It took a few more days of traveling towards the Bleak Forests until it was clear and obvious they were at the edge. Yin Hu, Shui, and Jun stood in a small break of the forest. All along the edges of the Demonic Bloc territory and that of the Bleak Forests.

No trees grew for as far as he could see in a long corridor. Almost as though someone cleaned the area up of any trees, grass, bushes, or anything else other than dirt. Making sure to keep the side they had come from in a straight line of trees without a single one out of place. It left a strange feeling in Yin Hu's chest.

Yin Hu could not say the same for the other side.

Haphazard placement that looked far more natural than what the tree line they exited was. Twisting branches and trunks. The leaves looked sharp to the touch and a strange darker green that did not sit right. It was out of a horror movie. Thick bushes and ferns. Menacing flowers with stems and branches covered in thorns. Dry vines that went up and down a few trees, a few hanging loosely and swaying to the breeze around them.

"It's so quiet." Shui said. She held onto Yin Hu's robe, hiding behind him.

"A-Ancestor, are you sure this is where you want to go? I haven't heard of anything good that could possibly happen in this forest. Only scary tales." Jun nervously chuckled, wringing her wrists at the thought of entering that forest.

"We're here already. There is no going back now."

Yin Hu felt both girls nod, then, in almost perfect unison, audibly gulp. They were clearly nervous.

He figured it was more survivable than facing down the next level of the mob bosses and a real army that would be marching towards them at any moment now. All looking for a vendetta after Jun slapped around their young master. First it was an Elder and some princeling probably. Now the next level of the difficulty stage would arrive.

Would it be a group of nuke level elders that would search for him? Or would it jump straight to their strongest members with the reaction Cai Xuefang had to him. His persona and maybe even his inherent strength enough to scare the old man.

That had been a thought he had been struggling against for some time now.

His assumption was that his physical strength and whatever little Qi or cultivation he had was enough to keep him around Dong ZhenKang's strength level. Maybe even slightly below. But the reaction he had been getting consistently made him start to even question his sanity and power.

Yin Hu had spent, on a conservative estimate, millions of years on the island. Constantly trying to improve himself, learn to cultivate, or anything else he could achieve to receive a level up and rewards. There was no time he could remember where he lost that passion until the day he jumped off the edge and into unconsciousness. Waking up on this cultivation world.

Mentally unaffected to the degree he expected himself to reach. He should have gone insane within months if he was being generous to himself and yet here he was.

Normal enough.

Yet, the issue of his power remained unresolved.

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Millions of years of attempting to figure out his strength made it difficult to see anything other than average at best. He never had a connection with Qi or any other energy source. Locked away behind the system and whatever mechanism that had broken, preventing him from using everything he had been rewarded with to their fullest potential.

Even now, he could accept that he was strong enough to have Cai Xuefang shivering in his boots. Especially with the way Dong ZhenKang spoke about him and Shao Yating. Though Yin Hu never did manage to meet the other man. Supposedly the son-in-law Jun had been hurt by.

It was a good thing too.

"You're frowning," Jun said. Breaking him out of his thoughts. "You don't ever frown, Ancestor."

He turned to her. Noticed her worried expression. Yin Hu smiled to alleviate the air around them, his thoughts had been a mess ever since seeing Jun in the state he had. "Everything is fine. Just thinking is all."

I need to start training again. Can't have my nukes die before they fully transform into nukes, right?

Yin Hu had other weapons that came much later than his DragonsWrath. Weapons that he assumed were much stronger considering that they arrived with even larger rewards than anything he had gotten so far. A few with a few million experience and entire tubs full of Superior Mana Stones.

Swords and spears mainly.

Being idle and relaxing all the time no longer seemed applicable in the current situation. At least until Jun and Shui grew up or reached a strength threshold. Otherwise, it was only a matter of time before one of them was irrevocably hurt.

The situations and issues they faced seemed to grow in number and intensity.

From a bullshitting YagWan with extremely weak disciples, all the bounty hunters searching for them, until whatever the Black Door Palace Sect was. Or was it a green door? Yin Hu wasn't sure exactly. But that was beyond the point currently. Them somehow finding them in the middle of a forest was the issue.

"What are you thinking about?" Shui said.

"I," Yin Hu felt a menacing smile spread across his face. "... am thinking about all the new training and hard work I am going to put the two of you through soon enough! We had a few rest days. Now we return to our regularly scheduled drilling!"

Shui cursed under her breath. Jun laughed.

"C'mon. Let's not waste anymore time. Best we make haste and get out the other side of the forest as early as possible." Yin Hu said as he started walking.

The girls followed without question. Though Jun began to make a humming noise when they entered the forest proper. The sun was blocked by the overhead canopy of thick leafage and branches. It was dark even in the middle of the day.

Yin Hu turned to her with a questioning look.

"This place is stuffed with more Qi than I can casually cultivate. It changed so fast! How can it not leak out when we were standing just outside of it?"

Stuffed with Qi?

Yin Hu willed his perception sense to activate again. He searched for any sign at all that this place could carry any form of Qi or energy. Finding nothing at all the entire time he looked. Yin Hu tried three times before he gave up. There was absolutely no Qi that he could easily recognize.

Assuming that Shui and Jun could tell, it only proved his theory on his inability to use it. His training would be focused on growing his strengths rather than waste time trying to figure out what was going on with his cultivation.

He had read enough to the Compendium to know that Heart Demons were a pretty big part of being a cultivator.

Yin Hu had no intention of creating them for himself on a matter he may not be capable of achieving at any point. For now, he would continue to develop his physical properties and take advantage of his greatest strength. The spacial rice bag. Weapons that could shake the world on their lonesome if their titles and names were to be believed.

Plus with the way Shui and Jun reacted to their own gifted weapons, he was sure the later ones were on the higher end. Especially if it could create literal glass at the point of impact. The amount of power and heat that was required to cause that made his head spin.

Jun's nuke potential skyrocketed with that discovery. She had been very clear that it was the weapon and its spirit that helped her achieve her goal and not exactly her only.

Which was exactly what he was looking for. For now though, he would stick with his favorite weapon. Train to use DragonsWrath. Become the best spear wielder to ever touch one. Or maybe good enough to keep the two rascals and trouble magnets out of dangerous situations.

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