Ch. 1801..1810
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 1801
The person brandishing his blade was also a Combat Department instructor in Flying Eagles Academy, Tegan Qualle. Jason was the best sword cultivator, whereas Tegan was the best sabre cultivator.
Indeed, Flying Eagles Academy had gotten information on the secret realm of Kala Temple, and the acquired information was arranged by Spencer’s people. Spencer expected that after receiving the information, Flying Eagles Academy would take some time for discussion before they entered the secret realm, but he had made a miscalculation… It was because the situation at the Dragon King’s Grotto was not known after the two Flying Eagles Academy’s principals had entered it with many masters from the academy. And, the battle within the ancient force field was also getting dire.
Recently, the news came by saying that the Five-star Warlord, Jade Benmore, may be in a bad situation, so the higher-ups had given firm orders that the academy had to do everything possible to stabilize the situation and send reinforcements as soon as possible to search for the whereabouts of Jade and the others.
Therefore, after receiving the news of the secret realm, Flying Eagles Academy immediately sent someone over to take charge and explore the place.
They hoped that they could find a glimmer of hope within the secret realm.
This time, Jason and Tegan led the teams. In addition, thirty strong academy students were urgently summoned to enter the secret realm and explore it. The thirty students, who were accompanied by five instructors, had already entered the secret realm.
Meanwhile, Jason and Tegan were guarding the entrance. They carried a special magical device that enabled them to keep in touch with the people within the secret realm. If an unexpected situation arose inside, Jason and Tegan would immediately head in after the people requested for a rescue.
This was a kind of adventure, but it was also a kind of practical training.
A practical training in a secret realm generally had a low risk factor, which could not be said the same for the battlefield within the ancient forcefield. Therefore, the academy was willing to allow the students to enter the new secret realm to train and accumulate combat experience. It was also a necessary course that could increase die chances of survival on the battlefield in the future.
As for the sabre cultivator, Tegan, his temper was even more explosive compared to Jason. When he heard Spencer’s words, he went through the roof immediately.
“Are you deaf? Didn’t you hear what I said?! ”
“This area is under Flying Eagles Academy’s jurisdiction, and I’m an instructor of Flying Eagles Academy. How dare you wish to kill me? What right do you have?”
“Come here, kneel down and apologize. Tell me, why the hell do you want to kill our students from the academy?”
Spencer gave him a cold look. “You’re asking me to kneel down and apologize? Are you even worthy?”
He didn’t stop his advance. He turned his gaze towards Alex and said, “How about it? Do you agree with the proposal I just made? Sign the Soul Contract and be my servant for fifty years, and then you will be free after that!”
Alex directly replied, “No way!”
Meanwhile, Tegan, who had been ignored and treated like air, was furious. He tightened the grip on his sabre and he thrust it in Spencer’s direction. “Stop right there! If you take another step forward, I shall kill you!”
Spencer shook his head. “The instructors of Flying Eagles Academy are getting worse by the generations.”
Having said that, he took another step forward. “I’ve taken another step. How are you going to kill me?”
Tegan rushed forward immediately.
Alex reminded, “No, don’t! He’s a Tribulation Crossing expert!”
However, Tegan didn’t believe that, with a sneer on his face.
‘A Tribulation Crossing expert? Do you even know what kind of existence a Tribulation Crossing expert is? You probably don’t even know what Tribulation Crossing is!’
And so, Tegan’s movements did not stop even a little. “Stars and Sea Strike!”
He brought out his most lethal move.
Meanwhile, Spencer just slapped him casually. That gesture he made was like one swatting a fly.
Boom!
Tegan flied together with the sabre that he swatted slammed onto the ground.
Within Kala Temple, even the ground seemed to be protected by certain rules. The blow from the Tribulation Crossing expert, Spencer, had directly smashed Tegan into a mush of flesh and even shattered his sabre, but the green bricks on the ground didn’t show any signs of damage at all. It even let out a bell-like echo.
Tegan had been slapped to death with just a single blow. His soul floated out from his body, looking like a miniature version of himself. His face was full of disbelief and felt a great fear. Never did he expect that he would be killed just like that.
What was more unexpected was that the man in front of his eyes was really a Tribulation Crossing expert
Even Jason was stunned.
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Two seconds later, Jason summoned his natal flying sword and said to Alex and Dorothy, “Hurry, go inside till the end, and the secret realm’s entrance will be there. Find the students inside and tell them what happened here!”
Jason planned to fight to the death here.
However, he couldn’t even beat the Fairy Doctor. He was just a half-stepped Spirit Severing cultivator. How would he be able to deal with Spencer?
