Distain

Team five had already finished up in

Pretentious city and now they were heading back to the alliance base with no idea of what was going on below them besides the raging seas of resentment energy

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Athel already knew about everything that was happening, he quickly deduced that the beast had used the natural storm to strengthen its own tribulation and if it got through it, it would be twice as powerful it would be more powerful than usual so there was no need to overthink as to why these beast were rampaging like this it was obvious that the balance of power had been completely shattered but right now it was in its beginning stages after all the beast had yet to overcome is tribulation but once it did all the turmoil that he saw now would be nothing compared to things after the tribulation was over even the beast kings might interfere

Beast core

A glare in his eyes was born as he thought about the beast cores

The beast core could only be born within a transcendent beast they could greatly help in developing techniques, skills, and boosting cultivation and the more precious ones could even have the ability to improve mental strength like blood crystals

Blood crystals on the other hand we're born from thousands of years of bloodline data which purely had the affects of improving mental health

Although his eyes drifted over to the eye of the storm knew that he was no match for a transcendent beast and even if he got one right now he wouldn't be able to truly utilize it

A beast core was pretty much an orb filled with bloodline data that specifically had to do with innate abilities, as a transcendent beast grew stronger the core would slowly integrate within its body, blood, and soul in short it was an imperfect product

More mystical beast which stronger bloodlines usually had a purer core and that's why beast with powerful bloodlines were held in such high regard they were merely raised as livestock to be killed and then their cores would be harvested and sold but a transcendent beast that had truly integrated with its core was 10 times as valuable then just a regular beast core but they were equally hard to kill

He turned his glare away and closed his eyes as he cultivated he was fantasizing about having such huge gains

Although Enopy knew all about beast and beast cores and the value of them he had never come across a transcendent beast so he never had the opportunity to harvest such a valuable thing he would have definitely used the core for his own gain after all he trusted something that he gained through his own efforts more than something that was given to him or stolen

Asathel was closing his eyes suddenly the tree swayed violently Athel looked down and saw that a huge boar had imbedded d its tusk deep into the tree it was twisting and turning causing cracks to appear all over the tree he immediately sprung into action

He leaned off the branch and placed his feet on the tree as he then imbedded his fingers of his left hand into the tree in order to keep himself up he slid off the branch and now he was in a crouched position on the side of the tree

He immediately aimed at an even bigger tree in the distance before he strengthen his legs and beamed off the tree immediately the tree dented before it completely collapsed due to the boar's pushing

The tree squashed a bunch of animals on its descent but Athel was already quite far away on top of a wide branch as he stared in the direction of his old tree and shook his head silently before he sat down and continued cultivating in his completely drenched clothes as he ignored the hail that was hitting his body

He didn't have his aura to help him cultivate so his progress was extremely slow but he didn't mind after all he didn't have anything to do although he enjoyed working out he couldn't do that now it would quickly attract attention and he could even possibly die

"Dom!, Crack!, pop!, Boom!!!!" Lightning fell shaking the entire forest as if it had traversed through the layers of rock and reached the depths of the forest hitting its foundation

After a few more seconds the earthquake ended, the storm didn't stop but the lightning and thunder seem to have retreated. instantly the forest was plunged into silence besides the hail

Even the beast seem to have stopped for a period of time but then a terrifying aura spread out shaking Athel, Elizabeth, Ruon, and all the other people in the forest

Transcendent beast!

This aura was spread out for hours and almost seemed to be an anti-climactic thing well for everybody besides the beast that were rampaging all around the land

When suddenly a ghastly roar spread out it sounded to be that of a tigers almost immediately all the beast became quiet as they shook with fear and bowed their head some weaker or newborn beast immediately had heart attacks and died, the fear that they felt in their blood drove them to madness they wanted to run they wanted to let it all out but their fear over powered everything and forced them to bow as if they were praying to a God

Athel immediately frowned while he shook his head he knew that this was an unavoidable thing when beast met another beast with a stronger bloodline they would instinctively quiver in fear but he still saw it as something disdainful after all he could never do such a thing bow to another being just because they were stronger then him, to him that was no different from going against what he instinctively promised himself once he left pretentious city