Chapter 88 - 1080-1095

1080 Making The Best Use Of Time

"So…" Feeling like a tycoon again, I started to seek the best out of this.

Should I make the highest time modification of this castle? One year would turn into one hundred years! Would even my forces stay alive after all this?

I looked at the prices of using such abilities. Twenty million for one month of full ability usage, and I could sustain this for twenty months or slightly more.

That was slightly close to two years.

Should I do it?

I paused as I went through the ins and outs of this. I was sure that adding monsters here and turning this place into a training ground would add more death energy to my castle.

"I have to go all out," I finally decided, "first I'll have to let Lily send her people here to do the needed preparations. Then the plan of making my humans cultivators will commence afterwards."

Having such a godly weapon I knew time wasn't an issue anymore. So without thinking about it, I passed through the exit and safely arrived at the outside world.

[Where are you now?]

[Why?]

[Are you busy?]

[I have many training grounds to supervise!]

[Just come at the pocket world, and make sure to bring with you everyone and everything needed to build the altars]

[It's time? Fine! I already sent the needed people over. They should be camping just outside that damn place. Also resources have been sent there. Give me an hour before coming into that place again]

I recalled this and from my place, I noticed the presence of a large group of people in one direction.

They seemed to fear this place as they got themselves stationed just tens of miles away.

[Before coming, arrange to send humans and all races without cultivation over here]

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[Are we going to start now? How much will you need for each batch?]

I thought for a few seconds about the scary time difference I could use from my castle.

By paying one hundred thousand death units, I could expand the effect of this castle over one hundred miles.

[Send enough to satisfy altars built over one hundred mile zone]

[This… Are you going to just build altars over a limited area? That world is very huge!]

I got what she was worried about, and yet I didn't explain anything to her.

[Just do as I say. Also bring many experienced generals and leaders and people experienced in arranging new forces to train at training grounds]

[What? Don't tell me you plan to turn that world into a training ground!]

[I will, do you have any objections to that?]

[Sigh! I hate that place!]

[Me too, but it saved my life already]

[Really? How so?]

[Not telling!] I laughed, [Also send a word over, all the research department personnel is to come here as well]

[This…]

[Just do it and come over. I will wait for you inside]

I closed the chat and then entered the pocket world again.

The second layer would be used as the fixed research facility of my kingdom from now on. As for the first layer, most of it would turn into a huge training ground, and only part would be used for turning my humans into cultivators.

I got many weak races without cultivation affinity. It was also a good thing to turn those into cultivators as well. Like this, the overall prowess of my forces would take a leap.

So I returned and kept thinking about other ways to get the best out of this long time here.

I needed time to cultivate, but it wasn't that long indeed. Years? Give me a break!

So aside from letting my forces gain cultivation and turning this place into a research centre and training ground, what else could I do?

"The magical artefacts!" it suddenly hit me!

I had twenty-six artefacts unused so far. I got them all from sovereigns of the Toranks. And they all came with their supplementary treasures.

I was eyeing one particular gem, the one that could turn anyone and anything into a warrior.

Like this I'd be able to handpick any elite force and turn it into my summoning card.

The issue about getting warriors from the market was that I didn't have much control over them. I could only accept what was tossed at me, and didn't even have a say in their grade.

And there was also a very unique treasure that I didn't care much about before!

"The replicating sacred grounds!" my eyes shone in bright light when I noticed this baby.

Before I didn't place much hope on that. What this treasure used was something like making a clone out of a certain race.

It needed the sacrifice of a large number of living creatures, be it races or monsters it didn't matter. Aside from such weird conditions, it could form a replica from any race I wanted.

I got many strong races, but up to date I never felt the urge to replicate them.

However things changed after gaining the last addition to my forces; the evolved soulers, those modified Reapers!

I still recalled their big impact on the last battlefield. If my soulers were called monsters, then these evolved ones deserved the title of boss monsters without doubt.

Yet unlike any other force I got, the path to gain more of them was blocked. Berry refused to let me have a fight with her, and she refused to give me her boys.

She held them in high regard, and I couldn't find any fault in her logic.

Yet that prevented me from gaining more of these evolved soulers.

I thought before about sneakily attacking her forces to reap more of them. However when I recalled this magical artefact, I realised that I had a great chance to get more of them without the need of going into much trouble.

As for the price paid, these living sacrifices, I could simply use monsters for that.

Recalling monsters, I got that my little Qi could be brought up here to have his little fun if he wanted to.

1081 Meeting Little Qi

The first layer of this world was already damn massive. Just thinking about using it for training was a grave mistake.

Even if I combined my three training grounds together, I doubted it'd take one third of this world's first layer space.

So why not allow my little Qi to have fun and evolve more monsters here as well?

This way I'd hit two birds with one stone. I'd use the help of little Qi to control useless monsters and sacrifice them here.

So one third of this world would be for the training ground, one third for the monsters to evolve, and the remaining third would be for my magical artefacts.

This was a good setting, and I didn't find any ideas to execute in this world anymore.

I was satisfied with all this, hopefully everything would go as planned.

Deciding on the next course of actions, I first went back to the outer world. I took a single trip towards little Qi to inform it about my intentions.

"Impressive!" The last time I came here, this little dude gave me a great surprise. Even when I was gone for a short time, things changed here as the number of the huge monsters increased more than the last time I was here.

[Lord, you came!] he spoke in my mind the moment I appeared nearby. [What do you think? I'm trying my best and having a great deal of fun!]

"Cool," I nodded in satisfaction, "but how about this… I got another place which is more suitable than this."

[More suitable? Does it have more monsters that I didn't know about?]

"No, it's like this…" I simply explained the concept of time manipulation in my pocket world. When I finished, I saw that huge dude jumping here and there, seemingly excited about the idea.

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[Let's go now, lord I want to go out there right now]

"Hahaha, fine," I knew taking it away might severe the control he got over monsters here. If this happened, then my forces at the second training ground would face a great and difficult situation.

"What about your control over monsters? Will it be affected when you leave?"

[No, they are linked to me by superiority. They might do things to each other, but won't dare to disobey a direct order from me]

"I like that," I nodded in satisfaction. If my little Qi could keep monsters following its orders while it was away, then I could even start taking it away with me in the upcoming hard battles.

I first installed a group of teleportation devices at its place before returning back to the pocket world and did the same.

At the same time, I made it go and selected the monsters it held high hopes for.

[Lord, won't it be hard to let monsters evolve without devouring others?]

"Don't worry, I plan to use a large number of monster dens out there," this was the initial plan, "and with you there, I'm sure monsters will always be under check, right?"

[With me, not a single monster in this world is going to go berserk without my permission]

"Cool," I was satisfied with its answer. By the time I finished all this, it appeared with an army of tens of thousands of huge monsters which were mainly flying types.

Looking at them, even if they came in such low numbers, this was a start, a good start indeed.

With the magical artefact of warriors, I could turn all these monsters into my warriors. Tens of thousands might look like a small number. And it indeed was one.

But if given time, then forget about millions, tens of millions of such scary monsters would be produced.

I always thought about forming an aerial army. I faced lots of hiccups before. However right now I knew this problem would be easily solved.

And the same could be done regarding aquatic armies I wanted, despite it not being an urgent matter. I got lots of Hectors, and they were experienced in aquatic battles.

"Come, let me take you to your new home," I entered the pocket world directly and little Qi was the first to follow.

Even before the entirety of the huge monster army entered, I turned and asked, to make sure things were going to be alright back there, "your control didn't waver right?"

[Rest assured lord, not a single monster will dare to disobey my orders even when I'm away]

I knew I could spare a few visits outside later on to check on the process of training. If I found something wrong, I'd have to call for little Qi again to stabilise the situation.

I now had another problem I had to solve. I went through many places inside this pocket world, and saved lots of places.

I got a map of it, but I never went to all the places before. At the same time, I didn't think about how to divide this place till now.

I looked at the map I folded over my chariot and went into deep contemplation.

My visit here happened like ages ago. My memory about the places I visited wasn't that clear.

"Forget about it," I folded the map and decided to roll the dice, "I'll just go on a spree of jumps before selecting a place randomly."

This was what I could do for now. So I just left instructions for little Qi to remain behind before starting to jump into all the places I saved before.

As expected, most of the places were away from the zones I previously conquered. I also got a few spots saved for the paths that lead outside.

"This seems good," after taking a full tour around the world and spending almost one hour, I got a rough understanding of the general layout of this place.

I took the path I appeared from as a starting and ending point. This way, I could at least get a general grasp of the general layout.

I roughly selected a place and opened a portal to it before going back to the place where little Qi and other monsters were.