“Instructor Moss, don’t force yourself! Don’t make unnecessary sacrifices! ”As Alex shouted, he pulled out another paper doll and pinched his fingers to evoke an ancient rune, pulling Tegan’s soul into the paper doll in his hand.
It actually turned into the “alive Tegan” once again.
Boom!
Jason was already facing off against Spencer with his sword in hand. Jason was stronger than Tegan, and the flying sword
was not a common item, but a half-mystical tool. He was able to launch five moves before Spencer defeated him. His body fell to the ground heavily as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The paper doll that Tegan had possessed suddenly yelled, “Go, both of you, hurry and go!”
He rushed towards Spencer and wrapped his arms around him, yelling continuously.
At first, Alex intended to use his abilities to save Tegan, but he didn’t expect the instructor would make such a choice. Seeing him doing this made Alex aware that it was extremely difficult to ensure Tegan’s chance of survival. If Spencer were to simply slap him one time, his soul would be gone.
In the midst of busyness, Alex pulled out another Paper Doll Curse of Three Realms.
“Three Realms Decree, ghosts and gods. Descend!”
“Paper doll as the world, fresh blood as essence. Unite!”
Alex used his own blood and quickly completed the Paper Doll Curse.
Tegan’s body immediately inflated like a ball, becoming three times its size in an instant. The arms around Spencer grew firmer, and the exerted strength was also surprisingly great. At this time, Alex pulled Jason and rushed into the inside with Dorothy, seeing a dark portal at the end of the path.
Dorothy reminded him that the portal was right there. Alex didn’t think about it at all, running head first into it!
They went through the same dark, suffocating feeling they felt when they previously passed through a portal. Two seconds later, Alex felt a fluctuation from the Chaos Bead in his mind palace the moment he passed through the portal.
“What’s going on? Is there something inside this secret realm?”
When he raised his head, what he saw was intriguing.
Kala Temple stood in front of him once again. He appeared at Kala Temple’s entrance again… It was as though the portal had transported him right back to the entrance once again.
“Are you serious? Did the portal send us to the wrong place?”
The bigger problem was that Dorothy was gone, and even Whitey was gone. Only Jason was with him!
“What happened?”
“Dorothy, Whitey…”
Alex immediately became anxious and looked around, wondering if they had been caught by Spencer. But, they had clearly entered the portal together!
Jason coughed twice before saying, “Stop shouting, they’re not here.”
“They didn’t come in?”
“They did! It’s just that the portal of Kala Temple is a little weird. The point of entry into the secret realm is not fixed, and it’s random. We were teleported here, but they may be elsewhere.”
Alex was stunned. “Such a teleportation portal exists?!”
However, when he thought about it, it was probably better that such a portal existed. In that way, Spencer wouldn’t be able to find them right away.
“Then, why are we back at the entrance?” Alex asked.
Jason shook his head. “This is the real Kala Temple, the one outside is just an empty shell! Look at this stone monument, doesn’t it look bigger than the previous one?”
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As Alex raised his head to take a look at it, he was immediately surprised.
This was not just bigger than the previous one. It was much larger than the previous one.
Looking at the stone monument from the position that he was standing in, he found that the majestic stone monument extended all the way to the sky and penetrated into the clouds, yet he couldn’t even see the end of it. The two words ‘Kala Temple’ also gave off a more mysterious vibe and wondrous charm than the one before.
“This…” Alex looked at the stone monument, then to the temple’s high wall that was numerous times taller than the previous one he had seen and the huge gate that was hundreds of meters tall. Alex’s mouth dropped open, unable to be closed.
“Could it be that we’ve become smaller instead?”
Otherwise, what other explanation was there to this strange phenomenon?
Jason said, “You could put it that way too. Everything in the universe is relative. The real body of this secret realm is Kala Temple, but the lake outside it isn’t large. According to logic, a normal space would neither be able to accommodate a huge temple like this nor the stone monument. This place can be understood as a dimensional space.”
Obviously, Alex knew what a dimensional space was. It was a place connected to another void, just like this storage purse.
At this moment, the Chaos Bead in his mind palace vibrated more violently, pointing him straight towards the inside of Kala Temple.
At the same time, Alex said, “Let’s go!”
On the one hand, the vigorous state of the Chaos Bead indicated that it had discovered something good for sure. And, Alex also didn’t know the location of Dorothy and Whitey’s landing point. He needed to find them soon so that they would not run into Spencer alone.
However, Jason had been injured by Spencer just now, and his injuries were quite serious. Alex took a look, then pulled out a healing pill from his storage purse and handed it over to Jason. “Instructor Moss, this pill is effective for you. Hurry up and eat it. I’ll treat you after that.”
