Ch. 1401..1410
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 1401
Soon, the car arrived in front of the Porsche 911. It looked like Joel Quarters and Judy Larsen didn’t seem to be in serious trouble.
It was because Alex had used the Seven Blades of Death to puncture the rear tire of the car so that the car wouldn’t be overturned. Otherwise, it would have ended up in a car crash with deaths.
“Hey, you drove too fast. Your joy turned to sorrow now, right? Don’t worry, when I reach the finish line, I’ll send someone back to help you.” Alex said with a smile after poking his head out of the window.
The GLC increased the throttle and hit the back of the Porsche, knocking the vehicle out of the way a little before driving forward quickly. However, at this moment, Alex suddenly felt the mental power that had been locked onto himself became stronger and closer.
An unprecedented sense of crisis crept into him.
Bang!
There was suddenly a loud sound on the top of the car. A rush of heavy pressure hit the top of the car, as if a falling meteor beyond the sky.
“Not good!” Alex let go of the steering wheel directly and hugged Phoebe’s body while activating the Mystic Armor to the maximum power.
“Ahhh!”
A horrified scream tore out from Phoebe’s mouth.
Boom!
The entire GLC was flung up high in the air, and then dropped down heavily from the sky. The entire roof of the vehicle had collapsed.
Meanwhile, Alex, who was protecting Phoebe desperately, used his back to take the heavy blow. As a result, he spat out a mouthful of blood. When he looked up with difficulty, he saw a tall man in black standing in front of him while wearing a pig mask.
***
When Joel’s sports car had suddenly lost control and slammed into the stone wall, everyone from the Sakura Racing Club had already seen the footage.
Richard Dodge’s face had gone pale with fright If anything happened to Joel in his territory, the Quarters family would never let him nor his family off the hook. Therefore, he hurriedly called a large number of rescuers to head into the mountain to launch a rescue operation.
At the foot of the mountain, those rich, young heirs who had come to cheer Joel also screamed out one after another in disbelief.
However, just as these bunch of people were about to rush up to the mountain, another more shocking scene appeared on the big screen.
The GLC driven by Alex suddenly bounced up into the air for no reason, as if something had rammed right into the back of the vehicle… But, as the car bounced up and fell down, the monitoring screen suddenly went black. Nothing was visible on it anymore, as if the monitoring equipment had been destroyed.
“What’s going on?”
“Did the GLC have an accident? But, that scene was just too weird. It didn’t hit anything, yet it bounced suddenly. Could it be that there was an obstacle on the road?”
“Yeah, otherwise, that sort of thing wouldn’t happen!”
“Hurry up and take a look!”
Among these people, Cheryl was naturally the most anxious person.
When she sanoel’s car crash and broke down, she was secretly delighted. With that happening, Alex would definitely win the race, and that was for certain.
However, she didn’t expect that Alex’s car would also be involved in an accident. Furthermore, the surveillance footage happened to be gone as well.
Seeing the rescue vehicle was going to head up the mountain, she hurriedly stopped the car and asked to be let on. Facing a request from such a beauty, nobody could refuse her!
***
“Who are you?”
Alex looked at the man who was wearing the pig mask as his heart skipped a beat. He tore off the seat belt on Phoebe and kicked open the deformed car door, carrying Phoebe out of the wreckage.
During the entire process, the man with the pig mask didn’t move, but watched them quietly.
After a While, he said softly, “The Holy Book really deserves its name and reputation. I didn’t expect that you’d be able to rise to this level in such a short period of time. Given time, it won’t be a difficult matter to reach the top of the martial arts world!”
It was because he recalled. ‘Isn’t the Holy Book something my dad had once obtained?’
For that reason, Pepper Kimmich and those people from the Gokudo Soshiki had planned to let John Rockefeller seize his family’s properties and assets. He had been attacked many times too… This man actually knew about the Holy Book. Could it be that this man also knew his father?
“Who in the world are you?”
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“It doesn’t matter who I am! Most importantly, as long as you hand over the Holy Book, I will turn around and leave without bringing anymore trouble to you!”
This person spoke in a deep muffled voice.
If he listened carefully, he would find that the person’s voice didn’t come from his mouth, but rather, from his stomach… He had once read about a strange technique in the Ultimate Book of Medicine called ventriloquism.
He didn’t talk using his mouth. Instead, he talked through his stomach. Actually, this was a cultivation technique that used the inner force.
However, this technique required extremely high inner force to perform it. Those who did not have enough skills would definitely not be able to use it.
