Ch. 1641..1650
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 1641
Alex hurried all the way and finally came to California’s Premier Hospital. Charles Carter had been hospitalized there.
He got to know from Brittany that Charles was currently in the ward V1510. The reason there was a ‘V’ in front was because it was a VIP ward. Apart from being a single room, it was also super luxurious. It was a new service launched by Premier Hospital, to serve only the wealthy people.
“Sir, I’m sorry, pets are not allowed in the hospital.”
At the hospital’s entrance, Alex was stopped by a security guard.
Who asked him to have a white cat on his shoulder?
“Meow…” Old Whitey was upset.
It wasn’t a pet, but it would get angry when someone said that it was a pet.
Just as it was about to teach the security guard a lesson, Alex held it down. “Old Whitey, this is the rule, and it can’t be broken. Wait outside for me, or…”
Unexpectedly, before he could finish speaking, the security guard suddenly had a 180 degree change in his attitude, and said respectfully, “Dear Miss Cat, welcome to California’s Premier Hospital. You are our most honored guests here, and you may go wherever you wish to.”
Alex was speechless.
He looked at the security guard. At a glance, Alex saw that something wasn’t right with the guard’s eyes. There was only the image of Old Whitey in them, and he even called it ‘Dear Miss Cat’… This was hypnotism!
“Are you really a female cat?”
Alex picked up Old Whitey and lifted up its hind legs to check its gender. Old Whitey screeched immediately, as though someone had stepped on its tail. With a whoosh, the cat’s paw landed on Alex’s face, leaving behind three lines of bloodied wounds.
“F*ck!”
Alex threw away old Whitey instantly. He reached out his hand to touch his face, only to feel a handful of blood. “Wasn’t it just checking your gender? Did you need to claw my face with a handful of blood? Great, now I have to get vaccinated for rabies. Do you have rabies in your body?”
“Mrrr…”
Old Whitey protested severely, with its hairs all on ends.
“Okay, okay. You’re a female, and you don’t have rabies. I’ll not give you a check-up in the future, okay? By the way, pet cats have to bathe every day. Do you want me to give you a bath?”
“Meow! Meow!”
“No? Then, I’ll just throw you into the washing machine.”
“…”
In the end, Old Whitey jumped onto Alex again and quickly shuffled into the collar of his clothes. Only then did Alex realize that this cat could become even smaller, as small as the size of his palm.
As it was winter now, Alex was wearing a coat as well. Old Whitey hid inside his coat, so no one could see it at all.
Click!
Alex walked into the VIP ward to find Charles lying on the bed. Meanwhile, Hailey was sitting on the stool by the aisle. They were looking at each other, without knowing what to do. The atmosphere seemed a bit weird.
“Brother Charles, Sister Hailey!”
After pushing open the door and entering the ward, Alex swept a glance at the two people’s faces.
The atmosphere… They seemed to be having an argument!
“Brother, you’re here!” When Hailey looked at Alex, her eyes were red-rimmed. If Charles had not been watching them, she definitely would have thrown herself on Alex.
Charles returned the greeting politely.
Alex’s gaze became weird as he scanned Charles’s body with the Third Eye… At this moment, Charles was seriously ill, and had very dark circles under his eyes. He was also lethargic, showing signs of severe kidney failure.
‘This… How hard had he worked at night to become like this?’
“Brother Charles, what happened to you? Are you planning to have a second child?” Alex asked.
Charles’s expression was slightly embarrassed. “There’s no such a thing!”
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Hailey criticized, “What do you mean, no? I think not only does he want a second child, but he wants to have another seven or eight children, to give his Carter family a soccer team.”
Alex smiled and said, “Then, you still have to relax a little and have one at a time! You can’t give birth to nonuplets.”
Hailey said, “Relax a little? It’s not me that he looked for, it’s some vixen outside. Humans can’t give birth to nonuplets, but it may be possible for a vixen to give birth to nonuplets.”
“Uh..?”
It was no wonder the atmosphere was so tense. It turned out to be such an incident.
“Cough, cough. Sister Hailey, don’t be angry. I think something’s not right with the situation, maybe there’s some secret…” Alex still wanted to cover for Charles.
To his surprise, Hailey followed up immediately. “What kind of secret? Isn’t it just a mess made by a dog and a bunch of vixens? There’s no secret. They were even caught by the police. It just put the entire family line to shame! A divorce! I, Hailey Lawson, do not have a husband like this!”
Having said that, she stormed out of the room in anger.
Alex stood there with an awkward expression as he was unsure whether he should stay or leave. But finally, he decided to stay and ask, “Brother Charles, what in the world happened? You were fooling around outside and even arrested?”
