Taking advantage of the disarray occuring amongst the beast's ranks, Wei's caravan convoy escaped the danger of getting besieged by sticking very closely to the elve's eternal forest to the north.

The scattered remains of the beast-wave that got in their way were forcefully pushed back by the guardian escort, by the time the commanders of the beasts noticed the escaping humans taking advantage of the ongoing chaos among the beasts and tried to intercept them personally, they only caught up with the caravan after they escaped from the main force of the besieging beasts and were creating quite a safe distance by juicing the wind formations on the carriages to the maximum and feeding their mounts their own spirit energy to go faster as they escaped east to the beast's right flank that was a step behind with the left flank from the beasts in the middle which acted as the vanguard of this wave.

Most of their beast pursuers were agility oriented or avians from the devil beast realm or the ancestral beast realm, knowing that he can't let these beasts anywhere near the caravan convoy, Liao Lai was sure that any delay from these beasts to the convoy right now would only help the beast-wave another opportunity to besiege their caravan and cut off their way of escape for good.

Especially since there's other beasts coming from the south and south east, even when Lin looked further east he found that for more than a thousand kilometers there was still beasts coming their way from the south!.

The opportunity which Lin gave them to escape can't be allowed to go in vain, gathering seventy percent of the guardian escort's cultivators Lai retreated to the rear to stop these pursuing beasts from catching up.

He was ready to take a last stand against that fast detachment of beasts, while his young master Wei would take that opportunity to hurry east on the pearl road and hopefully he would reach the safe zone before mercenary city.

"Lin!" Wei looked at Lin who kept standing like a statue on the first carriage's roof, he was watching Lai, Wang, and cultivators from the mercenary guild and guards of other merchants fight the beasts who managed to catch-up because of the advantage of their wings or superior agility.

Spirit techniques and beast's skills flew left and right once these two lifelong enemies met on the battlefield, Lin ignored the call from Wei and keenly studied the strange way cultivators and spirit beasts fought in this world.

Beasts had an obvious superiority when it comes to physiques and strength over humans and certain naturalness and ease of using spirit energy, while humans had their energy armor and spirit tools to cover up their inferiority of weaker bodies, cultivation techniques and movement or fighting techniques to strengthen their attacks or speed up their motions, knowledge of the suppression of elements over one another and teamwork to counter stronger beasts with a few united cultivators much weaker individually.

"Uahhh... Eh!" One cultivator was screaming his final shout of unwillingness before receiving the attack from a purple bat, the sneaky bat was just about to split the cultivator's body in half with his lightning sword made from highly intinsified energy of lightning!, The man himself knew that his energy armor wouldn't be able to resist it and since he just used a technique just earlier then the momentarily delay of energy exhaustion would take at least half a second for energy to be transmitted from his dantian to his energy armor sufficiently to withstand that attack!.

Once he noticed that he's still alive, that man looked around and found a few others of his fellow cultivators who were just fighting at the rear guard of the convoy standing next to him on the roof of the first carriage!.

The few cultivators left to guard Wei and the few merchants at the vanguard were rubbing their eyes in disbelief, these guys saw with their eyes how dangerous the situation was looking since the beasts chasing them were at least in the devil beast realm or higher.

Every now and then one cultivator would appear next to Lin who kept looking ahead and they couldn't figure out how did he do it?, He was very fast for their senses!, The highest cultivation in the united caravan convoy was a spirit tyrant of the third stage.

The man was specifically chosen and hired by Wei from the mercenary branch in pearl city, a cultivator of the lightning affinity known for being a spear user with special movement technique that allows him to suppress tyrants in the fourth or fifth stage!.

He was costly and Wei cried bloody tears while paying fifty low grade spirit crystals to the mercenary branch, but it seems like these mercenaries knew that this journey would be dangerous and intentionally made the prices higher by fourty percent!.

But he was well deserving of his crystals, on his own he was stopping one tyranical beast in the shape of a green dove that was making it hard for him to move as fast as he should with it's suppressive vacuuming wind attacks, but mercenary Yang wasn't making it easy for the pursuers, he entangled five ancestral beasts in his attacks and stopped them from reaching the second line of guards and his fellow mercenaries.

Even that man was sighing inside because he couldn't intervene and stop these cultivators from dying!, But every single time Lin would cause these guys to escape without him even knowing how he did it.

Only Liao Lai sensed the times Lin used his soul force to grab these people, but the times he used his wings to move weren't even noticed by anyone of those seeing it actually happen.

Each and every one of these cultivators would be like a person who just returned from the gates of hell, standing there in strange poses gasping for air and sweating coldly as they stared at nothing for a while which made Gang snickered.

"What are you standing there like idiots for?, Thank young Ming for saving your sorry lives and go back to stop these beasts from surrounding your fellow cultivators back there. Be more attentive when you attack and don't leave your back open to get sneak attacked, work like a team this is no time for heroes." Zhang shouted at the daydreaming cultivators to hurry back because Lai and Wang were under a lot of pressure as the cultivators next to them dwindled less and less, these cultivators looked at this boy who not only opened a path of escape for them but also snatched them from the jaws of death earlier then gave Lin a deep bow before regulating their agitated spirit energy and this time they all returned in a team of twos or threes to join Lai, Wang and the others.

Their eyes lit up with fighting spirit as these cultivators jumped on these beasts with battle lust and fury, Gang was smiling mischievously as he licked his lips, that smile was filled with satisfaction after eating the most delicious meal in the world.

This time the beasts couldn't find much opportunities to take cultivators by surprise anymore, when they did, Lin would foil it by scooping the sorry cultivators back ahead in the safety of the convoy's vanguard, feeling ashamed by their second or third failure to protect themselves, these cultivators would scratch their heads sheepishly at the glare from their envious cultivators at the vanguard before excitedly diving back into the fray of the ongoing battle at the rear.

That was one hell of an opportunity for cultivators to increase their fighting capabilities by experiencing life and death situations, yes each time Lin only takes them to safety in the last moment but the feeling of death breathing down their necks was real.

The valuable chance to fight all out while knowing you'll be safe wasn't helpful like prevailing on a normal life and death situation without a dao protector, but the minior experience from having a dao protector ensuring your safety can add up to equal or be much more than that if done repeatedly, your flaws gets revealed gradually and your dao becomes firmer as you get to know your weaknesses.

Later you can correct these weaknesses and wipe out your bad habits, polish your fighting and movement techniques, learn better ways to use your spirit energy efficiently by limiting the wastage when using each technique.

"Merchant Wei please allow me to join them, this is unfair I want to fight too!."

"Yes, why should we keep watching doing nothing while they're breaking their backs to protect us?."

"En, Zhang wants to fight too."

"Crushing hammer mercenaries wants to fight too, old Yang is having so much fun playing with these beasts."

Wei was met with these complaints and looked at Lin, he found Lin shrugging his shoulders because saving these guys was actually helping himself understand more and more of his wing's new capabilities, plus the fact that this was what Wei asked from him in the first place, these guys are the ones making it hard for Wei not Lin.

He could save all these guys as long as they weren't scattered further than fifty kilometers away from him, he was even more sure that he can fire three light beams from his right hand wing symbol.

"They wouldn't be able to keep expending their spirit energy before these beasts are either dead or spent out of spirit energy, those who wants to fight draw lots and decide the order. See, that man can't keep fighting because he's wounded. Hurry up and decide who goes instead of him." Lin said to the rowdy cultivators, and before they got to choose who replaces the wounded man, the wounded man brought out a green pill the size of walnut and swallowed it then ran back to join the fight as if he's not going to risk his life but to join looting a precious treasure and take his share.

"huh!, He took a wood vitality pill to help heal his wounds. This is cheating!, Grab him!."

"Lightning spear mercenaries are taking the majority of the spots defending the rear, most of my crushing hammer mercenaries are tasked with defending the vanguard and escorting you merchants to the city. At least let my people replace some of old Yang's, this is unfair if this keeps on going then the fighting capabilities of his mercenaries will be another grade higher than mine."

"Let me go you assholes!, I can still fight."

