Xiao Zaihe felt his consciousness shook from that single roar. From the mere voice of whatever beast that was, he could tell it was a level above him!

However, for the second, he paid attention to the bear. He sensed two immense, powerful aura that entirely suppressed his body!

His brain immediately recognizes it as the prowess of a Sky Lord cultivator...

"GAH!! H-How?!?"

Zaihe felt his world and common sense was getting rocked again.

He couldn't put any defense as multiple heavy objects tightly locked around his body. His eyes could only gaze down on his body, and he witnesses purple Spirit Power chains!

All of his Essence energy got blocked, and the genuine fear of death began to shatter his mind.

Cold sweat drain his body, and he was going to plead for his life until,

"I'll finish it, Luke."

The terrifying cold voice of Andrea boomed into his ears despite her saying it in a natural tone.

'Chi!'

Before Xiao Zaihe knew it, one of the purple chains ruthlessly pierces into his chest, striking straight through his heart!

The pain was immeasurable, and the fading of his life only caused his mind to breakdown.

And only in a couple of seconds, the light faded away from his eyes.

Just like that, the cousins achieved their first kill in this universe. Moreover, it was against an Earthen Core warrior...

Recalling their chains, the cousins let the bloody hole corpse of Zaihe fall to the ground.

Watching the brutal scene Luke and Andrea felt...nothing?

In their past lives, while they familiar with death and extreme violence, they never went out of their way to directly kill someone. Most of the time, the two were mostly focused on just trying to survive their own lives.

Yet right now, they only felt like this killing was just an unimportant event that passed.

"You should've just captured him instead of killing. We could've gotten more information from him." Luke, now that the heat of the moment passed, suddenly said to Andrea.

From the fight, he was able to tell it was someone from the Xiao Sect branch, but the talisman felt a bit special.

"I...just relied on my natural instinct." Andrea simply said without a change in her expression. Indeed when Yurei called to her to finish this. Her fused soul naturally gave her the feelings to permanently end this.

"And that was your quickest solution? Well, no matter, let's just focus on this Oddity now."

Luke shrugged his shoulder and told her. He expected their personalities to be quickly changed, but he was still a bit surprised by how fast Andrea was changing.

At least they still had the corpse intact...

For Andrea, she felt something change a bit inside her soul from the quick kill. Like something was being added to her.

However, for now, she pushed down that sensation and turned her focus to the Oddity treasure.

"He really died...so easily..."

Cang Yue, Lingxi, and Qingyue was shocked but for utterly different reasons.

In a life or death battle, there were many kinds of trump cards and tricks one can have to reverse the situations or escape death.

To high tier Martial Skills, burning your blood essence, special pills, or even sacrificing your cultivation to a powerful armament weapon.

Although for Xiao Zaihe, once the cousins introduced their Spirit Power, it was all over him.

That was a real suppression of a higher realm prowess!

"THERE!!!"

Suddenly everyone's musing got broken when a disfigured beast-like voice roared at the top of its lung.

And then everyone saw it from the near horizon.

A beast that was a colossal giant!

It easily surpassed ten feet, having an intimidating stature that could frighten even sharp minds. The beast, despite it's gigantic height, reminded Luke of an ape with its body build.

The tall ape beast had diamond color fur, piercing green eyes, and a terrifying savage face that bored into the youth's eyes.

'There, in that beast stomach, is the Oddity you're looking for.' Spooky informed Luke, who was confused about this explanation.

But questions could be saved for later.

The ape beast didn't sense the Sky Lord prowess from the Spirit Barrier but from the depth of its soul, something attracted it to this place. From far away, the beast held no worries since it could sense the cousin's aura was only slightly weaker than it.

Furthermore, there was also a dead prey and three fresh other prey behind them.

It was prime hunting time!

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'RUMBLE!!'

Putting strength into its massive legs, the ape beast blasted off to the youths!

The mountain range shook from its vast size, and its speed was alarmingly fast.

However, Luke and Andrea were only thinking about their options.

"Hey, didn't you mention great battles would help us breakthrough? Isn't this ape the perfect sharpening tool, no?" Andrea suggested as she grips her sword even tighter.

"Hmmm, I guess you're right. Let's go!"

Luke agreed, and with a battle-hungry smile, they dashed out of the barrier!

Blue and black lightning combined together, creating a dazzling scene for the other girls' eyes to behold.

Their auras were already clashing against the ape, and the air between swirled in a chaotic frenzy. The ground cracked apart beneath them along with the sky turning darker.

For both sides speed, they were over several meters apart, yet they manage to cross such a distance in a manner of seconds!

'Bang!'

A tremendous clash of powers quakes the mountain!

The ape got pushed back for five steps, and its eyes glared at the cousins.

Luke and Andrea were pushed back for ten steps, but their souls was in a frantic rush!

Their bodies were pumping out a mass of adrenaline, and the cousins felt roaring excitement from that one clash. Despite obviously being slightly weaker, it matters little to the cousins.

'Swish!'

In only just a second after they clash, Luke and Andrea sped off to the ape again.

Flashes of blue and black lightning buzzed in the ape's eyes as it senses two massive attacks coming down it.

