Micheal stared at the small chick in shock……A talking chick? He had never seen anything like this before. Soon enough, everyone gathered around Maya, all of them looking at the chick in surprise.Maya was also stunned, but she reached up, held the chick, and gently brought it down from her head.“In your prime… what do you mean?” Maya asked. Micheal was also curious about what the chick meant by what it said earlier. “Umm… I don’t know. I just know that I am a great Phoenix,” the chick replied with a smug smile.Micheal was completely speechless. The chick looked so small and weak. When it had flapped its wings earlier, it even looked like it might fall. For it to claim that it was a Phoenix was almost ridiculous. And that smile… it was clearly smug. The chick was acting far too human.Elyria was truly a strange place. Everything happening here felt like something out of a fantasy movie.“So cute,” Aina said as she stepped forward and gently touched the chick.This time, the chick d

Everyone immediately fell silent, their expressions turning solemn. This desert was a completely different kind of nightmare compared to the watching trees. It didn’t just threaten them like the other did but it gave the feeling of being trapped, like an invisible prison closing in on them and with the slightest movement he'd be dead. “And now the bodies of the heretics are gone,” Alex said, glancing around. “We can’t even use them to track where we’ve been. The sandstorm must have buried everything.”That made things worse.They quickly began thinking of ways to escape before their water ran out. After some discussion, they brought out several useless items and placed them along their path as markers, hoping to confirm whether they were truly moving in a straight line.Then they started walking again.As time passed, the sun grew hotter and hotter. This time, it felt far more intense than before, as if it were hanging directly above them, threatening to burn their faces.“What’s wit

Everyone stood in stunned silence as they looked at the long line of markers in front of them—the same ones they had placed earlier. The situation was far more serious than they had expected.It felt as if there was some kind of space shift, something that kept returning them to where they began. The thought was terrifying. No one spoke. They simply stared at one another, weighed down by frustration and uncertainty, with no idea what to do next.“We are doing something wrong, perhaps,” Aina said, breaking the silence.“What could it be?” Micheal replied as he uncorked his water can and took a drink. He checked his storage and shook his head. His water wouldn’t last even two weeks under this harsh sun, and he knew it would be the same for the others. They had to find a way out, and soon—or at least find a way to replenish their water.For one week, Micheal and the rest tried all sorts of methods to escape the maze-like desert, but nothing worked.They always returned to where they star

The cat man immediately frowned, then smiled.“So, you would deny it?” he asked with a grin as he stepped forward.“So you would really deny yourself Ageless? Because I know I am not mistaken.” Micheal felt a headache coming on.He really didn’t want to fight. This guy was Gold level, and the others were all Silver level experts.“Can we not fight?” Micheal asked.“Fight?” the cat man laughed. “Are you even strong enough to fight me?”“I’m stronger than you think,” Micheal replied as he slowly stepped backward. “But I don’t want to fight.”“But I want to fight,” the cat man said as he moved closer and released his domain.His domain was a simple one based on pressure. It spread heavy force around the area, suppressing those weaker than him.“Surround the rest of them,” the cat man ordered the warriors behind him.The Silver-level cat men immediately rushed toward Micheal’s group.“Well, after all the boring and safe duels in the desert, a real fight after such a traumatic experience

The cat man was genuinely terrified. The talent within this team was terrifying.The cat man had never seen anything like it in his entire life.It even felt as though Micheal was not the strongest among them despite being so powerful himself.Normally, unlocking a domain before reaching Silver high tier was almost impossible.To awaken a domain, a cultivator needed a Grey Seed. But a low-tier Silver cultivator could not digest a Grey Seed because of the powerful laws contained within it and the elevation required to reach Silver high tier.Before advancing into high tier, a cultivator had to undergo a physical cleansing, not one related to Elyria’s environment, but a true cleansing of the real body itself.It was another stage of strengthening the body so it could endure the transformation the soul would experience upon reaching Silver high tier.Without completing that process, the soul would be unable to digest a Grey Seed.The cultivator would simply die.Yet right now, he was wi