1082 Angelica Is Here!

"Come, let's go to the new home of yours," I led them through the portal before adding, "you can expand your activity in that direction only, and will stop when I give you the order to."

I pointed towards the direction opposite to where the starting point was located. Like this, they'd expand their activity deeper and towards the periphery, while I'd let the rest of the world work as a training ground.

[Lord, thanks but…]

I got what this little dude wanted to say. "Don't worry, I'll start deploying the monster's dens some distance away," I interrupted his words and reassured him.

"You'll select the weakest monsters and let them go and train with my soldiers. I will give you more details later, but start selecting the weakest monsters from now on."

[Sure lord] its tone changed to be more exciting and I got the reason why. In the end, it was going to be fun while I'd be able to train my soldiers and get my hands over a really powerful army of monsters.

[Where are you?] Just as I ended my talk with it, I got this message from Lily. [I've just entered and I got Angelica with me]

Angelica? Did she agree to come as well?

I didn't expect Angelica to come. In fact, this world left a deep wound in her heart and mind. It wasn't just her, but it left such wounds in Lily's and mine as well.

However unlike the two of us, Angelica couldn't overcome such trauma.

[I'm coming over] I wanted to ask about how she convinced Angelica to come over, yet I refrained.

If she decided to come, then that meant she exerted a lot of effort to control her emotions and make such a decision.

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It would be bad if I opened the topic with her. If she didn't speak, I wouldn't.

Sometimes, ignoring talking about something was the best course of action.

I instantly opened a portal and returned after confirming my orders again with little Qi.

I got to deploy monster dens here. And all I got were high and medium ranked monster dens. In fact I planned to use them. After all, with little Qi here, there was no danger over my forces in any way.

So why not start using the highest and strongest monsters? I got two years and half to stay here, and my forces had to get much stronger during this time.

With only using weak monsters, things were doomed to not progress as I wanted.

If other training grounds were directed at letting my forces get a little stronger, then this training ground was special. With its time manipulation at hand, it was best to use it to temper stronger soldiers, not just produce normal ones.

Going back, I held such thoughts in mind as I planned to discuss them over with Lily and Angelica.

When I passed through the portal, the sight of two flying chariots welcomed me. I saw the two familiar faces, and on the ground a sea of people was present.

"I brought the ones responsible for building the altars as well as those from your research department," Lily said the moment she jumped over my chariot, "but most of them are still packing and needed a day or two before coming here."

"Good job," I looked at the people down below before turning to Angelica.

Without the need to ask, from the look on her face I knew she wasn't feeling well.

Her past and bitter experience here was still weighing on her chest, making me inwardly sigh.

She was unlucky, but she was under my protection as a lord. Seeing her like this pained me more than it pained her.

"What are we going to do here?" Lily knew asking for her to come and build altars wasn't a new task. However asking for those from the research department and those veteran soldiers from different training grounds was new.

"I want to do this…" I started narrating in great detail everything I wanted to do here. I didn't explain the matter of the world here absorbing new worlds, as I personally didn't know what this would end up to.

Would it give a boost to this world's level of energy? Was it going to add more races and lands? What was going to happen exactly?

It took me more than two years and a half years to know the answer to this question. So it isn't wise to mention it now. When it got done, it wouldn't be too late to explain things.

I spoke about everything they needed to know, even explained the concept behind using my castle and the second layer turned under the control of the research department.

"This… You are going all out!" Angelica's face showed a troubled expression, "what about the fifth quest? Won't this affect our plans?"

"No," I calmly explained the concept of time manipulation and the simple maths behind it. "Like this, we won't miss it."

"I see…" yet from the look over the two girls' faces, I realised that this simple maths wasn't as simple as I imagined.

"I want to turn this place into a high training ground," I finally turned into this most important topic I wanted from Lily and Angelica, "one that will train hellish strong soldiers."

"Do you plan to use the ones succeeding at the cultivation experiment to train here?" Lily asked.

"But… There are no monsters here!" Angelica turned around before adding, "this world only had races."

"I moved them all already," I said before explaining, "as for monsters, I'm going to use the medium and high ranked monsters in this world."

"..." the two looked at me like they were looking at a crazy man. "You do know that we are facing trouble dealing with the low levelled monsters we already had," Lily had to speak up or else this would turn into a nightmarish place for her soldiers.

"Don't worry, I got a way to organise things," I paused, "anyway, I'll move part of the incoming races here. We don't need to build anything here, so those who won't be trained as soldiers can go out and be sent to other places."

1083 A Shocking Discovery!!!

"I… Will handle this task then," Angelica sighed. She knew that with her help, this task would be easily done. "By the way, many already are adopting the idea of mating with other races. In the time we spent here, we'll have at least two new generations with cultivation."

"That's good," I nodded, "prepare many teams ahead to scan these new generations and seek for their talents. We need lots of good people to help."

"I will see what I can do," even if she managed to control her anxiety, she didn't regain her full self confidence yet.

"Fine, go out and start preparing then," I said to Angelica before turning to Lily, "start organising things here. I will activate the castle ability now."

"Alright," Lily paused before suddenly adding, "we will need lots of hands to build those altars fast. How about this, I'll accompany Angelica out and seek for them. If that's fine with you."

Something told me she asked this to reassure Angelica. She seemed to be behind Angelica's new state of mind.

"Fine," as she could help, I wouldn't refuse. I watched the two leave before turning to the castle.

"Let's activate that time boost then," I spent twenty million death units and as such I activated the full throttle of the time boosting ability of my castle.

I also spent one hundred thousand extra death units and let such effect encompass over one hundred miles.

The castle stood in the middle, and in a grand circle around it a huge bubble appeared. I couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, as flashes of light obscured my line of sight.

Yet I knew if anyone went inside, time would change.

Before doing this, I moved all the people in the castle. It was better to let them train here instead of wasting time on the castle doing nothing.

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I wasn't interested in these Hectors now. They were strong, but not that enticing to me.

Soon my forces would have cultivation bases one way or another. So this advantage Hectors held by birth right would be negated.

Also I was about to clash with a far fiercer race than them; the Hescos.

Then I shifted my attention towards the research department personnel. I found a group of them and asked them to move everyone from their side and get stationed at some point.

I knew this place would grow hectic and crowded soon. So I asked them to form banners and hang it high, so it'd be easy for me to recognise them.

I didn't explain anything to them. I'd wait for their leaders to arrive first before explaining everything up to them.

"I don't know if it's completed or still needed time," finished dealing with these, I recalled one magical artefact I left back in the second layer.

This was the fountain of life magical artefact. I used it before to turn the tables back there, and it gave me a great surprise back then.

Thinking about the combined time manipulation, I got that this artefact got the time to get done.

I was going to send the very important research department into that place. So it wasn't good to just send them to where unknown circumstances lied.

I had to give that place a visit first. I instantly jumped off directly towards the entrance of that layer.

The opening was still there but the threatening burst of energy wasn't. It was gone alongside the removal of that seat weapon from the heart of this pocket world.

As I simply jumped down below, I thought about not saving a bookmark there. I planned to do so and even to open portals between that layer and the entrance of the first layer.

The research department would need tons of resources, and there was one way to get them. So they needed quick and reliable access to the outer world, and using the twin device to do that was the most logical thing.

However… When I landed there, I was welcomed with a shocking scene.

"This… What the hell happened here exactly?!!"

When I landed, what welcomed me wasn't the old harsh and cruel place of this layer, instead something lively and a great pleasing scene to the eye.

I landed on a shore of a giant sea that spanned a huge space in front of my eyes. I couldn't see any end to it. And that meant it was a huge sea.

A sea? In this forsaken place? How come…?!!!

That wasn't the only weird phenomenon here. Before, and after my meeting with that mysterious lady, I ended up having a giant phantom of that statue of hers in the middle of this place.

I should have landed in the middle zone, right? But when I looked around, I found a green world waiting for me.

Open space of greenland, signs of distant forests, and even the sound of running rivers could be heard.

What the heck happened here exactly?

It was supposed to be a world that would boost one's stats, not to revolutionise the world.

Under my shock, I soared high up. The previously limited and ugly looking ceiling that covered this world like a gigantic cave dome changed and was replaced with a bright and cool looking sky that didn't pale in comparison with the one at the first layer.

When I soared higher, I could get a better view of the world here. To my shock, it was just like the world at the first layer or even the second Earth I came from.

I couldn't see the end of this sea, yet its water was weirdly calm. It lacked the racing waves of the seas I knew of.

From it, few rivers moved and penetrated the green land like wide serpents. They twisted and vanished into the horizon while enriching the ground.

As I lacked any explanation, I hurriedly opened my inventory. There I found the statue of the fountain of life residing calmly inside.

