Ch. 2581..2590
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2581
At such a critical moment, Alex was not afraid in the slightest. He stepped on the Immortal Bird’s back and intercepted the attack.
“Mental domain, kill him!”
Endless visions cascaded out. There were tens of thousands of immortal mountains, surging golden lakes, doomsday demons, and falling stars stacked up. Each containing a bizarre mental world, they rammed into the approaching man head- on.
“Huh?!”
The opponent was startled upon seeing Alex’s mental visions.
‘This man is on a level where he can communicate with so many visions in the mental realm?’
‘No wonder he could kill so many geniuses from my clan.’
‘I shall not allow him to continue growing, lest he’ll surely become a disaster!’
He also communicated with his mental domain. Suddenly, a streak of razor-sharp sword light that looked like it came out of a black mist and was about to split the world.
“Destroy it!”
As he roared, the sword light broke through the sky.
Alex felt tremendous pressure from the mental domain. That razor-sharp sword light severed all the mental visions that he had just communicated with until they fell apart, like a hot knife cutting slicing through butter. His soul even began to hurt badly as if it was going to be cut in half.
‘D*mn it! This guy is too powerful!’
Alex was astonished. This man was way more powerful than he thought. He suspected that his soul was about to fade away.
He, however, was certainly unwilling to give up. So, all the golden cores in his body resonated and were about to form the furnace of forbidden spells.
To Alex’s surprise, after that man’s soul sword light severed his visions, it unexpectedly barged into his sea of consciousness and wanted to shatter it.
Roar!
Alex roared in pain, his mental domain receiving severe damage. However, a little faint fluorescence appeared at this critical moment.
It was light and indistinct. A weapon’s shadow that looked like a sword or an ax was hidden within the fluorescence.
As if it was simply passing by, it tapped on that streak of sword light.
For a moment, a tsunami seemingly occurred in Alex’s sea of consciousness and the mental sword light of Galaxy Nova’s powerhouse before instantly withering. All the sword light was then incorporated into the fluorescence like rivers running into the sea.
The fluorescence floated leisurely without any restraint.
That Galaxy Nova expert rushed down and roared furiously in pain.
His mental sword light unexpectedly disappeared. Something had devoured it and had severed the connection with him, causing him to suffer severe mental damage. It was because this sword light was the only vision that he had communicated with the mental domain, and he had been cultivating it in his soul for thousands of years.
Now that he suddenly lost it, he felt as though a huge gash had been carved into the depths of his soul.
“D*mn it! Return my sword light!” The man roared and went mad.
As his Wheel of Life struggled desperately, he fiercely struck down the black divine halberd with the exploding power of laws in his hands.
At the same time, the large golden eagle also arrived and spat a beam of golden light. It turned out to be a flying sword.
Alex was puzzled as well.
What was that mass of fluorescence?
It floated in his sea of consciousness and easily devoured that terrifying sword light.
However, he had no time to think about it carefully. As if be was in the center of the tsunami, the attacks of the man and the eagle were simply too ferocious, and the space around him froze from the energy to the point he couldn’t perform Instant Teleportation.
“D*mn it! Do you think I’m a weakling?!”
“Clinton! Shock these two b*stards!”
The summoned Requiem Clock emitted a morning bell-like loud ringing, and its energy penetrated one’s soul.
Clanggg!
Athena’s shield blocked the large golden eagle’s flying sword.
That Galaxy Nova expert, however, resisted the blow of the Requiem Clock, deflected the Xavion Sword with the black divine halberd, and grazed Alex’s face before slashing him hard on the shoulder
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Alex felt immense pain in his shoulder.
This blow had split his entire shoulder, causing one arm to almost fall off. He also could not hold the Xavion Sword in his hand, and it was about to fall. He hurriedly put away the Xavion Sword and desperately bandaged the broken bones with his soul power before turning around to flee.
He glanced at the falling Immortal Bird out of the corner of his eye and saw they were extremely close to the ground. At such a distance, the Mystic Maiden could definitely dodge the pursuit with her talent and supernatural power.
As for the Immortal Bird and Lunafreya, he could only bless them. The important point was that he could survive on his own.
He did not flee toward the Mystic Maiden, but he chose the opposite direction, the east.
“Goldie, chase him!” Taking the lead, the man rushed toward Alex.
On the other hand, that large golden eagle was a little sluggish, and its body wobbled like it was going to fall. Nobody, however, noticed the large golden eagle’s slightly stiff body and that the colors of its bones did not look right either. It was a little whiter, the same color as rocks.
