Ch. 2121..2130
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2121
“He’s Elder Quint?” The sect master was stunned, completely dumbfounded, and unclear.
“Yes.”
Hermione Yggdrasil was Elder Quint’s disciple, and she was still familiar with her own master. She had quickly determined that the incomplete corpse in front of her was her master.
Hermione did not harbor much sadness when faced with the death of her master. She had also watched with her own eyes how the
Yggdrasil family had been struck to death by lightning just now, including her grandfather, her parents, and her sister, among others. If she were an ordinary person, she would have probably been bawling her eyes out bitterly. However, Hermione didn’t shed a single drop of tear. It was as though those relatives of hers meant nothing.
In actuality, that was likely true.
Hermione had been very talented since she was a child. From a young age, she had relied on a rubbish method of cultivation and cultivated to heights the ordinary couldn’t reach. That was why she had caught the eyes of the people from the Plenilune Sect, which took her into their walls.
Since then, Hermione’s personality also began to change.
She started to feel good about herself and placed herself above others. She even felt bored with her family because they were not of a high-status origin, and there were no outstanding people from them as well. It embarrassed her deeply, and she couldn’t hold her head up high in front of many rich and powerful disciples.
Then, during this time, she coincidentally got her hands on the mantle of the goddess.
This changed her personality even more, and she became completely defiant to the point even the sect master wanted to please her. Wasn’t he the highest-ranking person in the Plenilune Sect then?
The Yggdrasil family was even more unworthy of her circle.
“If he’s dead, then he’s dead! But, for daring to destroy my Yggdrasil family, I will settle this debt sooner or later!”
At this moment, Plenilune Sect’s sect master lowered himself to the ground in an unimaginable manner and started rummaging around Elder Quint’s corpse. He was looking for the Extreme Heaven’s Gourd and the storage ring.
Especially the storage ring.
He had just learned from Hermione that the goddess had given her a jade medal when she imparted her inheritance to Hermione. The jade medal was related to the huge secret of an ancient sect. However, when Hermione sealed off the place, she handed the jade medal to her master for temporary safekeeping.
Now, Elder Quint died suddenly.
Jenson Springer and Hermione were naturally anxious to find those items. However, there was nothing. Nothing…
Even if they dug to the bottom of the hundreds meter deep pit and searched, they wouldn’t find any signs of it.
Jenson looked at the grand elder, Yngwie Foust, with unkind eyes. “Grand Elder, you had better not lie. The ring in Elder Quint’s hands is of great importance to the prosperity of our Plenilune Sect. If you bring it out now, I will pretend it never happened. But if you hid it away for your private gain, you know the consequences!”
The grand elder’s eyelid jumped. What did that mean?
Did the sect master suspect that he had hidden it for his own private gain?
“Sect Master, the heavens can be my witness. I haven’t kept Elder Quint’s ring or weapon for my private gain. I am willing to swear on my life.”
The sect master looked at him.
The grand elder grumbled in his heart. He felt that the master had been behaving very weirdly recently, and he had changed a lot from how he was before. The master had become even more unpredictable and mysterious, and Yngwie couldn’t tell what Jenson was thinking.
At this moment, he had no choice but to make a vicious oath in public.
With that, the sect master’s eyes eased, and he said, “Then, think about it properly. If there was anyone who could have taken Elder Quint’s ring and weapon, who would it most likely be?”
“Who?”
The grand elder could immediately name one person. It was Alex, whom he had previously crossed paths with.
Three minutes later, the sect master gave an order. “Go right away, head into the Misty Swamp. Dead or alive, you must find that brat for me.”
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While the master of the Plenilune Sect, Hermione Yggdrasil, the grand elder, and others rode the golden cart to Misty Swamp to look for Alex, the said man was currently inside a rocky cave on a hill, concentrating on stabilizing his cultivation.
He could feel the beams of extraordinary splendor within his body, gorgeous and dazzling to the eyes. Those were Chi that had flowed out of his golden core after it had been broken.
There was the divine power from Ksitigarbha’s inheritance, the lightning energy cultivated from the Ultimate Book of Medicine, the energy anomalies that had formed after the Chaos Tree and Chaos Bead had entered his golden core, as well as the fortune from the Ancient Forbidden Spell of the Twelve Runes…
Every single one flowed in his body now, rushing back and forth through his skin and bones, brightly illuminating the insides of his body. Even Frostine Usoro could see the extraordinary image of countless streams flowing inside his body.
‘What kind of cultivation method is he using? Why is it so strange? It’s as though lights are glowing from within his body,’ she thought to herself. But she didn’t dare to touch Alex with her hands.
