Ch. 2821..2830

The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2821

“You still have to go through it, of course,” the old man said. “The first trial doesn’t only verify if you can pass, but it will also force yourself to achieve the refined will. One-tenth of Heavenly Emperor Genbu’s willpower shouldn’t be your limit. Your goal should be even higher and farther to the point of surpassing Heavenly Emperor Genbu.”

Alex looked at the people lying on the ground around him. “What would happen if I were to fail the trial?”

“Don’t worry. If you fail, they won’t be harmed,” the old man said. “Instead, their willpower will be enhanced. Hence, some trialists will come for the second time after failing. That said, one only has two chances of going through the trial in a lifetime. So, you should cherish it. The higher your score, the more rewards you will obtain.”

Buzz!

At that moment, a pair of huge pupils opened up in the sky above the statue. They were bloodshot.

Alex’s heart skipped a beat as he subconsciously looked at them. The next second, his mind was attracted by the strange eyes, and his consciousness dazed before entering a certain odd place.

It was so dark that he could not see anything. Alex reached out to touch the surroundings, but he failed. He could not even feel his own body.

‘Where is this?’

Just as this question arose in Alex’s mind, an ancient voice rang in his ears. “Welcome to the trial ground of the True Martial Shrine. You are a trialist here for the first time. As for this time’s trial of willpower, may I ask which difficulty you wish to proceed with?”

Taken aback, Alex said subconsciously, “Does the trial have different levels of difficulty?”

That voice replied, “That’s right. They are normal, hard, and hell.”

Alex was startled again. “You can actually talk? Who are you? The True Martial Starlord?”

“Who am I? I’m not the True Martial Starlord. I used to be part of the True Martial Starlord’s soul that was divided into millions.”

Alex was slightly shocked.

However, he still asked the voice with caution. This time, he asked about the differences among the three difficulty levels. The answer Alex acquired was that the rewards were different. When Alex asked the voice what the specific rewards were, it refused to elaborate… It implied that he could obtain more generous rewards in accordance with his score.

“Then, what are the specific differences among the three levels of difficulty? You can tell me.”

“No, I can’t.”

“D*mn it…”

“But what I can tell you is that after passing the test of willpower on hell difficulty, you will truly obtain rewards from the True Martial Starlord! The rewards from the other levels of difficulty, in fact, can only be regarded as consolation! I can, however, sense that you possess the aura of that former successful trialist, so I strongly recommend you go for the ‘hell’ level. Otherwise, even I will despise you.”

“Now, that…”

To his surprise, the examiner of the trial grounds had feelings.

Since the examiner had said so, Alex made up his mind. “Deal. I’ll take the ‘hell’ level.”

The examiner’s voice emanated exaltation. “Very well! I wish you success! For the test of willpower on ‘hell’ level, the mission is to stay alive and kill 99,999 abyssal demon beasts.”

“Holy crap! That many? I’ll be dead before I kill them all!”

“A gentle reminder. Each abyssal demon beast possesses the same combat power as yours.”

“What did you say?”

‘The examiner is joking, wasn’ t be?’

How could Alex possibly pass the trial on that kind of difficulty?

Fortunately, since he would be fine if he failed, he would simply treat it like a game and play it.

However, that voice could be heard again. “Since you have inherited part of the will of the last successful trialist, you can‘t quit halfway. The penalty of forfeiting the trial is obliteration.”

“What did you say? What sort of obliteration?” Alex was shocked.

“You’d be dead in reality.”

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‘Holy crap! F*ck!’

“Is this a scam?”

“Didn’t you say that I’ll be alright if I fail the trial? Now, you say you’re going to take my life. What is the meaning of this?”

“I don’t want any part of this crappy trial, alright?”

Alex went through the roof. One more, and there would be a hundred thousand abyssal demon beasts to kill. With each having his combat power, how could he do the trial?

This was not a trial. This was courting death. However, that old geezer’s faint voice sounded, “The trial has begun, and it can’t be stopped. The consequence of forcibly stopping the trial is… Obliteration.”

“God d*mn you..!” Alex cursed loudly.

Then, he felt his soul move and his surroundings no longer pitch-black. What appeared was an expanse of light and extremely fresh, comfortable air… No, it was the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

‘What a pleasant scent!’

‘This kind of spiritual energy of heaven and earth feels more comfortable than the one during the tide of spiritual energy.’

