Reincarnated As An Energy With A System

by Stayrr

Ning Ruogong died to Zebras as he laid his hands on The Energy System, which reincarnated him to the Southern continent of the Planet Kumia. How strong will he become after cultivating as an undying entity?

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Ning flew through the city with buildings that seem to touch the sky. They were so tall that they made the buildings back on earth look dwarfed.

The city was built on top of a massive spirit vine that seemed to last for millenniums on end, so most people traveled to stay on this land. Soon, people started building high rising buildings to accommodate the increasing population.

Since the population was so high, it was impossible for everyone to walk on the roads, so flight rules were pretty lax. Depending on your level of cultivation, you got to fly at a certain height.

With his Peak Golden Core Cultivation, Ning got to fly at just below the 1 Kilometer height. He rushed back to the area where he was taking residence and went into his room.

Once inside, he finally decided to check what was different now that the system AI had gone silent. He sat on his bed and started with the most simple command.

'Status,'

A panel appeared in both his vision and his mind. "Oh, so this works. Good," he said and looked at the status page in front of him.

[Status

Name: Ning Ruogong

Energy: 152.48 Trillion

Separated Energy-

Heat Energy: 920 Billion

Sound Energy: 22 Billion

Qi Energy: 151.32 Trillion

Kinetic Energy: 218 Billion

Aether Energy: 0

Skill: …]

Ning smiled when he saw this; he was more than 10% of the way there. "Alright, let's check the other things now," he thought and decided to check the Skill buying system next. That was what he really needed to care about.

"The system said there was an interface for me to work with right?" he thought. "Uh… open interface?"

A blue screen suddenly popped up once again giving him another surprise. He looked at the screen and thought, "That's it?". The screen was so simple that Ning started to wonder if he even got a correct one. However, the content on the screen did lead him to believe that it was the right one.

The screen that appeared in front of him had 3 big boxes that had a word written in each.

The first box said Objects, the second box said Skills, and the final one said Knowledge.

"Open Objects," Ning said and waited. He waited for more than a few seconds but nothing happened. "Huh? Open Objects!" he said once more, but once again nothing happened.

"Does voice commands not work here?" he started wondering. So, he reached out with his hands and tapped on the box named Object.

Finally, the screen changed and something else appeared. The new screen was all but empty. There was a single thing at the middle of the screen that was otherwise devoid of any content.

Ning looked at the white stripe in the middle of the screen and touched it. Suddenly, a blinking black line appeared on the left side of the white strip.

"Oh," Ning said as he realized what it was. It had been so many years, nearly half a millennium since he saw a text box. Until now, he had all but forgotten this thing even existed.

"That's very nostalgic," he said with a melancholic smile on his face. "So… is a keyboard going to appear for me to type in or do I use my voice?"

Since he didn't see any keyboard appear, he decided to use his speech. "Hmm… objects right, let's search for a spear. It's not like I'm going to buy it anyway," he thought.

So, he spoke onto the text box, "Spears."

The word 'Spears' appeared inside the white strip and another small box with a small icon that represented a magnifying glass appeared.

'Isn't that the search button? Is this how all systems work or is this one looking through my memories and adapting itself to the way things were back on earth?' Ning wondered.

He had never given any thought to why the system appeared the way it did, but now that he saw more of it, he started wondering that the system might have just adapted itself to seem as close to home as possible.

Popping up as screens, getting notifications, text boxes, search buttons— while all of these might not necessarily have been adapted to suit him the best, he was sure that some part of the system did so.

To begin with, the system spoke in a language that he was familiar with, so it went without question that there was some adapting that the system had to do with the host.

"Anyway, let's look through this stuff," he said and pressed the search button. In the blink of an eye, his screens were filled with things that overwhelmed him.

Every single nook and corner of the screen had something in it and Ning had a hard time realizing where it was he had to look.

"Urghh… So many texts," he thought. He took a deep breath to calm himself and checked the screen once more.

The topmost part of the screen had 2 parts to it, of which only one part seemed to be in use right now. The first one said Explore, and the second one said Create.

Since the page was on Explore, he looked through it. The very first thing below the Explore part was a massive list of filters that seemed to be custom made for Spears as it had stuff like 'Blade Material', 'Shaft Material', 'Spear Tail', 'Spear Tail Material', 'Blade length', 'Shaft Length', etc.

Ning ignored that for a moment and looked below it. There were numerous pictures of spears that when he started to scroll it went on forever.

After scrolling for a while, he got bored. There were a lot of different types of spears as the filters were on default. He clicked on a random spear and it popped up.

Ning was beyond shocked at the number of descriptions the spear held. Not only that, they were even adjustable, and with each adjust, the price of the spear increased or decreased.

'Damn, when the system was here, I didn't have to worry about any of this. I could just ask it to make something for me and it would. Now I have to go through all of this?' he sighed as he thought.

There was an arrow on the top left of the screen that took him back to the same page as before. Once he was there, he went to the Create section of the page.

As expected, he had to set a ton of filters accurately to get the spear that he wanted. Each thing he changed showed exactly how much energy it took, so he had a much better understanding of where his energy went.

He fiddled around with the system a little while before he backed out and back to the previous page with the text field. He searched a few different things and understood a little more about it.

He then backed up a few pages and went to check the Knowledge page. Similar to the objects page, this page had a text box too where he spoke something to search.

He decided to look up further information on Dark Emperor Eagles that Night had evolved into. The page that showed up after he hit the search button wasn't as hard to navigate as the Objects page.

There weren't options to choose from below, but there were filters to specify the content as small as possible. For example, if he wanted to see if Dark Emperor Eagles preferred the summer or the winter, he would have to tinker with a lot of knowledge filters to get specific enough to only find answers for that.

When Ning realized how hard it was going to be to search for the simplest of answers, he was horrified. He was horrified at the thought of spending minutes if not hours fine-tuning the knowledge preset until he got what he wanted.

If he needed to do that in the middle of the battle, that would be very hard. "Urgh… I miss the system answering my questions even more," he thought.

Finally, he checked the skills. The skills didn't have a search box, but instead had tags that one could choose from to get what he wanted.

He was surprised when he saw quite a few options were grayed out, without the name even being visible. 'Why would they do that? What if I want to use them?' he thought, but quickly realized that these were just skills that used a different sets of energies, and he hadn't unlocked them yet. So there was no point in getting the skills yet.

He decided to search for some skills. He chose 'Sword', 'Mid distance', 'Qi', and 'attack', and then hit search. A multitude of skills appeared that were all focused around using a sword that was powered through Qi and could attack and a little further away from him.

Similar to the Objects page, he could scroll endlessly. He also visited a Create page where he could set similar tags, and the system would create a skill for you.

Once he was done learning through all of these, he finally stopped and sighed. He felt like it took a lot out of him to just learn those things.

"I… am starting to regret sending the system away. Now I will have to find a place where I can stay lowkey and won't have to come in contact with others to fight. Dammit, the system didn't even tell me how long it was going to go," he worried.

He was relatively new to the immortal business, but he knew that he would have to live for so long that at some point, years would feel like seconds.

So, to a system that dealt with such beings and was used to them being okay with slumbering for eons upon eons, he was scared that the system would not return in time.

"Urghh… I should learn this interface a little more," he thought and kept checking. He spent a few days relaxing and checking up on the interface from time to time.

He wasn't relaxing for no reason, however; he had already stopped taking in Qi during his cultivation so he was preparing. Preparing for a breakthrough in realms.

The last time he went from the Foundation Establishment realm to the Golden Core Realm, the Sea of Qi in his naval area changed its content liquid to a solid gold ball that was extremely condensed. It was once more just a tenth of the total volume of the Sea of Qi.

Over the years, the Golden Core had slowly changed and grew larger and larger as he cultivated, and now it was large enough that it was fully touching his Sea of Qi from end to end.

At this point, he had stopped being able to gather any more Qi and would now need to break through to the higher realm.

"Sigh, I took as long as I did since I didn't want to rush it, and yet I still reached here so fast. It was a good thing I didn't buy the auto Qi absorption technique; if I did I would have had to break through to the Nascent Soul realm many decades ago and wouldn't be able to fully mingle with the folks who would be nothing but afraid of me," he thought.