Such moments were very critical. If he lost focus during his meditation just because she couldn’t control her own hands, it would be all done for.
Woosh! Woosh!
The energy was boiling, and the Chi was changing. Under the golden light, countless ancient runes were packed together.
This was the transformation of the Ancient Forbidden Spell of the Twelve Runes. Initially, only twelve runes were engraved on his golden core and surrounded it. He hadn’t reached Nascent Soul yet, but these runes looked like they were continuously copying and pasting themselves, multiplying without any signs of stopping. They circulated his meridians and opened up more acupuncture points.
More runes poured from the acupoints, as well as the forbidden spell. They looked like they formed into cocoons that transformed into butterflies to achieve completion. In other words, each of Alex’s acupoints was treated as a golden core.
Each acupoint was a golden core. How many acupoints were there in the body?
The moment Alex had the number in his mind, he just about went crazy!
There were three thousand acupuncture points in the body.
Didn’t that mean he had three thousand golden cores?
“What cultivation method is this?!”
“It an ancient forbidden technique… This is all because of the ancient forbidden technique. This technique is not tolerated by the heavens and earth, hence it found an alternative trail and did not follow the normal path! It’s really awesome…”
At the same time, Alex could feel his mind palace also undergoing many changes. There was a dense spiritual essence within his mind palace right now, and the Chaos Tree had turned into towering, ancient trees that were very lush and as high as a thousand meters… Each leaf was green and filled with life. Alex was worried that his mind palace would be broken by the Chaos tree. However, it seemed that there was no end to how high his mind palace could stretch, and it was surrounded by nothingness.
Continuous energy poured out…
Energy impacted his meridians over and over, then flowed into his acupoints. One after the other, his acupoints opened from the impact.
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Inside each acupoint, unusual things were happening. Golden lakes, forbidden runes, Chaos Chi energy… It was like a whole new world was being formed. Until it rushed through the seventh acupoint, where the energy seemed to have dried up, the runes that gave rise to this catalyst seemed to be insufficient and everything stopped automatically.
He opened his eyes and saw Frostine Usoro’s concerned look.
“Senior…”
“Junior, you’re awake. How are you feeling? Has your cultivation strengthened?” Frostine asked in concern the moment their eyes met.
Alex nodded… “It should be stronger and together now.”
Frostine asked, “Junior, which realm are you in now? Why can’t I understand what I’m seeing? The cultivation methods you practice are so strange.”
“No matter how I go about it, I seem to be still in Core Formation…” Alex replied.
“Core Formation…”
Frostine glanced at him, then wrapped her arms around him and comforted him gently. “It’s okay. The catastrophe you had to endure the other day was already very straight. You failed it, but you’re still alive, and that’s already extreme fortune within misfortune. Don’t be discouraged. If we were better prepared, the chances you will have will be much better.”
Alex was being held by an enchanting, stunning beauty. It had also been a while since he had been close to a woman, so his desires were all over the place right now. He quietly broke free from her embrace and saw Bubbles Rockefeller lying asleep on a blanket. “How long have I been training?” he asked.
“Not that long, only about two days.”
“It’s been two days?!” Alex thought about those people from the Usoro family. “Your father and the others… Are you sure they’re alright?”
“Don’t worry. My father is well acquainted with the ways of the world, and he knows how to handle himself. In places like Misty Swamp, they definitely won’t go too far in. As long as those from the Plenilune Sect leave, we’ll be able to walk out of Misty Swamp and take another path.” When Frostine finished speaking, she thought about it a bit more and said, “Starborn City is Plenilune Sect’s domain, and it’s definitely impossible to go back there. But, we can go to other cities protected by other sects.”
“Oh right! I found something good!”
Frostine brought Alex to the other side of the cave and pointed to the wall. “Look at these words.”
Alex took a look.
Those characters were very different from the words in America. Their shape didn’t look right, and it didn’t look like some ancient language either. Caught unprepared as he was, he was practically blinded when he looked at it. He admitted with embarrassment, “Senior, I’ll be honest with you. I’m actually illiterate and I can’t read.”
Frostine was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly realized. “I remember that you’re from the wastelands, and the words over there are indeed somewhat different than the ones here. I’ll read it out for you! These are words left behind by the master of the Plenilune Sect…”
Alex was surprised. What surprised him more was Frostine saying that one of the corpses in the cave was the master of the Plenilune Sect. The current sect master that was alive was actually a fake.
The master of the Plenilune Sect was called Jenson Springer.