Alex took a deep breath of air and immediately felt so comfortable that he was about to scream. He felt a mysterious factor in heaven and earth’d spiritual energy that had a very high affinity with his body. It was an evolved version of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, where its scent soothed the three thousand golden cores in his body.

‘Huh?’

‘What’s going on? My physical body is clearly out there, and only my soul came here… But why do I feel the three thousand golden cores in my body?’

Alex was slightly puzzled. He opened his eyes directly and saw his appearance.

‘Oh gosh!’

What a life! He had come here completely naked. It was no wonder that he felt chilly somewhere. He looked around in a panic and what he saw stunned him.

‘What are those things?’

‘A troop of… Drooling female gorillas?’

The thirteen to sixteen feet tall gorillas looked at Alex with bloodshot eyes as if looking at their long awaited hunk of a man.

Alex silently backed off.

‘No way… Are they abyssal demon beasts? What are they trying to do? They aren’t about to screw me, are they?’

He didn’t give them a proper count, but he could roughly tell the number, at least fifty similar gorillas were staring at him with ill intent, slowly surrounding him, drooling with glee.

A few enormous, horny female gorillas even reached out to touch their butts before rubbing their abdomens.

Alex felt a pang of disgust. He could imagine how miserable the consequence would be once he fell into the hands of this troop of female gorillas.

‘Instant Teleport!’

Poof!

Alex attempted to Instant Teleport away, but he fell straight to the ground. To his surprise… He failed to teleport.

The moment he touched the ground, all fifty female gorillas rushed over. Some leaped, some emitted wild howls, while some even fought and bit each other, competing for their prey.

Alex hurriedly got up and dodged them.

Boom!

The attacks of at least ten female gorillas landed on where he had just stood, blowing up a massive thirty two yard crater.

‘D*mn it!’

How could these be women who coveted him? They were craving his flesh!

Alex fled frantically, but the gorillas were fast. Unable to increase the distance between them via Instant Teleportation, he could only grit his teeth and face the horde.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Alex groaned quietly after exchanging several blows. He had a physical body now, only that this one came without Ymir’s Divine Bone, Yin-Yang Chi, and Yellow Obsidian Chi… None of those cheats existed. He didn’t even have weapons, all of them had been stripped off him.

His only relief was that the two trees in his mind palace were still there, and the golden lake of divine power was also normal. Meanwhile, the three golden cores seemed somehow connected to his original physical body.

Those were all support he could’ve relied on.

‘One hundred thousand abyssal demon beasts?’

‘True Martial Starlord, you are a d*mn con!’

Nonetheless, Alex was absolutely unwilling to be obliterated given the other option.

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Then, only a word remained… “F*ck!”

Alex turned all the resentment and grudge against the True Martial Starlord into energy before venting on those female bloodshot-eyed gorillas.

“Bodhi’s Dragon-Tusk Punch!”

Alex immediately let out the punch on a gorilla that jumped over to scratch his throat. The gorilla was knocked back with a loud bang, but it was not injured severely and soon came up to him again.

That old geezer’s reminder about the opponents having the same combat power was indeed not a lie. Each ape’s combat power was comparable to his.

Three minutes later, seven long wounds were inflicted on Alex’s back. He was drenched in blood before he managed to kill the first gorilla.

Meanwhile, the burning, piercing pain on the back, the blood all over his face and body, and the remaining gorillas’ crazy antics completely aroused Alex’s passion and ferocity.

“Come! The massacre has just begun!”

Divine power was a blessing for healing injuries. Alex exerted his divine power to the extreme while dropping the corpses and rushing back to the troop.

“True Martial Star-Shattering Punch!”

In this completely unfamiliar environment, Alex used every attacking move he learned. Finally, he found that the introductory True Martial Star-Shattering Punch that he had just learned was the most effective since it could directly condense the mysterious factors there.

‘Is this a test of willpower?

‘It feels like it’s honing my martial arts!’

In fact, Alex could only attack so many gorillas barehanded, so he could only advance and retreat while slowly honing himself.

However, he discovered something afterward.

The Ancestral Bodhi Tree could seemingly absorb the mysterious factors here and feed Alex later. The three thousand golden cores in his body had shown a certain sign of germination, and with the current absorption of a tremendous amount of mysterious factors, the three thousand golden cores’ germination steadily accelerated.

***

At True Martial Shrine, Claudia woke up with a soft hum. The first reaction after she woke up was to scream in terror. She even rubbed her stomach and waist vigorously.

