In the ye family forbidden land an area that was originally filled with spirit qi and dense spirit cloud and also a dense spirit qi river but was was now deprived of any qi and even the spirit medicine around were withering at a very fast pace because of the lack of spirit qi.
At the center an old man in a dull white treasure robe that was flickering with white light instead of the usually dense white light because of the lack of spirit qi could be seen frowning "Who dare do this to me? i was about breaking through the fourth rank of essence manifestation realm and it was so close." The old man said with regrets.
And suddenly a middle aged man in black dragon robe flashed inside.
"congratulations old ancestor for breaking through your new realm" the middle aged man said happily while kneeling.
"hmmp! little brat ye feng are you trying to mock me" the old man snorted and erupted with an aura that turned the entire Ye clan forbidden land to an ice cold abyss.
"No ancestor our spies at the feng imperial palace said their ancestor was not around because he had something important to do and in the entire feng city and out of the 5 great clan ancestor only you can manifest such a scary phenomenal." the middle aged man said with confusion expressed on his face.
"hmmp! it was not me even though i was close to breaking through the next realm but that is not important. I want you to dispatch two teams send one team to find out where old man Feng is and the other should find out what caused the phenomenal. Do it secretly. Do you understand?" the old man asked while retracting his aura.
"yes, yes ancestor i will do exactly as you've said" the middle aged man said with fear evident on his face.
"Good! you can leave now" the old man said casually.
"yes ancestor" the middle aged man said before he disappeared.
"hmmp! from the direction of the qi, the qi disturbance seem to come from the Zhou family manor. Zhou li Zhou li what are you up to" The old man said muttering the name of the zhou family ancestor before taking out two crystal like bead with size of a baby's head that were emiting a faint spiritual light "sigh i didn't think i would have to rely on this spiritual beads to break through" the old man sighed bitterly but when he thought of the unknown expert that turned their family's blessed land to a waste land he quickly circulated his qi to absorb the qi in the crystal and after a while he quickly entered a passive cultivation mode.
If Zhou was here he would realize that the crystal bead the old man was absorbing is similar to the one's he had with him after his cultivation.
Same thing happened in the five great clan the Wang family, the Mu family, the Wu family and the Feng imperial family, but their ancestor only sensed the disturbance happened not far from the Zhou family but they couldn't pinpoint where the expert was thus making Zhou li a suspect and the entire Zhou family a centre of attraction and of course this is only known to a few middle and upped circle of the Feng city.
Outside Zhou yi's cottage a black shadow could be seen flashing around wantonly and when it lands a worm or ant could be seen disappearing from the spot it lands and with a "swissh" sound the bird landed on a spiritual tree and there were noticable changes on the bird, first, it's black colour was glosy making it look like a little jade, second, the gray stripes were gone and third it size reduced from the size of a pineapple to the size of an apple and most importantly it's cultivation increased to the ninth level golden core realm.
Suddenly it noticed a rainbow coloured ant and a blue colored worm that was staring at it curiously it flew above the ant "what a strange ant but you must be more delicious than the others right? anyways i will know after eating you" the bird thought and arrogantly pounced on the ant but what it did not expect was that 10 more ants and worms appeared from nowhere to join the fun and their cultivation has reached a terrifying 5th level of golden core realm and because they had advantage in numbers the ants and worms charged out first but the bird not wanting to be left behind also charged out and instantly a battle erupted between the bird and some insects.
Cultivation realm was divided to body tempering level, qi refining level, foundation establishment level, golden core realm, nacent soul realm, earth soul realm, heaven soul realm, earth monach, heaven monach realm then the immortal realm.