Jason glanced at it before leaning closer to smell it. “This… This is a Nine Tripod Cauldron Rejuvenation Fill, a fifth-grade pill! Where did you get it from? Did the Fairy Doctor give it to you?”
Alex shook his head.
Jason said, “That’s true. The Fairy Doctor can’t concoct the Nine Tripod Cauldron Rejuvenation Pill, because she doesn’t have the recipe at all. Previously, someone came and asked her for it, but she couldn’t concoct it… Y-you’re just going to give it to me so casually?”
As he said that, he shook his head. “This pill is too valuable, I can’t accept it.”
Alex said, “Just eat it. I have a lot more.”
“What?!”
“I concocted it myself. If you feel embarrassed, just gather one batch of its materials for me once we get back! The situation now is special, the guy just now is very strong. He’s Spencer Queen, one of the Three Heavenly Kings under the Left-wing Lieutenant, Colton Lawrence from the Flying Eagles. Since you’ve run into him chasing after me, he will definitely kill you too! So, hurry it up!”
When Jason heard that, he was stunned. Of course, he knew about the Heavenly King, Spencer Queen.
“So, he’s Spencer Queen!”
What surprised him even more was that Alex could concoct the Nine Tripod Cauldron Rejuvenation Pill.
Under Alex’s urging, Jason ate the Rejuvenation Pill.
Immediately afterward, Alex placed the Zharvakko talisman that he had prepared early on Jason. In just a few seconds, Jason could feel that the injuries on his body were recovering at an incredible speed.
He would be able to move freely soon.
“Y-you… You’re simply a miracle doctor!”
Alex wasn’t interested in Jason’s surprised reaction, so he quickly rushed towards Kala Temple’s entrance.
As a result, Alex felt something wrong when he stepped in about three hundred meters from the entrance. He had entered a spell formation.
Dorothy was right.
This secret realm really did have a mysterious spell formation. He already encountered the spell formation before he even entered the entrance!
Jason, who followed behind him, asked, “Why did you stop?”
Just as he said that, the magical device that allowed him to contact the academy students lit up. There was something like a compass on it, with an arrow pointing straight towards the southeast direction.
“A student is in danger, I have to go over there immediately!”
As Jason said that, he rushed towards the southeast direction right there and then…
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“Don’t move! ” Alex shouted a reminder.
However, it was too late.
Jason rushed over a dozen steps but be triggered the restrictions on the spell formation. An imposing and majestic force suddenly rushed up from the ground, turning into a Shura phantom before slashing at Jason.
Boom!
The sword wielded by the Shura phantom was not real. However, the tremendous power was not illusory.
It beat Jason and sent him flying to fall hard back to Alex’s feet. Fortunately, the Shura phantom did not mean to kill people. Otherwise, with its sudden appearance and that blow, even if Jason didn’t die, he would have suffered serious injuries.
At this moment, he got up to his feet slowly. “Holy s*it, what the heck was that?”
Alex said, “It’s an Octagon Tiger Prison Formation. If you rush around blindly, you will be harmed by the restrictions placed on the spell formation.”
“Octagon Tiger Prison Formation? Why have I never heard of it before?”
“You don’t know spell formations, it’s normal that you haven’t heard of it”
Jason scratched his head, then said, “Oh right, I remember now. I heard that you previously joined the Formation Department. So, can you break this spell formation?”
“It shouldn’t be a big problem, wait a bit.”
After saying that, Alex began to break the spell formation.
After experiencing the incident earlier, Jason didn’t dare to make any moves. He sat down on the ground and pulled out a pack of cigarettes before smoking it happily.
He also threw a cigarette at Alex. “Here, have one!”
When Alex was in university, he used to smoke as well. However, he stopped after getting together with Dorothy! Anyway, he did not have a habit of smoking, so it didn’t matter whether he quitted smoking or not. At this moment, he took the cigarette and ignited a ball of Elixir Fire on his fingertip, lighting the cigarette.
Jason asked Alex, “Why is Spencer Queen chasing you down?”
As Alex worked on breaking the spell formation, he replied, “It’s a personal thing.”
“Brat, you have so many tricks.” After a pause, Jason continued, “You said your blade is a divine artifact, and it holds its own Sword Intent Edict. Can you show it to me again? Don’t worry, I won’t snatch it from you.”
Alex shook his head. “No can do.”
Then, he added, “This natal magical treasure is like a wife. I’ll never lend it out.”
“What a pity!” Jason puffed out a smoke ring.
Meanwhile, Alex managed to break the formation when Jason puffed half his cigarette.
“Let’s go!”
“So fast?”
