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Cultivation Realms – Elementary Profound Realm, Nascent Profound Realm, True Profound Realm, Spirit Profound Realm, Earth Profound Realm, Sky Profound Realm, Emperor Profound Realm, Tyrant Profound Realm, Sovereign Profound Realm, Saint Profound Realm and Divine Profound Realm.

World Spiritist Levels – White-Cloak, Gray-Cloak, Blue-Cloak, Purple-Cloak, Gold-Cloak.

Profound System Ranks - Low Ranked Profound System, Medium Ranked Profound System, High Ranked Profound System, Special Ranked Profound System, Legendary Ranked Profound System, Ultimate Ranked Profound System and Heavenly Ranked Profound System.


Chapter 54 - Killing In The Tomb


After riding their profound beasts for a couple of minutes, the tense atmosphere had already lightly dissipated, and it seemed that most people were starting to get over what had just happened. Taking that opportunity, Sona pulled her beast close to Issei, who was in the lead position.

"Junior Brother, I must say, I'm grateful that you stood up for me back then," She said with a weak smile, trying to lighten up the mood. Sadly, it seemed that the heavens hadn't blessed her with such ability, as every time she spoke, a cold aura would appear. Trying to lighten up the mood… was simply an impossible act for her.

Issei, although slightly perturbed by the cold atmosphere, understood her reasons and that she wasn't giving off that cold aura on purpose. It could be said that he was one of the people that understood her the most.

Shaking his head, Issei simply gave her a faint smile, "Don't worry about it, Senior Sister. That's simply my job as your Junior Brother."

Sona nodded, already expecting such answer from him. Her face then grew serious as she continued, "But still… don't you think you were too rash? I know you, and you must have your reasons, but still..."

"Senior Sister, as you said, I do indeed have my own reasons, so you shouldn't worry about it. I knew what I was doing from the start," assured Issei with a small smile.

Seeing that Issei didn't plan on saying anything more, Sona nodded. She then saw his condition and said, "How much time will it take for you to get back to prime condition?"

Prime condition? Issei thought over for a moment before answering back, "I would say in about ten or twenty minutes."

He was the one who best understood his body. Not only because of the fact that he was the owner of the body, but also because he had deep understanding of a human's physique, due to the medicine books he had read earlier. As such, he was able to accurately judge his condition and recovery rate.

Furthermore, he wasn't really injured. Sure, his arm had been slightly damaged in that battle, but it wasn't anything too serious. After all, the damage wasn't caused by an enemy's attack, but instead because he channeled so much spiritual power into it too quickly, doing some light damage to the veins and meridians. Thankfully, this type of wound wasn't too serious, and in a couple of minutes, with some medicines, he should be fine.

In fact, the main problem was the fact that he had been completely drained out of his spiritual power because of that battle. For that main attack, he had gone all out, resulting in him being sucked dry. Since he had some extra Saint Spirit grasses on his Sky Poison Pearl, he absorbed them, recuperating most of his spiritual power. As such, in ten or so minutes, he should be able to engage in battles again.

Anyways, after Sona heard his answer, she seemed slightly shocked, but didn't think too much about it. After interacting with Issei for months now, she came to the conclusion that his words shouldn't be doubted.

After that, she moved her profound beast away from him, letting him go back to meditating in peace.

Following that, nothing of much importance happened in their trip, as it proceeded rather smoothly. While following the map, they saw many small and big conflicts happening on the way, but since they had no reason to, they didn't step in.

Finally, before the sky became dark, they arrived at tomb's location.

At that moment, the tomb had already been opened, although it seemed that it only happened quite recently, given the huge influx of people that were still rushing in. However, Issei could not see anyone worth mentioning in the crowd of cultivators that were still entering, so he deduced that the strongest ones, such as the core disciples of the Heavenly Might School and the geniuses of the Thousand Thunder School, had already entered.

"Damn… it seems that we won't be able to get the good treasures," A person said not too far away from Issei, clearly dispirited. After all, with this many people already inside, it would be hard to acquire anything worthwhile.

Still, Issei wasn't discouraged as he said calmly, "Maybe.. maybe not. At the very least, we should enter as fast as we can. If we dare to dally any longer, I'm afraid that we won't even be able to get a grain of sand...'

Following that, he leaped down from his profound beast and started walking towards the tomb in a fast pace. Behind him, the members of the Water Devil Alliance did the same, and soon enough, the entire group was already following Issei inside.

