"ESCAPEE!", one of the guards reported as he came to realization.

"You want to catch me? Hah! Wishful thinking!", Cao Xiang snorted, a slight amount of his snow-white Innate Energy was consumed, as his loud voice reverberated.

Swoosh

His wings flapped, he flew towards the east at an unbelievable pace, with just a single flap, he traveled a few li in less than a breaths' time.

This was the strength of black Innate Energy!

However, the wings shrunk slightly.

"With each flap, my wings shrink a bit, this is because my Core cannot produce pitch-black Innate Energy anymore, I can't do anything about it for the time being though.", Cao Xiang sighed as he flew to the border of the city.

He felt the aura of at least 10 Energists chasing him, however he could not care less, these Energists were left behind in the dust after just a few flaps of his wings.

A few minutes later, he was just a li away from the border of the city.

A huge grey circular wall about a li in height guarded the city, a slight amount of Red Innate Energy radiated from the wall.

"It's time to exit Zhang city!"

The tattoo of the black petal on Cao Xiang's forehead vanished, as the wings each grew to 40 feet in size, a strong aura of Pitch-Black Innate Energy radiated from them.

Sweee

A shrill sound was produced as they stretched, flapping once.

Crack

He flew over the walls, the barrier made from Red Innate Energy crumbled under the aura of Cao Xiang's wings.

At once, a blood red colored dome appeared over the city, which soon cracked as well.

Shrieks and cries could be heard as Cao Xiang exited the city.

After going past the Red Barrier, his wings shrunk by a bit more than half, but the aura still remained.

He willed and the aura materialized into thin black streaks of Innate Energy.

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They soon vanished as he gained another huge boost in speed, traveling many tens of li in an instant.

"Yin Mountain inheritance, here I come!", he screamed joyfully as he continued to fly towards the east.

A few hours pass...

Inside Zhang city's Central Headquarters

It was a sophisticated room, mostly white in color, the table at the center had many documents atop it.

"What?! A Black rank Energist appeared in our Zhang city?!", the chubby old man sitting at the table asked, shocked.

The old man had many wrinkles on his face, he wore a white and gold robe, he had a gentlemanly demeanor normally, but right now, none of that was seen.

"Yes, but his aura was very faint, it seems that he is injured at the moment.", the young man who stood opposite of the old man replied, cold sweat forming on his forehead.

"This matter is very important, I must report to the higher ups.", the old man said, dismissing his junior.

Eastern Desolate Pole..

The country-sized plateau was covered with frost, at the center of which was a small mountain, along the sides of which, a narrow path was carved.

On the mountain, white colored vegetation grew, its peak was covered in blue ice.

Bang

A person with black wings appeared at the peak.

It was Cao Xiang!

His black wings dissipated.

"I used up a third of my Pitch-Black Innate Energy to come here, the Snow-White Innate Energy I possess is basically negligible, I better get to refining all the petals.", he thought, as he sat on the cliff, and closed his eyes.

Energists in this world were divided into 9 major realms, they were, from strongest to weakest,

Black

Purple

Magenta

Red

Orange

Blue

Green

White

Within all of these major realms, there were 5 minor realms, from Type 1 being the weakest to Type 5 being the strongest.

As one reached higher ranks, the difference between each also grew.

In his last life, Cao Xiang was a Black Realm, Type 5 Immortal Energist!

However, in the end, he was beaten by the Primordial Nine, of which, only three were at Black Realm, Type 5.

It was truly difficult to cultivate and survive, everyone was in a constant struggle, only the strong and wise survived, Big Fish ate small fish, small fish ate shrimp.

...

A few hundred meters below Cao Xiang, on the path, a group of five was making its way up the mountain.

The group had 3 females and 2 males, all of which were Energists.

One of the females was a Type 3, Middle Stage Energist, this cultivation level was already very impressive, it of course, did not compare to Cao Xiang's former Black Realm.

All of the others ranged from Orange Realm, Type 2 to Middle Stage, Type 1 in cultivation.

Evidently, they all had just fought a tough battle, all of them were breathing roughly, one of the males had a wound on his face, it was a slash wound, extending from his left eye all the way to his lips.

A silver light lingered on his wound, slowly healing it.

A few hours passed, the group of 5 had just made it onto the peak, they were very excited!

BANG!

The ice on the peak shattered, revealing an entrance into a cave.

"H-How could this be?! How'd anyone else find out about this inheritance, not to mention an Energist as strong as this one?!", the female leader of the group spoke in shock.

Inside the cave, Cao Xiang had already stolen the inheritance!

"Rebirth sure is nice!", he laughed as he grabbed a blue ice shard out of a well preserved, frozen, dead body of a lady dressed in blue.