Three days later, somewhere in the mountains of Vitra;
Nearby the shores of a stream, Mark was seen roasting up a fish tied to a stick. Steve and James were sitting not far away and eating roasted fish as they were having a chat.
To not repeat the same mistake as in the past, a day earlier, they hid their truth and simply told him that they were travelers searching for their missing father. Meanwhile, Zan Rong didn't tell him about her relationship with Allen. She merely told him who he was and how they ended up in the Elven world.
As a result, this new Mark somehow trusted them more than he did before. It is also why didn't run away after they caught up with him in the mountain. And his current goal is to get back to his world and reunite with his so-called fiancée.
However, the issue is that he doesn't know where those teleportation formations are. Through the teenage brothers, Mark learned that he has space attribute and can teleport to any location. As long as he masters his powers, they can return even without any external help.
Mark, who was a complete beginner in fighting (in his view, threw away his ego and asked them to train him.
Steve and James readily agreed to the job.
On day 1, he learned everything about the basics of the cultivation world that he didn't know from Lu Zhen's memories before the merger happened.
On day 2, he learned about his own potential. Through their guidance, he found what attributes and bloodline he had. By the end of day 2, Mark even managed to bring out his four bloodline abilities. While he cannot control the output of his skills, at the very least, Mark is happy that he has skills that he can depend upon.
On day 3, they didn't continue with helping him master his bloodline skills but guided him in order to bring out his attribute skills. Or more specifically, the attribute of Space was explored during the training.
Except for the long teleportation skill, as Mark didn't even have any muscle memory of using the space attribute skills, it became tougher for him to learn the basic short teleportation technique, which lets him teleport anywhere from 5 meters to 50 meters. The best thing about this technique is its 10 seconds of cooldown.
The brother might have the information on his skills list, but neither of them has a space attribute. Hence, they don't know how to train him either. Both of them could only guide him in a manner they were trained to master their attribute skills.
But, the reality is often disappointing. Mark couldn't learn one skill properly. The teenagers realized that it was due to his weak control over the ether energy.
The teenagers planned for day 4 to be spent on ether energy training, stating that Mark should take it slow. However, they underestimated Mark's desperation.
As they soundly slept around the bonfire, Mark continued to train the short teleportation technique.
His ether energy kept on consuming in heavy amounts but refilled quite quickly due to his passive skill. This led Mark to use it more recklessly when he was alone.
He disappeared like a flash and crashed onto a rock located ten meters away. The rock got pulverized into pieces and Mark gritted his teeth in frustration. "Not enough."
After waiting ten more seconds to reset the cooldown timer, he closed his eyes and tried to use short teleportation again. This time, he crashed into a tree 12 meters further away.
The sounds perked up the ears of the teenagers but they chose to ignore it as it became common for them to hear the sounds of destruction until midnight during the past couple of days.
With every failure, Mark grew more and more impatient. His extremely fast ether recovery rate only made it worse as he wouldn't rest.
Eventually, the dawn arrived.
His physical stamina might be high enough to go for days but mentally, he was being drained, and eventually, it reached a point where he felt like he could no longer continue his training and thought of sleeping.
However, Mark was under the impression that it was this limit that was probably stopping him from going further. He decided to go past his limits.
Taking a deep breath, Mark closed his eyes and concentrated on the raging ether energy inside him that was responding to his feelings. "Let's forget about control for once and use all the ether energy for once. We'll see what happens next."
All the ether energy present in his body was pushed away from his body, forming a layer of black energy around his body and shrouding him in darkness.
"Haaa…" He let out a shout and concentrated on a spot nearby.
He disappeared from there but again crashed into a tree a few meters away from the aimed spot. However, that wasn't all. Mark saw the layer of energy was still in the same place as he was earlier as if it came to a standstill.
"Hmm?" Mark looked at it, wondering what was going on. He could feel his ether energy was still in that mass of energy or whatever it was.
It was at that moment, the dark energy was shot toward the sky. "What the…" He raised his head only to witness the formation of singularity.
Powerful gravitational force emitted from the singularity, sucking everything in two hundred meters range except for Mark. As more and more things were being sucked, its range was also slightly getting bigger too.
"Did I just create a fuc*ing black hole?" Mark was stunned for a moment before he started panicking as trees and rocks were getting detached from the planet flying toward the sky and disappearing into what appeared to be like a black hole, but slightly different from the natural black holes seen in the universe.
As supreme beings, Steve and James immediately sensed the presence of the black hole. They woke up from their sleep and flew to the location where Mark was staring at the sky in a daze.
"What happened?" Steve asked Mark. The latter pointed to the black hole, "I didn't expect to create such a thing. We are going to die." He was clearly panic-stricken. Mark experienced death before and he doesn't want to die again.
"It's only at the level of a 6-circle. Nothing to worry about, Mr. Lu," James assured Mark that it was not a great concern.
He glanced at Steve, who then nodded and flew toward the sky. The gravitation force from the black hole was also affecting him but his high cultivation made it easier for him to resist it completely.
Steve raised his arms and stretched them widely, closing his eyes.
A giant humanoid, made of some kind of unknown energy appeared behind the black hole. As Steve moved his arms closer, the humanoid creature also moved its arms, trying to crush the black hole in its palms.
The suction was stopped as the black hole enclosed its palms.
Steve looked down and put a thumbs-up with a smile. Mark sighed in relief and James nodded.
However, that peace didn't last long as Steve suddenly sensed something wrong. His attention was shifted to the humanoid creature. Its arms were slowly decaying, or more like being absorbed by the black hole.
Within seconds, the entire humanoid creature was sucked by the black hole, increasing its range by several kilometers at once.
"Ahh…" Steve screamed at once as he was also about to suck into the black hole.
"No, Steve…"
