That statement from Claude startled Larry.'What an interesting person. He just agrees and emphasized he is not an egoistic person. If I don't agree, does that mean I'm an egoistic person? Claude is definitely putting me in a difficult situation and stirring up the relationship between Draco Hall and Brookbourn Mansion,' Larry thought.However, he really had no idea how to deal with this. Back in the day, he could make the decision by himself. Yet, Severin was here now and Severin was their supreme leader. Larry did not know if Severin would agree to it or not. He gazed at Severin with a frown. Severin noticed Larry was looking at him and knew what was Larry after. He nodded.After that, Larry knew what to do. He smiled. "Mister Zachariah, you're right. We have the same thought. As long as the tax is not too hefty, it shouldn't be a problem!"Zachariah did not expect Larry would agree so quickly. He was actually just testing Larry. Now that he knew Larry was not fighting with them,
Zachariah looked at those people with a frown. "They didn't ask for a few days to think about it and just agreed with my proposal. Even though ten percent is not a lot, it's not too little either. And this is not just a one-off transaction. They had to contribute annually!"One of the old men said, "Yes. I also think it went too smoothly. Don't they need to go back and discuss it or bargain with us before they agreed? I found it hard to believe they just agreed with us without any negotiation."The other man smiled. "Mister Zachariah, I think you are overthinking this. The Ballards are a lot stronger than them and we didn't ask for many requests. It's normal that they agreed because of our authority. In other words, they knew we are too strong for them and they had no choice but to agree."Zachariah thought for a while and said, "Yeah. It doesn't matter if they have another agenda, we're going to be stronger after they agreed with the contribution. It's a good thing for us."Elsewh
Severin hang up the phone and drove straight to where Judith told him."You—you guys are too terrible! How can you hit my husband? I already told you I can pay for your losses!" Judith's voice was trembling as she saw her husband being hit by those people.At that moment, Maurice just got slapped a few times by two bodyguards. Blood was flowing out of the corner of his mouth.The rich kid leaned beside his Porsche and sneered coldly. "Pay? Hoho. Just look at the lousy car you guys drive. Can you seriously afford to pay? It's three hundred thousand dollars to settle this. Haha!"Maurice was resented. He glared and said, "Are you kidding me? Three hundred thousand dollars? Your car doesn't even worth that much. It's just a small scratch and you're asking us to pay you three hundred thousand dollars? It's daylight robbery!"The rich kid became gloomy upon hearing that. "What did you say? I only got this car just a few days ago and you guys crashed it! You should be lucky I'm only ask
Severin walked over. His face looked terrible when he saw there was blood on the corner of Maurice's mouth.Judith explained, "We were driving on the road. Suddenly, this car changed its lane all of a sudden. We didn't have time to brake the car and bumped into its side and scratched his car. He came down angrily and asked for three hundred thousand dollars. Your father tried to reason with them but the bodyguards slapped your dad."It infuriated Severin more after hearing that. From Judith's context, he could tell it was not his parent fault, and yet, the rich kid bullied them just because he thought he could.Severin smiled at Judith and Maurice. "It's going to be fine. Just stand here and leave the rest to me."After that, he took his time to walk to where the rich kid in the white shirt was. "You're the one who changed your lane at the last minute. How dare you ask us to pay for your mistake when you should be the one paying for our losses? And slapping my father? Who gives you
Before the two bodyguards could attack Severin, Severin kicked them a few times and sent them flying away. Each of them vomited a mouthful of blood. Their face turned pale and they sustained injuries."Ahh!" One of the bodyguards covered his chest with his hand with a painful expression. He felt like he had two broken ribs. The other bodyguard was in pain and felt shocked.Since Quintus disliked having too many bodyguards around him, he had only brought two of them with him. Especially since he was here to discuss the wedding date with Jada.However, the bodyguards were not weak. They were actually both level eight grandmasters. Normally, it was more than enough to have them around as not everyone could easily defeat them.What a turn of events that they were immediately defeated before they could even touch Severin. The most surprising part was they could not even keep up with Severin's speed.'How—how is that possible?"Quintus was dumbstruck and had trouble believing how weak
Severin, however, took a deep puff of the cigarette in his hand and said, "Mom, Dad, don't be scared. There aren't a lot of people that I can't afford to offend, and as far as I know, there aren't any such people from Riverson. Besides, he threatened to cut off your tongues, and I can't just let him get away with that!"After waiting for more than ten minutes, several Audis drove over and parked on the side of the road, and a group of bodyguards in suits got off the car. The car leading them was a Bentley and the people who got down from it were Victor and Jada. They brought their men over and approached Severin in an intimidating fashion."Are you okay, Quintus? Who beat you up? Tell me and I'll deal with them for you!" Victor immediately stepped forward and asked concernedly.After all, the Novaks were a strong family with plenty of assets, and Jada's future marriage to Quintus would be advantageous to the Stones! It would then be much easier to establish a business in Riverson, w
