As, Sam was about to finish off Sanjay, he felt a sense of crisis and dodged to the side. The chain sickles that are entangled to him were dragged away by him.

The huge flood dragon slammed its maw close as the chains at the other end got struck into its teeth.

As the flood dragon crashed into the surroundings, Sam felt his body being dragged away and only felt a little better when the sickle on the left side tore open the flesh and fell down.

He tried his best to balance himself to get away from this situation, but he could feel the flesh which was being gradually torn on the right side extend to his lungs, at this moment, he couldn't help but ask for help and just like that, a golden crow came out of nowhere as it landed its three legs on the head of the flood-dragon and crashed it into the ground.

All the ice and frost in the arena suddenly became water and there is not even a sight of a single snow flake.

The audience who were still in the shock of Sam's battle spirit and the awe of the finishing move of the battle finally recovered, they couldn't even recover early enough when their future heir was being forced to death.

But when they saw the majestic mythical bird which came out of no where and put the high and mighty flood dragon in place, felt their eye balls pop out in disbelief and all of them had goosebumps irrespective of their positions and cultivations.

The Golden-sun crow, the mythical beast which they had only seen in conceptual images has come to live right in front of them.

Many people in this planet might have some difficulty recognizing the beast, just like Arc who couldn't identify it immediately, but these people are from the Beast faction and they have most valuable and extensive information in their hands about these mythical beasts.

If none of them recognized, Sam would have been surprised.

"Protect Sanjay." The Faction-head yelled and some nascent stage cultivators made their move as they brought Sanjay to safety.

The flood dragon is groaning as it looked at Sam hatefully. The claws of the golden sun crow made it bleed and the heat is making the dragon sweat and with those icy scales it almost looked like an ice dragon melting.

But the dragon is only looking at Sam, not giving a damn about Sam.

He let Yanwu, release the dragon and after that the dragon didn't take issue with Sam as it went towards Sanjay and started sharing its energy.

Dragons inherently have great healing and it started sharing the blood-line bond. The bleeding stopped and the bones slowly started forming, bit by bit.

Even with that it would take weeks for this genius to heal and no one knows how many months he would take to become as strong as before and no one knows whether he would be able to get over the loss.

But none of the members of the beast faction are concentrating on this aspect at this moment. The mythical beast is the only one in their eyes and they don't want to take them off of it.

Sam recalled Yanwu into the dimension and just as he was about to say something to Watt, a loud voice halted him in his tracks.

"How dare you try to take the life of our future-heir? This offense is punishable by death. Everyone, capture him."

Faction-head yelled at the top of his lungs and his voice sounded really concerned and one might really mistake him for caring, if not for the fact the greed that was present in his eyes is fully visible to everyone.

Sam looked at the Ancestor and said.

"Is this the worth of your promise?" He asked in rather sarcastic tone, the old man's face blushed as he didn't dare to make eye contact.

He doesn't want to lose face in front of a junior and added with the fact that he just said that he owed him greatly, made him extremely embarrassed. But he couldn't help but hesitate a little, when he thought of the golden-sun crow.

The Faction, head took advantage of the situation and was about yell and order, but Sam's next actions, made him forget to say what he wanted to say.

Sam took out a metallic cylinder and held it high up in the air.

This is the same type of metallic cylinder which was found by him in the Resting Place.

All the core members who has the cylinder felt a bad premonition as they felt their hearts skip a beat.

Before they could react, Sam injected a small amount of spiritual energy and the metallic cylinder popped open, but there is no scroll, spirit or anything, a small fog appeared out of it and disappeared into the atmosphere.

They were all puzzled at first and felt that Sam might have mastered the technique in the container, they never gave a thought whether the whole thing is fake or not.

Only until, they noticed the movement in the cylinder which was kept in their robes or pockets. After all, everyone is carrying the container, so that they could feed the spiritual energy to it continuously.

When all of them looked at the container, they felt their minds go blank as a black coloured vine suddenly creeped out of it and expanded to all over their body and pierced straight into their heads, hearts and dantians.

They targeted the three main important aspects of a cultivator and a human. One of them is their heart, the spiritual consciousness and the final one the spiritual core.

The vine crazily started drinking the spiritual energy.

The faces of everyone turned pale. The only people who doesn't have this are the Ancestor, Sanjay's uncle, the non-core members and Sanjay himself.

The higher-level cultivators are barely able to resist it, but the spiritual energy was still leaking away, but the nascent stage cultivators, felt their world go dizzy, but they were forcefully stood up by the vines themselves.

All of this is Sam's trap. The fifth founder and the whole treasure and fortune is utter bull-shit he created from the info he was able to gather.

The vines are called Devouring vines. They devour the soul, the spiritual energy and even the blood. But these do have some drawbacks, they need any of the three to grow up and they have to come from a living being other than flora.

But in the stage of infancy, they wouldn't be able to hold their own against the beasts in the wild, so they are never the worries of any cultivators.

But Sam used this quality to his own advantage.

He created these containers with the same principle as the spatial device which was given to him by Vickers when bought the Crystal Bamboos.

The only difference being, the fact that they can grow in their level when they are still inside when the spiritual energy is injected inside.

For the week he stayed within the Resting Place, he created this place and only said this to Philip and Jack on the last day and lied to them about finding it.

He did so, because of the fact he knew that Arman is sending his info to the Beast faction with that special butterfly.

After all, he is the best when it comes to gathering info and he left a shadow mouse with him since the time he came to him with the thought of needing the thunder prison.

He felt doubtful, because he knew that there is no way for Arman to naturally know the importance of the thunder prison and after all, he only knew so much info because of the exchange he made with the Avatar Sanchez.

And he learned about the source being the spirit of the blade and made this plan carefully after he received the info about Arman trying to giveaway his location to the beast faction.

So, he carefully kept the fact about him plotting all this from Arman.

As for the vines, they are bred and grown by the cultivators of the beast faction themselves and now it is the same energy which they crazily and delightedly delivered to the vines, which is trying to kill them.

While they are trying their best to take control of the situation, they felt strong spiritual energy getting into a turmoil at the place of their residences.

The turmoil started spreading in different places in just a few seconds and that included the libraries, their beast farms, court etc.

The Ancestor who was about relieve the Faction-head of his pain, suddenly diverted his attention towards the other areas.

This is what Jack and Philip are doing.

Sam took out the harbinger while, Watt took out the silver wind, they both hovered outside in a blink of an eye, but just before they were about leave the Battle-ground, Sam three an destabilized energy cell in the middle-of the Nascent stage cultivators, who almost made their move on him.