This was because the golden flying sword that it had spat crashed into the large golden shield.
Medusa manifested on the shield, and her bloodshot eyes opened a sliver.
It took a glance at her.
As a result, it felt something wrong with its body. It stiffened with a slight sign of petrification.
Fortunately, it was not severe since Medusa did not open her eyes completely. The golden bone patterns on the large golden eagle spread and surged with energy, dispelling the slightly weird petrification effects. It then immediately chased after him.
Boom!
Alex’s body fell rapidly and landed hard on the ground, forming a huge crater on the mountainside.
If it were someone else, that person would have broken his legs after falling straight from such a high place. His bones, however, were extremely sturdy as he had long reformed them. Yin-Yang Chi was also inside his bones, serving as a foundation so that they wouldn’t be brittle.
Nevertheless, it still hurt a little, especially the broken bones on his shoulder and the ribs. It was the impact of the fall that had dislocated those bones again.
He grimaced in pain.
Wham!
Another streak of murderous light arrived first above his head. That Galaxy Nova expert had no conscience of being an expert at all. He just ruthlessly attacked Alex out of desperation as he was infuriated. He wanted to kill Alex instantly, carve open his body and retrieve his sword light
In addition, he also wanted the Requiem Clock, Alex’s magical treasure, in his hand. He was amazed by the aura of ancient Buddhism from the chiming of this magical treasure.
Alex did not know that this pursuer was a genius of Galaxy Nova who had entered the Underworld for trials a long time ago. He, however, failed his first trial and did not enter the Pool of Afterlife, so he could only possess someone else’s body… To his surprise, he accidentally triggered a certain taboo here, causing the Pool of Afterlife to reject his soul. Hence, he could not even enter the Pool of Afterlife even if he managed to get there.
As a result, he could only possess bodies one after another. Until now, lost count of the number of possessions. He had done it many times anyway!
He was certainly unsatisfied with this result. Even if his soul energy became more powerful and his bone patterns would head to the pinnacle with the accumulation over time, he could only stay here without a physical body, leaving only a pile of bones.
So, what was the point of his life?
However, it would be different if he could obtain the holy ancient Buddhist tool. He would surely be able to enter the Pool of Afterlife by then.
Whoosh!
Alex teleported a kilometer away and managed to dodge the murderous light narrowly.
This was the limit of how far Instant Teleportation would work. His back, however, was still grazed, such that his soul power was torn apart and his bones broken.
‘Mental attack!’
Alex secretly condensed the mental domain and communicated with a dozen types of visions. He fiercely unleashed them the moment that man approached.
He merely wanted to communicate with the mass of fluorescence in his sea of consciousness as it was too omnipotent. If it could be used as a weapon to sever the opponent’s soul, it would definitely be a useful tool.
Unfortunately, that mass of stuff only treated his sea of consciousness as its nest and was leisurely living inside leisurely without showing any respect to the master. He could not even communicate with it, let alone control it.
Buzz!
He smashed that man with the recondensed mental visions.
The man did not have the mental sword light this time. Moreover, he was mentally injured, so he decisively dodged the sharp blow.
However, the next second…
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The golden eagle swooped down with tremendous pressure.
It wanted to slam into Alex and instantly crush him with its gigantic body.
“F*ck!”
Alex dared not try to intercept such an overwhelming attack with such force. He now had many broken bones and was severely injured, so how could he withstand such a level of attack?
He cast Instant Teleportation again to continue fleeing.
“Shelly?! Shelly, I summon thee!” Alex shouted at the tool spirit of Persephone’s Folly Bridge in this life and death crisis, only to discover that he would fail even after summoning her many times.
“F*ck! This d*mn brat ignored me!”
Clinton kindly reminded him, “Shelly gained some benefits in Shoraionji Temple, and she is in seclusion now. She’ll definitely amaze you once she comes out.”
Alex complained, “If only I’m still alive. Hopefully, it won’t become a shock by then.”
He flashed like lightning, causing the trees on both sides to fly backward rapidly.
He took out a handful of bone pattern pills, threw them into his mouth, and swallowed them while casting a technique in the Ultimate Book of Medicine to heal his broken bones… Of course, consuming pills were just a method as he was just a skeleton now. His bones and soul would absorb the final energy of the pills, so it would be purer.
Wham! Wham! Wham!
The pursuit behind him ensued. The man began to use his arrows and bow again.
Meanwhile, the large golden eagle became vicious as well. Once it shook its densely packed gold en feathered body that was like flying snow in the sky, it turned into sword lights all over the sky and struck down with overwhelming force.
