Henry kept those cores inside his storage ring by flicking his wrist.
"Ok, I'm done, now I should return. I thought it was almost evening," Henry thought to himself.
He started to navigate out after that.
Henry began navigating through the forest by using trees to jump from one tree to another.
He did this because it was a lot faster way to travel.
Henry kept traveling for some time, and a few hours later, he spotted a big building from a distance.
"I have finally reached Eloise's home," Henry thought to himself as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
It took him around three hours to return home since he was still really tired due to the low amount of blood he had.
He had stopped in the middle of the forest to rest up for a few minutes. He did this every 25 minutes.
Every time he stopped to rest, he heard the voice of beasts from a distance. At that moment, he was really scared since he was not in the state to fight.
However, since he was back home, he was safe.
"No one can know how happy I am now. However, I shouldn't interact with Eloise too much since my cultivation is lower than usual.
If she were to notice, then she would become worried. I will start to interact with her openly after I have cultivated the Basic Qi Core Formation realm," Henry thought to himself.
He started to walk towards the entrance of the house slowly so that no one could hear him.
A moment later, he entered the room successfully. He was about to go to his room, however, at that moment, he heard the voice of a certain individual from a distance.
"Where are you going, young man?" The voice asked him.
The voice of this individual was really powerful. Powerful enough to shake him to his core. He knew who this voice belonged to.
"The grandfather of Eloise. This old geezer, what does he want from me?" Henry thought to himself.
Henry turned around and saw him. It was as he had expected. His eyes met the cold eyes of Eloise's grandfather.
"Yes, what do you want, senior?" Henry asked politely without a tinge of fear.
Eloise's grandfather didn't say anything for the next few minutes. After a moment later, he opened his mouth and said,
"Call me Mr. Lucas. Also, where were you this entire night? Were you stalking some woman?" Lucas asked him calmly.
When he heard these words, veins started to pop from his head due to pure anger. A moment later, he shook his head and said,
"No, I was training last night with some beasts to hone my combat skills," Henry said to him with a bitter smile on his face.
Lucas opened his mouth and said,
"Oh, I see, so that's why you were injured. However, I wonder if these injuries can lower your cultivation to such an extent.
I think you have lowered your cultivation on purpose, but I would love to know the reason," Lucas asked him with a smile on his face.
When Henry heard this, he didn't become surprised since he had expected this.
"The injuries that I am trying to cover with clothes are too obvious, and his cultivation is higher than mine.
So it's quite obvious that he can see that my cultivation is lower, but I won't tell him the reason why I did so, even if I die," Henry thought to himself with a determined look on his face.
Henry remained silent when he heard Lucas wanted to know the reason. When Lucas saw this, he smiled and said,
"I know that no one will want to say their secret, and it's a taboo to ask for the secret of other cultivators. So I won't continue to ask about this anymore.
However, I hope that you know what you are doing, or else it can be bad for you.
Also, when you go to hunt beasts, be careful since after the receding of spiritual energy has started, the beasts have become stronger because the earth's spirit in the world increased.
Hence, they started to use the earth's spiritual energy to cultivate, however, humans can't use the earth's spiritual energy to cultivate," Lucas said to him, but he took a deep breath before continuing any further.
Then Lucas opened his mouth after taking a breath and continued to speak.
"Hence, we have gotten weaker than ever. Humanity is barely protecting its domain from the other race due to only one organization.
The receding of spiritual energy has caused a lot of beasts to go extinct.
Then it caused the beast that feeds on the extinct beasts and plants to go extinct. This has caused a huge blow to the food chain.
This also has caused cultivation resources to become more valuable, so there has been more fight for resources.
Hence, due to these reasons it's unknow how chaotic the world will become in the future.
We have named the receding of the spiritual energy the great apocalypse," Lucas said as he started to leave.
Henry wanted to ask more about the apocalypse the world was in due to the receding of the spiritual energy, but Lucas left before he could ask anything.
He let out a curse.
"Tsk, I didn't even want to know about the apocalypse of the world; he is the one who told me of his own free will.
However, now that I want to know about it, he just left without telling me anything. Arrogant old man. Regardless, let me go into my room; then I will begin to cultivate using my new cultivation techniques," Henry thought to himself.
Henry shook everything about this from his head.
He began to head towards his room. However, he remembered something.
"Before that, I should check on Elijah. I haven't seen him for some time now," Henry thought to himself.
He began to look the entire place for Elijah in hopes of finding him, but he didn't find him in the house.
This caused him to panic.
"Where did he go?" Henry thought to himself as he started to panic.
However, just as he was about to continue his search, he looked out of the window and saw two individuals walking towards the forest.
One was a young woman, and the other was a child of 5 years old. When he saw them, Henry let out a sigh of relief.
"It seems like Elijah is out with Eloise; it's good. Now Eloise won't be able to see me in such a state.
Now I will have to go to my room, and then I can start to cultivate," Henry thought to himself.
With this thought in his mind, he left for his room. He arrived in front of his room within two minutes.
After arriving in front of his room, stared at the door for a few seconds before entering.
"Now I need to make a sign so that everyone will know I am in a session, and it's common knowledge not to disturb any cultivator who is in a session." Henry muttered under his breath.
He began to look for a piece of paper. A moment later, he found it, then he kept it on his desk.
He took out a pen from his desk and wrote on it. A moment later, Henry was done writing on it.
"Ok, done. Now I will have to put it on the door," Henry thought to himself.
He held the paper in his hand, then he opened the door and put it on his door.
Henry read the words on it, "Cultivating in session, do not disturb."
He nodded his head in satisfaction. After putting it on the door, he went inside his room.
Then he sat down on the floor cross-legged and took out a few things from his rings. He said softly,
"It's time to begin cultivating."