Because of this, when Alex heard the voice, he completely couldn’t differentiate the identity of the other party through sound at all.
“The Holy Book? What the heck is that, I don’t know anything!” Alex said.
The masked man shook his head. “I don’t have time to exchange nonsense with you. I’ll count to three. If you don’t give it to me, I’ll kill your fiancée right away.”
Alex’s heart skipped a beat.
He looked towards Phoebe. At this moment, she had long since fainted.
“She’s not my fiancée!”
“One, two…” The masked man didn’t listen to Alex’s explanation at all, and was extremely domineering.
“Three!”
Boom!
The moment the masked man counted to three, he slammed a ferocious palm directly towards Phoebe. Alex was startled. Never did he expect that the masked man would really make a move. Furthermore, it was so terrifyingly powerful upon making the move.
Alex hugged Phoebe and hurriedly moved three steps to the side, without daring to confront it head-on.
Boom!
The masked man blasted the road with an enormous amount of energy from his palm.
Suddenly, a huge palm print exploded on the ground, sending sand, dust and rocks everywhere. The road was severely damaged, as though it had just experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
Alex’s expression turned cold. He would never take a beating like this lying down.
He immediately waved his hand to launch a counterattack. “Lightning, come forth!”
Rumble! Rumble!
A thunderbolt struck down from the clear skies, aiming directly at the masked man.
The masked man was taken aback for a moment. He seemed to have not expected that Alex would have such a trick up his sleeves, but he was also an exceptional person.
He clapped both hands together and shouted, “Three Return Zeal!”
Around his body, a spherical shield formed, which protected him from the lightning damage, and not a single hint of harm was on him.
“F*ck, so awesome?!”
Alex couldn’t take the masked man down with one move, so he immediately brought out his strongest move.
“Seven Blades of Death, kill!”
It was one of the blades from the Dragon’s Bane of Thirty-Six, the Seven Blades of Death.
After it was out of its sheath, it turned into a giant sword as big as a door, and fiercely slashed down towards the masked man.
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
On the road in front of them, a ten meter wide trench was sliced directly. Forget about just the road, even the mountain had been destroyed. Countless rocks fell, burying the GLC under it As for the masked man who was holding up the Three Return Zeal, he had also been cut by the sword.
“Phew!” Alex breathed a sigh of relief. The sword earlier had consumed a lot of his energy.
Fortunately, the effect was good. The masked man should be dead.
However, at this moment, he heard the voice in his ear again. “The power of the magical treasure seems really powerful. It seems that the content of the Holy Book is far more advanced than I thought. Very good, very good indeed.”
Every hair on Alex stood upright. ‘He was still alive even after that?!’
Could it be that the one he had cut down was just an afterimage?
In the next second, he picked up Phoebe in his arms and turned around before jumping off the cliff and fleeing like crazy!
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The rescue vehicle that Cheryl was sitting in slammed the emergency brakes suddenly. The people in the car all looked forward with horror on their faces.
It was because there had been a burst of violent roar and explosion that shook the ground just now. Their position was still halfway up the mountain and still had quite a distance from Joel and Judy who had an accident ahead. But even so, they could feel the strong quake at this moment. Even the entire car shook and bumped around.
“W-What’s going on?!”
“Is there an earthquake?”
“Or did the car explode?”
However, there was no such a situation of raging blaze. Cheryl was worried about Alex and Phoebe’s safety, so she hurriedly shouted, “Hurry, drive faster! We need to save them!”
However, the driver was relatively a coward. As he wanted to turn around immediately, he hurriedly said, “No, the tremor is too strong. I’m afraid there might have been a strong earthquake, we have to turn around immediately! Let’s go!”
“As*hole, you’re rescue workers. There’s wounded in front of us now, yet you guys want to turn around and leave?! Do you even have professionalism and some human conscience in you?!”
The man in the passenger seat said, “God d*mmit, an earthquake is happening now. Our lives might not even be safe, and you’re talking about professionalism with us?! So what if I don’t have any ethics? Are you going to bite me for that? Hey, this lady looks very awesome. It happens to be a messy situation now, how about we take the chance to…”
When he said that, the other few men in the vehicle also looked very excited. They looked at Cheryl with a desire that looked like a pack of hungry wolves.
Even the man sitting next to Cheryl reached out his hand to touch Cheryl’s thigh.
Slap!
Cheryl lashed out, landing a heavy slap on the man’s face. The man’s face was beaten swollen in just an instant.