Charles let out a sigh. “I drank too much, and was muddle-headed. Sigh…”
“But, I see that there’s something wrong with your condition. I can tell that you have a serious kidney deficiency. If you continue on like this, your kidneys will be ruined! Even if you want to fool around with women, you don’t have to go to this extent, right?”
Charles replied, “I’m also puzzled. It was just one night’s effort, who would have thought…”
Alex checked his pulse. As a result, he found that the problem was more serious than what he saw.
It wasn’t just kidney deficiency, there was also severe loss of Chi and blood.
In other words, though Charles was now in his early thirties, his physical body was about the same as that of a seventy year old man. He didn’t look old now, but it would start showing in the outer skin in a few days.
“Brother Charles, I’ll be honest with you. Your condition is very serious. It’s definitely not something as simple as fooling around with a few women. I’m afraid that you’ve been plundered to replenish someone else’s energy. You’ve lost forty years of your life in an instant.”
“What?!”
Charles straightened up in shock. “I’ve lost forty years of my life? Wouldn’t I be seventy three years old then? How many years can I still live? Brother, save me, think of a way!”
Alex thought for a while before saying, “This situation is a little troublesome. Your body is already very weak. Even if you take the Rejuvenation Pill, you probably won’t be able to bear it. The only way right now is to find the one who has drained your life force. Maybe we still can get her to return your lost life force to you, but it needs to be fast. Tell me now, which woman did this to you. I’ll find her.”
However, Charles looked dazed and said, “I… I don’t remember much either, I was really drunk.”
After a pause, he said, “But, the police have arrested a few women, and they should be in the lock-up right now. Brother Alex, you must help me find her. I can only count on you, this hospital will not be able to help me at all.”
“Okay, I’ll think of something immediately.”
The situation was urgent.
Alex immediately contacted his beautiful apprentice, Anna Coleman. He briefly informed her of the matter, and asked her to look for someone.
Anna smiled and said, “Master, how interesting you are. You went missing for a month. The moment you reappear, you ask me to search for some prostitutes for you. Aren’t you afraid of the tigress roaring at home?”
“Don’t be so flippant, this matter is very urgent! Hurry and investigate it!”
“Alright!”
This kind of thing was a piece of cake for Anna.
Soon, she returned his call. “Master, I’ve found the people, they’re being held in Moonlight Branch. But when I asked about it, something didn’t seem right about the situation. I’m rushing over there right now. Let’s meet at Moonlight Branch.”
“Okay!”
Alex bid Charles farewell and left the ward. To his surprise, he bumped into Hailey outside. Hailey instantly threw herself into Alex’s embrace and started crying quietly.
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“Brother, what do you think I should do?”
“This b*stard, how can he do such a thing? He usually just messes around with one or two women, and I just turn a blind eye to that. But now, he has made himself into this state…”
When Alex heard this, he was slightly stunned. “Sister Hailey, you know that Brother Charles has other women too?”
Hailey replied, “What’s so rare about that? Men will become bad when they have money. How can you not expect them to cheat on their spouses? Look at yourself, how many women do you have now?”
Never did Alex expect that Hailey would shift the target of blame to him. He quickly changed the subject. “Brother Charles’s situation is a bit special right now. I’m afraid he has fallen into some ambitious person’s trap. I have to go and check if there’s any way to save him.”
“What kind of trap?” Hailey was taken aback.
Alex replied, “It’s hard to say right now. I’m going to investigate now. I’ll update you once I have any news.”
“Alright!”
Hailey left Alex’s embrace. Only then did she notice there were three scratch marks on his face, so she said, “What happened to your face? Did you get scratched by a woman?”
“Not a woman, but a female cat.”
“A stray cat? You gotta chill a little too. Don’t be like that b*stard, Charles and end up with a kidney deficiency and live a life of pure misery.”
“Cough, cough. I got it.”
Alex beat a hasty retreat. Otherwise, he might have to endure another scolding.
***
Soon, he arrived at Moonlight Branch. Anna had already arrived there earlier. Once they met up, Anna said, “Master, there’s something wrong with the case you’re investigating.”
“What’s the situation?” Alex asked.
Anna said, “I went to check it out. Among the several people arrested that day, there were five men and three women. All of them have problems with their bodies. The three women are still in good condition, but the men are all in a miserable state. Four of them are in the hospital, and the remaining one has just died.”
“There were problems with the women too?”
Alex was thinking about what kind of woman would be so vicious to drain the five men into elderly patients with kidney deficiency. As a result, now he found out that even the women had problems too, which was a bit strange.
