One Year before the next Palace of Inheritance.

Sam is still within the city. For the past few months, he was able to concentrate on his own training carefully and solidify his foundation.

The Nascent stage is all about reforming the body and increase the quality and density of the spiritual sea of consciousness.

Sam examined his own body and realized that he already achieved what many couldn't achieve, while he was still a Level-5 Nascent stage cultivator. His current state of body and spiritual sea is already enough to many people that they could only achieve this in the Ninth level of Nascent stage and they would choose to breakthrough.

But Sam is only half-way there.

Apart from that, Sam also concentrated on his attacks and defense. He has too many elements, whenever a fight breaks out, he is directly focusing on the hand-to-hand combat in most cases and then he started concentrating on the elements only when the situation became dire.

He is not using them in harmony to get the maximum desired effect. The only elements he used in harmony are fire and wind, apart from that, there is no such result visible in other cases.

These few days, he completely focused on changing and added some creative ideas so that he could be more efficient.

Today, Sam came out of his training and is in his office doing a final check on the things. His three friends already took up most of the important roles and are already managing the whole organization.

So, he didn't have to worry too much. Anyway, in the current state, they also don't need to pay too much attention to put too much effort into things.

The chain of command has already formed and the operation is smooth.

By evening, he is done with the things at hand and waited for Arman to come.

But before that, there is one more thing he has to take care of. He left his office and went to visit Mackey. When Sam arrived at that restaurant, Mackey almost looked like a zombie.

He seemed to have been cooking for a long time without rest. When he saw Sam, he finally walked away from the stove, took out a spatial ring from his pocket, and gave it to Sam.

"I don't know if this is enough for the next year, but I tried my best. And one more thing, it is not that I don't want to cook this large amount of food, but can you inform me a little earlier next time. I don't have enough time."

"Sure, Thank you." Sam is busy checking the food in the spatial ring as he gave a superficial answer.

He left the restaurant with a satisfied smirk.

At this moment, Arman also arrived and both of them met at the rooftop of the building. Philip, Watt, and Jack also arrived to bid farewell.

Arman took out the dimensional crosser first as he activated it. Space rippled around him and within a few seconds, he disappeared from the spot.

Sam smiled at his friends before taking out his Transporter. He took out the small metallic box and clicked the button, it enlarged and opened, he entered the circular platform for transporting and placed his hands on the Black sphere as he changed the coordinates to the ones on the Arman's dimensional crosser.

But he hesitated a bit as he thought of changing the last coordinate a bit. He wants to see just how much one unit of this coordinate varies, but in the end, he didn't do that and kept the coordinates the same.

It is no laughing matter after all. There is a possibility that he might die in some wormhole in this vast space.

As he activated it, his friends are having complicated emotions. They didn't object when Sam said he doesn't want to take them with him, but they started contemplating why and thought that they might be too weak.

As soon as Sam disappeared, they looked at each other without speaking anything and left the building.

They do have to manage the business, but the business is in almost a self-sustaining state, they only have to deal with the problems not with the regular deals. They decided to immerse themselves in training.

…

Sam felt as if the whole world is spinning as he experienced a weird sucking force pulling him, all he saw is a black blur before reappeared on the land.

He couldn't stand clearly for a second and wanted to puke his guts out. This experience is far more complex and torturing when compared to his first Space gate transportation.

He couldn't stand still and fell on the ground as he looked around.

Only after a few minutes did he make sense of the situation. He sat on the ground with the metallic box still in his hands, this is the transporter that sent him here.

It turned back into the small black box after he arrived and fell into his hands

He also noticed that Arman is nearby. He is only a few feet away sprawling on the ground struggling for breath. He closed his eyes and tried to stabilize his body.

The skin is having some green spots as he looked as he rolled over the grass.

All of a sudden, the lightning in Arman's body started running in chaos as it seemed to be trying to destroy everything that came into its way.

After some time, Arman stood up and started puking some bad blood which has some green tint to it and even green colored smoke came out of his mouth.

His body still didn't lose those patches of green though, but he clearly is feeling a lot better.

But his breathing is still a bit heavy and he has to try his best to control his spiritual energy and continuously exhaled some faint green gas.

Sam noticed that he is alright and gave him a breathing device. He could have given it earlier, but Sam was afraid that he might disturb the process of Arman expelling the poisons out of him.

Arman is having a hard time seeing forward, he already closed his eyes but they are still burning, if not for his spiritual sense he would have gone crazy.

Sam started examining his own body. Even though he is not feeling too many changes to his own body, that doesn't mean they are none.

First of all, the air is indeed a bit heavy and the Hydra bloodline is trying its best to purify the air in his lungs so that he could breathe normally. But it is still a bit heavy. If Sam wants to really breathe normally, he might have to cultivate directly without any other activity.

He also noticed that spiritual energy is a bit dense and it is also not pure. But the purity he is thinking is not the density and the richness of the spiritual energy rather it seemed to have some poison attribute.

He could feel that the spiritual energy which his body absorbed slowly is having a hard time merging with the spiritual energy already present in his spiritual core.

They are conflicted and trying to best each other.

The external spiritual energy is trying to decay the internal one and the internal one is trying to purify the external one.

He is also feeling a slight unease and faint pain inside his body due to this reaction.

His reaction is not as obvious as Arman's because of his highly tempered body.

He looked at Arman who is now sitting cross-legged and started cultivating, he seemed to be trying his best to make his body adapt to the environment and his cultivation technique is running throughout his body as it tried to reduce the conflict between the spiritual energy of the atmosphere.

But Sam didn't do the same, he closed his eyes and looked at the spiritual core, one of his spiritual core's abilities is to convert and he used the same ability to heal Sky who was suffering from fire poison.

Sam wanted to see if he can try to use this method to get rid of his situation, he used the pure poison attribute he got from Mia. Until now, Sam could only secrete a few poisons that Mia has and use them in his attacks, but it did give him full immunity to poisons he came into contact with until now.

As he changed all his spiritual energy to his poison attribute, he could almost see it change color to an indigo shade. At this moment, he also noticed that even his skin has a faint indigo hue. This is something he didn't try before.

He did use different elements, but not to this extent on converting all the spiritual energy in his body to a single attribute except for when he attempted elemental fusion. Now, he noticed that there is no more unease or pain in his body and it seemed like his body started to adapt.

His breathing is still a bit heavy and he cannot use spiritual energy as freely, but he was still able to deal with it. By this time, Arman also had a faint adaptation to the environment and the breathing device did help him with this.

Now only both of them had the mind to look around.

What they saw is a beautiful grass plain in front of them and there is even a large lake nearby.

They could see the faint image of a city with majestic buildings far away and mountains on the other side.

They looked at each other and started making their way towards the city.