《Beast Cultivating System》 -7 Cultivation Ranks Body Refining > 1-9 Qi Circulation Realm > 1-9 Houtian - 1-9 Xiantian 1-9 Core Formation Realm > 1-9 Nascent Soul - 1-9 Martial King - 1-9 Martial Emperor - 1-9 Martial God - 1-9 Divine Profound Realm - 1-9 An average spirit beast is also stronger than their human counterpart, as beasts naturally have a stronger body and most have an inherited bloodline. Even if it is much weaker than for instance a True Dragon bloodline, it still contains a natural advantage compared to individuals without a bloodline. However, humans are usually superior on an all-around aspect compared to a spirit beast, as a beast has not much talent with use of soul cultivation there are more supreme human experts as it is easier for them to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Bloodlines Bloodlines are split into different rarities. Common Bloodline Common Bloodline (Variant) > Mutation of bloodline usually caused by the combination oftwo similarly ranked bloodlines which produces a new more powerful bloodline but still is still classed a common bloodline Uncommon Bloodline Uncommon Bloodline (Variant) Rare Bloodline Rare Bloodline (Variant) Saint Bloodline Saint Bloodline (Variant) Legendary Bloodline Legendary Bloodline (Variant) Divine Bloodline Divine Bloodline (Variant) Frost Wyvern Bloodline is currently ranked as a Rare Bloodline - which is what the protagonist starts with. Pills and Alchemist Ranks There will be many pills which can be purchased from the system, which will come into 9 Ranks. Rank 1-9 Pill Only an alchemist of similar Rank can refine the pill for instance only a Rank 3 Alchemist can refine a Rank 3 pill however most pills have impurities which the system pills do not have any at all due to each pill being without flaws. Some pills can be made by a lower ranked alchemist, for instance, a Rank 3 Bloodline Purity Pill as it is one of the most basic pills among Rank 3 Pills. Cultivation Technique Ranks Mortal Rank Earth Rank Saint Rank Heaven Rank Divine Rank Goes from the low, middle and high tier. Dragon Emperor Cultivation Method is high tier Heaven Rank Cultivation technique but it improves as the protagonist bloodline evolves further towards a True Dragon. So, therefore, it might eventually rank a Divine Rank cultivation method as it suited towards her bloodline. Also, cultivation method increases on how pure the Qi of an individual is, so therefore someone with a higher cultivation method is naturally stronger and has much more stamina in fighting long-lasting battles than individuals with a lower cultivation method. They can also use superior an more Qi demanding martial art techniques. -6 Bloodlines Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you -5 Cultivation Technique Ranks Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you -4 Pill and Alchemist Ranks Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you -3 Body Cultivation and Soul Cultivation Ranks Body Cultivation and Soul Cultivation are both rarely used and practiced by cultivators as either techniques being exceedingly rare or due to the fact it is much more difficult to practice compared to Qi cultivation. Body Cultivation ranks accordingly alongside your cultivation for instance your body could be as powerful as someone which is Rank 2 Qi Circulation meaning you have the strength of a Rank 2 Qi Circulation Realm with just body strength alone. It also contributes towards defence of the body as having a body as strong as a Qi CirculationRealm Rank 1 Cultivator means that even if that individual allows a Rank 9 Body Refining cultivator hit them full strength without any Qi protecting their body at all, it will cause hardly any harm towards their body. For beasts with a body cultivation method this applies even further as a beast body strength is naturally much higher than humans thus if they practiced body cultivation methods their bodily strength will be naturally much higher than a similar beast of the same bloodline. However, this only applies to a beast of similar strength or bloodline to them as there are beasts with ridiculously strong bodies which they will never be able to compete to such as dragons. So, with Dana practicing body strength techniques it will make her body much stronger than other Frost Wyvern''s at similar cultivation Rank. Cultivating the soul is one of the major requirements in ascending towards the Nascent Soul Realm, however Soul Cultivation isn''t just linked towards that. Having a stronger soul than other cultivators allows an individual to send soul attacks towards opponents which could either cause damage towards an enemies soul or there are even some soul techniques which can cause mental illusions. Thus, making soul cultivation attack methods extremely dangerous towards other cultivators. Cultivating soul techniques have various benefits towards an individual such as increasing a cultivators comprehension towards laws and martial skills. The Ranks of Soul Cultivation are as followed; Mortal Soul - Low Tier, Middle Tier, Upper Tier Infant Soul - Low tier, Middle tier, Upper tier Nascent Soul - Low tier, Middle Tier, Upper tier Saint Soul - Low Tier, Middle Tier, Upper Tier Half-Step Immortal Soul- Low tier, Middle tier, Upper tier Immortal Soul- Low Tier, Middle tier, Upper Tier Divine Soul - Low Tier , Middle Tier, Upper Tier Soul Cultivation is extremely difficult and not many cultivators have talent in soul Cultivation as it much more difficult compared to Qi Cultivation which is why most cultivators stop at Nascent Soul which is the base requirement to enter the Nascent Soul Realm. Which is why most cultivators past the Nascent Soul Realm only achieve between Nascent Soul Low Tier and Upper Tier in their entire lives. -2 Info - Four Great Empires The Four Great Empire are the powers which rule over the continent in which Dana is reincarnated at. Each of the four great Empires strongest experts are their respective Emperors, each being a ninth rank Houtian however some of the Empires are naturally stronger than the others. The Holy Empire is the strongest of the four, mainly because of the influence of the church as there are many patriotic believers in the church across all four great empires, so therefore they have the largest influence and number of experts. However, even though they are the strongest, with having Six Houtian experts including the Pope of the Holy Empire which is a 9th Ranked Houtian they are still wary of the other Empires as if they engaged in a full on war then, the other Empires when threatened will likely create an alliance to oppose their Empire causing them major causalities! The Azure Empire is the second strongest due to Devils Peak, as it is the largest inhabitant of Spirit beasts among the four continents, as they tax cultivators which come primarily just to hunt spirit beasts in the forest they have gathered a huge amount of wealth, thus creating a large amount of experts. Although not comparable to the Holy Empire, they are still a strength to be rivaled with! Previously they had Lord Evergreen, who even had comparable battle power to each of the strongest experts of each continent, however he later died in an ambush by the Eranyth Empire and fell against the three strongest experts of Eranyth Empire as a result of their combined attacks, and being injured due to a sneak attack. As mentioned they previously had four Houtian cultivators including Azure Emperor, but now one has been killed by Dana making it three. Eranyth Empire is the third strongest between the four great empires, they are slightly weaker then the Azure Empire, the only reason they can be slightly weaker even with the Azure Empire obtaining the advantage of owning Devils Peak, is that they have a large amount of the best alchemists in the Azure Continent. With use of this alchemists they create many of the top pills which the four continents buy in mass, providing them with a large amount of wealth. As a result of this wealth the Eranyth Empire has raised a large amount of strong cultivators, and has three Houtian Ranked Cultivators now the same amount as the Azure Empire! The last and weakest Empire is the Orthos Empire, although the weakest they are by no mean an Empire which can easily be trampled on. They have two Houtian Ranked Cultivators. Reason why other Empires are afraid to invade Orthos Empire is if the Orthos Emperor disregards his life he can deal a severe amount of damage towards the opposing Empire, thus weakening their forces by a large amount therefore this will cause another Empire to take advantage and wipe them out something which no Empire believes is enough of a risk to invade Orthos Empire. This is the backgrounds of each Empire, which basically details going from the strongest to weakest, each Empire has a large amount of Qi Circulation cultivators, however the main strength of each force is their Houtian experts. It is another one of the reasons the Azure Emperor is so maddened as he not only lost the future heir and most talented son, he also lost an extremely valuable Houtian expert! Houtian experts are scarce and exceedingly difficult to cultivate, showing just how strong the Holy Empire is to actually have six. -1 Info - Tier of Powers @@ There are many tiers of powers in the cultivation world, and they have ranked accordingly, where the protagonist starts there are many powers which are many times stronger than the Four Great Empires, each power is separated into tiers according to their respective strength. Going from Tier 1 being the weakest to the strongest at Tier 7. Below Tier 1 - not even registered on the tiers of power meaning they are too weak to be recorded. Such as even Orthos Empire which cannot meet requirements for Tier 1 power. Tier 1 - Contain 1 Ninth Rank Houtian cultivator, 2 Houtian Cultivators (Ranging from Rank 1-8) and 100 Qi Circulation cultivators. Tier 2 -Contain 1 Ninth Rank Xiantian Cultivator, 6 Houtian Cultivators with at least one 9 Rank Houtian Cultivator and 500 Qi Circulation Cultivators. Tier 3 - Contain 1 Ninth Rank Core Formation Cultivator, 3 Xiantian Cultivators, 12 Houtian Cultivators and 1000 Qi Circulation Cultivators. Tier 4 - Contain 1 Ninth Rank Nascent Soul Cultivator, 2 Core Formation Cultivators, 6 Xiantian Cultivators and 24 Houtian Cultivators. ----> At this point Qi Circulation Cultivators don''t really matter. Tier 5 - Contain 1 Rank 9 Martial King, 4 Core Formation Cultivators, 12 Xiantian Cultivators and 30 Houtian Cultivators. Tier 6 - Contain 1 Rank 9 Martial Emperor, 3 Martial King Cultivators, 7 Core Formation Cultivators and 24 Xiatian. ----> At this point Houtian doesn''t matter. Tier 7 - Contain 1 Martial God, 2 Martial Emperors, 5 Martial Kings and 12 Core Formation Cultivators ----> Xiantian experts don''t matter at this point. These are the tiers in which future organisations belong to, so the continent Dana currently in the respective Empires she is up against are mere Tier 1 power, and are considered the weakest.@@ 1 Prologue Dana Whitefield was bored. All her life she felt that there was something missing. It was one of the main reasons she became an extreme sports enthusiast because it was one of the few times where she felt adrenaline and excitement from the risk of challenging herself. Her parents wanted her to get a law degree and take over the family''s law firm, but such a dull life wasn''t meant for her. She wanted something more, something to make her blood boil. Despite being beautiful and having many suitors, she was never willing to sacrifice her adventurous lifestyle to develop a serious relationship. Even now, in her mid-thirties, she wasn''t ready to settle down and have a family. So, against her parent''s wishes, she adventured around the world doing many exciting things, such as climbing mountains and skydiving. However, this all failed spectacularly when eventually all of her savings was spent, resulting in her having to work a dull average job. Little did she know her wish would come true, but not how she expected. Whilst she was walking to work an azure lighting bolt struck, sending her soul inside a lone egg of a Frost Wyvern. 2 Chapter 1 - Rebirth as a Frost Wyvern As the azure lighting bolt disintegrated Dana''s body, her soul was pushed towards another realm, arriving quickly towards the Azure Continent, within a world completely different from the one she is familiar with, a world of cultivation. Within the Azure Continent, many cultivators noticed a great influx of energy within the sky, when a beam of light-headed towards the deadliest area within the entire Azure Continent, Devils Peak. This area was known as the home of many of the strongest spirit beasts out of the four Great Empires, which included the Azure Empire, Orthos Empire, Eranyth Empire, and the Holy Empire. This resulted in a large mass of cultivators heading towards the forest in a frenzied manner, which is normally the most feared area within the Azure Continent, which many would usually think twice before even considering to enter within such a place. Many other minor kingdoms and the other three Great Empires, sent some of their most elite forces hoping to look for the treasure which has released such great energy, causing the once peaceful and gloomy forest, to be greatly chaotic as many spirit beasts and human cultivators alike fought deadly battles. However, Devil''s Peak soon settled down, as even after months and years have passed not one trace has been discovered the believed heavenly treasure which caused the sensational influx of energy within the skies at it crashed in Devils Peak. But, even though the Four Empire''s were greatly disappointed by the events, this still didn''t stop many of the minor cultivators rejoicing because of the gains they received became much higher as a consequence of the chaos caused, as normally minor characters like them, would hardly possess any resources to aid their cultivation, with the addition of their poor talent made them struggle even further to make a living from hunting spirit beasts. Now because of this situation, they earned more than what normally would take months of bitter life and death struggles to achieve, thus this event provided a major contribution to not only their cultivation progress but their families living conditions. Little did everybody know the cause of the energy was a newborn Frost Wyvern which has just hatched within the outer parts of Devils Peak, completely unnoticed by the cultivators which had been desperately searching for it... 3 Chapter 2 - "Where am I?" As Dana awoken, she squinted her eyes and gazed across the surroundings. "A tropical forest?? Why am I in a forest??" She kept telling herself that this was a dream and was simple a hallucination. Yes, she must have banged her head or something, this is why her head feels so groggy. However, she realized that no matter how many times she shakes her head and blinks, the surroundings maintain the same. Her eyes widened in disbelief, but just as she was pondering what is happening to her a robotic voice filled her head. *BEEP* *BEEP* BEAST CULTIVATING SYSTEM ACTIVATED. INITIATING SYSTEM *BEEP* 22% 44% 66% 83% 96% 100% System integrated.... [Welcome to the beast cultivating system host] "What??!" Dana stuttered back with her thoughts. Wow, she must really be going crazy right now, first she is hallucinating about being inside a tropical forest and now she is hearing voices inside her head. Maybe, this could a result of having a little to much to drink last night. Yep, she should seriously consider having less alcohol. [Checking host health... Host currently you are 100% perfect health, however your body is currently physically exhausted from hatching outside the shell] "Ok, what the hell is this voice talking about?" Dana muttered, her hand raising toward her head to whack away at some annoying flies. Angrily whacking her hand around to flap them away but wait claws... She looked towards herself. "Wait why do I have scales?" [Host is a Frost Wyvern, a rare spirit beast which is a descendant of True Dragons] "What, Frost Wyvern?" Dana tries to touch all over herself, just realizing that she is no longer human. Azure scales and spikes covered her body from top to bottom, although newborn she is already the size of large German Shepherd.Wait, what is this is real? To answer her theory she decides to ask a question. "System, where am I?" [Host is currently in Devil''s Peak inside the Azure Empire Kingdom, an area inhabited by many spirit beasts. Many cultivators also come here to hunt spirit beasts and look for rare materials] Wait, hunt spirit beasts??? "Does that mean I''m basically going to be hunted by every human I now come across?" [Yes Host, as a Frost Wyvern it is a very rare spirit beast many cultivators will want it either as rare materials or an expensive beast companion especially an infant such as yourself not to mention other spirit beasts. A Frost Wyvern is a delicacy among many other spirit beasts as it contains a thin amount of True Dragon bloodline, and can strengthen the purity of other beasts bloodlines and increases their potential in order to ascend cultivation levels] "So this basically means I''ve got a massive target on my back?" [Yes, unless Host becomes strong enough. A Frost Wyvern still contains True Dragon Bloodline, and with the help of the system Host can gain new bloodlines, upgrade bloodline purity and talent. Making Host able to inherit many other bloodline skills, which are unique towards other spirit beasts and even regaining the Frost Wyvern ancestry becoming genuine a True Dragon] Guess this means I must get stronger. In this world it seems the strong eats the weak. Well, I always wanted a more exciting life. 4 Chapter 3 - Features Of "So how do I use the system?" [Host, just need to say "Status" and it will display your current cultivation level and bloodline. As a Frost Wyvern your bloodline is surprisingly pure, and for this realm we are currently in you have probably the most pure bloodline among Frost Wyverns] "Status" *SHOWING STATS* Name: Dana Whitefield Cultivation Level: Body Refining Stage 1 ; Cultivation Method: None Body Cultivation: [Locked] ; Cultivation Method: [Locked] Soul Cultivation: [Locked]; Cultivation Method: [Locked] Bloodline: Frost Wyvern 83% Purity Bloodline skills: Frost Breath, Dragon Aura, Ice Claw, Poisonous Spikes and Poison Ice Breath. Bloodline Inherited Talents: Ice Qi Affinity ----> Increases comprehension towards Ice Laws and Ice Attributed Martial Skills, Body Cultivation----> Due having heritage of a True Dragon, your body is naturally more suitable towards cultivation of the body, any cultivation methods which requires use of the body is 50% more effective and easier to cultivate, Poison Immunity ----> As a Frost Wyvern with a rare bloodline, you have a high resistance towards poison. Whilst seeing her own status, she realized how strong the Frost Wyvern s race are if newborns are already extremely powerful. If a Frost Wyvern newborn has all these benefits at birth she wondered how strong an adult is. It also gave her a yearning of more strength as the system stated that a Frost Wyvern is merely a long-line descendant of a True Dragon with only a thin trace of its bloodline, which ignites her desires in order become stronger even further. While I was pondering on this, the systems robotic voice once interrupted my thoughts. [Host has access to a starting pack, do you wish to use it now?] "Yes" Dana spoke out unhesitatingly, with the system foreboding emotionless voice on how much a Frost Wyvern is desired by virtually everything in this world she knew that without sufficient strength others will be able to make decisions for her. Something which someone like Dana would be unable to accept, as in her previous life with the repeated attempts of shackling herself on what her parents desired of her resulted in her becoming even more determined in what she set out herself to do. Even though, she knew that her old life on Earth is over and this life will be filled with struggles in order to survive after her parents died there were virtually no one left on the world she truly cared about. Therefore, she had truly nothing that burdened herself back on Earth. *BEEP* DRAGON EMPEROR CULTIVATION METHOD AND X5 RANK 3 BLOODLINE PURITY PILLS BEEP* [Host has gained a Heaven Ranked Cultivation method, which is truly lucky as there are currently none of such methods in this realm. Would host like to see the description of both items?] "Yes" Dragon Emperor Cultivation Method ----> The ultimate technique of the True Dragon Race, this technique passively refines the body (As individuals after body refining realm puts less focus on their body, as they mainly cultivate QI whereas this method will continuously refine the body) and creates highly pure Dragon Qi. Also, increases bloodline abilities of those with True Dragon bloodline. This technique can only be used by those with True Dragon Bloodline, and the effectiveness of the method increases depending on the purity of the True Dragon Bloodline. Rank 3 Bloodline Purity Pills -----> Increases Bloodline purity by 3%(Affects decrease the higher the purity of bloodline also on quality of bloodline) Dana immediately uses the bloodline purity pills which increases her bloodline by an additional 4% as her bloodline was already very pure. Dana was wondering on how to use her new cultivation method so she asked the system. [The system can imprint the cultivation method into your mind] As soon as the system spoke, her mind felt burning pain and she felt the cultivation method deeply imprinted in her mind. Dana immediately started to sense the various Qi bringing it inside in her body, as soon as this occurred a suction force erupted and all the surrounding Qi began being rapidly refined in her body. Her body was being refined at a rapid pace and Dana felt that if she absorbed the Qi for a day then she can immediately become a Ranked 2 Body Practioner. If this was heard by a cultivator in the Azure Kingdom they will immediately be shocked as even the individual which was the fastest in becoming a Ranked 2 Body refining Cultivator in Azure Kingdom history required four months. An individual which has reached a Rank 7 Body Refining Cultivator in Azure Kingdom by the age of 20 is considered a genius, if that individual started cultivating at 8 years of age. After an hour on meditation Dana opened her eyes, feeling very pleased with her new cultivation method. Hmmm. I wonder other features of the system are? If the system can improve my bloodline and give me access to other bloodlines I know that it will greatly help me progress in this world. "System, what are your other features?" [Host, can access the system store which has various different bloodlines, pills, spirit fruits and other various different options to choose from. To purchase in the shop you will have to absorb the souls of beasts or cultivators which will turn into soul points, you can also hunt other beasts with bloodlines and attract them to sell for points or combine the bloodline into yours] "How do I assess the store?" [Host just needs to state "Store", and it will bring up a menu of the various different options the system can provide] "Store" stated Dana. *STORE* Bloodlines Pills Spirit Fruit Talent Various options were presented in front of Dana, which questions on what to choose first. Dana immediately made her choice. "Bloodlines" A list of bloodlines came up ranging from common bloodlines to divine, as soon as Dana saw the price of True Dragon Bloodline her eyes widened. True Dragon Bloodline ----> 100 million soul points Wow so expensive. Guess it will be a long time until I become even close in becoming a True Dragon. Dana immediately scrolled towards the items which she has already received. Rank 3 Bloodline Purity Pills ----> 500 soul points Dragon Emperor Cultivation Method ----> 50 million soul points Guess I lucked out towards a cultivation method already. Dana then began to wonder how many soul points she will gain from killing beast and cultivators. "How many points do I get from killing beast and cultivators?" [Host, the point you gain depends on the rank of the best and your own rank yourself. It also depends on the talent of the individual when regarding a cultivator or bloodline of a spirit beast. As certain individuals may be a genius or a long lived cultivator which has many different martial skills and can fight individuals at higher realms, also a beast which has a strong bloodline will always be stronger than a weaker one therefore the points will be awarded accordingly. For instance if you are at the beginning of Qi Circulation realm the soul points towards a Rank 3 Body Refining spirit beast you will gain a minuscule amount of points compared to the soul points of an individual of similar level. Beast also are known to be stronger than the average cultivator of the same rank, so on most beasts you will gain more soul points] With the system answering her question Dana immediately sat back, and started absorbing more spirit Qi knowing that she will have to be doing a lot of hunting in this forest in order to improve herself. 5 Chapter 4 - First Kill After cultivating for a day, Dana has finally reached the Second Level of Body Refining realm which as a result her body size increased and her scales became harder indicating that her body has grown stronger. "Second Rank of Body Refining Realm" Dana muttered with a pleased expression. With her new found confidence in progressing in cultivation, Dana has decided to hunt for some beasts. As she already asked the system earlier if she was strong enough to go around the area looking for beasts, the system indicated that she is in one of the safest areas of the forest and the strongest beasts in this area are only at around Ranm Three or Four of the Body Refining Realm at most. After having further knowledge on bloodlines Dana knew she has a great advantage, as a Frost Wyvern was one of the strongest beasts in this realm. As Dana has been asking many questions she found at currently she was in a low realm, in which there are barely any beasts that can compete with the Frost Wyvern bloodline at all. Not mentioning her bloodline purity is high, which results in her being naturally stronger than other Frost Wyvern''s. This basically means that she is unrivaled in this realm compared to others at a similar cultivation level towards her, and that she can even challenge others which are two or three ranks higher. Dana quickly sprinted at an astonishing speed for her size, her draconic paws carrying her at an absurd pace uncountable towards what any animal is capable of on Earth. After spending some time searching around the areashe finally came across a large fox covered in blazing red fur. "System which beast is that and how strong is it?" [Host that is a Fire Fox, a spirit beast with a common bloodline with a natural affinity for fire. Due to its bloodline it can spit out fire blasts and it is currently a Rank 3 Spirit Beast] Dana immediately wondered how many soul points it is worth. [It is worth 5 points due to its common bloodline and its superiority in cultivation by one level, as your bloodline is many times superior it should not be difficult for you to kill] After hearing the answer Dana immediately realizes how fortunate she have gotten with her cultivation method. She then decided that this will be her first kill in this world, she knew that she cannot hesitate with killing other bests and cultivators otherwise she will surely have an unfortunate ending, therefore Dana pounced towards the unsuspecting Fire Fox aiming for a sure lethal blow. Which was what she thought was going to happen in her mind, unfortunately as Dana is very inexperienced with moving in her new body never mind fighting in it the Fire Fox which has keen senses due to spent many years living inside a hostile environment with constant life and death battles dodged out the way of the attack. However, even though Dana was inexperienced she is still a Frost Wyvern which is an apex predator of this realm which natural abilities far out power the Fire Fox so a claw cut into the Fire Fox''s body leaving behind a shallow cut. The Fire Fox knew that it is in danger and that the being in front of it poses a risk towards its life, so without hesitation released its strongest method of attack; fire blast. With a face of disbelief Dana knew her attack failed but before she can recover for another attack, the Fire Fox launched a ball of fire towards her. She decided to use her ability Frost Breath which shot a breath of Ice Qi, as spirit beasts will instinctively know how to use their bloodline inherited abilities it was no problem for her to use the ability perfectly. Unlike cultivators which use martial techniques, spirit beasts have bloodline abilities which they can naturally use at birth. The ball of fire was immediately dispersed and the frost breath continued its path towards the Fire Fox, which nimbly dodged to the side. Dana knew she underestimated the various other spirit beasts and that she should stop having a superiority complex towards other beasts because of her bloodline is stronger, as they have to survive in this deadly place full of predators on a daily basis, their battles instincts and experiences by far out do hers. She knew that she will have to have serious training to properly utilize her bloodline, otherwise she will be wasting her natural gifts. So, therefore she charged towards the Fire Fox. The Fire Fox decided to meet her in this exchange as it knew it cannot outrun the being in front of it and decided that this was the best method to survive this ordeal. As Dana bit into the Fire Fox and clawed at its body it let out a howl as it tried to fight back. But, how strong was a Frost Wyvern''s body was? Unlike the Fire Fox, Dana could immediately tear open its flesh like paper and ignore the attacks opposing her due to her terrifying defense. After five minutes of a desperate struggle from the Fire Fox, it let out its last breath of life. "Wow that was much harder than expected, system I thought this was supposed to be easy?" Dana was shocked, as even with her natural advantages of being a superior spirit beast with a stronger bloodline she still received some injuries, with the Fire Fox battle experience it put up a great fight causing her to lose out on some of the exchanges. However, with her natural high vitality and strong defense she had nearly unlimited stamina whereas the injuries piled up over time causing the Fire Fox to get weaker and weaker until it couldn''t put up a struggle. [Host, it would be an easy battle with a usual Frost Wyvern and the Fire Fox, as you are very inexperienced with being a beast, you ended up taking injuries. The system recommends host to practice towards lower level beasts in order to gain more adaptability towards your body before confronting stronger beasts.] Dana now knew how dangerous this world truly was, with the systems praises about how powerful her bloodline was in this world she had grown arrogant, thinking that she could defeat anything along as it wasn''t vastly superior in cultivation towards her. She knew that she has to put more effort in training getting used to this body and having real battle experience before fighting the stronger beasts in this area. This was just a common Rank 3 Body Refining Spirit beast and she still struggled despite having one of the strongest rare bloodlines. "Well I still have gained 5 soul points, guess I got more training to do before I go hunt spirit beasts which has uncommon bloodlines and are further higher levels of cultivation than me" 5 Chapter 4 - First Encounter, First Kill After cultivating for the entire day as predicted Dana finally reached the Second Level of Body Refining realm, which upon doing so Dana felt her body size increase alongside her scales becoming sturdier. Feeling the newfound strength of her body made Dana marvel at the wonders that cultivation brings to an individual, even with just this slight increase in cultivation rank Dana feels like she could get addicted to this feeling. Now achieving an increase in her cultivation rank, gave Dana newfound confidence in exploring the Forest making her decide to hunt beasts. As Dana has been in Devil''s Peak for over a day, she feels already feels hunger from her stomach. Although it disgusts her at the thought of eating raw meat Dana resolved herself to do so, thus Dana not only wanted to hunt beasts entirely for soul points but also for herself. Dana already asked how beasts cultivate without a cultivation method, in which it states that beasts devour each other carcasses to absorb the Qi within the flesh. This encouraged Dana even further to search for some prey as not only will it appease her hunger, but it will provide a benefit towards cultivation. Concerned for her safety, Dana already asked the system earlier if she had the means to protect herself if she goes hunting in this area, in which the System responded to the delight of Dana that this area is incredibly safe with only Rank Three and Four Body Refining Beasts, which will definitely pose no threat to her because of her bloodline! Earlier Dana had gained further insight into the importance of bloodlines towards a beast, in the cultivation world a beast power would correspondingly rank towards the quality of its bloodline, thus because Dana is a Frost Wyvern which is one of the strongest Rare Bloodlines around, Dana discovered in realm a Frost Wyvern is one of the most powerful. As from further discovery Dana, she discovered that she was in a low realm which possesses a little number of beasts which could even compete with a Frost Wyvern. Making Dana know with certainty she is unrivalled compared to beasts in the same Cultivation Realm in terms of strength, and even beasts which are three or four ranks above her may pose a minimum amount of threat towards her. Therefore, with the backing of her bloodline, Dana has truly no fear towards Rank Three and Four Body Refining Beasts. Not to mention her bloodline purity is astonishingly high, which results in her being naturally stronger than other Frost Wyvern''s. Dana quickly sprinted at an astonishing speed for her size, her Draconic paws carrying her at an inhuman pace incomparable towards any animal in her previous life is capable of. After searching around the area, she finally came across her first conquest, a large Fox covered in blazing red fur. "System, which beast is that and how strong is it?" Asked Dana in a curious tone. [Ding! Host that spirit beast is a Firefox, a beast which contains no bloodline heritage but owns a natural affinity for Fire Qi. The beast''s basic ability is shooting a ball of Fire by gathering the Fire Qi within its mouth, its cultivation is at Rank Three Body Refining.] Hmm. Dana wondered how many soul points could a Beast of this Rank be worth? Dana inquired about her query to the System. [Ding! The Firefox is worth two points, as it is a Beast at the third Body Refining Realm which contains no bloodline heritage, thus its total value is two soul points.] After hearing the response to her question, this made Dana even further realise the sheer fortune she encountered for such an expensive cultivation method. Looking at the Firefox she firmed her resolve into making it her first kill since coming to this world, she knew she cannot hesitate with killing other beasts to survive in this place. With resoluteness in her gaze, she stealthily walked towards the beast. Getting as close as possible without alerting the beast, Dana pounced towards the back of the beast aiming to sink her canines into its neck. The Firefox suddenly felt its survival instinct flare, signalling danger. Narrowly escaping from Dana''s attack, a shallow wound emerged across its neck. Shock emerged in Dana''s eyes, however, this soon turns into a look of understanding as based a conclusion upon witnessing its agile reactions. As she has just been a spirit beast for a mere day, she is obviously not going to compare to a spirit beast which has been living within this type of environment its entire life. Dana is still inexperienced in moving her new beast limbs enabling the Firefox which had spent many years within a hostile environment experiencing life and death situations in being able to escape the fatal attack Dana launched towards it. However, even though Dana was inexperienced, she is still a Frost Wyvern, which is an apex predator of this realm which natural abilities is far superior compared to the FireFox, thus why Dana still caused a minor injury towards it. Upon witnessing Dana''s appearance, the Firefox knew Dana is a threat towards its life, and without using its best means for survival it cannot withstand the being before it, so without hesitation released its strongest method of attack; Fire Blast. Knowing her attack failed, Dana saw the surrounding Fire Qi was gathering within its mouth, Dana knew the Firefox used its strongest means of attack! It shot a ball of fire towards Dana, which was releasing a blazing hot sensation. To counter the Firefox''s attack, Dana used one of the Frost Wyvern''s bloodline abilities; Frost Breath, causing Ice Qi to form a constant stream of Ice which shot out from Dana''s mouth. Dana could instinctively already use this ability as any spirit beasts will have an instinctive knowledge on how to use their bloodline inherited abilities, therefore it was no problem for her to use the bloodline ability without prior practice. This was another benefit in which a bloodline provides an individual with powerful abilities which doesn''t require practice to master, as a cultivator would strenuously practice martial skills which purely requires them to use their comprehension to understand the meaning behind the martial skill, whereas a bloodline user could have a mastery towards skills just as powerful as martial skills with no need to practice at all. The Frost Breath directly dispersed the ball of fire,continuing unhindered towards the Firefox, which nimbly dodged to the side away from the Ice Qi freezing the objects which remained within its path. Seeing the Firefox escaping from her attack again Dana now realized she has truly underestimated the various other spirit beasts, making her decide she should stop having a superiority complex towards other beasts because of her bloodline being stronger, with them having to survive within such a deadly place full of predators day in day out, their battles instincts which have been honed repeatedly making it far outstrip hers, a human which hadn''t experienced real danger her entire life. Furthermore, Dana knew she will have to do some serious training to gain further understanding of her bloodline abilities, so she can utilize them with the utmost efficiency, otherwise, she will waste her natural gifts. So, therefore she charged towards the FireFox. The FireFox met her in this exchange as it knew it cannot possibly outrun the being in front of it, so knew this was the best possible solution to survive this ordeal. Dana bit into the Firefox and clawed at its body inflicting savage wounds into the Firefox, it let out a howl of pain as it attempted land strikes of its own. But, how strong was a Frost Wyvern''s body? Unlike the Firefox, Dana could immediately tear open its flesh like paper and ignore the attacks directed towards her because of her naturally strong defensive capabilities. After over five minutes past, the desperate struggle from the Firefox finally ceased,as it let out its last breath of life. "Now that was much more difficult than I anticipated, System I thought this was not meant to be any challenge what so ever towards me?" Dana asked, with a puzzled expression on her face. Honestly, Dana was full of disbelief as even with her natural advantages of being the much more superior spirit beast, with a stronger bloodline, she still received injuries, with the Firefox battle experience it put up a great fight causing her to lose out on most of the exchanges. However, with her natural high vitality and strong defence, the Firefox couldn''t cause any damage towards her whereas in the Firefox''s circumstances the injuries piled up over time, causing the Firefox to get weaker and weaker until it couldn''t any further resistance towards her. [Host, it would be an easy battle with a usual Frost Wyvern and the Firefox, as you are very inexperienced with being a beast, you ended up being at a disadvantage towards the Firefox. The system recommends Host to practice towards lower level beasts to gain more adaptability towards your body and battle experience before confronting the stronger beasts.] Dana now knew how naive she truly was, with the praises of the system about how powerful her bloodline was in this world she had grown too arrogant, thinking she was invincible towards any spirit beast or cultivator at similar of a cultivation rank compared to her. She knew she has to put much effort into getting herself used to her new beast body alongside having real battle experience in fighting within this form before engaging the stronger beasts within Devil''s Peak. This was just a regular Rank 3 Body Refining Spirit beast, and she still struggled despite having one of the strongest rare bloodlines. "Well, I still have gained 5 soul points, guess I got more training to do before I go hunting spirit beasts which have uncommon bloodlines and are far higher levels of cultivation than me," Dana thought. However, Dana''s rumbling stomach suddenly disturbed her thinking. "Guess I really have to eat this beast raw..." Dana spoke with hesitation looking upon the carcass of the Firefox. She knew she has no means of creating a fire at all with her beast-like hands, and as her attribute was Ice not fire, then she can only consume the beast like it is. Taking a chunk out of the beast, Dana strangely didn''t feel repulsed and in fact, the taste was delicious. Soon Dana was chunking down the beast meat with enthusiasm, her previous repulsed expression gone with a face filled with satisfaction about her full stomach. Content with her appetite filled, Dana felt puzzled over her experience. She felt it strange that as a former human, she should find eating raw meat such as this with disgust but instead she found as it a perfectly normal thing to do. Looking upon the previous chunky body of the Firefox, with all the remains being left is just a bunch of bones. It seems I really was hungry; I gulped down a full seven stone sized beast. Looking upon her body she wondered where the hell did all that meat go? But, upon realizing that her version of ''normal'' will not exist upon being in this world she discarded this thought, many crazier things have happened to her within this past day, a large belly isn''t as far stretched out of her realms of understanding. Feeling her cultivation has to take a clear improvement after devouring the Firefox, Dana ignored that her natural reaction was irregular and just to continue eating spirit beasts. She would have to feed herself somewhere right? Finding a quiet area to cultivate, Dana entered a trancelike state absorbing the Qi. Thinking will be busy the next week in training herself up into a standard in which she could be proud of. 6 Chapter 5 - Training in Devils Peak It has been a week since Dana fought the Fire Fox and now she is already at Ranm Four Body Refining Realm. After, the fight with the Fire Fox she knew that her battle experience simple couldn''t be compared towards any other spirit beast. So therefore, she worked on developing her own fighting style and hunted many spirit beasts of similar rank towards her or one rank higher to refine her own style. After fighting a spirit beast she will cultivate at night, continuously improving her cultivation. With this type of practice, Dana continuously improved until unlike the struggle she had when facing a beast one rank higher than her with the need to have a complete reliance on her natural abilities being higher, now she dealt with beasts one rank higher with ease. Although, she still couldn''t be compared to the average spirit beast in terms of battle experience and having to struggle to survive in this environment, she improved greatly from previously. Dana also used more of the Frost Wyvern''s natural abilities in poison, at is one of the main reasons of a Frost Wyvern''s having such a deadly reputation as they contain one of the strongest poisons among Rare Bloodline ranked spirit beasts. Whilst training her bloodline abilities alongside her battle style, it increased her comp ability of using both together in order to defeat her opponents. As her cultivation improved and having a daily meal of spirit beasts her size greatly increased until she was the size of a large horse. After killing many spirit beasts this week of similar level and a few one rank higher, she has gathered 100 soul points from the system. She currently does not want to spend any soul points as the only options available for her are cheap medical pills and even some weapons for the use of humans, which made her excited of having the hope of becoming human again. Although she enjoyed being a spirit beast, it has become lonely for her. As human are social creatures, even though she wasn''t the sociable type in her previous life, she still misses individuals to talk to. When she asked the system this possibility it replied that she can unlock a human form eventually, which made her very excited at the thought of joining civilization again. With this new found confidence of the increase of cultivation level and battle ability she decided that she will now leave this area and attempt to fight spirit beasts which are Rank 6 Body Refining realm. Whilst grinning at the thought of fierce battle, she came to the realization that she is a becoming a battle maniac. After the first few battles of struggling at killing and fighting spirit beasts, she began to realize she improved at a rapid pace showing that she has great talent for it. In her previous life she had done many extreme sports for the thrill, and found that similarly compared on having battles with spirit beasts as it gives her the same feeling as sky diving from 18,000 ft. With her new found confidence in her strength, she decided to look for a Rank Six spirit beast. Impatiently she sprinted towards further into the depth of the forest, after a few skirmishes with some Rank Four Body Refining beasts which was easily dealt with. She came across a large bear, which was twice the size of the largest bear on Earth in her previous life. "System, what is that?" [Host, that is a Iron Bear. A strong spirit beast with earth and metal Qi, this one looks like a variant as it has grey tattoos in it''s fur. This shows that it has inherited dual attributes of both Earth and Metal Qi, this will give it an even more horrifying defense and strength compared to an Earth Bear] "What a variant, are they worth more than a usual common bloodline?] [Yes, as it is naturally stronger than usual. This creature is worth 35 soul points from the system, as it has a Common Variant bloodline and is three ranks higher than yourself.] As she heard the system she was shocked. 35 soul points? She only gathered around 100 in a week hunting only beasts of similar level, looks like a common variant bloodline and cultivation level must have a serious impact on its strength. Whilst hesitating to engage in a battle she knew that she wasn''t yet a match of a beast three cultivation levels higher, a large roar erupted from the forest. Immediately, tensing up she sneakily hid behind a large boulder when she saw what the roar came from it was a large tiger which was similar a Level Seven Body Refining spirit beast. "System what is that?" [Host, this is also a spirit beast with a variant common bloodline called a Blaze Tiger, but this one has Fire and Air attributes. This tiger is challenging the bear for it''s territory and also wishes to devour it in order to become a Ranked Eight Body Refining beast.] After the systems message the Tiger lept onto the Iron Bear''s back, with astonishing speed. She noticed the air Qi gather around the Tiger as it lept which gave it a burst of speed. The fire Qi gathered around its fangs as it bite into the Iron bears neck. Surprisingly, that fierce attack only a small wound around its neck. Angered, the Iron Bear shook its body in an attempt to get the tiger off. However, this was proven ineffective as the tiger repetitively launched attacks towards the Metal Bear. Although, the Iron Bear''s defense is extraordinary injuries were still being inflicted. Knowing that this was not the solution to its problem the Iron Bear launched its bloodline ability were metal Qi gathered shooting in all directions which impacted the Blaze Tiger, which was sent tumbling. Although, a Blaze tiger had extraordinary offensive capabilities its defense was rather poor showing that a fierce wound was left after that exchange. The Iron Bear wasn''t faring much better itselfas it was covered in many wounds all over it''s body. Knowing that this was an opportunity to take them both down at once, I waited until both beasts fought until they were both covered with horrifying wounds lying on the ground completely still, breathing shallowly, I knew that the chances of me beating a Level Seven beast with uncommon bloodline was few so this was a great opportunity for me. Dana immediately lept towards them using her most horrifying attack Frost Poison Breath. Usually, these beasts will remain unaffected by either getting out of the way or having the protection of Qi under such an attack. However, as they both just engaged in a vicious battle they had no Qi left and was simple ready for me to slaughter. As soon as the attack was launched panic emerged in both of their eyes which soon turned into a lifeless look as they both succumbed to the poison. Grinning because of her huge gains of soul points before she was about to leave the system voice sounded in my head. [Host, would you like to absorb their bloodlines for soul points? As these are two variant unique bloodlines they are both worth 250 soul points each] Dana replied yes without hesitation, she has no use of just common variant ranked bloodlines as her bloodline was much stronger, only a similar rank bloodline can give her a much better bloodline. Not mentioning her aim was to improve her bloodline by advancing towards a True Dragon bloodline. Dana left with the grin still on her face, as this was the most she has gained from her week of being here. She decided once she get backs to a safe area she will look in the system to see if there is anything interesting to purchase with her soul points. 7 Chapter 6 - System Store and Rank Six Body Refining Realm Once Dana found a suitable area which was relatively safe from the surrounding spirit beasts. She opened the system store. "Store" *STORE* Pills Dana selected the pills option, as at the moment she could not afford any rare bloodlines with the points she obtained so she prioritised any method in order to increase her cultivation. Scrolling the list of pills, Dana found a perfect choice. Rank 2 Body Refining Pill ¡ª¡ª> 650 soul points. Increases body refining cultivation speed by 75% for three days. Contains no impurities and doesn''t affect foundation. This was the perfect solution at the moment it will increase her cultivation speed more than double the amount it is currently. Even though her cultivation speed is impressive she still has a foreboding feeling that she needs to increase her strength quickly. As soon as she purchased the pill from the store, a pill with a pleasing aroma emerged in front of her. Dana swiftly ate the pill, as a pleasing sensation occurred throughout her body. Dana immediately started cultivating , she knew that most beasts does not have a cultivation method so beasts at Body Refining Realm eat other beasts to increase their cultivation. At Qi circulation realm a beast forms it''s core and beasts at this realm will consume other beasts core to improve their cultivation. Dana has been doing both so it is no reason her cultivation has been rising so rapidly, usually this is impossible as there are hardly any cultivation techniques suited for beasts to cultivate. Luckily, Dana has a technique perfectly suited for her. A suction force emerged from her dantian as she absorbs the surrounding Qi, which rapidly refines her body. After twelve hours past swiftly Dana''s cultivation at peak Rank Four Body Refining realm promotes to Rank Five. "Finally" Dana voices as an intoxicating feeling fills her body as she progressed in cultivation. Her body once again grows and her scales grow even harder indicating the promotion of level. The body refining pill worked perfectly and has already shown great benefits, originally she estimated that it would take around a day and half before her cultivation levels to five of Body Refining Realm. But, now it progressed in twelve hours, Dana was delighted. She knew that every second of the pills effects cannot be wasted therefore, she prepared to go into cultivation for three days. Three days quickly pass and Dana''s cultivation has improved once again to Rank Six of the Body Refining Realm. Dana''s scales shined with an azure light as her body cracked once she risen. If anybody in the Azure Continent knew that Dana has progressed to Rank Six Body Refining Realm in week whereas an individual in the Azure continent which has been cultivating for 10 years and achieved a Rank Six Body Refining Realm at eighteen is considered a rare genius, they would be shocked beyond belief. A satisfied smile was on Dana''s face instead of taking another two to three weeks to cultivate to this level it required a mere three days with assistance of the body refining pill. Dana has realised how heaven defyingthis system is, she knows that along as she has access to the system she can continuously improve and grow stronger. Usually, a spirit beast will have basically very low means on improving their bloodline or even evolving their bloodline into a superior one. For instance a Frost Wyvern will have basically no chance of improving its bloodline and will thus be shackled by its bloodline being unable to improve any further one its bloodline limits is reached. This is another issue of bloodlines, although powerful they greatly restrict spirit beasts as one with a weak bloodline will have no future and unable to progress past even the body refining stage. With the system what would be one of the most major problems on spirit beasts poses no problems for her. With her new found cultivation Dana now wants to fight a beast at the Ninth Rank of Body Refining. Dana wants to have a real test with an encounter in which is above her limits, although she killed two beasts three levels higher than herself before that was due to sheer luck. So with further determination Dana speeds towards the area in which inhabits the Overlord of the outer Areas of the forest, the Golden Monkey King which is apeak ninth Body Refining cultivation level with the first uncommon bloodline she has seen in this forest. Dana found this spirit beast whilst hunting for Rank 5 Body Refining Spirit Beasts around the forest and immediately fled for her life, now it is time for her to experience the most dangerous situation she found herself in this world. And she approaches it with a excited gleam in her eyes. 7 Chapter 6 - System Store and Rank Six Body Refining After Dana finished eating the Two Spirit Beasts, Dana soon found a quiet area void from hostile spirit beasts, so she can safely open the System Store. ''Store'' [Store] [Pills] Dana selected the pill option as at the moment she could not afford any rare bloodlines with the points she obtained so she prioritized any method in order to increase her cultivation. Scrolling the list of pills, Dana found a perfect choice. Rank 2 Body Refining Pill ¡ª¡ª> 650 soul points. Increases body refining cultivation speed by 75% for three days. Contains no impurities and doesn''t affect the foundation. This was the perfect solution at the moment it will increase her cultivation speed more than double the amount it is currently. Even though her cultivation speed is impressive she still has a foreboding feeling that she needs to increase her strength quickly. As soon as she purchased the pill from the store, a pill with a pleasing aroma emerged in front of her. Dana swiftly ate the pill, as a pleasing sensation occurred throughout her body. Dana instantly began cultivating, she knew most beasts do not have access to a cultivation method similar to her, the main way a beast cultivate at Body Refining Realm consuming other beast''s flesh which is filled with Qi. As in this world, everything contains Qi, including the grass, fruit and vegetables. Thus, the herbivore beasts progress in cultivation through assimilating the Qi their diets, in either the grass or other types of vegetables they eat. Then the predators will eat these beasts, absorbing the Qi in their flesh becoming stronger. This creates a never-ending cycle of forming new Spirit Beasts in the cultivation world. For a beast to become a Qi Circulation Realm Beast they have to form their cores, thus the primary methods for beasts at this stage to increase their cultivation will devour the other beast''s core, as it contains that entire beasts cultivation. This plays another contributing role towards Dana, as Dana has used both methods of human and beast, thus it is no reason her cultivation has risen so rapidly, usually, this is impossible as there are hardly any cultivation techniques suited for beasts to cultivate. Of-course talent also plays a major role, as humans also eat Spirit Beasts to cause benefits towards their cultivation, but few humans eat so lavishly compared to Dana, primarily eating Spirit Beasts as her sole means of eating. Fortunately, Dana has a technique perfectly suited for her. As it must suit that particular beast to use that cultivation method, Dana seriously lucked out getting a cultivation technique suited for beasts related to the Dragon race. A suction force emerged from Dana as she absorbs the surrounding Qi, rapidly refining her body. After twelve hours passed swiftly Dana''s cultivation at peak Rank, Four Body Refining realm promotes to Rank Five. "Finally" Dana voices as an intoxicating feeling fill her body as she progressed in cultivation. Her body once again grows and her scales grow even sturdier than before showing the promotion of Cultivation Rank. The body refining pill worked perfectly and has already shown great benefits towards her cultivation, originally she estimated that it would take around a day and a half before her cultivation increases to the Fifth Rank of Body Refining Realm. But, now it''s progressed in twelve hours, Dana was delighted. She knew that every second of the effects of the pill cannot be squandered, therefore; she prepared to go into closed-door cultivation for three days. Three days quickly pass and Dana''s cultivation has improved once again to Rank Six of the Body Refining Realm. Dana''s scales shined with an azure light as her body cracked once she has risen. If anybody in the Azure Continent knew Dana has progressed to Rank Six Bodies Refining Realm in a week, whereas an individual in the Azure continent which has been cultivated for 10 years and achieved a Rank Six Body Refining Realm at eighteen is considered a rare genius, they would be shocked beyond belief. A satisfied smile was on Dana''s face instead of taking another two to three weeks to cultivate to this level, it required a mere three days with the assistance of the body refining pill. Dana has realized how heaven-defying this system is, she knows that along as she has access to the system she can continuously improve and grow stronger. Usually, a spirit beast will have basically very low means of improving their bloodline or even evolving their bloodline into a superior one. For instance, a Frost Wyvern will have basically no chance of improving its bloodline and will thus be shackled by its bloodline being unable to improve any further one its bloodline limits is reached. This is another issue of bloodlines although powerful they greatly restrict spirit beasts as one with a weak bloodline will have no future and unable to progress past even the body refining stage. With the system what would be one of the most major problems on spirit, beasts pose no problems for her. With her newfound cultivation, Dana now wants to fight a beast at the Ninth Rank of Body Refining. Dana wants to have a real test with an encounter in which is above her limits, although she killed two beasts three levels higher than herself before that was due to sheer luck. So with further determination, Dana speeds towards the area in which inhabits the Overlord of the outer Areas of the forest, the Golden Monkey King which is a peak ninth Body Refining cultivation level with the first uncommon bloodline she has seen in this forest. Dana found this spirit beast whilst hunting for Rank 5 Body Refining Spirit Beasts around the forest and immediately fled for her life, now it is time for her to experience the most dangerous situation she found herself in this world. And she approaches it with an excited gleam in her eyes. 8 Chapter 7 - Battling Golden Monkey King As Dana came increasingly closer to the Golden Monkey Kings territory, she came across many Golden Monkey subordinates of the Golden Monkey King which thought they could overwhelm her in numbers. However, this soon ended up becoming a one sided slaughter of free soul points, Golden Monkey carcasses littered around a Frost Wyvern. The once bright green grass turned an eerie red, creating a rather horrifying image with the rest of the Monkeys screaming out of fear to their fellow compatriots that there is an evil devil hunting them. Once this was going on Dana was rejoicing with a beautiful smile, which ended up with her current draconic form looking like a blood thirsty evil dragon which scares children in stories. Wow, although their cultivation levels weren''t that high the sheer amount of monkeys made up in quantity! Dana has already made 300 soul points of the hundreds of monkeys ranging from Fourth Level of Body Refining to Seventh, the reason why she had such an easy time is of course the Wyveryn specialty in poison alongside her impenetrable defense among individuals in Body Refining Realm, results in her becoming a mass killing machine against a horde of weaker enemies. Unlike what many would consider an unfavorable crisis turned into an extremely rewarding encounter. Whilst pleased with herself, loud stomps of a terrifying large beast approached her. The Golden Monkey King standing at an impressive 18 ft tall with a stocky frame filled with explosive muscle, covered in golden fur looked at her with a murderous filled with killing intent. Wow it sure lives up to its names as the sole Overlord of the outer area of the forest Dana thought. Dana knew this was going to most dangerous she experienced in this world thus causing her muscles to tense preparing for battle. The Golden Monkey King launched its large fists in a furry of blows at astonishing speed. Dana staggered, barely dodging each blow which contained astonishing power. Dana knew even with her defense getting hit by a beast which is in the process of forming its core to begin its promotion in becoming a Qi Circulation Realm beast will still cause injuries if struck. Dana kept utilising her body''s superior speed in order to evade the Golden Monkey Kings blow whilst waiting for opportunity to strike. The further the battle continues, the more refined in her movements Dana becomes. However, her speed was only slightly higher than the Monkey Kings and Dana knew that she had to take a risk in order to defeat the Golden Monkey King. So, she launched her tail which contained her poisonous spikes at one of the Golden Monkey Kings chest which left her open for an attack from the Golden Monkey King struck her at the same time. *BANG* The Golden Monkey King punch landed like a sledgehammer into her body, she was swung backwards and coughed a mouthful of blood. Whilst a large gash came across the Monkey Kings torso, drops of black coloured blood continuously dropped towards the floor. Although she was hit by the Golden Monkey King she managed to launch her full strength into that attack whilst the Golden Monkey King only landed at around 70% of his power on her body, this was the risk she needed to take in order to option victory. As she wasn''t fast enough to launch an attack which contained her full whilst evading a Spirit Beast which has half a step in Qi Circulation Realm. She needed to launch and attack at her full power in order to break through the Golden Monkeys skin to allow her poison to deep into his veins. As a Frost Wyvern her poison has a frost affect which gradually lowers the opponents reflexes and eventually paralyses then completely. Unless, that cultivator or spirit beast is much stronger than her, has poison immunity it has a detoxifying pill which is strong enough to resist her poison then they are hopeless in becoming her prey. Whilst receiving the poison inside its veins and her full strength attack the Golden Monkey King, shows wariness as the Overlord of this area for many years this is the first time it has been threatened. Even those powerful cultivators which it has seen pass through its territory towards the depths of the forest doesn''t cause it to be threatened by this much, looking at the beast in front of it feels noble aura as if it''s the Emperor of Beasts and for the first time fear. The poison running through its veins is requiring is causing its Qi drain rapidly in order to suppress it. The Golden Monkey Kingknew it had to end this fight quick so launched all of its most powerful attacks. After seeing the desperation in the Golden Monkey face she knew that it was going to go all out. So she immediately prepared herself for the incoming barrage, a golden light shrouded the Golden Monkey Kings fists as it launched its bloodline ability. Dana immediately used Ice Claw to counter, before she was afraid to receive the Golden Monkey Kings attack but now its full strength cannot be displayed, therefore the exchange ended in a tie. After a few more rounds of exchanging, the Golden Monkey Kings attacks grew weaker and weaker until her claws pierced through its chest ending the once mighty Overlord which reined at the top for years to perish. "Wow, that beast was sure tough!" Dana panted, it took much of her concentration to win this fight and this was the hardest battle she experienced coming from this world but with it bring benefits she immediately dug out the Golden Monkey Kings core. Although the Golden Monkey King hasn''t fully completed its core, it still contained a massive amount of energy which is greatly beneficial towards cultivation. [Host system detects a uncommon bloodline do you wish to absorb and convert it for 5000 soul points? The Golden Monkey King is also worth 150 soul points for killing it] Dana was shocked for a second at the amount of soul points before happily responding. "Yes" With the large number of soul points and core for cultivation she now has the resources need to increase her cultivation even further! Whilst Dana happily took her gains towards a suitable area to recover from her injuries and to continue her cultivation, she didn''t realize that in the Azure Continent she has caused an uproar as the Overlord of the forest a beast in which even Qi Circulation Rank 2 experts feared has perished. This caused many to wonder on what type of monster killed it, due to human experts finding the remains of the Monkey King subordinates and the Golden Monkey King itself ripped to pieces they knew now that a new Overlord has taken over the outer area of Devils Peak. 9 Chapter 8 - Ninth Rank of Body Refining and Distressed Human Cultivators It has been three weeks since defeating the Golden Monkey King, and the decision on what Dana wanted to purchase from the system store was two items which she believed was absolute necessary. The first was a storage ring with 1500 cubic space, originally she was concerned that it would be useless once she has grown in size even further however the system quickly removed her concerns as one of the features of the storage ring is it adapts towards her size, since coming into this world she realized how rapidly she has been growing in a mere week she had grown significantly. The system mentioned that most spirit beasts with dragon heritage has this trait, as many greedy cultivators and spirit beasts hunt for dragons as their bodies are littered with treasures. From the variety of items in the store Dana decided on having a storage ring as she believed that she has been to wasteful, as every spirit beast carcass is a treasure and since hunting spirit beasts she had only been able to drag a small number of beasts carcasses for her own consumption. Now with a storage ring she can store the valuable spirit beast bodies with her. And further with the system help she can identity many rare spirit herbs which can be useful for her, or even towards other cultivators as she knew eventually she will return towards human society and it will be vital for her contain wealth with her whilst doing so. Dana''s second item was a spirit fruit she found whilst browsing through the system, Power Fruit, which was the most effective fruit in assisting a cultivator in the Body Refining Realm. This spirit fruit is extremely beneficial for cultivators in the Body Refining Realm, and is one of the most desired cultivation resources for anyone below Qi Circulation realm. Even if your above the Body Refining Realm, it still has some beneficial affects of strengthening the body. Both items cost her 3000 soul points leaving a few thousand remaining, however she felt pleased with her purchase. Since receiving the Power Fruit she discovered a lair of a Rank 4 Spirit Beast which she easily dispatched, seeing that it was a suitable area to cultivate in seclusion, Dana retrieved the Power Fruit out of her storage ring. Dana decided to use the Golden Monkey King core to promote her into the Qi Circulation realm as it contains the the tens of years of cultivation'' of the Great Monkey King therefore contains a large amount of pure Qi. Thus, she retrieved the Power Fruit from her storage ring and placed the fruit in front of her. The Power Fruit glowed with a red luster, seemingly packed full of energy as it laid in front of her. Without delay Dana directly consumed the Power Fruit. A terrifying berserk energy sensation erupted inside her body, which immediately began to refine her body. Shocked seeing her body being strengthened rapidly, Dana immediately began to meditate and continuously absorb the energy from the Power Fruit. Three weeks later the energy from the Power Fruit was fully assimilated into Dana''s body. Danas bones cracked as she risen from her meditation, her body continued growing stronger from her rise in cultivation rank. Dana''s size has once again increased, rivaling the once giant Iron Bear which formerly towered over her. Her muscles felt brimming with power. "Peak of Rank 9 Body Refining" Dana muttered, a thrilled gleam in her eyes. I''m just one step away from Qi Refining Realm, Dana thought. She was already informed of the cultivation ranks and knew that a Qi Circulation Spirit beast is considered fairly strong in this continent, so it was one of her goals to achieve in order to have some capabilities of defending herself. She no longer needs to be worried about common cultivators which usually hunted spirit beasts in this place, only notable cultivators in each Empire has enough strength to pose a threat to her. Dana decided that she needed to achieve Qi Circulation realm as soon as possible, as soon as she thought this she heard the loud commotion of a large battle near her. A women''s scream echoed throughout the area as men shout for them to prepare themselves for battle. Realizing that the loud distressed voices of human cultivators are near showing a clear indicator that they were in a dire situation. A part of her wanted remain completely ignorant about their troubles, while being fully aware of the problems that will arise if cultivators discover her existence. Nonetheless, as someone which spent their former life entirely as human, Dana which was never a heartless person in her former life cannot simple leave them to meet such a horrid fate. With a troubled look in her eyes Dana hastily heads towards the location of the noise. 10 Chapter 9 - Fall of Evergreen Clan and Sighting of Frost Wyveryn *Kaiden Evergreen POV* As a fallen noble of the Azure continent Kaiden has had to walk through grueling challenges in cultivation to emerge as he is today. He was originally from a powerful noble clan which was respected through out the Azure continent. Any member of the Evergreen household used to be looked upon by favourable looks by many but now this has turned towards expressions of disdain, immediately after the majority of the clans most powerful cultivators were killed in a deadly confrontation between Eranyth Empire. What should be looks of praise and admiration for dying for their country and bringing major contributions against an opposing Empire, instead turned into looks of greed as the other noble families swiftly devoured the Evergreen Clans territory and wealth. The group of other noble families which shown looks of reverence whenever they were previously in front of Lord Evergreen turned into a pack of hungry wolves as soon as the news the death of himself and his most trusted subordinates was spread throughout the Empire. Although the Evergreen clan was a powerful clan with deep foundation, with all the various noble families influence they managed to forcefully take over the Evergreen territories in a "righteous" manner with the reasoning being they no longer have the strength to protect it from the opposing Empires. Instead of protecting the Evergreen Clan, the Azure Emperor who was rumored to be close friends with Lord Evergreen did nothing. Without the Azure Emperor''s backing the once mighty Evergreen Clan was completely seized, with Kaiden''s mother and their other fellow clan members being thrown out with nothing but the clothes on their back. Kaiden was only a young child at the time, obvious towards towards the severity of the situation. Throughout his childhood Kaiden remembered different men visiting his mother each night, which shortly after followed by banging noises and loud grunts in the other room. At the time Kaiden was only a young child and didn''t realize what his mother went through to ensure he has a bright future. As Kaiden''s father was one of the cultivators which died alongside Lord Evergreen his mother a women without cultivation only means of having enough coin to support Kaiden going to Sky clad Academy was her own body. Kaiden remembered begging on the street for scraps constantly desperately trying to help his own mother, as day by day she increasingly lost weight becoming frail. Until, eventually his mother told him he was leaving towards the best place for him to be a cultivator in Azure Continent, the famed Sky clad Academy. He wanted to stay with his mother but she told him to not waste the opportunity in becoming a powerful cultivator as the only way in being successful in this world is having strength. Even though his mother paid the entrance fee to be tested in order to enter Sky clad Academy this is just a means of having his cultivation talent assessed. Which Kaiden as expected past in flying colours due to his Father being a strong cultivator himself. Many years past in the academy in which Kaiden emerged as a rare genius reaching the 9th Rank of Body Refining Realm at 19 years old. He continued to visit his mother bringing her valuable medicine and coin which was the majority of his earnings in the Academy, although her condition improved eventually she died leaving Kaiden alone in this world. The former nobles which contributed towards the fall his clan instead of the mocking expressions they previously had as they threw both he and his mother out of their clan approach him with flattering smiles with offers of joining their families with a marriage with many benefits also being provided towards his future cultivation. With Kaiden refusing with a bright smile on his face informing them that he was to young for marriage, secretly seething with hatred for each one of these backstabbing nobles. Kaiden knew he will never be able to seek revenge for his clan, as the Azure Emperor will never allow it and no matter how much of a genius he was, Kaiden wasn''t the best genius in his generation with the Prince being even stronger than him at his age. Whilst lost in thought a beautiful young woman approached him. "Hey Kaiden, want to come with us to Devil''s Peak to hunt for some Seventh Rank Body Refining beasts again? It will be much easier with your assistance like last time." Sarah a Rank 6 Body Refining student asked warmly to Kaiden. She was considered one of the most talented female students in the academy and came from a fairly strong noble family in the Azure Kingdom. "Sure" Kaiden responded, he knew that hunting some spirit beasts will help him remove some of his pent up anger. Also, he has been in closed door cultivation for a while and knows he needs some practical experience urgently. "Great" She smiled, clearly delighted by his answer. A week later a group of nobles ranging from Rank six to nine Body Refining realm and Kaiden stood outside the outskirts of Devils Peak. "Everybody listen up, we are now about to enter Devils Peak even though in the outer area there are no beast above ninth Body Refining realm, we still need to be cautious. Spirit Beasts are vicious and are naturally stronger than humans." Kaiden urgently tried to convey his message towards these noble brats, even though he went to Devils Peak with Sarah before he doesn''t recognize more than half of the group now. He realizes most of the nobles present probably haven''t even been in a real fight in their life. "Well, well looks like the one of the so called "prodigies" of the Empire is only a person terrified of a bunch of mere body refining spirit beasts" An arrogant noble at Ninth Level of Body refining loudly spoke out. It was clear that his talent was mediocre as for a noble in his family having the best cultivation resources at birth and only achieving Ninth Rank of Body Refining at 25 is considered average. Some nobles snickered at his comment clearly pleased that a commoner which has more talent than them being mocked. "David, Kaiden has been here many times before and has great experience fighting spirit beasts and hunting in Devil''s Peak, perhaps you should pay more attention to what he has to say" Sarah urgently uttered. "Hmmm. Merely a commoner with a little bit of talent, how could he truly compare to us nobles" David immediately snickered, seemingly completely disregarding what Sarah said. Four days later after hunting numerous spirit beasts, the group slayed many spirit beasts ranging from Rank four to eight of body refining realm. David, who slew beasts three ranks lower than himself grew increasingly arrogant. "Hmm, looks like I was right ain''t I Sarah? These spirit beasts aren''t nothing much." David stated with a proud expression on his face, clearly taking the opportunity to show off in front of the women he likes. "Wait, somethings wrong. The surroundings have just gotten quiet." Zaiden muttered urgently, this wasn''t something normal and he feels a strange sense of danger. After two minutes of staying silent nothing occurred, David clearly impatient shouted in a loud voice. "Another false alarm from Mr. Genius. See, Sarah this is the boy you look up to. A commoner acting like a genius when he is simple a coward." Before David could continue his rant a sharp cry emerged as a Rank 8 Body Refining Realm noble was ripped into half. A large black panther stood in front of them with a suffocating powerful aura emerging from it. It''s blood thirsty eyes staring at the group of nobles like its looking at its next feast. "What is that....?" David screamed in fear, his previous "brave" expression completely removed from his face showing a terrified expression. "That is a shadow panther a Rank 1 Qi Refining beast." Zaiden responded with a grave expression. "That''s impossible...You said there is no Rank 1 Qi Refining beast in the outer parts of the forest, how can it be here. Zaiden... this your fault. This is your fault so you should take responsibility! Go ahead and die by that beast while we get away, that what you owe us for putting us in this situation! I am a noble of the Red claw family I cannot die like this!" David screamed in terror. The nobles instantly responded in agreement whilst Sarah responded in an annoyed expression. "It wasn''t Zaiden''s fault, no one could have expected any better we should all fight it together its the only chance we have to survive. The only reason why we are alive currently is it is playing with us, do you really think we can get away against a beast known for it''s speed in the Qi Circulation realm. And Zaiden is no match for that thing, a beast at the same rank as a human is already superior , not mentioning this beast is an entire realm!" Sarah tried to convey her message to the nobles. "Shut up Sarah! Your the one who got me into this mess I wouldn''t of left to this place if it wasn''t for you. You stay here and die with that commoner I''m getting out of here!" David and a few nobles immediately sprinted in the other direction in an attempt to use Zaiden and the others as sacrifices for their escape. However, the Shadow Panther seeing it''s prey trying to get away, instantly killed three nobles in a blur as it shown the astonishing speed on what a Shadow Panther is known for. Sarah immediately screams, whilst Zaiden andthe other nobles prepare to fight to the death. A few brave nobles charged at the beast only to be killed easily, Zaiden knew that the beast was playing with them. It could have easily killed them all by now. But as soon as he lost hope an intimidating roar sounded from behind. "What is that?" Zaiden muttered. As a large beast emerged from the forest, a look of disbelief emerged on Zaidens face as he saw a thought to be extinct spirit beast a Frost Wyvern! Normal nobles may fail to recognize the beast in front of them and assume it''s a dragon however as Zaiden always had interest on the legends of great cultivators millions of years ago and he has read through many books in the academy library which record ancient beasts which lived thousands to millions of years ago. A Frost Wyvern, which contains the dragon bloodline is one of these beasts. It was described in being a exceedingly rare beast which was one of the most powerful beings thousands of years ago. The last Frost Wyvern was believed to have died a thousand years ago, but now he is seeing one in front of him! The Shadow Panther turns it head regarding the new foe in front of it. It feels a sense of danger from the beast in front of it however as a Qi Circulation beast it naturally has its own pride so it immediately dashed towards it drawing Dark Qi towards its claws for a fatal attack. As it thought the Body Refining ant was going to be smashed to pieces by its strike, a shocked expression emerged from its dark eyes as a layer of frost emerged on it claws and blocked its attack sending it stumbling from the encounter. It actually lost in that exchange and it is weaker than a Body Refining Beast! Impossible, the humiliation of being sent back by aBody Refining beast caused it to rage in anger. It continuously launched attack after attack, using its superior speed to try land strikes against the beast but it found out that its body is made out of steel! Each strike sends scorching pain throughout its body, due to the force of the impact. It has killed many Iron Bears which are known for their defense but they are nothing compared to this! As soon as this thought came to mind, the beast which was originally being suppressed by it launched an attack twice the speed of its former attack. Caught by surprise the Shadow Panther was hit by the spike of the tail crashing on the ground. As it gotten up realizing that the beast in front of it was actually stronger than it, it realized that there is a raging poison in its bloodstream causing it to feel a chilly sensation throughout its body. It directs some Qi to suppress the poison but its Qi is rapidly draining! A terrified expression emerged in its eyes at it attempts to flee however as its about to run a claw piercedthrough its heart. The last thought on its mind being of pure terror. Zaiden watched as the large Wyvern regarded him and the others with cold eyes, and as he thought it was going to kill them it turned around and left, quickly disappearing into the distance. "It spared us? I''m alive?" A happy expression was on Davids face as the previous cowardice immediately disappeared. "Yes, yes it did" Muttered Zaiden with a curious expression, this was the most bizarre thing which happened in his life. The remaining nobles hurriedly left Devil Peak quickly returning towards their clans rushing to report the news towards their clan heads as soon as possible. *Dana POV* After Dana swiftly left after quickly taking the Shadow Panthers core. Unfortunately, the Shadow panther didn''t have a bloodline like the Golden Monkey King. However this didn''t matter to her and purely pure happiness filled her thoughts, she killed a Qi Circulation beast! She didn''t think that her strength has increased this much. The only attribute the Shadow Panther was superior compared to her was its speed, which was the only reason why she aimed in getting the Shadow Panther to let down its guard and underestimate her. As she didn''t want it to escape. Usually, towards a spirited beast which is a full realm above there would simply be no comparison in strength however she has the rare Frost Wyvern bloodline and also contains a heaven ranked cultivation method thus making the impossible possible! With these thoughts emerging in her mind, she has decided to finally break through to Qi Circulation realm. Whilst these thoughts continuously raged in Dana''s mind she didn''t realized that she has caused a huge problem looming over her shoulders with most of the individuals being nobles in the group she just saved all having connections towards the most powerful clans full of the strongest cultivators in Azure continent, with them knowing her existence it can cause endless troubles. 