The village was very lively because their sons and daughters completed the task and were able to return to the town. However, they lost eighty of their youths. Elisa was confused and asked the young girl why they were all happy even though they had lost the majority of their kinsmen. The young girl replied and said, "According to the village's rules and customs, we do not mourn the dead, as it is believed that our cries will become a burden upon them as they pass through reincarnation or bring upon them bad omens in the afterlife." Elisa, still confused, then pressed on and asked, "Where is this afterlife you speak of, and does it even exist?" The moment she said that, all the villagers celebrating all kept quiet for a while and turned to look at Elisa in confusion. A deep voice then broke the silence and said, "Yes, it does exist, and only the dead and powerful beings are allowed to have a glimpse of what it looks like." Elisa and Solanky turned in the direction of the voice and saw a skinny-looking man who looked unwell. The skinny man, who introduced himself as the village's chief, the moment the villagers saw him, they all bowed with reverence, not out of fear but out of respect and appreciation.
Elisa and Solanky saw this and decided to sense the power level of the chief. They got to know that the chief was a late-stage entity originally, but due to the injuries of battle and contamination of the monster's poison, his power had now declined to the mid-stage entity level. The village chief tried to sense the power of both Elisa and Solanky before him, but he wasn't able to detect a thing from them, and to him, that meant only one thing, which was that the duo before him was stronger than he was in his prime. The chief waved his hand for the celebrations to go on, and he invited Elisa and Solanky into his chambers to discuss things with them.
Inside the chambers, the time and space seemed to be different from the outside world. The chief then sat cross-legged on the floor and asked Solanky and Elisa to sit too. They did, and the chief said, "Seniors, you are welcome to our village, and I know you are not regular forsaken, although the people of the village don't know your identities because their power isn't qualified yet to unlock the sealed memory information the forsaken god sealed in the minds of every forsaken yet to be born." When Elisa and Solanky heard this, they were shocked and asked him why that was so. The chief replied to them by saying, "Every being, be it monsters, forsakens, or other lifeforms within this realm, could only know the royal forsakens the moment their power reaches the mid-stage entity level, as knowing about the royal forsaken would only make them feel inferior and not push their limits."
Elisa asked, "Can you tell us more about the royal forsaken?" The chief coughed out blood essence. Solanky said, "Forget about it; you can tell us later. I guess the reason why you invited us in is to help purge the contamination from the monsters from you and help you steadily absorb the transcendent grass of eternity, right?" The chief nodded affirmatively.
"I didn't think the forsaken god would grant me this wish of finding a powerful being to assist me in absorbing the grass," the chief said honestly. Elisa asked, "What if we didn't return with the youths? I guess you still absorb the plant, right?" The chief shook his head in denial. Solanky then asked him why he couldn't. The chief replied by saying, "Trying to absorb the plant in this state will only temporarily boost my power for a few centuries at the cost of my life essence because the pollution from the beasts and monsters has destabilized my life essence, and the moment I absorb the plant in this state, the pollution will also be strengthened by the power of the plant, making it difficult to purge without destroying my life essence."
Elisa and Solanky clearly understood this and asked him how they could help him purge the poison and contamination from his body. The moment the chief heard this, he became very elated and tossed out two rectangular metal shards with golden engravings etched on their surface. The shards flew towards them at a glance. Solanky and Elisa had deciphered the engravings and understood what they entailed. Elisa had not been a true entity-level being; it took five hours according to Earth's time to completely understand how to execute the technique in the engraving of purging poisons from entity-level beings. Elisa closed her eyes, and within her consciousness, she could see the same golden engravings hovering in her consciousness. She then opened her eyes and indicated that she was done.
Solanky and Elisa then waved their hands, and the entire village was covered in an invisible barrier capable of withstanding the attacks of a late entity-level being. They then began forming seals and drawing seals in the air to set up a formation that would trap the contamination that would be purged out of the chief. The chief sat quickly between Solanky and Elisa, where the core of the formation was situated. The moment he did, golden engravings and threads from the formation shot into his body and began wrapping themselves around every inch of his power with every movement inside his body. The threads formed countless knots, absorbing the poison contamination in his body. The process was torturous because the threads penetrated every essence of his life, wounding and stitching up the wound in the process, the poison that area had absorbed by the thread. After two days, all the poison and contamination in his body were completely purged. Solanky then looked at Elisa with a serious expression and said, "Now comes the critical point, which will solely depend on him if his consciousness can stand the process of being shattered and repaired repeatedly." Elisa and Solanky changed their hand seals and slapped both hands on the formation.
The moment they did that, all the knots within the chief's body converged in the direction of his chest as they were all being wrapped around each other to form a single core. The moment the core was formed, golden threads of engravings rushed into the head of the chief, and they disappeared into his consciousness. Within the consciousness of the chief, above his sea of consciousness, a thick velvet cloud of contamination enshrouded everything except the space of his self (a representation of his will and power residing within his sea of consciousness).
His self within the consciousness saw the thick clouds of contamination churning as a result of being disturbed by the golden thread of engravings. The chief's self allowed the golden threads to bind it within his consciousness without resisting, and when he did this, the velvet clouds were also trapped by the golden threads of engravings. The threads started twisting with every twist, the self of the chief was injured and its injuries were sealed, and the velvet clouds also lost a huge percentage of their original size and were being trapped inside the knots of the threads.
After a while, all the velvet clouds within his sea of consciousness disappeared and reappeared within his chest region, where the other contaminations were. The golden thread of engravings wrapping around himself in the sea of his consciousness receded into his chest area and wrapped around the contamination, which was in the form of a golden-velvet core. The contamination core was now ejected outside his body, and then the moment the thread of engraving wrapped around it, it fell into the formation.
Solanky then swiped his finger, and the contaminated core was trapped inside a different dimension. The chief began to slowly recover his lost power and energies, but from his rate of absorption, Solanky and Elisa deduced that it would take him a hundred trillion years to recover to his peak. The chief waved his hand, and the transcendent grass of eternity hovered above his head. When Solanky and Elisa saw this, they shut down the golden thread of engraving formation and used their consciousness power to guide the spreading eternal energies to converge onto the body of the chief who sat beneath it. After a while, all the energies of the grass were absorbed and refined by the chief with the help of Elisa and Solanky. The chief's power then soared to his previous peak, which was the late stage of the entity level, and he was now on the brink of reaching the peak-stage entity level.