After Ruth's departure, Minos immediately went to the Spatial Kingdom, which he hadn't done for several weeks!
Shortly after arriving at a private location, he activated his ring and was teleported to a place near the large house beside the lake.
When he felt the scenery changing around him, Minos immediately saw a big fox, two meters high, with five tails lying in a corner near the lake. In contrast, a little fox with two tails ran from side to side, playing with a stone.
These were the pair of mother and daughter, who had not seen Minos for a long time. And when she saw that someone was arriving at this place, Kyla immediately ran to Minos while making sounds in her beast language.
"Au! Au! Au!"
Two of her fangs swung ferociously while the little fox jumped on Minos' legs, climbing up to his shoulder. In doing so, she soon began to lick the young man's right cheek while letting out sounds of joy, actively waving her two little tails.
Kyla was very monotonous these last few days, as there was not much to do here.
There was no one else but her mother, and she had already run all over this place in the meantime. So, she was delighted to see Minos arriving at this place.
"Look at you. You're getting bigger!" Minos said with a smile on his face as he took the little fox and massaged her little head.
At the same time, Emlyn got up, coming over to Minos' place, and said. "Oh? You finally came back... I thought you forgot about this place..."
Minos then nodded and said as he looked at the big fox in front of him. "Hmm, I was traveling, and I couldn't come here. But now I am back in my city."
"By the way, what did you do with that medicine that I sent here?"
"I tried to put it on the ground. But luckily, this place is vibrant, and the plants do not need meticulous care. Otherwise, you would have lost that medicine." She then laughed and said. "You were lucky. Little Kyla almost ate your plant when it appeared here..."
Minos then raised the little fox with both hands, leaving it at eye level, and then asked. "Oh? That's right?"
But tiny Kyla couldn't understand human language. So, she just showed a happy look in her big eyes.
"Au! Au!"
After that, Minos just laughed and then put her down.
He intended to talk to Emlyn about what he had found out about that organization that had kidnapped the fox couple earlier.
Minos had seen a person in the Cromwell Kingdom wearing clothes marked by the symbol that Emlyn had described. Also, Ruth had told him from what empire that group came. So, with that, even though he couldn't do anything about it, at this point, he still wanted to update the great fox.
...
Time passed, and after talking with Emlyn for a while, Minos finally got ready to cultivate. He was already at the limit of cultivation in the 4th stage, so he was prepared to move on!
It didn't take long, and he sat in a meditative position in front of the lake that was in this place.
Minos had already taken off almost all of his clothes, being dressed only in short shorts. After all, the advance of stages eliminated many impurities from the cultivators' bodies. For that reason, Minos wanted to be wearing as few clothes as possible!
He quickly began to circulate his cultivation technique, Solar God Breath, while feeling the sun rays of the Spatial Kingdom reach his body, accelerating his cultivation.
There was also a certain amount of low-grade spiritual crystals scattered on the floor where he was, as it shone and gradually lost its energy.
Using crystals was the fastest way to obtain spiritual energy, and doing so in an area of high spiritual concentration, made cultivation even better. That was as if the natural spiritual concentration of the environment was pressing the spiritual power of these crystals towards people who were cultivating.
Because of that, cultivation with spiritual crystals was even better in regions like the Spatial Kingdom, which was very saturated with free spiritual energy in nature!
Anyway, Minos began to absorb the energies of those crystals quickly, while his cells slowly began to change.
That was not a small or fast change.
The change in the physical body happened little by little while he was breaking for the next stage, improving the natural energy present in the cells, removing toxins, and stimulating vitality.
It was as if at this moment, the young Minos' body was being repaired from the many problems, errors, scars, aging, etc. That was the effect of spiritual cleansing that happened from one stage to the next!
Time passed, and the young Stuart's body had already expelled several toxins, which were now scattered around him.
A considerable amount of a black, gooey substance could be seen, continuously leaving Minos' body.
The smell was so strong that even the two foxes, who were hundreds of meters away, could smell it.
"What a horrible smell!" Emlyn thought while she had a disgusted look on her face.
For spiritual beasts, they even had a spiritual cleansing similar to that of humans. Still, their toxins were far less numerous in quantity. In addition, spiritual beasts were more compatible than humans with spiritual energy, so they had even less rejection of the medicines they ate.
For this reason, they did release a minimal amount of impurities during their advances...
That was why Emlyn was disgusted by what was happening to Minos. Tiny Kyla was also looking disgusted as she tried to hide her snout in her mother's body.
Crack!
Not long after, Minos' spiritual energy finally reached the beginning of level 40, releasing a cracking sound from his body!
Minos quickly felt all the changes in his body as he opened his eyes. He sensed that his techniques had also leveled up, making it even more potent due to this advancement.
But immediately, he stopped thinking about it and went straight to the big house so that he could get the stink out of his body.
This time, the spiritual cleansing went much more extensive than before, so more impurities had been expelled from his body.
And as soon as he cleaned himself up, Minos stopped in front of a mirror in the room where he had entered and then stopped to observe his appearance.
He'd made significant progress, and he now appeared much more attractive than before, with many visible muscles all over his body.
'Incredible! It is no wonder that the majority of the young people who are at this level look much more dazzling!' Minos thought about it with a glorious smile.
Ruth herself had a body that was already almost perfect... And Minos couldn't help but think about what she would look like at higher levels. 'Hahaha, I'm going to put this thought aside for now...'
Anyway, his appearance had evolved as a whole, and now he was finally able to feel the energy of heaven and earth!
That was a wish that all people below the 5th stage had since it could make their lives much easier!
That could be used to feel the spiritual energy of living beings. But, it also helped to probe the surroundings, increase the amount of energy absorbed during the cultivation, better understand their own techniques and those of enemies, etc.
That was why most of Minos' opponents in the Spiritual Tournament knew about how his techniques worked, just from watching him fight.
Of course, this was not the same as being affected by these techniques. Still, it was enough for them to know that, for example, when entering the area surrounded by the black ring, their spiritual energies would be absorbed.
So, this was an advantageous ability in fights!
After feeling his surroundings for the first time, Minos put on a piece of clothing and then left the house to go and train his spiritual techniques. He would also learn a new technique today, which would be specialized in movement!
That was the technique that Minos lacked at this moment since he had none of this type. And because of that, he hadn't been able to beat the young Troy in that Spiritual Tournament final!
The young Troy had an excellent movement technique, which allowed him to avoid many of Minos' attacks. But that only worked because his opponent did not have such a technique yet. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to be able to pull a tie from Minos!
Anyway, before he started doing that, he quickly probed the strength of the two foxes and found that they were already at levels 49 and 12. 'Oh? As I expected, she was at the peak of the General Spiritual stage when I met her...'