11 Chapter 10 - Forming Beast Core and becoming a Rank 1 Qi Circulation Realm Spirit Beast! In the four continents of the Great Empires, it is ruled purely by each Empire. Whilst some sects use to exist which contained a similar power level compared the Empires, the Empires feeling threatened by this predicament the Ancestors of each Four Great Empires plotted together to destroy the former powerful sects making them the sole rulers of each continent! There are still some minor sects present, however these are merely minor powers. This is why in the Azure continent''s Sky Clad academy is the sole best place for cultivation, as it has a mixture of the former sects which were destroyed by the Azure Empires cultivation techniques and martial skills. Thus, each noble family in the Four continents are the true powers! After various noble families received the description of the beast which slayed the Qi Circulation Rank 1 Shadow Panther many already discovered the great origins of the spirit beast and how valuable it is. The thought of enslaving a beast which has the potential to become at least an Xiantian Ranked Spirit Beast made them envision a future in which their families continuously rise in status, who knows they may even take over the entire Azure Empire was a thought some ambitious individuals had. Even if some ignorant nobles didn''t discover the true value of the beast from the description given by the nobles, a beast which at the Ninth Body Refining Realm that is capable of defeating a Qi Circulation Realm beast is already an unheard of occurrence! So without hesitation many noble families grouped together in finding the spirit beast sending Qi Circulation Realm cultivators rushing towards Devils Peak to enslave the spirit beast before the Royal Family gets message of this incident. It has been two days since Dana fought the Shadow Panther and she is finally ready to promote her cultivation into the next realm. Dana found out that the stronger the bloodline of a spirit beast , the more Qi is required to break through. So therefore, it will require the Qi of both cores to push her through this boundary. Dana retrieved both cores from her spatial ring and placed them in front of her, each core shimmering with golden and dark hue. Without any indecisiveness Dana devoured both cores, instantly filling Dana with a large amount of Qi. Dana rapidly compressed the Qi into the center of her chest, to advance her cultivation to the next realm she needs to create a core which will be used to store her Qi. For any Spirit Beast they need to form a core in order to promote to the Qi Cultivation Realm, as a Frost Wyvern Dana is no exception towards that. At the Body Refining Realm a cultivator mainly used their physical bodies and skills involving Qi were rarely being able to be supported, only beasts with natural inborn bloodline skills similar to her could use attributed related techniques which contained Qi. By promoting herself to Qi Circulation Realm it will immediately make all of her skills much stronger and will enable her to use Qi to increase the strength of her attacks. Dana, continuously compressed the Qi, slowly forming her core. Five days past like this. BOOM Dana''s body continuously expanded, her muscles teared, regrowing anew stronger muscles, her scales shredded being replaced by sturdier new scales perfectly accommodating her new found size. Her scales illuminated an azure glow as her form stood proudly releasing an intimidating aura as her beast core finally formed. A large roar infused with great power echoed out of Dana''s maw as her cultivation increased to Qi Circulation Realm, the surroundings instantly went quiet, the spirit beasts hearing the roar cowered towards the ground in submission, afraid of provoking the beast which aura made them feel completely helpless and suppressed. Dana''s face reveals a triumphant expression of the success of her promotion in the Qi Circulation Realm, however her thoughts were soon interrupted by the system. [Host has [Unlocked] both Body Cultivation and Soul Cultivation in the options of system store. Host has also received a reward for becoming a Qi Circulation Realm cultivator, would you like to open it?] After taking in the new found information from the system, Dana decided to use the reward now. "Yes" *BEEP* GREAT BUDDHA SOUL CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE, X5 RANK 3 QI FLOWING PILLS RECEIVED AND HOUTIAN ATTACK TALISMAN BEEP* [Would Host like to see the description of the items awarded?] "Yes" Dana was instantly curious about the Soul Cultivation method, as she knew that cultivating the soul will bring great benefits for her in the future. Great Buddha Soul Cultivation Technique ----> Created by a martial artist from his experience on the soul. Is a Upper Earth Ranked method and contains teachings on how to strengthen the soul and control it. Rank 3 Qi Flowing Pills ----> Increases a Qi Circulation realm practitioner cultivation speed by 50% for three days. Houtian Attack Talisman ----> Contains a one use attack which contains the full power of a Rank 1 Houtian Cultivator. "An Earth Ranked Soul cultivation method?" Dana responded in a disappointed tone, ever since receiving the Heaven Ranked cultivation method she looked upon lower ranked techniques. [Host shouldn''t be ungrateful as even an Earth Ranked Soul Cultivation Technique is exceedingly valuable. Soul cultivation techniques are extremely rare and are strictly controlled by sects as they hold the key towards a cultivator achieving Nascent Soul Realm and this is just Mortal Ranked Soul Cultivation Techniques!] The system responded in a scolding tone. Dana feels shocked senseless, she hasn''t realized before but the old emotionless voice from the system seems to be turning more and more like a normal person, especially with that sassy attitude towards her. Which made Dana intrigued why the system is developing a personality. "System, are you developing a personality???" Dana questioned. [Yes host, system develops a personality based on observing the host. So, if you are annoyed regarding how the system acts then blame yourself.] Wait, is the system insulting her? After this realization before Dana begun to have massive rant at the system, completely unaware a bunch of auras signifying they are at the Qi Circulation Realm were quickly approaching her location. "Are you sure this roar is from the beast we were sent here to capture?" Inquired a sturdy middle aged man at Rank 3 of Qi Circulation Realm. "Yes, I''m sure this must be the beast which we have been searching for!" Shouted gleefully a skinny sinister looking man. Right as the sturdy middle aged man was about to question the skinny man on his decision again, they came across the strangest sight they have ever seen of a large draconic looking beast with bright azure scales seemingly looking like its having a full scale argument with itself. Whilst the dumbfounded gaze of the bunch of Qi Refining experts stare at the beast which seemingly just noticed their arrival. They all immediately went into action surrounding the beast, to ensure it doesn''t attempt to escape. "See, haven''t I told you? Now, we found the beast before those damn Royal Family experts got here to take the spoils." The skinny man seemingly acting like they have already caught the beast without it having any choice at all in the matter. "I guess we have made it big today, once we bring this beast back we will be heavily rewarded" A fiendish grin emerged on the sturdy man face. Whilst the cultivators were busy celebrating around her Dana currently had a puzzled expression, thinking these fools really underestimate her to much. I guess its time to show these human cultivators that she isn''t some pushover can be trampled on! 12 Chapter 11 - Battling Qi Circulation Cultivatiors As soon as the Qi Circulation Cultivators surrounded her battle intent ignited within Dana. She already checked the cultivation of each one of the human cultivators and the highest is a Rank 4 Qi Circulation Cultivator, which pose no problems for her deal with! With her preparing to attack the weakest link, the cultivators took out a strange object which contains an eerie aura which makes her feel uncomfortable. "System what is that?" Dana thought. [Host that is a beast enslaving talisman, it will put a slave mark onto a beasts soul thus making them obey the holder of the talisman without hesitation.] Dana shivered subconsciously it looks like after this she will immediately look at her new soul cultivation method, while the cultivators continuedto argue on who is going to enforce the talisman onto the beast. Dana attacked the weakest member of the group, a Rank 1 Qi Refining Cultivator. Completely caught by surprise that the beast dares to attack them, a Rank 1 Qi Cultivator was immediately flung like a rag doll was whacked fiercely by Dana''s arm. Shocked by the power of the beast, the cultivators realized that the beast is a Rank One Qi Refining Beast not a Rank Nine Body Refining Beast like they expected, they would of course noticed if they would of spent less time thinking about the awards they were going to obtain rather than focusing on the cultivation of the beast. "The Beast seems to already be in Rank 1 Qi Refining Realm!" The skinny man muttered getting serious. He wasn''t much stronger than the man instantly defeated just then, so he fully prepared himself. "Hmm. Just a mere surprise attack from the beast, there are several Qi Refining Realm cultivators here, and five of us are above Rank 1 Qi Refining, defeating a mere Rank 1 Qi Refining beast is simple, no matter how powerful it''s bloodline is!" A tall Handsome Man which was presumably the leader of the group with him being at the highest cultivation at Rank 4 Qi Refining Realm. Numerous cultivators murmured in agreement as they begin steadily to approach Dana. Hmm. She meant to put a little less force into that blow but it looks like she is stronger than she originally thought. Although these cultivators want to enslave her, Dana was still hesitant in killing humans, she might have killed spirit beasts before but that was because she felt no real familiarity among them having spent most of her life as a human, not mentioning that most spirit beasts may be smarter than normal animals but it is not by much! Only beasts with rare bloodlines and high cultivation share a similar level of intelligence compared to a human, none of which Dana will likely encounter in current circumstances. Four cultivators swiftly closed the distance between herself and them, Dana immediately went to action defeating the four relatively easy. Although they were stronger than the previous man, they are only one rank of cultivation higher which is still insignificant in Dana eyes as she is fully capable in defeating cultivators that are even four ranks above her. A grave expression emerged on the remaining three human cultivators faces. They were the strongest of the group and only were even sent to this place to escort the beast in order to prevent other cultivators in stealing their prize. They originally thought it was beneath them to capture a Body Refining Beast but now they think they have truly underestimated this beast. "Let''s attack together, I don''t believe it can defeat the three of us at once." The tall Handsome man shouted, he thought that by himself he could of defeated the four which were previously defeated however he wouldn''t have been able to do it as carefree as the beast has done. Therefore, he knew the only hope of capturing this beast is using the combined attacks of the three of them at once. A determined gleam emerged in Dana''s eyes as she stared down the three cultivators. As the three released their martial skills, Dana meets their attack with her strongest bloodline skill which has been strengthened even further after Dana formed her core; Frost Breath. A large amount of Ice Qi gathered in her mouth as she let out a breath of ice completely crushing their combined attacks. The three human cultivators were sent back flying, the only one remaining conscious was the leader who looked upon her with unwilling eyes. Before the Ice Qi turned the human cultivators into Ice Sculptures Dana removed the Ice Qi which was causing havoc in each of their bodies. Dana decided to spare their,she wasn''t a merciless person in the first place and as they didn''t aim for her life than she decided not to kill them which will hopefully leave an example toward others. Under the disbelieving gaze of the leader she ignored him, turning around ready to leave this area. She knows more cultivators will be coming and that she is not strong enough to defeat all of them yet. The Tall Handsome Cultivator had a relieved expression on his face, delighted that he gets to keep his life. But just as he was about to rejoice his luck a powerful wave of Qi emerged instantly severing his and the other lives of the cultivators. Dana was completely stunned. What was that? She didn''t even see the attack coming, trouble she instantly knew the individual which let off such attack was out of her league. Just as she was wondering who it was an eerie laugh followed by an old man appeared in front of her, from the aura the man was showing he was a Ninth Peak Qi Circulation Realm Cultivator, one step away from the Houtian Realm! "Hahahah. Those foolish minor noble families have grown some courage trying to go behind the interests of the Royal Family, it seems they need to be reminded who is the true ruler of this continent. Hmm. It seems this beast is much more valuable towards the Royal Family than thought." The grasping voice of the old man sounded. Dana''s eyes stared in grievance at the cruelty on seeing the humans butchered. The old man eyes lit up as he seen the intelligence displayed in the gaze of the beast. Hmm. This beast is much more intelligent than other spirit beasts of it''s level, I clearly seen it sparing those ants lives. "It looks like you are intelligent for a beast, well you probably get the meaning behind me telling you to be a good beast and allow this old man to put this slave seal on your soul. Don''t worry being a captive beast for the Royal Family has its own benefits you will be provided with all the resources you need." The old man said completely confident that the foolish beast will be at least tempted on what he is saying. But, to his shock he sees complete unwillingness in its gaze. Hmm. A proud beast,but no matter how proud they always break in the end I prefer this method anyways. The kind expression on the old mans face immediately morphed into a sinister look. "If you want to force my hand I guess you need to see true power." As soon as the old man said this a strike containing 70% of his power launched at Dana hitting her squarely on the chest, a small wound emerged with the old man showing a surprised expression. Which changed into anger at the fact that only a small wound emerged from his attack, embarrassing him a cultivator more than eight ranks above the beast in front of him. Strike after strike launches from the old man, with Dana struggles soon seem to be proven useless due to the sheer gaps of cultivation. "Strong beast, just a mere Rank 1 Qi Circulation Realm beast causes me this much trouble." Gasping the beast took a lot out of him with its seeming less high defense and recovery ability. "Don''t resist now, this is merely going to be more painful towards you. Accept the slave mark and the pain goes away." An agonizing pain fills Dana as she feels the invasion on her soul. "System is there anything I can do?" A hopeless expression emerges in Dana''s face as she continues to show incredible willpower by ignoring the invasion in her soul [Host received a Houtain Attack Talisman from the items received from the reward for promoting towards Qi Circulation Realm. Recommends Host to use it whilst the cultivator is distracted in attempting to invade the hosts soul.] Dana finally remembered once of the prize she received is perfect for this situation. She immediately draws the talisman and without delay crushes it, a horrifying amount of Qi blasted towards the old man which blasted him into pieces. As the old man was occupied in attempting to invade Dana''s soul to plant the beast mark he was caught completely unaware by the full strike strength of a Houtain cultivator which instantly killed him. A few minutes later, Dana''s injuries healed considerably. I guess the vitality of a Frost Wyveryn is incredible she thought as she witnesses the amazing recovery ability she possesses. After recovering enough to move Dana searches the old man for valuables finding seven Qi Refining beasts cores ranging from Rank one to four, which she stores in her space ring. After a few minutes of further contemplation of the events which just occurred, Dana knows that she must get stronger. Even though she is a Frost Wyvern with an incredible bloodline it won''t stop powerful cultivators which are eight ranks higher than her in defeating her, no matter how quickly she progresses. This experience increases her determination even more to get stronger, after witnessing how easily the minor noble cultivators were killed she realizes she can end up like them, her fate desired by the whim of others because they are stronger. She now knows that the strongest power in the continent, Azure Empire knows of her existence and wants to capture her. Whilst deep in thought Dana left the area, heading towards the deeper areas of Devils Peak in order to get as strong as quickly impossible, otherwise she may end up enslaved or worse! She will also start cultivating using the soul cultivation method as soon as possible, the terrifying experience of the invasion of her soul will never happen again she mutters with an unwavering attitude. 13 Chapter 12 - Angered Azure Emperor and Rapid Increase in Strength The capital of Azure Continent is filled with extravagance and powerful cultivators, with the wealth received from having Devil''s Peak, the largest habitation of spirit beasts and rare herbs in the four continents has given made the Empire extremely wealthy. The Azure Emperor is known as the official strongest expert in Azure Continent ever since Lord Evergreen''s death which was the only one who originally could compete with him in terms of cultivation and is currently at the Ninth Rank of Houtian Realm at two hundred years of age. In the center of the capital proudly stood the palace of the Royal Family, in which a group of the Azure Emperors subordinates urgently reported news. "What the old mans failed? How is it impossible it was a Body Refining Beast no matter how strong it was it could never compete with a Peak Rank 9 Qi Circulation Realm expert." The Azure Emperor loudly demanded. "He hasn''t just failed Emperor, his life jade is broke, the old man has been killed." Nervously stuttered a delicate looking man. *BOOM* A powerful aura enveloped the entire room, as the might of a 9th Rank Houtian Realm is unleashed. "That''s impossible for him to die in that place, unless one of the Kingdoms dared to kill members of the Royal Family!" An expression consorted of anger appeared on the Azure Emperors intimidating face. "Emperor we don''t know the cause! But the old man has truly died!" The Azure Emperor waved his hand instantly killing the subordinates which brought him the news. "Useless!" The Azure Emperor raged, as a Peak Houtian cultivator he naturally knew the worth of a Frost Wyvern, but unlike the minor nobles which want to enslave the beast he wants to consume it in order to break through. He had originally lost hope in the last hundred years of taking the next step in cultivation and becoming a true Xianthan Cultivator however this the piece of news of the Frost Wyvern immediately revitalized his hopes. A True Dragon bloodline no matter how scarce can possible help him break through, which for the Emperor was of essential importance. The longer he gave the Frost Wyvern to grow the more difficult it will be to capture, he originally thought sending a Ninth Rank Qi Refining cultivator was enough but it turns out he has underestimated the beast. "Father, calm down. The beast is in our grasp, send me with some of your best Qi Circulation Realm subordinates and I''ll get the beast myself." A calming voice came from behind the Emperor. The Emperors gaze descended on his most talented son, at 28 years old Prince Dominic of the Azure Empire was already at the 9th Rank of Qi Circulation Realm becoming one of the most talented individuals in Azure Continents history. "Son, if you can get the beast I will make you Emperor of the Azure Continent as soon as you return with it, dead or alive it doesn''t matter to me along as it''s body remains intact. I''ll also send one Houtian expert with you encase of any complications" Sternly answered the Azure Emperor, he already underestimated the beast once, he will not let it get away again. Even though there were only four Houtian ranked cultivators in the Azure Empire including himself, if they culd capture the beast thus allowing him ascend to Xianthian cultivation rank then it was worth it. "I understand Father." First Prince Dominic responded, walking out the room with a determined gleam in his eyes. Beast your bloodline will be mine, the Azure Empire murmured under his breath a ruthless grin emerging from his intimidating face. It has been one month since the old man was killed by Dana, and she has progressed rapidly in this time. Since she first began practicing soul cultivation it greatly benefited her in evading the experts of the Empire through the use of using soul in scanning the surrounding areas, she knows she will confront them eventually but she wants the sufficient strength beforehand. And with the aid of the soul cultivation method her Souls Cultivation greatly increased, the system already stated her soul is much stronger than normal due to the combination of two souls between her and the Frost Wyvern meaning she was already a Middle Tier Mortal Soul Cultivator and after a month of soul cultivating alongside her Qi Cultivating she has already reached Low Tier Infant Soul. After initially consuming the cores from the old man her cultivation skyrocketed to the fourth rank of Qi Circulation in a week, and since then she constantly hunted six, seven and eight ranked Qi Circulation beasts, under the constant hunting of these beasts her soul points increased until eventually she had enough to purchase a mortal ranked soul attack method, which she found can stun a beast or cultivator for five seconds, which using as a surprise in real battle situation can mean the difference between life and death. She also constantly used the cores from the Qi Refining beasts towards her cultivation giving her a massive increase in strength for the rest of the month and now Dana has become a Rank 7 Qi Refining Cultivator. Now no longer a weak rank 1 Qi Refining beasts, she now has the strength needed to attain revenge! A ruthless gaze emerged from Dana filled with killing intent, after experiencing the tortuous sensation of her soul being invaded by that old man she will not be merciful towards the human cultivators no more. Originally she still held onto some hesitation due to not killing a human before but now after the death of the old man Dana finally realized if she keeps this attitude then she won''t be able to survive in this world. She knows that if she is to merciful then she will be taken advantage of, so she knows the only way to protect herself in the world is to show her strength! So, without delay Dana leaves the area heading towards a large group of Qi Circulation experts and Houtian expert, coincidentally lead by the First Prince himself. 14 Chapter 13 - Confronting First Prince and Houtian Cultivator "Prince Dominic we have been searching this accursed forest for a month and there is still no sign of that beast, what if the beast has been captured by another kingdom or it''s dead? I don''t believe that old man could of failed capturing a mere Body Refining Beast" Mumbled a Seventh Rank Qi Circulation Cultivator, usually these Qi Circulation cultivators enjoyed a lavish life full of comfort in the Capital, where they can get any women they want no matter her opinion on the matter as no one would defy the Azure Emperor, even if it''s more a mere subordinate never mind a fairly high ranking one such as themselves. Having to camp in this place for over a month, where there is no women and they have to sleep rough has made these men used to their current lifestyles extremely dissatisfied. "If you want to go to my Father and tell him the reason we failed to retrieve the beast is because your thinking with your penis then be my guess." Sneered First Prince Dominic accompanied by the laughter of the other cultivators causing the cultivator to become quiet. "Silence, something is coming." The First Ranked Houtian cultivator said urgently, causing the original laughing cultivators to turn serious. After all a Houtian cultivators senses are much stronger than theirs, and he was the one they were relying on for tracking the beast. Unfortunately, every time they believed they came close the beast they found nothing, the beast seemingly quickly disappearing from sight. After a few minutes a large draconic beast emerged in front of them a intimidating aura radiating from its every move, azure scales littered its body glimmering like sapphire gemstones against the scorching sunlight. As its gazed emerged on the cultivators fear immediately swept across them, as a horrifying amount of killing intent was shot towards them. The cultivators suddenly felt like this was a beast of death, coming for each of their lives! Who said this beast was a Body Refining Beast? Just by its aura alone feels much stronger than them. Prince Dominic with much more stronger sense of will than the other cultivators straight away gathered his mind, they have a Houtian cultivator present how could a mere Qi Circulation Realm beast take his life with him present, was the thought only keeping him from shaking from fear. Although he had a stronger will than the others, after all he was still a genius prince spoiled since birth and he has never been in a true life and death situation where his life is genuinely threatened. This was the first time ever where the Prince felt his life was truly in danger. "Listen everyone calm down, we have Mr Li here with us and he is a Houtian Ranked Cultivator not to mention all of our cultivation are stronger than this beast? Haven''t you noticed its cultivation is it a Ranked 7 Qi Circulation beast, although its aura is a little scary, our cultivation are much superior, not to mention we have numbers! We have nothing to fear, now let''s just put this slave mark on the beast and present it to Father and we can leave this damn place with each of you being greatly rewarded." Prince Dominic assured the cultivators calming them down. That''s right! We are all Rank Seven and Rank Nine Qi Circulation Cultivators, a mere beast scares us! They thought, an embarrassed expression of being afraid of this "paper tiger". A Ninth Ranked Cultivator just terrified a moment ago, suddenly feels an impulse to kill the beast himself for losing his face. "Prince hand me the beast enslaving talisman, I will do this myself. Although I may leave a few injuries on the beast." The Ninth Ranked Cultivator said,instantly wanting to regain his reputation and repay this beast for scaring him a moment ago. "Sure" Prince Dominic smiled, delighted there is a fool willing to be a sacrifice to test this beast combat strength. However, as Prince Dominic taken out the beast enslaving talisman and was about to hand it over, a suffocating amount of killing intent leaked on him. A furious expression emerged in Dana''s eyes at remembering the invasion of her soul from the attempted enslaving from the old man. Without hesitation Dana charges at the cultivators fully intent on ripping them to pieces. A few cultivators snorting at the beast, believing that its only a Rank 7 Qi Circulation beast overestimating itself to much. Launching an attack at full strength, fully intent on crippling the beast. With full faith that they will instantly defeat the beast, they look at it with contempt. However, this goes not at all to their plan as they were immediately ripped in half as Dana launched her bloodline ability Ice Claw, which cleanly cut through the cultivators Qi killing them instantly. The same expression remained decapitated heads, seemingly not even realizing how they were killed. Terrified expressions emerged on the cultivators face, the First Prince even among them, in fact the only one calm is Mr Li the First Ranked Houtian Cultivator acting as the First Prince''s bodyguard. "Let me handle the beast." Mr Li calm voice sounded, making the cultivators which were originally terrified out of their wits, relieved that the beast the object of their terror will be removed. "Take it down quickly, my imperial Father must be getting impatient." The First Prince demanded, wanting to take this beast down as quickly as possible. "As you command my lord." Mr Li voice sounded as he walked towards the beast. Dana''s ferocious eyes stared at Mr Li as they confront each other. A Rank 1 Houtian Cultivator, I should be able to handle him, maybe this will be a good way to test my soul cultivation method Dana thought. Mr Li instantly launched a martial skill with his full power, intending to end this fight quickly and Dana responded with Ice Claw again as their attacks slammed into each other. Mr Li is sent back three steps a shocked expression emerged in his eyes as Dana hadn''t moved a single step from the confrontation, this indirectly shows she is stronger than him! The First Prince and his entourage relieved expression turning back into complicated looks. Mmm. Just from one confrontation doesn''t mean the beast will necessarily defeat me, after all its a battle of attrition. With my higher cultivation base naturally she will lose her Qi before me, reconciled Mr Li, the shock of losing out to a beast a full realm below him replaced by the assurance of his victory. So, I''m stronger than a 1 Ranked Houtian Cultivator. After that confrontation Dana knew she slightly had the upper hand against Mr Li, however to kill him without Mr Li from being able to escape she knows it will much more difficult. Coming up with a strategy in mind, Mr Li and Dana launch attack after attack towards each other, causing the ground to quake after every time they meet. The longer the battle continues, the more grave Mr Li expression grows. How much Qi does this beast have? Just as he was in thought, a searing pain emerged from the depth of his soul as he froze. Given the opportunity for Danas tail to pierce his heart, instantly ripping it out of his chest killing him. After Mr Li''s lifeless body fell to the ground, the First Prince and his entourage becomes alarmed, and without hesitation ran away in the opposite direction but before they can far a terrifying about of Cold Qi launches at them freezing the human experts in Ice Sculptures. The First Prince sank to his knees as if begging for mercy, a hopeless look in his face. "Please... don''t kill me!" He is a Prince! He doesn''t want to die, how long was he called the future of the Empire? The biggest and brightest start in the Azure continent in which no one was his match, he has trampled over many in his years of life, killing and scheming his way to the top. He mercilessly killed his younger brother when he thought he was a threat in taking the throne of him due to having similar talent level to him, all of his work was going to mean nothing if he dies! He is going to be Emperor, he can''t die like this! A cold expression emerged in Danas eyes, not again she voiced constantly in her head. As her claw descended towards the First Prince''s neck severing his head of his neck. After the death of all the human cultivators present, Dana searched their belongings finding many Qi Circulation cores above Ranked Qi Circulation Realm and above! They must have been busy whilst they were here, Dana thought. The First Prince and his group was at Devil''s Peak for a month, so in that time whilst looking for Dana they still gathered a large amount of beast cores, who knew that all of their efforts would end up benefiting Dana instead. Storing all of the valuables in her space ring, Dana left finding a quiet place to cultivate, unaware she killed the Azure Emperors favorite son and heir, which would complexly shock everyone in Azure Continent! Many rejoiced of his death but kept it in their hearts, aware that if the Azure Emperor found out he will surely have their heads! Whilst the Azure Emperor was so enraged that he swore he will butcher this beast even if he has to slaughter his way through Devils Peak! 15 Chapter 14 - Reaching First Rank Houtian Realm and Unlocking Human Form! Two weeks have past since Dana killed The First Prince and the First Rank Houtian Realm martial artist, and since then she had continuously absorbed the cores looted of the group. As they were all Qi Circulation Realm cultivators and a Houtian Martial artist with even the First Prince, accompanying them meant that they contained a large amount of cultivation resources, which is enough even for her to steadily progress her cultivation towards a First Ranked Houtian spirit beast. The cores surrounding Dana endlessly had the Qi contained within contentiously absorbed towards Dana''s body, becoming dimmer and dimmer until they all shattered. A rumbling noise emerged from Dana''s body as her beast core continuously grew until it reached double the size it was previously, as it stopped growing a massive amount of Qi surged into every area of her body, her body being endlessly refined by the Dragon Emperor Cultivation method, improving alongside her cultivation. As Dana''s surge in power stopped, a powerful aura seeped out of Dana''s body indictating that she has reached the First Ranked Houtian realm. Dana knew this cultivation speed wouldn''t be possible if she was a normal human cultivator, as she is a beast with a dragon bloodline she can refine beast cores significantly faster and without consequence compared to human cultivators, alongside having a heaven ranked cultivation method which even in the Top Tier realms is considered one of the best cultivation methods, it is no wonder why her cultivation is improving shockingly fast. Dana knows this won''t continue forever if she stayed in this continent, as the larger her cultivation grows the bigger the resources she needs. For Dana to improve constantly she knows eventually she will have to even further improve her bloodline, having a bloodline is a strength but also a weakness! A usual beast with a rare bloodline like Dana, strength can improve shockingly fast but once the bloodline reaches its limit their cultivation will stagnate, progressing at a snails pace. This is another reason Dana strength increasing rapidly, as containing a bloodline can shockingly increase the speed of cultivation if the resources are provided. As Dana had many lucky gains, with the Qi Circulation pills from the system store and the large amount of cores provided by the group of human cultivators has allowed her to become a First Houtian Ranked Cultivator in a mere three months! Dana believes once she deals with the Azure Emperor as revenge for sending so many cultivators to capture her and finding a suitable replacement which will actually benefit the Kingdom, as from all the nobles she has seen then they are all rotten to the core. The only decent human cultivator Dana seen so far was one of the nobles which she have saved from the Shadow Panther, which demonstrates what chaos it could potentially create if she leaves it among themselves to decide the new Emperor! She decided after sorting this out then she will leave towards the other continents, one in which Sects reign supreme which also contains the necessary resource required to further increase her strength is present! After having these thoughts on how to even find a suitable replacement, as currently she is a Frost Wyvern and at first sight from a human they will be terrified to death, as she was pondering these thoughts the system snarky voice sounded. [Host has unlocked human form from reaching First Ranked Houtian, why not just visit the Azure continent and find a suitable individual among them by seeing themselves.] As soon as Dana heard this message she was overjoyed, she can finally come back to human civilization. Dana has already fully accepted that she is a beast deep down now, however she still wants to reunite with human company, after all the only person she to do was the system which spent more time spending its time mocking her than actually speaking to her. "So how do I use the human form?" Dana murmured. [Host, just needs to picture in their mind being a human and they will become a human, your stats will be reconfigured being human, so you will be weaker in human form compared to the Frost Wyvern form, however you are still a spirit beast in human shape so therefore your body is much more stronger than a usual human. Also being in your human form has other strengths, as you can use martial skills and auxiliary weapons which you couldn''t use in beast form such as weapons, however many would be useless to you currently as you will find that your natural weapons such as claws in Frost Wyvern form are much stronger than any weapon you can find it this continent. Further, benefits could be getting accepted into human sects and learning their secret techniques from them, as usual when a beast turns into human form they can be detected however as a result of the system your human form is perfect and untraceable. Thus, you can join both the best human sects and spirit beasts factions in the future, which will mean you can learn the best secret techniques from both races! Both the human race and spirit beast race has there own advantages, therefore being able to utilize both, you will find it extremely beneficial towards your strength.] A delighted expression emerged on Dana''s face at the thought of grasping both the strongest techniques of both humans and spirit beasts. However, wait why didn''t she received a reward for promoting cultivation realm this time? "System, do I receive another reward pack for promoting my cultivation to the next realm?" [Host, as you received the human form much earlier than it would have been possible for a normal Frost Wyvern as a result of the system, you will not receive a reward for promoting cultivation level, as this is already brought enough benefits enough!] Realising she had been to greedy, excitement emerged on Dana''s face, time to go in humans society for the first time in coming to this world! Without delay Dana transformed into a human, where in the original place of a hulking dragon, was a shockingly beautiful women enough to cause the downfall of Empires! A beautiful smile emerged on her face as Dana started moving towards the exit of the Devils Peak towards human society, time see the continent as a human Dana thought as she continued traveling at a rapid pace. 16 Chapter 15 - Naked in the Fores As Dana was speeding towards the exit of Devils Peak, the systems voice emerged in her mind. [Host, are you forgetting something?] As Dana started thinking on what the system meant, she searched through her thoughts coming up with absolute nothing. "Nope" Dana sounded with confidence in her eyes, completely sure of herself she hadn''t forgot anything. [Host, must have spent to long as a beast to recognize that normal humans wear clothes on their body, unlike you which is parading around completely naked!] As the systems cynical voice sounded inside her mind, Dana finally realized that she was naked! A shrill scream emerged from her mouth, how could she forget such a simple thing! [Host, is currently overeating as you are not in the present of other humans, no one is present to witness your naked form so host is lucky that she has a super reliable and kind system present to make up for her stupidity!] As the systems scornful voice continued to rant on how lucky she was and how ungrateful she was towards it, a group of Body Refining Cultivators stumbled upon Dana, dumbfounded looks in their eyes. "Hey brothers, why is there a naked women here?" Remarked a pudgy looking man. "I have no idea, but I haven''t tasted a women in months and this one may be crazy, but she is by sure the most beautiful women I''ve seen! Even the first class women I tasted in brothels don''t look that good." A perverted man replied, a lascivious grin emerging on his perverted face. As the cultivators present couldn''t see through Dana''s cultivation, they assumed she was a mortal with no cultivation. Which was plausible, giving that this is only the outer parts of the forest, near the exit of Devils Peak. Where there are usually no spirit beasts present due to the presence of human cultivators. The only other explanation was Dana was much stronger than them, which of course this thought would be discarded immediately, as Dana looks like she is only eighteen years old which would signify she is a rare genius if she is above their cultivation at their age, then why would such a genius be parading naked around this forest? This is the mindset of these cultivators. "Your right, although she is likely crazy there is no denying she is a beauty! Let''s have some fun with her, I hasn''t tasted a women like this ever! Look at that figure and face, she is even more beautiful than the acclaimed number one beauty in the Azure Capital!" The other Body Refining cultivators murmured in agreement, as these cultivators discussed on "who has first turn" of the women, killing intent is directed in their gaze stiffening each of their bodies. "Who is that... supreme expert we apologies for whatever we done to offend you! We are students of the Sky Clad academy, so please give them face and show yourself!" Stuttered a cultivator hoping their background will scare the expert but as they look around they couldn''t see no such expert which could release such a shocking amount of killing intent but as they looked around they saw the only one present was the beautiful women, and the killing intent was coming from her! "Hahaha, brothers its just the women. Don''t be scared of her she is only a mortal after all, no matter how strong her killing intent is, it is useless when coming to real strength! Let''s just have our fun with her and slit her throat, show the women what she deserves for making us think that a supreme expert was targeting us!" Shouted the perverted man, a sadistic grin of his face as her stares at the Dana, not even bothering to hide his lust. But, just as he was about to approach her, his head was separated from his body. The cultivators are terrified speechless, but regained their confidence knowing their backgrounds. "You wouldn''t want to kill us now all really, we are from Sky Clad Academy after all! There is a Houtian expert in the academy and it is supported by the Azure Emperor, the strongest expert on this continent! We can keep that guys death a secret, but only if you let us live, if we die you will eventually die a horrifying death as revenge from the academy!" Smiled the pudgy man, confident their background will scare Dana. However, he was disappointed as a cold voice sounded into their minds. "DIE!" Before they could even react, they were all mercilessly slaughtered not even having the chance to resist! Some tried to run not even making it five steps before their bodies was sliced into pieces, soon enough all the cultivators was killed, not even one remaining alive. Dana stood there among the corpses, blood over her beautiful face. Why was it so easy to kill them? Dana thought in her mind. Ever since she killed First Prince and the other human cultivators, she had noticed that she didn''t feel anything at all. No guilt. Nothing. She thought it would be hard killing her first human, but she didn''t feel a thing. As she was wondering why, the system answered the question plaguing her mind. [It is because Host is a Frost Wyvern and it''s personality is naturally affecting your own, although your previous life was a human, you have merged with the Frost Wyvern soul, thus having some of the inherent beast instincts which come with it. A beast never sympathizes with its enemy and is ruthless, they have to constantly fight to survive since birth, so they have to be ruthless to survive. This is why you will never sympathize the death of a human, after all you are in the end a beast.] As the conclusion of the words of the system reached her mind, Dana realized what the system said was the truth, she knows that she cannot sympathize with killing humans to survive but she will not commit unnecessary deaths unless they provoke her. Dana washes her self in the nearby stream and purchases a dress and a cloak with her soul points, as its from the system of course its top quality clothing made from a Ranked 1 Houtian Ranked beast. Although its defense cannot be compared towards her own in beast form, however it is still very strong for clothing among humans. Fully clothed, Dana finally left Devils Peak, two weeks later arriving at the entrance of the capital of Azure Kingdom, she stood at the entrance of the large city, a look of anticipation within her face. Time to pay back the Azure Emperor all that trouble he has been causing me thought Dana as she approached the entrance to the city. 17 Chapter 16 - Exploring the Capital As soon as Dana approached towards the city gates, there was a long line of people before the entrance of the city. The line of people steadily entered the city, paying a toll before they entered. Dana noticed that normal inhabitants of the capital can enter how they pleased, and the toll is mainly implemented towards the cultivators which visit the Azure Capital. This place really is really a money making scheme snickered Dana, even though she lined up obediently like everyone else. I can''t make trouble straight away, I''m still not strong enough in a one on one confrontation between the Azure Emperor yet, although Dana was confident in herself and believe she wouldn''t be completely helpless like last time when she faced a cultivator with that much significant of a cultivation difference. Since then she has progressed greatly in her soul cultivation even purchasing a mortal rank soul martial skill from the system, and also the further her cultivation progresses the more noticeable body cultivation has an impact on her strength in comparison to other cultivators with doesn''t practice body cultivator and her cultivation method will prove to be. As mentioned by now with use of the Dragon Emperor cultivation technique, her Qi is exceedingly pure, making her Qi much stronger than another individual at her stage with a weaker cultivation technique than hers. Also, Dana knew that it will will continuously improve alongside her bloodline as it progresses towards becoming a genuine True Dragon bloodline, as the cultivation method is created for the bloodline holders for the True Dragon. As Dana was beginning to fantasize the day she will finally be a True Dragon proudly soaring through the sky like an Emperor, the systems condescending voice echoed throughout her mind. [Host, can you stop standing there daydreaming, the guards at the entrance has been calling you for five minutes for the next person to pay the toll and the humans are beginning to look at you like your a complete lunatic.] As soon as the system made her realize she had daydreaming for five minutes under the watch of countless people, Dana flushed in embarrassment which was completely covered up by the cloak she wore. She decided to cover up her looks for now as she didn''t want to cause unnecessary trouble immediately after she enters the capital. Quickly approaching the angered guards under the scorching gaze of the other humans behind her in line. "Five silver for entering." An angry tone came from the a young guards voice. As he thought of this shady individual covered up from head to toe in a cloak wasting his time for five minutes he couldn''t help but grow irritated, he seen many people which didn''t have the coin required to enter the city and came up with all sorts of excuses and with this individual taking so long to approach he believed this was someone who was messing around. "Can this cover the cost?" Dana''s melodic voice stunned the guard, causing him to blush. However, after he saw what was in Dana''s hand he was shocked. That was a Beast Qi Circulation core! At the very minimum even the lowest ranked Beast Qi Circulation core is worth 10 gold, this sure is a lavish person thought the guard. "Yes, yes! That will easily cover the cost Miss, come right through right away!" Sounded the guard opposite him, this guard was an experienced man and knew a rich individual seeing one, he believes that she is defiantly a genius high ranked noble from another country on a trip for experience. Someone which mere guards like them couldn''t offend, as the gate guard has been stationed here for ten years he has seen many genius nobles from other countries come to the Azure Kingdom for experience, as not only does the Azure Empire contain Devils Peak an excellent training ground for fighting spirit beasts! But, is also has a capital which has many commodities such as high valued weapons, beast cores and holds auctions regularly, this guard deduced that this women came to the Capital for one of these reasons. As Dana entered the city walking past the guard, the experience turned to the young guard and stated in a scolding voice. "Listen , that lady there is probably a high ranking noble, coming from the way she dismisses a Qi Circulation core so easily the only people who can do that are individuals with an extremely high background, someone we cannot afford to offend!" Sweat dripped from the young guards face, relieved that the young Lady in front of him had a good attitude. If it was one of those arrogant young misses he could have been executed on the spot for the way he addressed her! As Dana entered the city, a bustling atmosphere surrounded her as mortals went there day to day business, merchants advertised their wares attempting to sell their merchandise, beggars roamed the street looking for coin and weapon merchants proclaiming their weapons in being the best in the Capital! As Dana started walking around soaking the atmosphere, she decided that for today she would just explore around the capital. Spending time as a Spirit Beast in that forest meant that she hadn''t actually had a time where she could be carefree like this for a while without worrying that she will stabbed in the back. As Dana walked around the stores looking at the wares, haggling with the various merchants and spending her time looking around the capital, the day already had past, the surroundings beginning to become dark. "Guess, I should find a place to rest for the night." As soon as Dana thought this she approached the first decent looking inn she seen, deciding that this place looked suitable enough for her, she decided to enter the inn after she went inside a boisterous atmosphere was present, burly mercenaries were drinking jugs of alcohol whilst leering at the barmaids as they maneuvered away from their wandering hands whilst placing drinks on the tables, loud voices of men gambling sounded whilst they were playing card games with the others present! After she entered numerous scrutinizing glares were directed towards her, each of them quickly averting their eyes as they made eye contact with her. As Dana currently had her cloak on she was leaking a dangerous, wild and savage aura making her seem as if she was a beast in human skin, each of these mercenaries had experience countless battles themselves, and they were extremely sensitive towards this type of this aura, this individual in front of them had killed many people! In fact Dana herself hadn''t realized the aura she is unintentionally releasing as a result of killing countless beasts in Devils Peak, as she focused on her advancement she had to kill hundreds of Body Refining and Qi Refining beasts and some human cultivators, as a result of all this she had managed to kill far more than the average mercenary! As Dana approachedtowards the counter, Dana''s sweet voice sounded throughout the whole Inn, captivating everyone present. "Can I have a room for one please?" Her voice causing the young girl at the counter to blush. "Yes of course Miss, that will be two silver for a room for one night or eight silver for a week with meals included of course!" Responded the young girl sweetly. "I will take a room for five days" Dana responded placing eight silver in front of the young girl, as she had spent her day haggling with the merchants, she exchanged some of her Qi Circulation beast cores for some of the currency of the Azure Continent. As Qi Circulation cores right now at the moment are useless for her and at the same time she is planning to stay here for a while, which requires her to have some of the currency. As Dana received the keys to her room and left to her room, the bustling atmosphere which turned quiet when Dana was speaking immediately returned. "Wow that women sure must be a beauty going by her voice!" A young man sounded. A hint of anticipation at the beauty which lays behind that cloak. An older experience mercenary slapped the young boy, "Shut up boy! That girl is dangerous I felt it from her, she has killed and not just a small number either! You''ll more likely end up dead if you try to get near her!" Berated the experienced mercenary. The young man gulped, not daring to speak about the beautiful women any further or else he might end up with a miserable death! As Dana locked the door for her room, she lied down on the bed going to sleep. Tommorrow, I will find some ways to further increase my cultivation so I can have assurance in strength to defeat the Azure Emperor and at the same time I''m going to research the noble families in the Empire to find a suitable candidate for taking over, after all she is not an irresponsible person, if she just slaughtered the Emperor and left then it will cause the suffering of many innocent individuals. So with these thoughts within her mind Dana drifted of to sleep. 18 Chapter 17 - Entering Sky Clad Academy As Dana awoke from the most blissful sleep she had ever since she came to this world, she was interrupted by the knocking of the door. "Come in" Dana muttered tiredly. The young girl which she had spoken to yesterday entered the room carrying a tray of breakfast, after witnessing Dana''s true appearance without the cloak covering her, the young women blushed as she appraised the beautiful women in front of her. "Umm. Do you need anything?" Dana''s bell like voice sounded into the young girls ears, immediately regaining her awareness that she had been staring at Dana the entire time. "No Miss, I just came to give you today''s breakfast!" The young girl responded with a hint of red in her cheeks as she came over placing the tray filled with breakfast and instantaneously quickly scampering out the room in embarrassment. "Wow, she was acting weird." Murmured Dana completely oblivious that it was her charm which caused the young girl actions. [Host is a truly a dense human.] Thought the system as it watched Dana completely unaware of her own charm which she has towards people. After finishing breakfast, Dana left the inn entering the busy streets of the capital. I wonder how will I find a suitable replacement to take over the Emperor? After searching through her mind, Dana thought lead towards the young noble which she had a good impression of, Kaiden Evergreen was it? As the thought entered her mind, she asked for some for directions and found Kaiden Evergreen was considered a rare genius in this continent despite being commoner which many were proud of, it seems he goes to Sky Clad Academy? How can I enter that place? Contemplated Dana. [Host can pretend to enter the school, with the use of your remaining soul points, you can purchase a method to hide your cultivation as a Qi Circulation Cultivators, which would be considered a genius in this country! If host enters school it will be much easier to find the most suitable replacement for the Azure Emperor and also find Kaiden Evergreen!] As the systems idea emerged in her mind Dana thought the idea was plausible, if she presents herself as a Qi Circulation Cultivators at eighteen she will be accepted into the academy instantaneously! Even with lowering her cultivation by that much, she will still be considered one of most talented individuals in Azure Continent history. She also wasn''t afraid of anyone in the academy, as no one in this continent can threaten her apart from the Azure Emperor! So, if she was threatened then she can take care of them easily with her cultivation and escape, she didn''t believe the Emperor will truly pay attention to her if she hid her cultivation anyways and even if he does , she doesn''t believe that she cannot escape from him in her Wyvern form! As this thought emerged in Dana''s mind she immediately purchased the method which didn''t take long for Dana to fully master, she then lowered her cultivation to appear as a Rank 3 Qi Circulation Cultivator and then she traveled towards the Sky Clad academy, as she arrived at the entrance of the Sky Clad Academy she saw a large majestic campus, the chattering of students were heard as they making there way to other areas of the academy. Before the entrance of the academy stood an imposing gate, obviously made of expensive looking materials, with a just as grand of a look as the rest of the academy. Standing outside the gates were two Qi Circulation Realm guards, as they noticed her standing there staring at the academy suspiciously, they approached her. "This is the entrance of Sky Clad Academy, I don''t see a permit badge on you indicating your not a student or teacher of the academy, may I ask why you are here?" As the burly guard, as the opposite party was also Qi Circulation Cultivator, then he wouldn''t be to rude as a Qi Circulation Realm has at least some status in the Azure Continent so it is not wise to make unnecessary enemies. "I''d like to enter the academy" Dana asked while pulling down her hood, causing the two guards to be stunned. Before them stood by far the most beautiful woman they have seen, despite seeing many noble beauties which enter this school they hold nothing to the woman before them! After inspecting her face further they realized she looked only eighteen years of age and she is already at the Qi Circulation Realm, no one currently in the academy can currently compare to her! As this thought emerged in their minds, they decided to bring her in the academy Head Master instantaneously. As this beautiful girl is a gifted genius, they will defiantly be rewarded for bringing such a good seed in! These guards at the limit of their talent already in cultivation, and for them receiving such a reward for bringing in such a genius is an extremely lucky opportunity! Although the academy usually doesn''t accept any new students under these conditions, they know that the higher ups will make absolutely make an exception for the young woman before them. "Follow us, a genius like yourself will of course be accepted in joining the academy!" Flattered the other skinny looking guard, making an opportunity to establish a good relationship towards the new young genius already. As the guards brought Dana through into the academy, they passed by the awe filled gazes of the students after witnessing Dana''s beauty. "Who is that?" Murmured a young student, with a love struck look in his face. "I think she is a goddess!" Another pudgy looking student responded. "Her beauty is defiantly superior to the number one beauty of the academy!" More and more comments of the students like this appeared as Dana walked by. As the guards finally reached the destination of location of the Head master of the academy, they knocked the door. "Enter." A croaky voice sounded from the opposite door. As Dana and the two guards entered, a old man stood before them. Looking at the old man she realized that he was a Sixth Rank Houtian Cultivator. "What is the reasoning behind you two disturbing me today..." However, as the headmaster was about to continue he saw Dana behind them, a shocked look on his face. "An eighteen year old Qi Circulation Realm cultivator" The Head Master said with an excited look in his eyes. He stood up walking directly to Dana. "Would the young Miss like to be my disciple?" The Head Master said with a look of anticipation in his eyes, he had been looking for a suitable successor for a long time and as his life span was nearing to an end he was desperate. The two guards were stultified, the Head Master wants to take her as a disciple, however after regaining their thoughts it does make sense after all, her talent is way above any other student in the academy. "Ummm..." Under the look of the eyes filled of anticipation before her Dana couldn''t find it in her heart to say no, although the old man likely has nothing to teach her, she can at least make him happy and being his disciple will ensure she will experience no trouble in this academy while she is here. "Yes" Responded Dana with an unsure expression on her face. "Good, Good!" The Headmaster responded, obviously with a bit of glee in his step. "You two, tell the Resource Management Division to give you five Rank 1 Qi Flowing Pills each!" The Headmaster said, with a thankful look in their eyes the two guards left the room. The Headmaster turned towards her, "As you are my disciple, I will teach you everything I know before I pass. Although this old man has not long left to live, I still hope to leave something behind after my life is over." The Headmaster said with a look of hope in his old face. "Mmm. Yes Master." Dana answered, although she become this old mans disciple perhaps it can benefit her in creating a suitable cover for stay in the Academy, also she may be able to learn something useful from this old man. As the old man accepted her quickly, she wondered why? The only thing which stood out from her is talent, thus the old man must have some sort of secret which only someone of her talent is capable of learning. With an odd look in her eyes Dana decided that this will also be beneficial towards her, she decided to use the academy to the fullest, she will cultivate diligently here until she has the strength to combat the Azure Emperor, in the meantime she will also find Kaiden Evergreen and find other suitable nobles which can take over this Empire upon the inevitable demise of its ruler. 19 Chapter 18 - Headmasters Former Sects Secret Technique - Ice Lotus Arts It has been a week since Dana accepted the Headmaster and since then she had been mainly cultivating, with receiving the Headmasters input on cultivation now and then. The Headmaster also asked her to refer to him Headmaster Zhao, but since then he had been called old man Zhao from Dana which made him vomit blood from anger. Nonetheless, since then he had accepted the new name his disciple called him, showing that he has a rather good temperament. Although Dana''s cultivation was already at Houtian Realm, her basic knowledge on the fundamentals of cultivation was awful. Although old man Zhao''s cultivation talent wasn''t that high compared to herself, he is still an experience cultivator which has lived over a hundred years, therefore his knowledge wasn''t shallow and filled in the gaps of cultivation Dana wasn''t to sure of before. In fact the old man Zhao was shocked on how quickly she learned, after finding his offer on providing the best cultivation technique in the academy rejected, he found that Dana''s cultivation technique was much superior to the one of the Academies, which he ensured her that he will defiantly keep it a secret. Being with Dana the past week made him realize that her talent is even greater than he truly imagined, which came in even more hope for practicing the famed skill his Former Sect was previously famed for. In fact old man Zhao originally had little hope of Dana being able to practice his former sects technique, as originally this old man was one of the lowest ranked servants in the sect. He had in fact told nobody his origins were originally from a Tier 4 power called the "Ice Lotus Sect", an all women''s sect which cultivated the famed martial technique "Ice Lotus Technique" in which only core disciples and elders of the sect were permitted to practice in. Old man Zhao was the servant of the former Sect Mistress since she was a little girl, which in turn made her fond of Old man Zhao the servant which accompanied her in youth. Thus, old man Zhao enjoyed a fairly high status in the sect, which despite the authority it granted him had never abused his position which made many respect old man Zhao in the sect despite his lack of cultivation talent. However, the sect caught the eye of two tier 5 powers. One which was greedy for the "Ice Lotus Technique" secret technique and the other was a Demon sect which practiced dual cultivation and lusted after the many beautiful talented disciples of the Ice Lotus Sect. Even though the Ice Lotus Sect was a Tier 4 power, they were at the peak of a Tier 4 power just short of reaching Tier 5 and the secret technique which even many Tier 5 powers desired was extraordinarily profound making them not a sect which can be easily defeated without paying a large price! Normally, these two Tier 5 powers were extraordinary enemies, one having the reputation of being a righteous sect and is loved and respected by many cultivators. The other was known as a evil sect and scourge on all cultivators alike. However, both Tier 5 Sects ended up joining together to destroy the Ice Lotus Sect for their own benefits without caring about face. Fortunately, the Sect Mistress predicted this handing over the Secret Technique over to him before he left rapidly, as Old man Zhao cultivation talent was poor, he was considered a minor character thus ignored. After putting up great resistance costing both the Tier 5 Sects major damage did the Ice Lotus Sect finally fallen. When the righteous sect found the Secret Technique in which they paid such a serious price for not even present, the Sect Head of the Righteous sect ordered for the dead naked body of the Sect Mistress and the many elders which died fighting in the clash hanged for all to witness. However, they still made a reasonable amount as the resources of a Peak Tier 4 power was nothing to scoff at, so even though they didn''t receive the technique in which they hoped for, they still left satisfied and the Demon sect was relatively disappointed due to most of the deaths of all the upper characters deaths including the Sect Mistress however they still received plenty of Ice Lotus Sect disciples for new sect members to use. As they didn''t see any of the core disciples or elders leaving the sect grounds, they didn''t suspect for the Secret Technique in being taken away by such as minor servant. The upper characters of the Ice Lotus Sect may know old man Zhao true status in the sect very well however as he never flaunted his status, the outer disciples of the Ice Lotus Sect didn''t even know who he was, never mind the Tier 5 Sects thus creating an opportunity for old man Zhao to leave the sect unnoticed. Ever since this occurred old man Zhao has lied low in the Azure continent hoping to find a suitable female successor for the Ice Lotus Technique, of course old man Zhao was filled with rage upon the death of the little girl he witnessed grow up and the injustice caused towards the sect he had stayed at almost his entire life. However, he had little hope in ever getting revenge as a result of the opposing party being two Tier 5 powers, in which a talent in this sort of this place will ever be able to compete to. In order to even find a suitable candidate to even be able to get revenge for the Ice Lotus sect it will have to be top Genius for even a Tier 6 power! And how rare and powerful is a Tier 6 power? Why would a Top Genius disciple capable of being one of the Top Geniuses in a Tier 6 power bother with an old man like him? Not mentioning that the likelihood of someone with that sort of talent appearing in a "backwater" place like this was almost impossible. Nonetheless, after seeing Dana this past weak, a glimmer of hope appears in the old mans eyes however it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Although this lass is not as simple as she seems with the mysteriousness of her cultivation technique and her talent being higher than she is letting on, it still won''t be enough to topple a Tier 5 Sect, however old man Zhao can still pass on the technique to a suitable successor for the Sect Mistress. Well, at least the Ice Lotus Sect will not completely die out like this, a happy thought emerged in old man Zhao''s mind. "Lass, here is something which I''ve been wanting to give to you. It is a secret technique called "Ice Lotus Arts", don''t worry about it tampering with your cultivation technique as it''s an auxiliary arts which supports alongside your cultivation technique which improves cultivation speed, improves the strength of Ice Qi and is also contains a set of martial skills with progressively get stronger as you advance in the arts. The technique also contains some rudimentary Ice Laws, which will allow one to gain more understanding of the concept of Ice.I know your hiding something, as your cultivation technique is way superior to the ones provided by the academy, and I will keep your secret, but all I ask is to practice this technique to the fullest and pass it onto your descendants if they are suitable." Old man Zhao appealed to Dana. After old man Zhao passed the arts he left the room, he can be of no true help for her comprehending the Ice Lotus Arts as he never truly practiced it himself, with the burden of finding a successor for the arts found, it felt weight uplifted of old man Zhao''s shoulders. I hope the lass manages to comprehend the technique murmured old man Zhao with an expectent luster in his eyes. As Dana received the heartfelt words of Old man Zhao her thoughts became troubled, after these thought passed Dana skimmed through the technique old man Zhao gave her. Mmm. This is truly profound and not simple, Dana thought as she read through the the technique. It seems the old man was right it is an auxiliary art meant to boast combat potential and support your cultivation technique alongside greatly helping someone who''s Qi attribute is Ice, it truly is a treasure! As Dana continued to appraise the technique, a surprised voice emerged from the system in her mind. [Host, this is actually a Upper Tier Saint ranked Secret technique! You have truly heaven defying luck as the power which the old man probably came from likely didn''t know the true value of this technique. The only disadvantages of this technique is it very complex, and would require a large amount of talent in both cultivating Ice Laws and the talent of the individual themselves in order to progress through it. As Host is a Frost Wyvern, this technique is basically built for you!] The systems description of the technique sounded in Dana''s mind. An excited look appeared in Dana''s features, I defiantly need to thank that old man for this treasure! The old man likely didn''t know how truly valuable this would be for her, not only can it boast her Frost Wyvern true form battle power due to it''s benefits towards Ice Qi, it can also allow her human form to have some suitable frost martial arts to battle in. In the end of the day Dana primary attribute is Ice, making her very talented in Ice related techniques and laws. She couldn''t use the benefit of her comprehension towards the concept of Ice today, and as this technique is a profound method to do this Ice Qi it can help her develop her understand of Ice, thus creating a qualitative improvement of any Ice Qi attack she uses. I should practice this technique as soon as possible Dana decided, but first I should promote my cultivation to the Second Rank of Houtian, this week using the assistance of the remaining cores she owned alongside her cultivation has already progressed to be at the peak of First Ranked Houtian, so without delay Dana closed her eyes and began meditating preparing to break through to Second Rank Houtian. 20 Chapter 19 - Becoming a 2nd Rank Houtian Cultivator and Comprehending Ice Lotus Arts After spending the rest of the day absorbing the vast amount of Qi from the beast cores, the original bright glow on the beast cores were becoming dimmer and dimmer. The large amount of beast cores quickly become void of Qi, immediately shattering after this occurrence. Meanwhile, a large amount of Qi was continuously being refined in Dana''s beast core, when Dana beast core was finally sated and completely unable to receive more Qi, the sound of a barrier being broken occurred as Dana become a 2nd Ranked Houtian Cultivator. Her beast core grew slighter, her Qi reserves rising and the strength of Dana''s Qi increased indicating the ascension of a cultivation ranks. "Finally, 2nd Rank Houtian Cultivator" Dana muttered quietly to herself. One step closer to getting my revenge on the Azure Emperor thought Dana. Dana truly has a grudge to settle after the Azure Emperor, first he let her experience how it feels for strength to dictate the weak, she felt completely helpless when that expert invaded her soul making her feel excruciating pain and most importantly it trampled on her pride. Ever since merging with the Frost Wyvern soul, it''s basic beast instincts have been ingrained into Dana. And as a descendant of the True Dragon race, a Frost Wyvern has astonishing pride, unwilling to submit to any cultivator no matter how strong they are. The moment that cultivator enslaved her, it felt like her pride as a Dragon was stomped on. Secondly, it caused her no small amount of trouble in avoiding all of the Qi Circulation experts the Azure Emperor sent in Devil''s Peak, and it wasn''t for the fact she had a powerful soul cultivation method then she wouldn''t have gone about as leisurely as she had, and with this continuous provocation how could Dana simple remain passive about it? And lastly, simple because there are way to many scummy individuals being high up in this Empire. In fact the only corrupt and greedy important figure in this country she met was old man Zhao and he wasn''t even from the Azure Continent, which was something she already concluded with the moment she heard the system stating that the technique he gave was an Upper Tier Saint Technique, as it why would anyone in such a low ranked continent own such a technique? So, she has been thoroughly disappointed by the nobles of this continent, and due to the fact of her getting revenge on the Azure Empire anyways, it coincidentally will meet with putting in a place a good ruler, so she can leave with a clear conscience in mind. She had already decided she will help old man Zhao by extending his life with an item from the system so that he can support whoever she found suitable to replace the Azure Emperor, after all old man Zhao is a Houtian cultivator which is a top level existence in this continent, not mentioning that the old man has given her a favorable impression of him, and also provided her a Upper Saint Ranked Technique making her in great full towards the old man. After Dana put aside these thoughts for now, she retrieved the Ice Lotus Arts old man Zhao gave her. Reading through it Dana found that the secret technique come in 7 levels of comprehension. The first level is the easiest and is called "One with Ice", and upon completion it will increase the affinity of the users body with Ice Qi therefore making Ice Qi flow much easier around the body, also improving the power of attacks containing Ice Qi it further has a slight effect on increasing cultivation speed as it makes it easier to absorb Ice Qi particles in the surroundings. It took Dana a mere day to fully comprehend the "One with Ice" stage, the air around Dana has changed noticeably now emitting and icy sensations making one instinctively shiver. Dana retracted the Ice Qi back within her body, quickly moving Ice Qi around her body she found it being much easier than before, she also felt much more connected to the Ice Qi participles in the atmosphere, making it much more easier to absorb into her body. If old man Zhao knew that Dana completed the first stage of the technique in a mere day he would be shocked, as even the former Sect Mistress of the Ice Lotus Sect took seven months to fully complete being "One with Ice" stage of the technique. Dana decided to comprehend the second stage before finding old man Zhao, she wanted to see if she can find Kaiden Evergreen as he will be a good start in discovering the righteous noble families in the Azure Continent. Dana found that the next stage of the technique is "Flowing with Ice" focuses on how to control the Ice Qi within your body, and how to best infuse it within each attack. This part of the technique increases an individuals general control of Ice Qi within their bodies and also slightly deepens your understanding of the concept of Ice. Furthermore, as the second level it primarilyfocuses on control and allows an individual to perfectly harmonise Ice Qi into each attack, which will be greatly beneficial for Dana. The second stage was slightly more difficult however, it only took Dana two days to fully comprehend this level of the technique. Furthermore, the further Dana comprehends technique, her Ice attributed Qi becomes purer and stronger after each stage she fully comprehends. After feeling satisfied with her progress on the Ice Lotus Arts alongside her progress in cultivation, she decided to quickly find old man Zhao so she can take down the Azure Emperor without concern about the aftermath of it all. 21 Chapter 20 - Dumbfounded old man Zhao and Proposition towards Kaiden Evergreen As Dana walked into old man Zhao''s cultivation chamber, old man Zhao immediately opened his eyes awakening from meditation. Standing up old man Zhao approached Dana, speaking with a reassuring tone he said; "Mmm. Lass, have you got a problem comprehending the Ice Lotus Arts? You shouldn''tworry if you struggle to comprehend it within a few days, as even though it''s an auxiliary art it''s very profound! I''m sure you''ll eventually comprehend it within a year." "Oh? No it''s not about that, I''ve come to discuss with you some other things." Dana retorted. "Hmm? Then what do you want to ask me?" Old man Zhao said. "I was wondering if you know a boy named Kaiden Evergreen, I heard some rumors regarding him to be a rare genius which even came from a common background, I''ve been wanting to discuss with him about something." Spoke Dana with a serious attitude. "A boy? Girl you should waste less of your time spending it with boys and more time focused on cultivation, otherwise you may not even be able to gain something from the Frost Lotus Arts all year!And also even though your a genius now, slacking off can cost you to waste your talent!" Sternly reprimanded Old man Zhao completely misunderstanding Dana''s reasoning behind finding Kaiden Evergreen. "Old man don''t get to caught up in that sort of fabrication you came up with. I don''t want to find him for such foolish reasoning, I have other plans regarding something which I will have to do soon." Spoke Dana with a bloodthirsty grin. A pitying thought emerged in old man Zhao''s for the poor boy which crossed Dana. "How about if you comprehend the First Stage of the Frost Lotus Arts, then I will tell you the location of the boy?" Compromised old man Zhao. "Sure, is that all?" Quickly countered Dana activating the First Stage of Frost Lotus Arts indicating that she comprehended the First Stage, Dana decided not to show the old man she comprehended the Second Stage as he may have a heart attack from the shock thought Dana not knowing that she had already caused this occurrence, judging from the frozen appearance of old man Zhao''s. Right when old man Zhao was about to reprimand her lubricious thoughts, a dumbfounded look emerged on old man Zhao''s face. She''s achieved the First Stage, impossible! The Head Mistress took seven months and she was considered a shocking genius. And Dana achieved this in a mere week? If he knew Dana done this in a mere day, what will old man Zhao''s thoughts be then? A monstrous genius! What type of shocking talent is this... but then a bitter thought emerged in old man Zhao''s mind believing that Dana''s talent has truly been wasted being raised in this place where she could have been groomed to be a top disciple of a Tier 4 power, as old man Zhao still believed Dana to be a Qi Circulation Rank 3 Cultivator. Removing the dumbfounded look on his face old man Zhao replied, "Fine, you sure gave this old man a fright! But, I did give you my assurance, Kaiden Evergreen is in the east side of the academy and he attends the Top Lecturer''s hall. Take this old mans badge and you can enter any location in the academy and it also provides you with the same authority as if this old man was present, if you want to find that boy just find him in the lecture!" "Thanks old man" Retrieving the pass Dana quickly left towards the location old man Zhao said. It look like that she devil is eager to torture that boy judging by the look on her face as she spoke about him sympathized old man Zhao, as a giddy Dana left the room not realizing old man Zhao''s thoughts. If she did, maybe she would beat the old man to death for his assumption! With old man Zhao''s badge, Dana walked leisurely to the location described by old man Zhao. Ignoring the admiring looks of the students, Dana made her way to the Lecturer Hall as described. Noticing that the lecture was about to begin, Dana walked towards what she presumed to be the Lecturer. "Excuse me" As Dana''s voice sounded behind the Lecturer, he turned seeing an astonishing beautiful woman before him. "Yes? May I help you young Miss?" The Lecturer spoke with an unrecognized look, he knew all the noble beautiful woman famed in the Capital, but this young miss doesn''t match any of their descriptions. As he would of surely heard of a woman this beautiful attending the Academy before, she must have either been permitted in joining late the Academy late for two different reasons, firstly talent or background. And looking at the woman''s cultivation before him the conclusion he came up with was talent, as looking towards the woman before him she was astonishingly already achieved Qi Circulation Rank 3 Cultivation, indicating she will likely be the brightest talent of the academy. He knew the Headmaster has recently taken in a disciple and looking at the new incredible talent of this woman, made him realize this Young Miss was presumably the Headmasters disciple herself, which is why he instantaneously removed any form of arrogance which shows towards other students. "Can I attend your lecture today? As I am new to this academy I have heard from my master this is the top class for the Academy, hearing the praise from my master I would like to participate, is this possible for me joining your class late?" Spoke Dana with a smile. "Yes, of course. The Young Miss will always be welcomed into any of my lectures!" Eagerly said the Lecturer, who wouldn''t take up the opportunity to have not only the Headmasters disciple but very likely the most talented individual in this Academy attend his lecture! If he gains a favorable impression from her his status may rise heavily. As a result of the clamoring of the Lecturer''s excited appearance, the noble students took notice of the situation before them. Upon seeing Dana looks of awe emerged from the students. "Wow, what a beauty!" Spoke a young noble currently ogling Dana. "Yeah, I previously thought Jiao Yi was a beauty with simple no comparison, but opposed to this girl she looks average!" Retorted a noble with an idolizing expression of his face. "So what if she is beautiful, she probably only relied on her body to enter the academy anyways! I hear the Headmaster is a lusty old man, she probably slept with him to get into the academy in order to get in this late." Hatefully retorted some noble ladies, jealous of Dana''s beauty. Disregarding the chattering of the nobles, Dana entered the classroom awaiting for Kaiden to enter. As soon as she taken a seat, a group of handsome young nobles with relatively good cultivation for this continent was discussing who should approach her first. After constant bickering, one of the nobles in the group, began to walk towards Dana with a confident expression on his face, obviously showing signs of being a highly experienced play boy. However, after seeing the cold glare coming from Dana, he immediately turned towards the opposite direction heading back to the laughter of his friends. After five minutes of waiting finally the individual who she has been waiting for arrived, with a casual look Dana approached towards the confused looking Kaiden Evergreen. The arrogant nobles seeing the beautiful girl taking the inactive to a commoner, made them all glance hatefully towards Kaiden. If looks could kill, Kaiden would be dead a thousand times! Kaiden feeling completely helpless towards the enmity directed at him, just as he was about to respond towards the beautiful girl which appeared before him, he was carried away like a rag doll as Dana dragged him out of the classroom under the flabbergasted looks of the nobles. As Dana carried Kaiden effortlessly arriving at a quiet looking area, she released her grip which unfortunately for Kaiden ending up with her flinging him on the ground. "Oh my bad, sometimes I don''t know my own strength!" Expressed Dana. Blushing from the proximity from such a beautiful girl, "It''s alright, but can I ask you why some random beautiful girl kidnapped me?" Responded Kaiden. "We have things to discuss Kaiden, and I have a proposition for you to get chance at revenge upon the true person which caused the calamity of your family". Dana spoke with a ruthless declaration. 