"Sister Xue, I won!. I'm the first replacement."

"Tsk, what dumb luck was that?."

"Hehe, little Tong is our crushing hammer mercenary's lucky charm, I never seen a person with better luck in my life."

"I can still fight, I just took a wood vitality pill to make sure of that."

"Shut up, you had your chance, now step to the side and quickly heal your wounds and be ready to act once you're ordered." Finally Wei snapped at these cultivators especially the mercenaries who treated this valuable chance for gaining fighting experience as a competition, he had to remind these morons that they haven't escaped the danger yet.

However, Tang Wei was enjoying watching old Yang fight, not only was he protecting Wei, old Yang was a cultivator with similar affinity like Wei and his weapon was exactly like Wei's martial-spirit.

For Wei, cultivation of spirit energy was mostly just like walking a park, sometimes he would breakthrough just by being under a thunderstorm, passing next to a treasure or an area with intense lightning energy.

Even if the fatty didn't care to tire himself to reach the next realm or sub-realm, he still cares about the additional lifespan in each major realm and would try to surround himself with possible opportunities.

Handing out numbers to those who drew lots, Tang Wei finally released the most anxious and possibly most troublesome person if left hanging, Wang Zhang.

Grinning like a kid with a heap of cotton candy, Zhang juiced his helmet and shoulder pauldrons with spirit energy and activated his earth armor then dashed with his minotaur covering his back to the area with the ground beasts, Zhang knew that most of them would be faster than him and he didn't seek to chase anyone, he would wait for them to attack recklessly or cautiously it doesn't matter for him.

As long as he's getting a fight, Zhang is satisfied even if he lost, since Lin is there to catch him before he stumbles then Zhang can go all out if needed.

Wang was glad that his best friend joined and he intentionally edged towards him with the few devil beasts he drove insane with his finer control of the ice element chasing him with bloodshot eyes, the past three months were the easiest experience Wang had with ice element usage.

After Lin's advice, Wang realized why his martial-spirit wasn't as helpful to him as the other's martial-spirits, his dislike for his ice leopard spirit and ice affinity had some how caused a mirroring from the ice element and ice leopard to dislike him!.

He noticed it when Lin's tiger changed it's attitude towards him, before he learned his mistake Sun didn't seem to like him, but after the first day of realizing his wrong and started to correct his error, Wang found that Sun would cling to him when he was on the ship and afterwards when he went to visit Lin on his carriage, always wanting to play with his ice leopard.

But the one who really changed completely character-wise was Lai, now like a blade, a true blade forged and hammered, quenched and sharpened to the limit.

Each of Lai's strikes are not only fast and deadly, the blade intent accompanying each move was causing any ancestral beast in the vicinity to avoid Lai's slashes and chops like death, the last beast that tried to resist one of his attacks was cut in half!.

Only the tyrannical beast, the green dove was able to resist Lai's attack, but it looks like it was angry since this weak human tried to sneak attack it, making a sweet sound, a few dozen ancestral beasts focused on attacking Lai and he was suppressed harshly by the suppressive barrage of long range attacks.

Old Yang took chance of this momentary distraction from the green dove and after twirling his wooden spear shaft behind his back extremely fast, he changed his hold of the spear to his dominant left hand.

Extremely large and intense amount of lightning energy entered the brown, wooden spear shaft throught Yang's left hand, purple inscriptions lit upwardly towards the silver spear tip before forming a complete miniature purple formation.

"Vzzzt.... Crackle...." Once that small purple formation on the spear tip lit up, one thigh thick purple lightning bolt flew towards the distracted green dove at insane speed.

That dove managed to make that lightning bolt miss it's body by using it's vacuuming wind, however, after that single exchange the strongest two in each side were visibly exhausted from spirit energy momentarily.

Only the beasts behind the green dove were unfortunate to receive old Yang's attacking bolt, exploding in the midst of some ground beasts, that lightning energy scattered in a three hundred meters circle and some beasts with weaker bodies fell on their sides either mortally wounded or plainly dead, but the majority of the beasts were decommissioned from the next fight after suffering heavy injuries.

Cooing in anger, that green dove fiercely attacked mercenary Yang when it saw him kill and wound it's followers.

The fight went on as the caravan kept moving east to escape the beasts, while that green dove would call for reinforcement from the other legions of the beast army.

Every cultivator who exhausted his spirit energy would sit hurriedly to replenish his empty dantian, different types of pills were swallowed in the process, some gritted their teeth and brought out low grade spirit crystals to help them recover faster so that others wouldn't take to the battlefield before them.

Those who suffered injuries would do the same with pills that would speed up recovery, orderly they would draw lots once fully recovered before waiting for their turn patiently.

For three days the chase kept going until none in the guards wasn't exhausted at least twice, gradually the cultivators found the situation becoming an endless cycle of getting attacked by beasts which wouldn't decrease in numbers no matter how hard they tried.

Yes they were benefitting greatly from that safe battlefield, but these cultivators were previously mentally strained under the constant attacks from the beast-waves, now they found a safe way to pay them back and it was fun and relieving for the first day or two.

After the exhaustion caught up with their bodies, these cultivators found themselves wanting nothing else but to get away from this dangerous road so that they can rest properly and meditate on their fights to digest the benefits and strengthen their foundations.

Lai, Wang, Zhang and mercenary leaders Yang and Fu were among the few who took the least time to rest before returning back to block the strongest of the beasts, whenever they saw Lin able to keep on snatching them from the jaws of death they would gather their remaining strength and return to do their best in the battlefield.

He never looked at anyone with any kind of judging eyes, he would take them away from harm's way and keep his senses sharp to save the others while giving them space to recover.

Silently he stood like a mountain on the roof of the very first carriage, only Bo An was bestowed a few small chats when she woke up after Lin fingered her well above heaven, and later these days when she would come and join him because she's bored with being in the carriage on her own.

Even if she had Fang Bo and Sun to spice up her time without Lin, after crossing some lines with Lin, Bo An's head was filled with thoughts about the boy who she didn't know his background yet despite being deeply attached to him emotionally.

Seeing a boy hold on better than them was a cause of frustration and anger to these seniors with better cultivation.

'If he's still capable of holding on much longer then we can't give up before him.' that thought was supporting the cultivators who pushed their bodies up to return to stop the chasing beasts from surrounding their fellow cultivators guarding their rear.

"Screee....."

The guards were holding pretty well actually from Lin's honest opinion, until one bird appeared on his radar of soul sense heading their way.

Just it's screeching sound caused the group of cultivators to pale in the face before Lin covered them with a coat of his soul force!.

Bo An appeared from the carriage and hurried to join Lin, standing one step protectively ahead of him while looking south and up at the sky, Bo An clinched her fist firmly and her little puppy Fang Bo changed to his original form as a grey wolf two meters high and three and half meters long.

"That's a beast lord, tell them to withdraw or they'll die before they know it." Bo An gave Wei her opinion while making sure Lin's hand was firmly gripped tightly inside hers, she gave her prince charming a calming smile as if to ease his worry for his friends.

While Wei didn't contradict Bo An and called his men and subordinates back when he noticed how the beasts stopped attacking and retreated one kilometer back to safety, they only followed their caravan's tail with menacing eyes full of excitement, the green dove that was exhausted almost to fainting and perching on the head of some beast with antlers to rest since an hour ago, flew up to greet her lord and the commander of this beast army under the commands of their "sky queen" with apprehension inside her small chest.

Stopping ten meter below the four winged large creature that looks like a mixture between a hawk and an eagle, the green dove opened it's wings and prostrated itself while saying : "Little leaf blower greets commander Lantian, these humans killed their way through the blockade you ordered to be made fifty thousand kilometers back west. We did our best to delay them until the commander arrives, but our casualties are very high and them none because of that boy with wings over there in the roof of the first carriage, I... I don't know how he is able to move outside my senses and save his men under my vacuum zone!." The small green dove with the strange name of "leaf blower" spoke then pointed at Lin with her wing, that large cyan bird which looks to be a mix between a hawk and eagle, commander Lantian looked towards Lin standing in the shadow of Bo An who wore a cute grey dress that matched her pet's fur and revealed her petit shoulders but stared back at her fearlessly.

