Riku's gaze turned icy cold as he murmured. "Let's see what your plots are!" However, as the words left his mouth. A feeling of intense fatigue again permeated through his body. 

"Ughh..." Riku couldn't help but murmur in pain as he felt numbing sensations searing across. Riku struggled his whole body to seat cross legged. He closed his eyes as he tried to enter the selfless meditation state.

Inside his energy sea, his Dan Tian floated like a cloud, inside it was a distinct pale blue light flashing by. With Riku's intensified concentration. The pale blue light turned to a pale blue thread and surged towards his body. 

Every veins, meridians, muscles, tissues and even arteries were being cleaned out by this pale blue thread. 

A feeling of euphoria came on Riku's body. But even though it was pleasant. His hands were clearly shaking, and beaded sweats formed on his forehead as he tried his best in concentration.

The pale blue thread cycled around his body for about the time it takes for a water to boil. It finally dispersed to nothingness as the remnant energies flew towards his Dan Tian. 

'Whew..." Riku sighed in relief as he wiped his sweaty forehead. A feeling of relaxation and tranquility came to his mind, enabling him to calmly perceive the situation he was currently in.

"Tenth day of tribulation... Sudden decrease in cultivation base, and this strange place where elemental essence is so thin! Did I really reincarnate? But if that's the reason, why the hell that I am not an infant?!" Riku inwardly thought as he slowly moved his body to stand up.

Looking around the room, Riku slightly frowned his eyebrows, the walls and even the ceiling are colored white, and strangely, even if there wasn't even a window opened, the atmosphere inside this locked room was cold. 

Riku could only sigh as he walked towards the door.

"Ah!" 

Riku gasped in surprise as the door automatically opened when he tried to stretched his hands and open it.

"What kind of sorcery is this...?" Riku doubtfully looked, as he stretched his head looking on the gaps between the door and the ground. He even concentrated his condensed energy in his eyes just to look for anything strange, but mysteriously. He found nothing out of place.

"The hell?" With frowned eyebrows, Riku got a small idea and moved back three paces. 

~chii

The door automatically closed.

"What sorcery?!" Riku's eyes widened to the point that you can easily pluck the eyeballs within. With the same simple idea, Riku moved forward three paces. 

The door automatically opened.

"Waaa..." Riku sucked a cold breath of air. Just now, when he moved back and forward for three paces, he carefully observed the door with his condensed energy concentrated in his eyes to find anything suspicious, but unfortunately. He found nothing out of place and the door in front of him seemed to move out of its own will!

After five breaths of standing still and thinking. Riku finally concluded in his mind. "Holy demonic beast it is!" Holy demonic beast are of course, beasts. The only differences was they were tamed to be obedient to their masters, and supreme experts or even paragons would use them as maids or even doorways just for the sake of the element of surprise.

With that in mind, Riku moved forward and finally exited the door. Just as he thought. After he moved for about three paces forward from the exit. The door automatically closed.

With a sighing motion, Riku turned to the right. 

The hallway's design was the same as the room. Everything was clad in white and after Riku observed the texture of the wall and its earthly veins. He concluded that the room around him wasn't made of bricks. Something unique was specially added but he was unable to determine what exactly it was.

With slow and alarmed steps. Riku unknowingly made his way towards the lobby. On the way, he reminisced about why he was called a young man. He perfectly recalled that old man Fang Lin called him a young man despite the age gap between the two.

It may not be obvious at glance but Riku's true age was 2368 years old. He spent those years in quiet cultivation. Despite of no supports from manmade resources like pills, medicinal baths and etc. He was still able to enter the realm of Severed Spirit just by relying on intuitive enlightenment. 

Just now, Riku became dumbfounded once again. When he looked to the right. He found a transparent wall of something that reflects one's image. It felt like a wall to him but at the same time it wasn't.

There he found his true visage. With his slightly disheveled black hair and his deep brown eyes. Paired with a delicate nose, that was too delicate for someone his age. He was able to call himself a young man that was particularly handsome. His mouth was a bit small but it was quite understandable because of his current age.

At a glance, one would think that his age was fourteen years old to fifteen, but in reality. It was two thousand three hundred sixty eight. Quite a downer right?

After complementing his handsome face for awhile. Our narcissistic Riku finally made his way towards the long hallway. His goal was to reach the end where voices of young women and young men were concentrated. 