At that moment, Severin walked up to Jada with a smile as he looked at her and said, "Hehe, what a coincidence, Miss Jada! I didn't think we'd meet again so soon! Does this count as fate, in your opinion?”Jada smiled coldly, folded her hands in front of her chest, and said, "Hehe, more like bad luck!"Severin smiled. "By the way, your fiance changed lanes suddenly on the road, but rather than apologizing to my parents, he beat my father up and even asked us to pay three hundred thousand or else he'll cut off my parents' tongues. Why would you be attracted to a bully like him?"Jada's lips twitched a few times, and she looked at Severin disdainfully. "You have no business poking your nose into my affairs."Severin smiled. "Trust me, I'm not interested in your life either. Anyway, he said that he'll pay us three hundred thousand, so did you come here with the money?""Fat chance!" Victor and Quintus had already ended their discussion and began walking over from nearby."Wow, Victo
Victor, Jada, and Quintus looked at the scene in front of them in a daze. Their faces were already ashen from fright."Didn't you say that you hired several elites? Why are they so useless?" Jada did not understand those things and blamed Victor angrily."They looked really strong to me! I didn't expect them to be faking their abilities." Victor did not understand a single thing about attainment and whatnot, hence his similarly confused expression. He paid a lot of money to hire those men, but they ended up getting knocked down so quickly that they failed to even land a blow on Severin! It was thoroughly humiliating."Sir, we didn't fake our abilities. We may be strong, but he's far too strong!" one of the elites said as he collapsed on the ground."Hehe, it's your turn now!" Severin cracked his knuckles. The three of them unconsciously took a step back as soon as they heard that."D-d-d-don't you dare come over, Severin! I'll start moaning if you do!" Jada immediately threatened.
At that instant, Infernatur and Damnatur felt a sudden chill, as if an impending doom loomed on the horizon.Severin then said softly to them, "I'm gonna need you as a helping hand!"Infernatur and Damnatur recoiled as a horrifying realization dawned upon them."Have you taken that leap?" Infernatur's voice trembled with uncertainty.Severin remained silent and simply waved his hand gently. The 129,600 cosmic laws surged with boundless power, reducing the huge figures of Infernatur and Damnatur to dust.Within moments, two essences of pure primordial power flowed into Severin's inner world, while the desolate chaos sea crumbled and was consumed by his voracious appetite.Severin's form eventually began to fade until it became a flicker of light that vanished completely. His consciousness had been devoured entirely.Everything before him was empty and devoid of substance.An indefinite amount of time passed before Severin's voice echoed through the emptiness, "Chaos springs from
With a deft stroke of the bronze halberd, the path hovering above Severin shattered."This is a peculiar weapon," Severin recoiled in alarm, raising the Oculus Blade to defend himself "It has the ability to dismantle the great path!"Simultaneously, he utilized his space-time path to shield against potential assaults, especially any sneak attacks.Explosions reverberated, unleashing torrents of elemental energy and spatial turbulence throughout the chaotic sea. Time passed indeterminately amidst the chaos.For centuries, the trio engaged in combat, their auras undiminished by time's passage.Meanwhile, the four Dominus Nosters in the Celestial Realm waged war against the extraterrestrial intruders, reclaiming territories with unparalleled ferocity.Under the leadership of figures like Callide, the extraterrestrials were simply no match for them.The Southern, Western, and Devil Regions were reclaimed quickly, yet everyone from the Celestial Realm remained vigilant, for war conti
Outside the Heaven Palace, the few who had been appointed Dominus Noster along with a cohort of quasi-royal celestials were faced with the grim reality at hand.Clad in resplendent hues, Callide—who was their leader and carried the title Dominus Noster Arcanum—donned celestial attire woven from stars and the galaxy. With a regal bearing, she commanded from atop a cloud, "Follow me, my brethren! We shall vanquish the extraterrestrials in the Devil Realm!""At your command, Dominus Noster Arcanum!""Yes, Dominus Noster Arcanum!"With their resounding battle cries, streams of light surged across the Nine Heavens Ten Lands, converging upon the territories occupied by the extraterrestrials—they were the Devil Region, Southern Region, and the Western Region.Amidst the vibrant rainbow, a towering figure emerged, blotting out the sky and earth. Everyone recognized that figure as Severin, and knew that the battle against the quasi-celestial regents would soon begin.Adrian, who was alrea
