Year 6997 of the Fallaciae Calendar, Forest of Wisp. One noon inside the inner area of the Forest of Wisp.

Rushing sounds of water streams filled the silent and deadly area of the inner core area of the Forest of Wisp. There stood a youth on the center of the lake. He completely negated the effects of gravity and floated while softly touching the waters.

The youths features could be completely depicted as average looking. Other than his unique purple hair that stood up. There were no remarkably good features for him. But instead. A terrifying amount of extreme pressure emanated from his body. He didn't gave off an aura of being human. This was the leader of the magical beasts inside the Forest of Wisp. Ranceia.

"Hmm. It seems like an interesting thing is going on." Ranceia clutched his chin and squinted his eyes, seemingly watching to a far away place.

"His talent is extraordinary yet his comprehension skills is low. I wonder if he could achieve such a feat. " Ranceia glanced at the cross legged Robert. He didn't notice anything that doesn't look right. Instead, He only observed the calm figure of Robert cultivating and rotating his rotation base.

Before Asmodeo led Robert inside the Room of Trials. He formed several Judgement Type Runes for concealment. He laid several layers of concealment runes and illusionary runes for protection. He didn't want any rampant beasts to come forward and so, he constantly led the gem embedded to emit a profound spell.

The profound spell called Abysmal Light. Fends of any magical beasts in a cultivation lower than the caster. Asmodeo also encapsulated Robert in a profound spell just to be sure that if something happens. He would be able to retrieve Robert's soul from the Room of Trials.

"Did that sly fox really thought that I won't be able to see through his schemes? It seems like he really did underestimate me." With a cold smile, Ranceia emanated his terrifying Decagon star aura. The whole inner core area trembled and the surrounding magical beasts fell in fear. They fearfully gazed at the icy cold Ranceia as he streaked through the skies.

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"Robert? Are you okay?" Lily moved forward and placed her face near Robert's. Robert still stuck in the trance suddenly fidgeted and stepped backwards.

"What's going on with you?" Lily raised her eyebrows and intently glanced at Robert. Robert calmed his beating heart and said.

"Nothing."

"Strange." Lily shrugged and tapped Robert's shoulders and shouted. "Let's go! I already asked permission for you. We'll hunt magical beasts today!" Lily ran. As her disappearing visage reached far. Robert slapped himself with his two hands.

"I should not be thinking something else. If this is real. I should cherish this."

Robert smiled at the now distant and followed. Their objective: Mountain Range of Living Plants.

In a particular stone platform inside the outer area of the Mountain Range of Living Plants. There on top of the stone platform. A figure quietly sitting cross-legged.

The figure also had a youthful appearance. He had a soft and slightly disheveled black hair, yet his seemingly innocent face was a little thin. It gave off a feeling of comfort to those who looked at him.

At the moment, many pale blue lights visible by the naked eye encircled the boy. And from those light, a mysterious energy rushed to his body.

The youth suddenly opened his two eyes. Glancing at a particular direction. He smiled and murmured. "So It's time?" He then jumped off the stone platform and slowly waited for the two streaks of light to arrive.

A familiar palpitating sound resounded as the two streaks of light descended. One was covered with a pale blue light and the other with a fiery red light. The girl and the boy smiled to each other before heading towards the waiting youth.

"Chen Fang. You've waited enough. Are we late?" Lily shrugged, and mirthfully smiled when Chen Fang shook his head in response. Chen Fang also mirthfully smiled, and then directed his gaze towards Robert.

His gazes towards Robert were particularly cold that Robert momentarily shuddered. Robert dismissed the gaze off and said. "Junior Robert greets Senior Chen Fang." Robert clasped his two hands and bowed in respect.

The cold icy gaze was still there and seemed to scan Robert's body. After a few moments, Chen Fang also smiled at Robert and said. "No need to be so respectful Junior. You can just call me Chen Fang. " His smile seemed to have a faint hint of coldness.

"This guy, Why is he so antagonistic to me?" Robert inwardly thought as he mentally sighed.