1084 It's A Grand World!

Since when did it return to my inventory? I couldn't tell. But last time I checked, I couldn't find any trace of such an awesome statue.

I opened its description and revised everything written there. Once I read through a few lines, my puzzlement started to grow deeper.

I got a few answers already, but also got more questions as well.

This sea was supposed to be a lake not a sea. This magical artefact was supposed to instruct a lake with magical waters.

I recalled a distant talk with Silverlining. The sovereign who gave me such a valuable magical artefact already made great wealth by trading such water.

It has the ability to grow land and heal those on the brink of death. It was magical, but why did things here differ?

Under my puzzlement I started roaming this world.

Previously, this place was small compared to the first layer. After all, it only encompassed the central zone of the first layer.

However after exploring it for a few days, I was met with another shocking discovery.

"This… Don't tell me this is a continent!!!"

In front of my eyes land ceased to exist and only a grand space of water appeared. This time, the water surface churned with mighty waves, making me guess this wasn't a sea, but an ocean!

An ocean! Dammit! When did all these things appear here?

I couldn't control my curiosity anymore and spent an entire month wandering around this world.

One thing I learnt, this wasn't a lawyer anymore, but an entire grand world! Calling it a small world was an understatement!

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I found ten huge and medium-sized continents in the middle of many oceans. Even after flying for one month, I couldn't reach the end of this place!

Endless water surfaced in front of me, giving me a deep and unfathomable impression about this place.

Even after one month, and after exploring this place using my chariot's top speed, I couldn't find an end to it!

And all my explorations happened in just one direction! What about the opposite direction? What about other directions?

Damn! How huge was this world exactly?!!

During this one month, I squeezed my mind to find clues about what happened here. All I could find was traces of faint memories about my talk with the lady of the statue.

She seemed to speak about using my kingdom's heart and turning this place into a world. But girl, couldn't you be so overbearing when doing things?

As I realised that exploring this place was going to take much more time than planned, I decided to give up and leave this task for someone else.

I have plenty of time at hand. But I had to finish wrapping up things and plans that I drew before.

I saved many bookmarks in the continents I discovered. Putting aside this unexplained phenomenon, I got a grand world filled with tons of resources to explore!

Not to mention grand forests, I saw many places filled with exposed ores on the surface. I knew they were exposed veins of ores, and that told me how rich these places were with ores and minerals.

That was just perfect! I was worried about how to bring resources here for the research department to use. And now I got a grand open new world to explore, filled with such rich and awesome resources.

Just using my staff I went directly back to the first layer's entrance zone.

My plans… They should all change!

That world was just too much for just the research department. From my long exploration, I got that it was on a larger scale than my second Earth world!

Leaving this only to one department? Hell no! I'd turn this world into another place for my training grounds.

"Finally! I thought you forgot about us!" As I appeared, I was welcomed with the grand sight of many people moving around.

Many were moving resources, while others were lining up in wait. The grand bubble of my chariot still flashed with light to obscure what was going inside.

One month time passed, and I believed it was enough to finish building the altars and start the process of opening cultivation.

On one side, I noticed a group of people sitting cross legged. Air swirls came all around them in torrents. They were cultivating. And they all were humans!

"You did it!" I looked at the annoyed Lily while she harrumphed back.

"Your chariot is a beast! Just one day out here is equal to a hundred inside! What did you expect? These are just the tenth batch coming out… Oh wait, see out there? The eleventh batch came out!"

I looked, and as she said a line of people came out. They were around fifty thousand in number. And that meant they built fifty thousand altars at my chariot's affected territory.

"Great job! But I need you two to come with me right now!" I noticed the leaders of the research department hurrying at me with their chariots so I waited for them to arrive.

Old Gan was the one leading them, and they had a look of worry over their faces. They were asked to break everything apart and mobilise here without any explanation.

After coming, they all had to wait without doing anything. They were restless, and I could understand that.

"You'll come with me as well," I said before any of them would express their dissatisfaction and complaints.

The next instant I opened a portal and went through it. "Come with me," I said before vanishing.

For a few minutes, none followed before seven chariots appeared through the portal. It seemed my sudden actions after my disappearance for one month left them all baffled.

But when they arrived here, their doubts and puzzlement changed into immense shock.

"This… What is this beautiful place?!!" The look of shock appeared on two more than others; Lily and Angelica.

They saw this world before, and suffered greatly from it. They have never seen something so beautiful in this world before like this place. And above all, they felt it was immensely huge.

1085 A Change In Plans

"This is the inner layer," I said before adding, "and it grew up to be a grand world, even bigger than the world surrounding the pocket space."

"..."

Everyone gave me a look as if they were looking at a monster. I laughed wryly before adding, "this is a good thing. I spent the past month exploring, and there are lots of continents filled with rich resources."

"Resources you say? Are there any gems?" the eyes of Angelica sparkled. This girl… Even if she was traumatised from this world, she wouldn't change her nature.

And I simply nodded. "There are visible veins of crystals and gems, many races and precious materials here to exploit."

"Give it to me, I want to explore and take out everything from this world!"

"Hahahaha! Nice try," I laughed before turning to the five leaders from the research department, "you'll be stationed here on this continent. This sea… Its water holds magical effects. It can increase the space of anything and has magical healing powers. Try to get benefits from it."

"Sure, lord," the five looked at each other before they expressed their excitement with a nod.

"But…" Lily was aware that I planned to grant this world solely to the research department. Just like I thought, my initial plan wasn't feasible now.

Giving such an enriched world with resources and space to one department? That was indeed a great waste of resources and opportunities lying here.

"I know," I said to cut her path of long words to convince me, "I'm going to hand over this place to you two as well. The people who aren't suited to fight can all move here and build towns and cities, mate together and bring us more formidable talents…"

I paused before pointing to a spot, "I'll turn this into a teleportation zone. I only discovered ten big continents, and this world isn't even one fifth explored. I'll leave behind many portals to connect this continent with others. Also I need one to keep exploring and also handle the portals establishment."

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"I'll do it, I'll do it… Leave it to me…" Angelica seemed to grow fond of this place. Looking at her genuine experience and wide smile, I couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

It needed love to really wipe out immense trauma.

"Cool," I nodded, "I'll give you money. You can buy a staff from the market. Use it to store bookmarks and be able to jump over places easily," I said while transferring a couple tens of million coins over for her to use.

After all, moving and exploring this world was going to be a really long and hard task to handle.

"Also there are the teleportation gates I'm using, you can also purchase them from the market."

I started giving her more information about the twic disc devices and the staff before finally taking her on a tour and showed her how to use these.

She hurriedly bought the staff and the twin discs, listened attentively to my discussion and explanation before finally returning back to the first continent.

"This place… It's magical!" We were the only two remaining here at the moment. Before I took her on such a trip, I already installed a grand number of portals to link this world over to the upper layer.

This was going to be a bustling world with many activities soon. Many people would come here to train, help deliver resources, or even go back to train outside or unlock their cultivation.

Expecting all this, my excitement also skyrocketed.

"How did you do it?!!" looking at me with sparkling eyes, Angelica couldn't help but ask. And I shrugged in response.

""Frankly, I don't know," I gave an honest answer, "but this is our place and it's great."

"I know," she laughed. During this journey that didn't take more than two hours, she kept chuckling and grinning from her excitement.

She asked me to stop at a few spots where she examined the exposed veins of rare ores.

Some were just like the ones she discovered before at the grand mine continent. Yet there were still many unknown ores here as well.

Neglecting any explanation for this phenomenon, we both were delighted and excited. She didn't need me to speak about the importance of this world.

Any world held its value by its size and the richness in its resources.

And this one was filled with endless potential.

"I'll go back and bring my men here," she suddenly paused before asking, "how about the newly arrived races? Can't you move them all here?"

I got what she wanted to do. She wanted to get her hands over huge manpower at once.

"I'll do that," I paused, "but I'll limit their entrance to the outer layer. It will be a filtering layer to organise things. Those who can't fight will come here. But don't take them all just to mine! We need to build towns and cities, we need them to mate together and reproduce."

"Don't worry, my head isn't just focused on those priceless and amazing gems," even when she said it, I never believed her.

"Don't mess things up, or else I'll find replacements for your task."

"Don't joke around, no one is capable of doing things like me!"

"You are mistaken! Many talents we found have such abilities like you or even better."

"..." she blinked twice in doubt and when I told her to go and ask Lily about it if she didn't believe me, she showed a look of horror.

"Ok, ok, I'll follow your orders to the letter. Just… Don't replace me, please? We are good friends after all!"

She jumped over and held my arm and all she got was a look of warning from me.