Armin then spoke with a calm authority, "You cannot remain in this time and space, for you are from the future. It is time you return."As he uttered these words, Severin sensed an invisible force pushing against him and urging him to depart.Standing upon the river of time, he overlooked the tumult of the quasi-celestial regent conflict looming below. He mumbled Armin's counsel, "By receiving nourishment, shattering constraints, tearing open chaos, and reaching the other side…" As Severin pondered over those revelations for an indefinite amount of time, clarity dawned upon him like the sudden rising sun. "So that's the way!"By the time he snapped to his senses, he discovered that his primal spirit had traversed countless epochs in the river of time. "Did I spend that long in the river of time?" he asked himself. Fortunately, the duration he spent in the river of time was but a fleeting moment in the real world.Severin's resolve solidified. Though his brief discourse with Armin,
Severin could sense the mental connection between himself and the weapon, almost as if it was an extension of himself. Severin then raised his gaze to the celestial expanse beyond."I'm almost on Armin's level now that I've made a breakthrough to the rank of quasi-celestial sovereign. However, facing the extraterrestrials' quasi-celestial regents isn't going to be easy meat for me," he mused aloud.Armin was once the sovereign architect of the Imperial Court and the ruler of the Celestial Realm, yet even he found himself at the mercy of the attack of Heaven's Will. Even a mighty quasi-celestial sovereign was reduced to naught but dust.Severin felt the weight of the responsibility settle upon him. Confronting the two quasi-celestial regents would require him to transcend to the realm of celestial sovereign—a realm of which he had scant knowledge of.He understood the concept of the celestial sovereign only in the context of attaining liberation through enlightenment via the 3,000 p
In the vast expanse of the chaotic sea, occasional gusts of strong wind whipped up the formidable chaotic energy. A single whirlpool could claim the life of even a true immortal.Amidst that tumult, two colossal figures lay prone within the abyss. They emanated an aura of unparalleled power, commanding even the paths to heed their authority. The turbid breath exhaled in their slumber had the capacity to tear the fabric of the chaotic void, unveiling dreamlike cosmic chiliocosms.They were the progenitors of the extraterrestrial race, the alpha and omega of the enigmatic beings. Their names were Infernatur and Damnatur. To the uninitiated, and sometimes even to their own kind, it was widely believed that Infernatur and Damnatur were distinct entities. However, they were but facets of the same being.Infernatur could be deemed the primordial offspring of chaos itself, having borne witness to the most primitive and barbaric epochs of the Bleu Celestial Realm. Being born of chaos, he po
Heaven Palace could now boast four royal celestials, along with nearly 20 quasi-royal celestials and 5,000 true immortals. Those esteemed individuals once served the Longevity Alliance, Clear Wind Sect, Tri Celestial Island, and Ingeni Paradise. While their numbers paled in comparison to the 120,000 true immortals during the ancient Imperial Court's heyday, Severin was confident that he could revive that with time. After all, the new Imperial Court had only just been re-established, and there was still more work to do.Severin then addressed the assembly, "As you continue raising your attainment, you shall have to anticipate the looming threat of conflict with the extraterrestrials. Now that you have are bestowed with titles as the custodians of heaven and earth, it is our solemn duty to reciprocate the blessings bestowed upon us.""Yes, we shall!" echoed the resolute affirmation from the gathered immortals.Having concluded his address, Severin went to speak briefly with Diane and
In the Heaven Palace, Callide sensed that the aura emanating from Severin was simultaneously as vast the sky and ocean but as indiscernible as that of a mortal. Tremors of terror gripped her, as she knew that he had far surpassed the realm of a cultivator who had attained the perfect-stage royal celestial. It was no exaggeration to say that Severin could obliterate a royal celestial with a mere thought.Balke, Libra, and Creatia shared Callide's apprehension. To them, Severin embodied the very essence of the path—intangible, silent, abstruse, incomprehensible, and undetectable.As the imperial robe adorned Severin, Balke and the others bowed in reverence. "Long live the Celestial Sovereign!" they chanted in unison.A subtle wave of fortune floated toward the heavenly heart imprint as Severin acknowledged their worship with a satisfied smile. He raised his hand and lifted them effortlessly with an unseen force.With a thunderous voice that resonated in their ears, Severin proclaimed
The true immortals, quasi-royal celestials, and even the eminent royal celestials held their breath. Everyone observed in silence as Severin wielded the heavenly heart imprint.With each strand of luck infused into the heavenly heart imprint, Severin sensed his dominion over the Bleu Celestial Realm becoming stronger. He had the feeling that he could reshape the world with only a single thought.Once the destinies of tens of thousands of races were bound with the heavenly heart imprint, the golden tourmaline quivered violently and radiated an aura that could be felt across the Nine Heavens Ten Lands. Acknowledging the momentous occasion, Severin tapped his forehead and directed a fragment of his soul to command the heavenly heart imprint. The 3,000 great paths within him erupted from his being and materialized."Today shall be the day that I, Severin, rebuild the Imperial Court in the Nine Heavens! As wielder of the great path, the world shall be inscribed in me, and I shall embody