Elton patted the stone coffin gently."Mr. Jorson, leave, hurry!" Sebastian pointed to Whitney, who was still tied to the tree. He said, "You must wait for me to return. If I can't, then please take care of her for me, Mr. Jorson. I'd like to ask the same of the others in the Warrior League.""Mr. Ballard!" Gary looked at Sebastian hesitantly."Go!" Sebastian said softly.Seeing how determined Sebastian looked, Gary waved at his subordinates. Two black-clad men cut the rope and lifted Whitney up. They ran toward the entrance to the mountain.The spirit took a step forward once Gary and the others were some distance away. It stood in front of Sebastian and said to Elton, "We should settle the feud between us as well."The spirit stretched out its hand and beckoned. Six ghostly figures immediately appeared behind it. Elton laughed contemptuously and said, "I didn't expect you to improve so much. You've even learned to control spirits!"I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad fo
The spell was one of the most ancient mystic arts of Dramon. In the present time, it was a spell unique to diviners.Was Elton a diviner?No matter how much the spirit tapped against the side of its jar, the six ghostly figures did not appear again.Elton laughed sardonically as he looked at the spirit. He said, "Any spirits will have to hide when faced with the spirit-subduing spell. This is common knowledge! Even you will be blown to pieces in less than ten minutes!"A spirit-subduing spell was a natural restrictive power on spiritual entities that made use of the power of the sky and the land.Elton's corpse puppet wasn't affected by this power. That was because it was just a corpse; it did not have its own perceptions or thoughts.That was the biggest difference between a corpse puppet and a spirit.When the spirit saw the corpse puppet slowly turning toward him, it swallowed involuntarily.The six ghostly figures had used wind blades to slash the corpse for over ten minu
To a centuries-old spirit king like Lyanna, who was now restored to prime condition, the spirit-subduing spell felt like nothing at all."Kill her!" Elton didn't know why the spirit-subduing spell had no effect on Lyanna, but he could feel he was in danger.He pointed at Lyanna and yelled at the corpse puppet, who roared angrily and lunged straight at her.Sebastian said tauntingly, "You're supposed to be a practitioner of the Way of Wisdom. Why do you try to kill people so casually? Hasn't your mentor ever told you that you should have goodness in your heart?"Sebastian gestured to Lyanna.She raised her hand gently and activated a blast of intense ghostly energy. The temperature around them dropped drastically.Hunter couldn't help shuddering, and Elton shivered.The corpse puppet stopped three steps away from Lyanna and was unable to go further.The strong ghostly energy seemed to form a wall of air, keeping the corpse puppet stuck outside it. No matter how it howled, it cou
Elton answered Hunter's question by launching an attack, and Hunter felt a slight pain in his chest.When he looked down, he realized that there was a bloody hole in his chest, while Elton seemed to be holding something in his hand. It was moving. It was Hunter's heart!"You…" Before Hunter could finish, he swayed slightly and fell heavily to the ground.Lyanna looked sympathetically at Hunter, who was lying in a puddle of blood, and she said to Sebastian, "My lord, the spell has been broken."Lyanna's figure disappeared instantly."Sebastian, didn't you want to get revenge for your woman? Now that he's dead, I got revenge for you. There are no grudges between us." Elton turned to look fixedly at Sebastian.Elton had killed Hunter because he had no other choice. Technically, Hunter was still useful as long as they didn't have the Mirror of Rain. However, Elton was terrified because if Sebastian did not let him, he wouldn't be able to escape Neo Ravine. Although Lyanna had u
The corpse puppet, which had dissolved into a pile of bones, had also disappeared.Hunter was pointing a gun at Elton's head. As for Elton, he was holding a slippery heart in his hand, but it wasn't Hunter's. It was the corpse puppet's. He had killed his own corpse puppet.Sebastian was holding a long sword and looking impassively at him.Elton looked up at the scarlet sky. The spell was still intact. Everything that had just happened must have been an illusion.Even Gary, who had come back, couldn't help swallowing. He couldn't believe what he had just seen!Elton was standing there, looking like an absolute fool as he rushed over to the corpse puppet and pulled out its heart.As a result, he had severed the connection between himself and the corpse puppet, which fell to the ground with a thump. Elton had pointed at the corpse puppet and prattled at it for a while.Lyanna hadn't even lifted a finger. Elton had played out the whole thing on his own. Hunter had watched as E
Elton was furious with what Gary had said.They hadn't even started the fight yet. How did Gary know that Elton would not be able to defeat Sebastian? How could he have the audacity to ask for the sword already?"No problem. That sword isn't of much use to me anyway." Sebastian grinned and stepped forward.Elton held the long sword and flourished it as he also took a step forward. He wasn't confident in facing Sebastian. However, it wasn't that he had no confidence in his own abilities. It was just that Lyanna was too much of an unknown factor. She could make him hallucinate at any moment.When it came to fights at close quarters, a moment's distraction could lose him his life. And if hallucinations were added on top of that, it would be even harder for him to win."Go ahead." Sebastian smiled widely and shook Purity, and the valley glowed with a flash of lightning."Sebastian, if you use the art of illusion to kill me, I will never accept it, even in death," Elton said pointed