Alex immediately asked Anna to take him to the three women. At a glance, he could tell that they also had severe kidney deficiency.
The plunderers definitely wouldn’t suffer from such a condition. In short, the plunderer was not among the three women, but it was someone else.
“Are there any other women?”
Anna was stunned for a moment. She immediately went to look for the captain of the patrol team who was in charge of the case that arrested these people. The man’s surname was Gillett, and he looked to be in his thirties.
Captain Gillett replied, “There were no other women. We received a report and went immediately to investigate the situation. When we entered the door, we saw five men and three women engaged in that kind of activity. At the time, we gained control of the situation and didn’t let a single person leave the scene.”
“Was it possible that the person escaped through the window?” Alex asked.
Captain Gillett shook his head. “Impossible, they were on the 18th floor.Who would dare to jump off? jumping down from there will only result in death!”
Alex didn’t think the same. For being able to plunder so many people ruthlessly, the person shouldn’t be some weak cultivator. It was not impossible for the person to escape from the window on the 18th floor.
“Take me to the scene.”
“Okay!”
Alex sat in Anna’s sports car, while Captain Gillett cleared the way in front of them.
Anna asked, “Master, do you suspect there’s someone else? And, it’s a woman too?”
Alex nodded. “In martial arts, there is a kind of evil technique that harms others while benefiting oneself. It’s called collecting Yang energy to replenish Yin energy, or collecting Yin energy to replenish Yang energy. Collectively, it’s referred to as the Plundering technique. Judging from the situation, the few arrested people’s vital energy have been plundered! I previously deduced that the plunderer would be a woman. But now, even the women have been plundered. It’s a bit strange.”
Alma replied, “Perhaps that person takes both genders.”
Alex shook his head. “That’s impossible, unless that person has both Yin and Yang energy.”
“Then, it means there are two people.”
After a pause, she seemed very interested and asked, “Master, does this plundering of vital energy can only be performed through that kind of activity?”
“What kind of activity?” Alex said.
“Oh, aren’t you asking an obvious question? Sexual activities, of course.”
“It’s not necessary. It depends on what kind of abilities and methods. The members of some sects would perform the actual thing, but there are some who would take it like drinking water.”
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“Brother, what do you think I should do?”
“This b*stard, how can he do such a thing? He usually just messes around with one or two women, and I just turn a blind eye to that. But now, he has made himself into this state…”
When Alex heard this, he was slightly stunned. “Sister Hailey, you know that Brother Charles has other women too?”
Hailey replied, “What’s so rare about that? Men will become bad when they have money. How can you not expect them to cheat on their spouses? Look at yourself, how many women do you have now?”
Never did Alex expect that Hailey would shift the target of blame to him. He quickly changed the subject. “Brother Charles’s situation is a bit special right now. I’m afraid he has fallen into some ambitious person’s trap. I have to go and check if there’s any way to save him.”
“What kind of trap?” Hailey was taken aback.
Alex replied, “It’s hard to say right now. I’m going to investigate now. I’ll update you once I have any news.”
“Alright!”
Hailey left Alex’s embrace. Only then did she notice there were three scratch marks on his face, so she said, “What happened to your face? Did you get scratched by a woman?”
“Not a woman, but a female cat.”
“A stray cat? You gotta chill a little too. Don’t be like that b*stard, Charles and end up with a kidney deficiency and live a life of pure misery.”
“Cough, cough. I got it.”
Alex beat a hasty retreat. Otherwise, he might have to endure another scolding.
***
Soon, he arrived at Moonlight Branch. Anna had already arrived there earlier. Once they met up, Anna said, “Master, there’s something wrong with the case you’re investigating.”
“What’s the situation?” Alex asked.
Anna said, “I went to check it out. Among the several people arrested that day, there were five men and three women. All of them have problems with their bodies. The three women are still in good condition, but the men are all in a miserable state. Four of them are in the hospital, and the remaining one has just died.”
“There were problems with the women too?”
Alex was thinking about what kind of woman would be so vicious to drain the five men into elderly patients with kidney deficiency. As a result, now he found out that even the women had problems too, which was a bit strange.
Alex immediately asked Anna to take him to the three women. At a glance, he could tell that they also had severe kidney deficiency.
The plunderers definitely wouldn’t suffer from such a condition. In short, the plunderer was not among the three women, but it was someone else.
“Are there any other women?”
Anna was stunned for a moment. She immediately went to look for the captain of the patrol team who was in charge of the case that arrested these people. The man’s surname was Gillett, and he looked to be in his thirties.
Captain Gillett replied, “There were no other women. We received a report and went immediately to investigate the situation. When we entered the door, we saw five men and three women engaged in that kind of activity. At the time, we gained control of the situation and didn’t let a single person leave the scene.”