23 Chapter 22 - Stopping at Bright stone Town and Lustful Young Master Lan It has been a two days since Dana has been heading towards the location of the Earth Wyrm''s, Dana had been flying nonstop in her Frost Wyvern form since leaving the Capital. Originally, old man Zhao predicted it would take a week for her considering her cultivation however it took her a mere two days within her Wyvern form, although it was her first time actually making use of her wings for flight, she became proficient in it in as it felt simply instinctive for Dana which she assumed to be another one of her inborn talents, this made travelling towards the Earth Wym''s den much more efficient. Dana decided to stop at Bright stone Town before hunting the Earth Wynn''s , she will stay there for the night before heading over towards the Earth Wyrm''s den tomorrow, after all she has been flying nonstop for the past two days. After Dana transformed back into human form a fair distance from Bright stone Town, after sixty minutes Dana arrived before the town, Dana approached the town gates. Seems to be the same toll as the Capital, but a great bit cheaper. She thought. Well , glad I did exchange for some of the Azure Continents currency after all, I can''t be to extravagant as it will likely draw attention to myself. As Dana advanced to the gate, two guards walked up to her. "Fifty copper entrance fee." Curtly stated the guard. Hmm? Fifty copper, that''s a fair amount considering it should be around the three months average wage of an individual in this continent, and this is simple for an entrance fee. Are these guards trying to swindle me? Whatever, it''s not like that small amount matters much to me anyways and the alternative is creating a fuss towards the Town Lord presuming that he wouldn''t let this lay down if she claimed his subordinates are crooks. "Here, keep the change." Spoke Dana in an easy-going manner as she flipped a silver coin towards them, before walking of into the town leisurely into the town. Seeing their surprised expressions Dana believed she completely shocked them to silence! Ha, I bet they thought I looked so cool just then right? Unknowingly causing the system to face palm at her behavior. However, in the guards point of view compared to Dana''s it was completely different as soon as they heard Dana''s sweet-sounding voice and the way she casually threw a silver coin to them, greed emerged in their hearts assuming that Dana is a fat sheep! "That girl is surely a beautiful noble girl to be running around with that much money!" Spoke the stocky looking guard. "I agree, we should report it to Young Master Lan and he will surely reward us. The Young Master is tired of the girls in this Town and if we provide him a Top Class Beautiful Noble girl I''m sure we will be heavily rewarded!" Responded the average looking guard. As soon as the guards agreed with other, they soon reported it to Young Master Lan of Bright Stone Town who seemed delighted at the news in being able to potentially taste a first class noble beauty! Assuring that he will reward them greatly if their information was accurate about Dana, he received the description of her and he soon began tracking Dana''s movement in Town. As for Dana she soon found the recommended Inn from the Towns Folk she asked on the best Inn''s in the town. Entering the Inn, Dana soon discussed with the owner of this establishment the cost of a room there, after purchasing a room for one night she went inside her room, Dana soon drifted of to sleep, seemingly oblivious to the danger she is about to face. Meanwhile a few hours later, Young Master Lan approached the same Inn in which Dana was staying at. "If this the place you seen her walk into?" Queried Young Master Lan. "Yes, Young Master Lan this is definitely the Inn she entered!" Responded Young Master Lan''s subordinates. "Good. As soon I taste that girl first, I will let you take her afterwards. This is likely a Noble Girl after all and we don''t want to cause trouble because of her background, as soon as you use her, kill her." Said Young Master Lan with a lascivious expression on his face. As soon as Young Master Lan''s words sounded within their minds filled with lust at the thought of being able to get it on with a nobles family Young Miss. As they entered the Inn, Young Master Lan bribed the Inn''s owner for assess to Dana''s room. "Alright, wait out here. When I''m done I will let you have you turn." Ordered Young Master Lan, as he walked into Dana''s room, he instantaneously witnessed Dana''s exquisite features. What beauty! Thought Young Master Lan, as his gaze roamed across Dana curvy body and perfect face a craving desire to ravage her until his heart content appeared in his mind. Approaching the apparent defense lady, her eyes opened starting at him with killing intent. Before Young Master Lan can respond, his throat was pierced instantly killing him. "Hmm. I''ve been waiting for the mastermind behind those fools following me to show themselves, but it seems it was just for this foolish thing! Well I might as well finish the other two and leave this place." Thought Dana. As she walked out with her cloak on, the two men have surprised expressions. "Your finished already Young Master was she that good? I hope she is ready for us!!"They both laughed jokingly. However, before they could continue Dana froze both into complete Ice Sculptures with her Ice Qi. It seems these people are incredible weak, she recognized those two as the gate guards earlier it seems this how Young Master Lan discovered her... I guess I will take care of the Earth Wyrm''s quicker than I originally planned thought Dana as she left the proximity of the town heading towards the den depicted on the map. 24 Chapter 23 - Battling Earth Wyrms Before Dana stood the lair of the Earth Wyrm''s. It only took Dana a few hours to get here from Bright Stone Town, looking down Dana saw entrance of the cave in which served as the dwelling of the Earth Wrym''s. "Time for me to hunt these beasts" Mumbled Dana, as she jumped down into the cave. She decided not to use her Frost Wyvern form at the moment, as the cave was incredibly shallow at the entrance, seemingly not meant to fit such a large spirit beast such as her. From this deduction it seems the Earth Wyrm''s are a quite a bit smaller than me in Frost Wyvern form thought Dana judging by the size of the entrance. As Dana descended through the gloomy damp cave, she finally found her first signs of the Earth Wyrm''s. It seems they definitely are near, judging by these footprints. She found in this area of the cave the Earth Qi was especially abundant, Dana decided to turn into her Frost Wyvern form as she knows she will need her full possible strength for the fight before her. If it was just one Earth Wyrm she would be fairly confident, but from her estimate there is around a minimum of four present in this place. No wonder the Empires don''t want to send anyone down here, this place is practically built for them, but unfortunately they ran into me. After this thought, Dana''s large body stumbled further and further, until she heard the distinct screech of a large creature. Before her stood the first Earth Wyrm she witnessed, it was about three quarters of her current size, with the appearance of a large snake with some fairly distinguishable draconian features. It had brownish earth like scales as it seemingly blended within its current surroundings, as a Earth Wyrm was a degraded version of an Earth Dragon it was especially proficient in Earth Qi. As she took in its full appearance, three other Earth Wyrm''s of a similar size emerged behind it, all of them aggressively responding to her presence in their territory. As Dana saw the foe in front of her a savage thought to dominate the beasts before her and show it the superior bloodline of a Frost Wyvern. Her pride as a Frost Wyvern would not allow a lesser beast to dare show its fangs in front of her! The Earth Wyrm''s prepared to battle the beast in front of them, holding their ground and refusing to back down from the superior spirit beast! A ferocious roar emerged out of Dana as she charged towards the Earth Wyrm''s, each Earth Wyrm was a Sixth Rank Houtian with an uncommon bloodline, thus they were no push overs. They immediately responded with sending earth spikes of Earth Qi, in which Dana responded in freezing their attacks solid. Although they had both the superiority in having a location filled with dense Earth Qi and cultivation, Dana had comprehended the Ice Lotus Arts to Stage 2 thus making her Ice Qi more potent, not mentioning she has a high purity bloodline of a Frost Wyvern which are naturally much superior to Earth Wyrm''s so even with the advantages the Earth Wyrm''s possessed they still fell short. As Dana shattered their attacks, she bites into the neck of a Earth Wyrm, her fangs sinking through the layers of scales digging right into the beasts flesh. A screech resounded as the Earth Wyrm desperately struggled to get Dana off, it constantly tried to bite into Dana''s hide but it couldn''t cause much damage, as it found her defense exceedingly tough. Which shocked the beast as it never thought that a beast would have a stronger defense than it! As Earth Wyrm''s were a beast which specializes in defense, it still wouldn''t be a shock that Dana''s attack destroyed its defense, as a Frost Wyvern is known for there excellence offensive capabilities. However, having such a good defense as a Frost Wyrm is the surprising occurrence, as Frost Wyvern''s are not known for their defensive capabilities at all! This is all due to Dana''s Heaven Ranked Cultivation method! As the compatriots the vicious attack into one of their own, they instantly launched attacks at Dana. Dana injected poison into the Earth Wyrm''s bloodstream before narrowly avoiding the combined attacks launched by the other Earth Wyrm''s. The Earth Wyrm which she attacked, the wound on its neck was already bleeding severely alongside the fact with the poison, the beast was growing weaker and weaker before collapsing. Seeing one of them lose the capabilities to fight already, fear emerged in the Earth Wyrm''s eyes. They decided to combine their attacks! One down, Dana thought as she focused on the Earth Wyrm''s which are approaching her. There is still three, I need to be wary of them their joint attacks. The three Earth Wyrm''s attacked Dana seemingly from all side, Dana dodged out of the way of each of their attacks. As one finally let down it''s guard, Dana''s tail launched into its hide pumping poison into its veins. The Earth Wyrm instantly turned sluggish, showing the powerful potent poisons affects. Dana then launched a breath of frost towards the other Earth Wyrm''s causing them to put all of their attention into defending, allowing Dana to deal the final blow on the poisoned Wyvern which as a result of this being at half of it''s original battle power, becoming vulnerable. With another down, Dana no longer feared the Earth Wyrm''s so she instantly engaged in a brawl with the remaining two. After the fierce struggle of the remaining two Earth Wyrm''s, injuries littered Dana''s body. As she relied on her physical body against the remaining two Earth Wyrm''s, they managed to repetitively launch attacks on her, which even though with her defense still caused minor damage. After the last Earth Wyrth had its final breath. The system''s message bombarded her mind. [Would you like to absorb the uncommon bloodline "Earth Wyrm" combining the purity of all four Earth Wyrms to form a perfect Earth Wyrm bloodline?] Dana excitedly said "Yes". After she replied "Yes" an agonizing pain filled Dana''s body, as she grew to about 25ft in length. Her scales grew increasingly stronger, and her original azure scales had a hint of brown in them. She immediately felt the Earth Qi within her grow increasingly stronger until it become her second strongest attribute. Cultivators absorbs each attribute for cultivation, however an individual will always have an attribute in which they are the most efficient in absorbing, which means that a cultivator will always have way more of one attribute than the other different attribute Qi. Also, the stronger a cultivators infinity for an attribute, the stronger in return will the output of the Qi. As Dana received the Earth Wyrm''s bloodline with 100% purity as a result of combing the bloodlines of four different Earth Wyrm''s her affinity with Earth Qi has grown an incredible amount! [Host has obtained uncommon bloodline "Earth Wyrm". Host bloodline has further progressed towards the lineage of a True Dragon. Host has chance to upgrade Earth Wyrm bloodline to Earth Dragon which will upgrade users bloodline even further. Host bloodline has become rare bloodline [Variant]] A grin emerged from Dana''s draconic face. Now that what I call an upgrade! Iguess I will now use these beasts core to cultivate here for a three weeks, then I will return to the Capital to meet Kaiden and take care of the Azure Emperor, I will then finally leave this continent as after dealing with the Azure Emperor, after knowing the harsher the resources are in progressing cultivation, the Azure Continent will no longer have the means to help me progress my strength. After these thoughts, Dana took out the four beast cores of the Earth Wyrm''s and prepared for her cultivating seclusion. 25 Chapter 24 - Big Increase in Cultivation and Unrest in Azure Continen It has been three weeks since Dana has been cultivating using the four cores from the Earth Wyrm''s, in these three weeks many things have happened in the Azure Continent whilst Dana has been cultivating. Firstly, many noble families which were linked in having a good relationship with Lord Evergreen began making movements seemingly hinting that something big was about to occur in the Azure Continent causing great turmoil among the noble families, the only individual seemingly not worried in the slightest is the Azure Emperor as he is leisurely spending his time "having fun" with his many concubines, since Lord Evergreen was gone there was nothing in the Azure Continent he believed that was a threat to him. Although , he is still furious about the death of the First Prince, the Houtian Cultivator and even the failure in capturing the spirit beast, after all it is spirit beast and he believed it won''t pose any problems for him in the future as how could a spirit beast have the intelligence to ever know who was the perpetrator in sending those cultivators? In the end of the day the Azure Emperor was an extremely selfish individual and only cares about spending his time lavishly, honestly the main reason he wanted to increase his Cultivation is not what many would believe. If you thought it would be in pursuit of going further down the path of cultivation or even to ascend his Empire using his new found strength to unify the continent, bringing great glory and a history of prosperity towards the Azure Empire itself, then you are wrong! The Azure Emperor just wanted to promote his cultivation rank to extend his life, as an Xianthan Cultivator has double the life span of a Houtian one! In fact the Azure Emperor got over the death of his son pretty quickly, as he has many sons. Although that one was the most talented, he truly wasn''t close to his sons and daughters anyways. Also, why would he care about the future of his Empire with having the best possible successor? He only cared in spending the rest of his life span filled with pleasure, so just like this the Azure Empire continued fooling around whilst the other noble families felt a tense atmosphere surrounding Azure Empire. Simultaneously, in the Azure Academy there has been many absurd rumors surrounding two individuals which both involve Dana, these two individuals was of course old man Zhao and Kaiden Evergreen. With Dana''s abrupt appearance in the classroom which ended rather short when she dragged Kaiden away completely disappearing caused many rumors around. The first was the rumor of "Pretty Boy Kaiden" a pretty boy which used his looks to seduce the Headmasters disciple! According to the rumors Kaiden it stems mainly around the fact that Kaiden is the submissive one in the relationship and is the one being "dominated" by Dana as a result of her great strength, causing her to be known by many males as "she devil". Of course this rumor was predominately made by the male students which had caught a glimpse of Dana''s appearance thus were greatly jealous of Kaiden so secretly all of the male students were envious of Pretty Boy Kaiden and didn''t think being "dominated" by Dana was actually a bad thing, but it still caused Kaiden to be greatly upset as his former reputation he worked so hard for was completely ruined, originally he was known as a Rare Genius having great battle skills and is highly respected among students including nobles. However, now he is known for being a pretty boy making him now a joke in the eyes of the students! It was even worse for old man Zhao, the original wise and powerful headmaster became known as "Perverted old man Zhao" a perverted old man which accepted Dana late in the academy as his disciple because he fancied her looks! This caused the many respectful looks of the students to turn in one of fear whenever old man Zhao appeared, afraid that the perverted Headmaster will take an interest in them! Old man Zhao was so angered by his new nickname that he spat blood! This rumor was of coursed mainly spread out by the jealous noble ladies which coveted Dana''s superior looks! Therefore, since Dana has been gone these few weeks, both old man Zhao and Kaiden have been through no small amount of suffering in the Academy as a result of the rumors growing further and further out of hand the longer time has passed. Finally, the Lord of Bright Stone Town had found his son and two subordinates dead which caused him to be greatly furious! Since then he has been launching a mass search party spending no small amounts of resources to find the perpetrator of his sons death! However, even when many weeks past by they still garnered no results, frustrating the Lord greatly unknowingly he was probably highly fortunate he didn''t ran into Dana, else he probably wouldn''t even be able to keep his own life never-mind having the thought of revenge! Of course none of this mattered to Dana who was completely oblivious about the havoc she caused, instead she has been cultivating peacefully in the Earth Wyrm''s Den. Surrounded by the dense Earth Qi, her new found talent in Earth Qi as a result of the bloodline continuously aided her cultivation in this type of environment. Dana grew excited by the obvious increase in her cultivation speed, as she wondered if she could gain bloodlines which will make her more talented in every attribute, then wouldn''t her cultivation be many times faster? In fact Dana''s conclusion was correct, as the genius in top sects were usually the ones which were proficient in two or three attributes. Usually, a cultivator will have basic affinity with every elemental Qi, so every cultivator draws in all the Qi in the atmosphere available. However, a cultivator will have an attribute in which they are stronger than other attributes, which is there "Primary" attribute which is what they mainly use as the stronger your talent in an attribute the easier it is absorb that Qi. Sects usually look out for how strong is your talent in your primary attribute, as most sects would havefocus on a certain attribute. For instance, the Frost Lotus Sect which old man Zhao came from focused in the "Ice Attribute", so they primarily had techniques to do with Ice Qi. Depending on how strong your particularly attributes mean that you will comprehend martial techniques easier and in some instances a martial technique may be so profound that an individual without any talent in the attribute that martial technique contains wouldn''t be able to comprehend it at all. This is the main reason the Fifth Tier Sect was primarily interested in the technique of the Ice Lotus Sect as similarly they focused on the Water and Ice attributed Qi, whereas the Demon Sect shown no interest as even though it was a high level technique they would not benefit from it at all as they would not be able to comprehend it, at the most they could do is just sell it for some benefits! This is why having a strong affinity with many attributes will overall vastly improve the strength of an individual, however there is a downside in having to many attributes is that as a cultivator how can they focus on every attribute? As martial skills take a long time to master an individual trying to master numerous wouldn''t be able to match with someone which completely comprehended their martial skill even with the numerous comprehensions of other ones, so usually cultivators focus on one attributes or in the genius cases two or three of the attributes they are most talented in but that is only because they have a strong talent in multiple attributes. For a normal cultivator with low attribute talent, then they can only master the most basic and weakest martial techniques, thus making their battle power really low and not to mentioning their overall cultivation speed will be affected. This is why having talent in attributes is a massive thing for cultivators! For Dana this may not even be an issue, as she will receive bloodline skills which can only be accessible to these different spirit beasts, what will usually be impossible in having that many different bloodlines, Dana will make possible as she has the Beast Cultivating System! So, with these thoughts constantly emerging in her mind, undisturbed Dana cultivated for three weeks quietly. A powerful aura swept across the cave as Dana''s body increasingly absorbed the Qi of the last remaining core, her cultivation soared rapidly approaching the Houtian 6th Rank, after the final traces of Qi left the core, a cracking sound emerged as Dana finally entered into Houtian 6th Rank. Her body further continuously grew until it stopped reaching thirty feet in length, as Dana body stood her body felt full of power as she moved. "I finally reached Sixth Rank of Houtian Realm! That means Azure Emperor practically poses not even the slightest threat to me anymore, I guess it''s time to go to the proposed with Kaiden, but first I should check my stats after absorbing the Earth Wyrm bloodline!" "Status" [Name: Dana Whitefield] [Cultivation Level: Houtian Realm Rank 6 ; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Body Cultivation: Houtian Realm Rank 6 ; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Soul Cultivation: Infant Level Middle Tier; Cultivation Method: Great Buddha Soul Cultivation Technique] [Bloodlines: Frost Wyvern 87% Purity, Earth Wyrm 100% Purity - mutated bloodline to Rare Variant] [Bloodline skills: Earth Spike, Earth Armor, Earth Claw, Earth Shape, Frost Breath, Dragon Aura, Ice Claw, Poisonous Spikes and Poison Ice Breath.] [Bloodline Inherited Talents: Ice Qi Affinity ----> Increases comprehension towards Ice Laws and Ice Attributed Martial Skills, Body Cultivation----> Due having heritage of a True Dragon, your body is naturally more suitable towards cultivation of the body, any cultivation methods which requires use of the body is 70% more effective and easier to cultivate ----> As a result of containing Earth Wyrm bloodline your Dragonic heritage has been increased, Poison Immunity ----> As a Frost Wyvern with a rare bloodline, you have a high resistance towards poison, Hardened Body ----> Earth Wyrms are descendants of Earth Dragons a race known for having one of the strongest defense among the Dragon race as a descent an Earth Wyrm has inherited a portion of this talent, Earth Qi Affinity ----> Earth Wyrm''s are naturally attuned to Earth Qi this increases your attribute talent with Earth Affinity as a result increases comprehension towards Earth Laws and Earth Attributed Martial Skills ] Dana felt her body has greatly strengthened as a result of absorbing the Earth Wyrm Bloodline as her body''s natural strength has increased thus allowing her body to be strengthen even further by body cultivation, she already asked the system and found she received a 100% Purity bloodline as the Earth Wyrm''s before her had high quality bloodline purity beforehand surprisingly, alongside combining the four was enough to have a complete Earth Wyrm bloodline. The system stated as a result of this she can purchase the Earth Drake bloodline much cheaper, as an Earth Drake is a superior version of an Earth Wyrm, it''s a strong rare bloodline comparable to a Frost Wyvern! As an Earth Wyrm is a uncommon bloodline, it still isn''t enough to push her bloodline to a saint one. To do that she will either have to combine three Rare bloodlines which are related to a Dragon or directly get a Saint bloodline herself! She realized she received seven hundred and fifty soul points each Earth Wyrm giving her three thousand soul points, which is fairly sizable amount of soul points for Dana. Dana decided to search for another Rare bloodline herself and then purchase the Earth Drake bloodline for her final third bloodline to allow herto upgrade her bloodline to a Saint one! "System what is the cost of Eath Drake bloodline?" Dana queried wanting to know what the discounted version costed. [Host it cost fifty thousand soul points, originally it was twenty times that price but as a result of achieving 100% Purity Earth Wyrm bloodline it can be upgrade for fifty thousand soul points!] After the system finished answering her question this caused Dana to be delighted, even though fifty thousand was many soul points, she didn''t view it as impossible. Compared to the original cost it is a small amount, Dana believed she can achieve fifty thousand soul points no problem! I will secure the other Rare bloodline myself and use the system to acquire the remaining one decided Dana. It seems this is another feature of the system, if I can secure 100% purity of a degraded bloodline I can obtain the superior version. It seems common and uncommon bloodlines are not as useless as I thought if I can gain these bloodlines, I can receive the highly discounted upgraded versions, which in the long run will greatly help me in having a True Dragon Bloodline. It seems I will return back to the Azure Continent, now I wonder how much old man Zhao missed me smiled Dana, not realizing that she is currently the cause of old man Zhao''s misery as a result of becoming known as "Perverted Old Man Zhao" throughout the entire Azure Empire! 26 Chapter 25 - Meeting with the Noble Families It took Dana just two days to return to the Azure continent''s capital as a Frost Wyvern. Since returning to the Capital she decided to meet Kaiden before old man Zhao as she knows with the knowledge of her true capabilities the old man wouldn''t worry about her that much. As soon as she reached the location that was arranged since her last conversation with Kaiden, she saw an anxious-looking Kaiden pacing. This look was soon removed as he saw Dana emerges in front of him. "Hey, why are you currently looking like you''re being held hostage at gunpoint?" Asked Dana in a questioning tone. "At gunpoint? What the hell is that?" Replied Kaiden with a puzzled expression. "Hmm. Just a saying where I''m from. Never mind about that anyways, so have you achieved what I asked for?" Said Dana. "Well, it took me a long time to pull off, but I have managed to inform all of the Noble Families which had a friendly relationship with Lord Evergreen. As they felt like they have owed me something for a long time due to steering clear of me when the Evergreen clan fell, not that I can''t blame them because it would directly cause them to cross the four most powerful noble families in Azure Continent, and to cause that much trouble for a mere child they have no relationship with? I can understand them, but it doesn''t mean I like it. As I was talking about with the evidence you provided me they fully believe that Lord Evergreen''s death was caused by the Azure Emperor and they fully want to get rid of him as much as I, however, they will only join once they have seen proof of your strength, which is why I set up a meeting with them today." Responded Kaiden. "Good. As soon as that is finished I can finally get rid of that Azure Emperor" Hissed Dana in a chilling tone. Upon seeing the way Dana said the Azure Emperor''s name with much hate, made even Kaiden slightly pity the fate that the Azure Emperor will face under Dana''s wrath. As soon as they finished discussing the task Dana entrusted to Kaiden, Dana attempted to ask what happened to the Azure Capital since she left, which only left her with Kaiden''s blushing face in which he told her "Nothing" with an expression which totally said something happened but he doesn''t want to inform her. In fact Kaiden is terrified senseless of what Dana would do to him if she knew the rumours of him being her "Boy Toy" were told to her which is why he decided to distance himself away from Dana as much as possible when they get back to the Azure Academy, he is afraid that even if he wasn''t the cause of the rumours Dana might take it out on "Little Kaiden" and he doesn''t want to be crippled in that place for the rest of his life, he is still a young man after all. Therefore, after Dana realized Kaiden was obviously avoiding her questions it seems she will just have to find out what he is on about later, not that she doubts she will care like how bad could it be? Was the speculation Dana had as she and Kaiden went to the designated meeting area with the noble families they arrived in front of a tall manor with a grand gate, there obviously there were many visitors present by the number of carriages inside the estate. As soon as she and Kaiden approached the entrance, they were quickly let in as the guards recognized Kaiden as being the individual in which the Lord wanted to see. With passing through easily, Kaiden and Dana made their way to the meeting room through the directions of the maids in which the Noble families that were former friends with Lord Evergreen awaited. When they entered the meeting room, Dana saw eight middle-aged men across her. Each having a Qi Circulation Ninth Rank Realm Cultivation. As soon as Kaiden and Dana approached one of the middle-aged men, which she presumed to the Lord of this estate walked up to Kaiden. "Kaiden, we meet again and who is the beautiful young lady next to you?" Lord Greystone asked. "This is Dana, she is the one I talked to you about." As soon as Kaiden said these gasps were heard as each of the Lords gazed into Dana''s beautiful face, looking at her, she is eighteen years old and you are saying she has the strength to kill the Azure Emperor? Preposterous! They had a slight hope that Kaiden was right as they were tired of the Azure Emperor''s tyranny for a while now, he was simply a leech which did nothing but harm towards the Kingdom. The only decent thing he does is scare away with the other Kingdoms with his cultivation, other than he wastes finances from the Kingdom for his own use and betrays his own people if they disagree or pose a threat towards him! He''s nothing but a scourge on their Empire, which these passionate loyalist men despise. "This young brat? Kaiden we had hoped that you would be talking the truth when you said an expert would assist us in removing the Azure Emperor!...." Before Lord Greystone could continue speaking a pressuring aura emerged from Dana shocking the eight Lords into silence, as these eight Lords felt that Dana''s aura of suppression through cultivation was the most powerful they have witnessed, even surpassing the Azure Emperor! An eighteen-year-old individual which is stronger than the Azure Emperor, a genius, no simply a monstrous genius! As these men haven''t seen something so incredible their entire lives the room just remained silent for a few minutes as they took a while to gather a reaction to Dana''s power. However, soon they came up with a conclusion as they were High Nobles they were completely ignorant about the powers outside the continent which are many times stronger than the Azure Continent, originally they felt it was an exaggeration as they never truly witnessedthe true world however upon seeing Dana they believed that she must be a Top Disciple of an incredibly powerful sect? And why is she here? They all looked towards Kaiden, they heard rumours about Kaiden being a "Pretty Boy" which is an expert at "picking up woman", they think Dana was probably a genius going out for experience and as a young naive girl which was secluded her whole life with no companionship whilst cultivating they believe that her maiden heart was moved by "Pretty Boy" Kaiden! They immediately applauded Kaiden in their hearts for making such a great contribution towards the Empire by using his unique set of "skills" to receive powerful assistance that the Azure Empire desperately needs! "We believe you now girl, you got our full support as soon as you want, our help in passing the Azure Empire to a new Emperor we will provide our full assistance!" Spoke each of the Lords, unanimously agreeing with the proposal made. "Thank you, we will head towards the Palace of the Azure Emperor tomorrow! I have a plan to ensure that the Azure Emperor gathers his Houtian subordinates in one place! However, when they are removed I want you to release evidence on the Azure Emperors wrongdoings and help Kaiden in ascending as the new Emperor!" As soon as Dana finished speaking a dumbfounded look emerged on Kaiden''s face, however, for the other eight Lords, it is understandable. Damn, that Kaiden is good.. his "skills" much be more proficient than we thought. Lord Greystone even winked towards Kaiden which just made him even more confused about the situation unfolding before him. "Me? Emperor? How can I be Emperor I''m a commoner!" Blurted out Kaiden. "Kaiden doesn''t underestimate yourself, firstly your talent isn''t bad, so you will easily have sufficient strength to rule the Empire once you fully mature as your talent is just as good as the Azure Emperor, not to mention that you are actually more hardworking than him which means you will likely surpass him in the future, you will easily have sufficient strength to rule this Empire! Lastly, your character is good, as you were raised as a commoner you have experienced what none of these nobles has, and from your experience, you have more understanding and be a better ruler for everyone in this Empire, not just the nobles! Kaiden thinks about this, do you think any other noble taking over, in the long run, will truly benefit the commoners, if you don''t step up and became Emperor then the same as what occurred with the Azure Emperor will happen! It will just be replacing a selfish ruler with another selfish individual! Do you want something that happened to you to occur again?" Declared Dana in a commanding tone. "No, I guess you right Dana, I will take over the Empire for the good of the commoners! I won''t let what I experience happen to anyone else!" Countered Kaiden determinedly. A smile emerged on Dana''s beautiful face, it seems the words I said has gotten into him. The first time she met Kaiden, Dana decided to make him the new Emperor, to her, it was a no-brainer for Kaiden to be the new Emperor. He is a formal noble which lived as a commoner, therefore his noble heritage cannot be denied and at the same time, he has experienced what no other noble had, what is it like to live as an average person in this Empire. This means he will benefit the Empire greatly, as he won''t just focus on the nobles in the past, but will give more opportunities towards the common people making this Empire thrive! Not to mention that his talent is enough and the only individual which could have compared to Kaiden previously was the First Prince, but with him being dead Kaiden is basically the most talented individual among the Azure Country younger generation. So, therefore he is the best candidate in Dana''s opinion. The meeting continued for another thirty minutes of discussion of the ensuring of a new Emperor after it finished Dana left stating that she will meet the Nobles in the discussed place tomorrow. After splitting up from Kaiden and the other Lords, Dana decided her next destination is to talk with old man Zhao! She will ask old man Zhao assistance in a part of her plan as well, as he was the only individual which she could think of which could get the Azure Emperor to gather his Houtian Cultivator subordinates, also Dana hadn''t seen the old man in a while and as she has returned from her hunt of the Earth Wyrm''s there is no doubt the old man would want to speak to her. 27 Chapter 26 - Desperate Old Man Zhao and Rank 3 Life Extending Pill Dana quickly arrived at Old Man Zhao''s cultivation chamber rushing past the students, whilst running past Dana thought she heard many students shout "Isn''t that the infamous she-devil?", but being dense as always Dana didn''t notice they were referring to her. The strange thing which puzzled Dana is usually many students or lecturers await outside the Headmasters chambers, hoping to receive guidance and pointers from the wise Headmaster of the Academy, however, it seems it is completely deserted and there doesn''t seem to be any signs of life anywhere within 500 km of Old Man Zhao. This is weird... Normally old man Zhao is a very busy man, which actually assists students now and then because of his kind temperament whereas currently it seems everybody wants to get as far away from Old Man Zhao as possible! Mmm. It must be due to Old Man Zhao kicking them out as a result of him being so worried about his beloved disciple, that''s it assumed Dana. As Dana storms in, she heard the voice of Old Man Zhao. "Is that a student? Have you come to receive guidance from this Old Man? Please, tell me someone has finally come..." Hmm. Old Man Zhao? Why does he sound completely desperate for a student to come here? And the last part which he mumbled, I only managed to hear as a result of my high cultivation and enhanced senses as a result of being a spirit beast, why does he sound like he hasn''t had human contact since I left three weeks ago? He normally says that too many students crowd around him for seeking his assistance, and he enjoys helping them, but never manages to get to handling all, though now he sounds completely depraved that he believes it is a fragment of his imagination that a student actually came to him willingly. What on earth could have happened in just one month? "Hey, Old Man Zhao it''s your favourite disciple back, have you missed me? And why do you look so haggard you look like some homeless Old Man on the streets, not the original dignified master I knew!" Resounded Dana, attempting to give the Old Man some encouragement in having some serious changes towards his recent lifestyle choices. However, this does the opposite of what Dana hoped for, instead, she saw Old Man Zhao eyes becoming even more bloodshot. "You... Do you know the trouble you caused this past month? Ever since that rumour which was spread involving you, I have been avoided like the plague! This Old Man hasn''t had human contact in a month! And this isn''t just in the Academy, it is in the entire Capital!" Old Man Zhao spoke continuously ranting about his unfair treatment and resentment of his new nickname "Perverted Old Man Zhao" which instead of the expected pity from his disciple all he received was Dana''s loud laughter reverberating in the room. "It is fine Old Man, it''s just a silly rumour." Snorted Dana is trying to regain some semblance of talking with a serious manner, but graciously failing as a smile of amusement emerges on Dana''s face. "Oh, you find that funny, do you? Well, this Old Man isn''t the only one which has a rumour spreading around about them..." Old Man Zhao snickered removing the smug expression on her face. "Old Man, tell me? It can''t be possibly worse than "Perverted Old Man Zhao" surely!" Questioned Dana. However, she soon found it was just as bad with Old Man Zhao informs her of being known as "She-Devil Dana" the dominator of men, known for kidnapping pretty boys alike, such as her most famous boy toy "Pretty Boy Kaiden", after hearing the continuous rumours about her "exploits" the colder and colder of an expression emerged on Dana''s face. So, that''s why Kaiden was avoiding me, it looks like she is going to teach him a "lesson" tomorrow... As Dana''s eyes become unfocused on the conversation between Old Man Zhao, witnessing her expression for himself the more and more terrified Old Man Zhao got for the poor individual which crossed his disciple. Hmm. It seems "She-Devil" may not be an over exaggeration of a nickname for her after all. After continuing her thoughts on the punishment she is going to inflict on Kaiden, Dana snapped out of this state. Why has her personality gotten fierier since coming into this world? Ever since becoming a spirit beast she found she loses her temper much easier and becomes angered at simple things. I think this bestial nature is affecting my personality even more than I thought, in her past life she was an incredibly calm person, but since coming to this world she can get provoked very easily and she has an attitude which is to settle any grievance no matter how small. Such as the Azure Emperor, since sending experts to enslave her, only thoughts of repaying him for such judgement plagued her mind. Such as the rumour situation, an irrational part of her says to teach Kaiden a lesson, however Kaiden had no part in the rumours so such a reaction is unreasonable for her to have against him. Dana calms down deciding not to do anything to Kaiden, unknowingly to anyone else it seems Kaiden has escaped Dana''s wrath in the end. Seeing Dana''s face return to its calm state, Old Man Zhao let out a breath of relief, after all, he doesn''t want one of his students to be attacked by his rampaging disciple. After recovering a calm state, Dana and old man Zhao talked for thirty minutes about their experiences for the past month, Dana, of course, informed Old Man Zhao about her increase in cultivation and encounter with the Earth Wyrm''s which deeply stupified Old Man Zhao of her monstrous talent in not only cultivation but also strength in fighting above her current cultivation rank. After they finished their discussion, Dana decided to talk to Old Man Zhao about her plan with the other noble families and requiring his assistance to get all of the Houtian subordinates in one place, after hearing Dana a look of understanding crossed old man Zhao''s face. "So you are presumably the reason of those noble clans making a move? As I spent a long time undercover on this continent, I know the true nature of the Azure Emperor so I''ll go along with your scheme. But, that is only because you''re my disciple and the one who showed me a kindness by staying in this Empire was the Azure Emperors Father who passed away as a result of his thirst of power, at the time I couldn''t do anything for my old friend when he was killed cold heartily by his own son, but it seems you have given me an opportunity to avenge him. Dana, I can call an emergency gathering tomorrow as I am now the second strongest Houtian in the Azure Continent, they will definitely respond." Assured Old Man Zhao, after he spoke she learned this Azure Emperor truly was incredible in the talent of creating enemies. He seemingly has not only made many noble families incredibly displeased with him to the point of them wanting his death, but the usual kind and benevolent old man Zhao. With Old Man Zhao''s affirmation, Dana decided to hand him the pill which she bought with all her points gained from the Earth Wyrms. "Old Man Zhao, take this pill and don''t hesitate from using it at all. I know it''s valuable, but it''s nothing which will benefit me, in the future, I will provide you with an even greater gift in extending your life. You have been my first Master and also kind in providing me such a valuable technique for nothing more than a promise to keep it from disappearing in the world, so I will never personally forget the act of hospitality you have shown towards me!" Dana declared amiably while pressing a pill in old man Zhao''s hand, what she gave Old Man Zhao was a Rank 3 Life Expending Pill an incredibly rare and expensive pill to produce. Even the Tier Four Sect Old Man Zhao was originally present it might not get their hands on such a pill, and even if they did would they provide it to Old Man Zhao? Although he was valued for being present with the Sect Mistress since birth, giving such a priceless pill to him would be described as a waste for the sect. As Old Man Zhao will be stuck at the cultivation all of his life, whereas you could use the pill to extend the life of a powerful cultivator which would be much more favourable towards the sect itself. The pills functions are to extend a cultivators life for ten years, and in that time a cultivator can even make a breakthrough doubling their lifespan also bringing a new powerful expert in the sect, and even if the breakthrough fails, they will still have a powerful cultivator present for an additional ten years so you can see why Old Man Zhao wouldn''t be considered for use of such a pill.And does Dana truly regret using all of her points to purchase such a valuable pill? Now, as she knows she will get plenty of more points in the future and perhaps then she will look back thinking that many points are simple minuscule to her. Old Man Zhao showed her great kindness since she has been here, not only providing a rare cultivation method but he treated her like his own Granddaughter! So, Dana had no hesitation in extending the Old Man''s life with this rare pill as he is truly the first individual she has truly grown fond of in this world. She knows that she and the Old Man will never be in the same world as each other, as she will grow continually stronger and progress further in cultivation Ranks whereas his talent has already been used up. But, that doesn''t mean she cannot extend his life, letting him live his final years pleasantly, as a symbol of gratefulness towards him. Seeing the pill a dumbfounded look emerged on Old Man Zhao''s face, but he immediately attempted to hand the pill back as such a valuable pill shouldn''t be used on a man like him! However, he found Dana wouldn''t take no for an answer which left a reluctant Old Man Zhao after taking the pill, although he dreamt about having a pill to extend his life, he never truly thought it was possible for acquiring it and he still felt that Dana was wasting such an expensive resource on an untalented individual like him, however he still felt incredibly warm at the kindness Dana shown him. After handing Old Man Zhao the pill and receiving his assistance for her in the plan with dealing with the Azure Emperor, Dana decided to cultivate until tomorrow in which it would finally be the time in which she can take care of a man which had constantly been in her thoughts for repaying back thegrievance that he caused towards her. 28 Chapter 27 - The Fall of The Azure Emperor Awakening from meditation, Dana knew it was time to meet the nobles at the agreed place for their gathering before leaving towards the Azure Emperor Palace.Old Man Zhao will already be waiting for her there as he will be at the meeting he arranged with the Azure Emperor and the Houtian subordinates to stall them until Dana arrives, how he was going to do that is from the gist of the situation Old Man Zhao will just be speaking a load of gibberish to keep them occupied, which from her personal experience he has exceptional talent in. Seeing as everything is put in place, Dana leaves towards the location where the nobles will be awaiting her. As soon as Dana appears, she saw Kaiden alongside the Lords she met earlier alongside a few men she didn''t recognize. However, Dana was already informed that there were a few noble families which joined after witnessing Dana''s strength as they affirmed she got the means to defeat the Azure Emperor. Of course, these noble families were checked by a reliable source whether they had a truly good reputation beforehand, Dana wouldn''t just allow any noble family to intrude in the new leading faction of the Azure Empire. This also further demonstrated the Azure Emperor''s "talent" in seemingly attracting enemies. Dana soon noticed Kaiden had an incredibly nervous look as he approached her, is he afraid of me? Hmm. Am I truly that scary? He just doesn''t recognize true cuteness! "Dana you''re here!... We are all fully prepared to go to the Azure Emperors Palace... We were just waiting for your arrival!" Kaiden repetitively stutters seemingly afraid of the consequences of Dana knowing the rumour. "Kaiden why are you so nervous? Am I that terrifying? You know I have planned on being completely merciful towards you, but you are acting like I am going to beat you up because of a mere rumour!" Dana righteously exclaimed, completely forgetting that she was thinking of "beating up" Kaiden until decisively changing her mind. Not that Kaiden worries are unfounded, as Dana didn''t just get the reputation of being a "She-Devil" just for the incident involving Kaiden as he personally witnessed her beating up nobles which flirted with her, also many incidents similar repetitively happened around the academy in which were only not discovered as firstly the nobles were too embarrassed to admit they got beaten up by a girl and lastly Dana was the Headmasters disciple thus nobody truly wanted to mess with Dana with her having this sort of background! So it is no wonder Kaiden has an instinctive fear of Dana after witnessing her exploits. Kaiden upon hearing her words straightened up whilst trying to project his "manliest" look, "Alright Dana!" Kaiden exclaimed after that Kaiden went on a long speech towards the nobles about "Taking his responsibility as new Emperor" and the many misdeeds which the Azure Emperor did whilst Dana was pacing back and forth irritated that Kaiden went from being a nervous wreck to a blabbermouth that won''t shut up. Until Dana couldn''t take it anymore and loudly interrupted, "Alright everyone, follow my lead to the Azure Emperor. We need to make haste before Old Man Zhao bores them to death!" hurriedly stated Dana, as she stormed to the front of the group, the nobles following behind her obediently. Kaiden tagged along dejectedly due to his speech being interrupted by Dana, however, he soon cheered up at the thought of Dana beating up the Azure Emperor. As Dana lead the group towards the Azure Palace, many civilians were shocked upon seeing such a large group of powerful nobles, it caused many to instinctively believe that a great change was going to happen to the Azure Empire. However, this thought was soon scoffed at due to the propaganda over the years the Azure Emperor was an invincible god in their eyes, possessing unparalleled cultivation and power, someone forcing this man to abdicate was simply a preposterous thought they believed. They soon arrived in front of the Azure Emperor''s palace, the guards at the gate upon seeing such apowerful large group of nobles were greatly surprised. However, this soon turned into a weird look as there weren''t any nobles expected to see the Azure Emperor today, so they must have come uninvited. One of the guards stood in front of the entrance, blocking the route in which the group was coming in. "The Azure Emperor wasn''t informed prior notice to you coming to meet him! Only those which have an arranged meeting cleared by the Azure Emperor himself are allowed entrance! Turn back where you came from!" Loudly shouted the guard with an arrogant look, giving absolutely no face to these nobles, as he was a guard of the Azure Emperor, he didn''t put any noble family which didn''t have a Houtian Cultivator in his eyes. However, surprisingly the group didn''t turn around as he anticipated and they kept moving forward at the same pace rapidly heading towards his location. Haven''t they heard what he said, are they not afraid of causing the Azure Emperor''s displeasure? But, before the guard could continue to speak, the leading individual of the group which was Dana already arrived before him. Without even being able to react Dana already flung the guard with so much force he was knocked unconscious. Oops. It seems like I am unaware of my own strength again, after all my body is still extremely strong in human form. Seeing the sight in front of them the nobles had terrified looks, thinking that they will never mess with this woman! The only one among them which wasn''t surprised at all was Kaiden who was aware of Dana''s antics, in fact, Kaiden even gave a look saying "I told you so" to some of the nobles which had a mocking expression when he had an anxious appearance because of Dana. This scene continuously appeared throughout Azure Emperor''s Palace as every guard before they even have the time to react were thrown like rag dolls by Dana, under the watchful gazes of the nobles which gave a sympathetic look at the guards as they were thrown all over the place. Soon enough they arrived outside the meeting area where meeting with the sound of Old Man Zhao''s voice rambling about nonsense, in fact, Dana had only been listening for a minute and she already felt she was going to fall asleep. Without being polite Dana smashed through the door entering the room, inside the room, she saw Old Man Zhao alongside next to him being two middle-aged men, which were Rank Four Houtian Cultivators and at the very end of the room on a majestic throne was the Azure Empire himself. Looking at the Azure Emperor''s appearance, he was a Handsome middle-aged man, which was releasing an intimidating aura. "So you are the Azure Emperor, I''ve been looking for you." Dana''s voice sounded, stunning the individuals present. Apart from Old Man Zhao, the other three including the Azure Emperor looked upon her appearance with clear lust in their eyes. "Oh, so you are looking for me? Did one of the noble families send one of their daughters again to be my concubine? I got to say your beauty is by far the best I''ve seen you''ll most likely be my new favourite, but I got to say you have the most unique entrance among them." Spoke the Azure Emperor in a gruff voice, his eyes not leaving Dana''s figure the moment she entered, clearly expressing his interest towards her. However, after speaking a cold gaze descended upon him filled with killing intent, seeing it was from the beautiful woman he knew that she definitely isn''t here for that reason, but he''ll take her anyways as it''s not unusual for him to take women he likes regardless of their opinion in the matter. "You disgust me. It looks like you may be dead too quickly before the other nobles get here to witness it." After saying that Dana''s releases her cultivation, stunning the ones which are present apart from Old Man Zhao. The two other cultivators which are a middle-aged man are filled with complex emotions seeing her cultivation, they spent more than hundred years to reach their current cultivation and now they are currently someone which is only eighteen years old with cultivation higher than them. Seeing her cultivation the Azure Emperor grew serious. "Hmm. A talented one you are aren''t you? However, you are not my match girl, I''m still of higher cultivation and have lived longe many times longer, thus my battle experience is much superior to yours. Now, get back to whatever sect you belong and don''t disturb me." Murmured the Azure Emperor in warning, he wasn''t truly afraid of the girl, but the power behind them, which raised such a genius, as whichever force did was clearly someone he couldn''t offend! "You think you can deal with me? I''d like to see you try old man. Oh, it looks like the others arrived, guess they will see a show after all." After Dana made that comment, he saw a group of panting nobles getting into the room. "Hey, girl how can you move so fast without being affected at all?We had heavily use our Qi to even remotely keep up with you!" Lord Greystone said in resentment, Dana led them on a wild goose chase after they followed the battered bodies of guards creating a path to the chamber. Seeing the group of nobles a frown emerged on the Azure Emperor''s face, it seems I have no choice to battle that girl, she has already caused a rebellion against my rule. His face scrunched up in even more displeasure as they began to have a leisurely conversation seemingly without the care in the world! It''s like they don''t even consider him a strong, however, a sneer emerged on his face thinking this is the perfect opportunity to launch an attack on the girl when she is preoccupied. "It seems I have to teach you a lesson girl!" The Azure Emperor launched a sneak attack when Dana was distracted, although he had higher cultivation, he still felt wary of Dana and wanted to end this fight as soon as possible. Seeing the shamelessness of the Emperor of launching a sneak attack against a junior with lower cultivation, the nobles tried to warn Dana becoming worried that she will heavily injure from the sudden attack, however Old Man Zhao still looked unperturbed as it not concerned at all about his disciple, he knew the power she has and just a little Azure Emperor is nothing for her. Just as the attack was about to hit the unguarded Dana, a shocking scene emerged. Dana just simply grabbed onto the Azure Emperor''s fist, completely stopping his full strength attack with barely any effort at all. A cracking sound emerged as the Azure Emperor screamed as Dana crushed his hand. "It seems I will have to teach you a lesson!" A bloodthirsty smile emerged on her face, whilst the Azure Emperor and his subordinates become increasingly pale with fright. Is this truly a human? Witnessing this the nobles are flabbergasted, they didn''t think the difference between Dana''s and the Azure Emperors strength is so one-sided, they originally thought that Dana was superior but would win after exerting some effort. But, what is this? It was a complete dominate display, the Azure Emperor is no threat to her at all. Subsequently, the ensuing move after Dana crushed the Azure Emperor''s attack was slamming him onto the ground, making the original mighty and noble Emperor look like a dead dog. The great Azure Emperor of the Azure Empire lasted just a mere two moves under Dana! Seeing this result the two subordinates become afraid and the nobles are standing there with a dumb look on their face, disbelieving what they had just witnessed before their eyes. "Now let''s take care of you three. I got a lot of vent up anger after all this time holding up my revenge for your crossing me." As Dana murmured, her thoughts, faces of horror emerge on the Azure Emperor and his subordinates faces. A few hours later the resounding wails of the Azure Emperor and his subordinates continuously reverberated around the Palace, causing many nobles to have nightmares of the ensuring torture that the Azure Emperor and his subordinates went through. After the wails finally stopped and a deathly silence descended upon the Palace, a blood-covered Dana emerged. "Hmm. It looks like that is taken care of, I guess I should go find Kaiden. Mmm. Never mind, I''ll do that later lets just rest for a day I haven''t had a proper night''s rest in ages." Dana said, walking towards one of the best rooms in the Palace to have a good night''s rest. 29 Chapter 28 - Crowning of a New Emperor The mad knocking on the door suddenly awoke Dana, to ensure they did not disturb her for the entire night after entering the room Dana instantly barricaded the door close to prevent anyone who dared to disturb her beauty sleep. Groggily opening her eyes annoyed that someone would dare to awake her, she hasn''t had a good sleep for ages because of constantly cultivating, usually, cultivation can make up for sleep as it revitalises the body with Qi however for someone like Dana whom previous life favourite hobby revolved around sleeping it was an unforgivable act in waking her up. She heard a loud voice outside the door which Dana immediately recognised as Oldman Zhao, "Dana! Wake up, Kaiden is about to conduct his coronation on becoming the new Emperor and you will miss it! Is your sleep more important than that?" Oldman Zhao questioned believing Dana will not sacrifice such an event which she has supporting Kaiden considerably for just to slumber all day in bed. Unfortunately, Dana had the complete opposite reaction from what Oldman Zhao would expect, upon hearing the "important event" she directly turned around dozing off back to sleep, so that''s the important news? Obviously, I will choose sleep over a variety of drawn-out ramblings of old men and another one of Kaiden''s long boring speeches mumbled Dana. After hearing not even a response from Dana this entire time, he finally lost his patience. Oldman Zhao cannot be late for the coronation as he is one of the "rambling old men" Dana was thinking of which took part in Kaiden ascension to the thrown ceremony, with Oldman Zhao not wanting his disciple to have the biggest regret in her life for missing out on witnessing her Master''s participation in the ceremony alongside something in which she worked so hard to achieve he smashed open the door to Dana''s room, seeing Dana still sprawled out on the bed without even showing the slightest hint of getting up, Oldman Zhao rushed towards her dragging a displeased Dana of the bed. "Hey, Oldman what are you doing? Do you know the health risks in disturbing an individuals sleep? I could get sleep deprivation or something." As Dana attempts to come up with a reasonable excuse to go back to sleep, however, Oldman Zhao is taking none of it! "Listen, girl, if you go back to sleep I know you will deeply regret your decision, look how hard you worked to make Kaiden Emperor if you miss the coronation you will become disappointed laterbecause of your current lack of judgement!''" Exclaimed Oldman Zhao. Whilst imagining the deeply heart-broken look on Dana''s later on because of her missing the ceremony, steered Oldman Zhao''s resolve to push her into going. So, immediately he hurriedly has gotten a disgruntled looking Dana thirty minutes later into a beautiful-looking dress, making Dana''s appearance look like an immortal fairy descending into the mortal world. Unfortunately, the image she previously portrayed become ruined by Dana''s vulgar language towards Oldman Zhao and the maids, cursing them for wakening up. If Dana wanted to she could easily prevent them from doing a thing towards her, but she proved to be lenient for Oldman Zhao''s sake. If Oldman Zhao knew the true reason on why Dana wanted to dispose of the Azure Emperor, then maybe he would know why Dana''s didn''t look too excited upon being forced to attend the ceremony. As Dana alongside Oldman Zhao soon arrived at the ceremony, she saw a large crowd of nobles from the various families around the Azure Empire, the moment Dana entered the original lively atmosphere instantly became silent. Gasps of awe emerge from the nobles upon witnessing Dana''s peerless appearance, seeing Dana beside Oldman Zhao they knew this was likely the individual which defeated the Azure Emperor single-handedly! Many were in doubt upon seeing the claim from Kaiden and the other nobles which support him that his sole backer was an eighteen-year-old girl which can fully defeat the Azure Emperor, they soon removed these suspicions upon seeing Dana''s aura, as Dana was not even bothering to hide her cultivation besides intentionally releasing her aura showing to those present the clear superiority compared to the Azure Emperor. Dana did this as it was showcasing her strength, showing that Kaiden has powerful support to rely upon so she can remove the threat of some foolish individuals making a move towards Kaiden. Seeing such an unparalleled girl made many nobles frown in displeasure at the sheer luck Kaiden has! To have such a woman even for one night they would sacrifice their right hands, but upon looking at Kaiden''s pretty boy looks they deemed it as Kaiden fooling her because of her innocence! Damn, why couldn''t they have run into her before Kaiden, they don''t believe they are any times inferior compared to him being it in looks or talent! Despite this thinking, deep down many would know this is incorrect as these nobles had much better resources than birth and would have started cultivation much earlier than Kaiden not to mention contain a higher quality cultivation method, thus Kaiden talent is actually many times better than there''s but these arrogant nobles would obviously never admit their own inferiority! As Dana calmly walked towards her seat, which they positioned in the room''s front, both her and Old Man Zhao sat down without the slightest hint of an expression on their face, showing no reaction at all towards the numerous gazes directed towards them. An awkward silence descended upon the room for a few minutes after they sat down. However, this soon turned back into the previous boisterous atmosphere when they got used to Dana''s presence. Still, no noble dared to approach her as they knew how powerful Dana truly was if she could take care of the Azure Emperor, not to mention her young age meant she hadn''t achieved her full potential yet. Even an individual with cultivation such as the Azure Emperor had unusual temperaments because of their high cultivation, not to mention an individual even stronger and younger, this caused the nobles in being wary of Dana not wanting to become enemies with her by accidentally offending her, which ended up making Dana pleased because she was not being disrupted at all during this ceremony, maybe it won''t be as bad as she thought. It soon proved Dana to be wrong as the actual ceremony began, the first stage was like Dana thought as a bunch of old men gathered in the front beginning their long-winded talk as they jabbered on about nonsense, causing Dana to yawn out of boredom which she expertly covered up in order to not ruin her "pristine" image. Then Oldman Zhao came in front proving unequalled among the other old men in terms of length of his speech, in fact throughout the entire thing Dana had nearly fallen back to sleep frequently. And just when she thought it couldn''t get any worse, Kaiden came up... As soon as Kaiden emerged, he presented himself dressed in garb fit for an Emperor, his entire clothing range was the most highly of quality of materials the Azure Empire can provide. Standing there Kaiden radiated an aura fit for a ruler, it seems like he has adapted quickly to his new role? I hope they crown him Emperor and end this ceremony quickly, I''ve already reached my tolerance at the first old man which spoke, I''m going way over my limit here... And Kaiden had to disappoint Dana by even managing to top the various individuals which spoke before him making Dana feel listless, looks like some things will never change. After Kaiden''s speech ended which caused the delight of Dana, Kaiden sat on the throne, with Oldman Zhao placing the crown on his head, just as the declaration of Kaiden becoming the Emperor announced... A large group of powerful cultivators arrived, "I Pope Astritus of the Holy Kingdom according to God''s will state you are unworthy to be the new Emperor of the Azure Empire!" Thundered an old decrepit looking man wearing a white robe, alongside him seemed to be the Emperors of Eranyth Empire and Orthos Empire! All the other three Empires took this as an opportunity to attack the Azure Empire, Hmm? Well, I am tired of this ceremony anyway, Dana grinned looking at the group of opposing cultivators as if they were simply asking for death. 30 Chapter 29 - The Three Empires Alliance Immediately after the news spread of the Azure Emperor''s death, the three Empires quickly mobilised their experts aiding each other for the first time in history. Why? Because of fear, an individual capable of killing the Azure Emperor is someone fully capable of killing them! This is something they could not accept, they were wary of the individual which supposedly defeated the Azure Emperor; they stated that it was an eighteen-year-old young-girl! They didn''t truly fully believe this, as they spent hundreds of years just to reach the Rank 9 Houtian, but if it was the truth, then that young girl will inevitably surpass them, so if they did nothing and just watched them will be hopeless against her! Each of them was Empires which ruled for over a hundred years, could they accept having someone above them in this circumstance? Therefore, each of them decided that no matter the risk they must remove this threat now otherwise it may never present them an opportunity to do ever again! Thus, out of the sheer risk of each of them losing their Empires not to mentioning their deaths for letting the true individual in charge of the Azure Empire eventually surpasses them enabling them to trample on them as they please, for the first time in the Azure Continent history three Empires have created an alliance! They were fully confident in being able to defeat the expert which defeated the Azure Emperor with the combination of all three as they figured that even though the Azure Emperor must have caused the battle to be strenuous for the expert with it requiring a lot of effort to defeat him! With each of them gathered together, they purely brought their Houtian Cultivators to reach the coronation of the new Emperor! To be honest, each of them was not only doing this for the threat the Azure Empire poses to their respective Empires but because of greed! They always wanted to take over another Empire to gain more territory and wealth, these Empires were always deeply jealous of the Azure Empire having Devil''s Peak within its territory causing it to have a large amount of wealth. In fact, if the previous Emperor didn''t squander so much of the wealth gained from Devil''s Peak then the Azure Empire by now could likely directly compete with the Holy Empire in Houtian Cultivators! This shows how large a reward would be by gaining the Azure Empires territory! Beforehand, they each divided the territory equally between them and also will all split the earnings from Devil''s Peak, they agreed upon as the Holy Empire will still make many times more than the other Empires especially if they only have an equal share, so didn''t mind not taking a dominant amount despite being by far the stronger of the other two Empires. They soon arrived at Azure Empire, alongside nine other Houtian Cultivators from each of their respective Empires. They arrogantly barged in, the guards of the Azure Empire not even being able to withstand a single attack, as the other Houtian Cultivators cleared a path for their Emperors. The Pope and Two Emperors proudly raise their head looking at the murderous-looking civilians of the Azure Empire and saying, "Don''t look at us with such displeasure! We will be your new rulers soon enough." Each of them laughed with confident expressions as they see no other possibility for the Azure Empire being able to get out of this situation. "Mmm. Look at you acting so arrogantly in our country! Wait, until Mrs Dana comes out, then you will go running back like frightened chickens!" Shouted a young man which lost his temper after seeing the Emperors mocking his country. As Kaiden already informed the Empire that the one who defeated the Azure Emperor was Dana, it caused many to know her name making her have many individuals which idolise her strength throughout Azure Empire! So, it was no surprise that someone in the Capital knows her name. After the Young man responded to the Empires, the crowd receiving motivation did the same, making the Three Emperors burn in shame that these commoners dare to talk back to them. The Eranyth Emperor launched a strike severely injuring the young man, the crowd upon witnessing this scene became silent, obviously afraid that the Emperors will attack them if they continue to insult them! "The only reason I let you live boy is so you can experience seeing Mrs Dana die to our hands and watching as we take over your Azure Empire!" Mocked the Eranyth Empire. After that statement, the Pope and Two Emperors arrived at the Azure Palace continuing acting haughtily the entire way there. In fact, the Pope was even more audacious as usually, he kept a "righteous" image in the Holy Empire but now being inside another Empire where he can act unrestrainedly he revealed his true character! Soon enough the Pope and two Emperors arrived where the ceremony was occurring, any guards they met in the way defeated unable to even put up slight resistance towards each of their Houtian cultivation. They searched their eyes landing on a particular person in the ceremony; it was an astonishingly beautiful woman with a powerful aura causing even them to feel an instinctual danger, they immediately knew this was Mrs Dana the cultivator that defeated the Azure Emperor. Looking at her appearance she wasn''t over-exaggerated at all in terms of age, looking at her she seemed to be merely 18-years of age, with her age she will definitely overtake within the next few years! They each signed in relief at being able to take care of such a looming threat if they left her to develop then she will surely take over their Empires sooner or later! After getting to the crowning of Kaiden were they were about to announce him becoming the new Emperor of the Azure Emperor, the Pope stepped forward shouting; "I Pope Astritus of the Holy Kingdom according to God''s will state you are unworthy to be the new Emperor of the Azure Empire!" The shout of the Pope resounded throughout the ceremony hall as all the nobles notice that all the Three Empires Houtian Cultivators are here, even including the Emperors themselves! Upon seeing such a force, they subconsciously looked towards Dana thinking even though she is strong, can she truly handle this? However, it seemed Dana was unperturbed at all seeing such a force, in fact, she grinned in amusement as if it all a game for her. "You think you can come here uninvited and act all mighty towards me?" Dana''s voice coldly spoke causing many to shiver instinctively at the threat laced within. "Hmm. So what if we come here uninvited? Only strained rules this continent, and the strong rules the weak! Being the stronger party it is only right we come here and take what we want!" The Pope grinned, looking at Dana with a perverted expression. "I guess your right. The strong rules weak." Dana responded. "So you finally realised how fruitless it is to resist and turned yourself over to us? I tell you what serve us to the best of your abilities and if we enjoy ourselves, we might spare you crippling your martial cultivation first but at least you will keep your life!" Lechery said the Pope with a clear longing in his eyes whilst looking at Dana''s appearance. The other Emperors murmured in agreement, similar to the Pope ever since seeing Dana they all looked at her with clear lust within her eyes. The nobles in the room looked despondent seeing Dana lose hope against the Houtian Cultivators, they initially had a slight hope in Dana but her response crushed this making them feel helpless of the current situation. "I don''t think you understand the true gravity of the situation you brought upon yourself. The weak one isn''t me, it is you." After Dana''s spoke, she launched an attack instantly splattering a Houtian Ranked Cultivator into pieces. Stupefied looks emerge from the Emperors as they saw their own subordinate killed before their eyes without even be able to make the slightest of reaction. They finally realised the grave error they made! Looking at Dana''s beautiful appearance what once ignited looks of lust, turned into pure terror for provoking such a monster! A predatory smile graced Dana''s beautiful face, making the Pope feel that the figure in front of him is a beast instead of a human! Without hesitation, they turn to escape. "You think you can escape from me?" Said Dana, launching spears made of Earth Qi and Ice Qi towards the Houtian Cultivators. The spears instantly impaled three Houtian Cultivators killing them in one strike! Dana then continuously launched strike after a strike and soon enough all the subordinates of the three Emperors died within just a mere twenty seconds. Seeing their subordinates being killed like flies, dread fills the Pope and Two Emperors, they now have no means for escape! They originally planned on using them as meat shields, but they were easily dealt with by Dana making this no longer plausible! "Please mercy... " The Pope pleaded. The other Two Emperors quickly followed his example, showing the mess they ended up in. Seeing the once scornful looking men pleading for mercy disgusted Dana, one minute they were acting so arrogant and now I prove them to be weaker, they beg for mercy. They are classic examples of bullying the weak but worshipping the strong! She felt nauseated by these types of individuals, without a second thought Dana ended the lives of all three. Seeing how easily she dealt with the most powerful figures on this continent made Dana realized that she has outlived this continent and it is time to move onto a bigger newer continent! She knows the only way to improve her strength is to find better resources, which the Azure Continent can no longer provide her. Concluding her decision, she decided she will remain for a week before leaving. Turning around, she saw the gathering of nobles were silent at the sight before them. Seeing how ruthless Dana was has caused them to be fearful for her, they decided that they will never betray the Empire no matter what situation occurred or they may end up like the Pope and Two Emperors before them! Noticing the silence Dana sounded, "Well, what are you waiting for? Just finish crowning him the Emperor so I leave already." 31 Chapter 30 - New Continent, New Challenges Within the next week, Dana did many things to prepare for her leaving the Azure Continent. First, she discussed with Oldman Zhao his knowledge outside the continent, and what he recommends where her to start. In the end, Oldman Zhao referred towards a Tier 3 Power called the ''Elemental Sect''. It is a sect which focuses on the four primary attributes Fire, Water, Earth and Air. This sect contains many martial art techniques on each of the primary elements, with different powerful elders representing their respective element. However, the true power of this sect wasn''t individually but as a group. As they have a diverse number of cultivators with different attributes, it makes them exceedingly difficult to deal with, as weaknesses towards certain attributes will not apply towards them being as they have multiple masters in different attributes. The main downside of this sect is that it is a ''Jack of All Trades and Master of None'', because of it containing all four attributes it diverse their attention towards each attribute, making it weaker than sects which primarily focus on just one attribute. For instance, an average cultivator within a Tier 3 power on the water attribute, will always outmatch someone from the Elemental Sect with the water attribute because they will have a deeper understanding of the attribute and better martial skills because of the sects heritage primarily focusing on water attributed martial skills thus making them have a deeper understanding. The advantages of going to this sect are plain to see for Dana, as she has an outstanding talent within Ice, that applies similarly to water alongside having good talent within Earth Attribute makes it a perfect sect for Dana to train both attributes. A Tier 3 sect also contains bountiful resources and even rules over a numerous Tier 1 and Tier 2 sects, with them being subordinates of the Tier 3 sect they will act as a place to send the least talented individuals towards them, in return they will receive a number of resources these sects have to donate to the Tier 3 Sect in addition to using them as ''meat shields'' or ''cannon fodder'' in the circumstance of a war between sects alongside dealing with situations such as beast hordes which require masses of cultivators to take care of. Seeing the benefits of joining a Tier 3 Sect, made Dana very pleased with her decision. With this sect''s assistance, she can not only gain some Earth and Water attributed martial arts but also improve her cultivation speed by a considerable amount. Moreover, Dana also fully helped Kaiden assimilate the Three other Empires into the Azure Emperor which ended up with her receiving a considerable amount of resources which the Empires have saved up for a long number of years. Taking over the Three other Empires have caused the Azure Empire power to skyrocket, making the number of resources they control to be many times greater. With this in place, the Azure Empire will reproduce the lost Houtian Cultivators within due time. Dana then spent her spare time in this week to use the resources gained from the other Empires in her cultivation, making it once again increase over the past week, with the rapid squandering of resources Dana promoted her Cultivation to Houtian Rank 8. With the improvement of her strength, Dana felt even more assured in going to the Tier 3 Sect. According to Oldman Zhao they launch a disciple recruitment every year at around a month from now, which will give her plenty of time to get there on time. Saying farewell to Oldman Zhao she promised the Oldman she will come and visit him now and then after all she still needs to provide him with more life-extending resources, although the life-extending pill gave him an additional ten years, Dana was fond of the Oldman and would like to keep him around. As for Kaiden? Well, he was giving the cold shoulder as Dana left without saying goodbye, completely forgetting to even see him. Hmm? Did I forget something? Oh Nevermind if I forgot about it, surely it must not be important... As Kaiden came into Oldman Zhao room alongside Lord Greystone and a bunch of other Lords, "Hey where''s Dana?" Spoke Kaiden. "Didn''t she tell you? She left to another continent, to expand her horizons!"Asked Oldman Zhao with a puzzled expression. "No, she didn''t tell me at all! Did everyone else know about this?" Kaiden asked. Seeing this question the rest of the Lords nodded as even Dana told them she was leaving. It seems the only person she forgot to inform was Kaiden? "We thought she told you? There was even a large ''Leaving party'' last night, in which we went to the best bar in the Capital! My god that lass can drink, she out drunk all the men there! Haha" Lord Greystone chucked, alongside the other Lords. "Wait, she had even had a ''Leaving Party''? Why didn''t anyone tell me about it?" Questioned Kaiden with a displeased tone. "We thought she was close to you, so it didn''t come across our mind to tell you..." The Lords shrugged whilst answering. Looking at Kaiden''s expression, it looked like he genuinely didn''t know a thing! It seems he must have displeased the girl somehow. "Cheer up boy, it seems the girl must not have been satisfied with you!" Lord Greystone sternly responded, giving Kaiden a ''knowing'' look. However, it seems Kaiden looked like he didn''t hear Lord Greystone as he was mumbling how she forgot about him... It took Dana a week to leave the outskirts of the Azure Continent within her Wyvern Form. ''I finally left the Azure Continent'' Dana thought, looking back at the Azure Continent thinking this might be the last time she will see this place within years... Dana felt fortunate ending up in the Azure Continent because she knew she made many grievous errors which could have gotten her enslaved or worse. Coming into this world she was originally too na?ve, thinking back to her experiences in the past Six Months, she came from reluctant to even bare to spill the blood of a Spirit Beast, to be able to decisively kill humans, something in which she would have never imagined herself capable of doing. If she would have made similar mistakes in another area of this world, in which the powers weren''t so weak, she believed she may have already ended up enslaved or worse, so in a way she was grateful for this ''backwater'' place she was brought to as it moulded her personality which would ensure her survival in such a dangerous, treacherous world. Looking towards the next continent, she knew alongside all the benefits it will bring her it will provide an equal amount of danger. Since coming into this world, it has been a rather smooth sailing experience for her because of it only been a Mere Tier 1 power in which she could act rampantly all she wanted because there was no one would remotely compete to her in talent or bloodline. However, she was not the only rare bloodline beast in other continents, as there are beasts with rare bloodlines present fully capable of battling her on equal terms without a disadvantage if it wasn''t for her cultivation method. Not to mention older cultivators that can kill her with the flick of their finger, boasting cultivation''s throughout the various ranks of Xiantian cultivation with and even a 9th Rank Core Formation Realm are present in Tier 3 sects, which is currently more than two realms above her current cultivation. She will have to be extremely cautious, she will be going to place in which she has no allies or friends to protect her if she makes even the slightest wrong move. Dana looks towards the next continent with a serious expression on her face, before heading to the direction of the home of the Tier 3 sect itself, the Xinghai Continent! 