After seeing the black havoc wolf Oliver did not waste any more time he knew he would be reaching the ninth city very soon he commanded all the part of the black havoc wolf that was in the storage purse and placed them in the bag he was carrying with the stone rabbits inside and started heading to the ninth city. Not up to fifteen minutes Oliver was at the entrance to the ninth city he looked at the big gate that was there and on top were four soldiers on the fence keeping watch of everything.
When they saw Oliver they looked at him closely a handsome young man that look pale he was tall with short black hair, wearing a plain brown robe, walking gently towards them with a snow white cat on his shoulder.
They felt their eyes were deceiving them because when they saw Oliver heading out about seven days ago he was a mortal and had no Dao energy flowing in him but now to their surprise they discovered that he was at the fifth level of the Qi magical essence realm.
They were just surprised but they did not take it to heart they felt anything was possible because from the start they did not take their time to access Oliver so they did not know that he did not have a life root core and even with him before them they did not use there Dao sense to check him completely so they did not know that even till now he still did not have a life root core which was out of place.
They just felt Oliver met some fruitful encounter which was not out of place to happen but since his strength was not overly high they did not take it to heart.
Oliver looked at the four people that were looking at him, the four soldiers were well built with one among them taller than the remaining three and he was about fifty to sixty years of age when Oliver Looked at them he discover that he could see their power level.
"So this is how it is that one must be a magical cultivator before they would be able to see the power level of a fellow magical cultivator that was why I was unable to see or know the power level of all the magical cultivators I have seen.
"I guess the elderly man is the leader of this squad of soldiers being at the seventh level of the core magical essence realm and with how the flow of his power seems it like he would have a breakthrough to the eighth level very soon, two are at the same power level being at the fourth level of the core magical essence realm and last one is at the fifth level stronger than the other two in strength".
Oliver analyzed their strength and thought to himself that since he was able to see the power level of the practitioners of the Dao essence he would not be able to make the mistake of earlier when he was fighting the black havoc wolf that was overly stronger than him, he would do everything to run away keeping his life intact.
Oliver walked past the gate with the soldiers looking at him when they saw the little cat on his shoulder and notice it was a spirit beast and not a guardian creature they wondered who would still carry a spirit beast everywhere when you can conjure a guardian creature and as your power grows, the guardian creature can come to life and they are more loyal than any spirit beast because they are part of you. Being giving birth to by your life essence and nurturing of one Dao essence so the guardian creature could not disobey its master or less in certain situations where it can be suppressed by enemies.
When Oliver entered the ninth city on his right was the instruction and assessment hall Oliver walked into it with the bag on his bag, the thing about the bag was that it could not be checked by Dao sense by some power level of a magical cultivator that was why the soldiers were unable to know what was inside the bag but if the magical cultivator was overly powerful they would be able to see what was inside but they will not have the mind to use their Dao senses to check the bag of a weak magical cultivator but if it was a storage purse they might check if necessary because the storage purse have the ability to store important items in it and could preserve than.
When Oliver entered the hall he was asked to wait in a room in the hall by a female attendant that the hall master will come and attend to him. It was a rule in the instruction and assessment hall that whoever brought something to sell for the first time will be attended to by the hall master for the first time.
After waiting for ten minutes the door was opened by the attendant and a middle-aged man that was in his early forties stepped into the room, he was dressed in a light blue robe. He sat in the position of the host in the hall opposite Oliver and Oliver stood up and greeted the man the attendant left the room.
"Young lad you left seven days ago and you are already back with spirit beast to get some crystals that is good," Hall Master Leo said
"Bring it out let me see it and reward you" Hall Master Leo asked Oliver, he was deep in thought
"Before this young lad left he was a mortal and had no life root, how come he was able to break through and am not still sensing any form of life root in him"
"No need to ask, this is Samsara anything can happen, and besides everyone has their secrets".
"But what type of secret could it be, it must be something astonishing with no life root how, I will have to report to the higher-ups immediately, things how about to get interested".