The two other corpses were in the cave. One was the master’s wife, and the other was his son. Their family had been invited by a friend who said they had found the inheritance of the ancient Holy Phoenix Sect. Unexpectedly, it was all a vicious conspiracy.
After Jeson’s family entered the swamp, his friend led them in further and they lost their way, and they were poisoned with extremely lethal poison. Afterward, they managed to walk back with much difficulty, but they couldn’t find their way out no matter how hard they tried. Because there was no sense of direction in this place, they finally took refuge in this cave they found. It was a pity that in the end, Jensen and his family still couldn’t make it out, and they died from the poison.
As for that friend, it was very likely he had changed his appearance, taking the likeness of Jenson’s face before taking charge of the Plenilune Sect. His name was… Seth Zamora.
“Seth was initially a powerful person,” Frostine said. “It was said that his cultivation base is the ninth realm to Imminent Immortal, and based on logic, he shouldn’t have set his eyes on something like the Plenilune Sect. But, the dead sect master said that his objective is actually the huge secret the Plenilune Sect is keeping.”
“What secret? And… What exactly is his ninth realm to Imminent Immortal?”
“Imminent Immortal is basically close to achieving immortality,” Frostine explained. “They may have the strength of those in Immortalization, but they’re not really there as well. In the current great world of America, the power of laws has been broken, and it’s extremely difficult to achieve the Immortalization stage. Even if you take a Heavenly Law Pill, there’s only a minute chance that you might reach Immortalization! I heard that only by finding the Phoenix Sect would the laws be fulfilled. Then, you can reach the Immortalization stage.”
“Phoenix Sect? Why does it have such a weird name?”
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“The Phoenix Sect is an ancient sect. I’ve heard an old man talk about it before. It’s rumored that it was found ed by a peerless woman with the family name ‘Phoenix’.”
“Speaking of it, it sounds more like a love story…”
“Legend has it that Phoenix came from the ancient Divine Phoenix family and was a Divine Empress. Because her enemies set her up and framed her, her physical body fell, and her divine soul was sealed in a colorful deity stone that fell into the human world. In the end, a young man obtained the stone, and he formed an everlasting bond with Phoenix!”
“With the help of Phoenix, the young man grew slowly and finally became a great emperor. He founded a sect specially for Phoenix and called it the Phoenix Sect. And, I heard from the old man that the great emperor later became the emperor of all realms, and also emperor of the great world of America.”
Alex felt as though he was listening to a myth or legend. After he heard the story from Frostine, he could feel his heart jumping wildly in his chest, and he was unable to calm down.
He had suddenly thought of Whitey, and recalled the goddess, Rinwell Mathis, at the Spiritual Valley Dungeon. He also thought of Ksitigarbha.
From the history they had all gone through, there was one person whose existence couldn’t be erased, and it was also a very important person. The person was the master of all realms in America and the leader of the alliance of humans.
After so many confirmations, he could be sure that the emperor in the legends Frostine had heard of was the leader that Rinwell kept thinking about.
“What a sad and beautiful love story handed down from ancient times! I really wish I could go back there and see the great emperor as well as that Phoenix!”
However, he knew it was impossible. They were already long dead.
When the Undead Clan invaded, countless heroes died, and many sacred places had also been destroyed. Not even the last pure land of Buddhism had managed to be preserved.
“Junior,” Frostine continued, “In Plenilune Sect master’s suicide note he left on the wall, he said that the biggest secret the sect has been keeping was the Phoenix Sect.”
“What?!” Alex’s eyes widened in shock.
That was incredible. This small little Plenilune Sect was actually connected to the sect that the ancient human emperor had created.
“The first Plenilune Sect master was called Chantelle Seay. This Chantelle was originally from Phoenix Sect.”
“So, the biggest secret the Plenilune Sect held is that they once had a portal that leads into the Phoenix Sect!”
“F*ck!” Alex exclaimed the moment he heard that. That was just too awesome.
“Looks like this Chantelle was definitely some high-ranking member of the Phoenix Sext! How did the Plenilune Sect she created fall to this point?”
Frostine shook her head. “All of this was due to the invasion of the Undying Clan! The end of ancient times was a history of struggles between the great world of America and the Undying Clan. Countless ancient sects were lost in the long river of history, and I heard that even gods fell during those times…” Frostine let out a long sigh of relief.
“What a dream! To have such a powerful person and big shot in such an era, it’s definitely an unreachable existence that our generation needs to look up to. It’s a pity that from then on, the great world of America has fallen, and even reaching the Immortalization stage is a s difficult as reaching the sky. What more, mentioning ancient gods?”
