The world became silent so silent that everyone could hear a pin drop.Everyone’s gaze was focused on the proud figure standing in the arena.That figure stood tall like an emperor who held power over all the lands. It was a simple figure, but it was powerful enough to earn everyone’s respect.This recognition made everyone feel agitated.Most of them had thought that Chase would not be Bob’s match. He was too young, after all.However, the arrogant Bob had died in Chase's hands, and he had even begged for mercy before he died.What was true power?This was true power!Bianca stared at Chase with infatuation in her eyes.He was such a powerful man!The silence quickly broke with an exclamation, “Wow, Mr. Collins is incredible!”Carol, who was below the stage, gently patted her voluptuous bosom. Her cheeks were red, and she looked agitated.Vinny, Edward, and the others sitting next to her were all silent.They were now looking at Chase with shock, incredulity, respect, but
Chase stood alone in the arena with a stoic expression. “Clear the scene, Mr. Cooper.”“Yes, Master Collins!”William understood his intentions. He quickly turned to everyone below the stage. “Besides the five elite families, everyone else should leave.”The place was soon empty. Even Vinny, Edward, and the others were gone.Only Chase and the five elite families were left in the stadium.John seemed to notice something. He quivered violently and coughed up a lot of blood.“The Harrigans…”Chase walked down from the arena and approached the Harrigans slowly. “I bet you never dreamed this was how you would end.”Every Harrigan but John was kneeling and begging for mercy.John knew that their reign was over and roared in resentment, “You bastard! What I regret most is not cleaning up that mess better all those years ago. I should've made sure that you burned to death. The Harrigans wouldn’t have ended up this way if it wasn’t for you.”“Are you sure about that?”A cold look fl
However, all three of them were now lowering their heads at Chase and treating him with utmost respect.Chase said without beating about the bush, “I only have one request for the Norrises, and that is for Quinn to continue leading the family. You need to assist her in every way you can. Do you have any problems with that?”“No, no, we don’t.” All three of them quickly shook their heads in fear of Chase misunderstanding them.Reginald said with great caution, “Don’t worry, Master Collins. We’ll hold a family meeting after we get back to nominate Quinn as the matriarch of the Norrises.”“Very good. No one in South City City will dare touch the Norrises,” Chase said as he nodded. One sentence from him was enough for Reginald and his brothers to get emotional.A subordinate of the Coopers in charge of watching the doors came over and said respectfully, “There are four people out there asking to see you, Mr. Collins. The one leading them is a man called Edward Wright.”“It’s them?” C
“Our CEO’s name is Chase Collins.”Sandy was slightly taken aback and glanced at Quinn in surprise. “Both of you lived together for quite a while. Didn’t he tell you that he's the CEO of La Fleur?”She said this clearly.Quinn’s mind began buzzing from Sandy’s words. She looked like she was in a daze as she stayed silent for a long time.It took her so long to realize this. Chase was Mr. Collins, the CEO of La Fleur. To think that she had tried every way she could to meet him before this.In the end, it was the man she had looked down on so many times who had saved her by approving the two billion investment.Quinn suddenly remembered something, and she turned pale from the memory.Chase had told her before that he was the CEO of La Fleur.However, both she and Elaine did not believe him. They even made fun of him for making such a brag.Quinn suddenly felt horrible about this. She was so embarrassed that she wished the ground could just swallow her.When Sandy saw her lookin
The Harrigans immediately got every subordinate working under them to return to the residence and protect the Harrigans. They were afraid of Chase barging in again.All of the Harrigans had gathered in the meeting room.A woman burst out asking, “John, Master Collins wants us to be at Mount General Cemetery in three days to kneel to the dead and ask for their forgiveness. What… What should we do now?”She was John’s younger sister, the fifth in the family. Her name was Wendy Harrigan.Every member of the Harrigan family was looking fearfully at John.Someone helped John up, and he stared back at them with a swollen face as he said, “Contact the Supreme Elder immediately. Make a request for him to return to the country and help the Harrigans.“That little bastard will be dead once the Supreme Elder returns. The Coopers and every other family on their side will all die!"John said this savagely with a crazed look on his face.Someone asked cautiously, “Mr. John, what… if the Supr
“Who could it be?” Chase frowned.“You’ll find out when you see her,” Kim Mayson said.Chase looked around and suddenly sniggered. “What if I refuse?”Dozens of dark figures appeared instantly all around him. They were all in masks, and they were pointing their guns at Chase.“What is this? Are you trying to kidnap me?” Chase was unperturbed as he said with one hand behind his back.Kim frowned and roared, “What are all of you doing? How dare you act so impudently toward Mr. Collins! Back away, right now!”Everyone retreated from the shock of the true energy reverberating from her order.Peak inner strength!Chase looked at her thoughtfully.Kim looked to be in her 40s. A woman like her had actually achieved peak inner strength.Chase suddenly developed an interest in meeting the person she wanted to take him to. “Show me the way.”She soon led Chase to a private mansion.Chase had just stepped inside when several snipers aimed at him from the dark.“I can’t believe there
