Zenier felt a hard slap on his cheek, shaking his mind to the present. His droopy eyelids peeled over to reveal the villainous face of another man. This man, who looked like a prince, wore expensive looking jewelry all over his body. The dazzling of his body seemed like it could burn Zenier’s retina.

“Wake up poor Nature cultivator! Do you want to remain alive?!”

The young prince stored some Qi into his palm and slapped Zenier, sending him flying away 10 meters. Zenier’s frail body bounced a few times and dragged to a stop.

Zenier’s cheek felt scarred with an afterimage of a palm burning it. However, his body felt no pain. If it was another Earth cultivator, their face would have been disfigured and their ribs and bones broken all over. In contrast, other than the scar on his cheek there was no sign of injury on Zenier’s body.

Zenier’s heart grew cold and his stomach fell.

“Qi cultivators? This is bad. What happened when I was unconscious? Where is Cecilia?”

The young prince noticed the lack of injury on Zenier’s body and felt slightly worried. His haughtiness quickly burned his worry away and he turned to Zenier with a mocking gaze, and exclaimed,

“Haha! I still can’t believe how weak your bodies are! Your stupidity to practice Nature cultivation is most commendable. Hahaha! Now tell me what happened in the forest? Why was there such a huge disturbance in the Nature Energy where you slept?”

Zenier was still taking a stock of his surroundings. The dead grey bricks formed a monotonous cage all around him. The only source of light was a small slit on the wall behind him. It looked like there was no exit.

Seeing Zenier’s silent expression the prince took it as an offence to him. He mustered up all his Qi into his fist and sent it rippling through the air towards Zenier.

“You trash! You dare disrespect me! You are courting death!”

Zenier felt an impending sense of doom invade his soul. He quickly noticed the prince’s fist a second before it arrived at his face. Zenier, a man who had never been in a fight in his life, froze for a millisecond before a new energy quickly tunneled out from his soul and reinforced in front of his face.

The prince suddenly felt scared of the glow surrounding Zenier. He felt like a fly crashing into a humongous wall of steel. Unfortunately, the prince’s pride was his undoing.

He continued on, to preserve his face. The moment his jewel studded fist greeted the milky glow surrounding Zenier his face lost all colour. His eyes opened wide and he spat out a mouthful of blood. All the bones in his fingers were decimated to the point they nearly turned to dust. A bloody mist emerged from his arm. How is this cultivator so powerful!

He gave out a high pitched scream and wailed, holding down onto his wrist, with no trace of a palm anymore.

“You dare hurt me. I will have my revenge you trifling scoundrel!”

Zenier was just as amazed as the prince was. When did I gain such a power? Is it perhaps what caused me to collapse? Zenier quickly used his divine sense to investigate his soul.

To his sheer disbelief, he found- Two Soul Orbs. His original Rock-centered Water Soul was now in harmony with a pure white Nature Soul. The colour of the energy of his new soul matched with the one which just protected him.

“FATHER! KILL THIS MAN!”

The sharp Zenier immediately understood his situation. He had been captured while he was asleep and now this man is now interrogating him. His heart felt uneasy as he sensed no trace of Cecilia. The deep connection in his soul told him that she was still alive. He quickly breathed out in relief and readied himself to take care of his current situation.

The grey wall behind the prince rippled like a pond’s surface revealing the a well built body of a man with a beautiful crown on his head. The King entered the chamber with eyes full of fury. His anger seethed through his teeth.

“Little Nature Cultivator pay the price for your crime now!!”

The King pulled out his hand. There within the grip of his fist was the smooth jet black hair of Cecilia, as she dangled helplessly bound.

“You think you can hurt the ones close to me and get away with it! Watch me as I rip off the arm off your beloved.”

The King summoned all the chaotic Qi residing within him causing the walls to crack all over. The deep dark aura emanating from him scared Zenier witless. But more than that he was scared for Cecilia. Zenier’s mind called out- “I must save her!”

Zenier pushed hard against the ground and bolted his way to the King. Seeing a Nature Cultivator moving at such a speed assured the King that he had to kill both these cultivators today. However, before that he wanted to make the young man suffer for hurting his son.