Girl, if you really appreciate your life then stop trying to get close to me, or else…

As I finished things with her, I let her go back to sort out things while I started jumping again.

1086 Absorbing Bones

This time I selected places over the ocean and distant continents before I released things stored for so long inside my inventory; the high grade monster dens!

Yes, I changed my plans and decided to use this world here to breed lots of higher and stronger grades of monsters. Instead of crumbling things over that much smaller upper layer, it was better to use such a spacious world here for that.

I used hundreds of monster dens of all types. Aquatic, flying, and ground monster dens were all used and scattered along the distant continents and oceans.

Like this, this place would turn truly into a real world. Only it lacked races including my humans. And that was going to be solved quite soon.

Yet first, I needed to make a trip to replenish my shortage of bones.

And for that, I had a trump card that I never used before.

I instantly opened a portal and went through it. The next moment the scenery around me changed and I returned back to the entrance of this pocket world.

Passing there let me get out. Then I used the staff again and went towards one direction; the first training ground.

The fight there kept going on for a long time already. The number of dead monsters killed on the hands of my people alone was simply too much to imagine.

I never tried before to take bones from their bodies. And after so much fight, most of the monsters had their bodies buried underneath ground or in the depths of the water.

Trying to dig out all these corpses to claim bones from was a headache. Just imagining such trouble made me drop the idea instantly.

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However this time things were different. I got the turbo mode of my bone absorption ability. And I had a way to take many bones without the need to do anything.

As I arrived there, I found a monster outbreak happening. The entire place was filled with deadly fights that spanned over till horizon.

I simply wasn't in the mood to wait for my forces to clear all this. So I simply summoned my soulers and let them handle a certain area.

In a few minutes, a large space was created and was devoid of a single monster. No matter how hard these monsters tried, no matter how many of them came my way, they were all falling on the ground dead after taking a single flash from my soulers.

This was the might of my soulers. Even if most of them had zero stat points, they were still beasts compared to the monsters here.

Recalling stat points gave me a little headache. I was sure that my forces back at Earth must have found a way to replenish their missed stats.

However this was just for those on Earth. For my warriors, it was another story.

They could only get stat points from me. And I didn't have even enough to satisfy part of their needs.

So in the end I had to ask this from Silverlining. I already asked and he didn't yet deliver.

I got sucked into many things and completely forgot. So before I'd even go to absorb a single bone, I sent a message over to him, reminding him of our old deal.

[I already got tons of them. You just need to pay and get them]

[Send me the price, I'll pay now] I wanted to get rid of such small matters, the ones that'd easily be forgotten and missed by me.

In the course of such intense events, few things were dropped and missed from me. It was my fault indeed, but I got too much to think about.

He sent me the price. It was high as expected. For the stats he prepared for me, I got to pay him one million silver grade bones.

It was too much for such a cheap gadget, but I knew he wasn't cheating on me. He must have prepared a really astronomical amount of these stats.

I paid and never got time to check what I got. I just closed the chat after telling him that the place of delivery would change in the upcoming few days. And he didn't show any objection to that.

After that I placed my right hand at the ground, and activated the bone absorption ability.

Flares of light kept flashing from the ground to my right arm. It looked like an endless stream of light dots, racing up towards me with no end.

As expected, I could stand idle and absorb such bone treasure that laid down in this place all this time.

The only depressing thing was that these colours were mostly green, blue, and silver. There were few golden dots, and rarely higher graded colours might appear from time to time.

Cleaning this place out took me a couple of hours of standing still. The soulers kept the area safe. And once I was done, I called them back, rose high in the air using my chariot, before heading towards another region.

My ability was limited in terms of distance. So I had to stop at hundreds of places before I cleaned this entire place up.

This took me almost one week. However I wasn't dejected. The gains were enough to secure my needs for over a year.

After getting it done, I jumped over the second training ground and did the same. Although these grounds didn't work for so long, they got lots of bones as well.

After another week, I finally returned back to the pocket world with a wide grin on my face.

If my calculations were correct, then what I got would satisfy my needs for almost a year and half.

During this time, I'd come back again and recollect more bones. And my gains wouldn't be any less than this.

Once I returned back, I spotted the large number of forces that had passed the cultivation ritual. They stood in hundreds of thousands, having a strong air and pressure around them.

Chapter 1087 Finalising All Preparations

[Are you ready to welcome the new troops?] As I was done with all this, I knew it was time to start the training ground plan.

[Sure, I'm waiting for the second layer, or shall I call it the second world?] Lily answered and I instantly opened a path and went towards the second layer directly.

The place there was really peaceful and calm, serene to my senses and soul. It was a new world with new potential. And the first to work there were those from the research department.

These scientists had the ability to disturb the peace of heaven itself!

Sounds of explosions ranged while smoke clouds rose from different spots. They were taking liberty in doing what they wanted, and it felt great to see them work.

​ [I'll go to the second continent. Follow me there]

[Wait… Angelica already drew lots of places here. So the second continent can't be called that anymore. Let me come for you first and then we'll head there together]

Just when I read that I knew I spent two weeks back at the second Earth collecting bones. By putting the time difference here, this was equal to six up to eight weeks passing.

It was enough time for Angelica to surf lots of places in this world. She seemed to get in contact with Lily and the latter kept drawing a map and updating it with the new intel from Angelica.

When I met Lily, my conjecture proved to be right. A big map appeared and to my surprise, the number of continents here wasn't just simply ten or something.

There were at least thirty-seven discovered continents so far! And the scary thing was that most of them were a grand continent in size!

I blinked while trying to absorb all this shocking data. Didn't that mean the size of this world was just ten times that of the second Earth? Damn!

Thinking back about Earth, it looked really tiny and small at this moment.

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"Let's go," after being in shock for half an hour while listening to all the amazing words coming out from Lily about the immensely rich resources of this world, I finally opened a portal and leapt towards the nearest continent.

"We'll use this as our training ground," I paused before I noticed something weird… "Did you already send forces here?"

I turned to her and she chuckled.

"You left many monster dens already, and so I thought to use those who opened cultivation bases early on and let them get a taste of these monsters. At the same time, we will know the true power of my race's secret technique."

"And?" I had to ask as in front of me, I saw thousands fighting against hordes of monsters.

And the shocking thing was that they were holding their ground!

"They indeed have cultivation bases, but this isn't the main thing. Their stats get augmented as if they are in level thirty or something."

"This…"

"Unbelievable, right?" she laughed before adding, "and the good thing is that they already were weak from the start. I experimented and the addiction didn't stop at a certain level. Even those with level power equal to twenty something got the same level of boost and are in fifty level power range."

"Cool!" hearing that made me realise there was hope in forming my elite army plan, "let them be the leaders of the armies then."

"I plan to do so," she nodded before adding, "but that's at first. As we get enough of them, I'll start allocating a separate continent for them to train at."

"No problem," as long as it'd serve my goal, then she'd get my approval at once. "I'll call reinforcements to come to this place. You'll deal as if this is the main continent for gaining fresh blood."

"No problem." she nodded without asking about anything else.

At first, I planned to let the first continent play this role. However after seeing the magnitude of destruction caused by those crazy scientists, I knew I had to change this plan.

Leaving my fresh races and humans there was going to be a grave mistake. Who knew what might happen.

"I'll inform Angelica about that," she added, "and we need to build another portal zone here."

"She can do it," I already gave her lots of coins for that purpose. For once, I could finally rest and lean my back over the seat while watching others do my stuff.

She nodded as she recalled this. "What about you then?" she glanced at me in such an interesting way, and I couldn't help but chuckle.

"I have my plans," I paused, "I'll be absent for a long time. I'll go and check on my little Qi first. Forces will come here soon enough so be prepared."

"What about building towns and cities?"

"Come on! We have such a colossal world with large continents. We won't run short on land, I doubt that, hahahaha!"

She laughed as well before I finally returned back to the first layer, to the place I left my little Qi there.

For sure this dude was capable! Or perhaps he truly enjoyed what he was doing.

The monsters he had grew in size and number. There were more massive monsters than before.

I spoke with it for a little bit before it followed me excitedly back into the second layer.

Once it saw this awesome world, it grew fond of it. And when it saw the higher grade monsters everywhere, it kept laughing until I left.

Well, at least all of my forces were enjoying their time even if they were doing such hard labour for me.

After that I returned to the second continent and asked Silverlining to adjust his coordinates to send races and forces to.

I let him save this place's coordinates, before paying a hefty sum of bones for him to satisfy the delivery for an entire year.

I planned to go into a cultivation training session from now on. As I couldn't control my cultivation time, it was only practical to pay him upfront to avoid any misconception or delays.

