Nate clenched his jaw to the excruciating pain, feeling sweat run down from his face…Drip…Drip.

He might as well be tortured because it was that bad. There were times that he forgot why he was going through this tormenting pain that made him want to bite his own tongue off!

Having to unblock his cultivation base, seemed to be a bigger problem than he had originally thought.

First, his stupid, elder brother, Keith, hadn’t been strong enough to do it, then, he found that when they got to Blue Haven…That no one could do it there either!

The highest cultivation base at Blue Haven was indeed his own elder brother! Everyone else seemed to average about the fifth rank…

Having had to travel through the wilderness for four months, where the beasts wondered around freely, Nate found his way back to Red Haven and sought out this hermit, old man. He was very well known in Red Haven, as he was a rank ten cultivator, but even he was having trouble unblocking him!

After the first try, three days ago, the old man had said that the blocker isn’t the normal blocker that is usually used, which is normally something that glues itself over the dantian wall. No…That red eyed, beautiful woman, had made his own dantian become the blocker, by closing the gaps in the dantian wall itself!

Ah! What a woman!

Pain engulfed him once again and he closed his eyes, forcing himself to remember, yet again, why he was going through this nearly unbearable pain!

Forcefully putting gaps in the dantian wall not only is painful but can even be enough to kill someone.

It was very, very hard work, that the majority of people didn’t know how to do. If it was just something over the dantian wall, it would have been a lot easier to fix! Just by getting someone higher ranked then the person with the blocker would be enough…But…

Because they weren't like Sahara, who seemed to be able to command and control spiritual essence completely, this old man had to use a very old technique that included the body as well, for when one puts holes in the dantian wall. Being able to use their spiritual essence to manipulate the metal element, they inserted a small needled into the skin. If one is not careful, then you will hit a main artery and the person will bleed to death...But, if one knows where to quickly pounce the Metal into the body and then how to guide it back out, not only will it go through the body and into the dantian wall, but it will dissipate inside of the body...

Upon pouncing back from the dantian wall, the metal will use itself, with the small, broken off wall that was now free from the dantian wall and the spiritual essence from inside the other person’s dantian, to help prevent any kind of bleeding.

Full concentration was needed to apply this method, and only a certain type of clean, pure metal can be used...And, it can take up to a whole year to bring a blocked dantian back to the best it can be once again. This type of technique wasn’t entirely uncommon, as some people are just born as ‘wastes’ and need this to start to cultivate…It was uncommon though, of how many people can actually achieve this technique.

Going back to how one used to be, after being blocked like that of Nate, hasn't been done before, because of the risk on killing the person grows because of getting too much of the metal into their bodies.

…Luckily, this old man was an old acquaintance, and both of them didn’t mind using the other for their own means.

The old man, Nate knowing him as Hector, wanted more power, even though his days may come to an end in just a decade or so, but he wanted to spar once again against someone whom he could not seem to find nor defeat. With the potential future Golden Emperor behind him, he’d be able to have the power to find his adversary and demand the fight! Having always been someone not strong enough to ever beat him, Hector had always wanted to be stronger, just to win against him! Of course, that wasn't the only thing he wanted, as he knew and got used to his original goal becoming unreachable a decade ago…Now, he just wanted to have enough power to do whatever he wanted, and that was to make a worldly fighting competition, instead of the competitions being only held within Academies and with students.

How he longed to watch people from each Haven fight, how he himself wanted to be one of them!

Nate knew about his strange wants, and had understood, as the same person that this old man wanted to beat up, had killed Nate’s own father. Knowing that their adversary was stronger than both of them at the moment, he could still only wait until later, to get revenge for his father’s death…Well, if he wanted it…

He hadn’t been close or seen much of his father, when he had been alive. If anything, his older brother Keith would love to know about this, but Nate didn’t care enough to tell him.

As it was, he is only working with Keith now because he had been imprisoned and his cultivation had been blocked…

“I will need more time.” Said the old man.

Nate clenched his teeth, “How much more time.”

The old man shrugged, “I told you prior to today, that it will take me a while to put you back to the way you were before.”

Slamming the table close to him, Nate breathed out in a rush…

Abruptly, he stood, still unable to completely stop his body from trembling, and slowly walked out, “Fine!”

Three times, they had tried to unblock him, and as it was, he was only a third of the way through. It wasn’t as painful at first, but as the old man finds harder and harder places to go through his body, it was starting to really take its toll upon his pain threshold!

