As soon as he thought of that gathering place, Nathaniel Carter felt his scalp tingle—those people were some of the most exalted figures among the Abyssal Clan.

　　“Resist again, and you’ll all be killed!” After slaughtering dozens of Blue Star people who had rushed forward, the Abyssal man shouted sternly at the crowd.

　　After many were killed, the angry crowd fell silent once more. The brutal reality made everyone realize that to fight these Abyssal people, who possessed overwhelming force, could only end in death.

　　What should they do?

　　Nathaniel Carter grew anxious. If this continued, he was still facing a dead end!

　　A crucial problem now lay before him: his own race was being bullied, and he himself could die at any moment.

　　Was he just going to die like this?

　　A surge of emotion welled up in Nathaniel Carter’s heart. Since he had come here, he had to fight—whether for his race or for himself.

　　But his dantian had already been sealed!

　　Nathaniel Carter knew from memory that all captured soldiers had their dantian sealed by experts, turning them into useless people.

　　But when he inadvertently looked inward, Nathaniel Carter was stunned.

　　He had actually succeeded in looking inward—he could clearly see the situation inside his dantian!

　　What on earth had happened?

　　Nathaniel Carter was shocked.

　　Wasn’t his dantian sealed, with all his inner energy gone?

　　The Abyssal people patrolled the skies. Nathaniel Carter sat there, his face numb, but his heart was in turmoil. He had never expected such changes in his body.

　　After a while, some realizations surfaced.

　　The Five-Animal Exercise!

　　What surprised Nathaniel Carter was that the Five-Element Demon Art, which people here feared like a tiger, was actually a set of techniques called the Five-Animal Exercise, passed to him by that mysterious person before he crossed over. Of course, the Five-Animal Exercise taught by that mysterious person had many new variations.

　　What was going on?

　　The Five-Animal Demon Art was originally something the people who framed him had lured the original Nathaniel Carter into learning. After practicing it, he had regressed instead of progressing, becoming a cripple.

　　But now, everything had changed—changed drastically!

　　Nathaniel Carter carefully examined the information that mysterious person had given him.

　　After investigating, Nathaniel Carter finally understood some things.

　　This version of the Five-Animal Exercise was a very special cultivation method, different from what he knew. The reason most people regressed instead of progressed when practicing it was that it required many conditions, which were extremely difficult to meet.

　　Xirang!

　　Hadn’t that mysterious person infused him with a large amount of xirang? Could it be that the xirang had remolded his dantian?

　　A divine object used by Yu the Great to control floods in ancient times—he never expected such a thing to be fused into his body!

　　When he checked his whole body again, Nathaniel Carter discovered that every part of him, even his acupoints and meridians, had been completely remolded.

　　This was a spiritual possession!

　　Realizing that he had not arrived in this body physically, but had taken it over with his spiritual consciousness, Nathaniel Carter truly didn’t understand what had happened to him.

　　Not only that, Nathaniel Carter made another new discovery: his dantian was now full of true qi, and he had advanced from the second to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

　　How strange!

　　Could it be that his spiritual consciousness had brought his spiritual root and xirang along as well?

　　No matter how much Nathaniel Carter thought about it, he couldn’t figure it out. The only thing he felt now was that his spiritual root and physical condition had changed dramatically—he was no longer the cripple he once was.

　　The mountain wind howled, and fierce beasts roared.

　　Corpses lay scattered everywhere, the stench of blood thick in the air.

　　These Blue Star captives had long since lost all hope.

　　One by one, people in coarse cloth sat scattered about.

　　From the information in his mind, he knew this place was called Yingming Star, a world of cultivation. Here, countless races competed fiercely, and the only way to survive was to constantly pursue strength.

　　The Blue Star Clan was his ancestral race—how had things come to this? This was completely different from Nathaniel Carter’s understanding of his people back on Earth.

　　“Move out! Move out!”

　　After eating, the Abyssal people shouted loudly, urging everyone to continue on their way.

　　On the desolate mountain road, the blazing sun scorched their bodies with burning pain. Their coarse clothes were already tattered from the journey. Hundreds of people formed a long line, the only sound that of feet striking the earth.

　　This was truly a road of no return!

　　What on earth had happened to the Blue Star Clan?

　　In the midst of the line, Nathaniel Carter was filled with confusion about why the Blue Star Clan had ended up like this.

Chapter 2: Slaughter

　　Ahead lay a road of no return, but the captives had no choice—they could only march in a long, silent line.

　　Except for the occasional Abyssal person flying overhead, the captives on the march became extremely quiet.

　　In the distance came the roars of wild beasts, and the mountain wind rustled the leaves. The people in coarse clothes had lost all feeling in their bodies, moving forward one after another.

　　Seeing everyone like this, Nathaniel Carter understood even more clearly—his time was running out.