Lionel could be seen running through a large array of thick bushes. He whizzed past countless trees, wild bushes, thorns and so on. Revolving the True Martial Origin Scripture to his limit.

Tears strimmed down from his eyes, great anger surging within him.

Seething up and down, like an active volcano.

But he knew being the weak participant here, he had no choice but to escape. His anger would have to be kept and pent up for another day.

"Grandpa is dead,dad, mom...everyone, everyone is dead." Lionel muttered as tears continuously strimmed down his eyes.

But this didn't stop him from running with all his might.

He could clearly hear the rustling of tree leaves, and knew without a doubt that the three men in black pursuing him were gaining on him.

'I can do this, I have to...I have to escape.' Lionel continued running with all he had got.

As the voice of one of the men in black suddenly reached his ears.

"Hey kiddo, there's no way you can escape from us. Just quickly surrender, and I swear to serve you a swift death."

Waves of boisterous laughter suddenly rang out from the men in black.

"Fool...today you are going to die, and nothing can change that." Another one of the men further added, as they all sprinted after Lionel, pursuing with all they had got.

Lionel glanced back, his eyes suddenly shrunk a little. As he noticed that they were gaining up on him. Right now, they were just a few meters away from him.

'No!! No!!! I can't let them catch up...or else I will surely die.' Just as he glanced forward, he suddenly tripped.

His leg collided with a tree, as he tumbled furiously..

Smash, bang!!!

His body was sent tumbling and smashing into various obstacles.

He grunted in pain.

As he immediately stood up, to try and escape.

He suddenly realized a terrifying fact, the three men in black were already in front of him, and behind him stood a large tree.

He only had one way to escape...and that was to pass through them.

His eyes dimmed, losing its' lustre. He seemed to be on the verge of losing hope. And indeed, he should be losing hope.

After all, how could a mere peak first stage practitioner compare to three peak second stage; strength training stage practitioner.

That is simply absurdity...talkless of facing three of them at once, even one of them alone would be enough to keep him in place.

"Why!! Why!!!" His defiant roar shook the entire forest. Shocking the three men in black.

"What the fuck is this kid." One of them muttered almost subconsciously.

Lionel collapsed onto the ground, his knees hitting the ground with a loud thud. As green, almost emerald looking tears started seeping slowly but surely from his pupils.

The three men in black looked at him as though they were looking at a monster. They couldn't even understand what was going on.

Everything just seemed too fast for them to react to.

"What the hell are you waiting for, fucking kill the boy." One of the men in black said, before he further added.

"That shout of his must have awakened some powerful monsters within the Great Yan Forest."

Indeed, the boys shout was just on another level entirely. As though it had been boosted with the highest level of speaker, with increased frequency, wave length and amplitude.

One of them was just about to move to kill Lionel in one fell sloop.

When an humongous shadow suddenly loomed above them.

"What the fuck is this!" One of the men in black yelled in shock upon glancing back, and meeting a terrifying creature of over three meters in height, it stood on four of its' leg, it had two horns popping out from its head, and two minor golden horns could be seen beside them, its' crimson pupils blazed with terrifying vigor.

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Sending cold chills running behind the back of the men in back, but yet that wasn't what terrified them the most...what shocked their heart to the core the most was the large maw of the creature, it seemed almost big enough to swallow them all in one fell sloop.

Not to talk of the glistening two incisors' that jagged out of the Creatures mouth.

They gulped in a mouthful of saliva almost at the same time.

'They were in deep shit this time around, and they knew it.'

"Run!!!!" One of the men in black suddenly roared.

As they all tried to move, and before they could even take a single step.

As though the monster or better still, the beast understood what they had said. A terrifying pressure suddenly weighed down upon them, as they felt as though a mountain was pressing against their back.

They found it difficult to even breathe. Talkless of moving their bodies.

But the odd thing about all this was the fact that, Lionel seemed to be unaffected by all the pressure, or more appropriate to say he wasn't even aware of what was going on.

His mind was in so much turmoil, pain, agony, anger, hatred, fustration.

So many negative emotions tried to corrupt something within him, he could feel that something within him was getting corrupted, was getting stained.

And almost instinctual, he realized he would gain immense strength by accepting the change, but he would lose something greater; so as to make it an equal exchange.

But yet he was filled with confusion, fustration.

"Is it worth it. Will dad even want to see me become something beyond abnormal, something terrifying."

Lionel talked to no one but himself.

"No," he further added.

No matter what happened, his dad or mum would never allow for such a change.

'They would indeed never allow.'

Lionel came to an understanding, as he suddenly revolved his True Martial Origin Scripture as the negative emotions started to fade away, being the most light hearted.

Although it would have been difficult for most, but to him, it wasn't really that difficult.

Because he knew if his mum and dad were awake and alive, they wouldn't want him to devaite towards the evil path! And would have wanted him to live a life, free from danger and evil.

And that was all he needed to know.

The True Origin Essence within his body suddenly started to coalesce, as he felt as though the true origin essence was rampaging throughout his entire body and his True Origin Essence began compressing more and more.

It began to compress and compress until...

Boom!!!!!

True Origin Essence flowed within him like a rampaging flood that had just been unleashed, strengthening his entire body with the True Origin essence.

As a terrifying ripple suddenly spread outward. The tree leaves rustled in a frenzy manner, the leaves seemed to sway left and right as though paying homage to their lord.

And in front of Lionel, stood a cat with bright blue pupils as it immediately arrived before him, licking his entire body.

Lionel squinted his eyes. 'What the hell is a cat doing this deep inside the forest. And where are the men in black.'

He wondered, as he didn't seem to see any sign of them anywhere.

'well guess am safe now.' Lionel murmmured, as he suddenly clenched his hands.

He could feel the violent surge of energy from reaching the strength training stage, he finally understood why each difference in level was an obstacle that was normally not supposed to be bridged.

Only now did he realize how monstrous he and his siblings were. Now he was confident that if he met the three men in black that were previously pursuing him, even if he couldn't defeat them, he would have no problem in escaping.

A bright smile spread across his face, as his face suddenly contorted into that of anxiety.

"Seems that I have to get out of here quite fast."

Lionel murmmured, as he could hear fast and defeaning booming sounds heading for him, from all directions.

Just as he was about to move.

He suddenly realized that he had been surrounded by countless beasts.

Land beast, aerial beast ...just name them.

'what the fuck!!!' Lionel was shocked.

Such a large number of beasts...and all of them were radiating an aura so intense to the extent that it felt as if he would be torn apart at any point in time.

But what happened next, sent him reeling in shock, as his pupils shot forward from his eyes socket.

The beast all knelt down before him.

Boom!!! Boom!!

The sound of their knees hitting the ground rang out as Lionel had his mouth wide open in shock.

"What the hell is happening."

That was the last word from Lionel's mouth, before a light blue teleportation portal suddenly appeared before him.

And before he realized what seemed to be happening, him and the cat were suddenly dragged into the portal.

But he thought he saw an evil smile from the cat, during the moment of teleportation, as they suddenly dissapeared from the sight of the kneeling beasts, and maybe from the entire continent...

Seems that only the gods might have an answer to that.