“Was it possible that the person escaped through the window?” Alex asked.
Captain Gillett shook his head. “Impossible, they were on the 18th floor.Who would dare to jump off? jumping down from there will only result in death!”
Alex didn’t think the same. For being able to plunder so many people ruthlessly, the person shouldn’t be some weak cultivator. It was not impossible for the person to escape from the window on the 18th floor.
“Take me to the scene.”
“Okay!”
Alex sat in Anna’s sports car, while Captain Gillett cleared the way in front of them.
Anna asked, “Master, do you suspect there’s someone else? And, it’s a woman too?”
Alex nodded. “In martial arts, there is a kind of evil technique that harms others while benefiting oneself. It’s called collecting Yang energy to replenish Yin energy, or collecting Yin energy to replenish Yang energy. Collectively, it’s referred to as the Plundering technique. Judging from the situation, the few arrested people’s vital energy have been plundered! I previously deduced that the plunderer would be a woman. But now, even the women have been plundered. It’s a bit strange.”
Alma replied, “Perhaps that person takes both genders.”
Alex shook his head. “That’s impossible, unless that person has both Yin and Yang energy.”
“Then, it means there are two people.”
After a pause, she seemed very interested and asked, “Master, does this plundering of vital energy can only be performed through that kind of activity?”
“What kind of activity?” Alex said.
“Oh, aren’t you asking an obvious question? Sexual activities, of course.”
“It’s not necessary. It depends on what kind of abilities and methods. The members of some sects would perform the actual thing, but there are some who would take it like drinking water.”
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Alex didn’t fall down towards the ground, but he suspended in the air with the help of the Dragon Bone Sword’s flight power.
Then, he sniffed the faint sinister Chi, trying to look for the trail.
“Ahhh!”
“H-He… Who the hell is he?! How can he fly… How can he fly in the sky?!” Captain Gillett screamed, doubting his life.
Anna also ran to the window to take a look. Her eyes widened, and her expression was exactly the same as Captain Gillett. She had lived for more than twenty years, yet this was the first time she had seen something like this. However, she quickly regained composure and said, “What are you screaming about? You’re doubting your life just because of something like this? Then, if you see something even more amazing than this, will you faint? My master is the next president of Divine Constabulary, and he’s known as Master Rockefeller. These techniques are all very common!”
“Let’s go, we have to hurry and check the surveillance videos.” Needless to say, the proud look on her face was dazzling.
Soon, Alex determined the direction of the sinister Chi.
This was thanks to Old Whitey’s help. In terms of nose sensitivity, Alex couldn’t even measure up to Old Whitey.
On the other hand, the sinister Chi was weak in the air as half a day had already passed. Only a nose like Old Whitey would be able to lock onto that faint sinister Chi.
Alex was able to openly travel at a high speed because it was late night. Half an hour later, Alex came to a village on the outskirts of California. It was surrounded by mountains, with the running water facing south. It was quite a strategic place.
The sinister Chi led them to a certain house in the village. Alex and Old Whitey could feel it the moment they stepped into the place.
Ring! Ring!
Just then, Alex’s phone rang.
At a glance, the screen displayed a call from Dorothy. He hurriedly picked it up and spoke in a muffled voice, “Hello?”
“Have you not come back yet?” Dorothy asked.
“I’m back.”
“What are you doing? Creeping around?”
“Yeah, I’m chasing a demon.”
“What? Tell me your location, I’m coming right now.”
“This…”
“Are you chasing a demon, or are you chasing some female nymphs?”
“I really am chasing a demon, it almost killed Charles. I followed the trail to see what the heck it is.”
“Have you seen it?”
“Not yet, but I’m almost catching up to it.”
Dorothy, who seemed very interested, immediately asked Alex to send her to coordinates via Whatsapp. After sending his location, Alex hurriedly turned his phone into silent mode, then quietly followed the trail of the sinister Chi.
Just at this moment, a dark figure suddenly appeared in an alley and sneaked around. It was a man of about forty years old. Alex quickly stopped in his tracks and rushed to the side of a wall like a civet cat.
At this point, it was already eleven at night.
Alex felt strange. ‘What in the world was this person up to? Could it be that it’s related to the sinister Chi?’
At this moment, Alex suddenly saw the man climb the surrounding wall in an agile manner. Fortunately, there was an old locust tree in the yard of this family. Alex was blocked by this tree and was not discovered.
The next scene made Alex speechless.
The man jumped off the wall and entered the courtyard, still in a sneaky manner.
‘D*mn, it’s a thief!’ Alex thought.