Well, Cheryl was someone who had obtained Immortal Doctor’s Legacy from Guilherme Extraordinaire. The energy that Guilherme stored in the Chaos Bead back then had basically been passed into Cheryl. Even if she had not stepped into the real path of martial arts cultivation, she was almost in the same situation as Alex when he had gotten his legacy. Her body had long since been reborn with tremendous changes.
When the other few men were still dumbfounded, Cheryl instantly chased them out of the car, and drove onwards on her own.
***
Whoosh!
After jumping off the cliff, Alex immediately infused his legs with the lightning attribute spiritual power, fleeing madly on the cliff. His speed was faster than a free fall. Like a blast of lightning, he turned into a stream of light. Jumping from a cliff of several hundred meters high, Alex held the unconscious Phoebe in his arms, landing safely at the bottom.
Alex turned around to look, but he found that the masked man was chasing after him closely.
It was as though the masked man had turned into a nighthawk, stepping on the cliff walls and chasing after Alex quickly, with a distance of thirty meters away from him at most.
‘Who the hell is this person?!’
Alex didn’t dare to stop, and hurriedly entered the forest, running frantically all the way.
However, he soon discovered that the guy behind him had used his mental powers to firmly lock onto Alex, as well as Phoebe. Even if he hid himself, Phoebe couldn’t do the same! He would never let go of Phoebe at this time.
“Seven Blades of Death, cut him down!” Alex willed the sword to slice down behind him.
A row of giant, towering trees were cut down instantly and collapsed as he tried to use them to prevent the opponent’s pursuit.
However, the effect was minimal.
As for that b*stard, he grabbed a thick branch and threw it over towards Alex.
Boom!
The branch was just too thick.
Even if Alex wanted to dodge it, he couldn’t do so while holding an adult woman in his arms. Under the circumstances of carrying a heavy load, his speed was also affected.
In the end, he could only use the Mystic Armor to resist it by force.
Borrowing the momentum, his speed increased by several points.
The mask man behind him watched him with cold eyes. Never did he expect that Alex would have such a strong desire to live. Moreover, his ability to resist the blows was beyond his expectation as well. The masked man was also chasing after him desperately while shouting, “Alex Rockefeller, stop and give me the Holy Book right now, and I won’t trouble you any longer! But, if you’re still stubborn, then don’t blame me for not holding back anymore! When I catch you later, I will not just kill you and that woman in your arms, but I’ll also go back and kill your mother. Believe me, I will do it.”
Alex also believed that the masked man would do what he said.
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However, he still had Aunt Rockefeller as his trump card. It was stupid to surrender now, just because of what the masked man had said.
While running, he asked, “How do you know that I have the Holy Book? If you tell me your identity, I will consider it!”
The masked man said, “Look, I’m wearing a mask just because I don’t want to tell you who I am! Don’t ask these sort of questions, if you really know who I am, then you really won’t be able to live.”
“Boss, I really don’t have the Holy Book. If you find the Holy Book, you can go to Japan and look for the Gokudo Soushiki.”
“Don’t try to mislead me, the Gokudo Soushiki don’t have the Holy Book in their hands at all. If they had it, they wouldn’t have helped John Rockefeller take over your father’s Rockefeller Group.”
In that instant, Alex was surprised. “How did you know that?”
The masked man replied, “Because the Holy Book belonged to me in the first place.”
“What?!”
“Your father was the one who had stolen its core, and then passed it on to you.”
“Huh?” Alex almost believed him.
However, soon, he remembered that it was the legacy from his ancestors, something that belonged to the Rockefeller family. It was the same as having a bloodline inheritance, Guilherme and Yuno could even testify to this point, and it definitely wasn’t the core whatsoever of the Holy Book.
Just then, there was no more road in front of him unexpectedly. It was another cliff. Under the cliff was the dark, endless sea.
Soon, the masked man managed to catch up to him and was in front of him.
“I’m giving you the last chance here, Alex Rockefeller. As long as you give me the Holy Book, not only I won’t kill you, but I won’t retrieve your martial arts! There’s no loss to you in this, right?”
Alex gasped for breath and said, “Boss, since the Holy Book belongs to you, you should be able to tell that I don’t know anything about the Holy Book!”
“So, you’ll be stubborn to the end?” The masked man said. “Okay, if you say so! Fine, this is the path that you’ve chosen yourself.”
The masked man raised his hand, with energy fluctuating rapidly in it.