"Alright, time to break through," he thought. "But before that, I need to leave this place. There are too many people in this city, so the chances of them trying to mess with my breakthrough is kind of high. I need to search of some good place," he thought.

He started looking through the map and searched for places he knew there weren't many people there. However, it also had to be a place with high Qi in the surrounding so that his breakthrough would be without disruption.

"Hm… that place seems fine," he thought as he looked through the map in his head and teleported.

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Ning appeared on top of a mountain, that was actually the location of an active volcano. There was lava flowing down the side and it slid down to the mountain and into the sea.

The mountain was on one end of the island, while the rest of the island was just a normal forest. However, the contents of the forests were anything but normal.

Due to the high Qi of the surrounding area, due to it not having many humans to deplete the Qi, the beasts of this forest had grown to be extremely strong, to the point that some of them were even in the Nascent Soul realm.

Ning didn't care about them however as this was the best spot in his mind. All the other places with high Qi had people living in them.

He sat down on top of the crater's outer ring and took a deep breath. Once he felt he was ready, he waved his hand.

Suddenly, 3 silhouettes appeared in front of him.

The first one was a 3-meter tall beetle that had its back shining with golden light. Its horn with a trident looked so sharp that it could cut space itself. Its face, however, was comically small compared to its body and didn't give the same level of intimidation as the others.

The second one was a 4-meter tall black eagle, whose features were so black that not even light seemed to escape from it. Looking at the bird's feathers, it felt like one was staring into an abyss. The eagle slowly opened its eyes and light from the surrounding seemed to dim down a little.

The third and final one was a giant 20 meters long Flood Dragon that had 4 limbs. Its Dragon like face was turning more and more like that of a True Dragon every day and even the blue scales were changing from simple washed-out blue to the blue of the deep ocean.

Ning nodded after looking at the three of them. Aegis was the one that had the least potential of the bunch and had already reached it. Its evolution had taken not a lot of time and was only keeping up with the other two thanks to his beast space.

Night and Blue had about the same amount of potential as each other. Blue was not even halfway into evolution, and it looked like it was going to really take a thousand years for him to fully evolve at this rate.

True dragons really were very strong and reaching those levels was not an easy feat. Just spending a millennium to reach it was Blue's luck on finding Ning as a master.

Blue was pretty much confirmed to become a True Water Dragon, however, even then his potential was equal to that of Night. That was sole because of what Night's next evolution was.

Ning looked around and saw how dark the surrounding had gotten despite it being the middle of the day. Night really was starting to affect the surroundings too much. That didn't bother him, however.

"Aegis, you are my main guard. Blue, protect me from the ground and Ning, protect me from the sky," he said.

"Yes, Master!" Aegis and Blue said respectfully.

"Sure," Night said.

Ning sighed once more. The bond was so weak that he couldn't even sense it anymore. The only reason he knew it existed was because Night stayed with him and didn't leave him. Although, from time to time, he felt like Night was just staying with him cause he gave him Snakeskin every once in a while.

'Whatever, as long as he protects me, I should be fine,' Ning thought.

He started focusing on his cultivation. The beasts got into position and waited.

Hours passed, and the sun started to go down, but Ning didn't manage to reach the point of breakthrough yet; it was going to take some more time.

The beasts weren't in any hurry, however. Slowly, nights passed too, and the stars in the sky moved past the horizon.

Around 3 am at night, Ning finally felt something. A crack appeared in his Golden Core. This was a surprising phenomenon to anyone that didn't know about Nascent Soul. Most people would assume that there was a problem with their core.

However, anyone that prepared even the slightest bit knew that this was the best thing that could happen to him now.

The air around Ning changed as a huge amount of Qi started circulating again. The Divine Devouring technique worked again and started aiding in his breakthrough.

Ning now was now giving off a very different aura from the other beasts around him, and that made him unique. Being unique in a forest full of beasts wasn't exactly the best thing he could do right now.

Movements appeared in the forest as the trees started moving. The lower cultivation beasts did their best to make no sound, while the higher tier beasts approached the mountain base.

Night, Aegis, and Blue could now see nearly a hundred beasts down there. Even the weakest one of them was at the Golden Core Realm, and the highest one of them seemed to be at a realm that was higher than their own.

This meant a very fun fight was going to begin soon for these beasts.

Night slowly turned his head and looked at Aegis as he said, "I'm going off to fight them. Protect him carefully."

Aegis was a little surprised. "Wait, we have our orders," Aegis said as he was a little flustered. Even Blue seemed to be in deep thought regarding the order.

"Hmph! Do I look like I care about his orders? I make my own order," Night said. He then turned to Blue and asked, "Are you joining me?"

Blue thought for a while instead of answering. Unlike Night, he was bound by Ning's orders, so he couldn't go against it.

"Coward!" Night said and decided to go on his own.

"Wait, Who said I'm not going," Blue said as he prepared to go down too.

"What? Master ordered us," Aegis reminded Blue. Blue suddenly turned his dragon head to look at Aegis and gave a smug smile as he said, "yes, he ordered me to defeat enemies that come from the ground. I'm going to do exactly that down below."

Aegis was about to talk again, but Night caught him off. "Enough nonsense, you coming or not?" he asked Blue.

"Of course, let's go."

Blue wiggled as he slid down the side of the mountain and stayed to the ground as per Ning's orders. Night however flew down without care for some measly orders.

He flapped his wind and disappeared from the top of the mountain. Seeing that both of the beasts were coming down, the rest of the beasts at the bottom of the mountain got ready to fight.

"ROOOOAR!!" one of the beasts shouted and the fight began.

Night flying through decapitated a few early-level Golden Core cultivators, but they were barely any threat, to begin with. Night was about to go for another run when he saw something fly towards Ning. Night immediately flew behind at the same time and forced the bird to fly upwards.

This one was an almost equally fast bird that could compare with him and Night didn't like that at all.

"A sparrow with a bloodline of the famous Roc, huh?" Night said. The sparrow was very large, full of green feathers and a wingspan that was twice its entire length.

Shock could be seen in the sparrow's eyes. "A Dark Emperor Eagle? I thought your kind went extinct. In the memories I inherited, there is information about your type dying during the great disaster 10 thousand years ago. How is it that you are still alive?" the sparrow asked.

Night didn't know any of the answers to his questions, so he stayed quiet.

The sparrow looked down towards Aegis and his eyes shined once again. "That's a Golden Shelled Beetle. His kinds were mostly destroyed in the far corners of the world as well. It's a surprise to see two very rare beasts in a single place."

"I must say, I am very curious about your origins, after all, not man— " the sparrow stopped as its eyes turned towards Blue. Then, those eyes got wide with horror and terror behind it.

"A True Dragon!" he said with intense fear behind his eyes. However, they didn't last very long.

"No, wait. That's not a True Dragon. That's just a flood dragon with a little blood essence of the True Dragon. That nearly scared me to death."

"However, even that is very rare. Now I'm really curious as to who that human is. I'm sure, looking through his memories, I will get a lot of information" the sparrow said.

It once more flew towards Ning's location, but Night appeared in time and changed its trajectory at the last moment to appear back towards the bottom of the mountain again.

The sparrow looked at Night with its green eyes and spoke, "Why do you protect that human? Do you owe him a favor? Does he have something on you? I do not sense the presence of a bond between you two."

"Yeah, I used to be bonded with him, but I broke it myself once I reached the Nascent Soul realm," Night said. "Although that stupid human hasn't realized it yet."

The sparrow was a little surprised. "And yet you stay with him, protect him. Is there a reason for that?" the sparrow asked. It was beyond curious at this point.

Night looked around and saw that Blue was fighting another very strong enemy, while at the same time killing as many weaker ones as he could.

He then looked towards Aegis and saw that he was also fighting with some of the beasts that had made their way through the flood dragon's battle. Seeing that there was no one to listen to him speak, he decided to talk a bit.