He raised a finger and was about to stun the man in the air. To his surprise, the door to the house opened at this moment. A woman crept out from it and whispered, “Hey you, you’re just too bold. The one in my house is still sleeping, and you still dare to creep in?”
The man embraced the woman the next moment.
His hand even crept to the indecent area as he smiled and said, “What are you afraid of? Once your husband sleeps, he will not wake until it’s dawn at least. When I drank with him just now, I spiked his drink. Don’t worry!”
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“You’re so devious!”
“I’m not only devious, but I’m also a male adulterer!”
“Shameless! We’re still outside!”
“Outside is good so that we won’t wake your man. Come, hurry, hurry. I had already reached my limits a long time ago. Beautiful, tonight, I’ll make you queen…”
Alex sighed lightly. He thought it was a thief, but not this kind.
Looking at the movements in the yard and the noise the two were making, Alex suddenly thought of Luna. In the past month, what he had been doing with Luna was no better than the two in the yard, and it was even worse…
When he thought of that, he changed his mind about catching them by surprise and knocking them unconscious.
As the saying goes, he would rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage. If he were to surprise them now, this woman’s marriage would end up being tense, and in the worst-case scenario, people might even die.
He landed quietly and continued to move forward. Finally, he managed to pinpoint the location of the sinister chi.
It was a three-story house that was self-built. The iron door entrance was locked tightly and illuminated by a soft, dim light.
There were only two people inside it, a man and a woman. They didn’t look very old and were in their twenties.
The woman opened her mouth to speak, “Brother, my eyelids have been twitching the entire day. I feel that something is going to happen soon. How about we leave tonight and hide for a bit?”
The man was smoking. “Where can we go? We’re now pawns in that vicious woman’s hands, the machine that helps her collect human blood essence. Besides, her son will be here soon. If he doesn’t see us, then we won’t be able to get the antidote for this batch.”
The woman trembled when she heard those words.
“That ugly son of hers, what the heck is he? Whenever I see him, my hair stands on the ends! Brother, are we going to be forced to do her bidding for the rest of our lives? Something will happen sooner or later when we do this kind of thing! Department Six has already noticed us.” The woman was furious. “I don’t want to die like this, Brother. Is there no one who can cure this poison of us? What if we go to Alaska’s best imperial doctor?”
“No, we definitely can’t go to Alaska! Have you forgotten Mom’s warning? Many talented masters hide there, and they would be able to find out our identities instantly,” her brother said.
His sister slumped to the ground, crying. “I miss Mom.”
“There, there. It’s alright. Brother will protect you.”
“What’s the use? You’ve also been poisoned, and you can’t beat that vicious lady.”
Alex stood on the roof, spreading his spiritual consciousness outward. He was slightly taken aback when he heard the sibling’s conversation in the room. He didn’t expect that the two of them were not the mastermind behind this matter but were instead threatened to do it.
‘The vicious lady they were talking about, who was it?’
At this moment, the fluttering and rustling of clothes could be heard from the air.
Not far from him, Shooriyojou… Oh, it was Dorothy, who had taken on Shooriyojou’s appearance, was heading in his direction on flying arrows. She was dressed in white, and she looked like a goddess in the sky.
Alex glanced at her, then immediately became jealous. “F*ck, she’s already reached the rank of Nascent Soul!”
“Your progress is so fast, isn’t it?!”
It turned out that Dorothy had already broken through the Core Formation and achieved the rank of Nascent Soul. Alex had reached the rank of Core Formation, and he had wanted to show off in front of Dorothy before this. Now it looked like he was still below her.
Dorothy came to stand beside Alex and used her spiritual consciousness to do a sweep of the area. “The ones you talked about, it’s those two half-demons in this house?”
Alex nodded.
Dorothy had spoken without lowering the volume of her voice deliberately and was instantly heard by the siblings inside the house.
“Who is it?!”
“Get down from the roof immediately!”
The brother demon rushed out of the entrance, roaring in anger.
The corner of Dorothy’s mouth curled. “As you wish.”
Having said that, she jumped down, landing right in front of the man.
Alex followed her and landed on the ground too.
The man fiercely said, “Who are you people? What are you doing?”
“We have come to arrest you. You siblings are involved in the matter in the presidential suite of Dynasty Hotel, right?”
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When the man heard Alex’s words, his face changed instantly.
However, he took a closer look at Alex and Dorothy’s appearance and didn’t feel that they were powerful at all. Also, most of the people in this village had run out to find work, and there were only about fifty people left in the place. It gave him a bold idea…
“There’s only the two of you?” he asked.
“Yeah! How many more do you want?” Alex asked.
