Cole look at the busy crowd outside the base of his league. He's even more adamant on causing a big commotion than to depend the slow work of spreading through mouth and throw the plan of fliers to the back of his mind.

Most of the crowd outside were surprised when they saw someone got out of the old tree building in this middle of nowehere.

"Fellow disciple, what's in there?" One in the crowd ask Cole when he got outside of his base.

"This is the base of my [Beast-Tamer League]." He answered.

A great shock appear on the strangers face, "You're a [League Leader]?!" He exclaimed.

Cole nodded, "Yes." he answered and began to walk again without being hindered by the crowd.

It seems that they were shocked and trying to digest the new information they just heard.

∞

Cole arrived at the [Mission Hollow] unhindered. Him, getting out of the building in his base gave him away. But when he was on the middle on the crowd, he just looks like any other normal disciple. Maybe a little short for being a cultivator and look more superior to girls in some aspect, but he looks like a normal Outer-Peak disciple.

This time, he don't bring a beast on him outside. Even Blue who loves to rest on his shoulder was left inside the [Inner World], doing a very important mission of strengthening himself.

The [Tribulation Phenomenon' Lightning Horned Python] wasn't eliminated, in fact, Celia trap them inside her purple mist. It was her purpose when she expand her purple mist and contract it until it was formed with the same as a normal ball, to trap the lightning and do not scatter.

Cole didn't know the significant of it yet Celia said that it was really important, well, for Blue, that is.

Celia explained first that human and beast alike uses the [Energy of Heaven and Earth] from [Body Tempering-Stage] until to [Nascent Soul-Stage] or from [Tier-1] to [Tier-4] for beast.

But after those stages, both will use at what Celia termed as [Force of Heaven and Energy]. It was some type of superior energy. She didn't elaborate much as she felt that that kind of information was too advance for his level. If anything, she was just there with him, if he ever wanted to learn from her, he only have to summon her and she'll do his bidding. But she did tell Cole that the imprisoned lightning on her purple mist was one of that [Force of Heaven and Energy], and a very special force at that.

Of course, after Celia told him that kind of information, he wonder why she know all of that facts. She answered that it was one of the special abilities of beast, specifically of their bloodline.

Unlike humans, beast's didn't resort on writing down their discovery and knowledge on paper, instead, they imprinted it in their bloodline. In short, all of the information the beast need are all available to them, they only need to increase their strength and all of those information will be open and available for them.

Celia's current bloodline was [Three-Clawed Divine White Dragon]. Although not the best in the line of [Dragons], it is not rubbish either. In fact, [Divine Dragons] are one of the high-ranking bloodline among [Dragons]. With her bloodline as the pass and key, saying that her knowledge was as rich, or more, than the [Five Element Sect] was not already an exaggeration. After all, the founder of this Sect was not born yet, but the [Dragons] were already conquering the sky and ruling the planets.

Sadly, it was limited to [Tier-3] and some important information such as different [Forces of Heaven and Earth] in the meantime.

Unfortunately, the information Cole wants, the process of the whole cultivation system of humans, was not available in Celia's inherited knowledge. It was understandable since it was the bloodlines of [Dragons], their bloodline information won't even include other beast such as [Vermillion Bird], much less humans.

Cole sigh after that. He thought he got lucky again. Unfortunately, he's a human, not a [Dragon].

That was why Blue was left inside the [Inner World], he was currently trying to comprehend the [Heavenly Lightning Force] while being assisted personally by Celia.

While Shelly was also left behind as he was currently recuperating. He was successful in containing the [Heavenly Tribulation] but it was not without a price. Doing it should be easy for Shelly, but he was just a weak [Tier-3] beast at the moment. Fortunately, he acquired his bloodline [Innate Talent : Space Mastery] which make it possible for him to be successful.

The two [Elementals], Bell and Pisces, was two obvious for greedy people. After all, they were a walking—or in their case, floating—ticket to [Core Formation-Stage]. While Groot was too big to brought along with him outside. Coal, on the other hand, the [Fire Lizard] beast, now had a [Rough Scales]. It was easy for him to injure other disciples accidentally. He don't want to create trouble for him and his beast.

The inside of the [Mission Hollow] were quite simple; there's only one counter with the building's attendant and many number of boards with different papers plastered with it. The outline was simple, there is no much difference of what he expected.

Every mission that was posted was color coded. Since Elder One of [Information Tree Office] already informed him about it, he was not clueless about it. The yellow colored paper were mission meant for was the weakest, orange as normal and red was hard. Normally, Outer-Peak disciples often choose those yellow paper mission while the orange mission was accepted occasionally and the red mission was remained untouched.