Alex nodded and burst out a poem. “The endless river flows east, its powerful waves brought into oblivion, and so the heroes of yore.”
Frostine looked at the wall as though she was seeing herself in that glorious time period. “To match the fair land, how many heroes of yore have made a great show?”
“It’s a pity that the sect master didn’t leave any information about the portal to the Phoenix Sect,” Alex said.
Frostine blinked. “Let me show you something.”
She pulled out a crystal.
“This is… A memory crystal?” Alex gasped in surprise.
This type of memory crystal was very precious, its value higher by an unknown amount. It was impossible for any ordinary person to own it. “Could it be something from the Plenilune Sect?”
Frostine nodded. “When you were cultivating, I had nothing to do. Those three corpses were more of a hindrance than anything, so I found a place to bury them. I didn’t expect to find something falling out from the sect master’s body. And this was it.”
“There is a cultivation method from the Plenilune Sect inside it, and also information about the Phoenix Sect portal.”
Frostine handed the crystal to Alex.
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Alex took a look and found the technique practiced by the Plenilune Sect was called the “Green Lotus Period”.
It was obviously a method made for women to cultivate! Then, there was also information about getting to the portal.
In the records, it was said that only those who had cultivated the Green Lotus Period would be able to find and open the portal. In addition, there was also a key that was needed. Finally, Alex also saw a symbol of the Phoenix Sect.
It was a totem of a fire phoenix. It looked different from most fire phoenixes.
Alex was stunned when he saw the totem. He seemed to recall that he had seen it before. After thinking about it carefully, he remembered.
It was in the jade medal in Elder Quint’s ring. On the jade medal was the exact design on the totem. He immediately pulled out the ring.
That’s right. Not only had Alex taken Elder Quint’s storage ring, but he also took his natal magic treasure, which was the gourd. That was why the people from Plenilune Sect couldn’t find either of them.
“Look at this!” Alex pulled out the jade medal.
Frostine also noticed the totem on the jade medal and was shocked. “This… Could it be the key?”
Alex gave a noncommittal nod. “I’m not sure, but I think it’s possible.”
After a pause, he said, “Senior, hurry up and cultivate the Green Lotus Period technique. Then we’ll go and find the portal. If we can enter the ancient Phoenix Sect, we’ll definitely be able to gain a lot.”
“Alright!” Frostine replied. She immediately followed the cultivation method and started to have a decent understanding of it.
After a short ten minutes, Alex was surprised to find that something had appeared behind Frostine. It was a bloodline phantom, vivid and lifelike like a nine-tailed fox. As Frostine continued to cultivate, the phantom also continued to drift along, and it was extremely magical.
‘The power of the bloodline is rising!’
‘That’s weird, is this Green Lotus Period customized to obtain the Nine-Tails bloodline?’
Alex didn’t know, but he had guessed it right.
The first sect master of the Plenilune Sect, Chantelle Seay, was from the royal family of the mythical creature, Nine Tails.
When she founded the sect, all the disciples in it had the bloodline of Nine Tails.
This was the reason the strength of Plenilune Sect had fallen to such depths. It was because the people who did not have the Nine Tails bloodline couldn’t cultivate the Green Lotus Period at all. It was equivalent to being a rubbish teclmique, and in the long run, it was only natural for the sect to fall behind others.
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Boom, boom, boom!
While Alex was helping to protect Frostine, sounds of fighting suddenly came from outside the cave. He was taken back.
They were in the Misty Swamp, so how could there be fighting?
There were even sounds of people cursing. The voice was very familiar to Alex. Didn’t it belong to Frostine’s elder brother, Percival Usoro?
He poked his head out to look, and it turned out it really was Percival. Percival was being pursued by two masters.
The clothes on those chasing Percival were very familiar, and Alex could tell from a glance that it was the uniform of disciples from the Plenilune Sect.
‘The Plenilune Sect has actually managed to pursue all the way here! If that’s the case, then they shouldn’t go back anymore!’
Alex touched the formation on the door, then rushed out quickly.
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At this time, Percival Usoro was already in a dire situation.
Three disciples from the Plenilune Sect were fighting against him. Alex randomly took a look and realized that they weren’t using the Green Lotus Period technique. So, the people from Plenilune Sect should also be aware that this technique wasn’t a suitable cultivation method for everyone, especially for male disciples. The Green Lotus Period was probably as terrifying as the Sunflower Treasure, which was the most powerful secret technique in a novel he read before!
Flowers and periods. Those were things only women had!
“Go to hell!”