Little leaf blower is one of Lantian's favorite followers, the small bird was smart and strong with a good usage of wind element, it was in the top five on the speed rank amongst her followers.

Since that boy can give her that trouble then he's faster than leaf blower by quite a bit, otherwise he wouldn't be able to avoid her senses and the vacuuming wind effect.

Looking downward and being met with the cluster of gazes from the mercenaries and guards of the caravan, Lantian strutted towards Lin and Bo An while unleashing her spirit pressure to the limit arrogantly.

"Ong...." The spirit barrier was activated right after Lantian flaunted her superior attainments in the spirit aspect, however, the cultivators sneered as they gave Lantian's large body their full attention.

Nobody liked it when the strong suppresses the weak, be that beast, human, or any species that exists.

That cyan four winged bird, was in fact at least a whole realm higher than old Yang, yet, she didn't feel embarrassed by bullying juniors.

"Under the direct orders from her majesty sky queen, pearl road is closed to any humans. Better surrender and follow me quietly, otherwise her majesty's orders will be enforced on you whether you like it or not." Lantian stopped a few meters above the barrier and spoke her high handed commands, the speed of the caravan convoy didn't seem to trouble her at all, keeping up with them was only requiring her to flutter her large cyan wings every once in a while.

Almost every cultivator except for Lin and Bo An had their faces darkening when they heard the arrogant words coming from Lantian's cyan beak, their eyes would lower when they met her cyan pupil's gaze since they already know that this formidable bird can forcefully break the energy barrier they covered their caravan with.

Their trust in Lin's abilities to save them if this formidable bird decided to attack was in question, will he be able to keep this bird's talons or spirit attacks away from them?.

After all, Lin was still a spirit apprentice in the first stage to their senses!, The fact that he protected their lives for three days now was already considered a miraculous thing for a junior.

In the eyes and minds of these despairing cultivators, Lin already did more than enough for their sake's.

If surrendering was his choice then these cultivators wouldn't blame him for it or brand him as a coward, faced with an ancestral beast in their junior years of being a first stage spirit apprentice brats, these cultivators would sniffle and cry with snotty-faces for mercy.

Not to mention a tyrannical beast or when facing a beast lord like this cyan bird, Lin was calm when facing it with a very tranquil face unaffected by the ongoing situation!.

Even if their choices were to fight these abominable beasts alone and die with a weapon in their arms and dignity flooding their chests, these few would still not blame Lin for choosing to surrender or ditch them and flee on his own!.

Mercenary Yang and Fu were amongst the few people who noticed that on Lin and wasn't panicking like other cultivators much older and with higher attainments in spirit energy cultivation, these two felt it vaguely when Lin used his soul force to pull them out from danger.

If they were in his shoes they would surrender and live another day to get even with those who bullied him, especially if he's capable of becoming a powerhouse in the future with that set of scary potential.

As for fleeing?, These two had doubts if Lin can outrun this bird specialized on wind cultivation, after all, the word "lord" be that in beast's or human's ranks isn't for show, it has a certain ring of might to it that is unquestionably fearful.

Both of them would've recruited the boy to their mercenary groups hadn't Wei and Lai and the other two warned them not to even think about it, then they completely eliminated the notion when they saw Chentian Ao's granddaughter personally take care of the boy and come join him often.

First they were believing that he's just an orphan and this little ancestor from the Chentian clan "kindly" taking care of the friend whom she happened to meet in the beast renting station, however, these two mercenary captains know about some insider information about what happened in the station and the strange visit her grandfather gave this boy with inspector Huang outside pearl city, then his "strange" state of unconsciousness that took more than three months.

Some mystery covered this boy, and that attracted the curiosity of these two mercenary leaders, but, they kept their ideas to themselves and never spoke them to anyone else other than themselves.

However, these old friends saw it in each other's eyes and would smile ruefully and shake their heads when Lin saved them, only giving each other a knowing look filled with longing for snatching that boy from these merchants.

"The treaty between the beast emperors and the cultivation alliance is that traders gets a safe passage between eternal forest and the beast mountains, even her majesty sky queen knows these terms, we refuse to surrender since we didn't intrude into the territories of the beast mountains. If you're going to use force then I won't hesitate to do the same, senior should be reasonable." Bo An spoke fearlessly, her gaze meeting with Lantian's own and smiled when she saw the bird gawk slightly at her answer.

The gaze that Lantian gave her green dove follower and the nod from the smaller bird confirmed that this little girl's words are in fact true, Bo An knew her way with animals since her clan is famous for taming them.

That beast lord, this cyan bird wasn't your normal avian with high attainments in the beast path, it's true name is "twelve winged terror" and the reason it's called that way because it's a hybrid species.

For this beast variant to appear the requirements are, for a "wind eagle" and a "hurricane winged hawk" to mate, since both beasts are known to be pure wind affiliation birds, their offspring is admitted to be a nightmare on the later realms.

Why?, Simply because they inherit the better advantages of each parent and with every realm increase these advantages starts to reveal themselves, the hurricane winged hawk is born with six pairs of wings and live and die with the same number of wings, while the wind eagle only has one normal pair of wings.

The twelve winged terror beast is born like their hurricane winged hawk ancestors, but, the count of their wings doesn't stay the same forever as well.

During their days of being a ferocious beast or a demonic beast, the twelve winged terror is still stuck with the same number of wings at their back which is twelve.

However, once they breakthrough into the devil beast realm they sacrifice a pair of their wings for higher attainments and control of the wind element!.

Then with each major realm increase they lose a pair of wings again and again until they reach the beast king realm and return to the wind eagle bloodline to fuse both of it's bloodlines!, Once they do that they can face their lightning tribulation and become a "primordial beast" just like that sky queen Lantian mentioned.

In that realm, a beast can choose to continue with their beast path or to be reborn as a human who can learn to cultivate spirit, soul, Qi, intent or the path of buddihism if they wanted.

Their only advantage over humans would be their ability to return back to their original beast form to fight if they wanted, their sharp senses for danger and different forms of energies which helped them greatly reach the primordial realm in the first place, regularly their advancements in spirit energy cultivation as a re-born humans see insane advancements and stop at the emperor realm, now they get to use spirit techniques, movement techniques, spirit tools, talismans, formations.

The advantage human cultivators has over them (beasts) gets eliminated and the odds even, especially if you consider the often occasions of special physiques being found in these "human path" primordial beasts.

One of those (human path primordial beasts) was fortunate enough to attain the creation element just after withstanding his lightning tribulation, the other example attained the destruction element right after changing her beast form to human form for the first time!.

Physiques, the special ones amongst the countless types and kinds of physiques, are the best luck you could ever hope for if you lived in the spirit world.

Or they would be reborn again as beasts after transcending their lightning tribulation as devoted beasts of the "beast path" or dao of beasts, their bodies gets reborn with the aid from chaotic lightning strand mixed inside the lightning tribulation, their superior grade bodies become a few levels stronger and energy compatible, since these beasts already dug out their bloodline potential to the max, they try to evolve their bloodlines by seeking fortuitous encounters and natural treasures of fine quality.

Of course those beasts in the primordial beast realm often gets compared to cultivators in the emperor realm, however, the comparison isn't always correct since there's strong and weak in the emperor realm just like any other realm of cultivation in any aspect.

For example Wei if he reached the emperor realm with that shaky foundation, then this Lantian can beat him into a sorry state despite being two realms below him!.

The cultivators gave Bo An a look filled with hope since she's courageous enough to threaten someone two realms above her own!, Being born in a big, strong, wealthy, influential clan must be good to be capable of doing what she said.

Her grandfather must've left a trump card or two with Bo An and that must be the reason she's not afraid from this four winged cyan bird in the beast lord realm, while these cultivators wondered what is it that makes this little girl from the Chentian clan so fearless, Bo An was sure this "terror lord" was like the majority of her avians.

Dumb, simpleminded, loyal, short-circuited memory.

Like most of the bug species, these avains are hardworking if tamed correctly.