The place where they were heading, the tomb, was created under the desert, and it surpassed everyone's imaginations by far. Since it was underground, there was a wide tunnel, the entrance, and on both sides, there were luminous rocks hung on the walls. The entire road was completely lit up by the rocks, and although it was almost night, people had the feeling that it was still day-time.

Going forward, before even walking for fifty meters, a round hall appeared. This particular hall was incredibly luxurious, and was lit up by many, expensive-looking lams. Even for Issei, this was the first time he had seen such luxurious indoor decorations, and it really was a sight to behold.

However, this round hall wasn't the end of the tomb. Not in the least. In fact, there were dozens of similarly-sized tunnels there, every and each one of them being very deep, so deep that even with a partial Lightning Incarnation on his eyes, Issei still couldn't see the end.

At this moment, the members of the Water Devil Alliance were standing on the center of the wide, round hall, and were glancing with anticipation towards the tunnels.

"Junior Brother Issei, do you have any idea on which path we should take?" Seeing that it was like a maze, Sona and the members of the Water Devil Alliance cast their gazes at Issei. After all, on their previous tomb adventure, it was also a maze design, and Issei managed to find the treasure in the end. As such, at this point, they couldn't help but to rely on the younger boy.

However, Issei only shook his head as he said, "The tunnels are far too deep, and I can't see their end. All we can do is to bet on our luck."

Even so, he still pointed at a tunnel. He had a faint feeling in his gut that he should take this path, and as a person that had complete trust in his instincts, he didn't hesitate to follow them.

Obviously, Issei could use his World Spirit Compass to easily find the correct way, but he couldn't reveal that secret in front of so many people. All he could do was to keep it tightly guarded with him until he came across an opportunity when he was alone.

Anyhow, after pointing at the tunnel, he rushed at it, Sona and the other following closely behind. Not too long after entering, they found that on both sides, many doors appeared. Some of them were already opened, and it was possible to see a large amount of cultivation resources inside of each one of them.

Furthermore, as expected, in many rooms, and even in the corridor, there were many fights going on, most of them for the ownership of the cultivation resources and the treasures found. There could even be sighed people of the same sect or school fighting.

Aside from the opened doors, there were also closed ones. On each of them, a black, huge and menacing iron door blocked their path. These ones still hadn't been opened, so there were obviously treasures inside. Many of the cultivators there were sending barrage after barrage of attacks at some of the doors, hoping to break them.

Issei, like many others, decided that it would be better to just choose from one of the unopened iron doors. After all, he had no intention of getting into additional trouble by fighting over the treasures within the opened doors.

"I'll open this one."

Issei looked over the doors, and after finding one that seemed firm and sturdy, walked over to it. After he arrived in front of the door, he didn't say anything and simply raised his right arm, stretching and hardening his fingers, making them resemble a blade.

"Heavenly Strike."

Swiping his hand downwards, just like a blade, a medium-sized arc of sword beam flashed out of his hand, colliding against the door.

*Screee! *

The sound of metal ripping apart rang in their ears as soon as the blade arc found its target, the door being completely sliced into two pieces. Just like that, Issei opened the iron door that many cultivators were having difficulty against.

Immediately after it was opened, a wave of spiritual energy rushed out from within the room. Low-grade Spirit Grass, Middle-grade Spirit grass, High-grade Spirit grass and Saint Spirit grass… many different types of cultivations resources were there, right before their eyes. There were thousands, if not tens of thousands, just laying around there, waiting to be picked up.

"Tomb? Is this really a tomb? This is just a treasure trove!"

One of the members of the Water Devil Alliance exclaimed in happiness. All of the people present were ecstatic, seeing that this trip had been worth it in the end. They also knew that what awaited them was a path of riches, as there were several dozens rooms just like this one on this tunnel. And, this was only one tunnel out of dozens…

"Tsubaki, Sa Ji, Kusa Reya and Meguri, the four of you guard the entrance. Garo Loup, Issei, Ruru, us four will go inside and store the spiritual medicines within our cosmos sacks. As for the remaining members, you all just stay on guard."

Sona immediately called out the orders, to which everyone nodded. After saying that, Issei, Sona, Loup and Ruru rushed in, taking their cosmos sacks out and beginning to madly store the spiritual medicines within them without restraint. It didn't matter if it was the low-quality or the Saint Spirit grass, every single one was taken away.