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The King’s maniacal expression made Zenier’s soul tremble. I have to stop this man!

Despite Zenier supreme speed, the King’s arm, right next to Cecilia, quickly sliced down her arm. With a neat cutting sound, Cecilia’s arm slid off right at her shoulder.

“AAAAAAAAAAA..!!!”

Cecilia heart shaking scream invaded the small chamber. A shout so loud that it had the power to shatter glass a mile away. Zenier’s soul crumbled in pain. The pain in Cecilia’s soul was transferring to his own.

“AAAAAAAAAAA…!!!”

Zenier and Cecilia screamed in unison. Cecilia, someone who had barely talked in her life and lived in the forest, couldn’t handle the pain. If Zenier wasn’t sharing the pain, she would have died of fright and shock.

The King laughed loudly in joy. The King’s laughter and Zenier-Cecilia’s wail made the chamber a living hell for the Prince. He brought both his wrists to his ears, trying to block out this cacophonous cocktail of sounds. Then suddenly, the walls started vibrating ceaselessly.

The King stopped laughing on noticing this. He realized that the entire chamber was madly quaking. Zenier-Cecilia’s screeching wail sent thick bolt of energy connecting each other’s souls yet again. Their bond was strengthening as they shared the pain. The negativity created by the pain was surging through the air invaded their minds.

The King was astounded by the vast amounts of energy that had suddenly crashed upon the chamber. It felt as though a tiger was roaring at the chamber, trying to break in from the outside.

Zenier’s Natural Soul Orb immediately sent out its energy to Cecilia’s shoulder. The incredibly dense and pure energy congealed to produce a stark white arm without a hint of impurity. This new arm further enhanced Cecilia’s beauty and exuded a mighty aura.

The King sensed something was wrong. The previously small cracks on the walls started spreading out in a web-like fashion, completely covering the grey’s bricks. The foreboding sense of destruction loomed over the King’s soul. After throwing Cecilia towards Zenier, he rushed to the Prince and ran for the exit.

In the next moment, the Windy Thunder duo crashed down.

The walls collapsed together and disappeared into a fine dust. The fury of the duo, as they bellowed for the pain of the Plant Dew, struck down upon the King. Above the grand palace of Veracity, the rain clouds grew bigger and bigger, until they reached they reached the Heavens. Wind Element Kailer’s hair whipped about intensely and Water Element Yulia’s graceful face remained unfazed as they both came to the top of this ladder of clouds and struck down together with their fists. Currents of energy zipped down the clouds.

“No one can dare kill them as long as we are breathing!”

The citizens watched in amazement as an unimaginable amount of thunder started forming under the clouds. As it stored the energy, the sphere of thunder crackled loudly, bursting the eardrums of any nearby pedestrian. The sphere grew until it was the size of the Palace. Anyone inside the Palace or near it, started running for their lives the moment they saw this heavenly creation.

The King looked up and cried, “Please forgive me!”

The duo snorted coldly and the thunder dropped down.

The sphere exploded in an instant, expelling all its energy downwards in a straight spiral. Rain poured down endlessly and thick trees surrounded the Palace to prevent anyone from leaving.

The neon blue thunder blinded anyone who sets their sights on it. The erosion of the top of the Palace began as the thunder slowly came down.

At their last moments, the King and Prince regretted their actions and wanted to go back in time to correct their actions. But Alas! There is no medicine for regret in this world. The blue expanse soon occupied their entire view leaving nothing but regret in their hearts. The thunder formed a face which scowled at them before opening its mouth and eating them alive.

Zenier and Cecilia had already passed out from the pain. They didn’t realize the caring hand that picked them up carefully and set them aside from the Palace.

The thunder slowly retreated back into the sky and rain clouds slowly dispersed. The innocent blue sky left no evidence of the destruction it had wrought upon the world. The abyss left in Earth where the Palace once stood shook every citizen’s mind.

Experts from all over the world were on guard. Two world-shaking events in the same region within such a small time had raised everyone’s suspicions, especially the abyss created in Veracity City. Everyone took these events to be the birth of a new expert. One who would change the world.

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