A demon beast had just bitten through her body and stomach, with her intestines overflowing out of her belly, an abnormally terrifying scenario.

The old protector looked at her. “Did the trial end so soon?”

Claudia hadn’t yet recovered from the shock It took her a while to calm down. “Wasn’t I dead?”

The old man said, “That’s just a trial. There’s no harm in failing.”

Claudia patted her chest. “It freaked me out. Luckily, it was just an illusion.”

The old man asked, “How many demon beasts did you kill while you were in there?”

Claudia stretched out her index finger. Then, she bent it slowly, curling it over the thumb.

“Zero?!” The old man went speechless. This would be his first encounter with a trialist who had failed to kill a single demon beast.

“Uh. Sir, you don’t have to show that expression, right? As soon as I entered the trial, I encountered the pursuit of a large group of demon beasts. I already lasted a long while. My willpower should be considered decent.”

The old man did not want to talk anymore. “You can ask how many demon beasts the others have killed later.”

As soon as his voice fell…

“Ahh!”

Metztli Flores jumped up with an exclamation.

The old man was startled. Did this woman end the trial so fast as well?

Claudia asked, “Metztli, how many demon beasts did you kill?”

Metztli said annoyingly, “What demon beasts? I didn’t see any of them.”

The old man was surprised. “How did you end the trial then?”

Metztli looked embarrassed. “I was naked after entering this crappy trial. I was trying to find some tree leaves to make an outfit, but I didn’t expect them to be were poisonous…”

Thus, she had been poisoned to death just like that. Then, people woke up one after another.

The old man was totally speechless upon asking about their situation. Most had not killed a single demon beast and had died in various ways.

The trialists of this year had really put on all kinds of death shows!

It was then that a figure flashed.

Alex, initially sitting cross-legged on the ground, suddenly flashed and… Disappeared from his original place.

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“Oh my, Alex. Why did he disappear?”

Even Luna had come out long ago. Her performance in the trial was considered suitable as she had killed a demon beast. Presently, she screamed in shock when she saw Alex suddenly disappearing.

Claudia also hurriedly asked, “Sir, what is this situation?”

The old protector wore a rather strange expression, also surprised.

“It can’t be!”

“The trial in the True Martial Shrine shouldn’t have harmed his main body. Even if he were to fail, he would be sent out. Oh, I remember…”

The old man suddenly slapped his thigh and looked exceptionally regretful.

At that moment, Luna’s heart skipped a beat. “Sir, what have you remembered? Tell us quickly!”

The old man said, “I suddenly remembered that he was carrying the shell of Genbu, my tribe’s ancestor, for the trial. My ancestor was the only one who pass ed the trial at the True Martial Shrine. When Alex was carrying the tortoiseshell, he would possess a bonus tenth of the ancestor’s will, but it would trigger a kind of mechanism at the True Martial Shrine.”

“What kind of mechanism?”

“In his case, the consequence of failure is different from yours. He will be instantly obliterated. Look at him now…”

“Ahh..!”

Luna exclaimed after hearing the old man’s words. As though petrified, and she could not even stand in place. If Metztli hadn’t hugged her, she would have collapsed.

Luna, the little witch, had an unpredictable behavior and seemed passionate and open in love affairs, but was in fact, committed to a relationship. Having the personality of being brave in love and hate, whenever love came, she would pursue it without hesitation. Hence, even if Alex had long been married and had a wife, she had no qualms about it.

It was because she had once loved him to the core.

How could she not be heartbroken, now that she heard Alex had been obliterated?

“Sir, are… Could you have been mistaken?” Metztli also asked the old protector anxiously.

The old man was slightly hesitant To be frank, it was the first time he had witnessed this situation, but this was the interior of his body, and he knew the surroundings like the back of his hand. Alex had disappeared entirely from this place. The only possibility of this happening was that the True Martial Shrine had obliterated him.

“Sigh. I’m unwilling to admit he’s met such a tragic ending. After all, Alex Rockefeller is a junior that our tribe’s Heavenly Emperor Genbu once had high hopes for. However, man proposes, but God disposes. It’s my fault too. I actually forgot about him carrying the ancestor’s shell. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been obliterated like this without leaving anything behind.”

Poof!

The moment Luna heard the result, she vomited blood and passed out

Those around her were also full of grief.

