"To think you managed to absorb more than 97% effects of the pill and actually reached Earthly Blood early stage. Seriously Rex, just which pill you have used to cleanse that many impurities from your body that you can absorb that many effects of 1 Star grade pill with your low cultivation base?
No, the question should be what type, quality, and quantity of pills and did you use when cultivating to this stage," Zakiya couldn't help but ask, her way of asking told that she wasn't that serious about it.
She was surprised because even with that training, it shouldn't be possible to absorb that much effect of the pill with his cultivation base. The only possible way he could do that was, his body was just too pure that even when he absorbed lesser medicinal properties of the pill it still had a big effect on his body.
This was why Zakiya was so surprised and asked such a question, but she regretted it as soon as she asked it.
"Hmm.. pills, last time I genuinely ate a pill to cultivate was when I had reached Organ Tempering stage, after that, I did eat some pills when I was at Spirit King stage and Human Venerable stage but I didn't absorb their effect or use them to cultivate, I only tasted them to train my talent.. you know the one that let me know their ingredients and stuff. I didn't try to suck all their effects so of course they won't have much of an impact on me," Rex said as he finished stretching his body.
"So you are saying, you cultivated this far without using pills," Zakiya asked with a poker face.
"Hmm.. more or less, does it matter? Isn't it good to cultivate on our own, consuming too many pills can leave behind impurities especially if their quality is not that good, and they don't have any taste either, if I really need consumables then I would use my tasty and purer potions rather than pill," Rex said while inspecting his body.
His body had now returned to normal, his was not hot or red anymore and regained its little chocolaty and glossy look. The only slight changes he noticed were that he looked slightly bigger meaning his muscles and curves were more obvious than before, his lips also looked rosier like he had used a light shape lipstick but it wasn't that noticeable so he could do with it.
Zakiya didn't say anything anymore, she had no intention of asking any more questions that may force her into doubting her life.
"Take some rest for today and get used to your body, from this point on I will personally train you, I don't know for how long we would have so much free time so I will also teach you about my law from now on," Zakiya said then without waiting for him to reply she turned into a shadow and disappeared from her place.
Rex was also a little excited, he could feel his body getting more energetic than ever.
Rex left the tower and flew into the sky.
…Swooshhhhh....
'As I thought, the overall quality of my body has increased by leaps and bound, my body is full of life force and my speed is also increased by a big margin. I should only a little slower than the normal speed of Little Blue… but only if she doesn't use that speed boost ability, and that… Huh?' Rex was just thinking about the changes in his body while flying high above the cate that he his eyes landed on a somewhat weird scene.
In the open ground outside the castle garden, the place that beastman normally used to train...
Rex noticed that the crowd was gathering around a strange black Ice sphere.
The sphere was held by several chains that were attached to the big nails in the ground. All the armed beastman was forming a line in front of it, just when Rex was thinking what they intend to do, the beastman at front of the row raised his ax and struck the sphere with all his strength… but nothing happened, the hit didn't leave a single scratch on it.
The beastman was disappointed he didn't attack again instead he walked back and rejoined the long line at the end. Aeneas, Aiden, Fred, and others were controlling the line from the side
After having a clear look, Rex realized that a familiar figure was sitting inside the sphere.
He flew down and landed near it.
When Rex looked at Jiang Shuang sitting inside the sphere, his lips can't help but twitch. He already recognized the black ice so it wasn't hard to make out the basic outline of the story that led him here.
"It's good to see you, Master Rex," Fred on the side said with a smile.
"This… what type of taste you people are developing?" Rex asked in an awkward tone.
"We are just trying to wear out the durability of this ice sphere so that we can weaken it and free Master Jiang from its imprisonment," Fred said.
Then he saw Rex staring at the sphere and thought of something so he explained.
"You see Master Rex, Master Jiang told us that he went to meet Shadow Lord but he was in seclusion and that's when the tragedy happened. One of the new spirit pets of Shadow Lord mistook Master Jiang as a rude intruder and this happened…., it was already good that it didn't use any strong attack, probably because it didn't want to disturb Shadow Lord," Fred said.
Both Aiden and Fred were fully aware that Rex was Shadow Lord, they just didn't know about the fake Ye Tian identity, the only reason Fred said this was to tell Rex what excuse did Jiang Shuang use.
"Shadow Lord, really do have some powerful spirit pets," A familiar voice came from behind.
Rex turned around only to see a very ordinary-looking man standing a few meters behind him.
"It's a pleasure to see Sect Master Sung personally come to the city," Rex said with a smile.
The ordinary-looking man was none other than Sung Lee, the sect master of Black Scorpion Sect.. a Golden Core stage expert, of course, unlike Rex other people don't know about his true ability.
Rex had already noticed it because he was now marked on his Mini-Map, it's just he found the matter of black sphere more intriguing.
Sung Lee had come to Frozen Flame since morning but Rex was in seclusion so he had to wait.
He had also tried to break the sphere using the power of an average Golden Core 2nd stage expert, but he was only able to leave behind a small crack that got self-restored in a second.
"Haha… the pleasure is all mine, not everyone gets to meet Master Rex after all. Although I wanted to talk about some things…. but I can wait," Sung Lee said while staring at the black sphere. Normally whoever see him like that will think that such a carefree and easygoing person wasn't that qualified to be the sect master of an assassination based organization, it was only Jiang Shuang and Rex who had seen him in action and knew that his current self was nothing more than a mask to hide the killer behind it.
