“Since i now got some red autumn pills and also have several vile beasts nuclei, i can try to form more mitogenes and increase my cultivation further”

After getting the red autumn pills, he walked towards an inn. He was very familiar with it since he would always used to stay here whenever he came to this village. On entering, he saw an old man in his sixty’s, writing something on a manual. Fion can easily guess that he was analysing accounts for that day.

“Greetings, Grandpa SouthHemp” Fion greeted with a smile. Mr.SouthHemp was one of the few persons, that fion was very fond of and vice versa. He and his wife Mrs.SouthHemp had no child. Even though fion’s status was much higher than them, he had always treated everyone with respect. So, whenever he stays at the inn, he would converse a lot with the couple. As time passed, they gradually began to like fion more and more. After some period of time, both of them accepted Fion as their grand child and would pamper him with love.

“Greetings Young man, How can i help you ” asked SouthHemp a bit annoyed by fion’s addressing but when he saw the eyes of fion, he startled a bit. Fion’s eyes was filled with love as one would have, when seeing their closest person. SouthHemp got this strange and happy feeling which he can’t describe anymore. Another thing he can’t understand one bit is why he got this feeling when he saw this young man, whom he had never seen before. As for other matters like how fion knows his name, he didn’t bother much, since this inn was originally famous.So, when one investigate a bit, they can know all the basic details.

When one have extreme love towards someone, the connection between them will be established on the soul level. So, even if that person changes their appearance, their soul can somewhat realise each other. This was what happening to SouthHemp.

But he was ignorant of this fact, so he brushed aside this feeling and stared at fion, awaiting his answer.

“Grandpa SouthHemp, i need a room to stay for a day. Also, please make it on the top floor.” he answered.

“As you wish, please wait a moment” SouthHemp was no longer annoyed, but the strange feeling still persisted. After checking the availability, he handed the key to one of the rooms in the top floor.

Grabbing the key, fion smiled gently and proceeded to the stairs, before finally reaching the room. He locked the door and fell down on the bed. His eyes had a tinge of red colour as few droplets could be seen.

After fion got crippled, he had been through a lot. After losing his mom, he would always be alone. He would get battered regularly and he even got only two meals a day. He was tortured both mentally and physically. But he calmly endured all the pain as he focused on his training. He was only 16 years old and desperately need an emotional support. Now, when he saw grandpa SouthHemp, his emotions once again stirred and he broke down.

His old emotions began to resurface as memories of his mother flooded him. Teas fell down uncontrollably from his eyes and drenched a small part of the bed. All his emotions pointed to Yu Clan and lainshu and instantly he felt his blood boiled in uncontrollable rage. The whole atmosphere inside the room was grim with Fion controlling all of his Yuan Qi at the same time. Even cracks began to form on the walls and on the floor.

“Yu Clan, just you wait …arghhh ”He finally controlled his temper. His eyes were glowing with tenacity.

“I have to increase my power as fast as possible ” He took the 27 vile beasts nuclei which he got after killing many vile beasts during his journey and placed in a bowl. Then, he took an equal amount of red autumn pellets from the ring and crushed it. After grinding the pills, he sprinkled on the nuclei and finally added water.

The same process which happened in vinlev town repeated and after some minutes, he got a paste of nucleolus. Last time, he had only 6 vile beasts nuclei and 15 red autumn pellets. So he used 6 nuclei and 6 pills together and the resultant paste enabled him to form mitogenes to 3% of his cells. Now he hoped that this amount could get him to near the early phase of mitogene realm.

He took the paste in small amounts and smeared it all over his body. He repeated the process several times and huge amounts of mitogenes were produced by the bacteria. These mitogenes were continuously assimilated into his cells. Simultaneously, the mitogenes were filled with Yuan Qi as soon as it formed. After 5 minutes, the whole process completed and Fion’s cultivation increased by a huge leap. Around 19 % of his cells have mitogenes in them. Forming mitogene is not an achievement, Filling these mitogenes with the Yuan Qi is the real hurdle. Fion easily passed the latter with his Heavenly bacteria. Not only that, fion also discovered that he can activate 8 % of his total bacterial pool to absorb Qi without overburdening his body.

His whole body was brimming with energy. He casually flicked his arm and a small shockwave swept the room, damaging most of it’s properties. He stood there like a statue for a minute before coming to reality. The power he displayed was so overwhelming, he first thought that he was dreaming. He controlled his excitement as he jumped in joy like a child in the room.Finally, Fion relieved on the fact that there are only vacant rooms on both sides of the room where he was staying. Otherwise, it would have caused a huge commotion.

After this advancement, Fion felt an unprecedented amount of power swirling through his body. He was basically itching to try out his new powers, but maintained his excitement as he feared that it will completely damage the inn. Afterwards, he came down to took his meal. The meal in this inn would always be prepared by Ms. greenwood who was also the wife of SouthHemp. He voraciously devoured the meal like one would eat when went hungry for a week.

During the meal, he heard someone talking about bloom campaign and such. Their eyes were filled with admiration and envy when they spoke about that.

“Hmmm ! this is interesting , Bloom campaign is it … but i need more details.Let’s ask grandpa about this” After fion hurriedly finishing off the meal, he looked out for grandpa SouthHemp.

After searching a bit, he found him watering plants in the lawn behind the inn.

