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Moments after Chi left...

Kyle took out the other treasures inside Ximen Tiaolong's storage ring. He found some spirit stones inside the ring, together with the Heaven grade Martial Skill.

There are tens of small spirit stones inside the storage ring. Kyle took a spirit stone out and studied it for a little bit.

The spirit stones are just like small rocks, but he could feel a lot of energies contained inside of it.

Kyle guessed that this energy was like the energy that could be found everywhere in this world, but it was so dense and contained within the stone.

Kyle felt that he could absorb the energies inside the stone, so he tried absorbing it.

He took a spirit stone and place it above his palm, he then started to do a cultivating stance and tried to feel and absorb the energy of the stone.

Moments later...

The energies contained inside the stone started to flow towards him. Kyle felt a large gush of energy entering inside his body.

He cultivated this energy and let it flow throughout his body and assimilated with it. Kyle felt a large improvement in his cultivation.

He was happy that absorbing the energies contained inside the stone improved his Qi and Ki.

He continued to absorb the energy of the spirit stone until it crumbled to dust. But Kyle was still glad since the spirit stone had successfully improved his cultivation by a lot.

Kyle felt that the energy contained in the spirit stone was equal to him cultivating normally for a month. He felt that he was almost in breaking through to 9th stage Qi.

So Kyle took another spirit stone and absorb the energy inside it. Minutes later... Kyle had successfully broken through the 9th stage with his Qi. This made him escape a smile on his face.

He had been dreaming to break through the Xiantian Stage in these past few days. To travel faster and arrived at his destination earlier and easier.

Yet he felt that he needed a few more years to break through to the Xiantian Realm.

Fortunately... The spirit stones could help him cultivate faster in both of his dantian and body cultivation. So Kyle continued to cultivate using the spirit stones.

After absorbing five spirit stones, he felt that his body was now full.

He didn't know what it is, but he felt a dangerous feeling and immediately stopped absorbing from the spirit stones.

Kyle felt that he was now full of energy, so he deduced that his body must have a limit, and needed some time to properly assimilate the energy inside his body.

"So that's why the stones weren't depleted by Ximen Tiaolong, thankfully there's a limit to absorbing this, or else, I won't have any stones left to use in cultivating" Kyle muttered while holding a spirit stone in his hand.

He then put it back inside his ring and continued to travel.

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Kyle had been traveling the Beast plains for a few weeks already. He had been rushing towards the Forbidden Ruins since the distance was very far.

In this past few weeks, he hadn't forgotten to do his daily routine of training. He also gave some time practicing his newly acquired martial skill.

Unfortunately... Kyle's Qi cultivation was still at the Houtian Stage, so his accomplishment in practicing the *Dragon's steps* was really slow.

He could only form small bumps around his feet. But Kyle wasn't discouraged by this.

He knew, that mastering this martial skill without Xiantian Qi was hard, but he still practiced so he could familiarize with the feeling of using this martial skill.

Such as when he broke through the Xiantian Realm with his Qi, he could already have a feel of using this martial skill and master it faster.

Kyle had also been arduously cultivating in this past few weeks, he continued to absorb five spirit stones each week.

This made his cultivation soar up, both in body and dantian. He was now at the 9th stage on Qi, and he had already successfully broken through the 2nd stage of Xiantian in his body cultivation.

This increased his speed more, so his traveling experience becomes better. Kyle had also been trying to use his HaoShoku.

He passed by a few small villages on his way towards the forbidden ruins. He sneaked in quietly without anyone noticing him. Then he tried practicing his newly discovered HaoShoku on random villagers.

He tried to relive the same feeling when he accidentally activated it, but without attacking them. He instilled his willpower amongst them.

The villagers are only below the Xiantian Realm, so it successfully worked and they fell unconscious.

Kyle felt sorry for these villagers that he used to practice upon, so he gave them some silver coins that he had inside the ring, to at least offer them some compensation for using them as guinea pigs.

Thankfully no one was seriously harmed in this training regime of Kyle. He had been doing this every time he encounters a new village.

Controlling his HaoShoku was really hard for him since he doesn't have someone who can personally teach him. So he was still having a hard time excluding his friends, or companions from the attack.

The heads in the village were in an uproar. They were wondering why some of their people have been passing out on the streets.

They investigated this fiasco, but they obviously couldn't find the culprit of this events, since Kyle had already left a long time ago before they noticed it.

He had been doing this every time he encounters a new village. True... He can use the monster beasts for this kind of training, but it would cost him a lot of time to go to the forest and find some beasts.

He doesn't wanna delay his journey to the Forbidden Ruins any longer.

This continued for a few more weeks.

A few weeks later...

Kyle had already been traveling to the west of the Beast Plains for a few months now. He had been painfully repeating his daily routine for days.

The feeling of isolation while traveling alone was catching up to him. He got bored while watching the same scenery all over and over.

Maybe that's why he always sneak inside the villages and use the excuse of practicing his haki, every time he encounters one of them.

Unfortunately for him... Due to the recent events at the Ximen Village. All the villages under the Ximens Territory grew vigilant and closed off their gates.

So he can't interact with them and only watch from the sidelines. Making him feel isolated throughout his journey.

He had been alone for a longer time in this world, but the feeling of seeing someone, yet not able to talk or mingle with them was affecting him.

Kyle wondered why he seeks for a companion this time around. During his past life, when he lived on earth. He had been isolated for decades and he was fully contented on being alone all those years.

But now that he transmigrated in this world, and lived for almost 7 years. He was now feeling the sadness and boredom of being alone.

"I suddenly miss having someone to talk to. Maybe because of the environment of this world, or maybe because I felt at home, or felt some camaraderie on the Tang Village. When did I start to have these kinds of thoughts." Kyle asked and pondered about himself.

He felt that he was slowly changing personality-wise. Back in his past world, he felt that he doesn't belong in that world after losing his only family.

But now that he had lived and felt home in this new world for a couple of years. Kyle wanted to belong in this world. He wanted to connect with someone and erase the feeling of isolation that he was having at this moment.

But a few breaths later... Kyle felt that he was being cheesy and cringy.

"Jeez what the hell am I thinking, Its only been a few months, yet I'm already having these kinds of thoughts? My Dao Heart would crumble faster if I kept on thinking about this nonsense." His inner-otaku activated and he just laughs it off.

The boring traveling continued...

Kyle swore that he will break through to Xiantian Realm, before continuing on his travels to the empires.

Fortunately... After a few moments of time. Kyle could now see a dark mist hovering a kilometer away from where he was standing.

The scenery was scary, but due to the boredom of traveling. Kyle didn't felt scared when he saw this scary dark mist.

In fact, Kyle felt that he had seen an oasis in the middle of traveling the desert for months.

He didn't waste any time and charged towards this mist while shouting in glee.

"At last, I arrived! I hope you don't disappoint me Forbidden Ruins!"