Chapter 1088 Contemplating About Cultivation

I stayed behind for two more days to watch. The delivery came through swiftly and Angelica and her men did a great job dealing with them.

As for Lily, she kept jumping off between first and second layers with the help of portals linking the two.

Right now, the need for resources wasn't an issue. The resources in the second layer of the pocket world were just more than enough to satisfy the needs of my forces.

And with the arrival of the fresh batches here, the problem of lack of enough manpower was going to be solved in time.

I looked at all this and felt a moment of pride. I rose up from being no one and ended up in such a state. It wasn't just a mere fluke, I did this with my power and will.

It would be unfair to consider this all thanks to luck. Luck was a great factor indeed, but far from enough to turn me into the man I was now today.

Thinking about my forces on Earth, my plans here at the various places of the second Earth, and the things I did in the pocket world… All were things that made me proud and held much confidence in the upcoming future.

That fifth quest… Those Hescos… That golden quest… Just wait for you all, I'd shock you and come out victorious.

And now it was time for me to start my cultivation after so long of pause.

First I had to select a place to stay. This was indeed inside the pocket world. For a moment, I thought about going to the castle and enjoying the crazy time speed there.

However I thought this wouldn't help me anyway. Even if my cultivation took a long time each session, I needed to take breaks in between.

Also I was worried the quality of energy in the sealed space of my castle would be greatly diminished and affected by such an insane time effect.

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The best place? Of course it was into the second layer. There it turned into a grand world, one that was fresh and new.

I still had memories about the times I trained on the second Earth when I first arrived. It was a pure world with dense spiritual energy, enough to make me worry from going berserk.

So in the end I started to look at the map provided by my Angelica and Lily before heading straight towards the most distant continent.

It'd take me roughly a month to arrive there. And I didn't intend to slack.

First I opened the beads that were covered in thick dust. All this time I was distracted by many things, and yet I never forgot about it.

It was like a mobile library for me to use. Even if the old man didn't know that much, his information about cultivation was the best thing I had right now.

So I started to listen to his three lessons, attentively, refreshing my rusty memories about cultivation.

After that I started to go through what Sith left before about cultivation. Doing this alone took me almost ten days to finish. I got to listen to these lessons in one go, before standing in silence and contemplating about what I heard, then relistening them again.

I had to come up with a foolproof way to train. I didn't want to just skip training in the middle to just think about a problem with a solution in the beads and records.

I knew my cultivation path was unique. It was the thing that connected me to the dark shadow world in the first place. The concepts about my cultivation weren't that known or common in the entire universe.

One thing I learnt from watching all the dark shadow clansmen before; they got better results while training together.

Unlike what I thought back then, their way of cultivating didn't suit me. I was on a much higher stage than any of them. And logically speaking, these ways wouldn't give me any benefits.

Instead I might suffer setbacks in return.

So I ditched everything I got from watching them and started to consider another troublesome issue; my shadow world!

According to what I experienced, the shadow world would only get opened when a new lord joined it. Each new lord would grant that universe one extra month of life.

It would be troubling if I was blocked from accessing that universe when it got frozen, right?

I had no way to know it before testing. Yet knowing that I'd be kicked away out of it in the middle of my training wasn't something good.

After all, I left my cultivation base back there and had another dantian as well.

Nothing good would come from a cultivator who lost the connection with his cultivation base, right?

Hopefully I'd be only overthinking this matter.

There was another problem as well. I started my cultivation using the dark realm monster bones.

At first I didn't get what these bones did or what their role in the entire process was. However right now I could tell it was all thanks to two things.

These bones held an immense amount of energy, and above all this energy was dark in nature. This meant the energy was compatible with the shadow world, and it had enough energy to do something at such a high end universe and world.

Putting these two into consideration, it wasn't that hard for me to do the same without the need to use bones, right?

Bones should act as a supporting factor, not the main player in my cultivation. Or else, the problem of finding much higher grade bones each time would grow.

Not to mention these dark realm monsters were common cabbage found on the streets!

I have no way to reach a world filled with them. And if I was lucky to stumble on one, I wasn't sure if I'd find enough high grade bones for me to use.

So instead of doing this, why not use my advantage then? I was now a lord, a mega lord in that world. I got a huge territory, absorbed too much land and built my territory to be like an impregnable fortress.

Chapter 1089 Is There A Solution?

Instead of using bones, a rudimentary way with a limited amount of energy, why wouldn't I use the energy from that world instead?

Why wouldn't I channel the energy from that territory and make it work for me? Getting it integrated into my cultivation base would surely add many benefits to my cultivation.

Not to mention, my entire cultivation base was back there in that world.

However I was faced with a tiny problem… I shouldn't leave this world and head to another under any circumstances!

So could I do it without leaving? Was there really a way to do it? This was the question.

As I reached the core problem, I kept myself on the back of my chariot, sitting cross legged, and pondered about this.

The dark energy in that dark shadow world was just too pure and concentrated. Using it was the best meaning without doubt.

But the issue was how to use it without even going there?

One thing was to try and guide my cultivation base using any means from here. I thought about it and it might work. However when I recalled all the previous experiences I lived through and the information I learnt from the old man and Sith, I soon discarded such thoughts.

It wasn't just hard to do, as I needed to divert part of my consciousness to deal with this flow of energy, it was also impossible to do.

During all my previous attempts to rise up, I had to utilise energy from inside my body. I knew that I'd absorb energy by breathing from the outside world, or sucking it dry from the bones, but it had to go through my body first.

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If not, then no matter how matching this energy was, no matter how pure and high grade it was, it wouldn't be accepted by my cultivation base and dantian out there.

After all, my cultivation base and dantian weren't considered an outsider. They were part of my body and flesh.

Hmm… That was quite tricky… Unless…

A thought started to take form in my mind. Even if it didn't hold a high chance of success at first, I kept thinking and refining it, getting more convinced with its value with more time passing.

This idea was simple. If I couldn't go there, then why wouldn't I invite that world here? I didn't intend for the world itself to come, but for the energy to pour here.

The idea came to mind when I recalled my grand gate techniques. I could use my second technique to open a portal to that world, and it was the same with the simple and grand merging techniques as well.

However, even when I used the grand form of merging technique, I never felt a single speck of energy gushing out from that portal at all!

The explanation was simple. This portal only allowed for one direction passage. So I should think about inventing another technique which would allow for a reverse flow of the energy from that world to mine.

However when I thought about it, wasn't it going to be a bit risky? What if the energy coming acted berserkly? Attacked my world here and crashed it down?

Even if the energy of this new world formed in the second layer was dense and pure, it was no way comparable to the much higher and purer dark energy from that world.

It was the origin world and universe after all. So it made quite sense its energy was going to be much higher and fiercer than any other form of energy.

Also the failure of me before to open a cultivation base without the help of a dark realm monster bone highlighted this point as well.

That was a clear hint about how the difference between the dark shadow energy and any other form of energy was.

In addition to that, just recalling the dispersion and disintegration of many monsters and foes I sent there to that world made me feel much heavier inside.

It wasn't that easy for any monster to survive there. It must be a grand beast with an insane amount of strength. Or else it would go insane or even die.

Thinking about that made me recall the dark realm monsters. They were initially normal monsters which got hacked and infected with the dark shadow energy in low concentration.

And that led to them turning into much fiercer and more vicious forms of life.

Damn! Just thinking about all that made me feel more despair rather than hope.

Wasn't there any hope for me to do it from here then or what?

"I need to calm myself down first," I knew it wasn't good to get panicked over this. My personal strength was something important, a major factor that'd decide either my win or loss over the upcoming two major quests.

But every problem must have a solution. This was something I grew used to since returning in time.

p Even for someone who held no class or power before, a problem that looked impossible to solve, I got a miraculous way to solve it.

So… Where were you, my magical solution?

Feeling stressed out and at loss of ideas, I decided to stop pondering about this problem for now. Trying to push oneself too hard against a wall wouldn't bring anything but headache and pain.

Sometimes, to find a solution, one had to look at another place and distract his troubled mind away from the problem itself.

Looking around, I was in the middle of my flight. The scenery here was indeed refreshing. This was a continent in the mid path towards my target.

It has a central lake, something that seemed fixed and common on this world's continents. And I got to know the reason behind this.

After all, my artefact created a lake in the middle of the place I used it at. Yet it grew into a sea, but it still repeated the same phenomenon over almost every single continent here.

Chapter 1090 Bad Luck!

Thinking about that, I recalled my unused artefacts. "I should start using artefacts, better than wasting my brain cells over unresolved issues like this," I had to sign while trying my best to shift my attention away.

However, the moment I thought about this… My eyes flashed in realisation!

