Feicui Long wakes up after a while, lying on Isabella's thighs. He sees a beautiful face covered in tears looking at him. His heart aches at the sight. Feicui Long extends his hand, already healed thanks to Isabella giving him several grade 5 healing potions, and with it, he touches Isabella's beautiful face, wiping it clean.
Feicui Long says to her: "You know, I hate seeing the people I love cry."
Isabella is happy and although pleasantly surprised, she can only hug him and say: "Uhm, of course…"
Feicui Long stands up and looks at her. She is a little stained with his blood. This clumsy girl, even though she doesn't look like it, knows a bit about what needs to be done to stop the bleeding. With his hand, he caresses her face again. For the first time in a long while, he knows what he feels for this girl… he wants to tell her, but right now is not the appropriate moment.
So in silence, he takes her face, kisses those beautiful, plump red lips. This is the feeling of being alive. Feicui Long intends to seal only his negative emotions, and although he manages to modify the formation effectively, it is almost impossible for someone who does not specialize in the soul, the spirit, or the psionic and mental realm, to completely separate the good from the bad…
Then they are interrupted by Isabella's ancestress, Kristina, who coughs and says: "Ahem, I think I'll have to interrupt you, but we must go collect Isabella's rewards from the core zone. I think it would be good for everyone to do so."
Isabella and Feicui Long know she is right, so everyone leaves. They exit the outer region by passing through the great forest. This forest has nothing special except that it is incredibly beautiful and has no energy beings, except for many, many medicinal energy plants. Feicui Long, with his collector's instinct, almost stops to take them, but he controls himself and tells himself he will do it when they come back.
When they arrive at the true temple, the ancestress says: "Only those who passed 50% of the trial can reach this place. There are only some decent and quite good treasures here. The outer temple also has decent treasures, but they're nothing special. Maybe they would help someone weak. The forest too, but they're more hidden and it's too large, so it's very worth it."
Isabella is a bit curious and asks the ancestress: "Why can't we stay to collect several treasures? Even if they are weak, they could be useful."
Kristina says: "To begin with, you have a time limit to collect things. And the other thing is that you're limited to collecting what you are destined to collect. This temple has a formation that uses the law of fate. If you're not destined to obtain it, you won't, and that determines how much you can take. Besides that, depending on your completion percentage, you can only take from that level. For the core, it's 100% with maximum score. For the inner temple, it's 100%. For the true one, it's 75%. For the great forest, 50%. And for the outer one, 25%."
Feicui Long makes a brief addition: "The reason for those limits is that Fernando wanted the clan of beasts to inherit these treasures, not just one person. It would be unfair to others if someone with great talent came and took all the treasures, and the purpose of these temples would be lost. Besides, even though you can't take all the most valuable treasures, there are some freely available. For example, most of the powerful techniques are under that protection, but some more ordinary ones you can take. If you want, we can stop by there now on the way back."
Isabella is not surprised. Feicui Long helps build all these temples, she sees it herself. What does happen is that she feels happy. Her family has lost a lot. They used to dominate the entire continent, but now they are a barony in a remote place with almost no treasures other than the family ones, and even then, some of those are missing. Luckily, all the treasures are only truly usable by the bloodline of the Skylion family, so if they ever come across them again, they can recover them.
The true temple is much smaller than the outer one, but it is far more elegant and imposing. The formations and inscriptions inspire respect and fear at the same time. Before, she does not notice it, but now she can see inscriptions made by Feicui Long all over the place. Soon they enter the inner part of the temple. It is a heptagonal pavilion, with several rooms and floors, but the center is hollow, allowing one to see the other floors and rooms. It also has the same heptagonal shape.
Before Kristina even speaks, Feicui Long goes to the center of the pavilion. He touches a pedestal in the middle, and soon a heptagonal section of the floor starts to rise, revealing a spiral staircase.
Feicui Long points to the entrance of the secret room, also called the core temple. The three go down into the room and can see a space that is a bit small for what one would expect from a Supreme God. It measures 560 square meters (6,000 square feet) and is filled with treasures.
Feicui Long speaks a little, seeing Isabella's face and understanding that she was expecting something larger: "You have to understand that this is not the only temple where we did this, so we couldn't put more treasures than we had on hand. After all, Fernando wasn't very ambitious or greedy when it came to himself, so it was unnecessary for it to be any bigger."
Isabella understands and says: "Well, then what should I choose…"
Feicui Long looks at her with a bit of amusement and reminds her of what her ancestress said: "Unlike the others where you have to search for them and also be destined to take them, here they will come to you, that is, they will choose you, if you are destined to have them."