The ape relied on its slightly superior speed and reinforced its arm with Earthen Essene energy!

'CLANG!'

Like its arms were made of pure steel, Luke and Andrea's weapons couldn't make a dent in the ape!

However, the cousins weren't entirely done yet as they yelled,

"Lightning Binds!"

"Lightning Chains!"

In the ape's body and arms, it felt an intense burning sensation. Luke's blue lightning bind wrapped around its arms, and Andrea's black lightning chains did the same.

Now, the cousins did some damage to the ape as it felt its soul burn. However, soon after, the ape did something to surprise the cousin.

Like they weighed nothing, the ape lifted its arms and slammed the cousins to the ground!

'BANG!'

Two massive craters formed beneath Luke and Andrea as they sunk into the gray terrain!

Yet, despite the ferocity of the slam, the two never let go of their weapons, nor did they feel much pain from the attack.

On the contrary, their bodies felt stronger, and their will to overpower this ape was becoming stronger.

The ape felt the burning sensations in its body increase with intensity. Furthermore, the binds on its arms only became increasingly tighter.

"Gwah!!"

With a shout, the ape unleashed its full power!

Luke and Andrea suddenly felt the pressure on them grow, and the ape stared down at them with fierce killing intent.

Using its maddening speed, the ape blasted up into the air like a raging bullet.

Once they were several meters high into the sky, the ape didn't give the cousins a chance to react and dived back to the ground at blitzing speeds!

Face with the bear intent to smash their bodies into bloodies corpses, Luke and Andrea felt a change in their dantian.

The two were now in a situation where it's very likely they could die, but they felt no lingering fear.

A weak and small mind and will would never let them grow!

Tremendously powerful energy was forming in their dantian, and their fused souls were responding to their maddening call for power.

Only in this kind of situation could they achieve this since their facing a tremendous opposing force that wishes to crush them.

'Thud!'

Instead of a loud sound of a bloody impact resounding out throughout the mountain, two pairs of feet landing into the ground, sinking into it quake the terrain.

Before the bear could crush them, Luke and Andrea flipped themselves while holding on to their weapons to make sure their feet landed on the ground.

The new immense power in their dantian allowed them to perform this neat trick.

Against the ape crushing force, the cousins were slowly getting pushed into the ground. The ape's massive power was slowly overpowering them until the new energy in their dantian finished gathering.

'Ka-Cha!'

Luke felt a whole new world open for him as he got to the fourth level of the True Profound Realm!

Andrea similarly advanced to the third level of the True Profound Realm!

Instantly once they crossed this threshold, the sinking of their feet stopped.

No longer could the ape even move them an inch!

Now it was time for the cousin's turn...

'Luke, kill this ape now, take the girls and follow my directions!' Out of nowhere, Spooky voice called to him in an urgent tone.

This was a first to hear Spooky like this, but when Luke looked to Andrea's surprised face, he knew something terrible was coming their way.

At the same time, the ape flew back into the air after realizing somehow its prey's strength dramatically increased.

However, all at once, the ape felt a colossal aura speed to him!

Its body got weighed like there was several tones of mountains on it, and it could barely move.

'Chi!'

Multiple spirit chains tore through the ape like it was tofu!

The only place where the ape was protected was its stomach. Although it didn't help the ape in the slightest as it died on the spot, not even knowing how it died.

'Bang!'

The cousins yanked their chains, pulling the gigantic beast to the ground and splitting apart to the terrain as it crashed down.

When the ape was on its back, Luke, using a spirit chain, ripped its stomach and exposed all of its blood and guts. But he paid no attention to the gruesome image and carefully fished out something in there.

"So this is the Oddity...let's leave, now!"

What Luke took out was an odd sickly purplish flower that shined with a brilliant purple glow. Recalling the flower to him, Luke put it away in his Spatial Ring.

The cousins didn't exchange any words and immediately sped off back to the girls.

….

"I knew it! So it really is the Xiao Sect and the Lingyun school working together!" Cang Yue exclaimed as she went over the content inside Xiao Zaihe spatial ring.

The ring was hidden deep into Ziahe robes, and she wanted to confirm her suspicions on who this guy was.

"It seems they were planning on taking you and killing us." Qingyue caught on and speculated since this was the second time in a row, Cang Yue got cloak men sent after her.

"Ah? They're rushing back already?" Lingxi spoke since it was after the ape got impaled by the chains did Cang Yue and Qingyue took a look at Zaihe body.

They knew the battle was over then, yet Lingxi felt a bit strange seeing Luke and Andrea's rushing expressions.

In seconds the cousins crossed several meters of distance and dashed inside the barrier.

The girls were startled and confused at the cousins' urgent faces, and Luke said,

"We're leaving now."

"Wh-what's going on?" Cang Yue asked, and all the girls suddenly felt a foreboding feeling in their minds.

Luke didn't respond, and as he was going to grab Qingyue and Cang Yue, the dreading power his senses picked up was now even closer to them!

It was then they all heard it. Despite being several miles from them, they all still listened to a ghastly, ominous voice chuckle to them,

"Gehehe, already leaving so soon?"