"I… Got a solution!" It was an unbelievable one, but it was applicable and feasible, on paper and in theory of course.

Instead of calling that energy here and risk losing my world, why wouldn't I use it to nourish a world created by one of my magical artefacts?

Weren't my magical artefacts a mighty thing? Recalling the necromancer's world, and the miraculous changes here caused by another magical artefact, I couldn't help but feel much hope about it.

I was already in a vast open new world with unlimited potential. So why wouldn't I start using my artefacts and try this theory out.

However it wasn't that simple.

The pure dark energy coming from the shadow world was tyrannical! I first opened my inventory and started rolling through the artefacts I got.

"Sigh! What bad luck!"

I looked at the interface with a deep frown on my face. I intended to look for an artefact that could use an energy similar to the nature of the dark energy of the shadow world.

However despite my expectations, I found nothing similar!

The dark energy was still mysterious to me. However I got a few guesses about it.

Sith once said that my path was hovering close to the cultivation I got. And since my energy was deprived from this dark energy of the shadow world, it meant that death energy was somehow related to it.

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However, looking at the magical artefacts, even when few of them dealt with dead bodies like the den of heroes, they didn't grow or function on death energy or anything related to it.

For example, the den of heroes would operate over the valiant energy, energy derived from the acts of heroes.

It wasn't suitable. And this raised another problem and little regret.

I got an artefact before which used death energy, and it was my necromancer's world. However it was too late to think about using it.

First of all, it was situated all the way back on Earth. I was prevented from leaving this planet under any circumstances.

If I had a way to go out, then I'd prefer to head to the shadow world directly and train there.

Throwing such regret aside, I had to think about the problem of using other incompatible artefacts to store up the energy of the shadow world.

Such doing this would risk destroying my artefact, ending up with losing it.

"Sign! Isn't there a way out of this? Shall I use my castle then?" I considered this as well. After all, the currency used for my castle was death energy as well.

However when I thought about the risk of not tolerating the supreme energy of the shadow world, and the castle might simply explode into tiny useless pieces, I immediately dropped the thoughts about this idea.

I wouldn't try to solve a problem by creating a disaster! The castle was something that I gained after a brutal battle. I wouldn't risk losing it under any circumstances.

Aside from the huge value of time manipulation, this castle was just an irreplaceable card up my sleeve.

I wouldn't just risk losing it, no matter what!

"So… I have to select an artefact with little use to me and try things out first," I pondered while scanning through the short list of my stored magical artefacts.

I had to find something with little value to me, and it had to use an energy that might have a relation with the dark shadow world's energy.

Using anything that derived from life energy was a big no. Having such strict conditions in mind, I found two artefacts that I could use.

One of them was surprisingly not acquired from my trades with Silverlining and his race. It came from my brutal battle here.

Recalling the dens of bones artefacts, I couldn't help but feel quite ironic about this.

I took it from this world, and was going to try using it again in this world. How ironic this was?

The dens of bones might seem something valuable on the surface and quite tempting to anyone, but me.

It has the ability to store bones of dead warriors, condensate them and turn their grades even higher.

But for me, for the lord of bones himself, this wasn't something even considered valuable.

I got all the grades of the bones stored within my inventory. As for higher grade bones, I never ran short of them despite not having any use for them at the moment.

On the other hand, waiting for a long time for my low grade bones to grow into higher grade ones wasn't practical. My main currency was these low grade bones.

Limiting my own wealth of bones wasn't a smart move, even if it would grant me better bones later on.

As I had little value for this baby, I decided to go on and use it. Although it wasn't going to build me an entire world, it would instead use the energy and condensate it in the form of bones.

And I could simply place my hand over it and absorb the dark shadow energy in the form of absorbing bones.

p On paper, this was a perfect way to handle this berserk energy. However, it all depended on one simple factor.

Would this artefact sustain the pressure and survive the absorption of the dark shadow energy?

I had to try first to tell.

So I selected an artefact and had a rough vision of what I'd do once it succeeded. But now it all came down to how I'd make this artefact get into the link with my shadow world.

First I needed a technique, a brand new one with the ability to reverse what my suction portal techniques were doing.

Chapter 1091 Is It A Fail?

For a second, it seemed easy to do. However when I tried, the usual way to make my techniques failed.

I was even blasted away a couple of times when the technique crashed down and collapsed in the middle of its formation.

"Damn! So I have to use the other way then," I wasn't helpless. If the simple way failed, then it was a clear indication on how the dark energy of that world was brutal.

So my normal technique wouldn't endure the pressure and collapse. Instead of using the simple way of drawing over the air and form the technique, I started to use the more complicated way.

One group of techniques piled on top of each other, hovering in silence like grand black balls around me.

I used words like suction, condense, transport, channel, low rate, infuse, and such to make my ultimate technique.

Using this would reinforce this technique eventually. And when it finally formed, I felt like I was standing in the direct face of a howling open mouthed monster who released a torrent of air at my body.

Without even hesitating for a second, I cancelled the technique for now. Just activating it for a brief second released cracks over the entire place, devastated the beautiful scenery, and left me with a dejected look on my face.

It was truly brutal! Would my artefact sustain it?

I held more doubt towards the success of this plan. Even if I used a necromancer's world artefact, it would end up with a high risk of crushing.

As for using my castle, it was a joke, a bitter and silly one that left me unable even to smile when thinking about it.

"Well… From my previous experiences, the strongest moment of any artefact was the time of its activation," I pondered about it while recalling the two magical artefacts that I used before.

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Every single one of them created a massive burst of energy when getting used for the first time.

Between the two I used, the fountain of life held the upper hand in terms of strength without doubt. If not for using pure life energy, I might have considered using it instead.

"So the best way is to use the technique just at the moment of activating this artefact," I pondered about it while releasing this might be tricky.

One second delay or a mistake in judgement would turn everything pointless.

I first tried out my technique once more to ascertain the time needed for its activation.

As I got previous experience in making it, it just took ten seconds to activate, three seconds before it started howling and releasing cracks all over the world again.

"Cough… Cough… It's really troublesome… Cough… Cough…"

I freed myself from the deep pit I ended at after cancelling this technique. As I stood for a few minutes to control my anxiety, I finally knew the right timing of using this technique.

But I just knew the timing of one factor. As for the dens of bones, it was all a mystery to me.

I was already on a continent that was midway between the furthest away continent and the one I started at.

I took a deep breath before taking out that crude shaped bone.

The way to use this artefact was simple. One blood drop and lots of energy needed to activate this thing.

When I thought about energy, a flash of realisation hit me. "I shouldn't sync the two together, instead I shall make the den of bones get formed using the pure energy of the shadow world. Like this, it will have a higher chance of surviving the first clash."

I felt inspired. And the next moment I started forming the technique. As I just started it, I left a blood drop over the dens of bones.

Just like a dried up tree who sniffed the scent of water, the bone that wasn't that big in my hand broke free with a mighty force.

It shone brightly in pure brown and golden colours before hovering in the air for fifty metres.

Then it started to vibrate and torrents of air started to form around it.

I knew what it was doing. It was trying its best to suck away the energy from the world and get in form.

"Not this energy, idiot," I hurriedly finished my technique and without any hesitation, I let the two collide together.

The technique I created to suck energy from the shadow world was really fearsome! The moment it got done, a grand black ball appeared and engulfed the bone inside.

"Damn! Don't let it slip to the other side or else I'll swear I'll kill you!" I didn't know why I was threatening a dead technique, but thinking about it malfunctioning and throwing the den of bones artefact over the other side terrified me for a brief moment.

*Howl!*

Then out of nowhere, the previous tyrannical attack over this world came from my technique, sending my flying away in the next second like a bomb just exploded near me.

"Cough… Cough… What that damn piece of sh*t doing inside it? Cough… Cough… Shouldn't it suck dry this energy or what?"

As I got up to my feet, I was really furious. After all I did, after all this effort in thinking and preparing, nothing happened!

"Wait…" just when I was about to cancel this technique, I noticed something, "these cracks… They aren't as dense and numerous as before… Thinking about it…"

As I reached this point in my train of thoughts, I looked around and checked the place I just fell at.

Previously, and each time I got slammed fiercely away by the energy of the dark shadow world, I'd find myself miles away from my initial spot.

However, this time was different. I just got thrown away for two up to three hundred metres.

Seeing all these signs meant one thing; the power of energy coming out from this technique was growing weaker.

Chapter 1092 Using My Magical Artefact

"It's working!" I shouted in joy when I realised this. I thought my plan was a failure and I was already burdened by the task of thinking of another solution.

After all, I reached this plan after a long time of contemplation and trials.

