"I am not taking advantage of you," Alex's voice echoed across every corner of his sea of consciousness, flawlessly cold and calm."You voluntarily surrendered your soul to free me from the clutches of the Hall of Heaven's pursuit."WHOSSSSSSH—!Before the demonic entity could process its panic, the vortex of sacred light at the bottom of Alex's consciousness suddenly spun at terrifying speed. An extraordinarily violent spiritual gravitational pull erupted, manifesting entangling golden chains patterned with ancient runes that shot out directly from the depths of his soul."ARGH! LET GO! LET ME GO, YOU DAMNED HUMAN BRAT!"The demonic entity screamed hysterically. It tried to thrash around, pumping out the remnants of its darkness to resist. However, its efforts were in vain. After expending the vast majority of its Demon Soul supply to shatter the Hall of Heaven's Hunting Mark, its strength had now reached the lowest point in the history of the demonic soul it had painstakingly gather

TAP... TAP...Alex's footsteps landed without producing a heavy thud, yet every step he took upon the jade stone floor of the tower created a subtle, suffocating wave of spiritual ripples. His robes fluttered gently, brushing against the cold air of the Windfall Kingdom as he stepped through the main gate of the Information Tower Pavilion."Who is he? How dare he descend directly from the sky above this kingdom, even though there's a ban... All practitioners are supposed to respect the rules and enter the kingdom through the main entrance!""Hey, you'd better lower your voice... Don't you feel it? His cultivation doesn't seem low at all... The proof is that we can't even trace what realm he's in...""Exactly... Daring to openly violate the rules means that young man is either a formidable cultivator or backs a terrifying background. It's best to stay quiet and pretend we don't know what just happened!"The cultivators and customers filling the ground floor suddenly fell silent. Withou

Alex leaned his body deeper into the sandalwood chair. The corners of his lips curled slightly into a cold smile that caused the temperature at the top floor of the Information Tower to drop drastically. The dual gold-and-black flash in his eyes dimmed, yet the suffocating aura of intimidation he radiated grew all the more dense."It matters not if it isn't a hundred percent accurate, Elder Qiu," Alex said calmly. His voice was exceedingly smooth, yet it held the weight to vibrate the jade pillars inside the room. "Just give me a map of all the Heavenly Hall branch locations you know of in this continent. The rest... I will verify the accuracy myself, in person."Elder Qiu swallowed hard with great difficulty. The words 'verify in person' spoken by Alex echoed like a death knell inside his mind. He understood all too well that 'verifying' for the youth before him meant razing the place to the ground until nothing remained.With hands still trembling violently, Elder Qiu opened a hidde

The smirk on Gu Shan's face froze instantly. An extremely foreign and lethal chill pierced straight into the core of his soul, freezing the flow of Qi inside his blood vessels.The sword in Alex's grip radiated no grandeur, but rather an aura of pure emptiness—the concept of absolute extinction that had once wiped out millions of god and demon races in the Primordial Era. In the face of that sword, the giant black thunder dragon formed from the combined power of tens of thousands of soldiers looked no different than a pathetic earthworm."W-What is this aura...?! Why is my soul trembling so violently?!" Gu Shan screamed in his heart, an uncontrollable panic beginning to gnaw away at his pride.Alex gazed with hollow eyes at the thunder dragon roaring as it charged toward him. Without swinging his arm excessively, he merely raised his right index finger, softly touching the blade of the Universe-Destroying Sword.TANG—!The soft chime sounded so clear, yet its effect instantly tore apa

Alex paused his murmuring for a moment. His gaze shifted from the distant horizon, looking down at the ruins of the Obsidian Stone Fortress of the Heavenly Hall below. The Black Skull Mountains were now deathly quiet, shrouded in the fishy stench of blood that was slowly fading, dispelled by the night wind. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers and Supreme Elder Gu Shan had been wiped out without a trace, yet this branch headquarters still held countless piles of treasures and accumulated resources gathered over thousands of years."The Soul Valley is indeed the next destination... But leaving behind the entire resource foundation of this place for rogue cultivators or other scavengers to pick up? Hmph, naturally I cannot allow that to happen...," Alex muttered, the corner of his lips curling into a cold smirk.In the ruthless world of cultivation, resources were everything. This obsidian fortress had hoarded high-grade Spirit Stones, rare elixirs, and various valuable heirlooms collect