
Sam had the most restful sleep he had in a while. And he also noticed that his range of perception was increasing. Due to the constant mental stress he was experiencing and the constant expenditure, his spiritual senses and mental strength increased a lot.
Sam once again began his journey with a sign.
He hoped there would be no more tests out there, but he knew it was impossible. If it was the end, there would be no resting place, he would be escorted to the island directly. Not a place of rest.
The only better option is that the next test will be the last test.
Within minutes, Sam arrived at the third location and he was moving very slowly.
Suddenly, he felt a little excited even before he could see anything. The Hydra bloodline in his body was extremely excited.
When he crossed the fog, all he could see was green and purple steam. The water has a completely different color. Steam is removed from the water. Vapor intensity is different.
They became denser as he looked deeper he could see nothing but steam. That's the densest place.
Poison steam.
Sam knew that this test was designed for people on the planet. But he didn't expect it to be this much. On this planet, not many people are experts in poison. A poison master is a pharmacist who specializes in creating and curing poisons.
But not many people cultivate poison. At least, Sam had not seen anyone and he had even spent time with some great powers.
So, Sam could guess that this place was as detrimental to normal cultivators as the previous two stages.
He's such an anomaly. He made a new type of vehicle to travel, he used a new type of weapon to fight and now, he had a new type of bloodline that was the hydra lineage, he was using a new type of weapon, which can be considered as a new relative on the planet.
This place doesn't hurt him much. Actually, this is an opportunity. Sam lets Mia out so she can absorb the poison.
Any form of poison that entered his body would be useful for cultivation. He entered the water and swam.
Sam knew that with his current level, the amount of poison and the intensity of the poison might be too high to bear. But they were connected and the excess energy that Mia produced while absorbing this poison could be transferred to her and the remaining ferocious beasts.
He was confident that at the end of this stage, if they could absorb all the poison here, then he would break through to the Nascent Level-3 stage and would almost break through to level-4.
If by chance they could find a source of this much poison, then he could let Mia consume it and they would break through to Level-5 and even Level-6 depending on the grade and level of the poison.
This was the first treasure he would take from this trip.
Mia was swimming in the water as if she was in a heavenly spring as her skin and body absorbed the poison from the water.
Sam felt very excited not because of the benefits, but the hydra lineage in action. She can actually empathize with Mia's feelings.
His animal instincts in action. There was a grin on the face that he accidentally put on.
During this time, Sam's own emotions held back the animal's instincts. It was his superiorn mentality that made him suppress his beast parts and that happened because, he was more of a superior beast than all of those beasts.
Not genetically, but emotionally. His own confidence and sense of superiority that he built up with his experience.
But his exaggerated mentality from the past few days and the environment that was suitable for the beast, his instincts were itchy. He suddenly wanted to rampage and claim this place as his own. He wanted to be recognized as the top in the food chain.
He closed his eyes and began to control this urge. It would be a disaster if he met an opponent at this moment. If he relied too much on instinct would get him into trouble. It was also when he had to deal with an opponent of a higher level.
He might sweep the floor in this case, the seabed or get his ass screaming.
And all of that will happen in incredible ways. He once again peeked at the hologram to ascertain if he had any form of being within a certain distance. He could not cover the entire area, but at least the extreme positions beside him were free from threats.
After thinking for a long time, Sam first decided to wander around for a while, he did not let Mia swim any deeper. It would be best to go to the center after collecting whatever they can.
The first thing Sam did was cover the area that was the lowest in intensity, their current location. The entire area was completely divided into five areas with their current location being the outermost and having the lowest poison intensity and the fifth being the center with the highest intensity.
He took out a few formation flags and started planting in their current territory and after a while, half of the area started to react.
Poison water and at the same time poison vapor began to accumulate into the middle.
Mia remained at the center of the formation and began to absorb the poison accumulated in the middle while Sam floated right above her and began to absorb the poison in the air. The poison kept on accumulating.
Only after three hours, the environment became free of toxins. As soon as that happened, he let the beast out. Yanwu was carrying a shadow rat, while Sky was carrying Raiju on his back.
They were here so that they could share the digested energy. Although, Sam could not digest the entire energy completely, with the relationship between him and Mia, he could do that.
The poison stored here to kill was used to feed him. After all, he felt lucky, it was not every day that he could enjoy high-level poison so that he could use it to increase his cultivation. Because, everything in this world is spiritual energy, Sam can use it to cultivate.
The beasts slowly began to share energy through the link as Mia and Sam began synthesizing poison and transmitting energy continuously.
They're only three hours away like that.
After absorbing, he let the savage beast back inside and went to the remaining half of the first region and it took another five hours. It's almost night. But he did not stop this time like before.
No threat to him.
He started laying out formations in the second region. This region was smaller than the first and would not take as long as the previous one.
Time pass.
At the end of the two days, Sam absorbed the poison from the fourth day. He finished the third. Although the space was less, the amount of poison was actually more than the previous one.
The fourth region was only completed after sunrise.
Before entering the fifth region which was also the last region, Sam noticed that the territory he had vacated earlier was slowly recovering. Water and air are poisonous. They are not fully recovered at this point. But they are still recovering slowly but surely.
He realized that if he really wanted to take all the poison for himself, he would have to find the source.
Sam and Mia both jumped into the fifth region and swam. By this time, Sam's skin was already somewhat green and purple, due to the constant consumption of toxins.
He had to find a way to digest it completely so that these side effects would disappear.
But before that, he had to find the source no matter what.
When he went underwater, he saw that he could not find anything. His spiritual feeling that was cut off at the beginning of the journey had still not returned. As for his vision, there was nothing he could do with it. His eyesight was not very favorable. With the Roc bloodline, he could see far and wide, but his energy waves were not.
He thought of an idea, all he needed was a wave of energy which was the key to finding the source because the difference in energy waves would be visible.
So, Sam activated the water element fusion and started stretching his body as much as he could and closed his eyes. His body that was turned into water, tried to travel as far as possible.
After that, he began to use his observation ability. His spiritual core observation ability was different from his spiritual senses. Of course, the spiritual senses give it a wider range, but things that have direct physical contact can be felt directly only with spiritual energy.
And he began to sense the range he had covered to find the source.