Ever since she first saw the effects of utilising cepts, Yunaia had been thhly impressed. A feeling that only deepehe more she watched Linley use it in battle these st six months.

  But watg Linley and Ace csh, she felt as though she had been mesmerised.

  pared to when she would watch Linley use the [Rippling Tide Stance] against the creatures here on the fifth floor, when using it against Ace’s [Bzing Give Art], it was tens, if not hundreds of times more impressive.

  The trasting styles of Ace's wild and explosive [Bzing Give Art] pitted against Linley's soft, graceful, and elegant [Rippling Tide Stance] from his [Serenity Sword Art] was magical.

  Despite each of their attacks having enough power and ferocity to send the average peak saint to their deaths, both young men smiled happily as they tio exge blow after blow, and to those who watched, it appeared as if they were dang a captivating but deadly dance. Each move, while deadly and powerful, had a rhythm and grace to it that was truly enthralling.

  Ace's give swept through the air, leaving trails of fiery explosions in its wake. Linley moved with fluidity, his twin swords flowing like water as he parried Ace's strikes. The power of fire and water cshed in a mesmerising dispy of on mastery.

  Still, despite their apparent glee from battling a worthy oppo, her of the young men were willing to lose to the other. Ace's eyes bzed with fiery determination as he brought his give down in a sweeping arc, creating a bzing crest of destru. Linley, with a calm and focused expression, tered with a precise series of sshes, his twin swords rippling with power.

  Their ons cshed, creating shockwaves that shook the already decimated juo its core, ahe two rivals seemed to be enjoying themselves to no end, their exhiration palpable, and even their blood seemed to thrum with excitement.

  The dance of fire and water tinued, each strike and parry a testament to their exceptional skills, but even more impressive was that, as the battle raged on, their teiques evolved, and their movements became even more fluid and synised.

  “They’re actually improving,” Yunaia uttered with a hint of disbelief, unwilling to so much as blink for fear that she would miss even a single sed of this captivating battle.

  “What did you expect from my boss?” Bebe said proudly as he stood on his rear legs atop Olivier’s head with his chest puffed out.

  Olivier didn’t respond, but the slight trembling of his balled fist and the unyielding light fshing in his eyes spoke a thousand words!

  The battle between Ad Linley was a sight to behold, a harmonious csh of elements and fighting styles that left onlookers ihey pushed each other to their limits, and the jungle around them bore wito their extraordinary dispy of power and grace.

  her of them were willing to use any actual teiques, instead wanting to use their ons-manship to suppress the other.

  In terms of skill, Linley was clearly the inferior of the two. There were two reasons he was able to fight Ace to a standstill for so long. Firstly, whilst Ace was a warrior at the early stages of the seventh rank, Linley had broken through to the early stages of the ninth rank. But most importantly, Ace was still fatigued from his previous battle with Lachapelle – the prime saint-level pnt-type lifeform.

  Still, Ace’s givesmanship was at least two levels above Linley’s swordsmanship. As the battle raged on, it became easier and easier for the young Givesman to suppress his oppo.

  “Arghhh, Dammit!” Linley growled unwillingly as he leapt out of the pit he created after bei flying by Ace’s st attack. “That [Observation Hak of yours is so annoying!”

  As rivals and even good friends, Linley uood almost everything about the abilities of Ace’s bloodline. As such, he was well aware of Ace’s cheat-like ability to peer a few seds into the future.

  Between that and Ace’s superior on handling, it was easy to uand how Ace was able to gain the upper hand in their battle.

  Still, although impressive, Ace was finding that particur ability less and less useful. Apparently, the strohe oppo, the more of a toll it took on his spiritual esseo use it. As such, he could only afford to use it sparingly when fighting against saints, but against mortals, there was simply o use it at all.

  Still, whe the right time, it articurly useful, as one could see from his csh with Linley.

  “You’re oo talk!” Ace scoffed. “You’re only a warrior at the ninth rank, but after transf, you jump all the way to the peak of the saint realm!”

  Ace’s reply left Liemporarily speechless as he knew Ace wasn’t wrong.

  It had to be remembered that although the saint realm lit into three sub-realms, the differen power between each sub-realm was like a giant gulf. The average mid-saint could easily suppress ten early saints, and the differeween the middle and peak stages of the saint realm was easily double that.

