Three of them led the sect faction to watch this at the side. None of them spoke, and they watched all of this unfold with amusement.There were a few familiar faces among them. Chase could see Bo, Immanuel, and Leia among them.It was clear that the sects were not intimidated by anyone, regardless if the person was a representative of Bactria or from one of Capital City's influential families."I'm guaranteeing that he's from Bactria with my name and status on the line!" Scott continued saying while trying to fight off Everett's power that was suppressing him."Hmph! He's nothing but a coward. You'd better tell us the truth and reveal his identity, Scott," Everett continued pushing."I've already given my guarantee with my reputation on the line, Everett! What else do you want?"Scott was angered. If this was Bactria, his status would be able to take him places.However, they were now in the secret realm, and Scott's status had been greatly discounted."I've already given you
Everett looked arrogant. He was now a martial lord, so there was no way he would allow a marquis of martial arts like Chase to get away from him.The best way to regain his dignity was by killing Chase in front of everyone present.However, Kingston's words might have taken effect.When Everett walked past Kingston, another figure blocked in front of him."You're going overboard, Everett!" A cold voice spoke up, and even Everett stopped when he heard the voice.He looked at the figure in front of him. Everett looked unhappy but still did not want to give up. He spoke up once more, "Even you're stopping me, Skate? Don't you have a grudge against him too? You should be happy to see me help you kill him. Why would you do this?""He's Skate Hawkins!""Who's Skate Hakwins?""He's an elite from Capital City's Hawkins family. I heard that he has been cultivating in the Hawkins' secret realm. Looks like he must be the other hidden martial lord powerhouse from Capital City's Eight Influ
"I was thinking of letting the rest of you handle the two martial lords while the three of us try to stall the pavilion master of Shadow Pavilion. We'll open a path for the rest of us to try and take over the formation." Apollo told them his plan.They contemplated it."That's risky. If all five of us martial lords end up being held back by those martial lords, the secret realm's formation might end up in one of these people's hands. We'll just be offering it up to them on a silver platter."Everett was the first to bring this up.The Coopers had come fully prepared for this trip to the secret realm. They had to get the ownership. He would never give it up to another person.While Everett objected to this, the others stayed silent.However, they continued discussing this by transmitting their voices.Chase sat in a far corner and was quite helpless in this situation."Can you hear what they're saying, sir?"Chase asked Lucas."It's not difficult to listen in to them," Lucas
Inside South Monarch Manor of Capital City, two pretty women were busy preparing all sorts of ingredients.They were Bianca and Quinn. Chase had been gone for more than ten days since entering the secret realm, and there was no news of him. Both of them were not worried as all the others who entered the realm with him had not returned either. They heard that they would be in the secret realm for 15 days.It was the last day tomorrow. They were staying at this house that Chase had bought before he entered the secret realm to quietly wait for his return. The days had been peaceful.They had not left the house for the past few days, and Quinn finally named the house after the property agent, Chet, came around to ask about it. Quinn took the word 'South' from South River City and finally named the house South Monarch Manor.A signboard was made for the manor with the name sprayed in gold and put up. After that, more people seemed to gather outside the door in the next few days.Quinn
"The owner of this manor is out. If you have anything to say, just wait until he returns."Bianca did not want to waste time with Pablo and turned to close the door.However, Pablo gave his bodyguards a look, and a few of them forced the door open.They attempted to barge into the manor."What are you doing? This is private property! I'll call the police to arrest all of you!" Bianca glared at them angrily. She was furious at what they were doing."Call the police? Well, you can only call them if you have a chance to do so."Pablo acted even more arrogantly when he found out the owner was not here."Even though the Lassiters aren't at the top of the list of influential families, we're still considered quite well-to-do. Bianca Cooper, is it? Be with me and I guarantee you fame and fortune.""Get out!" she shouted at Pablo."You forced me into this. Take her back with us," Pablo ordered. His bodyguards headed straight for Bianca.It was not the first time Pablo had done somethi
"Talk! Who told you to come here?"Quinn knew the man before her could not be the mastermind behind this. It was someone else, so she started to interrogate him."I'll talk, I'll talk! Don't kill me. The Hawkinses sent me here."Pablo did not dare to hide anything and revealed the mastermind behind this."Which Hawkins family are you talking about?" Quinn asked."It's the Hawkins family from Capital City's Eight Influential Families. Please don't kill me. I'm just a lapdog working for them. Have mercy," Pablo quickly begged for his life."Get out. Tell the Hawkinses that this property has been bought. I won't let them get away so easily if they continue causing trouble here!" Quinn gave a soft wave of her hand after that, and Pablo was thrown out the door along with his bodyguards.…Pablo knelt on the ground in the Hawkins residence while updating what had just happened."Did she really say she wouldn't let the Hawkinses get away with this so easily?" Carson looked upset whil
Outside the door of South Monarch Manor, another group of people appeared. This time, they were led by Emmett."Stand guard at all of the entrances. Make sure even a fly can't go in and out of there!" Emmett gave the order before flying into the manor.This was a family matter of the Coopers, and no one should be left alive if they witnessed this. That was why Emmett left his men behind while he entered South Monarch Manor on his own.It was an excellent piece of property.Emmett was impressed by its design.A figure appeared in white. She looked pure and out of this world.It was Quinn.She had sensed Emmett's aura and saw him walking around the manor like he owned the place. However, it was only now that she appeared before him."Who are you? Why did you barge into private property?!" Quinn stopped Emmett and questioned him coldly.Emmett was momentarily stunned to see such a great beauty before him. However, he snapped out of it when he heard her words."Who are you? Where
Lorne's mind quickly churned when Quinn started to ask questions.She was a very young woman. Even though he could not sense how high her cultivation was, he felt that they should be on par.He reasoned that she probably had a treasure on her that hid her aura, which was why he could not sense it.Yes, that had to be it.It was nearly unheard of for someone so young to be able to achieve a breakthrough from a marquis of martial arts to become a marital lord. The woman in front of him looked to be in her 20s. It did not seem possible that she was stronger than him, who was a stage-three martial lord.Such incredible achievement could not even be found in the two sects, three schools, and four clans of the cultivating world.Lorne seemed to gain more confidence at this thought."Who are you? How dare you kill Emmett Cooper in front of me? Have you any idea that you will have nowhere to go in Bactria if you offend the Coopers?"Quinn replied calmly to Lorne's questions, "It doesn'
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