But he noticed that he didn't reply yet and immediately said. "Thanks, Brother Chen Fang. Then you can also call me Robert." Robert smiled and dispelled the previous cold atmosphere between the two.

"Chen Fang. Should we discuss the contents of our hunt?" Lily smiled and waved her hands and headed towards the stone platform.

"Very well." Chen Fang smiled and gestured his hands in the air. He then rotated his cultivation base and shouted. "Let the darkness reveal the path!" At the same instance. A black fluid like aura emanated from Chen Fang's body. It then flew towards the stone platform and encapsulated it.

Robert gasped while Lily had an indifferent look in her face. Robert suddenly felt a surge of information in his brain. He momentarily clutched his head and knelt to the ground while gritting his teeth.

"Robert? What's going on with you?!" Lily, alarmed. Moved towards Robert and assisted him to stand up. Chen Fang didn't mind the ruckus as he was completely engrossed in activating the entrance.

"High Leveled Judgement Type Magic. " Robert inwardly murmured as he stood up. He then smiled to Lily and teasingly said. "Thank you." He purposely lengthened the intonation of the 'you' and teased Lily's frantic attitude.

Lily's previous complexion changed and a faint rosy red color appeared on her cheeks as she bowed her head in embarassment. "You dummy. "

Meanwhile, Chen Fang who was completely engrossed in activating the High Leveled Spell gritted his teeth in jealousy. "That damn kid! How dare he flirt with my Lily! " , "He'll painfully pay!" Chen Fang calmed himself after a few huge breaths and the black light encapsulating the stone platform suddenly exploded. Chen Fang who didn't expect his spell to fail coughed a mouthful of blood and flew several meters backwards.

"Damn! Still a failure?" Chen Fang clenched his fists as he stood up. This was the forty eighth time they failed. And each time they failed, they would pay a huge price of several Cultivation Increasing Pills. Which were very expensive in the market.

Even though he belonged in a wealthy family. Chen Fang still gritted his teeth in anger and even pressured the ground below. He just wasted a pill worth two golds. A normal non cultivating family would need five golds annually to expense in their daily needs. and he just wasted ninety six golds throughout their failures.

Chen Fang's face bulged with veins as he angrily clutched his fists. But then, a sweet voice from behind resurfaced his focused mind.

"Chen Fang, that's okay. You understand that a three star rune formation isn't so easily broken, maybe next time." Lily smiled and tapped Chen Fang's shoulders.

And as if he was awakened from a trance. His eyes widened and a faint hint of red surfaced from his cheeks. His voice stuttered and said. "Th-Thank you, Junior Sister Lily. " Chen Fang bowed his head and a strange feeling of euphoria entered his mind.

Robert just indifferently watched as the event happened and said. "Shall we go back now?"

The two turned around. Lily directed an expecting gaze while Chen Fang cooled the surroundings with his gaze. Robert just chortled inwardly as he thought of the past.

Robert already understood that Chen Fang was madly in love with Lily. The two were complete rivals back then until their sudden disappearance. The day when Lily disappeared was the day when Chen Fang also disappeared. And so, Robert didn't mind his hateful gazes at all, but instead felt relieved that he was given a chance to go back and enjoy their previous moments together.

Chen Fang was the primary suspect for Lily's disappearance. That's because the two were together on the night when Lily disappeared, but apparently. He also disappeared, but that's not the suspicious point. The thing was his entire clan also disappeared like thin air in one night.

At the end, The incident was ruled out as a complete accident and until now, Robert grieves of her beloved Lily, and made it his mindset to never forget about her everyday and think as if she was alive.

But Robert's suspicions for Chen Fang still didn't disappear, Although his feelings of disdain was overpowered by his brotherly love. He still couldn't help but feel suspicious.

Chen Fang gave off a cold 'Hrmmph' and said. "Okay, okay. Let's end this now. But tomorrow at six pm. Let's meet here again and reopen this seal. "

"Okay." Robert said coolly and prepared to depart.

"Okay then, see you tomorrow!" Lily also prepared to depart.

"Robert, I'll meet you again tomorrow. And also! Don't be tardy or else..." Lily revealed a small cold smile, Robert momentarily shuddered and awkwardly said.