However, the mission might be color coded but the disciples wasn't. This was intentional since a cultivator should have a good judgement themselves. Without a good judgement skill, a cultivator is expected to be eliminated first unless they were very powerful themselves. In this world, being smart was always a big key of staying alive.

And the best example of this was this missions. For instance, should those disciples overestimated themselves and receive mission out of their ability, they were expected to fail, or in worst case scenario, they'll be killed.

Being fearless was good for cultivators. But being fearless and being dumb was totally a two different thing.

Cole started to inspect the missions posted on the boards of the [Mission Hollow]. He first look towards the missions with yellow color. As expected, most of the missions on this part were all considered easy. For instance, eliminating the beast on the surrounding of the [Five Element Sect], search for herbs on the forest, and so on. Cole thought that it was considered easy since they place were near the sect, reinforcement could immediately requested. The chance of the survival was almost 90%. Of course, since the mission was considered as only so-so, the rewards were also so-so.

Meanwhile, the orange mission mostly composed of specific mission. For instance, a mission of hunting a specific beast or look for specific herb. The difficulty were slightly increased since they may have to travel to other places, and some might be a little far.

The red colored mission was considered the hardest. When Cole check their content, most of the mission was all about extermination. Exterminating the group of lawless bandits, assassinate the leader of slave traffickers, kill a [Tier-3] beast, and so on. For disciples of Wood Outer-Peak, this red colored mission was no different from a suicide mission, added to the fact that Wood cultivators were mostly not great at combat.

Of course, Cole linger much longer on the red missions. It's not that he's overconfident about his abilities, but since he wanted to create some commotion to make his league known, he should accomplish this kind of mission. Besides, he's a league leader himself. Should he accomplish mission of yellow and orange, he'll be viewed as weak and disciples definitely won't join his league. Afterall, no one wanted a weak leader.

Cole examined the missions very carefully. While he was skimming through the missions, he even saw the task of investigating and eliminating of one of his very well known name, the [Shadow Walkers]. He already defeat that bandit group, and the leader of them were already one of the guardian of Forest Edge Village but since he had no proof, he couldn't claim that this was already a finished mission. He also don't dare use the [Heaven's Swear] as their leader were alive and kicking. Although the whole bandit group already stop their operation, he don't dare to gamble should the [Heaven] judge him as lier and be blasted by [Heavenly Thunder].

Suddenly, Cole's body stiffened after he read one of the particular red colored mission with an image of red skull;

Investigate the Red Skull Bandit Group -Investigate information about the bandit group including their base location, their vital members, the leader, as well as their corresponding strength. -Exterminate the whole bandit group. Reward varies according to accomplishment.

Cole started to pant as if he ran a great distance. Memories of certain someone started to flood his mind.

It was just a normal, peaceful day. The villagers worked from day to night. Afraid that they might have nothing to fill the stomach the next day.

After the whole day of hard work, every villagers rested peacefully at night. They felt safe as they paid their taxes for protection. As the great town with a leader of [Mana Gathering-Stage], they knew that they'll be safe from harm.

Yet, bandits attack their home. Looted all their valuables, rape the womans, be it a child or an adult, kill the sons and fathers who wanted to protect their loved ones. After they were done, they'll chain the healthy, strong and abled person, intending to sell them as if they were nothing but a mere livestock. While they left the injured, the elderly and corpses.

A certain boy even witness how they raped their mother and sister, kill his father without hesitation, knock the senses out of his brother, and saw a what seems like a tattoo of a red skull on the rapers private body parts. They chained them up after they were done and put them at the caged they brought with them, along with strangers that were also chained up and miserable.

When Cole skimmed the memories of this body before, he didn't encounter this memories. Yes, he knew that his former village was raided by bandits but it was as if the very disturbing scene were cutted out. It seems that the former owner of his body wanted to forget that certain memory. He shutted the memory down. But the image of the red skull trigger this unwanted memory.

As if on instinct, a drop of tear slid down on his face. Follow by another until it was streaming as if it was a spring of water itself.

The people present in the [Mission Hollow] look at Cole strangely. Most of the time, all the people who visit here are all confident and full of vigor. They were full of energy as they will, once again, received a mission, set out to both train and widen their horizon and experience, confident that they'll definitely finish the mission and already claim those rewards was as good as theirs. At worst, they'll be gloomy at the difficulty of the mission but not to the point that they'll cry.

However, when they saw that he was currently standing in front of red colored mission, they felt that they somehow understand him.

Junior brother, stop crying... Even us wanted to cry to those rich but unreachable rewards, but crying in front of it won't make them come to you... Most of them said to themselves. But they don't dare to voice the console out as it was no different from admitting that they wanted to cry too.

Suddenly, the crying kid jolted and get the mission out of the board which shocked them, but his next words frighten them;

"I accept this mission!"