But, sky queen doesn't need to tame beasts!, Especially avians, from what Bo An heard from her grandpa's Ao once, sky queen "Hongtian" is adored by any species of birds.

That's where the name "sky queen" comes from.

It was said that any bird would willingly lower himself to her if she took to the sky, even those in the same primordial beast realm like her!.

That sky queen Hongtian once fought with a low stage sovereign who lusted after her beauty and tried to kidnap her from her nest, the various tales all agreed that Hongtian not only managed to force him into retreat but also she gave him a wound that crippled him from the sovereign realm into the peak spirit king realm!.

Seeing Lantian squeeze her head to remember the exact words her queen Hongtian ordered, Lantian can only remember "go away Lantian I'm not in the mood, take the armies and get rid of these annoying humans in the north or something." For Lantian that must've meant to stop the humans from coming near her majesty's territories, right!.

While Bo An was sure this idiotic bird doesn't seem to know how this world works, the green dove was sighing inside because she tried to warn her commander Lantian about cutting the path of trade on pearl road for long to no avail.

"You're the commander of this beast-wave?." Bo An asked the cyan bird called Lantian and received a squinting hawk gaze from her cyan pupil's.

Lantian felt dangerous confidence from this little girl, she already saw examples of highborn humans with formidable backgrounds, she admits being stupid compared to her majesty's glamorous self, but Lantian had keen eyes and senses for danger especially towards these devious humans.

From this little girl, Lantian felt foreboding danger lurking, similar to her majesty's younger version before withstanding her lightning tribulation!.

That time in her hatchling years, Lantian witnessed it with it's special eyes while her parents fought humans to protect her inside the nest, her mother slain after her wing is crippled, her father detonating his beast core to protect his special chick and sacrificing his life to grievously wound or kill the bullies ganging up on her family.

Then her majesty descends from the sky accompanied by columns of fire, wings gently covering young Lantian from the heat inside the nest while the bullies gets burned to cinders outside!.

Long, perfectly red feathers, making fire blush in shame in their presence!.

"May I know who I am talking to?, Senior should know that I'm Chentian Bo An from the Chentian clan, my grandfather is friends with your sky queen Hongtian and at least three other kings of your ten "kingly beasts" should you insist on bullying us, heh, then this junior will be forced to offend you then report back to the clan how your behavior was improperly unacceptable." Waking up from her daydreams at Bo An's words, Lantian had already forgotten about Lin ever since Bo An spoke in the first time, but, this time as Bo An resumed speaking after receiving silence from Lantian to her question, she did a simple mistake, a mistake she'll never realize until somewhere in the near future.

Bo An was holding Lin's right hand in her own, doing that, she was about to succeed in making Lantian go back with her army because from what the green dove hinted her commander, they were in trouble because they overdid it this time!.

Leaf blower knew the true intentions of her sky queen, mercenaries would regularly enter the territories of the beast mountains through the pearl road or through the territories of the Dou empire, plus the bandit groups which plagued their borders as they attacked humans and beasts alike and loves to fish in murky waters!.

Hongtian meant to push away these humans or outright kill them before they manage to escape to the pearl road or the territories of the Dou empire, Lantian would've pushed the beast armies into the eternal forest hadn't she knew that elves were allies!.

They were supposed to sweep the borders of beast mountains from east to west before returning to their territories and resume their lives, how come they were blocking the trade road and were getting the beast army prepared to collect tax from humans?, Commander Lantian was never suitable for command over ten legions of the beast armies!.

'She's just too.... careless about everything that doesn't have to do with her majesty sky queen, sigh!.' Little leaf blower would say that if someone asked about her honest opinion about her commander Lantian (as long as Lantian never gets to hear about leaf blower's opinion, ever!)

But, nothing always go as planned no matter how much you prepare for the worst, once Bo An let go of Lin's right hand, Lantian was shocked to see something unbelievable as she looked at the symbol on the back of Lin's right hand.

Lantian's hawk eyes opening wide, her cyan pupil's chaking inside her eye-sockets like two cyan glowing disks rattled in large basins filled with dark waters!, Her beak opening and closing in disbelief with words betraying her!.

"Y.... your wings, yes you little boy I'm talking to you, these wings on your hand how did you get them?." Lantian asked while completely ignoring Bo An's threats, her attitude changed from 'let's go little leaf blower, bullying juniors isn't fun' to 'fuck it, bring your worst, shitty humans' once she saw the symbol on Lin's hand.

Asking Lin, she saw him give a quick glance at his wings puzzled by her meaning, but the question wasn't about his martial-spirit but his wings symbol!.

"What do you want from him?, You better leave." Bo An was surprised by the action of Lantian and returned to stand protectively in front of Lin's body trying to shield him from Lantian's dangerous eyes, telling her to leave Bo An brought out a beast medallion containing one of her grandpa's companions.

She was ready to call a beast king to their aid if that bully tried to do anything to Lin, as for the symbol of wings on Lin's hand?, Bo An decided to add it to the list of Lin's secrets.

Surely Bo An wouldn't stop digging out every single one of them, The brat played with her virgin body and learned every single nook and cranny, it would only even the odds if she knew everything about Lin in return, right!.

Lantian confirmed her fears when Bo An brought out that medallion, she was sure that she can't forcefully do anything to that girl but the boy wasn't included in the protection halo coming from the beast inside the medallion, just a strand of killing intent pointed towards the girl gave Lantian a scare from the retaliating killing intent directed towards herself as a warning not to make a move against the girl, but a similar strand of killing intent directed towards Lin was ignored from the beast inside the medallion!.

Bo An's question and the existence of the beast medallion in her hand and the previous hidden exchange of killing intent with the beast inside it, made Lantian keep her silence.

"Are you sure you can cause these beasts to go back?." Before Lantian got to answer, Bo An heard Lin's question ringing in her head through the soul link technique.

"En, hundred percent sure if there's no beast king giving this terror bird orders or nearby, if there's then it is a fifty-fifty chance." Bo An gave Lin a proud smirk as she sent back, as if in such a precarious situation she was still demanding to be praised.

"Good then, let me handle things from here I need to know something from this four winged fellow anyway, and there's something else that I've been dying to test since I woke up. Don't hesitate to use your trump card when I tell you to, that will mean my test failed, my information gathering attempt failed, or both and my life is in possible danger. Alright?." Lin patted Bo An's shoulder and took two steps to stand ahead of her instead, he found the expression of shock on Bo An's face amusing and couldn't resist pinching her cheek.

An action which caused this young lady of the Chentian clan to blush slightly while returning Lin's action with a pinch of her own, their playful actions reminded everyone of these two's young age, even under the pressure of this dangerous situation they carelessly joked lightheartedly.

Smiling ruefully, every cultivator was reminded of the gap between them and what is called genius.

They watched as Lin walked a few more steps then looked up at Lantian with the same calm golden pupils.

"Looks like you're a smart kid, don't test my patience anymore than you already did and come with me to see her majesty, the rest can leave. You don't." Lantian's words caused Wei to be electrocuted, he anxiously was about to do something but Lin looked at him and gave him a look to not try and interfere, while the cyan bird released a hidden sigh inside when that killing intent coming from the medallion in Bo An's hand didn't target her again after she said these words.

Seeing that Bo An wasn't as anxious as him after Lin gave him that look, Wei stopped what he was about to do and shook his head to calm Lai who gripped the hilt of his blade and was ready to go all out against this shitty bird.

Just what the fuck is wrong with this brat?, He's just awake three days ago and another senior (Lantian) is poking them in the ass after the kid untangled his feet from the previous entanglement with inspector Huang!.

Yes, he managed to hide the secret of the water-pearl well, but now this bird wants to take Lin to one of the ten kingly beasts!.

That's someone freaking stronger than both of the previous seniors who poked their butts!, Is everyone after the destruction of the five clans?, Does everyone but the five clans know the background of Lin and his formidable grandpa Ming who entrusted the boy to them in the first place, what kind of sick joke would that be?.