Chase picked up the pink towel and walked over to the hot spring to hand it to her.Myra took the towel from him, and a cunning look glinted in her eye.The next moment, he saw her calling out coquettishly as she pretended to slip. Her body fell backward, and her hand gripping the towel grabbed on even more forcefully in an attempt to pull Chase down into the water.However, Chase let go of the towel decisively.There was a splash, and Myra’s top half fell into the water.When she finally surfaced, she looked at Chase pitifully and said, “You’re really unromantic, Mr. Collins. How could you let me fall into the water like this? I would've drowned if I didn’t know how to swim.”“I’ll call the police on your behalf if you die,” Chase replied.Myra was annoyed by his words. She lost the mood to be playful.She swam to the opposite side of the hot spring and covered herself with the towel there. She walked toward Chase barefoot.Myra looked seriously at Chase. “Please allow me to
Chase called Sam on the way back. “I need you to investigate Myra Kollins. Find out who she is.”He shared the location of the private mansion with Sam.There was a spark in Chase’s deep eyes after he put down his phone.Myra Kollins was not a simple woman!She had a female subordinate who was a strength-dissolving master, and many of those protecting her in the dark were military personnel.Besides that, Chase had also detected a meridian-opening master in hiding.Even though the other party had hidden himself well, he could not hide from Chase’s senses.Sam soon came back with a reply, “Sir, Myra Kollins has a mysterious background. I’ve only managed to find out that she's the person behind the auction at Nine Dragon Market. We're unable to find out more about her.”“Alright.”Chase nodded. He clenched his fists with vigor. “I don’t care who you are. If you stop me from destroying the Harrigans, you’ll die as well!”That night, a few bulletproof vehicles arrived quietly at
As Clive had gained quite a lot, he decided to let it be. He allowed himself to let go of things. However, that being's consciousness began to open up to Clive, and that was when Clive realized how powerful the being was.It was one against the 12 Primal Treasures, and the universe was its target. It had existed for millions of years. The result of allowing it to take over was Clive losing complete control of his body. It was a projected image that vanished after Chase defeated it.However, Clive's body had been modified by it, and Clive's mind and soul were unable to control his own body. This was what had caused Clive to look like he was in a daze right after the match.Rania then used a mystical technique to transmit her cultivation and combine the powers of both parties. It triggered a lost talent within Clive that merged all of the swordsmanship he cultivated to form an unknown sword form that had never been seen before.Clive felt like he had been revived.He looked at the Ni
Inside the halved corpse, faint outlines of Rania and the coachman's bodies could be seen. They were twisted and contorted.Foul-smelling digestive fluid bubbled and hissed, corroding their bodies.Rania appeared to retain a shred of consciousness. "Cli... Clive... Clive... Help me... Save..."Her voice was faint, tremulous, and laced with sorrow. It stirred pity in the heart.In truth, even before she had spoken, Clive had already detected her presence through his spiritual consciousness. He raised his sword. His face was tormented as if he wanted to put a swift end to things. Yet in the end, he let out a long sigh and released a surge of true essence, pulling both the coachman and Rania from River's corpse.The coachman's cultivation was far too low, and his clothes were made of ordinary fabric. They offered no resistance to the corrosive and toxic digestive acid inside River's body.Half of his body was already unrecognizable, with the bones and internal organs exposed. His b
"Pathetic."The Nine-Sea Giant Squid that River had transformed into spoke with a human voice, then opened its gaping maw and swallowed her whole.The coachman, who had leaped off the horse the moment River transformed, scrambled and sprinted away. He was already dozens of feet out.Just then, a dark blur flashed past, and one of River's tentacles shot forward at incredible speed, snatching him back and devouring him in a single gulp as well."Disgusting. That woman tasted better," he muttered while slithering toward the carriage on his tentacles.Suddenly, an explosion echoed from within his belly, and faint glimmers of light shone through the surface of his body."That woman's protective artifact is so weak. Looks like she wasn't treated well in the Norths, after all."River examined himself carefully and found that it was indeed Rania's protective talisman that had just detonated. Yet his body remained largely unharmed. With some minor healing over ten days to half a month, he