Alex was injured again as ten or so bird feathers hit him. All of them were manifestations of energy, and their effects were equivalent to flying swords.
“D*mn you, old hairless bird! I shall tear your bones apart someday!”
Alex screamed in pain, unleashing his speed to teleport continuously.
Clinton said, “It’s useless to escape like this. The opponent surpasses your strength by multiple levels, and once that old bird has locked on you, so you won’t be running far.”
Alex asked, “Do you have a decent strategy?”
Clinton replied, “Why don’t I go and persuade them?”
Bong!
The Requiem Clock emitted a deafening sound, and a wonderful Buddhist voice manifested.
“Both of you, give up evil to attain salvation!” The Galaxy Nova expert grabbed the Requiem Clock without saying a word.
Alex hurriedly recalled the Requiem Clock and grabbed it before continuing to flee.
Wham! Wham! Wham!
Rocks burst, mountains collapsed, and huge ancient trees were casually destroyed along the way.
The miserable Alex was almost killed several times, now with bigger and more wounds on him.
‘D*mn it! Here goes nothing!’
The tridimensional map in his sea of consciousness could identify the location of bone demons. He intended to find usable allies to share the damage. After making a choice, he had an eye on a dark golden marker nearby.
He rapidly approached it with multiple Instant Teleportation and lightened footsteps. Eventually, he discovered a huge black bull, eating grass leisurely by the broad river.
‘Is that it?’ Alex was startled.
He checked the tridimensional map. The bone demon that possessed dark golden bone patterns turned out to be a bull?
The pursuit behind him arrived as expected.
‘Here goes nothing!’
Alex rapidly teleported there and stabbed the huge black bull’s butt hard with Athena’s spear in hand. Immediately afterward, he teleported again and went under the river stealthily.
Mooo!
The huge blackbull looked up and screamed so much that its teeth were about to pop out, releasing an overwhelming aura from its body. As soon as it turned around, it happened to see that Galaxy Nova expert and an eagle rushing over. The divine halberd in the Galaxy Nova expert’s hand exuded an imposing chill, just like the weapon used to poke its butt.
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Moo!
“You guys are pushing me too far!”
The huge black bull was infuriated as it felt an immense pain behind it. What was more unbearable was that kind of mental humiliation. It was not some ordinary kitten or puppy, but an old bone demon that had lived countless years in the Underworld and returned to nature. It was an existence that had reached the pinnacle in this world to the point of disheartenment in hunting bone demons.
To its surprise, its butt was poked here with an unspeakable shame.
“I’m the king of this place! You people shall pay for your actions!”
The huge black bull spoke in human language as it flew into a rage. The overwhelming aura on it soared, and its body also rapidly enlarged.
The bull was still tiny before the golden eagle earlier, but it became as large as the golden eagle in the blink of an eye. Moreover, its aura became more powerful and dense. Sinister Chi burst all over its body, rotating around the seven-layered Wheel of Life.
According to the realm-increment with each layer, this huge black bull was already an existence of an Immortal Emperor or Demon Lord.
As the golden eagle seemed to have remembered something, it kept retreating and exclaimed in human language, “Your Highness, you’re… the Bull Demon King?”
The Bull Demon King roared angrily, “Since you know who I am, why don’t you kneel and kill yourself? Do you think you could lay a hand on my buttocks?”
The golden eagle trembled and kept retreating.
The overbearing powerhouse of Galaxy Nova, however, looked for Alex’s tracks and finally discovered that he had jumped into the river… It was because he had marked Alex’s body and could trace him with his soul power.
“Bull Demon King or Sheep Demon King or god-knows-what! Get lost, and don’t block my way!” the man roared as he was determined to get the Requiem Clock on Alex.
He had waited for countless years and managed to wait for the holy tool of ancient Buddhism, so he could not miss that decent opportunity at all costs.
Naturally, the Bull Demon King was infuriated.
Just as that man wanted to rush into the river to look for Alex, the Bull Demon King blocked him again. “Puny human, do you know who you are talking to? How dare you offend my dignified buttocks? This is the most wrong thing you’ve ever done in your life. You shall atone for this misdeed with the price of your life.”
The man from the Galaxy Nova did not want to waste time on a bull, so he said, “Who would want to lay a hand on your buttocks? I didn’t do it. The culprit is in the river.”
The Bull Demon King refused to believe him. “Do you think I’m blind? Die!”
It was blissfully immersed in eating grass earlier, so it did not notice Alex at all. In addition, Alex had deliberately concealed his aura and left right after he poked it. Hence, it decided that man had driven its private part with the divine halberd in his hand.
