In the forest, the white wolf became far more conscious of its surroundings. It moved slowly, using all its senses to scout in every direction. A few kilometers in, the wolf saw a demonic rabbit. It was chewing on roots it held in its front paws. It had extremely long ears that pointed toward the sky, red eyes, and a fluffy tail. At just five meters long, it was a surprisingly large creature. The rabbit was constantly looking around, but the wolf, with its far superior sight, could see it clearly from two kilometers away.
"Let's start with you," the wolf thought before unleashing its unbelievable speed. When it was one kilometer away, the rabbit's ears twitched, and it immediately shot away as if it had been storing all its energy in its legs. Its speed surprised the wolf for a moment, allowing the rabbit to gain some distance. The rabbit was very intelligent; it chose an escape route that favored smaller body types and hindered the movement of large predators. These obstacles slowed the wolf, but they weren't enough to stop it. The white wolf plowed through the trees and rocks using brute strength until it caught up to the rabbit and used its front right leg to pierce its fat stomach with its claws.
The rabbit let out a piercing shriek that made the wolf's ears stop working for a few seconds. The dying rabbit looked at a hole in the ground with a longing gaze. It had been preparing to die, but then it remembered that it had led this terrible creature back to its home, where its family lived. The look in its eyes changed to one of great sorrow, knowing its entire family would soon follow it in death. In that moment, the rabbit felt great anger toward this creature that hunted others, not even large enough to fill its mouth. What it didn't know was that the wolf was not hunting for food, but for cultivation materials. The wolf began circulating its cultivation technique, and white qi quickly started leaving the rabbit's body and entering the wolf's. The energy flowed into its source core before spreading throughout its body. The wolf circulated the qi and directed it into its bones, purifying and strengthening them. The rabbit lost weight rapidly, and soon nothing was left but a skeleton covered in fur and the echoes of its final screams.
The wolf sat down, preparing for the pain that came after absorbing another being's qi, but the pain never came. The wolf was pleased by this. When it had absorbed the Huang family member, it experienced great pain. The wolf hypothesized that the pain was due to the massive difference in cultivation level. In some books I had read, it was written that one's soul becomes stronger with cultivation. The wolf's new theory was that if it were to absorb a creature with a stronger soul, it would experience great pain and possibly even die. This was the reason it had chosen to come back to the Endless Forest, where it could hunt creatures of its own level without any hindrance. The wolf also felt that the cultivation obtained by stealing qi from other living beings was a bit unstable, so it decided to stabilize it through quantity. This is why it used the qi it absorbed from the demonic rabbit to cultivate, as though it were in the Bone-Forging Realm. In this forest, there were many powerful beings, making it the perfect place for the white wolf to hunt for cultivation materials.