"Yes, there is actually, and it's quite a simple one at that.," Night said. The sparrow curiously listened to Night, waiting for his answer.

Night gave a smug smile and said, "He's a good guy and I like him. He treats those that are close to him with care and never fails to help them. Also, without him, I could never evolve into a Dark Emperor Eagle. So, it isn't very surprising that I would like him." Night said.

"What should surprise you is that I am willing to let myself be enslaved by him if he ever wants me to. He's earned that much from me," Night said.

The sparrow beast felt a little irked when it heard the last sentence. "Sigh, here I thought it was something useful. It turns out you are nothing but a cowardly eagle that was enslaved by the humans and is now starting to think of one as good."

"Very well. I shall end you and release you from your suffering. Then, I shall go read the minds of that poor human and find out how he did all those things you said he did," the sparrow screamed.

"Over my dead body."

Night immediately sent out black feathers from his wing flap. The sparrow flapped its wings as well and the feathers all disappeared in the night.

Night frowned; he could no longer use the winds and speed to his advantage.

Night suddenly flapped, causing gusts of winds to appear that started making extremely minor cuts in the sparrow's eyes practically blinding him until the skill was stopped.

The sparrow screeched in annoyance and immediately flapped its wings back to remove all of the tiny cuts. However, at the same time, Night flew by to cut the sparrow with his talons.

The dark night only got darker as Night approached. Sparrow managed to dodge in time, but Night still got a few feathers which scared the sparrow a lot.

"Tsk, I missed.. Won't be the same next time."

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Aegis flew with incredible speed until he was nothing but a golden Blur to the Golden Core beasts. His trident-like horn struck 3 beasts at once, impaling all of them directly to death.

He shook his horn so that the corpses slid off of it, and returned to the position of protecting Ning.

He opened his wings wide and sent out a massive gust of wind that deterred the other beasts from coming up. However, that was not going to last very long. The beasts wanted to come up to get Ning and they weren't going to stop with a few of them dead.

'Why are they so hell-bent on getting master?' Aegis wondered.

He looked down towards the bottom of the mountain and saw that Blue was currently fighting all that he could. It looked impossible for him to stop all of them, and some were eventually passing through his blockade to run up the mountain.

Aegis had to fight those that escaped from him.

He then looked up and frowned as he saw Night and another bird in a standstill. Night, who should have been one of the two main defenses of the three, and had a higher cultivation base than him was only fighting a single beast.

Aegis got a little angry but soon forgot about it as he sensed that the bird had a cultivation base of the 5th Nascent Soul realm. Comparing that to the 4th Nascent Soul realm cultivation base of Night, it was certain that he would have such a hard time fighting it.

Aegis thought that he might have already died if he were the one who fought the bird with his 3rd Nascent Soul realm cultivation base.

Ning's steady intake of the Qi suddenly increased, nearly doubling in the suction speed. He was very well about to clear the entire Qi in the island to power his breakthrough.

The Golden Core of his had more and more cracks in it and was starting to flake away at parts. Considering the speed at which he was using the Qi to break the core open, it would only take about 10 to 15 more minutes until he reached the point of no return.

At that point, if he successfully cracked open everything, he would become a Nascent Soul cultivator. However, if he failed to crack it all the way open, he would forever remain in the Golden Core realm as a False Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Aegis realized that things were getting serious and he too got serious. Suddenly, golden light shined from him and he suddenly started flapping his wings at a speed that made them invisible.

He suddenly flew and went up to Ning. However, he didn't get very close and instead tilted his body as one of his arms touched the ground.

While continuing with touching the ground, he took multiple laps around Ning at a very fast speed. Once he was done, there was a circle carved onto the ground where Ning was breaking through.

Aegis returned to his initial position and suddenly brought all of his hands together.

"Come Forth and protect that which I wish."

A golden light suddenly sprang up from the dept of the earth as a circular barrier appeared around Ning. The golden barrier was one of the barrier techniques that a Golden Shelled beetle learned on its own as it got stronger. The barrier could fully protect Ning from the attack of anything below the Nascent Soul realm, and maybe even a little into the Nascent Soul realm itself.

The barrier did nothing to stifle the flow of Qi, however, so he could continue with his breakthrough.

Once the protection was set, Aegis could fight to his heart's content.

The beasts once again gathered around to fight the beetle at once. Aegis looked back and frowned; there were just too many. Even a part True Dragon would get overwhelmed with so many beasts attacking at once.

'What is enticing them so much?' the beetle wondered but could find nothing on his own. Whatever the reason was, it was starting to get annoying.

Aegis shined with golden light and he became more sturdy. With a burst of Qi, he flew forward to fight the monsters that had ascended the mountain.

"Kill him, then we can kill that human," one of the monsters shouted, riling up the entire group that was there.

Aegis fought the monsters and beat quite a few of them. He was actively using his cultivation aura to suppress the monsters that weren't strong enough, but there was another equally strong aura coming from the group that he couldn't pinpoint.

'Dammit! That damned Flood Dragon let past a Nascent Soul cultivator,' Aegis frowned.

Blue himself was having quite a hard time as well. He was fighting with all he could muster, but the damned turtle in front of him took no damage at all.

The turtle in front of him had a massive body with a greenish-brown arm and a reddish-brown shell. The shells seemed to be made up of clear crystals that gave a scent of the sea.

Its head was tucked inside its shell and thus Blue couldn't even attack him directly.

"Give up! Your measly water sprouts won't hurt me at all," the Turtle said.

Blue frowned as he knew that was true. The Turtle seemed to have a similar skill to his Become like Water that allowed him to take no damage from the water that Blue shot out.

Whether it was Water Burst or Water Scythe, all of the attacks were effortlessly being blocked by the turtle. Not only that, it had a similar Cultivation base as him at the 4th realm of Nascent Soul. This meant that he couldn't overpower him with Qi alone either.

Waves of attack flew towards him from behind the turtle. With the large turtle protecting them, the beasts freely sent out attacks at Blue without him being able to attack them back.

'God Dammit!'

Blue was getting annoyed. The attacks weren't strong enough to deal any sort of damage to him, but they sure were annoying.

"Goddamit Bird! Come and help!" he shouted out loud.

Night couldn't hear Blue at the moment. Even if he could, he didn't have the luxury to divert his attention. The bird in front of him was stronger than him and faster at times too.

If he wasn't alert, it would attack Ning at any time.

The Sparrow sent out hurricanes with its wings, which Night countered with his own. Taking the opportunity, the sparrow flew towards Ning. It wasn't worried about the golden barrier as it was sure that it could break through it easily.

However, feathers shot at the sparrow at a very fast speed making it fly elsewhere again. By that time, Night was back in place between the sparrow and Ning.

"Tsk. You leave me no choice," the Sparrow said and suddenly, a green aura rose from it like steam. Night got cautious; he didn't like where this was going.

A massive bear punched at Aegis. Aegis had already turned his back to the bear, so the damage he took didn't hurt at all. However, getting sent away from Ning was a bad consequence as a result of getting hurt.

As soon as he got up, he flew directly back to the many beasts that were trying to make it to Ning during his absence. The bear, however, jumped in once more and punched him away.

Aegis once more had to fly back in. The bear tried attacking once more, but Aegis sped up a little move and escaped his claws.

Instead, Aegis managed to claw apart 3 beasts and impale 3 more with his horn. Then, he suddenly waved his hands creating a barrier in front of the beasts, which they directly hit and were thus stopped.

They tried to break the barrier or get around it. Aegis came back to attack them once again.

The bear too arrived at the same time, and the two of them clashed. They were both sent back, however, Aegis who had less attacking power wasn't able to send the bear back as much.

The barrier opened up and the beasts made their way to Ning. Aegis was a step away from losing his attention to the barrier he set up on Ning and if the bear attacked him once more, he was sure the barrier would fail.

It had no more choice but to use his strongest attack. This attack took a lot out of him, so he could only use it once.

Golden light shined from all over Aegis. He opened up his wings and flew up once again. This time, however, he didn't attack the beasts or anything.

