Luo Kai and Grendarth’s gang clashed.

Grendarth’s men thrust their swords through Luo Kai’s body. The grin of victory can be seen from Grendarth’s face. 8 swords pierced his body, who would survive that.

[ Used x1 Peak Earth Grade Defense Talisman ]

A golden light surrounded Luo Kai’s body forming a layer of shield strong enough to block attacks from 8 high level and peak Human Phase cultivators.

Luo Kai : *evil grin

“Something’s wrong! This kid has a defensive talisman! Back aw-”

Heads detached, flew, and rolled on the ground. 8 high level Human Phase cultivators died just like that. Grendarth’s smile immediately transformed to fear. But he still isn’t convinced, for him, Luo Kai only won with the help of the talisman, had they fought head-on there’s still no saying who would be victorious.

Luo Kai : “It’s only you left, how do you want to die?”

Grendarth : “Heh! You talk big for someone who just relied on a talisman?”

Luo Kai : *smirk “Relied? Alright, I’ll do as you wish.”

“Alpha, remove the talisman.”

Alpha : “Are you sure? It will still consume the talisman though.”

“Doesn’t matter.”

Alpha : “Pride, alright.”

At Luo Kai’s demand, Alpha deactivated the Earth Grade Talisman. The golden barrier slowly dissipated into air.

Grendarth : “Oh? You’ve got guts brat.”

Luo Kai : “I was planning to spare you and to you under my wing because I like your ruthlessness and guts but seems like you need to die to make up for my precious talisman.”

Grendarth seeing a glimmer of hope wasted no time and rushed for Luo Kai’s head.

Name : Grendarth Rhossel

Race : Human - Lunar Naga

Title : Rebellious Faithful Son

Level : Human Phase - 9th Stage - Peak Level [ Level 90 ]

Strength : 125 [ A ]

Speed : 159 [ A+ ]

Agility : 162 [ S-]

Defence : 110 [ A- ]

Intelligence : 112 [ A-]

Spiritual Root : Mid-Cosmos Grade [ A+ ]

Potential : 55 [ A+ ]

Constitution : Hard Scale Naga Body [ AA ]

Charm : 42 [ B+ ]

Arts : Crimson Blade Arts [ AA- ]

Attribute : Sword [ B+ ]

Luck : 65 [ AA ]

“This kid is actually from the Naga race, it seems like his cunning and decisiveness attributes to his bloodline. Snake species are know for being cunning and decisive, one of the top predators in the wild.”

Luo Kai : “A mere snake dares to defy Gods? I’ll let you see who’s the real predator here!”

Upon hearing Luo Kai call him a snake Grendarth’s rage burst as he released the power of his bloodline, his body emanated a hint of demonic aura and his body changed a bit, his pupils transforms resembling that of a snake’s, his nails grew a bit longer and sharper and clusters of scales grew from different parts of his body.

“This kid is actually good, he can already use the power of his bloodline, it’s a pity his bloodline is too thin and too impure else he could have unleashed a stronger power.”

At the same time, Luo Kai released the power of his Divine God Bloodline, his body emanated a golden aura and a halo formed at both his wrist. Upon releasing his aura, Grendarth was startled and stopped his advance, he begun to hesitate at attacking Luo Kai. He knew that once he continue his attack he would instantly die. Snakes are known for it’s sharp sense for danger, despite being a top predator, snake are prone to danger from other top predators, such as eagle. And the current scenario perfectly replicate a scenario of a snake facing his nemesis, an eagle. Fear envelops him making it hard for him to move and breath, fear suffocate him to the greatest extent.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

“He stopped? Is he afraid? Alright I guess I don’t need to kill him at all. Let’s just push him a bit more, he might surrender.”

After witnessing Grendarth become a bit terrified, Luo Kai release even more domineering aura and slowly walked towards Grendarth giving him a more intense fear stimulus. Grendarth slowly backed, trembling and sweating, unconsciously his Naga aura disappeared and we was consumed by fear brought by his bloodlines natural instinct.

Luo Kai stood at the front of Grendarth and remained silent for a couple of seconds. Grendarth on the other hand was extremely terrified, his heartbeat was so loud and strong as if it was about to burst. After a while Luo Kai asked Grendarth.

Luo Kai : “Do you want to live?”

Grendarth : “L-Live?! Of course I want to live!! But I will never surrender to you!”

Luo Kai : “Alright! Farewell!”

*Slash*

Yang Qingge and her friends witnessed how Luo Kai emerged victorious against Grendarth who almost annihilate their group. Although they don’t want admit that they are bested by a 7 year old kid they have no choice but to acknowledge Luo Kai’s strength.

Leonel Ban : “Oi kid--”

Yang Qingge : *cough* “Leonel, don’t be rude!”

Leonel Ban : “But this bumpk-”

Yang Qingge : “As someone who come from a prominent family is that how you treat the person who saved your life?”

Leonel Ban : “I-, Alright, I’m sorry for being rude brother.”

Luo Kai : “If not for this little girl, your head might have already fall of the ground.”

Leonel Ban : “Y-You!”

Leonel answered with a hint of fear and shaking from his voice.

Yang Qingge : “Little brother, sorry for the discourtesy that my friends showed, may I ask for your name?”

Luo Kai : “I am Luo Kai.”

Yang Qingge : “Are you from the God race?”

Leonel : “W-What?! From the God Race? Young Lady, are you mistaken?”

Yang Qingge : “I won’t be mistaken, that qi he released before, that golden aura, I’m pretty sure that came from the God race and it seems like he isn’t from ordinary God bloodline, it’s too pure, it might have come from a high rank God race. Am I right brother Luo Kai?”

“She’s pretty sharp, is that a perk of Valkyries? I need to take note of this.”

