Then Manstein relaxed, bringing his consciousness to the deepest part of himself. He clearly felt the qi everywhere in his body but the amount was superficial that almost to no effect could be seen.

‘Gather, gather. Please, somehow gather at a certain point.’ Pleaded the young man.

The qi in his body scattered in a small amount and there was only a slim chance for it to gather. The chaotic spiritual root could only gather the qi slowly and the speed was definitely slower than the flow of his own blood.

‘This feeling...’ Manstein could only feel the sensation without being able to gather it at large scale. The tiny energy separated and moved freely on his body but as the owner of the body, he could not even control it.

-

In a spatial distortion, the hive slowly drifted through countless spatial cracks. Just inside the distortion itself was already giving them pressure and someone had to control the direction of the hive as to not let it fell through the cracks.

At this time, Ye Yingyuan had to refine the leftover energy from consuming the honey. He directed the energy to his foundation pillar inside his body in another place that he could not see.

Even if he could not see it did not mean the pillar did not exist. He wanted to stabilize and strengthen his first pillar. It was because of his lacking energy that caused this but he did not blame anyone.

‘What I’m worried about is the hidden wound, not the lack of power or battle prowess. This hidden wound will surely bite me in the future if it is not get treated.’

Although he knew that most of those hidden wounds were now disappeared, it took time to recover. Then the yellow energy got absorbed by the pillar which radiated red light. The result from this was felt by the person himself.

‘This is good. So what Father and Mother had said is true, the honey is good for health. And what I mean good for health can also good for healing wounds, even the hidden ones.’

Since human discovered the extraction method of honey, they often consumed this kind of delicacy. And it was proven from time and time that the effect of honey should not be underestimated. Even some materials for alchemy included this good taste honey as the main ingredient.

In another position, Ye Xiaobai also sat cross-legged. He pondered about the discussion that had ended not too long ago.

‘Body cultivation..how can I find a manual for it?’ according to the words that he had heard, this kind of cultivation was weaker compared to the energy cultivation. The resources needed also reach a huge amount.

‘It can supplement the power they currently have and increased their chance to reach higher realms of cultivation. But the resources needed for it becomes the main problem.’

At the present times, most battles were decided by the strength of their energy, their weapon and their mastery in it and also their technique. It was rare to find someone that still trained their body.

‘Other than that, I still have this thing.’ When Ye Xiaobai had been controlled by someone else, he still had the memories about their techniques, as well as a pseudo-core on his body.

‘Chaotic Core, it is said that when I can create this core three times and then merged it together then I can enter Culture Core stage.’ This was one of the advantages Ye Xiaobai had. He knew that the plans those people had for him failed and created an unexpected factor so he just used it for his own agenda.

After all of the experience he had accumulated, his cultivation slowly reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment stage. However, to reach that stage Ye Xiaobai had to pay a huge price.

The manuals for Chaotic Core that he got originally came from the scroll the people from Cleansing Ancient Sect, who had used him but failed. Initially, he worried about the safety of his family but ever since they appeared, he had much less worry at least for now.

‘Should I go for the breakthrough or waiting for several years before I try to do it?’ even though there was the temptation to just directly breakthrough but Ye Xiaobai just tossed aside this kind of thought.

‘No, it would be better if I can also get body cultivation manual first. With it and after I stabilize my foundation then I can safely attempt my breakthrough, this is the normal thought.’

The Ye Xiaobai glanced at Ye Yingyuan. Currently, inside the yellow bubble, Ye Yingyuan was covered by red energy all around him. This energy came from his foundation pillar and even the stored energy inside his pillar also erupted.

‘The body as tough as the metal, as durable as the steel. But the most important, the strength that comes with it. To realize all of this, I need a large amount of energy. For now, I can only refine the energy from the honey to try it.’

His breathing was stable and the energy that flowed within his spirit vein now slowly went to the direction of capillary where the transfer of small tiny units happened. But Ye Yingyuan could make a choice to what body parts he wanted to strengthen.

‘The manuals I got probably came from the ancient records from the distant past. In it, there are two methods of cultivation. The first is this energy cultivation method specifically for body constitution and the second is the body cultivation method.’

Actually, he had to struggle whether he wanted to also cultivate his body or just cultivate his energy. Of course, he would do that if the opportunity came.

‘Other than that....’ when Ye Yingyuan felt the energy around him, he could feel a faint trace of cold energy spread within his perception. He knew whose energy was it and the quality of it increased by leaps and bounds.