He instead clawed the ground and went around the bear and the beasts. The bear was surprised and wondered what it was doing. However, given it was its opportunity to kill the human, the bear ignored Aegis and went towards Ning.

At the same time, Aegis circled them until he was back in the original place. The was a large drag mark on the ground that was circular, and the bear finally realized what had just happened.

"Run!" it shouted.

However, that was too late.

Aegis clasped his hands together and shouted.

"Come forth and destroy that which I wish."

The barrier around Ning suddenly faded away, and instead, another barrier appeared around the many beasts that were inside the circle. The barrier was red, instead of the usual golden and went up until it closed at the top.

Aegis was still shining with Golden light, but it had a hint of red in it now, making his shine closer to orange.

"Aargh!" he grunted. This ability took a lot out of him, and this was just the beginning.

Suddenly, the spherical barrier started reducing in size.

"Break it open!" the bear shouted and everyone attacked, but the barrier was simply too strong for them. They sent out hundreds of attacks at the red barrier, but they couldn't stop the barrier at all.

Aegis's face strained as he put everything he could into this one attack. The orange light from his body started getting brighter and brighter and got closer and closer to becoming red.

The monsters were starting to get cramped inside the barrier and were getting crushed without any way out. Slowly but surely, their bones started breaking and their cries were being voiced loudly.

Aegis could feel the strain on his face as his entire face had turned red and was shaking to the extreme. He even started bleeding through the mouth, but he did not let the barrier go.

"AAAAAAAAAAA"

The sounds of terror spread through the entire island as Aegis was crushing them all to death. Event the turtle and the sparrow were looking in horror seeing so many life getting snuffed out at once.

Aegis didn't stop. Some of the beasts inside the barrier had already died, while the rest were still being crushed. The bear was attacking left and right, trying to break the barrier, even going so far as to burn its essence to empower himself, but nothing worked.

The cries of the monsters weren't nearly as loud as the bones that were crushed in the barrier. One after another, all the beasts inside the barrier died.

The only one that remained was the bear. The bear was also getting crushed, but at the same time, it was also making Aegis put more strain on himself to power the barrier.

Aegis's face was still shaking, trembling from the pain as it slowly spoke its mouth to speak.

"You are not the only one with essence to burn."

Suddenly, the red light coming off of him and the barrier increased to the point where nothing else was visible. The bear cried out loud as both its arms got crushed instantaneously, and it's body started to get crushed too.

Seeing that it was going to die and had no other choice, it suddenly opened it's mouth and let its Nascent Soul fly out. However that too was caught inside the barrier, without anywhere to go to.

The barrier kept on getting smaller and smaller.

"No! NO!!!" it screamed, until it didn't.

The barrier crushed the body and the Nascent soul altogether. Once everything inside was dead, Aegis dropped the barrier, letting go of the gory mess that was inside of it.

Seeing that the task was done, Aegis let go of his hands and the red light around him died down.

The beasts looking at the scene were shocked. Silence was the only thing that reigned land and air right now.

'Damn, I thought he was weak. Turns out Master didn't discriminate against us and gave us all equal amount of attention,' Blue thought.

"Good Job, You can rest for now," Night said from the sky. "I will be done with this in just a moment as well."

Aegis looked at the two and nodded. He then coughed up a little more blood and fell down to the ground. He was unconscious.

Both Night and Blue turned towards their respective opponent as they said.

"I can't have someone weaker than me show off.. Time for you to die too."

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The Sparrow flew high in the sky with green mist coming off of it. "I see… The beetle is out of the fight. That means there is nobody there to protect your master, right? Hahahaha!" it started laughing.

The green mist coming off of it suddenly shot out towards Night who had been on edge, ready to stop him if he made a move towards Ning.

The mists changed forward to appear as thousands of birds that flew towards Night. Night flapped his wings and sent out many feathers that flew towards the birds of mist.

The moment they collided, they created a small explosion. The mist birds suddenly changed into bursts of winds that tried to rip apart at the feathers that were shot out, and actually managed to tear a few of them quite easily.

Through the explosion, the sparrow flew towards Ning, trying to take advantage of the situation. However, Night had been ready again and hit the sparrow in time once more.

The sparrow sent out the mist birds, and Night sent out more feathers. The small explosions that occurred once again leveled the playing field.

Night looked at the sparrow coldly and decided to go on the attack himself this time. He disappeared with the flap of a wing, but so did the sparrow.

The sky had streaks of green that made it seem like the sparrow was the only one flying, however, anyone that used divine sense to check could see that Night was right by the sparrow, attacking it with his sharp wings and talons at every move.

While the Sparrow was faster than Night, Night's movement was more smooth, as if the night was its domain. The sparrow frowned after dodging hundreds of attacks.

Suddenly, it sent out a massive gust of winds to create a pocket of free time for itself, and it worked. Night who was caught in the massive gust of wind couldn't continue his onslaught of attacks.

The sparrow used its small window of opportunity very carefully. Green mists no longer appeared from its body, and it was instead all green light.

The wings suddenly straightened up to be at the longest wingspan possible. Then, instead of flapping like a normal bird, it started flapping its wings like an insect.

The wings flapped up and down without bending even a little. It started off slow, but within a few seconds, it reached the point where all one could see was a few green lights here and there.

Night saw this and frowned. He didn't understand what the bird was doing, but suddenly, a very high-pitched sound rang out from the sparrow.

It was screaming, and the flapping of its wings amplified the sound to the point where Night started getting disoriented. All of a sudden, it was like he was paralyzed and stopped flying. He then started plummeting down to the ground, while the Sparrow now had a free pathway towards Ning.

Blue was singlehandedly stopping the rest of the beasts from going up the mountain. They couldn't damage him or go past him now that he was trying really hard to stop them all.

The Turtle couldn't hurt him at all, and Blue couldn't hurt the turtle. So they were practically at a standstill and needed something else to happen before the fight could go either way.

Ning's aura increased more and he was halfway through the breakthrough. Once more of the core was cracked, the rest would become very easy. That was if nobody tried to interfere with the breakthrough.

Blue was pretty confident that Ning could easily breakthrough within a few minutes now and he just had to keep them away for just a little longer.

The turtle could see this too. "I know! I know! I'm trying. But I can't hurt this flood dragon at all. I might have to try a different tactic," the turtle spoke out.

That caught Blue's attention. "Who are you talking to?" he asked.

"None of your business," the turtle shouted from inside of its shell. Then, it popped out its head from within.

"What the hell?" Blue shouted when he saw the head. The turtle had a really long head with crystalline spikes on top of it similar to the crystals growing on its back.

"If water does nothing against you, then I will beat you to death with my own head," the turtle said as it started waving its giant head left and right.

Night fell through the darkness as he plummeted to the ground. He hit the barren land with a very high impact that shot out dust all around him.

The disorienting sounds stopped him from being able to tell what was where and thus wasn't able to fly properly.

He quickly got up from the ground, clearly undamaged, and looked towards the Sparrow, who had already stopped the weird wing maneuver and was flapping its wings normally to attack Ning.

"No!" Night shouted and jumped up in the air before flying towards Ning, but it was too late. The Sparrow was already in front of Ning.

"Yes, I understand," the Sparrow suddenly spoke out and increased its speed to the extreme as it used its wings to try and decapitate Ning.

However, just before the sparrow reached Ning, it suddenly stopped. It tried to move, but it couldn't make any movements.

"What?" it said in shock.

Just then, Ning's entire body vibrated as sound spread out from every surface of his body. "You might have been able to kill me if I was a normal human right now— "

The sparrow got scared. "How are you able to split your attention?! You are in the middle of a breakthrough," it shouted.

"— However, I am not something you can fight. Even going against me means your death is now sealed. Whether the executioner is me or somebody else however is a different question."

The sparrow was suddenly let go of, and it flew up in the air. Then, it turned around and got face to face with the angry, dark eyes of Night.

The turtle's head was starting to get bloody by now. However, that was not its own blood. Blue body was starting to get battered and tattered from the continuous attacks from the crystal spikes that the turtle had.