"N-no problem."

Lily waved her hands and a prismatic beam of light covered her whole body and streaked towards the horizon. Robert didn't depart, instead. He walked towards the stone platform. Chen Fang already departed earlier, but he stayed.

He was curious as to what was the contents of this stone platform that the two were desperately working on. Back then, Robert didn't participate in the two's event, but instead focused on the age of coming ceremony next month. He knew the incident two weeks after their disappearances.

Robert fell to great despair back then and desperately encircled the whole Longinus Kingdom for whole two months searching for traces of the two. He eventually met an accident and injured his dantian, which led to his condensed spiritual energy leaking out and pushing him towards the First star condensation six stars from Pentagon one star.

Because of this incident. He failed the age of coming ceremony and according to the rules of the Longinus Kingdom. Any members of royalty who failed this ceremony shall not be granted the right to inherit the throne, and so. He was casts aside and was only given a parcel of land for compensation.

Robert lived a good day, His mother died, and he met Asmodeo, He became involved in an incident inside an airship and eventually came back in time.

Thinking of all of this. Robert inwardly chuckled. Even he didn't thought that he would be given a chance to read the pasts events and discover the truth about Lily's disappearance.

Robert headed towards the stone platform. He revealed his eight star condensation energy. He then diverted the condensed energy towards his fists and shot a punch towards the stone platform.

*Boom!

A fierce explosion rang out. Amidst the rising smoke, A figure clutched his hands and gritted his teeth in pain. His clutched fists leaked fresh blood as if it punched a sturdy steel metal. Robert unexpectedly got the backslash and grimaced in pain.

"Damn it! This is unexpected." Robert slightly cursed as he jumped around the area while clutching his bleeding hands. After a few breaths of time, He stabilized himself and said. "Never gonna do that again." Robert sighed and backed off.

If Asmodeo was here, he could surely receive some information about this strange stone platform. But alas, he wasn't here and so, Robert could only coldly laugh as he intently gazed on the stone platform.

On the surface. There was a faint hint of luster that was covered up by a hail of dusts after Robert punched. Robert's eyebrows frowned slightly as he noticed something peculiar. There was a strange carving of a curved jade. That was the only thing describable about the stone platform. The others were gibberish.

Robert clutched his head as he said. "Damn, is that some kind of code or something."

Robert didn't understand it himself, but the instant he noticed. He already approached the stone platform and placed his two palms on the surface of it. Robert willed and a gush of condensed energy flowed from his dantian towards his arms and then to the stone platform.

*Rumble.

The stone platform endlessly shook as it noticed Robert's energy. The stone platform didn't become satisfied by Robert's ample energy and greedily sucked Robert's dantian dry. His face immediately grimaced as he felt his condensed energy being stripped.

Robert frantically retreated. But there seemed to be a faint thread of connection between the platform and Robert's dantian that enabled it to suck it regardless of the distance.

"Damn it!" Robert cursed as he exploded to prismatic beam of light, finally breaking off the connection between the stone platform and his dantian.

His former dantian which was encapsulated by a fiendish black energy recovered its natural color. Robert only relaxed when he noticed that his condensed energy circulated without failures.

"Just what is that thing? It's too evil. It clutched on anyone's dantian and sucks it dry of condensed energy! Just now I fell two ranks!" When Robert's condensed energy leaked. His cultivation level also plummeted. From the first star condensation seven star. He fell towards the fifth rank.

It would take him at least two months to steadily recover the lost energy. Just thinking of this alone made Robert brim in fury. The energy he painstakingly condensed was now lost! For a cultivator to lose such high amounts of condensed energy would mean a temporary restrained dantian!

"I really swear to my grandfather that I would obtain what's inside that stone platform and make it recover my lost energy!" Robert gritted his teeth and tightly clenched his fists as he popped several medicinal pills in his mouth and increased his speed.

Meanwhile in a nearby desolate mountain peak.

A middle aged figure of a black robed man regretfully watched as the prismatic beam of light disappeared into the horizon.

