Grand Elder Caira visibly relax when she saw that Cole and Celia are back.

"It's good that you two are safe." She said very genuinely. She nods at the two of them but she looks at Celia with a little different gaze.

Feeling it, Celia nod and smile at her in acknowledgement. Since her mastery is about souls, she could feel that all of thing he did for them are genuine, even her worry for them are true.

Still, eventhough Grand Elder Caira's reaction and feelings are true on the surface, it was still nature of creatures to have a black spot inside their heart. Unlike Pristine King Crane, this old woman don't have any restriction and could share the news of her being a dragon to anyone she wanted.

However, seeing that her Master trust this old woman, she chose to remain silent and didn't say anything at all.

Cole nodded his head to Grand Elder Caira while smiling. He then took out the defensive item the elder lend them and gave it back to her. "Lord Caine didn't hurt us, please be assure. Instead, he wants to send the message that the Five Element Sect and Holy Beast Mountain will ally with each other in the upcoming ruins exploration."

Grand Elder Caira nodded her head. It was true that this operation is the collaboration of different sects and powerhouse in hopes of helping in each other, but it can't deny the fact that there might be disagreement between each other inside the secret realm, specially if the other party turn greedy and wants to rob the others with their harvest. This just means that besides the natural dangers inside the ruins, they also have to be guarded with other contestants. It was just normal that there will be an alliance between the other sects.

"That's good to hear." She said while she nods her head. As for her doubt why Pristine King Crane didn't even harm the two, she just set it aside and chose to remain silent. There might be a secret between the two parties, but her guts tell her that it won't be something bad for the whole Five Elements Sect. It will be alright as long as there's no threat for her sect.

"Then you two must enter your room and rest. The other sects will arrive tomorrow and we'll travel towards the location of the ruins. You must be in your best state to enter the secret ruins."

"We'll do as Grand Elder Caira said." He answered and enter the room assign to him.

But they didn't remain inside the room, instead, they call a random elf and mafe her guard the Summoning Grimoire and enter the [Inner World].

Celia immediately flew towards her designated spot and meditate, further stabilizing her realm. According to her, suppressing her cultivation for amount of time will not only strengthen foundations, but there's also a high chance that she could reach Second Level of Tier-5 the moment she breakthrough if she accumulates enough energy.

There's only benefits but no detrimental effects. Since there's no current need of greater strength, she decided to practice it.

As for Cole, he visits the Treasure Hunter Rat besides the Messiah Tree. But when he arrived there, he saw that the said beast is not cultivating, instead, it was circling the whole Messiah Tree happily. When he tried to perceive his thoughts through their Soul Contract, the simple mind of Treasure Hunter Rat is screaming treasure while looking at the Messiah Tree.

Cole : "..."

...he forget that Treasure Hunter Rat are a very greedy kind of beast. As long as it was up to their standards, it could even infiltrate treasures vault to steal treasures and put it inside it's own separate space.

Fortunately, eventhough the infant beast wanted to swallow the whole tree, he didn't do it. His awe and reverence to the tree managed to suppress his greed.

Cole calms down the little beast and ask it to focus on cultivating and increasing its level. And it was only after he gave the little beast a single fallen leaves of Messiah Tree that it listen to him and cultivates besides the Messiah Tree.

He then visited the two eggs that was under the care elves.

This time, after the Golden Duck egg absorbs the Heaven-Rank Blue Gold, it started to show sign of hatching. However, it seems that the Blue Gold was not enough to make the egg hatch. It looks like he have to look for other kinds of gold if he wants to hatch the golden egg.

As for the peculiar Skeleton Sage Egg, it was now soaked at the pool of Water of Life besides the Tree of Life.

The aura the Skeleton Sage Egg are pure smell of death which the whole elves hate, including the Tree of Life. But at the same time, it also contains a strand of pure life energy, which even the Tree of Life admits that her's was somehow inferior to it.

When Cole told the Tree of Life that this egg was a miracle of life, and was produce by unbelievable concept of undead skeletons copulation, she got intrigued and ask him directly for permission of hatching this egg. She greatly believed that this egg was one of special existence of the whole universe, and she wants to become a part of it.