His anger at himself for wasting years doing nothing but annoying his friends instead of focusing on his blade dao made Lai regret his older mentality before meeting Lin, had he met him ten years earlier then he would've been at least a realm higher.

With his blade intent emboldened by crystalized spirit energy Lai wouldn't fear a beast lord specialized in speed like Lantian, in worst case scenario he would be suppressed but the bird wouldn't be able to ignore his existence and directly ask for Lin to obediently follow!.

Only Zhang wasn't fazed by Lantian's threat at all, his trust in Lin's capabilities was boundless and limitless.

He merely smiled widely and impatiently was eager for Lin's next action, just the calm look Lin had as he stared at Lantian made Zhang even more sure that the boy has some plans of his own to outplay this strong bird.

Especially since the type of that beast was Zhang's bane, Lin's advices on how to deal with faster opponents were helpful but applying them during action was proving very hard, it's been three months and Zhang didn't master the new combat techniques!.

He's currently searching for the perfect way to integrate these techniques with his style to truly belong to himself.

Wang lost his worry when he saw Zhang's smile because Lin was taking matters to his own hands, he just had amazing trust in his best friend's judgement.

Wang started to nudge Zhang to check the wife of merchant Hao who stuck her head behind the curtains to watch the confrontation between cultivators and beasts, but his best friend disappointed him with a glare which made Wang sigh inside while thinking 'stubborn fool, aunty will scold me when she sees you return back to the clan as a "single" again for sure.' then Wang pouted his lips as he watched everything with low morale, the sound Zhang's mom nagging in his ears to help her son find a woman could almost be heard by the ice user as he thought of this troubling issue.

His back shivered in dread just when he imagined it, Wang really wished for a release from this nightmarish prolonged conversation that kept getting forced into his ears like a never ending broken record for almost ten years!.

"Just because you're telling me to come with you.... Doesn't mean that Ill do as you say, don't you think it is proper for kids to follow their family and refuse it when strangers tell them to go with them?." Lin spoke and his body vanished gradually from the eyes of everyone, only Lantian was vaguely able to trace the boy as he moved with her eyes.

"Just because you're fast, don't think you can escape from me." Before everyone got to raise their heads to search for Lin's whereabouts, they heard Lantian shout before fluttering her wings and chasing him upwards in a beam of cyan wind energy.

They were surprised to find out that the beasts were retreating south to the territories of the beasts after leaf blower cooed loudly, then leaf blower was joined by a couple dozen beasts in the tyrannical beast realm who stopped chasing the caravan convoy and kept watching the sky.

Wei didn't hesitate to stop the caravan as well and his eyes never left the sky's, just like everyone else their worry for their safety was joined by worry for this junior whom they owe their lives, some more than once, some more than a dozen times!.

Their eyes following the cyan comet tailing Lantian's movement in the vast sky, from time to time that comet would jump from place to place.

"That's enough for a warm up don't you think?, You're Lantian right!, I'm Ming, son of Tai the mighty and Tian the beauty. You asked me about this symbol of wings, let me ask you where did you see a similar symbol before?." Lin suddenly stopped a few hundred meters from Lantian after the chase went for a minute or so then crossed his arms on top of his chest as he turned to face his pursuer and looked at Lantian's eyes, then introduced himself to this fast fellow with four cyan wings using a soul link technique.

"Ill be the one to ask, you answer." Stopping in a hurry Lantian thought Lin had hit his limits of speed and was going to surrender peacefully, knowing his reasons for suddenly stopping made Lantian even more eager to teach him a lesson before catching him, then a similar situation happened as her body started to vanish just like how Lin's body did when he left the convoy.

His soul force wasn't only being used to penetrate the surrounding area, Gang was similarly using soul force to latch and connect any strand of spirit energy which didn't feel like any type of special wind energy, he felt like including these wind elements in his plans would only alert Lantian to what he's doing, countless walls of spirit energy surrounded Lin's body and acted as another source of security and sensory ability to the surrounding space.

In case that fast terror bird can go faster than him, Lin would use these strands of spirit energy to block Lantian from point blank and purposefully slow her down as he flee!.

Yes, there's a lot of tyrannical beasts close to the caravan convoy, but Lin wasn't worried if he left his friends.

He was sure Wei can protect the others if Bo An refused to help them and left them to fend the beasts on their own or find a way to escape, honestly he would be disappointed if that happened from Bo An, but after what happened with Mia, Lin wouldn't be surprised by any kinds of scenarios!.

Lin intentionally swapped places with Lantian at insane speed when she tried to catch him by surprise, then he gave her a smile and said : "Do you mean to say because you're faster, I have to answer?, Humph, you're slow as a turtle.... see!," Lin didn't stop for long in place and before Lantian got to move again to catch him with her large talons, he appeared behind the seven meters tall cyan bird instantaneously, then his dangling feet stood on her wide back and his shoes stepped on her beautiful cyan feathers for a moment while their eyes met with him looking down at her big cyan pupils.

'Careful.' just before he got to move away from Lantian's back, Lin heard the sound of Kai warning him as Lantian glared at him while opening her beak.

"Lashing wind."

"Elemental diamond."

"Energy chains."

"Whoosh... Clatter.... Crack...."

Once Lin heard it from Kai he unhesitatingly and mutually with Gang used their techniques while hurrying back with his wings aiming to create space between himself and Lantian, it happened simultaneously with the timing Lantian was using her technique.

Cyan energy sharply cut around Lantian's feathers, the wind energy grew larger and elongated from her feathers into feelers moving in complex and randomly in chaotic angles, while she herself spinned forward with her beak acting like a drill, with her four wings sending these long feelers everywhere around her spinning body!.

Gang grinned inside the soul world excitedly as he gathered the spirit energy strands he already prepared in a diamond shape around Lin's body to stand in the way of Lantian's cyan feelers attack like a shield.

Lin used the strands of spirit energy from the surrounding area to tie every cyan feeler from Lantian to one chain made from a gathering of different energy strands, but he noticed how it was harder to grab hold of the wind energy coming from her body with these foreign elements which only served to momentarily slow the bird's attack.

"Booom...." Lin's energy chains cracked and their links separated from the middle first before the energy strands creating every chain scattered back outside his soul force control as they (spirit energy strands) returned to their passive neutrality and swam randomly among the surrounding space, then Lantian's feelers continued to shatter Gang's elemental diamond after shaking off that sudden restrain!.

Lin was behind the scattering elements retreating at a hurry to Lantian's eyes as her spinning body came to a stop, she was surprised that this boy wasn't even hurt a tiny bit after receiving her attack.

Lantian wasn't after this junior's life just yet since she needs to take him to her majesty, but she was angry at him for stepping on her back and wanted to teach him a lesson earlier!.

He used the surrounding spirit energy to stop her attack, as a beast lord her senses to energy was higher than humans and what Lin did didn't go unnoticed by Lantian.

"Where did you see a similar symbol before?," Lin asked again as he gave Lantian his full concentration, then he continued : "Of course, if you can catch me Ill tell you where I got mine, Ill even follow you to meet your queen. Are you up for a little bet? Or.... Are you afraid to lose because you're too slow?, En, if you admit that you're slower than me Ill tell you where I got mine." Lin intentionally acted smug and full of himself in front of Lantian, since he saw the anger filling her eyes when he called her a turtle much more than when he stepped on her back.

"Scoundrel, nobody but her majesty is faster than me in the lord realm. I agree...." Lin escaped before Lantian got to finish her words, the chase went all over the hundred kilometers radius of the sky on top of where the caravan and the few dozen tyrannical beasts stood.

Lantian was burning with cyan energy as she chased after Lin, Lin moved faster while coating his body with soul force to resist the pressure hitting his body and caused by moving at high velocity.

Thankfully his soul force was aplenty and his senses for spirit energy was deeper, as he released the soul force reins gently and gradually on his wings, by removing the soul force restraints on the wings to increase speed, that allowed additional soul force to be freed, the jobless soul force to be used to protect his body, or he can concentrate the soul sense to be even more helpful as Lin move around in higher speeds as he wanted without crashing into anything.

