In Crystal Mind City, a young and peculiar looking man was walking down the street, attracting the gazes of many. This young man had a blindfold over his eyes and a hair tucked deep into something that can be compared to a turban. His steps steady and his posture confident. What attracted more attention than his peculiar appearance was the direction he was headed in. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that he was heading for the building on the opposite end of the street, a building that is feared by all in the city. That building is a stronghold of the Black Lotus organization. A shadow organization dealing with assassinations, robbery, plots and corruption. Their origin being an evil one, and their nature being even more so. Anyone who tries to oppose their reign will be harshly put down. Meaning a public execution where they're tortured to death. For this individual to so confidently walk towards it without wearing the crest of the organization, is nothing but asking for death.

This figure was obviously Samuel. After spending about three months down in that cavern after breaking through, he finally managed to comprehend and create what needs be. His portal has now evolved into something that be called ‘Dimensional Tear’. It's no longer a mere gateway between two points in space. It’s something entirely different. Something above and beyond what a portal could ever be. It can allow him to travel between dimensions if he finds the correct entry point. It's also faster and cheaper regarding qi. Not only that but his special time related ability, Withering Wave has also been comprehended to the next level, inching closer to the imagined ‘Aging Beam’. While the original Withering Beam could only release the qi from someone’s control, this new one is capable of having their minds wither in real time. Using the time sphere as the basis, Samuel managed to essentially speed up the passage of time inside people's minds. Think back to Louisa and that assassin on the Mountain of Transcendence. They suddenly just died. Even before they turned to dust, they were dead. Why is that? Because their minds were speed up 10,000 times. Now, what's so lethal about this is the fact that this is not something that the soul, body and mind can process together, meaning the soul will detach from the mind, essentially killing the person. The techniques lethality, however, has still yet to be seen.

In addition to this, Samuel finally figured out the effect of his new eyes. When his eyes peer into space, they cause it to collapse directly. Meaning if he doesn't cover his eyes with this special blindfold he created, space would continuously collapse wherever he looked. Resulting in people dying, buildings crumbling, et cetera. The collapse is not great, it's not the same as a black hole, but it's very damaging. Not to space, because that will be repaired really quickly, but to things that occupy that space. Its lethality is in no way inferior to Withering Wave. Although he didn't comprehend a defensive technique, he found this to be enough. Because no spatial lock should be capable of blocking his Dimensional Tear. Or at least no spatial block present in the Shattered realm.

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As Samuel was approaching the gate of the stronghold, The guards started looking at him with menacing eyes. How many people have tried this before him, and how many will continue to try knowing it's just in vain? Another lamb waiting to be slaughtered. That's all Samuel was in their eyes. Yet they were sorely mistaken.

Before anyone could even react, bullets faster than the speed of sound passed through their bodies, turning them into sieves. No sound, no reaction, nothing. Just pure death. Caused by that very person that they deemed a mere lamb. Before the rest of the guards could even sound the alarm. The gate was forcefully blown open, by what seemed like an incredible force. What that force was, they were not sure, but they knew that if they were hit by it, they would perish instantly. The breakthrough of the gate caused great alarm within the rest of the stronghold. Soon, hundreds upon hundreds of quite powerful cultivators emerged, ready to fight to the death with this new intruder. Among them an old man standing in the shadows. And a young woman, clearly processing status. Those were Samuel's targets. The entire reason he chose this stronghold to attack. As for how we knew they were there, It can be attributed to the new sensing ability of his spatial rune. It allows him to recognize traces of people he's met before. Turning Samuel into something of an experienced hunter.

“Remember what I told you when I escaped? ‘I will turn you and the organization behind you to dust’. Now I'm here to fulfill my promise, hope I didn't make you wait too long”

Upon hearing this voice, the young lady was stunned. So stunned, she didn't even manage to react when a giant yellow wave hit her and her fellow comrades. Because of that, everything went black. There was no more ‘young lady’. There was no more potential future head of the organization. There was no more life. She. Was. Dead.

His revenge was finally realized. Now, all that was missing was annihilating the Black Lotus, and he would be free, once again.