2025-03-14 16:42:36The room buzzed with high tension.
Astrid stormed forward, her heels clicking against the marble floor. Her eyes burned with rage as she pointed at Kai.
"I really underestimated you! You actually had the guts to show up and cause a scene at my wedding!"
"You think you can just come and go as you please?!"
"Oh? How do you think I got in?" Kai sneered.
"Well said, Kai. Letting you in was me showing you respect, but now it seems like you don’t deserve it."
"Let me remind you," Kai cleared his throat.
"You’re the one who cheated, your mom's the thief, and your brother’s the one on drugs."
"You talk about face, but it looks like you need it more than I do."
The room went silent for three seconds before whispers erupted.
"Is that true?"
"Is Reginald’s new wife really like this?"
"Enough!" Reginald finally stepped up. "This guy's nothing but a thug and a liar. Don’t listen to him!"
"Right, he's just a freeloading loser, willing to do anything for money," Sage added. "All the bruises on me and my mom? He did it!"
The guests gasped, realizing they’d been fooled by Kai.
"This bastard! He’s not what he seems! We’ve all been played!"
"The bride’s family was too kind. This kind of person shouldn’t even be at the wedding!"
"Yeah, if it were me, I’d beat him up to vent!"
"Not enough—should break his hand so he can't hurt anyone again!"
"Yeah, break his arm!"
"Alright, alright," Reginald said, a smug, wicked grin spreading across his face.
"Breaking his hand’s too cruel. Today’s my big day, just a little blood will do."
"How about this?" He turned to Kai, his gaze cold and malicious.
"You slap yourself three times with the hand you used to hit others, and we’ll call it even. What do you say?"
The guests erupted into laughter.
“That’s a fair deal!”
“Come on, let’s see it! Show some respect!”
Astrid folded her arms, smirking. “You heard him. What’s it going to be, Kai?”
Abigail, standing nearby, clenched her fists. She couldn’t stay silent.
“This is ridiculous!” she snapped. “Kai didn’t even mean to cause trouble! You’re all treating him like...”
"Darling, he’s playing you," Astrid sighed dramatically. "He's just a shameless bastard. If you don’t show him who’s boss, he’ll never know his place."
"This is all on you," Kai sneered, shooting a challenging look at Abigail and Reginald.
Then, with unnerving calm, he reached into his pocket, pulled out his phone and dialed a number.
"Cancel Reginald Thompson wedding."
The moment the words left his mouth, the atmosphere in the room froze—no sound, no breath—only Kai's declaration to cancel the wedding echoed through the silence.
The next second, someone, no one knew who, snapped out of it and burst into uncontrollable laughter. The laughter spread like a tidal wave, flooding the room.
"You actually think a single phone call can cancel my wedding?" Reginald laughed so hard he doubled over. "God, Kai, you’re more delusional than I thought!"
The guests roared with laughter.
"Does this idiot think he’s some bigshot now?"
"Must’ve hit his head on the way in!"
"This is too embarrassing, someone dragged him out already!"
Kai remained still. Unbothered. He watched the clueless fools with a smug, almost leisurely smile. They had no idea they’d just crossed paths with someone who could crush them without a second thought.
Reginald wiped fake tears from his eyes. “You know what? I almost feel bad for you. Almost. But since you came here asking for humiliation, I’ll grant your wish.”
His eyes darkened. “Guards!”
The guards rushed forward, surrounding Kai, then lunged at him with a forceful frenzy. Reginald wore a false, mocking smile. "Be careful, don’t break this little lapdog."
Kai sneered. It seemed they truly didn’t know the meaning of danger. With a sudden leap, he soared through the air, landing devastating kicks on the guards, sending them crashing to the ground. How could this be?
The guards roared in fury and charged again, but this time, Kai didn’t even twitch a muscle. He stood there casually in the center, almost toying with them.
Then, boom—a wave of golden energy erupted from him, radiating outward in all directions, knocking everyone within reach to the ground. It was pure madness!
Reginald clenched his fists, his face twisting in rage. "Useless! Can't even handle one man!"
"Shoot him!" he roared at the armed guards in the back.
The next second, a swarm of gun-wielding men in black surged forward. People screamed and scattered in all directions, knocking over tables, chairs, and dishes with a horrible, chilling clatter. But no one cared—they only wanted to survive!
The guards, at Reginald's signal, slammed a bullet into the chamber with a chilling click, the sound echoing like a death knell.
Then...
CRASH!
The doors exploded inward.
A wave of men in black bulletproof vests stormed in, and before Astrid and the armed guard could even react, they were slammed to the ground. Screams erupted as people scattered in panic, terrified that soldiers would massacre them all in the blink of an eye.
In the next breath, every soldier raised their guns and saluted. And then, striding through the door, came a woman with a killer body, radiating deadly confidence.
Elara Vasquez!
The crowd gasped. They knew her. The richest woman in the city! The true power behind this district!
Reginald’s eyes flickered—his savior Elara had arrived!
The next moment, Elara's voice sliced through the air—cold, calm, but lethal.
"No one causes trouble on my territory.”
Kai sneered, his gaze filled with pity as he watched Reginald’s back.
