Essence Pearl

"Heavenly Skill — Essence Gathering."

As soon as Alex activated this skill a golden mark of the nine petal lotus suddenly appeared on his hand. This mark was only visible to Alex.

Soon a terrifying suction force started to gather the essence around the room. The essence that kept on gathering on a single point suddenly turned into a white pearl and fell.

When the essence is gathered and compressed in a single point, it suddenly condenses into a white pearl.

Alex was shocked by the sudden formation of the white pearl. Soon he figured that more and more white pearls kept on forming as the essence gathered on a single point.

Soon the essence around the room started to disappear, as the white pearls under Alex started to increase.

The essence inside the room soon disappeared, instead, white pearls started to fill the space.

He created nearly 300 white pearls, just from gathering all the essence inside the room.

Alex bent down and took the white pearl and observed.

"What the heck is this? It looks like these pearls formed by essence gathering skill should be a treasure."

Alex had no clue about the uses of these white pearls, still, he thought that they should be valuable as Essence stones.

Alex stopped his essence gathering skill as the room was no longer clouded by essence. Soon he saw the appearance of his father Dave Devan and his aunt Lara.

Dave and Lara were looking at Alex with incredible expression. They both were stupefied by seeing the skill that Alex used.

"Father!!" Alex shouted and rushed towards Dave.

The shout from Alex made them both snap out of the previous shock.

Alex threw himself towards his father and gave him a big hug. Dave hugged Alex and slowly caressed his head as if saying 'You did well.

"Thank you, father," Alex spoke with his head buried in his father's chest.

Dave was stupefied when he heard these words. He suddenly felt that all his hard work was answered.

"Y-Y-Y-You, W-What did you do just now." Lara, who was still shocked by the skill Alex showed, asked to stutter.

Alex released himself from his father's embrace and looked towards Lara and asked.

"What? You mean the hug?" Alex asked innocently.

"No, I mean those white pearls!! How did you do that!!" Lara asked pointing at the white pearls on the floor.

"Oh~ those things? I don't know, they suddenly formed when I was gathering the essence around using my Heavenly skill."

"Heavenly Skill??" Dave asked puzzled.

"Heavenly Skill!!" Lara asked in shock.

Lara's surprised reaction took Alex by surprise. He didn't think aunt Lara would be so knowledgeable to know about the existence of Heaven Grade Skill.

Dave looked at surprised Lara and asked. "What is a Heavenly skill, Lara?"

"H-H-Heavenly skill!!, It was a Heavenly skill!!" Lara muttered to herself with a terrified expression. Soon she regained her calm and looked towards Alex with envy.

"Heaven Grade treasures are naturally formed between heaven and earth. These treasures have their unique ability which was known as heavenly skill. According to legend, when a person obtains a heaven-grade treasure, there was a small probability of inheriting the heaven-grade treasure skill. The probability of attaining such skill is one in a million." Lara explained while looking at Alex.

After understanding Lara's explanation, Dave looked at Alex and asked. "Do you mean that Alex obtained the Heavenly skill of Nine petal heaven devouring Lotus?"

Alex scratched his head as he felt the surprised gaze of his father and aunt. Soon Alex found the empty essence stones and essence crystals on the floor. He was shocked to find that there are millions of Essence stones and nearly thousands of Essence crystals laying on the floor.

Alex soon understands the reason for the essence flooding the room. He realized that his father must've used them while his essence core absorbed all the essence in the room.

Lara suddenly disregarded Alex and walked towards the white pearls. She picked one of the white pearl and Star to examine them. Soon Alex and Dave saw Lara's hand trembling, so they both arrived next to Lara and happened to see her excited expression.

"What's the matter, aunt? Do you know what these white pearls are?" Alex asked Lara.

"Essence pearl, It is said to be the natural treasure of essence that doesn't contain a single impurity," Lara said while closely examining the pearl.

"Is it that valuable?" Alex asked with uncertainty.

"Valuable? These essence pearls are a priceless treasure for every pill master because they don't have any impurities."

"The quality of a pill lies in the less number of impurities they possess and to a pill master, anything with no impurities is treasured. Every pill master's dream was to refine a pill with no impurities, so they madly collect materials with no impurity." Lara explained.

"Doesn't that mean these essence pearls are a great business opportunity?" Alex asked excitedly.

Lara looked at Alex like an idiot and said "In the world of cultivators opportunities are for the strong. If they found that a weak person like you have such treasures then all the powerhouses will come after you."

"Alex, remember never tell anyone about your heavenly skill and its abilities. In the world of cultivators, never trust anyone other than yourself."

Alex felt a chill run down his spine when he heard about powerhouses chasing him. Alex got a clear view of the cruelty of this cultivation world.

"Then what do we do with these essence pearls?" Alex asked.

"You don't need to worry about this, I can use them for refining top-grade pills," Lara answered.

The quality of pills is divided Low grade, high grade, top grade.

Dave who looked at Alex suddenly asked "Alex, what is your cultivation realm? And why can't we sense your essence core?"

"My cultivation is at peak of essence Gathering realm, as for the other things, it may be due to my variation essence core which prevents others from sensing. So don't worry about those things." Alex said lightly without explaining the details.

Seeing his son keeping a secret from him, made Dave smile, as he shook his head and said. "Your father is very happy today, if you want anything, just ask."

Alex soon started to think about the thing he needed now and soon answered. "Dad, I want to enter the treasury of our mansion."

Dave was surprised by Alex's request but still, he didn't ask for a reason. Then he took out a jade token from his space ring and gave it to Alex.

"Take this and go to the treasury, the formation will open if you had this token," Dave spoke as he handed down the token.

"Thanks a lot, dad" Alex who got the token rushed to the door and suddenly stopped and looked towards Lara.

Lara who collected all the essence pearls saw Alex's gaze and soon understood his intention. She shook her head and said, "Don't worry, Momo won't do anything to you."

After getting her assurance Alex opened the door and saw Momo seriously guarding the door. Momo looked at Alex who opened the door but didn't care about him.

Seeing Momo didn't care, Alex soon turned to the left and ran towards the treasury.

Seeing Alex running away from Momo, Lara and Dave laughed and shook their head with a helpless expression.

As soon as Alex reached the end of the corridor, his expression turned serious.

"This time I survived due to the black flame from that black sun. If not for that, then I wouldn't have become a cultivator."

"Now the most important thing is to find the uses of bug. Since information popped out when I touched the pill, I am sure that there are treasures that shows information upon touching which should give me some ideas about, how to use the star bug."

Soon Alex reached the door of treasury with some excitement and raised his right hand to look at the words floating above his hand.

[Number of available star bugs: 50]