After Zachariah heard that, he could not help but laugh and say, "I'm a bit of a snob. I like to judge everything by its value in money because I've always felt that people tend to do things only for money. Individuals like you are a rare gem, Mister Severin!"Sheila then said to Zachariah, "Dad, when we entered, we heard Sean and Darcy talking about—"Before Sheila could finish speaking, Zachariah stretched out his hand to tell her to stop and interrupted her, "Say no more. I might be unconscious, earlier, but I still heard what those ungrateful people said about me. They are utterly despicable! I really didn't expect that they'd plot to kill me and you for the sake of money!" After he finished speaking, he clenched his fist and said, "I'll go down soon and tell them to scram. I want them to leave here with nothing but the clothes on their backs. I'll have their bank accounts and all credit cards frozen, and they'll have to leave the company too."Zachariah became angrier the more
"Zachariah! It's good to see you back in the pink of health! Everyone is worried about you!" Darcy also walked over and smiled with concern.Zachariah sneered in his heart. Had he not overheard the conversation between the two when he was unconscious, he would have thought the two of them were good-hearted relatives. His face darkened and he snorted coldly, "Bodyguards, please!"A group of bodyguards then rushed in from outside.Zachariah immediately said, "Did you think I wouldn't hear what the two of you said earlier? You were hoping to see me die so you could divide my assets among yourselves, and you even said that you'd cause an accident to kill my daughter. I might be unconscious and unable to open my eyes, but I heard every single thing you said!" After ending his sentence, he took a step forward and glared at the other party as he said, "I have never treated you unfairly, so it brings me great disappointment when I found out how ungrateful the two of you are.""Seriously? S
Zachariah felt emotional as he looked at the family-less old man who had devoted more than thirty years of his young life to the Ballards. "Worry not. I'm fine. Mister Severin said that I was poisoned, and most of the poison in my body had been forced out. He'll give me an herbal prescription for us in a bit, and I just need to boil the herbs into a drink!"The old butler breathed a sigh of relief and said to Severin, "Thank you, Mister Severin!"Severin, who had been secretly paying attention to the servants, smiled at the old butler and said, "You're most welcome. Sheila and I are friends, so it's only right that I help her out!"He then asked someone to take out the paper and pen, wrote down the prescription, and handed it to the old butler so he could arrange for someone to get the necessary herbs."Sir, how could you be poisoned when you've been at home all this time?" The old butler could not help but ask Zachariah as he tried to think of what could possibly cause the poisoni
"I see. It's a slow-acting poison that takes a long time to kick in but is extremely deadly. Have I got that right?" Sheila sighed lamentably. "I didn't expect Lena to be that sort of person. Our family has always treated her very well, and she has worked many years for us."Severin smiled and said, "Lena looks like an honest person, and she wouldn't have understood what she had been doing. She must've placed the incense under someone else's instruction, and now that I've rid you of your poison, Lena will very likely meet the person who told her to do it. We just need to follow her to find out who's the true culprit!"Zachariah gave Severin an enthusiastic thumbs up. "You truly are amazing, Mister Severin. I am fully convinced by your abilities, for you have a perceptive mind in addition to your excellent medical skills. You have my utmost admiration."Sheila finally had a realization. "Now I understand why Lena panicked and had such a frightened look when you yelled at her earlier.
"Besides, if it weren't for you, I would've lost my closest family. I don't even know how to repay you now!" Sheila pursed her lips, smiled, and rushed forward all of a sudden to try and sneak a kiss on Severin.Severin was unprepared for her bold actions the last time around, but he had learned his lesson since then and was on the alert for any sneaky tricks she might try to pull again. As soon as he saw her move, he immediately dodged several meters to the right to evade Sheila's sudden kiss.She pouted angrily in response and said, "Why are you hiding so far away? You make it seem like I'm going to eat you up!"Severin patted his chest and could not help but say, "Now that you mention it, I am scared of that. Luckily, I was fast enough to dodge you, otherwise, you would've attacked me already!""Hmph, don't you like being kissed by me?" Sheila could not help but roll her eyes at Severin. "Is there something wrong with me? Am I ugly? Are my thighs not sexy enough? Or are my breas
Lena calmed down after a moment and went out of the room to take a walk. Little did she know that two people were already watching her from the shadows.Halfway through her stroll, she saw a few bodyguards carrying the wooden chair into the yard. They poured lots of gasoline over the chair and heaped some firewood over it before setting it on fire.Lena felt her heart skip a beat, but she could not help herself from walking over and asking the bodyguards, "Why are you burning the wooden chair, Dan? Isn't it precious? It's also Mister Zachariah's most cherished item too. Doesn't he always show it off to other people? Why did he decide to burn it?"Dan, the bodyguard, said to Lena, "We don't know for sure, but we've been told to burn it because it's poisonous. I'm just as surprised that we were ordered to do that when this is such a precious treasure. There might not be another one like this in the whole of the country!""I see." Lena smiled awkwardly and continued walking.…Diane
Severin was stunned. "You can't be serious, right? She confesses her feelings for me at every turn, and I get super awkward when she does that. How could you tell me to be there for her these next few days? Aren't you afraid she might take advantage of me?""Pfft!" When Diane heard that, she covered her mouth and said, "Oh, keep bragging, Severin! She's just a cheerful personality who doesn't shy away from being blunt, but I don't think she'll cross the line and take advantage of you, right? You make it sound like she can't wait to pounce on you!"Severin was speechless, as he did not expect Diane not to believe the truth. A sudden thought then occurred to him and he asked, "By the way, the Shanahans don't have any cooperation with the Horsfields or the Loughs, right?"Diane frowned curiously. "Why would you suddenly think of asking this question? We've never cooperated with the Loughs before, but it's a different story for the Horsfields. You do know that Edward has a thing for me,
"Okay then! I'm coming in!" Severin was overjoyed and walked in immediately before closing the door behind him."Can I kiss you?" Severin could not help but gulp and ask when he looked at Diane's sexy figure and her alluring red lips. He felt a little helpless actually, because his daughter was about to go to kindergarten soon, and yet his beautiful wife still did not let him get intimate with her.After a bit of thought, Diane pursed her red lips and said, "I'll take a shower first!"Diane's bashful expression made Severin feel a little happy inside because of how incredibly pretty and charming she was."Go ahead!" Severin lay on the bed and could not stop himself from letting his thoughts go wild as he listened to the sound of running water.Diane finished her shower not long later, and that was when she realized that she had been so shy that she rushed into the bathroom without taking her nightdress and panties with her. She was speechless for a moment and she bit her red lips
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