"This chase wouldn't be fair for me if it kept going for long, don't you agree?." Lin sent with a soul link technique to ask Lantian while taking her into an endless circle around the caravan convoy and tyrannical beasts.

"Are you getting tired now?, Making excuses because your wings are weak!, Kakakaka, in three minutes you'll be caught in my talons don't worry. Just make sure not to lie when my queen asks you where did you get it, Ill rip you in two if you did." Lantian sent, then suddenly upped her speed almost to double what it was.

"Oho!, Outside of your expectations is my win." Lin said and did the same by increasing his speed as well.

"You're not the only one who's fast alright?, But you're not so bad yourself. Got you....eh! An afterimage huh." Lantian enjoyed her win a bit too fast and caught air with her talons, after a quick glance in the surrounding for Lin she resumed the chase.

Lin wiped out imaginary cold sweat from his forehead as he focused on moving his wings better, Lantian's previous attempt to catch him by surprise, almost succeeded if he hadn't understood how his wings can be used to speed up, just now!.

Ever since he woke up, Lin felt like he's not truly in control of his wings like he thought he felt before.

As it turns out, what he "thought he felt before" was a joke!.

Lin's previous judgement was incredibly underestimating something crucible and undeniably important, his wing's color or size never was a reason for how fast he can move.

Light itself was all that ever mattered!.

Lin's previous universe had certain theories about light and Lin himself experienced moving at speeds very close to the known speed of light, but, was what he knew about light just crap?, Of course not, what Lin thought he knew about light was something essential for what he discovered after waking up and using his upgraded wings.

Lin felt like he was crudely using his wings ever since they awakened, his action of restraining the wings with soul force was shaming the martial-spirit which should've been his freedom option.

As if his spirit energy inside the dantian and in each of his body cells were screaming at him with each beat from his golden heart "Let us Free" but Lin idiotically was suppressing the wings to ensure safety!.

Somehow after what he experienced in his short life in the spirit world, martial-spirits doesn't seem to be just a tool as he thought.

Maybe, Lin's mentality wasn't truly in sync with this world's basic requirements for cultivation, his reasonable mind was hindering his spirit energy comprehensions and everything resembled a tool in his eyes, like a large maze he just need to take the right steps!.

But as it seems, his spirit wings aren't just a tool, and his spirit energy isn't just bricks stacked on top of one another!.

The simple action of suppressing his wings to be able to "Safely" use them was backfiring and his wings and spirit energy never truly opened up and accepted Lin, now after he drank the potion of thought rebirth and joined the light in a ride, he noticed the light's grief!.

Light energy was like a kid living inside his body, squatting in a dark corner grumbling about the unfairness of Lin's treatment while poking the sand with a stick to release his frustrations.

Once Lin opened his arms the kid (Light) jumped in his embrace and forgot his earlier disappointment at Lin with the first tinkering giggle.

The incident with the roof of his room doesn't seem to be just mere luck, this light energy inside his body and dantian wants to know Lin and protect him.

Just like how Lin wants to use light energy to protect others if he could be of assistance and to understand the light energy itself!.

"Ommm...." Lantian gradually became very serious in her attempts to catch Lin and the throttle option was maximized, cyan circles lingered everywhere in the sky for a few seconds after each mighty flap of her wings.

While the arriving darkness of night as the sun disappeared in the west only made Lin's figure more prominently seen as he jumped from this point to this point of the vast sky, escaping from Lantian's talons just barely in the beginning, then infuriatingly he widened the margin of distance with each escape.

He was absentmindedly ruminating the past and digging up reasons for his current circumstances, while making peace with his light energy Lin didn't notice how he wasn't actually steering the wheel of his wings for a while now.

His wings were playing with Lantian, automatically they evaded her but never made the cyan bird lose sight of the target, Lin!.

Only after a quarter of an hour did Lin realize how much time has it been, this bird didn't seem to realize it too and her focused eyes were filled with a mixture of emotions.

Amongst her kind, Lantian never seen a beast lord specialized in the wind element who's faster than her, she saw these highborn humans and beasts and was confident she can beat them in a race or in worst case go head to head with them with no clear winner.

That's why just finding the competition is a source of excitement to the terror bird, but Lin wouldn't be able to last five more minutes!.

The pace was very fast, same as the expenditure of his light energy!.

Lantian is a beast lord, he's just a toddler in comparison with his first stage spirit apprentice cultivation.

"You said three minutes, it is been fifteen minutes!. Will you answer my question now?, Or are you going to go back on your words!." Lin sent Lantian as he gave every motion of the light energy pushing his body further from the cyan bird his utmost attention, Lin was struggling from the first minute of the chase and was worried about Lantian's speed.

His worries turned out to be true and the bird almost caught him more than once, only the new comprehensions about the light energy were the only source of extra speed.

He could've placed obstacles in Lantian's way, true, but she has attacking skills in her arsenal as well.

The battle of attrition isn't benefitting to Lin who has the smaller tank of energy as it obviously seems to be true, quarter of an hour of high speed racing while using spirit energy tired him by three quarters.

Lin figured out the limits of his top speed movement, twenty minutes!.

Lin was sure that he can go back and forth on the pearl road a few times in that time!.

"Eh!...." Stopping suddenly in place as if Lin just pulled her from daydreaming with his words, regaining her focus, Lantian's cyan pupils checked the surroundings and was shocked about how time literally flew!.

Honestly, Lantian had so much fun chasing Lin, but above all, the feeling of freedom which she only felt from flying behind her majesty when she used to be the most beautiful bird, was very apparent and clear from this fast boy.

"Her majesty sky queen has a smaller one between her eyebrows, I've answered your question because I lost but Ill still go back and tell her majesty about you, Ming son of Tai the mighty and Tian the beauty. You're the very first junior from the humans to prove himself faster than me, we'll meet again." Lantian burned the image of Lin and his name in her brain, then turned to leave towards the south.

"Wait!."

"Hrmmmm.... What do you want?, Don't think because you're faster than me then I can't do anything to you!." Lantian stopped to glare at Lin when he called for her, her previous experiences when encountering humans and the certain incident of her parents dying, branded all cultivators from humanity as cruel bullys.

Lantian thought that Lin felt like he could keep her here if he wanted, sighing inside she was prepared to really teach Lin a lesson about how to respect his seniors and stronger entities.

'Sigh, as I figured, nobody is like her majesty. After all humans are greedy for everything and unpredictable like her majesty taught me.' Lantian thought as she gave Lin a gaze full of disappointment, she hoped this junior wouldn't be like his kind.

"Huh!, You misunderstood me as it seems, remember when I said if you admitted your inferiority to me in speed Ill tell you where I got this symbol?, Do you see that feather?, I think that's the reason why I have that symbol. Goodbye Lantian." Lin shrugged and frankly told Lantian the answer she wanted before leaving towards his friends.

Lantian saw the symbol on the upper right wing's feather clearly before Lin gave her his goodbyes and left, she wasn't expecting that polite attitude from Lin or that honesty quite frankly, but her disappointment scattered and the boy grew more to her liking.

"Screee....." Lantian raised her cyan beak to the sky and loudly screeched as she majestically spread her wings and vanished after conjuring up a cyan sun of wind energy around her body!.

The cyan beam of energy stretched south in the sky as far as anyone can see from the awaiting cultivators, the couple dozen tyrannical beasts left after giving Lin one final look from afar.

"Heh, see!, I told you Lin would be alright." Zhang clapped Wang on the shoulder once he saw Lin come their way, and the speed fanatic (Wang) was really eager to reach the tyrant realm.

"Merchant Wei, about this orphan boy.... How about giving him to m-" one man edged his pure-blooded horned bull that was very special compared to Zhang-Wang's mounts to Wei and whispered softly in his ears, before he got to finish he found Wei glaring at him with eyes spurting out electric lightning energy.

"Merchant Hao, our partnership only extends until our united caravans reach safety," Wei said coldly, then he turned to talk to lightning spear mercenaries leader Yang and crushing hammer mercenaries leader Fu and said : "Spear and hammer mercenaries are to join my personal guard Lai and create a separate column of my carriages, from here on the Cheng clan's caravan convoy is travelling alone." His tune dripping with fury, his eyes squinted hard until his meaty face resembled a demon if he laughed.