As for why the Skeleton Sage Egg was placed on the pool of Water of Life, she said that this was to nourish the life force of the egg.

According to logic, Skeleton Clan, just like whole Undead Race, was a creature that lives with death energy, the exact opposite of the likes of human who lives with full of life energy. And this Skeleton Sage egg was no different.

However, this special existence have a trace of life energy. If the juncture of Tree of Life is correct, this egg have to balance the life and death force before it can be hatched.

But just how the light offset the darkness, life offset the death energy. Sudden influx of huge life and vitality energy to the egg will cause some damage. Although the egg have the capacity to receive life energy, it have to be done slowly.

In Tree of Life's estimation, it might takes a dozen of years before the Skeleton Sage egg could hatch. But this was on the premise that it was only submerged on the Water of Life's pool. If Cole managed to find items or natural treasures that could help the egg, the process might shorten depending on the situation.

Cole nodded his head. But since he don't have any idea about those items and natural Heaven and Earth treasures, the egg might have to stay as that for dozen of years.

After his visit to the Tree of Life and Skeleton Sage egg, he teleports himself nearby Ricky.

But until now, he's still cultivating with his soul bound beast Kunpeng. But living to its Divine-Rank potential, the former Tier-1 beast are now a peak Tier-2 beast. It only needs a small push and it will also enter Ricky's current stage.

Cole just smile at the pair at the distance and didn't disturb them. With the richness of Heaven and Earth energy inside the [Inner World], it won't be long before the two reach the same level and naturally wake-up.

After that, he teleports himself to the build house by elves only for him near the Messiah Tree. He could also see his other contracted beast as they cultivates just outside of the house.

The improvement of his beast are quite fast. The lowest among them are Eight-Level of Tier-4, which is the one with the lowest bloodline, the Earth-Rank Fire Lizard.

According to the rules and limits of bloodline, Tier-4 was the limit of Earth-Rank Beast Bloodline. This means that if Coal didn't evolve, he'll be forever stack at Tier-4.

However, Cole didn't worry too much. That was because with the Messiah Tree, beast evolving is the least of his worries. In addition, with the long exposure of the Fire Lizard with Messiah Tree's aura, it acquired the Arcane potential. Although reaching the next stage will be very hard for him with his current bloodline, it was impossible for him to level up.

What more, Coal already shows some signs of evolution. He already have grows bumps on his head and back, where wings and horns will probably grow. Maybe reaching Tier-5 will also push Coal's potential and will evolve afterwards.

After arriving inside his little house, he didn't choose to meditate. He just breakthrough to Ninth-Level of Nascent Soul-Stage just a while ago, there will be no significant increase to his ability if he meditates. Instead, he open the system panel and enter the Beast Store.

Yes. This time, he decided to use his huge amount of System Points to buy a beast or spirits with very rare elements. And according to the usefulness and preciousness, he decided to use his System Points to buy a creature with affinity with Time Element.

He change the filter of the beast store to just time beast and spirits. Just like the first time he saw, the cheapest beast with affinity with time is called Flightless Owl which have a cost of 100,000 System Points followed by Clock Turtle, a beast priced 200,000 System Points. Meanwhile, the cheapest among spirits are called Time Fairy, a pure time elemental spirit costed 300,000 System Points, followed by Life Time Fairy, a elemental spirit with affinity of both Time and Life, costed 400,000 System Points.

But since he have a great amount of System Points, with over 10 million points, he decided to buy someone more powerful and with greater potential. He scrolled for over an hour before he decided who's to buy.

It was a pure time elemental spirit and costed a staggering amount of 8,000,000 System Points.

Please confirm. The host wants to buy Moment Queen for 8,000,000 System Points? Warning! Once confirmed, it can't be return to System. Proceed?

Without hesitation, he answered yes. Although the warning sounds very disturbing, since he can't return the 'item' if it have a defect, he choose to believe that the system won't give him creatures with defects.

After confirmation, his System Points hot reduced drastically in a second and a summoning circle appear inside the room.