***

In a unique environment, at the True Martial Shrine where the test of willpower was being held…

Alex was sitting quietly in a valley. Abyssal demon beasts’ corpses with peculiar appearances were strewn all over. There were battered corpses of dark gorillas, giant snow-white snakes, and winged wolves. Moreover, there was a bloody hole on each of their heads.

‘I didn’t expect something like this to be on the heads of these beasts.’

Alex held a bloody crystal in his hand. It was the demonic core from the demon beast that he had killed. Then, he directly summoned the flaming lotus of Buddha’s wrath and threw the demonic core into it.

The flaming lotus rotated and melted the demonic core right away. Alex absorbed a mass of mysterious factors that had erupted from inside.

Presently, a pair of extremely obscure eyes as huge as mountains revealed themselves in the endless sky, blinking gently as an extremely subtle voice muttered to itself. “How strange. How did the Ancestral Bodhi Tree from Dairaionji Temple get into his body? What is the origin of this guy?”

“The Ancestral Bodhi Tree dragged his physical body into this place. Is that considered cheating?”

“Forget it… Forget it. Since he has acquired the Ancestral Bodhi Tree’s recognition, it’s considered a kind of ability.”

That was right. Alex, who had disappeared from the True Martial Shrine, hadn’t been obliterated yet.

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The Ancestral Bodhi in Alex’s mind palace dragged him in instead.

Presently, Alex was throwing demonic cores one after another into the flaming lotus. The great number of instantly-erupting mysterious factors were absorbed by his real body, entering his three thousand golden cores. The golden cores were changing, germinating, and nurturing life.

It was then that a voice shouted in his mind palace, “Hey, rascal. Keep your word. You’ve disintegrated so much immortal Chi. You can’t be having all of it to yourself. Hurry up and give me some!”

The one who spoke was none other than Ancestor Bodhi. He was a fair boy, looking similar to a preschooler.

The Ancestral Bodhi Tree’s vitality reduced greatly after the toxicity of a great demon at Dairaionji Temple destroyed it. He, the tree spirit, had also suffered severe damage and turned into his current state… However, the Ancestral Bodhi Tree was a sacred tree cultivated shortly after the beginning of the world. It had survived countless epochs with its tracks spanning multiple dimensions. The things that it had seen were beyond the imagination of the uninitiated.

The mysterious factors that Alex was currently absorbing, for instance, were actually something called ‘ethereal Chi’. Ancestor Bodhi was the one who had told Alex about that. He had also told Alex that he could disintegrate the demonic cores and extract the ethereal Chi within them with the flaming lotus of Buddha’s wrath.

And, ethereal Chi was something more advanced than immortal Chi.

“Bodhi, take it easy!”

“Let me consume this ethereal Chi first to improve my strength so that I can kill even more demon beasts and disintegrate more ethereal Chi. I’ll naturally give it to you when the time comes, but we’d both be finished if the demon beasts here were to kill me because I’m not strong enough.”

Ancestor Bodhi said, “Your words seem to make sense. You better kill the beasts quickly then.”

After Alex had absorbed all the ethereal Chi, he spat a mouthful of impure Chi. “You’ll have to let me take a break for a while.”

“A break, my *ss. Now that Ihave gotten your physical body here and your strength has increased dramatically, you can just use the resources you’ve acquired in the battle to fight further. What is the point of taking a break? If the divided soul of the True Martial Starlord were to find out that you’re cheating, he would kick your physical body away, and you would be struggling again.”

Alex nodded. “You’re right. I’ll fight then… We’ve killed 979 demon beasts, right? D*mn it. There are still about one hundred thousand of them after rounding up.”

However, Alex had got a knack for killing demon beasts. Furthermore, he had mastered the True Martial Star-shattering Punch to the third degree.

The old protector had demanded that he cultivate the set of punch techniques and acquire enlightenment from it. It had five degrees in total, and each contained a unique name, Star-shocking, Star-breaking, Star-cracking, Star-severing, and Star-shattering.

Meanwhile, the energy consumption of each degree was slightly different. Alex gained an intense feeling after cultivating it from the first to the third degree.

His former cultivation techniques were flawed.

It wasn’t that the techniques were bad, but some areas fit him poorly. Those areas could actually be improved until they suited him better and their power increased. The cultivation of the True Martial Star-shattering Punch, was in fact, a gradual process of modifying the cultivation technique.

After Alex had experienced this process, he could extrapolate information from it and make personalized modifications to his other cultivation techniques.

