The activity in eternal forest increased exponentially with the disappearance of the sun. The silence of the forest was lost with the setting the sun. The roars and growling of elemental beasts increased with each passing minutes. These elemental beasts that had been sleeping throughout the day were now awake. Each had a hungry stomach to fill.

Oscar increased his speed as he had no intention to get into a fight with a powerful elemental beast while Ryan was beside him. Ryan, on the other hand, was least bothered about the growing activity of the forest. He was currently captivated by the beauty of the eternal forest. If during the day the eternal forest looked like an immortal paradise than the current eternal forest was godly paradise. All the plants and trees in the eternal forest were shining brightly which lit up the eternal forest completely. The scene was completely mesmerizing.

Ryan who was captivated by the beauty of the eternal forest was quickly brought to his senses by a terrifying roar of an elemental beast. The roar shook the very soul of Ryan. Ryan’s face turned slightly pale. He slowly turned his head to look at the owner of this terrifying roar. Ryan saw an elemental beast that was as big as a small hill. This elemental beast looked like a saber-toothed tiger. One could see electricity crackling around its body. This was a lightning sabre-toothed tiger. It was an ancient elemental beast of thunder attribute. The one that was in front of them had high grade bloodline purity. He was glaring at them but didn’t attack. Ryan felt a shiver down the spine when he felt the eyes of lightning saber-toothed tiger fell on his body.

“Don’t worry. The Lightning sabre-toothed tiger won’t attack us. It knows the danger associated with it. He just wants us to leave his territory as soon as possible.” Oscar said upon noticing Ryan's terrified expression. Ryan nodded his head after listening to his grandfather’s words. He felt a little better when he noticed that the lightning sabre-toothed tiger truly had no intention to make move against them but he still wanted them to leave his territory as soon as possible. Oscar increased his speed by many folds and they quickly left the territory of a sabre-toothed tiger. Oscar maintained this speed until they were completely out of the Eternal forest.

Ryan and his family lived in hope city which was situated in the central regions of Dragon head continent. Dragon head continent got its name because of its shape, which had a striking resemblance to a dragon’s head.

Ryan family lived on the outskirts of hope city in large twenty acres sprawling estate. The estate had a hundred rooms and a big training field for practicing martial arts. The estate location made sure that the noisy atmosphere of the city didn’t affect the peaceful and tranquil atmosphere of the estate. Such an atmosphere was good for cultivation and training martial arts.

Ryan's currently had a good mood as opposed to when the lightning sabre-toothed tiger glared at them. His excitement was increasing with each passing second. The reason for his excitement was his wish to tell his mother and brother about his first hunt. He had hunted ten elemental beasts in total which was quite a feat for someone his age.

Ryan mother Emilia, on the contrary, was extremely worried for the grandfather and grandson duo as they were late. She was sitting in the living room while waiting for Ryan and Oscar’s return. She was wearing a gown with beautiful floral design. She looked like she was in her twenties but she wasn’t. The reason behind her youthful appearance was due to her being a martial artist. The Martial artists tend to look younger than they actually were as with each breakthrough in the martial path their lifespans would increase by a few hundred years. Oscar also looked like a middle aged man due to the same reason even though he was quite old. When she sensed the return of Ryan and his Grandfather a smile bloomed on her face. She quickly went out to greet them.

Ryan and his grandfather descended at the entrance of their estate. Emilia was already standing at the entrance with a big grin on her face. She had a loving expression when she looked at Ryan.

Seeing his mother, Ryan rushed to her and gave her bear hug and started talking about the things he experienced today. Emilia expression changed when he told her about the lightning sabre-toothed tiger.

“What’s more important is that you and father in laws returned home without any injuries.” Ryan’s mother said as she gently patted Ryan.

“Where are Blake and Cris by the way?” Ryan asked as he noticed it has already been a while and his brothers had yet to show up.

“Well since you broke through to the mortal elite realm, they have been cultivating and training like maniacs. I think they want to catch up to you.” Ryan’s mother said as she giggled.

“They should not overexert themselves; it is not a good for them,” Ryan spoke in a frantic manner. Anyone could sense that he was worried about his brothers.

“Don’t worry, Blake is already at the late condensation realm while Cris is already at mid condensation realm. They can easily handle this much training. “Oscar said. He knew that Ryan was a worrywart if he didn’t give him a good reason he would make an unnecessary ruckus. After hearing his grandfather, Ryan mind eased a little bit though he was still worried about his brothers.