However, within the emerald pendant, there were two fish-shaped symbols swimming through it in an endless cycle. One was white, and the other was red.The glow had come from the white fish-shaped symbol."It's the Lumigo pendant!" Sebastian cried out in surprise.In the Sacred Medicine Secret Annals, there had been records of many kinds of celestial and even sacred treasures. The Lumigo pendant was one of the Ten Sacred Treasures.It was said that those who obtained this treasure could master light and dark energy and gain knowledge of the heavens and the earth.Could Elton have such a legendary treasure in his possession?"What's that, Mr. Ballard?" Gary craned his neck to look at the emerald pendant in Sebastian's hand. "It's just a piece of emerald. Nothing to get excited about," Sebastian lied casually.Beside them, Lyanna stared intently at the Lumigo pendant in Sebastian's hand. She knew more than anyone how valuable it was. It was a pioneering treasure in metempsychosis
After Sebastian took Whitney back to the pharmaceutical factory, Gary called over the apprentices that he had sent previously. After giving them a stern rebuking, he finally left with Sebastian.After the lesson they had learned, the eight apprentices were divided into two groups. One of them would shadow Whitney at all times to prevent a similar incident from happening again.Early the next morning, Zane was looking through his Instagram while eating breakfast. When he saw Sebastian walk into the dining room, he hastily held out his phone. "Look, Seb!"Sebastian turned to look, and Zane frowned as he said, "Why does this strange person look so familiar? I just can't remember where I've seen him before."Sebastian studied the face in the photo, and his heart sank. It was none other than Hunter! He had been looking right at the camera, and his features were crystal clear.However, Hunter's face was very swollen, and he walked like someone who had polio. In fact, the shoe on his lef
"It all comes back to Uncle Samson," Andreas said. "Great Uncle Arnaud already told you he'd let Uncle Samson have his freedom if you find the other emerald token, but then he brought up the marriage alliance. "It directly affects whether or not Uncle Samson can regain his freedom. So, why don't you think about it?"With a quiet chuckle, Andreas walked toward a grove of peach trees to the west.Realization finally dawned on Sebastian. Arnaud was a shrewd man. He wouldn't slip up like that. Besides, although the Ballards and the Yeomans had established a marriage agreement, they hadn't named specific individuals, only that the Blessed Child of the Ballards would fulfill it.The Blessed Child bore the duty of guiding the Ballards to revival. In other words, the emerald token would be better off falling into the Blessed Child's hands rather than anyone else's.Could it be that the final emerald token was with the Yeomans? If that were true, why hadn't the Ballards used their pow
"I'm sorry, but I have no interest in becoming the head of the Ballard family," Sebastian said impassively. "I only want my father to be freed."Arnaud's expression changed slightly, but his tone remained neutral as he said, "It's Braxton who owes you and your mother, not the entire family. Why must you do this?"Sebastian let out a cold snort. It was true that Braxton had been the one who had kicked them out, but weren't the true culprits the elders of the Ballard Estate?"If there's nothing else, I'd like to see Whitney," Sebastian said, rising slowly to his feet. As soon as he mentioned her name, Arnaud waved a hand at him and said, "Don't be in such a rush, Sebastian. Whitney is safe. The Ballards would never harm a frail woman."He added, "However, there's something I want to ask you. Is Whitney still your wife?"Sebastian frowned. "Whether she is or isn't, what business is that of the Ballards?""Of course it is," Arnaud replied firmly. "The Ballards and the Yeomans of
Arnaud led Sebastian into a secret room deep within the Hall of the Ancestral Dragon. Once inside, Sebastian saw a Cosmic Orbit Diagram. It was exactly the same as the records in the Sacred Medicine Secret Annals.However, the Ballards' Cosmic Orbit Diagram was divided into different sections. It looked even more three-dimensional."This is the Cosmic Orbit Diagram passed down through our family for generations," Arnaud said proudly. "The one that the Sacred Medicine Society has is just a copy."The legacy of the mystic arts in Dramon almost all came from the Ballards.The Ballards had withheld some things back then as well. As a result, all the legacies of the various secular sects only had incomplete Cosmic Orbit Diagrams. It was why there were very few experts at the fifth level of the Eldoria realm and above.Afterward, Arnaud led Sebastian into a library. Thousands of technical legacies lined the shelves. Sebastian flipped through them. The techniques recorded there were