The Bull Demon King pestered him.
The golden eagle was a loyal pet that the man had raised. It immediately rushed forward to help him.
However, a gap existed between the eagle and the Bull Demon King. Moreover, the battle between Bull Demon King and the man was rapid, and the weapons were razor-sharp. It would get in the way instead if it rushed forward.
The man shouted, “Goldie, go after that brat! You must not lose him!”
The eagle understood him, so it immediately lifted its body and soared to the sky. Then, it chased after Alex along the turbulent river.
Alex hid under the river while concealing his aura. However, he could see the event unfolding on the river bank through the X-ray vision of his divine eyes. As the Bull Demon King stubbornly pestered that Galaxy Nova expert, he heaved a sigh of relief. However, he soon discovered that the golden eagle had caught up to him. Moreover, that man had clearly marked his body after he looked at the route of its pursuit. Hence, the eagle could only discover his location so quickly.
‘D*mn! That trashy bird still came and bullied me!’ Alex was resentful and felt as though hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
His strength had clearly skyrocketed after immersing in the water of Yin-Yang Chi for three years, so he thought that he could do whatever he wanted and go on a killing spree in this world. On the contrary, he was chased by a man and a bird-like dog. Swoosh!
He teleported continuously over dozens of kilometers under the river. The river course deepened and widened.
He could tell that the eagle should be bad at swimming because it just locked on him above the river course and did not swoop down.
‘Things aren’t going to work out in this way.’
‘I have to retaliate and kill it while that huge black bull is pestering that guy!’
After he had made up his mind, he immediately rushed out.
Splash!
He rushed out of the river and Instant Teleported to the shore.
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With a mighty shriek, the golden eagle rushed over. It opened its mouth and spat three golden light beams.
It had probably cultivated a certain flying sword technique as the three golden light beams turned out to be three razor-sharp flying swords. They even tore apart the void at breakneck speed.
Clank!
Clank!
Alex blocked two golden light beams with Medusa’s Aegis Shield.
Meanwhile, the other light beam grazed Alex’s thigh bone and almost severed his leg bone.
In that instant, the avatar on Medusa’s Aegis Shield became more vivid. Her bloodshot eyes opened a sliver once again and her eyes even glowed with golden light, looking bizarre.
‘Huh? What kind of treasure is this shield? The human face on it seems to be moving, right?’
The golden eagle was curious. Its golden flying sword lights were also quite powerful existences, yet that shield was unscathed after blocking them multiple times. It also wanted to own it due to curiosity.
It deliberately flew out and wanted to take a closer look at the patterns on the shield, especially Medusa’s glowing eyes.
However, it panicked and became miserable in that instant when a gush of powerful telepathy seemed to pass its entire body and paralyze its bones. It unexpectedly became sluggish. Even its bones and legs were less nimble as if they had hardened.
Wham!
Its huge body crashed and rolled on the ground, forming a large ditch.
Alex had long been ready and was about to unleash the twenty four formation flags he had prepared with a wave of his hand. To his surprise, the eagle fell headlong and slammed on the ground, unable to get up.
A bizarre color also appeared on its body, as if it turned into cement.
‘Petrification?’
‘Medusa’s Aegis Shield?’
Alex recalled the Olympus Tribe expert that he had killed before. He learned about the power of Medusa’s Aegis Shield from him. After activation, the Medusa on the shield would awaken and open her eyes.
Anyone who looked into her eyes would be petrified?
He subconsciously glanced at her as well.
As a result…
‘F*ck!’
He just felt numb, as if he was looking at a stunning beauty with a bizarre smile. Her full head of snake hair stretched out to touch his body, hardening and petrifying every area it touched.
‘How silly of me?’
Alex’s body stiffened, extremely helpless. Fortunately, this condition did not last long. The magical power of Medusa’s gaze was insufficient. Most importantly, he could feel Ymir’s Divine Bone exerting its force with a shake to dispel the bizarre magical power.
The next second, he took out the Xavion Sword and slashed at the golden eagle’s neck.
‘How miserable!’
This was the golden eagle’s final resentment. Curiosity killed the bird.
If it had not gone to look at that shield, how would it have ended up like this?
The eagle’s huge head was severed.
The Xavion Sword also shattered the eagle’s soul.
It was then a furious roar came from the front. “No!”
Alex opened his mouth and uttered a sentence of profanity. Surprisingly, the huge black bull no longer stalled that guy from Galaxy Nova and was killed instead, but it was the Bull Demon King with dark golden bone patterns!