32 Notice Sorry, content is lost, You are reading Novel on Novelhall.COM, we will fix it as soon as possible, thank you 32 What should I go for? I was crossed between Dana''s approach in joining the Elemental Sect. There are two options, one Dana joins the sect as a ''Genius'' one of the best within the sect, without hiding her appearance. She won''t be the top genius of the sect, as that is too amazing but she will have sufficient talent, that she would be considered an individual they want to put great effort to nurture. This may cause trouble as her appearance is unveiled, alongside her is most likely the most talented female disciple which could cause many troubles for obvious means. This means she will show herself in the open, and as she is a ''Talented'' disciple of the sect, none would be allowed to do what they want. This would mean Dana is in the open, her full capabilities wouldn''t be revealed it would mean she would actively show her talents and not try to hide. Two Dana hides her appearance and acts low, this would be her biding her time until she has sufficient strength to protect her self. The meaning of this is none would even know she is female, and think she has ''trash'' talent, she will be actively looked down upon. These are two options, I want your opinion on what approach should I take. To be honest I''m not sure as both options are plausible and should keep her ''safe'' enough within the sect. Of course, either option won''t protect her from danger, as for the first option they may not do anything towards her face to face, but does that mean they won''t go behind her back when nobody is present? Also, she could end up being forced by for instance the sect head in the first option, but then again she could prolong this issue until she has an appropriate means to get out of it as her talent is much higher than they truly anticipated so they will always underestimate her. Either option will not be filled without hardships for Dana, but I want to know which direction would you prefer me to go in? 33 Chapter 31 - Narrow Escape It has been two weeks since Dana has been travelling within the Xinghai Continent, Dana hasn''t really been in a rush towards the Elemental Sect disciple selection, as within her Frost Wyvern form she can move at rapid speeds, far faster than any cultivator at her cultivation level. One reason Dana enjoyed adventuring in her last life was to watch the scenery and famous sights of different countries. The landscape of the Xinghai continent was beautiful, admiring the wonderful land full of life relaxed Dana greatly. It feels very peaceful soaring through the sky in this atmosphere; it caused Dana to unknowingly decrease her speed taking the time to take in the unfamiliar territory. Dana has already passed a few towns, and she got to say compared to the Azure Continent, there was already an unparalleled difference; cultivation. In the Azure Continent, there were many mortals, in fact, the mortals outnumber the cultivators by a fair amount in the Azure Continent. But since coming here everyone she has seen was a cultivator, accept some of the younger children. Usually, in a common family, an individual will start cultivation at eight years old. For privileged families and sects, this the age below because of their upbringing with priceless cultivation resources and the assistance of a strong cultivation method. Children of cultivation families usually have a better altitude as both their parents are cultivators, thus naturally giving them stronger talent than mortal families. From Dana''s experience, everyone she comes across was at least within the Body Refining Realm, including the women. This shows everyone generally practices cultivation within this continent, an additional thing is a Qi Circulation experts are too common! In the Azure Continent, a Qi Circulation cultivator are considered to be top experts! They are second only to Houtian Ranked Cultivators which are viewed as gods within the Azure Continent. A Qi Circulation Cultivator could even be an elder within the top Academy within Azure Continent, Skyclad Academy! But, here Qi Circulation Cultivators are just average cultivators. She came across many mercenaries being within the Qi Circulation Rank, some even reaching Peak of Qi Circulation, nearly becoming Houtian Ranked Cultivators. Compared to the Azure Continent the difference is huge! Seeing the power of the continent for herself, made it dawn upon Dana that even with hearing the explanations of how strong a Tier 3 power is from Oldman Zhao, seeing it in person brings much more of an effect on Dana. However, upon the second week, Dana''s peaceful trip ends as she comes across as Ninth-Ranked Houtian Spirit Beast! Seeing such a beast made Dana wary, beasts such as this would be compared rare within the Azure Continent, but within Xinghai Continent it is just considered a strong beast, something which could be killed easily by even the elders of the sects or even some core disciples. Still, for Dana the beast didn''t require too much effort, as she is at Eighth Rank Houtian Cultivation, it didn''t require much effort to take down such a best with only a common bloodline in possession. Converting the bloodline for a quick 100 soul points, besides the 100 soul points she gained from killing the beast, made Dana already receive 200 soul points altogether! Its value was much lower than the Earth Wyrm''s, because the difference between an uncommon and common bloodline is huge, not to mention that they are one of the strongest among uncommon bloodlines as they have dragon heritage, thus the soul points were nowhere near as much as the Earth Wyrms. But, this wasn''t what caused trouble for Dana, the main predicament was that she caught the smell of some humans... and somebody was powerful among them, their cultivation by far the highest Dana had witnessed since coming to this world. "Hey, where did that beast go Elder Wi?" A male voice sounded. "Hmm. It went this way... something stronger startled the beast, it seems this beast may be fairly troublesome..." A croaky voiced sounded. Soon enough without Dana having enough time to not be seen, a group of humans came upon her seeing Dana''s appearance, a hulking Frost Wyvern containing a beasts core within her ''hands'' alongside the former dead beast they were tracking not too far from her position with its entrails dug out. Seeing such a scene, the girls instantly screamed and the male disciples acting ''heroically'' with the presence of such a powerful shield as Elder Wi, stood in front of them as if they were protecting them from the monstrous beast before them. Instead, they were quaking in fear as if they were alone in front of this beast would they dare confront it? But, with Elder Wi cultivation he should have no problem dealing with it, and they can get a favourable impression from the females. Appraising the appearance of the beast, Elder Wi knew it was an infant Frost Wyvern, making him become extremely excitement. As rare bloodline beasts are still rare within this continent but are still easily recognised, the Elder Wi can easily recognise Dana within her beast form, but the truly incredible thing is that no one has enslaved a rare bloodline beast, as they are either adult are too powerful to be enslave or are heavily protected by their parents making it impossible to do such a thing, with such a massive prize in front of Elder Wi why wouldn''t he be overjoyed? Seeing such greed filled gaze from Elder Wi, only one thought emerged in Dana''s mind ''Run!'', she is proud as a Frost Wyvern, but with such an extreme difference in cultivation why would she allow herself to be enslaved. Pushing from the ground, she flees away astonishingly quickly. Upon seeing such a scene a hawk-like gaze comes from Elder Wi, the students knew that the beast before them must be something big! "Return to the academy and tell the elders of this news, I''m sure they will forgive me for leaving such a group of students for a prize such as this!" Ordered Elder Wi, dashing after the beast. He decided not to follow it flying which every Xiantian cultivator is capable of as it will rapidly drain his Qi and at the same time allow the beast to gain the advantage as it is a flying type beast! He can never fly faster than the beast, but does that mean he cannot track it on the ground? With his cultivation being a realm higher, 9 Rank of Xiantian Rank he is fully confident in being able to wear down the beast until it''s exhausted and then come in for the prize! As each of the students have relatively powerful cultivations and could take out with using some effort the beast which Dana just killed, Elder Wi was fully confident that they can easily return to the Sect without mishaps, if they don''t intentionally cause their downfall! Seeing the serious within Elder Wi''s face they nodded and left, they will report the information to the sect as soon as possible! As more and more days past, Dana was getting tired, under the constant chase of Elder Wi, she had never relaxed and used all her efforts to fly away, unfortunately the difference in cultivation was too vast, and even with the advantage with flying, Elder Wi still maintained within distance compared to her. Dana wasn''t too far from the Elemental Sect competition so she decided to trick Elder Wi, as he would never expect her to have a human form, Dana quietly flew down to a cave. As Dana knew it would take more than an hour for Elder Wi to catch up, she changed to human form, Elder Wi was using some technique to keep locating her and wherever she went he still followed, with this having constantly it made her grow exhausted with the expenditure of Qi. I''ve been in this continent for a mere few weeks and I''m already in this much trouble? Sneaking outside the cave Dana left, as she wasn''t too far from the recruitment of Elemental Sect she headed in that direction. An hour later Elder Wi arrived at the cave, finding he seemed to lose track of the beast, a puzzled expression emerged on his face. "Why have its aura completely disappeared?" Elder Wi was using a rare treasure to track the beast, it was something which used an individuals ''aura'' to track it. As Elder Wi managed to record Dana''s ''aura'' as a Frost Wyvern she couldn''t lose him no matter how much she tried, in fact, she was fairly fortunate as if it was a Core Formation Elder instead of a Xiantian elder than she would likely have been captured easily! As Dana''s aura is majorly different in human form, she unknowingly managed to escape the device''s detection. Finding an unfamiliar aura here. "Mmm. A new aura? It seems human... but oddly familiar" Elder Wi thought. Thinking that this is his only lead, Elder Wi will follow it and ''interrogate'' whoever it is where is the location of that beast! I informed the sect, so even if I fail here, there will be a mass hunt for a beast. An infant rare bloodline beast is just too incredible to pass up... 32 Chapter 31 - Narrow Escape It has been two weeks since Dana has been travelling within the Xinghai Continent, Dana hasn''t really been in a rush towards the Elemental Sect disciple selection, as within her Frost Wyvern form she can move at rapid speeds, far faster than any cultivator at her cultivation level. One reason Dana enjoyed adventuring in her last life was to watch the scenery and famous sights of different countries. The landscape of the Xinghai continent was beautiful, admiring the wonderful land full of life relaxed Dana greatly. It feels very peaceful soaring through the sky in this atmosphere; it caused Dana to unknowingly decrease her speed taking the time to take in the unfamiliar territory. Dana has already passed a few towns, and she got to say compared to the Azure Continent, there was already an unparalleled difference; cultivation. In the Azure Continent, there were many mortals, in fact, the mortals outnumber the cultivators by a fair amount in the Azure Continent. But since coming here everyone she has seen was a cultivator, accept some of the younger children. Usually, in a common family, an individual will start cultivation at eight years old. For privileged families and sects, they start below this age because of their upbringing with priceless cultivation resources and the assistance of a stronger cultivation method. Children of cultivation families usually have a better altitude as both their parents are cultivators, thus naturally giving them stronger talent than mortal families. From Dana''s experience, everyone she comes across was at least within the Body Refining Realm, including the women. This shows everyone generally practices cultivation within this continent, an additional thing is a Qi Circulation experts are too common! In the Azure Continent, a Qi Circulation cultivator are considered to be top experts! They are second only to Houtian Ranked Cultivators which are viewed as gods within the Azure Continent. A Qi Circulation Cultivator could even be an elder within the top Academy within Azure Continent, Skyclad Academy! But, here Qi Circulation Cultivators are just average cultivators. She came across many mercenaries being within the Qi Circulation Rank, some even reaching Peak of Qi Circulation, nearly becoming Houtian Ranked Cultivators. Compared to the Azure Continent the difference is huge! Seeing the power of the continent for herself, made it dawn upon Dana that even with hearing the explanations of how strong a Tier 3 power is from Oldman Zhao, seeing it in person brings much more of an effect on Dana. However, upon the second week, Dana''s peaceful trip ends as she comes across as Ninth-Ranked Houtian Spirit Beast! Seeing such a beast made Dana wary, beasts such as this would be compared rare within the Azure Continent, but within Xinghai Continent it is just considered a strong beast, something which could be killed easily by even the elders of the sects or even some core disciples. Still, for Dana the beast didn''t require too much effort, as she is at Eighth Rank Houtian Cultivation, it didn''t require much effort to take down such a beast with only a common bloodline in possession. Converting the bloodline for a quick 100 soul points, besides the 100 soul points she gained from killing the beast, made Dana already receive 200 soul points altogether! Its value was much lower than the Earth Wyrm''s, because the difference between an uncommon and common bloodline is huge, not to mention that they are one of the strongest among uncommon bloodlines as they have dragon heritage, thus the soul points were nowhere near as much as the Earth Wyrms. But, this wasn''t what caused trouble for Dana, the main predicament was that she caught the smell of some humans... and somebody was powerful among them, their cultivation by far the highest Dana had witnessed since coming to this world. "Hey, where did that beast go Elder Wi?" A male voice sounded. "Hmm. It went this way... something stronger startled the beast, it seems this beast may be fairly troublesome..." A croaky voiced sounded. Soon enough without Dana having enough time to not be seen, a group of humans came upon her seeing Dana''s appearance, a hulking Frost Wyvern containing a beasts core within her ''hands'' alongside the former dead beast they were tracking not too far from her position with its entrails dug out. Seeing such a scene, the girls instantly screamed and the male disciples acting ''heroically'' with the presence of such a powerful shield as Elder Wi, stood in front of them as if they were protecting them from the monstrous beast before them. Instead, they were quaking in fear as if they were alone in front of this beast would they dare confront it? But, with Elder Wi cultivation he should have no problem dealing with it, and they can get a favourable impression from the females. Appraising the appearance of the beast, Elder Wi knew it was an infant Frost Wyvern, making him become extremely excited. As rare bloodline beasts are still rare within this continent but are still easily recognised, the Elder Wi can easily recognise Dana within her beast form, but the truly incredible thing is that no one has enslaved a rare bloodline beast, as they are either an adult which are too powerful to be enslaved or are heavily protected by their parents making it impossible to do such a thing, with such a massive prize in front of Elder Wi why wouldn''t he be overjoyed? Seeing such greed filled gaze from Elder Wi, only one thought emerged in Dana''s mind ''Run!'', she is proud as a Frost Wyvern, but with such an extreme difference in cultivation why would she allow herself to be enslaved. Pushing from the ground, she flees away astonishingly quickly. Upon seeing such a scene a hawk-like gaze comes from Elder Wi, the students knew that the beast before them must be something big! "Return to the academy and tell the elders of this news, I''m sure they will forgive me for leaving such a group of students for a prize such as this!" Ordered Elder Wi, dashing after the beast. He decided not to follow it flying which every Xiantian cultivator is capable of as it will rapidly drain his Qi and at the same time allow the beast to gain the advantage as it is a flying type beast! He can never fly faster than the beast, but does that mean he cannot track it on the ground? With his cultivation being a realm higher, 9 Rank of Xiantian Rank he is fully confident in being able to wear down the beast until it''s exhausted and then come in for the prize! As each of the students have relatively powerful cultivations and could take out with using some effort the beast which Dana just killed, Elder Wi was fully confident that they can easily return to the Sect without mishaps, if they don''t intentionally cause their downfall! Seeing the serious within Elder Wi''s face they nodded and left, they will report the information to the sect as soon as possible! As more and more days past, Dana was getting tired, under the constant chase of Elder Wi, she had never relaxed and used all her efforts to fly away, unfortunately, the difference in cultivation was too vast, and even with the advantage with flying, Elder Wi still maintained within distance compared to her. Dana wasn''t too far from the Elemental Sect competition so she decided to trick Elder Wi, as he would never expect her to have a human form, Dana quietly flew down to a cave. As Dana knew it would take more than an hour for Elder Wi to catch up, she changed to human form, Elder Wi was using some technique to keep locating her and wherever she went he still followed, with this having constantly it made her grow exhausted with the expenditure of Qi. I''ve been on this continent for a mere few weeks and I''m already in this much trouble? Sneaking outside the cave Dana left as she wasn''t too far from the recruitment of Elemental Sect she headed in that direction. An hour later Elder Wi arrived at the cave, finding he seemed to lose track of the beast, a puzzled expression emerged on his face. "Why have its aura completely disappeared?" Elder Wi was using a rare treasure to track the beast, it was something which used an individuals ''aura'' to track it. As Elder Wi managed to record Dana''s ''aura'' as a Frost Wyvern she couldn''t lose him no matter how much she tried, in fact, she was fairly fortunate as if it was a Core Formation Elder instead of a Xiantian elder than she would likely have been captured easily! As Dana''s aura is majorly different in human form, she unknowingly managed to escape the device''s detection. Finding an unfamiliar aura here. "Mmm. A new aura? It seems human... but oddly familiar" Elder Wi thought. Thinking that this is his only lead, Elder Wi will follow it and ''interrogate'' whoever it is where is the location of that beast! He informed the sect, so even if he failed here, there will be a mass hunt for a beast. An infant rare bloodline beast is just too incredible to pass up... 33 Chapter 32 - Elemental Sect Recruitment - sTalent Tests Dana soon arrived at the location of the Recruitment for the Elemental Sect, it was held within an influential City within the Xinghai Continent. Although in the Xinghai Continent, the Sects possessed the largest influence, as in addition to having a powerful force the many disciples reside in the sect alongside the older generation such as the Elders, former cultivators which previously attended the sects tens of years ago will come to the aid of their sect if needed. With this continuing for hundreds of years, it is no wonder the Sects foundation are so firm within the Xinghai Continent, that they are much stronger in comparison to the Empires. However, that doesn''t make the Empires pushovers, as each of them would be many times stronger than the Azure Empire, even if all Four of the Great Empires combined at the Peak of their Power they would still be crushed easily. This City was one of the subjects of Ironclaw Empire, an Empire famed for wars and containing a beast bloodline. For humans owning a beast, the bloodline is very rare, as you would have to transfuse it from a dying beast, depending on the transfusion method alongside the purity of the bloodline of the beast, will decide how strong the bloodline will be. Obviously, it will never be as strong as within the beast which was previously killed, however, the ancestor of the Ironclaw Empire was very fortunate and managed to gain a high purity bloodline of the rare bloodline beast ''Iron Bull''. Although the ''Iron Bull'' was one of the weakest among Rare bloodline beasts, after all, it still contained a ''Rare'' bloodline which would always be many times superior to an uncommon one, this would normally be impossible for the Ironclaw Empire ancestor being able to gain a complete fusion of its bloodline, but the ''Iron bull'' passed its bloodline willingly making the Ancestor receive the complete bloodline of the Iron Bull! This was because before it''s death, the Ironclaw Empire upon seeing it severely injured didn''t kill it, but pitied it trying to nurse it back to health. Its injuries were too severe and died, knowing it would pass away it didn''t want to waste its bloodline so passed it on to the Ironclaw Empire making him inherit a very high purity rare bloodline! Even though currently that bloodline has become incredibly diluted over the years, it is still enough for the Ironclaw Empire to reign supreme, with each member of the Royal Family being known for having absurd natural body strength and defence. Additionally, they have an amazing affinity with Earth and Metal Qi making them ideal candidates for the Elemental Sect, thus over the years the Elemental Sect and Ironclaw Empire shared a good relationship, with many talents from the Ironclaw Empire Royal Family joining the sect. As Dana entered the city and soon found the recruitment gathering, checking in with a young disciple of the Elemental Sect, she signed up entering the ''Talent Test'' which will determine her role within the sect. Upon entering the City, Dana used her cloak to hide her appearance, alongside a simple metal mask she bought in a store, as she didn''t want to cause unnecessary trouble towards her at the moment, with the threat of provoking unknown dangers everywhere. Hastily, Dana made her way to the ''Talent Test'', in which she saw many individuals like her having their talent tested to determine what role they will play in the sect. Depending on how good your aptitude is will decide how many resources you will be provided within the sect besides your access to the various martial skills and availability of teaching from the Elders. Talent factors everything within this sect thus made Dana believe she should show herself having above average talent, but not too much so she doesn''t attract attention. Realising that many were giving her weird looks, she realized why, as many cultivators would like to show off their appearance nowadays so they''d be recognised and gain a ''reputation'' for their deeds. This is why it puzzled many why someone would want to hide themselves unless they had poor talent and was embarrassed to show their faces if they failed. Judging this was the reason, many ignored Dana concluding she was a minor character. Seeing this response Dana sneered, ''It''s not like I want your attention anyway, people like this which just fawn who has good talent are not people I will allow to get close to me'' Dana thought. A few minutes later clamouring began emerging from the crowd of cultivators. Seeing the crowd get excited, Dana wondered what they are so thrilled about, this was soon answered when the crowd made way for a group of young cultivators, a Handsome man and Beautiful women, both possessing outstanding cultivation for their ages. "That is Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying, they are the top geniuses of the Ironclaw Empire young generation!" A young male cultivator resounded with a delighted expression. "Wow, Princess Hui Ying sure is the most beautiful women present! Her being the top beauty of the Ironclaw Empire is true!" Another young man said. Whilst the males were fawning over the Princess, for the females, it was a replication for Prince Cheng with them all happily chattering how ''Handsome'' and ''Noble'' the Prince was. Seeing such enthusiasm shown for two individuals which have nothing to do them made Dana shocked, ''It seems strong cultivators are like celebrities from my past life'' thought Dana looking at the many ''fans'' of both the Prince and Princess. Inspecting their cultivations it seems both of them are Houtian Ranked Nine Cultivators, at around twenty years of age, which is simply unheard of within the Azure Empire. ''They would be considered the top geniuses of the younger generation in the Xinghai Continent, and in comparison to them if I show my full talent it will seem I have more potential than both'' thought Dana thinking in her human form she looks around eighteen years of age, in contrast to them as she is a few years younger it will portray her as the superior one. ''I will make myself look like having above average talent'' thought Dana lowering her cultivation to the Ninth Rank of Qi Circulation. The atmosphere eventually settles down after ten minutes, but still, the cultivators would glimpse at both the two ''most talented'' individuals present. Suddenly, the area becomes dead quiet when an old man walks to the stage, from his aura it seems he shared similar cultivation to Elder Wi, Xiantian Rank 9. "Alright everyone, the Talent Test to get into the Elemental Sect will be split into three stages, firstly we will test the speed in which you gather Qi, secondly you will demonstrate your comprehension ability by seeing how much of a basic martial art you can master within the allocated time and finally you will be tested upon your attribute talent upon either of the four elemental attributes," Spoke the old man. Upon hearing his voice, many cultivators become serious knowing this was their opportunity in being able to ascend within this world! If they have a suitable talent, their status will ascend immensely becoming highly valued disciples of the Elemental Sect! If they fail, they will become trash and will be scorned at by everyone. Anxious looks appeared on many, but under Dana''s mask, she was completely unfazed if I show suitable talent I will get what I need out of this sect... 34 Chapter 33 - Stage One of the Talent Tes Before long once the old man announced the features of the ''Talent Test'', the once silent room became lively once again, as the cultivators present discussed their feelings about the talent test. In fact, everyone was talking to each other apart from Dana, as the talented youths seemed to single her out by believing it isn''t worth talking to someone which isn''t even going to pass the first round and was probably here for some sightseeing. Soon enough, the old man spoke again, "You will need to get in line chronological order, we will soon test everyone for the first stage. If your talent for that stage doesn''t even meet our sects requirements, then you will be asked to leave." The old man said. Instantly, the confident youths walked to the front whilst the more timid and anxious disciples made way for them, Dana casually walked for a place in the line. As she didn''t care whether she went first or last unlike those confident youths which loved to showboat, Dana couldn''t care less what others think. Reputation? What does reputation account for without sufficient strength? All these youths which strive to be well known within the cultivation world are foolish to Dana as wouldn''t that just make others target you? As soon as you have no protection from the sect, you will be the main person targeted simply because you are a well-known genius disciple, so why wouldn''t a rival sect not target you to remove opposition towards their sect. Dana has her pride, but she wasn''t an irrational person which would risk everything just to show the world she was some ''supreme genius''. Thus, with that in mind, Dana waited in the line patiently. After a while, the line in front of Dana shortened and shortened until it was finally her turn. There was already many which were sent away because of insufficient talent in the first stage of the talent test, even some previous confident ones which approached without anxiousness failed but this was a rarity as many of the disciples which stood at the front of the line were individuals confident within their abilities. Dana soon was led to a room with a woman in front of her, seeing the woman she felt a change of feeling that the woman before her was even more frightening than the old man which was obviously an elder of the sect which introduced the ''Talent Test'' previously. The woman was beautiful but looked like an individual hard to approach and was cold to everyone around them; she looked like someone detached from the world, without emotion for anything within. Seeing Dana, it seemed the woman placed none importance of her, thinking she would likely fail, as everyone in the younger generation nowadays loved being idolised by the masses, so why would a youth cover their faces unless they were ashamed of their talent? "Cultivate in front of me, I will assess whether you have sufficient capabilities," The women''s emotionless voice sounded. Dana sat down in a meditative stance, I think 5% of my real capabilities in absorbing Qi should suffice right? Thinking that should be low enough for her to be assessed as an above average talent, she began absorbing Qi at 5% of her real capacity. Seeing Dana''s absorbing speed a shocked expression emerged within her originally tranquil face. Impossible. Seeing her speed it means she is even more talented than Princess Hui Ying! Seeing Princess Hui Ying cultivation speed already slightly impressed the woman, but seeing Dana which was even superior amazed her. ''I should keep under wraps from the higher-ups'' she thought. Initially, the women thought to report it but seeing Dana hide her face meant she obviously wants to hide her appearance and is not an individual which enjoys being in the limelight, so she suspects Dana wouldn''t want this to be known. A slight smile graced the woman''s face, she never thought that there would a female as talented as herself would be found... But, as quickly as that smile appeared it disappeared, whereas a pained expression replaced the woman''s face. ''No, I cannot let her end up like her.'' The woman thought. "You passed." The woman spoke. Seeing she passed, Dana presumed that the woman must have viewed her as an above average talent as she predicted. ''It seems I''m great at this conspicuous stuff.'' Dana thought, thinking she did an excellent job in ''hiding her talent''. Seeing this the system secretly sneered knowing that the woman clearly knew that Dana was far more talented than she let on, despite her trying to cover it up. But, as the system was too lazy to inform Dana of this, it continued its passive behaviour and would only respond to Dana, if she talks to it directly. If Dana knew she had such an apathetic system, perhaps she would be so angry she would continuously curse the system for its behaviour. But, as Dana did not know of this she walked happily to the next stage of the test unaware her talent has already been exposed towards the woman. Dana was directly shown to the area where the next stage will be conducted, seeing Dana appearance indicating she passed the first stage, drew many surprised looks from the cultivators as they formerly thought she wouldn''t even pass the first stage. This made some cultivators try to approach Dana to converse with her about their experience in the first stage of the test, however seeing Dana''s disinterested look they soon gave up thinking ''I''d like to see how you act so arrogant after you fail the second stage.'' The old man once again returned, to introduce the second stage of the test. Particularly, the second stage was different in comparisons to the first stage, as you will perform the martial skill in front of everyone present instead of being in closed doors like the previous one. As Dana felt she was becoming an expert at hiding her true capabilities, she will obviously be able to downplay her true altitude in comprehension... 35 Chapter 34 - Being Put Forward to do Martial Skill with Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying As soon as the old man revealed that for the comprehension stage of the test, they will have to perform it in front of everyone present, there were mixed reactions for the cultivators. Some had shown confident and arrogant expressions, such as Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying as they already felt an assurance that they would obviously finish first. Both of them had never experienced setbacks before in their lives and seeing the cultivators present they even held disdain for them, believing that each of them wasn''t even fit to be their servants. In their opinion being present to this recruitment was just a way to demonstrate the difference between them and everyone else, showing the ''geniuses'' how mediocre they truly are to ''Supreme Geniuses'' like them. They didn''t need to show up to this recruitment gathering as they were basically already accepted to be within the ''Elemental Sect''. Being within the sect they already found out that they were by far not the best disciples within the Elemental Sect, as there were many ''Supreme geniuses'' that looked down upon even them, however, Princess Hui Ying was the most talented female which caused her to catch the eye of these top-level geniuses. This delighted such an arrogant person like Princess Hui Ying and even made her begin to feel she was the most beautiful and talented woman within the world when she saw the famous woman earlier she hoped to become her disciple, but to her shock, her emotionless gaze didn''t even change even when she witnessed her talent. Upon seeing this caused Princess Hui Ying to be furious, as she never once in her life was looked down upon and was giving everything she wanted, this caused Princess Hui Ying to be spoiled rotten to the core, this made her personality very demanding, to the public she has a sweet-elegant beautiful temperament but in fact she is a jealous individual. Princess Hui Ying had either ruined the looks, defamed or even murdered other young women which had appearances more beautiful than her as she felt it was unacceptable for someone to be more beautiful than her! Thus, in conclusion, both Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying were two individuals that couldn''t accept anyone is more talented than them in such a place which is meant for them to the ''main characters'', so why would their egos allow them to have such a thought? For, everyone else it was a mixture of anxiousness, hopeless or self-confidence within their own abilities. This task for those which have good comprehension would be a dream come true as to why wouldn''t they like to show off their talents to everyone? However, some with a generally poor comprehension started to feel helpless of the thought of embarrassing themselves to everyone becoming a laughingstock! As for Dana she still remained stoic, unaffected by the individuals present. Soon enough, they were each present the same martial skill, an attribute less skill which just requires the sheer comprehension of an individual without factors such as your cultivation talent or even attribute talent, as even those both are important, having good comprehension will help a cultivator in the later stages in which they need to rely more on their comprehension than just their attribute talent alone. Although attribute talent assists alongside comprehension, this is only for that specific attribute, thus things such as the soul require having a good comprehension. But, this is only important for an individual in becoming a Nascent Soul Cultivator, which the Elemental Sect doesn''t even have a hope of anyone here achieves, thus they place more importance on attribute talent. Seeing the martial skill, Dana found it was a simple fist technique, soon enough they were each provided a separate place to practice their martial skill individually each. As many individuals were removed within the first round, leaving the real geniuses remaining which basically are now all guaranteed to entire the Elemental Sect. These remaining tests mainly factored on how highly valued you will be by the sect, as if you have terrible attribute talent, then you will probably be put in the bottom of the sect, becoming nothing more than a servant for the sect. This may sound daunting, but for an individual it may appear less so, as even if they become nothing more than a servant, they still get access to the sects facilities, including some lower martial skills and even some resources allocated each month, which is much better conditions than becoming a lone cultivator or joining one of the lower schools. As a Tier 3 Sect techniques shouldn''t be underestimated, even if you were a Top Student within the Skyclad Academy, the worst techniques provided to servants may even be superior. Not to mention the resources are from a Tier 3 sect, which has much superior Pill refiners making the pills distributed much better than anything the Azure Continent can ever compete with, making the cultivation resources much better, even if it''s the lowest quality on what''s available! Comprehending the martial skill was easy for Dana, she soon received a very in depth comprehension behind the martial skill. Dana will hide much of her true comprehension by majorly downplaying her true abilities on her true mastery of the martial skill. The old man soon announced that the first three individuals presenting the martial skills will be her alongside the two top geniuses present Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying. Seeing the cultivators looking at her with sneers, it seems she has been sacrificed to go up with the two most talented individuals? As if anyone came up their abilities will look subpar making them be embarrassed in front of the other cultivators present. This could cause harmful effects towards a genius making them have a psychological barrier affecting their future cultivation greatly, as they will loss their self-confidence with themselves. So her being made to go with them shows how highly they value her... Looking at the cultivators gazing at her like she is the ''sacrificial lamb'' irked Dana, looking at the old man her gaze turned cold, ''thinking I''m a character which is expendable right?'' Dana thought with contempt. She was soon led to the stage alongside both Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying, both of them looking at her with disdain obviously believing it was beneath them to stand aside someone with her capabilities. ''Calm down Dana, remain inconspicuous, remain inconspicuous...'' She kept thinking, with this many people looking at her it became increasingly harder to keep the pride of the Frost Wyvern from showing... "Perform your comprehension of the martial skill" The old man ordered. Dana puts herself in a stance readying to unleash her martial skill... 36 Chapter 35 - Creating a Stir within the Elemental Sec Dana planned to not fully unleash the full prowess of the martial skill in what Dana is truly capable of, but that doesn''t mean she planned to let the audience off. Dana wanted to show enough of her comprehension talent, that the capabilities she shows will be superior to most of the individuals here, thus showing that she isn''t some pushover which can be openly mocked in being inferior. As if the talent she shows now is ''inferior'', then what does that make them? However, Dana didn''t take into account how truly good her comprehension is, so when she performed her martial skill alongside Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying, although it wasn''t her full proficiency in the skill, it still exceeded there''s. The audience originally thought Dana was there to be a minor character, to demonstrate the difference between them and ''True Geniuses'', this whole thing was a fiasco to practically humiliating Dana in addition to sending a message to them how minor they are compared to the true top characters within the Elemental Sect. This was why they put all their focus onto Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying''s martial skill and didn''t even spare a glance at Dana, but now seeing Dana''s result in comparison, the dominating display they expected wasn''t from Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying at all! Instead it was from the person they looked down upon this entire time! Sure both Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying martial skill was remarkable, showing their extraordinary talent in the younger generation, as they comprehended around 45% mastery of the martial skill within six hours, which in comparison to most of them which barely got 7% made them feel the vast gap between them. But, this wasn''t the amazing thing, as they were completely outshined by the ''minor character'' next to them which managed to get an astonishing 55% mastery of the skill, a difference in 10% may not seem to be large, but what is truly incredible is the further mastery of a martial skill you have, the harder it is to increase even further. In fact, this wasn''t truly Dana''s fault, as a result of her powerful soul with soul cultivation, her already monstrous talent in comprehension was boosted even further. Why is soul cultivation important? As you need a good comprehension to cultivate your soul it is exceedingly difficult to progress in, there are many benefits soul cultivation brings towards an individual but an additional benefit is that as it increases, your overall comprehension, thus making Dana have an absurd talent in this area. In fact, Dana had already achieved 100% mastery of the martial skill, which if known would cause the audience to die from shock. Why did Dana make such an error? As she had no one to compare to with her talent, she previously thought lowering it that much will make it much inferior to what Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying demonstration to the audience, but she truly underestimated herself, making this the result of the previously planned one-sided competition! This slaps the fact of not only the Elemental Sect elders but even the Ironclaw Empire who was expecting a domineering display! The result? Not only did this not happen but the two new geniuses they expected to carry the Ironclaw Empire into a generation of propsperity, were completely overshadowed by Dana making their scheme in building a famous reputation for Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying was ruined! Instead, they would be seen as nothing but a joke, as Dana an individual with no background at all triumphed over the two most promising geniuses of the Ironclaw Family in the last thousand years! Thus, 10% is the difference between heaven and earth, showing a complete landslide victory in terms of comprehension. Seeing the audience reactions, the once haughty faces of Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying became confused, aren''t they suppose to be complimenting their talent? Why do they look so stunned, and are looking within that trashes direction? Looking at the trash, they saw nothing special or spectacular about that person, at the start as soon as they glimpsed at that person they instantly didn''t put the masked individual within their eyes at all and ignored him. So upon seeing such a reaction from the audience, they assumed it must be because that individual''s talent is so bad, it even dumbfounded the audience? Both of them wouldn''t even come up with the prospect of Dana surpassing their result Snickering at such result Princess Hui Ying couldn''t help but comment, "What is this trashes comprehension so awful he didn''t even manage to comprehend the martial skill at all?" This drew laughter from Prince Cheng, yet the audience still remained silent instead throwing mocking glances at Princess Hui Ying. Prince Cheng knowing something was wrong, attempted to warn Princess Hui Ying but he was too late before she can continue her rant. "So has this trash broke records of the number one trash in the Xinghai Continent?" Continued Princess Hui Ying, as she was extremely annoyed that this individual has stolen her limelight for being trash, she threw away her ''Kind'' act. As she was about to join the Elemental Sect she didn''t care about maintaining her image anymore, as seeing the geniuses in the sect which were much more talented than her, broadened her horizons. Why would she care what these minor characters think? They are nothing to true power, as long as I can rope in one of the geniuses with my beauty I will live alongside a dominant Emperor who will one day rule this continent! With these thoughts, why would she care about insulting some minor character? Before she can continue even further to ''dig herself in a hole'', one of her escorts a middle-aged man at the Xiantian realm stopped her from disgracing herself even further. "Princess that''s enough." He told her urgently. "Are you defending that trash? So what if I insult him, isn''t it just trash what is there to worry about?" Princess Hui Ying snidely replied, but upon looking further towards the audience instead of the ridiculing looks directed at the ''trash'', she instead found these looks were directed towards her. Why are they looking at her like this? Aren''t they suppose to be laughing at the trash? As these thoughts emerged within her mind, she realised something was wrong. "Uncle, what''s wrong?" Princess Hui Ying quietly spoke. "He beat you in the comprehension test, Princess you lost..." He said. As his voice resounded in Princess Hui Ying''s mind. She kept thinking impossibly! Her eyes glared at the ''trash'' with malicious intent! How dare you embarrass me, I''m supposed to the number one talent! "Uncle I want that trash dead!" Princess Hui Ying screamed, already her true character revealed for all to witness. As Princess Hui Ying had already decided to drop pretences on her character, as she believed that none of these individuals present will matter again in her life, as she will be one of the top characters of the Elemental Sect, so how could they let these people spread bad rumours about her? And even if they did, would anyone believe them? Therefore, the Princess wanted to get rid of this individual before they were even allowed to join the Elemental Sect, where they could potentially be protected by a master, as its within her Kingdom all the elders here are on good terms with her Ironclaw Empire apart from that woman, but why would she interfere with such a matter? So, Princess Hui Ying thought it was a simple matter to remove that individual. The Princess was always an envious person and within the Kingdom, she removed many rivals towards her either in beauty or in some cases talent. This is why it wasn''t too surprising seeing such a reaction from her to the figures which know her. The crowd though? They were deeply appalled, that the Princess was actually such a malovent person! Seeing such a reaction, the middle-aged man felt slightly bitter but didn''t put a retaliation against her order. Just when he was about to order the elders to capture that individual for the Princess, a powerful fluctuation emerged, and an old figure came into the area, a powerful aura surrounding him. It was Elder Wi which was chasing Dana before! Seeing the old man Dana felt like her luck was truly appalling if this situation wasn''t bad enough, she already has another big problem on her hands? That vicious Princess already wanted her head for surpassing her within the comprehension test and then it was completely her fault in making herself look like such a fool! Dana felt it was ridiculous that such a problem could emerge from such a slight slip up from her part... Elder Wi was looking at Dana with a savage look like he wanted to eat her alive. ''Why is he looking at me like I killed his parents? What the hell did I do to him?'' Dana thought. "I want that masked individual in the name of the ''Sword Paragon Sect'', we have the suspicion that he stole something from us" Elder Wi voice reverberated within the room, making the audience realise that this individual must have stolen something big from Beast Sect if they were that angered by it! They then looked at the ''individual'' with a hostile glance, thinking ''what a shameless individual to steal from the sect you were in!'' As the Sword Paragon Sect had a good reputation they didn''t doubt Elder Wi at all, not to mention Dana was already valued as an enemy Princess Hui Ying, making none dare to even support her! Seeing an opportunity to get rid of Dana, the middle-aged man already was going to kill her for the whims of the Princess but seeing such an occurrence he decided just to give that masked figure to Elder Wi, as they would get benefits for a guy which they wanted to kill anyway, so for him it was a great deal! "Sure, this evil individual must have stolen something serious to resort to having such a powerful elder such as yourself to come after her" The middle-aged man smiled. He wasn''t affected in getting rid of Dana, as comprehension talent didn''t play too big of a factor if your cultivation talent isn''t good! If Dana had good results in the previous test, he and the other elders would have been told but clearly, she hasn''t, which means she has poor talent in that area! So, of course, he would give her up to Elder Wi or please the Princess, as he believes that Dana is just an average talent... Elder Wi smiled and spoke, "The Sword Paragon Sect will repay the Elemental Sect favourably for allowing us to take this shameless person!" Seeing their friendly conversation with them deciding her fate without her opinion within the matter at all angered Dana immensely. "So you already decided I''m guilty without any evidence at all? So this is what two ''Righteous'' sects represent and are actually this shameless." Dana''s cold voice resounded. The entire spectators look at Dana with astonished looks, ''With these two powerful elders, you dared say such a thing'' they thought. Elder Wi and the middle-aged man looked at Dana with a strange gleam within their eyes, obviously, they didn''t expect her to actually talk up against them and even insulted each of their sects! They gave looks of heavy killing intent towards Dana, even using their aura with each of their respective cultivations at Xiantian Rank 9 to pressure Dana! But to their shock she didn''t even flinch under their a pressure, a cold smile emerged on her face. ''So what if I ended up dying here?'' ''My pride as a Frost Wyvern will never be trampled on!'' Dana thought as she prepared to not let them take her without them suffering the consequences tenfold! 37 Chapter 36 - Ruthless Elder Wi Seeing that Dana dared to refute them, the hostile gazes from Elder Wi and the middle-aged man intensified. "Good, good it seems that you have no respect for your Elders! It seems you must be punished for your transgressions." Elder Wi voiced out, his voice radiating killing intent towards Dana. The middle-aged man upon seeing Elder Wi appearance instantly agreed, "Yes Elder Wi, I think this youngster needs to be taught his wrongdoings, first he stole from the Sword Paragon Sect and now he is refusing to accept responsibility alongside talking back to his Elders? Despicable." Seeing the clear biased from the two Elders cause a sneer to emerge on Dana''s face as she said, "You are saying I should respect you because you are my elders? I give respect to those who earn it, not a bunch of despicable old men who voice out their opinions on the options which benefit themselves the most." Seeing the response from Dana caused the Elder Wi and the middle-aged man in becoming incensed even more, at the public accusation from Dana causing them to lose face that someone would dare stand up to them, not caring about their backgrounds at all. "You are still denying your wrongdoings? Then I will punish you on behalf of the Sword Paragon Sect!" Elder Wi righteously exclaimed. Seeing Elder Wi acting ''heroic'' as if he is acting like he is punishing an evil doer, caused Dana to voice out in a dry tone, "Old man no need to act so ''righteously'' in finding an excuse to attack a junior, you know the true reason why you want to take care of me." Dana said, staring right at his eyes with a predatory look of an Apex Beast causing even causing Elder Wi to instinctively shiver before he realised his errors, causing him to cough in embarrassment. Flustered that Dana made him flinch, made him not even bothering to continue voicing out his words before he launched an attack at 10% of his strength. Elder Wi obviously didn''t want to kill Dana as he was planning on ''interrogating'' her for the location of the Rare Bloodline beast, but that doesn''t mean he couldn''t severely injure her. Dana responded with an even more vicious attack, as the Old man still thought she was a normal Rank 9 Qi Circulation expert, he was actually sent flying from the exchange, quickly regaining his balance. Coughing up some blood indicating he was truly slightly injured from that exchange, Elder Wi started at Dana with shock. "Your true cultivation isn''t at 9 Qi Circulation Rank!" He stated flabbergasting everyone present. "Who said I was at the cultivation Rank? It was purely you making the assumption." Dana smugly replied revealing her true cultivation, as she no longer needed to hide her cultivation as they planned to take care of her anyways, so why would she hide now? Plus, she didn''t manage to hurt Elder Wi that severely as even though her strength could even compete with individuals at Xiantian Rank 3 even with a major Realm gap, she still couldn''t take care of Elder Wi even if she caught him by surprise! Dana was slightly disappointed the old man wasn''t bashed into the floor as she imagined from that move, but it still was amusing for her making him look like a fool being injured by a junior which is more than a realm lower in cultivation than him! The audience seeing Elder Wi injured and Dana''s true cultivation was even further amazed, that figure pushed back an Elder of one of the strongest sects within the Xinghai Continent with more than realm cultivation difference! Seeing the awe-filled gazes at Dana made Elder Wi feel ashamed that he was pushed back by a junior but this morphed into a wicked look, "Although I can''t kill you boy, that doesn''t mean I can''t injure you to the point of death." Elder Wi said, as he charged at Dana again, not even thinking of the consequences of the potential of Dana having a background, as he has already gone too far why wouldn''t he go any further? Not to mention that he was to fill with rage at the moment to even care. As a Qi Circulation Rank 9 was not an individual to be cared about, but someone with Houtian Rank 8 in presumably their twenties, that was a genius level figure! So, Dana value was raised in the eyes of others. Seeing the strike coming at her, Dana met it with her own. As Elder Wi still didn''t know Dana''s full capabilities, he put in 40% of his power this time around in his strike, this normal attack could cripple an individual at Dana''s cultivation level, but was Dana normal in any way shape or form? No, with her body cultivation alongside being an individual possessing a Heaven Ranked Cultivation Method made Dana absurdly strong for her cultivation level, meeting the strike instead of the dominating victory to regain some sort of face back, was instead met with Dana moving a mere five steps by his strike. Upon seeing such a scene truly stunned the crowd even further as not even Prince Cheng or Princess Hui Ying could resist such a strike, but it moved Dana just five steps? In fact, they underestimated the strike from Elder Wi, as of how could they believe that he actually put that much power within it? But, they knew that move from Elder Wi was enough to defeat an individual at 9 Rank Houtian Cultivation, which means that this individual is even more talented than Princess Hui Ying and Prince Cheng, as they wouldn''t be able to handle that sort of attack similarly to Dana. Elder Wi was even more stunned than the crowd, as he knew exactly how much power he truly put into that attack, and it looked like she escaped it rather unscathed, this made him feel an increasing amount of danger from Dana with him changing his mind about her, believing that he should take care of her as quickly as possible before problems arise from her in the future if she remains alive! Being humiliated even further by failing to deal with Dana within not one, but two attempts made Elder Wi look even more ridiculous! Princess Hui Ying became even more envious of Dana before she could accept Dana comprehension talent being above her, but even her cultivation talent is? No, she cannot accept this, she is likely much older than her, that is the reasoning behind the individual hiding their face! She thought, coming up with a quick conclusion, believing Dana still couldn''t be compared to herself. Elder Wi finally lost it, he doesn''t care if he killed Dana anymore, thus before Dana could react he hit her with a full force strike of a Xiantian Rank 9 Expert. The mask upon Dana''s face instantly cracked bursting into pieces, her body was sent flying back into the ground. Dana started coughing up large mouthfuls of blood indicating she is heavily injured, but this result still made the crowd gasp in amazement. They didn''t know the true power extent of that strike, but they knew it should be impossible for Dana to be able to survive, but she is still alive... Elder Wi''s face become terrifying to behold, ''She actually survives my full strength strike?'' But, before the audience could relax they were awed once again as Dana''s true appearance was revealed upon seeing her, it wasn''t the older man many expected, it was instead an incredibly young astonishingly beautiful girl. This caused the crowd to present to regard Dana with pure admiration, she not is only probably eight-teen years of age but her beauty even far surpasses Princess Hui Ying! Seeing Dana''s true appearance already made many stop viewing her as the ''shameless'' figure which the sect made out to be, because how could such a young talented girl do such a thing? With her talent and appearance, why would she do so? If she wanted to, she could become a genius nurtured by any of the Top Tier 3 Sects. Dana didn''t know but she placed herself as a firm figure in the eyes of the cultivators present due to her strength and tenacity to stand up to much older cultivators which are a realm above her, subconsciously this made them replace the previous admiring thoughts of Princess Cheng and Princess Hui Ying to instead be replaced by Dana. In fact, even the girls present appreciated Dana for her character, and the only figure here is upset with her is Princess Hui Ying, which is currently staring daggers at Dana like she wanted to rip her into pieces! Prince Cheng began looking at Dana with a gaze full of longing. However, this had no effect on Elder Wi which still looked ruthless, ''She cannot be allowed to live, judging by her looks and talent, she can easily be picked up by a Top Sect, if that happens she will get revenge on me eventual'' Elder Wi finally became determined to finish of Dana before she can bring future troubles to himself, but unknown to him a coldly beautiful woman was watching Dana. Upon seeing her face and actions the woman''s emotionless face showed its first expressions in years, '' You''re just like her'' She thought, whilst staring at Dana with a strange look. Before Elder Wi even had a chance to land his killing strike, he was struck sending him flying back. Elder Wi suddenly became fearful and shouted, "Excuse me, Senior, this is the matters of the Sword Paragon Sect, let me kill this girl as she stole something from us! If you don''t let me carry out this act, you will become an enemy of the Sword Paragon Sect!" Elder Wi became slightly arrogant at the mention of his sect, the thing he was most proud of, believing that the unknown expert would be afraid of his background and let him kill the women made him send a gloating look towards Dana as if saying, ''It''s your fault you have no background, death only awaits you''. The spectators show bitter smiles, ''It seems that no matter how superb she is, her fate is to die'' They thought. Still, the result was unexpected as a beautiful woman emerged floating down from the sky, upon seeing her Elder Wi became terrified. Princess Hui Ying began shaking her head in denial, ''No it can''t be, why is she here for that woman?'' She thought repetitively in her mind, thinking she was imagining it. "You will stay away from her, I will take her as my disciple, leave. I only didn''t kill you to give a face to your sect, but if you test my limits I will kill you." The cold women voice spoke calmly. The crowd upon seeing a scene, shown a confused expression, ''This women thinks she can threaten someone from Sword Paragon Sect?'' They thought. But, when the crowd thought Elder Wi was going to respond arrogantly, he meekly left without a second thought as if he''s afraid that the women would change her mind and chop off his head without a second thought, this caused them to immediately be dumbfounded, ''What sort of figure is this women?'' They thought, looking at her with awe-filled glances. "You will come with me." The cold women looked at Dana and smiled. Seeing such a thing Dana was puzzled, ''Why did she help me? Oh well, this will be answered when I go with her, it''s not like I have much of a choice anyways'' she thought. As Dana and the cold women left under the gazes of the crowd, Elder Wi was running as fast as he could out of that place. Upon seeing no one was present, he spat endless mouthfuls of blood. ''That woman is still alive and she is even more powerful than everyone thought'' Elder Wi thought grimly. Even though he couldn''t kill Dana he still felt grateful to be alive, as that woman was known as the most talented and beautiful Female Cultivator within Xinghai continent many years ago, thus her current strength must be unfathomable but disappeared from the world upon the tragic death of her daughter causing her to close herself off from the world, never interacting with an individual since. It was rumoured her coming here and was an additional reason why Elder Wi came to confirm that she is still alive. ''I must inform the Sect Head about this'' Elder Wi thought leaving, he will just have to put up a wide search for the Rare Bloodline Beast, he believes his life is more important than seeking death by trying to get Dana''s life with her present. But that doesn''t mean he cannot find other means to kill her without her watch, after all she cannot keep Dana safely under her protection all the time... 38 Chapter 37 - Gaining Another Master After the woman and Dana left the area, the woman re-emergence in the Xinghai Continent was spread throughout the entire Xinghai Continent causing a massive uproar. As the woman referred to Dana as her new disciple alongside her talent and appearance caused many to take note of Dana as well, from the words of the many disciples Dana soon became classed as one of the most beautiful women of the Xinghai Continent due to the passionate words of Prince Cheng and the many male disciples present. Moreover, many powerful cultivators in the Xinghai Continent became eager of sending their sons or disciples to court Dana in order to not only gain another highly talented individual under their sect but to gain the allegiance of Dana''s master, as she was one of the most talented individuals years ago, so how strong will she be now? The possibilities have driven Dana to become a ''catch'' to the many individuals within the Xinghai Continent, making her one of the most desired Female Cultivators within the Xinghai Continent despite hardly anyone seeing her appearance! Of course, if Dana knew about these matters she will be furious at the thought that she will be pestered by many young masters endlessly in the future as she will have a lot of ''beating up'' to do in order to remove these troubles. However, Dana obviously wouldn''t be able to ''beat up'' the top talents of the Xinghai Continent yet, as the weakest of them would be at least at the 6th Rank of Xiantian Realm thus there may even be some 9th Rank Xiantian individuals which are already at the level of Elders in Tier 3 Sect, these geniuses are the top talents of their respective sects and some would even be considered genius level talents within even Tier 4 Sects but if they joined these sects then they wouldn''t be looked upon as high compared to their current situation, thus they prefer their current standing. As if they leave they wouldn''t be worshipped and treated as the top talents of the sect, instead, they would be just treated as a regular ''genius'', and as they are already used to their current lifestyles they wouldn''t be able to accept this. There were actually rumours spreading that Dana was ''despicable'' and ''evil'' individual which openly stole from the Sword Paragon Sect in addition to her being a ''shameless'' woman which sold her body to get to where she was today. This of course was spread by Princess Hui Ying who was bitter about her experience with Dana, but these rumours ended up being unsuccessful when the spectators recounted their true experience from Dana, with Dana''s talent alongside her master being a greatly feared existence caused this rumours to be treated as mere ''gossip'' and discarded within a week. This caused Princess Hui Ying to nash her teeth in anger, but a malicious glint gleamed within her eyes as she found a way to make Dana suffer. ''Oh, you may have enjoyed showing off your talents and thinking your so much better than me because of your appearance, but sometimes beauty can be a curse'' Princess Hui Ying grinned at the thought of Dana''s fate if she were to inform ''him'' of her existence. Of course, none of this was currently known to Dana as she was dragged away by the cold beautiful woman she me within the first test of the Elemental Sect, she was already fed a medical pellet which healed her injuries considerable by the woman, and as she possessed a Frost Wyvern bloodline even if she was within human form, her recovery rate is incredible and all of her injuries healed within a mere day something that may take three months for a normal human cultivator. Even the woman was amazed, as even though the pellet helps heal an individual''s injuries it would at most shorten the time of recovery by a month, thus Dana''s speedy recuperation caused even the woman to be bewildered. Though she was still pleased by the result, as she truly held no ill intent for Dana, so she didn''t ask the reasoning behind it and decided that Dana can tell her if she wanted to, maybe if another cultivator was present they''d get greedy over a secret which can heal a considerable injury within a few days but the woman wasn''t, showing despite the cold appearance she was truly a good person, which was rare within this world. Looking at Dana''s face the woman smiled, "I assume you want to know why I saved you and declared you as my disciple?" She asked. "Yes, I do, although may I ask about your name?" Dana responded, in truth she had been meaning to ask this question for a while as even after these past few days Dana still doesn''t know the woman''s name. "My name is Yuequin Wen, but you can call me Master Wen, after all, I will be taking my responsibilities as your master seriously now. And why I have taken you as my disciple? Well, let''s just say you remind me of someone special to me." Yuequin Wen started off speaking lightheartedly, but as she spoke about the ''special person'' she reminds her of, a pained expression appeared on her face. ''Hmm, it seems I do remind her of that person she is thinking of, but I don''t think that is the only reason behind her taking me as a disciple.'' Dana thought. "That isn''t the only reason is it?" I stated. A shocked expression emerged within her face but then a faint smile appeared, "You''re more like her than I thought, she was also this direct and always voiced out whatever she wanted to say without caring about who she said it to. But, yes your right. This isn''t the only reason I have taken you as my disciple, seeing you up on the stage I realised you have more talent than even me and it caused me to have the faint thought of getting revenge for my daughter, as the person protecting the perpetrator is the most powerful individual within the Xinghai Continent, someone I can never defeat despite my talent. You don''t have to accept if you want to, I will still treat you as my disciple even if you can''t carry out this foolish woman''s last wish." Upon hearing Yuequin Wen''s heartfelt words, Dana felt increasing anger at whoever caused her this much pain. ''It seems I remind her of her daughter? Still, I was right about it being an additional reason but it is not something difficult for me to carry out within the future, and whoever did this to her sounds like a despicable individual, repaying this favour isn''t much for the cost of what she has done for me so far, so I would repay this debt even if she doesn''t offer anything else towards me'' Dana thought, before gaining a resolute appearance of helping this woman. "I accept," Dana said. Yuequin Wen froze for a moment after hearing Dana''s sincere words but an excited look appeared through her eyes before she became stern again, "You don''t have to accept this task, it is highly difficult, the individual which you will have to end the life of is not only the top genius of the Xinghai Continent but his master is by far the strongest individual within the continent making him own the highest status within the Xinghai Continent thus making him an incredibly guarded individual." "I know, but trust me, no matter who it is protecting him,he will not be able to escape his fate. His death has already been determined the moment you told me your condition to repay you for saving my life." Dana replied. Seeing that Dana still wasn''t fazed by the prospect of taking on such a ''giant'' within the Xinghai Continent, Yuequin Wen became pleased, she began to hope that if Dana made this assurance she must have the confidence having such a claim, but Yuequin Wen quickly removed this thought thinking that Dana just said it as she instinctively felt indebted towards her. Nevermind, she wouldn''t hold it against Dana anyways if she couldn''t accomplish her wish, thus she began to think the best methods to benefit Dana as a master would, becoming content at the prospect of Dana development. "Well, lets start your training, as your Master I allow you to join the Elemental Sect easily, although you had a bad experience with the elders, they only have low authority within the sect and have been bribed by the Ironclaw Empire so don''t be put off the thought of joining the Elemental Sect because of a bunch of figures like them. I know the master of the Elemental Sect and he will allow you to receive good resources there, but at the time it will give you competition, this will allow you to refine your skills much faster, not to mention there is an opening of the secret realm within two months, which only permit the entrance of disciples of each sect, so being able to represent the Elemental Sect will allow you to enter. This will provide you with great benefits and allow you to compete with the youngsters at the top of your generation, so it will be a good learning experience for you in addition to providing you with a rare opportunity to gain priceless resources!" Yuequin Wen said. Listening to caused an excited gleam to flash within her eyes, she knew that her choice accepting Yuequin Wen as her master would be a good one, as it will allow her the fastest growth within this continent. As Yuequin Wen is a local of this continent she knows all the best places to increase her cultivation, not to mention she is a top expert herself which will provide Dana with much better foundational knowledge compared to Old Man Zhao, moreover she will be able to participate in events such as ''secret realms'' which she wouldn''t even get knowledge of without Yuequin Wen. Yuequin Wen will also be a firm layer of protection for Dana within the Xinghai Continent until she achieves the strength required to protect herself, of course, she will not forget Old Man Zhao or Yuequin Wen upon later upon getting stronger, as she is not an ungrateful person and will pay back anyone which shows kindness to her within her journey in this world. "I will obey the advice of Master" Dana said, fully accepting Yuequin Wen unconditionally as her master. 39 Chapter 38 - The Tragic Fate of Yueqin Wens Daughter and Joining the Elemental Sec A few more days have passed since Dana has fully accepted Yuequin Wen as her master, even to the point she refers to her as Master Wen. In this time Dana has learnt many things about the Xinghai Continent, being curious she instinctively asked about a dragon bloodline rare beast, disappointed the woman reference that the only one she could think of with Dragon heritage was the Lightning Flood Dragon, which could control the lighting and water attribute. The reason for her being ''disappointed'' was that the Lightning Flood Dragon was simply too powerful as it bloodline was one of the strongest rare bloodlines, with it even being more powerful than a Frost Wyvern bloodline thus it possessed even more of a True Dragon heritage within it than her making it exceedingly strong. Not to mention its cultivation was at the 9th Rank of Core Formation, so at the moment it was wishful thinking of gaining its bloodline, as even her master would be defeated with ease by it. She found out that her master was impressively at the 9th Rank of Core Formation but as the Flood Dragon possessed one of the best rare bloodlines it could even fight evenly with a Fourth Rank Nascent Soul human cultivator which is extremely astonishing, as the gap between an individual of the First Rank of Nascent Soul and Rank 9 Core formation was huge nevermind an additional three ranks within Nascent Soul. This made the Lightning Flood Dragon as the King within this continent, as no expert could contend with it, with its hard defence alongside it being able to control storms and floods with the power of its bloodline, it was the most feared existence within the Xinghai Continent. Even the most powerful expert within the Xinghai Continent, which she soon found out was an individual with the Third Rank of Nascent Soul Cultivation and was currently head of the Heavenly Noble Sect, the number one power within the continent. Although it was still a Tier 3 power, with its head being past the requirements of a normal Tier 3 power, in addition, with it containing many more powerful cultivators than the average Tier 3 Sect making it much stronger than any of the Tier 3 Sects within the Xinghai Continent, including the Elemental Sect. This was why her master couldn''t do anything to the young master of the Heavenly Noble Sect which killed her daughter within the sect, however, what Dana didn''t know was that the young master did more than just kill Yuequin Wen''s daughter but she was too saddened to even mention this. Yuequin Wen''s daughter was the brightest pearl within the continent a few years ago, as she possessed extraordinary talent alongside being considered the most beautiful woman within the continent. It was all going well for her until she met the Young Master of the Heavenly Noble Sect, Chao Sung the number one genius of the continent possessing cultivation of Rank 6 Core Formation at the impressive age of 28, this was enough talent to even be valued within Tier 4 Sects alongside him possessing an extremely Hansome appearance made him the ''perfect guy'' in many girls eyes. Upon seeing Yueqin Wen''s daughter he was filled with the desire to possess her, as Yueqin Wen''s daughter was a willful girl and didn''t like Chao Sung ''playboy'' tendencies into addition being an all -around the despicable person she was disgusted by him, therefore ignored his advances. Chao Sung began to grow tired of his months of courting with no effect at all, so he took Yueqin Wen''s daughter by force causing her to die in the process as she resisted heavily, this caused Yueqin Wen Husband to fly into rage to kill Chao Sung, but would the Sect Head of Master of the Heavenly Sect permit this? No, Yueqin Wen''s husband ended up being killed mercilessly under the arrogant gaze of Chao Sung as the Sect Head decapitated him, he looked upon his dying eyes without even a shred of remorse for what he has done. This caused Yueqin Wen to end up heavily depressed and the only thought that made her not want to rush inside herself was the hope to one day be able to avenge both her Husband and daughter, as she knew if she rushed in to kill Chao Sung, she will end up dead similarly to her Husband, so instead she bottled up the hatred within her, and calmly waited for a day were she will be able to finally allow the people who done this to her family to pay for what they have done. These thoughts plagued Yueqin Wen''s mind as she looked upon Dana, endlessly worrying if she would lose her to Chao Sung to her as well, she knew his type and Dana was even more magnificent than her daughter so it would be no doubt in mind he would be interested in her. But, this was quickly discarded with her thinking ''How could he find out about her, he will be in closed-door meditation and no one should notify him of Dana''s existence yet.'' What Yueqin Wen didn''t know was that Princess Hui Ying had already informed the one she didn''t want knowledge of Dana''s existence at all, as she knew Chao Sung''s true character why wouldn''t she allow Dana to suffer? Princess Hui Ying actually visited Chao Sung on many occasions but he has quickly gotten bored of her, so she thought that sending him information of Dana would not only put her within his good graces again but also cause Dana to meet a horrible end. While this was going on in the background, Dana was finally introduced to the Elemental Sect, in which she was already allowed to join. As the Sect Head of the Elemental Sect didn''t know her true talent, he still classed her below the ''Supreme Geniuses'' of the sect but above the likes of Prince Cheng and Princess Hui Ying, so Dana was considered an above average geniuses but not the top level. This still earned her the astonishment of many cultivators as it is, as female cultivators are generally less talented than male cultivators, having a female cultivator as talented as Dana is exceedingly rare. And as she had been walking around the Elemental Sect being introduced towards the many facilities by the Sect Head, many witnessed her appearance for themselves causing them to consider Dana the number one beauty of the Xinghai Continent! Of course, this was paid no attention at all by Dana, who was currently sorting out the lectures in which she wanted to attend. As she had her master she didn''t believe the lectures were as important towards her than the other cultivators, but she still wanted to try the ones more focused on the Ice and Earth attribute, as she believed they may be helpful towards her. She also wanted to go to the Academy library, as she felt her knowledge, in general, was poor, so in doing so it will bring great benefits to her. Finally, she also wanted to see the available academy martial skills which are accessible towards her, the only one she possesses currently is the Ice Lotus Arts which was primarily an auxiliary skill, although she comprehended the first two parts, she still hasn''t quite comprehended the third, which she felt increasingly closer towards achieving stage 3 within the technique, so confirming it is much harder in the later stages than the first two in which she achieved with relative ease. She wasn''t interested in the Skyclad academy ones as they were all low level and didn''t contain similar attributes towards her, however, this is a Tier 3 sect so they should contain many martial skills which suit her. Dana decided to first attend a lecture first, and then visit the Academy library and find some martial skills. She also needed to strengthen herself as much as possible within these two months before the opening to the secret realm, so Dana thought that attending a lecture first was the best choice for her at the moment, as it will show how useful they be towards her in assisting raising her strength. Coming to a decision, Dana felt pleased and began walking towards the first lecture she will attend within the Elemental Sect. 40 Chapter 39 - Attending Lecture Whilst strolling towards the first lecture she decided to attend within the Elemental Sect, Dana received many appraising looks from the Elemental Sect disciples, which were completely charmed by her appearance. However, none could gather the courage required to approach her so far, as they instantly realised her identity upon noticing her cultivation level is much more astounding than them, so how could they not realise her identity? As numerous of the top geniuses within the sect already declared their intentions of courting Dana, it had made many gave up any hope of even having a chance with her, not to mention even if some of them wanted to, would they dare to offend one of these top geniuses? It would be a death wish even if they were to receive Dana''s affections, in doing so they would become the enemies of all the top talents within the sect, which would no doubt be the cost of their lives. But, none of this currently matters to Dana who enjoying her leisurely time tremendously, thinking to herself ''Maybe I overreacted about the annoying younger masters thing, I''ve been walking for ten minutes and I haven''t even had to beat up one person!'' She thought happily. If Dana knew that the only reason this was happening because the even more troublesome ''annoying young masters'' were the cause of it, maybe she would realise exactly why none would even attempt to pester her. Still, Dana will remain ignorant about this at the moment, as she is currently feeling overjoyed at her experience within the Elemental Sect so far. Soon Dana arrived at the first lecture she wanted to attend, it was a lecture hosted by one of the Rank One Core Formation Head Elders within the Sect which was proficient with the Water attribute, although most Tier 3 sects may only have the one Core Formation Ninth Rank, the Elemental Sect actually has three including the Sect Master there also is the Head Elder which is currently hosting the lecture which Dana is present at and the other Head Elder is at the Third Rank Of Core Formation but instead of this Head Elder is proficient within the Earth Attribute much to the delight of Dana. Even though this Head Elder focused on the Water attribute, this was basically the same as Ice, accept Ice is a more advanced version of the Water attribute which few possess, so as Dana had exceptional talent within the Ice attribute this correlates to the Water, however currently Dana has no martial skills focused on Water at all hence is one of the main factors of her attending this lecture. When Dana arrived the chattering of the students froze for a moment, as they instantly took in Dana''s appearance. Upon seeing Dana many which doubted Dana''s beauty and thought it was ''over exaggerated'' before couldn''t help but smack themselves in the face as if anything the rumours themselves don''t do Dana any justice, as Dana should be ranked the number one beauty in the continent hands down instead of even being muttered in the same sentence as the other top beauties within the Xinghai Continent! This was the thought of many when they saw Dana''s looks for themselves, even the girls present couldn''t help but admit Dana was truly an unparalleled beauty. Dana scrunched up her nose when she saw the silent atmosphere, ''Just when I thought this place was going to be a pleasant experience, now these people are looking at me like I''m some sort of rare animal within a Zoo.'' Dana thought irritably. Dana coughed, awakening the students from their stupor. "Excuse me, is this were Head Elder Yangs Lecture is taking place?" As Dana''s harmonious voice sounded, nearly all the male students blushed and it even caused some of the female students in becoming red. Seeing such a reaction caused Dana to purse her lips in annoyance, which seemed to make them come out of their daydream, in which a male student rushed to answer Dana''s question seemingly afraid someone else will steal the opportunity with talking to Dana. "Yes Miss, this is exactly Head Elder Yang''s Lecture. I''ve been a student for a few years you know if you want I can answer some of your questions about the academy and give you a tour," The male student said under the countless death glares of the other students at him for ''stealing'' their chance at getting close to Dana. Unlike the other students of the academy which were terrified to approach Dana, anyone who could attend Head Elder Yang''s Lectures were the top students of the academy with good backgrounds, thus they had no reason to fear the ''Top Geniuses'', unlike the common students. "Sorry, I already know my way around the academy, as I was shown around previously, but thanks for the offer and answering my question," Dana responded with a mesmerising smile, instantly making some students faint. The male student upon hearing Dana''s reply actually didn''t even look saddened at the rejection at all and instead looked extremely delighted, at even receiving a smile from Dana. Dana quickly walked inside the room where the lecture was going to take place, under the lovestruck eyes of the students. Finding a place within the room, Dana sat down patiently waiting for Head Elder Yang to begin the lecture on his comprehension of the water attribute. Minutes past by and finally the room was fully occupied, and a lively atmosphere filled with the room with the excited chatter of the students, many from time to time threw glimpses at Dana with many conversations including her, with even the male student from earlier proudly declaring he conversed with Dana with her even providing him with a smile, under the accusing glares of the students as they believed him to be a liar. Dana had a faint smile on her face, as the scenery reminded her of the times at Earth were her life was simple, Dana didn''t know that this faint smile caused the students to have their full attention on Dana as they witnessed such an alluring sight. This was soon ended, at the entrance of Head Elder Yang as the students immediately drew away their looks at Dana, pretending that moments ago they weren''t completely ogling her. Instead, their full attention was on Head Elder Yang, as these types of lectures hosted by such a magnificent figure within the Xinghai Continent was extremely rare, they couldn''t waste such an opportunity at all even with their privileged backgrounds this wasn''t an occasion in which they could squander. Taking in Head Elder Yang''s appearance, unlike the previous old elders in which she saw within the sect he was instead a Handsome middle-aged man, which greatly surprised Dana as she thought he would be some old fogey like any other elders she seen. In fact, Dana would normally be right as most elders are individuals which have achieved the limits of their potential and are nearing at the end of their life spans, thus choose to dedicate the rest of their lives to the sect in which they would receive good treatment and resources for their loyalty. As Head Elder Yang was a good friend of the Sect Head, he wasn''t nearing at the end of his lifespan at all, and could even progress further within his cultivation although it would be at a snails pace and would be an amazing achievement if he even managed to make it to the 9th Rank of Core Formation. Seeing the class was now silent and full attentive towards him, Head Elder Yang smiled before looking across the room until his eyes froze as he saw Dana''s appearance. Looking at Dana he knew she was the disciple which that woman has taking in according to her appearance and cultivation, this made him fill with trepidation at the thought of her talent. He knew Dana should be very talented to even get that woman''s attention, so she should be at least equal or even surpass her in terms of talent which means she should be superior to even him, which would, of course, gain his full attention. Preparing himself to observe Dana first hand he announced, "Well, let''s begin my lecture on the water attribute, as there are many students within here, I will ask a few students to demonstrate what I teach today and show theclass their understanding of the water element." The original silent class suddenly began bickering loudly after Head Elder Yang''s statement, and many were excited at the thought of showing off their talents to impress the exceptional beauty, which is currently in the corner of the room frowning having a strange feeling that the lessons arrangments somehow had something to do with her... 41 Chapter 40 - Impressed Head Elder Yang and Yearly Sect Gathering As Head Elder Yang began his lecture on the water attribute, Dana was fully alert as she fully took in his teachings of the water attribute. Dana soon progressed rapidly turning from a complete novice in the water attribute, into surpassing students present which has been comprehending the water attribute for many years. As Dana was a Frost Wyvern which has amazing attribute talent with Ice with the addition of having a powerful soul, Dana comprehension speed of the water attribute was horrifying, and Head Elder Yang lecture on the attribute allowed her to progress this rapidly. Of course, this couldn''t happen in all the times in which Dana attended Head Elder Yang''s lesson, this was only because he was recounting his experiences of the concept of the water attribute which he has meditated on for the majority of his lifespan, thus it was rather profound. As Dana knew literally nothing of the water attribute previously, she will progress greatly with a master of the water attribute like Head Elder Yang explaining to her for the first few times, however, eventually, her progress will slow down as Dana will also need to ponder on the water attribute herself and cannot be completely reliant on Head Elder Yang''s teachings to progress further. An hour later, Head Master Yang began demonstrating basic water attributed skill which was actually extremely famous, called [Water Blade]. As [Water Blade] can be upgraded as you further deepen your understanding of the water attribute, thus it is a good skill to showcase your talent and skill within the water attribute. Head Master Yang quickly taught it to the students, with Dana easily getting the meaning behind the skill, replicating Head Master Yang perfectly under the amazed looks of the students. Although [Water Blade] wasn''t a difficult skill to master it was the way in which Dana was using the skill was truly proficient, as the demonstration of the use of the skill demonstrates Dana having a comprehension of water similar a genius student which trained ten years within the water element, which greatly caused them to be astonished at how high Dana''s talent within the water attribute is! Head Master Yang gave Dana a nod, with a clear impressed look. The students became even more dumbstruck upon seeing Head Master Yang showing Dana a praising look, indicating even he was pleased with Dana''s performance. As Head Master Yang is known for being very strict within regards towards the students, this is almost unheard of occurrence. In fact, even Dana showing this level of mastery was enough to leave a great impression within Head Master Yang, and that was the account she had been training within the water attribute for numerous years, maybe if he knew that Dana had comprehended the water attribute for an hour, perhaps he might collapse from shock. This scene was soon repeated throughout the entirety of the lecture, as Head Master Yang continuously shown pleased looks towards Dana. Dana''s talent in the water attribute continuously dazzled the students, leaving a great impression on them with her talent, also reconfirming from the rumours how truly gifted Dana was! Many couldn''t accept that Dana was more talented than Princess Hui Ying and Prince Cheng, making them much more talented themselves, thus it caused many to snicker with the thought of Dana''s talent being overexaggerated within the rumours. There were some who even believed her cultivation level could be a result of using countless resources, and she didn''t do the attribute test as it would expose her for the fraud it is, someone with an average attribute talent. But, Dana''s display truly destroyed these thoughts they previously held, as Dana attribute talent within water truly outshined every student present in a dominating display, making them not even hold the slightest thought of ever being able to compete with her. Once the lecture finished, Head Elder Yang asked everyone to leave except for Dana causing the students to instantly be curious on what he wanted to speak to Dana about, however, they still left as they couldn''t ignore an instruction from Head Elder Yang. Soon enough the entire room was emptied, leaving just Head Elder Yang and Dana being the only occupants. Head Elder Yang approached Dana and said, "You truly have wonderous talent within the water attribute, I knew that woman wouldn''t take a disciple with talent any less superior than hers. You truly impress me, girl, I haven''t seen someone so talented within the water attribute in a long time, it gives me hope that you can represent the Elemental Sect within the yearly gathering of the Sects." Upon hearing Head Elder Yang, made Dana became instantly interested. Inquisitively Dana asked, "What is this yearly gathering of the sects?" Head Elder Yang showed a puzzled expression, "You truly do not know what this is? Your master haven''t informed you of it at all? Well, I guess she would have assumed this would be common knowledge for you as everyone in the Xinghai Continent has at least some knowledge of it, but I guess you must not be from this continent I presume." Hearing Head Elder Yang caused Dana to frown, ''It seems I have to really do that read within the library, as just from this simple mistake, he already deduced that I''m not from the Xinghai Continent, also I have literally possess no common knowledge of the continent, thus I don''t want to miss out on an opportunity on something which can progress my cultivation just because I''m ignorant.'' Seeing Dana''s expression, Head Elder Yang smiled, "Don''t worry I won''t inform anyone of this it can stay a secret between us. The Yearly Sect Gathering is one each sect gathers to compete with each other on which is the strongest sect within the continent, there is a ranking out of hundred and the sect which gets the most people within the top hundred will be looked upon favourable. However, most people pay attention to the Top 10, but this isn''t important as the Elemental Sect haven''t even been in the Top 10 in the last Hundred years. There are also rewards, the ones being the most bountiful within the Top 10, but everyone in the Top 100 will receive some sort of compensation in addition to gaining face for your Sect. Seeing you girl I believe your the best chance we have in getting within the Top 100 as I don''t have much faith within the other ''Top Geniuses'' within the sect, the Elemental Sects geniuses have truly declined this last hundred years," said Head Elder Yang bitterly. Hearing Head Elder Yang''s word caused a fighting spirit to emerge within Dana, ''From the sounds of Head Elder Yang this Yearly Sect Gathering should be even further away than the secret realm, maybe I can even get strong enough to get within the Top 10.'' Dana thought, as this yearly sect gathering will not only be beneficial towards her cultivation but helps her compete with the other top geniuses of the continent, she wonders why her master never mentioned this to her before. "I''ll do it," Dana responded. A surprised look appeared on Head Elder Yang''s face, "You truly want to represent the Elemental Sect, girl?" He said. As Head Master Yang already thought that Dana must not want to enter such competition, and even if she did it wouldn''t be alongside the Elemental Sect as at the moment Dana would likely be able to enter an even more superior Tier 3 Sect, with her appearance and talent. Although the Elemental Sect seemed powerful on the surface with the amount of Core Formation elders, in fact, their young generation was declining greatly in the past hundred years due to the suppression of the Heavenly Noble Sect, as many were afraid of even joining them. This was another reason why Princess Hui Ying and Prince Cheng could act so rampantly, as the Elemental Sect was in desperate need for geniuses. "Yes, I will," Dana assured, she doesn''t want to represent any other sect as she believed that her master must have a good impression of this sect as it was her first choice in bringing her here, so she decided this was only beneficial towards her, as she will not only repay the Elemental Sect by bringing reputation towards it, but she will receive a generous reward which will contribute greatly towards her cultivation. "Good, good" Head Elder Yang said with an excited look within his eyes, before discussing with her about the arrangements of her entering the Yearly Gathering of the Sect. It seems I now have a lot to prepare for in the coming months, I must increase my strength as quickly as possible. As the greater the rewards, the greater the risks, Dana knew that attending both the secret realm and the Yearly Sect Gathering will put herself in a highly dangerous situation, but at the same moment if she overcomes both then her strength will increase explosively. With these thoughts emerging within her mind, a resolute look appeared within Dana''s eyes. 42 Chapter 41 - Visiting Library An hour later Dana left Head Elder Yang''s room and began heading towards the library. For the past hour, Head Elder Yang discussed with Dana about the Yearly Sect Gathering, in addition to answering some of her questions about the water attribute which greatly benefited Dana. She foundthat according to Head Elder Yang that to get within the Top Hundred of the Yearly Sect Gathering you must have a minimum of Rank 2 Xiantian Cultivation and even then it isn''t completely assured as many geniuses cultivation ranks may be deceptive, with them having the battle strength to fight individuals above their cultivation levels. This would basically mean Dana could theoretically already be ranked within the Top Hundred disciples of the sects within Xinghai Continent, but could Dana''s pride as a Frost Wyvern stand for getting in the measly Top Hundred? Of course not, the moment Dana discovered such a competition, the only thing she had in mind is winning, she knows that Chao Sung is who many predicted would be first, but this only made Dana even more determined to ''beat up'' such a guy, in fact, if she could she would probably murder him in front of his master to honour Yueqin Wen to avenge her daughter. But, as his master is too powerful, then she wouldn''t do such a thing unless she had some sort of assurance, thus Dana decided to humiliate Chao Sung as much as possible, before finding a method to escape from the Heavenly Noble Sects clutches. If she killed him, then they would likely put in everything to end her life, but if she let him live, then they likely wouldn''t dare to do anything in the public, which for Dana will suit her perfectly, as she could easily escape with access to the system, as there is probably some sort of object within it somewhere which could let her disappear without a trace. Poor Head Elder Yang has no idea for what Dana has intended for the Yearly Sect Gathering, as he believed Dana at best could get within the Top Hundred, but he truly has no idea what mayhem Dana is planning to cause in the competition. At the moment this no longer matter towards Dana yet though, as she was heading towards the sect library, as the system is not some sort of Wikipedia which can be used to find all sorts of information about the cultivation world unless she purchased it, Dana is rather ignorant on many matters which she believed the library will assist her with. Similar to when Dana walked towards the lecture, everywhere she moved within the academy seemed to naturally draw attention from the students, as they stopped whatever they were previously doing with gaping mouths upon seeing Dana''s appearance. Not that Dana seemed to notice anything at all, as she calmly walked towards the library maintaining a steady pace. Finally arriving at the library, Dana saw the head librarian at the entrance soundly sleeping on the chair before his desk, seemingly not even noticing Dana''s arrival at all. Stepping in front of him Dana banged the desk expecting to awaken him, however seeing he didn''t even flinch at such a loud noise caused Dana to frown her face irritably. After a few more minutes of failing to wake up the head librarian, Dana became more and more annoyed, thinking of a way to wake up this damnable head librarian, a sudden idea appeared within her mind upon looking at his chair, a mischevious smirk emerged on Dana''s face. Using a fraction of her power, she put some force into whacking the chair of the head librarian causing him to stumble out of the chair, faceplanting on the ground. Seeming to do the trick the Head Librarian awoke with a hurried appearance as he stumbled before quickly getting up as if pretending he hasn''t been asleep the entire time. "Young Lady did you need to be so forceful with this old man, I only briefly closed my eyes, all you needed to do was knock the desk slightly!" The Head Librarian shamelessly said. "Are you crazy old man? I''ve been banging your desk for two minutes straight and you didn''t even move an inch, geeze the Sect Head really needs to replace such a senile old man like you." Dana said. The ''old man'' upon hearing such a thing gave a dumbfounded look, thinking no one had ever dared to address him with such a tone before, this caused his face to stiffen. Seeing such an appearance Dana continued her mercilessly ''assault'' towards the old man, "I knew you had some problems old man, looking at you now its as if your an inch away from death" Said Dana. Hearing such words from Dana the old mans face grew angered, "Hey Lass, no one from the younger generation has ever talked to me that way before! Tell this old man who is your master to raise such a disciple, I don''t believe with your cultivation that you don''t have a master within the academy!" The old man said. Hearing the old man Dana snickered, "Hey Old man are you becoming deranged, you''re just some ''Head Librarian'' within the sect, how dare you question my master!" Dana replied, obviously bitter at the old man for insulting her master. The old man fumed in anger at Dana''s reply, ''This girl thinks I''m some mere Head Librarian!'', but just as he was about to give Dana some of his minds, she already walked off along with the entrance slip required to enter the library. Seeing Dana leaving without sparing him another glance, called the old man to become speechless, ''What sort of master raised such a girl?'' He thought. After leaving behind the old man, using the entrance slip she entered the library, immediately going through the books she found interesting. Four hours later, Dana read many books about the Xinghai Continent and cultivation in general. She discovered many ''special'' events within the Xinghai Continent and areas of note similar to the Azure Continent having ''Devils Peak'', the Xinghai Continent also has many areas which possess a large habitat of spirit beasts with in addition contains many cultivation resources. Taking these in notes, Dana discovered a few more rare bloodline beasts within the continent which could prove useful for her later. Dana found that there was a group of beasts which possess dragon bloodline which her master previously didn''t inform her, however as they no were near as threatening as the Lighting Flood Dragon. They were referred to as ''Blaze Wyrm''s'', and lived within a volcano which will be within Dana''s line of travel before she would enter the secret realm within a few months, with this in note she planned to visit the ''Blaze Wyrm''s'' before entering the secret realm, although it wouldn''t allow Dana to form a ''saint bloodline'', having an additional uncommon bloodline will not only increase her affinity with the fire attribute, but make it easier for her to attain the ''Raging Blaze Drake'' bloodline in the future. The assistance of the library also provided her with some benefits on her general cultivation knowledge, with could prove useful to Dana as she lacked this sort of thing. Picking up a few books on spirit herbs with could be useful towards her, Dana stored them within her storage ring to read later. Pleased with her gains, Dana was about to leave however a group of young students entered with the strongest cultivations she had seen among the younger generation so far. Observing these cultivators, they didn''t look as if they were here for the library at all, as they shown no interest in the books and seemed to be looking around if searching for someone. Dana immediately figured who this ''someone'' was as they caught sight of her appearance, in which they looked at other as if reaffirming their decision before slowly approaching her. Looking at them Dana thought, ''Great, a bunch of young masters...'' 