One of the disciples from the Plenilune Sect brandished his sword toward Percival. The powerful strength from the motion radiated vigorously all around in the air.
At the same time, the other two disciples, one on the right and one on the left, boxed Percival in. It made it difficult for him to move, and there was nowhere he could go to avoid the attack.
‘It’s over. My life is done for!’
Percival stiffened, his eyes fixed on the blade coming towards him.
At this moment, a figure suddenly flashed beside the disciple with the sword. The figure also had a sword in hand, and when he appeared beside the disciple, the figure’s sword slashed down diagonally.
Squelch!
The disciple was cut into half instantly. The sword in the disciple’s hand lost momentum as the person that held it was no more. The blade deflected, allowing Percival to dodge to the side.
“Young Master?!” Percival called out immediately after he saw the person who saved him.
In his heart, the shock still remained. The man who saved him had been so fast. It was such a strong sword too.
Alex looked at the remaining two disciples from Plenilune Sect. “You ’re using a battle formation, right? The Four Division formation… It’s a pity you were missing one person to complete it.”
‘Kill him first!’
The two disciples looked at each other, dropped Percival, and launched themselves at Alex to attack him together. They worked seamlessly with each other, one on the right and one on the left.
“That’s a great battle formation!”
As he talked, Alex’s figure suddenly disappeared without warning.
The two swords only managed to stab an afterimage.
This… wasn’t a paper doll but an actual teleport.
“How did he disappear? Where is he?!”
“Watch out, at your back!”
A sword glare flashed, and one of their heads flew up into the sky.
The power from the sword was inexhaustible, and it slashed down again. The other disciple was cut down directly on the spot. Alex flicked the Seven Blades of Death, satisfied with the result.
After the breakthrough in his cultivation, he found that his speed and strength had greatly improved. According to records, when one went from Core Formation to Nascent Soul, these attributes should improve by a few times. As one’s cultivation continued to improve in Nascent Soul, their strength would also continue to climb, from Advanced-Core Formation to Advanced-Nascent Soul, even the lowest increase in his combat effectiveness would be at least ten times.
Therefore, it was very difficult for a cultivator to kill an enemy that had a higher realm than themselves.
However, Alex found that he was an existence that broke those rules. He had entered this stage from Core Formation, which he called Infinite Golden Core. In theory, he should achieve three thousand golden cores, but it was hard to say whether the final figure would be three thousand in the end.
There was one thing he could confirm, however.
He now had seven golden cores, and his strength was almost seven times it was. And his previous golden core could instantly kill a Profound Mystic!
Alex was satisfied with his breakthrough. Percival, who he had rescued, standing next to him, was extremely surprised.
‘Too strong! I tried my best and found no way to have survived that attack. But he easily broke through it and even left a lot of room for other things while he did it.’
Alex grabbed the storage bags of those disciples and asked, “Are you alright? How did the people from Plenilune Sect manage to come in? And the people from your Usoro family…”
The moment Alex spoke of it, Percival’s expression turned cold and furious. However, there were also traces of pain on his face.
“The master of Plenilune Sect brought Hermione from the Yggdrasil family and hundreds of disciples and rushed into Misty Swamp. My Usoro family… Was forced to separate and run, and they died miserably. My father…”
Alex’s heart thumped hard against his chest. He had a bad feeling in his stomach
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Among the Usoro family, save for Frostine Usoro, Alex had come to care most for Abstal Usoro, an old man who valued affection and righteousness…
“When my father bought time for our people to escape, he blew himself up…” Percival said. “The remaining 300 Shadow Guards also did the same… But, those who survived were few, with some being old, weak, sick, and disabled. It’s impossible they survive the Misty Swamp.
After saying those words, Percival finally couldn’t hold back anymore, and he knelt to the ground in pain.
Alex clenched his fist, feeling the endless grief and anger rolling in his heart.
Then, Percival continued, “The master of the Plenilune Sect has personally set out, and it seems that he’s looking for you because he wants Elder Quint’s gourd treasure and storage ring! The Usoro family are people of integrity, and we would rather die than betray our master. The result…”
“Arghhh!”
Seething with rage, Alex roared wildly. He never expected things to turn out like this. He hadn’t killed anyone from the Usoro family, but he had still indirectly caused their deaths.
If he didn’t avenge them, he wouldn’t be a man.
“Paper Doll Curse of Three Realms!
“Go!”
Alex grabbed a large number of paper dolls and scattered them into the sky. Each paper doll turned into a black shadow midair and quickly flew in all directions. The old patriarch was gone. Alex couldn’t let the Usoro family go extinct. Even if it were only one, he would rescue those family members who had fled.
