“Grandma Snake, please let me help Chase.”An old woman and a young woman were on a ferry in the middle of the river. It was Madam Snake and Quinn.“Even though you’re incredibly talented, you’ve only been cultivating for a short time. You’re not a true master yet. You’re no match for Wilfred Harrigan. Maybe you should choose another lover.”Madam Snake shook her head as she watched Quinn beg her.“You’re dead, Collins!”The people of the Martial Arts Alliance were on another ferry. Jayden clenched his fists when he saw this.If Chase died, he would be able to own South River City.All the humiliation he suffered would be repaid tenfold.There was also Myra. How dare she belittle him? He would finally have her and have his way with her.Chase had not moved at all since the fight began. That was until Wilfred rushed toward him.Chase smiled nonchalantly. “What a clown!”His slender right hand reached out as he pushed out his palm. Green energy flashed from his palm with great
“Who do you think you are to want to get Master Collins on your side? I want to be his disciple.”“Well, who do you think you are? Do you think you’re worthy to be his disciple? You’re better off as his dog.”“I’d be happy to be his dog.”Most of the martial arts powerhouses finally realized how invincible Master Collins was despite his young age.…“How did this happen? I must be dreaming!”The smile on Jayden’s face froze. It finally sunk in that he had offended someone he could not afford to.“Where’s Master Levington? Didn’t he promise to be here? I don’t see him anywhere.”Jayden finally remembered his master in his fluster.…“How did Chase become so powerful?”Quinn covered her mouth in disbelief.She had thought that if she worked hard enough, she would be able to catch up to Chase in power. She could stay by his side and protect him, but now it looked like she was nothing but a joke. He was even able to defeat the person Madam Snake could not handle.However, it w
20 minutes had passed. Saber River’s estuary was where the river was connected to the sea. Further out was the middle of the sea.Chase managed to stop Wilfred once more and kicked Wilfred into the sand.Wilfred was at his wit’s end after running all the way.“I repeat what I said, Wilfred Harrigan. Tell the truth about what happened back then and I’ll leave your body intact!”“Haha! Never! You were tricked, you little bastard!” Wilfred suddenly calmed down and said viciously. “It’s time for you to appear, Elders!”Two figures appeared not far from the beach.It was Jasper with two elders in traditional gear.“How did you end up in such a mess, Master Harrigan?” The elder in the lead frowned slightly while asking.“The Collins boy hid his real ability. I’m not his match,” Wilfred resented the defeat but replied honestly. “But with Master Lovitz and Master Eunus here, Collins is dead.”Wilfred was filled with confidence when he saw all three of them.Chase did not panic when
They had to get the spiritual herb, so both men wounded the owner lethally deep inside the mountains. Then, they took the herb just like that.“That was my master. You'll pay with your life for killing him. I forgot to tell you that I’ve killed all of the Eunuses!” Olivia picked up her sword and attacked again.Olivia was fueled with the need for vengeance at the thought of how her master had brought her up. Her sword stance got even more powerful and lethal than before.Alfred was losing.“Oh no!”Cecil quickly rushed over to help when he saw this.Two figures collided in the air. Chase and Cecil had hit each other with their respective palms, and Cecil stumbled backward.“What are you doing sticking your nose into someone else’s revenge?” Chase was smiling.Alfred would be dead in a few more moves.Just as expected, after three moves, Alfred did not manage to evade in time and Olivia stabbed him right in the chest. He died right on the spot.“Good sword work!”Chase burst
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk. I’ll tell you everything.”Wilfred’s legs turned to jelly as he fell kneeling to the ground.“What happened then was…”Before he could finish, Wilfred’s head fell limp to the side. He had stopped breathing.“Not again!”A cold look flashed in Chase’s eyes.It looked like whoever was behind this was much more vicious than he thought.Everyone about to reveal the truth died instantly.There was much more than met the eye behind the fire at Green Hill Orphanage. At this thought, Chase had a feeling that the fire was targeted at him. Everyone else from the orphanage was collateral damage.“Grandpa Gideon, my friends, don’t worry. I swear I will avenge you no matter how hard it is!” Chase promised solemnly. He cut off the heads of both men and left.Not long after he left, a few figures appeared in the air.They were the powerhouses who were true masters of martial arts who had been watching the fight secretly at Saber River.“Over there. There are three
“Quinn.” Chase gave Quinn a complicated look. Something about her was different.“You’re such a naughty boy, Little Rocky. Why didn’t you tell me you were Little Rocky?” Quinn said angrily.“It’s because you didn’t believe whatever I told you. We were already divorced. Besides, I had no idea that you were my seventh sister,” Chase said awkwardly as he rubbed his head.Quinn’s face turned red when she heard this.She had married Chase as she promised when she was young, but they ended up getting a divorce.“How long have you been waiting here?” Chase changed the topic and asked.“About ten minutes,” Myra replied after some thought.“Did you see anyone strange here?” Chase continued asking.“Strange? Nope. We didn’t see anyone. What’s wrong, Chase?”“Nothing.”Chase shook his head and stopped asking. He was probably overthinking it.He brought them back to Imperial Dragon Bay after that.Julia was overjoyed to see Quinn. She got Rebecca to prepare a room for Quinn and told Qu
