Solanky walked towards the pond and stared intently at the bottom of the pond; all he could see was a massive cocoon with engravings etched on its surface. As Solanky observed carefully, he noticed that the engravings on the surface were comparable to the crystals embedded in the bed of the pond, and the brilliance seemed to have dimmed a little bit as compared to when they first arrived. Solanky didn't read much meaning into it and started refining the herbs for Elisa's breakthroughs; he took out the cauldron and started refining some pills, and he took out five transcendent grasses of eternity together with the previous herbs he recently obtained.
With his refinement skills at the transcendent level, he quickly refined ten pills, all emanating an aroma of transcendence. He then carefully guided pills with his mental power to gently land on the cocoon Elisa was found in; the moment they landed on the cocoon, they were quickly absorbed instantly. The sight of this terrified Solanky because he knew that even a peak entity-level entity like Commander Hanks would take several days to absorb the energies in a single pill, and Commander Hanks was a being with 960,000 times the strength of an infinite source god (I.S.G), making him close to the transcendent level. The engravings on the cocoon began to shine brightly, and the ones on the crystals dimmed. As this was going on, Solanky noticed that the time velocity under the pond had skyrocketed to unimaginable speed, making it reach 1 samsara, equaling a day above the surface of the pond.
Solanky was so shocked that he stood up and activated his observation technique, but the moment he did so, he couldn't observe and deduce whatever was going on in the pond. He tried several times but to no avail. He then tried to dive and find out what was going on, but the moment his body touched the pond, he was bounced back by an invisible barrier. He then steadied his body and he began to sense Elisa's life aura which had now reached 990,000 times the strength of an I.S.G., placing her on the forefront of power but that wasn't the end Solanky had a feeling that Elisa's power was still rising, and it was true; it broke past the constraint of infinite source energies, which all entities below the transcendent level depended on, and Solanky could no longer sense the life aura anymore.
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Outside the trial space in the forsaken realm, an unimaginable scene occurred in the skies and lands of the realm. One could see ferocious beasts and special lifeforms all march towards the trial grounds as if they wanted to barge into the trial space, but they all halted and bowed their heads towards the trial space. Even the intellectual disciples of the beast emperor all came to the trial space and knelt before the space; this scene shocked all beings present, including the venerable ones overseeing the competition.
One transcendent watching from afar said, "This needs to be addressed by the generals and venerable ones in the courtroom," and she disappeared. Inside the courtroom several powerful figures manifested and stood in position before the portals behind them. At the center stage, the first venerable, the most powerful transcendent being, the right-hand man of the forsaken god, appeared with two other venerable ones, the second and third. He then said, "The last time we met was to meet the destined one. The forsaken god promised to lead us, but this time even I am clueless because I do not know what is going on, and the trial space is heavily restricted to transcendent beings, so we can only observe from the outside. But this time with all the beasts converging at the trial space. I have two theories, and if it is true, it would explain why transcendent beings cannot enter the special trial grounds."
All the beings in the hall listened intently. "Before the forsaken god left, he personally told me that a terrifying being would one day emerge from one of the many trial spaces, and its strength at the beginning would be comparable to mine. And it is destined to be at his level in the future, but once it emerges from seclusion, it will be the most powerful being below their level, and it can wipe out half of our transcendent beings, and whenever it wants to escape, even the forsaken god himself can't stop it."
The beings present in the courtroom were all terrified. For the first time, these transcendent beings became weary because they didn't know how this supposed being within the trial space would be the moment it left that space. The first venerable said, "The second theory is that looking at the beasts and special lifeforms converging at the space, it means all the beasts and special lifeforms inside the space are also converging at a particular location. Due to this occasion, most of the participants have acquired special techniques, treasures, and herbs at the transcendent level, but none obtained a thing above that level, and almost 95% of them had been expelled from the space. The remaining ones are those with talents and seeds of our realm; looking at the beasts outside and talking with the disciples of the beast emperor, they made it clear to me that this is what they felt the moment their souls and spirits recognized the beast emperor as their leader and master, but this is very different, as this time is more intense." The golden armored figure from before said, "Could it be?" The first venerable replied, "Exactly, Goldie, a new beast emperor has emerged, and this one is probably the beast ancestor of legend in the beyond realm, which strikes panic in the hearts of every being in the beyond realm; even the beings at the level of the forsaken god paid attention to it. But fret not; the forsaken god, before leaving on his long journey, said the destined child his companion suggested would help us befriend this new beast ancestor because their paths and destinies are intertwined."
After he said that, a loud roar resounded through the forsaken realm, and instantly every being below the peak entity level all felt unconscious as the roar disoriented them. All the transcendent beings vanished from the courtroom and appeared directly outside the portal that led to the trial space. They all formed seals and activated the forsaken god's barrier for the first time as the forsaken god directed every venerable and general to immediately erect the barrier the moment they heard a roar, which echoed throughout the realm.