Multi-Gene

"This girl is more cunning than I expected." David's gaze hardened. He now knew this was how she had been able to track him from before. Since there was no to wash it off, he might as well use it to his advantage. He was are she wound definitely come back.

A thought appeared in his mind and he smiled. But for now, he needed to increase his strength to the Perfect Mortal realm and he needed a secluded place for it. Some of ten herbs within his storage rings should be able to push his mental energy to that realm.

Grabbing Flint and playing him in his chest, David hurriedly left the small cave. Although he wasn't scared of the young lady, it was better to be safe than sorry in this type of situation. She might actually be some old monster who managed to enter the sacred domain even though it sounded quite impossible. 

"Could be why she didn't want to attack herself." David muttered. But it was just a passing thought of his. He never would have expected his thought would actually be real. 

The scared domain had been around for more than five thousand years. And each younger generation of the Cloud Continent strives to enter into an academy for a chance to gain entry into the cm scared domain.

Since experts above Mortal realm are unable to gain entry to the sacred domain, leaving the opportunity only to the younger generations with abilities to fight for the resources within the domain, owing to the fact that the domain was being protected by some sort of array or natural restriction. 

But like everything else, time wilts all things. It's been five thousand years already, no matter how strong something was, it can't remain forever. The power of the restriction was beginning to dwindle, leaving holes and gaps for some errors.

With how opportunistic and greedy humans are, some people had found ways to manipulate this gap and penetrate through it, therefore entering the a sacred domain even with the strength of earth realm.

But naturally, these people are also restricted by some form of law. As long as they don't display the strength of a mid-level earth realm expert, they wouldn't incur the wrath of the domain protection.

Naturally David wasn't aware of this threat. Even if he was aware, there was no saying if he would be bothered by it or not.

Currently, David had finally found a safe place to stay in. It was already getting dark and this part of the forest was particularly thick with and the trees here were more than ten times more robust than the trees in the outside world.

David had dug a hole in a particular tree. The tree was more than enough for three of him to sit inside and was a nice camouflage from enemies. Using a rock to block the hole he had dug, David breathed out roughly and then opened the storage rings to bring out five particular fruits with dark purplish skin from within the storage rings.

The fruits let out a delightful fragrance that made one want to swallow it in one gulp. David inhaled the fruit and felt his mind feeling refreshed. He knew he had picked the right fruit but particularly because he had encounter this fruit before and he knew it could advance one's mental strength by one level without any repercussions. 

Although it had been proven that taking the fruit had no negative effect, but it one were to take it repeatedly, although one's mental energy might advance by leaps and bound, one's foundation would definitely be shaky once the fruit was used more than once within short intervals. 

But as soon as he took the fruit out and was about to pop it into his mouth, David's expression changed as he felt his hand had become lighter. Within his palm, only three fruits remain while two was missing. 

At the corner of the tree cave, Flint could be seen with full mouth, struggling to gulp down the fruit with its little mouth, David's mouth twitched and his expression turned ugly. He had only five of those fruits with him. He was going to depend on those fruit to help him reach the Pseudo-earth realm before eventually finding ways to reach the Earth realm. 

However, it appears that fate had other plans and Flint was going to be its instrument. 

"Wait!" Flint immediately froze, David also froze as well then he stood up slowly as he faced Flint. 

"N-nice little kitty, d-don't swallow." David walked forwards slowly, inwardly, he was cursing his himself for searching for being so careless and also the restriction suppressing his speed and strength just slightly above regular people. 

Flint blinked its dark beady eyes and didn't react. Even when David was already a meter close to him. 

"Good little kitty. Good boy." David sigh in relief. This was the first time Flint actively listened to him. David continuously got closer to Flint and he was already a few inches away from him when, 

All of a sudden, there was a slight sound. 

Gulp. 

David's eyes blinked and his outstretched hand froze. His brain couldn't comprehend what had just happened as he blinked his eyes gazing at the little eyes looking at him innocently. 

Grit! 

David's teeth grounded together but there was nothing he could do, Flint had swallowed the two fruits. He could have actually made flint vomit it back, but once the fruits had been swallowed, it would transform into pure energy and flow into the body and brain. There was no use in making Flint vomit the fruits as it was practically impossible. 

Having no choice, David snorted and sat back down cross-legged. He was the one who had chosen to own a pet, therefore he would bear the consequences brought by it. 

David sighed and regulated his mind. In the next moment, he popped up a fruit into his mouth. The fruit had only entered his mouth when it melted transforming into pure energy that flowed into his body. 

David felt a cooling sensation flowing along his body into his abdomen, making him feel great. A massive surge of pure energy instantly rose and flowed into his brain, condensing and increasing his mental energy at the same time. 

The sensation kept on flowing along his brain unceasingly until there was some sort of a pop sound in David's head. David's body jolted upwards all of a sudden as a massive pressure exploded outward from him. 

He opened his eyes and his eyes flashed. "Finally I have attained Perfect-Mortal real." He could feel that his mental energy has increased by a lot and even his think in capability was more than 20 percent faster than before. 

He had already used one of the fruit, he was only now left with two. Since he didn't want a shaky foundation, he wanted to wait a bit until his energy was settled and more stable for him to be able to use the two other fruits which was barely enough for him to reach the Pseudo-earth realm. 

From the corner of his eyes, he could see Flint on the ground sleeping comfortably with an obvious smile on its face, David expression couldn't help but turn ugly once more. 

"This guys would definitely not wake up anytime soon with the amount of energy it had just consumed." David shook his head in pity and with an obvious expectation in his eyes. 

Flint was a dragon-scaled panther no matter how little it was, and David had made sure to stuff it with food containing high nutrients, but it just remained its size, as though its body didn't want to grown at all. Although David was a tad bit disappointed since Flint hadn't grown an inch, he had taken Flint because of its small cute looks and wasn't hoping for it to become some formidable creature in the future. 

David lifted Flint up and place him on his chest, he stood up and then exited the tree he was the residing in after moving the rocks away. 

Yet, the hand which David was utilising to stroke Flint's fur froze for a slight second and then continued. Meanwhile his eyes flashed a cold look. 

"Didn't expect you guys to have come over this quickly. It's not even up to a day and you've found Me, it's quite impressive to be honest." David praised as he gazed at upwards at one of the biggest trees with the forest they were in. 

But there was no response at all, it was as though David was only talking to himself and had given crazy. David chuckled seeing that there was no response even after several breaths of time.

"Were you hoping to catch me off guard then sneakily attack me? It obviously wouldn't work since I had smelt the rotten stench of the two of you for quite a while. You can stop hiding now.." David mocked as he laughed while stroking Flint's soft furs playfully.