A month later, Alex had managed to kill three thousand enemies after fighting a valiant and dauntless fight. He had finally cultivated the True Martial Star-shattering Punch to the fifth degree, Star-shattering.

It was then that he received some kind of enlightenment.

He killed no enemies the next month, but hid underground and focused on modifying his martial cultivation techniques.

Bodhi’s Dragon-Tusk. Great Mighty Divine Palm. Ksitigarbha’s Ten Wheels Earth Incantation. Thunder Palm Mantra.

He even modified and adjusted the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell and the lotus filled with Buddha’s wrath.

In the third month, he rushed into a cave of demon beasts. There were at least three thousand abyssal demon wolves inside.

“Taste my new and improved Small Icebound Spell!”

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The Great Icebound Spell of the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell was powerful. Moreover, it was an area of effect attack.

However, this attack method also extensively consumed Alex’s Chi.

For each usage, a-fourth of his Chi would be consumed. Furthermore, it wasn’t like it could be used infinitely once his cultivation level soared and his Chi became more powerful… It wasn’t like that. With the growth of Alex’s cultivation level, the Chi needed to use the Great Icebound Spell would also increase accordingly. He also had to consume a sufficient mental strength, proportional to the consumption. Of course, the Great Icebound Spell’s power would also increase.

On the other hand, Alex had modified the Great Icebound Spell into the Small Icebound Spell, turning its sizeable effective radius into a small one. Chi consumption had been reduced.

Roar!

After Alex entered the cave of demon wolves, he intended to go deeper. To his surprise, a wandering demon wolf had discovered him halfway let out a furious roar.

A human dared to intrude into their base camp. It was simply outrageous.

Its roar instantly awakened countless demon wolves.

Hearing the sounds of the demon wolves one after another, Alex immediately felt distressed… It had awakened every single wolf in the den!

‘Aren’t there… too many?’

‘What if I run away?’

However, the exit route was filled with demon wolves. They immediately attacked him like a tidal wave.

“Ten-Point Forbidden Spell! Small Icebound Spell!”

Alex intended to test the improved martial arts, so he immediately cast it without hesitation. It was so rapid that it instantly formed a faint blue cyclone that surrounded him from ten yards.

The cyclone emanated a chill.

However, only those who got really close would experience that bone-piercing cold. The temperature was so low that hair could stand on its ends, and the stones touched by the cyclone would freeze into ice sculptures.

As soon as the wolf pack entered the cold blue cyclone, they frosted over instantly. They slowed down too, and as they continued to approach him, the frost on their bodies became thicker, and their movements became slower. As soon as they touched the Small Icebound Spell, their speed abruptly decreased by one-fifth.

Over ten yards, their speed had decreased to one-tenth of their original speed.

“Kill!”

Alex took out the Xavion Sword and mercilessly attacked the demon wolves that were frosting over.

Wham! Wham! Wham!

Each decapitated wolf exploded into tiny chunks of ice as their demon cores popped out.

After that, Alex guarded a narrow passage and kept using the Small Icebound Spell and the Xavion Sword to harvest the abyssal demon wolves. However, he quickly noticed that the Small Icebound Spell wasn’t that economical on Chi either.

Although it consumed much less Chi than the Great Icebound Spell at first, it consumed a lot when there was continuous output…

Changing his strategy, he used the True Martial Star-shattering Punch, but he had to run outside… The Star-shattering Punch was, in fact, an area of effect attack, but this fifth-degree cultivation technique had a feature, it could strike its targets with deadly accuracy after predicting the number of enemies.

Would it be the same for the Small Icebound Spell?

The method he was using would also waste his Chi. It was not a single point or a few points but a circular surface.

Could it be changed into a precise shot?

Alex thought of the strategy while fighting the demon wolves. If he wanted to modify it, he could not do it here.

Thus, he rapidly retreated into the cave as he fought the wolves. Half an hour later, he finally escaped the den, but his body had long been immersed in his own blood, and half of his thigh had been bitten off. It was so painful that Alex gnashed his teeth.

3000!

In the mind palace, Shelly ran out and stood in front of Ancestor Bodhi. The two were no strangers to each other.

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When Ancestor Bodhi saw Shelly, he seemed apprehensive and slightly afraid of her. If Alex were to discover this current situation, he would be astonished for sure.

‘You are the sacred tree of Heart Mountain that has existed since the beginning of time. Why are you afraid of a little girl? Aren’t you ashamed?’

However…

“Bodhi, have you turned into your son?”