A gigantic, transparent energy ball came crashing down. Alex could feel a fatal threat.
“Sword of the Universe, Seven Blades of Death, combine and kill!”
Boom!
As the combined swords slashed the energy ball, an earth shattering explosion sounded.
Alex opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.
If the Chaos Bead in his mind palace had not suddenly vibrated and blocked a large amount of atack, he would have died almost instantly.
The masked man was not doing very well either. He took five steps backwards consecutively. He really hadn’t expected Alex to be this strong.
The two Dragon Bone Swords suspending in the air in front of him made his heart filled with extreme greed.
‘Run!’ Alex clenched his hands and clutched Phoebe tightly before jumping into the sea.
He ran across the top of the sea, feeling towards the deeper part of it.
“Phew…”
The masked man watched for two seconds before slowly taking off his mask.
The face that was revealed was none other than the Lord Commander of Department Six, Grant Xenos!
The moment he took off the mask, the aura on his body roused up once more.
‘Alex Rockefeller, I originally wanted to admit you under my command, but now it seems that you’re just seeking for your death!’
‘Then, don’t blame me!’
He threw away the pig mask violently. His entire person turned into a black afterimage and leaped into the sea to chase after Alex swiftly.
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The sea was dark and stretched out endlessly. If someone were to look closely at this moment, he would be able to see a string of faint electric light moving quickly on top of the surface of the waters.
This was what Alex looked like while he was running swiftly after filling his legs with the lightning attribute spiritual power.
His two legs leaked a slight current due to the high running speed.
‘At the speed I’m running, I should have shaken that guy off, right?’ Alex thought to himself.
However, that faintly discernible mental power that had locked onto him was still there. His eyes shifted as he glanced to the back. At a glance, he almost started cursing.
That guy actually came after him again.
But soon, he quickly discovered something. The masked man’s pig mask had disappeared, revealing his real face. When Alex took a close look at the face, he was utterly stunned.
‘It’s the Lord Commander from Department Six, Grant Xenos!’
‘Sh*t, this is too much. This old b*stard, how shameless can he be!’
‘But, how could he possibly know about the Holy Book? And, he even believes that it’s still on me? And, he also said the Holy Book originally belonged to him?’
A barrage of questions popped into Alex’s mind.
He suddenly recalled something. His mother, Brittany, had once said that his father had been convicted of being a traitor to the country and his death was related to a very powerful force in America. Because of this, she had concealed the reasons and refused to tell him no matter what, fearing that he would suddenly get impulsive to offend the said powerful force, and then brought about murderous disasters.
It seemed that the powerful force was very likely to be Department Six, and the one behind it all, was Grant Xenos!
The important point here was that the old b*sard was currently standing in a translucent tortoise shell and speeding on the sea, as if he was riding a boat. Such means was just too shocking.
However, a whim struck him.
‘He has a tortoise shell, I have one too!’
‘No, no, that’s not right. Not only do I have a tortoise shell, but I also have the Sword of the Universe as well as the Seven Blades of Death.’
‘Imperial Sword Flight!’ The thought suddenly came to his mind.
There was such a thing in the legacy of the Ultimate Book of Medicine.
However, that was a technique that required someone to be promoted to the Core Formation realm in order to use it. However, he was currently on the sea. By borrowing the buoyancy of the sea, it may be possible to barely achieve the same effect.
‘Seven Blades of Death, expand!’
The Dragon Bone Sword could change its size at will. Under Alex’s will, the Seven Blades of Death became the size of a door, and he jumped onto it.
Swoosh!
The Seven Blades of Death flew forward above the sea. The speed was now three times faster than before.
Grant, who was following behind, was stunned after witnessing the scene. He muttered to himself, “Imperial Sword Flight, Imperial Sword Flight, the Holy Book… These are not martial art secrets at all, but cultivation techniques. They’re the secrets of the gods!”
At this moment, Grant’s desire for the Holy Book had reached another level.
Being in such a high position, he naturally came into contact with many more things than ordinary people. He was not a stranger to the path of cultivation. However, in today’s society, firearms were more revered, and the recovery of ancient martial arts had only started to pick up in the recent decades. As for cultivation… He had heard that the cultivation sects of thousands of years ago had long since disappeared, and there was no trace of where they had gone.
Even if there were legacies being passed down, they would still be incomplete.
In America, and even in the entire world, there were very few things of cultivators that had been heard about. The only source of information regarding cultivation was the Blood Cult that had fallen a hundred years ago!