Alex turned and looked at the cave in the hills, and he furrowed his brows.
This place was too conspicuous, and the Plenilune Sect people would definitely be able to find it. So, he hurriedly said, “Senior is inside the cave, and it’s not a suitable place to stay. We have to find another way and head out to look for the people.”
Shortly after that, Alex headed into the cave. Frostine was still practicing the Green Lotus Period. Though she hadn’t been practicing for long, Alex could already see that she had a very high degree of compatibility with this technique. It had just been a while since she started, and the phantom of Nine Tails behind her back had become a lot more solid than before.
However, Alex needed to interrupt her at this moment.
Frostine woke up, and as Percival, her brother, told her about the distress their family had faced, she yelled out and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“Senior…”
Frostine waved her hand. “I’m fine!”
However, anyone could tell that she was on the verge of losing control of her emotions.
At that moment, Alex made a decision. Through the perspective of a paper doll, Alex could see the golden cart belonging to the Plenilune Sect approaching their location. “The people from the Plenilune Sect are here, and they’ll be here soon,” he quickly said. “We have to go! We will definitely avenge the old man, but now is not the time!”
Alex immediately picked his daughter up and rushed out of the cave. Then, he raised his hand and brought out another dozen paper dolls.
After his breakthrough in his cultivation, his control over paper dolls had become smoother. The paper dolls that jumped out from the Three Realms were not among the five elements of earth, and it was the most ideal surveillance technique he had. As long as he wanted to, the paper dolls wouldn’t be discovered by anyone else.
With the help of these paper doll puppets, he could accurately pinpoint safe or dangerous places.
When Percival and Frostine came out, Alex immediately pointed in a direction. “That side. Hurry! Keep up!”
Not only had he found that it was not dangerous for the time being, but he even found an Usoro member in distress.
It was Frostine’s fourth sister-in-law. At first glance, it was a woman who looked virtuous and gentle. However, she was also very delicate and weak, holding a little seven or eight-year-old girl in her hand. A crocodile had appeared in front of them.
It was a giant crocodile at least fifty meters in length.
“Mommy, I’m scared! ” the little girl’s voice was trembling.
“D-Don’t be afraid… It… It can’t see us. It won’t bite us.”
As soon as she said that, the crocodile opened its massive jaws and lunged at them.
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“Ahhhhhhh!”
Both mother and daughter screamed, with the thought that this would probably be the last they would cry in their lives!
As a result, an unremarkable shadow suddenly jumped up from the swamp. The figure stretched itself to the limit, as it was a shadow less than one meter long. It instantly jumped from being a flat shadow to a three-dimensional object-a giant Buddha surrounded by gleaming golden light.
It was several times larger than the crocodile.
Roar!
The Buddha chanted a loud Buddhist hymn, one that was earth-shattering.
The crocodile had lunged forward intending to devour the mother and daughter, but its two green pupils suddenly shrank, and its elongated body flipped abruptly in the air. Its massive jaws shut in surprise, and it didn’t have the time to pay any more attention to the mother-daughter pair.
Boom!
The crocodile’s gigantic body fell to the ground, causing the swamp to overflow, splashing mud and water everywhere.
The creature tried desperately to flee into the depths of the swamp. Before it disappeared, it turned its head and glanced back, horror flashing in its eyes…
It had been stunned!
The giant Buddha, so terrifying, burst like a bubble and dispersed into the air.
Roar!
Furious, the giant crocodile impatiently spouted mists oI water from its nostrils. It had been cheated!
D*mn it! The crocodile was king of this swamp, but an illusion deceived it. How embarrassing was that? It roared in rage, attempting to tell these puny humans that the deception would cost them a heavy price.
It was going to crush them all and tear them to pieces!
The crocodile did another death-roll, its huge tail slapping on the surface of the swamp. Then, it lunged forward again at high speed.
“Awooo!”
“Huff, huff!”
Just then, four swords jumped out from the void, instantly appearing in front of the giant crocodile. These were the first four swords of Alex’s Dragon’s Bane of Thirty-Six!
The Sword of the Universe!
The Seven Blades of Death!
The Breaking Point!
The Greedy Wolf!
Alex only understood the fourth sword, the Greedy Wolf, shortly after comprehending the mad old woman’s teleportation array. This sword mainly represented calamity, a sword that would bring forth disaster. It had even greater power than the Seven Blades of Death.
The four swords shot out together, and the fifty meter crocodile was killed instantly on the spot.
