.
He had thought of a plan along the way. Right now, he could out run two falcons stacked up together, he was that fast. He thought of just running past all the strong mana beasts if he encountered any, and just hope he didn't face any speed oriented beast, because there were a couple of beasts that could run faster than the speed of sound (for reference, sound travels at a speed of 760 mps or 1225 kmph, which is 343 m/s).
He knew he was strong, but just how strong he did not know. He thought of testing out his strength, but that wasn't ideal for now, he would wait.
On his way, he ran into a number of Grandmaster Mage Class beasts and one Ark Mage Class beasts, none showed any hostility except for one, but before it could reach him, he was long gone.
At this point, Aaron could run at full speed for more than 3 hours straight before tiredness kicks in. Certainly a tenacious fellow.
As he moved away and towards the far edges of the forest where mana starts to return to normal, he deactivated his precious tattooed artifact, mainly so that he would be able to feel how close he was to the outside, through the intensity of mana pressure.
Sometime after he had deactivated his artifact, he ran into some adventurers that would often enter these forests in search for treasure, but he avoided them.
After some hours of travel, he got to a spot where he deemed good for hunting. He would have stopped a while back and hunt weak mana beasts, but not all mana beasts were suitable for eating. After eating the demonic beast, mana beasts weren't too far off in taste. He didn't have his magic anymore, so 'detoxification' and 'taste improvement' which he specially created so that he would be able to eat their meat, were out of the equation.
Aaron decided to spend the night at a spot not too far from the entrance of the forest, the animals there were perfect for a nice dish.
The next morning, he took all the meat he hunted the previous day, bundled them together, and then zoomed off.
He caught enough meat to suffice for a week or more, concealing the scent of blood with herbs with stronger aroma, so that he wouldn't attract the attention of any mana beast that might be interested. This schedule continued for about a month and halve while simultaneously cultivating. He didn't need the meat or food that badly anymore, it was just because he liked treating himself to some nice things once in a while.
During this time, Aaron also spent some time practicing magic. Although he was physically strong, fast and overall enhanced in all aspects, as far as his physiology and anatomy was concerned, he still needed the versatility of magic. There were many techniques that he could think of using the knowledge he inherited from Li, but most of what Li learnt was focused on techniques that improved one's cultivation, and battle techniques that could be used during fights, these included both defensive and offensive techniques. The only problem was that, since Li's world was a low tier planet at the backyard parts of their star system, most of their techniques followed certain laws that may not be present or applicable in this world.
There was a set of techniques that stuck out. They were gotten from the Forgotten Dragon God Sect, and from Li's memories, each technique pleaded to one of the 12 dragons before they could be activated, and someone of very high cultivation who had overcome the Dragon God Tribulation would be able to use it directly without having to beg the Dragons for their power.
These techniques were the most powerful offensive techniques according to Li's memories (it could be out of preference if we consider that Li might have had a thing for the 'Dragon Techniques'), the strongest of them all 'Wrath of The Dragons' was powerful enough to swallow the moon and destroy the earth which was just unbelievable. Of course, Dragons do exist in this world, and a majority of them are capable of speech, having their own language the Dragon Tongue, while being able to speak Human language, breathing fire, possessing an intelligence sometimes above human capacity (this is for the high ranking and ancient dragons, other dragons are of average or good intelligence, just a little above humans) and all that stuff. These were all badass, except.
"I tried these fucking techniques a thousand times but they still don't work." Aaron grumble to himself as he continued, "I thought I knew dragons, but I know nothing. Compared to Li's Dragons, dragons in this world could as well be considered babies who are still suckling on their mother's breasts. I thought we had powerful beings in this world, but I was wrong. Bunch of dogshit!. This is embarrassing, too embarrassing!"
Most of the techniques were like this. Aaron also wanted to follow the Path of cultivating a Dragon, but the same problem stopped him from doing that. He had to return to his old partner, magic.
With the fact that most of the techniques he had inherited weren't much of a help outside battle, there wasn't much versatility when it came to other aspects of life.
Using magic wasn't all that difficult, since all he had to do was to draw out mana from his dantian, instead of his mana core like he would normally. There was a slight setback though. He couldn't use 'quick cast', and had to call out the full spells or sometimes shorten them. This did not last long however, as he soon was able to cast his magic just by saying the name of the spell, and later returning back to his former glory, using wordless casting.
"Now I have martial arts and magic on my side. No one can stop me, not even dragons." He sighed while biting his lower lip as though it hurt him to say it.
"I seem to be able to cast some spells without the normal backlash, hmm. It seems the law of magic have become different for Me." Normally, a Mortal Class magician would not be able to cast any second tier spell, and even within the first tier spells, some were very powerful and not all Mortal Class would be able to cast it, even though they had the qualified amount of mana. But at the first stage of the Core Formation ream, he could use 4th tier magic.
While Aaron was being diligent in his cultivation, the outside world was also progressing, and the people of Esnoch, together with the enemies of the Kingdom, mourned and celebrated the death of Aaron. With new heroes rising up, and old enemies readying their fangs to bite, the world live on.