Blue also tried attacking back, but the turtle had just too good of defense to take any damage. Also, now that his scales were broken and the inner flesh was visible, the minor beasts hiding behind the turtle were starting to do small, but considerable damage.

He tried to kill the other beasts at least, but they were all hiding behind the turtle and didn't take any damage at all. Blue was beyond angry at this point.

"Fine, you want to play dirty, then I will do so," he said and suddenly started spinning around the ground to create a large cavity big enough for him to stay in.

The turtle was surprised and a little confused as to what he was doing but didn't stop its attacks. The crystals on its head were the only thing strong enough to damage blue and it damn well made sure he knew it.

BANG BANG BANG

Continuous hits from the turtle could be heard while Blue finally finished the hole in the ground. Then suddenly, he spat out tons and tons of water into the hole. Once it was full, he plunged into it.

The turtle didn't really understand what was going on, but it kept on attacking. "Huh?" then it stopped.

The water wasn't being filled with blood at all, despite the flood dragon having wounds all over its body.

"What's going on? Did the flood dragon die ins—"

Sprout of water shot off into the sky as Blue finally showed himself again. Only this time, he wasn't bloody at all. In fact, he didn't have any wounds at all. All of his scales were back to normal, and the blood was all gone.

"Wha— What's going on? Where are your wounds??" The turtle asked in fear.

Steam started appearing around Blue as a blue glow shined. His incredibly angry face struck fear in the heart of his enemies.

"I… am descended from the mighty True Dragons, and hold their essence in my body. Did you truly think you could ever win against me?" he shouted with a terrifying aura around him.

Suddenly, his aura changed. His aura shifted from that of a flood dragon to that of something distant, something ancient, something terrifying, something that reigned over all.

The turtle and the rest of the beasts were made to stay at a single place as the terrifying aura engulfed them. Their fear didn't allow them to move at all.

The steam around blue changed form as it gathered around blue. Some formed giant wings around him, some formed longhorns. Some gathered to form long legs around Blue's body and some formed to make better glistening scales.

"G-God!" The turtle said in terror.

"So you finally know," Blue said. Suddenly, he sucked in the air into his lungs. It felt like he took a split second to suck in all the air in the surrounding, but it also felt like he took an eternity.

"I— I don't think I can do what you ask," the turtle mumbled by himself.

PHOOOO

Blue shot out water that directly hit the turtle. The turtle didn't take any damage from water at all, absolutely zero. However, what was being shot at it wasn't just normal water anymore.

This attack had breath in it. The breath of a flood dragon, empowered by a single drop of a True Dragon's essence. It was equivalent to a True Dragon itself using their dragon breaths.

So, the moment the breath hit the turtle, its head was crushed to pieces along with the crystals on it, followed by the crystals on its shell and finally, its entire shell itself.

However, that was not where the breath stopped. It went further from that and hit the rest of the beasts, killing them all in a single attack.

Only when they were all dead did Blue finally stop. The steam around him vanished and the glow disappeared as well. He huffed very loudly, to the point where he could faint at any moment. However, he stopped himself from doing so and instead flew up to the top of the mountain, when suddenly he lost all sight.

A black aura with a white outline, similar to the fire that burned from him, appeared around Night. The sparrow was scared when it felt the aura that appeared around him.

"Wh- What are you? This… this is not the power of a Dark Emperor Eagle at all," it shouted.

Night, however, did not answer anything. Instead, his aura reached a peak and suddenly, everything around him suddenly got dark.

"What? I can't see!" the sparrow screamed. Until now, due to the fact that it was, 3 am in the night, and the presence of Night himself, the area in the mountain was clad in darkness.

The only way any of them saw anything was by using their divine sense that went as far as a few kilometers away.

However, with what Night had just done, nobody could see even with their divine sense. The Sparrow, who was the closest to him felt like he was truly blind for the first time in forever.

Suddenly, the sparrow sensed the change in the air around it, and it knew that Night had moved. It suddenly ducked but still got hit in the back of its head. Blood gushed out of its head, but the would wasn't close to being fatal.

The sparrow got scared. Night was invisible to the sparrow, and as one of the greatest hunters, he could easily fly around without making a single sound.

The sparrow tried flying away, but it couldn't see where Night was at all, so it took damage from all directions.

A cut to the forehead, a scratch on its wings, a peck to the back, an air slash to the chests. The sparrow was attacked from left and right and finally fell to the ground half-dead.

Even on its deathbed, it didn't know what had happened at all. Its wings were all destroyed and blood left its body at a rapid rate. Without any assistance from outside, it would be dead in less than a minute.

It stirred a little to muster away enough energy to send its Nascent Soul flying away. As long as the soul survived, it could find itself a new body, or even make someone create one for itself. But just then feathers fell on both the soul and the body.

Black flame erupted out of nowhere that burned both the soul and the body. The sparrow screamed for just a second before its voice disappeared onto the other side.

When the flame disappeared, not even ashes remained.

The darkness left its veil, and Night's weak body drifted down on the top of the mountain, next to where the Aegis and Blue were currently resting.

They looked down on the empty expanse with no beasts and were relieved that they managed to protect Ning till the end when suddenly, another aura erupted elsewhere.. Apparently, there was one more enemy to fight.

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The aura that appeared out of nowhere was quite strong and scared both of the two beasts that were awake. They were both exhausted and out of power. Thus, there was no way they could fight even the same opponents they had just before.

However, the aura this new beast was giving off was not something they could fight off against even in their best form.

"Is that…" Blue asked with fear in his eyes.

"That should be above the 6th realm, maybe even the 7th," Night said with a trace of fear in his eyes.

Aegis was unconscious on the ground, so he couldn't feel what was happening right now.

Suddenly, a white light flashed down at the bottom of the mountain as something approached them very fast. Within a few seconds, it appeared in front of all 3 of them.

The newcomer was a white fox with silver fur and 3 tails on it. It slowly whirled its tails as it looked at the three of them.

"You enter my domain while I slumber, try to steal the Qi which is rightfully mine, but then refuse to die at the hands of my subordinates; I have never seen such disrespect before. For that transgression, you shall all die now," the fox said and suddenly swiped its paws towards the three of them.

A massive white slash flew towards the three of them. Both Blue and Night immeidately did what they could to stop the attack, but still got hit by it.

They coughed up blood as even the most defensive of them all, Aegis, got hurt. The three of them weren't strong enough black even a single one of the fox's attacks.

'This is troublesome,' Night thought.

The Fox ran up to them once more, but then suddenly, the aura behind them changed. Ning was on his last lap; once he was done with this segment of the breakthrough, he would be at the Nascent Soul realm. This was also the moment where someone would forever be a False Nascent soul realm if they were a normal human.

All 3 of the beasts were worried for Ning even more now, but they couldn't stop their bleeding, exhausted bodies from not responding the way they wanted it to.

The fox sent out an attack once more towards the 3 beasts. They immediately got distressed when they saw that. Night tried to catch the unconscious Aegis before trying to run away, but his wings were hurting and bleeding, and so he couldn't move.

Suddenly, all 3 of them disappeared all at once. All 3 of the beasts were gone from the battlefield and the Fox didn't even see them move.

"What is this? Where are those beasts?" the fox got a little flustered. He couldn't even see them with its divine sense that lasted for nearly 10 kilometers.

It quietly searched around for a few minutes but seeing no sign, it decided to quickly kill the human in front of it right now.

"Finally, I can eat your core and advance with my cultivation base," the fox said.

"Don't be so sure about that," Ning's voice appeared out of nowhere. He didn't speak, but his body vibrated to produce the sound.

"I see, so what happened earlier with the sparrow wasn't a one-time thing. You can in fact talk… in some weird fashion," the fox said with a snarl.

"You should go away if you don't want to die," Ning said. "Although, I would like you to stay and fight so that I can kill you myself for hurting my beasts."

"Hahaha! Do you think a measly human who hasn't even entered the Nascent Soul realm can hurt me? The only reason I am even trying to kill you right now is that you have a lot of Qi with you while you are breaking through."

"If not for that, I could have just waited before I killed you," the fox said as it twirled its 3 tails behind it. "After all, your sweet aura of breakthrough woke me up from my slumber."