“Then, I can only express my regret. There are some things that you shouldn’t know, and once you do, you can only go to hell.”
The man’s gaze sharpened, looking fierce. After he finished speaking, he opened his mouth, and two fangs emerged from his gum. At this moment, Dorothy didn’t bother holding back or waiting as she reached out to slap the man on his head, and the man was flung into the air where he rolled once before crashing to the ground.
“Argh!”
The man opened his mouth to spit out a tooth. It was one of his fangs.
Now, he was angry but also scared. That was his fang. He was missing a fang now. How was he going to find someone to be his partner in the future? Missing a fang was crippled!
Roar!
“I want your life!”
He got up and threw himself in Dorothy’s direction. However, Dorothy’s cultivation level was very high now. She had already reached Nascent Soul. That was equivalent to being the top dogs of the entire country right now, and the people who had reached Nascent Soul were also known as bosses.
Slap!
Another slap. This time, the man’s other fang fell out too.
He fell to the ground, unable to get up. At this moment, he finally understood that this woman in front of him was not as ordinary as she looked on the surface but an exceptional master. It was him who had been too blind not to see it.
“A half-human, half-demon? It seems to be from the line of foxes, a real fox-spirit!”
Dorothy looked at the man carefully and chuckled as she said, “Was Charles’ blood essence sucked dry by him? That guy, can’t he tell the difference between gender anymore? This is a male!”
Then, she reached out her hand, motioning in the air, and lifted the man.
“I’ve never seen a half-human, half-demon before. Does he have a demon core? Do you want to dig it out and see?”
Dorothy was asking Alex, and the man in her grip trembled in fright.
They wanted to dig out his brain while he was still alive? As his demon core was in the center of his forehead, and it could only be found if they dug out his brain. These two people in front of him were even more ruthless than that vicious lady.
“No, don’t dig out my brother’s brain!”
A woman rushed out. It was the man’s sister. She looked enchanting and beautiful with a hint of coquettislmess. However, there were now tears streaming down her face. She fell to the ground with a thud and begged, “I’m the one who sucked the blood essence from those people in Dynasty Hotel. If you want to kill, then kill me! It had nothing to do with my brother. Please, let him go!”
Alex’s purpose had been to retrieve the blood essence, and he said, “Where is it now? Is it still here?”
“Yes, yes, it’s still here. I’ll give it to you now.”
The woman pulled out a few small bottles from the bag on her shoulder. The bottles were not big, and it was slightly smaller than those that usually contained ordinary flu medicine. There were seven bottles in total, and each of them held the life of a single person.
Alex took the bottles, placing them in his storage bag. This surprised Dorothy, and her eyes lit up. She smiled slightly.
“Are there any more?”
“No, no! We… We were forced to do that.”
“Who was the one who instructed you to do this?” Alex asked.
“It’s…”
Just as the woman was about to continue, a weird cry came from outside. It sounded like a cow, but also like a dog. When the woman heard it, she trembled. “He… H-He’s here?”
“Who’s here?” Dorothy asked.
The woman looked nervous. “It’s the Witch Doctor Sect Master’s son. My brother and I were threatened by the Witch Doctor. She forced us to take poison and made us help her collect blood essence. We didn’t do this voluntarily. We were forced!”
“The Sect Master of the Witch Doctor Sect?”
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After so many days, hearing news of the Witch Doctor Sect once again made Alex think of what happened at the California Medical Exchange Conference.
At this time, a boy who looked to be about ten years old walked straight in. Although he looked like a boy, his face was not that of a boy’s. There were a few hairs on his head, and his face seemed to have melted off. His skin looked mushy and sticky, and the teeth in his mouth looked more like bone outgrowth rather than actual teeth.
He basically looked like a monster.
“Ugh!”
Dorothy took three steps back, thoroughly disgusted by this thing’s face.
“Wisteria Haines, where is the blood essence?” the ugly boy asked grimly.
His voice was the same as his face. It sounded like broken bellows, incredibly terrible to the ears.
“Blood essence, blood essence…” The woman looked at Alex.
It turned out that her name was Wisteria Haines, and her brother’s name was Wynston Haines.
“Him? Haha, this kid is filled with blood energy, a good snack!” The ugly child looked at Alex, then at Dorothy. In his pair of strange eyes, desire shone. “This chick is good, just what I like. I’ll personally extract her. Wisteria, you’ve done well. I’ll give you an extra antidote for this.”
The guy looked at Dorothy and wanted to sleep with her. Dorothy felt disgusted hearing it, let alone think about that. She wasn’t even willing to personally kill him, so she said to Alex, “Kill him!”
