“How is his condition?” asked Wang Yu. Back then, he had seen something that would never be forgotten by himself. But the person who did such a feat was in a vegetable state and could not respond to any kinds of stimulus.

“Neither good nor bad, he entered deep slumber. The problem is, there is a malignant seal in his soul which I try to remove right now but failed.” Explained Alice. She had tried to wake Manstein but to no avail.

“But the Body Incarnation process needs the soul that conscious to work. If this situation does not change in the slightest, I’m afraid that something will happen to us all.”

Wang Yu also thought that if this time the Stone Door Inscription opened the next three years, then the outside world now was on fire!

“I have to help him somehow!” Alice could only search for a feasible method to help Manstein recovered. But at the same time, Manstein had a strange dream.

-

He was standing at the top of the world with billions of stars, planet, galaxy, and star clusters around him. He looked down and saw that countless living beings lived at their tiny place that they often called ‘world’.

Then he looked around only to find that no one accompanied him. This made him felt loneliness and at the same time looking for more than what he had in that dream.

Manstein could not understand why he was at that place, maybe he would search for a stronger entity. Maybe, it was because he was invincible unmatched under heaven.

But then he remembered that no one could become really invincible forever and what he had done to that point, in the end, led him to gain nothing!

-

“Uhm..” Manstein then woke up and his consciousness return. The notification from Intelligence Assistance Device this time rang louder and all the history records during his sleep were added.

“At last, you wake up.” Wang Yu was the first to greet him. In this place where only the soul could stay, Wang Yu and Manstein could see each other without restraint. Then Manstein remembered Alice.

“Where is Alice?” he asked. Hearing those question made Wang Yu stunned before he said, “She is looking for another method so that the seal in your body can be removed.”

Manstein then ordered Intelligence Assistance Device to report any new data that he had received before and after he entered a slumber. Then a hologram showed a certain picture of a complex symbol.

-The Tribulation and Retribution seal has been placed upon the user and now the effect started to work-

The monotonous sound then reported about this. It showed everything that it had recorded without fail and it just needed Manstein to input the order. Only with that, he could see the condition of his own soul.

“What is this seal?” the peculiar symbol on the seal increased the anxiousness that Manstein had. But even someone that already lived for quite long like Wang Yu could not completely understand it.

“Don’t know. But from it, I can sense the energy that only belonged to that place.”

Manstein could only remember that he got the small trace of every kind of energy from this world and then he laughed. He understood that his action would provoke the existence which ruled this world.

‘Fortunately that I set it not too much else I have to bear the consequences.’ Manstein had to be careful when he picked the energy and fused it with his soul. He only needed the smallest amount of it and it was successfully done.

‘But as the result, my point in spiritual roots dropped to the extreme!’ this was the price he had to pay in order to get that energy.

‘In the end, this world will limit my potential anyway so why bother about it too much. But then how much power I need to at least get through the Universe Gate?’ Manstein calculated it together with his device.

Then the energy fluctuation was detected before the appearance of Alice could be seen. From her expression alone, one could conclude that she had forced herself to work hard.

“Hey, why did your face like some albino animals?” Manstein talked to her. When Alice saw that Manstein already recovered, she returned to normal in that moment. This made both Manstein and Wang Yu looked at each other in confusion.

“Haha, it’s good that you are fine.”

-

But the situation outside really made one wonder just what was happen. The hall inside the Ye Residence was destroyed by the event that took place and now everyone stood or watched the place directly.

“That’s something we will never watch again for the rest of our lives.” A soldier said. He only had one thought regarding this, absolutely amazing.

“But do you also see the dense energy which filled the entire sky a moment ago? It’s something that definitely attracts someone.” Another person said.

They discussed the event of that day with vigor. While trading, patrolling, strolling and many more activities they still talked about it. Of course, there were some cultivators that arrived here to find the reason behind such an event.

A large caravan arrived in Xuan City. This caravan came from the neighbor city and would pass through the city to reach their destination. But among them, there were some people that were not supposed to be there.

“This is the place. From the previous city, I got some information about those people from Cleansing Ancient Sect. Probably they found something here or planned something else.”

The man with ragged clothes was in the middle of the caravan, riding his horse to enter the city. His eyes looked forward and narrowed when he saw some guards that checked the caravan. They had done this like usual but a scream sounded not far from there.

‘What is going on?’ the man then turned his head to look at the source of that sound. From the one of the carriage, a girl could be seen unconscious and her arms had a strange black dot which varied in size.

“Hold on! What’s happening here?” a soldier then interrogated a man that guarded the carriage. Then the man answered as soon as he can because the terrifying look the soldier gave him.

