In the meantime, the major forces of the hidden assassins sect were rushing through the lands. The misty mountain sect master himself and his four Core Elders were defending thousands of enemy disciples off. The Core Elders were clashing against the enemy Core Elders while the sect master was watching them and didn't interfere. He was waiting for a certain person to appear, namely the sect master Spacewalker from the Hidden Assassin sect.

Almost every Elder at the Nascent Soul cultivation died. There were only a few people with a high cultivation. The Elders who were on an outside mission didn't know that their sect was currently facing their destruction.

What the sect master from the misty mountain didn't know was that they already caught the Grand Elders. They could not break through the sealed formation. The disciples with lower cultivation couldn't escape anymore. The information about the escape route through secret tunnels wasn't common knowledge.

The battle slowed down as most of the disciples chose to commit suicide. The enemies were professional at killing, after all. They know the most painful way to torture them before they actually kill them. The Hidden Assassin sect was known as brutal. A flying Elder was slowly approaching the battle. His aura was heavenly, dense, and strong. The disciples who were near him felt unconscious. He didn't care that his aura could kill people he was sending his aura on purpose. This Elder was no other than Spacewalker.

“Long time no see, Nero, the day has finally come to get our revenge.”

“Stop this senseless killing. You are making a huge mistake killing disciples with a low cultivation realm. If other sects were to hear this, your reputation would be ruined. What you really want is me correct? Let the disciples go!”

Spacewalker laughed. “The other sects approved your annihilation. This land was forcibly taken from you! Didn’t you remember we destroyed the lower sect here? You really thought you could flee from political schemes by simply creating your own sect, but you forget you enraged some powerful beings by simply ignoring their order! Besides that, you killed my personal disciple, taking the spiritual mine we found and destroying a branch sect of mine!

Now that I'm two stages higher than you want to save your disciples by giving your life? Do you even have morals? Did the people you have killed had a choice? Your sect will pay blood for blood! Your sect's wealth will be a great foundation for my new branch sect!”

“Well, the mine was an accident, but we never destroyed your branch or killed your personal disciple. You are getting schemed by those old fools. It's hilarious that you can't see, you are only their puppets! After annihilating us, the equal distribution of the sects will be destroyed. Are you perhaps thinking you will survive the storm which will come after this?”

Spacewalker was enraged and replied. “I see you are still denying the facts. There is no point talking anymore.” Spacewalker disappeared from his position and attacked from behind.

Nero could block the attack. The power behind their attacks created shock waves. Buildings were getting destroyed and flew through the sky. The armies from both sides were escaping, hoping that they wouldn't get involved with this shocking power. Some people couldn’t hold them on the ground and catapulted into the sky. After a few seconds in the sky, they smashed hard at the ground and died. Their power was very destructive.

The spectators couldn't see how they fought because they were too fast for their eyes!

While both of the sect masters fought, the shock waves arrived at the location where Martell and Kazadoom were. The power amazed Kazadoom and said, “It seems the battle is about to end soon. Let’s finish this. I need to go to Achaia.” while saying this he ordered the skeleton to kill Ray.

Martell placed a formation and called, “Bloody Sword Formation!” Swords were flying down and encircling Kazadoom. “Last time you had luck that an Elder helped you but now your luck ends here!” Fifteen swords were attacking him.

“No, I thought you had no Spiritual Qi left to perform a formation!” realizing his wrong judgment it was too late. The swords were piercing him on all sides. He couldn't block it.

“Argh, no!” He screamed loudly. Kazadoom used some ancient demonic art to flee from the formation. He succeeded, but had no Qi left for a counterattack. He is heavenly wounded. The skeleton finally reached Ray, but he hid himself.

Reeves saw Ray running towards him. He smiled and was happy to see that Ray survived and felt unconscious. The wounds were too deep. He had no strength left to walk further.

She shouted, “Master, master, we need to flee!” She discovered the wounds were heavy and she couldn't sense any Qi from Reeves.

She created some rags from her clothing and tried to stop the bleeding while saying, “Master, I try first aid you, but I'm not able to heal you.” She piggy pegged Reeves and walked to search for help. She sensed that something was walking fast towards her and was shocked. That was the skeleton which caught her before. It was approaching her.

“Master, wake up. Master!” She dropped Reeves and tried to defend him

Clang!

She heard someone yelling, “No!”

The skeleton pierced his sword in her stomach. Ray coughed blood and fell down.

Martell noticed Kazadoom escaped from his sword formation somehow. He searched Kazadoom but didn't find him. “Hmph, probably fleeing”. He went to the position where Reeves was and found a blood way which was leading to his new position. He saw a skeleton rushing to Ray.

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And yell ‘no’ while rushing to prevent the attack. Sadly, it was too late.

Bam!

Martell destroyed the skeleton.

He said afterwards, “I’m so sorry Ray” while also seeing Reeves in a critical condition. He took both at piggyback and flew somewhere to an old abandoned temple. Martell tried to heal them with the herbs he currently has, but the situation worsened.

The princess of the elfs talked to her uncle and said, “Uncle there is some Demonic Qi at this temple!”

“Let’s check this out! Prepare for the worst.”

