All of the people accept the Spiritual Stone since they greatly needed it. They only thought that they could just replace it once they were out of the medicinal garden and access their spatial storage again.

Some of them even thought of doubling the amount of Spiritual Stone as form of favor. After all, with their current strength, they mostly used a Spiritual Stone with the same rank and there's a supply of them inside their spatial storage.

But after they started to absorb it they learn just how precious these Spiritual Stones are.

First of all, the spiritual energy the Spiritual Stone contains are far more purer than they had! For the cultivators like them whose very particular about purity, this kind of Spiritual Stone are like a very hot item!

Secondly, the spiritual energy are also very gentle. When they absorb it, they don't need to meticulously refine the spiritual energy and it was immediately integrated in their Dantian more faster. Their absorption of the spiritual energy inside this special Spiritual Stone are ten times more faster than the Spiritual Stone they had, or even more than that!

What does this mean? This means that if they use this kind of Spiritual Stone, their cultivation speed will increase for up to five times than their normal speed. Just thinking of the time they could save is enough to elevate the value of this Spiritual Stone to more higher level.

Lastly and what makes the Spiritual Stone more special was that it could also restore mental strains! In their current situation where they don't find a time to rest, this added effect are just what they need!

They can't help but open their eyes in shock and look at the Spiritual Stone credulously.

They could only gave Cole a glance before they resume on absorbing the spiritual energy from the Spiritual Stone to recover themselves. Less than a minute is definitely not enough for them to recover their spiritual energy fully but it wasn't impossible now that they had these superior Spiritual Stones.

Meanwhile, the faces of the demonic sect disciples turn grave the moment they saw Cole gaving Spiritual Stones out.

With their properties sealed inside their spatial storage, there was a balance between the two sides that they don't have the ability to use recovery items.

No, in fact, in this matter, it could be said that the demonic sect had the upper hand as they could recover their spiritual energy without using Spiritual Stones. For instance, Corpse Refining Sect can absorb the Corpse-Energy sealed inside the coffin, which was mainly used to nourish their Corpse Puppet, they always brought.

Blood Demon's Creed, on the other hand, could recover by absorbing blood of the enemies they defeated. Not only that, they could even absorb the blood of their opponent amidst battling.

Supposedly, it was only Gu Xi who could recover fastly with the aid of the Golden Lotus Throne and it would even be supplied to maintain the light barrier.

According to their plan, they'll wait until majority of righteous disciples are exhausted by the continuous attack and drain out of their spiritual energy before they fully attack the light barrier.

And what Cole did disrupt the flow of their plan but it wasn't enough to destroy it. After all, absorbing the spiritual energy from Spiritual Stones takes time and needs an amount of concentration.

Besides, what's attacking the barrier was just either their corpse puppet or vengeful ghost while them, the master, was still on their best state. Even if those righteous disciples decided to lift the barrier up and a fight broke between them, their odds of winning is still higher than the other side.

Thinking of this, the higher rank disciples of demonic sects shrugged the new action of the righteous sects' disciples.

It was nothing but a last struggle before they die...

At the same time, Cole was giving commands to his contracted creatures.

But in fact, it was nothing but a simple instruction; kill them without destroying the body of their killed opponent.

After acquiring the skill called [Demonic Blood Arts : Blood Manipulation], Cole decided to transmute everything so that he could harvest the same thing. Besides, he could also acquire another thing from [Find Loots] not just the essences orbs, even pills recipe, weapon and equipment blueprint and many other things.

All in all, he could acquire many treasures in every body with his [System].

"Virgo, your main task is to use [Moment Haste] to our allies while [Sluggish Moment] to our opponents." He paused.

Cole believe that speed plays a vital role in the battlefield. Even if someone had powerful strength, it will be nothing if they can't even hit their opponent.

On the other hand, with speed, not only you can attack more faster but they could also use that speed to dodge attacks aimed at them.

He then continue, "You have to wait for my instruction before you use your other abilities."

Increasing and decreasing speed might be rare but it wasn't to the point that it'll always be associated with time techniques. There should be no problem on revealing this ability.

Unless the affected target practice the same element, they won't feel the effect of time skills.

Virgo nodded her head and didn't bother replying even with a short sentence.

Cole just shrug it. It was Virgo's personality. Should he not bought her from the [System Shop] and had her loyalty altered, he believe that Virgo won't even spare him a glance.

Meanwhile, Blue was swaying his tail and when he saw Cole looking at him, he immediately hops on the latter's shoulder which was his supposed throne.

Woo~~

He happily cries while rubbing himself on Cole's cheek.

Cole smile and chuckled, "Allright. It's good that your recovered already."

Unlike Bell, Pis-ces and Groot, Blue doesn't have apparent changes to him. He doesn't evolve into another species and was still a Threetails Doom Fox.

Probably, the benefit Blue recieved was fully healing its injuries and his situation stabilized. He also successfully evolved and become Threetails Doom Fox.

In addition, he also acquire an Innate Ability called [Fox Emperor] which was probably an ability acquired by its Emperor-Rank Bloodline. This ability was more like a subjugation skill which enables the user to practically enslave those with lower bloodlines and becomes its subordinate.

Of course, this ability was only effective to those fox beasts with the same strength as Blue. It might affect fox beast with strength of Tier-6 but definitely won't have any effect on Tier-7 and above.

Still, this was a very amazing ability. It seems that this was the main ability of Emperor-Rank beast to create their own empire.

On the other hand, Hunter, the Treasure Hunter Rat didn't even greet Cole but immediately run in front of Gu Xi, eyeing the expensive and luxurious looking Golden Lotus Throne.

