3rd Stage of Genesis Sea

 Considering the Gala would only occur in the next week, Ryker planned on increasing his strength to prepare for the competition Lariz believe would happen.

 He decide to thrust the other man. Beside, raising his cultivation now would not have any consequences, negative one at least. 

 However, with the gala happening soon, the palace had been shut down from outsider. From what he heard, even the noble family can come into the castle, let alone him.

 So, as he did not want to disturb his lovers cultivation, he opt for one mission a day, and spent the rest of his time cultivating in an energy-rich environment that is known as Birak Forest.

-x-

 "With that mission done, I can go cultivating," he said to himself before putting the carcass of a Spirit Beast into his storage ring. The Guild Leader had asked him to take the quest, Catherine delivering the older man's words.

 So, he did so. And to his surprise, the beast is near a rich-energy location. So, after killing it, he cultivate right away. After all, why should he wait? 

-x-

 "Looks like I am getting closer to the 3rd Stage," Ryker mutter. Aside from using the Celestial Energy Art, he also used the Life Gifting Mantra. After all, he had shown great mastery in Law of Life and the other man would likely asked of why he did not use it.

 So, he focused on the Law of Life, along with Law of Nature as the two different Paths correspond with one another. 

 "I likely cannot use the Law of Fire or there will be some questions on how many Paths I comprehend. So, I should focus on the one that I already shown. Should I deepen my understanding in Law of Death. Let's put it aside for now," he said to himself before comprehending both Life Gifting Mantra and Primal Nature Mantra.

-x-

 'I have two more days, so I have to try and breakthrough a minor realm!' he thought inside his head. Taking out some more resources from three Sovereign, he began to absorb the surrounding energy, using only the Celestial Energy Art to raise his cultivation realm as quickly as possible.

 Thanks to his understanding of his main Cultivation Art, the efficiency of his energy refining, plus the higher qi quality, allow him to push his cultivation to the bottleneck of the 2nd Stage.

 Considering the difference between each minor stage only get larger with each major and grand realm, there is no surprise as to why his cultivation stagnant.

 However, he did not let such thing stop him as he begin to break the final wall, before destroying it completely. His Genesis Sea begin to undergo another expansion, increasing the size and officially marking him as a 3rd Stage Genesis Sea expert.

 He sigh in relief, before beginning to stabilize his cultivation. Aside from that, he also plan to read more Primal Nature Mantra, as he wanted to deepen his comprehension of the Law of Nature, and maybe harmonize Law of Nature with Law of Water.

-x-

 "Now that I am a 3rd Stage Genesis Sea, I should see how strong my attack can be," however, instead of using the merging of fire and water qi. He opt for the merge of water and nature qi. Considering the two qi did not smoother one another, instead the nature qi tried to absorb the water qi like a regular plant, it make thing slightly easier.

 "Should I tried it with Law of Earth as well. After all, normal tree need both soil and water to grow," he asked himself before deciding to just try it anyway.

 After all, he did not have that much time to practice, as the Gala will happen in two more days. So, he need to practice every chances he got.

 He begin to create earth qi, before pushing the three different qi together. He could feel the three qi trying to merge, or more accurately, dominate the others. Well, the nature qi that is. The water and earth qi either try to escape or let itself be devoured.

 So, he begin to merge the three different qi, though he could feel the wood qi getting stronger, though some of the water qi and earth remain itself, though he had to make sure it will not merge with one another.

 He could feel himself being strained from controlling three different qi, though he remain strong. If he manage to control it, he would be able to unleash an attack far stronger than before.

As he could feel himself starting to have control over it, he sighed before pushing his normal qi to feed the nature qi, wanting to see what his full strike can do.

 He then slammed his palm to ground, opting for a different attack than just punching.

-x-

 An eagle beast at the Genesis Realm had just returned to it's nest, in it's claw, a rat beast. It put the dead beast inside the nest, little hatchling began to fight one another for the meat.

 As the eagle beast watched over it's young, a large boom cause it to flap it's wing in surprise, almost knocking it's nest if not for it's control.

 It squawk, looking at the direction of the noise to see a large tree at a place that did not have such large tree before. It squawk again, it's tone confused as it's wonder where such large tree come from.

-x-

 Ryker looked in disbelief of what just happened. His palm attack did not just decimate the area, it also grow a large tree that could even rival the palace in term of size.

 "I can confirm, I am powerful. Hope no one would see it," he said to himself before using the Shadow Traversing Technique and get away, because, only guilty when get caught, or something close enough.

-x-

 "Hey, did you hear about a giant tree appearing in the Birak Forest western part?"

 "Yeah, I heard about it, but I don't believe until I see it when I head towards there,"

 "What do you think happen to make such big tree to grow like that. Not to mention it just appear yesterday or we would have seen it before,"

 "I don't know, but maybe there is a powerful beast with mastery in Law of Nature died in that place, the nature qi cause the tree to grow so large,"

 "Make sense, but it must be a Spirit Beast, as I had felt the power from it and I don't think a Genesis Beast can make it become so big,"

 "True,"

 Meanwhile, the creator of the tree remained unease as he pretend the tree did not have anything to do with him.