“Divine Martial sect is recruiting disciples. Since you are already in the mortal elite realm, you are qualified to take the test. Joining a sect will increase your understanding of the world and you who might be able to become a poison martial artist's personal disciple. The divine martial sect has five powerful poison martial artists in their ranks. These five poison martial artists can even make a powerful faction cower in fear.” Ryan mother said with a serious face. This face was enough to tell Ryan that his mother seriously wanted him to join a sect. Joining a sect had its own advantage like better and large number of martial skills to choose from and most importantly a strong backing.

“I will think about it,” Ryan said with a reluctant expression. Ryan had never considered joining a Sect as he wished to stay with his family but he knew this was all a wishful thinking. Once his brothers broke into the mortal elite realm, they would have to leave with their grandfather to cultivate in a darkness attribute treasure land as it was beneficial for their cultivation.

Treasure lands were pieces of land that had excessive amounts of elemental energy of a particular attribute in its air. The darkness treasure land had excessive amounts of darkness elemental energy in its air. The treasured lands were graded on the basis of the purity of elemental energy in its air. They were graded as high, mid and low in decreasing order of purity of elemental energy. Treasured lands were coveted by both humanoids factions and other beings alike as cultivating in them was beneficial to cultivate in them. Most of the treasured lands of Grandura were in the control of powerful factions and beings. 

One of the reasons why treasured were coveted so much was treasure lands being capable of producing large quantities of elemental stones. The elemental stones were formed from the crystallization of elemental energy. These elemental stones could be used by a martial artist as a source of elemental energy for cultivation purpose. The purity of elemental energy in high grade treasure land was extremely high which made it beneficial for the cultivation of martial artist and other begins. The other reason was their ability to birth heavenly treasures. The heavenly treasures were coveted by all living beings as it could completely change their talent and life thereafter. Due to these reasons, all factions would compete for the ownership of treasure lands actively. All the factions would use the heavenly treasures produced in the treasure lands under their control to nurture disciples. Due to all these reasons, Emilia and Oscar wished Ryan to join a faction.

His brothers and grandfather had martial spirits with the same attribute i.e. darkness. His grandfather could easily guide them and help them in cultivating darkness elemental laws. Ryan knew that his grandfather and mother could not help him a lot as the attributes of his martial spirits were completely different from his grandfather or mother. So, he will have to join some faction to find himself a strong master and to gain access to some strong martial skills.

“Now go and clean yourself.” Ryan’s mother said as he loving patted him. Ryan nodded his head and started heading towards the bath.

Ryan had already decided to cultivate poison elemental laws after returning to his room. He had a realization today after seeing the lighting sabre-toothed tiger that he was too weak. After returning to his room, he approached a mirror that was placed on the table inside his room. He gently tapped the surface of the mirror and the next moment he was sucked in by the mirror. Ryan appeared in a big room. This room only had a mattress that was placed in the middle of the room. The room had complete peace and tranquillity except for the noise made by Ryan. The mirror was a spatial artifact and the cultivation chamber was placed within its space. The mirror was called spatial cultivation chamber.

Artifacts were of various attributes like fire, water, etc. They could either be in the form of weapon, armour or any other form like the cultivation chamber of Ryan. On Grandura only two types artifacts were available i.e. mortal and immortal. Both the types are graded as low, mid and high. The spatial chamber was a low grade mortal artifact of the spatial attribute.

Ryan sat on the mattress and took out ten or so green stones from his pouch. This pouch was also not a normal cloth pouch but a low grade mortal artifact of the spatial attribute. It had a small space inside it, which could be used by warriors to keep their essential stuff into it.

The stones had a green aura around them. This green aura started to turn the air surrounding it toxic. These stones were high-grade poison elemental stones. The poison elemental energy contained within them was quite pure.

Martial artists require large quantities of elemental energy from elite realm onwards in order to cultivate. The quantity of elemental energy required was not readily available in their surroundings so they need to turn to things that contain them in large quantities. Elemental stones were one such source of elemental energy.

The elemental stones were also of various grades. They were graded on the basis of the purity and concentration of elemental energy contained within them. They were graded as low, mid and high. The low-grade elemental stones had the lowest concentration and purity of elemental energy within them while the high-grade elemental stones have the highest concentration and purity of elemental energy.

Ryan held a poison elemental stone in each of his hands and then started to absorb the poison elemental energy from each one of them until the elemental stones were completely drained. The moment the elemental stones were drained of elemental energy they would turn into dust. All the elemental energy drained by Ryan was sent to his green side of his soul world. Ryan continued draining poison elemental stones until the green side of his soul world couldn’t contain any more.