The Octagon Tiger Prison formation was actually similar to playing tic-tac-toe. As long as he could find the core and tricks of the spell formation, it wasn’t difficult to break it! After breaking the formation, the orientation within it moved, causing another scene to appear in front of their eyes. As a result, the two of them saw another three people sitting not far in front of them.
It was a man and two women. All of them were from Flying Eagles Academy.
“Instructor Thompson!” Jason saw them and ran over immediately.
Among the three of them, one of the women was also an instructor like him. Her name was Juliette Thompson. She was from the Smelting Department, so she was very proficient in magical treasures and even had quite a lot of achievements in the archeology field. That was why she had followed along to enter the secret realm this time.
At this moment, she was sitting slumped over on the ground, obviously injured.
“Instructor Moss, thank goodness you’re finally here! Or else, I really wouldn’t know what to do. We hadn’t even entered Kala Temple’s entrance, yet we ended up trapped in this spell formation until now, ” Juliette struggled to stand up as she spoke.
The other man and woman had also stood up.
Just then, as soon as the woman saw Alex, she exclaimed and rushed over to him immediately, throwing herself into his arms. “Alex Rockefeller! Why are you here?”
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“Luna Flores?”
Seeing the familiar woman in his arms, Alex was stunned and was slightly panicked.
His wife was in the secret realm. Would she see this?!
This was probably the same inner thoughts of all cheating men at this moment. On the other hand, when Jason at the side had a clear look at Luna’s face, his mouth instantly dropped open in surprise.
‘Luna Flores is Principal Henderson’s biological daughter. Why is she hugging Alex? Oh, no, not only hugging, she’s also kissing… Oh my god, how can this little devil be so proactive? She hasn’t been interested in any men. But now, she looks like she’s forcefully kissing Alex!’
Juliette also had similar thoughts as him.
Meanwhile, the other male student beside them had a somewhat dejected look in his eyes… This wasn’t anyone else but Stan Cooley, the student from Flying Eagles Academy whom Alex had beaten in a match on his first day and learned barking several times after the loss!
Seeing Luna jumping on Alex and making out with him so passionately, Stan was extremely envious and hateful!
Luna was a beauty with lofty status and a high cultivation base. She was definitely a goddess that thousands of people sought after. In addition, many people already knew about the news of Maxwell Lawrence’s death… Now that they were trapped in the spell formation and unable to leave, Stan wasn’t depressed, but he even felt that it was a blessed opportunity for him to get closer to the goddess.
It may even become a praised tale on everyone’s lips. Unexpectedly, a tale would still bloom from this, but the male lead would not be him. Instead, it became the guy whom he resented deeply.
“Get down!” Alex said.
“No!”
Slap!
Alex slapped Luna’s back. It felt as though he had hit everyone’s heart at the scene. It felt particularly surreal, but it was the reality.
“What are you doing here?” Alex asked, clearly in a bad mood. Now that Spencer was in the area, Luna would also be in danger.
Luna answered evasively, “I heard that you’ve killed Maxwell Lawrence, right? The Lawrence family is out for your head now, is that true?”
When this statement came out, the few people present were shocked. They didn’t know about this before.
“I didn’t kill Maxwell Lawrence, but that’s not the point. More importantly, your second aunt, Jade Benmore, is dead now. The Lawrence family is going to rebel, and Spencer Queen is here. He will not let anyone here off the hook.”
Having said that, Alex couldn’t help but blame himself a little. If he hadn’t come here, maybe these people wouldn’t have been implicated, and the sword cultivation instructor whom he met at the entrance just now wouldn’t have died either!
“What?!”
“Commander Benmore… is dead?!”
“How is that possible? Commander Benmore is the strongest person in America, perhaps even the strongest of all mankind. How could she die? If she really is… Then, the Flying Eagles are done for. Without the Flying Eagles led by Commander Benmore in the ancient force field, there’s no way to stop the demonic beasts’ attacks there. They will break through the defense line soon. When the time comes, all of humanity will be in danger.”
The few people’s minds were completely stunned by Alex’s news.
Including Luna, who was now alarmed and fearful. She hurriedly climbed down from Alex and asked, “Where did you get the news?”
Alex said, “Spencer Queen said it… Actually, I suddenly recalled that I heard this by chance from Maxwell Lawrene two days ago. At the time, he mentioned in one sentence that Jade would be powerless to protect herself and she’s most likely dead in Myriad Demon Valley. Coupled with the way Spencer spoke about it, it can be concluded that it’s more or less a conspiracy by
the Lawrence family.”