"What a waste." The man sighed in disappointment. Just now, that amount of condensed energy would be little help to him but nevertheless that was still a condensed energy! In the martial world of cultivation. Condensed energy were precious enough that even a drop of a Star Saint cultivator's condensed energy would cost one thousand takals of gold!

"It's been two thousand years yet no one still uncovered my blessings, such is my fate to fall in such a low ranked material plane." The man sighed as his head stared to the skies, reminiscing of the old memories of his battles.

"Hahaha, my last strand of soul won't be able to handle a hundred years more. Seems like this time will really be my end."

"And also, that damned Versail! I still haven't settled my bets with him! If I really would be able to find a talented individual in my last hundred years! I would pursue him and settle the scores!" The man chortled as a flash of liquid concentrated on his eyes.

He took a deep breath and sighed once more, before disappearing to countless pale blue crystals.

After arriving inside his manor. Robert frantically called Sahhad and ordered him to gather several energy gathering pills, and ordered countless demon crystals and low leveled runic entrapment formation crystals. He immediately refined it and absorbed the boundless condensed energy to steadily recover his lost cultivation.

After six hours of painstaking refining. Robert finally ascended to his former rank once more. The sun already set and the arranged meeting time once more resurfaced. Robert once again packed his things inside his bag of holding, and placed the demon crystals, runic entrapment formation crystals inside a separate bag of holding.

He then made Sahhad scout his area in a diameter of five hundred meters. He gave a pinpointing talisman to Sahhad and kept one with him. A pinpointing talisman is a great tracking talisman specialized in areas where mists are abundant. It accurately tracks people and directs their position to the other talisman owners.

Sahhad also prepared his things and even made two pentagon condensation cultivators to join him and exploded to the horizon. Robert also turned to a beam of light and disappeared towards the Mountain Range of Living Plants.

The boundless darkness of the night spread around the area of the Mountain Range of Living Plants, which made its appearance even more eerie than before. In a certain area inside the mountain range. several torches where lighted and a group of several Pentagon ranked experts where flocked.

"Bastards! Listen up! Let me tell you something good!" Chen Fang who was flocked with female cultivators suddenly stood up and howled.

"What we have here is a Divine Beast Essence of the Black Tortoise! Ranked number four of the Heavenly Mythical Beasts Rankings!" With Chen Fang's howl. The faces of the gathered cultivators changed from disbelief, acceptance and greed.

Their eyes lighted up and insurmountable greed surfaced in their minds as they were reeled in by Chen Fang's speech.

"To those people who are able to acquire the essence. It will belong to them! This is the strict rule here! Those who obtained the artifacts with their own hands would posses it!" The crowd couldn't contain their excitement and shouted in cheers. If they were somewhat be able to acquire a Divine Ranked Beasts Essence, even if they're not able to refine it for their own good. It would still rack up a good price in the market!

With such huge amounts of money, they would not starve in their whole life!

"The time is nigh! Let's form the formation now!" Chen Fang shouted and the surrounding cultivators immediately dispersed. They gathered mountainous amounts of runic formation rocks and encircled the stone platform.

Chen Fang just smiled wryly as he thought. "These guys really are fools! What do they think of a divine beasts?" Chen Fang inwardly laughed as he moved to a nearby female cultivator and led her to his tent.

Meanwhile, Sahhad observed the situation from a huge tree near the stone platform. He intently gazed at the ruckus of the cultivators and recognized the formation that they were utilizing.

"Hmm, An absolute cancelling runic formation. Will they really succeed?" Sahhad just laughed wryly as he deduced Chen Fang's next steps. From the time when Chen Fang announced the existence of the Divine Ranked Beasts Essence which would surely shake the entire martial cultivation world.

Sahhad already figured out his plan.

To acquire a divine essence of this level. A huge amount of soul sacrifice is needed. The higher the cultivation. The stronger the essence will become, but it will also become harder to absorb, and so. Sahhad deduced that Chen Fang must've known a secret absorbing technique for him to be so confident of capturing a divine ranked essence.

