“I can’t do it anymore!” in a desperate situation where both his foundation pillar, foundation altar and even his own body in an emergency that Ye Qingcheng could finally understand the very reason that the world was a large place.

He could not hold on for much longer due to the fatigue that accumulated since the first time of the process.

“Just hold on!” no matter what happened, he must not succumb to his own fatigue so Alice warned him with a large shout.

“But how!? I don’t even know if I am really capable of overcoming this obstacle, much less obtaining its power. I should not have lived nor should have become the current me.” There was something that called purpose in life and coincidentally, that was what Ye Qingcheng currently looking for.

“You...” seeing this made Alice turned silent. She had never expected things would go haywire while under the critical situation.

But she also knew that to change the situation, an action had to be made otherwise all of her efforts would go down the drain. Alice remembered something that caused her to arrived in the same situation.

“Do you know about that legend right!? The one who becomes the first cultivator!” Alice wanted to remind the great tale of the first cultivator to ever exist in the world.

-

“How should I cultivate?” that was the first question and the most crucial as well for Manstein. But the problem lies with the perspective of the said person. Every people had their own point of view, their opinion, as well as their experience, merged together, resulting in different answers.

“Brother, do you still remember the legend of that person right?” walking besides him was Ye Yingyuan. Even though his body now already restored but it was not to the full extent and he himself needed to fix it completely. That was something only Manstein kept to himself, no one should know this!

And of course, Manstein now was higher than Ye Yingyuan but that did not mean the relationship between them reduced, instead, it grew even more.

“Yes, about the first cultivator. There was a being that others only know as Xian Ni, unknown race and unknown origin. But the tales were still famous even now. At first, the entire world did not even have qi in the first place.” Manstein narrated it with both his mind and feelings combined.

He had read the tales until he became somewhat entranced by its reference.

“Oh, that one tales. The only one place that has large density of qi was at the place high above our heads. And the hobby of Xian Ni itself was to stare at the sky, seeing directly to that place.” Wu Qing replied.

“Of course everyone knows it. Xian Ni’s only wish was to tear that sky above and see what it contains to create such beautiful scenery. It was said that the sky was decorated with sparkling stars, a line of dust that formed the special marks on the sky. That was one of the reasons why Xian Ni tore the sky apart!” Li Ling also added.

“But the problem appears as Xian Ni was unable to do that! What kind of miracle if someone or something split the sky or even better, shatter it? Only someone with power.” Ye Xiaobai finally said after seeing every single one of them narrated the story.

“But that day came. The sky literally split apart. From the hole, the energy poured down to the world and that was happening when Xian Ni looked at the sky. That day became the day of transformation, changing the carp into a dragon!”

Manstein felt that this was only explained the origin of the abundant energy in the world.

‘To refine the qi to your body itself. That is the matter for me and my spiritual roots. Actually, I wanted to use that but the item originally is not mine to begin with.’ Thought Manstein.

Actually, the soul seed that he received was more than enough to enhance his spiritual roots. But Manstein did not do that because of his own accord.

“Make sure you all have ten reserved low-level restoration pills in your possession. I don’t want any of you to get anything dangerous from this. This is not a joke, you all hear me?” only when the situation turned worse that Wu Qing started to take note of everything around her.

“Yes!” as for the others, they had to agree. No, they must agree for it was a form of respect.

“I mean, check them now!” because the target of her speech was still in a carefree manner that Wu Qing took a serious look at them all while Manstein had counted his own pills.

“..six, seven, eight, nine and ten. All clear!” Manstein smiled with a smug. This made the rest of them looked at him with contempt and angry stares.

“Why don’t Brother tell us to check our pills before?” asked Ye Yingyuan.

“How can I relax!?” Ye Xiaobai was much quicker, he instantly counted the pills that in his possession after that and the sudden reminder made him realized that he dozed off for an instant. This made him really embarrassed due to the fact that he already sharpened his sense and cautious.

“Sorry.”

-

“Good story but what does it have to do with me?” Ye Qingcheng was at his limit. His entire energy now was cleaned out from his body, his foundation pillar and foundation altar.

“Good boy!” Alice instantly praised him. She initially thought that since he could not hold on for much longer, she had to tell him a story to prolong the consciousness from fading.

‘After all, the weakening process needs more time but now...’ with how the things proceeded so far, Alice could do her utmost to execute her plan.

“The story’s just there to let you know the meaning of opportunity, patience as well as grasping the chance!” Alice’s reasoning was on the spot.

“Now is your chance. Don’t disappoint me and your progenitor, for it will decide your very fate as well as your future. Go!” as Alice said that, the golden light around her dispersed to the very body of the giant.

The giant that became weaker each second, even in its energy form now was no match for the golden energy and was slowly entrap the giant within.

The giant roared with hatred in its eyes. Ye Qingcheng then charged directly to the giant’s feet!

Seeing this, the giant stomped his feet to create a large earthquake. The grounds cracked, forming black lines like spider’s web with some even large enough to let a person fall into it.

But the giant’s eye did not see the target it was looking for! Too bad that the stomp had been perceived previously and it made Ye Qingcheng’s moved swiftly through it, climbing its leg!

He was running vertically, seeing the giant’s eyes with determination. The giant also noticed it and they exchanged a glance. A hand was raised before smashed to the part where Ye Qingcehng currently was.

