Eryndor searched for beasts and continued killing for almost an hour before he got hungry.

    He took out his food and chewed on it, thinking about his ability’s situation.

    Cognitive Scrying isn’t breaking through.

    He had already killed a dozen more beasts after using Cognitive Scrying on them. Of course, he didn’t switch to his second form.

    He merely played the memories as fast as he could and got done with it. There wasn’t anything strange in any of the beast’s memories.

    Am I missing something? Or I would just have to continue using it until I break through? Or is it a test of my mastery?

    That couldn’t be though, my second form already has sky high mastery.

    When he was done eating the food, he stood up and resumed his routine.

    Eryndor never initiated a fight with strong monsters, he very much loved his life.

    If the problem could be solved by fighting weaker monsters then why would he go look for stronger ones?

    Eventually, Eryndor came across something strange in one of the beast’s memories.

    The placement of Maws of Agony changed?

    The Maw of Agony was a structure unique to this planet, blending seamlessly with its natural terrain. Nearly indistinguishable from the surrounding landscape, it was difficult to detect.

    Once a target gets trapped in them, the Maw of Agony tortures them, but the twist in this was that it didn’t let the victim die.

    If the living being was about to die due to the torture it inflected, it would instead heal the living being just enough to escape death and spit it out.

    The good thing about this was that Maw of Agony was a structure of the planet, not a living being. It couldn’t move.

    Over numerous explorations, the Human Federation had already marked the spots where the Maws of Agony were located.

    Every team which landed on this planet was given information on their locations, which they avoided at all costs.

    But now, according to the beast’s memories, the location had changed?

    So that is what Liliana intends to use this time?

    But there were two extremely glaring issues in this.

    Yes, a few machines had started shifting the location of all the Maws of Agony which were near the small base a while back.

    Why did they move more than one Maw of Agony? Well, Eryndor could easily guess the reason, it was quite simple.

    It was so that there would be more than one choice for Liliana to choose from. It was not certain that the team would definitely head in a particular direction after all.

    As a failsafe, multiple of these structures were therefore moved in all the directions.

    Eryndor looked at the lifeless beast and thought.

    What now? Machines moved them? Anyone can fucking make machines.

    He didn’t give up though.

    He carefully avoided the new location of where the structure was located and continued using Cognitive Scrying on the surrounding beasts.

    He achieved a breakthrough neither in Cognitive Scrying, nor in the information domain.

    The beasts had only ever seen machines, not a hint of humans.

    He had also tried extending the range and scanned the minds of beasts a little further than the Maw of Agony, in hopes that maybe they were directing things from the back.

    There was no such thing.

    Chuck it, I at least got one new piece of information.

    Eryndor thought while retreating. He picked up a few boars of stage three and headed towards the small base.

    According to them, he should still be at stage three of Qi Gathering realm.

    Naturally, he had long passed that stage.

    Eryndor reached the peak of stage four Qi Gathering realm during the past week he had spent practicing.

    He might step into stage five anytime now.

    Naturally, the passive cultivation which had stopped when he was in the second form had long since resumed.

    There was still a week left before the fourth checkpoint, which happened to also be the final one. He had plenty of time to break through to stage five.

    When he returned to the base, he noticed that a lot of people were gathered in one place.

    Eryndor already had a guess about what might be going on.