Chapter 186

The third day was destined to be a special day. In the beginning, they got surrounded by a herd of more than ten fourth stage monsters. 

Yesterday they crossed the barrier between the outer forest region and the middle forest region. Nicole had warned Ibro about the degree of danger in this area before. 

He didn't imagine that the first contact they would have would be with these huge shaped monsters which reminded him of the dinosaurs at Earth. 

Each monster had four limbs, but it was standing over two only while the other two were able to use techniques like humans. 

What shocked Ibro was that these monsters had some intelligence and had managed to develop a battle strategy between themselves. 

Although they started the battle surrounding the two of them, they didn't all attack crazily like other monsters. They acted like humans, as four monsters started to move towards Ibro and Nicole. 

They acted like a bait to divide them and a test to their strengths. Each one of them was like a monster commander he faced in the underground world back at his village. 

That was an intimidating force, but they didn't threaten Ibro and Nicole by much. Ibro had upgraded yesterday to the spiritual energy absorption 10th stage. 

He was a hair away from completing this major stage and moving towards the next foundation establishment stage. 

Each strike now from Ibro held tremendous lethal power that would even create a small crater after each hit. In just ten minutes, these monsters lay dead on the ground. 

Ibro looked at them and fantasized about how delicious their meat would taste. When he finished consuming these monsters' cores, he felt a strange surge of power inside him. 

It was like his spiritual energy inside him had broken through a barrier. He stopped for a few seconds in his place motionless while he observed the changes that were happening inside him.

"What happened?" Nicole asked when she noticed the strangeness about him. He looked at her while replied with a smile:

"I don't know if I should be happy or not. I have managed to breakthrough."

"Wow, you are a monster. 

You managed to break through the first stage like that in less than four days. That is insane speed I have never heard of before."

Ibro smiled then he asked:

"I feel like my energy was changing in a strange way that wasn't mentioned in your scroll."

She looked concerned. She knew that her scroll wasn't that high-grade scroll, but all the changes that happened to any cultivator when he broke through each stage were the same. 

This was the first time she heard about such a thing. She hurried to him while ordering:

"Set down now and maintain your training posture."

Ibro didn't dare to argue as he felt the wariness in her tone. He sat down at once and closed his eyes taking the posture of his training. 

In the previous days while they rested for a while he never stopped his training even once. When he closed his eyes, she put her two hands on his back and closed her eyes as well. 

She began to send her spiritual sense inside him to check his dantian and meridians. What shocked me at once was the huge size of his meridians. 

Those weren't meridians of a cultivator at the spiritual absorption stage or even at the foundation establishment stage. 

She didn't see these wide sturdy meridians except at the core formation stage cultivators. Now she understood why he was so strong with his smaller realm. 

The big shock came from his dantian. His dantian was like a small galaxy full of stars. She had never seen any dantian like that before. 

She was captivated by the beauty and uniqueness of this dantian that she couldn't remove her eyes from for a while. 

While she was fascinated by this weird dantian, she noticed something strange was going on inside it. These fast-rotating nebulas were slowing down at a visible rate. 

At the same time, all the spiritual energy inside them was decreasing at a faster rate. This was strange, she had never heard of something like that before. 

She didn't express her concerns and kept observing these changes. Throughout one hour, all the eleven nebulas had stopped rotating completely and Ibro's meridians became empty with no drop of spiritual energy at all. 

At this moment, all the eleven nebulas started to rotate in the opposite direction at the same time. 

This was accompanied by a sudden surge of power that was birthed from inside his dantian itself. 

This wave of energy pulse hit Nicole's spiritual sense to break it down at once. It didn't stop there, but it exited Ibro's body and hit her body with a mighty unstoppable force. 

Her body jolted for a moment before it was sent flying backward. She kept rotating on the ground hitting multiple trees before she could stop. All her body was filled with many wounds but that didn't concern her. 

What really mattered to her right now was Ibro. She was nearly one mile away from him. What was this strange force? 

She recalled that majestic feeling she felt from this power, she never had such mightiness before. 

She hesitated for a second but when she felt everything was so quiet she gathered her courage and moved closer to his place. When she reached there she was stupefied. 

There, in the place where Ibro was sitting, there was a deep hole in the ground with a diameter of 100 meters at least. When she looked closely she felt it was like a huge fist had hit that place. 

There were marks of the knuckles of the fist. Who would hit this place with such a force? She didn't know but what made her more worried was Ibro, he was missing. 

Was he kidnapped? Or that huge fist attack had killed him? She recalled her great grandfather's words that were handed down from generation to generation.

"No, you can't be dead. Where have you gone then?"

She looked around her with no result. There was no sign for any movement from Ibro or even a fight. Ibro would never allow anyone to take him without struggle.

"Where have you gone, my dear grandfather?" she muttered feeling suddenly weak in her. She fell on the ground feeling tired. 

It seemed that the previous days were very tiring on her. She hid that from Ibro but now as she was alone she finally let that weakness to appear, that what she had thought all of a sudden. 

That was like an old memory that came suddenly to her. She was really exhausted. Once her body fell on the ground, she lost consciousness.