The plane landed safely at Chitara City Airport.A young man in short sleeves and short pants walked into the departure hall in slippers.It was Chase.Chase had arrived at Chitara City with only a bank card Sam had pushed into his hand at the last minute. He had no luggage, which was why he skipped the luggage collection. He headed straight to the departure hall and prepared to leave on the airport bus.“Hey, handsome!” A voice called out from the front.Chase looked over and saw a woman wrapped up tight in a face mask, sunglasses, and a cap on this hot, summer day. She seemed to be looking at him. Chase looked left and right. He pointed at himself.There was no one else there but Chase. The crowd had moved to the luggage collection area.“That’s right. I’m talking to you, handsome. How about giving me a hand?”The woman was pleading with him.“What help do you need?” Chase did not reject her.“Can you help me with my luggage?” The woman took out a plane ticket from her po
Chase lowered his head to look at his shirt. He did not see anything wrong with how he dressed. How was it shabby?“He’s my friend.”Fortunately, Enola flashed a card in her hand right in time before the situation escalated.“I’m sorry. Please come this way.” The waiter immediately apologized when he saw the black card.This was a black card that was accessible to all banks in Bactria. It had almost no limit. That card could not only be used at the restaurant, it could even buy the entire Four Seasons Hotel.They found a window seat with a great view at a corner.Enola passed the menu to Chase. “Order anything you want.”“Hot dog,” Chase replied without looking at the menu.“Um… Alright. Two hot dogs!” Enola informed the waiter.No one had ever ordered hot dogs here before.It was the first time Enola had met someone like Chase. She was curious about him and lowered her guard. She took off all her disguises.Her gorgeous face immediately appeared. She took off her cap and he
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
Chase, who was standing directly in front of that sword strike, was equally stunned.Zacharias had been right!From that sword, he sensed the same divine intent as the one he had felt earlier in the clouds from that figure that resembled the Nine-Sea Giant Squid. It was evil, filled with pain and oppression, spreading boundlessly.Clive was indeed a projection—or a fragment—of Klondike!Chase's rage simmered down, replaced by a cold gleam in his eyes. This was the one who wanted to kill him?He was ready to strike back with full force. He summoned Greedy Wolf from the void, and his killing intent surged across the arena. The moment the blade appeared, it once again drew gasps from the audience.The overwhelming sword intent Clive had released earlier was instantly compressed and forced back by half as if it were afraid of Chase's blade. Then came the killing aura of Greedy Wolf. It was nearly tangible, sweeping across the hearts of every spectator.Earlier, Clive's sword aura had
Clive finally seemed to snap out of his daze."You brat, did you drug me?" he barked angrily, vaguely aware that something felt off. It was as if he had just taken a nap in the arena. His first thought was that Chase must have slipped him some kind of drug."If I had drugged you, would you still be standing there?" Chase scoffed at such a ridiculous accusation.That was true. If Chase truly had drugged him, Clive would probably already be lying unconscious in the rest area.Clive reluctantly accepted Chase's explanation for now."Let's settle this once and for all!" he shouted, raising his Heaven and Earth Sword as a boundless sword aura swept across the arena.Huh? His strength felt even greater than before. Clive grew smug with pride.Chase appeared completely unaware of his incoming strike.Rookie move, he thought. Chase must have been stunned by his sword intent and was now completely frozen.Clive was imagining it all in his head.Then, he shouted, "Boundless Heaven and E
As soon as Zacharias spoke of Klondike, Chase's sea of consciousness suddenly darkened.Chase was startled. He sensed a presence—some sort of power—watching him. He released his spiritual consciousness and swept the area but found nothing."That's Klondike's power. Just mentioning him will make you a target and draw his gaze," Zacharias warned. "I no longer have anything to lose, but you must be careful. If his true body takes notice, there's only one outcome—death.""It's too late. My master already has his eyes on you. Kid, did you not see what happened to Zacharias? I suggest you learn from it and—"Before Gideon could finish his sentence, an invisible chain shot out, binding his soul and sealing his mouth, leaving him completely unable to speak."You'd better behave. This is my sea of consciousness," Chase said coldly.The last time he struck Gideon with a bolt of lightning, it obliterated his soul, but Gideon had reformed using a portion of Zacharias' spirit. If Chase destroy
Chase had been wondering why it took Zacharias so long to wake up. Now that he was finally awake, why was he still so weak? More importantly, why did he immediately turn against his old acquaintance?What exactly had happened in between?"He's a fraud. The Nine-Sea Giant Squid and the Nine Sea Holy Sword are all projections or incarnations of that evil deity. All that nonsense about being fated with me was a setup—just a ploy to steal my divine foresight," Zacharias said as his spiritual form twisted like wisps of smoke, looking unstable and on the verge of dispersing completely."Evil deity? Projection? Are you talking about Klondike?" Chase asked, recalling the Nine-Sea Giant Squid he encountered on the fourth level among the Worthingtons as well as the so-called expert they summoned. He remembered they had mentioned someone named Klondike.Upon hearing Chase speak that name, Gideon visibly flinched in shock."So, you actually know?" he asked with a dark expression."My soul has