In fact, the only one who didn't really show any interest was Issei. After all, he needed over one thousand and six hundreds Nascent Beads to get to the next level. How could he even bother with spirit grass? Still, in the end, he still got himself a considerable amount, as he knew that it could also be used as currency and was many times more valuable than hundreds of gold coins.

However, at that moment, Issei picked up on a conversation that was happening by the door.

"Move. If you don't, we will kill slaughter you all," A rough, masculine voice said.

However, Issei could hear Sa Ji's angered answer.

"This room was opened by us, so the cultivation resources here belong to us."

Following that, someone snickered.

"Ha! What a joke! Things here have no owner. You think it's yours just because you found it? Tough luck brat, but it doesn't work that way."

Issei immediately turned his head around, and saw that at the entrance, there was a bunch of male cultivators glaring at the members of the Water Devil Alliance, a fight threatening to break out at any moment

Although Issei couldn't see which school this group belonged to, from the aura he felt emanating from them, he could see that none of them were in the third realm, the True Profound Realm. However, they were still stronger than the members of the Water Devil Alliance that were guarding the entrance.

Sona looked at the scene, and when she saw what was happening, a scowl appeared on her face. However, when she noticed their levels of cultivations, her eyes widened before she had to hold back a laugh. Although she wasn't enough to deal with them, for her Junior Brother Issei, that managed to contend against someone of the middle stages of the True Profound Realm.. this was simply nothing!

Before Issei had opened the door, he had already seen this group of people. They hadn't tried opening any doors, and had just been quietly standing at the tunnel, observing the changes. After Issei opened the door and walked inside, they came rushing over. In the end, they were just a bunch of leechers.

Sighing, Issei turned back to Sona, "Continue gathering the cultivation resources. I'll be right back."

After that, he walked forward to the entrance. He knew that in the entire group, only he had the qualifications to deal with these people, so he decided to quickly get it over with.

Currently, a fight had already started, and Sa Ji was battling against a black clothed youth. Just as this youth was about to cast a martial skill, he suddenly stopped dead in his place, as his head suddenly fell of his shoulder in a shower of blood.

Issei didn't even give the enemies time to retaliate as he entered the battle like a slaughtering demon, blood gushing forth from the necks of many of the opponents. Within the time it takes one to blink, five screams had already rang out. These proud cultivators, who had absolute confidence on their power, were simply slaughtered like cattle, their heads cleanly and effectively sliced out of their shoulders.

That scene terrified the remaining people of the group, and they immediately stood on guard, taking many steps back. While retreating, a bald youth pointed at Issei and screamed in rage, "Boy, how could you dare to kill?! Do you know who we are?!"

*Whoosh *

However, before that person could even finish speaking, Issei disappeared from sight. In the next moment, he was taken aback as he felt a voice coming from his side.

"Save your words for the devil."

In the next moment, Issei's palm, that was just like a sharp blade, struck out, the person's head flying up in the next moment.

After finishing with this guy that seemed to be the leader, Issei glared at the remaining members of that group. They were all cowering in fear, all of their pants wet.

Issei's hand, that was still bloodied, pointed at them at them. He then said a single, but deadly sentence, "If you don't want to die, get away from my sight."

His killing intent was boundless, and just like a hurricane, it drilled into their minds. They immediately looked at their dead comrades and then glanced at Issei's bloodied hand. Without a single word, they turned around and started to run away as fast as they could.

They were all terrified of Issei's power. Although Issei seemed like a tender and delicate little boy, he was as ruthless as the devil. It could be said that he was killing without even blinking,.

Issei simply stood there, a calm expression on his face. He didn't feel nothing from killing this bunch of bastards. It was obvious that if it wasn't for him there, given their killing intent, if the Water Devil Alliance were to go against them, then they would have died. If they wouldn't show mercy, then why would he?

Issei was a simple person. If the person was kind, innocent and had nothing to do with him, then he would restrain from killing them. However, if it was a damnable and despicable bastard, he wouldn't even need to think twice before taking their life. This was the path that he had decided to take, and was one that he would definitely follow. This was a path of survival, where only the fittest survive. This was Issei's path.

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AN: Jimakos, I'll answer your question in the next chapter. I simply don't have the time today, sorry.