Chapter 279: Longing To Return

Soon, there was only utter silence left in that cave before the light that existed was fading away into nothingness. The day had turned dark as night came, shining the moonlight on the world from the stars.

Davis who had started to refine the Low-Level Grand Beast Stage Souls gradually forgot about his surroundings.

Eventually, a month passed as he absorbed the refined soul essences into his soul, strengthening his soul force.

It took a month for him to refine as his soul was only at Peak-Level Adult Soul Stage. Refining soul essences of higher stage took a longer time than refining soul essences of the same level.

At this moment, he could feel his soul palpitate, and felt as if his soul force and soul essence was going to undergo a qualitative change.

Trusting his intuition, he recited the mantra of the Sacred Luminance Mist and kept cultivating his soul.

After a few minutes, his soul force and essence settled down and was no longer changing, instead, it consolidated and gave birth to new senses.

Opening his eyes, he took a deep breath as a surprised glint could be seen.

He didn't think that the breakthrough to the Elder Soul Stage would have been this easier. 2

He essentially didn't face any bottlenecks and straightaway broke through Low-Level Elder Soul Stage though it took quite an amount of time. He was able to resonate his soul with heaven and earth energy and guessed it must've been because of the teachings of Old Man Garvin.

Without that, he could've possibly faced a bottleneck, but with Fallen Heaven's help, he would eventually comprehend by absorbing more soul senses.

He furrowed his brows when he could sense something else in the cave entirely but realized what it was in a moment.

Shaking his head wryly at what he discovered, he thought about his breakthrough speed.

'Weird, I had a tough time breaking through Peak-Level Adult Soul Stage even though I had the necessary comprehension...' Davis thought but later, shook his head, 'Fallen Heaven is truly a soul forging cultivation treasure...'

A wave of gale surrounded him, dusting off the dirt that had settled on his robe and body.

'Now I won't die if my conjured soul body is destroyed...' Davis heaved a sigh of relief.

Now that he had reached Elder Soul Stage, his soul body was no longer completely connected to his soul sea, meaning that he could use his soul body separately.

At the Adult Soul Stage, if the conjured soul body were to die, his soul sea would collapse, leading to his death.

At the Elder Soul Stage, he didn't need to worry about his soul body anymore as he could conjure one if his current soul body died.

Even if the soul body he conjured out of his soul sea were to die, he would only receive a heavy injury to his soul, not experience death.

Davis smiled, 'Now I can use my body and soul body separately without having to fear for my life...'

Exiting the cave, he deactivated the formation and retrieved them into his spatial ring.

"What are you going to do next?" A voice echoed in his mind.

Seeing Fallen Heaven take initiative to ask about his plans, he replied, "Isn't it obvious? I'm gonna hunt for more magical beasts! Especially now my strength has grown, I figure that I will be able to hunt Mid-Level and High-Level Grand Beast Stage Magical Beasts by using your powers..."

"You're not going to train and improve your battle prowess...?"

"Time is of the essence, I have to increase my cultivation as much as possible... My battle prowess is the least of my concern right now." Davis gave off a light chuckle.

"Time is of the essence? It's not like you have any pressing matters right now..."

Davis paused and silently muttered to himself, "I have kept her waiting for too long."

Fallen Heaven chose to not reply. As its emotional quotient grew as Davis's Soul Forging Cultivation increased, it learned one or two things about feelings.

It tactfully left him to his devices once it heard the longing in his tone.

Davis thought about how much time had passed since he last saw Evelynn or even his family. It had already been more than 5 years, and to him, 5 years was a long time.

He had already grown attached to them. Once he thought about how good it would be reunited with them, he could no longer hold his thoughts of returning to the Grand Sea Continent.

'At most a year, after that, I'll return...' Davis decided and etched this information in his heart so that he won't ever forget it.

Before returning, he decided to stock numerous supplies from the fortune that he would make here and also bring back a Spirit Stone Vein Core to re-enact the flow of spirit stones in the Grand Sea Continent as it once did in the past.

After this momentary contemplation, he continued to traverse around the inner region, encountering numerous Magical Beasts that didn't interest him because of their low strength.

He did encounter some Low-Level Grand Beast Stage Magical Beasts but didn't bother to fight them, nor did he try to search for their habitat.

He wanted to find lone Mid-Level and High-Level Grand Beast Stage Magical Beasts to increase his Soul Forging Cultivation efficiently.

Traversing the semi-mountainous region that was filled with greenery, he finally found a magical beast that fit his criteria.

Hiding behind a largely withered tree, Davis glanced at the magical beast with some trepidation in his heart.

The magical beast that was about a hundred meters in front of him resembled a tortoise. It had four thick limbs and a head that was bigger than his whole body stretching out of its shell.

The shell was purple-colored and was filled with thickly veined patterns.

Davis held his breath in the state of using Dark Concealing Shroud Art.

His earlier confidence from breaking through was thoroughly shaken when he had finally arrived in front of its unbridled magical beast aura.