“Please! Please don’t kill her! She is ill and the symptom now acts again. What we have to do is to concoct a medicine for her to consume. But we need to find it quick or else this can spread to another person as well. Don’t touch her!”

The man explained the general condition that happened and the solution for it.

“Ai, she has the symptom of that disease. But from her condition, it will take a week and a half before the disease eats her entirely.” It was the man with ragged clothes that moved closer and inspected the girl.

“Who are you!?” the soldier and the guard asked with caution. But because the guard had heard what he had said, he could not help but wonder in his heart. It was because this man with his ragged clothes could know the condition of the patient.

“Me? Just a passer-by. Anyway, you better take her as soon as possible to the nearest place where medical treatment can be done. If not then I’m afraid that she will die.”

Then he left without a consent for the guard. His movement could not be seen by them or to be exact the people that watched it.

‘Well, look at that soldier. He is at least a private soldier and his cultivation is at Foundation Establishment, huh?’ there was only a purpose for this man to visit this city.

But at the mountain’s peak near that city, Wei Liang already prepared everything for his long journey.

“Are you sure you wanted to leave?” Hou Fei just said this for the sake of formality and he even knew that Wei Liang had determined about this a long time ago. But he lamented only one fact.

‘If only Young Miss does not fall for him...but it can’t be helped.’

“Of course. My destination lies beyond the Stone Door Inscription which is dangerous even for me. But I still have to do this.” Wei Liang looked at a certain direction.

“Then go. Don’t make me change my mind or else you have to spend more of your time here.” This time, Wu Qing only showed her back without looking back. But for both Wei Liang and Wu Qing, they already realized each other thought.

“Please treat my Junior Brother well. He still has potential to reach Nirvana Body stage and as you know in detailed history, this Ye family here is an authentic one. The surname that spread their names when the Goddess appeared and changed our world.”

Wei Liang then disappeared between the drifting clouds. But time wait for no one so after some time, both Wu Qing and Hou Fei returned to Xuan City to complete the final task.

“About the last request that he made, shall this man help Miss?” Hou Fei asked the permission from Wu Qing before doing something on his own. Wu Qing just answered with her nod, approving that action.

“As long as Miss request me to do it then this man will help Miss. So my profession as Body Incarnation and Body Creation will be used once again. Ai, what a good day.”

-

“I can’t feel him in your body. And I also can’t detect him anywhere around the residence then where is he?” Ye Canghai could not detect anything from his sense. Even he lost track and now he asked his son.

“If Father does not know then so do I.” Ye Yingyuan shook his head. He had even looked everywhere, every single corner of the residence and also around the entire city but to no avail.

‘It seems that my connection with him is severed since that time. But now, I have something more important to do.’

“Then do you want to visit your Grandfather?” Ye Canghai asked him once again. Prior to this, he already asked it to Ye Yingyuan but could not tell if he prepared for it.

Ye Yingyuan looked at his father with a look that one could not easily read. Then he nodded slowly, after all, he wanted to see it with his own eyes. He also had this idea to tell his brother and cousin but he found out that they would do it together.

Together, to spend the time with their grandfather. But someone really thought about it until he shed tears all the way.

‘If it not for me if only I had not done it!’ he released a terrifying force and numerous items that lied beside him had been pulled by a strong force. Right now, Ye Xiaobai entered his own training room and unleashed all of his guilt there.

“More! Not enough, I have to increase my mastery of this!” he used even his energy to lift those items and fortunately, everything went as he expected. He could maintain this position for a moment while still increasing his output!

‘Don’t tell me that only the youngsters like me are in the dark.’

On another place in a green field right in the middle of the yard, Ye Qingcheng breathe out a mouthful of air. His eyes then glowed with understanding as he finally realized something.

‘That was why the usual medicine can have such an effect. It’s not even the effect of the medicine but nature taking its course.’

As he thought about it, he also remembered what his father had said during the lecture and when he reminded both him and Ye Yingyuan. It was something that his Grandfather had said and then passed it to his sons.

‘Once mortal, forever mortal. By origin, we pursue eternity but only suffer in eternity. No matter how many years had passed, every living being that has soul will have the taste of death.’

That was the saying of the record in an old looking scroll which Ye family had for countless generations.

On another side, Yu Feng looked over all of the family members with utmost care. She worried that this news would affect their heart and activity and it was proven by the sight she had seen around the residence.

“How many times I see this and how many times I had to watch this?” she could only sigh when her thought reach that point.

“I already tired of this. Probably every single cultivator in this world realized this point too one day and lost in their thought regarding this.” She just murmured something that came from the bottom of her heart.

As for Manstein, after he received a proper ‘education’ about the common sense of this world he was ready to go face the physical tribulation.

“Hey, don’t forget about the lesson you have learned. It will become useful when you live here.” Alice reminded him.