“Why do your chubby cheeks look like your buttocks?”

Ancestor Bodhi kept backing off, trying to run back into the Ancestral Bodhi Tree.

However, Shelly shouted, “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll peel off your bark?”

Ancestor Bodhi was instantly helpless. “Miss Shelly, I hope you’ve been well since we last saw each other!”

Shelly said, “Look at my current appearance, and you will know if I’m well.”

Ancestor Bodhi said in a child-like voice, “Miss Shelly, you are the peerlessly omniscient, exceptionally talented, commanding master of the realm. No one ever dares disobey you. Miss Shelly, you have deliberately turned yourself into your current appearance.”

The two were old acquaintances.

However, Shelly could tell from those words that Ancestor Bodhi was extremely afraid of her. It was because Shelly said she would peel his bark off. She was not all talk… She would really do it…

“Fine. Your ass-kissing just gets better. Cut the crap. I need to talk to you about two things.”

“Miss Shelly, please let me know your request. I’m at your beck and call.”

Shelly said, “Help me open a passage to the Demon’s Domain. I need to get something.”

Ancestor Bodhi was shocked. “What are you going to get in the Demon’s Domain?”

Shelly said, “The Blue Demonic Lotus.”

Ancestor Bodhi gasped. “The Blue Demonic Lotus, an item only available in the imperial city of the Demon’s Domain? The place you are going is full of danger, and you can’t return if you aren’t careful enough… A-are you going to give it to that Rockefeller brat? Isn’t it too early? He won’t be able to withstand it, will he?”

Shelly said, “I believe he can do it. I’m his protector. I know this better than you do. He has great potential. He is now far from the limit. I must go to the Demon’s Domain.

“Alright. Then… What is the other item?”

“There is no real danger to his life. You mustn’t help him. Even if he looks for you, you have to refuse him and make him drop the idea so his true potential can be forced out.”

Ancestor Bodhi could have helped Alex when he was under attack by a pack of wolves just now, but Shelly had stopped him. It appeared that that was the reason.

Ancestor Bodhi nodded. “Alright.”

Deep down, he paid silent tribute to Alex. ‘You will suffer in the future for asking the ferocious Miss Shelly to become your protector.’

Shelly did not take Persephone’s Folly Bridge, but she entered the Demon’s Domain through the passage that the Ancestral Bodhi Tree secretly opened.

Presently, Alex was studying again to improve his skills… A game that he had played in the past suddenly crossed his mind. There was an ice mage’s skill that seemingly fit the effect he wanted.

Raging Frost Arrow.

Could he modify it to that kind of effect?

He had comprehended the key within it half an hour later. In fact, the origin of the skill remained unchanged, but the way of presentation had changed. The previous Small Icebound Spell inflicted continuous damage output, whereas the Raging Frost Arrow inflicted point-to-point damage output, and a lot of Chi would be saved.

Whoosh!

Alex condensed an ice ball in his hand and made it fly forward with his mental control. Then, he shot out several frost arrows.

Similarly, the frost arrows were subjected to his mind control. He did not shoot them all in one go, but according to the number of targets. The effect was even stronger than the Small Icebound Spell. The ones hit would have their movement speed decreased by two-third. If the duration was slightly longer, they would freeze directly.

Of course, it also had something to do with the opponent’s strength.

‘Phew!’

‘Let’s try it again in the wolf den.’

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This time, Alex became wise, no longer foolishly charging into the depths of the wolf den. Instead, he began hunting as soon as he entered.

He unleashed the Raging Frost Arrow… Oh, rather than an arrow, it looked more like a frigid sword. The moment he shot the arrow, it emitted a cracking sound, and the air seemed to freeze.

Poof!

A demon wolf was shot. In an instant, its swift body went into slow motion. Meanwhile, its fur and features stopped moving. A moment later, it had entirely frozen into an ice sculpture.

Smack!

Alex sent out a kick and shattered that wolf demon without a drop of blood. Once frozen by the icebound power of the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell, it became extremely brittle.

Under normal circumstances, Alex might not even kill the demon wolf with a full-powered punch, but now, he could shatter it easily with a kick. And, he had only consumed 30% of his strength for that.

‘It turns out that the instantaneous effect of the Raging Frost Arrow is three times more powerful than the Small Icebound Spell.’

‘Besides, it only consumed 1% of the Small Icebound Spell’s Chi. If I encounter few enemies, the energy of the ice ball can even be recovered… How wonderful!’