“Hello grandpa” Fion greeted with the same gentle smile as always.But this time, SouthHemp didn’t get annoyed nor feeling strangely.

“Hello Young man, can i ask what your name is ” SouthHemp questioned

“I am Fion Yuusha” Fion replied gleefully. SouthHemp stumped a bit after hearing his name. He can see that this youngster had the same name of Fion except his family clan’s surname. All sorts of questions arose in his mind.

“Grandpa, can you tell me about Bloom campaign” Fion’s question brought SouthHemp to came to his senses.

“Eh ! you don’t even know about the Bloom campaign” SouthHemp surprised, widening his eyes. Then he continued his explanation

“I believe, you already know that all beasts were mutated. More over, i heard that some humans were also mutated and transformed into blood thirsty demons” Fion bewildered since human mutation was news to him. SouthHemp further added

“The whole of minrah kingdom was at risk because of the sudden change. So the king decided to gather all the geniuses of the country in one place and decided to train them with their resources. I heard that the second young master of Yu clan was also being selected for the campaign” He said with a gloom. He also knows what happened to fion and will always be depressed when he talk about matters regarding him. Fion saw the pain in Grandpa SouthHemp and he moved forward to hug him.

SouthHemp startled for a bit before finally calming down and hugged fion in return. After a second which felt like an eternity to both of them, fion broke the hug. Grandpa SouthHemp patted on fion’s head as he smiled gleefully. He felt like he was really patting fion. He still doesn’t know why he’s affectionate to a teen he met only today. Afterwards, they talked about various things and fion got an overall idea of what’s going on in the world.

Fion returned to his room and laid on the bed. His mind was blissful after being conversed with Grandpa SouthHemp for so long. Then he thought about the Bloom campaign. It was wise of the king to arrange a campaign such as this. By doing this, all of the experts will be in one place at the imperial capital, thus improving the strength. Also these geniuses will owe the kingdom a huge debt because of the training, thus further increasing the loyalty. He thought that unknowing to him, who knows how many hidden agenda, this campaign has.

For these geniuses, Cultivating in the imperial capital will be their greatest gain. After all, a kingdom’s cultivation resources cannot be compared with a clan. He also thought of various matters as sleep overcame him.

The next morning, after refreshing himself, fion came down for breakfast. There he saw an old lady, with just a sizing look, one could tell that she was around fifty years old. However, she still appeared graceful and elegant. It was Grandma greenwood who’s preparing food for the inn. He sat on a table as he stared at Grandma greenwood for a while. Suddenly, he heard a voice

“You brat, Are you hitting on my wife” the voice contained a trace of humour. Fion turned around and saw grandpa SouthHemp.

“Good morning grandpa” Fion didn’t mind what he said and greeted normally showing his crystal clear tooth. He know that one of grandpa’s trait was always to joke around.

“Good morning brat, did you slept well ?” Grand pa asked to which fion playfully nodded in return.

Grandma greenwood came with the dishes and placed on the table where fion and her husband sat down. She overheard all the conversation and surprised at the amount of intimacy her husband showed to the young man

She looked at fion for a while, then had the same strange yet familiar feeling like her husband experienced when he first saw fion

“Dear, who is this child ?” Greenwood questioned.

After that, SouthHemp explained his meeting with fion and all other things to his wife. They were shocked to find that both of them got the same familiar feeling when they saw fion.

Fion silently gobbled the food while hearing their conversation. After the breakfast, he felt it was time for him to went to amber mountains.

“Grandpa SouthHemp, ma greenwood, please take care of yourselves. i will definitely return when i finished my work” he waived his hand and a small holding bag fell down on the near by table. It was filled with spark stones. Then, he said his good byes and finally left the inn.

When Green wood heard fion called her as ‘ma Green wood’ , she instantly broke down in tears. Grandpa SouthHemp was also stunned a bit since only fion would call his wife as ‘Ma Greenwood’. Then he thought of yesterday when fion suddenly hugged him.

“wait,how did he know that i was depressed considering that he doesn’t know my relationship with him” now only, this matter strikes him as he was too depressed to thought about it the previous day. After some seconds, both husband and wife looked at each other in a meaningful way. Then, they both rushed to see fion, who had already exited the inn. They came out and found that fion was no where to be seen. They searched around the inn and even asked a few people only to know that fion simply disappeared.

Dejectedly, they went into the inn. Grandma greenwood was crying the entire time as she went back. Fion watched all this, standing in the rooftop of a nearby building.

“ma greenwood,Grandpa i am glad that you both finally figured it out.As you can see, your grandchild was doing well. I am sorry for not telling you in person. After i became powerful enough, i will bring you both to live with me.” Fion declared in his mind.

Fion was taking each steps with utmost caution. So he definitely won’t allow any anomaly to occur.

He started walking towards the exit of the village. Since, checking will be only for persons who are entering, he easily walked out of the village and headed towards the amber mountains.

After travelling a considerable distance through the forest, he stopped in a place midway.

“Come on out, i know you are following me the whole time” Fion said as he stared at a tree to his right side. Then a person came out from behind the tree , and saw fion. His face shows a slightly shocked expression reason being that fion found him so easily.

Fion carefully sized him up. Then he recalled the image of an old man who stared at him in the Alchemist shop. He can tell at a glance that both were the same person.

“Why are you following me” Fion asked, his voice echoed throughout the small region around him.

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