43 Chapter 42 - Conceited Noble and Selecting Martial Skills Inspecting the faces of the nobles approaching her, Dana instantly knew the reasoning behind them coming towards her. Well, it is pretty obvious when they didn''t even hide the admiring looks they were giving her, this was much to the annoyance of Dana of course which currently treating the Elemental Sect as her ''vacation'', such as one she would have on Earth after a bothersome year of work. That''s what it truly feels like anyways, after she had spent such a long time in the Azure Continent as a spirit beast, which constantly had to hunt and kill other beasts to survive in addition to improving her cultivation level without break, made Dana feel as if she truly hasn''t had a decent break in ages, and just when she was enjoying her ''leisure'' time a bunch of noble brats come here to pester her? ''This is definitely unacceptable!'', is currently what Dana is thinking... Looking at the leading noble, it seems he is the ringleader of this gang, appearing before her with the usual confident expression he said, "Hey, I know that you and your master have only just arrived at the academy so you must be lacking some proper company, am I right? You know what, you should hang around with us, geniuses with similar talent level towards you. I''m guessing you should know who I am right? After all, I am the most talented person within the academy at the moment, also being the hope of the Elemental Sect in getting within the Top 100 of the Yearly Sect Gathering," He said proudly, thinking he must have ''impressed'' Dana greatly by mentioning him getting within the Top 100 however he was soon to be disappointed as Dana looked like she seemed to have not heard a word of what he was saying. Well, that is kinda true as Dana didn''t really listen to any of his ''babbling'' at all, instead, she was more focused on what she had planned on eating later rather than anything the noble was bragging about. Seeing such a reaction from Dana caused the noble to grow angry, as he was born in a privileged family since birth he was already arrogant as a result of his background, not to mention being at Xiantian Rank 4, a cultivation rank which could even manage to get an assured ranking within the Top Hundred of the Yearly Sect Gathering, thus making him even more conceited. Originally, he thought it was beneath him to court Dana as he didn''t believe any of the rumours about her at all, as to how could such a magnificent girl appear out of nowhere? But, upon seeing her he was entrapped by her peerless appearance and from the moment he saw decided that she belonged to him, at the moment even if Dana didn''t have such a talent within cultivation he would still want her. So seeing the girl he liked completely ignore him, not to mention he had great status within this academy and no one would dare to defy him, he even believed that if he personally asked the Sect Head then he would engage himself to Dana, not only because of his talent but in order not to get on the wrong side of the clan behind him. Honestly, he had other motives for coming here, as his purpose was to ensure that the Elemental Sect had no disciple that can get within the Top Hundred, he was only here to get rid of any talented individuals and to embarrass them within the next Yearly Sect Gathering, making the Elemental Sect get to position in which they couldn''t recover from. But, upon seeing Dana, he began having different thoughts, thinking he could easily attain her. "Do you know who I am? If you become mine, you will get many benefits within the sects from my clan, something which even your master couldn''t provide you, with your talent, it will let you ascend even higher. Also, no one will dare to bully you no longer within the Xinghai Continent," The noble said while smiling, fully assured that Dana would at least consider his offer. However, this seemed to have no effect on Dana as she ignored the noble under the shocked looks of the nobles, she turned around completely ignoring him and walked away. Obviously, Dana couldn''t beat up this noble as he had important status, so she thought the best method to deal with these people is not giving them ''face'', as it seemed to truly affect them almost as worse as beating them personally. Seeing Dana leaving, caused an ugly look to appear within the nobles face. ''Just wait, when you get within the secret realm I''ll see if I cannot do anything towards you''. He thought, with a malicious look within his eyes, anticipating ravishing Dana within the secret realm giving her no choice but to accept him. After distancing herself from the group of nobles, Dana was pleased with herself thinking that those nobles wouldn''t have the courage to approach her now that she obviously wouldn''t respond to them at all, as within academy grounds they basically couldn''t do anything else, allowed Dana to feel that the situation was ''dealt with'', of course completely oblivious that the only reason they let it slide so easily as they believed it would be easier to deal with her within the secret realm than in the academy in the presence of her master. Thinking that she should finally go look for some martial skills within the academy, Dana wandered around eventually finding the location of the martial skills present within the academy. After showing the access slip she received from the sect head which gives her access to the second from the best room with martial skills, she entered a room filled to the brim with scrolls. There might be a room with martial skills superior to the ones within here, but this was only accessible towards the top characters of the Elemental Sect and an outsider like her wouldn''t be permitted entrance, even with her master''s close relationship with the sect head. However, getting access to this floor is shocking enough as it is, as only top disciples which have been within the sect for years garnering merits can have access to this floor, so Dana having access within her first day truly shows how close of a relation both her master and the sect had possess. Searching through the martial skills, Dana screamed through a fair amount of Earth and Water attributed martial skills before coming across a few she was interested in. One was called [Earth Quake Fist] and the other was [Water Healing], the first martial skill was self-explanatory, it allowed her to release a quake within her firsts towards her opponent''s body, which causes vibrations within their bodies, which will lead to internal injuries. Upon seeing such a skill caused Dana to be filled with apprehension of using it towards her enemies, as internal injuries were one of the worst possible kind to inflict upon a cultivator, so such as kill would cause great damage towards them, no matter if your a beast or human this martial skill will be very deadly towards you. The second skill was one she thought may prove useful within the future, as it mentions the higher the cultivation of the user, the more effective it will be. It basically just heals an individual, and depending on the purity of the Qi in addition to the talent of the individual in terms of comprehending the skill determines how effective it is. Other factors may play into it such as the severity of the injury and the higher the cultivator level of the individual you are using it on, as for instance, this skill would be more effective on a mortal than cultivator as they had naturally weaker bodies, so it is easier to heal. But, this can be overcome by Dana''s cultivation level as well, making her think in the future it can be useful for her, as she may find herself in a situation were she has no other means to heal an individual, not to mention it can make up for being an extremely effective medical pellet as her talent increases withinthe water attribute in the future, so it saves her system points in having to purchase medical pills for that use. So, this is why she decided to take this skill, as water attribute Qi is the second best attribute for healing with the first being light, any healing skill related towards it is very proficient in healing injuries. Both martial skills were fairly high ranked, as both of them were way more precious than anything within the Skyclad Academy she had been in previously, showing the large difference between both powers. Thinking she made the right choice, Dana excited the martial skill room, thinking she may come back in the future to the upper level if she manages to do well within the Yearly Sect Gathering, as what more of merit for the sect could she possibly do other than that? Feeling happy at her choice, Dana decided she might go out after this to hunt some spirit beasts within her Frost Wyvern form, as she kinda misses having some action, due to spending her past few tdays like this, she also found this was the quickest way to improve, and with the secret realm looming over her within the next two months, she knows that she will have to improve her strength to the fullest in order to prepare for such an event in which many cultivators have no quarrels inrobbing or killing each other without the protection of the other sect elders. And being within the Elemental Sect many her realise that is has many enemies, so she imagined not a small amount of people will be aiming for head... 44 Chapter 43 - Spending a Month Hunting and Cultivating Judging that hunting spirit beasts, in addition, to cultivating within the sect is the best means in improving her strength within the next two months, Dana reaffirmed that this decision is the best option currently available for her. Thus, without delay, Dana soon found herself travelling towards the outskirts of the sects territory, before finding a quiet area suitable for her to change into her Frost Wyvern form away from any possible prying eyes. Picturing the Frost Wyvern form within her mind, the cracking of Dana''s bones sounded, as Dana''s body gradually changed, replacing the former human figure stood within its place a hulking Frost Wyvern, which loomed over her previous human appearance. Dana felt the world around dramatically change, in which the former large trees which originally towered over her seemed many times smaller within her current form, Dana stretched her much larger body, before releasing her large wings, her full wingspan being fully displayed, as she prepared to launch herself for flight. Dana propelled herself off the ground, as she was soon flying within the skies, ascending high enough within the air to decrease the chance of another cultivator spotting her, Dana flew directly towards a known area for spirit beast within the Xinghai Continent. The destination she is planning on going to is full of various beasts within the Xiantian Ranked, within there even being a few Core Formation Beasts, but at the moment Dana cannot compete with these beasts, thus her concentration is purely focused on the Xiantian Beasts. For this trip, she plans in getting a large enough supply of cores for her return back to her sect, in addition to using her human and beast form to hunt beasts, as it is the most suitable place for her to train the newest martial skills she received. There was a Town near the habitat of Spirit Beasts in which she has full attention on using, as it could prove a useful place for buying some things which may prove useful towards her, as it is after all near an area with many strong spirit beasts and spirit fruit, thus there could be some things suitable for her. Not to mention having a cosy bed in a peaceful environment would much more pleasant, compared to sleeping in the wild within her beast form, where there is always the potential risk of cultivators spotting her, not to mention her having to be vigilant throughout the night in case she is ambushed by another spirit beast treating her as its meal. At the moment Dana could safely say she could compete with a beast at the Fourth-Ranked Xiantian level maybe Fifth in some fortunate circumstances, such as the opponent''s attribute suiting her such as it being a fire attributed beast, in most circumstances her element will be vastly stronger than these sort of beasts, as after all she does contain a Rare bloodline, not to mention the water and attribute are natural enemies of the fire attribute, so unless the beast contains a superior bloodlinethan her, which again is very unlikely, it will end up in an extremely disadvantageous situation against a beast similar to her. Therefore, in the next month then went as a routine for Dana, she found herself hunting within the Forest, putting herself up against spirit beasts in both her human and beast form, using the battles to refine her new martial skill [Earth Quake Fist], it allowed her to progress within the martial skill at a rapid pace, allowing her to already have an adept mastery of the skill, which would normally take a normal geniuses within the Xinghai Continent eight years of practice. This was of course not only accomplished by battling spirit beasts but Dana''s superb talent within the Earth Attribute as a result of the Earth Wyrm which is greatly attuned with the Earth Attribute, even though it still couldn''t be compared to her Ice Attribute, she still progressed much faster within any Earth Attribute skill than a genius within the Earth Attribute can accomplish. Dana also finally comprehended the Third Stage of the Ice Lotus Arts, allowing her to finally use it as a martial skill which can be used within combat. The first few stages focused on purifying the Ice Attribute, allowing her talent within it to further improve alongside enhancing her control of the Ice Attribute. The Third Stage was an attack-type martial skill called [Ice Lotus Strike], which forms Ice Lotuses to launch towards her opponents, which upon contact will detonate, this skill may not be intimidating if it was just one Ice Lotus, but the scary thing about this skill is the stronger her cultivation and talent within the Ice attribute increase the more Ice Lotuses she can create, in addition to increasing the overall power of the detonation, can you imagine a large number of Ice Lotuses launching at your opponent? This will give them no opportunity to even counter the attack by launching their own attack to diffuse hers, as there will be too many for them to deal with, this gives them no choice at all but to be hit by at least one of the detonations caused by the Ice Lotuses, which will no doubt create injuries on an opponent, no matter how skilled they are this martial skill will leave them no time to retaliate. Other than refining her martial skills, Dana also cultivated with the many cores she gained the spirit beasts she killed, and within this month she managed to advance her cultivation to the peak of 9th Rank of Houtian Realm, extremely close into breaking through into a Xiantian Cultivator. Now Dana has some assurance that she can at least become a Xiantian Ranked Cultivator before going into the secret realm, but she still felt that this cultivation speed wasn''t enough, so she hopes that the Blaze wyrms will be enough of an edge to provide her with the means to defend herself against the horde of greedy cultivators from other sects. And not to mention the secret realm itself, as it''s not exactly a safe place either and is filled with many dangers including powerful spirit beasts alongside deadly trials which cultivators can attempt in order to receive great rewards, but with the risk of losing their lives. Therefore, Dana knows full well that her current strength is currently not enough to make her be able to guarantee her survival, which for Dana thought is unacceptable for her lay her life on the line by hoping she will be ''lucky'' throughout her entire time within the secret realm by having no mishaps befall upon her. As she doesn''t want to have a reliance on this factor. Other than the improvement of her cultivation and martial skills, the last month was rather uneventful for Dana the time she spent within the Town was peaceful, with for once she wasn''t provoked by anyone. Well, it was going peacefully until she ran into a bunch of screaming young cultivators who were being attacked by a spirit beast, upon seeing her their eyes lit up with hope, but this was instantly squashed when they saw her cultivation. One of them suggested to use Dana has a meatshield whilst they got away from the beast they provoked, this came from a cowardly young man which obviously had some affection for the two other members of the group, which were two pretty young girls. Thinking she was now going to leave this group of fools to die for even thinking of doing this to another individual, by placing their problems onto them, she was actually surprised both of the girls, instantly refused, which actually caused Dana to admire them, as not many cultivators within this world are genuinely kind people like both of them. The young man seeing they couldn''t be persuaded soon ran away leaving them and Dana behind, believing that they might be two pretty girls he was courting but would he risk his life for them? No, as everyone in this world is instinctively selfish, unless you are of course a saint in which puts the values of others before themselves, but these kind of people are by far the minority of the world. Seeing the young man left, both girls previous image of him was destroyed, but they felt resolute in their decision as they wouldn''t be able to remain with a good conscience if they left Dana, but surprisingly their deaths didn''t come and instead they saw Dana slaughtered the beast with ease, causing them in being incredibly shocked. As they looked upon Dana''s cloaked figure, it suddenly became very ''manly'' in their opinion and lovestruck gazes were emitted from both of them. So why was it no longer peaceful for Dana since then? Well, both girls ended up following her everywhere and Dana didn''t have it in her heart to refuse them as she saw they both genuinely kind people and people with this kind of personality were rare within this world, and as she had not made any real friends since coming here, she enjoyed her time with both girls. Eventually, they found out about her real appearance and gender, which to Dana''s surprise she detected disappointment within both girls for some reason, but this soon disappeared and was replaced by determined look as if they accepted Dana regardless of her gender, much to the confused look of Dana who didn''t notice why both of them were experiencing such a strange mix of emotions upon seeing her appearance. But, the month in the end rather ended well for Dana as she found both girls were famous disciples within their sects and were also going to the secret realm within a month, which greatly pleased Dana at the thought of having some sort of ally within the secret realm, thus they quickly arranged to meet within the secret realm a month later. 45 Chapter 44 - The Dark Reality Hours before Dana ''saved'' the group of young cultivators the three of them stood outside the Forest, both sisters which previously shown kind expressions within the presence of Dana were now showing sinister expressions as among the three cultivators stood someone she would recognise Princess Hui Ying! Princess Hui Ying has already received word from Chao Sung that he is very pleased towards her for discovering such an excellent woman like Dana for him to enjoy himself with, causing her to feel delighted beyond words, as not only can she get rid of the one woman which is constantly compared towards within cultivation talent and beauty, but she has received tremendous rewards for her cultivation! Does she have any regrets for selling out a fellow woman such as herself to such a monster? No, this thought wouldn''t even cross Princess Hui Yings mind was already consumed with deep hatred towards Dana with the constant comparisons between their beauty and talent, making her original resentment of Dana to worsen to a much larger scale. Princess Hui Ying personally knew that Chao Sung was a lustful man which loved ''beauty'' more than anything else, even cultivation, thus upon receiving word of Dana possessing such astonishing beauty, she soon peaked hisfull interest. But, this wasn''t enough for Princess Hui Ying as she wanted to get rid Dana as soon as possible, thus begrudgingly she admitted that Dana''s appearance was much superior than hers, causing Chao Sung to make his move in acquiring Dana immediately, much sooner than he previously planned. As even though Princess Hui Ying had an arrogant nature, she was still a good schemer with in addition to her being the closest person towards Dana, as they both belong to the Elemental Sect she was soon enough tasked with finding the best method to take Dana right under the nose of her master. Upon over serving Dana for a few days she noticed two things about her, one she seemingly has a strong dislike for men as any which approaches her she seems to instantly distrust and the second is she is very naive, with not having much knowledge when it comes to schemes against her. Deciding to take advantage of this Chao Sung sent three cultivations towards her under her specific requirements, with there being two pretty female cultivators and one male, which is obviously a genius classed noble a type of individual Dana seems to strongly dislike. This soon moved onto the later stages of her scheme, as observing Dana''s exchange between Elder Wi she believes she possesses the strength to at least contend with a Rank 2 Xiantian Cultivation, so she wanted the group of three cultivators to lure a beast of that caliber for Dana to ''save'' the two girls whilst the man abandons them in a cowardly manner, with him beforehand suggesting to use Dana as cannon fodder as a sacrifice for the spirit beast. The girls being ''Kind hearted'', will refuse making Dana have a false sense of trust within them, believing them in being compassionate individuals. She believes even though Dana seems like a wary individual, she is still to naive within this world, as she has a clear softer side towards the opposite sex, in addition to obviously having a lack of experience within schemes, Princess Hui Ying is confident Dana will be completely fooled. Watching the scene play out exactly as she wanted, with her being slightly surprised with just how easy Dana truly took care of the beast, making her decide that it was definitely the right decision to take care of Dana now before she becomes to troublesome within the future, thus ruining her chances of taking care of her within the future, the girls became closer and closer towards Dana as time passes. Eventually to the point were Dana considers them as true friends. The girls upon meeting Dana began to feel guilty as they felt that she was truly a kind person, who obviously hadn''t had anyone to talk to her in a long while within such an intimidate manner by the clear delight she shows whilst talking towards them. Upon seeing Dana''s appearance they felt disappointment at the thought of such a beauty being violated by such a disgusting man, but this soon became a resolute look as they knew that they had no true choice within this matter! It was just Dana fault for having such beauty without the sufficient strength to protect herself within this world! Thus, they arranged for Dana to meet with them before entering the secret realm, in which they planned to betray her by drugging Dana, causing her to be easily captured by the cultivators under the orders of Chao Sung, with Dana''s master none the wiser! Also, even if the drugs went wrong they knew the perfect area to lure Dana causing her to meet the trap of multiple cultivators which possess superior cultivation than her, ensuring that Dana will definitely have no means of escaping from Chao Sung''s grasp! 46 Chapter 45 - Unravelling With Dana arranging to meet the girls a month later from now, she bids them goodbye soon before leaving the Inn which she been staying at, with a bright smile on her face from start to finish. However, soon after Dana walked a good distance away from the Inn that smile dropped, becoming a cold look. She knew long ago there was something wrong about those girls but this just confirms it, as she soon noticed the man following her ever since she left the Inn. In fact, she had been suspicious for a while as whoever has arranged him to follow her has been very discreet in their attempts for them to not notice their presence, whilst thinking of how they found her, she later found the true reasoning behind this situation, as everyone which had to enter the Town were required to show their faces to the guards. Noticing this peculiarity Dana felt it was very unusual, but putting it within the back of the mind Dana easily entered without alerting the guards. How did Dana accomplish this? Normally, these guards would be looking for Qi fluctuations, as for a cultivator to get over the wall without the notice of the guards, they would need to use their Qi to either propel themselves up or to levitate, which uses up a large amount of Qi. Either way, they would be easily detected as each Town or City will have at least have an artefact or someone capable or finding such people which use this method to bypass the gates, this is needed as there are many rogue cultivators or criminals which could cause havoc if left unrestrained. But, as Dana used a secret in which she had been practising for a while, which is shifting parts of her human body into her Frost Wyvern form, thus she grew wings on her back and flew over the wall easily, with the guards none the wiser. Soon enough Dana found the whole searching thing even weirder, as the guards didn''t seem to be looking for a rogue cultivator but an attractive woman, as instead of focusing on males, they instead paid particular attention towards the woman and inspected every one that passed, this made Dana feel that somehow this situation has something to do with her. So, Dana made a gamble by showing her true appearance in order to reveal the truth behind this plot, and as Dana expected upon seeing her appearance the guards eyes lit up slightly, as if they were pleased about something, even though they attempted to conceal their reactions, it was still noticed by Dana, before they allowed her to go within the Town without stopping her further. Confirming that they were looking for her, Dana discovered soon after she met the group of young cultivators, which she again found highly suspicious, as it was too coincidental within the timing of the guards seeing her appearance, in addition to the entirety such a large Forest they somehow ran into her out of all people. But, even if they did, geniuses such as them which obviously had a large background would be heavily protected upon leaving the Sect, with also them being too deep within the Forest in the first place for their cultivations, which even an idiot wouldn''t be that foolish to go looking to die by travelling within such a place that out of their league knowing full-well they don''t have the required capabilities to protect themselves at all. With the addition of this factor, she has already become highly suspicious of both girls, and the way in which they both followed her continuously, showing far too much kindness towards a stranger finally made Dana know there was definitely something wrong with them. As even if they had this kind of character, it still wouldn''t justify them being that caring towards her, a stranger for no reason at all? It doesn''t make any sense to treat a stranger so intimately even if they saved their lives, and for someone which had seen true selfish side of humans, she knew that no one would be this compassionate towards someone you haven''t met. Deciding she is going to unravel this whole plot, Dana soon loses the man tailing her, before soon finding the girls which seem to be walking with caution, with them continuously checking behind them if there is someone following them, before they eventual found a familiar person which caused even Dana to lift her eyebrows in scepticism. Princess Hui Ying? Thinking back to her meeting with that woman an unpleasant feeling suddenly emerged within her mind, removing her desires to kill her right now, she utilised the technique she has been using to hide her cultivation to the fullest, completely hiding from the detection of the group. Although this technique wasn''t the best, as at the time she bought from the system within the Azure Continent with a limited amount of soul points, so it wasn''t the best calibre technique available from the system, but it was still by far profound enough to deal with individuals with lower cultivations than her. Upon seeing the girls, Princess Hui Ying grinned maliciously before saying, "So has that wench followed on what I expected of her as I planned?" Seeing Princess Hui Ying sinister look, the girls instinctively shivered before saying, "Yes Princess, she will meet us within a month before entering the secret realm." Happy at Dana falling for her scheme, she soon began telling her on what she wants them to do towards Dana, unknowingly telling the person which is intended for the plot right before her eyes. The killing intent within Dana''s eyes grew to a horrifying level as they revealed what they previously had planned for her, but she soon hid this within the depth of her eyes. If just goes ahead and kill them now, the others involved within this plot will obviously know what she did, thus actually making end up with even more danger upon entering the secret realm, although she wasn''t afraid of no one, from the words of Princess Hui Ying even though anyone with Rank 1 Core Formation Cultivation or above are not permitted to enter within the Secret Realm including Chao Sung, that doesn''t mean he hasn''t got any lackeys which are at the Xiantian Rank 7 or 9 Cultivation, which at the moment it will be troublesome for her to deal with. As Dana at the moment doesn''t want to be dragged into a dogfight with these people as a result of her losing control of her emotions by killing Princess Hui Ying, she believes that doing so will bring up but nothing but demerits, as she may end up even having no other options to reveal her secret with being a Frost Wyvern, which in the end could cost her severely as she will end up being madly hunted around the entirety of the Xinghai Continent. The Sword Paragon Sect already unsuccessfully announced a large reward for sightings of a spirit beast which met her description, with it so far is proven to be ineffective as none have even caught a glimpse of her so far, making many doubt Elder Wi who was the sole cause for them searching for the spirit beast. So, she does not want to end within a situation where she will be even hunted within her human form, making it ridiculously difficult for her to escape capture. She soon found that leaving them alive and going along with the plot suits her perfectly, unknowingly to Princess Hui Ying her scheme will end up benefiting Dana. These cultivators will be searching for her anyways, so if Princess Hui Ying keeps them within the same place waiting for her, whilst she goes around hunting for resources, she will end up avoiding them until her strength becomes sufficient enough for her to deal with them. Deciding that the risk of her revealing her appearance paid off, Dana''s eyes grew vicious as she looked at Princess Hui Ying and two girls plans for her demise, and what was further laughable is that they planned on poisoning her before taking her to the preplanned area in which the cultivators awaited her. What Dana found hilarious was that there was probably no poison within the Xinghai Continent that could even remotely affect her, and that is if you take into account the most lethal poisons within the Xinghai Continent which could kill even a Core Formation Cultivator and not the poison which these girls planned on giving her. The poison they want to provide her is one which slowly weakens the individual, crippling their bodies permanently. This was truly a malevolent poison, that many would even not want to use on their worst enemies as it makes them suffer a fate worse than death, becoming permanently crippled thus remaining even weaker than a mortal for the rest of their lives. ''Princess Hui Ying is truly a sinister person!'' Dana thought as she stared at Princess Hui Ying which currently seemed full of anticipation at the expression on Dana''s face when she becomes a useless person. ''Even though that poison wouldn''t affect me remotely, you will pay for your actions, one way or another,'' Dana thought as she finally decided to leave this place before she ended up losing control herself and killing all three girls as a result of her anger. Leaving the area, Dana knew as they believed she was fooled by the scheme, it would give her enough time within the secret realm to find many resources which would be useful towards her cultivation, Dana is fully planned on at least reaching the Fourth-Ranked of Xiantian before dealing with them within the conditions of the Secret Realm. As in the Secret Realm, they will have no elders protecting them, she will be fully capable of eliminating each one of them without the revenge of their sects, as who would believe that someone with her cultivation can kill all of them? Shifting into her Frost Wyvern form, Dana flew towards the location in which the Blaze Wyrm is located, as each of them had fairly strong cultivations with in addition to having a dragon-related bloodline, Dana believes that after this experience, her strength will reach another level entirely. 47 Chapter 46 - Battling the Blaze Wyrms A day passed until Dana arrived at the location of the Blaze Wyrms, similar to the volcanos found on Earth, this one instead looked like a supersized volcano, as it towered over the surroundings, making even Dana despite her large size to feel insignificant in comparison. Dana has already begun to feel the scorching heat upon her azure scales, making Dana instinctively feel uncomfortable being within such an environment. As Dana is a Frost Wyvern, she will naturally be most adapted towards an environment with extreme cold, with her currently being in the opposite, it will feel irritable for her to remain in such a place, whereas the Blaze wyrms will possess a natural advantage within their own habitat. A matter of fact if it wasn''t a Blaze Wyrm, and a Raging Blaze Drake, Dana would be wary of fighting such a beast which contains a bloodline as powerful as hers within its natural environment. But, as she is a Frost Wyvern, possessing a rare bloodline, no matter what advantages they possess here will still be unable to cover the true difference between bloodlines. Thus, Dana''s large body moved through the entrance of the volcano, descending within its depths to search for the Blaze Wyrm''s. The further Dana descends within the volcano, the higher the temperature became, eventually it becoming so warm that steam began emitting from Dana''s scales as a result of the severe coldness which radiates within her body. Becoming more and more annoyed at the ridiculous heat of the surroundings,Dana soon came across a large lake of lava, which seemed to stretch for miles. Believing that her targets were somewhere present, thinking that she will make those Blaze Wyrms suffer her wrath for dragging her into such a place, Dana begrudgingly used her [Earth Armor] bloodline skill, continuously muttering to herself that this is worth it, she jumped into the lava lake as began swimming, her hawk-like gaze searching for any signs of Blaze Wyrms. As her defence was horrifying even before gaining the Earth Wyrm''s bloodline, swimming within a lake of lava was no problem towards her at all. A few hours later she finally came across a Blaze Wyrm, seeing her prey finally before her, Dana grinned with a bloodthirsty look, as she began picturing herself driving her fangs within its neck ripping out its throat, before feasting on its flesh. Dana quickly shook this thought out of her head thinking that her predatory instincts are getting the better of her again... Instead of killing this Blaze Wyrm she decided to stalk it until it led her towards the rest of the Blaze Wyrm''s, as it already took her long enough to find this one. By doing so it will take Dana less time rounding them all up by that way, sneakily following the Blaze Wyrm, as if a crocodile would do on Earth by blending within its surroundings to ambush prey she ''imitated'' a rock floating within the lava. Which seemed to work really well, as a Blaze Wyrm was too stupid to realise that a floating rock was unusually following it, as it never truly left this volcano once in its life, thus how would it know of a predator that is actually superior to it? These arrogant simple-minded thoughts are one of the reasons why Wyrms and Drakes are known for being the stupidest amongst the Dragon Race, as they are known for being ''brutes'' with no brains, as they typically possess great strength but have peanut-sized brains. Feeling that her camouflage was perfect, Dana and the Blaze Wyrm soon arrived at a den which contained five Blaze Wyrm''s ranging from the Second-Ranked Xiantian to the Fifth. Dana eyes suddenly became serious, as she believed this fight with the Blaze Wyrm''s would be more troublesome than she thought... Deciding to use her perfect ''hiding'' skills, a floating rock awaited outside of the Blaze Wyrm''s den awaiting its prey. An hour later, much to Dana''s delight two Blaze Wyrm''s left the den, as she was becoming increasingly closer to losing her patience,due to her naturally being an impatient person anyways. In fact being able to wait that long is amazing itself, as usually Dana would have charged in and brawled with the Blaze Wyrms, but as they were pretty powerful, Dana decided it would be better to thin down the numbers before attacking them. Following the Blaze Wyrm''s, one of them eventuallybecame confused at the rock that has been following them for a while, deciding to investigate, the Blaze Wyrm told its compatriot that there is a strange rock over there that have been following them, in which its companion gave it a puzzled look as if it doesn''t find anything ''weird'' at all. Irritated at the stupidity of its kin, the Blaze Wyrm gave it a backhanded slap for its stupidity. As a smart Blaze Wyrm, it decided to inspect the rock itself, coming closer to the rock with a look of anticipation, ''Maybe this is a magic rock,'' it thought, as it praised itself for its intelligence. But, suddenly a large mouth emerged from the ''magic rock'' as it fangs pierced right into the Blaze Wyrm''s neck, causing the Blaze Wyrm to shriek in pain. Its companion upon seeing such a scene was horrified upon seeing it be mauled by a rock, seeing that its kin was at a disadvantage it rushed over to help out its fellow Blaze Wyrm from the mighty rock! Dana which was currently injecting her poison into the Blaze Wyrm''s bloodstream, thus disabling it making it become easy picking for her to deal with at any time, turned her body facing the other Blaze Wyrm with a ferocious look, as the Blaze Wyrm she was previously grappling fell down weakly. Seeing its companion seemingly lose all of its strength within the next few seconds made the other Blaze Wyrm shown a puzzled look at how it''s compatriot suddenly looks so weak when a moment ago it was thrashing wildly against Dana''s restraint, putting this at the back of its mind, it launched an attack towards Dana, Fire Qi covering its claws as its paw slashes down towards Dana. Dana calmy countered the attack by using one of her own, meeting the strike with a layer of Ice Qi covering her claws as they easily defuse the Blaze Wyrm''s attack, even managing to leave behind a long gash across its scaly hide, causing dark blood to pour out of the wound. Roaring at the sudden injury the Blaze Wyrm became even more enraged, being within this volcano has made the Blaze Wyrm never been hunted once within its life, it was always the apex predator within its territory and never experiencing being treated its prey by another being, now it was being played around with by Dana, how can it not be truly infuriated? The Blaze Wyrm fought like a desperate beast, as it threw attack after attack without caring about the injury, soon enough the beast collapsed due to the severe injuries covering the entirety of its body. The Blaze Wyrm looked at Dana with a gaze full of fear, as even within its state of throwing away all defence, just purely attacking Dana, it barely managed to cause a single injury on Dana''s body apart from a little scratch left by its claw, but this didn''t even manage to cut through Dana''s hide at all. As its breath became shallower, the Blaze Wyrm finally breathed its last, as it looked at Dana with a trace of unwillingness knowing the fate of its kin. Discerning that both Blaze wyrms are, Dana dragged both bodies within her storage ring as she decided that she will gain the Blaze wyrms bloodline when she has received the bodies of each of them, as after receiving the Earth Wyrm bloodline it ended up taking a few days to integrate within her body, thus she intends on taking care of the other three Blaze Wyrm''s firstly as not only could she endanger herself as she would be in a vulnerable state, but they may even leave in panic after witnessing the death of their comrades, causing Dana to miss the opportunity of killing them. With both possibilities being terrible for Dana, she knew that slaying the remaining three Blaze Wyrms was a priority at the moment. As she dealt with the two Blaze Wyrm''s which possessed the highest cultivation among the five Blaze Wyrm''s, the remaining three shouldn''t be too difficult to defeat, so she is confident enough to use a direct confrontation this time. A few minutes later Dana arrived back at the Blaze Wyrm''s den, with upon her entering, the three Blaze Wyrm''s started hissing at the unknown intruder. Noticing that their cultivations are at the 2nd Xiantian and Third Xiantian, a savage look emerged within Dana''s draconic face as she charged into the three of them, initiating a fierce brawl as Dana fought three Blaze Wyrm''s at once. The Blaze Wyrm''s den shook as the noises of shrieks and shrills of pain as the four beasts fought a hard battle. After fifteen minutes, the dead bodies of the three Blaze Wyrm''s were littered around Dana''s draconic form, which contained a few cuts and gashes obviously inflicted from the battle she had with the Blaze Wyrm''s. Although they didn''t have as high of cultivation as the one she previously killed, there were still three of them in addition to them attacking Dana frantically ignoring the injuries on their bodies, they managed to inflict even more damage than the Blaze Wyrm she just dealt with. Using her new martial skill, water slowly gathered around Dana''s wounds before they began to close considerable faster. Upon seeing such a scene made Dana very pleased, as [Water Healing] wasn''t to much of a difficult skill and was only within the martial skill section as it was very valuable as a result of the properties of the skill, it didn''t take Dana long to have a good understanding of it. Thus, seeing her injuries being healed rapidly made Dana very happy with the martial skill itself, as it will only improve within the future alongside her water attribute, thus making her believe that it will be a great alternative for medical pills. As Dana was within thought, the system''s voice sounded within her mind. [Ding! Host, the system has detected the uncommon bloodline, Blaze Wyrm, would you like to integrate it within the host, or to sell it to the system itself for soul points?] Upon hearing the system, Dana retrieved the other two Blaze Wyrm''s bodies, alongside placing all five in front of her before saying, "Yes, give me the Blaze Wyrm bloodline." Instantly after saying that, a piercing pain emerged throughout her body, as her size once again increased rapidly, stopping when the length of her body reached 45 ft. Dana''s scales with were originally azure with brown gleams throughout her body started to shine with a red lustre, as traces of blazing red scales emerge within patches on her body. The Fire Qi suddenly became increasingly larger within her body, until its purity and size matched her Earth affinity, Dana''s body suddenly went through an unknown change as she developed a talent fully comparable to a Blaze Wyrm towards the Fire attribute. Feeling a large power surge, Dana suddenly felt that although her cultivation hasn''t improved much, she still felt much stronger. As the new bloodline refined her Qi making it stronger, Dana will naturally be able to emit stronger attacks in exchange even if her cultivation didn''t improve itself, having a bloodline of each attribute will naturally make herself even stronger, with the stronger the bloodline, the more of an impact it has on Dana''s strength. Soon later Dana felt starving as a result of the large expansion of her size, looking at the bodies of the five Blaze Wyrm''s her stomach rumbled in anticipation for the flesh of the Blaze Wyrm''s, licking her lips, Dana dragged her body before taking a big bite out of largest Blaze Wyrm, before long Dana began feasting on the five large bodies, her cultivation improving passively the more she ate... 48 Chapter 47 - Close Door Cultivation Within Volcano and Treasure! After Dana ate each of the Blaze Wyrm''s carcases whole, until nothing but the largest and toughest bones of the Blaze Wyrm''s remained, she entered a deep slumber, as her body is continuously ingesting the Qi within the flesh of the Blaze Wyrm''s. A few days quickly past within the volcano and without notice Dana''s cultivation finally broke through into the First Rank of Xiantian, which as a result entering a new cultivation realm, her body once again went through a rapid growth spurt until her body reached 53ft in length, in addition, her whole body went through a qualitative change, as the Dragon Emperor Cultivation Method continuously circulated throughout her body, it rapidly strengthened her entire body until it fully accommodated the new-found strength which a new cultivation realm brings. Of course, Dana currently is unaware of this, as she slept soundly through the entire process, this continued until the last amount of Blaze wyrms was finally devoured within Dana''s stomach. Dana''s reptilian eyes slowly opened as she gradually awoke. Upon awakening Dana soon noticed her size once again has increased greatly, causing her to be astonished, thinking that this may be linked to her cultivation... Dana inspected the changes of her body, causing Dana to shortly noticed that her cultivation has finally reached Rank 1 Xiantian! This caused no small amount of joy for Dana which felt like a great amount of weight was lifted off her shoulders, as she became one step closer in having the sufficient means to protect herself from the potential dangers within the Secret Realm. Of course, this not only applied to the Secret Realm but the Xinghai Continent in the long run, but as that was still a fair bit of distance away, for now, Dana set her sights on getting through the Secret Realm, and retrieving as many benefits as possible whilst doing so! Thinking back to how she received the Blaze Wyrm''s bloodline, Dana closed her eyes beginning to sense the Fire Qi within her surroundings, quickly Dana found that it is much easier to manipulate than usual, feeling the abundant Fire Qi around her, Dana decided this would be the perfect place for cultivation for her. Due to there being around a month before the Secret Realm begins, there should be plenty of time for Dana to absorb the Fire Wyrm cores, not to mention ever since integrating with the Blaze Wyrm''s bloodline, rather than her previous thoughts on returning to the Elemental Sect after she received the Blaze Wyrm''s bloodline, she instead decided to stay and remain in closed-door practice, as her former irritable feelings on remaining in this place have disappeared, instead becoming nothing but pleasant feelings. In fact, Dana felt that this place was built for her as if it was her domain for the sole purpose for her to rule within. Having such feelings for this place has made Dana realise exactly why the Blaze Wyrms never wanted to leave, as it was simply the perfect place for fire attributed spirit beasts, as it made them the apex predators within but alas even having an environment this advantageous towards you, in the end, it is useless if a more formidable beast came with a much stronger bloodline. This is perfectly shown by Dana, as even as a beast of the Ice Attribute, being completely out of her comfort zone upon entering such an environment, still slaughtered the Blaze Wyrm''s regardless of them being here. Demonstrating exactly why when it comes to spirit beasts, having a strong bloodline is essential. Shaking her head to remove these thoughts, Dana decided to check her new stats upon receiving the Blaze Wyrm bloodline. "Status" [Name: Dana Whitefield] [Cultivation Level: Xiantian Realm Rank 1; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Body Cultivation: Xiantian Realm Rank 1; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Soul Cultivation: Infant Level Middle Tier; Cultivation Method: Great Buddha Soul Cultivation Technique] [Bloodlines: Frost Wyvern 90% Purity, Earth Wyrm 100% Purity, Blaze Wyrm 100% Purity - mutated bloodline to Rare Variant] [Bloodline skills: Flame Spear, Flame Breath, Flame Whip, Flame Fang, Earth Spike, Earth Armor, Earth Claw, Earth Shape, Frost Breath, Dragon Aura, Ice Claw, Poisonous Spikes and Poison Ice Breath.] [Bloodline Inherited Talents: Ice Qi Affinity ----> Increases comprehension towards Ice Laws and Ice Attributed Martial Skills, Body Cultivation----> Due having heritage of a True Dragon, your body is naturally more suitable towards cultivation of the body, any cultivation methods which requires use of the body is 80% more effective and easier to cultivate ----> As a result of containing Earth Wyrm and Blaze Wyrm bloodline your Dragonic heritage has been increased, Poison Immunity ----> As a Frost Wyvern with a rare bloodline, you have a high resistance towards poison, Hardened Body ----> Earth Wyrms are descendants of Earth Dragons a race known for having one of the strongest defences among the Dragon race as a descendent an Earth Wyrm has inherited a portion of this talent, Earth Qi Affinity ----> Earth wyrms are naturally attuned to Earth Qi this increases your attribute talent with Earth Affinity, as a result, increases comprehension towards Earth Laws and Earth Attributed Martial Skills, Fire Qi Affinity ----> Blaze Wyrms are naturally attuned to Fire Qi, this increases your attribute talent with Fire Qi, as a result, increasing your comprenehnsion towards Fire Laws and Fire Attributed Martial Skills, Fire Resistance ----> You will have a natural resistance of Fire related attacks.] Upon seeing her new stats made Dana become very pleased at seeing her progression improve once again, making her closer towards her goal into becoming a True Dragon, the only thing which she felt slight disappointment against is her soul cultivation, as recently Dana had bottleneck within her soul cultivation, but the system quickly mentioned this was completely normal as it is much more difficult to advance within compared to Qi and Body cultivation. Dana felt frustrated she does not have the opportunity to make use of her powerful soul, as a result, of the martial techniques of the soul being too expensive for her to purchase at the moment, in addition to soul techniques being exceedingly rare, with not even any of the sects within the Xinghai Continent in possession of one, except for the Heavenly Noble Sect, but this technique was likely the most basic of techniques, otherwise it would have long been stolen by one of the ''Righteous'' sects becoming greedy of a Tier 3 Sect possessing such technique, making Dana currently not able to make use of her soul cultivation at this moment in time. But, at least by cultivating her soul it sets a foundation for the future, as her soul cultivation method is still very good and is much more advanced than the one which the Sect Master of the Heavenly Noble Sect currently uses. Of course, this is only a soul cultivation technique to cultivate the soul, not a martial technique which could be used as a method of attack, which is what Dana desires. Putting this within the back of the mind, Dana decided to use this month to the fullest in improving her cultivation. Fishing through the bones of the five Blaze Wyrm''s she soon found each of their cores, each of them filled brimming with energy. Before using the cores, Dana decided to search through the Blaze Wyrm''s dens, as she previously heard spirit beasts keep each of their treasure within their lairs, so there must be some goodies here which can be of use for her. Searching through the den, she soon found a pile of all sorts of treasures, many were fire attributed herbs which grew within the rich environment of Fire Qi, in addition to the treasures of many cultivators which died here. ''It seemed many tried their luck to kill these Blaze Wyrm''s, but none succeeded'', she thought as she pocketed a large number of spirit stones, weapons and even a few pills which had not much use for her. As Dana storage ring was pretty large nothing was spared, as even if she couldn''t use it, she could easily sell it or trade it for some other stuff which may be useful for her. Not to mention dragons do love their treasure, after all, she especially appreciated the shiny things present among the Blaze Wyrm''s treasures. Deciding that she will definitely go robbing a few people after this for some more treasure, the curse which plagues Dragons has seemingly awoken within Dana as she stared at the treasures within her storage ring with the exact same look a man would give towards a beautiful woman stood naked in front of them. The system upon seeing Dana spacing out for a long time, alongside with such a creepy look on her face finally couldn''t help it any more and its cynical voice sounded within Dana''s head awakening her from her daze. [Host, maybe you should stop staring at the treasures and cultivate, as you have been standing there looking like a perverted old man for the last ten minutes.] With the system reminding her of the pressing time for her to cultivate, Dana took out all the cores and treasures which will benefit her cultivation from the treasures she received from the Blaze Wyrm''s out of her storage ring, obviously with a reluctant look whilst doing so, making her final preparations before closed cultivation, Dana promptly began cultivating within the volcano. 49 Chapter 48 - Great Progress and New Reward From System Twenty-seven days have passed since Dana has begun closed-cultivation within the Volcano, during this time she has made great gains within her strength. Absorbing the cores in addition to eating the fire attributed spirit herbs assisted Dana in raising her cultivation already to the Fourth Rank of Xiantian, ensuring that even if she were to come across Ninth Xiantian Ranked Cultivator she wouldn''t necessarily be at a disadvantage at all. However, Dana still felt this wasn''t enough to assure her safety within the Secret Realm, as the geniuses at the Ninth Rank of Xiantian are fully capable in fighting those with higher cultivation than themselves as a result of their martial skills, attribute talent and so on thus they are much stronger than the average 9th Xiantian Cultivator, therefore, Dana couldn''t guarantee in being able to kill all of them without revealing her true nature, as even if one of them managed to escape, she would be doomed to be on the run constantly, with not even her human form being safe anymore. This means she will be basically banished from human society, something which Dana didn''t particularly want to experience, as she has already witnessed the benefits on being able to live as both human and beast, thus she didn''t want to give this up at all. Not to mention there may be at least one core formation cultivator present, as Dana originally stated that there will unlikely be any core formation cultivator as there are currently none with that sort of talent within the Sects of the Xinghai Continent, but this doesn''t mean a Tier 4 or Tier 5 sect applies to this factor, as a core formation genius can be among them whilst fulfilling the requirements to enter within the Secret Realm. Before Dana speculated this as one of the requirements of being able to enter the Secret Realm is having a bone age under twenty-five, which not even the sects within the Xinghai Continent can control, as they have no authority of the Secret Realm at all and only send their disciple within to receive potential benefits towards their cultivation, in addition to the chance of one of the disciples managing to receive a inheritance there, which will allow them to bring back rare martial skills, in doing so benefiting their respective sects greatly. As most of the inheritances have been completed before by other disciples, most of the martial skills within the Secret Realm are shared freely within the sects which disciples have previously completed these inheritances, therefore not many of them can be considered rare, but this doesn''t matter to Dana who will go looking for any benefits she can receive in the Secret Realm. There are also many inheritances which have not been completed, with even the disciples of Tier 4 and Tier 5 sects failing, thus this is the true reasoning why some strong disciples now and then can be found from their respective sects to enter the secret realm as their purpose is to try and gain these inheritances, so they can return to their sects and receive great merits for doing so! As Chao Sung has passed the bone age, Dana previously thought it was highly unlikely that a Core Formation Cultivator will enter the Secret Realm, but as there is still a chance one may appear from the stronger sects, there is always a possibility of one being present, which could cause potential problems for Dana which at the moment does not possess the capabilities of confronting such an expert. So, even though Dana was pleased with her gains in spending her time within the Volcano, she still didn''t allow herself to relax at all, as even with the current strength she possesses there are still many unknown dangers within the secret realm... Another benefit Dana received in eating those fire attributed herbs, is that her Fire Qi has gotten purer, thus in doing so making her Fire Attributed attacks stronger, which at the moment only applied towards her bloodline skills as she had no martial skills of the fire attribute available to her at the moment. Whilst Dana was lost within her thoughts, her stomach once again rumbled signifying she is once again hungry. Although, Dana had been within closed-door cultivation within the past month, she still went out occasionally to hunt for some beasts to sate her hunger, as even though the spirit herbs counted as food, and satisfied her bodily needs, that still couldn''t stop a glutton such as Dana which can''t go without eating a sizable amount of meat for a short amount of time, so she hunted quite a number of spirit beasts by now during her ''meal'' breaks between cultivation sessions. As the Blaze Wyrms spent all of their time down here, there was obviously a food source present, with there being a stable eco-system containing many fire-attributed spirit beasts that live within the depths of the volcano. In fact for the first week of her living within the volcano these beasts celebrated that the number one predator within the volcano has disappeared for the past week, only to take back this thought as an even more terrifying beast has replaced them, with none of the beasts it set its sight on being able to escape its wrath. This caused many fierce spirit beasts to desperately hide for their dear lives every time Dana went on the prowl, deeply afraid that Dana targeted them next! Dana was actually very disappointed she found no more treasures hoarded by any of the spirit beasts here, but this could be expected as primarily only the smartest and strongest beasts kept treasures, which apart from the Blaze Wyrm''s within this place none possessed the capabilities in doing so, not to mention Dragons were one of the primary beings which loved treasures, as many spirit beasts would discard ''shiny'' treasures thinking that they are useless as they cannot eat them, crushing Dana''s hopes of finding a suitable treasure hoard to steal... However, thinking there was a Lightning Flood Dragon within the Xinghai Continent caused Dana to grin with a greedy smile, as she began thinking of all the treasures which a Ranked 9 Core Formation Spirit beast much possess... Drooling over such thoughts, Dana was interrupted by the system which finally informed of what it promised within the last twenty-seven days of hard cultivation... [Host, as last time the system wanted you to focus within your cultivation rather than the next reward of the system for promoting cultivation levels as at the moment this reward will not be instantly beneficial towards you, and may, in fact, distracted you within the past month causing you to waste your time on something else rather than cultivating... the system was originally planning on giving to you but became greatly worried about your recent addiction.] Thinking back to what the system is talking about, what addiction? Is there anything in this world which can stop her from cultivating? She didn''t think so... Believing the system to be overexaggerating, she questioned. "Hey, you must be overreacting about this thing, like what could possibly disrupt my attention from cultivating? Just show it to me already." [Alright Host, if you say so... The next feature you unlocked is a technique... to search for precious treasures...] As the system voice sounded Dana suddenly spaced out upon thinking of such a marvellous technique, Dana started to daydream about gathering all the treasures around the Xinghai as she put them within a large pile in front of her whilst she rolled her draconic body merily within the treasres. The system once again interrupted Dana. [See Host, you have already spaced out... The system already reveals this system as it could prove of major importance towards any cultivator of a technique overtime which can improve giving you a sense of direction towards treasure, this is a priceless technique any cultivator would kill for. It will direct you towards the most precious treasures, making you instinctively know the direction of it. Over time, it will improve making you able to search for treasures at a further distance, here is the technique but host I hope you don''t get to carried away with it... The system is only giving it to you now as it may prove incredibly useful within the Secret Realm.] Upon receiving the technique, Dana immediately activated it, following the guidance of the technique, she soon found out how marvellous it is... The technique gives her what is like a sixth sense, allowing her to know the general direction of heavenly treasures, in addition to roughly gauging how precious they are... this technique will allow her to find the best resources within the Secret Realm, without missing a thing. Obviously, there were some demerits as you had a limited distance in which the technique can be used, but it will still improve over time, making Dana even more excited about the future. Thanking the system profusely of the technique, Dana soon hunted for the most precious treasures within the volcano, soon finding numerous rare spirit herbs which would have taken her months of searching around the entire volcano to find normally, in addition to her not even being able to discover some of the extremely well-hidden ones. Dana quickly put all of these herbs within her space ring, as she decided not to use them at the moment. Delighted at the success of the technique, Dana decided to leave the volcano and head towards the entrance of the Secret Realm, were many sects have gathered their disciples in preparing to send into. Listening to the system she didn''t get to carried away with the technique, and turned into her Frost Wyvern Form flying towards the location were the opening of the Secret Realm takes place. A dangerous glint appeared within Dana''s eyes as she thought back to Princess Hui Ying'' scheme... ''It seems being in the Secret Realm gives me an opportunity to pay you back towards all the trouble you''ve caused me...'' 50 Chapter 49 - Arriving at the Entrance of Secret Realm It has been four days since Dana has been flying non-stop towards the Secret Realm, well ''non-stop'' as in detouring on many occasions. As a result finding ''shiny'' looking treasures on the way there. Which seemed to exactly prove the system was right in the matter of withholding the technique, as Dana ended up causing trouble on many occasions, as many of the treasures she ''found'' seemed to have owners. But, from the words of Dana ''finders-keepers'', caused not a short amount of suffering for the many nobles which ended up becoming Dana''s newest victims, with her robbing all of their belongings without even their clothes being spared, making these previous rich young masters become a bunch of penniless beggars within a few hours. Obviously, Dana was about to leave the clothes, but upon seeing the gold and a few ''shiny'' ornaments engraved within them, ended up triggering her greedy nature of treasures leaving the pitiful nobles without even the clothes on their backs. Of course, none of this mattered to Dana who was flying happily alongside the treasures she rightfully claimed, as if they had incompetent owners, then who can blame her? They would just get stolen by another person! She reassured herself. This system upon seeing Dana displaying such shameless behaviour was thinking of a solution to ''fix'' its host as quickly as possible. Shortly, Dana arrived at the location on which the Secret Realm opens, of course, she changed into her human form, way before she came within the sight of the other human cultivators. Dana soon saw a large crowd of cultivators waiting outside what seemed to be a ''large gate'', which she guessed was the portal to the secret realm. As no one knew the true origins of the secret realm as its complexity is far above what these sects could comprehend, many powerful sects over the years have studied it without success, thus only the Tier 3 sects now find interest in entering it, as it is mainly used for the cultivation resources contained within, which may be valuable for a Tier 3 sect, but for the bigger sects? Not so much. Searching around to for the area in which the Elemental Sect disciples are, her eyes scanned around the large crowd of cultivators, quickly finding her Master alongside a few Sect Elders within the Elemental Sect she recognised, finding the location of her Master and the Elemental Sect, Dana strolled over towards her master. Seeing Dana moving towards them the group of cultivators were astounded by such breathtaking beauty, they previously thought that the other known beauties within the continent were unparalleled with it impossible other women being able to surpass them, but this woman before them destroys this assumption completely, as there is simply no comparison between the appearances of those beauties in contrast to her. In fact, if she stood beside the top beauties of the Xinghai Continent, then Dana would outshine them completely, making them look ordinary. "Who is that?" Muttered a young cultivator staring at Dana with infatuation. "That must be the new genius of the Elemental Sect, Dana the disciple of Yueqin Wen. They have been bragging for weeks that she the new number one beauty within the continent... it seems they are right after all." Another cultivator said, managing to discern Dana''s identity from her appearance. Hearing Dana''s identity caused many to be completely shocked, as they originally scoffed at the thought of Dana being declared the number one beauty by the variousElemental Sect disciples, but now seeing the reality before their eyes, not one person can question this at all. Ignoring the heated gazes of the cultivators, soon Dana is in front of her master and before Yueqin Wen can reprimand Dana for disappearing without notice for a few months, Dana scooped her up in a big hug, lifting her in the air swirling her around, dumbfounding the surrounding cultivators in addition to causing Yueqin Wen previous emotionless face to dye red as she attempted to regain her previous cold mask. "Ahh, master. Your disciple missed you so much, sorry I got a little too affectionate." Dana said with a pitiful look as if she was worried her master would punish her. Seeing Dana''s appearance caused the crowd to instinctively feel sorry for her and the need to protect her, making the system rolls it eyes at Dana''s acting as in the past few days it found that Dana seemed to be world-class in this field as she made many nobles actually reward her for stealing from them, by providing ''information'' on the individual she witnessed doing so. Of course, this was a load of rubbish, but with Dana sounding so convincing in addition to her appearance, caused the nobles wanting to make a good impression on her, making Dana receive even more ''shiny'' things from the people she just robbed. Seeing the crowds accusing glares, and the innocent look Dana was giving her as if it was completely accidental, quickly diffused Yueqin Wen''s anger for her sudden disappearance and picking her up in an embarrassing manner in front of the public. "It''s a fine disciple... after all, it is nothing wrong just being happy to see me. Can your master speak to you at this moment?" Yueqin Wen replied. Seeing that she has gotten out of trouble this easy, a breathtaking smile emerged on Dana''s face stunning the crowd, Dana said, "Sure Master, I guess I got a lot to tell you about my previous month." This was followed shortly by Dana following Yueqin Wen into an Inn not too far away from the entrance of the secret realm, of course, this Inn''s primary business came from the once a year-round mass of cultivators heading here, not to mention there is a Town near the Secret Realm, which gets a fair amount of travellers all year round, so this Inn only purpose isn''t for the Secret Realm. Yueqin Wen quickly led Dana into her room as she closed the door, now away from prying eyes, Yueqin Wen stared at Dana with a stern look before asking, "Well, you got some explaining to do Dana, you went randomly missing out of no were for around two months! Do you know how worried I was, I thought he took you as well!" Seeing Yueqin Wen''s deeply concerned appearance, caused a pang of guilt within Dana''s heart at seeing the obvious concern her master had towards her, causing Dana to reply, "I''m sorry Master, I just wanted to improve my strength as much as possible before coming here as I cannot rely on your protection forever, not to mention I was worried that you wouldn''t let me leave the sect without supervision so I went without informing you." Hearing Dana''s obvious remorse caused Yueqin Wen to calm down, as in the end it was Dana''s choice and she knew that the girl just wanted the means to defend herself without her babysitting, thus she quickly forgot the thought of Dana leaving for the past few months and instead spoke with a smile, "Well how successful has it been?" Thinking that Dana''s cultivation improved by only a fair amount, Yueqin Wen was dumbfounded when Dana didn''t conceal a thing from her at all, revealing her full cultivation, which is an improvement of a full four ranks, not to mention it is a promotion of a new realm. Seeing her master completely frozen with a gaping mouth, Dana suddenly grew worried, "Hey master are you alright?" Yueqin Wen snapped out of these thoughts upon hearing Dana''s voice, as she replied, "Yes, yes... you just gave your master a big shock that''s all, as I knew your talent was better than mine, but not that much... your talent is higher than that Chao Sung by the speed of your cultivation." Witnessing her master mutter Chao Sung''s name such hatred reminded Dana of her promise to her master, "Don''t worry Master, he will pay for what he did to your daughter, as your disciple I can assure of you that." Dana said determinedly. Yueqin Wen suddenly broke out crying as she heard Dana''s reassuring reply, as it felt as if she will finally see that man pay for what he has done... With the death of all those, she cherished within this world, it had already caused Yueqin Wen to fully lose the will to live any more without them... But, she continued to live on for one reason only, revenge. She knew her daughter and husband wouldn''t want themselves to die in vain, so she lived on for that reason only, as the many years passed she was starting to give up hope in ever having vengeance be given towards the man which ruined her once peaceful, happy family. However, Dana has finally lit up hope once again within her. Causing her to have full faith in Dana carrying out her promise. Seeing her master''s emotional appearance, caused Dana to instantly embrace her, as Yueqin Wen cried on her shoulder. Dana knew that Yueqin Wen was a strong woman, thus seeing her like this, clearly shows that she has been holding this within her for a long time, and now she is letting it all free as if the burden which had been upon her for the years since her daughters death has been uplifted by Dana. A few hours later Dana left her masters room with a cold expression as she thought within her head, ''Chao Sung I will surely butcher you for what you did to my master and from how your reputation precedes you, your death will surely remove a great scrouge from this continent.'' Removing these murderous thoughts, Dana soon directed them elsewhere, as she knew it was finally time to meet the two girls who fully intended on betraying her. As Dana promised to join them in entering the Secret Realm, she cannot disappoint them now can she? 51 Chapter 50 - Entering the Secret Realm Knowing that the Secret Realm is opening soon, Dana walked with a quick pace towards the arranged area to meet with the girls. Shortly arriving there she found both girls standing, seemingly waiting for her, alongside them seemed to be an unfamiliar man she didn''t recognise, but inspecting his cultivation she noticed he was actually at the 7th Rank of Xiantian, it looks like Princess Hui Ying must have been cautious after all. It seems this guy must be the ''assurance'' to ensure Dana doesn''t cause any trouble, or there are any mishaps on her capture. ''If this was a month ago maybe this little scheme may have worked, but now I have nothing to fear even if it was 9th Xiantian Ranked Cultivator,'' Dana thought. The girls upon seeing Dana''s appearance shown bright smiles as they greeted her, while the man just remained at the same spot where he was, observing Dana with evident lust within his eyes. Seeing this expression from the man, Dana already wants to gouge his eyes out. The man seemingly not noticing Dana''s terrible impression on him, walked towards her with a friendly smile as he said, "So you must be Dana I presume? I''m sorry I arrived uninvited as I simply couldn''t let three beautiful girls go within the Secret Realm without suitable protection after all." At the moment Dana thinks that this man has a very punchable face, but this isn''t shown within her face at all. Speaking with a soft tone, she said, "It''s alright Junior Brother, after all, many have told me that the Secret Realm has many dangers, and we could always use someone that will surely be within the Top 100 in the Yearly Sect Gathering to protect us from all harm." The man witnessing Dana''s naive and innocent look caused him to stare at her with desire, as he thought of pressing her down underneath him right now. ''Such a pure girl,'' He thought, thinking that it is such a disappointment that she belongs to Chao Sung otherwise he would take her for himself. "Well, I will surely ensure that you will have sufficient protection within the Secret Realm, after all, I have one of the highest cultivations among those entering." He said proudly, hoping to impress Dana. Does this guy genuinely believe she is someone who would fall for such rubbish? "Wow you''re so powerful, we surely will be able to gain big in this Secret Realm beside you!" Dana said sarcastically. But, as cultivators within this world generally aren''t receptive of such thing, both Chao Sung and the girls didn''t detect this at all. The man even stood straighter. Naturally, his ego raised to the limits. Both girls seemed delighted, as if they were pleasantly surprised it was much easier to convince Dana than expected. Of course, if they knew that the only reason why Dana was so easy to persuade was she was fully confident on being able to slaughter all three of them with ease, perhaps they would know just why she was so readily accepting of this situation. After a few minutes with the man continuously trying to show-off in front of Dana, a loud noise sounded signifying that the Secret Realm is finally opening. Turning around Dana''s eyes widened in amazement as she stared at the spectacle before her. Within a distance stood the entrance of the Secret Realm which is covered in what Dana figured were runes, were continually glowing with a purple lustre as a massive influx of energy begun gathering around the entrance. All of a sudden the energy converged right into the centre of the entrance as a portal began to appear. Dana looked in awe at the profoundness of such a mystical thing, ''It seems that I have barely scratched the surface of the wonder that the world of cultivation has to give.'' Feeling her determination increase after witnessing such a sight, Dana begins to ponder on why was she brought here? Was there a reasoning behind it? Or was it purely by chance? Moving these thoughts to the back of her mind, an old man suddenly emerged in front of the entrance of the Secret Realm. According to the fluctuations of the old man, he must be at the very at-least as powerful as her master she thought. Soon after the old man appeared the cultivators that were previously discussing the Secret Realm loudly, instantly became quiet, as silence invaded the atmosphere. ''This old man surely must be fairly important to gain such a reception'' She thought. "Now that the opening of the Secret Realm has occurred, I will start by saying that every young cultivator that enters goes at their own risk, and none will be responsible for their deaths but themselves." After the old man''s blunt statement a grim aura surrounded the cultivators present, as they began to grow serious at the risk of the secret realm. As all of the people present were the Top Genuises of each Sect, each had a strong mentality, none being likely in backing down from such a thing as they knew the risks as soon as they got here, thus the old man saying this was just a formality, nothing more. Many have hopes of their experience within the Secret Realm of assuring them success within the Yearly Sect Gathering, gaining great merits for the sect by bringing it prestige for their place within the competition. Therefore, none of the cultivators here will give up at the entrance, as only the ones assured with their strengths bothered to even come here to the Secret Realm in the first place. The old man continued, "Once you enter the portal like the previous years, you will be transported to a random location within the Secret Realm in which there are five separate habitats, completely different from the previous." Finding what the old man is saying interesting, Dana leaned closer. "These five separate habitats are primarily suitable for certain attributes and contain spirit beasts which are bred to survive within these areas. These five areas are known as the Swamp, Aquatic - Ocean of Death, Desert, Tropical Forest and the Mountainous Region. We would recommend you to head towards the one which contains your respective attribute, or close to it as possible as you will be at a disadvantage against the Spirit Beasts any were else, not to mention the respective inheritances match each one of these habitats." The old man said. Even though Dana has already received snippets of information about this within books, the old man went into it with exceedingly good detail, thinking of her multiple attributes, she thought it would ensure Dana will have to make a trip to a fair amount of these each of the habitats. "Now you can go together within groups, but you must be with each other as you step within the portal to not end up in completely different locations, although you can find each other, this will be troublesome and could end up wasting your time. The Secret Realm will automatically eject you all out within one month, and those who do not come out, we will assume dead. Now, we will commence this year''s Secret Realm, each of you come forward in an orderly manner, and you will all quickly enter." After the Old Man finished speaking, large groups of cultivators entered into the portal before disappearing within. Getting in line alongside the two girls and the man, each of them waited patiently. Ten minutes later it was finally Dana''s turn, as she walked up a middle-aged man approached her, "You with anyone at all?" He asked. The two girls and man seemed fairly nervous, as they were worried Dana might ditch them all of a sudden, but it appeared their worries were unfounded as Dana said, "Yes, those three behind me." Hearing that the scheme is going along perfectly according to plan, let the girls and man let out a sigh of relief that Dana went along as planned. "Alright, just enter together, the destination you end up will be completely random, so if your somewhere in which you don''t want to be quickly, head to another area which suits you." The middle-aged man said. Standing with two girls and man, nodding at each other as if to say they''re ready, each of jumped into the Secret Realm. Feeling slightly disorientated, Dana found herself dropped into a vast desert. Looking at her surroundings, Dana knew precisely which of the areas she ended up instantly, the desert! 