Isabella, surprised, then steps a bit closer, and just as he said, a series of treasures come flying out. The first of them, a total of three, are simple, of great value but not a big deal, at least in Feicui Long's eyes.
The first is the bloodline enhancement pill of absolute palace quality – grade 9 – upper rank – advanced level, which increases the power of the bloodline up to the point before evolution. The second is a book-artifact, the manual of all beasts. It shows all existing beasts in the universe with detailed descriptions of everything they have and their appearance, and also their upgrade paths, possible materials, evolution routes, and steps. The third is a technique called the technique of the great devourer of bloodlines and special souls, which allows exactly what the name says: to extract certain special things...
Three more fly out: a spatial bottle with the blood of an oriental divine green dragon, along with its special soul. The third is also another bottle with another bloodline, the desolate ice scorpion of the limbo, and its special soul. A technique of the harmony of energies and laws, a very simple technique, which in general terms might seem inferior to the previous one, but it is a very capable technique as it allows many types of energy and laws to coexist without any conflict. It is highly coveted, especially because of certain secret uses it has…
The last four leave him speechless, mainly because he does not expect to find them here. The first is the least rare and least powerful, yet still incredible. It is a growth-type artifact with a sleeping spirit: the armor of the desolate ice scorpion empress of the limbo.
The second one almost makes him spit, because it is a set artifact or multi-artifact. That is, unlike an artifact set which consists of several artifacts working together, this is a single artifact that is actually several pieces, all being one single artifact. Something similar to fragmented formations in the sense that one piece alone does not work. It is also a growth-type artifact with a sleeping spirit, called the five rings of the celestial bodies.
The third one is another multi-artifact, called the artifact of the 10 jewels of the sovereign of devouring or of the ten ruling beasts...
The fourth one is the most surprising one. He does not recognize it, but it is a small crown. It has three dragon gems... these gems are, by chance, three of the fifteen he gifted to Fernando. Dragons produce them naturally, in the form of gems or pearls. They are just a concentration of their power and energy along with their laws. Although it takes a long time for each to be produced, for a dragon it is not that useful, but for others it is. He never thought they would be used to create a crown, which for some reason combines very well with Isabella. By the way, these two are also growth-type and have a sleeping spirit.
The only bad thing is that since all of them are growth-type, their powers will not be preserved when they are linked to a new master, although their quality will be. But to increase their power, their master must effectively increase their own.
Isabella, after taking them all and marking them with her blood, asks Feicui Long: "Darling, could you explain what each one is or what they do?"
Feicui Long nods and says: "Yes, darling, after we leave and I show you something I want you to see."
Isabella blushes at being called with a loving nickname by Feicui Long for the first time and says: "You're not going to try going in again and seeing what chooses you? After all, you passed the trials."
Feicui Long smiles and shakes his head: "I don't enter the trials."
Isabella, confused, looks at him: "Then how did you get in?"
Feicui Long explains: "Darling, I help create that formation, I know how to get in, although I can't cross the last dimension like that while the seventh trial is happening. In fact, I originally plan to break it to rescue you."
Isabella feels her heart falling even more in love with this man. She doesn't understand why this happens, but this guy always does something... it's as if his charm is something made to be her weakness. And since he recovers his feelings, he is much more proactive and therefore more dangerous.
Isabella then says: "Then why don't you take something from here? With your ability, you could break the formations that protect them. It could be useful to you."
Feicui Long again shakes his head and says: "I don't want to steal someone else's destiny, although maybe I do take something."
Feicui Long goes to some large bookshelves and takes them all into his necklace. They are not techniques or anything special, just books, novels, informational books, studies about the beast clan, Fernando's journals, and maps of this world.
Isabella is left speechless. Why would someone take something so unnecessary? But she doesn't know that for Feicui Long, it is a treasure, both emotionally and because of his hobby and its usefulness.
…
Afterward, the three of them leave the room and, taking advantage of the fact that even though there is a time limit to take what belongs to you, there isn't one to leave, Feicui Long quickly takes her through the inner temple toward a room, specifically at the very top, on the seventh floor.
Isabella doesn't know what is in this room. She wonders what the urgency is, but Feicui Long wouldn't take her there if there weren't something important to say or do.
Feicui Long asks Kristina for a favor: "Miss Kristina, can you please wait for us outside?"
Kristina doesn't understand why, but seeing his serious face, she thinks it must be something private.
Feicui Long takes Isabella's hand gently and brings her inside with him, closing the door.
What Isabella sees is a... room?