‘I must have the Holy Book!’
The Lord Commander’s speed picked up sharply once again.
However, it still couldn’t catch up with Alex’s speed, which had increased three times. Furthermore, his speed was still increasing.
Seeing the gap between both parties getting bigger, the mental power could no longer be locked onto Alex.
To his surprise, thunder and lightning appeared in the front. A huge storm actually appeared on the sea at night.
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Under the effect of thunder and lightning, that little bit of mental power that Grant Xenos had on Alex became almost negligible, and soon, he had lost the hold it had on Alex and was shaken off!
“D*mn!” Grant was flustered and exasperated. He had thrown away his mask and even showed his true face.
He thought that he would be able to catch Alex in these desperate situations, but he didn’t expect Alex to have this kind of ability.
While he was floating on the surface of the sea and regretting his choices, a loud ‘boom’ came from the front of him. It was extremely shocking, and it sounded as though Alex’s sword that was flying had hit something in the sea.
He hurriedly gave chase. It was an island!
The dark surface of the night sea, coupled with the flashes from the thunder and lightning, the waves were soaring into the skies.
Alex had accidentally knocked into an island. And he had broken the small island.
He and Phoebe were soaked to the bones and embarrassed to the core as they fell into the sea.
It was at this moment that Grant arrived.
Alex roared. “Grant Xenos, as Lord Commander of Department Six, you have actually done such a shameless thing. Are you seriously that shameless?!”
Grant said, “I gave you a chance, but you didn’t cherish it. When you die, who else will know that it was I, Grant Xenos, who did it? It’s fine if you don’t want to give me the Holy Book, I’ll drag it out of your dead body. Die!”
Boom, boom, boom!
The two fought on the surface of the sea. They didn’t even notice that in the center of the storm, occasional lightning would strike.
At the moment when lightning struck, a strange image appeared beside it… It looked like an illusionary island that was broken, incredibly unreal as if it was just the corner of a painting. However, on the island, there was an incomplete palace building.
Clang!
The Lord Commander was seriously shameless.
Such a big shot had made a move against Phoebe, which forced Alex to save her. For that reason, Alex suffered a considerable loss and was assaulted repeatedly. If it weren’t for the Ultimate Book of Medicine that seemed to go against the law of nature and heal his injuries quickly, he definitely would have fallen from the blows he received.
This time, Alex blocked the attacks with the Seven Blades of Death.
However, the strong impact from the blow knocked Alex and Phoebe backward, flinging them into the air. At this moment, a flash of lightning happened to strike down.
The picture of the torn island appeared again.
At this moment, Grant was facing it, and he saw it clearly. He was stunned… Then, he saw personally how Alex seemed to have passed through a certain portal in space and entered the illusionary looking island.
“This..?”
Without any hesitation, he rushed in after them. Almost just before the painting like image disappeared, he plowed into it.
The scene had just been the raging seas and torrential rains with violent winds, but at this moment, it suddenly changed into a large, lush bamboo forest. Although it was still night, the wind blew gently, and the bamboo leaves swayed with it softly. It was as though they had stepped into a different world suddenly, and it made people feel mystified.
“A force field?” Grant had seen many things in his life, but he was still surprised.
The important thing here was that this force field was hidden in the depths of the sea, which was incredible by itself.
‘Could it be that this island and the palace in front were all within the same force field?’
At the same time, he looked at Alex, who had fainted but was still holding Phoebe tightly in his arms. “Hmph, what an infatuated idiot! You’re the same as your father. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be this helpless when dealing with you!”
Grant walked over and kicked Phoebe away.
Then, he was about to search Alex’s body when a lazy, ethereal voice said, “You kicked me and hurt me.”
Grant raised his head and looked at Phoebe. He sneered coldly, “What about it?”
Phoebe looked at Alex, who had passed out, then said to Grant, “Surrender, and I might consider sparing your life!”
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“Surrender?”
Grant Xenos wondered if there was something wrong with his hearing. This trash like weak woman that had been unconscious from the beginning, who had been relying on Alex to rescue and survive up to this point, was telling him to surrender. Now, wasn’t this a funny thing?
However, what made it more laughable was when Phoebe had said those words, she had said it like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Grant stopped searching Alex and faced Phoebe with a strange smile as he said, “Miss Larsen, you seem to have a lot of confidence. Where does it come from, I wonder? Even if your father were here, he would also kneel and bow his head once he sees my face and how angry it is. And you, you’re asking me to surrender?”
Phoebe?