“Kill me? Foolish talk, do you know whatl am?”
“Ugh!”
Just as the ugly child finished saying that, the Seven Blades of Death had instantly pierce through his throat.
“Ugh, ugh…”
The ugly child’s throat had been pierced, and his ugly face distorted. It was hideous, but he took a step back to release himself from the Seven Blades of Death.
He didn’t die.
The wound on his throat healed quickly. That horrible mush of flesh grew visibly in front of their eyes and quickly covered the wound. Not only that, he could still talk.
He let out an angry cry, looking at Alex with a murderous gaze. “You have dared to hurt me? You puny ant, I will eat you. I will dig out your heart and drink your blood.”
“That can be done?!” Alex was surprised.
In the next second, the Seven Blades of Death came out again.
The ugly child was aware of greatness when he saw it, so he quickly dodged. But, where could he hide? This time, the blade cut through his waist. Alex wanted to see whether the wound would regenerate and close up in this situation.
The ugly child let out a scream. Blood flowed from the disconnected part of his body, but there was a problem with the color of the blood. It was black.
However, the upper and lower part of his severed body squirmed and stretched, seemingly wanting to rejoin themselves.
Forget about Alex and Dorothy, even the Haines siblings were surprised. They had never seen such a scene.
“I suddenly remembered something!” Alex said as he straightened up. “In the California Medical Exchange Conference, when the Sect Master of the Witch Doctor Sect appeared, they also inserted a haunting fetus into their own stomachs. Could this be that same haunting fetus? But, that’s not right. Where did this lump of meat come from?”
As he talked, the ugly child’s upper and lower body parts were about to join together.
Alex slashed down once again. This time, lightning attributes spiritual power were embedded in the sword.
When the sword passed through the flesh, it also burnt it.
“Oho, I understand now!”
“Your Sect Master found a pregnant woman and moved the haunting fetus into her body, and that‘s how a deformed thing like you was born! The Witch Doctor Sect? It‘s just a simple crooked path! You have grown so much in such a short time. You must have taken in a lot of blood essence from people! No, you can’t be allowed to live. Go to hell!”
Just as Alex was planning to land the final blow, the deformed child unexpectedly shouted, “No, my mother is Carol Rockefeller! She’s your cousin! We’re relatives. You can’t kill me!”
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“Carol Rockefeller’s son?”
When Alex heard that, a strange expression appeared on his face.
Dorothy was even more shocked.
“So, you’re saying that your mother is Carol Rockefeller, and with a ghost son, which is you, she has managed to take the position of the Sect Master of the Witch Doctor Sect’s wife?”
“Hmph, what wife? My mother is the master of the Witch Doctor Sect!” the ghost child said arrogantly and viciously. “What are those ants in the Witch Doctor Sect worth? In front of my mother, they can only kneel and beg for mercy. Now, they’re all lackeys serving my mother. You’re my mother’s relative. As long as I tell Mother, you can easily be the deputy head of the Witch
Doctor Sect. When the time comes, you can have anything you wish for. These half-human, half-demons, you can do whatever you want with them too.”
Alex nodded. “It’s no wonder Carol has gone missing for so long without any news. So, she has gone to the Witch Doctor Sect and seized the position of the master. It looks like she has done the same as you and has killed so many people.”
At this time, the upper and lower parts of the ghost child had joined and healed again.
Not only flesh and blood but even his spine had been reconnected. It was a mysterious thing.
The haunting fetus took the chance when Alex was distracted to jump up, wanting to seize the opportunity to escape. However, at this moment, light from the blade flashed. It pierced through the center of the haunting fetus’ brows.
As a Core Formation, killing a haunting fetus was an easy task. This blow had immediately destroyed the soul of the haunting fetus.
Alex put away the Seven Blades of Death.
Alex then looked at the Haines sibling. “I’m curious about your origins. If you can tell me things that satisfy me, I can consider letting you go and also cure you of the poison in your bodies.”
“Are you serious?” Wynston said excitedly.
“Impossible, the poison that vicious woman, Carol, gave us is very rare. We’ve tried countless ways already, but we still can’t cure it,” Wisteria said, shaking her head. “Now that you’ve killed her son, she will go crazy! We’re done for. We’re finished! She’ll take her anger out on us and never give us the antidote.”
“Whether you believe it or not, do what you want,” Alex said. “I have nothing to lose anyway.”
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk!” Wynston said. “Our father is a fox demon who escaped the ancient forcefield thirty years ago during a natural disaster! Later, he met our mother in America, and they got married and had us.”