Outside Light Divine City, Rania sat inside a carriage with Clive."Clive, say something, will you? You staying silent like this is really worrying me," she said while wiping the sweat from Clive's forehead and letting out a sigh.As a collateral descendant of the Norths, Rania's life had never been particularly easy. She had thought she had finally snagged a golden opportunity with Clive, only for him to fall into a daze after just one match.What was she supposed to do now?Everyone had witnessed their behavior during the tournament. Though some might look down on them, they would undoubtedly see the two of them as a pair by now.If she abandoned Clive at this point, she would surely be labeled a heartless woman.Just then, the carriage came to a halt. They had only left the city less than an hour ago and were still far from Universal Holy Land. Was someone blocking the road? Rania frowned and lifted the curtain.Sure enough, there was someone standing in the way.She looked c
Even though the match had ended, Lisa still could not fully escape the lingering terror.The slimy, wriggling tentacles covered in suction cups and jagged teeth, stretching out toward her… Such images were seared into her mind. The impact had been too great.Though she was a direct descendant of the dragon clan—an authentic ancient lineage and one of the top races in the entire world—she had been completely overpowered then.Normally, her bloodline would exert natural suppression over most others. However, at the time, she was almost crushed by another.She could not even begin to imagine what kind of race could do that."It tried to eat you?" Walter exclaimed in shock.As a great beast himself, he understood just how powerful the dragon clan's pure bloodline was.Even though the incident with the Lightning Dragon kneeling to Chase had dulled some of the mystique around dragons, it remained undeniable that they were a superior bloodline."For a creature to make a dragon feel lik
"Pfft, what Saints or Saintesses? They're just titles. They don't have any real skills to speak of!""Exactly. These so-called Saints who suddenly emerged probably got their status through shady means. The moment they enter a duel, their real strength shows."Amid the chorus of cheers and congratulations, a few jarring voices remained, and one of them was Rania's. Although she was a social climber herself, hearing the crowd ridicule Clive after his defeat made her deeply uncomfortable."That's not true. Clive is not like that," she repeated again and again. Those were the only words she could manage.Several in the crowd recognized her as the one who accepted a gift from Clive earlier and began to mock her."She's the perfect example of a shallow woman. The moment she accepts a gift, she loses her sense of judgment. It's pathetic.""Right? The truth is right in front of her—Clive is just a big show-off with no real skills. And yet she keeps lying to herself.""Hmph. They really a
Later, a certain senior of the sect discovered a secret technique of the Nefarious Spirits.It was to meditate on the image of a divine beast or an overwhelmingly powerful immortal being the embodiment of one's soul. As the level of visualization deepened, one's spiritual soul strength would grow accordingly.This method of cultivating Nefarious Spirits was a hybrid of corpse refining and body cultivation.However, while corpse and body cultivation focused on physical bodies, Nefarious Spirits cultivation trained the intangible—the spiritual consciousness and the mind and soul.After this discovery, they even improved the methods of refining corpses and bodies using it.When refining the body, practitioners would visualize fierce beasts like bears or wolves or celestial warriors, generals, and even gods. The subjects of their visualizations would match with their nature and temperament, making them their own Nefarious Spirits.Fallon's Nefarious Spirit was an ancient giant ape. It
As for Fallon and Carla on the high platform, they clearly sensed that the ominous gaze from above had lessened significantly.Clive, who was facing Chase directly, also felt that his seemingly unstoppable sword strike had suddenly stalled in front of Chase. It could not push forward any further. This shocked him greatly.After all, even when sparring with his own master, he had never encountered this sensation. His master had even praised him for his good fortune after obtaining a peerless sword and for mastering a sword technique unparalleled in this generation. If not for the looming limit of his life span and the need to break through to gain more years, his master would have wanted to cultivate that technique himself.This sword strike, which Clive considered to be the culmination of all his understanding of the sword path, was the most perfect attack he had ever executed since beginning his cultivation journey.Even so, this nameless opponent had forced it back with a single
Tania once attended celebratory events held by other sects, only to encounter top-tier demonic beasts on the road. A brutal battle left her covered in wounds, and she missed the celebration entirely, offending the host.At that time, her master's resentment had already reached its peak.That thousand-year-old wolf demon became the last straw that broke the camel's back.Her master unleashed Emerald Lake Holy Land's most powerful technique—Radiance of Emerald, Eternal Slumber.Heaven and earth changed color the moment it was unleashed. The thousand-year wolf demon gathered all of its cultivation but still could not withstand the strike. It was reduced to ashes in an instant.Tania once thought that the gap between her and her master was not too wide and that she would rightfully inherit the mantle of leadership over Emerald Lake Holy Land within a century.Yet after witnessing that attack, she realized how wrong she had been. From then on, she started training harder and more dilig