After that, the only one left was between Ye Qingcheng and the giant itself. There was no one else even Alice had already returned outside.

“You better cooperate with me otherwise...” the force the giant’s hand had surpassed his expectation. Even Ye Qingcheng could feel the pain ran through his entire body. He also saw the large string that connected to the giant.

‘It tried to reconnect again. This is just like what Sister Alice said previously and now I shall end it here!’

Then a faint golden light enveloped the leg that Ye Qingcheng used to run. In this place, even he could not control himself to fly thus he ran and ran.

The situation became more tense as Ye Qingcheng finally reappeared behind the giant, allowing him to move without being noticed for the time being. How did he suddenly vanished and reappeared?

‘Though the movement is still lacking and slow, this is more than enough to deal with this giant.’ Due to the safety of his main body, Ye Qingcheng had no worries to expend his remaining energy. He moved the rest of his energy to his consciousness, slowly accumulating to this space.

And with the additional golden light which could enhance his power, there was no more restraint when Ye Qingcheng released that move.

He disappeared and instantly reappeared at the forehead of the giant. Before the giant responded, Ye Qingcheng released something from his palm. At the surface of his palm, a small miniature of symbol appeared.

He touched the forehead with the palm that had the symbol before it merged to the giant.

“The giant which ruled the world in the past, Paleo! You may have an indomitable will, you may also have pride that comes from your strength but know your place!” the sound the symbol produced now become effective.

“This sound...Sister Alice, you really give something to me right!” Ye Qingcheng could feel that this time, the giant’ large reservoir of power started to move from the giant to him, turning from something that previously dangerous for his body into his own energy.

“I can’t..” a faint sound of resistance finally came from Paleo. “...give what is mine to you...yet!”

‘What’s he mumbling about?' this made Ye Qingcheng somewhat puzzled.

“Actually, I’m someone with the highest position with even my race back then but now they all gone with the passage of time. And...look what I have done to someone that came from the race that I should have hated.”

The giant was like talking to himself, indulging in its own regret and sorrow moment. But this made Ye Qingcheng halted the merging process.

“For anyone that became my last destination, let it be known. Those who try to oppose him need to prepare both their power and their mind, for it will be effective when fighting against it! Ugh, it seems like...this is my end.”

Then a large clang sounded throughout the entire space, even the outside was not spare either. Ye Qingcheng could feel everything that the energy possess!

Slowly, the energy refined the bone marrows. Ye Qingcheng now started to return to his subconsciousness, feeling the changes with his own sense and feeling the pain from his spine. Not only that but it spread to his other body part.

“You should rest now.” When Alice instantly appeared once again, the first to receive her was Manstein. That was because she instantly appeared at his soul realm that Manstein knew that the process was almost complete.

“Get out of here! We have something else to do.” Theresa looked around and found Ye Qingcheng sitting with many cracking sounds from his body. But since the queen already ordered them to retreat even Jack was also obey it and soon they left the room.

“Form the defensive formation as well as the siege warfare! We are surrounded this time.” Theresa still remembered what Alice had said before that during the process, the other beasts that currently in deep slumber would awake from their sleep, realizing a large piece of meat waiting for them at her place.

“I can’t believe that a human, truly possess the power of Paleo! Her Highness, shall I do something about it?” the safety of the queen became the number one priority for all of the colonies especially to Jack.

“Nothing is impossible in this world. We will fight alongside with our guests. So I appoint you to stay with them while I will open the door so that the safety of this nest will depend on you and them.” Theresa said so before departing to the deepest part of her hive.

When Ye Xiaobai looked outside, he was stunned. He could have imagined himself fighting hundred of beasts but the dark skies and black dots slowly approaching them.

“At least, I don’t need to worry about Brother.” Besides him, Ye Yingyuan stood with his carefree face but his eyes narrowed in the same direction as Ye Xiaobai.

“But for me, Elder Brother has his own agenda and even if he comes here it will only hinder us. He knows about it as clear as the water in the mountains.” Replied Ye Xiaobai.

“As far as our eyes can see, only black dots appeared. Li Ling, do you remember that day?” seeing those scene made Ye Yingyuan remembered the scene from the past. But at that time, he could run and even call for help.

But this time, he must fight. Because his older brother was behind him and the chance to show his care now came by itself.

“Of course I still remember that day. If I were not so rash at that time...” Li Ling replied but with a sorrowful tone.

“It’s alright.” Even though Ye Yingyuan said that but Li Ling realized that when she looked into his eyes, a cold gleam appeared as if it could kill anywhere his gazes fell upon.

“Remember to not leave the hive. There will be some beasts that can climb to this place with their ability so don’t go out too far away. And while you all fight, I also have something to do at the moment and only contact me when the situation really turned worse for you.” Wu Qing now like an older sister that had to look for the well-being of them.

Then a silhouette appeared and a beeknight stood in front of them all. Not only that but there were hundreds of other knights behind. They stood without moving and only waiting there.

“Could you please add us to help you?”

The one who looked at him with surprise was Ye Xiaobai. It was the highest in command, the knight that always stood near the queen, Jack!

“What’s this? Is this the order of Her Majesty?” Ye Yingyuan asked. He also remembered that the queen also took a great notice of him and Li Ling. That was why when Ye Yingyuan spoke, this made the knight specifically look at the boy before him.