Thundering sounds filled his mind as his mouth and eyes widened to the point that they would burst. The warm heat of the sunlight struck through his dumbfounded face as he saw the tall skyscrapers all over the place. There were even small oval ships floating in the wind while a huge screen displayed something of an advertisement. 

When Riku looked around. His mind almost reeled in as he found that myriads of people are concentrated below him. There he found young people, about the same age as him. Wearing the same type of clothing. The youths were filled with unique vigor and the young women gave off a feeling of one of a kind. 

When Riku concentrated his condensed energy to his eyes. He found out that the bodies of those youths were filled with a special type of Mana Force undulations. It was quite violent but at the same time, stably controlled.

"Hey." A small familiar feminine voice rang from behind.

When Riku turned around. The same girl came in his line of sight. Fang Xue.

"Miss Fang." Riku turned around and clasped his hands. Despite her lethal attitude. This girl still saved him despite of them being strangers. Now that she was here, all of Riku's questions maybe answered.

"What are you doing here, Riku?" Miss Fang frowned her eyebrows as he looked at Riku. Her gaze seemed to penetrate unto the depths of Riku's soul. Making him quiver all over.

"Errr... Miss Fang, I was quite interested around here and before I knew, I wandered all over the place until I came here." Riku swiftly said, but deep inside. He was silently cursing himself for giving such a lame excuse. 'The hell was that jack of all trades?!'

"I see, Even I would be bored by that place. And it seems like... You have a lot of questions deep in your mind." Miss Fang purposely lengthened the intonation of 'It seems like' making Riku wait in suspense. Not until she said the last words did Riku calmed down.

This girl before him was able to cast a purifying calming mist. A spell that only Core Formation powerhouses would be able to do. So Riku didn't even let his guard down the slightest. 

"Enough chit chat, I'll take you to grandfather. He's currently in the principal's office and its quite a long way from here. But don't worry, I will take you in a long tour." Miss Fang's figure beamed in joy as she snatched Riku's hand and made her way towards the elevator.

'This girl... What is she thinking? Previously her attitude was quite lethal but now she is too friendly. Something strange definitely is going on!!' Riku inwardly thought as the two approached the elevator.

This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

Riku didn't flinch anymore when he noticed that the door automatically opened. Only when he went inside that he was unable to keep his calm.

'What the hell? Enclosed space? Maybe this is an artificial realm! No please... ' Riku's forehead became drenched with sweat as he imagined. Ever since he was small, Riku hated small spaces like this one, and even though he became a very formidable expert. He still would become endlessly nervous just by entering inside small rooms.

Feeling Riku's trembling hand. Miss Fang said. "What's happening?" 

"Nothing..." Riku replied in his best tone, But he still can't feel but lengthen the intonation.

"Is that so?" Miss Fang said while pressing the button in the elevator that was numbered four. While inside the elevator. Riku clearly felt the space around him moving and he tightly clenched his fists. Not wanting to fall in any spatial rifts as he thought that he was being teleported.

~Bing...

A soft sound came out and the door in front of the two automatically opened. Hand in hand. The pair moved forward with steady steps, like a newly wed couple.

Riku wasn't able to keep his calm. Unlike Miss Fang who was smiling all over. He was sweating nonstop. The gazes of the men that they meet on the way pierced through Riku's heart.

Those gazes carried envy, hate and killing intents. If gazes could kill. Riku would have died countless times already.

After about a hundred paces, The two finally stopped moving. Miss Fang entered his thumb inside a green colored light and a monotone voice resounded.

"Identity Confirmed. Fang Xue. Access Granted."

Riku wasn't even as surprised as before as the door automatically opened. But what greeted him inside struck his mind like ten thousand thunderbolts! 

Roaring sounds that only Riku could hear filled the air as he noticed that strange flowery plants were scattered all over. But to Riku, who cultivated for about two thousand odd years. These plants weren't a stranger to him. 

On the left row. A yellow colored flower with a brownish circle in the middle bloomed in full force. The undulations around them were very familiar to Riku, and the scent of the warm sun piercing through the fertile lands came over his nose.

'Nine Aurora Sunlight Flower!!!!'

Riku was once again dumbfounded. On the right row. A crimson red flower with a strange pattern of inward curves and an alluring scent struck Riku's mind and completely made his body stiff.

