The Licentious Cultivator

Lu Zheng's vision turned dark as he walked into the spatial gate before rapidly changing. When he came to, he found himself in a large hall.

The hall was not empty, Immortal Star, An Yin and every other person that had entered the spatial gate was there. The hall was spacious enough to contain the sixty four experts and a man stood at the very centre of the hall.

The man was very tall, at least twice the height of the average man. His skin was jet black and even darker tattoos that formed intricate patterns were in his limbs and up to his neck. A pair of dark wings that were darker than darkness itself was folded behind him.

His aura was extremely strong. It was like he was invincible and even the ravages of time could not hurt him.

"The Black Feather Race!" Lu Zheng recognised the man's race instantly.

The man opened his eyes which seemed to have been closed for all of eternity and chuckled slightly.

"You are quite knowledgeable" The man's voice was thicker than steel. "I am Byron, an avatar of Reverend Divine Prime Jade and by the arrangements of time and karma, you have found yourselves in a fragment of my main body's aperture"

Byron paused as everyone took in the immense shock of seeing an avatar of a past Reverend. Even Lu Zheng was stunned.

~Reverend Divine Prime Jade! The first demonic path Reverend that killed billions of people for the sake of his cultivation. The progenitor of reincarnation path, time path, blood path and transformation path! So this is a fragment of his Grotto-Heaven~

Byron continued: "During the Ancient Antiquity Era when my main body roamed the world, he was a dao pursuer that sought the true meaning of cultivation itself. His pursuit discovered reincarnation path, time path, blood path, transformation path and even karma path and he cultivated the first four paths to the Infinity realm. In the pursuit of his Dao, he became a demonic path martial warrior and slaughtered people, those of his own race and beyond. Even so, he was unable to find what he sought till he succumbed to death

"But before he died, my main body created many avatars and sent us into the River of Time to create countless incomplete, complete and true inheritances [1]. Many of these inheritances have already been taken and those who inherited them have all risen to strengths beyond your wildest imaginations. These inheritances have been set up in order for my main body to finally complete his deductions on the secret behind cultivation.

"Your presence here is not a matter of luck. It has been ordained many eras ago by both time and karma. Outside this hall is a time path true inheritance left behind by my main body. Only through many trials and difficulties can you inherit it. Those who fail can also compete for a few incomplete inheritances that my main body created for the martial practitioners that he killed in his time

"Failure to gain anything is certain death by my hands and unless you have reached the Infinity realm, you cannot defeat me. To gain an inheritance, survival is key. When you leave this hall, you will face many trials that my main body has set up. Death is impossible but you will return to a certain place when you die"

Byron spoke calmly without rushing as if he had practiced those words for countless of times. Nobody dared to interrupt him or even murmur. His invincible aura destroyed any thoughts of even opposing him.

When he was done, the martial practitioners all disappeared from the large hall and appeared in a large expanse of grass.

Lu Zheng felt his head, information on the first trial appeared mysteriously in the depths of his soul. Even the map of the place was etched in his memories that he could never forget it.

~There are five encampments in this place ranked as D, C, B, A and S. The spaces in each encampment is too small to contain any force except for the A encampment and the S encampment. For the martial practitioners of Eight Extremities Palace, only the S encampment is able to contain us. If we do not secure an encampment before the end of thirty days, we will die by the hands of Byron~

Lu Zheng went over the information over and over till he understood it perfectly. The D grade encampment could only contain seven people while the C grade encampment could contain nine. The B grade encampment had enough space for twelve which was barely enough for Xiong Clan, Yi Clan and Dong Clan while the A grade encampment could contain fourteen people. The S grade encampment was the largest and could contain sixteen people.

An Yin smiled bitterly and faced his team: "We of Eight Extremities Palace are the highest in terms of numbers. Only the S grade encampment is large enough for us"

"But, aren't there numerous rank eight beasts around the S grade encampment?" Zheng Lie, a third tier of Acquisition realm expert said worriedly. They could all see the map and knew where the high ranking beasts were concentrated.

"You have all seen the map and should know that countless beasts roam around this realm. Even the weakest beast is a rank seven beast. Without securing an encampment, we will surely be beast food" An Yin groaned his frustration.

"Our battle strength at the moment is the greatest in this place but even we can't fight a horde of rank eight beasts. That is courting death" Cangxiang Zihan shook his head. Although An Yin had a strong point, it was utterly impossible for any force to secure the S grade encampment.

"Every encampment has at least three rank eight beasts guarding it. None of the forces here can manage to secure any encampment without sacrificing many lives. Even if two forces manage to form an affiliation, they will be unable to save everyone in their group" Lu Zheng suddenly spoke.