Poor Reginald—seems he has no idea the nightmare that's coming his way.
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676: Two Years Outside
Two years later in the outside world.The time Zora had set for Abigail and Kai inside the time-accelerating world was now complete.Of course, saying two years made it sound simple. Clean, and easy to understand but inside that realm, two years outside had stretched into a number of years so terrifying that even thinking about it too carefully felt exhausting. Kai and Abigail had lived through centuries upon centuries of battle, cultivation, death, recovery, wandering, learning, failure, breakthrough, humiliation, and victory. They had died so many times that neither of them knew the number anymore. At first, they had counted. Then they stopped. Then they forgot why they ever bothered counting in the first place.There were deaths by beasts, cultivators, formations, storms, poison, strange heavenly phenomena, old monsters who looked harmless, children who were not children, cities that turned out to be living formations, rivers with minds, deaths by mountains with mouths, techniques
Chapter 675: Dying Was Becoming A Habit
Then they woke up again, sat in silence and Kai stared ahead, Abigail did the same too and after a long moment, Kai said, “I don’t like valleys.”Abigail replied, “Noted.”They cultivated again.This time, Kai added lightning pressure and crushing weight into his training ground. Abigail added collapsing terrain and unstable footing into hers. They trained until their bodies and instincts could at least respond better to sudden environmental death, then they left again.The next death came from something even more ridiculous.They avoided valleys and the beast forest.They chose a calm river path instead, moving carefully along the bank while watching for beasts, formations, guards, and natural disasters. The river looked harmless, flowing quietly with clear water and faint spiritual mist. Kai even crouched once to examine it.“Looks safe,” Abigail said.Kai frowned. “That’s suspicious.”“You say everything is suspicious.”“And I keep being right.”A moment later, the river opened it
Chapter 674: Bad Weather
Kai and Abigail woke up again.This time, neither of them gasped violently like before.They simply opened their eyes, stared at the familiar sky of the array world, and remained lying there for a few quiet breaths, both of them looking so tired that even anger felt like too much work. The same rich Qi flowed around them, the same peaceful wind brushed against the grass, and the same mountains stood in the distance as if the world had not just killed them immediately after their first real victory.Kai slowly lifted one hand and covered his face.Abigail sat up beside him, silent.For a while, neither spoke.What was there to say?It had taken them ten years to kill one beast.Ten full years.Ten years of being torn apart, crushed, pierced, bitten, slapped into cliffs, trampled into the ground, and dragged through the forest like training dolls thrown into a grinder. Ten years of learning one creature’s rhythm until its every breath, every twitch of muscle, every shift of claws had be
Chapter 673: Ten Years For One Beast
Ten years later.The loud sound of a beast falling echoed throughout the whole forest.It was not a simple sound. It was the kind of fall that made the earth tremble, the kind that sent birds scattering from ancient trees and forced weaker creatures hidden in burrows to curl tighter in fear. The massive beast crashed through three towering trunks before its body finally slammed into the ground, carving a long trench through mud, stone, and roots. Dust rose. Leaves rained down. The thick spiritual mist hanging over the forest shook violently from the impact, and for a few breaths, everything went still.Kai stood several meters away from the fallen beast, breathing heavily.His clothes were torn in too many places to count, blood streaked the side of his face, and one of his arms hung slightly lower than the other, clearly dislocated or half-broken, but he remained standing. His silver blood pulsed beneath his skin, rapidly closing the deep wounds across his chest and shoulder. Every b
Chapter 672: Respawn
Kai and Abigail gasped at the same time.Their eyes flashed open violently, and for one terrifying breath, both of them reacted like people still pinned beneath the claws of that beast. Kai’s hand shot to his chest instinctively, fingers pressing against the place where the claw had punched through his body, while Abigail’s hand tightened around the hilt of her sword as cold intent surged around her for half a second before she forced it back down. Their breathing was rough, almost ragged, and the memory of death still clung to them with disgusting clarity.Pain, pressure, blood in the throat and the feeling of life draining too fast for the body to fight back then nothing.Kai lowered his head slowly and stared at his chest.No wound, blood or torn flesh.His clothes were whole too, as if the array had restored not only their bodies but the moment before failure itself. The silver blood inside him flowed steadily, strong and alive, without any trace of the beast’s destructive Qi. Abi
Chapter 671: First Death
Two days later, Kai’s eyes flashed open.The cold around him cracked.For a moment, the black glacier domain trembled as if something beneath it had awakened. Frost clung to Kai’s hair, his shoulders, and his robes, and a thin layer of dark ice had formed over half his body, but when his eyelids lifted, silver light flashed through his pupils before disappearing just as quickly. The frozen pressure that had been crushing his blood and marrow for two straight days loosened slightly, not because the training ground had become weaker, but because his body had learned how to push back against it better than before.Kai inhaled slowly.His silver blood moved like a cold river beneath his skin, stronger and smoother than it had been when he first sat down. Every heartbeat felt heavier, deeper, and more controlled. The cold that had tried to slow him now moved through his body like a sharpening stone. It still hurt, of course. It hurt terribly. But useful pain always had a different taste.
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