The banquet still in high spirits despite the deaths of two participants, the remaining guests did not care.

Each guest had a different cultivation base, but each was still a cultivator at heart. How could they care about others dying? In contrary, the show provided proved to be extremely entertaining.

Watching a man, whose children were murdered, be exterminated by his descendants' slaughterer was a truly breathtaking drama.

The banquet going on for a few more hours, the host, Hophe Ghylar, walked upon the round balcony up top.

His powerful gaze looming over the guests, he intimidated most of them, only old monsters like Alexander capable of holding on without a hitch.

Parting his lips, he spoke with fervor.

"Welcome! I, Hophe Ghylar, sincerely greet each and every single one of you, dear guests! Now that I am done with my work, let us commence the feast!"

Following his words, green robed servants brought delicious dishes without end, as if a continuous stream of delicacies.

Gulping, many stared at the beautiful but also powerful spiritual food with greed.

"Lord Ghylar is truly a generous man!"

"Indeed! The Lord is worthy of his title, a true dragon among men!"

Cheers all around, each guest sat down to the wooden table, where Alexander was still waiting.

Already an hour into the feast, Alexander kept munching on delicious meat, all the while formulating plans within his mind.

'I need a bit more information, let's watch for now.'

His initial plan working around assassinating young talents of the Celestial Heart Continent to collect their resources, this rough draft of a plan had flaws.

First, most of these talents' relatives probably had means to detect anything amiss with them, this would most likely incur the pursuit of many forces.

Not only so, but each talent may not have enough World Seeds for even a single breakthrough. And even if they did, each breakthrough would require massive amounts of time to complete, a time he may not necessarily have.

Second, while killing them in one strike would not prove to be too difficult, since most would not have enough resources, he would need to assassinate multiple talents, but how could he do so if forces were to be alerted by a single one?

Therefore, he first hoped to find young talents in close friendships with each others, so that when he killed one, the next target or targets would be nearby.

But instead of asking which was friend with who, he preferred to keep this question as a last resort, currently spying on their interactions.

His eyebrow raising, his eyes focused, he witnessed a seated young man chat with a genuine smile plastered over his face. The ones he was having fun with were an older looking young man and a young woman, both standing on each side of his chair, resting on it.

The young man in question had turquoise robes, his hair light-brown with pale blue eyes. The older young man was dark skinned, his bright yellow robes contrasting with his darker skin. The young woman had light-blue, fancy robes, her hair light-brown as well, while her eyes glimmered with green.

Alexander sipping on his Turrac Nine Earths Wine, he pondered.

'Are the young man and woman siblings? I doubt it, but you never know...'

Having not seen Natasha for a while, Alexander guessed her to be locked inside her room as punishment.

'Still, that man seems like a doting father, she probably got tons of stuff to play with.' Not bothering with her any longer, Alexander enjoyed the feast, except however for his scheming mind which did not.

Night falling after everything was done, Alexander exited the Dragon Mansion, the formerly white exterior turning dark blue.

The now deep azure sky standing tall, clouds nowhere to be seen, the exterior was illuminated by faint, warm lights.

Floating, Alexander flew toward the sky at high speed.

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Once there, he did not look around in curiosity, instead, he turned right, his eyes shining a black light.

'You three shall be my first preys! Be glad!' His figure vanishing, Alexander had already probed the trio's cultivation bases.

He had discovered the young man to be a second stage Immortal Sky Realm expert, while both the young woman and dark skinned young man were first stage Immortal Sky Realm experts.

His cultivation miles beyond them, he did not think highly of them, but did stay cautious due to their potential life-saving artifacts.

'I sensed powerful Celestial Qi fluctuations from the young man's robe. But it can only block a single punch of mine from what I estimated.'

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Having fun racing inside a dark forest deep in the night, the trio was laughing loudly, clearly in a good mood. What they did not know however, was that the peak Immortal Sky Realm master that Alexander was chased after them.

A few hours into racing, the trio stopped at a clearing, a small plain below the flawless night sky.

Panting, both young men chuckled laying down while the young woman sat dazed at the surrounding scenery.

Embraced by the cold, short grass, they were about to recuperate when danger gripped their hearts.

Their casual mood obliterated as if it never existed to begin with, the two men turned to look at the beautiful young woman.

But anyone could notice their facial expressions to be somewhat different from usual.

Each time they looked at the woman, all they could express was nothing but awe and love. However, their current look showed fear, nervousness and regret.

