Several days passed since Rex's evolution started, during this time many things happened in Frozen Flame City but these things were not the type Rex usually concern himself with.
Like always Jiang Shuang could handle them, Adal was worried about the next move Kebel might make but Jiang Qing assured him that even if Kebel wanted to make a move at the moment he can't, because last time he had suffered a big loss and it takes a lot of time to recover from such loss.
As long as Kebel doesn't attack before Rex comes out of seclusion, Jiang Shuang was fine.
Misty Maze Forest….
A certain cave in the core zone…..
Zakiya was sitting cross-legged on her black jade bed, her eyes were closed and her breathing was faint, her appearance at the moment was slightly different from what Rex saw earlier, her skin was now pale white like she had lost a lot of blood from her body and her ears were slightly pointed from the top if someone doesn't focus too much on them then they wouldn't even notice it.
But there was something more surprising than all this, nine strange black rings were slowly spinning around her at different angles with her as the center, a dark-red sphere was hovering above her head in mid-air.
Zakiya exhaled a breath of impure air and opened her eyes, as soon as she did, the rings and the dark-red sphere around her turned into black streams of light and retracted in her body.
'Finally, after using it to cultivate for all this time I have now finally reached the Return To Nature mastery level in my
The more powerful and stranger the technique one practice, the harder it is for them to reach the Return To Nature mastery level in it, but if they could reach it then the benefits they will receive are immense too, any technique that reached this state will produce a strange phenomenon when practiced, just like those spinning nine rings around Zakiya from earlier. Furthermore, one couldn't reach the Return To Nature state just by practicing a technique for a long time, they would need insight or enlightenment to reach it.
In all types of techniques, the hardest type to master to Return To Nature level is the cultivation technique type that is used to cultivate their cultivation base.
Rex's technique is also the same but it's just his low cultivation base that doesn't meet the requirement to trigger such a phenomenon, in the start the Yin-Yang Great Balance Cultivation Technique Rex received from Ye Ying could allow its user to obtain an inborn Yang Flame when practiced to Return To Nature level.
The Yang Fire have a suppressing effect on Yin type attributes and because it becomes an inborn type flame when born inside the user, it can grow stronger with the cultivator, of course, cultivating Yin-Yang Great Balance Cultivation Technique to Return To Nature mastery level was also not something just anyone could do.
After the fusion, upgradation, and modification the resultant technique Yin-Yang Sacred Lineage Cultivation Technique Rex got was also capable of giving birth to fire but Rex was not strong enough to summon it in the start, it was only later when he met all the requirements that he was able to do that, but he was still not able to produce the strange phenomenon from the technique because of unmet requirements.
'Come to think of it that brat really went into seclusion, did something motivated him?' Zakiya thought.
After keeping an eye on Rex for a long time she had concluded that he was a salted fish when it came to seriously cultivating, it was probably just his comprehension talent and firm Dao heart that let him cultivate that fast.
Dao…. it's the biggest advantage of the people from the lower realm who cultivate Dao in the early stages of their cultivation path and continuously refines it with their experience on this path, compared to them the people who are born with a higher cultivation base than the Dao Comprehension stage have to cultivate it, later on, that's why their understanding of Dao is very low, which then results in them facing strong bottlenecks to breakthrough.
Dao builds the core foundation of a person on their cultivation path, it's effect might not be obvious in the start but only later would one notice it that's why the earliest stage one comprehends their Dao the better it is, many powerhouses have to go in seclusion for thousands of years just to increase their understanding of Dao and unlock the future path, many people understand this fact that's why some people from Ancient Clan even uses the cruel method of destroying their talented younger generations cultivation base then provide a lot of resources to help them cultivate again so they can start to comprehend Dao at early stages and lay a strong foundation.
Unfortunately, a certain man got too influenced by this fact to an extent that he put his own kid in the lowest realm he knew off to lay a strong Dao foundation.
Zakiya closed her eyes then using her divine ability she shared the senses with the bird she stationed near Rex's seclusion area.
She had checked his offline status on Friend List so she knew that Rex was either really cultivating with his full focus or was sleeping soundly.
'Looks like he is serious about the duel… but it's too late for him get serious, from what I have seen of him until now even if 100 like him comes against me he would still lose, he has strange but strong abilities, he had practiced his techniques to a high mastery level, even if he just use brute strength he could still easily surpass his peers…
What a shame his quick decision-making skills are not up to the standard, even if he has all these things he couldn't make good use of it, his battle experience is almost nonexistent. His useless pride also gets in the way, I need to thoroughly crush him if I need to totally subdue him,' Zakiya thought.