It indicated that this man was truly onmipotent. His roar spread to the dark clouds in the sky till they trembled. It poured immediately afterward.
Alex moved swiftly and put away the golden eagle’s corpse before fleeing in the rain.
A furious roar came from the back. “I shall kill you today!”
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Alex had his heart in his mouth with a tingling scalp. To his surprise, this alien from Galaxy Nova had become even more powerful, and his exuded aura contained an apocalyptic power.
‘Did he hide his strength previously?’
‘Or, did he devour the huge black bull’s dark golden bone patterns?’
Alex hurriedly fled and rushed toward the wooded hill. He glanced at the tridimensional map in his sea of consciousness amid hecticness, only to discover that the dark golden marker was really gone. Meanwhile, the marker of the guy around him turned out to be black.
What grade did black represent?
Alex had never seen it before. Was black after gold?
Despite fleeing, Alex’s mouth was not idle either. He retorted, “I will have to kill you too in the future! You better not die early!”
Wham!
With an ear-piercing sonic boom, the man threw the divine halberd in his hand at Alex like a ray of light. Alex narrowly dodged it with Instant Teleportation.
He continued fleeing. Three minutes later, he was caught up again.
Both parties exchanged blows once. Alex suffered a miserable defeat with three broken ribs and cursed in immense pain.
‘D*mn it! How is he so powerful?’
‘I can’t even defeat him with 2,999 golden cores. What’s the point of having so many, then?’
He was cornered. He only managed to infer the great gap between him and an Immortal Monarch or Immortal Emperor in close quarters combat. He had used Medusa’s Aegis Shield and wanted to repeat the same trick to petrify that man but to no avail. It was because the avatar on Medusa’s Aegis Shield was hidden, and he did not know how to activate it.
“You can’t escape!” The man finally blocked Alex in a valley.
His entire body, including his head, had previously been wrapped in a black robe, but now he took off his hood, revealing the real face within… It did not turn out to be a skull, but a real face with complete features that looked particularly handsome with a bizarre aura.
“How is that possible?!” Alex exclaimed.
All the creatures that entered the Underworld would become skeletons.
Why could he keep his flesh?
Alex, however, soon noticed that this was not real flesh but a kind of sorcery, a mystic art that transformed the facial features in flesh and blood. Hence, he could only look so handsome to the point that he should not exist in the world, like a deity descending into the mortal realm.
“D*mn! That’s drop dead gorgeous!”
Alex turned to complain. He could neither escape nor did he have energy. Moreover, he had a few more broken bones on him and did not have time for recovery. So, he would genuinely meet his demise if he were to escape again.
“Are you not running away at last?” The man sneered, and the transformed human face was full of disdain.
Shortly afterward, he became infuriated. “You know what? Goldie was my soulmate. I only managed to raise Goldie to be that huge after living for 1,300 years. It was my best companion when I was lonely.”
Alex froze for a brief moment, totally puzzled. “You treat a bird as your companion. Can a man and a bird do that kind of deed?”
The man was not furious, but he smiled. “But since it’s dead, so be it! It‘s because it would be useless soon. I can get out of here with the holy tool of ancient Buddhism, so I’ll consider letting you off the hook if you hand it over.”
Alex learned about a piece of important information from his mouth.
“Wait How can you confirm that you can leave this place with the holy tool of ancient Buddhism?”
“Of course, I can confirm that,” the man said, “Hurry up. I’m at the end of my patience. You’ve killed so many ingenious cultivators from Galaxy Nova, and you even murdered my soulmate. I was going to grind your bones into ashes, but now I’m willing to offer you a chance. Remember to grasp it.”
Alex nodded. “Alright, but I think you better die here.”
“What? You really refuse to be convinced until you are faced with the grim reality!”
He was infuriated and was about to make a move when Alex stomped the ground, causing it to tremble.
The surroundings abruptly underwent drastic changes. It was illusionary and full of mist, and Alex’s figure disappeared into thin air. The Galaxy Nova expert swung at him with the halberd, only to hit an expanse of mountain rocks.
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Furthermore, the tactile sensation was bizarre.
‘Illusionary formation?’ The man was shocked.
That was naturally because of the twenty four formation flags that Alex had used. Using the period of his speech, he secretly inserted the flags on the ground and stealthily set up the spell formation.
He had encircled himself within it because he could not move too much, and the layout of the formation flags could not extend to the outer range. He bought time so that he could heal himself in the spell formation.
He took out the golden eagle’s body and devoured the bone patterns on the spot.
