The Story Never Ends

The elders looked at each other and shook their heads. They didn't like how she left unreasonably although the Sect Master had notified them all. So, they wanted to stop her from going, but thinking about creating a scene infront of the disciples, they decided not to.

Not only that, the mission didn't look so difficult for all the elders to be present. After all, it was only about taking care of some devil kings which were quite easy with their abilities. They could even allow the disciples to get some experience too.

While having these thoughts, the ship took off and flew towards the nearest territory that was being attacked.

However, it had only been a few minutes since they had left when all of a sudden, a black whirlpool appeared ahead of them.

Seeing this, Vance immediately stopped his ship and looked at the whirlpool with caution.

"What's this?" The other elders walked to the front of the ship and also had the same reaction as Vance.

"Are we getting ambushed by someone?"

"I don't think so. We have most of the elders here."

The disciples gossiped with each other.

"Yeah, we don't need to worry. Even our Sect Master wouldn't dare to fight against all of them at the same time," Bryant confidently spoke.

But a strange voice sounded in the air that made his hairs stand on end.

"Do you think that your Sect Master is omnipotent?"

He turned back straight away and saw three old men having ugly tattoos coming out from the whirlpool. He instantly felt tremendous pressure when he gazed at them. It was so unbearable that he fell on his knees after a couple of seconds.

"Stop!" The elders released their aura and diffused the pressure surrounding Bryant. Thus, he was finally able to relax.

"Damn, didn't they feel anything?" He cursed inwardly when he saw the other disciples standing without any difficulties. It seemed like his words had caught the attention of these old men.

"Who are you all?" Vance swept his Divine Sense over them but couldn't sense a thing.

"You can call me Ambrose. We are the subordinates of the emperor," The old man with the mane spoke.

The elders' expressions became ugly when they heard it. They never knew Conard had such experts working for him as he was always alone in the past. It appeared that he was preparing for something big all these years.

"Why are you here? Give us a valid reason or else you all can forget about escaping from here alive even though you may be his subordinate," Elder Warren coldly said. He was sure that they could kill them easily despite them looking strong as they had an advantage in numbers.

"What do you think?" Ambrose smiled and didn't get angry with him.

"You…" Warren became furious and took out a sword from his spirit ring. Indeed, it was his higher-grade spiritual artifact.

But before he could strike, Vance yelled, "Back down, Warren. I know what he is after."

"Is that so?" Warren halted and looked at him.

"Yes, I think he should be buying time for the devil kings to destroy our territory," Vance replied.

"Haha, you are quite intelligent," Ambrose praised him.

"Humph!" Vance huffed and ordered, "Disciples, I want all of you to go and take care of this matter while we finish things here."

"We understand." The disciples bowed.

"Humm, but don't go alone. There might be powerful ones that are beyond your level," He reminded them.

The disciples nodded and rushed away in a certain direction. However, Bryant abruptly stopped and said, "I am going in another direction. Don't follow me."

"Senior Brother, but the elder.." one of the disciples wanted to stop him. Nevertheless, Bryant cut him off.

"I don't care." He waved his hand and left. But he made eye contact with Davion on his way.

"Haiz, is he challenging me on who can kill more devil kings?" He sighed.

"Or maybe he felt humiliated on the ship earlier and wanted to release his anger?" he thought.

Next, he acted like Bryant. "Leave me alone."

Then without waiting for their reply, he left.

***

On the other side, the elders were surrounding the three old men from all directions. They desired to end this fast and go after the disciples subsequently.

"Do you really want to begin?" Ambrose still had a smile on his face. He didn't seem to care about being outnumbered.

"Why do I feel like you only know how to talk?" Warren mocked and made a couple of swings with his sword forward.

"Swish..swish.."

Several green-colored sword energies materialized and went towards them. Along the way, they became bigger and bigger and one could feel how sharp they were.

Nonetheless, the odd thing was that they stood in their place and didn't even try to dodge them.

As a result, the sword energy swiftly cut through them like butter. Despite this, no blood was spilled but rather they vanished into thin air.

"How?" Warren became confused.

"Don't tell me.." Vance had a wild guess and was about to react when a purple-colored light abruptly surrounded them from all sides like a cage except the top.

"Haha, you are all fools." A burst of wild laughter was heard, and they could see Ambrose standing in the air above them. As for the other two, they were opposite of him and separated by some distance.

They were currently sitting in a lotus position with a weird scroll below their feet. They were focusing and channeling their Qi into them which was then producing this light.

Seeing this, they immediately understood what had happened and what was about to take place.

"We can't let him complete the formation." Vance cried out and he dashed above.

"You are late." Ambrose slapped his sleeve and a similar scroll fluttered out from it.

Afterward, he infused his Qi into it, and a plane surface was formed below him.

"Bang"

Vance crashed on the surface and found that he couldn't break past it.

"Damn, you dare to use such tricks." Warren cursed as he couldn't even leave a scratch on it. Every time his sword clashed on the light, he would feel the exact force rebounding him and hurting from inside. If he continued any longer then he might surely get injured here.

"These scrolls are all top-notch spiritual artifacts that can form a powerful barrier strong enough to hold you all. This is even the same for the late-stage Domain Realm experts," Ambrose explained as he continued injecting his Qi.

"If only Liliana was here. She would have definitely caught the illusion earlier with her Divine Sense. Such a worse time for her to be away," Vance muttered.

"How long do they want to keep confining us here?" Elder Nelson who had been silent since the beginning spoke.

"I believe they want to take care of our disciples while we are busy here. We have fallen straight into their plans," Vance had a solemn look on his face.

"Yeah, it seems to make sense. Why don't we all strike at the barrier at the same time? Although we might hurt ourselves and not break it, I'm certain this would cause serious issues to them." Nelson suggested while gazing at Ambrose.

"We have no other ways." The elders nodded, and everyone took out their weapons. Then they began striking the barrier.

"BOOM…BOOM.."

"Pftt-"

Ambrose immediately threw out a mouthful of blood due to backlash but he didn't stop from channeling his Qi.

"Keeping all these elders in check is not a joke. We can barely last for half an hour. Hope they finish the task by then."

***

"This is the place." Davion arrived in a city which was in ruins and spread out his Mind-Eye. His expression changed when he sensed a huge death Qi lingering everywhere. He couldn't believe how many people must be killed to cause this.

"Too cruel." He shook his head and took out a bow from his spirit ring. Yes, it was the same bow he had refined yesterday and Nora's obviously.

"Since I can't locate that devil due to the smoke and the death Qi permitting here, let's try this new move." He injected his spiritual energy into it and an arrow made from ice was formed.

"Hawk's Eye"

He pulled the string, and the arrow was released into the sky. This arrow then slowly transformed into a beautiful snowy white hawk.

"Vision" He closed his eyes and saw the scenery from the perspective of the bird. It was completely real like his eyes and even much better. This was what his Mind-Eye was lacking as he could sense the breath with it.

The hawk flew ahead normally, and he managed to see everything on the way.

"There he is." He saw a skinny young man who knows how elongate his mouth wide open and swallowing a child in the speed visible to the naked eyes.