52 Chapter 51 - Horrific Fate of the Foolish Trio and The First Inheritance Within the Desert area of the Secret Realm, the sun rays blazed on Dana as she stood within the seemingly never-ending desert, in the sky a cloud wasn''t in sight, making the ridiculous temperature feel even hotter. Of course, none of this mattered to Dana who by now has both the Blaze Wyrm and Frost Wyvern bloodline giving her immunity to such thing, but that doesn''t mean some other people present were the same. "It is so boiling here, why did we have to be brought to the Desert out of all places. I feel as if I''m going to die if I remain within this heat any longer." Nagged one of the girls, while the other said something entirely similar a few seconds later. The man, of course, used the hot temperature as an excuse to take off his T-shirt showcasing his six-pack, while flexing his muscles acting casual at the same time as if it was completely unintentional on his part. Upon seeing this idiot, reminded Dana of Taylor Lautner from Twilight for some reason taking his shirt off for no reason at all within almost every scene. Now fully reminded that she has company within the Secret Realm, she looked behind her as the foolish trio began bickering with each other as both girls were arguing with the man for some reason, but Dana has no intention of finding out as she doesn''t expect the three to live much longer anyway. Suddenly out no were the girl appeared behind her holding two cups of water within her hand, smiling at Dana she said, "Dana do you want a beverage of spiritual water? I bet you must be very thirsty already." Seeing that their plan is already happening, caused Dana to sneer as she already smelt the poison within the cup as a Frost Wyvern has very high senses especially for poison, with this even applying within her human form Dana could detect the poison instantly. Deciding to play with them a little before ending their lives, Dana drank the cup without hesitation, as she knew it wouldn''t affect her at all, she doesn''t mind putting on a show for the trio. Putting on an act with deserves an Oscar, Dana slowly changed her expressions as the minute''s pass, a look of betrayal etched on her face as she looked the girl in front of her, "Why?" She said while falling onto her knees as if suddenly losing her strength. Upon seeing that their scheme has succeeded without fail the kind look within the girls face changed instantly, into morphed into venomous looks as they looked down upon Dana without a single shred of remorse within their cold eyes. "You think you can strut everywhere like a wench don''t you Dana? Always going around purposely attracting the attention of the men, it is apparent that you want it, so why act so virtuous? We are doing you a favour by giving you to Chao Sung, as in return for your body, you will be eternally protected by him and have the highest status within the Xinghai Continent from then on." Said one of the girls as she looked at Dana as if she was ''nice'' to her by giving Dana over to Chao Sung when she full well knew Chao Sung was a full-on playboy and the likelihood of him keeping around Dana is not too high. However, with her beauty, she will likely be used as his toy for a long time, but having the highest status? Of course not! She would be nothing but a glorified prostitute if she ended up within Chao Sung''s hands! But honestly, these girls couldn''t care less because they will receive an excellent reward for handing Dana over, so they hold no sympathy for Dana at all. They were only saying these words to make Dana struggle less, as even though it would prevent nothing, but it would stop a constant hassle on their journey to the meeting point. Witnessing the words the girls spouted made Dana grow even colder to both girls, initially she thought they were terrible people, but not to the extent of receiving heavy torture upon death, but seeing that they have no regret for doing this at all, mean they are not forced into doing this. Thus, upon seeing she was in the Desert she decided to provide them with the most painful death possible, suddenly a cold smile emerged on Dana''s face stunning the trio present. The man who was previously dreaming of taking advantage of Dana tonight on the way there was awoken from his thoughts when he saw such a cold look emerge on Dana''s face. But realising that Dana was now a useless person, this look of shock turned into vicious looks, one of the women shouted, "How dare you look at me with those eyes slut!" Raising her hand to slap Dana''s face with a significant amount of strength, while putting alongside the factor that they believe Dana has become disabled, this was a strike aimed to cause a substantial injury to Dana''s face. Seeing that Chao Sung''s ''Toy'' could end up with a scarred appearance, caused the man to become anxious saying, "Wait, stop! If her looks are damaged within anyways, we will receive heavy punishment!" But, it seemed he was too late as the slap was about to descend upon Dana''s beautiful face. However, unlike the resounding slap they expected to hear, it was met by a scream, to their astonishment this wasn''t Dana''s, but the girls! Looking at the girl''s appearance, they became terrified at the scene they are just witnessing, as the girl''s hand has cleanly sliced off, as her arm was dripping an excessive amount of blood, while her dainty hand laid severed on the desert floor. A cold sweat appeared on both the man and girls faces, as they began to have thoughts on what the hell kind of monster they provoked! As even the man didn''t see how quickly Dana removed the hand of the girl, which means one thing he found difficult to believe, and that was Dana was stronger than him, and by not a small amount either. The girl muttered with disbelief, "She should be poisoned, this is impossible!" Finding it hard to accept such a thing, the girl seemed to have become crazed as she began talking to herself hysterically. Seeing that she seemed to broke the girl, Dana decided to hand out their punishment quickly, so she explores the Secret Realm already. "Well I guess I need to punish you three for having such bad intentions of you, I was originally planning to something similar you intended for me, and that was by crippling each of you and letting you try to survive here, but I decided that you would likely die by such methods anyway, so why not speed things up?," Dana said. Hearing Dana, looks of terror appeared on the girl, and mans face, while the remaining girl seemed to lost within her mind to notice that she was about to suffer such fate. A few minutes later Dana already dealt with the resistance they attempted to put up, which to Dana served no trouble at all. The man who thought he could use the girl as a distraction tried to escape but was quickly caught by Dana as she dragged him back and threw him near the other two girls. "Alright, now I got the perfect way to punish you three, as evil people this is what you deserve, so don''t blame me.," Said Dana, as she crippled each of them, and forcefully took them to the most horrifying location within the Desert. Well, individually they aren''t that scary, but together they''re known as one of the terrifying beings within the Secret Realm. The trio upon witnessing was Dana was taking them shown panicked expressions as they desperately tried to plead for mercy and quick death, Dana without caring for their opinions at all, looked at the giant''s ant nest with a sharp gaze as she regarded the thousands of ants scurrying towards them in a frenzied manner. Seeing the gigantic horde, Dana felt no pity for them as she threw them into the mass of ants. Upon surrounding a layer of fire Qi around herself, it seemed to be the ants'' kryptonite as they hurriedly scurried away from her, instead of moving over to the much easier meal, converging over the bodies of the trio as they began to devour them alive. Dana emotionlessly stood as the screams of the trio sounded as they were eaten alive by the ants, although these bugs would pose no threat to each of them normally, as they were crippled they can muster no resistance at all. Usually, these ants are feared as there are so many of them that they could tire to death a cultivator''s Qi, and without any Qi, a cultivator would be laid on a platter for these creatures. And being eaten alive by a horde of miniature ants is not the best way for anyone to go at all, thus satisfying Dana of her revenge against the two girls. Turning around and leaving, Dana suddenly shifted into her Frost Wyvern form, as she already used her powerful soul to check the surroundings of cultivators, thus seeing no witnesses without hesitance turned into her beast form. As her most powerful fighting strength is displayed within this form, not to mention the cultivators searching for her will have no luck leaving no bothersome people from harassing her. She already knew that some Core Formation Cultivator had entered this year for some unknown reason. Thus she doesn''t want to run into him at the moment! Flying swiftly Dana hawk-like eyes scanned the desert as she looked for prey, using her treasure technique, she found an instinctive draw North, as if the most valuable treasure within will be there. Following the guidance of the technique, Dana eventually arrived at a large monument, which looked like some sort of temple. Seeing that no one was around Dana approached, only to hear a majestic voice merge within her mind, "You are spirit beast, and not just a normal one either but a Frost Wyvern, however, I detect something more, but you are not one which originated from the Realm. However, although you are not human, that does not mean you cannot attempt my inheritance, but I will warn you none have succeeded so far and the penalty upon failure is death." Hearing the imposing voice, Dana went into deep thought whether she should take this risk. Since being within this cultivation world, Dana was never afraid of anything and would take any risks, no matter how dangerous if it could provide her with the best possible benefits. Dana could have just stayed at the Azure Continent if she wanted, free of danger, and spend years of time cultivating slowly before leaving to this continent when she had enough strength to rival the strongest being which resides there. But by doing so would take a much longer time than if she did not come here immediately, as coming to the Xinghai Continent brought challenges, but benefits as well, as Dana''s cultivation maintained a rapid pace, despite cultivation being much harder as it progresses. Feeling from her experience, that the most life-threatening situations, often bring about the best rewards, Dana without any more hesitation, said: "Yes, I want to do your inheritance." 53 Chapter 52 - Trial By Fire Instantly after answering ''Yes'', Dana was transported to a strange small Island, surrounding it was a vast lake of lava. Knowing that this must be the way to gain the inheritance, she observed her surroundings as she wondered what the voice wanted her to do. Becoming more confused by the minute, her question seemed to be answered by the voice as it sounded once again within her mind, "Your challenge to pass my inheritance is simple, you must get to Island located opposite this one if you fail as I mentioned your answer is death. Even if you wait here on this Island Spirit Beast, you will eventually die of hunger." After it finishes speaking the voice as quickly as it appeared vanished, Dana''s eyes turned serious upon hearing what she must do as she felt that this was to ''easy'' for such an inheritance, otherwise many others would have likely passed such a task. Staring at the opposite Island as if trying to inspect why is it so dangerous, her question suddenly became answered as she saw something within the Lava Lake, a figure so large that it made even her within her Frost Wyvern form looks small. Her eyes widened in shock as she saw such a hulking beast here, ''This is going to be must more complicated than I originally thought.'' Previously Dana believed that this inheritance test must be a measure of talent and not raw strength, she wasn''t prepared at all to meet such a beast within here. Dana thought that this must not the full trial,otherwise, why would the voice want strength over talent? Dana honestly didn''t believe that all of those Tier 4 and Tier 5 sects failed because of their lack of strength, and there must be more to this trial. Looking around Dana wondered if she could fly to the opposite Island? But, upon thinking that she immediately discarded the thought as she saw a strange looking barrier within the sky presumably to stop her from going any higher, and if she flew at that distance, then the massive beast within the Lava could still manage to get her easily. She already saw that the cultivation of the beast was at least at the Core Formation, in addition to it having a bloodline of similar strength to her, as already made her incredibly wary of it. Thinking of a way to remove such an obstacle Dana decided to try and lure it out first so she can know what she is dealing with, flying above the lava, Dana prepared herself to rush back at any moment. Suddenly a large head popped out of the lava, lunging at her with astonishing speed, barely getting out of the way, Dana was once again attacked by another head out of the pool, catching Dana surprised as she was caught slightly by its fangs, with it even managing to create a wound upon Dana''s sturdy defence. Quickly rushing back to the Island, Dana let out a cold sweat at how close the beast was in grabbing her, and even with it not landing a full strike upon her, it still managed to injure her, showing just how terrifying this beast is. Seeing the beast for herself Dana know knew she was up against, something in her wildest dreams she wouldn''t believe was real. It was a genuine Hydra, similar to the ones depicted in Greek mythology. But, upon thinking about it, Dragons were real, so why couldn''t they be? Thinking that the Hydra bloodline may even be compatible with her caused her to feel excited, but upon thinking about it, a sudden disturbing thought emerged as she wondered would she have multiple heads if she received the bloodline of a hydra? Imagining her human form having multiple heads creeped Dana out fully, but the system seeing Dana''s dilemma voiced out. [Speaking about the Hydra bloodline, yes you will have multiple heads, but this will not apply within your human form even though it shares your bloodlines. As it will merge with you dragon bloodlines, you will have fewer heads than a normal Hydra with that bloodline possess, but it may not be necessarily a bad thing, as it will allow you to have parallel minds, and with your multiple different attributes will enable you to use many at once.] Hearing the positives from the system, she had to admit that it may be a good thing having the Hydra bloodline, as not only would she have an absurd defence, but an insane healing rate as well, making her almost invincible. The only downside of the high regeneration of a hydra is that it uses the reserves within the body to heal. Thus Dana''s monstrous appetite will increase even further. But, thinking that isn''t a bad thing as she does love her food, as all the meat within this world are infused with spiritual energy it tastes many times better than the meat available on Earth, even without being prepared by a professional Chef it was so much tastier. However, Dana stopped these thoughts, as she hasn''t even taken care of the Hydra yet, nevermind being able to use its bloodline. Thinking that there must be a solution somewhere to her problem she soon found a martial skill within the Island, believing that this must be something good, Dana skimmed through it, instantly realising how to solve this trial. Due to this being in the Desert area, and its attribute was ''Fire'', this martial skill was one was called ''Fire Coating'' and is only usable in an area with a large amount of Fire Qi. It is precisely a skill which lets you perfectly blend within, making the foe unable to realise you are even present as you are perfectly one with the fire. Of course, the downsides of the skill is it requires a massive amount of talent within Fire Qi, not to mention it gets difficult to hide the more powerful the being is. Especially a creature like the Hydra which was a beast perfectly suited to this attribute with an extremely powerful bloodline and cultivation, thus to hide from such a beast would require Dana to have enormous talent within the Fire Attribute. Smiling at having a solution to her problem, Dana begins to comprehend the skill slowly, five days quickly past and Dana finally found the confidence to attempt going to the Island. Using the skill Dana stepped within the lava lake, moving slowly as possible as if not to alert the Hydra of her presence, ten minutes later and Dana almost reached the Island, but within a mere 12 metres away, she saw the large Hydra charging towards her, naturally enraged it failed to detect her presence for this long. Seeing the Hydra noticed her presence and was coming towards her at an alarming speed, Dana rushed towards the Island with all the speed she can muster, but it was not enough as the Hydras paw smashed into her, causing Dana to go flying as she landed heavily. Thinking that she probably should have waited a few more days, as Dana had to admit she only came within the fifth day because of arrogance, and at the same time feelings of hunger. But as she was a dragon with high cultivation, she could probably have lasted a lot longer than now. Thus she felt a pang of regret for making such a foolish decision. Eyes becoming determined for not going down without a fight, the large Hydra emerged before her as it intimidatingly looked down upon her, as its numerous heads hissed at her, poison dripping down each of its vicious fangs as its red eyes regarded her as nothing, but it''s prey, something for it to be toy around with. Growing angry that the beast dares to look down upon her and treat her as nothing but an ant it can crush as it wished, caused Dana''s pride as a Frost Wyvern flair up. Utilising every skill she can manage Dana charged at the beast, the Hydra seeing the creature it thought as ''prey'' dare to attack its eyes grew cold as it prepared to slice it into two pieces, but Dana did something completely unexpected. Previously, she didn''t reveal her true speed against the Hydra. Therefore it greatly underestimated her, causing Dana to dodge out of the way of its intended strike and landed one of her own. Piercing the Hydras soft flesh, Dana let out as many attacks as she could within this limited time-frame, fire, ice and earth attributed attacks rained down upon its body. The Hydra wailed upon being hit by numerous attacks, as even though a Hydra had ridiculous regeneration ability its defence was rather poor for its cultivation level, thus Dana managed to inflict a damaging attack towards it despite the difference between him. Furious at the ant hurting it,caused its to rage as it flung numerous attacks at Dana, causing her to spit blood, as she once again was hurt badly by the attack. But, refusing to give she tenaciously stood tall as the Hydra looked upon her with a look of surprise at it never expected despite Dana being a mere Xiantian cultivator that she could survive its attack. Feeling slightly threatened, the Hydra decided to end this once and for all as its fang came close to Dana preparing to inject its poison, but seeing the Hydras action, Dana finally thought of a strategy to work precisely within her favour. As the Hydra doesn''t recognise what beast she is at all, it must not know that she would even be resistant to its poison despite the difference in cultivation level, as both the Frost Wyvern and Four-headed Inferno Hydra both had similarly ranked bloodline. But, what many don''t know is that the Frost Wyvern''s poison is the bane of a Four-headed Inferno Hydra, and even with the difference between them, it could cause severe damage, as a Frost Wyvern attribute is its direct weakness, then its poison removes the strongest ability of a Hydra, its regeneration! Due to there being an enormous difference between them, Dana would usually have no chance to administer her poison within the Hydra, but as a result of its ignorance, then she will have the perfect opportunity to do so! Inserting its fangs into Dana, the Hydra began to release its poison as it believed that Dana would be incapacitated, and unable to put any resistance any further. Moving its head closer to Dana as it went about it leisurely, putting up no guard against Dana at all, this led to the Four-headed Inferno Hydra''s downfall, as Dana bit into its neck releasing every ounce of poison within her fangs into the creature. Screaming as if it met its worst weakness, the Hydra wailed as the poison damaged it severely, the wound that Dana caused on its neck which would originally heal almost instantly, was closing at a visibly slow pace, as the Hydra''s regeneration was reduced severely. The Hydra''s eyes grew bloodthirsty as it stared at Dana with hatred, believing that this was her opportunity to survive, both Dana and the Hydra went at each other, both dealing blow after blow to each other. Thus, causing a savage scene to appear as both dragon and Hydra ripped at each others flesh without regard for defence, as the previous dominant Hydra was slowly losing its advantage within the brawl, as eventually both Dana and the Hydra collapsed lifelessly. Injuries littered both Dana''s and the Hydra''s body, the Hydra''s healing long ago stopping completely, as it simply ran out of energy to do so. Dana feeling at death''s door suddenly heard a voice from the system. [Host system has detected the rare bloodline Four-headed Inferno Hydra, would you like to integrate it within your bloodlines?] Feeling that she heard her saviour, Dana responded, "Yes", as her breath was becoming shallower as the minutes past, a sudden painful sensation coursed throughout Dana''s body causing her to shriek. Screams of agony reverberate through the mysterious space, as Dana began her transformation into a new species entirely, one that has never existed before, a species that shouldn''t be possible. 54 Chapter 53 - Great Change As Dana slept for an unknown amount of time, she gradually began to awake, as Dana''s opened her eyes the previous excruciating pain disappeared. Feeling it strange how her severe injuries have completely healed, she suddenly remembered an important detail, the Inferno Hydra Bloodline! Instantly inspecting to find any abnormalities within her body, Dana suddenly found a massive problem, the fact that she has three heads. She didn''t know how she failed to realise this until now, as she felt that her line of sight has drastically changed, with it including the perspective of three different set of eyes. Observing this change earlier she noticed she didn''t realise this, as the other two heads are perfect extensions of herself, in which she can manipulate freely with ease. Another thing she noticed that her brain capacity increased significantly, as she found that she can process things many times quicker, and use the other two brains within the two heads to do a completely different task in comparison to her. The meaning behind this is that she can comprehend three different attributes at the same time if she desired, or even cultivate while doing so. With the possibilities of such an overpowered ability filling her mind, she suddenly decided to inspect her body further for any more changes, and she noticed the difference within her appearance straight away is once again she grew even larger, as now Dana believed she was at-least 65ft in length. But, believing the increase in size was not unexpected, as the Hydra was an enormous beast anyways, not to mention it was a rare bloodline beast, so it is only to be expected to bring her such an increase in size. Another thing she hadn''t noticed until now, was that each one of her new heads had a clear gemstone on each forehead, each of these gemstones glowed with a radiant lustre of three different colours, a bright blue, dark red and a brownish colour. Concluding that each seemed to represent her attributes, she wondered whether she gains more heads the more attributes she possesses. Or does that only apply if she further progresses the Hydra bloodline? Thinking that this is a difficult question, she decided to ask the system, and it didn''t disappoint Dana one bit by its reply. [Host, as you seem to be the first of the species you have seemingly created, it appears that the heads correlate with the Hydra bloodline more than your attributes, as you will need to progress the Hydra bloodline further to gain more heads. But, the system would also like to inform you it seems you have gained many abilities with joining the Hydra bloodline.] Thinking of the many new abilities the system said she has now gained from the Hydra, Dana held back her curiosity, as she had another more important question to ask. "System, previously I thought you recommended me only to get the Dragon bloodlines, but why now the Hydra?" [Host, this is not what the System meant, as at the time you only found bloodlines with a common lineage which would only limit the dragon bloodline within you. But those such as Hydras and another mythical beast just as strong as the True Dragon, can be added within your bloodline, but your appearance will always remain predominantly as a Dragon one. As not only were you born a Dragon but the Dragon bloodline is tyrannical and wouldn''t allow you to devolve from your current appearance into one of its rivals. You will only gain the best traits of those beasts if you have the luck similar to the Hydra to find them and do one thing even more difficult, kill them.] Upon hearing the System made Dana suddenly feel as if a new path was opened for her as if she solely aimed in becoming a True Dragon before, then she believed that would limit the highest possible growth she can achieve with the assistance of the System. Dana thinks that she can become something beyond what many could fathom with the aid of the System, as she now not only wanted the True Dragon bloodline but to also take the bloodlines of all the strongest beasts to have ever existed within the cultivation world. As each of these beasts has their strong points and weaknesses, such as a Dragons is its vitality and defence whereas a Hydra''s is their regeneration and parallel mind. Combining the both makes a beast which has simply no weaknesses in regards to defence, making Dana even more horrifying before. Dana finally decided to check her stats, exactly what the system advised her to do. [Name: Dana Whitefield] [Cultivation Level: Xiantian Realm Rank 4; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Body Cultivation: Xiantian Realm Rank 4; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Soul Cultivation: Infant Level Middle Tier; Cultivation Method: Great Buddha Soul Cultivation Technique] [Bloodlines: Frost Wyvern 90% Purity, Earth Wyrm 100% Purity, Blaze Wyrm 100% Purity, 100% Purity Four-Headed Inferno Hydra - mutated bloodline to new species, forming a new bloodline classed at Rare Variant] [Forms: Dragon Form, Three-Headed Dragon Form and Human Form ----> Unlocked multiple different forms, as your heads become optional and can recede into your body. ----> Your Parallel mind ability won''t suffer any negatives as the multiple brains will still be active within your beast form, but you will not be able to launch different attributed attacks similar continuously similar to the Three-Headed Dragon Form.] [Bloodline skills: Poisonous Fog, Inferno Beam, Tri-Elemental Strike, Poison Fang [Enchanced further bythe combination of both Frost Wyvern and Four-Headed Hydra venom] Flame Spear, Flame Breath, Flame Whip, Flame Fang, Earth Spike, Earth Armor, Earth Claw, Earth Shape, Frost Breath, Dragon Aura, Ice Claw, Poisonous Spikes and Poison Ice Breath.] [Bloodline Inherited Talents: Ice Qi Affinity ----> Increases comprehension towards Ice Laws and Ice Attributed Martial Skills, Body Cultivation----> Due having heritage of a True Dragon, your body is naturally more suitable towards cultivation of the body, any cultivation methods which requires use of the body is 80% more effective and easier to cultivate ----> As a result of containing Earth Wyrm and Blaze Wyrm bloodline your Dragonic heritage has been increased, Poison Immunity ----> As a Frost Wyvern with a rare bloodline, you have a high resistance towards poison, Hardened Body ----> Earth Wyrms are descendants of Earth Dragons a race is known for having one of the strongest defences among the Dragon race as a descendant an Earth Wyrm has inherited a portion of this talent, Earth Qi Affinity ----> Earth wyrms are naturally attuned to Earth Qi this increases your attribute talent with Earth Affinity, as a result, increases comprehension towards Earth Laws and Earth Attributed Martial Skills, Fire Qi Affinity ----> Blaze Wyrms are naturally attuned to Fire Qi; this increases your attribute talent with Fire Qi. As a result, increasing your comprehension towards Fire Laws and Fire Attributed Martial Skills, this infinity has further enhanced thanks to your Four-Headed Inferno Hydra Bloodline, Fire Resistance ----> You will have a natural resistance of Fire related attacks, Parallel Mind ----> As a descent of the Hydra you possess multiple different brains, giving you the ability to process various things at the same time, effects include increasing comprehension, Regeneration ----> All Hydra''s are known for their exceptional regeneration ability, you are no different to this and possess the same absurd regeneration that a Hydra is known for, the drawbacks of this ability is that your regeneration will slow down considerably if all substance within the body to the power ability is consumed. Poison Body ----> As a Frost Wyvern you already are a species known for having one of the most potent poisons and with the combination of the Four-Headed Hydra a beast of similar reputation, you have combined two of the most fearsome toxins among rare bloodline beasts. As a result, your poison affinity has increased to a ridiculous level, making even your blood strongly poisonous towards any individual!] Dana was astonished by the amount she has gained from the Hydra, as it seems it was more beneficial than she previously expected! Another thing she found was that it seemed the Three-Heads are optional, and she can change back to her previous form if desired. By doing so, the two other heads receded into her body. Also, the original singular gem on her forehead became three. She suddenly felt that the Tri-Elemental Strike wasn''t available within this form, so it seems that the Three-Headed form is beneficial for using multiple attributes within my attacks at once. However, her parallel mind still works within this form, as she felt that the three brains are within her body, making her still have some of the capabilities remain. Deciding that it will be an extremely beneficial ability by doing so, she knows the Three-Headed form will of great use for her, She also decided to change her aims upon witnessing the significant increase in strength as a result of the Hydra bloodline,as instead of just becoming a True Dragon, as she felt that would mean her wasting the Systems true potential, as she knew that there were some beasts which could even rival the True Dragon Bloodline. With her thinking of the possibilities of combining the strongest beasts bloodlines, she thought of how powerful she would become. Changing her goals to an even more ambitious one, Dana now knew exactly what her aim was, not only will she be hunting Dragon beasts, but she will go for the strongest within the cultivation world, hunting her way to the top as she discovers the reason behind her coming here. Dana doesn''t believe in chances after coming to this world, she feels her arrival may be related to something, but she doesn''t know what. Before she can ponder on this further, she once again heard the imposing voice as it sounded, "Interesting, Interesting. I got to say I never expected my inheritance to be passed in that way, the Hydra was meant to be impossible to kill within such territory. But, you did it, even with a significant difference in strength, you achieved what I thought impossible." The voice continued, "But, I got to say as I was about to preserve your life, I witnessed the most shocking thing I ever saw even in my previous entire long life. The combination of bloodlines between a Hydra and Dragon is simply to unimaginable, and if any would have caught word of such thing, verifying its truth, then numerous powerful experts would rush over, sending every available resource they have at disposable to discover such a secret. But, as I can see you can easily hide this factor about you I won''t worry, as you passed my inheritance and done something more, I will tell you a great secret, the truth about the Secret Realm." After the voice ended, Dana eyes suddenly widened at the thought of such a secret, what type of thing it may be, a treasure or is it something even more valuable? 55 Chapter 54 - The Truth Revealed Instantly after the voice mentioned the truth of the Secret Realm, Dana''s full attention was focused on the next words. Dana''s greediness once gains shows as she imagined gathering all the treasure within the Secret Realm, she even thought it would be enough to create a pile large enough to submerge her dragon form entirely within. Imagining a future of her swimming in a mountain full of treasures caused an excited gleam to fill her eyes. Dana was very tempted to take everything on the trio she disposed of, but she discarded this thought due to the limited space contained within her space ring, as she believed that there would be many times more valuable treasures elsewhere in the Secret Realm. She already sold everything she stole on the way here anyway and converted it into smaller and ''shinier'' objects for her firsts steps in building her horde of treasures. Even though she is slightly annoyed by the limited space of her storage ring, Dana couldn''t purchase a larger space ring as at the moment she was saving for a Rare Bloodline. Therefore, even if the truth behind the Secret Realm allowed her to have a superior space ring to fill her treasures within, would make Dana a very happy dragon. The voice said, "The truth behind the Secret Realm is not what many would believe, the powerful figure behind this place created the Secret Realm for only one purpose, and that was to wait for someone to come within the future." After hearing the final words of the voice, a shocked expression emerged on her face, but if it was telling her this, then the person who built this entire place, did it just for her? Seeing the astonished look within Dana''s face, the voice continued, "My master told me that a Frost Wyvern would come here eventually and that I was to gift her instructions on what to do to in the end find something intended for you. I''m not sure exactly what is it, but I know it is exceptional if it is even a treasure within his eyes. Previously, I thought it might be you before, but you absorbing the Hydra''s bloodline confirmed it, as he also said that this would happen." After the voice mentioned an extraordinary treasure, Dana''s eyes lit up at the thought of something very precious, as the voice continued blabbing on about other stuff, Dana''s mind was lingering entirely on the treasure blanking the sound out completely. With the voice continuing talking about unnecessary ''rubbish'' in Dana''s eyes she finally said, "Hey old fogie can you tell me about the treasure already? This old man talk is getting to me. I need to know the essential details. Alright?" Dana''s word completely slapped the voices face, in the entirety of his previous life he was never once talked to with this type of attitude before, and in fact, many desperately fawned over him to get in his good graces, either for connections to his master or as he himself was a very powerful expert. Seeing Dana dare call him an old fogie he was about to get incredibly angry but held it back as she was the ''chosen'' by his master after all. Witnessing the covetous gaze within Dana''s eyes after he mentioned treasure, he instantly thought why she was like this, "So it seems you inherited the lustful nature of treasures from the Dragons right? That''s weird as normally a Frost Wyvern is very composed of that sort of stuff, but wait I sense a few other dragons bloodline contained inside you, maybe there the cause..." Due to the voice once again diverting the topic to garbage once again Dana shouted, "Hey are you seriously going to make me wait here all day? I''m starving, are you going to let the chosen one from your master die of starvation in here? Not to mention you keep talking about this treasure, but so far I haven''t even heard a word of it and just your old fogie nonsense." After Dana once again ruthlessly attacked the voice hitting him yet again with another critical attack, he finally had enough of her deciding to get rid of this troublesome girl as soon as possible, "Alright, all you need to do is complete the trials within each area there is a ''Top'' inheritance similar to mine, each has there respective guardians such as the Four-headed Inferno Hydra you defeated there. Kill each of them and take the runic-stone within each of their flesh, once you collected all of them, insert them into the centre of the Secret Realm. In doing so will unlock the entrance to the treasure that the master wanted to provide you, it also contains a secret in which he wanted to reveal to you, one of it is the reasoning behind him leaving this treasure for you." With the voice finally giving Dana what she wanted, her eyes once lit up, looking up cutely as if a puppy would do when begging for food, well if a truck-sized puppy would do so anyway. "Hey, oldie would you tell me if each of these ''guardians'' is similar to the Hydra with such a nice bloodline..." Seeing what Dana desired the voice responded, "Hey girlie if you think you can collect more bloodlines from the other beasts similar to the Hydra then you will be disappointed, as none could compare to it regarding bloodline. But, they do have stronger cultivation and pretty strong bloodlines themselves, so they aren''t weak." Dana became instantly disappointed upon hearing the voice, completely disregarding her previous cute begging look, once again she sauntered around as if she owned the place. Grabbing the Hydra''s body, Dana began dragging it to the corner for her consumption, as she has been deprived of meat for the last few days, she needs to eat her protein, otherwise, how can she maintain her figure? Her draconic curves aren''t going to last if she doesn''t maintain her very large diet. Dana didn''t forget before leaving to ask, "Hey do I get some treasures from you at least from doing this trial? Otherwise, this would be a major waste of my time you know, as you did promise an awesome inheritance, and all I''ve seen from you so far are you blabbing on about how mighty you were previously..." Wanting Dana to leave quickly as possible to maintain what little pride he has left the voice responded, "Take this storage ring, it contains many treasures within with I''m sure will make you satisfied... I will teleport you to any area within the Secret Realm when you ask, but I can only take you to the outskirts not directly to the inheritance itself." Even though Dana was behaving very shamelessly and even with receiving the Hydra''s bloodline with it also being such a high purity and a valuable martial skill, she still had the nerve to demand more. But, as she was the ''chosen'' by his master, he can only listen to her absurd demands. Upon receiving the storage ring, Dana happily took her treasures and the Hydra''s body before downing the Hydra, eating it at an absurd pace even for her large size. As Dana continuously tore through the carcass gulping the chunks of meat instantly, she soon came across the runic-stone thingy the voice mentioned, storing it within her new improved storage ring, she carried on feasting on the Hydra until nothing remained. Discovering her cultivation has improved from the Hydra''s flesh, she was delighted to find she broke through to the Fifth Rank of Xiatian, also storing the beast cores of the Hydra, as it had four cores within each head, she immediately asked the voice to teleport her to the Swamp area. Delighted in not having to deal with Dana for any longer, the voice transported her to the Swamp area shortly after she mentioned she was ready to leave. Dana soon found herself dropped into the air above the murky swamp water, causing her to end up faceplanting as she landed very ungracefully, Dana cursed the voice for definitely doing this deliberately to her. Thinking that she will punish the voice later, of course, if the voice knew about all of this it would feel aggrieved, as for how it would know Dana would end up so miserable the moment she transported to the swamp? Using her treasure hunting technique, she soon found the direction to the inheritance, as she planned on looking at the treasures after she completed all the inheritances due her wanting to complete them as quickly as possible. She thought, it would provide a mere distraction if she looked now, not to mention most was for cultivating which she couldn''t do at the moment, even though she can now continuously cultivate with her Parallel mind, this is only natural cultivation and not with resources similar to the ones contained within the storage ring. Walking towards the next inheritance, Dana began smiling at the thought of taking the treasures of all five old fogies within the Secret Realm. These old fogies were completely unaware a greedy dragon was coming to take all of their treasures away from them! 56 Chapter 55 - The Lustful Snake With Dana''s eyes scanning like a hawk for treasures as she bulldozes through the swamp, slaughtering every beast she came across, previously one of the deadliest areas of the Secret Realm became a playground for Dana as the original fearsome beasts ended up becoming like a bunch of pigs to the slaughter as they came across Dana. As the beasts within the Swamp gained a reputation from both their poisonous and water attributes, their primary source of the attack was useless in front of Dana who was not even in the least affect by any attack from them, causing her to butcher the beasts of the swamp in the dozens. Consequently, causing the various beasts fleeing into hiding straight after seeing even the slightest shadows of the Frost Wyvern, giving Dana a fearsome reputation among the beasts due to her mass-killings. As a result of this strange event, the human cultivators started to wonder why the beasts who usually acted so fiercely seemed to be running for their lives out sheer fear. But, as they benefitted because of it as it allowed them to go to the inheritances they wanted and even allowed them to pick up a few treasures, therefore shortly these thoughts ended up being quickly discarded. Of course, Dana gained the most valuable treasures, as nothing worth even the slightest of value could escape her sharp gaze as she plucked the most valuable spirit fruits within the Swamp. Due to the Spirit Realm is within a peaceful environment for eleven months with a high amount of spiritual energy, even more, bountiful than the outside the world, then the herbs contained within were many times superior to those found outside, well for the Tier 3 Sects anyways. And as Dana has a technique to locate the treasures, she even found many spirit herbs which wern''t taken in the previous years, either because of they were hidden to well or guarded by too strong of a spirit beast to retrieve. Finally founding she has taken everything of value within the Swamp, she headed swiftly towards the next trial. A few hours later and she has soon found the entrance to the only Swamp inheritance which none have completed. Quickly after entering, another voice sounded within her mind, similar to the old fogie within the Desert area, in being very imposing as it previously belonged to a powerful expert. Thus the charisma of a top master couldn''t be concealed. "A Frost Wyvern? Interesting, I have already received word from that Old Fogie within the Desert of you, and I got to say neither of us within the five areas have spoken to each other within hundreds of years, until now. Well, I can tell he wasn''t lying as you do contain the Hydra bloodline within you, even with you hiding the multiple heads he mentioned." Contiuing the voice said, "My trial is different to the previous one you experienced, there will be a guardian but... it will provide you with a different test. In fact I''m rather intrigued about what your reaction will be..." Hearing the eerie laughter of the old fogie as he finished speaking, Dana had a sudden bad thought about this inheritance. Well, this was an area to do with poison and the water attribute, thus making this old man presumbly a poison expert within his prime with also mastery over the water attribute, and as these type of experts tend to have an eccentric personality, then this inheritance shouldn''t be a pleasant experience. Instantly being teleported within, Dana found herself within a large chamber full of gas-like substance, presuming it to be poison, Dana soon found the guardian, but weirdly it was looking at her with a strange light within its eyes. Seeing the guardian looked like a type of serpent, she suddenly found the look within its eye similar to that which the young noble brats give her. No way, this can''t possibly be the truth? There is definitely some misunderstanding going on here. But, hearing the systems sudden loud non-stop laughter, she soon found why it was seeing this situation amusing, as this was the first time within this world that she saw a beast sexually interested in her beast-form. The Serpent was huge and was even bigger than Dana, but that was purely in length and not width which she had a clear edge on the snake. Suddenly the Serpent spoke shocking Dana even further, hissing while saying, "Well are you my reward for being here so long? Hsss, you look like the perfect mate. Such wide hips... very good for breeding and not to mention your beautiful face, I haven''t seen such an appealing snout within all my years. I am very pleased with my reward in receiving such a fine mate as yourself." Hearing the lustful snake chattering on about her made Dana even further freaked out by the events taking place, she was disturbed once again while witnessing two penises pop out of the snake showing her presence clearly arouses it. "Hey snake, I''m here to complete some trial, not to be your stupid mate." Said Dana, holding back her urge to kill the lustful snake. "What? If you''re only here for the trial how about, you make a bet with me? Instead of the usually devouring, I will take you as my mate if you fail the challenge..." Replied the Snake. Due to her not being sure of the full trial yet, Dana wanted to ensure that she reaped as many awards as possible before completing this trial. Like last time she ended up having a valuable martial skill, not to mention that she still isn''t aware of this snakes combat strength yet. Thus she wants to scope out more on its abilities first hand. Therefore, Dana said, "Fine, I will agree to your terms." Letting out an excited hiss, well that is what Dana thinks it is the Snake said, "Good, good. The challenge is to answer this snakes riddle!" Dana became astonished that this whole inheritance was all about a riddle, hiding the thoughts to exterminate the snake immediately, Dana said, "Sure." The Snakes eyes had a cunning lustre within the depth of its eyes, but this look quickly changed into one of lewdness as it started at Dana''s figure assured that she was its, the Snake said,"Alright this is my riddle, but don''t forget if you fail... your mine. I have towns and cities, but there are no houses. I have mountains and hills, but there are no trees or bushes. I have oceans and rivers, but there are no fish. What am I?" Hearing the Snakes riddle Dana was stumped entirely as her brain started to work in overdrive thinking of the riddle in detail, the Snake seeing Dana''s look of confusion hissed saying, "You have ten minutes to find the answer, if not you will become this Snakes mate for eternity." Instinctively shivering at the thought, Dana put this in the back of her mind as she knew that the snake likely doesn''t know she could probably compete with it directly, but as she has an instinctive feeling that there is a lot more to this trial than meets the eye she held herself back. Thinking of the riddle, she began looking carefully on the details, so it has towns and cities but not houses? Mountains and hills, but not any trees or bushes? Oceans and rivers but not fish? How could this be possible? Nine minutes and Dana still couldn''t think of the answer, but just as the Snake began grinning lewdly at the thought of ravishing Dana, her response shocked it greatly, "I got it! I got it!" The Snake suddenly felt worried that Dana discovered its riddle, but it soon removed this thought as none had answered this riddle ever, it said, "Well, what is the answer then?" "A map, it''s a map! I was originally confused but thinking about it closely only a map can be the answer to such a riddle as it is the only way possible to answer it!" Hearing Dana was actually right, a cold gleam filled it eyes as it said, "Well, your the first person to get this riddle right but shame that this wasn''t the true part of the trial... Mother can you let me keep her please? I distracted her to allow the poison to seep within her, why can''t I be rewarded just this once?" Listening to the snake it seems her assumption was right afterall and it was just a distraction to let any other person get weakened by the poisonous gas within the surroundings, as this poison usually would even be able to affect a Core Formation Culivatior without them knowing, nevermind someone with less cultivation like her, so no wonder they believed she would be affected. Suddenly a snake much larger than the one before her entered, its eye stared at Dana hungrily as if she could sense the powerful energy surging through Dana''s veins. ''This one has a very powerful bloodline its strong enough to even make me finally progress and could even allow me to increase my talent.'' Thought the mother Snake. Seeing the true guardian has arrived, there was no need for Dana to keep pretences any longer, it was time for her enjoy some snake for dinner. 57 Chapter 56 - Facing the Guardian of the Swamp Witnessing the Mother Snakes hungry gaze at Dana, the other snake hurriedly said, "Mother, can''t you just let me have some fun before you eat her? Come on if anything it will bring benefits as I''m sure she can birth a strong Grandson for you..." Hearing her son''s convincing words the Mother Snake looked at the Snake with a conflicting look before saying, "Sure I won''t be able to absorb the majority of the bloodline anyways, so having a Grandson with such good potential would be pleasing." The Snake seemed giddy upon hearing his Mothers conformation, rushing over to Dana to get the ''Deed'' done before his Mother can change her mind. When the Snake was charging over to her with such a lewd grin, Dana''s eyes grew colder and colder as she thought she was going to punish that old fogie instantly after finishing this trial. ''You think making me face a lustful snake is amusing, don''t you? I''m sure you won''t find this funny when I''m done with you.'' Thought Dana. With the Snakes arriving right in front of her, as it was about to conduct. It''s ''business'', Dana pounced onto it, madly ripping into the snake''s flesh. The Snake completely caught off guard, that the previously immobile Dana would suddenly attack it was dealt a severe blow, not to mention that defence wasn''t particularly a snakes strong suit, as they were usually cunning beasts, which would rather us trickery and dirty means of taking down their prey. Therefore, both the Mother Snake and the Snake before Dana attack is very strong, but their defence is rather weak, making her tear into the Snake with ease. Hearing the howling of her son, the Mother Snake lost all of its reasoning and charged towards Dana. Usually, the Mother Snake would never confront an enemy directly and would instead resort to using sneak attacks, slowly weakening her prey before going for the final killing strike. Even if her strength were way higher, she would still use this tactic! But, seeing her only son through all these years getting ripped into pieces by Dana has made her lose all reasoning, causing this once cautious, slippery snake to present herself right to Dana! Knowing the Mother Snake is coming over, Dana was still relaxed as ever as she continued beating the lustful creature black and blue for being so daring in front of her. Quickly, the Mother Snake lunged for Dana as its fangs aimed to inject its poison into her flesh, as the Mother Snake was too consumed by rage, she completely forgot Dana seemed to have full immunity to the poison within the chamber, therefore instead of usually being wary of such a thing, she instead attacked Dana without caution. The Mother Snakes fangs landed on Dana''s back, with even with the full strength of her attack, with her being many times higher than Dana''s current cultivation level, it barely managed to pierce Dana''s scales. With the Mother Snake initial surprise of the hardness of Dana''s body discarded as she begun injecting her venom into Dana''s body, her eyes started to become full of horror as she noticed that her strongest means of attack seemed to be nothing to Dana, as she shrugged of her poison like it was nothing. Remembering that she seemed to even be unharmed by the poisonous gas within the chamber, made the Mother Snake suddenly realise that she might have bit of more than she chew, thinking that she will escape and find another opportunity to deal with Dana, as she believed Dana would eventually let down her guard. But, will Dana allow this? Moving in the blink of an eye Dana leapt onto the Mother Snake, her fangs ripping into its hide causing the Mother Snake to wail in pain. The Mother Snake turned to Dana giving her a vicious look as it thought to the damage she inflicted on it, knowing that Dana won''t let it go, it decided to take down Dana with it! But, the Mother Snake soon found this being an impossible task, as even when she caused injuries on Dana''s body, they seemed to close up incredibly fast. And while Dana continuously attacked the Mother Snake slowly pushing it back, as Dana began to gain the momentum in the exchange, as the Mother Snake became weaker and weaker as time passed. Eventually, the Mother Snake collapsed letting out her final breath, as puddles of green blood surrounded the battlefield, the other Snake laid not too far away, dead long ago due to the severity of the injuries Dana inflicted upon it. Seeing both of the Snakes are finally dealt with, Dana retrieved both cores before the system once again appeared within her mind. [System has detected two rare bloodlines, both being of similar purity of the Emerald Dragon Python, although there is Dragon within the name, they aren''t actual descendants of the Dragon bloodlines and are only nicknamed this because of their infamous lust which is even comparable to Dragons. So would host like to sell both bloodlines to the System for 10,000 points each?] Hearing she can sell them for 10,000 points, made Dana delighted but thinking back to the lust part her eyes grew cold once again as firsthand experienced this ''Lust''. But, being compared to Dragons, she felt this was highly unfair and that the reputation that the Dragons have for being lustful and greedy is undeserved. Like when has she been lustful or greedy ever within her entire life? Thinking that there is no justice for Dragons within this world, she sold both points to the System while quickly digging out the cores for both beasts. In addition to both cores, she also took out the runic-stone thingy which is needed to access the treasure of the Secret Realm. Receiving both cores, Dana stared at both of the snake''s bodies with hunger as she wonders what snake tasted like, but before she can begin her feast, the voice of the owner of the inheritance appeared within her mind. "Well, it looks like you are what he says you are after all, not that I doubted it that much, to be honest. I got to tell you, girl, I have been greatly amused today by yourself, so I''m just going to allow you to take both serpent bodies and reward you, then send you on your way." Before Dana can argue against him, she already found herself and the serpent bodies thrown out of the inheritance into a large Tropical Forest. The old fogie heard what Dana is like beforehand, so before she could torment him similar to the other old fogie, he gave her a bunch of treasures and kicked her. Cursing at the old man for getting rid of her before she can have a go at him, she looked through the treasures the old man gave her, finding many valuable things for cultivation and also many books on poison arts. Pleased she can finally make use of her powerful poison, she kept them in, for now, putting her mind back to the two snake bodies in front of her. Due to Dana not wanting other beasts to detect the bodies of the serpents which will annoy her meal time, she instantly began tearing the beasts, quickly devouring them in no time. A few hours later and both huge serpent bodies were entirely eaten by Dana, once again showing her seemingly ''infinite'' appetite. Mumbling in satisfaction at the tasty meal, Dana once again began wandering the next area, picking up any valuable treasures and killing the beasts on her way. Causing yet more turmoil as the beasts of the Forest similarly to the Swamp soon began dreading Dana''s presence, shortly Dana arrived at the next inheritance which seemed like a massive tree. Thinking that this once seemed to be more focused on nature or wood element, she stepped inside entering the inheritance. A voice belonging to yet another old fogie emerged within Dana''s mind saying, "You already know what I''m going to say anyway as I''m sure the other two have explained their inheritances, so just complete the inheritance and you will receive your reward." Seeing that this old fogie seemed to be the no-nonsense type, which is precisely Dana''s type of person, as she seriously hated those blabber-mouthed old men which prattled on endlessly about their greatness similar to the other two old fogies. Of course, if they heard this, they would feel deeply aggrieved by Dana, thinking that they have been unjustly accused, not to mention they even gave her many rewards, but she still treated them like this! Appearing within an area of nature full of trees, Dana thought this place didn''t seem bad at all, that was until she heard mischevious laughter. Thinking that this won''t be good, she soon found this was her worst nightmare as loads of fairies were flying around giggling and happily playing games. The more Dana stared at them, the more she found they were very annoying, and this soon worsened as they began playing ''Pranks'' on her and singing songs merrily, Dana feels as if she was going to murder something in a minute. She was alright with ugly monsters, but these things are praising about the goodness of the world and how you should love all of its living creatures? This was like the worst nightmare Dana could come up with in her mind. However, these fairies seemed to disappear out of fear? Thinking what the cause was, she was shocked as it was a beautiful green woman, who was by far the most busty woman she has ever seen. ''Is that a Dryad?'' This was Dana''s exact thought upon seeing her appearance. 58 Chapter 57 - The Dryad The Dryad''s eyes widened in shock slightly upon seeing Dana''s appearance before she said, "A Dragon? That''s surprising. Usually, there is always human males, therefore, satisfying my hunger, so seeing a Spirit Beast does disappoint me." Not getting the Dryad''s meaning of ''Eat'' at all, Dana responded by saying, "Why can only human males sate your hunger? I eat all kinds of bests ranging from Monkey Spirit Beasts to other delicacies to even my newest meal a Snake. I gotta say it was truly delicious!" Hearing Dana''s ''Innocent'' answer, the Dryad couldn''t help but release a pleasant laugh before she replied, "Oh, you are just too cute! I never thought a Dragon out of all Spirit Beasts can be so naive to the natures of this world." Puzzled at the Dryad''s answer, Dana cocked her head to the side in innocence, unknowingly causing her to look even ''cuter'' before she said, "You dare doubt me on food? I have sampled thousands of different types of meat, so I can assure you my knowledge on the craft of eating different kinds of food has no match! Therefore, I am fully correct in my judgment." Seeing yet again Dana look shockingly adorable for a Dragon of such enormous size caused the Dryad to say, "Hmm, if you had a human appearance I couldn''t help but eat you up!" Witnessing the Dryad wanting to ''eat her'' caused Dana to scrunch her eyes warily saying, "Hey Lady I know I suggested in trying some meat to feast on, but I advise you to think in that sort of direction, or I will have no option to slaughter you like the other two guardians." The Dryad upon seeing that Dana once again misunderstood, eyes soon opened up in shock as she heard Dana has already taken care of two guardians, meaning she entirely has the strength to back up what she says. Due to the Dryad being more of a ''friendly'' creature which only uses her heritage as a means of survival, they typically aren''t a violent race which would kill for no reason, not to mention she finds Dana very interesting so she said, "Hey do you mind telling me why you came here, and I will satisfy you. Who knows, maybe I will even leave with you! Due to you defeating the other two guardians, I''m sure the old fogies will be lenient, please put pity on this Dryad who has been trapped here for centuries." Knowing the Dryad spoke the truth, Dana suppose she didn''t mind having her as a companion, after all a Dryad''s bloodline is pretty strong, and she was likely only hasn''t become much higher in cultivation within these past centuries, due to the Secret Realm suppressing her. "Fine, but I might as well show you my other form as we will be travelling together!" Said Dana, due to her not being afraid of the Dryad discovering her identity at all, as a result of two reasons, the first is she is a spirit beast herself so even if she informs everyone else none will believe and the second is Dana is confident she could deal with her easily, even with being sneak attacked. But, just as a precaution, Dana is fully planning on having the old fogies give something to her to make sure the Dryad is lenient and will never betray her, afterall due to being within the cultivation world for a long time, Dana will never trust anyone fully. The Dryad was very confused when Dana said she already has a human form, but as she turned into an astonishingly beautiful woman in front of her, a weird light appeared within the Dryad''s eyes. Although the Dryad liked men, it doesn''t mean it does not like a woman, and with Dana''s personality in addition to her appearance activated the Dryad''s instincts to ''corrupt''. In addition, Dryads were naturally sexual creatures. Thus they were very open to this sort of thing and would make open advances on someone they desired. Dana eyes slightly widened as the Dryad appeared in front of her swiftly but before she can react the Dryad''s soft lips connected to her, kissing Dana passionately. Freezing as a result of the intimate contact, the Dryad expertly made Dana moan from pleasure as she massaged her sensual parts. Due to Dana''s soft mouth opening as a result of the moan, caused the Dryad to have access to her mouth, the Dryad obviously wouldn''t waste such an opportunity stuck her soft tongue into Dana''s mouth. An intrusion of a soft object suddenly appeared within Dana''s mouth, as the Dryad used her ''skills'' to deepen the kiss even further. As she twirled her tongue with Dana''s, shortly causing Dana to pant for breath. Suddenly, the steamy moment ended, when the Dryad finally disconnected from Dana, she stood across from Dana staring at her with a flirtatious look. Dana awakening from her stupor, suddenly put on an angry look as she said, "How dare you steal this Dragons first kiss!" Realising that this was Dana''s first kiss, the Dryad chucked in amusement and said, "Although I gotta say I have a preference in men, I couldn''t help myself as you just look too delicious, but I''m surprised this was your first kiss as aren''t Dragons suppose to be lustful creatures?" Seeing the Dryads appearance, Dana knew she was just ''playing'', and Dana had to admit she found the experience pleasant, but as she has nothing to compare it to, then Dana doesn''t even know if this was any good compared to a regular kiss. But, that still didn''t stop Dana from being angered at the Dryad for taking that from her, but thinking of a suitable form of revenge, her eyes soon became mischevious. The Dryad observing Dana''s strange behaviour, had a sudden feeling of crisis and she knew she was right when Dana said, "You know what I came here for? The runic-stone contained within your body, so I want you to remain still, and it won''t hurt while I rip it out of your body, alright?" Dana''s word caused the Dryads expression to turn pale, but this didn''t help her at all as Dana grabbed her dragging her to the ground, as she began to remove the runic-stone painfully. Forty minutes of screaming later, the runic-stone was finally presented in front of Dana, seeing the Dryad''s miserable appearance, Dana used [Water Healing], helping her recover most of her injuries. Causing the Dryad who was previously severely injured to be returned to her former appearance, apart from a few injuries which Dana left purposely to get back at the Dryad for doing such a thing to her. The Dryad looked at Dana with an aggrieved look as it thought to the pain it just experienced, but it soon changed this look when Dana made eye-contact with her as she didn''t want to offend her again. Ignoring the Dryad, Dana happily put the runic-stone into her storage ring, before the sudden voice of the old fogie of this inheritance sounded before saying, "Well I got to say I didn''t expect this scene to play out at all... But, as it was the best trial this old man has seen in years, I will even give you an extra amount of rewards!" Upon hearing the old fogie, Dana''s former assumption of him was instantly crushed. What no-nonsense temperant? This old fogie is just some perverted old man, no wonder this whole trial has a lewd Dryad as its guardian! Feeling that she wants to get away from this trial as quickly as possible, the old fogie soon returned her space ring, and not only did he send her off on her way but the Dryad as well who adamantly wanted to leave with Dana. So, this caused Dana to end up travelling with a Dryad towards the fourth area of the Secret Realm, the Aquatic Area! Thinking that she is close in getting the heavenly treasure, a dazzling smile emerged on Dana''s face, but this was ruined by the lewd Dryad behind her who suddenly hugged her from behind saying, "My Dana is so cute!" Feeling the two massive melons crushing against her back didn''t stop the anger raising within Dana as she flung the lustful Dryad onto the ground heavily. However, what Dana didn''t expect was the Dryad looked excited? ''Don''t tell me she is a masochist'' Dana thought in horror. Initially, the Dryad actually wasn''t a masochist, but due to Dana, she seemed to have awakened some hidden tendencies as it hasn''t been ''pushed'' around like this before as no one had ever been stronger than her. Quickly, thinking that this must be her overthinking, Dana didn''t realise how close she was to the truth, as she began walking with her new slave. She means comrade, with Dana having once again to revert to her Frost Wyvern form as the Dryad sat on her back as she swam through the aquatic area swiftly. Usually, disciples would use their own spirit boats to travel around this area, as the aquatic part of the Secret Realm was just one big ocean, which contained many Water Attributed Spirit Beasts. Although Dana could fly within this area, due to the treasures and inheritance virtually being underwater, it will simply be hindering herself in gaining ''shinies''. Both the Dryad and Dragon finally arrived at the inheritance, the Dryad who has been sitting on Dana''s back seemed to be excited before saying, "Hey Master can I deal with the next guardian to prove my worth to you?" Hearing the Dryad, Dana suddenly wondered her capabilities as she never got to experience them within the Secret Realm, so she said within a haughty tone, "Sure, but if your performance is terrible I will punish you severely!" The Dryad''s eyes once again lit up in excitement when it heard the word ''punishment'', but unfortunately, Dana didn''t catch it at all as she was too impatient awaiting the treasure. The treasures from the Tropical Forest inheritance were all nature related, which Dana didn''t want to use at the moment, as she had no bloodlines to do with this, thus it would purely be wasteful to use at the moment, and even with this alongside the other two treasures, Dana hunger for treasure wasn''t appeased. So she was really looking forward to this inheritance, and she could even see her sla... comrade perform her duties. Oh, and did she mention that the Dryad already had a mark on her which basically prevented her from revealing anything involved with Dana? Afterall she was a precautious girl, so didn''t want even to have the risk of information about her to get out. However, suddenly the voice of the owner of the inheritance of the Aquatic area sounded and said, "So you''re the Frost Wyvern I presume? I have already been informed about your deeds within the other inheritances, so have fun within my inheritance." Hearing yet another straight to the point old fogie, she once again became worried that this was another perverted old man in disguise. But, she didn''t have the time to ponder this thought as both she and the Dryad were teleported within the inheritance. Looking around she found them both within a small boat, making her think what sort of guardian would be within here? However, her answer was soon answered as a large fin appeared within the water. ''Is that a gigantic shark?'' Thought Dana as she stared at the enormous creature within the water. 59 Chapter 58 - Facing a Gigantic Shark Lavendia stared at the incoming shark, before looking at the boat in which they were on before she said, "Master, I think we are going to need a bigger boat!" Oh, and she also found out the Dryad''s name is Lavendia upon further questioning, but she seemed to prefer being called ''Servant'' or ''Slave'' for some reason. Thinking of what the Dryad said, Dana began thinking this is eerily similar to a movie she watched before, looking around warily she thought ''Is this going to be a staged performance or something?''. No way could this be a coincidence, but Dana thoughts are soon interrupted by the behemoth of a shark which is currently speeding towards them. Looking at the shark, Dana said, "Well servant, it is time for you to prove yourself as a worthy of being my subordinate!" But, unlike what she was expecting Lavendia didn''t seem to be too excited at all before saying, "Master, maybe this isn''t the best idea, due to me being in the wrong environment it will be incredibly disadvantageous to me..." But, before the Lavendia could even react, she was thrown with great strength towards the large shark by Dana who said, "When you choose to serve this Dragon you need to live by a code! An honour amongst Dragons! We are a noble and virtuous race who will never do such a shameless thing as running away! Now, show your pride in serving me as you battle to the death with the Shark." Lavendia who is suddenly finding herself heading right towards the gigantic sharks gaping maw shrieked before she released a powerful attack, sending the shark staggering back. Annoyed that its prey got away and even managed to push it back, the shark swam furiously towards the scurrying Dryad who is forming her own attacks to counter the Shark. Soon enough a tremendous battle between both Lavendia and the Shark commences, whereas even with the Dryad being highly disadvantaged being within the Sharks environment still impressively manage to be superior within the confrontation between the both slightly. Lavendia showed her impressive battle power, by battling a rare aquatic beast with a similarly ranked bloodline within its own territory, causing even the proud Dana to be impressed. The shockwaves of the intense battle caused large waves, as the battle grew further, Lavendia used her nature attributed attacks to launch spiked-vines around the shark which angrily tore them off becoming increasingly furious is still hasn''t dealt with the foe before it. Lavendia continued to fight the shark, managing to inflict a large gash to its side, as blood began leaking out of its wound. Dana who became excited at seeing her subordinate drawing the first meaningful injury of the fight, suddenly grew concerned when she detected that something wasn''t right! And of course, Dana ended up being correct, as it seemed the large shark wasn''t alone. Another shark which seemed to be even bigger, stared at Lavendia with bloodshot eyes at it witnessed its mate being hurt by the creature before it. Dana hurriedly charged over to assist her servant, as letting Lavendia fight both sharks by herself was simply suicide, as the Dryad was already considerably weakened by the fact that they had to battle within this environment, not to mention some of her abilities are limited as a result of them being spirit beasts. Due to the Dryads having a few skills which are sexual, which prove to be rather useless towards most spirit beasts and genuinely more effective on humans, as the purpose is to distract them into letting down their guards and not let them exhibit their full battle power. Thus, making the Dryad much more formidable against these sort of opponents, as Dana doesn''t want Lavendia to be put in such a disadvantage before the large shark could interfere, it was met with the full force strike of a Frost Wyvern. Being slammed back from the confrontation, the Shark which previously directed its full attention towards the Dryad regarded Dana with a gaze full of killing intent. Seeing the raging Shark, she felt this was an excellent opportunity to test her multiple heads, shifting into her Three-Headed form, two more heads emerge out of her body, each beholding the Shark with a fierce look. The Shark seeing the unusual scene of its opponent all of a sudden gaining multiple heads looked at her with confusion. But, Dana didn''t give it the chance to think further as she instantly attacked using the Tri-Elemental Strike, causing her three heads to launch three different attributed attacks towards the Shark. As the Shark witnessed the deadly projectiles aimed toward it, its eyes became panicked at it frantically attempted to get out the way, but upon narrowly dodging two it was hit by the third strike leaving a scorching mark on its back as a blow of the fire attribute landed. Shrieking from the pain, the Shark furiously opened its massive mouth as it tried to rip Dana into pieces which responded by moving out of the way of its massive jaws, while simultaneously all three of her heads launched repetitive strikes into the Shark. Screaming in agony at the damage caused by the three-attributed attack, the Shark began launching water-attributed attacks toward Dana. Who responded by destroying each of them by her own attacks until she managed to get right before the giant shark and used her claws to tear into its skin, to deal a long scratch wound on the right side of her body. Before the shark could react, she jumped on its back digging her claws into its flesh as all three heads continuously attacked the colossal beasts head, ripping a path to its brain as its skull cracked open allowing Dana to kill the beast by destroying its brain. The Shark losing such a vital organ original thrashing stilled, as it began to sink within the water as it breathed its last. Dana not wanting to go to all of that work to drag the Shark back up digs her claws into its flesh before dragging it up to the surface, as she emerged out of the depth of water due to their battle with the sharks. Dana soon saw Lavendia who on her part and had taken care of the other shark upon seeing Dana she couldn''t help but say, "Hey Master, didn''t I tell you I''m amazing? See, I am totally worthwhile in having as a slave, but I feel my performance isn''t satisfactory enough, so will you punish me?" Seeing Lavendia''s pleading Dana was puzzled, as shouldn''t she be avoiding this? But, thinking that she likely has high expectations of herself and was probably disappointed in her performance, wanting to impress here more, she believed this must be the reason! Dana approached Lavendia before placing her hand on her back before she said, "Its alright my trusted subordinate, you don''t need to set such high goals for yourself because of me, this master will be lenient towards you!" While waiting for the grateful and overjoyed expression of the Dryad for having such a wonderful master to appear, Dana was soon disappointed as the Dryad seemed not to be thrilled at all by her master''s comments. Lavendia said, "Come on Master, just punish me one more time!" Lavendia thought back to that strange pleasurable sensation due to Dana being ''rough'' with her and felt that she desperately needed to feel it again, as it is the most thrill she received sexually in centuries. Seeing the scary expression on the Dryad''s face, Dana decided to ignore her for now and concentrated on the two Sharks bodies. Thinking that she will have yet another runic-stone, Dana excitable began digging within the largest shark body before finally coming across it, pleased being one step closer to being able to unlock the heavenly treasure! While smiling in bliss, she was yet again rudely interrupted by Lavendia which once again attempted to hug her from behind, but learning from her previous experience; Dana flung the Dryad over her shoulder roughly making her land on the floor miserably. Overlooking the joyous look on Lavendia''s face, she stored the cores and runic-stone within her storage ring. The System also asked her if she wanted to sell both of the Shark bloodlines for 10,000 soul points each similar to the Snake, now with them sold she has enough to afford to upgrade her Earth Wyrm or Blaze Wrym bloodline, but she decided to do this after finding the Heavenly Treasure of the Secret Realm. Suddenly, the voice of the old fogie sounded within her mind interrupting her of these current thoughts as he said, "Well done for finishing the inheritance, here is your reward and I will send you on your way quickly, I''m sure you''ll have plenty of time to talk to this old man if you desire after you complete all five inheritances, and place the runic-stones into the centre of the Secret Realm." With the old fogies words finished, she quickly teleported into a mountainous region, filled with towering mountains. Thinking that this was her last inheritance to complete before having the treasure, Dana and Lavendia walked towards the inheritance, not forgetting to bring the two large shark bodies with them, which ended up being cut into pieces and stored within Dana''s spacial ring. After all, Dana will never forget about her next meal. 60 Chapter 59 - The Final Guardian Both Lavendia and Dana continuously travelled towards the inheritance, before stopping for Dana''s meal of the day. Due to Lavendia wanting to please Dana, she decided to do the one thing that always works, to satisfy her stomach! Therefore, under the cold gaze of Dana, as the Dryad asked for some of the Shark meat and Spirit Fruits she had contained within her storage ring as a reward for completing the Nature inheritance. Due to Lavendia being very familiar with these types of Spirit Fruits she knows the ones which possess the greatest taste, thus she blended the flavours contained within the fruit with the Shark meat, creating a delicious meal for Dana which moaned in pleasure upon tasting it. Eating the meal heartily, she began to feel slightly guilty as during this whole time she truly knew the Dryad''s desire towards her, but as she had never once dealt with a serious relationship within her previous life and this one, she didn''t know how to respond to it at all! So, naturally, Dana came up with the perfect solution by acting dumb as if she didn''t know anything going on at all to avoid a confrontation between them, so she doesn''t have to talk about it all. And even if she is now a Dragon, being a virgin in both this life and the previous doesn''t help her confidence at all regarding relationships, as she didn''t have a single clue about them at all. During her last life, she was to busy having fun to have a relationship and thought that one would come eventually when she will settle down, but that ended up being destroyed by her untimely death. Putting this in the back of the mind, Dana said, "This food is good, this at least proves you have a use for something." But, Dana obviously wouldn''t let this show in her expression when she said that in her usual tone before Lavendia, but the Dryad still knew that her plan had been a success, and Dana had warmed up to her slightly. A day quickly pasts and both Dana and the Dryad finally arrived at the last inheritance, on the way they encountered many Wind Attributed beasts, which the Dryad swiftly dealt with, causing Dana to find another benefit of having a subordinate is that they can kill the small fries for her without her having to even make a move. Thinking in the future if she had a large group of subordinates, wouldn''t that make it much easier, to not only gather a large number of resources but to deal with a large group of small fries which are scattered around the Continent. She felt by having such an organisation; it would make it far easier for her, unknowingly this is the first step Dana has made in thinking of creating a Sect. Removing such thoughts, she had finally arrived in front of the last inheritance, where the last of the five old fogies voice sounded within her mind and said, "So you visited this old man last, have you? Well, it doesn''t matter anyway, I have just been bored for so long with none coming even to dare attempt my inheritance for the longest time in comparison to the others. So, I won''t keep you much longer, as the guardian within my inheritance hasn''t faced an opponent in so long, and is itching for a challenge." After the old fogies voice ended, both Dana and Lavendia were transported onto a large platform, which seemed to face a large mountain containing a massive birds nest directly. Thinking what would be the guardian this time, she was shocked to find it is a Griffin, a being depicted in legends. Analysing the Griffin for herself, it stood on the massive bird nest proudly, when its gaze landed on her it contained an enormous amount of animosity. Causing Dana to wonder why the Griffin is staring at her as if she butchered it entire family in front of it, believing the large hostility being unusual, she was instantly answered by the System. [Host, it is because Dragons are the arch enemies of Griffins as a result of clashing many times with them for territories over thousands of years. Of course, a Dragon is almost always superior when it comes to facing a Griffin one on one, but Griffins would always gang up on a Dragon by itself. Due, to Dragons slaughtering many of their kin, pillaging their territories and stealing their women. The Griffins have a great hatred for Dragons to the utmost highest degree, and would love nothing more than to deliver them a painful death.] Geeze, thanks for the uplifting message System. The System seemingly not getting Dana''s sarcasm at all, responded, [Your very welcome Host, after all the System is here to serve the Hosts best interests!] Turning serious, Dana thought ''Well at least this Griffin is by itself so I should be much superior even without adding Lavendia into the mix.'' But, right then Dana said that almost simultaneously another Griffin appeared alongside the other one, with this one being slightly smaller than the other. Cursing her loud mouth, Dana said to Lavendia, "You think you can handle the second Griffin while I engage the bigger one?" Lavendia responded assuringly, "I can handle it, Master, I won''t be disadvantageous at all if I come to face it! Just go and deal with it, while I will deal with things on my end." Hearing the Dryad''s encouragement, Dana flew towards the Griffins, who both look at her with murderous intent, as they both charged towards her. However, Lavendia used her nature attribute as she used a vine like a whip as she whacked the smaller Griffin of course from Dana, also inflicting a minor injury towards it. Angered being attacked suddenly by another enemy, it furiously stared at Lavendia at it changed its target to her instead of Dana. Seeing that the other Griffin is preoccupied with Lavendia, Dana approaches the larger Griffin rapidly, as once again two heads grew out of her body preparing her for battle. But, unlike the large Griffin was pretty composed as it saw Dana suddenly grew two heads, and its shock from the sight was soon changed to its former calm expression within seconds. Thinking that this will prove a troublesome opponent, both the Griffin and Dragon exchange blows, as both fought against each other viciously. The Griffin which is seeing its most hated enemy before it enforced every bit of power within its body it could muster into its attacks, as it used the Wind attribute to amplify its speed, using this as an advantage to launch continuous attacks and to dodge out of the way of Dana''s most fearsome blows. Dana using her strong body and her regeneration to her advantage knew that at the moment she could not compete with the agile Griffin which specialised in speed due to the wind attribute and its nature itself, thus disregarded the Griffins attacks to counter in order to land her own strikes against it. Soon enough, both were covered in their fair share amount of wounds, but Dana''s were closing at a rapid pace in regards to the Griffin which had no such recovery ability. The Griffin seeing the unusual scene before it grew puzzled seeing Dana possess such an ability, its thoughts began drifiting to panic thinking that it would be impossible for it to defeat Dana if she possess such an ability, but it soon disregarded this and thought Dana could''nt keep such a mystical ability up, with it must causing some sort of toll on her. Of course this is caused by the Griffins natural hatred over Dragons, as the Griffin just could''nt give up such a fight, as it would disgrace itself if it done such a thing, thus it would rather over-look such a fact rather than give up in the hope of killing Dana. Thinking that its about time she uses her attributes, Dana decides to use a skill she hasn''t tested before, due to the Griffins speed! Using the third stage of the lotus technique, multiple ice lotuses began condensing, as she didn''t want the Griffin to escape once again from her strikes, she will use this technique which is especially targetted for speedy opponents and also numerous weaker ones. Witnessing the multiple ice lotuses, the Griffin eyes grew wary as it attempted to dodge the multiple lotuses coming towards it, but this proved fruitless as they seemed to be endless with eventually one hitting it, causing it to shriek in pain. Although as a result of creating multiple different lotuses will reduce the power of the strike, it still causes a great deal of damage, even if it could''nt be compared to Dana''s full power. Seeing her attack landed, Dana took advantage of this and launched multiple balls of flame and shot spears of Earth towards the Griffin, which frantically attempted to evade the numerous attacks. But, alas it could''nt escape them all as it was hit by a few more, inflicting a few more injuries. Dana also decided to use another ability of the Hydra to deal with this beast, as it was weakened by the barrage of attacks, it will vulnerable enough for her to use the poison fog ability. A amounst of gaseous substance emerge from Dana''s mind, as the poisonous gas covered the Griffin''s body, causing it to howl in agony as the poison caused its flesh to feel burning with scorching heat and chilling frost at the same time. Normally, the Griffin would be simply to fast to be hit by such a strike, but weakened by Dana''s attacks, it became vulnerable enough for her to do so! Being gravely hurt by the poison, the Griffin was on its last legs as it attempted to kill it enemy with it, putting all of its remaining Qi within its final attack, the Griffin attacked Dana with a ferocious expression as it wanted to see her travel to the grave alongside it. To the Griffin, it was amongst the highest honours to kill a Dragon, so of course, it would feel satisfied if it brought a Dragon beside it in death, especially one of such great potential like Dana! But, Dana was long prepared for this, as she created numerous walls of the earth in addition to Earth Armor, which shattered through Griffin''s strike like glass, but did as they were meant to do and weakened the Griffins blow as it impacted upon her. As the stike landed upon her the Earth Armor surrounding her body instantly smashed into pieces, and a horrible wound was left on her body as force travelled into her body, causing her to roar in pain. Quickly, after the attack landed, the Griffin which expended every it had for the strike collapsed weakly on the ground. Dana emerging in front of the still body of the Griffin which luckily ended up falling into its nest, in doing so saving the trouble for Dana who would have to drag the body back up here. The Griffins eyes regarded Dana with horror, as it saw that even with such a fearsome attack from it, she made it out without a crippling injury! Staring at her with reluctance of failing to do what it set out to do, Dana just approached it and finally ended its life by piercing its throat. Due to the Griffin expending all of its spiritual energy and even damaging its cultivation permanently to do such an attack on Dana, it was easy for her to end its life in such a state. Thinking back to that clash, she thought ''Damn that hurt, that blow from the Griffin was no small matter! Even though she looked like she came out of that relatively unharmed, it was still a strike which expended all of the Griffin''s Qi and even sacrificed its cultivation permanently to deliver such power, causing it even to be able to threaten a 9th Rank Core Formation Cultivator! The fact Dana managed to come out of that exchange in such a condition, was extraordinary impressive enough. Taking her mind of these thoughts, Dana thought ''I wonder how Lavendia is doing with the other one, I better go and help her quickly.'' Even though the other Griffin was a fair bit weaker, she still didn''t want her to be met with misfortune due to a similar experience which she had received from the Griffin, which expended everything to end her life. Thus, Dana flew rapidly towards the sounds of Lavendia and the Griffin fighting within the distance. 