Robert already arrived, and also scouted the surrounding ruckus. But suspiciously, Lily didn't arrive. He already deduced Chen Fang's activity based on Sahhad's words.

Robert immediately believed it. He didn't held doubts about Sahhad's words, since he was his most trustworthy vassal. Since his mother saved Sahhad's life. Sahhad already pledged himself to protect his mother's lifeline and this was the logical outcome.

"I see, thanks Sahhad." Robert said in a gentle tone as he broke the Resounding Talisman. He then inwardly though to himself.

"Come to think of it. This night was also the day that Lily disappeared. "

"Did Chen Fang's sect had an influence about it? The last time her case was opened it was ruled out to be a magical beasts attack. Only Chen Fang survived at that time. "

"The most suspicious part was not that. It was because after a month of Lily's disappearance. Chen Fang's sect pavilion elders and great elders also disappeared. Even Chen Fang's whole family. They seemed to left their house in a haste. Damn all of this sounds too suspicious!" Robert shook his head as he cleared his mind. His gaze intent on the glowing runic formation.

"Robert still didn't arrive?! Hahaha, Shame him! I really thought that he loved you that much!"

Robert's gaze came across by two familiar figures.

"Chen Fang you bastard! How dare you do this to me!"

"Hahaha, Stop struggling little Lily. I'll take care of you from now on." Chen Fang licked his lips as his eyes glinted with debauchery. He then fiercely ripped Lily's clothes off revealing her pinkish white skin, and the side of her two mountainous peaks.

"No!" Lily could only shout as her clothes were ripped to shreds. The only clothing that existed was the cover of her lower body. Her upper body was completely exposed, one of her hand struggled while the other covered the two mountain peaks.

"Hahaha! Show me! Show me those two! " Chen Fang pushed Lily in the ground and forcefully opened her arms to see the two pinkish tips of the mountains.

A hint of tears flashed on Lily's eyes. She protected her body preciously and yet. It would all be lost today! She dedicated her chastity for her future husband yet she would be violated. Such thoughts flooded Lily's mind and plummeted her emotions to the abyss.

Lily could only cry in help as her remaining clothes were ripped to shreds. Chen Fang's face lighted up when he saw Lily's white skin wholly. Her two arms extensively covered her most precious spot.

"Hahaha, This time no one would save you! Now! Come to daddy!" Chen Fang stripped and pressed Lily to the ground.

"CHEN FANG! YOU INSOLENT BASTARD! I'LL PERSONALLY SEND YOU TO YAMA TODAY!"

Just as he placed his raging weapon and broke through Lily's chastity. An ear-splitting, killing intent filled howl filled the atmosphere. And with a huge explosion. A blur slowly solidified.

Cracks formed on the ground beneath as the figure slowly adjusted his posture. With bloodshot eyes. Robert clenched his fists and exploded towards the dumbstruck lust stricken Chen Fang.

He who still didn't recover from Robert's penetrating killing intent. Frantically waved his hands and shouted. "No, no, no, no, no! St-sto- Stop!"

Before he could continue. Blood splattered everywhere as Chen Fang's body lifelessly fell to the ground. Robert searched for Lily and found that she lost consciousness.

He immediately turned his head to the side while slapping his bag of holding. Producing a cloth that covered Lily's body. He made Lily float and carried her with his arms. Just as he turned back to return to his position.

A fierce ear-shattering shriek filled the air as a figure of a mountain size black tortoise materialized. Every cultivators nearby fell unconscious due to the shriek and some even struggled to get up. The black tortoise emanated a fiendish black energy which encapsulated everyone nearby.

Robert himself wasn't able to move, and so was Sahhad.

"Humans!"

Another ear-shattering sound filled the air but this time, it was clearly audible. But this sound wasn't made up of a human sound. More or less it was made up by countless magical beasts roaring at the same time. The sound shocked the struggling cultivators and made them all lost consciousness.

Even Robert himself fell, and lost consciousness. But before he fell to the ground. He used all his strength to snap the high grade protection talisman, which emanated a pale blue light that covered him and Lily.

The Divine Beasts emerged! But unfortunately, It wasn't an essence, But the beast itself!