Not oblivious to their weird change in attitude, the woman brushed her hair in the calm wind, like a fairy from another world.

Unfortunately, she quickly realized a problem.

She felt weightless!

Frowning, she wondered what had happened to her when enlightenment struck her.

His eyes reflecting the woman's current appearance, the young man's facial muscles contracted brusquely, his eyes wide open while his mouth muttered faint, fading words.

All that both men could see was the woman's head spinning slowly mid-air, her body already falling to the ground.

"Noooo!!!" Screaming, his mind feeling sore, the young man was dumbstruck.

Without a sound, without a movement, without a notice, his beloved one had been decapitated out of nowhere.

The dark skinned young man was similarly reacting, expect for his screams of inner agony forcefully kept within.

Alexander's figure fading in behind the dark skinned young man, he slashed with his Fleeting Dreams, beheading the yellow robed man as well.

Acting so fast that both of his slain targets fell at the same time, Alexander spun his Fleeting Dreams using its chains high above his head.

Turning around in shock, the young man cursed loudly while jumping at Alexander's stoic expression.

"Die!!! How dare you kill my-"

"?!!"

Filled with wrath, the inexperienced young man could not control his rage, jumping without a thought at Alexander, feeding his opponent's wishes. Alexander on the other hand, used his free hand to send a gust of Celestial Qi towards the man, forcing his robes to protect him. Without verifying if it had worked, Alexander threw his spinning poleaxe at the young man, piercing his brain instantly, the weapon's speed too fast for the man to react to.

This was the main reason Alexander had chosen to kill the woman first. Since both men deeply revered her as he saw during the banquet, he only needed to use her death to obliterate the young men's rational tactics. Blinded by anger and sorrow, both could not react accordingly to the already powerful Alexander.

Grinning madly, Alexander did not hesitate to retrieve their space rings.

After counting the spoils, he could only shake in excitement.

"Truly deserving of their titles! How could anyone leave these three morons to their own devices? If I gave people so much wealth, I might as well send a bodyguard!"

Having obtained over 750 World Seeds, Alexander was ready to breakthrough.

But feeling his instincts scream at him, he awoke from his greedy stupor, running away in a heartbeat.

"Miss, young master, where are you? Stop racing and come back, this old man can't keep up with the young!"

Merrily advancing, a dark figure was following the trio's location.

Walking out of the forest and into the clearing, an old man in black robes approached the three corpses with hurried footsteps.

"No... no! It can't be!" Almost kneeling, the man could not believe his eyes.

"Miss! Young master! What happened to you?! Who would do this! Not even their souls are left! Who is so vicious!" Sweating, the old man could not take it anymore, collapsing on the soft, cold grass, now warmed with blood.

"The master will kill me!" Tearing up, the old man had been battling through countless storms, but this one was a first.

Having been close to them, the old man felt like his heart had been impaled by countless spears of sadness.

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Sweating, Alexander felt that whoever was closely following behind was not easy to offend, even for him now.

'I felt danger, but not as much as Hophe... Logically, that man should be around the second stage of the Greater Existence Realm.'

Flying, Alexander did not care about the direction except for the initial one.

After all, it would be the direction that man would follow to chase after the assassin, and even if he did not, Alexander would clearly end up closer to the trio's homes, which was not a good thing.

Therefore, he simply decided to fly left in a straight line.

Feeling no dangers, Alexander saw a mountain into the distance.

After only a few minutes, he was already in front of it, quickly sending palm strikes to dig its insides. But instead of secluding himself within, he suddenly darted down, digging the soft earth while also covering his tracks, filling the hole as he dug it.

Vibrations shaking the underground world, Alexander suddenly asked himself a question.

'If I dig straight down... will I exit the Celestial Realm?'

Since he had nothing better to do other than digging the earth, he asked himself a rather difficult question.

'Going up wouldn't work, at least for the me now, I can't handle the sky's pressure, as for the sides... clearly spatial fluctuations are interfering. But what about below?'

By the time he was done debating with himself back and forth between 'yes' and 'no', he almost finished his secluded home's construction.

Going for similar styles, he sat cross-legged inside a large room, atop a cushion up a giant pillar.

Some would wonder how a place like this could exist underground.

Some light shining down on him, his head almost grazed the ceiling. Realizing it, he edited his home by raising the ceiling a bit, happy with the pillar's height.

Taking out 243 World Seeds, he prepared himself to breakthrough to the Greater Existence Realm!