Ning didn't show any emotions on his face, but a sound still appeared from him. "Let me give you something sweeter then."

His aura suddenly exploded while the Qi around him gathered to what felt like a void. The core inside of him cracked at the same time and all the outer flakes disappeared.

From inside, a small floating, ethereal infant appeared in his sea of Qi. It slowly settled to the center where it stayed in a lotus formation.

"No!" the fox shouted seeing him advance to Nascent Soul realm in just a split second. It jumped towards him to attack him before he finished finalizing his breakthrough.

However, before it could attack him, a barrier appeared in front of him that stopped it.

The fox slammed the barrier, but it couldn't make it move whatsoever. "What!" it shouted. It attacked with its paws once more, but nothing happened again.

"How are you using your techniques while breaking through?" the fox shouted. It was starting to get very flustered now. Not only could it not understand how the human was using techniques while breaking through, but also how a person who only broke into the nascent soul realm could possibly deploy a barrier of such strength.

"I told you, I'm not a normal human being," Ning's sound appeared. Ning was done gathering Qi, and the Qi inside him start to leak away. Once it was all gone, he would officially be in the Nascent Soul realm.

The Fox saw this and got worried. "No! I won't let you," it said and shouted out loud.

"AWOOOO"

Flames lit up at the end of its 3 tails and all of it flew at the barrier.

Ning realized that stopping the fire would only make him lose a lot of energy, so he took away the barrier. At the same time, the fire flew directly at him and hit him in the face.

The fox saw that and got happy.

"Finally, I did it."

"No you didn't" Ning's voice came from behind the flames. When the fire disappeared, he could still be seen finalizing his breakthrough.

"What? How could this be? I clearly hit you!! How are you not hurt or distracted?" the fox cried out.

"Yes, you did hit me. But did you think I would get hurt because you hit me?" Ning's snarky voice came from his body once again.

"What's that supposed to mean?" the fox asked.

"Think about it," Ning said. "There are millions of places on this planet I could have gone to for breakthrough, yet I came here. Did you think that was a coincidence?"

The fox staggered backward. "Wh-What do you mean?" the fox asked.

Ning slowly stood up. Finally, he was done with his cultivation breakthrough and the aura of a newly ascended Nascent Soul cultivator spread out from him.

The fox took a step back. It wasn't afraid of a mere aura from a new Nascent Soul cultivator, but it was afraid of Ning who was steadily approaching it.

"I have lived for hundreds of years. You don't do that and still, come out a stumbling buffoon. I've learned things, experienced different stuff, with or without my consent. I've made enough mistakes, enough stupid decisions to know whether my next one is going to be one or not."

"Simply put, I didn't come here by mistake. I came here because this island has one of the densest Qi environments in all of the Central Continent, and because I knew for sure that not a single one of you could ever hope to hurt me," Ning said.

The fox started to get angry now. "You think I can't hurt you?" it said in anger and ran forward to strike at Ning.

Ning casually grabbed the fox's claw and threw it back. The fox used its fire tail to shoot 3 precise fireballs at Ning once more.

They directly struck Ning once more, but just like last time, they did nothing. The fox gritted its teeth. It couldn't possibly understand what was happening.

"You seem confused," Ning said to the fox. He could clearly see the rage, frustration, and confusion in its eyes.

"Let me explain a little," Ning said while continuously walking towards the fox that was backing away. "You see, the only reason I'm breaking through right now is that I spent most of my time just relaxing throughout my visit to the Southern Continent."

"I visited different places throughout the years, and most of the days, I didn't want to cultivate my Qi at all, as I felt that would make me stick out amongst the regular folks and that was the last thing I wanted."

"As such, my cultivation was slowed down a lot. However, while my Qi cultivation regressed, I never stopped cultivating my body for once."

"Do you understand what It means?" Ning asked.

The fox started shaking as it understood what Ning was trying to say. "Y-You have a strong body cultivation?" the fox asked with a trembling voice.

"Correct," Ning said with a smile and suddenly disappeared. He didn't teleport at all. Instead, he just stepped forward. However, due to his physical body that was at the peak it could be right now was simply too strong and he flew through the air at a speed the fox didn't notice.

Ning was already behind the fox, and by the time it noticed, Ning kicked it directly into the crater of the volcano.

The fox was sent flying, but it managed to balance itself before it entered the volcano. It was about to run away when Ning arrived right in front of it and kicked it once more, directly plunging it into the depths of the magma.

Ning didn't move after doing that, however. He simply stayed there, waiting.

The magma on the surface of the volcano kept bubbling, but nothing else happened. The fox seemed to have died at the bottom of the magma.

"Come out!" Ning said. "I know some mere lava can't kill you."

There was no movement in the lava yet again.

"Very well, Then I sha— "

"Wait!" the fox said as it came back out. "How did you send me through the lava?" it asked.

"I didn't," Ning asked. "I simply knew you weren't a type to go down just like that."

The fox frowned when it saw Ning smile. It started thinking of the different alternatives to survive, but it couldn't. There really was just one way to survive this battle right now, and that was exactly what he had to do.

"I give up!" the fox said. "Please don't kill me. I will do whatever you want."

Ning gave it a surprised stare. "You give up?" he asked.

"Yes. Please spare my life. In return, I can become your servant, just like three beasts of yours," it said.

Ning didn't immediately say anything and thought for a second. "Your offer is quite lucrative. The descendant of the legendary Nine-Tailed Fox, albeit the blood is diluted to an extreme, is truly something every human would desire to have as his beast," Ning said.

The fox gave a forced smile. It was biting down on its pride to sell itself right now. At least, it was happy it was going to survive.

"Alas… I told you already. I am not a normal human," Ning said.

"What? What do you mean?" the fox asked.

"I'm saying that I don't need you," Ning explained.

"B-But I am the descendant of the legendar—"

"I know, But you are way past your prime in terms of cultivation, and the energy I will need to make you worth getting is just… not worth it," Ning said with a sigh.

"What does that mean?" the fox asked.

"It means… that you can go and die."

Ning disappeared and reappeared behind the Fox as he brought out a spear from his storage and stabbed the fox right through the stomach.

In just a single attack, he managed to kill both the body and the soul at once.

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Ning took back the spear and grabbed the corpse of the fox midair. "You shall fill the belly of one of my beast," he said as he teleported back down.

He called out Night and Blue, who fell to the ground, bleeding quite profusely. "Do you guys want me to help you, or do you want to heal on your own?" he asked.

"I can do fine on my own," Night said.

"I'm fine too master, but… I think I brought trouble for you by using one of the 10 drops of the True Dragon's blood essence that you gave me," Blue said in a somber voice. It was noticeably weaker now in terms of the aura than beforehand. Losing a single blood essence really did hurt his potential a lot.

"It's fine. You guys did well and don't have to worry about any of this," Ning said. He then threw the fox body onto where Night was and said, "Eat that."

Night looked at him with a surprised face, but then quickly nodded and started eating.

"As for you," Ning said as he looked toward the flood dragon. "You gave up something important to you just for me, and that is something I can't help but admire, so I shall gift you something."

He said and started fiddling with the air. Ning's face twisted into unpleasantness a few times, but Blue stood there without any movement. Finally, after a minute or 2, he successfully managed to do something using the new system interface that was so hard to navigate.

"Here," he said as 5 drops of blood essence suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Blue's eyes widened in shock and amazement as he felt the aura coming off of those 5 drops of blood. "Master, that's… that's a True Dragon's Blood Essence. I only used a single one; I can't have 5 in return," Blue said.

"Just shut up and take it. This is your master's order," Ning said and forced the 5 drops of blood into Blue's mouth. Blue gratefully took it in and showed a satisfied smile.

Ning put him back into the beast and space and looked back at Night who was halfway through eating the fox's corpse. He could see slight happiness in the otherwise stoic face of Night.

He slowly drifted next to Night as he stroked his back while he ate.

"So, you already broke the bond, huh?" he asked.

Night suddenly stopped eating and didn't speak for a while. Ning just stood there without saying anything either. After a while, he finally spoke again.