61 Chapter 60 - New Friends, Old Enemies Rushing over to both the ongoing battle between Lavendia and the other Griffin, Dana found a completely different ''Battle'' from what she was expecting. The other Griffin, in which she now identified as female is currently within a human form as both her and Lavendia are passionately entwining with each other. Upon seeing such a scene completely dumbfounded Dana silly, who just stood there with her mouth gaping open in shock. Lavendia who finally noticed Dana''s presence said, "Hey Dana you finally dealt with the other one? I was just finishing up with this Griffin, and she seems to have a lot of pent up emotions about the male Griffin which she seemed to hate strongly." Seeing the unashamed appearance of the Dryad at being caught in the act, Dana stared at her with a furious expression as she said, "Seriously? You have been doing this the entire time while I''ve been fighting fiercely with the Griffin, you spent your time playing with a girl? You have also made me rush over here expecting you to be in trouble for no reason at all!" Witnessing Dana''s furious appearance, Lavendia said, "Hey why are you so angry about this all? Hmm. Oh, right forgive me for being rude before, want to join us?" Of course, this just ended up making Dana, even more, angered at her lewd subordinate as she beat up the Dryad continuously. But, this just ended up not getting the result desired Dana wanted at all, instead of painful cries she expected it made Lavendia moan in pleasure with a face in complete bliss as if this wasn''t any form of ''Punishment'' at all. Seeing her ''Punishment'' being useless and the Dryad actually enjoying it caused Dana to instantly stop the beating, and start thinking about other alternatives to punish Lavendia if she got out of line. But, after thinking through the entirety of her mind, Dana seemed to find that her only solution to everything seemed to be violence, and this is the worst possible sort of thing to do towards a masochist. While she was searching through her mind to solve this current predicament, she is suddenly reminded of her ''Guest'' as her eyes were drawn to the now human-formed Griffin. Within her human form, the Griffin human appearance had long blonde hair which cascaded down her shoulders reaching slightly above her lower back, while she possessed a cute heart-shaped face and also has an hourglass figure complementing her beautiful looks even further. Dana''s eyes looked questionable at the Griffin, wondering how this situation ended up occurring and upon seeing Dana''s inquiring look, the Griffin suddenly answered. "Look, this is all a misunderstanding here, alright? I am simply forced into being here with that other fool as my family arranged a marriage with him beforehand, which ended up with me being brought here alongside him when he became the Guardian. Due to me hating him we didn''t have sex very often, and when we did it wasn''t enjoyable for me, so I had a lot of pent up sexual thoughts, and your Dryad friend used one of her abilities which caused me to become aroused towards her, and then you know what happened next," Listening to the Griffins reasoning behind the situation it seemed she realised why this came about, but this still didn''t stop her wondering why this Griffin doesn''t seem to hate her. "Alright now I get why you ended up having ''Fun'' with Lavendia, but why don''t you look at me with such malice similar to the other guy?" Dana said. "Honestly, I don''t have the best of relationship with my family anyways after that incident with forcing me to marry him just for some benefits and to form a connection with his clan. So, at the moment I''m not welcome back to my kind, as if I return without him, then I will likely be named a traitor and executed. Therefore, why should I be so passionate about disliking a bunch of Dragons who I never met for the sake of them?" Said the Griffin. Nodding in realisation, Dana found the reasoning suitable. Thus she decided to leave the Griffin be as she never provoked her in the first place and runic-stone isn''t within her possession, so she doesn''t really need to slaughter her for no reason. Not to mention Dana thinks she can end up becoming a good subordinate for her, due to Griffins being a strong race. But, even with the power, the Griffins hold the System still recommended her in not gaining their bloodline as she will only be able to contain a limited amount within her body in the future. And even though the Griffin bloodline is extremely powerful, it isn''t the most powerful beast bloodline of the wind attribute. Moreover, the System said there are some even superior, which she should aim to gain within the future. Therefore, the Griffin bloodline will only bring short-term power, but in the long run, she may regret her decision. Thus she decided to follow the System''s advice and wait until she receives the even stronger ones available. Dana stared at the Griffin with a smile before she said, "Would you follow this Dragon, similar to Lavendia over there? I''m sure you got no better place to go and having the company which would truly accept you for what you truly are will be incredibly rare." Said Dana. Hearing Dana''s compelling argument, the Griffin was still unsure if she should make this decision, but Dana was right, and she would never be able to reveal her true form in front of humans if she were to live within their society. Not to mention that experts with high cultivation can detect something wrong with her in human form so she may end up in serious trouble within the future. Of course, this trouble doesn''t apply to Dana as she gained the human form with the System. Thus her human form is flawless compared to the other spirit beasts which some individuals have means to detect whether they''re truly human. If Dana didn''t have such benefit provided by the System, maybe she''d have already been caught by an expert by now within her human form, causing her not to be able to live within human society at all and even have the possibility of being enslaved. The Griffin who is still hesitating on making such a decision, suddenly heard a voice within her mind which is precisely the old fogie of the Secret Realm which said," I recommend you, girl, to follow her as even my master predicted that within the future she would be extremely powerful, alongside her you will rise higher than what would be normally possible for yourself to achieve within your lifetime. But, in the end, it is your decision whether to heed my words or not." The Griffin upon seeing how highly Dana was talked of by the old fogie of the inheritance instantly decided to follow Dana, as she knew that this old man wouldn''t be able to be forced into saying flattery words of Dana unless it was the truth. She knew that the old man wouldn''t lie about Dana being such a talent, as even the many talented geniuses which entered this inheritance didn''t enter his eyes, therefore why would he provide special treatment to Dana? "I accept, but before that, I should reveal my name to you. My name is Maia, formerly from clan ''Ironclaw''." Said Maia. Thinking that the clan thing must be a tradition amongst Griffins, Dana said with a smile on her face, "Good, I accept you in becoming another one of my subordinates." Now having two powerful beasts alongside her, Dana believes it will be much easier getting things done, as couldn''t she just send them to take care of things for her while she concentrated on cultivating in the future? Also, Dana enjoys the idea of having company within this world, who wouldn''t she have to abandon as a result of them having insufficient talent, so being able to have long-lasting companions excites Dana. However, thinking back to the lewd behaviour between both Lavendia and Maia she suddenly said, "You won''t be doing much more of that lustful behaviour right?" Dana''s comment seemed to cause Maia to blush heavily as she said, "I apologise for that, I don''t know what seemed to have gotten over me. I assure you I won''t disgrace myself in such a way again!" But, the Dryad didn''t seem to be ashamed at all when she said, "Eh Master it was only accidental on my part, I didn''t think she would be affected that badly by my pheromones. Don''t worry thought Master; you will always be my priority!" Though this didn''t seem to improve Dana''s mood at all as she cursed the Dryad multiple times, and ordered her not to mess around in such a situation again. Finishing with her rant towards Lavendia, she was suddenly interrupted by the voice old fogie of the inheritance, "You have finished my inheritance as I expected, gain your rewards and open what my Master has prepared for you. I believe you will also find it interesting what he has to say to her. Also, as an additional benefit, I will ensure the Griffin won''t betray you in the future, as she will be similar to the Dryad with not being able to tell others about you." With the old fogies voice fading away, Dana, Lavendia and Maia were teleported with the dead Griffins body directly to the centre of the Secret Realm! Seeing the new surroundings, Dana looked around finding they seemed to be at the central area of this place, the only location within the Secret Realm connected to each of the five areas. It is also the most difficult inheritance, which none had even the chance of entering, but now this answer was revealed to Dana as it seemed the key to this place all along was to complete the other five inheritances within each of the five areas within the Secret Realm. Digging out the runic-stone of the Griffin body and rest of the Griffin for later use within her storage ring, Dana, Lavendia and Maia walked towards the long-awaited treasure which has awaited her since the beginning. But, upon walking for ten minutes, she soon found a group of people she never expected she would come across. It was the one which has been provoking her from the beginning she entered the Xinghai Continent, Princess Hui Ying! 62 Chapter 61 - The Fate of Princess Hui Ying Instantly after seeing the woman who provoked her constantly since coming into the Xinghai Continent, Dana stared at Princess Hui Ying with a gaze full of killing intent as if she wanted nothing more than to rip her into pieces. Thinking back to the scheme this Princess had for her, Dana felt the urge to give this woman what she truly deserves; an agonising death. Lavendia and Maia seeing such a look from Dana gave each other knowing looks, knowing that this woman surely made a grave error in daring to cross their master! Looking at the cultivations of Princess Hui Ying''s entourage garnered not much attention from Dana, due to before the Secret Realm maybe she would hesitate to attack such a strong line up directly, but now with the upgrade of not only her cultivation but her bloodline itself this group built with the Top Genuises within the Xinghai Continent is nothing much to Dana. Turning her head to both Lavendia and Maia, she said, "Slaughter all of them without mercy, except leave the arrogant girl in the middle alive, a quick death is to good for her." Following her orders, the trio containing the strongest rare Bloodline Beasts within existence approached a group of young cultivations which had no idea the calamity they have brought to themselves. Of course, at the moment Princess Hui Ying with her haughty nature was cursing at being forced to wait for that bitch in being brought here, as she is used to having an extremely lavish lifestyle she has become extremely furious at being forced to live in such miserable conditions. In fact, if it weren''t for Dana she wouldn''t have even attended the Secret Realm in the first place as a result of being forced to live as a ''Peasant'' for the duration of the entire month spent within, previously she would simply send some of the disciples employed by her Empire into here and take all of their rewards for herself. And if they didn''t give her a satisfactory amount of gains within the Secret Realm? She would execute them and take the treasures from their cold corpses, in addition, Princess Hui Ying has even seduced some young masters within the past of powerful sects into giving her some treasures from the Secret Realm to please her, and as many desired to be Princess Hui Ying''s Husband she had gained many gifts from young masters over the years. But, she never responded to them at all despite this, and just manipulated into them into being her puppets which were deluded into thinking they would even get the chance with her. "Where is that whore? I bet she is spreading her legs for Zhang Wei and that is why they were held this long, it is no wonder Chao Sung wanted her in the first place, after all, she is probably the number one harlot within the Xinghai Continent with the number of people she seduced!" Said Princess Hui Ying venomously, ignoring the fact that it was her who revealed Chao Sung who Dana was in the first place. If she wouldn''t have, then why would Chao Sung merely believe the rumours? Sure he''d be interested in her from hearing about her ''Beauty'', but not to the extent in wanting to instantly kidnap her like he is planning on doing at the moment. And the seduced part? Princess Hui Ying is simply jealous that in her original thoughts upon entering the Elemental Sect she would be the most beautiful and talented disciple of the sect, one who is envied and adored by everyone. But, this dream was destroyed the moment of Dana''s appearance, as Dana was superior to her within everything, making Dana entirely outshine Princess Hui Ying and it is to the extent there is just no comparison at all between them! Therefore, Princess Hui Ying is incredibly bitter at Dana for stealing her spotlight, and thus, of course, she would talk about her hatefully when she is the current source of her troubles. The other cultivators behind the Princess were shaking their heads at her behaviour, due to being geniuses themselves they were obviously very irritated with the Princess for having to deal with her spoiled nature the past month in which she constantly complained about their living conditions. It got to the point that if it weren''t for Chao Sung, they would have long ago abandoned her to die here instead of putting up with her attitude. Suddenly, one of the cultivators told everyone to be quiet causing Princess Hui Ying to stare at him angrily for interrupting her. But, just as she was about to give him a piece of her mind for daring to interrupt her, she soon saw the cause of the cultivators telling them to be quiet, making her stood there frozen in fear. Before they stood three Spirit Beasts releasing such an absurdly powerful aura that she felt as if she is merely an ant in front of them, that can be crushed at any time! "That''s impossible..." Princes Hui Ying began mumbling hysterically at seeing the sight of such a lineup. Three Rare Bloodline Beasts? Do you know how rare even one is within the Xinghai Continent? Even just an Iron Bull which is the ancestor of the Ironclaw Empire is considered an extremely mighty and rare beast which is lucky to witness within the Xinghai Continent, nevermind three beasts which are much superior to the Iron Bull! Therefore, Princess Hui Ying was scared witless, and due to being sheltered her entire life, she has never experienced herself being in a life-threatening situation before, so she began screaming madly shouting for the men to slaughter the beasts and protect her. She even began threatening them, saying that if she is harmed in any way, then they will experience gruesome deaths! So, the men reluctantly stood in front of Princess Hui Ying, as they knew she was right and even if they returned alive they would be heavily punished, as Princess Hui Ying''s background was pretty important, not to mention Chao Sung was a ruthless individual who would murder someone for far lower offence compared to something such as the Princesses death! But, these cultivators didn''t expect to see the sight of Princess Hui Ying fleeing, instantly the men stood protectively in front of her, realising that Princess Hui Ying''s plan is to leave them as ''Meatshields'' for the beast while she escapes with her life, the men''s faces turned cold. Due to them believing that the three before them were mere beasts, they didn''t believe that they would chase after Princess Hui Ying personally after dealing with them, but unknowingly these wern''t a bunch of random beasts which came across them, and we''re here for one purpose with that being Princess Hui Ying! Therefore, her plan will soon prove to be hopeless, but of course, the men will know nothing of this and just cursed the Princess before they charged towards the beasts hoping to provide the Princess sufficient time to escape. The valiant charge of the men thought was always going to be a fruitless endeavour and in the end, ended up being a one-sided slaughter as Dana herself alongside both subordinates had the strength of a Rank Four Core formation cultivator each. Thus, a bunch of Rank Six to Nine Cultivators were mere bugs in front of them, which were easy to deal with. Five minutes later, and the dead bodies of numerous cultivators painted the ground red, creating an eerie scene. Perhaps if a human cultivator from the Xinghai Continent came across this, then they would be absolutely terrified, as not even one of a large number of dead bodies wern''t a highly, respected genius within the Xinghai Continent, with each of them representing the Top Powers making them some of the most highly influential individuals within the Xinghai Continent. Therefore, seeing all of them slaughtered in such a one-sided manner would be a horrifying sight for any cultivator. Dana''s cold eyes scanned the bodies as she said, "Take everything of value on them and put it in a pile, I will expecting everything all present when I return. Now, I got a very important ''Guest'' to deal with." Under the watch of both Lavendia and Maia, Dana rapidly flew in the distance, Lavendia seeing that Dana has gone, a lustful expression emerged on her face as she stared at Maia body and said, "Hey, now that Dana is gone, want have some ''Fun'' again?" Witnessing the Dryad''s lewd look, Maia''s eyes turned angry as she said, "I only did that with you the first time as a result of you using your Dryad pheromones on me, also, as a result of being deprived of sex for the past few centuries! Now, that I''m free from this accursed place, it won''t happen again, now let''s collect masters stuff and stop messing around, because I''m sure you saw how scary she is when it comes to treasure right?" Seeing Maia''s scared expression, Lavendia just looked excited and said, "Yeah, I know! Do you think she would whip me or something if I don''t do it?" The Dryad began starring at the sky with a blissful look on her face, as if imaging Dana whipping her hard right at this very moment, but she was awoken by a hard slap across her face. "You damn lewd creature, you think I''m such a masochist like you? Now, I''m going to do what Master asked, whether you help me or not!" Maia said as she walked to the bodies before beginning to loot them of valuables. Lavendia gave Maia a strange look before she walked over with a reluctant look and began assisting Maia in gathering the treasures. Dana was currently flying at a rapid pace towards her target, from the start she knew the Princess wouldn''t get too far. Thus she used her powerful soul to track her location through the entirety of that fight. Soon enough she saw the spoiled Princess who seemed to be leisurely sat somewhere, as she has a happy expression on her face for escaping such a near-death situation! Seemingly, she was not at all affected by the brutal demise of the group of men which has been tirelessly protecting her and meeting her demands within the past week, which even ended up sacrificing their lives for her in the end. However, Princess Hui Ying didn''t seem to care about their fates at all, as at the moment she was as carefree as can be, without even the slightest bit of sadness within her expression. Dana seeing such a scene, snickered as she thought this woman is truly vicious. Thus Dana planned to make her end painful! Swooping down, Dana''s large body landed in front of Princess Hui Ying, which moments ago was relieved upon escaping the creatures, but now she was once again scarred witless! Princess Hui Ying shouted, "Dirty beast, stay away from me! This Princess can''t die by such a dirty thing, I am meant for greatness!" ''Wow it seems this Princess has truly lost her mind!'' Dana thought. But, suddenly Dana saw something weird within Princess Hui Ying''s, hurriedly she tried to claw Princess Hui Ying''s body, but she was too late as she seemed to teleport to safety! Dana roared at the loss of her prey, as she raged madly destroying the surroundings, she thought in her head, ''I had her, and she slipped out of my grasp!'' Dana murmured with a ruthless tone, "You think you can escape your fate by using some sort of teleport talisman? This means nothing, it will only prolong your meaningful life, at the moment you provoked me, was the moment of your death." After she declared her thoughts of the Princess, Dana flew back to the location of the awaiting Lavendia and Maia, as removed Princess Hui Ying from her mind completely, once again thinking completely about what Heavenly Treasure waits for her! Meanwhile, Princess Hui Ying which teleported out of the Secret Realm was panting for breath as she just experienced the threat of death, a wretched look emerged on her face as she said, "I swear I will gut that beast!" Thinking of the humiliation that beast brought to her, a crazy look appeared within her beautiful face as felt that she hated that beast even more than that bitch! In fact, she was highly lucky she had a teleporting talisman gifted to her by her parents, as her ancestors previously entered the Secret Realm, they ended up doing highly well and was even awarded a life-saving Talisman to leave the Secret Realm if in danger! Even though it still pained her to use the treasure that has been gifted within her family for generations without being needed, she still felt it was worth it as it saved her life, she couldn''t care less about anyone else! ''However, thinking back to that wench, I should probably tell Chao Sung my plan failed.'' She thought. Therefore, a week later Princess Hui Ying emerged at the area of the greatest sect within the Xinghai Continent, the Heavenly Noble Sect! Instantly, after seeing her the guards let her through into Chao Sung''s room, after all, she is a frequent visitor. After she arrived into the room, she saw Chao Sung pounding a woman from behind fiercely as she moaned. Even after noticing Princess Hui Ying entering the room he didn''t stop his ''battle'' with the woman as he continued in the deed, after a few more minutes Chao Sung slapped the ass of the woman hard, before he released inside of her. Princess Hui Ying who full well knew that even after having sex with a man such as Chao Sung, he will still have many more partners, still felt bitter at the fact that he is having sex unashamedly in front of her with another woman. Chao Sung finished with the woman said, "Alright, I got business to do with the Princess, leave me. Don''t worry about my promise, your brother''s life will be spared. So, now await me within the quarters arranged for you and I''ll call for you when I need you again." The woman nodded before quickly leaving the room, after the woman left Chao Sung turned to Princess Hui Ying and said, "Well have you got retrieved my newest toy? I have been hearing a many good rumours about her recently, with even some of my subordinates informing me that her beauty is true as they say. Therefore, I have been very excited at the thought of bedding such a girl these past few days." Witnessing the lustful look on Chao Sung''s face, made Princess Hui Ying secretly seethe in hatred once again at Dana thinking ''Even he dares think about her more than compared to me? That woman truly on purpose is good for seducing men.'' "Sorry, I failed. There was a complication and we encountered Three Rare Spirit Beasts, all of your men ended up slaughtered." Princess Hui Ying said staring down not even daring enough to look Chao Sung in the eyes. A powerful fluctuation suddenly occurred as Chao Sung appeared in front of her gripping her neck as he hoisted her in the air, before he said icily, "What do you mean fail? You not only failed to deliver me the woman, but you lost the lives of my carefully nurtured subordinates?" Princess Hui Ying gasped, "I promise you I won''t fail again, and I promise you I will bring that bitch right in front of you immediately! Just give me another chance. After all, I''ve given you my first time, and we''ve met on many occasions, doesn''t that mean anything?" Chao Sung looked at her coldly before he said, "Yes this won''t happen again, Guards give her to the men to be used like a cheap whore. This will serve as a lesson to those who would dare tell me to straight to my face that they have failed me!" Hearing Chao Sung''s command, Princess Hui Ying shrieked as she begged for mercy as she was dragged off by the guards, she wailed Chao Sung''s name countless time as she begged him to be lenient towards her. However, her wails never even moved Chao Sung at all, which discarded her presence the movement she was taken away, after all a ''Used'' woman wasn''t valuable in his eyes, thus the Princess value is already low, to begin with not to mention not only failing him but losing many subordinates which he spent countless resources to cultivate. "Guard, tell Zhang Li to retrieve the girl, and tell him this time to not fail me, or not return. Use the Princess as an example!" Chao Sung said as he stared off into the distance with an intense look as he murmured, "None have escaped me before, you will be the same." 63 Chapter 62 - Opening the Most Mysterious Inheritance Within the Secret Realm Dana flew grumpily on the way back to Lavendia and Maia, the scene of the Princess escaping has greatly annoyed Dana who was moments away from getting rid of the troublesome person who kept scheming against her in the dark. She believed that she should remove any future trouble, even if they may seem significant, she thought that the Princess would only bring dangers to her in the time she is spending within the Xinghai Continent. Therefore she felt it was truly a pity she failed to get rid of her. However, Dana quickly put these thoughts into the back of the mind, as she focused on the Heavenly Treasure awaiting her instead. Her mood is clearly improving positively as a result of thinking back to her being able to unlock the entrance to the Heavenly Treasure. Thus a happy smile appeared on Dana''s face for the remainder of the flight. Well, as much as a ''Smile'' can be in her dragon form, as any expression she ends up pulling in her dragon form seems to come out more of an ''I''m going to eat your children'' or ''I''m going to slaughter you'' look. But, of course, Dana doesn''t realise that when she ''Smiles'' within her Dragon form it ends up terrifying the life of any creature that witnesses such a sight. Arriving quickly, she saw the sight of Lavendia and Maia who seemed to be stood alert as if waiting for her. Swooping down in front of them, Maia approached her hastily and said, "Master, we have prepared all of the treasures within a pile for you to collect as ordered!" Dana grinned in satisfaction at the sight of the pile of treasures, not realising she absolute scared the life out of Maia who in her perspective saw Dana releasing her ''Slaughter'' look similar to the group of cultivators she has just killed. However, Dana didn''t seem to notice as she ended up diving into the treasure, scoping out of all the shiniest looking ones and staring at her reflection within, as a crazed look appeared within her eyes. Lavendia who has become used to Dana''s antics after being with her for the past three inheritances approached Maia before placing a hand on her back and saying, "Don''t worry that''s just her ''Happy'' face, she is not going to eat you or something!" Maia who was previously trembling calmed down after hearing the Dryad, as even though she told Dana she was unaffected by the Dragon and Griffin rivalry, that doesn''t mean she wasn''t slightly afraid of all Dragons, as from birth it was instilled within her that Dragons eat Griffins live and that boiled Griffin children were their favourite meals! Though she didn''t believe these so-called truths and thought they were propaganda, she still couldn''t help but admit that she still felt very fearful, as for how can she not be affected with having this words spouted at her since birth? Thus, both Lavendia and Maia watched for the few hours the sight of Dana saying ''Ohh'', ''Ahh'' and the most eerily one ''My precious'' to the numerous treasures found on the recently deceased disciples, this was, of course, related to the amount of good ''Shinies'' they held as they were geniuses belonging to each of the Top Respective powers of the Xinghai Continent. Thus they were all fairly wealthy individuals. Maia who is surprised at actually witnessing a person take so much interest in what her opinion a bunch of useless junk said, "When do you think she will be finished with looking through that junk?" But, before she can be answered Maia suddenly felt a monstrous amount of killing intent directed her way as she realised that Dana was staring at her with bloodshot eyes. "What did you say, Maia?" Said Dana with a dangerous glint within her eye. Witnessing such a horrifying look from Dana, Maia stuttered, "Umm. Master what I meant to say, I love the jun... precious objects you are holding onto, and am deeply jealous of it! That is all, Master I said nothing else at all!" Dana bloodthirsty aura calming down as a result of Maia''s word said, "Hmm. See was that too hard? Admitting that you''re slightly covetous over your Master''s hoard of treasures is nothing to be ashamed of. Now, that I''ve finished sorting out the treasures I have collected, we can leave! After all, the biggest treasure of all is awaiting us, follow faithful subordinates!" After Dana began walking forward at a quick pace, she travelled with a straight gaze, not even bothering to look back as if she expected that Lavendia and Maia would naturally follow her. Both Maia and Lavendia looked at each before steadily following behind Dana, while they walked Lavendia whispered into Maia''s ear to avoid detection from Dana and said, "Hey are you crazy? There are three things which trigger Dana in this world, food, arrogant young masters and treasures. Especially, treasures, insulting her collection? That''s just a one way trip to losing your head girl." A cold sweat emerged on Maia''s face after hearing the Dryad''s words, thinking she will definitely never talk negatively about treasures within Dana''s presence again! Continuing at a constant pace, a few hours later the trio have finally arrived at the entrance of the most mysterious inheritance within the Secret Realm, the only one in history which none even has had the slightest contact with. No matter how the many years passed, this inheritance has remained a mystery to the individuals outside, with none of the most impressive geniuses of even Tier 6 sects failing even to trigger the slightest effect towards the inheritance, eventually causing many to give up. Dana stopped for a moment, as she stared at the gigantic building in front of her, it stood proudly among the scenery, as its appearance resembled an ancient Chinese temple. The materials of the building gleamed against the blaring sun, as each part of the building seemed to be built of extremely precious materials. Dana, Lavendia and Maia slowly approached the building, when the instant they arrived at the entrance as the large door had five carvings within, seemingly meeting the exact shape of the five-runic stones within her possession. Dana''s eyes glimmered with excitement, as she took each of the runic-stones out of her storage ring, quickly placing them into each in their respective slot, they each fitted as if it was built for them. Standing back to await the changes towards the entrance, she stared at the building observing it carefully as if not to miss anything different that occurs! However, Dana''s expectant gaze soon became impatient as minutes passed without a single thing occurring. Dana eyes suddenly became angered as she seemingly realised something, she said, "Did those bunch of old fogies swindle me or something? I knew I shouldn''t have trusted those bunch of oldies, and I knew something was wrong instantly after the pervert old fogie made me up against that lewd Dryad!" Lavendia slightly offended at the comment said, "Hey, don''t you dare associate me with that old fogie! Just because he is a pervert doesn''t mean I am!" The old fogie might choke on his own blood if he was present, as his own subordinate which has been under his care for the past few centuries didn''t even defend him at all, and instead joined the culprit in roasting him! Maybe, if all five old fogies were present, they would be rather pitiful, as even after providing Dana with many benefits from their five inheritances, she dared say they swindled her? Quickly, a heated argument emerged, with Dana, Lavendia and even Maia joining into bashing the old fogies, with them paying full attention into complaining about the five old fogies, they didn''t realise that the building which hasn''t changed for centuries began making a shocking change. A rumbling sound emerges from the entrance, as the sound got louder and louder, causing even three girls who were previously engaged in a heated conversation, to turn their heads towards the building. Upon, seeing the scene they were amazed, the whole building seemed began moving and a large bright light emerges from the top of the building as the large entryway began opening. Unknowingly, the girls began walking to the entrance of the inheritance, but upon reaching it a sudden force suddenly slammed into the two girls beside Dana sending them flying a powerful voice interrupted, "Only the Frost Wyvern may pass, your companions must stay behind!" After finishing the short words, the voice left as quickly as it appeared. Seeing they weren''t permitted in entering an ugly look appeared in Lavendia''s face when she said, "Not like I wanted to enter your ugly building anyways!" Maia similarly appeared fairly annoyed at the fact in not being able to witness the most mysterious thing within the Secret Realm, but being a more calm headed person she didn''t voice her complaints as she believed there must be a good reason. Dana looking back at the two said, "Wait here, I''ll be back as soon as this is sorted, I promise I won''t be long!" But, Dana didn''t notice the weird looks on Lavendia''s and Maia''s face as they thought secretly, ''Judging by the length of time you spent with a bunch of Xiantian cultivators belongings, I doubt you will be quick with the greatest treasure of the Secret Realm!'' However, they kept their true feelings completely hidden from Dana as she giddily entered the Secret Realm. Upon entering, she found herself in a square room as she stared at objects on the table her eyes shined a bright light, ''So that is the treasure of the Secret Realm!'' Meanwhile elsewhere in the Secret Realm there was a large turmoil as many cultivators saw the bright light within the middle of the Secret Realm coming from the most mysterious inheritance! With this as a strong motive, many powerful young cultivators hastily travelled to the centre of the Secret Realm, hoping to gain the secret that even caused the Top Geniuses of the Tier 6 Sects not having access to! Their eyes shone with greed, as their thought in ascending in one large loop at gaining such a valuable treasure, becoming Heaven shaking geniuses in one night! Even though each of them are geniuses, they were like ants compared to the top geniuses within the continent, not to mention those even above them within Tier 4 Sects, thus this has lit up hope within their eyes. Unknown to Dana, trouble will be coming to her location, and she will be at the centre of it, whether she likes or not! 65 Chapter 64 - Saint Bloodline After digesting the information, Dana began to wonder why would this ''Mysterious Expert'' even trust her in facing Azariel in the first place? Or why did he even choose her? But, this is soon answered as the Mysterious Expert seemed to have wanted to be honest towards her, as, with the memories provided towards her, many include his intentions towards having Dana as the hope of the Realm. What Dana mainly gathered is that they basically found that not one person would be born within the Secret Realm which has enough potential to defeat Azariel, showing just how terrifying of a being he truly is. Therefore, instead of wasting resources by putting it into the individuals with the strongest potential until Azariel eventually broke out of the seal, they decided to take a risk by investing into her. Why did they hope Dana would deal with Azariel? Mainly, because, Azariel slaughters anyone indiscriminately, which will include Dana herself, and he actually seems to prefer the ones with the strongest potential, in addition to the highest cultivation. Thus Dana would most likely be dragged into this battle whether she liked it or not. They also hoped that Dana would have some form of attachments to the Realm itself, due to her being born there, therefore likely having a family and friends, so she would have to stop Azariel to prevent him from not only destroying her birthplace but lose the lives of the individuals she cares for. Witnessing the reasons they gambled into putting their hopes into her, she thought it was they were fairly unfortunate, as the second reasoning would apply to practically anyone but her. Although, since coming to this world, she has formed friendships such as the one with Oldman Zhao and had a pleasant feeling towards the Azure Continent itself due to her spending time with many people there, with it also being the first area she has been in since coming to the World. It doesn''t mean she would put her life on the line to save the Azure Continent, as although she would help them if she could that doesn''t mean she would sacrifice her life in exchange. However, due to Dana not having enough time to leave the Realm, then she knew that she would eventually have to confront Azariel, not to mention he must have some secret on him if he is that powerful, thus the moment she heard about him, he piqued her interest. Why? Because what if he possessed some a powerful bloodline or a powerful artefact, there are many possibilities, therefore Dana wanted to progress her strength as much as possible, to not only have the capabilities to defend herself against him but if possible to defeat the man himself. Another thing Dana seemed to notice is her head felt strange, to describe the sensation it''s as if her mind has suddenly become clear. But, as she began to remember the past few weeks, with her ''Treasure hunting'' tendencies, Dana''s face began to turn redder and redder from embarassment. Is, this what the System was talking about when it said I had a strange obsession with treasure? Looking back to her previous actions, she felt as if she wanted to bury her head in a hole in shame, Dana suddenly felt she couldn''t even present herself in front of her subordinates due to her previous shameful behaviour. Unknowingly, Dana didn''t know they wouldn''t likely say anything to her anyway about her over her obsession with treasures, as she has truly frightened the life out of them as a result of them observing how ferocious she is towards her enemies. Do you think they noticed? She thought, however, the System answered her question without a shred of mercy for its Host. [Yes, Host the System has seen that both of your subordinates thought that you''d lost your mind whenever they see you with treasures, but due to being afraid of you these past few days they have ignored your treasure addiction. But, now that the Host is finally ''Fixed'', you can now become a ''fairly'' normal person instead of deranged. Although you may still possess a desire for treasures, it is no longer to the ridiculous amount as it was before. By the way, the System will apologise for that, as due to you absorbing those dragon bloodlines, you ended up inheriting the ''Greedy'' nature of a Dragon when it comes to treasures in an extremely high degree.] After the System finished speaking, Dana thought ''So it seems they did notice. Well... to be fair it was a bit obvious, as even if she had seen her own expression, she would have probably freaked out. Moving on, she guesses she should check her new stats as a result of upgrading her bloodline. ''Status'' Dana thought. [Name: Dana Whitefield] [Cultivation Level: Xiantian Realm Rank 6; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Body Cultivation: Xiantian Realm Rank 6; Cultivation Method: Dragon Emperor Cultivation Technique - Dual Body and Qi] [Soul Cultivation: Infant Level Middle Tier; Cultivation Method: Great Buddha Soul Cultivation Technique] [Bloodlines: Frost Wyvern 100% Purity [Rare], Earth Drake 100% Purity [Rare], Raging Blaze Drake 100% Purity [Rare],Four-Headed Inferno Hydra 100% Purity [Rare], Hellfire Phoenix 100% Purity [Rare], Silver-Winged Fae [Rare] - The combination of these bloodlines has formed a new [Saint] Bloodline] [Forms: Dragon Form, Three-Headed Dragon Form, Human Form and Fae Form. ----> Unlocked multiple different forms, as your heads become optional and can recede into your body. ----> Your Parallel mind ability won''t suffer any negatives as the multiple brains will still be active within your beast form, but you will not be able to launch different attributed attacks similar continuously similar to the Three-Headed Dragon Form. ----> Your human form has changed slightly, as the effect of the Fae bloodline your appearance will change. ----> Unlocked Fae Form ----> An alternative humanoid form, allows your appearance to resemble a Fae. Within this form any skills to do with the Fae bloodline, efficiency and power will increase multiple times.] [Bloodline skills: Phoenix Descent, Hellfire Blast, Flame Blast, Wind Slash, Wind Burst, Vine Grapple, Natures Call, Poisonous Vines, Poisonous Fog, Inferno Beam, Tri-Elemental Strike, Poison Fang [Enchanced further by the combination of both Frost Wyvern and Four-Headed Hydra venom] Flame Spear, Flame Breath, Flame Whip, Flame Fang, Earth Spike, Earth Armor, Earth Claw, Earth Shape, Frost Breath, Dragon Aura, Ice Claw, Poisonous Spikes and Poison Ice Breath.] [Bloodline Inherited Talents: Ice Qi Affinity ----> Increases comprehension towards Ice Laws and Ice Attributed Martial Skills, Body Cultivation----> Due having a heritage of a True Dragon, your body is naturally more suitable towards the cultivation of the body, any cultivation methods which requires the use of the body is 120% more effective and easier to cultivate ----> Due to your Dragon bloodlines, this inherited talent has been enhanced. Poison Immunity ----> As a Frost Wyvern with a rare bloodline, you have a high resistance towards poison, Hardened Body ----> Earth Drakes are descendants of Earth Dragons a race is known for having one of the strongest defences among the Dragon race as a descendant an Earth Drake has inherited a portion of this talent, Earth Qi Affinity ----> Earth Drakes are naturally attuned to Earth Qi this increases your attribute talent with Earth Affinity, as a result, increases comprehension towards Earth Laws and Earth Attributed Martial Skills, Fire Qi Affinity ----> Raging Blaze Drakes are naturally attuned to Fire Qi; this increases your attribute talent with Fire Qi. As a result, increasing your comprehension towards Fire Laws and Fire Attributed Martial Skills, this infinity has further enhanced thanks to your Four-Headed Inferno Hydra Bloodline and Phoenix bloodline. Fire Resistance ----> You will have a natural resistance of Fire related attacks, this has been enhanced further by the Phoenix Bloodline. Parallel Mind ----> As a descent of the Hydra you possess multiple different brains, giving you the ability to process various things at the same time, effects include increasing comprehension, Regeneration ----> All Hydra''s are known for their exceptional regeneration ability, you are no different to this and possess the same absurd regeneration that a Hydra is known for, the drawbacks of this ability is that your regeneration will slow down considerably if all substance within the body to the power ability is consumed. Poison Body ----> As a Frost Wyvern you already are a species known for having one of the most potent poisons and with the combination of the Four-Headed Hydra a beast of similar reputation, you have combined two of the most fearsome toxins among rare bloodline beasts. As a result, your poison affinity has increased to a ridiculous level, making even your blood strongly poisonous towards any individual! Phoenix Rebirth ----> The naturally gifted skill of a Phoenix, sacrifices a portion of your cultivation in exchange for being reborn anew. No matter what state your body is currently in, this skill can still be used. Even if your body is destroyed, and you just possessed your soul, you can reform your body with this skill. Soul Affinity ----> Having the Phoenix bloodline allows you to cultivate the soul much more effectively, in addition, gifts you further comprehension talent within the Soul. One With Nature ----> By being a possessor of a fae bloodline, the world around you heeds your call. Increases your comprehension with every attribute. Charming Aura ----> Makes it easier for others to like you and allows your words to naturally be more persuasive. Another factor of this inherited skill is it makes your voice more pleasant and makes you possess natural charisma.] Seeing all the new stats, Dana was amazed and thought to herself, ''She finally possesses a Saint bloodline, but it seems it is a brand new one as she is basically a new species entirely now''. She should probably go back to her subordinates now and leave quickly as possible, after all she doesn''t want to attract attention to herself at the moment, giving others the knowledge she has opened an inheritance of the Secret Realm which even eluded Tier 6 Sects because that is just putting a target on her back. Walking to the exit, Dana doesn''t know that a great deal of attention was already drawn to this place, and at the moment a horde of young geniuses are approaching, for one purpose only, and that is to take the strongest inheritance for themselves! 66 Annoucemen Sorry I cannot do a chapter today, but I will upload 3 Chapters tomorrow. 66 Chapter 65 - The Horde of Arrogant Young Masters Dana proudly walked out of the inheritance, her draconic head raised as she prepared to greet her faithful subordinates who will obviously be waiting in anticipation for their Master''s arrival. But, the scene was completely different from what Dana expected, as instead of finding her subordinates outside of the Secret Realm she saw a massive horde of Arrogant Young Masters, blinking her eyes repetitively, she found no matter how many times she blinked or told herself this must not be real, the reality before her says otherwise. Thinking this seemed to be one of her worse possible nightmares come true, as even one snobbish Arrogant Young Master was terrible, and now there seemed to be hundreds of them before her. The large group of Arrogant Young Masters who were currently conversing with each other, showing off their talents and bragging about how wealthy their parents are, in addition to their skills in the ''Bedroom'' area which Dana thoroughly ignored. But the worse part of their conversation seemed to involve who they wanted to ''Bed'' the most, and it appeared Dana is one of the most popular topics regarding this, much to her displeasure as she unintentionally released a substantial amount of killing intent towards the Arrogant Young Masters. Of course, upon noticing, that suddenly a large Dragon over 100ft long has appeared before them, many of these Arrogant Young Masters started shivering from fear. However, maybe because they have been given a massive boost to their confidence due to there being so many of the top geniuses from the younger generation present. An Arrogant Young Master which is presumably from a higher tier sect as his cultivation is at the Core Formation Realm walked to the front as he looked at Dana with a self-assured appearance. Turning around to face the other Arrogant Young Masters, he said courageously, "Don''t be fearful of the beast! Look how many of us there are, not to mention haven''t you realised it exited the inheritance? None of us has even been able to get close and is repelled from even getting within of the damn thing. Now that beast must be the answer, and whoever takes it down with me, will get a share of the rewards!" Hearing the words of the Core Formation, Arrogant Young Master had caused the Arrogant Young Masters to turn from a bunch of cowering dogs into a gang of ferocious tigers, as a gigantic wave of battle intent erupted from the Arrogant Young Masters. Seeing the formerly wimpy Arrogant Young Masters, immediately begin looking at her as if they wanted nothing more than to rip her into pieces, made even Dana impressed at how easily this Core Formation expert swayed their minds with just a few words. In doing so, not only has he made himself have a bunch of meat shields to wear her down, but he has indirectly ''removed the competition'' by pitting them against her in such a way. It seems that everyone in Tier 4 or Tier 5 Sect are impressive, even when it comes to scheming they are top notch. Unfortunately for him though, no matter how many schemes he comes up with, it cannot compete with pure strength, as a war of attrition may work on a typical dragon, but for a dragon such as Dana? As not only Dana has the defence of a dragon, but she also has the regeneration of a Hydra, meaning she basically has almost unlimited stamina so such tactics would be useless against her. Thus, instead of feeling a sense of crisis with the situation before her, Dana just sneered as she thought, ''This would be a great opportunity for me to practice my new abilities.'' Charging forward fearlessly towards the Arrogant Young Masters who had suddenly become overconfident due to the Core Formation mans words, instead of cowering away from the Dragons charge, each of them tried to push in front of each other as if they wanted to get to Dana first. As who wouldn''t be tempted with access to the inheritance. And as Dana is the key to this, this caused each of these Arrogant Young Masters into wanting nothing more than to slaughter her where she stood. But, the Arrogant Young Master seemed to forget that Dana was not easy to deal with at all, and even the Core Formation genius had no confidence in being able to defeat her, otherwise, why would he have encouraged them to do so? Instead, he would have dealt with her himself and not waste his time by doing such a tactic. Maybe, if they would have been more calm-headed, they would have realised they are merely being used as pawns. As Dana''s crashed into the horde of Arrogant Young Masters, the ones who previously rushed to the in front were all instantly smashed into pieces as Dana slaughtered a path out of the sea of cultivators towards the exit. Due to Dana not only having a mark left on each of her subordinates which prevent them from revealing information about her, but it also serves as a locator, allowing her to easily find their location. She found they were not to far away from here, and must have left quickly after seeing a large number of people approaching this place. Otherwise, they may have been attacked instantly upon a individual catching sight of them. The screams of pain and shouts of agony reverberated through the location of the inheritance, as the former eager Arrogant Young Masters became more and more fearful as the battle went on. As even after all that, Dana seemed mostly unaffected and they have lost the lives of countless experts on their side. The bloodthirsty Dragon bulldozed a path forward, as she stamped, smashed and chomped on the ants before her. With the battle continuing at a pace the Core Formation expert didn''t expect, a cold sweat appeared on his face as he wondered what type of monster did they provoke? When the Arrogant Young Masters began fleeing for themselves, Dana thought inwardly ''You think I will let you escape this easy?'' Thus, an additional two heads emerge as she each one breathed in before a burst of Ice, Fire, and Earth launched towards the running Arrogant Young Masters. The ones who previously thought they successfully escaped from the horrifying beast, ended up being caught in the large blast of the three attributes, as each of them died without them even knowing how. The Core Formation cultivator stared in terror, as he witnessed a large number of Top Genuises completely decimated by the Dragon before him. ''I need to get away now, or even I won''t be able to keep my little life'' He thought, before using all of the escaping treasures he had in his possession to get away with the highest possible pace. Dana, who saw that the Core Formation expert managed to escape frowned, as she was caught off guard by the escaping treasures, not to mention he is a Core Formation Expert allowed him to escape from her slaughter successfully. But honestly, she doesn''t care about this, as not one beast from history has been able to exit the Secret Realm. Thus there shouldn''t be any problems which arise from this. Not to mention even if they attempt to search for her here as a result of this guy informing them about her, she will be long gone by then. Moreover, as the Secret Realm has served its purpose, it will actually decline from now on, as the five inheritances will permanently disappear and that is the large factor which interests the higher level Sects thus without that gone, Dana knows for a fact that the Secret Realm will receive a draw in popularity. Spreading her wings, Dana launched her self in the air, as her large form created a large shadow to the ground below, as she traveled towards the location of her subordinates. Checking if she was close to her subordinates via the marks, she found that she should be coming across them within a moment. Swooping down, Dana landed on the ground below causing a loud noise to sound awakening both the sleeping Lavendia and Maia who were currently snuggling as they slept within a spacy hole in a Tree. Maia who is startled awake by the tremor caused by Dana''s landing, suddenly noticed that Lavendia was fondling her private area causing her cute face to lit up with anger. Throwing the lewd hands of Lavendia of her body, Maia said, "Wake up Lavendia, something big is coming our way..." Lavendia who is half asleep at the moment said, "Can you just shut up? I''m sure it was nothing, as the strongest things within this place were the Guardians and they aren''t even outside an inheritance. So, there are only weak beasts around here, no threat to the both of us. Why don''t we do something more fun instead?" Seeing the lustful grin from Lavendia, caused Maia once again to be annoyed as she slapped Lavendia''s wandering hands which were inches away from her cleavage away, as she said, "Can you take this seriously at all? No wonder Dana has to discipline you with your behavior, maybe I should take this into my own hands and beat you myself." However, this didn''t get quite the reaction she expected, and Lavendia just looked at her with a gaze full of expectation and said, "Hmm. Your right, I have been missing... I mean thankfully not being beaten by Dana these past few days, maybe I do need a bit of rough treatment from you." Seeing such a perverted gaze within Lavendia''s eyes, Maia instantly discarded that idea, as the Dryad was already lustful as it is nevermind if she fulfilled her ''desires''. But, both of these two were startled as a loud noise once again sounded, as a ginormous beast walked near the large tree they were currently in. Maia who is proven right said, "See I''m right? Haven''t I told you there''s some big beast out there, it seems even bigger than master!" Lavendia who became serious at realising this was no figment of Maia''s imagination, said, "Alright, I understand that it is real now, so now that we confirmed the beast is real after all, so should we attack it or perform a getaway?" Maia hearing the words ''getaway'' from the Dryad said, "You dare suggest that to a Griffin? Don''t you Dryads have pride? You must have a basic code which you were taught, as we Griffins were taught to never run away from a foe, no matter how formidable it is! Otherwise, how could you maintain your honour?" Lavendia just responded, "Us Dryads having a code? The only thing we were taught is how to please our partners during sex, the instructor even taught a technique on a human in front of us which brought him so much satisfaction that..." Before Lavendia could finish Maia slapped her across the face and said, "Can you say anything else but something related to sex? Because, it seems that the only thing you talk about constantly, now let''s focus on the present issue as we..." However, Maia was interrupted mid-sentence as large chunk was ripped out the tree as a familiar, but larger Dragon stood in front of them. Dana ignoring their dumbfounded expression said, "Hey, did you guys miss me?" 67 Chapter 66 - Exiting Secret Realm Seeing the believed ''Ferocious'' beast was, in fact, their Master, both Lavendia and Maia let out a relieved sigh, while they excitable looked at Dana. Gazing at Dana''s appearance themselves, they could instantly tell that she benefitted immensely from the most mysterious inheritance of the Secret Realm, causing both Lavendia and Maia to be in slight envy, but they quickly discarded this thought as they knew that whatever treasure it is would be wasted on them. Not to mention being with Dana these past few days, they found even though she had a scary ''Treasure'' addiction, in the end, she was still a good person and didn''t mistreat them at all despite having the power to do so. Thus, they have already fully accepted Dana as their master, as not only has she got extremely high potential, but also she has a good personality, which made both Lavendia and Maia accept their new role in being subordinates. "Yes, of course, I have Master, I had been stuck with that insufferable Dryad these past few days who wouldn''t stop her perverted antics." Said Maia with a pitiful expression on her face. Lavendia smirked as she replied, "Never seen you complain about it though, didn''t you even let me sleep with you?" Maia''s face turned a shade of scarlet red after Lavendia''s comment, as she did indeed let Lavendia slept next to her, but that was only due to having some problems sleeping, as a result of her experience with the Male Griffin. Thus, Lavendia''s comment was truthful, but she made it sound incredibly suggestive the way she voiced it. Observing the face of Maia, Dana said, "Hmm. You two haven''t done it again, have you? I thought you have gotten over this already..." Maia turned even more embarrassed, while Lavendia as always stood unashamedly, with an even proud look on her face. Getting the courage to speak, Maia said, "Master, it isn''t like that, I assure you that nothing happened between us!" Dana said, "It''s alright, I totally believe you. Alright, now that your Master has finally returned, I would like you to inform both of you I have found a way to leave the Secret Realm earlier than expected. I believe this is our best course of action, as I estimate I will likely have a few enemies who are awaiting me, and I would prefer to escape their notice." Dana even believed that she could quickly return to her Master and as a result of her not showing up out of the Secret Realm, then doesn''t that mean everyone will presume she is dead? This will be perfect cover in her opinion, as she can cultivate peacefully without worrying someone would show up to cause trouble for her, therefore disturbing her cultivation. Not to mention she can now enter the Secret Realm whenever she wanted with that exit, as it is a way back in and out of the Secret Realm, and only she knows the method in being able to open it. Therefore, she will be able to escape to the Secret Realm in the future whenever she encounters an unavoidable trouble that she cannot deal with at the moment, allowing her to cultivate in seclusion until she is readily able to deal with that threat, or to be able to escape the notice of that individual by staying within for a certain time limit. The Dryad said, "It is a good idea Master, but how about us? Even though we have a human form, we will still be discovered by an expert if they pass by." Seeing the looks on their face, Dana said assuringly, "Don''t worry, I got the perfect method as I received a disguise technique of the Inheritance, which is very effective at hiding Spirit Beasts from humans, and someone two realms above the user can only discover it." Hearing that the described technique from Dana was so wonderous, both Lavendia and Maia looked at Dana with disbelief written in their expressions, clearly not believing that such a method exists. Witnessing the doubtful looks on both of her subordinates faces, Dana said, "Don''t believe me? I''ll send you the information right now." Dana also found another feature of the mark, was she could transfer information over to them, of course, it had a limit, but the technique wasn''t too complicated anyway, so she quickly gave it to them. Discovering the information of the technique, suddenly appearing within their minds, both the girl''s expressions gradually changed as the more they read, going from surprised to awe within moments. "The technique is amazing Master, and I''m sorry for ever doubting you before!" Maia said. "I agree, I also apologise for my previous behaviour," Lavendia said. Smiling at satisfaction, at witnessing the wonder on their faces after witnessing the technique for themselves, Dana said, "Well, do you think you can comprehend the technique enough before we arrive human territory?" Taking Dana''s words as a challenge, both Lavendia and Maia said firmly, "Yes Master; we will definitely have sufficient understand of the technique before then!" "Good, now let''s go I already know the way to exit, and by doing so we will exit days earlier before the other participants. Oh, we should also collect the valuables of those Arrogant Young Masters I had to deal with earlier...," Dana said. Thus, before, Dana went to the exit of the Secret Realm, she once again led her subordinates to the remains of the Arrogant Young Masters, and collected all of the treasures but not within a ''Obsessive'' manner as she had done previously, instead she stored all of the valuables within her storage ring without inspecting each of them multiple times, surprising both Lavendia and Maia who thought Dana once again was going to enter ''Treasure Addict'' mode. Searching around the area, Dana dealt with a few other Arrogant Young Masters which manage to escape earlier but unfortunately the Core Formation Expert was no were to be seen, so running out of luck of finding him, Dana just decided to head to the exit, therefore both Lavendia and Maia followed alongside Dana until they soon found the hidden exit precisely as described in the memories of the Mysterious Expert, and even if another discovered it, the exit would be useless to them. "Alright we''re here, now give me a moment to open it," Dana said, before approaching the ordinary looking rock formation which seemingly blends within the surroundings. Both Lavendia and Maia, couldn''t help but be puzzled at what Dana is trying to do with a bunch of rocks. But, this puzzlement soon changed after they noticed that Dana seemed to be unlocking some sort of array mechanism, and as soon as she finished, the seemingly ordinary rock formation began to shake before a gateway like-structure, looking exactly like a smaller version of the one Dana used to enter the Secret Realm appeared as the movement of the rock formation stopped. After it finished, a rumbling sound emerged before a portal similar to the one Dana used to enter the Secret Realm, slowly formed within the new gateway. As the portal appeared in front of them, Dana looked back at both Lavendia and Maia, before she said, "Come on then, let''s leave, the sooner we exit this place, the less likely someone will spot us doing so!" However, looking at the portal Maia suddenly thought of something, so she said, "Hey, Master, what if someone comes across this portal as soon as we leave?" Looking at Maia, Dana replied, "You don''t have to worry about that at all, the portal will automatically close shortly. Therefore no one will discover it." Nodding at Dana''s reply to her question, the trio slowly walked into the portal before they were each transported out of the Secret Realm, many times earlier than the individuals outside are expecting! After teleporting outside, Dana found that they seemed to be a fair distance away from the entrance which she used to enter into the Secret Realm. Turning to both Lavendia and Maia, she said, "Alright, both of you wait here. I got to find my Master before I leave, so she won''t worry about me when I don''t show up among those teleported outside the Secret Realm." Accepting Dana''s orders readily, as they knew they couldn''t appear within human society just yet, primarily because there were many powerful masters present due to them escorting their disciples to the Secret Realm, in addition to awaiting their exit within a few days. Leaving the location, she left Lavendia and Maia in; Dana turned into her human form as she felt there were indeed changes. As she found a lake nearby, she quickly arrived at it in no time, as she stared at her reflection she found her appearance has changed dramatically. Observing her reflection, it seemed that Dana''s eye colour has changed to green, but if you looked closely, there were some golden specks within them, showing that the Phoenix bloodline still affected her eye colour slightly, despite her not having two different eye colours in her human form. In addition to that, her appearance has qualitatively improved, and her face has become even more beautiful than before. But, not only this as Dana found the main change seemed to be her aura entirely, as previously Dana aura, was that of a cold and unapproachable person, causing a person to shiver instinctively. However, as a result of her fae heritage, outwardly Dana seemed like a weak, innocent girl who would draw people to protect her instinctively. Also, it made her seem much weaker than she truly is, making an individual easily forget that Dana is an extremely powerful expert herself. Thinking that this must be the whole charming aura affecting her, not to mention the Fae were known for their ''Innocent'' and ''Pure'' like beauty, Dana found it not surprising. Even though she was originally slightly upset about losing her cold demeanour, as she believed more young masters would bother her now, but she couldn''t help but admit that this may prove useful in the future, as it will make others reluctant to hurt her and draws others to stand up for her. But, if someone has bad intentions? She will simply deal with it herself, as she doesn''t require anyone''s protection, but she still admits it would be helpful in some circumstances, as it will make people underestimate her, which Dana believes will work in her advantage greatly. ''Guess, I should find my Master then.'' She thought, before walking into the Town next to the Secret Realm. Covering herself in a cloak, Dana didn''t attract attention as she entered the Town. Observing the Town for herself as she passed, Dana found it was exactly like that of a Historical Chinese Town, with the buildings resembling what you would expect to see in one. As she walked towards the Inn which her Master was located, the surroundings were filled with a bustling atmosphere as the street was filled with vendors selling their wares, and the loud discussions of the ordinary people as they went about their usual day of work. But, Dana just ignored her surroundings as she focused on arriving at her Master, finally finding herself at the Inn which her Master was staying in. Dana was about to enter when she suddenly found a commotion going on within the Inn, hearing the loud noises of a struggle within Dana suddenly thought, ''It seems my master is in trouble!'' Finding her Master needs her help, Dana charges into the Inn, preparing herself to face the threat that will befall her. 68 Chapter 67 - Culprit Behind the Battle Charging into the room, Dana saw a large battle going on between her Master and a Handsome middle-aged man who was of similar cultivation at all. The Handsome middle-aged man launched his strikes fiercely at Yuequin Wen continuously pushing her back, as Yueqin Wen looked at a clear disadvantage against the middle-aged man despite being of similar cultivation. Witnessing her Master being at the losing end in this exchange, Dana wasn''t pleased with the situation at all and knew that if she doesn''t step in Yuequin Wen will eventually lose against the middle-aged man. So without delay, Dana announced her presence with a loud battle cry as she sprinted towards the middle-aged man ferociously. Yueqin Wen and the Handsome middle-aged man had shocked looks on their faces when they saw Dana appear out of nowhere, especially when they noticed, she has such a savage expression on her face as she headed towards them. Seeing Dana looking at him as if she wanted to rip him into pieces, the Handsome middle-aged man quickly prepared himself to face the incoming assault of Dana. A large crash sounded as Dana collided into the middle-aged man, who staggered a few steps backwards due to the sheer force of the strike Dana landed. The middle-aged man stared at Dana with a dumbfounded look in his eyes as he felt the power of attack Dana inflicted, as despite her being of a much lower cultivation level than him she actually managed to push him back. Although he didn''t put his full power in the exchange a moment ago, it is still enough to repel even a Fifth Rank Core Formation Cultivator, and Dana managed to push him back, showing the force of her strike just then was even above that. But, the middle-aged man put these thoughts into the back of his mind, as he saw that Dana was yet again preparing another attack towards him. However, before Dana could act, Yueqin Wen who finally recognised Dana after observing her appearance, said, "Wait, Dana, this is a misunderstanding! Don''t attack him any longer, we are just sparring, so your Master wasn''t harmed." Dana who heard Yueqin Wen stood still, as she stopped her previous intended movements after hearing that the middle-aged man isn''t a threat towards her Master. Yet, Dana still looked warily at the middle-aged man as she slowly walked towards Yueqin Wen and said, "Then, Master can you explain to me who this man is?" Listening to Dana''s question, Yueqin Wen laughed before she said, "Shouldn''t you be the one explaining yourself here? You randomly came into my room days before the Secret Realm is even once again re-opened, and attacked the Sect Head of the Elemental Sect while we were sparring." Dana''s face turned a shade of red after Yueqin Wen''s answer, as in the end, she did seem the unreasonable one here due to her actions. Not to mention, it seems the middle-aged man is the Sect Head of the Elemental Sect all along, a character she hasn''t met before, so it is understandable why she couldn''t recognise him. So, thinking back to her actions of crazily attacking the Sect Head, does make her seem like some sort of maniac. Guess she ruined the opportunity of making a good impression on the Sect Head of the Elemental Sect. "I guess, I am the one in the wrong here, so I apologise on my Master''s behalf. And about me leaving early, I will explain the answer to you in private Master, as it is the type of news that will cause a calamity if spread." Dana said. Yueqin Wen, seeing how serious the usual care-free Dana is being, suddenly realised the gravity of the situation, but she said, "It''s alright saying it in his presence, he was a good friend of my Husband, and has been my closest friend since I was young. So, he is a trustworthy individual, not to mention that the Heavenly Noble Sect blacklisted the entire Elemental Sect because he wouldn''t betray me." Seeing, how much faith Yueqin Wen has in the Sect Head of the Elemental Sect, made Dana decide to trust him with the information, as it is not as if she is going to reveal the whole truth behind it anyways. "Alright, Master if you have such certainty he won''t inform anyone of this, then I''ll let him in on the information. Do you know the most Mysterious Inheritance within the Secret Realm? Well, I passed it and possess the inheritance of the creator of the Secret Realm." Dana said. Both the Sect Head and Yueqin Wen stared at Dana with a look of disbelief, as if they believed they misheard what she just previously said before them. The Sect Head said, "Did you just say you completed the mysterious inheritance of the Secret Realm? An inheritance, which even the geniuses of the Tier 6 sects are completely stumped about." He said this very slowly as if to reconfirm that is what Dana is genuinely saying. Still, Dana said, "Yes, that inheritance." Both, the Sect Head and Yueqin were be widdled as it seemed Dana is talking about the same inheritance they were thinking about, but how is that possible? Does, that mean her talent is above the geniuses of the Tier 6 Sects? As more and more questions appear within their minds, Dana interrupted their thoughts by saying, "If your thinking about talent right now, then don''t. It turned out that talent doesn''t matter at all, in regard to the Mysterious Inheritance. So the reasoning why I succeeded wasn''t because my talent is superior to those geniuses." Yueqin Wen and the Sect Head calmed down slightly after hearing Dana''s answer, as at least that is an answer that they can comprehend. Because, if Dana had superior talent than a Tier 6 Sect genius, then that is something which they would find incredibly difficult to accept. Maybe, if they knew now that Dana possesses a saint Bloodline, making her potential actually above these Tier 6 sect genius, perhaps the pair would faint from shock. "So, can you tell us what the requirement is?" The Sect Head said excitable. He said this as if he knew the secret then couldn''t the Elemental Sect have multiple disciples who possess the martial skills of the Mysterious Inheritance of the Secret Realm? As, the previous inheritances were re-usable, and any disciple talented enough can gain martial skills similar to the ones before, the Sect Head also thought this would be the same for the Mysterious Inheritance. With those Martial Skills, he believed the Elemental Sect would ascend rapidly in power as a result of this. But, before he can daydream these thoughts Yueqin Wen slapped him before she said, "Don''t be foolish, do you realise what you are saying? If you had the key to that place, then do you think the Elemental Sect will be able to escape a calamity and to not be destroyed by the covetous Tier 6 Sects?" The Sect Head instantly regained his thoughts, thinking that his previous idea was indeed very foolish, but Dana still said, "It doesn''t matter now anyway, as the Mysterious Inheritance is a one-use item, that no one else will be able to use again. Thus, it is useless to re-enter that place." Hearing Dana, both Yueqin Wen and the Sect Head realised that the item must surely have benefited Dana immensely. Yueqin Wen who suddenly came up with an idea said, "Is that why your appearance has changed? And also, why your cultivation has improved so much since I last saw you?" Dana who realised this could be an excuse to why her appearance has undergone a change said, "Yes, Master. When I used the item, I suddenly felt my power increased a-lot and also my appearance has undergone a change!" Listening to her disciple''s word, indicating Dana has received such benefits from the Secret Realm, instead of envy, Yueqin Wen felt greatly pleased for Dana as she said, "This is wonderful news, now let''s have a discussion about your time spent in the Secret Realm." After, that both Yuewin Wen and Dana talked about her experience within the Secret Realm, under the watch of the Sect Head of the Elemental Sect who listened curiously. Previously, Dana wanted this to be private with her Master, but she wanted her to share it with him to allow Dana to be more comfortable in his presence. After recounting her experiences, in a more or less skimmed down version, which she hid any information indicating that she is a Spirit Beast, in addition to not revealing the mass slaughter of the Arrogant Young Masters, as even her Master would probably look at her differently if she said such a thing. Then, afterwards, they seemed to begin a group discussion, which revolved mainly Yueqin Wen recounting a few things since she left, with the Sect Head adding a few words now and then. However, eventually Dana found the interactions between the Sect Head and Yueqin Wen strange, as from further inspection the Sect Head didn''t seem to view her Master as a ''Friend'' at all, and he seemed to obviously show a love-struck look whenever his eyes were directed towards his Master. But, it seemed he constantly hid his feelings from Yueqin Wen directly, who still didn''t notice a thing as since the death of her Husband she didn''t look at a man not once, making her incredibly dense to this sort of thing. ''Is this the famous friendzone?'' Dana thought as she stared at the Sect Head and Yueqin Wen having a passionate talk about something. Dana continued to watch the pair when she thought that, ''The Sect Head better not have any other intentions for Master, because as her disciple she will never accept him!'' Eventually, the pair ended their discussion and Yueqin Wen left the room, leaving just Dana and the Sect Head. The Sect Head who noticed Dana staring at him with such an intense glare wondered how he ended up once again ended up offending her. But, thinking back to the relationship of Yueqin Wen and Dana, which seemed much closer than a usual disciple, he thought that it would be a good thing to get Dana on his side, as it will assist him in courting Yueqin Wen. Looking through his storage ring, the Sect Head smiled when he found something which never fails, taking it out he presented it to Dana and said, "You want to try this? It is a luxurious item called ''Chocolate'' which is very rare and expensive to purchase." Dana staring fixedly at the ''Chocolate'', wondered could this be what she thinks it is? Grabbing it out of the Sect Head''s hands, she began munching into it thinking that it''s just too delicious and is many times more delicious than the Chocolate she ate back on Earth. Moaning from pleasure, Dana ate the Chocolate so quickly, that in no time the previous large bar in her hand was all gone. Dana once again turned back to the Sect Head, with a puppy dog face as she tilted her head and looked at the Sect Head with a pitiable expression. The Sect Head at seeing such a petite girl ate a whole large bar within a few bites is greatly surprised by Dana''s ravenous appetite, but still obliged Dana and provided the glutton with more chocolate. Gradually, the Sect Head ended up giving all of the Chocolate he had in possession to Dana who repetitively ate them, as if her stomach is bottomless. Seeing that Dana is looking at him once again he said, "Sorry, I have no more chocolate left on me, but I''m sure I can buy you more straight after we get back." Dana seeing that the Sect Head is the source of her ''Chocolate'', suddenly thought ''Why did I previously had such a bad impression of the guy? In fact, he seems like such a wonderful and pleasant person, what is there not to like?'' With Dana impression of the Sect Head going about a dramatic change, it has basically proven that Lavender''s theory seems to be right, and Dana can be greatly influenced just by food. The System seeming its Host being so easily bribed by food began wondering if this would pose a problem in the future similar to the treasure addiction, as it seemed all you needed to do is to give Dana some nice food and she will have a favourable impression of you. But, seeing that at the moment there seem to be no problems it decides to leave it for now, as it is not like it can cure someone of enjoying their food. Yueqin Wen who walked back into the room finding that Dana and the Sect Head, who were before not getting along great, now looking as if they were the closest of friends became greatly surprised by the scene. Dana smiled as she saw her Master and said, "Master, you didn''t tell me you had such a good friend, you know. He is such a generous person, which is extremely difficult to find among Top Experts like him!" The Sect head responded modestly, "Oh, it''s nothing, I''m just more impressed of you! As despite being a Top Genius within your generation, you don''t even possess such an arrogant attitude similar to them at all!" With the strange scene of both Dana and the Sect Head endlessly complimenting each other, Yueqin Wen stared with a dumbfounded expression on her face. Seeing the look on her Master''s face, Dana walked up to her Master and said, "Hey, Master is there anything wrong?" Yueqin Wen who awoke out of her daze after Dana''s words said, "Oh, nothing..." Witnessing, that her Master seemed to be alright, Dana put her arm around Yueqin Wen and said, "Well, shouldn''t we be leaving Master? We don''t want to stay here by the time the others arrive outside of the Secret Realm, as it would be highly suspicious if we leave at that time." Yueqin Wen just nodded, as Dana dragged her out of the room, the Sect Head decided to remain here as it would be strange if he randomly left when all of the Top Genuises of the Elemental Sect are currently within the Secret Realm. Therefore, Dana and Yueqin Wen began travelling to the location of Lavendia and Maia, which they were going to pick up before they headed towards the Elemental Sect, so Dana can instantly begin her closed-door cultivation, so she can cultivate with the resources gained from the Secret Realm. 