Suddenly, Martell felt an overbearing power that appeared out of nowhere! The power is stronger than a Nascent Soul, probably an Ascension Soul cultivator!

“Please have mercy, how can I help!” Martell was frightened and thought, ’This is the end. I'm sorry Ray, Reeves.’ He saw three elfs slowly entering the temple.

“Elfs!”

An old powerful voice calmly said “Don’t be frightened, we are not here to fight, you seem to be in a bad condition and your friends behind you are nearing their deaths, before I ask what happened we need to save them otherwise they both die!”

“Can you really help them? My herbs are not working!”

He quickly scanned both nearly dying body’s. “Hm, this will take days.” The young looking Elder stepped in front of Reeves and Ray and gave them both pills. “It depends if they are able to willingly accept the Qi from this pill. If they don’t, they will probably die.” He found a strange mark on Reeves’ body and saw that his cultivation got crippled, but he was astonished that he had reactions to mana.

“Princess, can you give me the magus power measuring stone which your father gifted you?”

“Sure, uncle Erran.” She took the stone from her spatial ring out and gave it to Erran.

Erran placed the stone in the hands of Reeves. And was waiting for a response. The stone glowed Yellow. “This is impossible! Who is this kid? Tell me everything you know about him!”

“Elder, he is called Black Reeves and is twenty years old. He has no family. He was living in a mortal town. One day the sect master found him at the mortal town being a cultivator. He cultivated himself in the Qi Condensation Realm without help. We are sworn brothers. Is something wrong with him?”

Erran talked to the elfs with telepathy. “This human is someone extraordinary and didn't belong to this world. He has spiritual roots which contain mana. Besides that, he can still cultivate! He can walk two paths simultaneously. We need to take him as a disciple! If we don't get him as a disciple, he would be an enormous threat to this world. he also got marked by a Demonic art. The culprit can sense him where he goes. Even if they are on different continents!”

Folduin and Findir were shocked. Findir said, “How is this possible? Can we get rid of this mark?”

“No, it's impossible only if the demonic cultivator dies.”

Erran, trying to change the topic, replied to Martell, “He won't be able to cultivate wind anymore. His wind elemental spiritual roots are destroyed. If he wants to cultivate, he must start from the beginning, if he has other spiritual roots. I found out that you had a fight against a demon cultivator. Where is he?”

“Yes, I fought a human with Demonic Qi. He escaped my sword formation. He must be nearly dead or died from his wounds.”

“Do you know who he is and where he could have gone?”

“He said something about going to Achaia, which is impossible since the continents are sealed and the only teleportation to these is controlled by you. I don't know his name. However, what I know is he is a human and could control several skeletons with some kind of art.”

All three Elf's facial expressions became ugly. Erran replied, ”Are you really sure about this?”

“Yes Elder”

Erran looked at Folduin “Rush to our branch, seek an audience to speak with the sect master and tell them a human has successfully changed his spiritual roots into necromancy roots! Gather all forces of the Elfs and search him. He must quickly get annihilated. Otherwise, this world will face a war far crueler than the wars before!”

“Yes, master!” He flew away. He was Errans disciple.

“Show me where you fought him!”

“Yes, Elder!”

“Princess, seal this area. If someone else comes close to this formation, kill them!”

“Okay uncle!” While Findir created a formation to seal this area. Erran and Martell flew to the position where the battle had happened.

“Wait a minute, someone has sealed this area. I feel a battle in front of us.”

“The Hidden Assassin sect attacked our sect. This is our sects’ territory. It seems it's not over.”

“How did you escape the sealed area?”

“There is a tunnel which nobody knows. I found the tunnel while I was escaping to heal Reeves and Ray.”

“Let's go through that tunnel. I won't interfere in this fight. I'm only looking for this necromancer”

“Okay” Martell thought he might save his sect. Unfortunately, Elfs won't interfere with human problems.

They arrived in the area Martell fought. “Here is the area.”

Erran scanned the sect area with his soul. Nobody noticed it. They need to be at least Ascension Soul Realm “Here is indeed Demonic Qi, unfortunately he escaped. Let’s go back to the temple.”

“Elder, I can't go with you. I have another sworn brother. He must be somewhere on the battlefield. Tell Reeves that I will come find him when I found Webb!”

Erran looked at Martell with no emotion and said, “Okay, but we will move to another place. If you're lucky, you'll see him again. As a reward for telling me where the Human is, I'll give you three pills. Two are Qi refreshment pills for you and your friend. And the third pill can break through two minor stages in a realm. You would be in the second minor Nascent Soul realm if you eat this.”

Martell looked at Erran with a shocked expression. “Thank you for helping Reeves and Ray and the pills. I'm sure I will find them after this.” Martell flew away without saying goodbye.

A few moments later, Erran arrived back at the temple.

It astonished the princess that Erran was alone and asked, “Where is the Human?”

“He is looking for his other sworn brother. Their sect will soon fall. There is an enormous battle. Unfortunately, I didn't find the necromancer.”

[...]

Erran asked, “How are their conditions?”

“The boy will survive. But the girl will probably die. The pill isn't working for her.”

Let’s move to a safer place where no Human sects are around. Erran picked Ray and Reeves and flew to the west of the continent.