After William Yates sent people to bury Quentin Yates behind the The Yates Clan ancestral mountain, he comforted Morgan Yates for a while. He had once been friends with Quentin Yates, and within the The Yates Clan, he would occasionally look after Morgan Yates.

Although William Yates knew that there was another reason why Morgan Yates had not opened his meridians for five years, the fact remained that he had not cultivated for five years, which meant Morgan Yates was destined to achieve little on the path of cultivation.

This is because this age is the golden period for cultivation, the time when the body is taking shape. If one misses this period, it is difficult to achieve much even if they resume cultivation later.

Morgan Yates returned to his own room. Although the room was shabby, it had been tidied up very neatly by Uncle Foster.

Uncle Foster had once been Quentin Yates's servant, having devoted half his life to Quentin Yates. To Morgan Yates, Uncle Foster was regarded as an elder.

“My old man once brought glory to the The Yates Family, but after his death, no one cared. This The Yates Family really chills the heart!”

“Now that I’m five years behind everyone else, I have to work five or even ten times harder than others. Those who once bullied me, I will definitely get back at them. I want revenge, I want to find my mother.”

Morgan Yates knew that only by working a hundred times harder than others would he have a chance to catch up to those so-called geniuses, and only then would he have a chance to enter the Desolate Gate.

Only by entering the Desolate Gate could he take his revenge.

Morgan Yates sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, eyes half-closed, as his dantian began to operate, absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth from the air.

Cultivation is the process of using the dantian to absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth from the air, then using the dantian to convert it into elemental force and store it within.

“I want to see just how powerful this Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar really is.”

Ever since Morgan Yates learned to look inward at his dantian, he had known about the existence of the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar. This was a divine artifact his mother Violet had obtained in the Divine Sovereign’s secret realm.

The Divine Sovereign realm is the highest level on the continent. Upon reaching it, one can split the heavens and earth, create the universe, and reverse reincarnation.

When Violet became pregnant with Morgan Yates, the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar automatically recognized its master and, in a strange manner, entered Morgan Yates's body from Violet's.

And just after Morgan Yates was born, a powerful member of Violet's family mysteriously arrived, forcibly took Violet away, and severely humiliated Quentin Yates.

Now, as Morgan Yates officially began his cultivation, he wanted to see just what was so extraordinary about this divine artifact left by a Divine Sovereign.

Morgan Yates began to look inward, carefully observing the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar within his dantian. On the surface of that towering pillar, countless black dragons coiled around it, as if they were being bound by the black pillar.

Morgan Yates couldn’t count how many dragons there were on the pillar, but there were definitely many, as numerous as stars in the sky. He even felt that this Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar truly possessed the power to trap dragons and ascend to the heavens. The pillar faintly emanated an aura of primordial times and antiquity.

Morgan Yates began to operate his dantian, and the vital energy of heaven and earth flowed in through his nostrils, surging toward his dantian, which then began to refine it into elemental force.

Just as Morgan Yates started refining elemental force, the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar within his dantian suddenly began to tremble. Countless dragon roars sounded, and the energy within his dantian became chaotic. Then, the energy was continuously absorbed by the black dragon at the base of the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar.

The black dragon emitted a faint black glow, so subtle it was hard to notice.

“So this Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar can absorb vital energy.”

With this thought, Morgan Yates began once again to absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth, but the speed at which his dantian operated was too slow, completely unable to keep up with the rate at which the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar absorbed energy.

Morgan Yates cultivated for a full hour, continuously absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth. The glow emitted by the dragon at the base of the pillar grew brighter and brighter.

Morgan Yates was delighted and continued to absorb the vital energy. The dragon at the base greedily absorbed the energy, and as a tremendous dragon roar sounded, the black dragon seemed to awaken, flying out from the base of the pillar and circling within Morgan Yates's dantian.

Morgan Yates felt that this black elemental force dragon seemed to obey his commands. Sure enough, under Morgan Yates's control, the black dragon charged directly toward the acupoint in his right hand. With a crash, Morgan Yates's arm went numb.

For a martial artist to officially begin the path of cultivation and enter the Qi Creation Realm, they must first open five acupoints. The process of breaking through these acupoints is also a process of strengthening and tempering the body.

“Haha, this Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar really is extraordinary.”

The dragon is an ancient fierce beast, king of all beasts, a godlike existence, capable of moving mountains and breaking rivers, possessing unparalleled strength.

Morgan Yates experienced the wonders of the black dragon pillar. The power of this black dragon was definitely much stronger than ordinary elemental force.

All morning, Morgan Yates absorbed the vital energy of heaven and earth, letting the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar take it in. As long as the pillar absorbed enough energy, the black dragon at its base would emit a black glow and release a black elemental force dragon.

Morgan Yates controlled the black dragon to charge at the acupoint in his right hand. By the end of the morning, his right arm felt as if it had been tempered a thousand times, on the verge of bursting with power.

Morgan Yates could feel that the acupoint in his right hand was about to be opened.

“Creak!”