In fact, Rex may not be that weak if compared to a normal young master of the higher realm if their cultivation base is the same, he can only blame his luck that he met someone whose starting line was a little different from others resulting in a quite different point of view.
'If I really take him back with me with just that strength and somehow father sees him then he won't be able to hold back his anger, he may not kill him for my sake but locking him in a training chamber for the next thousand years is still a possibility, and if he did that then I won't have time to personally train him at all,' Zakiya touched her chin thinking about how to train Rex to make him progress faster.
If Rex knew what she was thinking, he would just pack his luggage and leave the Misty Maze Forest overnight.
Locking me up for thousands of years to train? sorry but if I train outside for hundred years then I am pretty much sure that I can obtain enough qualifications to train you…, he would say.
Zakiya learned her battle formula from her father, and because of the methods he used to train her weren't normal, how can her methods of training someone else can be normal.
It was a shame that she couldn't use his support to handle matters like the one at present, or she won't have to be stuck in the forest like that. Every powerhouse had a different chain of thought compared to normal people which affects their way of training their successor in the ways which look ridiculous in the eyes of common folks.
1 day, 2 days…..16 days passed like that when Rex was still in deep sleep.
On the 17th day, he finally woke up from his slumber.
Unnamed Waterfall in the core zone of Mist Maze Forest…..
In a hidden cave…
A young man with long black hairs was lying in a pit on the ground suddenly opened his eyes, the moment he woke up Rex felt a painful headache assaulting him, he wanted to scream but no voice came out, the headache was so painful that he wasn't even able to hear or focus on the notification windows that started popping up the second he woke up.
Fortunately, after about half an hour later the headache finally came to an end, but just after it ended and Rex was collecting his thoughts he smelled an extremely bad smell from his surrounding.
After using his Spiritual-Sense, Rex discovered that the not-so-deep hemispherical pit he was lying in was filled with a very bad smelling liquid, the slimy liquid was all over his body too.
'Seriously? the first thing I see after waking up is this shit,' He thought.
The room was dark so he couldn't see the color of the liquid but he had no interest in doing that either.
Rex wasn't able to take it and stopped his breathing, he then ran out of the tunnel, the second he came out, the cold water falling over the cave entrance cleaned his body.
Although his body was now clean but thanks to his enhanced senses Rex could still smell that bad smell coming from inside the cave, so after changing his clothes he left the cave and flew above the waterfall.
The second the sunlight fell on him, Rex subconsciously used his hand to block the sun rays falling on his eyes, he felt like a prisoner who was had now come in contact with light after being locked up in a dark room for a long time.
He found that the sunlight was extremely annoying today.
After his pupils adjusted themselves to the sunlight, Rex was finally able to observe the changes in his body.
He looked slightly older from before - in his base form, the most noticeable change was his skin color, before his skin was snow-white.. only a little less white than the women of Cold Heaven Sect but now his skin was slightly tanned, he felt like he had been taking a sunbath on a beach every day during his last 16 days of evolution, resulting in tanned skin, except these two he didn't see any other change in his appearance.
'Good, as long as I look like a normal human it's fine, in this world strength takes priority or I can't even take care of the people beside me,' Rex said with emotion.
Both Little Aru and Lerna were stronger than him when it came to cultivation base, although he had his own field in which he was stronger than them but he felt frustrated when he thought that in times of problem he needs to depend on his own kid and wife… or so he claims, while sitting back in the rear.
Even when asking Lerna to take care of the obstacles in Frozen Flame's expansion he didn't feel too good inside, he trusted her strength and believed in her but the problem was… although the chances were low but if she encountered a powerhouse of Sky Body Formation late Stage and got harmed then wouldn't it be his fault? if something happened to her how would he face Little Aru?
In a situation like these, he couldn't do anything himself, and only ask Zakiya for help but now that Zakiya has been cured it is only a matter of time before she leaves… even if he accepts her as his master it won't mean she would stay here and delay her cultivation in such a place, not everyone is like Wang Cang…. in fact, for Rex, no one is like Wang Cang.
Often the people that support us in the worst time become the ones that matter to us the most, for Rex Wang Cang was such a person.
[How are you feeling? Do you want me to repeat the notification from earlier]
'I am better than before, this headache must be the so-called side effects but we shouldn't neglect it, I can check the notifications later, my head feels a little dizzy so for now we will head back to the castle to rest and fully observe all the changes in the body,' Rex said as he rubbed his temples and flew towards the castle.
[You sure, you are just feeling a little dizzy?]
Rose asked because Rex was continuously rubbing his forehead even when flying with a pained expression.