Alex was satisfied with the current effect, and he felt incredibly proud. It turned that playing games weren’t a complete waste of time.

‘Oh right If I can modify the frost energy to release the Raging Frost Arrow like that, how about the Chi of other attributes?’

‘Flame, lightning, and even divine power… They are all fundamentally energy, so they should be interconnected.’

Those thoughts crossed Alex’s mind. He could not help being excited and was eager to give it a try.

In fact, if he could grasp the fundamentals of this ability, he could apply it to other attributes. Just like a warrior on the battlefield that could use various weapons like a katana, a gun, a sword, a mace, and even ordinary weapons like a fireplace poker, a brick… The energy of various attributes was like different weapons. However, the actions in one’s hand remained essentially the same despite all apparent changes.

“Fireball!”

“Firewall!”

“Thunderstorm!”

“Thunderstrike..!”

Alex experimented with his modified skills in the wolf den.

All that being said, the Raging Frost Arrow remained the most powerful because it was an attack method from the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell. Its origin was also at least a grade higher than that flame and lightning whatnot.

As he constantly killed enemies, his body’s three thousand golden cores received nourishment from the massive amount of ethereal Chi. Each golden core was sprouting normally. From the beginning of germination to the gradual internal rebirth… The sprouts were changing, like the growth of an embryo in the maternal body. They slowly showed minor signs of life and prominent facial features.

‘Looks like my speculation is true.’

‘My three thousand gold encores still can’t escape the fate of becoming Nascent Souls.’

***

In the True Martial Shrine’s hall, Gilbert and Xerxes had long woken up. The two principals had scored much better than the others in the trial.

Gilbert had lasted thirteen days in the trials, whereas Xerxes had unexpectedly lasted fifteen. The one who woke up last was Jade. She managed to survive twenty-three days. However, the three of them did not succeed and returned after failure.

When they learned that Alex had been obliterated, they were all dumbfounded.

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Meanwhile, an entire month had passed since Alex’s ‘obliteration’.

Even Luna could no longer deceive herself. Having fainted a few times from crying, she looked much thinner and haggard. She was as white as a sheet, and her eyes were completely devoid of life, looking downhearted and gloomy just like a zombie.

Although Gilbert was heartbroken to see her in such a state, he was powerless.

It was then that the old protector opened his mouth as he shook his head. “You don’t have to keep wasting time here. An entire month has passed since Alex’s physical body disappeared. Even if it’s the trial of True Martial Shrine on hell difficulty, it has been long overdue. The True Martial Starlord has undoubtedly obliterated him. Go out, you guys. I’ll personally see you on your way out.”

Jade Benmore said, “No. I want to see him, no matter if he is alive or dead.”

The old man said, “No corpse will be left behind for an obliterated person.”

Jade said, “I still don’t believe it. I’ll wait a little longer.”

Another half a month passed.

Then, the old protector sighed. This time, he said nothing, but be directly used the last bit of his magical power to communicate with the flesh, forcibly sending the group out of the space.

“Sigh. Alex was considered peerless in his league. He even managed to break out of the Underworld after being there for so many years. I didn’t expect him to meet his demise in this inexplicable True Martial trial. It’s really out of the blue,” Xerxes said as he was slightly distressed.

Martiny’s eyes were red-rimmed. “If we hadn‘t called him, how would he… What should we do? He’s just held the first birthday banquet for his four children, and this happened. I don’t even know how to tell his family.”

A few people ran over. At a glance, they were from the Flying Eagles.

“Finally back, are you, Commander Benmore, Principal Henderson, Principal Lawlor?”

After Alex dissuaded the demon tribes in the ancient force field, the Flying Eagles and the Flying Eagles Academy resumed normal operations. The senior management of America even invited Jade back to oversee the Flying Eagles.

No one else would have been able to manage the Flying Eagles.

Jade, who was in a bad mood, glared at the crowd and said nothing.

However, someone said directly, “Commander Bemnore, we have a situation in America.”

Jade frowned. “What kind of situation?”

Martiny said, “Could those guys from outer space have broken through the ancient sword formation and entered Earth?”

As she spoke, she looked up to the sky. In an instant, her brows knitted even more tightly.

Compared to over a month ago, the situation in the sky was even less optimistic. Not only were massive spaceships crossing, but immortal mountains also drifted by, with sacred birds appearing… All of them were boundless, blotting out the sky.