The silhouette flashed, and Alex, holding Bubbles Rockefeller in his arms, appeared beside the Usoro mother-daughter pair. The four bone swords flew back automatically to his side; on them, not a speck of dust or blood remained.
“You…”
When Frostine’s fourth sister-in-law took a good look at Alex’s appearance, a complicated look flashed in her eyes, and she didn’t know what to say.
Alex didn’t intend to remain there. With a thought in his mind, he disappeared again in a flash.
“Mommy, is he… Is he a fairy?”
“No, h-he… He’s a calamity!”
Her husband had been killed, and she saw it happening with her own eyes. That was why, even if Alex had saved them, there would be no gratitude in her heart. Besides, how could a woman with a low cultivation base like her survive with a child in this swamp? How would they get out? He had only killed the crocodile for them, but he didn’t lead them out from the swamp. What was the use in that?
“Mommy, what should we do?
“I’m hungry…”
Frostine’s fourth sister-in-law was filled with grief and indignation. Tears fell from her eyes. If she knew this would be the case, it would be better to have been eaten by the crocodile!
Just then, a figure appeared behind them. When the mother-daughter pair looked, they were shocked. How should they put it… It looked like Alex, sort of. In fact, it looked more like a paper doll.
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“What is that?”
“Sister-in-law!”
A familiar voice rang out from behind them, and it was Frostine Usoro who had arrived. Percival and five other members of the Usoro family were also with her.
“Frostine! Brother, Second Sister…”
Frostine’s fourth sister-in-law burst into tears. Seeing her relatives and narrowly escaping death had been extremely taxing on her emotions.
“Sister-in-law, keep your voice low,” advised Frostine.
“Plenilune Sect’s people may pop out from around us at any moment. We’ll follow Junior’s puppets. Hurry, everyone, keep up.”
The extra people with them were ones that Alex had just rescued. He took on the scouting role with his Three Realms paper doll puppets, as he could see through their eyes. In other words, he had hundreds of pairs of eyes right now.
Then, he had one of the puppets lead the way, following the route Alex had taken. As they went forward, more members of the Usoro family were found.
“Just how strong is the Young Master?” whispered someone. “Why does he seem to know his way around the Misty Swamp like the back of his hand? Not only has he not lost his way, but he could also find us all accurately.”
“I’m curious too! But I feel lucky enough to be alive right now, so why bother so much about that?”
“That’s true…”
Percival spoke to Frostine instead in a low tone. “Frostine, what rank is the Young Master? I feel I may not even survive one blow from him. Also, that method is something I’ve never heard of before.”
“I don’t know either,” Frostine said. “He said he’s in the realm of Core Formation. Can you believe it?”
Percival rolled his eyes. “If you had said instead that you could lay eggs, it would be more believable.”
Frostine shot him a fierce glare. “He is my master’s beloved son. My master was a great man, and his son is a little better. Isn’t that just natural?”*
At the same time, the master of the Plenilune Sect sat in the golden cart, seething with rage.
“Outrageous!”
“We’re always one step behind, and our disciples are being killed left and right. We don’t even know what the murderer looks like. D*mn it!”
They’ve also received distress signals from their disciples, but each time they rushed there, their disciples would belong dead. Sometimes, they couldn’t even find the corpses, perhaps sunken into the depths of the swamp after having being thrown into it.
“It must be that person called Alex Rockefeller.”
“The Usoro family doesn’t have any powerful masters.”
“Sect Master, I feel that he’s able to pinpoint our location, and that’s how he gets around so fast. Also, I have a strange feeling that we’re constantly being watched from the shadows,” Hermione Yggdrasil said.
The sect master furrowed his brows and pondered for a while. “Do you have any ideas?”
Hermione hesitated before taking out a mirror from the storage ring. “This is called the Reflective Eye, given to me by my goddess master. I could probably find him using this.”
The sect master looked into the mirror and felt as if there were additional things in his vision. But in the end, he suppressed it.
“Then, thank you for the trouble.”
“Sect Master, this is just what I should do.” Hermione was relieved when the sect master didn’t seem to have any intention to snatch it from her hands.
She used her Chi to activate the mirror, and a bright light circled it before shooting upward into the sky. It seemed to expand with the wind, turning into a giant mirror dozens of meters tall, rotating slowly. In the next moment, a light suddenly burst out of it, and a shadow a hundred meters away was illuminated. It revealed the body of a paper doll.
And at the same moment, the paper doll let out a piercing scream and burned up. Immediately afterward, on the left, right, and on the ground below, seven or eight paper dolls were illuminated at once and burned.
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“Hermione, that Reflective Eye of yours is amazing! As expected from a treasure given by a goddess!”