"I was wondering why I couldn't feel the bond at all. Although, I guess that measly bond made using a trash taming skill couldn't last that long anyway," Ning said.

Night still chose to not speak. He didn't know what to say.

"Do you wish to leave me?" Ning asked in full seriousness. Finally, Night showed some reaction. He turned towards Ning as he looked at his face in shock.

"I'm not joking, Night. Tell me if you want freedom, I will grant it to you. I care more about you three as friends rather than just subordinates, especially you," Ning said.

Night drooped his head down and thought for a while before saying, "No!".

Ning was taken back a little. Night continued, "I want to stay with you. In fact…" he hesitated for a while as the next sentence coming out of his mouth would be the most important sentence in his life.

"… please bond with me again," he said.

Ning looked at him with shock. "Are you sure Night? You don't have to force yourself to do this if this is out of some petty belief of needing to repay me or something," he said.

"No," Night said. "I've already made up my mind. I wish to stay with you forever."

Ning looked at Night's resolute eyes for a second and sighed as he started smiling again. "You really are the best, Night," he said as he walked towards Night.

He gave the giant beast an embrace. Night too changed his size a little to get small enough so that Ning could fully embrace him, and returned an embrace of his own.

"Alright, I'm starting," he heard.

Suddenly, an intense force ripped through his consciousness, but he didn't do anything to stop it. Slowly, it spread through his entire mind as it started forcing it to submit to the new force. Night did that without hesitation.

Finally, the force that dominated his mind went dormant, and a Master-Servant relation was set between Ning and Night once more.

"Thank you, Master," Night said.

"You don't have to call me that," Ning said with a smile. "Alright, finish that thing fast. I will store the other corpses… although I don't see any," Ning said.

Aegis had crushed everything into a single ball of flesh and blood, and Ning didn't want to pick that up. Blue's dragon breath had ripped away from the bones of the monsters themselves and nothing more remained than a few body parts here and there. Finally, Night's black fire simply destroyed everything down to its atoms.

Ning sighed as he thought how monstrously strong his beasts were getting.

He took Night back into the beast space so that he could go back into healing. Then, he opened the status page and sighed.

"That's like a year or two's worth of energy I wasted in this fight," he thought. It wasn't just the fight he spent his energy on, but rather after it too. Blue's 5 drops cost quite a lot as well.

"Whatever, it's just a few years. I can go into closed cultivation like everyone does and gathered ages worth of energy in one seating," he thought.

"For that though, I need a good place I can stay at, some form of sect or some other place I can call home for a few centuries," he mused to himself.

He thought about going back to Hyesi's place but quickly decided against it. If he was going to do something new, he might as well experience something new.

"Since I'm already here in the Central Continent, Why don't I look around and see what I can find?"

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Ning teleported out of the small island that lay southwest of the Central continent and went to a place in the actual continent itself.

When the world around him changed, he looked around to find himself in a deep forest. 'Right, so the city should be… this way,' he checked the direction and walked towards the city.

He had deliberately teleported into the forest so that the people that were in the city didn't see him or create a ruckus. Not only that, but he also hid his cultivation base down to an early Golden Core realm cultivator. That way, he didn't have to worry about anyone acting weirdly just because he was a strong individual.

He wanted to lay low and enjoy life while he stayed on this planet, which was going to be a while. For the same reason, he tucked away his divine sense as well, so that others wouldn't notice it and only spread it a few kilometers at most.

As he was walking, he saw people walk into the range of his divine sense, but by that time, the people on the other side had already seen him.

Ning was on the course that would meet them, so he didn't change routes or do anything like that that would make him look suspicious.

After a few minutes of walking their paths crossed. The group of people walking opposite Ning was a few old people who surrounded a young man that seemed to be their leader.

Ning was reminded of an unpleasant memory when he saw that but didn't judge the person immediately. The young man barely had a Golden Core cultivation base, which was lower than what Ning was currently projecting.

"Who are you and what are you doing in this forest?" the young man asked.

Ning frowned. "Do you own the forest?" he asked.

"No I don't, But today is the day of my hunt. You peasants should all know not to come into the forest during the days of my hunt," the young man shouted.

Ning stopped looking at the young man and instead looked at the other men beside him who were starting to cringe and show disapproving faces, but didn't stop him at all.

Ning then slowly walked up to the young man.

"Not a step further boy," the men around his said, but Ning didn't care about them. His aura suddenly flared with that of a Nascent Soul cultivator as he stopped before the kid who was now terrified.

"Someone really needs to teach you a lesson so you can stop being such a brat," he said and slowly slapped the young man. As if he had been hit by the deadliest attack of a Golden Core cultivator, he was sent back with a swollen face.

"That ruined my mood a bit. I don't think I would like this place," Ning said to himself and teleported again to go elsewhere.

He appeared in the sky somewhere and slowly drifted down until he was standing next to the road. The road was one of the long roads that connected cities in the Central Continent.

He hid his cultivation base once again and waited for some carriage to stop to let him hitchhike in it. It took him nearly 20 minutes of waving his hands every time a carriage ran by before one of them finally stopped.

The carriage was run by two middle-aged men who seemed to be at the peak of the Golden Core Realm. The door to the carriage opened and a young man in a white robe walked out. The man had a thin face with fair skin, jet black hair, and a gentle smile on his face.

His hand held a book that had no cover on it. "Hello, Fellow Daoist, do you require travel assistance?" he asked.

Ning sensed a cultivation base in the middle stages of the Golden Core realm from this young man. 'He's quite pleasant when compared to the last one,' he thought.

"Yes. I wanted to take a carriage the rest of the way instead of flying there," Ning said.

"I see," the young man said. "are you a disciple of the Five Professions Academy?"

"No, but that is my destination right now," Ning said.

"Ah, me too. I'm studying to become an Alchemist, what about you?" the young man asked excitedly.

"Me?… ah, I haven't thought about it yet. I will think about it once I reach the Five Professions city," he said.

"Oh, please come in," the young man called him in. "What's your name Fellow Daoist?" he asked.

"I'm Ning Ruogong, What about you?" Ning asked.

"I am Ender Rigot, 2nd son of the Rigot family," the young man said.

Ning didn't show any change on his face after hearing the name, but inside, he was confused beyond belief. 'What's the Rigot family? Is that a famous family?' he wondered.

He quickly hated what he was going to have to do now. Still, he opened the interface in front of him and started using it. He made some light conversation with Ender while he searched for the information on the Central continent through the system.

"What grade alchemist are you right now, brother Ender?" Ning asked.

"Oh, I'm barely a grade 4 Alchemist. I still have my ways to go before I really become someone great," he said with a humble smile.

"Grade 4? That's pretty good. I know an alchemist too, so I know how hard it is to go up the grades. It's not very easy reaching the 4th grade. If you continue down this path, you will surely make it big in the future. Who knows, you might become a 10th-grade Alchemist," Ning said.

"Haha, you jest a lot, brother Ning. Only the Saint Alchemist has ever managed to reach the 10th grade. I will be the happiest man on earth as long as I reach the 8th grade," Ender said with a smile.

"I see," Ning said. "Well, I hope you do better than 8th Grade, brother Ender."

Just then, he found the knowledge he had been looking for.. Without hesitation, he clicked 'Buy'.

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The southwest part of the Central Continent was ruled by the Wyan Dynasty. They were one of the 5 rulers that ruled the central continent. The 5 dynasties weren't at war with each other, but they weren't very lax with each other either.

They owned about one-fifth of the land while the other 4 empires owned the rest of the land. They had a fairly decent amount of strength and were middle of the pack in terms of strength.

The weakest of the 5 was the Sun Empire in the middle where most of the empire was simply desert and Qi was way too sparse for them to produce strong cultivators.

While the empires on the edges, like the Wyan Empire, had a lot more abundance of Qi and didn't need to worry about getting enough sun to become a desert.

Also being next to the seas opened up a massive source of food to these 4 empires that the Sun Empire could not hope to get.

The Wyan empire was full of nobles and commoners. Similar to Vilmore, one could use their contributions to become a noble. However, there were no distinctions between nobles and all were in equal standing, at least according to the system.