Tang Wei's answer shocked merchant Hao, he knew that fatty for being an opportunistic person who would do a lot for money, all he asked was to take the boy from him into his own service and pay the price for it.

The price merchant Hao would've paid was up to half his wealth!, But this cheapskate rudely kicked him and any other convoy out!, Fuck, who do he think he's?.

But right after these angry thoughts played inside merchant Hao's head, he remembered who is joining Wei's group as he saw them gathering behind Wei's back.

Lightning spear mercenaries, crushing hammer mercenaries, The blade user Lai, dual affinity for earth and fire energies Zhang, smirking ice user Wang.

The precious granddaughter of Chentian Ao, and this boy who made lots of lucky fellows inside pearl city and harbor rich in a single night, then after vanishing from the eyes of everyone for a while, he appeared to save them all and somehow made the beast-wave retreat!.

Probably, it is better if he (Merchant Hao) didn't cause a scene and left quietly.

Giving a smile while cupping his fist, merchant Hao gave the signal to his men, other merchants had no choice but to do the same when they saw Wei's firm on crossing the remaining distance alone.

The long line of carriages stretching for kilometers shrunk visibly after every merchant took his carriages and guardian escorts, surprisingly, some of the mortals who previously paid money to ride these detaching caravans to mercenary city, refused to continue without merchant Wei leading them to safety!.

While the minority of low rank cultivators who also decided to stay were aware that their true safety is with this stronger caravan of merchant Wei's.

After a few minutes, Wei found his caravan convoy stripped away from the burden of others crammed into it.

But the crowds anxiously waiting at their tail and giving him puppy looks made his skin crawl with unease, fidgeting, Wei walked towards them and said : "those who want to join us has to pay, I never do charity business." But he was looking over his shoulder at Lin warily as he spoke, Wei was afraid that this brother Lin would ruin this opportunity for him.

But he was relieved to find out that Lin returned to his carriage with Bo An after briefly chatting with Zhang, Wei didn't make the prices high for mortals or cultivators.

He was planning on opening a transportation branch in the future and build on the valuable reputation Lin gave his convoy in this journey, if he made the prices over-exaggerated then clients would choose others over him.

From mortals, Wei took silver or gold coins depending on their luggage, from cultivators in the spirit apprentice or spirit disciple realm he collected dark-gold or obsidian coins, from spirit master or spirit grandmaster cultivators he took red coins and only took yellow coins when they were transporting heavy merchandise that requires the carriage's wind formations to be activated.

Normally the cultivators hiring transportation would be paying less if they joined the guardian escorts of the caravan, but Wei was delighted because normally after each beast-wave receded the pearl road would be the safest it can be to travel it.

He can take his sweet time moving the caravan forward if he wanted, however, Wei was intent upon moving this convoy at once after giving his tired beasts and cultivators two days to rest.

Giving Lai the command of giving accomodations to these people who loyally abandoned their patronage of other's businesses to give him their money, he kept the money he just earned in one of his space rings and walked towards Lin's carriage with a smile on his face.

'nothing sounds better than money, especially when you make it.' thinking that, Wei grinned even wider as he walked.

"Lin is meditating, don't distract him." Bo An was exiting the carriage when Wei arrived, glaring at him she took Sun and Fang Bo outside to play since Lin needed some time to digest whatever is it that he learned from this experience, only Frostine remained perched on his shoulder and completely ignored Bo An's attempts to take her with them to play.

"Ehehe, it's alright, Ill wait." Wei carelessly said and brought out his favorite couch and sat outside Lin's carriage, stuffing his mouth with fruits as he watched the caravan lights brighten the night.

Except for those who are in duty to guard the caravan on the first shift, almost every cultivator who got to experience fighting with the beasts earlier was secluding himself to cultivate.

Mortals were making fires to cook some food after spending months rarely eating anything other than hard bread, seed rations, and dried fruits or meat jerky, thankfully, the danger of the beast-wave cleared and these people can finally celebrate their fortune of living to see another day.

Some of these people were traumatized by the scenes they witnessed in this journey, they decided to never travel the pearl road again and not to return to pearl city ever again!.

Zhang was amongst those chosen to be in the first shift of guarding the caravan, his responsibility was assigned to the area around Lin's carriage.

Clearly Lai's intentions are to give young master Lin some peace and quiet, with Wei at the door of the carriage and Zhang on the other side plus the other guards around the convoy which Lai made them circle Lin's carriage with the rest of the convoy's carriages.

Being the center of these people, everyone who wasn't meditating or wasn't a cultivator would give Lin's carriage a glance from time to time.

Hushed conversations about this orphan boy, wouldn't stop being exchanged as they did their duty of guarding the convoy or prepared their next meals.

Kids squabbles about this "Ming" caused lots of adults to reprimand them for being impolite to young master Ming, deftly teaching these brats manners, their parents would slap their ignorant children on the back of the head while hugging them to their chests protectively and covering their mouths.

A mortal offending any cultivator is a taboo in the spirit world!.

That young master Ming helped the cultivators who took him from the poor life of being an orphan and pulled him under their wing to withstand the beast-wave, if they offended the boy then that's something between cultivators and some cultivator may intervene by saying or doing something to help the bigmouth who let his tongue slip.

But if that was a mortal instead of a cultivator, then the chances of a cultivator going out of his way to help the mortal evade being punished are slim as a hair strand!.

While the people outside became lively, Lin was inside the carriage sitting cross-legged on a piece of thick, fluffy, indigo colored fur.

Gang was inside the soul world meditating on the soul strengthening technique and working on the inscription of the soul lock technique, while Lin was inside the dantian's space sitting cross-legged inside the gold energy barrier surrounding the martial-spirit.

His two nebulas were waging war at one another as it seems in his absence, the four wings on his martial-spirit were completely unaffected by what was going on and remained in the center of his dantian's space.

Any newcomer cloud of gaseous energy that enters the dantian has to pay homage to the wings first, no cloud general or any of their minions dared to have eyes on these unaffiliated newcomers before they received their brand and acknowledgement from the martial-spirit first.

Once these poor gaseous newcomer clouds exit the gold energy barrier, they find themselves in the middle of an ongoing battlefield, surrounded on all fronts with two dark-gold cloud generals each accompanied by their nebula and waging war at one another!.

The only reason Lin didn't interfere with the ongoing situation between the two generals was because right now he was immersing himself in his spirit energy, plus the fact that those wounded from these endless battlefields would fall at the bottom of the dantian walls!.

Far down if you looked from the center of Lin's dantian, there's a patch of the dantian walls almost completely covered in white, yellow, gold, and dark-gold layer of what would seem from this situation as those casualties who fell in this war of the two nebulas.

Lin was trying to reach the same state which he felt inside the world of light.

He was aiming for the state of what he knows and experienced by truly riding light!.

No matter how much he tried to sense his connection with the various types, colors, and grades of the gaseous clouds, all of the light energy inside the dantian felt unsettled and crooked to his eyes.

He felt it all wrong!.

The problem wasn't his soul force or body strength, it wasn't the purity of his spirit energy either.

Lin was sure that the "feeling he thinks it is" is correct, this situation occured because Lin's comprehensions about the element of light was limited!.

It must be.

Even Lin was stunned by this intuition of his!.

The reason why he's sitting there inside the golden energy barrier was because Lin wanted to experience it closely, the process of each strand of the light energy getting branded.

To feel the difference between energy which isn't his and energy which is completely under his control.

But, were these dark-gold clouds in the shape of two nebulas truly his?.

Were they truly under his control previous to drinking that turquoise potion?.

To his eyes, these high purity dark-gold clouds and the different colors of newcomer energy weren't like they should.

Something is missing!.

Recalling the information about light energy cultivation from the prime light technique, Lin was trying to relate them with his own understandings of light.

Lin felt like holding a seed in his hand, he knows that he has to plant it in the "soil" which is his foundation if we spoke metaphorically, but, he doesn't know what species that seed is!.