Jason agreed. “Flying Eagles Academy only got the news this morning, stating that Commander Benmore may be in trouble. The source of the news was also from Left-wing Lieutenant Lawrence, but it’s delayed by two days! Anything could happen within two days’ time! It’s even enough to kill Commander Benmore in Myriad Demon Valley. This Colton Lawrence is simply a sinner of mankind!”
Jason cried with grief.
“What about Instructor Quelle?” Juliette asked.
“He’s killed by Spencer,” Jason replied.
Juliette’s heart skipped a beat “Oh no, we’re currently only on the periphery of Kala Temple. The teleportation portal that we took to come in will teleport us all to different locations. If other students encounter Spencer, will they also be in danger?”
At this moment, the Chaos Bead in Alex’s mind palace vibrated even more vigorously.
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However, this time, because the Chaos Bead was entangled on the Chaos Tree, it didn’t fly out on its own, but swayed constantly on the tree.
“I’ll go in and look!” Alex said and then looked toward Luna. “Spencer is a master at the rank of Tribulation Crossing, and he can kill people without blinking. You shouldn’t go! All of you should stay inside this Octagon Tiger Prison Formation. Here, I’ll tweak the formation a little, and it’ll be the safest place now.”
However, Luna disagreed!
On the other hand, Jason and Juliette were instructors and couldn’t accept being protected by a student by hiding out in a formation and not daring to go out. How would they face their students in the future if they did that?
As a result, at this moment, the hundred meter tall gates of Kala Temple slowly opened, and two students from the Flying Eagles Academy fled out from it in a panic. They had blood covering their heads and faces and were shouting, “Help, who can help us? Instructor Moss, Instructor Thompson, where are you guys?!”
The magic treasure in Jason’s hands was making loud noises.
“What’s going on? I’m here!”
Jason rushed over, the distance of three hundred meters was not far to him, and it was one that he could cover in the blink of an eye. However, just as he rushed over to the spot of two hundred meters, a stream of light flew out from the gates, wrapping around one of the student’s necks.
Whoosh!
Blood burst upward into the sky.
A head fell.
When the stream of light dissipated, a figure appeared.
When Luna got a clear look at the person, she exclaimed in surprise, “Fergus Morse, how bold of you! You dared to kill students of the Flying Eagles Academy in front of me. Are you rebelling?!”
As she was talking, Jason had rushed over.
With a slash of his sword, he flung Fergus’s long saber away and rescued the other student.
Luna was furious and was about to leap forward.
Alex quickly grabbed her, “Watch it. There’s something wrong! Do you know this person?”
“It’s the left-wing lieutenant’s subordinate, Fergus. One of the Eighteen Knights! This b*stard, he’s usually so respectful when he sees me, but he’s so cruel today.”
At this moment, Fergus turned his head.
Both his eyes were blood red, and there was a bloodthirsty and cruel look in them, like a wolf. He let out a roar and brandished his long saber, dashing forward into the group.
Clang!
Jason pushed the student away and intercepted his blow.
When their blades collided, Jason’s sword was flung off, and Fergus pressed forward, the bloodthirstiness and frenzied fighting momentum was stronger than his! He slashed with his blade fiercely, aiming for Jason’s neck.
“Instructor Moss, watch out!” Juliette shot a flash of silver light.
Her weapon was a pair of silver rings that radiated brilliance and rang with a clear sound. One of the silver rings blocked Fergus’s blade, while the other went hurtling toward his chest.
Roar!
At this time, Fergus let out a wild roar, and a black shadow appeared behind him. He batted Juliette’s silver rings away and raised his long saber, dashing toward Juliette.
Neela spoke up at this moment through mental voice transmission to Alex, ‘My lord, it’s Blood Shura! Blood Shura has possessed that person!’
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“What’s a Blood Shura?”
Alex had never heard of this term, but he quickly knew what it was. Fergus’s strength was not stronger than Jason’s, and it even was weaker.
Juliette Thompson had joined the fray.
With two against one, it was reasonable to think that it would be easy to take a single person down. However, after being possessed by the Blood Shura, Fergus seemed to become warlike, and nothing held him back. Not only that, he didn’t seem to have any intentions to defend in the slightest. On the contrary, all that was in his mind was to attack, again and again.
It was as though he was not afraid of death or injuries.
Swoosh!
Jason cut off Fergus’s right arm with his sword and thought that Fergus would back off and escape. However, that didn’t happen.
Fergus continued to attack with one arm.
Boom!
Juliette’s silver ring hit Fergus in the chest, and this blow exhausted all the strength in Juliette, and the effect was impressive. Fergus’s chest collapsed inward completely, and blood spurted out. Even his heart had been blasted to pieces.
Juliette fell to the ground on her butt and thought to herself, ‘He should be dead now, right?’
