Chapter 192
Relying on the spirit hounds’ keen sense of smell, they found various treasures growing in dark ditches, corners, and nooks for Knox.
"Awoo! Awoo!" A spirit hound carried a clear, vibrant green fruit in its mouth and presented it to Brina. Its face full of pride as it claimed credit.
"You are so amazing." Brina rubbed the spirit hound’s head happily.
"Brother Knox, look!"
"This fruit is called the Ancient Green Fruit. It has fifty years of maturity!"
"It will be of immense help for your break through!"
Knox took the spirit fruit and nodded gladly. "This Ancient Green Fruit is exactly what I need right now."
"Miss Brina, your spirit hounds have truly been of great use!"
Seeing Brina receive Knox’s praise, Leona instantly felt extremely displeased.
Narrowing her eyes to sense carefully, she waved the writing brush in her hand a few times. Shattering a rock wall in front of them.
A gourd radiating red light all over floated out from behind the rock wall. It landed in Leona’s hands.
Leona revealed a smug smile and handed it to Knox. "Brother Knox, this Evil-Repelling Gourd is a High-Grade Heaven and Earth-tier spiritual artifact."
"It has the efficacy of dispelling evil miasma, calming the mind, and solidifying one’s foundation while suppressing shock."
"Most importantly, I heard my father say that the biggest fortuitous encounter in the Heavenly Flame Secret Realm this year is the inheritance of the Ancient Phoenix King’s benefactor, the Buddhist Saint Heavenly True One."
"To obtain this fortuitous encounter, one must first decapitate the three Evil Buddhas of Greed, Anger, and Delusion."
"If we didn’t have this Evil-Repelling Gourd, we definitely wouldn’t be able to pass the stage of Greed, Anger, and Delusion!"
Hearing Leona’s words, Knox instantly revealed a solemn expression. He earnestly put the gourd into his storage ring.
"Miss Leona, your Spirit Ink Perception Technique can truly be called a peerless skill in the current world."
"To have the assistance of you both is truly my, Knox’s, greatest honor!"
Receiving such praise from Knox, both women instantly felt a burst of sweet, soaring joy in their hearts.
Meanwhile, at the exact same time, the Saint Lords of their two families, Cain and Kray, were facing a massive pile of leftover scraps. Roaring continuously in absolute anger and displeasure.
The reason for their anger wasn’t just because the path they had traveled was a complete, ravaged mess.
It was even more so because, at the time they needed them most, they couldn’t find the prodigies their families had spent massive amounts of blood, sweat, and resources to cultivate.
If they knew that their most highly regarded juniors were, at this very moment, using the abilities their families had exhausted all efforts to cultivate to please and curry favor with some random wild man.
Who knows if they would be so angry they’d vomit three liters of blood and die violently on the spot.
...
In the blink of an eye, a full day had passed.
Aside from Knox’s trio having a bountiful harvest along the way, almost filling up their entire storage rings, the rest of the major families had gained absolutely nothing. They were instead thoroughly disgusted by the various leftovers they found.
Thick resentment and irritability accumulated in everyone’s hearts.
This caused any two families that bumped into each other to almost immediately fall out over a single disagreement. Directly start fighting on the spot.
Especially some families who had previous friction on the arena. They directly took the opportunity to vent all their evil fire on each other.
Aside from the three strongest families, Hale, Blackwood, and Sol, who did not participate, the other six major families actually all engaged in a chaotic melee. Slaughtering each other.
Using a spacious open ground as a battlefield, they launched a massive group brawl composed entirely of Saint Lineages.
Since Aurelia started hosting the Dao Vindication Assembly, the Heavenly Flame Secret Realm had opened thousands of times.
A massive brawl like this, not for fighting over fortuitous encounters but purely to vent anger, was an absolute first.
Hearing the shouts of killing from the open ground ahead, Knox, Brina, and Leona walked over from afar. Seeing the scene before them, they were instantly dumbfounded.
"This... what is going on?" This bizarre scene made the three young people somewhat at a loss.
Suddenly, they saw Cain and Kray actually rolling on the ground. Swinging wild haymakers at each other.
Brina and Leona hurriedly rushed forward and separated the Saint Lords of their respective families. "Saint Lord, what are you doing?!"
"Father, why are you fighting with Saint Lord Cain?!"
Cain and Kray looked at their own families’ Heaven’s Proud Daughters. Their anger instantly welling up.
"You damn girl, where did you run off to for an entire day?!"
"I..." Brina and Leona lowered their heads, neither knowing how to answer.
At this time, an excited smile curled at the corners of Knox’s mouth. He immediately walked with large strides to the very center of the crowd, shouted resoundingly. "Stop fighting!"
His thundering shout shook the heavens and earth. Causing everyone to cast doubtful gazes over.
But immediately after, seeing that the person shouting was merely a Core Formation Realm ant, they instantly all revealed expressions of utter contempt.
"Brat, what are you yelling for? Are you looking to die?!"
"This has nothing to do with you, get lost quickly!"
Facing the crowd’s mocking voices, Knox, neither servile nor overbearing, spoke with awe-inspiring righteousness. "Seniors of the major Saint Lineages, my name is Knox. Merely an obscure and nameless rogue cultivator."
"Thanks to the care of the Heavenly Flame Empress, I have a place in the Imperial Capital."
"I ask everyone to look at Her Majesty the Empress’s face and listen to a word from me!"
Originally, among the Saint Lords, Elders, and prodigy disciples of the major Saint Lineages present, fundamentally not a single one placed Knox in their eyes.
However, after hearing the four words Heavenly Flame Empress, every single one of them instantly stood in profound respect.
They had all heard that back when Aurelia was in distress, she was saved by a youth. And she addressed that youth as her benefactor.
Could it be that this person is exactly the youth who saved Aurelia back then?
Seeing the crowd quiet down, a confident smile curled at the corners of Knox’s mouth, acting as if he already had a well-thought-out plan in his heart.