Ah, the person who was talking obviously was not the real Phoebe, but Yuno.
She merely spared a glance at Grant, then looked at the island they were on. Especially the palace a few kilometers away that stood quietly in the dark. She saw something unusual, and for a moment, she smiled satisfactorily.
Faced with Grant’s question, Yuno replied, “Yes, that’s right. Actually, a person like you, even if you were kneeling in front of me last time, I wouldn’t even spare you a glance because you’re just too weak, and you’re trash. My patience is limited. I’ll give you ten breaths of time to consider. Surrender means you kneel. If you’re not willing to, then die!”
Grant couldn’t believe that such words actually came out of Phoebe’s mouth.
“I don’t even need to think about it! For Wayne Larsen to give birth to a child who’s mentally disabled, I will take on this difficult job and deal with you on his behalf!”
As Grant said that, he rushed toward Phoebe. He raised his hand, and the Three Return Zeal was up. Then, he slammed it down, aiming at Phoebe’s head.
Faced with such a deathly crisis, a force that could move mountains and overturn seas, not a single hint of fear was on Phoebe’s face, and she merely put up a finger.
However, Grant’s face changed as soon as she put up that finger.
The space in front of him suddenly felt like it had shackled him down. His Three Return Zeal seemed to have frozen, and he couldn’t make a single move forward. Even his body was stiffly frozen.
He saw endless mysterious runes bursting from Phoebe’s outstretched finger. In his eyes, it looked like a starry sky.
“No, no!” He could feel the threat of death looming over him.
Having lived such a long time, he had never felt such fear or helplessness.
‘This woman! Was she a god?!’
However, she was Wayne Larsen’s daughter. How could she have such strong powers?
“What now? Are you willing to surrender?” Yuno asked in a light and calm voice.
“I… I surrender!” The usually dignified Lord Commander went down on his knees with a ‘thud’. It wasn’t like he was sincere in surrendering, but the pressure from Yuno’s fingertips was so great that he felt as though he was suffocating, as though an entire mountain had been pressed down on his being.
His honest thoughts were, ‘F*cking d*mnit! How dare this little b*tch have me surrender? Just wait, I’ll give in today, but I will let you know eventually what it means to have offended me!’
Grant was the Lord Commander of Department Six, and he was as strong as a master at Martial Honor rank. Why would he kneel like this to anyone?
However, Yuno seemed to have some insight into his inner thoughts and calmly said, “You seem unsatisfied.”
Grant’s heart shook at that, and he hurriedly said, “No, I wouldn’t dare.”
Yuno shook her head gently. “It’s no issue. As long as you give in at this moment, I’m not afraid of the backlash from you later on.”
She thought about it for a bit, then tapped on Alex’s eyebrow. Soon, Alex woke up.
The moment he woke up, he saw Phoebe kneeling in front of him, and Grant, that old b*stard was also in front of him. The first reaction he had was to grab Phoebe by the waist and pull her close to him, violently retreating to the side.
After retreating for about hundreds of meters, he found that Grant did not chase after them, and he finally stopped. “Phoebe, are you alright? When did you wake up? Huh, where are we? Aren’t we supposed to be at sea?”
Finally, Phoebe let out a cold snort and said, “Unhand me!”
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“Huh? What do you mean, unhand you?”
“I’m asking you to release your hands!” Yuno’s tone had significantly fluctuated, and there was also a tremor in it
Alex was stunned, only to realize that his left hand was in an indecent place. In a hurry just now, he had grabbed Phoebe’s breast. No wonder the sensation under his palm had felt different.
“Oh, I’m sorry!”
Alex hurriedly took his hands off her.
And then, Yuno said, “I’m not Phoebe.”
Now, Alex was even more embarrassed. Yuno had come out, and he hurriedly said, “Ah, Senior Yuno. Um, what happened? Just now, I was knocked unconscious… It was Senior Yuno who saved me.”
Yuno said, “You’re just too weak right now! I don’t feel assured asking you to protect my body!”
“…That… Why is Grant, he… Why is he kneeling on the ground?”
“I got him to surrender!”
“Senior, that’s great!”
This was not flattery; it really was how Alex felt.
This Lord Commander was really someone that was difficult to handle once entangled with, and he had knocked out Alex at the end. If Yuno hadn’t rescued him, he would have been at Grant’s mercy.
“Have this guy be your servant from now on. At this stage, he still has some uses,” Yuno said.