Although not an Immortal Emperor or Demon Lord like the huge black bull, the eagle was very powerful, close to the level of an Immortal Monarch. It had thousands of densely packed golden bone patterns, and its strength might’ve even exceeded the Olympus Tribe expert who attacked Shoraionji Temple previously.
Fortunately, he had Medusa’s Aegis Shield…
Buzz!
Alex devoured the bone patterns. The bone patterns’ energy was absorbed by the ancient forbidden spell runes after flowing into his bones.
The broken bones on him healed rapidly. Moreover, a portion of energy began impacting the last of his three thousand acupoints.
It was the acupoint known as the Spirit Gate, located at the navel.
This acupoint was the center of acupoints all over the body, like all rivers running into the sea. Alex believed that his strength would definitely be enhanced by leaps and bounds after the last breakthrough and the perfection of three thousand golden cores. It would be possible for him to counter kill the Galaxy Nova expert.
Unfortunately, it was just his wishful thinking. It was challenging to break through this acupoint.
He could not break through it with the water of Yin-Yang Chi either, leaving the last hurdle. On the other hand, Mystic Maiden had said that no bone patterns could be compared with the Yin-Yang Chi. It was simply a fool’s dream if he wanted to rely on the help of the golden eagle’s bone patterns to break through the Spirit Gate acupoint into a golden core.
Wham! Wham! Wham!
That man madly attacked the spell formation from the outside.
Meanwhile, Alex rapidly healed his injuries.
He did not manage to break through the last acupoint, but he found the marker on his body. So, he immediately used the furnace of the forbidden spell to wipe out that marker.
“Huh?”
“The marker has disappeared?”
The man outside froze for a brief moment as he sensed it. He now stopped attacking and felt carefully whether Alex was still in the formation. Since he had to get the Requiem Clock, he eventually said, “Give me the holy tool of ancient Buddhism, and I’ll wipe the slate clean. Otherwise, I’ll gather my men right now to find your friends and kill every last one.”
Alex remained silent. He had suddenly discovered that the golden eagle was also wearing a spatial ring, which was extremely rare. Most importantly, he unexpectedly found a stone inside the ring.
The Chaos Tree in his mind palace moved rhythmically and reacted vigorously, corresponding to the stone.
‘What is that thing? It can even shock the Chaos Tree? Isn’t it just a stone?’
Moreover, it was yellowish like a pile of hardened poop. He couldn’t even tell what it was with his divine eyes.
The Chaos Tree, however, proactively stretched out a root to envelop the stone.
Clunk!
The extremely hard portion of the stone surface cracked open, revealing its true contents. A gush of boundless, surging aura spilled out.
Alex was instantly dumbfounded.
‘Oh my god! Is this a Yellow Obsidian Crystal?’
As the saying went, “The sky was black, the earth yellow, and space and time, vast and infinite”. The Yellow Obsidian Crystal was formed by the condensation of massive Yellow Obsidian Chi. This item was simply a holy artifact that big shots like sect founders would scramble to obtain, not to mention how priceless it was.
He should be able to complete the three thousandth golden core this time, right?
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Alex’s jaw dropped.
It was simply a great surprise. The golden eagle actually possessed such a treasure, one that it never knew about. Even its master, an expert from the Galaxy Nova, did not know about the Yellow Obsidian Crystal either.
If he did, he would have used it and wouldn’t have possibly kept it until now. Its external appearance was just too ordinary.
It was the kind of object that no one would notice if it were thrown by the roadside, utterly perfect concealment of a holy object.
He did not know why the golden eagle would place a stone with such an ordinary appearance inside its storage ring… It probably came from a certain special place, such as someone else’s collection and a place with miracles. The eagle thought it was extraordinary, but it could not tell its identity and casually threw it into the storage ring. Alex, however, took advantage of it in the end.
He was overjoyed.
He had already gained a lot from the Yin-Yang Chi, and it allowed him to have a head start. However, it was challenging to develop the final golden core because ordinary materials were no longer of any use.
And now, he received what he asked for.
Such a large piece of Yellow Obsidian Crystal should be enough for his use, right?
Unexpectedly, just as Alex was about to seize the time to absorb the energy in the Yellow Obsidian Crystal, the Chaos Tree’s roots that had long enveloped it began sucking the energy desperately.
“Ahh! What the hell is wrong with you?! This is mine! It’s mine!”
“D*mn thief! Stop right now! This is my Yellow Obsidian Crystal! Shut your mouth, and no sucking! Let go! Let go, you bast*rd! Do you believe I’ll move you away?! People, unlike trees, thrive on change. I think you don’t wish to survive anymore. It’s mine! Give it back!”
