Eye System

A week passed in the blink of an eye.

Throughout the entire week, Lex and his three clones were arduously cultivated the Elemental Ascension Method and had managed to completely learn and cultivate through the Heaven Mortal Section of the method.

Lex felt his power had risen massively and was excited to see his progress after reabsorbing his clones.

The fox beasts had all protected the area while also scouting around and hunting any beasts in the area that they were capable of defeating, under the orders of the 5 Unit Leaders, as they protected Lex in the centre of the fort that they had formed.

The fox beasts were becoming more and more powerful each day as not only their strength increased but also their intelligence and independence.

They had gathered large amounts of beast meat and made it their priority to strengthen the weaker and younger fox beasts after the rock worms had killed many of them.

Most of the ones that had fallen victim to the sneak attack were either young or those that were in a weakened state and knowing that, the fox beasts didn't neglect their responsibility to protect their kind.

The 5 fox beast races that were previously warring with each other had now become a family and all looked out for each other.

Lex opened his eyes to find his clones all immersed in cultivation and was curious to see whether they had a successful session of cultivation like he did.

As per the description in the Mortal Elemental Ascension Method, it described breaking through the Heaven Mortal Rank as breaking past a wall.

What Lex felt with both his Internal and External Cultivation was that it was forming a bottleneck of sorts that was just like the wall that was described in the method.

[It seems that I am nearing the next rank of the Mortal Realm] observed Lex as he scanned the state of his body.

[Maybe with the energy of the 3 clones I will be able to breakthrough] thought Lex to himself hopefully.

Walking over to each one, Lex placed his hand on the clones' shoulder and reabsorbed them back into his body by retracting the Self-Cloning.

The first two clones increased his energy and his strength as he sat down to absorb their energy, but then Lex suddenly felt the wall that had completely formed.

The wall completely blocked his body from storing a larger amount of energy in his Internal and External energy storages.

[This must be the peak of the Heaven Mortal Rank and it is the bottleneck that is harder than usual in the Mortal Realm] observed Lex.

Reasborbing the third clone, Lex was shocked by how minimal the effect that the energy of the third clone had.

It was like splashing a glass of water at a wall and had no effect at all on the bottleneck.

[It seems I have massively underestimated the energy needed to break past the Heaven Mortal Rank] realised Lex.

[But this is perfect timing as I will massacre all the other beasts in the Underground Coves with my fox beasts to strengthen them, myself and gain enough energy to breakthrough] decided Lex.

"Listen up fox beasts we will head out and from now on hunt freely and aim to kill all beasts in the Underground Coves and take it as our own" announced Lex to his fox beasts.

All the fox beasts hearing and understanding Lex began to howl excitedly.

Under the orders of the Unit Leaders, they all split into 5 small formations that were prepared for battle and awaited Lex's orders.

Lex sat down on the ground and had his target.

[The rock worm beasts, it seems that now is my chance to change my fate and crush anything and everything that got in my way in my past reality] declared Lex to himself as he felt confident in his ability to overcome all obstacles.

Lex after his secluded retreat, where he was increasing his strength, had trained and practised the Land Elemental Energy Transformation massively.

He was now capable of entering the Land Elemental Energy Transformation within 5 minutes in an area with dense land elemental energy and he was also able to sustain it for longer periods of time.

Lex estimated that he could use it for 10 to 15 minutes in battle if he was conservative with his use of energy, but he wasn't sure as he was yet to truly use it in battle and test out the limits of his energy.

Lex concentrated his vision and senses underground, which was easier with his closer connection with the land element.

After practising so much with the Land Elemental Energy Transformation, Lex had become accustomed to the use of the Land element and felt as though he had the closest affinity to it.

Previously he would use his Scouting Eye to forcefully peer through the ground, but if he poured his energy and senses into the land below him, what was underground would be relayed to him.

It was a mix of the Scouting Eye, his sensory ability and his affinity with energies that allowed him to do so and it was very effective.

Following the trail left by the rock worms who burrowed underground to find where they had entered from, Lex flowed his energy through the trail and found that it wasn't too far away and him and his fox beasts would have reached there within a day or so of travelling.

"Listen up all of you. There is a tribe of rock worms just like the ones we faced today and the way you are now, you are too weak to face them on. What we need for you is to get stronger and also better at fighting so you will be able to take them on. So we will head towards the rock worms tribe slowly while strengthening ourselves and hunting along the way" announced Lex.

With a plan and a target everything was set, all that was left was for Lex and his fox beasts to set out.