Alex shook his head. “I’m afraid he won’t agree to that. Even if he somehow reluctantly agrees, I would still have to worry about him turning traitor, and I dare not use such a servant.”
“Don’t you know that there’s such a thing called Soul Contract in this world?”
Alex was taken aback. Then, a realization came to him. According to the Ultimate Book of Medicine, a Soul Contract was a contract used to restrain others. Once the person who had been restrained had the desire to kill the contract owner, the contract owner would feel it immediately, and with just a single thought, the contract owner would be able to control the life and death of the one restrained. It was very oppressive and domineering!
However, a Soul Contract was not an easy thing.
It had considerable high requirements of the spiritual consciousness that were required from the caster.
For example, Alex was now only at the rank of Divine Transcendence, and he had just manifested his spiritual consciousness. If he wanted to use the Soul Contract technique, it was equivalent to an idiot daydreaming.
“Senior Yuno, I’m just at Divine Transcendence rank!”
“I know. That’s why I will help you!”
***
At the same time, at Crow Mountain in Michigan. Cheryl and the others had already seen Phoebe’s Mercedes-Benz GLC, which was a decent, good car, had long since been turned into scraps of metal.
As for the roads of the track, it was in an even more terrible state. It looked as though a bomb had exploded here.
“Alex, Phoebe!” Cheryl was so anxious. Tears we pouring out of her eyes.
Judy, who had come out from the Porsche 911, had also arrived at the scene, but her expression was calm and indifferent. There was not a hint of sadness on her face. It was as though the person involved in the accident had not been her cousin, and happiness bloomed in her heart instead. With Phoebe dead, for the Quarters family to want to marry the Larsen family, Judy was the only person left that would be able to.
She smiled as she said to Joel, “This b*tch deserves it. Brother Joel, since my cousin is dead, I’ll marry you!”
Joel’s face was red with rage, and he slapped Judy without reservation. “You idiot!”
But very quickly, everyone soon found that there was no one in the wrecked car.
The people from Sakura Racing Club also pulled up the footage from the camera then. Before the camera was destroyed, the scene had been recorded.
Then, when the footage was played in front of everyone, their mouths opened in shock as they cried out in surprise.
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A person!
They saw a person descend from the sky and fall on top of the GLC that Alex was driving. They played back the scene in slow motion. They saw the man step onto the roof, and the roof exploded.
In such a situation, could the people inside the car even survive?
Even Cheryl felt that the hope was slim. Even if Alex was extremely powerful and could withstand that impact, what about Phoebe? She was just an ordinary person. How could she survive that blow?
However, where were the people inside the car? Where had they gone to?
The screen had no more footage after that.
“This… This is too exaggerated! Who is that man who fell from the sky, and where did he come from?”
“That’s not an illusion, right?”
“What do we do now? Report it to the police?”
“Call the police. We have to call the police. That’s Phoebe Larsen, the only daughter of Magistrate Wayne!”
Very quickly, the news reached Wayne and Grace’s ears. The husband and wife rushed over to check on the situation.
The first thought that ran through their mind was, did the people from Leviathan Gate appear again?
They tried calling Phoebe and Alex on their phones and had long since been unable to get through… When Alex fell into the sea a few times, both their phones had been soaked through, and it was spoiled. And now, they were on the mysterious island behind a force field, where they, even more so, couldn’t get any signal.
“What, Alex is missing?”
When Zachary got the news, he was taken aback. He quickly reported the matter to the president of the Divine Constabulary, Geronimo Melvis. Geronimo really liked this grandson of his right now. Perhaps because of that, the fondness he had for Alex had extended to the people involved with him. Or maybe it was because he felt guilty toward Brittany, and his focus was now on this mother-son pair.
Also, after he had seen Alex’s martial arts and cultivation, there was a thought in his mind that he wanted Alex to become the president of the Divine Constabulary.
Half an hour later, the Divine Constabulary came with a team, together with the police force from Michigan, the special brigade, and a large number of firefighters all rushed to the race track on Crow Mountain and launched a large scale search and rescue operation.
And so, the second son of the Quarters family was faced with the awe inspiring president of the Divine Constabulary.
“President Melvis, hello! I’m Joel Quarters, from the Quarters family. It’s a bit surprising to see President Melvis here.”
When Joel had been brought here by the people from the Divine Constabulary, he wasn’t aware of anything about the situation yet. He merely thought that this was a routine questioning.
Therefore, he was calm, and when faced with Geronimo, he spoke as though he was speaking to his peers. As a result, Geronimo gave a tight, big slap at Joel’s face. The blow also took out one of his big teeth.