Even though they were far away, they could be clearly seen with the naked eye.

Someone who had just arrived shook his head and glanced at the sky. “It’s not them. A few forces have suddenly emerged in America, claiming to be surviving members of ancient godly cultivation sects. They have now declared their comeback They are mighty, and they wage war everywhere to seize the strongholds where the tide of spiritual energy had erupted before.”

The few were shocked by what they heard.

Xerxes immediately asked, “How many forces are there?”

The Flying Eagles member answered, “So far, we have tracked down six sects, Snow Dragon Valley, Beast King Sect, Returning Sword Sect, Demonic Spirit Cult, Rakshasa Temple, and Lightning Pavilion. In addition, there are also some more secretive forces our people can’t investigate for the time being. The main reason is that the cultivation levels of those people are generally above Human Immortal. We… We were discovered accidentally, and dozens of our teammates have died.”

Gilbert frowned. “What sects are they? Why haven’t I heard of them?”

That man continued, “One more thing. Something has happened at Rockefeller Manor.”

Jade’s expression changed abruptly. “Are you talking about Alex Rockefeller’s house?”

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“What’s going on? Make it clear. What happened to his house?” Martiny asked anxiously.

In her eyes, Alex was now dead, but he had more or less died for their sake. Not long ago, Neela the Benares Dragon and Alex’s servant severed her own vein to prolong Martiny’s life. So, one could only imagine her debt of gratitude.

In any case, she had to go to Rockefeller Manor to lend a hand.

However, Mason said, “Rockefeller Manor happens to be one of the spots for the tide of spiritual energy, so it will naturally become the target of those ancient forces. However, Alex Rockefeller has set up a large formation around Rockefeller Manor. That large formation is so powerful that they can’t enter the manor and occupy it.”

Jade was aware of that fact.

“That’s right. Alex Rockefeller is a spell formation master. Ordinary people can’t dispel formations he set up. So… Has something happened to that formation?”

Mason said, “There’s nothing wrong with it, but someone is threatening the Rockefellers using Thousand Miles Conglomerate employees. Apparently, if they don’t hand over the manor, they would wipe out everyone there.”

“How preposterous!”

Gilbert was furious. He abruptly stomped his foot in rage, leaving a crater.

Jade asked, “Which ancient force did that?”

Mason said, “The Lightning Pavilion.”

***

This place was an expanse of snow in the True Martial trial, a frozen world covered in white.

Alex had just broken into a snow bear valley. Before he could do anything, he encountered a riot from terrifying demon beasts, with countless snowfield demon beasts swarming. Some were running on the ground, some flew in the sky, and some even burrowed underground, overwhelming him with their infinite numbers.

Alex had been here for over a month, killing demon beasts every day. He was familiar with killing them.

It was, however, his first time seeing a demon beast riot of such scale.

There was no way around it, only the brave would come out of a predicament.

Under the circumstances where retreating was impossible, Alex confronted them forcibly. After retreating to a cliff, he built a wall with the Icebound Spell, forming an artificial guard. He unleashed the Raging Frost Arrow and lotus full of Buddha’s wrath.

The killing effect that he created was simply earth-shattering. He had killed the demon beasts for three whole days.

Fortunately, Ancestor Bodhi brought his physical body along with his storage ring containing countless pills and heavenly treasures. He relied on those supplies for three days until he was numb from killing demon beasts. He didn’t even know how many he’d killed. He even heard some terrifying roar from the depths of the snow valley.

Eventually, he realized that the roar alerted all the demon beasts in the valley, causing them to go berserk.

‘What is that thing?’

When Alex stopped killing, he had killed all the berserk demon beasts. However, the roar still came from the depths of the snow valley from time to time.

It sounded like a beast, but also carried hints of a man!

Hearing such a bizarre sound, Alex was terrified. He couldn’t help but wonder if the True Martial Starlord’s divided soul had given him the trial of willpower. If so, then this place should be an illusionary realm, with killing demon beasts its only theme.

However he was a little skeptical now. First, his physical body that Ancestor Bodhi had dragged along with the storage ring and other belongings were all present.

This was a little shocking.

Could an illusionary realm reach that kind of extent?

Secondly, it was that roar.

‘What if I… check it out?’

“Will I trigger a hidden mission?’

The noise had piqued Alex’s curiosity. In fact, he was really bored from killing demon beasts in this hellhole. He did not know how the flow of time here worked, but he felt he had been here for a year.