I watched closely my technique while fiercely releasing a gust of energy gales that swept past the world. Cracks keep appearing and sounds of thunderous booming come to my ears.

However, the more I noticed, the closer I watched, the more I became convinced of my earlier guess.

The power of dark energy coming out from this technique of mine was getting weaker as the time passed!

"I need to wait then," realising this made me heave a sigh of relief. At least there was light at the end of the tunnel for me.

As such, I stood at the side, calmly watching the fierce effects over the world here coming from my technique.

"Come on... Get bigger, suck this damn shadow energy dry!" After a few hours of waiting, the effects of destruction grew weaker and weaker.

But it never vanished! The area of effect was now less than twenty metres in radius around it. It was much smaller than before, but it was still wreaking havoc over this world.

I knew this would keep happening until my den of bones would grow and overcome the gush of energy from my technique. As long as I kept my technique running, it'd keep gushing out energy and keep linked with the den of bones.

The awesome thing about this magical artefact was that it acted as an energy reactor. Giving energy from one side would result in giving a product from the other end.

That meant as long as I kept draining the energy, this den wouldn't show any sign of getting over filled!

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And who knew, I might as well get good graded bones in the end!

Even if I had to wait, I wasn't feeling dejected. Instead, I was feeling excited the more time it passed.

The intensity of the dark energy was getting weaker at a snail's pace, but it was enough for me. As long as this kept going, at some point the artefact would over exceed the energy influx and the situation would get stabilised.

It took me an entire day of waiting before all of sudden, the den of bones finally extended beyond the black ball.

It first grew a few bones, twisting and moving like they were vines growing from the ground.

Then in the next few hours, the thin and shy bones started to grow thicker and longer. More also kept growing out from the ball.

With the appearance of the first batch of vines, the effects of the dark shadow energy started to retreat and vanish slowly. Yet it took another day before it finally vanished.

By that time, the vines growing out were now looking like the thick roots of mighty trees. Like the time when I was faced with this artefact, bones started to crawl on the ground first, twisting and getting elongated without showing any pause.

They started to interlink with each other, forming a dense and very complicated net of bones.

When I looked closer, the bones were all pitch black in colour, with such dangerous light coming out from them. The bones kept increasing in size and number, but they gave me the impression of knowing no end.

They were connected all the way back to the black ball, which even under all this was still functioning. I noticed that despite the energy being fully absorbed, the bones didn't dare to touch this black ball at all.

And even with circulating around, encompassing it under layers upon layers of thick bones, the blackness coming from this ball could still be seen in the narrow gaps between these bones.

Besides, I was controlling this technique with my left arm. So I felt everything about it.

Hours passed fast, and days passed faster. By the end of the first ten days, the entire area covered up with these bones expanded greatly to reach a surface area of tens of miles.

I got the feeling that this den of bones was growing bones also underneath the ground. After all, I knew it was the thing that provided material for that seat back then to form the back structure of this world.

Looking at it from this angle made me ponder about the real size I wanted for this artefact. Should I stop the technique now and let the artefact stabilise first then try using it again? Or should I keep it running?

After giving it little thought, I decided to not stop the technique. Who knew what might happen if I did that.

As the technique was still providing energy to the bone artefact, it was time to test out my other theory.

Would I be able to suck dry bones from it or not?

However when I recalled the terrifying ability I got to suck bones at a turbo speed I decided to postpone it for later.

As the technique didn't need any control to keep running, I decided to sit on the ground and start my cultivation.

All in one go, I decided to try everything this time to make sure I didn't miss or do anything wrong.

Instead of just finding somewhere away from me, I landed on the thick bones that formed another layer over the ground.

It wasn't a risky move for me. Even if the bones grew and surrounded me inside, I'd be able to break free using my bone absorption ability at any time.

Plus, I felt the need to be in touch with these bones to be able to suck the shadow world energy from.

After all, this had to be done in this way, the way I devised back then when I was planning all of this out.

As I landed, I intended to not interfere that much with the process going on here. So I simply opened my class interface and switched back to the normal bone absorption speed.

Placing my right hand on the ground, while my left leant over my knees, I closed my eyes and regulated my breathing.

Chapter 1093 [Bonus Chapter] Starting Cultivation Again

The moment I touched the bones, I felt energy deep inside. Yet I didn't hurry to activate my bone absorption ability.

I tried something else, tried to directly channel energy from my touch with the bones.

"It's not going to work..." After trying it out for many times, I found out that no matter what, the bones held tightly over their dense energy.

However during these attempts, I felt the purity of this energy. It was indeed the shadow world energy, and it was in much thicker and purer form than ever.

Compared with times when I was cultivating even inside my shadow world, this energy felt like I got all the energy out there compressed and even purified.

This was enough to let me know this plan was going to work. And so I had to just activate my bone absorption and everything would start smoothly.

I closed my eyes and started to channel my energy at first. I didn't try to absorb the energy from the bones before confirming another matter; was I able to get in touch with my base or not?

After all this wasn't just a way to purify and elevate my spiritual energy in ranks. I wanted to raise my stagnant cultivation base.

Cultivating for a few times and after facing many fortinuous events, I finally got my cultivation base to stop at grade six.

My plan was to push it all the way to the next level.

I first planned to keep it stagnant at the first big cultivation base. I wanted to go and try out that betting world myself.

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However when getting threatened from the Hescos, I knew I shouldn't slack in cultivating.

Like that crazy sovereign said once to me, having a weak lord wasn't going to do anything to my troops.

So raising up my cultivation base and getting stronger at any cost was my goal at the moment. I spent a long time planning and strengthening my various troops.

Yet it was time for me to get a boost.

As I channelled my energy throughout my body, I started to link it with my shadow world. In the shadow world, I got a dantian, an entire net of meridians, and my base.

Even if I wouldn't dare to go there at the moment, I had to test and see if the spiritual energy could circulate the part of my cultivation base and foundation out there.

Without this, everything I'd do here would be limited to just grow up my faint blue energy to higher levels only.

"Phew! It works!" I waited, patiently waited for almost six hours before the spiritual energy I kept gushing towards finally returned back to me.

I kept circulating my energy in my body and pushed them through my feet towards my shadow world. Without getting to see what was going out there, I didn't know if it was working or not.

Yet I kept holding onto the hope of its success, and luckily I didn't grow impatient at some point and stopped.

"All is set," I inhaled a deep breath without changing my current position or opening my eyes, "it's time to start."

With my right hand placed on the bones, I initiated the ability of bone absorption.

Even if I was using the normal and slow speed of absorbing bones, it was enough to release such a thick and vast amount of dark shadow energy towards my body.

I knew that rushing to cultivate at once wouldn't do me any good. So I started first to control this energy, forming a path for it to pass through my body towards my meridians. Then they were pushed to my dantian where they got absorbed and changed into my faint blue energy.

Even if I was compatible with the dark black shadow world energy, I wasn't able to directly move it around my body carelessly as if it was my own.

My spiritual energy level was still much weaker than this one. So I had to push it first to my dantian, and then the magic started.

,m I felt the sudden increase in the energy in my dantian to the point of swelling it in a few breaths. Without hesitating, I pushed the energy towards the outer meridians, let the new energy circulate first through my body, before sending everything towards my shadow world foundation.

At this moment, the circuit of my meridians and danitans was already completed and closed. The energy kept getting thrown towards that world and the same amount was sent back to me.

I kept regulating things for an unknown period of time before finally feeling everything was going the way I wanted.

If anyone saw my body right now, they'd see that the absorbed dark energy entered first from my right hand to my right arm dantian, swelling it by double folds before releasing the extra towards my main dantian.

The upper right half of my body worked as a path for the incoming black energy, dying my body inside with faint black.

Then starting from my main dantian, which got swelled up by four times, the energy that'd turn into a faint blue one of mine would gush out like torrents towards my entire body, circulate for a few times before they'd reach my right foot and pass from there.

Once entering my shadow world, I lost track of it. I only saw the gush of the energy from the shadow world sent back to my body through my left foot.

The energy sent joined the meridian network of my body, circulating for a few times in there, before returning back to my shadow world.

Everything was going smoothly as I wanted. And at this moment, I knew I could start cultivating for real at last.

Before doing it, I just opened my eyes once and checked the situation outside. As this circulation and system got established, I didn't need to exert any conscious control over it anymore.

Seeing that my intervention didn't cause any negative cascade of changes here and the bone artefact was still expanding its bones outwards, I was relieved.

Much more important than finding a way to solve my problem was to find a balance. With such balance, nothing would happen during my cultivation to interrupt it.

Chapter 1094 A Test For Hegemony

As I knew things were already under my control, I closed my eyes and regulated my breath again. This time, I intended to start cultivation for real. And I entered into the magnificent world of cultivation fast and without any hiccups.