Samson glanced at Sebastian. He took a deep breath and said to Arnaud, "Thank you for sparing me, Uncle Arnaud."He gave Sebastian a few final reminders before leaving the hall with Preston.Once they were gone, Arnaud pointed at Duo and said to Sebastian, "Tell him to leave too."Sebastian waved a hand at Duo."I'll wait for you at the entrance, my lord," Duo said. "If anything happens, I'll be here as soon as you call!"He gave Arnaud a cold look before striding out of the hall.Arnaud watched him leave and smiled approvingly. He beckoned to Sebastian. "Come, sit!"Sebastian didn't hesitate. He crossed the hall and sat in the chair opposite Arnaud."Do you know why I asked Andreas to bring you back here?" Arnaud asked impassively. Sebastian shook his head expressionlessly. He said in a cold voice, "It's probably because of the emerald token in my father's possession."Apart from using him and Whitney as leverage against Samson, he couldn't think of any other reason.Arnau
"The Blessed Child! The Blessed Child has finally come to our family!"The black-robed old man who had been sitting beside Arnaud stood up, looking pleased. He couldn't hide his excitement as he turned to Arnaud and said, "Arnaud, our family is going to prosper!"Only Rexton and Milton looked extremely displeased. Braxton and Roland looked pained, as if they had lost something of great value. They were practically thumping their chests in regret!The Blessed Child had been foretold by one of the heads of the family centuries ago. No matter how far the Ballards declined, the prophecy said that after a few hundred years, a Blessed Child would appear—someone who could lead the family's revival!The only proof of the Blessed Child was for him to enter a master-servant oath with a Devora."Prosper? What a joke!" Hugo scoffed, holding Virtus firmly. "Weren't you all just clamoring about killing the two of them?"At Hugo's words, Arnaud's expression changed slightly. "When did I say tha
"Hugo!"Arnaud, who had been sitting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them wide. He eyed Hugo with a conflicted expression as he asked, "Have you forgotten the agreement the Thornes made with us ten years ago?"Hugo smiled coldly and put one hand behind his back. "That was the agreement you made with the Thornes. I'm only following Ms. Thorne's orders to protect Samson and find the emerald token. If Samson dies in this battle, how am I supposed to explain that to her?"He pointed at Sebastian and added, "He's Ms. Thorne's flesh and blood. Your family has no right to punish him! If the Ballards insist on killing them today, don't blame me for going on a killing spree!"When Hugo had finished, Sebastian finally realized that Hugo was from Isabella's family and that he had stayed at the Ballard Estate to protect Samson.It was clear that Isabella hadn't held a grudge toward Samson. In fact, she had sent an expert to stay behind to protect him in case anything happened.Arnaud's
Sebastian threw his head back in laughter. He strode forward, standing in the center of the hall, and said coldly. "Ungrateful? How could you have the audacity to say such a thing?"Even if I'm surrounded by enemies, you Ballards can forget about making me submit! It's just death, after all. If I even blink, then I won't call myself a man!"Everyone there stared at Sebastian."How dare that brat be so cocky? If he's not punished, it'll be a disgrace to our family rules!""He should be given the death penalty!""It'll be a disaster if we just let him be, and it'll only bring trouble for our family. Please give the order, and we'll kill him at once!"The entire hall was in an uproar. Even Preston, who had been speaking up for Sebastian and Samson, sighed in resignation.Since Sebastian had already made his stance clear, Preston couldn't help even if he wanted to.Sebastian had roused the anger of everyone there, and Arnaud had closed his eyes and wasn't saying anything. He was cl
Sebastian was just about to step forward when Samson hastily waved a hand at him and said, "Sebastian, the grudges of the Ballard family from over ten years ago have nothing to do with you. Don't get involved!""But—"Sebastian's gaze sharpened as he turned to look at Milton. There was an icy glint in his eyes. Samson shook his head slightly at Sebastian. The Ballard Estate had at least ten experts at the eighth level of the Eldoria realm. At Sebastian's current level, trying to fight them would only bring him big trouble."Sebastian, one must learn how to adapt to the situation," Samson whispered into his ear using voice projection. "Today, I will exchange my legs for your and Whitney's freedom. Think of it as a payment for what I owe you and your mother."Sebastian clenched his fists tightly. He hated himself for being too weak. He couldn't even protect his own family in a place like the Ballard Estate, where many experts were gathered.However, he would never allow anyone to
"Do you accept it, Samson?" Arnaud asked harshly when he saw that Preston hadn't said anything else. He turned to look directly at Samson.Samson smiled bitterly and turned to look at Sebastian before raising his head to look at Arnaud, who was sitting high above them. He said, "Uncle Arnaud, I was the reason for everything that happened. I wish to ask you not to trouble Sebastian.""What are you talking about?" Preston was agitated. He stood up again and yelled, "There must still be an investigation about who was right and who was wrong. Why should they break your legs?"As he spoke, his eyes blazed with fury. He looked at the thin old man and said furiously, "Milton, you old bastard! How can you be so shameless at your age? Tell me! Did you embellish the story to Arnaud?""Uncle Preston!" Samson stopped him quickly and sighed slightly. "Forget it. It's my fault for bringing such huge trouble upon our family back then."I admit that I have let our family down. Since imprisoning m