'...'

There was no response from the cultivation abode that made him raise his brows.

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'Where is it?'

Soon, Henrick started searching for the baby fire monkey in his cultivation abode; however, there were no signs that made him a little anxious.

'Calm down...calm down,' Henrick calmed himself down as he closed his eyes and checked the contract in his mind sea.

'Phew...it is still intact. So, Spark is still fine,'

Only after seeing the contracted mark in his mind sea, Henrick was able to heave a sigh of relief.

'Maybe it is playing outside,'

Henrick thought in his mind as he sent some signal for the baby fire monkey to come back to the cultivation abode using the same mark in his mind sea.

'Until it comes, I will take a nice hot bath,'

Soon, he relaxed in the hot water pool in his cultivation abode before coming out of it after an hour.

'What is taking it so long? Looks like it is in the beast mountain,'

Even after one hour, the baby fire monkey still didn't come back which made Henrick a little worried; however, he could guess that the baby fire monkey was in the beast mountain.

After guessing that, Henrick stopped bothering about it as he went to sleep without thinking anything.

...…

Inside Nick's cultivation abode,

'I only have less than 10 days to break through into the energy condensation realm,'

Nick gritted his teeth as he muttered to himself as he used his internal fire energy to strengthen his muscles.

Six days back, the sect leader Gamos came to his cultivation abode and gave him a ton of cultivation resources along with a target and a deadline.

The target was for him to reach the energy condensation realm within 15 days using all the cultivation resources in front of him.

'So far, I have completed 12 rounds of muscle refinement in stage 3 of the muscle-strengthening realm and 25 more rounds to entered the energy condensation realm,'

For the past 6 days, he secluded himself in his cultivation abode and while using the cultivation resources given by his master and cultivated without any rest.

'Anyway, I will complete another one round today and take a rest,'

Soon, Nick closed his eyes and entered into the deep cultivation.

Beside his stone bed, the armoured fire crocodile was sleeping without any care in the world and from time to time, he would check on Nick as though it was waiting for something.

...

In the beast mountain,

'Eek eek'

The baby fire monkey which was sleeping for the past seven days opened its eyes all of a sudden and excitedly jumped up and down as it started shouting out loud.

Its full tummy also returned to normal after all these days.

"You want to go back?"

The old man Fionk, accompanied it from time to time despite the face the baby fire money was mostly asleep.

'Eek eek'

Hearing the old man's words, the baby fire monkey nodded its head.

"Okay. Don't forget to visit this old man from time to time,"

The old man revealed a slight smile as he allowed the baby fire monkey to go back.

'Swoosh'

The baby fire monkey rushed towards the exit of the cave; however, all of a sudden, it stopped and turned its head towards the old man.

"Thank you,"

The baby fire monkey spoke in a fluent human speech and as soon as it finished its words, it didn't waste any time before climbing down the beast mountain.

'What? It can already speak human speech?'

The old man Fionk froze when he heard the baby fire monkey speak in such a fluent human speech.

"Haha"

However, he recovered from the shock within a few moments before started laughing.

'I didn't make the wrong choice back then,'

Soon, he calmed himself as he thought back to a few years back.

"Master, what happened?"

"Are you okay, master?"

Hearing his earlier loud laugh, his two disciples, Strauss and Franz hurriedly came into the cave and asked him.

"What will happen to me? And who dares to go harm me in my beast mountain?"

The old man Fionk scoffed at his disciples' words and asked them, "Give me the report of our seven-day beast taming event."

For the last six days, the old man Fionk was busy with some other work and from time to time, he would check on the baby fire monkey. So, he entirely left the 'Forceful contract' thing to his disciples.

"Master, we are waiting in front of your cultivation abode to explain this for a while; however, you are not there,"

His first disciple, Strauss replied first as he continued,

"Coming to the report, on the first day, 5 disciples are chosen by the special beasts, on the second day to the sixth day, two disciples per each day are selected and on the final day, only one disciple was lucky."

"So, in total, 16 disciples had been chosen by the special beasts through a forceful contract. As for the remaining disciples, they were right away tossed aside by those beasts,"

Soon, the old man's second disciple gave a summary of the report.

"Good...good,"

Hearing the report, the old man Fionk was over the moon as he nodded his head while muttering 'Good'.

"Now, create a new division of disciples called Elite beast tamers and those 16 disciples will be given a special training starting tomorrow,"

Thinking for a moment, the old man Fionk asked his disciples to create a new division for those 16 special disciples.

"We will do that,"

Strauss and Franz hurriedly nodded their heads before Strauss asked, "Master, are you going to teach them by yourself?"

Since his master was very serious about this new special division, Strauss guessed in his mind as he asked his master.

"Huh? You are asking me to teach them?" The old man Fionk raised his brows and with a scoff, he said, "Then, why did I take you as my personal disciples and train you two 'Master realm'?"

'...'

'...'

Strauss and Franz became speechless at their master's words before hurriedly saying, "We will take care of it, Master. Within a year, we will make them reach the 'Energy transformation realm'."

They sounded as confident as possible in their words; however, they noticed a scoff on their master's face that made their hearts beat extremely fast.

"What? You will make them reach the energy transformation realm within a year?"

The old man Fionk asked with a serious expression on his face.

"Yes, master. We will definitely make them 'Energy transformation realm' cultivators within a year,"

Both of them replied at the same time with the same confident look on their face because they were really confident to make it possible.

'Master might be shocked by our words. So, he was asking us whether we are serious or not? Of course, we are absolutely confident in that task,'

After replying to their master, they silently thought inside their head and felt excited that they were able to shock their master with their confidence.

"Idiots...fools...good for nothing disciples,"

While they were waiting for praises, what came towards them were scoldings from their master.