Luo Kai : “I indeed came from the God race but for which of those, you better not know, it’s for you anyway.”

Upon hearing Luo Kai’s response, Yang Qingge whispered to herself.

“I heard that God race are pretty secretive about their origins, except those pretty well known cultivators from their race pretty much everyone can’t determine their exact clan. But judging from the qi he released before, I’m pretty sure he came from a high level clan. Is he actually from that legendary God clan? The Divine God clan?!!”

After theorizing Luo Kai’s origin Yang Qingge can’t help but be in awe. She can’t believe that she would have interaction from the most elusive and secretive clan in the whole Mother Plane, the Divine God clan.

“But father also said that Divine God clan are vengeful clan it is due to their small population and low birth rate, it is said that long ago someone offended a member of the Divine God race whose out gaining life experience and the whole clan wiped out the offenders family in just a matter of minutes. That incident shock the whole Plane and became a legend that is still a hot topic for people. Father also said that even though they are ruthless, Divine God race values friendships highly. Looks like I need to establish a good relationship with this guy.”

Yang Qingge : “Alright, I won’t divulge deeper into your origins and we will also forget what happened just now. But what will you do with THAT?”

Luo Kai : “That? Ah, you mean this guy?”

After the confrontation of Luo Kai and Grendarth, Luo Kai knocked Grendarth out cold. Luo Kai intends to take Grendarth as his subordinate but because of his stubborn and unbending attitude his solution is to make him temporarily a slave to mend his attitude.

Luo Kai : “I intend to take him with me as a slave.”

Yang Qingge : “S-Slave? Little brother I don’t think that’s a good idea. Despite what he did, he’s still a heir to a prominent family.”

Luo Kai : “Is it more prominent from my family?”

Yang Qingge : “Ah, forget I said anything.”

Luo Kai : “You all better go back where you came from, I’ll take this guy with me. I still need to get the treasure fruit.”

Yang Qingge : “Are you talking about the [Black Fruit] and [White Root]”

Luo Kai : “I think that’s the one. I heard there’s only one pair every few decades.”

Yang Qingge : “Yeah, that’s what everyone knows.”

Luo Kai : “What do you mean? Is there another tree that bears this fruit?”

Yang Qingge : “It’s a highly guarded secret and the location of the tree itself is a secret that only available from the patriarch and grand elder of my family.”

Luo Kai : “Then how did you know?”

Yang Qingge : “I-I-I overheard them.”

Luo Kai : “You aren’t the behaved princess they picture you to be, aren’t you?”

Yang Qingge : “I-IT’S AN ACCIDENT, OKAY!! I was out during the night, walking inside the mansion, I was just trying to get some fresh air, when I overheard them at the hall.”

Luo Kai : “Yeah whatever.”

Yang Qingge : “HEY! IT'S TRUE!!”

Yang Qingge became embarrassed.

Luo Kai : “So, do you know how to get to this secret location?”

Yang Qingge : “Yeah, I know!”

Luo Kai : “Alright, take me there.”

Yang Qingge : “O-Oh, alright. I’ll lead the way.”

Luo Kai : “Are you even okay now?”

Yang Qingge : “Y-Yeah, I can handle myself.”

Luo Kai : “Alright, and don’t try to suppress it too much next time. You’re strong, you’re just afraid to unleash your strength.”

Yang Qingge : “………………………….”

“How did he know? I can feel something powerful deep inside me but I always try to suppress it because I don’t know if I can control it. I’ve never told my family about this and been enduring for many years but he could tell with just one glance. He’s just unbelievable. Now I strongly believe that being in friendly terms is the best move going forward.”

Yang Qingge leads her friends together with Luo Kai back to the city of Iron Haven. Night falls and the group stayed in a small clearing and sprinkled some beast warding powders to make their night safer. They start their journey at dawn expecting to arrive at the city early in the morning but what they witness isn’t something all of them expected. The city was on fire, corpses lying everywhere can be seen even from miles away outside the city, scattered both outside and inside the city. Houses are on fire and demolished.

[ Somewhere far away ]

[ Orphius and his group ]

[ Blood Gate City ]

Orphius talking to himself.

“It’s been months since we’ve separated with big brother, it’s really hard without him, I made a lot of wrong decision and some of them even put us into a tight spot. This few months have made me more mature, though I have adjusted to this role, I am still lacking too much. When will we see each other again big brother. We miss you already. You still haven’t responded to the Imperial Token.”

[ Few months ago ]

It was a week since Orphius and his brothers started their journey. To further train their selves they all agreed to train at the Mysterious Forest where Zordick was injured previously but they didn’t go to the same place, they head east of the place of previous incident. It was also the shortest route to get past the forest. Everything was going smooth they hunted some weaker beast to improve their combat power, since the forest was rich in qi they also meditated. The danger started after encountering a group of teenager passerby. They group told them that they are on a hunt for a Heaven level beast, they said it was already injured but managed to escape their pursuit and they are currently looking for it. The group said that the beast was of high importance to them and so offered a high reward if they join the hunt is successful. Orphius was suspicious of them and caught one of them keep glancing at Zordick’s Purple Winged Tiger.

Iron : “So? What do you say? Are you in?”

Orphius : “I’m sorry, but we can’t accompany you guys.”

Xingye : “Second Brother? Why? It’s a Heaven Phase beast we want to see it. And it will be beneficial to our training.”

Orphius was hesitant but seeing their that’s really looking forward to seeing the beast he has no choice but to reluctantly accept.

Orphius : “Alright, just be careful, stay vigilant at all times.”

The two parties started to move out and traced the Heaven Phase beast that fled from the teenager’s party.

Everything was smooth when suddenly.

*grin*

*slash*

*slash*