At this time, Jiang Shuang realized that no beastman was attacking the sphere so he looked and around, and when he did, he saw Rex standing in front of him, his eyes shined. That black fox was near him at that time so Rex should have a way to free him.
He started to vaguely tell his tale to Rex before he could even ask.
After he was imprisoned in the sphere, he first went to Lucia for help but she wasn't able to leave a scratch on the sphere with her all-out attacks so he decided to go to Lerna who was a Calamity Lord.
When Lerna saw the black sphere, she frowned and asked him the whole story, Jiang Shuang told her mostly everything and waited for her to break the sphere but to his surprise, she kicked the sphere out and told him that if he came to her again for this matter then she will break his bones.
Lerna was initially a resident of Core Zone of the Misty Flame Forest, it was precisely because of black ice belonging to the King Of Forest that she moved to the inner zone with her egg unlike other Monster Venerable and Calamity Lord who wanted to take King Of Forest's place and ended up in Zakiya's stomach.
After being turned down by Lerna, Jiang Shuang then decided to take a risk and ask for help from Little Aru but who knew he too was imprisoned in one, furthermore, he looked really happy with that, when he saw Jiang Shuang, he crashed his Sphere into his and kept doing it thinking of it a game of tag. In the end, Jiang Shuang could only rely on the combined force of the beastman in hope of breaking the sphere.
When Lerna knew that her baby was also imprisoned in the ice sphere, she immediately came to free him but who knew Little Aru was really dissatisfied with his mother's behavior and didn't let her break his favorite toy.
{Don't get overly excited, let me try,} Rex said after hearing his long and sad story.
Rex placed his hand on the sphere and sensed.
Everyone quietly observed his actions.
'It probably contains the power of law, but it shouldn't be that much or Zakiya woul… hu… hehe so that's how it is, she left it as a test for me.. but why would I do hard work if I can do smart work,' Rex smirked then he slightly pushed his hand and it entered through the thin ice wall of the sphere like it was not there at all.
Jiang Shuang was shocked but before he reacted Rex grabbed his shoulder and pulled him out.
He thought he was going to collide with the ice wall but surprisingly he passed through the wall like it was not an ice sphere but a bubble.
Everyone was shocked, except Sung Lee who was just slightly surprised.
'Space Law? so he was really the one who made all those transmission platforms. To be able to recruit such a young array expert who could utilize space law in his array and make transmission platforms, this Shadow Lord really knows how, where and when to bet,' Sung Lee thought.
…Crackk…Craacck…
After the ice sphere got empty, several crack appeared on its surface then it turned into powdered form and flew away with the wind.
Rex's space law has already reached the Small Accomplishment level so it was easy for him to do such tricks as long as Zakiya wasn't serious about imprisoning them.
When Rex turned around and took a closer look, he noticed that all beastman were wearing leather armors covering their whole body and some even had bandaged arms and legs.
"You people shouldn't train that hard, it takes time to obtain strength. If you go overbroad then you might leave behind hidden injuries in your bodies which may make things difficult for you in the future," Rex said with a serious expression. he knew that these beastman wanted to prove their value and were trying hard to increase their combat power, he also wanted them to become stronger but still, he didn't want them to go overbroad.
After he said that, Rex noticed that everyone was giving him strange looks.
"Cough… Master Rex these are.. not because of training," Aiden said in a slightly awkward manner.
"Then?" Rex asked in confusion.
All beastman immediately turned around their heads to look far away in the north direction.
Rex turned and saw two lizardmen wearing leather armor cautiously walking towards them.
'Did those two did it, they don't look strong… wait WTF,' Rex was just observing those two bulky lizardmen but suddenly a black shadow appeared from far away and passe- crashed into them at air splitting speed, sending those two flyings in the air.
The black shadow was going at a speed of 140 km/h minimum, Rex didn't know when did he make a vehicle such as this, on a clear look he got his answer. A five-headed monster beast who was big as a baby elephant in size was excitedly rolling a black ice sphere from inside.
Rex was speechless.
He turned around and saw all beastman staring at him with a serious look plastered on their faces.
Whether it was considering the status or the strength, they could do absolutely nothing to him and of course, Little Aru wasn't like that at first. It's just that when he crashed into the first beastman, he panicked and tried to apologize, the beastman saw it and panicked too according to him Little Aru was of high status so he tried to please Little Aru saying that there was no need to apologize and he even enjoyed crashing in the softball.
Little Aru directly took his word to heart, at first, he was surprised but then he realized he also enjoyed it a little so what was left to think about? Little Aru resolutely albeit excitedly took the task of letting every single beastman experience the joy of hugging his soft ice ball.
At that time the beastman who said this had no idea what he just did, if other beastman came to know it then his name will definitely go down in the history.
Rex could only smile awkwardly as he saw Little Aru chasing the innocent beastman walking on the ground and sent them flying, there were some smart beastman who flew into the sky thinking that they could escape like that but they underestimated Little Aru's IQ, if they could fly then couldn't he too?
In fact, the one who was flying in the sky had it hard as they had to crash on the hard ground leaving behind craters as their mark.