The grand elder slapped a little flattery on. He knew his place, and it wasn’t to be concerned about a treasure that had been given to Hermione Yggdrasil by a goddess. Even if he wanted to covet it, the sect master was still in front of him! What more, the goddess master of Hermione was still alive, and it was possible that she would drop by to see her disciple in the future. Wouldn’t that spell his death if he were to snatch the treasure of her disciple?
The sect master probably had the same thought in mind, and with that logic, suppressed the greed he felt at the sight of the treasure.
At the same time, far away from them, Alex, who was busy rescuing the others, was shocked. He felt his paper doll puppets getting destroyed.
In the Misty Swamp, where one’s divine consciousness extended only a few meters, Alex could no longer pinpoint their accurate location, now that the paper dolls he placed near the group of people from the Plenilune Sect had been destroyed.
“We’ve got a bit of trouble!”
It wasn’t that big of a situation, and he could only have his paper dolls approach him with the intention of suicide. Fortunately, the Reflective Eye didn’t have infinite reach. It needed the paper dolls to be within a hundred meters of it for the mirror to be triggered.
Alex had his paper dolls commit suicide to approach and pinpoint the approximate location of the group from the Plenilune Sect.
“Holy cow! What sort of treasure is that, to be able to pinpoint my Paper Doll Curse of Three Realms so accurately!”
While Alex was frustrated, the people from the Plenilune Sect were also upset. Seeing the paper dolls that frequently popped up getting killed by the Reflective Eye, the sect master said, “Something’s not right. These paper dolls are jumping out one after another in an endless stream! It’s obvious that the other person is sacrificing their paper dolls to find out our location.”
Hermione snorted lightly. “I can also find the location of the caster.”
She pointed her finger at the Reflective Eye. The rotating mirror above them stopped.
Then, a colorful bright light shone, dazzling their eyes. After a while, a picture appeared in the mirror… It showed what Alex was doing exactly then, which was chasing and killing two Plenilune Sect disciples.
“This man…”
“He’s the master who controls all the paper dolls,” Hermione said.
A few Plenilune Sect disciples called out after noticing Alex’s appearance.
“He’s Alex Rockefeller, the young master of the Usoro family. It was him who killed Elder Quint with a single slash of his blade. He swallowed his blade too.”
These few disciples were the ones who had followed Elder Quint and had survived.
The grand elder saw how Alex cleanly dispatched the two disciples and was furious. “D*mn it, this is the guy who has been killing our disciples one after another. I will make sure that we tear him into pieces!”
Just then, Alex suddenly turned and looked in their direction. The expressions he showed were as if he could see them. In the next instant, his body gradually became blurred. In the end, the entire mirror surface became a vast expanse of white.
“What?!”
“Why can’t we see him anymore?”
“Is it because the mirror is broken?” the grand elder asked.
“Impossible,” Hermione said. “My goddess master said that this is a prehistoric spiritual treasure, and it won’t break even if lightning were to strike it. How could it break so easily?”
Greed flashed in the sect master’s eyes again.
A prehistoric spiritual treasure? It really was a rare treasure that was difficult to be found through the ages.
“Then, maybe your cultivation level is not high enough, and you can’t drive the treasure to its full potential,” the sect master said calmly, shifting his gaze away from the mirror.
“No, that’s not it.”
There was something unnatural about the expression on Hermione’s face. Rather, it was extreme excitement. She recalled what her goddess master had told her when she presented Hermione with this mirror…
“If the Reflective Eye catches sight of your opponent but blurs in the blink of an eye, there can only be one explanation. That person possesses the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell.”
“The Ten-Point Forbidden Spell can break the natural orders of law, an existence that goes against the natural order of the world.”
“Any single one of the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell is an existence that goes against the very nature of the world.”
“When you encounter a person like this, if he’s weak, you should snatch it from them. When you grab it, you grab his fortune. If the person is strong, then you should hide quickly.”
Hermione felt that Alex wasn’t that strong. Also, she had a trump card up her sleeve. So, all she needed to do now was to grab the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell from him, as well as his fortune. Once obtained, the achievements she could reach in the future were limitless.
However, she couldn’t let anyone else know about this matter. Hence, Hermione gave her opinion on the matter. “What the sect master said makes sense. It’s possible that my cultivation base is lacking, and I haven’t reached the required rank.”
After a pause, she continued, “But, I can use the Reflective Eye to hide my location, and find the other paper dolls. Sect Master, I request that you allow me to enter the battle! I will find every single person from the Usoro family and kill them all to avenge my Yggdrasil family!”