I stayed for a short time in my estimation. All I did was to allow for the energy coming from outside to go mostly towards my shadow world while letting the few left to be absorbed by my two dantians.

However even with such control, I felt at a moment that my two dantians swell and reached their limit. I knew I had to stop.

Trying to bite more than I could chew wasn’t wise.

So I opened my eyes, exhaled a breath that extended for half a metre away. Even after all this time of cultivation, my energy didn’t show any signs of changing from its pale blue colour.

I didn’t know how long it would take for me to train and evolve my energy to the next level.

As for my base, I didn’t want to take such a step before getting my energy higher than the blue grade at least.

If the energy followed the same rule of the grading system in the apocalypse, then it would become silver, gold, dark gold, then black.

My goal was to make it reach black. I wanted it to be like the black energy I was absorbing from the creatures of the alien universe.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that the energy was ragging wild. It wasn’t just forming a simple tornado in my mansion, but it went way up towards the dense clouds in the sky..

It gathered all the dark clouds and made it look like it was going to rain. It was so fierce to the degree it changed the atmosphere.

I sighed. This energy… I was dealing this hard with it. What about my humans? When they’d start cultivating, I shouldn’t hurry and bring them here.

“You are finally awake!”

I heard this familiar voice coming from the direction of the door. I turned and saw Angelica standing there, with such pale face and a look of terror all over her face.

“Angelica? What are you doing here?!” I was taken aback! Wasn’t she supposed to be working on building her city or what?

“Don’t give me that look, monster!” she harrumphed, and yet her voice came shaky and a bit weak.

“What happened?” I still couldn’t get what she was speaking about, or why she was here, or why she was behaving like this.

“What happened? Damn! You caused all this ruckus and you know nothing about it!” she sighed, shook her before pointing towards the outside, “can you come out for a second?”

“Sure,” I shrugged, stood up and just as I did, I felt strange pain assaulting my joints.

*Crack!* *Crack!* *Crack!*

My joints issued such cracking sounds when I tried to move. I felt like I stayed in my place for such a long time to make my joints stiff.

What the hell went on here?

But the greatest surprise came when I came outside.

The world… The clear and bright world… It all changed now!

All I saw was a dimly lit world, a world covered with a thick veil of black and densely packed clouds.

And in many places, I could see lots of lightning arcs dancing from time to time.

Damn! Did I cause all this?

“When… When did that happen?”

“Just a few days after you went into such deep sleep,” she sighed, pointing towards the direction of the sky, “this came all of sudden. At first, people thought it was going to rain. However all it brought was thick attacks of lightning attacking the ground, with not a single drop of rain.”

“Few… Did you say I stayed for a few days here?”

“Days? Damn Hye! You stayed here for at least two months!”

“Two… Two what?!!!” I was taken aback when I heard what she said. Two months! Damn! Damn!

“What happened here?” I asked, even moved in a hurry to grab her arms, “what about the kingdom on Earth?”

“Let me go,” just holding her in the middle of my rushed emotions left me unable to control my strength.

And just by holding her, she got so soft under my grasp. Her knees bent, and her body fell on the ground with a loud thud sound.

And her face turned from showing fear to showing pain and anger.

“Dammit Hye! It hurts!” she bellowed while shivering. I looked at her without knowing what to say or do.

“S… Sorry,” that was all I could say, “I just got lost in the middle of my anxiety… Sorry about that. I just… Though I stayed for a day or two.”

“Day or two? Damn Hye! You lost yourself in training this time! Anyway, things here aren’t that bad. Everyone is working despite it looking gloomy here thanks to this nightmarish atmosphere.”

“Ok,” I got what she meant. I turned my eyes to the dark sky filled with dancing arcs of lightning and could only sigh.

Two months… I stayed here for such a long time already. I knew with the time difference, only a few days passed in the real world.

But I told them I’d come each day to check on their progress. I also didn’t want to leave them unchecked, as they might get attacked by that bastard at any given moment.

I had to check over their building progress. I had to check over Lily and her team working over making the potions. I had to check over the training of everyone. I had to check over the jumper, the teams out there watching over the enemy movements.

And above all, I had a deal with Silverlining. He promised to return to me in two days, and I stayed for two months.

I didn’t know if the time difference would apply to him. If so, then it would be safe to assume only three days just passed at his side.

But if it didn’t… Sigh!

I didn’t even dare to look at the messages record. I simply grabbed the rope and started to climb up.

However, just when I tried to climb, I felt my body light as a feather. It jumped high in the air, reached the height of a couple hundred metres before finally landing at the deck of my chariot.

I got stronger again!