For many hours, he’d force both of them to work upon his dantian and by the time they were done…Nate could hardly stand or keep his eyes opened!

He could feel his spiritual essence once again but wouldn’t be able to do two water whips at a time, as he usually did.

It was great that they had been able to get this far, due to Nate's inability to quit and Hector's ability to know exactly what he was doing…

…Nate didn’t care if there was a chance on dying…He had no other dream, other than to be the Golden Emperor!

This was his path! His fate, destiny and future!

Nate could only reach the bed, where he was currently staying, and fell down upon it in utter exhaustion!

He will get both Red Haven and Blue Haven behind him once again! He will get rid of his useless, older brother! He will also gain Green Haven…And…He will kill the True Golden Heir and take his woman!

It was only just a matter of time!

***

The True Golden Heir, Matthew, and his woman, Sahara, were currently just about to leave Purple Haven. They were going to teleport with Sahara’s Bending Space Meditation, to the Green Haven Emperor and inform him about a few things. Both of them originally were born in Green Haven, Sahara being that of a young miss and daughter of the Right Minister and Matthew was the well-known Second Prince of Green Haven.

If Sahara knew that her future held this ‘True Golden Heir’ as her destined partner when she had been born here, she would not have believed it. Her birth had been on the terms of bad luck, and she had to survive on her own before the age of two. If she hadn’t transmigrated and was more mature and experienced, she may have not made it to her third birthday here!

On the other hand, Matthew had fought continuously with Prince Liam, who had used to be the Crowned Prince, and couldn’t believe a tiny woman seemed to relax him from his burdens.

Yes, they both had gone through enough and now didn’t want to leave each other’s side!

Sahara, having suddenly teleported herself and Matthew to Purple Haven a week ago, had uncaringly left the rest of the Green Haven men in the wilderness, whom were still on their way to Purple Haven. Without the protection of the anti-beast barrier, that goes around each Haven, Matthew and Sahara had already found out that something happened with the men, after their sudden disappearance.

A letter, that Matthew wrote, was sent to Joshua, who is the General's strategist, stating that nothing was wrong. He also wrote that he would inspect Purple Haven, while waiting for them to join them within the month. After the note had been read, people acted strangely, and Sahara had stuck around the area, in her little green star, to try and figure out what ‘harm’ her instincts felt, that she had to suddenly teleport away from them a week ago.

Her little, green star was like another type of eyes for her. It was practically like she was already there, having no space between them, even though this little, green star was a month’s travel distance away.

The reason she can see what the little, green star can see…Is because of her awesome, greatest, most godly Bending Space Meditation!

Her words…

Yes, she absolutely loves the first meditation that she had accidently, and on purpose, learnt. She has found that this meditation seemed to outshine a lot of other types of meditations, like that of Dispersion Meditation.

Sahara thinks Bending Space Meditation is equivalent to that of a primary colour, only having seen secondary colour type of meditations, so far. But…She had only spent sixteen years in this cultivation world, and she had not learnt more than three or four other types of meditations since being on this planet, so her opinion is actually quite limited so far…

What helps and makes her able to be a little more opened minded, is that she had come from Earth. She had been one that read books about ancient times and cultivations, and had played games on the computer, so cultivation felt a bit easier to learn…Well that’s what she thought, that it would have been harder if she hadn’t transmigrated.

Apparently, her life included that of some sort of explanation that a voice had tried to tell her, yet she doesn’t care enough to understand. Something called the Doomed and Blessed…Whatever…

But yes, she believes very much in instincts and that was why she had suddenly teleported away from the men travelling in the open wilderness between Green Haven and Purple Haven, and directly went to Purple Haven instead.

Having been not sure whether it was anyone or anything, Sahara could not deny her instincts, as she grew up with them in two lifetimes. Something to do with balancing them within herself, and they could even use her spiritual essence and talk to her...But...Sahara doesn't particularly talk to the voice that calls her 'Master'...

…Without being initially informed or invited to investigate, Sahara found that someone had been poisoned and another had run back to Green Haven. It had sounded strange, so she willingly healed the person who had showed signs of poisoning an hour after she had teleported and had waited for him to tell people what really had happened…Because she knew damned well that the stupid story where Sahara had apparently harmed her man, Matthew, the Second Prince of Green Haven, was most definitely not true!

Not unless you called moaning in pleasure was being harmful…Mmm, perhaps it’s opposite day?

Sahara could only scoff at this news, knowing now that it came from the person who had run away.

So that person obviously doesn’t like me…Did I kill their dog or something?