“The natural disasters that happened thirty years ago, ancient forcefield…”
When Dorothy heard this, she was inexplicably confused, but Alex understood everything at once. Alex had heard from Luna that many monsters had escaped the ancient forcefield during the turmoil thirty years ago, causing a catastrophe in America and causing countless deaths and injuries! Although the incident had managed to be settled and covered up, and there were only a few in America who knew about it now, the monsters that had escaped may not have been entirely wiped out.
At the same time, some greater demons had their cultivation base and had reached the level where they could transform and take on the appearance of humans. They blended among ordinary people and were difficult to be discovered.
“Where’s your father? I want to meet him!” Alex said.
He was curious about what had happened back then. More importantly, he was curious about the ancient forcefield. He wanted to understand and find out whether his father had really gone there.
“He’s dead!” Wynston said.
“Then, do you know anyone else who’s similar to your father?”
“No, none! Everyone who escaped that year has hidden among the ordinary people for fear of being discovered. Who would dare tell others who they are?”
Alex pulled out two Antidote Pills. “The poison in your body isn’t difficult for me. Take this. It’ll cure you!”
“Go on and leave then!”
The two half fox demons were skeptical but were still quite hopeful.
However, the most urgent thing to them right now was to leave this place.
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When the Haines sibling heard his words, they immediately took the pills from him and left the place hastily.
“It looks like your bounty this time from your trip is quite a lot. You’ve even gotten a lot of secret information!” Dorothy said as she looked at Alex. “Take out the storage bag and let me have a look. ”
Alex smiled and said, “There’s indeed quite a big harvest, and I’ve also heard some terrible news. But, it’s not as amazing as yours. How did you reach Nascent Soul? Isn’t that a little too fast? I heard that if you break through too fast, there would be side effects and consequences. Aren’t you afraid that your foundation base will be unstable?”
“No, I’m not afraid of that,” Dorothy replied.
Alex then told her what he had learned, as well as the matter about the ancient forcefield. Then, he took out the storage bag. “Here, this is for you! I found two in the Spiritual Valley Dungeon.”
Dorothy took it, looked at it, and was stunned. “So many spiritual stones?”
“We’ll have to split this bounty,” Alex said. “That’s all there is. Hmm, Old Whitey was the one who took me to it, so we gotta leave some for it too.”
Dorothy looked at Old Whitey, a hint of admiration and envy in her eyes. A spiritual pet was not something that just anyone
could just get their hands on.
However, she didn’t know that Old Whitey was not just a spiritual pet.
“In other words, the world is far more complicated and dangerous than what we can see on the surface!”
Dorothy said. “But, you can’t say it’s a bad thing. On the contrary, this means that our world is not a low-level planet.”
“What do you mean?” Alex asked.
“You still don’t understand it now,” Dorothy said. “But, you will understand it in the future.”
Alex was flabbergasted. “The more I listen, the more confused I am. I feel like there’s something different about you. Is it the difference due to you reaching the realm of Nascent Soul?”
Dorothy glanced at him, then shook her head. “I just wanted to tell you something.”
“You’re so solemn. What’s the matter? Are you pregnant?”
“It’s more serious than being pregnant.”
“No way? Are you… Pregnant with twins?”
Dorothy shook her head, then embraced him and said, “If one day, I become another person… Just remember, no matter what, no matter what I become, you cannot, must not ever let me go. You have to chase after me.”
Alex’s face changed. “What do you mean? Are you talking about being possessed?”
His heart fell in his chest. If this sort of thing happened, he definitely wouldn’t allow it. He’d get her back, no matter how many hardships he had to go through.
“It’s not possession!”
Dorothy flipped her hands, pulling out something from her mind palace. It was a colorful stone, and it was glowing. More important, this stone gave Alex the feeling that it was even more potent than the Chaos Bead he had.
“What is this?” Alex asked.
“It’s called the Reincarnation Stone,” Dorothy replied.
Alex blinked as though he realized something.
Dorothy said quietly, “This is the reason why my cultivation base has soared suddenly. It’s because of the Reincarnation Stone, that is to say, I’ve been reincarnated from my previous life.”
Alex fell silent.
He thought of Daya.
Daya had always been the one to have dreams about reincarnation, but no one would have expected that Dorothy had experienced it firsthand! Being reincarnated was not a terrifying thing, but the fact that her soul had retained the Reincarnation Stone meant that preparations had been made before Dorothy had reincarnated.
When the soul inside the stone awakened, it was possible that Dorothy would become an entirely different person.
Alex’s heart tightened, and he hugged her waist. “You… Did you recall something?”
“When I broke through and reached Nascent Soul…”
Dorothy said. “I remember my name from my previous life. She was called Xienna Stoermer.”