Since this is a lesser realm, it should be a place with a qi gathering such as 'qi's vein' in the sous sect! Xia Feng could only thing of it as he was slowly heading towards this place with Miss Cami in front of him.

He himself had Hiri next to him.

Her cultivation was rising like crazy after her meridians changed. The only thing that held her back was the lack of treasures... Xia Feng was sharing some with her, but there was no way for the erossu to give everything.

Then, there was also another option - the dual cultivation.

But how could she do it with the killer of her brother? Hiri had not even thought once about this! She was only forced to think about it when Xia Feng was spreading his erossu ways or when Miss Cami got the better treatment out of nowhere.

"h.e.l.lo there, Fa Cami. Are these the servants of yours?"

"...Yes, they are... I believe it's fine for them to go with me..."

Miss Cami found it hard to speak about the messiah in such way! But quickly collecting her thoughts, the lady had straightened her posture while keeping the poker face. On the outside, it still seemed as if she is being treated badly by the life.

First, forced marriage, now, a lone lady... One could only sympathize with Miss Cami!

"It is! The sacred grounds are tightly protected, so just let me look at their badges."

"Sure..."

Strangely enough, it felt like the elder was happy with more disciples going in! Xia Feng and Hiri felt it to which they could only be a little suspicious! The sacred ground is the place to cultivate, so the lesser people, the better!

The elder in a flash checked over the badges, then urged the group to go inside.

"Fa Cami's strength has raised so nicely after all the misfortunes! I am sure that you are going to benefit a lot from the sacred grounds! I can only hope!"

The sacred grounds were located at the northern part of the sect... Furthermore, the grounds were also beneath the ground, somewhere deep below as Xia Feng's group had to descend through a lot of stairs.

Then, finally, they have reached out the deepest part... One could see a lot of elders here and even the patriarch himself... Because the patriarch was someone who had seen Xia Feng once, the erossu had properly hidden his face with the robe...

The whole grounds were carefully build up with some kind of special materials. Stomping on the tiles with some kind of inscriptions, Xia Feng already was suspicious of everything here.

"Fa Cami?"

"Yes, patriarch."

"Tell me, what is the cultivation road?"

"Um... The road to become the stronger?"

"Exactly."

For the cultivators from lesser realms, the strength is all that matters. The strength comes from the cultivation, so that's their cultivation road! They aren't aiming at the immortality or even think about it as they are limited by the cultivation methods!

And resources!

"In order to gain the strength, we must sacrifice a lot."

Sei Guang said harshly, then he began leading the group of the erossu! They pa.s.sed through a lot of rooms that were filled with screams... The screams were simply too painful to listen to! The utmost pain and fear was going on along with the voice...

The ladies got tense, their bodies trembling...

Soon enough, they entered the room. The room had small pool that was bright with white light! It was as if the light became liquid to fill the pool!

'It's alive...'

Xia Feng knew that this pool is alive! His eyes narrowed more as he tried to probe into it... But then, the voice of the patriarch rang out.

"If you survive through it, your meridians are going to change allowing the light of our sect to flourish within your bodies. If not, then you either die or lose the cultivation."

""...""

The patriarch spoke as if there was no to this! There was simply no way for the ladies to refuse this as they got to know about it! The only calm person, Xia Feng, opened his mouth with his voice sounding a little different.

"Have you done it to your daughter as well?"

"Maimea had no problems of accepting the white light of our sect... She had changed her meridians allowing her to learn another cultivation to mix the two into one."

"What if she died?"

"Hah, there was no way I would let my daughter die. I have properly tested this method on various common disciples. Spreading the light particles around them, I had made sure that they got the light particles implanted within them, then took the positive ones out."

The patriarch explained the process more thoroughly. At the beginning, he had spread the light particles around the sect that had 'common' and weaker cultivators. The weak cultivators had no way of feeling the invading qi!

Then, as their bodies did its best to adapt, Sei Guang sneakily took out the light particles that adapted to the bodies, then formed the light pool for his daughter and other prodigies.

The process is similar right now.

If Fa Cami survives through it, then she will become the new prodigy of the sect! If she doesn't, then the sect will take out the adapte light particles, leaving her with the bad ones on her own.

"So... I am... the victim of the sect... My own sect just left me to die..."

Then, Hiri finally spoke. She realized that she became the victim of her own sect... Of course, there could be many explanations as to why she had the light particles in her body. The first and most believing one would be that she had failed her cultivation resulting in her body getting wounded.

And there were more explanations that quickly became meaningless.

Naturally, the patriarch was speaking everything truthfully as there was no way for them to escape this place. And if they succeed, then they would thank him for such blessing!

"My brother worked so hard for the medicines! He was doing every mission for the sect... that hurt me... He believed in you and your sect's medicines!"

As she threw herself at Sei Guang, Hiri's hand summoned that white sword... Was it the imitation of the erossu holy spear? It was certainly so as she felt true fear while looking at the holy spear. But the lady would never allow herself to be like him.

So she did the sword that is common and strong weapon.

"What is this brat?"

Unlucky enough, Sei Guang is the patriarch, the man who stays at the top of the sect! His hand clad in the white light easily shattered the sword, then grabbing the hair of Hiri, he threw her straight into the light pool!

"Seriously... You had recruited someone who was wounded? The sacrifices are the part of cultivation road, so she should be thankful I hadn't killed her after taking out the adapted white light particles."

The patriarch still was not paying any attention to the erossu! His words were directed to Miss Cami who was looking at the pool with wide eyes! Then, Xia Feng finally spoke with his usual voice.

"You are right, Sei Guang."

"Hmm?"

"But as the sacrifices are part of the cultivation, so miracles are."

"!"

Turning around, the patriarch noticed that the lady he threw into the pool had devoured the whole white light, her body changing, not looking at human already! Some kind of horns appeared around her head, then her hands turned into big, wide claws.

The whole cave shook violently as well.

And then, more and more of the white light particles began going towards Hiri.