The last couple of times I trained, the world outside got a massive shock and showed a violent response. It wasn't just limited to my cultivation, but also a thing that happened with the races I acquired from the other universe.

My mind drifted and I experienced a state of peace and tranquillity like never before. It was like I went directly to heaven, not feeling any pain, worry, or anxiety.

My thoughts were calm, and my confidence skyrocketed. It was like I was a god creating and controlling this world.

And this world felt like it was my body and cultivation base combined!

It was an awesome feeling, one that I realised later on to be called an epiphany.

It was a rare phase where a cultivator would enter a miraculous state of mind and soul. Cultivation wasn't just done by blindly absorbing energy from the world around.

Instead, it was an attempt to blend one's mind and soul together with the world outside.

Once succeeded, one would experience such rare moments like this one. I didn't know if it was thanks to my long time holding myself back or thanks to the pure and condensed black shadow energy I was absorbing.

However this didn't matter. All I felt at this moment was the world I was in was getting bigger and broader by each passing minute.

Time in cultivation wasn't anything like time in the real world.

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I knew this the hard way already. And I made people like Silverlining and the sovereigns suffer greatly from it before.

So even if it felt like a few hours just passed, I knew it might be days or even months out there in the real world.

At some point, I felt like I hit something as the world all around me got shaken instantly and trembled fiercely. I thought it was my time to get out of such a state, but when that blockade appeared, it vanished in the next hour.

It was as if I was a needle and just penetrated through a thick balloon! Yet the balloon didn't explode as expected, instead it led me inside another bigger balloon.

Then inside that world, a weird thing happened. A fog appeared in front of me. It was pale gold in colour, making us wonder about what it was.

Gradually it turned into a tornado from a small clump of fog. It hovered over the ground and kept roaring around without creating any sound.

Yet for a reason, I felt if this happened in the outside world, then deafening roaring rumbles and thunder would be heard from it.

I watched it grow in size without feeling any speck of worry or fear. My mind was still drifting in this awesome state, and nothing seemed to be able to shake me out of it.

However, just when I thought I was invincible in this state of mind, the tornado kept expanding and in a flash it covered me inside.

Then the scenery in front of my eyes changed and all I could see was a barren endless land, thick and overriding on each other dark clouds with thick tongues of thunder flashing there.

"Every hegemony has to pass a test first," and as I was standing on this barren land while feeling puzzled, a majestic sound came from the entire world here.

It looked like a mighty god was looking down at me at this moment, or perhaps it was the world itself who spoke to me. I couldn't tell. But whoever spoke just now left a tremendous impact on me.

It was as if he could annihilate my presence with a single thought of his! It was a scary feeling, especially when it just came after I felt being invincibile.

"You are going to have three trials right now, the trial of body, the trial of soul, and the trial of heart. Failing any of the three means failure in passing to the next level. Failing in all the three means death. Get ready, hegemone, you are going to be tested."

"Tested?" I was taken aback. I never heard of such a thing before. The old man's teachings never mentioned such a thing, neither did Sith.

"You are an owner of a land in the origin world, so you are now a citizen of that special place. As privilege comes with restrictions and tests, you have to prove yourself or fail."

It seemed whoever was on the other side was present at this moment. I just spoke out of my shock, but it seemed I could chit chat with him.

From what he said, I got that this all happened thanks to my special situation. My cultivation base was already inside the shadow world and I got a territory there.

Was that world this special? If it was, then would this affect me later on or what?

He spoke about privileges, but all I got was hindrance and chains!

"I can't fight alone!" I moved my eyes around, "can I summon my armies, my items?"

"A test of hegemony must be taken solo, as the path to glory is always solo," the voice paused before another bellow of words came in the next second, "if you can't prove yourself, how do you expect to reach greater heights? Depending on external factors isn't strength. Strong hegemony shall only depend on themselves. The test difficulty just doubled thanks to your complaints."

"..."

The corner of my eyes twitched when I heard him saying these words. What the heck was wrong with you man? Damn! I was just chatting with you. Why are you acting all hostile and aggressive when we were just talking?

However, fearing that he'd grow more furious and decide my death on the spot, I restrained myself from retorting back.

F*ck it! I looked up and clenched both fists.

Chapter 1095 The First Test

I wore nothing but my simple clothes, one that seemed to be made out of the cheapest fabric in the world. I got nothing on me to protect myself against anything coming.

"Bring it on!" I shouted in defiance, while not trying to hide my hatred and anger at all.

"The first test is coming… Sustain the attack for two days… Oh wait, you got punished for your cowardance! Sustain the attack for five days then."

"..."

Since when was the double of two five? F*ck! Even I got such injustice from such a formidable being!

Screw you then! "Bring it on!" I clenched my fists and anticipated what was coming.

What else? It was going to be lightning, right? There was nothing else here but barren land and lightning.

However, against my expectations, the attack that came was something that I never expected.

The land around me was rocky and solid. However in the next few minutes, many places changed and started to turn into a semi-solid state.

As if they were pulled with a hidden gravitational force, these semi-solid rocks were pulled out, forming a shape of giant spears, broke free from the ground, solidified at a visible rate, before plunging at me at fast speed.

*Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!* *Fwoosh!*

I didn't stand idle and watch without doing anything. If I got my gears and weapons, I wouldn't need to worry about any of this.

They were, after all, mere rocks coming at me.

However I was wearing nothing, having nothing but my fists. I didn't know if my physical strength was preserved or not. And I didn't take the gamble.

If I could, then I'd evade them using my agility. At the same time, I tested my body condition.

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I could jump fast and high, my reaction was superb like before. Did that mean I still held my inhumane strength or what?

Let me test it then.

As I kept jumping around like a monkey, evading everything coming, at one point I purposely jumped low and let one rocky spear fly near me.

I clenched my fist, waved my arm, and when that sharp and deadly large piece of rock passed by me, I simply hit it with a punch.

*Crack!*

"Sigh! As expected!" I landed and didn't delay for even one second. There were too many rocks to count.

So I jumped again and again, kept testing the limit of my strength here before reaching a conclusion.

It wasn't that my strength was weak, but it was these rocks that held special endurance to them.

It meant I couldn't just depend on my strength to crush these rocks.

"This is… Bad!"

Just when I thought things were going my way, and in less than six hours, a new change happened.

The spears that kept coming and failed to even touch a single hair of me started to show a sudden change in appearance.

I was surprised the first time I passed by one of these rocks. I saw it grow suddenly in size, with its surface swaying like the surface of a lake after throwing a rock in it.

Then without any warning, much thinner spikes came out from it, aiming for my life.

"Go away!" as it came fast and without warning, such an attack was indeed lethal. However I didn't hesitate, used both fists to crush the incoming spikes.

I managed to survive this attack with two bloody fists. I looked at the rock which kept hovering in the air for a few seconds, covering up hundreds of metres, before crashing down like all others.

"Dammit! So they kept changing in time? This is really bad!" I knew that my earlier tactic wasn't going to work.

The rocks would attack me in a way that I couldn't evade. So I had to exert my strength and keep hammering the spikes, crushing them whenever they appeared.

Gradually I learnt a few tricks as well. Instead of just going directly at the spikes and clashing with their sharp edges, I could simply attack them by aiming at their shafts.

It was a bit tricky as I noticed the growth speed of these spikes differ from the sides of the rocky spears.

So instead of just simply jumping up to bypass the incoming spears by overpassing them, I started to simply fly paralel to them.

This proved more effective and lessened the burden over my hands.

Yet the injuries I got healed at a much slower rate than ever. It seemed like I lost the ability to heal.

At this moment, I really missed my healing sacrifice for my class. I tried before to activate the system, tried to activate any of my class abilities or summon anything from my huge arsenal.

But I failed. As that mysterious voice said, external strength wasn't allowed. And I was left to face the incoming threats by myself.

However, was I this weak to begin with? Even if I depended mainly on the external forces for the most of time, I got many boosts to my strength.

So it wasn't like I only had my external strength. I was strong.

Yet the next change exerted more pressure over me.

The first change happened after six hours. Yet this one happened after one day. Like this, I just happened to stay here for almost a day and a quarter.

I knew this wasn't even close to half of the entire period of staying here. But the delay of the change gave me hope.

Just surviving this one and the next would be the last change in this trial.

As for what happened, it was simple. The spears that passed over me triggered something and spikes from the ground appeared all of sudden, attacking me without any warning.

The first time it happened, I felt like my life was hanging by a thread. If I got hit, I was sure my body would be hacked in many places.

I wouldn't lose my life at once, but it meant I'd be heavily wounded and wouldn't be able to last till the end.