He took a look at the girl not far from him. The pressure he felt, she could feel it all the same. But the only one who relaxed the most probably was his brother because, at the moment, he just sat cross-legged without emitting any energy around his body.

And then there was also his cousin that currently releasing his full power, reaching the peak of his current cultivation base at Foundation Establishment. With the additional pressure from the spatial distortion around them, increasing their cultivation would be no doubt far more difficult.

‘Just what is that energy around Cousin? I think I have felt it somewhere...’

In fact, what Ye Xiaobai did now was to form the first pseudo-core. Using the momentum when the energy came from the honey to increased his power while at the same time forming his pseudo-core, he was really bold.

As for the others, they still had to adapt their circulation while the pressure kept coming down to them.

-

When Xian Ni realized that everything he had known so far became obsolete, he had to start from zero again. For instance, his plants that he cultivated every year now bore more results compared to before.

Not only the plants grew bigger and bore more harvest but also emanating certain kinds of energy. And then he investigated his livestock only to find the same results.

‘Is it because of the event three years ago when the sky holed up, releasing the energy that flowed in every direction possible?’

At this time, what he could see with his eyes was the visible world. Due to his own limited knowledge at that time, Xian Ni could only see the changes when he could see it from the characteristic of the living beings he had seen before and compared it with the current situation.

It was just that, he found out that the animals got stronger when he went to the forest to hunt and gathered several herbs. The usual weapon he had become a complete joke before a wolf. When he swung his ax, the ax chipped a little on the edge without injuring the wolf!

Not only that but Xian Ni also had to escape for his life but who would have thought that the wolf chased him with higher agility!

That was the example of the change he could see. While he had to adapt to that new and unknown world, he started to feel something on his body. But due to the sudden change in the ecosystem, he had to ignore that and prioritize his survivability.

And because of this too that Xian Ni gathered a new knowledge to both the plants and animals he had encountered after the change. But sadly, the time it took was too long because seventeen years had passed.

“Just like Xian Ni, the first thing to do in a new environment is to adapt oneself. After that, you can slowly accumulate your own understanding of something. That is why knowledge is power, but power does not necessarily is knowledge.”

It was the same for Manstein. He had come to this world, did not understand anything at first but slowly after some time had passed he could form his own understanding of the world he was in.

But he still had one thing to do and that was to let the tiny energy gather and merge in his body. He tried once more, the energy flowed slowly but few in numbers. As Manstein tried to merge it, the process then suddenly came to a failure.

This made his face pale, lose all the blood from it. His eyes opened wide due to the pain he felt.

‘If not for my vigorous physical training every day, I can’t withstand this kind of pain.’ Before coming to this world, Manstein usually trained himself every day to the point of hurting himself. And the pain was no less than the pain he experienced now.

But with his body now was reconstructed, Manstein had to retrain it all over again.

‘Have to do it, even if I fail a thousand times. Even if I fail a thousand then I will try it one thousand and one times just to see the success!’ a glint of resolute light appeared in his eyes.

‘For returning to my world, for returning together with Alice. This time, I won’t fail!’ without his notice, the seal which already resided in his soul now released a certain light. Manstein did not know about this but he just focused himself to enter the initial stage.

“Faster, they’re persistent for low-intelligent beings.” Wang Yu could not afford to release his full power. It was because he had to keep the stability of the wormhole and if just let out his power at his current condition then the wormhole would fall and it would be disastrous for them.

Most of the beasts that chased after them were those that could fly. Even if they were slow but Hou Fei and Wang Yu would not underestimate them. Especially Wang Yu since he had acquired something important.

“You freak old man! You better let me go otherwise the entire forest or even the entire beasts in this continent will come to your location! Do you want that, huh!?”

The now harmless Nightstalker King that had fallen from his grace now could only throw curses to Wang Yu.

“Of course I know that Forbidden Fountain releasing a certain kind of aura which is why I sealed it away within this formation.” Wang Yu sneered in disdain.

‘ Even if you are his subordinate but this formation is not even revealed to him! And as for this old beast...hmm, it’s better to do it ‘peacefully’! ’

Wang Yu actually talked to Nightstalker King while still shooting to the beasts that chased after them with the lowest power output to destroy the balance of the wormhole but strong enough to kill them.

The Nightstalker King confused when Wang Yu mentioned the formation. What kind of formation that enabled him to seal the Tenth-Ranked Treasure: Forbidden Fountain away?