69 Chapter 68 - Yueqin Wen meets Lavendia and Maia After leaving the Town, Dana led Yueqin Wen towards the location of Lavendia and Maia. On the way there, Dana discussed with Yueqin Wen about the subject of her gaining two new subordinates. When it came to the point that Dana told Yueqin Wen, as a reward in the Secret Realm she was given two rare bloodlines Spirit Beasts, Yueqin Wen instantly told Dana to be careful of having such powerful beasts as subordinates. Yueqin Wen is rightfully worried for Dana, as the higher the bloodline of a beast, usually the more prideful that beast is, and one of the worst things for a beast is to submit to a human, with them having to serve under them. Therefore, she is concerned that those two Spirit Beasts would do whatever it took to be freed from having to serve Dana, and afterwards, Dana life may even be at risk when they are freed from her control. However, Yueqin Wen''s worries were truly unfounded for an individual such as Dana, as she is right that normally a Spirit Beast of such calibre would never willingly serve a human, no matter how powerful they are. But, due to Dana being a Spirit Beast herself, with a much stronger bloodline, rather being reluctant to follow her any Spirit Beast weaker would feel overjoyed, as for a Spirit Beast it is a great honour to serve a Beast with a more powerful bloodline. The only unusual thing is that both Lavendia and Maia, choose a beast to serve out of their respective bloodlines, as usually a Dryad and Griffin would choose either a powerful Fae or a Griffin with a stronger bloodline to serve. Especially, Griffins who commonly possess a deep-rooted hatred for Dragons. So, when Dana assured to Yueqin Wen that she doesn''t have to worry about them betraying her, Yueqin Wen still thought that Dana is being too naive about the dangers of having such powerful Spirit Beasts around here. In fact, she only managed to calm Yueqin Wen down, when she told her that the creator of the Secret Realm, made sure they would remain loyal to her. Which seemed to appease Yueqin Wen, who had a large amount of faith towards such a powerful expert. However, Yueqin Wen kicked off again when she informed her that the two Spirit Beasts were a Dryad and Griffin, of course, the main problem Yueqin Wen had is with the Dryad due to their infamous reputation. Dryads were known to be an incredibly lustful race, second only to the Dragons, so it was no wonder why Yueqin Wen would be displeased. Thinking about the pure Dana having such a lewd Dryad around her, made Yueqin Wen worried about the Dryad, ''Corrupting'' Dana. Yueqin Wen eyes widened in horror at the thought of Dana having a sex fiend Dryad following around her everywhere, which could potentially influence Dana terribly. While Yueqin Wen is dreading the thought of Dana having such a companion, she didn''t notice that they finally reached their destination. Dana seeing her Master in a daze, patted her on the back awakening Yueqin Wen from her thoughts, before she said, "Master, we''re here. Both Lavendia and Maia should be around here somewhere." As Dana''s eyes wandered around the area to find her two subordinates, two seemingly normal human women appeared. Well, not normal in terms of beauty, as both were top notch beauties, and upon seeing them Dana instantly recognise them, it is Lavendia and Maia! Observing their appearance, she deducted they had great success within the technique, seeing how much of it they comprehended already. Soon, both Maia and Lavendia appear before Dana before Maia said, "Master, your back already! I got to that technique you gave us is amazing, and our human forms are many times more superior than before!" Yueqin Wen felt a great deal of shock, when it seemed that these two were the two Spirit Beasts, as she stared at both of them, she is astonished even further, as even she cannot see through their human disguise at all! Lavendia who noticed Yueqin Wen, said, "Dana, I presume this is your Master then? You didn''t say she was such a gorgeous woman since she is the Master of my Master, then I guess I have to follow he orders as well?" Lavendia paused for a moment before she looked at Yueqin Wen directly and said, "I will definitely obey all of your orders, including your other needs..." As Lavendia said this, she looked at Yueqin Wen very suggestively unknowingly causing Yueqin Wen to be even more apprehensive about Dana having such a lustful Dryad as a companion. Dana''s face turned red in embarrassment by Lavendia''s lecherous behaviour, and Lavendia didn''t even seem planning on stopping as she seemed yet again planning to hit on Yueqin Wen. But, before Lavendia could continue her flirting towards Yueqin Wen, it seemed Yueqin Wen wanted to properly disciple the Dryad in order to prevent her from corrupting the innocent Dana. So, Yueqin Wen grabbed Lavendia forcefully as she dragged her off in the distance under the watch of both Maia and Dana who were about to warn Yueqin Wen of Lavendia''s masochist tendencies but it seemed too late as Yueqin Wen seemed very determined in punishing the Dryad. Therefore, Yueqin Wen had already long ago disappeared into the distance with Lavendia before Dana and Maia could alert her about this very important fact. Turning her head to Dana, Maia said, "Do you think we should rush to warn her?" Looking at Maia, Dana said, "Hmm. I''m sure it''ll be fine, after all, how bad could it be? And I''m not sure if we could even stop Master, as she seems pretty determined in doing this." Maia replied, "Alright, then want to eat some food then? Lavendia has already taught me a bit about cooking and said I''m pretty good." Dana instantly said, "Yes, of course, there''s always time for food!" Thus, both Dana and Maia merely ate an enormous meal fit for feeding a normal human for months, while the loud moans of pleasure from Lavendia sounded, who seemed to be greatly enjoying her experience with Yueqin Wen, who repetitively beat the Dryad fiercely in an attempt to correct her lewd behaviour. Yueqin Wen continued her beating with one thought in her mind, ''This is for Dana, I cannot let her be tainted by this Dryad!'' 70 Chapter 69 - Returning back to the Elemental Sec After Yueqin Wen, finally finished with her ''Discipling'' of the Dryad, she suddenly felt a great sense of guilt. As she began thinking ''Am I a bad person?'' Thinking back to her behaviour, could she have overreacted? Feeling, it is wrong of her to judge a creature based on its reputation, she felt a sense of remorse, as she began to feel that what she has done is extremely wrong. Turning to the Dryad, she was about to apologise when she found the Dryad didn''t seem pained at all by the situation, and on the contrary, she seemed pleased? Thinking that something is wrong, Yueqin Wen noticed she was to caught up in her own guilt and her convincing herself that she is doing the right thing, that she never truly paid attention to the Dryad''s reaction herself. Thus, seeing the Dryad seemed to be in ecstasy showing the opposite reaction what she expected, made Yueqin Wen felt a sudden feeling of trepidation. Lavendia noticing Yueqin Wen becoming very pale, said, "Hey, that was fantastic! Truly, Dana''s Master herself, your technique is even better than hers! Anyways, what''s wrong? You look like you''ve seen a ghost." With Yueqin Wen realising that the Dryad didn''t seem to be affected by the punishment, meant to encourage a change of behaviour around Dana, she became increasingly worried at the thought of the Dryad being of a certain type, which even she feared. A masochist? Doesn''t this mean that instead of ''Punishing'' the Dryad, she had basically been rewarding it? So, could she have done the opposite on what she intended, this whole time? Yueqin Wen felt as if a great weight is pressing on her shoulders, as she felt she began to become increasingly dizzy. Lavendia seeing that she somehow broke Dana''s Master, suddenly became very worried at the thought of even harming her Master! But, wait doesn''t that mean she''ll punish her? As she excitable began to think these thoughts, she immediately discarded them, as if anything bad happened to her Master, then wouldn''t her little life be forfeit? So, Lavendia became gravely concerned for Yueqin Wen''s health as she charged over before checking her condition. Seeing she seemed to basically be alright, the Dryad lifted her easily before placing Yueqin Wen on her shoulder, allowing Yueqin Wen''s pert bottom to be on display. Lavenda who mischievously decided to take advantage of Yueqin Wen''s stupor, and roughly slapped her behind as Yueqin Wen suddenly yelped at the sudden feeling of pain. Smiling at Yueqin Wen''s reaction, Lavendia headed towards Dana''s location while sometimes slapping Yuewin Wen''s rear causing her to let out an occasional whimper. The Dryad found herself enjoying the experience of Yueqin Wen''s soft behind when she slapped it but these actions came to a halt when she realised that Dana should be expecting her quickly, and would find it suspicious if she is gone too long. Thinking that if she is caught doing such a thing she would be killed, Lavendia rushed back to Dana as she found both Dana and Maia, happily sitting next to each other while they were both generously eating all sorts of a different kind of food. Seeing the large assortment of goods, Lavendia found there were many carcasses of different Spirit Beasts within the Secret Realm, not to mention a Spirit Fruits! Witnessing how extravagant her Master is, due to the expenses of each of the things Dana is currently casually eating would be worth a fortune to any of the Tier 3 Sects. Eventually, Dana noticed Lavendia''s presence, but a look of confusion appeared on her face as she saw the barely conscious Yueqin Wen on Lavendia''s shoulder, so she said, "Hey, what happened to Master? You better not have done anything to her or..." Seeing the scary look appearing on Dana''s face, Lavendia hurriedly explained saying, "Master I swear she is just unconscious, and no harm has come to her whatsoever! She just suddenly fainted in front of me, so I carried to you as quickly as possible!" The killing intent within Dana''s eyes calmed down at the Dryads answer, causing her to sigh in relief but Dana''s next words caused an excited gleam to appear within her eyes, "But, you must ensure my Master has fully recovered! So, stay by her side and tell me when she wakes up." Thinking that she can take advantage of this situation, a mischevious look appeared within the Dryad''s features. But, Dana soon noticed the creepy expression on the Dryad''s face and said, "On second thought, Maia you do it! You''re the most sensible one after all." Seeing her original plan being crumbling because of Dana, Lavendia said, "Why? Aren''t I perfectly capable of doing this!" Dana just said as a reply, "Do you not think I didn''t notice that weird look within your eye? I don''t trust you not to take advantage of my Master, therefore Maia will wait until she awakes, while you will be as far away from her as possible..." Becoming disappointed at the thought of not being able to take advantage of such a rare opportunity, the Dryad was about to complain once again but is instantly shut down by a death glare from Dana which hinted that there is nothing that will change her current thought. Having their roles successfully allocated, Dana, Lavendia and Maia who is carrying Yueqin Wen headed off towards the Elemental Sect within their human forms, due to having Yueqin Wen in the group Dana couldn''t transform into a Frost Wyvern, thus their trip to the Elemental Sect ended up being prolonged for a longer period. A few hours later in their journey, Yueqin Wen suddenly regained consciousness completely confused upon what is going on and upon seeing herself being carried by Maia instinctively became panicked causing her to send the Griffin tumbling onto the ground. Dana who saw her Master finally awoken and is currently in a state of confusion, shouted, "Master, calm down it''s me! You suddenly fainted for some reason, so Maia has been carrying you for the past few hours." Yueqin Wen who calmed down after hearing her disciple''s voice suddenly felt a pang of pain on her buttocks. Wondering why she seemed to feel a sense of discomfort in her rear, her thoughts suddenly wandered back to the Dryad. Thinking of the previous events which happened, she thought was it possibly a dream? The last thought she had was the Dryad having a face of bliss, but surely this couldn''t be the truth? As wouldn''t she have noticed during the ''Punishment''? As Yueqin Wen is troubled over these thoughts, she is suddenly awoken out of her daze by Dana as she said, "Master are you alright? If you want to rest for a bit its fine, or we could find some accommodations for you to recuperate in, as I''m sure we can find a nice place within a Town to stay at." Hearing her disciples concern for her, Yueqin Wen smiled before she said, "It''s fine, let''s just continue to the Elemental Sect, I know you need to enter closed-door cultivation as quickly as possible! After all the Sect Gathering is not too long away, so you should treat all the time you have as precious in order to become as strong as possible! I cannot see you losing to that Chao Sung..." Listening to her Master''s words, Dana nodded before they all began travelling again, accept this time Yueqin Wen walked by herself without any assistance. Eventually, a few weeks passed before they finally arrived at the outskirts of the Elemental Sect territory, Dana smiled as they finally arrived back. "I guess I''ve finally returned, now I have the opportunity to finally use the gains I made from the Secret Realm" Dana mumbled. Saying these words, after a few moments of staring at the territory of the Elemental Sect, they once again began heading towards the headquarters of the Elemental Sect. 71 Chapter 70 - Commotion Caused Upon Entering Elemental Sec After entering the territory of the Elemental Sect, they shortly arrived at the Headquarters of the Elemental Sect within a few days. "Finally, we are back at the Sect, Master!" Dana said. Yueqin Wen just smiled, while both Lavendia and Maia stared in wonderment at the sight of the Sect before them. Seeing the amazement on Lavendia''s and Maia''s face, Dana said, "Why are you staring at this place as if you have never seen a human Sect before? I''m sure the both of you must have seen a more impressive place than this with your cultivations and bloodlines." However, upon Dana noticing Maia''s and Lavendia''s reaction, she soon realised that this wasn''t the truth at all, so have they really never seen a human settlement before on this scale? Lavendia who is the most confident of the two, instantly said, "No Master, your forgetting that before it was basically impossible to approach a human sect, as Dryads usually aren''t good at concealing themselves within our human forms. Not to mention I have been trapped in that place for a long time, so yes, I had never ever seen a place of such scale before and I''m sure it is similar to Maia." Hearing Lavendia''s reply, Maia nodded as if agreeing what Lavendia said and Dana thoughts became complex as she suddenly realised how lucky she truly was, as it seems that life is difficult for Spirit Beasts, especially if you have no clan which can offer you protection. After all, the bodies of Spirit Beasts are very valuable to a cultivator and can be used to promote the growth of the cultivation of their young geniuses and not to mention that every part of a Spirit Beast is valuable whether it is used in the production of weapons or pills. Spirit Beasts are also sought after to enslave as if a cultivator captures a powerful Spirit Beast when they are young, then when the beast is fully grown it could serve their clan for a long time, offering a great deal of protection allowing the growth of their clan to improve at a rapid pace, which is achievable as a Spirit Beasts lifespan is generally many times longer than a human. Seemingly finished at their sightseeing, both Maia and Lavendia signalled that they were ready to continue to the Sect, therefore the group soon arrived directly at the Headquarters of the Elemental Sect. Seeing the place at the close, both Lavendia and Maia looked excitable at the Sect building, as if they had found a brand new toy to play with. As Dana scanned the Sect building herself, as she never truly properly observed the outside appearance of the Sect before now, the Sect grounds contained three grand buildings, the one in the centre is the largest with it resembling a large mansion, as if contains the dormitories where the disciples sleep, and in addition has the classrooms. The other two buildings are the building she had been in previously, which contains the library and martial skills. And lastly, the final building is more of battlegrounds and is used for the disciples to temper themselves against each other. Dana has no plans on using that one as she felt it would prove useless to her, as it provides no real life or death battles, and Dana believes it is a waste of time compared to gaining real battle experience. In addition to her fighting style is a bit too vicious, making her greatly concerned of accidentally ''Breaking'' a few students, thus she ignored that building since coming to the Sect. As both Maia and Lavendia continued their discussion excitable together, Dana''s group, of course, caused a great deal of commotion immediately after entering the Sect grounds. The various disciples stared at the four ladies as if they seemed to be each in their own worlds as if they didn''t notice that they caused such a large crowd to appear, with each of them looking at the four ladies with admiration. Each of the disciples greedily took in the scene, as if they couldn''t believe that four such top tier beauties could be present at the moment, each being different kinds of supreme beauties! Yueqin Wen is naturally the mature beauty, Lavendia is the seductive beauty, Maia is the innocent, young beauty while Dana being the most beautiful of them all seemed to resemble a goddess that descended into the mortal world, but at the same time has an aura making her seem as if she is weak and fragile thus drawing the urges that she needs protection. Of course this also caused another emotion to the more dark-minded fellows, as it seemed more of an aura which makes them want to ''Conquer'' her if anything, but due to Yueqin Wen being present none of these individuals would dare get in the way of the girls, therefore Dana and her group continued their way through the Sect, under the numerous glares of the disciples. Many disciples who ended up being in the path of the four girls, instantly after catching sight of them seemed to freeze as they stared dazedly at the girls as their minds seemed to overwhelm at seeing such a sight. While they were walking Dana turned to Lavendia and Maia, and said, "Lavendia and Maia, seeing you are both so eager to see the Sect, as your Master, it is only right if I put your best interests in place. After all, I now have your loyalty, so as the generous dragon I am, want to have a tour around the place? I might as well come with you and Master to show you, after all it won''t take to much of my cultivating time away from me." Of course, this idea mainly came from the fact that Dana was kind of embarrassed about her treasure addiction while in the presence of her subordinates, so she wanted to make it up to them for having to have to see such a scene. Hearing Dana''s proposal the two girls instantly agreed, thus the group spent their time touring around the Sect, while any disciples coming across their path ending up seeing a sight they would never forget. Eventually, Dana''s group even managed to make a reputation for themselves, despite being within the Sect for a few hours as being the ''Four Supreme Beauties'', with each even having their respective fans already. Talking about the fans, Dana ended up having the largest amount due to her already being declared as the leader of the group due to her ''Goddess-like'' appearance, while the other three seemed to have a similar amount of supporters. Of course, they knew nothing of this thing happening within the Sect already, as Dana took Lavendia and Maia around the Sect, allowing them to see it for themselves. Eventually, they finished the little tour around the Sect, and Dana asked her master if she could find her the best place for closed-door cultivation within the Sect. After being directed towards the area, Dana unleashed her subordinates onto the Sect, as she said they can do whatever they wanted while she is under closed-door cultivation and use any of the Sect facilities they wanted. Of course, Dana entrusted them to Yueqin Wen, who will prevent them if their behaviour gets too out of hand, so as she finished speaking to her subordinates and her Master. Dana entered the closed-door cultivation room, as she began making her preparations to being closed-door cultivation. 72 Chapter 71 - Closed-Door Cultivation and Mayhem caused by Lavendia and Maia In Danas Absence Making her preparations, Dana gathered a portion of the precious materials she gained from the Secret Realm and placed it in front of her. Seeing the large pile of precious treasures in front of her, an excited gleam appeared within Dana''s eyes as she wondered how far will these treasures allow her to progress. She decided not to use all the treasures to aid her cultivation, as she planned on learning some of the techniques provided by the Masters of the Secret Realm also. Thus, with anything now fully prepared, Dana sat down and began meditating as she began to cultivate with the treasures. Not forgetting that she can use her additional minds to also comprehend the techniques while cultivating, Dana decided to comprehend both the poison and water technique gained from the old fogies, as she felt at the moment they will be the most useful for her. Therefore, Dana began her closed-door cultivation, as she continuously spent the next three months using the treasures as an aid to her cultivation, in addition to comprehending the techniques. BOOM A large noise erupted within the cultivation chamber as Dana broke through into the 9th Xiantian Cultivation Rank, as her body once again rapidly strengthened to accommodate her new cultivation level. "It seems cultivation is indeed much more difficult the later cultivation stages you are at, even with those treasures I still only managed to reach 9th Xiantian within three months," Dana mumbled to herself. But, if a cultivator outside were to hear Dana''s words they would look at her in anguish, as saying her speed isn''t fast enough? Even Chao Sung the top genius of the Xinghai Continent took four years to make such progress despite possessing the most powerful background and resources that the Xinghai Continent has to spare, and Dana accomplished this in three months! And this in with the factor of her bloodline as well, which makes it much more difficult for her to breakthrough, due to a bloodline requiring an individual to require even more Qi for an individual to progress their cultivation level. ''Oh well.'' She thought, thinking back to the techniques she comprehended over the past few months, as a result of the poisons techniques of the old fogie, she learnt many new, lethal ways she can use her poison. In addition, she also learnt how to identify many other different poisons of other beasts, and methods to combine these poisons to form an even more dangerous one, which Dana believes may prove useful later, if even her poison is not strong enough to a damage an individual, then what if she merged her poison with a one of equal strength? Not to mention she picked up a few things such as being able to secrete her poison out of for instance her nails within her human form, due to her comprehension of poison majorly increasing. However, he thoughts suddenly wandered back to her subordinates as she wondered how they were doing in these past few months with her absence, thus Dana became excited to see them again as being in closed-door cultivation she has been closed of contact for the past three months, therefore she is very eager to find both Lavendia and Maia. "I better go find those two," Dana said, as she stood up, leaving the cultivation chamber. However, Dana was currently unaware that since her absence in cultivation, both Maia and Lavendia has been causing absolute mayhem throughout the Sect, with even Yueqin Wen unable to control them. It even led to the point that both Maia and Lavendia has formed two factions of their own fan club which are completely loyal to them, with their loyalty being so crazy that they would do anything for them. Dana also didn''t know that both of them has put her as the figurehead of their factions, with her being ''The Goddess'' of the Elemental Sect, and being the Master of the two girls both factions are to obey her in any circumstances. Why did this cause mayhem? Well, mainly because both girls seemed to become greatly competitive with each other since coming to the Sect, thus creating an all-out war between their two factions, with both the girls themselves battling each other in the battlegrounds within the Sect constantly. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. Due to the disciples seeing their outstanding strength, cultivation and beauty, the two girls have gained countless admirers, in addition to one of the reasons why their ''Fan Club'' has grown to such horrifying levels. As at first the arrogant young masters originally approached them haughtily asking them to be their concubines, but they ended up being badly beaten up in front of the entire disciples causing them to stare in shock. After thinking the girls will receive retribution from the Top Genuises of the Sect, as they felt pity inside for the two girls, thinking that beauty without strength will only lead to misfortune. But, they soon found that even with backup from the strongest disciples within the School, the nobles still left in the same way, cementing their strength greatly among these disciples, with even the teachers below them. And as the Sect Head was absent at the moment, no one even had the power to deal with them apart from Yueqin Wen who was reluctant since she still felt bad about the beating she gave the Dryad earlier, so the girls tyranny continued unhindered through the Sect, with them becoming the new undisputed leaders of the Sect since even the Teachers couldn''t do anything to them, not to mention both girls possessed more influence among the Disciples that the Sect Head! But, at the moment Dana was completely unaware of this, as she merrily walked out of her cultivation room while looking up at her two subordinates location through the spiritual marks implanted within them, she started walking towards their location in high spirits. 73 Chapter 72 - The Two Factions While Dana was walking towards her two subordinates, she instantly noticed the strange atmosphere around the Sect, and this was especially apparent as she passed the disciples which immediately became respectful upon seeing her. Dana found this incredibly weird, as she believed that not many should have figured out her true identity yet as a result of the change within her appearance, and the fact that no one has ever come out of the Secret Realm early within the history of the Secret Realm itself, thus making it highly unlikely anyone would associate herself with the ''Dana'' who is Yueqin Wen''s disciple. Moreover, even if some guessed her identity, she still doesn''t think that would garner such a reaction from the disciples, as before she remembered clearly that although they have shown a trace of respect to her because of her Master, this was only directed towards her Master not to mention it couldn''t even be compared to the amount of reverence she is receiving at the moment from these disciples. In addition, what dumbfounded Dana, even more, was that this wasn''t just from the common students, but even the nobles who were the proudest and the haughtiest bunch of individuals within the School, and even if her Master were present they wouldn''t necessarily show such a look of respect towards her. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. But, being an observant person, Dana soon found that wasn''t the only thing within their eyes. Did she see a trace of fear? However, thinking that is impossible, as for why would they be afraid of her? She hasn''t even demonstrated her strength within this form, nor done anything that would result in such a reaction from them. On further thought, Dana''s mind wandered towards the troublesome duo of Maia and Lavendia, and then a sense of foreboding appeared within her mind. They didn''t do anything drastic in my absence, right? She kept trying to reassure herself, but the further she walked within the Sect, the weirder the sights she saw, as she suddenly saw there were disciples wearing two different sets of uniforms, and from further listening, she found they belonged to two separate factions which currently have a fierce rivalry. However, this just led to a fiery argument between other factions who believed they were following the strongest individual within the Sect, but Dana found that this wasn''t even the most popular discussed subject between the Factions, and it all seemed to revolve around another thing entirely. With the subjects being comparing the appearance of the girls themselves, as it seemed that most of these faction members seemed to be from the male population, and with each of them idolising the girls they seem to be debating whose looks are superior. But, there are still many female supporters within the two factions, with them crazily supporting the girls as a result of their strength and looks. Overall, this reminded Dana of an ''Idol'' group back in Earth, but it instead focused both on their cultivation and appearance. As the clamouring of conversations continued among the disciples, with both separate factions having a distance between them while ignoring the other faction, but there is still some aggressive behaviour now and then, but this ends quickly, probably because they were told not to ''Fight'' within the Sect grounds and to only do so within the Arena. Yet, these heated discussions instantly stopped after witnessing Dana''s appearance, inspecting her themselves many became shocked, as due to Dana rushing around the Sect within a day and then disappearing for the past three months, many which were on Sect missions or were not ''fortunate'' enough to cross them didn''t see Dana''s appearance themselves. Originally, they thought it was merely an over exaggeration of the others saying Dana beauty is even superior to their faction leaders, and many scoffed at this thought not believing that the figures which they have raised so high in their heart can be replaced. But, even they have to admit that Dana''s beauty easily surpassed their faction leaders by far, and the none could disagree with that as there is still a debate on which of the Faction leaders beauty is superior to the others, but adding Dana into the equation you couldn''t even discuss it all and she would easily be ranked above them with no argument from anyone. As the disciples lost themselves for a moment within Dana''s beauty, they suddenly remembered one of the most important rules of each faction, and that was to always show respect to Dana, with it even being above the level of their faction leaders! Deep down they fully didn''t accept this, as they believed that this is undeserved, as because they didn''t witness Dana''s strength for themselves they thought that two geniuses such as the Faction leaders with such cultivation at a young age to be below Dana, someone whose cultivation they thought is superior, and her only superior feature is her appearance made them still have a slight unwillingness to put her before Lavendia and Maia. However, thinking back to the words Lavendia and Maia told them, made them instinctively shiver as they felt there was no chance of them even considering the possibility is offending their Faction leaders, as they witnessed for themselves the beating which the nobles have gotten for not putting them within their eyes. And, this is especially with the subject of Dana as they felt that whoever dares to slight Dana in any way in front of those to definitely would end up dead! Thus, similar to the disciples which greeted Dana earlier, the large crowd of faction members each shown a stance of respect towards Dana as she passed them while on her way to the location of Lavendia and Maia. Dana who is baffled at the extreme change within the Sect, thoughts wandered more and more to how both Lavendia and Maia could gather such a large influence here within such a short time? Because seeing that the majority of the disciples within the Sect worship them as if they were Gods, meant that they were basically the biggest influence in the Sect, therefore they had taken over the Sect fully within three months, without even the slightest struggle of the disciple''s whats so ever! Why, is this so absurd? As normally, anyone with astonishing strength can take over a place and force individuals to be their subordinates, but deep down they still didn''t truly follow that individual wholeheartedly and wouldn''t follow that individual with deep loyalty, the type which you wouldn''t question them at all and would follow whatever that individual said, even if it could be a life and death encounter. Whereas what Dana is witnessing at the moment is pure fanaticism, and these disciples look as if they would tear someone to pieces if they would dare talk about Lavendia and Maia negatively in any way, so this is what caused Dana to so amazed, and to possess disbelief that the duo actually accomplished this within a mere three months. But, at the same time she believed it might not be a bad thing for the Elemental Sect, as before the disciples weren''t that loyal, and only came to the Elemental Sect for resources, with many who would jump at the opportunity to betray the Sect for some benefits. An example of this is the many disciples who got poached by other Sects over the years because of the Heavenly Noble Sect suppression over the Sect, making it many times weaker due to any disciple with decent potential leaving due to a few benefits. Now, due to Maia and Lavendia, although it wasn''t complete loyalty, it is still many times better than the situation before, with the Elemental Sect extremely worried about the decrease of disciples each year. Furthermore, at the moment the only thing keeping the Elemental Sect afloat is the good teachers, as even though the Elemental Sect declined over the years, the teachers here were still incredibly loyal towards the Sect Head, as despite each easily being able to join into one of the strongest Tier 3 Sect within the Xinghai Continent, which will provide much more resources towards them, they remained in the Elemental Sect despite the disadvantages. So, in a way, Dana believed that this perhaps might be a good thing for the Elemental Sect, but she removed this thought as soon she arrived within the Battlegrounds of the Sect, which is the only place has yet to attend within the Sect. Now, knowing where both Lavendia and Maia is, Dana headed towards the loud sound of battle, as from the sound it, it is definitely a clash between two top tier experts which are extremely well matched. A smile graced Dana faced, as she now knowingly knew what the duo is up to. Increasing her pace, Dana headed towards the largest arena in the battlegrounds, which is made up of some of the hardest, and expensive materials within the Xinghai Continent. Currently, two astonishingly beautiful women were fighting within the arena fiercely as their clashes caused resounding waves within the large arena, accompanied with it was the cheers of the strongest disciples of the two factions, which cheered on each of the girls while at the same time trash talking the other faction disciples about whos Faction Leader is the strongest! Whenever one would gain the advantage, the other faction group would become louder and more boisterous, whereas the opposing group would become much quieter, as they became nervous at the thought of their faction head losing. But, neither of the two women came victorious in these battles, as each time it would lead to a stalemate with them saying they would beat the other the next time within the Arena when they became stronger! However, each time even though both girls strength increased at an enormous pace, it still ended within a draw, none coming out the victor. "Give up sex fiend! You will surely lose this time, and I will prove to you that Griffins are superior in battle once and for all, compared to Dryads who spend more time battling in bed than actual combat!" Maia taunted. "Hmm? You think I would dare lose to you! You clearly promised if I bested you, then we could engage in some sexual activities once again! So this Dryad would definitely not lose this opportunity!" Lavendia said. Of course, their ongoing discussion is being concealed out of the ears of the various disciples, as even those two were not foolish enough to reveal that they are Spirit Beasts to the other disciples present. As the two continued their battle, they were suddenly disturbed by a melodious voice, which instantly caused the loud surroundings to become astonishingly quiet. Quickly, the source of the mesmerising voice is revealed, as a beautiful woman appeared, one which even surpassed the astonishing beauty of Lavendia and Maia. Seeing the reaction of her subordinates, an enchanting smile appeared on Dana''s lips as she said, "Well, what have you two been up to since I entered close-door cultivation?" 74 Chapter 73 - Revealing Strength Within Arena The moment Lavendia and Maia heard the voice of their Master, they immediately stopped their current actions, ending the fierce battle. Turning their heads towards Dana, an excited grin appeared on their faces as the duo charged over to the shocked Dana, who narrowly got out of the way of their thunderous charge. Entirely not expecting such a reaction from her subordinates, Dana said, "Hey what has gotten into you two! It''s only been a few months..." Dana said before she had to once again get out of the way of an attempted tackle from Lavendia who ended up landing heavily on her face causing her to groan in pleasure, causing Maia who witnessed the scene to stop her current actions as she knew that it seemed it would be impossible to get near Dana if they wanted to. Dana seeing the duo had calmed down already, looked at the two sternly before she said, "Hey, what has gotten into the both of you?" Lifting herself off the ground, Lavendia looked at Dana with a pitiful look and said, "What do you mean what has gotten into the two of us? You just disappeared on us for a few months and didn''t even look as if you care at all! Do you know how painful it was these past months for me? I haven''t been ''Beaten'' heavily in months, and because your Master has been ignoring me, not to mention Maia never attempts to injure me, this Dryad has been starved of her basic needs!" Hearing the strange argument of the Dryad, Maia seemed to be favourable embarrassed as she stepped a distance away from Lavendia as if to say ''Don''t associate her with me!'', but Dana instantly turned her head to Maia as she ignored Lavendia and said, "So, what is your reasoning?" Knowing that she needs to explain her reasoning behind the whole thing, Maia said, "Isn''t it a bit obvious? It''s just been Lavendia and me for the whole three months, so how would you feel if the only person who you could talk to unrestrainedly is a sex-fiend Dryad who most of her discussions revolve around the ''Pleasures of the flesh''? It became a nightmare to me, Master, especially when she kept talking about the ''Activities'' of the disciples within the faction, and the worst part of it all is most of her teaching to her faction members are about sex! And now half of the disciples within this Sect has become Sex Maniacs like her, and even the females are not spared Master, so now do you know the reasoning why I look so desperate." Seeing the hopeless look within Maia''s eyes, Dana wondered that maybe that Lavendia becoming a faction leader wasn''t too good of a thing after all... But, surely it couldn''t be as bad as Maia described right? Shivering at the thought of Lavendia converting half of the disciple of the Sect into sexual deviants like her, made her suddenly realize the gravity of the situation. Lavendia who is witnessing Dana''s obvious favouritism said, "Hey, but she didn''t tell you what she did to her faction members! Didn''t you know that she made them all learn a ''Code of Honor'' making them a bunch of righteous idiots!" Hearing Lavendia, she turned her head to Maia as if to confirm such a thing, and seeing such a guilty look of Maia made it clear what the truth is. So, now the Sect is full of lecherous and righteous idiots? This caused Dana''s eyes to widen in horror, at the thought on the Sect Heads reaction when he arrives back, and maybe I should change my mind back to it being such a positive thing earlier... But, alas Dana''s thoughts were soon interrupted by the faction members of Lavendia and Maia, who upon seeing their Faction Heads act, so service to Dana seemed a bit unpleased, as they walked over they looked at Dana with scepticism. Thus, hearing that Dana is superior to even them, while also being younger caused them to be full of disbelief, believing that Dana tricked them somehow. Looking at Dana, they didn''t think that she is even stronger than them, nevermind their Masters! Seeing that their faction members are looking down on Dana, both Lavendia and Maia huffed angrily while Maia was planning on punishing her subordinates, a mischevious look appeared within Lavendia''s eyes as she came up with a solution to this predicament. "Hey, all of you, how about a bet?" Lavendia said, which instantly drew the attention of all of the faction members in addition to Dana and Maia who looked at the Dryad as if wondering what she could be thinking of now. "Now, I know that most of you are still skeptical of our Master''s strength, right? So how about I prove to you something, she will fight as many as you at the same time, and if you defeat her, she will do anything for you..." Lavendia said as a mischievous smirk appeared on her face. Of course the instance she mentioned that all of the disciples looked at Dana''s appearance, and the ones under Lavendia''s tutelage especially had a weird light in their eyes as they stared at Dana lustfully. However, Maia''s disciples being ''Righteous'' fellows thought it is only right they defeat Dana to help her realize the dangers of the world and not to allow her to get too arrogant, not to mention they wanted to prevent the lecherous rival faction from daring to have such thoughts of a frail-looking girl which needs protection. Thus, Maia''s faction members turned into ''White Nights'' in this situation, whereas Lavendia''s faction seemed to turn into a bunch of villains at Lavendia''s statement. Dana turned her eyebrow realizing what Lavendia intended, but although she didn''t like the means of the question and the eyes these disciples are looking at her with, that doesn''t mean she wouldn''t accept such an opportunity! These disciples were the strongest within their factions, so defeating them will immediately reaffirm that she has the strength to be Lavendia''s and Maia''s Master, and will allow these disciples to accept her truly. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. Thus, Dana said, "Agreed, now let''s get this duel over with." Hearing Dana''s condescending tone as if she doesn''t put them within her eyes at all, each of the faction members was angered thinking they''d show her the true disparity between them. Believing that Dana is some sort of sheltered princess, they believed that this would tone down her arrogance! Also, many of the faction members under Lavendia thought this is an excellent opportunity to come by, as they will likely be able to even get near such a beauty again, so they instantly became excited as if they unashamedly raked their eyes up and down Dana''s body. Whereas the ''Righteous'' individuals thought that Dana was just some poor naive girl, who needed protection, thus they believed that playing the ''Heroes'' and saving her may even give her a favourable impression of them. Thus, standing in the arena, Dana is surrounded by all these disciples who thought that they would be able to deal with Dana easily, maybe they might be slightly worried if they were by themselves, but seeing that there were so many disciples they believed this would prove an easy victory. Smiling at the disciples, Dana said, "I''m ready when you guys are, who wants to be the first to be thrown out of this arena?" Hearing such arrogant words, the faction members thought that Dana truly didn''t know what danger she put herself in! Looking condescendingly at Dana, a disciple walked up to her haughtily before he said, "Hmph. Out of respect for the Masters, I will be light upon showing you the true distance between heaven and earth!" After he finished talking, he entered into an overdramatic pose as he jumped at her with a flying jump kick, right when his foot was about to connect with Dana''s face, without exerting much effort Dana grabbed the disciples foot causing him to have a face full of shock. Thinking that this must be some sort of mistake the disciple tried moving his foot but to his surprise he couldn''t move an inch, realising the disparity between their strengths a look of horror emerged on the disciples face as he desperately tried to get away, but before he could react any further Dana threw him with extreme force as he landed in a heap on the floor. All of the faction members stared at the disciple on the floor with befuddlement, as the previous haughty disciple is laying on the ground like a dead dog, seeing the state of the disciple their thoughts instead believed that this guy surely must be a clown, right? Acting so arrogant and then ended up in such a state? Maybe if the disciple could hear their thoughts he would slap them to death, as it was not that he was weak himself, but it was the fact that Dana''s strength is so monstrous, but alas it seems that these disciples will not be able to know such a thing and would find out themselves! Ignoring the ''Clown'' in their eyes, the disciples all walked up to Dana, now not willing to act on their own, as even though they thought that the guy is just some ''Clown'' that doesn''t mean they won''t take any precautions and would go out with their full strength and not dare underestimate Dana! Seeing all of the disciples approaching, a smile grace Dana''s lips as she said, "Come on, we don''t have all day now, don''t we? After hearing Dana''s provocation, the disciples all endlessly charged at them, but soon after the first disciple appeared in front of Dana, loud sounds of agony reverberated around the arena as all of the disciples were thoroughly beaten up individually by Dana. Eventually these disciples realised how strong Dana is and started running away screaming for mercy, but would Dana allow them? Believing that she needs to imprint her ''Dominance'' within these disciples eyes, Dana thoroughly defeated them all, until every one of them was all on the ground groaning in pain. Seeing Dana''s performance, both Lavendia and Maia thought ''Once again, Masters strength increased tremendously!'' Walking past the field of beaten disciples, Maia stared at them with a pitiful expression as she thought they were unlucky for being Masters first fight after her closed-door cultivation as it seemed she went a bit hard on them as she wasn''t fully used to her strength yet! So even with weakening herself greatly, they ended up severely battered. However, Lavendia looked at them with an envious look as she became insanely jealous at the disciples fortune for getting such treatment from Dana, thinking that its greatly unfair Dana does this to them while she does not even spare such treatment to her favorite, lovable subordinate made the Dryad scrunch her nose in annoyance, as she kicked the body of one of the disciples angrily thinking they dare to steal her Master''s treatment from her! If the faction members knew that Lavendia is currently thinking as if it was their idea in the first place for them to receive her ''Masters treatment'' they would make them feel greatly aggrieved thinking that, ''If you didn''t suggest such a thing would they dare want to experience such ''special'' treatment?'' When Lavendia and Maia appeared in front of Dana, she said, "Alright, now this is over and done with. Now we should probably go and find my Master, let''s go." Both Lavendia and Maia nodded at Dana but as they were both about to leave Dana turned back to the groaning fellows on the floor and said, "Hey, you reckon we should give them some medical treatment or something before we leave? You think they will be fine?" Lavendia who is still annoyed at them ''Stealing'' such treatment from her, said, "Just leave them like that, I''m sure it would benefit them in the long run, as after all doesn''t everyone need to experience some hardships in cultivation? Otherwise, they may end up like a bunch of Arrogant Young Masters which are used to getting everything done for them..." Soon after hearing the words ''Arrogant Young Masters'' did Dana choose to thoroughly ignore the pitiful disciples. Thus the trio exited the arena grounds and began heading towards the residence of Yueqin Wen within the Elemental Sect. 75 Chapter 74 - Lavedia鈥檚 Recount of the Past 3 Months and Anxious Yueqin Wen While walking towards the location of Yueqin Wen''s residence within the Sect, Dana quickly became interested in the events which have happened within the Sect since her closed door-cultivation, with her especially focused in wanting to find out how they transformed the Sect disciples into a bunch of fanatical followers in just a mere three month period. Seeing their Master''s obvious interest in their exploits in the past three months, both Lavendia and Maia quickly became nervous as they shown an apparent reluctance in spilling the exact details which happened the past few months. But, being a Dryad, a race is known for both their ''Shamelessness'' and ''Straight-forward'' nature, Lavendia previous expression quickly changed and she decided to spill everything to Dana about what happened, without a care of the consequences. After all, she is a masochist, so there wasn''t much that Dana could which would harm the Dryad anyways, and maybe even saying all this information would allow her to be ''Rewarded'' by Dana herself, something she sorely lacked these past three months as Yueqin Wen still felt guilty about her treatment towards the Dryad with it just being their first meeting. At the end of the day, Yueqin Wen was one of the rare few in the cultivation world that is a genuinely caring person, and her character has only morphed into the emotionless mask which others currently see, as a result of her circumstances. Back, when both her daughter and Husband was alive, Yueqin Wen was famous within the continent for her benevolent nature, and it would be difficult to even anger her, and it was well known that Yueqin Wen spared the majority of her opponent''s lives due to her soft-heartedness, with the few that ended up losing their lives being done in her name in order to protect her, as before Yueqin Wen met her husband she was in a fairly powerful clan which protected her heavily, thus they would often remove threats to her life, no matter how small it may appear to be. However, this all crumbled at the death of her family, and Yueqin Wen instead became a cold woman, devoid of emotion, with her previous reputation thoroughly forgotten. It had even resulted in Yueqin Wen possessing the first killing intent she had ever experienced towards an individual, with the Yueqin Wen in the past would of never even have the slightest thought of killing another human being. This was all contributed towards her being brought up under a large clan, with the younger Yueqin Wen never having to witness the evils of the cultivation world, making her innocent and even naive towards how horrible people can be within such an environment where the strong will devour the weak. Thus, since her experience with the Dryad, Yueqin Wen ended up thoroughly ignoring the duo and letting them do as they please, as she felt remorseful about her earlier behaviour towards Lavendia. Therefore, Lavendia ended up with no ''Beatings'' at all for these past three months, with her thoroughly being starved of pleasure, as apart from Dana and Yueqin within the current Sect there was no one who could even match her strength, so how could her masochist tenancies be dealt with? "Well... It begins like this Master, both I and Maia ended up exploring the Sect, with us quickly finding the strength of the current teachers within the academy, and of course the students. So, due to us finding the teacher''s strength within the Sect are so pitifully weak, we both thought together that wouldn''t it be easy to recruit these humans to serve under our Master''s monstrous strength?" Pausing her speech for a few moments, Lavendia showed a prideful look, as if all of the hard work both she and Maia did in the Sect were to selflessly appease their Master. However, Maia who is currently seeing such a smug look of Lavendia''s face couldn''t help but blurt out her true reasoning, "Hmh. Didn''t you say it was an absolute travesty in the Sect that everyone was so clueless about sex, and heavily emphasised on their ''Virginity'', in addition to protecting their ''Purity'', where they should be having no shame about it all, and instead have regular orgies in order to ''Bring the Community Closer''. Hmm. I even thought I heard you talk non-stop about how much of a crisis this is, and how you needed to begin a ''Noble Conquest'' to save the Sect from their clueless, and foolish culture, with introducing the ''Correct Path'' by converting them into the Dryad''s way of doing things. Oh, and I forgot to mention, I heard you saying about how backwards human are, and that they are in dire need of reforming their entire society into a Dryad one?" Hearing that her true reasoning was revealed, Lavendia''s previous proud look immediately distorted after her true intentions were revealed, and Dana snickered seeing Lavendia''s grand over-exaggeration of her apparent generous deeds has been openly revealed by Maia. But, being thick-skinned, Lavendia didn''t pay the contemptuous looks of the watching Dana and Maia, as she continued her narration of the events that happened in the past three months. "So, as I was saying before somebody''s rude interruption... Myself quickly took the forefront of this operation, with Maia originally being very slow with her part at converting the disciples due to her finding it insulting for a Griffin to do such a thing. Oh, and we first established our authority by defeating a bunch of arrogant nobles, who continuously created trouble with us in the Sect as a result of causing them to lose face on so many occasions. Thus, our strength was openly revealed to the disciples, aiding us greatly in our recruitment of our separate factions which the teachers at the beginning didn''t care about, as they assumed it was just some basic fan club of some sorts, being completely harmless to them. Anyways, as mentioned Maia disinterest caused my faction to naturally be superior to hers within the first few weeks, causing her to step up her game in order to not bring shame to herself by having the much weaker force compared what she calls a ''Sexual deviant,, so as a natural competitor I did partake, in what the humans call trash talking?" Lavendia titled her head looking towards Dana and Maia while saying this, as if to reconfirm this statement. Dana quickly nodded at Lavendias answer, wondering within her mind that it seems despite being within the cultivation world, trash talking was still a thing? Well, hearing Lavendia she can quickly guess what happened as a result of her so called ''Trash Talking''. And this picture within Dana mind soon played out what is expected as Lavendia continued and said, "So all of a sudden my trash talking seemed to trigger Maia greatly, ending up with her becoming fierce fully competitive with my faction. This resulted in us both coming up against each other in numerous occasions, with the factions growing at a monstrous pace as a result of our competition with each other. It even led to us commonly having fierce battles with bets on the line, which always ended up as a draw of course, not fulfilling any of them unfortunately. But, this also led to the teachers getting involved, which soon found even themselves powerless against us, which resulted in the teachers completely giving up on this matter entirely, as if Yueqin Wen or the Sect Head who is still away at the moment make a move, there is nothing that can be done against us. So, as you see our factions have developed smoothly for the past few months to the point it is now." With Lavendia finishing informing her of her perspective of the events, Maia also quickly added her opinion which was more or less similar, but just worded differently with the addition of the frequent complaints against the Dryad who turned her faction members into shameless folks, who openly discussed and partaken in numerous sexual activities, which ended up resulting in quite a few orgies within the Sect much to Maia''s displeasure. Surprisingly though, Lavendia didn''t attend any of these events, and didn''t even have any relations with a single disciple, causing Dana to be greatly astonished by Lavendia''s behaviour. Not blaming Dana of course, since the Dryads sexual preferences has been changed by Dana as a result of the beatings she has developed a strong urge to be beaten by those stronger than her, and with their being none in the Sect who could ''Play rough with her'' it ended up causing the lewd Dryad in not even having any partners, despite there being many numerous individuals which would jump at the opportunity to be with her. As a result this caused Lavendia to be greatly sexual frustrated, as she couldn''t get no were near the amount of pleasure similar to that provided by Yueqin Wen as a result of the beating she gave her, causing her outlook on sex to be ruined as she couldn''t find pleasure at all with any ''normal'' activities anymore. Unknowingly, the trio already found themselves outside of Yueqin Wen''s residence causing them to discard their current thoughts as they are now about to meet Yueqin Wen. Standing in front of the entrance an excited look appeared on Dana''s face as she couldn''t wait to speak to her Master after having experienced months of isolation away from her these past months, knocking the door loudly, she soon heard the hurried footsteps of Yueqin Wen. As Yueqin Wen opened the door, the expression on her face isn''t the one which Dana would expect after not seeing each other so long. Witnessing Yueqin Wens facial feature she seemed to have aged by years, and seems to be going through a great deal of stress this moment at time. When Yueqin Wen''s tired eyes regarded Dana, her face lit up as she tried to put on a cheerful front towards Dana, to show that there isn''t anything wrong. "Dana! Your finally out of closed door cultivation, so have you made great progress this time? Oh, never mind about talking about cultivation, I''m sure you had enough of it by now, why don''t you come in and Master will show you a reward which awaited you these past few months" Yueqin Wen said Not waiting for Dana''s answer, Yueqin Wen have already turned and started walking into the direction of presumably the ''Reward'', thus Dana silently followed her Master as she knew that even though Yueqin Wen is putting on a joyful front, that doesn''t hide from Dana''s observant eyes that something big must have definitely happened. Both, Maia and Lavendia similarly followed Dana obediently, as they to felt the same with there being something different about Yueqin Wen. Arriving at the location of the reward, Dana found it is actually something she lives very much, and maybe if this was an ordinary time she would rush over towards it merrily, but now Dana knew it wasn''t the time for such a thing. "So, do you like the reward? The Sect Head said you greatly loved ''Chocolate'' so I gathered all of these different luxurious goods for you to try..." As Yueqin Wen continues talking about the goods she retrieved, she finally looked at Dana with an expectant look who currently has a troubled expression on her face. Worried that Dana doesn''t like any of what she had gotten her, Yueqin Wen said, "Do you not like any of it? It''s fine if you don''t, I''m sure Master can go find something else you like instead." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. But, Dana couldn''t hold it back anymore and blurred out. "What''s wrong Master? Don''t hide the truth from me, if you truly see me as your disciple, then trust me and do not keep this to yourself!" A worried look emerged on her face as Yueqin Wen hurriedly said, "Umm... Nothing is wrong at the moment! It''s fine!" But, before she can continued, Dana said, "Don''t lie to me! Remember Master your not alone anymore, you do not have to keep this burden to yourself. If you think your protecting me by doing this, your not. Just reveal the truth." Seeing Dana staring into her eyes with such resolution, Yueqin Wen sighed before she said, "Alright, Dana I will tell you the truth, it''s about the Yearly Sect Gathering!" Hearing that it''s something to do with the Sect Gathering, Dana raises her eyebrow before she inquired, "So what about it?" Yueqin Wen expression turned grave before she said, "It''s been moved to an earlier date, with it only beginning within a week time and not to mention there is another troubling thought and that is if the Elemental Sect cannot get into the Top 3 within the gathering then the Sect will be disbanded, and if we dare muster any form of resistance then destroyed. By doing this the Heavenly Noble Sect promised to distribute our students, teachers and resources to the other Sect and many of our geniuses has also betrayed us and left to join some other Sect, so everyone within the Sect has lost hope! Not to mention even if we still had all the geniuses it would be lucky if they even make it within the top 100, never mind top 3 like required!" Hearing the problem firsthand from Yueqin Wen caused Dana expressions to turn serious, before she thought ''It seems my fated meeting with Chao Sung will be earlier than expected'' With this in thought a determined glint appeared within Dana eyes as she planned on dealing with the crisis of the Elemental Sect, and she wasn''t just going to aim for a measly top three spot, but her aim was to remove Chao Sung from the top of the younger generation, and thoroughly crush him while doing so! After all, her pride as a dragon won''t allow her to achieve nothing less! 76 Chapter 75 - The Culprit Behind the Suppression of the Elemental Sec While thinking back to all the trouble Chao Sung and the Heavenly Noble Sect has caused, Dana couldn''t help but gnash her teeth in anger as she finally decided it was time to confront the man responsible for the suffering of her Master. But, honestly, she already doesn''t have a good impression of both the Heavenly Noble Sect and Chao Sung even without hearing what they did to her Master, due to after hearing all of the disgusting rumors about Chao Sung''s many ''deeds'', in addition to witnessing the actions of the Heavenly Noble Sect''s towards the Elemental Sect firsthand. Thus, this has made her discard any thoughts of holding back the damage she causes to Chao Sung within the tournament, as she no longer gives a damn about the Heavenly Noble Sect''s ''face'' within the matter. So, what if this ends up provoking a large amount of trouble directed towards her! Her pride as a dragon has already been trampled on by both Chao Sung and Princess Hui Ying repetitively, when they foolishly treated her as someone who they can deal with however they feel like it, thus she has already reached her limits on what she can endure. Yueqin Wen silently watched Dana as the expression on her face underwent a number of changes, going from anger to frustration before finally settling on a determined look as her face raised to directly stare into Yueqin Wen eyes. "Master, I will go to the Yearly Sect Gathering myself, and I can assure you I will take the first position right from the Heavenly Noble Sect for the first time within centuries!" Dana said causing a troubled look to appear on Yueqin Wen''s beautiful face. Yueqin Wen already knew the moment she saw the resolve within Dana''s eyes what her reaction will be towards the troubling news, but it still pains her as a Master to risk sending Dana off to such a dangerous place. Yueqin Wen already lost both her Daughter and Husband to the Heavenly Noble Sect, thus the sheer thought of Dana traveling to such a place has already caused her to enter a state of panic. "No... Dana you don''t have to do this, I have already accepted that this will be the fate of the Elemental Sect, in the end, the Heavenly Noble Sect is too powerful. I don''t want you to throw your life away just for a hopeless situation. You have greater potential than me... We can just enter seclusion for a few years... Yes, that''s what we will do." Yueqin Wen said hurriedly, as she quickly made a decision. "But..." Yueqin Wen was about to argue again but seeing unwavering glint within Dana''s eyes, she knew that it was hopeless for her to continue insisting for her not to go. Therefore, she decided that she as her Master will put her faith within her disciple, and not continue restraining her from going. She knew that if she continued she could potentially damage their relationship, or may even affect Dana within the Yearly Sect Gathering and that was something that she knew could cause her to regret for the rest of her life. So, Yueqin Wen decided to be supportive within Dana''s decision and said, "Fine, Dana I will support your decision into going out to the Yearly Sect Gathering. But, Dana, I want you to be safe... and to not foolishly risk your life provoking trouble if you can avoid it." Hearing the response of her Master caused a beautiful smile to appear on her face, as she thought ''It seems my Master has no faith in me defeating Chao Sung within the Yearly Sect Gathering and is only thinking about my safety.'' But, Dana doesn''t show her true thoughts towards her Master, as she doesn''t want to unnecessarily worry her about what trouble she truly aims to cause within the Yearly Sect Gathering, as she said, "Don''t be concerned about me Master, after all, since my time being your Disciple, haven''t I always been the best at laying low?" Yueqin Wen couldn''t help but snicker at Dana''s next words, as she thought, ''You the best at laying low? You cause trouble wherever you go...'' as it caused Yueqin Wen to think back to Dana''s idea at ''laying low'' within the Elemental Sect talent test. Seeing the obvious laughter of her Master, Dana thought to herself, ''Am I truly that bad? Surely, she is over-exaggerating... I can be very low key if I wanted to...'' Dana who became lost in her thoughts as a result in her attempt to comfort herself was quickly awoken from her daydream when both Lavendia and Maia barged into the room, causing both Master and Disciple to stare at the duo questionably. Being glared by both Dana and Yueqin Wen, caused Maia to quickly crumble as she became nervous at the thought of displeasing both Master and Disciple. From Maia''s experience, Yueqin Wen may be a gentle person most of the time, but when angered she truly becomes a horrifying demon, and the expression of Yueqin Wen the first time they met as she stared down Lavendia truly frightened even a proud Griffin like Maia. And Dana can explain itself, as what is more domineering than a Dragon? Thus, the thought of displeasing the Master and Disciple duo caused Maia to become anxious. But, Lavendia didn''t even seem to notice the twitching Maia besides her, and the piercing glares of Dana and Yueqin Wen who seemed annoyed to be disturbed at their private ''reunion''. With a smile on her face, Lavendia said, "Hey Master, both me and Maia came here to tell you that we want to go to that Yearly Sect Gathering thing! We heard that all the best disciples from each of the Sects gather there each year! Both, me and Maia have long been bored of being holed up in the Sect for so long, so the thought of experiencing a ''competitive'' match with a bunch of silver spooned human seems like great fun." "Hmm. So that''s it? If so, sure. I guess I can use the company, and it would be a good way to promote the Sect." Dana said. Maia let out a sigh of relief, as it seemed as if their sudden interruption didn''t cause the Master and Disciple duo to set off. But, before she can rejoice, the chilly voice of Yueqin Wen sounded, "So, it seems the two of you have become pretty rampant being without supervision within these past few months. I''ve heard of both of your deeds around the Sect, and it seems you pay no care whatsoever in interupting your Seniors when I''m having an important discussion with my disciple. So, you''re interested in sparring humans, hmm? I guess I can spar with the two of you while on the journey to the Yearly Sect Gathering! After all, I haven''t had a decent spar in a long time.." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. A cold sweat appeared on Maia''s face as she heard the response of Yueqin Wen, and Lavendia just stood they''re seemingly oblivious, but even if she did know what Yueqin Wen had in mind she probably would actually be overjoyed, instead of the similar miserable response of Maia. While this was going on, within the Elemental Sect an incredibly Handsome man stood imposingly, behind him stood the stature of a fairly good looking man, but beside the Handsome man, he simply looked average. "Zhang Li, within these past few months you have failed to bring me the genius girl from the Elemental Sect, can you tell me the reasoning behind this?" Chao Sung said coldly. Standing behind Chao Sung, Zhang Li had a calm and collected appearance as he remained unfazed by the questioning of Chao Sung, before he said, "Master, the girl has seemingly disappeared. We have been awaiting her outside the Secret Realm until it recently opened, but we have caught none the slightest look of her appearance... Neither have we seen the subordinates we sent in within Princess Hui Ying, backing up what she reported earlier." Hearing Zhang Li''s response, Chao Sung didn''t show the slightest reaction before he responded, "Hmm. So you think the girl has died within the Secret Realm?" Smiling in response, Zhang Li responded, "This is what I previously thought Master, but now I don''t think it is the case. The girls Master, Yueqin Wen left in haste a few days before the reopening of the Secret Realm. Seeing this myself, I thought it was strange, that a woman that is supposed to be highly protective of her disciple and to also have gone to great lengths in finding a disciple of sufficient talent, to abandon her before the Secret Realm even opened? Even though the Sect Master of the Elemental Sect stayed behind, I still find this strange and believe the girl found some sort of treasure similar to Princess Hui Ying in order to get out earlier than normal! I then believe she left with her Master, and have since been laying low within the Elemental Sect!" A cold grin appeared on Chao Sung''s face as he heard Zhang Li''s assessment, as he said, "So, have you made preparations in acquiring her?" "Well, Master since she is in the Elemental Sect for the past few months, we haven''t been able to get inside to forcibly take her. As even with the Heavenly Noble Sect prestige, it would ruin our reputation if we were to storm the Elemental Sect and capture the girl, but as the Master had in mind anyway, we decided to push forward the original plans in getting rid of the eyesore Elemental Sect by forcing them to disband if they achieve to low of a result within the Yearly Sect Gathering! This way, we can acquire the girl easily without Sect''s Protection. Although, Yueqin Wen may prove difficult to deal with, unless the Sect Master himself comes to deal with her, through this method we can get rid of the Elemental Sect and acquire the girl for yourself!" Zhang Li said. A pleased expression emerged on Chao Sung''s face, as he said, "You have done well, Zhang Li! And don''t worry about Yueqin Wen, the Sect Head has always desired the woman for himself, after all, it was one of the reasons why he took so much pleasure in killing her Husband! He has been looking for an excuse for years to butcher that man for stealing Yueqin Wen from him, and him delivering himself after the death of his daughter played perfectly into his hands. Yueqin Wen has been highly cautious for years, and even though the Sect Head is stronger than her, she has hidden well and has been able to escape from his hands everytime. Now, she has such an obvious attachment to her disciple, she will easily fall in his grasp." Hearing the words of Chao Sung, a shocked expression emerged on Zhang Li''s face appeared, before it changed to a knowing one. ''So, it seems the Sect Heads love for Yueqin Wen is true! After all, both Yueqin Wen husband and the Sect Head were previously known as good friends before, but upon seeing Yueqin Wen both of them instantly took a liking to her, and began tirelessly courting her! But, in the end, it was Yueqin Wen''s Husband who won her affection, and since then both the formerly good friends stopped speaking to each other!'' Zhang Li thought. With this in mind, a feeling of pity formed deep within Zhang Li, as he thought to himself, ''Hmm. It seems that the fate of both Master and Disciple is destined to be filled with suffering.'' After all, in Zhang Li''s opinion Chao Sung was the top genius within the Xinghai Continent, and the Heavenly Noble Sect was the Supreme Rulers of the Continent without a rival! So, it will only be time when both Master and Disciple falls in their hands! 77 Chapter 76 - Arriving at the Heavenly Noble Sec "Who would have thought that such a journey could be this boring?" Sulked Lavendia as the rest of the group rolled their eyes as they trotted forwards. Originally, the group travelling to the Heavenly Noble Sect set out in high spirits believing that the journey is going to involve an adventure in which they are provoked by bandits, and that they will participate in many life and death battles all the way to the Heavenly Noble Sect. But, the group soon realised that this journey was anything but eventful, in fact it was completely dull with nothing of note happening at all. And to Lavendia who''s attention span is at the level of a five year old child, this ended up becoming a tortuous experience for the Dryad. "This isn''t meant to be some form of entertainment for you, we are attending a sect gathering meant to bring honour and glory to the Sect!" Exclaimed a righteous disciple. "Well, then the ''honour and glory'' of the Sect seems boring to me... I would rather beat guys up and steal their women, that''s my way of bringing reputation to the Sect!" Said Lavendia as she swayed past the righteous disciple, ''accidentally'' leaning her leg forward tripping him up. The righteous disciple angrily got back to his feet as he icily gazed at Lavendia''s back and said, "Seriously, Sect Master do we need to bring a lustful fool with us all the way to the sect gathering? Yes, she''s strong but senior sister Maia is just as powerful as her, and from her actions she is more likely to destroy the Sects reputation then bring us honour at this Sect gathering!" "Yes, I totally agree with this disciple, Sect Master!" Said Maia with a thumbs up to the righteous disciple supporting her ''wingman'' to remove her rival. "Alright you two, that is enough. I''m sure Sect Master has had enough of you guys arguing anyways. And I can ensure that Lavendia won''t do anything to stupid at the gathering... she will be on a tight leash for the whole way through." Said Dana. "Hmm. Whatever you say Dana, Yueqin Wen said you have a plan at this gathering. Make sure you follow this through well, I hate to say this but the Sect is probably relying on you. Under the suppression of the Heavenly Noble Sect it is only inevitable we will have to ''give in'' to the greedy sects which want to devour the Sect, eventually. So whatever you have planning, ensure you make it out safe. As long as you are alive, your talent will eventually enable you to long surpass the Heavenly Noble Sect Master and Chao Sung, then you can deal with them as you wish." Said the Elemental Sect Head. Dana nodded in response to the Sect Head as she turned to the direction of Yueqin Wen who throughout the journey to the Heavenly Noble Sect was silent and always in a stupor as if she was deeply thinking about something. Staring at Yueqin Wens face which seemed in deep thought, Dana said "I will Master, I promise you that I have a ''big surprise'' in stall for the Heavenly Noble Sect." Yueqin Wen just nodded in reply to Dana, not really taking much notice to what Dana said. As at the end of the day although she had a large amount of belief towards her talented disciple, even she doesn''t have any thought that Dana could possibly shake the Heavenly Noble Sects foundations at all. After all it has been the undisputed ruler in this region for thousands of years, and it is deep rooted in her subconscious that the Heavenly Noble Sect is unbeatable in their own territory unless you had a cultivation level way above the Sect Head, something which Dana is a long shot off. So, it isn''t a surprise for her not to put Dana''s comment to any thought. Seeing the look in her Masters eyes, Dana just smiled as the group continued to travel forward until they eventually finally entered into the Heavenly Noble Sects territory. "Wow. I got to say even though I hate those pompous idiots, they do have an acceptable place." Said Maia, as she stared at the large gathering of Sect disciples who were lined up before a grand city. A city which walls were lined with all sorts of precious materials in this region, mainly serving to show off how rich and powerful the sect is. Of course the acceptable in Maia''s eyes was actually amazing to get to that level, after all she was from a clan which is even more powerful than the Heavenly Noble Sect so she has definitely seen much more expensive places than this one. But, to the other disciples she just comes across as arrogant, as in their minds, she is calling the city which took the Heavenly Noble Sect innumerable precious materials, formations and manpower to build is seen only as ''acceptable'' in her eyes. Who is she trying to fool? A disciple from another sect couldn''t help it but say, "Mmm. No wonder the Elemental Sect has degraded to this point if they let such arrogant, foolish fellows into their Sect..." Following this Sect disciple more and more other comments chimed in, "Yes I agree although she is beautiful, her haughtiness is really ugly. She is probably some shameless woman who slept her way into the Sect." As the comments grow more and more insulting, Maia''s faces turned angrier and angrier to the point were she clenched her fists about to show those rude guys a lesson. But, then a hand laid itself onto her should as Dana whispered into ear, "No causing a commotion just yet, wait until the show begins. You will have the opportunity to beat these guys up all you want in the gathering, just be patient." Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. Hearing Dana''s words, Maia immediately calmed down as the group ignored the disciples as they continued to march towards the city in which the Sect Gathering is taking place. "Shows the fool right, what gave her the confidence to look down on the great Heavenly Noble Sect, am I right? She is probably just boasting to attract another guy to latch herself onto, what a slut." A female sect disciple muttered with jealously in her eyes as she thought back to Maia''s beautiful appearance. "Yes, what a skank I wouldn''t want a woman like her, even if she laid naked in front of me" Said a sect disciple. Although they said these comments as if they were reprimanding a foolish woman in reality they were only looking to curry favour with the Heavenly Noble Sect. After all wasn''t it a good opportunity to gain a good impression from the Sect? And it was only the Elemental Sects disciple stupidity which gave them such an opportunity. The Heavenly Noble Sect disciples proudly raised their heads as they witnessed all of the disciples praising their sect, as if it was themselves who were the ones being admired. In the end weren''t they right? They were the strongest and most powerful Sect in this continent, it is only right for them to be praised. Following the run it with those disciples, the group continued to make their way to the city as they joined the long line of disciples who were awaiting entry within. As they progressed through the line eventually reaching their gates to the city, a bored looking disciple without even looking up said, "Five peak Qi circulation realm monster cores for the entry of your group." "Just for gaining entry to the city? What a rip off no wonder this place makes so much money from this competition, they are charging this much just to enter the damn city..." Said Lavendia. "If your dissatisfied with the price, then just forfeit your place in the sect gathering. Don''t blame us if your resource quota gets reduced..." Sniggered the bored looking disciple. "We have no concerns about the price." Dana said as she slammed down the five cores before dragging Lavendia passed the city gates. The bored disciple awoke from his daze as he finally reacted to the groups appearance. "Hmm it seems Chao Sung is going to be lucky this year with such beautiful disciples" He commented as he continued charging the disciples for entry to the city. 78 Chapter 77 - The Scheme Unfolds Chao Sung watched the glamorous city of the Heavenly Noble Sect below, as his eyes scanned the city below they held a hint of disdain as his eyes swept over the numerous disciples from the other sects within the continent. "What a bunch of filthy looking dogs..." Mumbled Chao Sung as he looked at the numerous disciples fawning for favour with the Heavenly Noble Sect. In truth these are the people he loathed the most, many people in the continent believed that Chao Sung was a lustful young man who wanted all forms beauties to satisfy his desire, but this simply wasn''t the real ''truth'' behind his actions at all. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click www.webnovel.com for visiting. Chao Sung grew up as the heir to the Heavenly Noble Sect, since he was born he was treated as a prince who can possess anything he desired, everyone he met fawned over him, wanting to use him to benefit from the Heavenly Noble Sect. Many would say this is a blissful life, and Chao Sung lived arrogantly believing that he had the right to own everything because of his backing and upbringing. The Heavenly Noble Sect Head knew that these thoughts were foolish as in the big picture their Heavenly Noble Sect was ''tiny'' and ''weak'' compared to the true powerful Sects in the world but he allowed Chao Sung attitude to continue to develop like this as he never thought anyone from the big sects would be interested in such an area and believed it wouldn''t matter much, so he continued to spoil Chao Sung into having everything he wanted. This life continued until Chao Sung met the first grievance in his young life, this was in the form of a beautiful core disciple of a Tier 5 Sect and Chao Sung believing it was his divine right to have everything he wanted felt immediately interested in her cold beauty, and high cultivation level. After all, he was the best talent the Heavenly Noble Sect procured, along with his backing made his cultivation far outstripped his peers, but to his surprise the girl denied him arrogantly. Furious he ordered his guards to capture her, but unwittingly he led himself into a calamity, the girl from the Tier 5 sect wasn''t there by herself and was even highly valued by the Tier 5 sect themselves, so Chao Sung ended up severely beaten black and blue, and was almost killed if not for the Heavenly Noble Sect head coming in person to beg for his life. The core disciple and her escort left the place completely unharmed, and for the first time in his life he met a mishap, with not only was he insulted and beaten up by the girl he took a fancy on but was even harshly rebuted by the Master gave him everything he wanted. That night Chao Sung learned in the end of the day he was a small fish within a big pond, and in the grand scheme of things was insignificant in the World. This led to the guy thinking he was a heaven chosen son to have a warped change in his personality. Therefore, Chao Sung ''lustful'' behaviour started in which he would target beautiful girls from illustrious positions of places of power to become his women. Chao Sung''s true target wasn''t the girls beauty, but he was attracted by the more the girl resisted as it reminded him of the first girl who didn''t let him take whatever he wanted of her. This was why he especially targeted married women, or genius disciples of other sects and even princesses, as they all were use to holding some means of power and were all reluctant to be with him. The more a woman was reluctant and disliked him, the more Chao Sung felt ''turned on''. So all in all Chao Sung enjoyed to exert his power on the weak and cower before the strong type of person. His personality was warped by the first girl which denied him, making him enjoy to torment others using his influence to lash out at the time when he could nothing to the Tier 5 sect which backed the girl. From the experience instead of growing and learning from knowing he is not the most influential, powerful person he instead he became twisted making him enjoy the ''helpless'' expression on people''s faces when they can do nothing against his power and influence. "I hope you don''t disappoint me Dana, I think you will be the best girl I will experience... a genius even more fearsome than me." An evil grin appeared on Chao Sung''s face as he thought of Dana''s talent, the thought of her arrogant face contorting in pain as he ravaged her emerged in her mind. The more and more he thought of Dana, the more she overlapped with the image of that Tier 5 Sect core disciple who also more talented than him, was beautiful and refused him. "I shall see you soon..." Chao Sung laughed wildly as he turned around into his room and began his preparation for the Sect Gathering to begin. Dana and her group wandered aimlessly around the city of the Heavenly Noble Sect as they admired its beautiful craftsmanship. Dana who hasn''t been anywhere but the backwater area of the four kingdoms couldn''t help but marvel in appraisal at the beauty of the place. The roads were lined with special material, and was neatly organised on the streets as numerous buildings serving all kinds of purposes were arranged on either side of the streets. In the city there was a bustling atmosphere, as the area was packed full of disciples from other sects, Heavenly Noble Sect disciples and also the well off civilians who could afford to live here. After all, not everyone who lived here were cultivators or even from the Heavenly Noble Sect. Many nobles and merchants lived here, the merchants especially contributing to the city itself. The Heavenly Noble Sect especially prompted benefits for merchants to come base in the city, as all in all it makes the city a much more attractive destination which racks even more money for the Heavenly Noble Sect. The merchants sport all sorts of wares, ranging to weapons, alchemy potions and other random things they bought. There were plenty of beneficial cultivation materials and other interesting items you can buy in the city. As the Heavenly Noble Sect was basically the ruler in this continent, they controlled the nearby Empire, so they especially controlled the trade and merchandise here to make it even more prosperous. This allowed the city to be coined the nickname ''The Golden City'' for being the most popular gathering for cultivators who were looking for certain alchemy potions, materials or even other items. That was why Dana and the group particularly paid attention to the wares in the stores, to see if they could find any potential interesting items, but before they could continue walking to the next store an annoying but familiar voice sounded out. "If it isn''t the greatest whore from the Elemental Sect, the one who slept her way in by bribing the Sect Head with her body." Princess Hui Ying said with rage in her eyes. As she was strolling around the shops with her escorts from the Heavenly Noble Sect, Dana''s group caught her attention making her simmer with rage at the thought of what she went through to do with her. Of course, Chao Sung was the culprit that all of her grievances, but would she dare pick a fight with that guy? No way. At first Princess Hui Ying thought she benefited immensely giving her body away to Chao Sung to gain a favour, but after trying her body once Chao Sung quickly grew uninterested in her, before throwing her out to his guards to play with. If she didn''t put on a pitiful expression and manipulate a fairly high up individual in the Heavenly Noble Sect to gain favour, she would have had to spend the rest of her life pleasing the men of the Heavenly Noble Sect, something she couldn''t accept at all. She was a princess and a genius, and upon seeing Dana again who was not only more beautiful and talented than her, but was the biggest interest of Chao Sung! Made her gnash her teeth in envy and jealously. ''Why does everything like her so much? I''m not that much inferior to her at all, so why is she so favoured all the time.'' Princess Hui Ying thought. Upon seeing Princess Hui Ying emerge a hint of killing intent emerged from Dana''s eyes before she quickly concealed it and said, "Oh, if it isn''t the Princess. The last time I seen you weren''t you rumoured in being Chao Sung''s next girl? I heard he even favours you greatly!" Of course everyone in the surroundings knew of Princess Hui Yings current situation with Chao Sung, calling her his ''favourite'' was a great insult at it reminded everyone Princess Hui Ying had lost his favour and was even sent to accompany his men. So how low is her position even within his eyes? An expression of hate emerged on Princess Hui Ying''s face as she said, "Listen slut, just because Chao Sung is interested in you doesn''t mean your all so great! I will look forward to seeing if you can maintain that arrogant expression when you are bedded and abandoned by him!" Princess Hui Ying swiftly left after making such a scene, as she knew that she has already caused a commotion here and didn''t want to risk bringing even more displeasure from Chao Sung. After she left a furious expression emerged on Lavendia face as she said, "She dares to disrespect Master, she deserves death!" Maia nodded in agreement, after all they felt that Chao Sung wasn''t even worthy to lick Dana''s boots, never mind be his ''woman'' and Princess Hui Ying made it out that Dana was some sort of beggar who craved his attention. "Relax Maia and Lavendia , we will see who are the victors and the losers are once once the Sect Gathering begins. And besides I wanted to kill her myself anyways, so I''m glad she narrowly escaped death from Chao Sung''s hands" Murmured Dana with a cold glint in her eyes. After that meeting ended, the group booked a room in a hotel and stayed for the night, until the long awaited Sect Gathering was about to start, and the opponents for the first round of the gathering has been drawn and released!