Joel’s face instantly swelled.
He was utterly dumbfounded, and his eyes were fixed upon Geronimo. “President Melvis, why did you hit me? People from the Quarters family aren’t that easy to bully.”
The answer to his words was just another slap.
Slap!
This time, Joel fell to the ground with a thump.
Geronimo raised his leg to step on Joel’s chest. “The Quarters family is very amazing! I heard that you were the one to propose racing to compete against my grandson? Why? Is my grandson’s fiancée someone the Quarters family can set their sights on and yearn for? In front of my grandson, you’re not even an ant! Let me tell you, if anything happens to my grandson, you can wash that neck of yours and wait for me. I will take down your head personally!”
Joel felt the pain in his chest, and his face hurt even more than his chest. However, the shock in his heart was worse, and he almost fainted when he heard those words.
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“Y-Your grandson? Who is that?”
“Who do you think it is? It’s Alex Rockefeller!”
Whoosh!
Joel was stunned, speechless, and his eyes wide. No one had told him that Alex was Geronimo Melvis’ grandson!
This f*cking thing. Others might not know how explosive Geronimo’s fiery temper was, but Joel was very well aware of it. It wasn’t even a secret in Alaska, and some time ago, he had indeed heard of a grandson of Geronimo that had visited him. The Melvis family had been turned upside down, and two Grandmasters had even had to give way in the face of superior strength, making a strategic withdrawal.
This matter had spread like wildfire among the circle of the wealthy and young people in Alaska, and the stories sounded more fictional than real. Countless of them wanted to catch a glimpse of the true face of Geronimo’s grandson, and there were even countless celebrities in Alaska who wanted to spark something with him. Even Joel himself had wanted to get acquainted with him. Still, he never thought that he would so utterly refute the grandson of Geronimo, and Joel even wanted to throw a million dollars at him to chase away the so-called poor bodyguard.
At this moment, he thought to himself, wasn’t the Quarters family done for?
Just at this moment, Zachary came in to report, “President, there were suspicious traces found under the cliff.”
Geronimo turned around and left without any hesitation.
He followed Zachary to where Alex and Grant had jumped off from the cliff, and they saw clear footprints, which had sunk deeply, as though the steps had been extremely heavy.
“President, there are footprints of two people here.”
“Two people? Then, one of them must be my grandson. Fine, I knew it. How could my grandson die so easily?”
Soon, someone found a platinum earring on the ground. After Grace had clarified, it was confirmed that this was the earring Phoebe had been wearing.
At this moment, another person from the Divine Constabulary sent a message, “President Melvis, there are traces of a suspected fight breaking out ahead.”
“What do you mean, ‘suspected’? You mean it can’t be confirmed?” Geronimo asked angrily.
“President, this… It’s because it‘s quite weird. It doesn’t seem to be the results of the power of a human.”
“Really?”
As a result, everyone went ahead to take a look.
It was the many large old trees that had been chopped down, and the cut was extremely flat and clean. It was all cut at the same height, and it looked as though the trees had been laid on the cutting board and cut through. But, there were at least a dozen of those gigantic trees that had been cut down, and it stretched a few tens of meters forward and backward.
It couldn’t be that a forty meter long knife had been used to cut them all down in one swing, right?
“President, according to our observations, the last place they were at should be the cliff near the sea. We’ve found a pig mask!”
“It’s possible that they jumped down from the cliff, but… If they had jumped off from the cliff, then all the leads were gone, and it was impossible to follow up anymore…”
***
On the mysterious island.
Whoosh!
A mysterious and abstruse rune array had formed above Grant Xenos’ head. Then, it formed a miraculous Soul Contract with Alex.
Grant originally didn’t care much for it. It was such a mess array, what kind of contract was that? Who would believe you?
However, once the Soul Contract was formed, he instantly regretted it, because at that moment, he suddenly understood what it entailed. With the existence of this Soul Contract, his soul was shackled, and his life and death was now in Alex’s hands. Hecould no longer break free from it, ever!
If Alex wanted him alive, then he would live. If Alex wanted him dead, then he would die.
There was no room for negotiation.
For an instant, he had the thought of killing not only Alex, but also Phoebe.
But in the next moment, a sharp pain shot through his head, and it felt as though his soul was completely torn apart. The intense pain had him stumbling to the ground, holding his head and rolling. Finally, he crawled and creeped on the ground, constantly crying for mercy.