However, she didn’t expect that Fergus still didn’t die even with a shattered heart but was still as ferocious as he was before. The phantom of the Shura behind him didn’t disappear but became even more brutal and violent. Fergus swung his long saber down fiercely, the blood-colored blade stretched thirty meters.
“What?!”
Juliette didn’t expect Fergus to make a sudden attack, and she couldn’t defend herself at all.
Just as she was about to activate her silver rings once again, the tip of the blade had already reached the front of her eyes.
‘It’s over!’
In an instant, Juliette’s heart froze. A sword that was ten meters long materialized out of thin air in front of her, blocking Fergus’s saber forcefully.
It was Alex who had made his move. After that, Luna, with her Sky-Devil Zither, also joined the battle.
However, Fergus, who the Blood Shura had possessed, was immune to the disturbing effect from the Sky-Devil Zither, and it was utterly ineffective. The fact that he had a shattered heart also didn’t affect his combat effectiveness, the bloodied wounds inflicted on him from the killing sound wave arcs made from the Sy-Devil Zither.
As for Stan Cooley… Well, Fergus just acted as though Stan didn’t exist.
Boom!
Another blow.
Alex used the Sword Intent Edict formed from the ancient runes on his sword to cross blades with Fergus’s long saber, and a crack appeared in the surrounding space. The tremor from the turbulence was overwhelming, and Alex felt as though the Chi and blood in him were churning. He almost lost his grip on the Dragon Bone Sword in his hand.
Whoosh!
Neela transformed into the Benares Dragon Battle Armor, covering Alex’s body. The Dragon Bone Sword glistened and brightened up as though it had a bonus effect added to it.
As for the Chaos Bead in his mind palace, it had started to bounce with extreme excitement. It produced a suction force, absorbing the energy of the black Shura phantom behind Fergus.
At this time, Jason and the rest of the group were utterly stunned.
The Benares Dragon Battle Armor on Alex was not only beautiful, but it was also awesome.
“Retreat! Go back into the Octagon Tiger Prison Formation!” Alex roared.
Fergus, who the Blood Shura had possessed, was just too strange, and it was a wise choice to use the formation to deal with him instead. Also, he realized that Brahma’s Supreme Touch had a special effect on the Blood Shura.
Juliette just had a narrow brush with death, and she was still awfully pale. She kept repeatedly shouting, “What the hell is this? How did you encounter this? He’s not Fergus. He’s no longer human!”
The student who had run out from Kala Temple and was rescued cried as he spoke, “I don’t know what he is either! He killed several people! Five of us students gathered together midway, and we met this guy in one of the corridors in the temple. He didn’t say anything and just lashed out with the intent to kill.”
After a pause, he seemed to recall a terrifying scene and said, “Those who were killed by him, all the blood in their body vanished and became like a dried-up corpse.”
“What?!”
Some people from the group glanced at the student who had just died. Sure enough, the corpse had shriveled up, and it looked like a corpse that had been dead for a long time. Even the blood splatters on the ground had disappeared.
“That’s a Blood Shura,” Alex said. “The evilest and cruelest among the Shura tribes.”
This information naturally came from Neela. He had also just gotten the information.
“What’s a Blood Shura?”
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Everyone was puzzled, but now was not the time to answer questions. Instead, the group quickly retreated into the formation. When Fergus stepped into the formation, Alex one handedly formed a seal and outlined an ancient rune to change the formation arrangement, trapping Fergus inside an area.
Roar, roar, roar!
Everyone saw that Fergus seemed to be locked inside an invisible cage, and he rushed from left to right but was unable to come out.
They looked at Fergus in shock, then at Alex with the same expressions.
Juliette said, “Alex, your level of formation probably wouldn’t lose to Dewey Schulz and Owain Lester from the Formation Department in the Flying Eagles Academy.”
“They’re my disciples,” Alex calmly replied.
Everyone was speechless.
Just then, Fergus’s attacks caused a shift in the formation.
“The Octagon Tiger Prison Formation has its limit, and the limit of resistance in it isn’t that high. With how this guy is continuously assaulting it, he will be able to escape soon enough. We need to take advantage of this, and everyone needs to band together to kill him! Cut off his head!”
“Understood!”
With the situation now, it was like preying on an easy target for them. Two minutes later, Fergus was completely killed. However, his soul was long gone. The moment the Blood Shura had possessed him, his soul had been swallowed.
At this moment, Fergus was dead. The Blood Shura that possessed him also suffered serious injuries and turned into black Chi, rushing around within the formation.
“That’s the Blood Shura?”
Luna looked at the mass of black Chi with fear on her face. “Alex, once this guy comes out, will it attach itself to one of us? Won’t we also become like Fergus by then?”