The said summoning circle was very mysterious and profound. Even with his Heavenly Eyes, he can't even see even a line of its formation. It seems that this small summoning circle are out of bound of Heaven which is why it can't be identified.

In additon, a series of notifications followed afterwards which flash in front of his face in form of transparent screen;

Purchase confirm. As this is the host first purchase in the Beast Store, the following bonus are added; - Moment Queen will be very loyal to the host. As long as the host don't do something very excessive, Moment Queen will remain loyal. If the host decided to contract the spirit, it will automatically become soulbound. - The natural inborn talents or gifts of Moment Maiden won't be removed. Thanking the host for patronage!

The moment the notification flash its last sentence, the summoning circle flash brightly for a second and everything subsided after that. What lies in front of him is a beautiful lady with her eyes close. Besides being very beautiful, very superior to many woman he encounter so far, these newly summoned Moment Queen looks no different from human.

Perhaps the other different thing about her was that she's felt so distant, as though she's someone a mere mortal can't approach.

Summoning successful. Contract Moment Queen as your soulbound spirit?

Without hesitation, he answered yes.

Since the contract process was assisted by the system, it happens very smoothly and finish in no time.

Instantly, a new information emerge into his mind. It was the status panel of Moment Queen.

Species Name : Moment Queen Beast Name : Level : Ninth-Level Tier-5 Rank : True (Sealed) Loyalty : 100% Potential : Arcane Affinity : Time Race : Spirit/Elemental Innate : Time Darling, Imperial Monarch of Time, Spirit Forms Beast Skill : Time Field, Time Prison, Time Flies Concept : Moment Control

Innate : Time Darling Moment Queen is a creature born with natural talent with Time affinity. Instantly learn Concept, Law and Dao the moment the level is reached. Time-Energy, Force, Essence or every natural recovery will multiplied by many folds.

Innate : Imperial Monarch of Time Moment Queen will always be superior in Time Arts. Control of time will always be easy and energy consumption will decrease to very minimum.

Innate : Spirit Forms Moment Queen can appear on three different forms; Human, Angelic Form, and Crown Spirit.

Time Field [Passive] The area of 1 meter, the Moment Queen as the center, is a special domain that envelopes the spirit. Everything and anyone that enters this domain will be 1,000 more slower than the normal speed, unless the host disable this function. Energy consumption will vary according to the number and force of invader.

Time Prison [Active] By spending a huge amount of energy, imprison the target in never ending time loop. The state of the target will remain as the time it was imprisoned and status won't decreased.

Time Flies [Passive] When flying, automatically increase speed by three folds.

Concept : Moment Control (Sealed) A very mysterious, superior world concept that deals with controlling of Time. • (30%) Increase Time-base skills and abilities by 300%. • (Imperial Monarch of Time) When faced with oppenent with ability to use Time Arts and Techniques, always win in control regardless of level and stage. • (Moment Freeze) By spending a huge amount of Time-Energy, stop the time momentarily in certain area or target. • (Moment Haste) Fast-forward the time of the target, increasing the speed by up to two folds. • (Sluggish Moment) Control the Time of the target, greatly slowing it by up to two folds.

After Cole read the status of Moment Queen, he knew that it surpass almost all of his beast and spirits when it comes to everything. Just like what he expects with spirit with supreme affinity with Time.

Although Moment Queen don't have any offensive ability or skill in her arsenal, her threat wasn't even inferiorto to Celia. Infact, if they face off, Celia will definitely be become helpless, even if they have the same level of cultivation base.

After the soul contract was fully established between them, it was only the sleeping spirit open her eyes.

Moment Queen scan Cole for a second before she bow her head and said with cold but respectful tone, "Master."

Cole smile but shakes his head, "You're not my slave, you don't have to call me Master. If you wants to, you can just call me using my name, Cole."

With her cold temperament, she nodded her head and respond, "As you wish, Young Lord Cole."

Cole sigh inside his head.

"From now on, you will be called Virgo."

Since Virgo are instantly his soulbound spirit when they creates soul contract, Cole decided to do a synchronization cultivation using his [Heavenly Beast God] Cultivation Method in hopes of improving and increasing the cultivation base of his Time-Energy.