The Story Never Ends

Her skin peeled off like a layer of clothing and a young man was seen. He was wearing a black robe and had red pupils with brown colored hair. A strange aura was radiating around him which made everyone drawn towards him.

"The Lord?" Davion had a solemn look on his face. He found that the orb he had picked from the altar in the church was radiating devilish energy. So, he knew what might have happened. Not only that, previously his voice sounded hoarse and seemed to be like an old man. Thus, he couldn't recognize him now in an instant. 

"Indeed. But don't call me that. It doesn't sound good." The young man smiled and looked at him with interest.

"Oh! Should I call you a devil king?" Davion asked.

"No, just call me by my name. I'm Aiden." The young man introduced himself.

"Did you track me with this orb?" Davion took it out.

"Yes." Aiden nodded and said, "I didn't think that you would be so greedy enough to take it back without knowing what it is."

Since Davion was curious about it since day one, he asked, "Tell me more about it?"

"Hehe, it is a middle-grade spiritual artifact where we devil kings and above can store a part of our soul and bring them to another world," Aiden replied. Although they could leave some part of their souls in any materials, they would not be able to bring it to another world. This was due to their soul not being able to resist the coercion in the void between the two worlds.

However, this was not a problem for the devils at the top of the Devil World.

"Damn, don't tell me that the other orb might contain some part of the soul of Conard?" Davion panicked when he thought about this. So, he took out the other one too. 

Seeing this, Aiden asked, "Where did you get it?"

"I can't feel any leftover soul inside it." A month ago, he knew that this kid had already met someone else seed. So, he wanted to know more about it.

"It seems like there is at least one piece of good news." Davion felt somewhat better when he heard that no soul was left inside this orb. Then he replied, "Who knows? I only remember getting it after killing a devil who was similar to you."

Although Davion sounded arrogant, he was telling the truth. He indeed found it in the place where he had killed the projection of Conard. Yet, he would never tell him the exact location. 

"Humph, you still have a big mouth," Aiden scoffed.

"Why are you here?" Davion didn't understand why he even took the trouble of bringing him all the way here. He even hid inside the body of a woman. With his strength, why did he need to go this far?

"You dare to ask this?" Aiden yelled in anger and completely released his aura. The aura was so vigorous that everything around him trembled and the ground started cracking. Surprisingly this phenomenon was ongoing even for hundreds of meters away. 

"My God!" Davion was astonished. He couldn't believe that the difference between the real body and his projection was like the distance between heavens and earth. He was far too strong. He threw the orbs away and turned back.

"I should run. Girls.." He became speechless when he saw them.

They were standing like statues without moving an inch. The strange thing was that they had red-colored pupils like that of Aiden. It seemed as if they were under some spell. He neared them and slapped their cheeks but there was no response from them. Seeing them in this state, he immediately checked on Ryland who was on his shoulders and found him to be in a similar state. 

"Shit, I should have been careful about this. How could I forget that the devil's aura could influence one's mind?" Davion cursed. He should have thought that something was suspicious when the girls were not talking for a while.

"There is no way you can wake them up with your ability," Aiden's voice came from behind.

Davion could only let this go for the time being and focus his attention on Aiden.

"Are you here for revenge?" Davion asked.

"Humph, how could I forget about you killing my projection? My cultivation base even regressed due to this." Aiden was furious.

"Such a childish matter..." Davion muttered.

"What did you just say?" Aiden heard something but it was not clear.

"I don't think you should have come here. Our elders would immediately know about it," Davion replied.

"Haha, did you think that I won't be prepared for that?" Aiden laughed and took out a golden-colored skull from his spirit ring.

"I have already arranged a large-scale defensive formation way before I lured you all and this was the same formation, we used to avoid your sect's detection when invading here," Aiden explained and pointed his index finger in the sky.

A dark-colored orb shot out from his finger which reached a certain distance in the sky and collided with something.

"BOOM"

When the explosion happened, Davion could finally see that it was a white-colored barrier that had managed to stop that orb.

"What should I do now?" Davion pondered. He was running out of ideas as he couldn't even escape.

"Hehe, it's useless to think of trying to escape from here. This barrier surrounds everything within a one-kilometer radius. Even a Domain Realm expert can't escape from here easily." Aiden put the skull back and licked his lips while looking at him.

"You sure have gone all out," Davion couldn't believe that this devil king would go this far utterly for an inner court disciple.

"Humph, I wasn't planning to go after you. It's just that I sensed you through that orb." Aiden said and glanced at the orb on the ground. Then he opened his right hand and a small phantom came out of it. He opened his mouth and sucked it.

"So, this is how projections are created it seems. Dividing a soul.." Davion muttered when he saw this.

"I still need some time to reach my peak…" Aiden thought. Although it has been a month since his cultivation had regressed, he still hadn't reached his peak even with the help of the Emperor. Now, he had barely reached the middle stage of the devil king when he was already about to reach the late stage of the devil king previously. This was also one of the reasons why he was angry with this kid.

Once you have reached the higher cultivation stages, it is very hard to improve. This is even true for the talented disciples of the four major sects.

"Kid, how do I kill you?" Aiden slowly approached Davion. 

"Seeing a young man calling me kid sounds very weird but this is how a cultivation world works I guess…" Davion smiled.

"Kid, you still got the guts to laugh it off? Maybe I should try some other ways to torment you?" Aiden waved his hands towards the girls and they finally moved.

Mia took out her sword and rushed towards Davion while Amelia immediately fired some arrows. As for Stella, she summoned roots from the ground which immediately bound his body. Not only that, Ryland was slowly transforming into his true form.

"Aiden, you are really dirty. But do you think that this will work?" Davion also released his aura and easily broke out from the roots. Firstly, he slapped Ryland towards the air and punched him on his stomach before he could finish transforming. 

"Bang"

Ryland was flung who knows where and was immediately taken care of as he controlled his power perfectly. 

Then he used his Thunder Stomp skill to easily dodge those arrows while closing on Mia. When he reached her, he used his right hand to smack on the back of her neck. How could she resist his strength?

Thus, she easily passed out on the ground. Like her, in an instant, he immobilized both Stella and Amelia. After doing all this, he yelled, "Aiden, you old fool. You still have the guts to fight me after getting your ass whooped?"

Davion mocked him and started running. He wanted to fight at a safe distance in fear of hurting those girls due to the aftershocks.

"Humph, let's see what you want to do?" Aiden flew in the air and started chasing him.

*** 

Some distance away, Davion stood there with his eyes closed and Aiden in the air was looking at him coldly.

"Kid, are you accepting your fate or gathering your energy to use the move that killed my projection previously?" Aiden asked as he still remembered that move. He was still terrified of that.

Davion didn't answer him but rather focused on his panel. On the top of the panel, level 27 was written, and below it was the experience points bar which was about to be filled.

Indeed, Davion had already reached level 27 a few days ago. Not only that, after taking this mission today and killing all those devils made his experience points nearly filled. 

"Time to learn the Devil Soul Art. Hope that it can help me escape from this predicament or else I'm surely gone this time." He took a deep breath and focused on the Devil Soul Art.

The text disappeared and lots of information about this technique flowed into his mind.