Once his green side of his soul world was filled with poison elemental energy, Ryan closed his eyes and began cultivating poison elemental laws. Dargar followed his suit. The poison elemental energy in Ryan’s green side of soul world would be absorbed by his poison attribute soul core. The poison attribute soul core would then convert the poison elemental energy into poison attribute spirit power. When the elemental energy gets converted into spirit power a martial artist was able to connect with the universe and was able to gain insights into elementals laws. In Ryan’s case, he was trying to gain insights into poison elemental laws. The speed at which one gained insights in elemental laws directly depended on one’s talent and the martial spirit. Ryan was quite talented in cultivating poison elemental laws and Dargar being an emerald viper was even more talented than Ryan.

When the martial artist was in the elite realm his soul core would contain spirit power in the gaseous state. Once a martial artist was able to completely fill his soul core with liquid spirit power by converting his gaseous spirit power then his soul core would attain a breakthrough and advance to Mortal lord realm. Currently, Ryan’s poison attribute soul core had a cultivation level of early mortal elite realm and in order for his soul core to breakthrough to mid mortal elite realm, he would have to fill one-third of his soul core with liquid spirit power.

The liquid spirit power was completely different from gaseous spirit power both in terms of quality and explosive power it provided to the martial artist. Liquid spirit power was many times denser and purer than gaseous spirit power which makes it last longer than the same quantity of gaseous spirit power i.e. a martial artist is able to fight for long durations when using liquid spirit power. The power displayed by both innate abilities and martial skills increases many folds.

A martial artist can form liquid spirit power by compressing the gaseous spirit power inside his soul core. Compressing of spirit power was done by filling the soul core with an excess amount of the spirit power. By doing so, the gaseous spirit power inside the soul core would be under massive pressure and slowly start liquefying into liquid spirit power. If the insight and understanding of martial artist into elemental laws was at the threshold requirement to attain a breakthrough into the next realm then the gaseous spirit power would easily convert into liquid spirit power. If the insights and understanding of a martial artist in elemental laws is lacking then he would have a tough time converting the gaseous spirit power into liquid spirit power.

Ryan was still an early mortal elite realm martial artist and yet to liquefy his spirit power. The poison elemental energy was slowly converted into poison attribute spirit power by Ryan’s poison attribute soul core. Both Ryan and Dargar connected with the universe and started gaining insights in poison elemental laws as they cultivated.

It didn’t take long for Ryan to completely replenish the gaseous poison spirit power which he had consumed while fighting the Elemental beasts today. After that, he tried to fill his poison attribute soul core with an excess amount of gaseous spirit power. He kept on filling poison attribute soul core with gaseous spirit power but no matter how much gaseous spirit power he pumped in, the gaseous spirit power just refused to liquefy. He continued this for some time before finally giving up on it. He knew the reason for him being unable to liquefy his gaseous spirit power was due to him lacking in understanding and insight of poison elemental laws. This fact didn’t demoralize him, on the contrary, it encouraged him to work hard. He kept on cultivating poison elemental laws for the next few hours. He wished to advance his poison attribute soul core to mid mortal elite realm as soon as possible.

He gave up on liquefying his gaseous poison attribute spirit power and started cultivating poison laws. He cultivated poison elemental laws for next few hours before finally opening his eyes. He felt refreshed. Even though he was still a little far from a breakthrough to next sub ream but his insights and understanding of poison laws had increased by a little bit. He was certain that he would be able to advance his soul core to mid mortal elite realm after a few days.

“Ryan I have already converted the soul of that elemental beast into death elemental energy,” Yama said. He wanted Ryan to cultivate death laws seriously. A martial spirit was unable to gain a lot of insights in elemental laws if it cultivates all alone but if the martial artist cultivates along with it then it might even surpass the martial artist in terms of insights gained in elementals laws during that cultivation session. Yama wanted to gain maximum profit so he didn't cultivate death elemental laws on his own. He wished to cultivate along with Ryan.

“Ok. Let’s cultivate death laws. Dargar you can continue cultivating poison elemental laws on your own for the time being.” Ryan said as he got ready to cultivate death laws. This will be his first time trying to gain insight into death laws. Earlier, he was unable to cultivate death laws as he lacked death elemental energy.

Inside the black side of his soul world, Yama opened its mouth and large quantities of death elemental energy flowed out it. It collected around the death attribute soul core. Ryan was happy seeing that they had sufficient amount of death elemental energy for one session of cultivation. Ryan closed his eyes and began cultivating death elemental laws. Yama followed Ryan lead and he too started cultivating with a satisfied expression. The death attribute soul core started converting death elemental energy into death attribute spirit power at a rapid pace. The speed at which death elemental energy was converted into death attribute spirit power by his death attribute soul core astonished Ryan. It was many times faster than the conversion of poison elemental energy into poison attribute spirit power. Ryan didn’t know the reason behind it so he just ignored this fact and continued to concentrate on cultivating death elemental laws but he soon had an astonished expression.