"Blood Crimson Scorching Flower!!!!' 

On the outermost row. A pink blooming flower with a pillar in the middle gave off a reverend aura as it fully showed its glory. A strange scent of medicine came over his head and at the same time. Seeing the plant's visage. and their large numbers. Riku almost spat out blood and stumble on the spot.

"Hibiscus Pillar Flower!!!!" 

Seeing the large numbers of this strange and extremely rare flowers around him. Riku, who was once a venerable grandmaster in pill making and medicine. Almost died on the spot as a feeling of fulfillness engulfed him wholly.

"Haaah... Haahh..." Riku gulped large breaths of air as he tried to calm his inner self. Inside his energy sea, pale blue light streaks of light sparkled all over. A sign of a current violent undulations.

"What's happening to you? Riku..." Of course, all of this takes time to describe but actually happened in the space of ten breaths. Miss Fang who was calmly observing the scene, found a dumbfounded and ecstatic Riku. She tapped his shoulder and the latter shook in response.

"Ah! Miss Fang!" Riku replied in a hurried way.

"Seriously, what is going on to you. Are you struck speechless by this beautiful flowers?" Miss Fang replied in a teasing way. 

"Hmmh! Miss Fang, Why do you have myriads of this extremely strange and rare plants like they're for design?!" Riku couldn't hold himself anymore and said.

"Extremely strange and rare plants? What are you saying? They're just for design here, they don't have much use other than that." Miss Fang gave Riku a puzzled look. 

"Woo..." Riku gasped for breath as he heard Miss Fang's words. 'This rare plants are just for display?! How wasteful!' If someone other than Riku was here, who was also a grandmaster in alchemy would hear the words that she just said. He would cough out blood and collapse on the spot.

She actually dared to treat this rare plants like it was nothing and even used them to decorate the room! In his previous life, Riku had only acquired one of these three plants. Which was the Nine Aurora Sunlight Flower. He made it into a miraculous Scorching Soul Pill of which he used to acquire an Immortal beast Core! 

"Seriously? You're dumbstruck just by looking at these common plants?" Miss Fang continued.

"Common plants..." Riku murmured as his heart ached. If he could, he wanted to kill himself on the spot for his previous life's bad luck.

"Grandfather? Grandfather? This is Xue'er, Where are you?" Miss Fang didn't bother him anymore and shouted while walking around the myriads of plants. 

In the middle of this principal's office was a wooden table with name plate saying 'Hon. Fang Lin.' and an empty chair of which her grandfather used to seat.

"Snap... Grandfather isn't here, Let's go back." Miss Fang murmured as she turned around and clutched Riku's hand. But she immediately stopped because of Riku's resistance.

"Hmm? " Seeing the dumbstruck and admiring Riku. Miss Fang said. "Could it be that you want those plants?" 

When he heard Miss Fang's words. Riku immediately resurfaced from his state of trance and nodded like a chicken. 

"Okay then, I'll let you have one. " With a wave of her shoulder, A surge of Mana Force swept each of the three plants. They flew towards the itching Riku. 

When Riku clutched the plants. He hugged them tight like they were his long lost relatives. Seeing the sight before her. She couldn't help but giggle.

"Ahahaha, You're quite weird." She slapped Riku's shoulder and murmured. "It's about the time I go to the class. I will go now or else I will be scolded." Miss Fang waved her hands as she moved outside the room. Leaving the dumbstruck Riku behind.

'Hahaha! With these rare and exotic plants, I would be able to create an Infernal Devouring Talisman! Given that I have the ingredients inside my spatial ring. Creating it should be quite easy... Ku ku ku ku.' Riku inwardly laughed as he grimly smiled, his laugh resounding like a villainous vile man.

"Miss Fang, I think we should go..." Riku wasn't able to finish the sentence as he noticed that Miss Fang wasn't around him anymore. And then he recalled the last words she said to him.

"It's about time I go to class. I will go now or else I will be scolded."

"Ah!" Riku suddenly felt a surge of realization. He slapped his right palm towards his face as he thought.

"How the hell should I go back?" 

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Author's Note: HI! This is CodexofImmortals!  If you have any inquiries comments or anything you want to say, may it be harsh or gentle. Please voice it in the comments! Compliments and pointers are highly appreciated!

This is the second guaranteed chapter of the week!

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