024 - Abyss Prison Realm

Once nobody could see him, Xiao Yan merged with his Shadow Devil, activated his void-form and teleported back to Glory City.

He went to the ancient constructs near of the City Lord's Mansion. With the LoHP, he easily found the flaw of the Ten Millennium Spatial Array and went inside to get teleported to the Subsidiary Realm it was connected to.

It was the Abyss Prison Realm.

Thirteen families came here during the Age of Darkness to hide from the Demon Beast Hordes. It was a thousand years ago and they were isolated ever since. There was only a little light and it was as if it was always night. They had three Legend Rank Fighters, dozens of Black Gold Ranks and hundreds of Gold Ranks.

There were a lot of weak but aggressive demon beasts due to the blood crystals that some people sealed in the first generation of beasts in here. The most numerous one being the Scarlet Ghosts, a Silver Rank beast that hunts in group of hundreds or thousands.

Like the Heavenly Fate Plateau, there was a food insufficiency, but most of the demon beasts here tasted really bad, so even if they were far stronger than the people of the Plateau, they couldn't hunt the demon beasts for food.

He quickly went to the principal trading town to exchange blood crystals with bags of rice. Since food is a currency here, he just needed to go to a shop selling them.

After exchanging one thousand bags for ten thousand crystals, he teleported back to the entrance of the realm.

{Now it's time that I start to learn how to fight!}

Xiao Yan took a sword and started to run towards a large group of the blue eyed and red skinned monkeys. Even if they were far weaker than him, he needed their numbers to get used to fight large numbers by himself.

He put the corpses in his storage rings shortly after killing the beasts.

When he was tired he would go back to his room to recuperate and then come back again.

Getting more and more efficient, he continued like this until it was getting dark in the main world and finally went back home from an empty street of Glory City.

Before he went inside his home, he saw that Ye Shuo was also going in. A smile appeared on the old man's face as he greeted Xiao Yan and said to him, "Xiao Yan, I was looking for you, the City Lord agreed and gave you all the Legend Rank Demon Beast Blood that we had"

He gave the youngster a storage ring, added, "You can keep the ring", and left him before he had the time to reply.

As he checked inside, Xiao Yan found a few thousands of bottles, they were of many different attributes but most were Ice Attributed.

{With this I'll make some storage rings with much more space, it's too annoying to have a lot of small ones…}

As he was finally back home, he was greeted by uncle Tian who told him dinner was ready. Xiao Yan gave him a few rings before going, "Uncle Tian, these are some demon beast corpses of the Silver Rank, I want to have all of their blood in bottles and also their demon spirits"

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During the meal, his mother asked, "Yan'er, how much storms are you going to create?"

{Eh, storms?} Understanding her son, she explained, "Today the Alchemist Association released the news of five new pills that they are going to sell starting tomorrow. All Glory City is talking about that right now. Since you already gave us some of them, it means you are the one who found the recipes right?"

"Oh, yes", Then he added with a smile, "There will be much more storms in the following days, I won't tell you now as it would spoil the fun, I'll just say that the next one will come from the Snow Wind Family, you'll understand when you hear the news"

She pinched his cheeks, "Cheeky brat! Now you even dare to act mysterious in front of me?"

He then thought of something and said to her, "What about Xiao Yi? I thought that by now he would've already assembled the elders to try to steal the Purple Haze Grass from me?"

His father, who until now only said a few words, suddenly broke into a loud laughter.

Chen Yin smiled, "So you even expected that?"

"Of course, he's the greediest of-", He then understood what she just said, "You mean he already made his move? What happened?"

"Well, he did assemble all the elders, but he didn't know that your father and I had broken through the Gold Rank, so when he mentioned the Purple Haze Grass, I just beat him up until he lost consciousness. I then asked the rest if there was anyone else who wanted to steal something from my son, they said no"

His eyes lighted up and then he hugged her, "Mom, I love you! You're the coolest of all the moms!"

She replied with pride, "Hehe, right? Took you a while to notice it!"

When he sat back, his father said, "Yan'er, I'm just curious, what would've you done if your mother didn't solve this matter?"

"I made three people of the Alchemist Association breakthrough to the Black Gold Rank, and even President Gu Yan is now at the 5-Star thanks to me. I would've asked them to beat up Xiao Yi and the other elders who would've sided him"

This time it was his mother who laughed loudly while patting his back, "Hahaha, that's my son!"

Xiao Yan took four bottles of elixirs from his storage ring, "Since the elders won't cause trouble anymore, here are some pills for the family, half for our branch and half for the others, tell them that it's from the money of the Purple Haze Grass if they ask"

His father directly put the bottles in his own ring, they didn't need to be polite with each other.

After that the three of them continued to eat their dinner in a good mood.