"Nine days? How could that be?" Yan Ming nearly screamed out in shock, he had spent almost half of his total number of days in deep slumber when the infernal realm could be in flames at any moment.'Ah right, the Infernal realm is in flames already.' he thought, feeling a little stupid.'it can get any hotter but I'm done here, time to leave the mortal realm and plan my next steps.'"By the way, what are these? You had another upgrade?" Yan Ming asked, gesturing towards the row of screens filed out in his vision.{Ding! High spatial energy source detected}{Ding! Extraction in process}{Spatial elemental affinity unlock process: 2%}{Spatial elemental affinity unlock process: 8%}{Spatial elemental affinity unlock process: 29%}{..... 67%}{Ding! Spatial elemental affinity level 1 unlocked!}{Ding! Redirecting energy to the third infernal flame Epithymia}{Ding! Redirecting energy to the system's core upgrade!}{Ding! System upgrade in progress!}{System upgrade to version 3.0: 8%}{S

'Won't this ever end? They keep coming in waves, I just don't get it.' Bennett thought while swinging his sword. For the past twenty minutes the party of over a hundred ember core realm cultivators had forced their way through from the rift gate to this section, according to Javerick he kept saying they were almost there but the wormhole was still nowhere in sight. The worst part was the focus signal placed on them, all the enemies from all sides came swarming towards them and they were ordered to not fly by Javerick. As for the reason? They didn't know but they still stuck to it, it was better than making the already bad situation even worse. "Aren't we there yet? You said we were almost there long ago!" Bennett transmitted to Javerick mid fight while hurling a group of seven green demons away. "If we took the route I gave without any delays we would be there already but thanks to your friends, we are stuck in this loop now!" Javerick transmitted back, his face filled with ang

Nexus prime, AetherisAsteris had stayed behind in the city while Javerick led the others into the rift, it had been barely over two hours but according to the plan they laid out the group of cultivators should be back already.'What could be going on? If he can't retrieve it then all my efforts would've been in vain.' he thought with a frown.The next moment cheers suddenly came from the city's entrance, followed by numerous waves of auras belonging to those in the ember core realm. Feeling a bit satisfied he flew over to meet them."Welcome back everyone, you are the heroes of our civilizations and various empires, the saviours of our planet and I vow to give everyone of you the respect attuned with it." Asteris said but deep inside he was already feeling troubled because Javerick had just transmitted a message over to him.'They actually failed to bring it back, this was all in vain then, I can't believe it.' But despite the turmoil in his heart he still maintained a calm exterior

The three demons Di Bai, Bai Qi and Nu Qing surrounded Yan Ming from all sides, continuously launching attacks on him, they maintained a safe distance and locked him down for the first few minutes, preventing him from getting closer to the control center or retreating backwards, effectively tying him down.But even though they were able to tie him down they couldn't do anything to him either which puzzled all those present including the three themselves."Something's wrong with him, I can feel it." Nu Qing transmitted across to the other two.The three of them all had Realm condensation realm cultivation but they were actually struggling to hold back a cultivator in the ember core realm, the most painful part was their flames.Most infernal demons practiced techniques or abilities related to fire and destruction, their violent nature made them more compatible with the element of destruction to which Yan Ming had full control over.Their attacks had little to no effect at all on Yan Mi

Yin Chen stood perplexed while watching the tomb of the Frostmoon family's ancestor, no matter how much he thought about it he failed to derive a reasonable reason as to why strands of destiny would be spotted swirling a mortal's corpse. "This can't be normal, could it be "his" doing?" He wondered. Destiny had always been an elusive concept to all residents of the realms and the beyond, everything had their own destiny including even the universe itself! Shutting down the universe's destiny would mean it had met the end of it's life, nothing could escape from it or survive it, even chaos had its own destiny same with everything created from it. Destiny remained the one thing that could make even the primordial grovel in fear, if destiny wished for them to die there was no rescue or relief for them, the only option left would be death. Their "death" in the first place would be caused by a twist or change in their destiny, as primordials they have no certain or detailed period o