  So, for Lio be able to jump all the way to the peak stage of the saint realm as an early ninth-rank warrior… it truly was a heaven-defying ability!

  “Alright, alright, we get it; you’re both freaks!” Amira rolled her enting golden eyes as she strolled towards them alongside Leona. “Show-offs!”

  “Mira, Leona,” Linley greeted warmly. “It’s good to see you both again.”

  Although the person he was closest to from the Pavilion was Ace, after fighting together against the coalition of the four major forces and then training together in the secret pocket dimension, Linley had grown close to all of Ace’s friends and family.

  “Mmh, you look well,” Mira replied before looking curiously at the group approag. “Aren’t you going to introduce us to your new friends?”

  “Ah, right, I almost fot,” Linley said suddenly.

  “Olivier needs no introdus,” Linley voiced, remembering that Olivier and Ace had already cshed once several years ago. “But this is Yunaia Qingya and her familiar Oscar.”

  They had already learnt from her brief introdu prior to entering the Necropolis that Yunaia’s surname was Qingya and that, like Amira’s master, Arianna, she was also a genuine desdant of the Qingya family.

  Unfortunately, at the time, they didn’t have the opportunity to ask and give voice to the questions they had. But now…

  “Are you really a desdant of the Qingya family?” Ace asked curiously. “Beirut said that most of the Qingya relocated to the Divine Wind Pne a long time ago. Is that where you came from?”

  “No,” Yunaia shook her head slowly. “My grandmother wasn’t one of those who chose to relocate back then.”

  “She wasn’t?” Ace asked bluntly. “Then where have you guys been all this time?”

  “Ace! Must you be so direct?” Amira sighed helplessly as she fshed an apologetic smile towards Yunaia. “Sorry about him; we’re just curious as my master is also a desdant of the Qingya , but till now, she thought she was the st remaining desdant.”

  “It’s fine, I uand,” Yunaia smiled softly. “As for where we’ve been all this time… It’s a long story, but due to certais a few thousand years ago, my grandmother ended up being bao the Gebados Pnar Prison.”

  “Gebados Prison?” Ace asked, with clear fusion on his face. “Where’s that?”

  Though Ace was no lohe ignorant reinate he once was, there was still a lot about this universe he didn’t know.

  But the same couldn’t be said about Amira. With her “mother”, Sharanthia, being an expert who desded from one of the Divine Realms, she had access to far more information than even her master, an expert who stands he very peak of their on pne.

  “The Gebados Pnar Prison is a pne which exists alongside our Yun Pne,” Amira expined slowly after getting over her surprise. “Acc to my family’s records, within the seemingly boundless universe, there are millions, if not billions, of material pnes like ours, and every single one of those pnes has an interected Pnar Prison.

  The material pnes and their respective pnar prisons bio effectively form two sides of a whole.”

  “You keep calling it a prison, but is it really a whole pne of existehat’s used as a prison?” Ace asked.

  “It really is,” Yunaia sighed. “As the Yin to the Yun Pne’s Yang, the Gebados Pne is just as big as its terpart but hundreds, if not thousands of times more brutal!

  In the Gebados Pne, peak saints are at the bottom of the peg order. This is because the Gebados Pne has no natural elemental esse all. Any elemental energy that is used up ’t be replehrough natural means. As such, there are only three ways of rec one’s elemental essence.

  The first is for someoo el their own energy into your body for you to refine, but because of how brutal the Prison Pne is, it’s virtually impossible for someoo be willing to do that for you. Luckily, I’m still only a mortal, and my grandmother is a powerful deity. Because of the differen power between us, she help me refill my energy levels almost at will.

  The followihod avaible is with the use of certain treasures, but as you probably imagine, such treasures don’t simply grow on trees, meaning that those who find such treasures aren’t likely to use them unless it’s a st resort.

  The final and most ethod is for oo kill deity-level experts.

  When one breaks through to bee a deity, they will form a Divine Spark. Unlike for us mortals and even saints whose dantians aren’t corporeal, the Divine Spark of a Deity is very much tangible and as a result, it is possible to absorb the energy in a Divine Spark to refill your own.

  Still, because of how powerful deities are, only those truly powerful Full Gods and High-Gods are capable of such a feat.”

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