Perhaps the little beast felt the hidden threat of Gu Xi that it don't bother to steal the said equipment.

Squeak!! Squeak!!

The little beast could only cry in indignation, running from left to right.

Coal, the Fire Lizard, becomes more menacing. Just his teeth alone looks very sharp and long. Definitely, the creature that'll be the victim of it will experience a hellish experience.

The jagged on its skin also looks more sharper. In fact, after looking at it again, it seems that those jagged surface wasn't just his scales but more like a bone that grows outside.

His lizard skin turns more darker and the bumps on both on his back and head becomes more distinguishable.

This time, Cole is confident that Coal will evolve into Dragon-type Beast after it reached Tier-5.

Only, Coal seems to had any trace of superior bloodline in its body.

It looks like Cole need to visit [System Store] again and buy a Bloodline of some powerful Dragon.

Finally, it was a two beast that surprise him the most; the Ferghana Horse and Poison Cloud Lion!

This two beast was supposedly just connected to him temporarily, and he only did it to nourish the sealed soul so that they won't die. After all, they also receive a grave damage caused by the explosion of self destruction.

However, the [Nirvana Rebirth] automatically 'promoted' this two beast to be his official contracted creatures. This time, if he want to sever their soul connection, he have to be ready for overwhelming soul pain that could even lead to his death.

But he don't have any plan of doing any of that. They were already part of his family tree and family is the last thing he will harm.

Neigh~~

Roar~~

The two beast cry strangely as they greeted Cole.

The two beast knew that they were harmed and the first one they saw after they recover should be one main suspect that cause it. However, their instinctual reaction greatly differ to what they felt.

They felt that the man had a very close relationship to them...

So, him being the main culprit should be impossible.

Since Cole had soul connection with the two beast, he might not know what they're exactly thinking but he could feel it nonetheless.

In this situation, he could only treat this two meticulously so that they will familiar to him and finally trust him.

Still, these two could play a vital role with the subjugation of demonic sect disciples as they have the base strength of First-Level Tier-5 Magical Beast. This was also the reason why they survive the massive explosion caused by self destruction since their beast flesh get refined naturally by the [Heavenly Tribulation].

He could only gently say, "Welcome to the family."

Magical Beast are known for their human-like intelligence, however, he knew that the two beast had a problem on understanding some things since their soul was still recovering from being sealed for so long.

The [Immortal Purity True Phoenix Flame] might be able to heal soul too to some extent but its specialty was healing physical injury.

Among the two, it was the Ferghana Horse that recieved a massive benefit. The [Nirvana Rebirth] was a process that was mainly caused by the True Phoenix Fire and since the latter was also one, the healing seem to be more effective to the said beast.

Furthermore, the fire that burns on its whole body seems to have a trace of Phoenix Fire that constantly heal the latter. It seems that it acquires a healing passive ability.

The Poison Cloud Lion, on the other hand, looks more slender than the last time he saw it. Its poison cloud-like mane was also reduced to quarter. However, eventhough it looks like a bad sign, Cole knew that it was actually an exact opposite. The said beast changed qualitatively, just like what happen in his [Soul Sea] that was reduced to a mere pond from being as wide as sea.

Furthermore, the two also reach the peak of First-Level and will level up to second. If that happen, the two will be strengthened further and since they were already connected through soul contract, they could also acquire EXP from killing and those demonic disciples are just the answer for that.

There were only a few seconds left before Gu Xi lift the light barrier. He use that remaining time and gave the two beast's information given by the [System] to have batter understanding about their abilities;

Species Name : Ferghana Horse ♂️ Beast Name : ∅ Level : First-Level Tier-5 Magical Beast (95%) Loyalty : 60% Potential : Sky (Arcane) Affinity : Fire Race : Beast/Horse Innate : Phoenix Cloak Beast Skill : War Stomp, Force Kick, Accelerating Gallop, Exploding Fireball Concept : Combustion

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Species Name : Poison Cloud Lion Beast Name : ∅ Level : First-Level Tier-5 Magical Beast (98%) Loyalty : 65% Potential : Sky (Arcane) Affinity : Poison Race : Beast/Lion Innate Ability : Poison Immunity, Sky Cloud, Synthesize Beast Skill : Formless Poison Mist, Envenom Lion Roar, Toxic Claw Swipe, Fight Poison with Poison Concept : Poisonous Beauty

It seem that the two created a balance. The first one specializes with single target attacks and have a huge damaging power while the latter was the opposite. The Poison Cloud Lion focused more on dwindling the health of his enemies through different kind of poisons.

The latter might have a weaker strength but as the battle drag on, the enemy will get weaker and weaker through the poison and that is the time where the Poison Cloud Lion could win in face to face confrontation.

It was a pity that poison attacks had minimal effects on the three demonic sects, specially the Corpse Refining Sect since they also use some kind of poison called Corpse Poison. It was more on those ghosts.

Perhaps only to Blood Demon's Creed that poison attacks can had substantial effect.

Still, poison attacks might not be effective to their enemy but the Poison Cloud Lion was still a Tier-5 Magical Beasts and its attacks will definitely deal a great damage to those Peak Nascent Soul-Stage disciples.

The light barrier will be lifted any second now.

Cole look at those demonic sect disciples that with sharp glint in his eyes.

He could only hope that they don't have many Corpse Puppet, that Shiela is currently occupying, with the same strength or equipment like the Netherworld Ghost Flag.

If this wish of him true, then success is on their side!