“That’s a possibility,” Alex said.
He started to worry about Dorothy, wondering if she had encountered something similar.
Jason and the others frowned.
“Is there no other way to completely wipe it out?” Juliette asked.
Stan Cooley suddenly spoke up, “I remember that in the ancient dossiers we have in the East China Sect, I once saw an introduction to Blood Shura.”
“Hurry and tell us,” Jason said immediately.
Stan glanced at Alex, feeling that he now was worth a little in the group. Otherwise, he would start doubtng his entire life. He thought that he had practically become a non-existence person ever since Alex had made an appearance.
“Legend says that there was a Shura land in ancient times, and it was a soul battlefield started by countless influential people. It could accommodate the souls of everyone from all three thousand worlds. Among those who entered, they would train, fight at close quarters, have long-distance gatherings, and so on!”
“However, this Shura land was actually built in the Shura world, and the Blood Shura isn’t born naturally, but are ones that were nurtured by humans later on, specifically to fight against human killing machines. I heard that to make one Blood Shura, it requires the sacrifice of 10,000 people from the Shura tribes.”
When he said that, everyone gasped.
This Blood Shura was just too terrifying of an existence.
“Where did you hear such nonsense?” Luna asked. “How do I not know anything about it?”
“It’s rumored that our ancestors of the East China Sect participated in the Great War of Six Paths, 3,000 years ago. That’s how the legends were passed down, but it’s just impossible to verify whether it was true or not.”
“Then, this thing, doesn’t it imply that it’s impossible to kill it?” Luna said.
Bitterness welled up in everyone’s heart when they heard that. How could there be such a thing in Galileo Dungeon?
At this moment, Alex said, “It’s not impossible.”
“Is there a way?” Juliette asked.
Alex didn’t reply but adjusted the Octagon Tiger Prison formation and stepped into the cage where the Blood Shura was imprisoned.
In the next instant, the Blood Shura shot toward Alex’s vital points without any warning.
“What?!”
Everyone watching was stunned. Especially Luna, who looked like her world was about to come crashing down at any moment.
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“Alex, what are you doing?! Hurry up and come out!” Luna ran over, shouting loudly as she did so. However, she was stopped by the formation on the outside. The Octagon Tiger Prison Formation’s focus point right now was on Alex’s position.
Unless one knew how to control the formation, it was impossible to enter it.
Alex stood motionless inside, as though he hadn’t heard anything.
Jason said to Luna, “Miss Luna, please remain calm. I’ve only interacted with Alex for a short while, and I believe he isn’t a short-sighted person. There must be a reason for him to do what he’s doing. We’ll have to be patient and wait for him.”
As he said that, he pulled out a cigarette and asked her, “Do you want one?”
Juliette snatched it away and said, “Don’t corrupt kids.” Then, she placed it in her mouth that seemed like this was a familiar action. “Where’s the fire?”
***
To be honest, when Alex walked into the cage within the Octagon Tiger Prison Formation, he wasn’t really confident either. That was a Blood Shura! Not only the people on the outside, even Neela, who had transformed into his armor and merged with him, was deathly afraid.
She loudly shouted in his mind, “My lord, My lord! Wake up! My lord, you mustn’t get possessed by the Blood Shura!”
“Once you’re possessed, he will devour your soul, and your consciousness will have only a slim chance of escaping!”
“My lord, my lord!”
However, Alex didn’t respond at all.
The Blood Shura had penetrated entirely into his mind, broke through the barrier in his mind palace, and rushed inside it. He was going to devour Alex’s soul, but the moment he entered the mind palace, he couldn’t help himself.
He saw the Chaos Tree and saw the Chaos Bead that hung on it. In the next instant, his expression changed, and he wanted to flee from Alex’s mind palace immediately.
His illusionary camouflage face was filled with panic and regret, but everything was too late. Alex’s mind palace was under the Chaos Tree’s dominance, and even Alex was helpless against it. Fortunately, the Chaos Tree held no ill will against Alex and had made his mind palace its home.
What was worth paying attention to was…
Alex found that his mind palace was gradually expanding.
This was a very miraculous matter. A cultivator’s mind palace was similar to a storage bag to some extent. In fact, it could be regarded as an independent dimensional space. And now, this dimensional space of Alex’s was constantly expanding.
It was also filled with chaotic Chi energy.
He didn’t know what it would develop into in the future.
Roar, roar!
The Blood Shura let out huge roars because he was being absorbed by the energy released by the Chaos Bead, slowly but surely pulling the Blood Shura in, and the speed was increasing. No matter how hard the Blood Shura struggled, it was futile.
