Near the Pond in the Eastern Wastelands
A small white cat was making miserable cries. It looked like a starved cat that had not eaten for weeks. It walked passed the unconscious Theo and next to the small pond. "Meow!" It cried when it couldn't reach the roasted fish. It cried there for a while until it's cries weakened. "Argh", a pained voice resounded. Theo had finally woken up. His eyes were a little blurry. He could see a white cat in front of him and He could also smell a roasted meat smell. When he looked clearly, he saw the cat 'meowing' and crying to pull the roasted fish into it side but it was very weak to do so. It could only miserably cry. Theo felt like this situation was comparable to his. He slowly stood up and walked to the pond and pulled five of them out. "Meow!" The white cat let out a desperate cry.
Theo finally remembered that he was not alone. He gave the cat 2 small fishes after sizing up it's body. It was small almost fitting his small two hands. He was worried that it wouldn't be able to eat such big fishes so he first used a small knife and cut the fishes into smaller pieces so it will be easier to swallow. The cat didn't even look at him and started to devour slowly.
Slowly but surely, it started to gain some energy as it ate. Theo was also hungry, so he didn't bother the cat. He ate all the fish like a starved dog. It took only 5 minutes and all the fish became bones. "Ahh, that was satisfying", He muttered. He had been hungry for a week. If not for the fact that he was at the second stage of Qi Refinement Realm, he wouldn't have been able to walk all the way to the Eastern Wastelands.
Suddenly, Theo saw something at the back of his hands. There were 'O' circle-like marks on both of his fists. When Theo saw this, he was shocked. "Is this a divine Mark?". He was shocked. He recalled his memories. 'cultivation is a process of absorbing the spiritual energy in the world and refining it into your own energy'. 'there are many ways to do this. 1 is to use medicinal pills which contain spiritual energy to get your body to adapt to spiritual energy.
2 is to naturally absorb spiritual energy though that requires talent for cultivation. 3 is to have a bloodline of a powerful cultivator and 4 is to awaken a divine Mark. Divine marks can automatically absorb spiritual energy and are considered as heavens blessing. Theo has always cultivated without a medicinal pills, powerful bloodline or divine Marks. That was why he had been considered a genius by the Skype Family.
He was a little surprised to see himself with a divine Mark. He first inspected it and found out that it was like a spatial ring andit had a mysterious energy inside it. He didn't know what that pure, untainted energy was but he could feel his body craving for it. "What kind of energy is this", he asked.
There was no answer. He stopped inspecting the mark and looked around. He was a shocked to discover that the originally small withered trees had grown wider and taller. He didn't even notice it at all. Even the cat looked shocked. "What the hell happened here", Theo was shocked. Before he became unconscious, there were small withered trees around the small pond. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was becoming late, so he started to prepare. He took out an Axe and started using it to cut the trees. After cutting them, he then used a shovel to dig and started building a square like house.
It didn't take a while before he finished. The sky was already darkening. He took out eight high grade spirit stones and started to set up a formation. These spirit stones were given to him before he fell ill. As a family that specialized in formations and pill refining, the Skype Family naturally had spirit stone mines. These spirit stones were very useful in formations.
Theo took the spirit stones and put them in a massive circle. This formation was called the Octagon Concealment formation. It is used by the Skype Family to hide it's important secrets. It can isolate space and make it look like there is nothing in the front. Even if you were outside the formation, you wouldn't notice anything. T e formation was set all around the water pond and the peace of land around the house.
Theo formed a hand seal. 'boom', an explosion of the spiritual energy commenced lighting up the whole circled area. The Spirit stones started being drained until the energy in them was less than half. The whole area slowly became illusory until it became faint. Someone outside the formation would see a faint pond and a small house built inside.
This shows that the formation is clearly unable to hide everything mainly because of the small number of spirit stones. The cat was laying on the side watching the scene. Theo could see that the sky was already completely dark, so he sent inside the house and prepared to sleep. He had built a small table, a chair and a small bed. He put all his stuff on the table and felt a little drowsy. Climbed into his small bed and fell asleep.
His breathing slowed down and his mind went back in time.
"Son, money doesn't bring happiness" it only slowly eats away your pride and humanity", a old man said. He was Theo's father from Earth and the man who was the greatest mentor to him. " But Dad, without money, one can not live a happy free life on this world", a 17 year old Theo said. His eyes were full of determination. In his life, he wanted to earn a large amount of money and then use it to live a normal life.
But things changed when his father, a farmer in the countryside died from old age. That made him to start searching for work and do alll kinds of odd jobs so he can live happily as he had said to his father. However, that's were his suffering began. As he recalled his past life on his dreams, the divine Mark shone with a transparent light. Wisps of Origin energy came out of the Divine Mark and spread around the house, the lake, the formation and the whole area inside the formation quietly.
The pond seemed to expand a little and thousands of fish were born. The formation covering the area trembled like a leaf on a rainy day and the spirit stones expanded Into 5 meter long stones and then turned transparent. Then, slowly, they sank into the ground and the illusory formation completely disappeared and the whole area seemed to have disappeared out of existence.
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