us teased his mother; however, deep down, he didn''t know how to solve her problem. This was the first time she hadined about being lonely. She had never said that before.


    "Mother, you can stay with my mom. I know she would love having you around." Just when us was thinking about how to resolve his mother''s situation, Lily spoke.


    "Good idea, Lily. I will reward youter," us said before turning to his mother. "Mom, what do you think? Want to spend a few weeks with your new best friend?"


    "Fine, you guys can go. I will be fine," his mother said with a small smile. Looking at her smile, us knew Grace Felin was in for a ride. Only God could help Lily''s mother after she was done with her. Just like us, his mother was also contagious.


    They spent two more days in Felin City exploring the area before, on the third day, they left and returned to Ross City. us''s male friends had also been busy.


    Their newfound fame from topping the rankings in the Union Trial had skyrocketed their poprity, and of course, this fame came with the added bonus—thedies.


    Kilian met up with Scarlet, who hade all the way from Union City just to spend time with him. They were supposed to stay there, but when us received a text about Ohema''s return, he dragged them away.


    Who knew what might happen if his enemies found out he wasn''t there with them? However, to their surprise, thedies followed them to Ross City.


    Mark spent time with the Zhou twins, who seemed obsessed with him. Danny was fortunate to get another brawler—a youngdy with a strong physique. As for Daniel, he surprisingly paired up with a rather slimdy, lean enough to raise some eyebrows when seen alongside the sturdy-looking Daniel.


    Kay, too, found someone who captured his heart: a fire mage, making the two of them quite the fiery duo. It was a heated few days. Overall, his friends seemed to be doing well, all thanks to us.


    It wouldn''t be an exaggeration to say thedies wanted to be close to us, but since they couldn''t have him, the next best choice was his friends...Lol


    When they returned, us spent the night with Miriam. The next day, she left with Anna, Lily, and his male friends. They went to a Tier 4 forbidden zone called the Hunting Fields, a zone filled with all types of monsters.


    Hanna didn''t join them because what she needed right now were lightning cores, so under the cover of night, the twins left with her and headed to a Tier 4 forbidden zone called Lightning Forest.@@novelbin@@


    us, on the other hand, entered seclusion with Ohema, who insisted on watching him cultivate. Perhaps she shouldn''t have, as what she saw was baffling.


    At first, us simply crushed the cores and absorbed the energy. Now, however, he was both crushing and eating them. It was too shocking, but she had asked for it. us was already halfway to level 10, so it took him only a day to level up.


    Two dayster, he had reached level 11, but with more cores still avable, us didn''t stop. Being a good wife, Ohema gave him a towel bath every day. After another four days, he reached the bottleneck to step into level 12.


    But he stopped just before he could level up. With only two more Tier 6 cores, he would reach the next level, and then the lightning would descend.


    "Are you done already?" Ohema asked, looking at him as if she were watching a monster.


    "Yup," us nodded with a smile. Seeing the shocked expression on her face, he couldn''t help but chuckle.


    ''Wait until the Devouring Ice awakens. All of this would have been achieved within seconds.''


    "Then are we going now? Where will we be going?" she asked after calming down.


    "I''ve reserved a Tier 2 forbidden zone. It''ll be quiet there since the strongest monster is just Tier 5." us stood and walked out of the training room with Ohema.


    With Ohema unable to go the extra mile with him, they slept peacefully like a couple. The next day, they left for the forbidden zone. us had now awakened the lightning element, but he needed the tribtion to temper it.


    His current lightning was just a bud; he needed to borrow energy from the heavens to make it bloom. Upon arrival, us unleashed his ice flower, freezing a 10km radius solid. Unfortunately for the monsters in the area, they didn''t survive, which was an error on us''s part.


    Killing the monsters earned him the remaining experience points to level up.


    [You have leveled up. Current Level: Level 12 Master.]


    [Get Ready for your Tribtion. The Lightning descends in 5 Minutes.]


    **


    "Ohema dear, give me some sugar, and then retreat to a very safe distance—20km should be fine," us said, leaning in for a kiss. "And don''t try to enter the tribtion, even if I''m dying."


    "Be safe," Ohema replied before running off.


    us immediately sat in a lotus posture as dark, looming clouds began to form overhead.


    "Brat, are you ready?" the senior asked as us settled down.


    "I am, Senior. Please expand the Tribtion Prison. You can use 50% of my soul," us instructed.


    "Are you sure?" the senior asked.


    "Of course." The senior didn''t say much. He went ahead and expanded the Tribtion Prison, giving us all the space he needed to catch as much lightning as he could.


    ''I just hope this mysterious Lightning Source Diagram lives up to its reputation,'' us sighed. He had already gained all he could from Number Three; now, it was up to him to make a move toward iming something grand.


    ''After today, Tier 6 and 7 will be small fries. Tier 8 is the next target, Imma dominates that Realm. As for Tier 9, I''ll save that forter. I can''t let what happened in the Tormented World happen again.


    us smiled, remembering the incident when Fruity got his ass kicked by a Tier 9 Rhino Demon.


    ''Yuying isn''t here to save me,'' he thought with a sigh. ''I wish you were here, Yuying; this would have been easy.''


    As he reminisced, the heavens roared, as if dering that today would be hisst.


    us had stolen three things from them: a divine body, something cultivators would kill for; a heavenly constitution, cherished by the heavens; and, if that weren''t enough, he had taken something every lightning user would die for, especially those who sought toprehend the Laws of Lightning and Thunder, the Lightning Source Diagram.


    It was safe to say us had taken what even the heavens dared not y with—and now, they wereing for their revenge.


    But us, who had only recently begun to understand what it meant to be a paragon thanks to Number Three, knew opportunities wouldn''te to him. He would have to seize—no, steal—every one of them.


    Now, he sat there, watching the clouds churn ominously.


    ***


    Far from where us was, Ohema stood, gazing at the clouds with a calm expression.


    "What kind of existence are you, us? Even my sister doesn''t call down this much wrath from the heavens, despite her special situation."


    She sighed, and like a caring wife, her heart began to pound anxiously for the small figure sitting calmly beneath the storming skies.


    "Be safe, us. I can''t afford to lose you to the heavens."