It feels right to him and reasonable, if he knew what he's going to grow first-hand before watering it with his hard work.

The hardest to get a feel of were the dark-gold clouds, especially the two dark-gold cloud generals with their faint hairs of the alternating between black and white, grey strands.

Gold kept eluding him for a while before he sighed and concentrated on the yellow clouds, they tickled his memory of riding the light inside the world of light, however, it felt wrong as well.

Finally Lin found no other solace but the immersion inside the weakest clouds with the lowest purity of light energy, the white clouds!.

These sheep amongst the wild, were helpless in this war!.

Once they exit the golden barrier the other colorful ones would swallow them, ram them to the side in their escape from stronger clouds, or supress them and make the white clouds fall alongside many other clouds to the patch resembling a colorful tiny bowl in the bottom of the dantian walls.

Sticking together, or scattering.

It doesn't matter!.

They refused to fight a fight that is bound to be a loss.

Both of the cloud generals were the same, these white clouds has nothing but the wings in their eyes, white clouds care about Lin's martial-spirit first, and above all, always.

There's no reason to choose a side when there's nothing but a single purpose, fuse with Lin's wings.

And Lin's eyes brightened as he figured out what was missing, all this time Lin thought he corrected his wrong of thinking off the wings as a "tool" when he required understanding the light element, it led him back to the tool which he should use to understand light.

His wings!.

Lin felt the longing from each white cloud of light energy inside his dantian clearly, they all worship his martial-spirit leagues and miles beyond the point of adoration.

To understand light and to get the feeling of riding light, Lin used his wings and felt the difference, then he tried to meditate to correct what he felt all wrong in applying light energy while using his wings.

It led him back to the wings!.

This loop is taking him in circles, should he keep using his martial-spirit to understand light?, Or should Lin meditate to understand light?.

If he does any of the two options, it still didn't give him a clear answer!.

As if he just got a hint, probably your wings, probably your wings will give you a lead to find your answer.

Once he got a lead, of course Lin would bite and follow the crumbs.

Gang grinned inside the soul world when he saw Lin down below in the dantian concentrating on the wings instead this time.

Feeling that he can't continue exhausting his soul force on the inscription of the soul lock technique, otherwise Lin's focus might get interrupted if the mental strain from losing too much soul force, which might annoy him.

Last time it happened Lin and Ming took almost three days of rest after all.

Seeing that Lin wasn't interested in watching the clouds of energy anymore, Gang grinned as he called the two cloud generals to attention with their nebulas.

Then he took them to the "hole" up to work on the first meridian, the grey walls of the meridians were aggressive this time in consuming the clouds from the nebula's armies.

These dark-gold clouds of the highest purity only changed the grey wall's color to white!.

Wasn't white the weakest of the colors?, Shouldn't these grey walls turn at least golden?, Isn't the expenditure of energy a bit too wasteful here?, Gang's true nature almost revealed itself when he saw this daylight robbery happening to his energy!.

With Lin's perfectionism, he would diligently work and work on making everything.... Sigh, perfect.

But even if he felt like there's some sort of scam from these meridian walls, Gang had to pay the price, otherwise Lin would be uncomfortable with how things are with his spirit cultivation aspect.

However, that prime light technique is frustratingly annoying, the information it contains isn't comprehensive enough to give answers to why Lin is different?.

Only Kai was aware why Lin's current situation is happening, grinning to show his canines, he raised a very fragrant glass of Lin's wine to drink and muttered : "Heh, now it is starting to show it's disadvantages, guiding light physique. How many understands the true meaning of that name these days, guiding light, hilarious, the one who named it was meaning to insult not to praise the one who had that physique. A hundred special physiques would take less spirit resources to reach the same realm, how long will he preserve before the brat would go robbing other's treasures for resources I wonder." Then he emptied the rest of his glass all at once, despite knowing the correct way to solve Lin's troubles, Kai withheld from saying anything and let Lin seek his answers on his own.

Gang working on fortifying the meridian walls, Lin working on seeking better connection with his wings by studying them.

Now that he thinks about it, Lin never actually took it out of his free time to watch his wings, even after he woke up to find another pair!.

'Wings equal fly end of the equation' was all Lin ever gave to this matter, after the symbols appeared on one feather after the other, it only distracted Lin from the wings more and more.

.......

While Wei's caravan settled and made camp, while Lin and Gang worked on correcting their flaws, Frostine excitedly watched Lin with her beautiful eyes as he meditated and experienced the feelings Sun felt as a beast, her mystery of bloodline was easier to understand for her, the inherited memories of her ancestors played in her core giving her knowledge.

Away from that point, specifically southeast, Lantian flew like an arrow for three hours until she reached a gigantic mountain jutting out from the surrounding flat earth and reaching upwards for ten thousand kilometers, heading for it's top excitedly, Lantian landed in the garden behind the red palace that entirely took the single peak existing on that mountain.

Like a sword edge coming from underground this terrain, carrying that red palace on it's tip.

"Your majesty, great news." Lantian perched on her favorite tree and said to the enchanting woman in red, that woman was reclining on some buffy feathers white as snow in the shade of a tree, the skin of her body is white like milk which blended well with the surrounding feathers, but her eyes!, These eyes matched very well with the bloodred dress covering her skin, there in-between her eyebrows was a symbol of wings similar to the one on Lin's right hand.

Only the colors were different!.

Her long red hair and the thin red eyebrows, the slight frown from Hongtian caused a heavenly sight of absolute beauty to show on her already gorgeous face.

"What is it now Lantian?, Didn't I tell you to go sweep the borders?, Why are you back now?." The voluptuous woman in red turned to the side lazily, an action which made some parts of her body change shape and position seductively.

However, her frown was caused because for a few months now she felt something tugging at her chest troubling her peace, even her origin symbol was itching recently!.

Lantian was simple and childish, pure and cute to have in your company.

However, Hongtian wasn't in the mood ever sinse she got troubled with these feelings, she sent Lantian with intentions to have some time of solitude on her own.

"Great news your majesty, I found some boy while sweeping the borders, he has wings and very fast for someone his age......."

While Lantian spoke, sky queen Hongtian thought it was one of this idiot's long, nonsensical stories.

However, she grabbed her attention gradually and Hongtian listened to Lantian without interrupting or asking anything, Lantian is an idiot if Hongtian interrupted her she might forget something useful.

Origin symbol on a human?.

Interesting!.

.............

Unaware that he's noticed by one of the ten kingly beasts, sky queen Hongtian.

Lin was watching his wing's every detail with a very scrutinizing eye, Gang was halfway up in "painting" the "repaired" walls of the meridian white by sacrificing the armies of the dark-gold clouds.

All the way until there's nothing left but the two cloud generals who seemed afraid that Gang would feed them too to these greedy walls, grinning widely he patted them with his palms before taking them back down to the dantian's space.

"Heh, at least I don't have to do everything while he stares at the wings, good job bro.... Hahahah get going you two, drill these noobies to order and come back with well disciplined armies. No more butting heads, you hear!. Now go." Gang nodded when he saw the dantian's space overcrowded with colorful clouds floating around the golden barrier covering the wings, once in a while the wings would scatter these orbiting clouds to the far end of the dantian space to line a border of this void-like space.

Shaking with excitement, these two generals fused momentarily into a single cloud, however the grey strand became apparently visible, curving and bending that grey strand kept alternating between black and white inside the thicker form of gaseous energy, buzzing once this mighty cloud grabbed the attention of each cloud.

Then that cloud humbly sent a thick stream of dark-gold energy of the purest type of light energy inside the dantian space towards the wings, then vacuumed the stunned clouds like a space vortex and replenished itself for the energy it just tributed Lin's martial-spirit.

Outside, the caravan was starting to wake up and welcome dawn, then as the rising sun shone it's first light, everyone turned to look towards Lin's carriage.

From the carriage light no less stronger than the first light of the sun was seeping from every crack or gap there's, the sun's warmth was bleak compared to this light's warmth.

Frostine was the happiest of them all, closing her eyes, she immersed in this basking warmth and digested her inherited memories.