Obviously, a noble house of higher strength had more influence and thus indirectly more authority when compared to the noble houses that didn't have as many cultivators to threaten others.

The strongest amongst these houses were the Flyan house, the Libon house, the Udler house, and the Praxton house, which were together known as the Four Great Houses.

The Rigot family that Ender came from was a newly established Noble house starting with Ender's father, Ember Rigot.

Ning mused to himself about how different the central continent was from the Southern continent and the Northern continent. There were very few places in those two continents where the concept of noble and commoner existed.

Even if it did, it was outshined by the difference between a Cultivator and a mortal.

"I think you should really consider what profession you want to learn more in before you enter the Five Professions Academy, brother Ning," Ender said with a concerned face.

"Hmm…" Ning wondered.

The five professions in the academy's name referred to Alchemist, Formation master, Artifact creator, Talisman creator, and finally a Beast Master.

Ning had wondered for a second as to why there was no physician profession, as those were quite necessary in the world as well, but it had turned out that in the Central continent, Alchemists also did the job of physicians in part.

Alchemists were taught to recognize illness, diseases, and any other complications a human being might have and used pills instead of pastes to cure them.

Ning thought through these 5 professions and quickly decided what he was going to take. After letting Anya learn about Alchemy, he had also dabbled in it for a few years, albeit not enough to know how good he was yet.

"I think I will become an Alchemist as well," Ning said with a smile. He was looking forward to seeing if he could become a grade 10 Alchemist now.

"Are you joking, Brother Ning?" Ender asked seriously. Ender felt like this decision of Ning's was way too fast and that he was mocking him in a way.

Ning understood what Ender felt and quickly explained. "I have tried Alchemy before brother Ender, so I decided to properly learn it this time."

"Honestly speaking, I could enter the Beast Master's profession as well since I am a beast tamer as well, but I wouldn't know what to do in that case. There is only so much you can do as a Beast Master, while as an Alchemist, you can help so many people," Ning said.

Ender's eyes slowly changed from anger to surprise to genuine happiness. "Right? There are so many people you can help as an Alchemist. My sister said I was stupid to think of helping people in a world of cultivators where one kills the other for something petty, but I insisted on helping the others."

"I kept telling her that there have to be other people who follow my sentiment. It's good to see that I am not alone after all," Ender said.

Ning smiled listening to the words of a young man who had finally found a friend in his lone journey.

Ning looked outside the window and saw some trees along the forest, along with people who either flew through the air or rode on beasts.

The carriage reached an intersection in the middle of nowhere, where the incomers from 2 of the other roads joined the third to go towards the fourth.

Suddenly, the number of people going towards the city tripled, which surprised Ning quite a lot. He looked at the massive amounts of people as a question formed in his heart.

"Brother Ender, those two roads back there, where do they lead to?" he asked. He could see in the map where the roads led to, but there were just too many roads that connected to it to actually truly know the final destination of that road.

"Oh those roads are the two main highways to the Phoenix kingdom up north and the Rabian Empire to the east," Ender said.

'I thought so.' After looking through the map of where he was, especially after learning about the different kingdoms and nobles, he had realized that the Five Professions city was at the northeastern part of the Wyan empire, a location that was equally accessible by four of the five empires of the central kingdom.

Meaning, the Five Professions Academy was one of the most sought places in all of the Central continent where people from all over the continent came to learn in.

That was enough to show just how prestigious the academy was and what the continent thought of it. Realizing that he was on his way there too, Ning started getting excited too.

He hadn't felt this excited since he first became a cultivator all those years ago.

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Ning looked outside his carriage at the thousands of people and carriages making their way to the Five Professions city. There were just way too many people here and that got Ning a little curious.

"Are all of these people really going towards the academy? Or are some just going towards the city?" Ning asked.

"Oh, um… it should be a mix of both. But, I would say it's primarily people that are going for the academy. The entrance exam is in a month, so it's not that early for students to come and learn from the experts in preparation."

"Although, since the Five Professions City does have a lot of experts in every field, it's not impossible that a lot of the people are just going to the city to look for professional help," Ender said.

"I see…" Ning said as he looked outside.

He continued his conversation with Ender and learned that he had been on the carriage for 3 days now, moving without stop. The horse-like beasts that pulled the carriage could go on for days without a single drop of sweat leaving their bodies.

Ender's home was in a small city known as Fairdust city. However, Ender talked about how the city would soon become big since his sister had managed to find a job in the academy, and he too would soon become a student there.

Together, they would become the future pillars of House Rigot and make waves in the empire. Or so Ender fantasized. His first struggle was just a month away from him. He could truly do what he wanted to do once he passed the entrance exam.

The carriage stopped all of a sudden and one of the men from outside shouted in, "We're here, Young Master."

"Oh, seems we've made it, brother Ning," Ender said and stuck his head out of the window. Ning did the same thing as it would be highly disrespectful and even illegal in some places to spread one divine sense inside the city.

When he looked out, he was immediately in awe.

In front of them was a massive city at the foot of a giant mountain. There were no walls to protect them from attacks, or any sort of defense against invasions or illegal entry.

The houses started small but got bigger and bigger as they went closer to the mountain, and then a set of stairs ran up the mountain to the top where the biggest building Ning had ever seen lay.

He finally caught sight of the academy. "Woah!" he said in pure shock. He hadn't expected the building to be so big, let alone it being on top of the mountain. He had fully expected to see it at the foot of the mountain.

'That actually looks good,' he thought. Suddenly, a divine sense landed on the carriage.

'Huh? Who is daring enough to send divine sense here,' Ning thought and was about to send out his own when Ender stopped him.

"Brother Ning, don't do that. Only a few people such as the guards and the starred individuals are allowed to use divine sense inside the city," he said.

"Oh, so this one is a guard then," Ning thought. They must've been checking through the carriages was what he believed.

"Maybe, but…" Ender was about to say something when the two men from outside suddenly spoke out loud.

"Welcome, Young Miss."

"Ah, sister is here," Ender immediately got excited and opened the door to his carriage.

Just then a girl that looked to be in her mid 20's entered the carriage and sat opposite to where Ning and Ender were seated. The girl had a small, beautiful face with fair skin and long jet-black hair. She was wearing a plain green robe with translucent sleeves.

The one thing that was weird on her body was the golden star-shaped pin on the left side of her chest. The pin was about 5 centimeters big and had a Hammer engraved onto it.

'Is she what he called a starred individual?' Ning thought. The star certainly did look quite fancy in his eyes and was probably something that was not very common in the city if only they got to use it.

The girl looked at Ning with blue eyes and suddenly squinted them as if she was looking for something on his face.

"Uh… hello," Ning said not knowing what else to say.

"Who are you?" the girl asked with a threatening voice. Her cultivation base of the 5th Nascent Soul realm undulated as if it was something alive with a pulse.

"Umm… I'm Ning Ruogong. I was hitchhiking and your brother let me ride in the carriage," Ning said.

She suddenly turned towards Ender to look at him for confirmation. "Y-Yeah sister, he looked like he wanted to travel and I let him. He's going to the academy to become an alchemist just like me," Ender said.

"NO! He leaves now," the sister then turned to Ning and shouted once more. "Leave! Don't ever come close to my brother," she said.

"What?" Ning was surprised by the sudden order. Still, this was technically her carriage so he decided to do what she said.

"Alright, I'll leave. I'll see you later in the academy, brother Ender," He said and walked out the door. Ender wanted to say something, but his sister stopped him.

Ning simply nodded to the two drivers and walked towards the city, along with the many other people that were walking there. A divine sense followed him all the way until he reached the city.

Only then did it go away.

'Damn, why was that girl such a b*tch?' he wondered. He could understand her trying to protect her brother from strangers, but there was no need for her to be so angry about it.

'Sigh, whatever,' he thought and walked into the open city. Another few divine senses landed on him for a few seconds before disappearing.

'The guards?' he wondered for a moment and stopped caring. He walked into the city and looked at the massive buildings.

'Where should I go now?'

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