Alex was about to explode with rage.
That d*mn Chaos Tree was too shameless and had terrible table manners. Hurriedly, he pounced on it and gnawed at it without caring about his demeanor.
Crack!
“Owww!”
Alex screamed as an incisor chipped off.
Whom should he reason with?
Wasn’t that too hard?
He activated the mystic art and used Chi as a guide before absorbing it with his soul power. He had used up all the methods, but none of them was effective.
“F*ck! It’s all for nothing! I’m merely a cat’s paws!”
The extremely despondent Alex helplessly watched the masses of Yellow Obsidian Chi entering the Chaos Tree’s root system and sucking them away. He was envious and furious, but he could not do anything about it.
At the same time, the Galaxy Nova expert outside the spell formation heard Alex’s roar from the inside. However, he was dumbfounded when he learned about the Yellow Obsidian Crystal.
‘Was there actually a Yellow Obsidian Crystal?’
He was astonished, like a cat on a hot tin roof. He wanted to rush inside and snatch the Yellow Obsidian Crystal. That was a grand opportunity, a magnificent creation. An Immortal Emperor aside, even deities would also seize it at all costs when they saw an item of this sort.
His real name was Baton Deliford. Holding a great reputation in the Galaxy Nova, he was a great prince of one of the top ten countries. Not only was he superbly talented in cultivation, but he was extremely lucky… He had been merely suffering unfair treatment after reaching the Underworld… Of course, all of that was self-proclaimed.
However, he felt that great fortune had now come. The luck he had accumulated over the years all manifested on Alex today. The holy tool of ancient Buddhism and the Yellow Obsidian Crystal.
They were all his long cherished holy artifacts, and taking a piece out was enough to shock the world. If his father were to have known about those artifacts, he would’ve definitely mobilized the entire country’s forces and seized them back.
‘I have to obtain them! I must!’
‘The holy tool of ancient Buddhism is mine! The Yellow Obsidian Crystal is mine too! No one can snatch them from me!’
Baton yelled in his heart. He, too, was overwrought.
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He desperately attacked the spell formation because he knew nothing about them. He was not at fault. Instead, those in the Galaxy Nova who knew about spell formations were an extremely rare occurrence. Even if someone did, his knowledge would be limited. Hence, he could only attack it with brute force.
Unfortunately, it was all in vain.
Similarly, the twenty four formation flags from the Galaxy Nova had an impressive background, and not just anyone could crack them.
Meanwhile, Alex sat on the ground in a daze. He couldn’t care less about Baton’s attacks on the spell formation.
‘Yellow Obsidian Chi, it’s such an omnipotent thing! I can see it, but why can’t I use it?’
‘Am I lucky, or am I just unlucky?’
Just as the terribly depressed Alex was helplessly complaining, the Chaos Tree’s roots let go of the Yellow Obsidian Crystal and returned to Alex’s mind palace.
“F*ck! Has this bast*rd sucked them dry?” cursed Alex.
He was extremely dejected.
The key was that this bast*rd devoured his Yellow Obsidian Chi and did not repay him anything at all. It was so stingy that it ruined its character as a tree and was unworthy of the name ‘Chaos’!
“Did you hear me?!”
“You don’t deserve to be called the Chaos Tree! You should be called the Bandit Tree! You even robbed the Yellow Obsidian Chi from your landlord! You are immoral and have terrible character! I despise you!”
Afterward, Baton was shocked again.
‘Oh my god! Was he talking about… The Chaos Tree?
‘He actually possesses the Chaos Tree?’
‘How is that possible?! Is this guy a son of the Heavenly Emperor?’
Baton’s eyes also became bloodshot. That was due to excitement and greed.
Just then, Alex suddenly noticed bizarre wisps of energy overflowing before him. Those energies exuded a fearful prehistoric aura as if the earliest ancestor had appeared.
“This is the Yellow Obsidian Chi?”
“There’s still some of it inside the stone!”
Alex was astonished as his heart raced wildly. Without demur, he immediately activated the mystic art, Ten-Point Forbidden Spell to capture the Yellow Obsidian Chi wandering in the air. He noticed that two small holes had appeared on the crystal.
Those were holes bored by the Chaos Tree’s root.
It drained a portion of it, leaving the rest for Alex.
“Haha! Haha!”
“Sorry, Mister Chaos Tree. I’ve wronged you. You deliberately helped me to open up holes on it because you were afraid that I wouldn’t be able to consume the energy, right?”