Alex’s divine consciousness was in his mind palace, and he watched as the Chaos Bead sucked in the Blood Shura.
He was sucked into Mother Chaos, into the Holy Bead, the bead that had once been inside the holy monk, Revealer. Once the Holy Bead received the Blood Shura, golden light exploded, and a stream of bright light burst outward.
It seemed to have become much stronger.
Alex’s divine consciousness didn’t linger too long in the mind palace, and he soon returned to his body.
When his body moved, the eyes of the people who were watching him from the outside immediately widened, wanting to see whether he had been possessed, and his soul devoured by the Blood Shura.
“Alex, Alex…” Luna called out, anxiety and nervousness on her face.
Alex glanced at her and smiled, “I’m fine.”
When he opened the formation and stepped out of the cage, Luna immediately rushed over and jumped into his arms. She held his face and gave him a sweet kiss, her eyes red, and said, “You stinking guy, you scared me to death!”
Stan was in shock when he spoke, “That’s impossible, that was a Blood Shura! He had clearly gotten into your mind. How could you be fine?”
As soon as he said that, Luna was furious. She dashed over to him and kicked him, and Stan almost stopped breathing from the blow.
“You sh*tty thing, what do you mean by that?!”
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“If it weren’t for my husband, you would have ended up like Fergus a long time ago! And you’re still babbling nonsense now! I can make it so that you never walk out of this secret realm. Try me!”
Stan was not Luna’s opponent.
More importantly, Luna was Gilbert Henderson’s daughter! Who in the Flying Eagles Academy would dare to offend her?
Jason also felt that it was strange. “Alex, you’ve really amazed us. You seem to have endless magical cards up your sleeves. How did you manage to deal with the Blood Shura?”
Alex didn’t dare to explain about the Chaos Bead and instead said, “My master, Jade, left me some life-saving means.”
“What?”
“Commander Benmore is your master?!”
“Oh my gosh!”
Everyone from the Flying Eagles Academy was stunned.
“Unfortunately, she’s dead now,” Alex said.
After stopping for a while, the few of them started to move forward again. They walked toward the inside of Kala Temple from the massive gates.
Soon, they saw a few corpses lying inside the main hall, and they were all students from the academy. All of them looked to be in the same state as the student that Fergus had killed previously. There was not a single drop of blood left in them, and their bodies had become dry and dark, as though it had lain in a coffin for a long time.
“Ah!”
“Minnie, Minnie!”
When Juliette saw the corpse of a female student, she rushed over immediately. The expression on her face was one of extreme sorrow, her whole body trembled, and tears streamed down her face.
The grief she felt was so great. It felt worse than death. The male student who had been rescued previously also had a sad look on his face, and he said in a low voice, “That’s Minerva, she’s Instructor Thompson’s daughter.”
Alex was surprised. Then, he let out a deep sigh.
Before this, he had been blaming himself because he had lured Spencer here, and he was the one who had brought these people in harm’s way. However, it looked like it wasn’t the case now.
There was another mystery within this secret realm.
Alex only had the time to speak to Luna to ask her about how she came here at this time, and after some explanation, Alex understood some of the crucial points The Flying Eagles Academy had gotten their information from the left-wing Lieutenant of Flying Eagles.
Then, it meant that Spencer should have already known from the start that there was a secret realm here and that Colton and the others were also in here… The problem was, how many more of them were here?
“Be careful! I can feel that that was not the only Blood Shura around!” Alex warned.
This was because the Chaos Bead in his mind palace had not stopped vibrating after absorbing the Blood Shura. So the possibility was that there wasn’t only one Blood Shura around or that there was something else around.
“Not the only one?”
Everyone was stunned and started to get anxious. Fergus alone had already been challenging to deal with. If a few more of something like him were to appear, it would be big trouble.
Just at this moment, everyone heard a loud phoenix screech from the southeast direction.
They looked upward at the sky only to find the figure of a phoenix up ahead, soaring upward. It circled in the air once, then swooped downward.
Alex’s mind was in shock. He knew that was Dorothy’s Fiery Phoenix Bow. To shoot out a phoenix arrow at this moment, she must have encountered danger.
Alex didn’t bother wasting any more words and pulled out the Sword of the Universe. He was about to fly over to extend his help, but just as he was less than ten meters into the air, a sudden pressure washed across him and pressed him down fiercely towards the ground.
“F*ck! A restrictive flight barrier?!”
Alex hurriedly got up and said, “You guys stay here. I need to attend to something urgent!”
Luna hurriedly said, “Hubby, where are you going?”
Alex had long since run forward, and his voice carried over as he replied, “I’m going to save my wife!”
Everyone was speechless.