“But you benefited out of this as well. Never mind. I’m generous to my people. I‘d just share half of the loot from the eagle’s ring. I’m generous enough to you, right? Hence, remember to repay me if you ever gain any benefits, for instance, the Chaos Fruits that you’ll manage to bear someday.”
Alex absorbed the Yellow Obsidian Chi. It was smooth sailing this time, and he absorbed all of it into his body. He felt great as Ymir’s Divine Bone moved rhythmically. He could immediately use this energy to impact the acupoint.
He could feel the energy in the Spirit Gate acupoint getting increasingly concentrated not on a physical level, but it was on the mental and soul level of the Spirit Gate, located at the empty spot where the navel was supposed to be located.
The condensed Yellow Obsidian Chi inside the Yellow Obsidian Crystal was massive.
The Chaos Tree could instantly absorb half of it, but that wasn’t the case for Alex. His body could not withstand too much of it, and he also had a slow absorption rate.
However, it was enough.
Ten minutes later, he felt that the Spirit Gate acupoint abruptly shook, like a long-awaited flower that had finally bloomed on a certain early morning.
Three thousand acupoints and three thousand golden cores. Today, Alex had attained perfection!
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2590
Boom!
Alex felt a massive tremor in his soul.
After attaining the perfection of three thousand golden cores, his mind palace, cardiac acupoint, and sea of consciousness seemed to have successfully undergone some kind of metamorphosis.
They were all connected. They were all complete. They would no longer be defective.
Three thousand densely packed golden cores in his soul slowly rotated like a dazzling starry sky at night, with large stars linking and echoing each other. They brightened and dimmed in a steady staccato as though they were breathing.
Alex felt an unprecedented clarity in his soul. Layers of his mental domain appeared more clearly with a more tridimensional sense.
A mountain range surrounded by the Fairy energy. A golden lake with surging holy energy. Islands floating in the sky. Falling stars that poured into the mortal realm. The bright moon rising above the sea. The sea dyed orange by the sunrise…
Various mental visions he had communicated with appeared like layers of huge screens.
Meanwhile, Alex’s spirit passed through these screens. The last thing he saw was that mass of fluorescence. It was a little vague and unclear. Now that Alex’s mental strength had metamorphosed and become unprecedentedly powerful, he felt that he might have the ability to see the item inside the fluorescence clearly.
‘What exactly is this?’
‘I have to know about this!’
He began condensing massive mental strength to look at that mass of fluorescence. The task was arduous. It was extravagant mental consumption. Moreover, a series of pangs struck his soul.
His body trembled from the unbearable pain, but the mist in the fluorescence gradually dissipated. He would be able to see it soon. He had to withstand it for a while. He just had to resist it for a while…
‘This is really an ax!’
‘The point is that it just looks too awful. It’s pitch-black and old, just like an ax a lumberjack had abused.
‘Having such power… Could this be Paul Bunyan’s ax?’
Alex finally saw it clearly, but all of a sudden, he screamed horribly. That mass of fluorescence shook and immediately sucked away more than 90% of his soul power.
“F*ck!”
Alex hurriedly retrieved all his mental soul power, but 90% of his soul power had indeed been lost. He was looking forward to counter-kill that guy after he transcended and his strength skyrocketed.
However, in a brief moment, 90% of his soul vanished, and his strength plummeted instead of advancing. How could he still fight that guy?
Alex hurriedly devoured the bone patterns and swallowed pills before consuming various bone patterns and great pills. All of those could replenish his soul power. Sadly, that mass of fluorescence kept devouring his soul power behind the layers of huge screens in his sea of consciousness, leaving only 10% for him. It was useless even if he replenished it. That mass of fluorescence would suck away the amount proportional to the replenished soul power.
The energy inside the Yellow Obsidian Crystal hadn’t been all used up. There was still a lot left.
Alex acted again. He drew out the Yellow Obsidian Chi from the opened hole to replenish his soul power.
The result was the same.
‘Why the hell am I sucking it? I’m simply wasting the Yellow Obsidian Chi. I might as well keep it so I can give it to someone else.’
‘F*ck!’
Alex was about to cry. What he did not know was that the Baton outside the spell formation was already crying.
It was because he could hear Alex’s talking voice. From the conversation, he knew one thing, it turned out that the Yellow Obsidian Crystal in Alex’s hand was taken out of Goldie’s ring.
It initially belonged to him. The discovery devastated him.
Baton also remembered something. A century ago, he and Goldie once saw a battlefield-like ancient ruin in the Underworld. They found a huge human corpse, and the corpse was holding a strange stone in his fist.
Goldie thought that it was a treasure.